When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 214
Qin State, Xianyang

In the dead of night, the sky is full of stars, and the breeze blows the streets of Xianyang.

However, unlike the hustle and bustle of people during the day, Xianyang City at night is as quiet as a dead city except for a few sounds of chickens and dogs.

Unlike Xinzheng, which is still bustling and bustling late at night, Qin has a curfew at night.

"Zhou Li·Qiu Lian Si Kou" once recorded the post of "Si Wushi", "When palming the night, divide the night with stars, and order night scholars to ban night, guard against morning walkers, prohibit night walkers, and night walkers". It is the earliest record of curfew in Chinese history.

The original intention of the curfew was to allow people to adapt to the traditional Chinese farming lifestyle, "work at sunrise and rest at sunset."

It’s just that later, the rituals collapsed, and the curfew system was not implemented in all countries, even during the war period. Even during the period of King Wei Xiang, “the people of the Wei State, with many chariots and horses, walked day and night without a break.”

But Qin is different. Since Shang Yang's reform, a curfew system has been implemented to prohibit people from going out at night. Violators will be arrested and sent to hard labor.

It is forbidden to travel at night, so the common people often can only choose to live at home, and have nothing to do except to contribute to the new population of Qin, so they can only sleep peacefully.

Therefore, there will never be anyone on the streets of Xianyang City at night.

unless……

A rush of horseshoes broke the silence, coming from far and near!

Hearing the sound of horseshoes, people who were already asleep were awakened one after another. From time to time, some people poked their heads out to see which idiot not only violated the curfew, but also dared to ride a horse late at night.

Suddenly, someone noticed that the rapid sound of hooves seemed to be coming from outside the city, and the sound of hoofs became louder and louder. It was obviously not a movement that a horse could cause.

The old Qin people who had served in the army picked up the weapons they could find at home one after another, including knives, guns and spears.Some families without weapons picked up the plows for plowing the land, pulled out the bolts that latched the doors, and brought butcher knives for slaughtering meat.

Even a group of soldiers of the Qin Army who had gone home on leave put on their armor, picked up their weapons, and walked onto the street in spite of the curfew.

The sound of hoofbeats of this size obviously came from a cavalry team.

When coming to Xianyang City late at night, either the enemy army is attacking the city, or there is an emergency military situation, so the people in the whole Xianyang City are made nervous by such movements.

After a while, I don't know what the people at the top of the city communicated with the cavalry outside the city. It seemed that someone went up to the top of the city from a hanging basket to communicate with the guard at the gate.Immediately, the city gate creaked, and the heavy gate slowly opened.

Someone pointed at the fire dragon galloping in the dark night and shouted loudly, which attracted everyone's attention.

I saw that a cavalry team, like a rolling dragon, entered Xianyang City and came at a gallop.

"Emergency military situation on the front line, everyone get out of the way!"

The leading knight shouted and waved his hand, signaling all the people on the street to avoid it.

Apart from the defenders of Xianyang, those who could walk on the street at this moment were those soldiers of the Qin army who were wearing armor and holding weapons. Naturally, they all knew that there was an urgent military situation on the front line and could not be delayed, so they retreated to both sides of the street in a cooperative manner.

However, everyone is curious, what kind of emergency military situation would march in the middle of the night like this?
This cavalry team was divided into two teams at a crossroad, one went straight to Qin Palace, and the other went straight to Zhang Ji's mansion.

Zhang Ji, who was still lingering with Yan Lingji and Tian Mi, was also startled by the sound of horseshoes stopping in front of the mansion, and quickly got up and put on his clothes to go out to check the situation.

Looking at Yan Lingji, who was already full and lying down to rest, Tian Mi couldn't help complaining about the sound of horseshoes outside the door, but she still obediently helped Zhang Ji get dressed.

Before Zhang Ji could get dressed, a hasty knock on the door came to his ears.

"Boss, there is an urgent secret report from Luo Wang Chu's sub-forum!"

Zhang Ji frowned slightly, but it was not because he disliked the snare killer who knocked on the door, but because of the seriousness of the matter.

Who in Luowang doesn't know that Zhang Ji likes to run at night, and it is absolutely impossible to disturb Zhang Ji at such a time without any urgent matter.

Moreover, he could perceive that the snare killer who knocked on the door was a top-notch master, but the dignified assassin who knocked on the door did this kind of work...

Holding the last coat in his hand, Zhang Ji pushed the door out, looking at the killer with a red ghost mask.

"Where is the secret report?"

The killer with an undisguised exhaustion on his face hastily took out a black scroll from his arms and handed it to Zhang Ji.

"Black Dragon Scroll!"

This is the second time Zhang Ji has seen such a thing.

Last time, he got the black dragon scroll from the startled salamander and sent it back to Qin, but this time he was the leader of the net who received the black dragon scroll.

Zhang Ji took out the Qianji copper plate that he carried with him, unlocked the six Jiazi locks himself, took out the Black Dragon Dossier, and converted and translated the encrypted text into normal language in his mind, his complexion changed.

Before Zhang Ji could say anything, there were muffled groans and snoring sounds from the side.

This killing-level snare killer and the guards who returned to Qin with him changed horses and did not change people. This is really a thousand miles away. From Shouchun to Xianyang, there are at least two journeys. More than a thousand and five hundred miles.

(Shouchun is about 415 kilometers from Xi'an, and one mile in the Zhou and Qin Dynasties is about [-] meters)
These killer-level killers travel more than 200 miles a day, day and night.Passing through the post stations along the way, changing horses without changing people, changing horses and taking dry food and water to leave. They galloped for more than ten days without rest. Even first-class masters can't support such intense consumption. In front of him, he relied on one breath of support.

But now that the black dragon scroll was delivered to Zhang Ji, and seeing the black dragon scroll being untied in Zhang Ji's hands, all these killers at the level of net killers fainted.

"Let people be sent to the guest room to rest, and then invite a doctor to treat them. Don't begrudge money."

Zhang Ji gave an order to the tide who came after him. Although the tide and the startled salamander have the same status in the family, Zhang Ji's mansion is considered a big family, and there must be a trustworthy and capable person to manage the mansion. Income and expenditure, so this task fell on Chao Chao, the head of the Chao family and the former Mrs. Mingzhu.

Of course, only relying on Chao Chao alone is still more than enough, so he brought Mrs. Hu and Hu Meiren. The former used to be in charge of some property in Liu Yi's mansion, and the latter was once inferior to Chao Chao after all. "Beauties" naturally know how to handle these matters.

"Your Majesty, let's go, we will take care of the mansion."

Chao Chao's expression was calm and his eyes were deep, as if he had turned back into that resourceful, decisive and ruthless Chao Banshee.And there are still amazed salamanders in the mansion, no matter what happens in the mansion, Zhang Ji can safely hand them over to them.

Nodding slightly to the tide and the startled salamander, Zhang Ji led the horses pulled by two Mohist swordsmen, and galloped towards Qin Palace with the deciphered Black Dragon Scroll.

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