A carriage was driving slowly along the northeast direction, and there was no one in the carriage. The groom was a plainly dressed young son, Fengshen Yulang. In the officialdom, it is likely to be smooth and smooth, but it is a pity that he must be a lowly student who is not allowed to study in the imperial examination.
Liyang reformed and set up roads above the prefecture. As far as the territory of each road is concerned, King Yanchi sits in the southern border, which is the most extensive, and Guangling Road, which the vassal king Zhao Yi is staring at, follows closely, but the two are completely incomparable in terms of wealth. It's not nonsense that half of the world's taxes and taxes go out of Guangling. It's just that Guangling Road is not peaceful now. In the past, people could still pass through the post roads relying on their connections, but now the storm is coming, and it is obvious that a big battle is coming. The inspection of more than a dozen main post roads around Guangling Road is extremely strict, and officers, soldiers and soldiers are not allowed Once the occupation of other characters is discovered, it will be the end of exile in Liangliao. On the border of Guangling Road, there are many checkpoints with dense swords and halberds, only allowed to go out and not allowed to enter. Obviously, the rebels and thieves of Western Chu first fortified the wall and ceded the land for themselves.
Several vassal kings carrying the banner of Jingnan were stationed on the border. Most of them cherished their feathers. The soldiers under their command were relatively innocent. They were just second- and third-rate soldiers who held weak military power but were unable to participate in the war immediately. General, I smelled a big fishy smell. There is no night grass and no fat horses. There are many bandits around the border fishing in troubled waters. It is true that there are a few rebellious acts that have been raised, but they are definitely not as serious as the local government garrison reported. In this way, First there was a small-scale turmoil, and there was barely a scene of banditry in troubled times, followed by officers and soldiers who suppressed bandits. In the end, even those coveted chiefs of state and county government offices suddenly became more courageous. They didn't care about their looks, and sent their confidantes and aides to find rich families of noble families other than their in-laws. Sending troops to protect the country and the people, and wanting them to feel at ease, no one is stupid, so they have to smile obediently, and send boxes of gold and silver, which are right to solve disasters and eliminate disasters. Tickets are useless, as long as there are real gold and silver, the latter can only curse in private angrily.
Now if you want to go to Emperor Wudi City in the East China Sea, you can only go through Guangling Road unless you make a big circle, and you can only take the "wild road" in the east. Making money all happened in the two-way zone between the "Great Chu" in the west and Zhao Yi, the king of Guangling in Liyang. Among them, there was a group of bandits with more than 30 people, everyone could ride horses and everyone was wearing armor. Although most of the weapons were rusty, they could It is undoubtedly the weapon of the old Guangling Road's Hyogo, which shows how those Liyang officials from outside households in the past twenty years kept their ears to the outside world and only cared about the people's fat.
However, when Xu Fengnian arrived in the east, the situation was about to improve. At first he was walking on foot, but later he met a group of fierce bandits on the mountain road, who were chasing and killing a wealthy family far from right and wrong. At that time, there were a dozen young and strong guards. All the family members of the courtyard were dead. Xu Fengnian killed a few bandits who were about to attack women and children, and killed a few others who were overwhelmed. A young man with a reputation who was able to wear a Confucian shirt, stared at him gloomyly, a ranger who was regarded as a lifesaver, and said that he was willing to contribute a hundred catties of gold, asking him to kill all the bad guys to avenge his clansman, Xu Fengnian ignored it, and the thirteen-year-old The young man is a serious official of the imperial court, but he has not been admitted to the imperial examination. He was probably a local child prodigy in the past. Naturally, he was highly valued in the clan, and everyone was eagerly waiting for him to shine on the lintel, so it was inevitable that he developed a condescending arrogance. The boy saw that this young lowly man walking in the rivers and lakes was not chivalrous, and that he was in a tragedy again, so he spoke out and said a few extremely ugly words. Xu Fengnian was too lazy to argue with a child and continued on his way. He was kind and honest, he hurried forward, reprimanded the eldest grandson for his rudeness, sent a carriage as a measure of gratitude, and carefully presented a small stack of silver notes, the old man originally wanted to ask Xu Fengnian to help escort him to the Ansheng place further south , After some testing, I stopped forcing it. In fact, whether it is a carriage or the three or four hundred taels of silver, they are all foreign objects, not to mention that so many guards who acted as grooms have died, and a few carriages have become It's a burden, and I should give it up. Xu Fengnian didn't refuse either, and only then did he have his current fortune. Later, some unsightly small bandits and water bandits came forward to harass them, and they were all dismissed lightly, which reminded the absent-minded Xu Fengnian of many old people, such as not at all There are a lot of gangsters like bandits in Qingcheng Mountain, young and old. As for the knights in the rivers and lakes, he remembered He Zhu who rode a horse to Chunshen Lake to report to Miss Haha. Few, but after counting, maybe Liu Nirong from the Fish and Dragon Gang, and Zhou Qinhu who met Gu Dazu by the way, are more in line with the image of a heroine in my mind. Their martial arts are mediocre, and their appearance is not amazing. When I met it when I was young, it was far from the Jiang Hu fairy I dreamed of when I was young. When I was a child, I always thought that all heroines were carved out of the same mold, nothing more than fluttering white clothes. Lazard, let alone fart and shit, now Xu Fengnian will never take it for granted so naively.
At the beginning, Xu Fengnian insisted that the restoration of Western Chu to the country was just Cao Changqing's efforts against the current, and he was doomed to fail to win the general trend of the world. Before the Spring and Autumn Veteran exited the temple, a bright afterglow bloomed, but along the way, he saw many survivors of the older generation of Western Chu who had endured humiliation for more than 20 years, and they were still silent for the time being. The harder the officers and soldiers squeezed, the new Chu with Cao Changqing as the backbone may not be so vulnerable.
With the flames of war, many people will die, but it is destined that a small group of people will stand out and finally occupy a firm place in history. Now the key depends on whether there are more Xichu or Liyang. Intuition tells Xu Fengnian that the latter has more people, but since ancient times, Xichu has tended to produce great talents, and Yiming has become a blockbuster. Maybe there will be one or two successors A young handsome man in the mantle of Cao Changqing.
The carriage stopped temporarily at the northeast border of Guangling Road. At this time, the entrances and exits around Guangling Road have been completely closed. This is the last hidden exit door of Guangling Road. Many people with backgrounds and connections poured in. Taking refuge in Emperor Wudi City, the feudal king Zhao Yi and his confidantes guarded it here, probably because of the master's instruction, not afraid of being impeached by officials, and chose to turn a blind eye. It is absolutely impossible. It is conservatively estimated that Zhao Yi's Chunxue Building has received two million taels of silver in just two decades, not to mention the countless antiques, calligraphy and paintings, which are all driven by car. Transported to the end of the Guangling River.
There are probably 3,000 strong soldiers and horses guarding the Zhao family's elite Qingqi. The roads here are crowded, but not chaotic. Lou's young and famous general, Song Li, can even let people enter the post road to drive. If the money is not enough, it doesn't get in the way, as long as there is a good-looking woman in the family, they can offer it with both hands. Everyone in Guangling Road knows that the Confucian general Song Li, a romantic and famous man, likes women, and he doesn't like dead things in his life. Li, even if he is already lying drunk on the lap of a beautiful woman with rouge, he is still not satisfied. It is rumored that there are no less than twenty beautiful women in his family. There are women from aristocratic families who are willing to cheat for him, and among these women, Liujiaolu, who is ranked sixth by Xin Rouge, is undoubtedly the most famous. It was in the hands of many people, but fortunately, it was not dubbed by the world as the word "beautiful and unlucky".
Song Li's origin has always been ambiguous, giving the impression that he somehow became an upstart celebrity in Chunxuelou, a military center in Guangling Road. The unbelievable thing is that Zhao Piao, the notorious grandson of the Zhao family, can be calm when facing the fat, swallow and thin beauty in Song Li's family, and even respectfully call her sister-in-law when meeting Liujiaolu. Moreover, Chunxuelou was divided into two camps. Lu Shengxiang, Zhang Erbao and other military generals who had been promoted to the capital were in the same line. They had been at odds with the chief aide who had a bumpy career because of his ugly appearance, but Song Li was able to have both sides.
Xu Fengnian lived in an inconspicuous inn in Junzhen, the price has doubled several times, it costs thirty taels of silver a day, and he can't live in a second-class room, and because people come and go too frequently, the bedding is sloppy cleaned You can smell the strong smell of sweat, and the horse grass for the carts and horses has to be paid extra, which is more expensive than the dinners of the guests staying on other roads, but still no one dares to complain. Xu Fengnian's room was at the end of the corridor on the second floor. It was small and dark. During the border crossing, the initial bank notes had to be converted in half, and they had already been spent. Later, some real money was picked up from a group of thugs, which can probably be used for crossing the border. capital. If Xu Fengnian wanted to reach the unowned Emperor Wudi City in the East China Sea faster, it would be easy, but the timing is not right now. I want to take advantage of this time to take a closer look at the people's livelihood in Xichu.
At dusk, Xu Fengnian went downstairs to make up for a dinner. After chewing slowly, he ordered a pot of tea. The waiter said that it was this year's new tea from Chunshenhu Mingqian, but the tea in the cup turned yellow, which was really unbearable into the eyes. Most of the people in the building were high-spirited foreigners who drank wine and tea. Xu Fengnian found that almost none of the survivors who took root in Western Chu left their hometowns and went north. The territory of Liyang, where the Spring and Autumn Period was pacified, was already vast, and because there were so many powerful vassals who sealed off the land in the hands of the late emperor, many unimportant news would be blocked by the region, but there would still be some matters of interest to both the government and the opposition. , one pass on from ten to ten to one hundred, with the support of the post office that is fairly smooth, the transmission is extremely fast, for example, who is the top three in the palace examination that only comes out in three years, let alone the Wuping Rouge review, but this month There are only two things that people look forward to most when they come to Liyang. One is when Western Chu rebelled, and the other is when they hear the news of the death of the young vassal king of Beiliang. Great news. In the eyes of many people, even if Beiliang has had the surname of Xu for more than twenty years, since the human Tu Xuxiao is dead, then he should simply give up to Chen Zhibao, who has been working for a while, and everything will be fine. In the eyes of the world, Xinliang The king is the rascal who has the dove occupying the magpie's nest. The king of Shu, Chen Zhibao, can control two lands with one king, and the west line of Liyang can be peaceful. .
Right now, everyone in the inn is discussing the second matter. After all, everyone in the inn is reckless, and the restoration of the Western Chu Kingdom will not be restored. There is Wang Xianzhi who is sealed, that is an old monster who is "jointly called emperor" with the emperor of the Zhao family, and everyone is excited when talking about this city lord of Emperor Wu. Inside the inn, there is a table of high-ranking guests who are different from those in the Jianghu. They are solemn and murderous. Most of them wear swords, and the style is the same. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this table has official status, not to mention that there are several servants with the same swords outside the store , with sharp eyes, looking at everyone with the arrogant eyes of a man looking at a dog. There were three men and one woman at the table. The woman lowered her head to eat, and occasionally raised her head. Her appearance was ordinary, but she had a pair of aura eyes that made people forget the commonplace, especially when she was looking forward, it was enough to add too much color to her. A short and strong man in his thirties, and the other two with swords, one old and one young, the old man was dressed in rich clothes. Hearing the boastful talk in the inn, he couldn't help but sneer, probably like the look of a man at the mouth of a well mocking a frog at the bottom of a well. .