Sima Yingming is not only a wonderful man, but also a believer. Since he promised Li Luoyang to send perfume to the palace, he did not delay at all. He took a carriage out early in the morning on the second day. Of course, his guard was also indispensable. After all, even in the official year, there might be a robbery. People are poor and their lives are cheap. In order to survive, what people can do.
Sima Yingming's guard scale is not very large, that is, 20 cavalry. This is a rule given by the imperial court. As a marquis, he can only have 20 cavalry guards. Of course, the number of servants is not counted in theory, as long as you can afford it as the head of household.
But in fact, no one will raise a group of people who are good at fighting as servants. On the one hand, this behavior is easy to be detected by the six doors. If you don't pay attention, it may be regarded as "conspiracy". The more famous families or individuals pay attention to this, after all, if you don't pay attention, you may encounter a cold arrow in the dark.
On the other hand, those who are good at fighting often don't do anything else. They rest and keep their state every day except practicing martial arts. When there is no battle, these people are completely raised for nothing, because they are working hard for money. If the owner gives less money, it is possible for the people below to move to fight against the owner one day.
So normally, there may be many servants in a family, but no one will do such taboo things as gathering a large number of martial arts as servants. Maybe in those places in the countryside, laocai will do such things, but what kind of experts can laocai find in the countryside, unless it is a place with natural folk customs, Otherwise, most people would rather farm than practice martial arts. After all, it is difficult to fill their stomachs. More importantly, a person often needs to feed a family, which is related to their stomachs. Sometimes martial arts are not important.
Sima Yingming's twenty guards were given by the imperial court. They were prepared by the imperial court and paid by the imperial court. Of course, the martial arts of these guards are not that high. They can only be said to be better than ordinary government soldiers, but if you want to say one-to-one, they can't be compared with Xiaohui's six door Eagle dog.
Twenty guards ride horses and are fully armed. This lineup is not uncommon for those who go out and live in Luoyang. After all, it is the east capital, and the powerful people's Congress is all.
Of course, Sima Yingming, such an exquisite childe, will not take the war horse. There is a carriage of Sima family, which is comfortably arranged. There are all kinds of materials needed for survival. In winter, there can be a charcoal stove in the carriage, in summer, there can be ice cubes, and there is a little maid waiting with the carriage. It was really comfortable that day.
The carriage and guard went out of the door and went all the way to Chang'an along the official road. When Luoyang city had disappeared at the end of sight and even the guards on the head of the city could not see such a convoy, Sima Yingming's convoy suddenly stopped by the side of the road.
"Oh, it's getting dark. Let's have a rest here and camp!"
The guards and servants are forty or fifty people. Now it's just past noon. Sima Yingming is going to camp. If he really goes to Chang'an city at this speed, he doesn't know how long it will take.
No one reacted strangely to Sima Yingming's strange order from top to bottom, as if it were a matter of course.
The sun began to sink in the West. Most of the time, Sima Yingming didn't appear in the carriage. Anyway, there was everything in the carriage and a lovely little maid.
Sima Yingming didn't get out of the car for dinner, but the kind of light and frail little maid took it to Sima Yingming's car to enjoy. After another hour, it was dark. The guards were busy when they assigned the night watch work. The servants also had their own things to do. No one found a dark shadow approaching the carriage quickly under the cover of the dark light and stopped under the window for a moment, The window opened a gap, and then the figure got into the window as if it had no bones.
When the window moved again, the time had passed for a full hour. It was impossible for people outside the carriage to know what had happened inside. Even no one seemed to pay attention to the process of the dark shadow entering and leaving the carriage.
"Let's go. Let's work hard today. If we don't rest for a day, I will reward you with silver!"
The next day, just after dawn, Sima Yingming's voice suddenly rang out in the camp. It seems that he must have had a good rest last night. Many guards caught a glimpse of the little maid. They couldn't help thinking that the nobles would enjoy life. There was such a girl to relieve their boredom when they went out. The Marquis really puzzled when he got up so early.
"Are you going to walk all day today?"
"What can we do? What do you say and what do we do? Anyway, when you reward silver, you are very generous. When you come back from Chang'an, you can go and have two more drinks."
Most of Sima Yingming's guards are old people, but there are also rotation times. Like the young sergeant who just spoke, he was not with Sima Yingming some time ago. His father was old and had to retire before he let his youngest son of the family take over the fat shortage.
Isn't he a fat man? The Marquis of the uncle's family won't go to the battlefield all his life. When such people guard, it's safer than anything. Isn't even Zhou Xiangong defeated? Who can guarantee that the people around you will save their lives when you lose the war?
However, Sima Yingming is different. The big deal is to help him become a dog leg. When he is at his worst, he meets mountain bandits. The soldiers are not afraid of these bandits. Twenty people flock together with sophisticated equipment. Killing such people is like cutting vegetables and melons.
The only possibility is to meet a green man.
The heroes of the green forest in this era are difficult to deal with, especially those who have names in the green forest. Their martial arts are very high. More than a dozen ordinary people are not opponents at all. But it's not so easy to meet a green forest expert. First of all, people themselves are not cabbage on the side of the road, and they don't know the people in that circle. How can there be intersection?
Besides, the uncle's residence has a good reputation both in the imperial court and among the people. After all, the queen is a real mother in the world. Even people in the green forest admit this. If you don't give face to the uncle's residence, you should also give face to the queen. If anyone dares to move the uncle's residence, once the imperial court gets angry, the consequences will be very serious.