The next day, at dawn, the four-wheeled carriage that Yan Liqiang was riding in arrived at the gate of Pingxi City, preparing to leave Pingxi City and return to Yan'an Fort...
Although it was just dawn at this time, the city gate was not deserted.
The weather has been getting hotter these days, and the bodies left by the Shatu people in the city must be cleaned up quickly. So last night, when Yan Liqiang was enjoying the tenderness, many officials in the city's government offices, big and small, were not idle. These people, together with the garrison in the city and the civilians temporarily recruited with "large sums of money", were all busy in Dongcheng District, cleaning up the bodies left by the Shatu people in the ruins.
The bodies of the Shatu people were thrown onto four-wheeled carts, covered with cloth, and then pulled out of the city by the carts and filled in the wild. Almost all the lime that could be bought outside the city had been bought up.
Early this morning, as cartloads of corpses were being pulled out, cartloads of lime were also being pulled in from outside the city, and carriages and horses on both sides were going in and out right at the entrance.
The streets were sparsely populated, in stark contrast to the bustle of yesterday when people were watching the Shatu people being driven out of Pingxi City. Apart from a few hooligans and young people in the city who were standing on the side of the road curiously looking at the carriages and horses pulling the corpses of the Shatu people, most other people avoided it. After all, for the people in the city, dead bodies were nothing to look at.
After all, there were not many Shatu people who were actually killed by the governor and his army yesterday. Most of the Shatu people, those from the Uli tribe and the Wumu tribe, were killed by the other side. The limbs that were chopped into pieces by scimitars and the bodies that were burned like charcoal were enough to give people nightmares. When the carriages drove through the streets, the strange fishy smell coming from the carriages was enough to make people stay away and close the doors of the shops on the street.
A flatbed carriage for transporting corpses was swaying in front of the four-wheeled carriage where Yan Liqiang was sitting. From under the makeshift black cloth covering the carriage, pairs of feet could be seen. As the carriage swayed, the feet in the flatbed were also swaying...
Yan Liqiang looked at the feet in the carriage and sighed in his heart. If he had known this would happen, he would not have done it in the first place! He was not a murderous person, but in the face of major issues, he had no room for compromise. The Shatu people were ambitious and had become a cancer in Pingxi City. If he did not drive the Shatu people out of Pingxi City today, maybe in a few years, those feet dangling on the carriages and those heads floating in the river would be Han people in the city. This was something he did not want to see anyway. Since the Shatu people insisted that he choose one of the two, he could only choose to let those Shatu people dangle in the flatbed carriages.
There were no Shatu people to be seen outside Pingxi City. Those Shatu people who were driven out of Pingxi City yesterday had already left Pingxi City overnight under the escort and guard of the army and headed towards Baishishan Pass.
This time, Pingxi City actually unintentionally created a record for the largest number of Shatu people expelled at one time within the Han Empire!
The shock caused by yesterday's incident was certainly not limited to the city, but since Wang Jianbei and Lei Sitong were willing to invest their own two million taels of silver, the rest of the matters could be left to them to worry about, and he would not have to put in any more effort. Yan Liqiang estimated that this time the matter was done, and Wang Jianbei did have a lot of evidence on the Shatu people. This chaos was caused by the Shatu people themselves, and they killed their own people the most, so it was estimated that there would not be much trouble in the Imperial Capital City.
The wobbly flatbed carriage didn't turn to the other side of the road until it was a hundred meters away from the city gate, separating from Yan Liqiang's carriage. Looking at the fork in the road ahead, Hu Hai, who was driving the carriage, turned around and knocked on the partition in front of the carriage, "Sir, are we going to the Manufacturing Bureau or back to Yan'an Fort now?"
"Let's go back to Yan'an Fort!"
"okay!"
The four-wheeled carriage turned to the road back to Yan'an Fort. With a few cracks of Hu Haihe's whip, the carriage quickly moved on the road.
Inside the carriage, Yan Liqiang had already taken out the black rune arrow, turning it over and over in his hands, examining it carefully, and the look in his eyes gradually became deeper...
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In the afternoon, Yan Liqiang's carriage finally returned to Yan'an Fort.
At this time, Yan'an Fort, with the title of "the best factory in the world", became even more lively. The streets were crowded with people, and the inns and restaurants on both sides of the several streets in the fort were often full. Especially at the entrance of the woolen mill, a large number of people came to pay their respects every day. Of course, the golden plaque bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor was quietly taken back by the Yan family on the night of the opening of the woolen mill. Such a thing was so precious that no one would hang it outside to be exposed to the sun, wind and rain every day. What was hung on the door of the woolen mill now was just a replica without the seal of His Majesty the Emperor. But even so, there was an endless stream of people coming here to see it every day.
The news of the great changes that took place in Pingxi City has probably just reached Yan'an Fort. However, to Yan'an Fort, such news is just news and has no impact on the place. Everyone continues to do what they should do.
After returning home, Yan Liqiang first went to the blacksmith workshop to meet Yan Dechang. After greeting Yan Dechang, he told him what happened in Pingxi City. Then he left the blacksmith workshop and returned to his yard.
"The master is back!" The little girl Yu Qing was helping Yan Liqiang tidy up the study in his yard. The sun was high today, and the little girl was taking out the books in the study one by one to dry them. When she saw Yan Liqiang coming back, Yu Qing ran to Yan Liqiang like a blooming flower.
"Drying books again?"
"Well, these books in the study will not get worms or rot easily if they are dried in the sun!" The little girl said, picking up a book, standing on tiptoe, and putting it under Yan Liqiang's nose, "Smell it, sir. Do these books smell like ink if they are dried in the sun?"
Yu Qing stood on tiptoes, her gradually fuller chest almost touching Yan Liqiang's body. In addition to the scent of ink on the book, there was also a lingering scent of a young girl's body. Looking at the girl's big, blinking eyes, Yan Liqiang muttered in his heart, how could this little girl grow so fast? Her current level has already caught up with the level when he met her in the Heavenly Dao Divine Realm. Could it be that her life is stable and her nutrition is too good...
"Ahem... Ahem..." To avoid any embarrassment, Yan Liqiang took a small step back without leaving any trace, "From now on, let other maids in the mansion do this. You should take more time to practice the kung fu I taught you!"
"Yes!" Yu Qing nodded seriously, "Master taught me, I practice every day. In addition to practicing, I pack things for Master, which is almost the same as resting..." After saying this, Yu Qing's eyebrows moved suddenly, and then she sniffed at Yan Liqiang's chest like a puppy, then raised her eyes and looked at Yan Liqiang in confusion, "Master...you...why do you have a woman's scent on you...this scent...seems, seems different from that of Miss Lu..."
Yan Liqiang lowered his head and sniffed his chest. Damn, there was indeed a hint of Zhong Ruolan's fragrance on his chest. Of course, Yan Liqiang would never admit it, and he remained serious, "Ahem, there is no fragrance at all. Maybe you are mistaken. Okay, go practice after you finish drying the books. Don't waste time. You don't have to wait for me to eat in the evening. I'm going to retreat to the secret room for two days!"
After saying this, Yan Liqiang fled in a hurry, leaving Yu Qing standing there, pouting and looking at Yan Liqiang's back...
He came to the bedroom, closed the door, and then moved a cabinet in the room to open the passage to the underground secret room. Yan Liqiang followed the passage directly into the secluded secret room under the ground. He sniffed his clothes as he walked, touched his nose, and muttered to himself, "How come this little guy has such a sharp nose? I have to be careful next time!"
The walls of the secret room are all made of thick granite, on which hangs an eternal lamp made of secret whale oil. A lamp can be lit for ten years after being refilled with oil. The eternal lamp is hung in the secret room, which not only serves as a lighting fixture, but also can remind people whether the air in the secret room is circulating, killing two birds with one stone.
There is a soft couch for meditation in the secret room, as well as several human-shaped iron targets for fighting, which is also the standard configuration of the secret room.
Yan Liqiang did not get on the couch when he arrived at the underground secret room. Instead, he fumbled on the west wall of the secret room and quickly drew a few horizontal and vertical lines on the granite with his fingers. The surface of the granite began to emit a faint light, and then the whole stone sank and opened like a door, revealing a passage.
Behind the passage was another secret room. Even in the darkness, this secret room was full of colors, shining with red, blue, yellow, green and other brilliances. These brilliances came from the various beast core crystals and various metals in the secret room. These things were placed on a huge metal rack. The walls of the secret room were also made of metal, with dense circles of runes on them...
If someone who knows about this comes in and sees the layout here, he will definitely be shocked, because a room like this is where the array master makes instruments and places talismans!
Yan Liqiang entered the secret room and waved his hand. The door closed, and then the runes on the wall of the secret room lit up...
Yan Liqiang went directly to the metal rack in the secret room, took out the black arrow in his arms, played with it in his hand for a while, and said to himself, "Black cloud iron plus winged snake nuclear crystal powder, the idea is good, but these primary array symbols are a bit crude..."
(End of this chapter)