After the war, Lu Yunchang reluctantly followed the three of them to pick up the broken limbs of those famous swords. The young man really couldn't understand why the immortal master had such a family background, and why he was so fussy about daily necessities like a housekeeper. Wang Sheng is not like Lu Yunchang, who is heartless and sad when he picks up the sword and holds it. Lu Yunchang is a swordsman who despises swordsmanship. Feeling sad. When Lu Yunchang was throwing the last handful of broken swords into the carriage, he caught a glimpse of Wang Sheng's distraught appearance, and joked that he was like a girl, but he was a bit taller than a horse, and he was not at all juicy. In a rage, Wang Sheng stretched out his hand to hold the goose yellow on his waist. In an instant, the sword was full of energy, which should not be underestimated. The bold Lu Yunchang was not afraid at all, he grinned, showing his white teeth, twirling his palm on the handle of the Dashuang long knife, his eyes were hot, and asked Wang Sheng if he wanted to fight, and whoever would win would be the immortal master big apprentice. Wang Sheng's face changed, and he didn't speak. For a while, the young and the young were in a stalemate. The old spy couldn't bear to see such childish internal strife, so he wanted to hit each of them with 50 boards, so that the two youngsters would know the seriousness. Thinking that instead of persuading the peace, the young vassal king added fuel to the fire and made them make an oath to fight a war in three years' time, and live and die at their own risk. Afterwards, the old spy asked the reason privately. Xu Fengnian laughed and said that the two children were deliberately made to be sharpening stones for each other, and they would not hide anything from them. They would give each of them the best swordsmanship in the world. He also wanted to take a look at this The outcome of the battle of swords.
When the carriage drove to the border of Youzhou, Lu Yunchang heard a rush of horseshoes that had never been heard in other states. It was single but extremely heavy. The young man quickly let go of the reins, jumped on the horse's back, and looked up. The result was that the young man would never forget it for the rest of his life. In this scene, hundreds of fine riders, all white horses and white armors, wear swords and bear crossbows, and the fluctuation of the horse's back is absolutely consistent with the landing of the horse's hooves. No wonder they galloped on the post road, and only heard the sound, just like a war horse galloping. Dama in Beiliang, Liangdao in Xu’s family, these two are the coveted treasures of other princes in Liyang. Lu Yunchang is no better than Wang Sheng, who is ignorant and ignorant. The city of Emperor Wu is mixed with fish and dragons. The curious Lu Yunchang has a superficial knowledge of Jianghu affairs and temple affairs. Dabbling, traveling all the way to the west, the young man probably guessed the identity of the fairy son brother, but as a Jiang Huerlang in the East China Sea, he never knew the scenery of the northwest frontier, nor could he imagine the majesty of the Xu family's cavalry in the northwest. As you can see, the young man has the most intuitive impression. He only thinks that if he is given a few thousand cavalry, even if he has a cloud of masters in Wudi City, he can crush a few back and forth. For a while, the young man was a little dazed. He just thought that if he practiced the sword behind closed doors, it would be an embroidered sword. It would be better to go to the border to join the army and practice a murderous sword.
Eight hundred Bai Mayi came halfway through. When he saw King Liang, he got off his horse and knelt down with his sword at the same time. Xu Fengnian glanced at him casually. Most of them were new faces. This is not surprising. Most of the cavalry guards were scattered and infiltrated into the army of various places as confidantes. Wu, especially the group of white horse followers who followed him to Tiemenguan to intercept and kill the prince Zhao Kai, most of them have a good official status, even if their official rank is not high, they all have some real power in their hands, and some young people who have shown challenges on the battlefield , like the ruthless son Hong Shuwen, even a carp jumps over the dragon's gate, with a bright future. Xu Fengnian raised his arm, signaling the white horse Qingqi to get on their horses and follow them, and continue to move forward.
Xu Fengnian did not go straight to Liangzhou feudal prince's mansion, but turned to Lingzhou in the south on the way. He only brought Wang Sheng and Lu Yunchang's two children with him. "Dian Mao". Xu Fengnian's trip is to see Xu Beizhi, the governor of Orange who was kidnapped by him from Beimang. The solar terms in the Northwest are connected by spring and autumn, so it is called winter without summer. It does not mean that there is no hot season. When it is hot, it is often much hotter than other places. The ground is high and the sky is close. Naturally, he was ruthless, but now that the beginning of autumn was approaching, there was no sign of a cool wind coming, which made Lu Yunchang, who was not acclimatized, a little sick. Wang Sheng, who had been trained in the low-level life, was fine, and practiced sword as always. Huangnan County, passing south, is where the Beiliang granary is located. The reed stream is continuous and the water plants are fertile. It is not only the throat of the fortress, but also the waist of the Liangxi Corridor. At this time and here, the middle rice and corn are beginning to mature, and the late rice is also beginning to joint. Booting, cotton bolls and bolls, the unique style of the south of the Yangtze River outside the Great Wall, the two children were amazed to see them. All the way south, the two children were always more eye-catching than Xu Fengnian. One carried a white sheathed sword, and the other carried a backpack. There are seven or eight swords tied to his body, not like a young ranger, but like a seller of bad swords.
Before the three of them entered the city of Lingzhou, they met a bodyguard team from north to south on the official road. Everyone rode tall horses, and the carriages were particularly luxurious. Black Gold Ichthyosaur. For some reason, the bodyguard team got into disputes with a group of foreign scholars. It stands to reason that Beiliang currently relies heavily on the scholars who go to Liangzhou. The team didn't say a word, and beat the brightly dressed scholars until they cried for their fathers and mothers. Lu Yunchang was very clear about the context of Jianghu, and when he saw the flag, he said enviously: "Wang Mutou, look with wide eyes, he is the Yulong Gang, one of the top ten sects in Jianghu today! Although it is not as good as Chunshen Lake The Kuaixue Villa next to it is as noble as it is, and it’s not as high as the moonless building in Daxueping, Huishan, but the Yulong Gang dares to accept it, no matter whether you are a gangster or a green forest bandit, as long as you have the ability, you can do it. In the Fish and Dragons Gang, they are in the lucrative position, so this gang is famous for its large number of people, and no one pays attention to it. A few gangs outside Beiliang, as long as they provoke the Fish and Dragons Gang, even if they are separated by a state. Well, the Yulong gang dared to charge one or two hundred people under the banner of walking the darts, copying guys all the way to kill them. Hey, the local government doesn't even dare to fart."
Xu Fengnian remained indifferent, and later saw the governor Xu Beizhi at an old site called Jiahe warehouse outside Lingzhou City. , the north respects the salary and the south nectar, both are known in the world. It's just that the Jiahe Warehouse has not been used for several dynasties, and it is completely abandoned, leaving a big shelf empty. When Li Gongde, the Minister of Economic Affairs, was concurrently serving as the governor of Lingzhou, he thought about repairing this warehouse, but unfortunately no one responded, and it was difficult to do it alone, so he had to give up. Firstly, it takes a huge amount of money to repair the Jiahe warehouse, and secondly, it takes a lot of courage to adjust the grain into the warehouse. Furthermore, when the grain enters the official warehouse, the government is equivalent to spreading a big chicken rib, which means spending money every day to raise food. Ordinary granary can still exchange new grain for old grain to earn shady night grass windfalls, but once the Jiahe warehouse is restored to use, it is destined to be a military powerhouse that even young vassal kings have to stare at. Who dares to tamper with this place, Isn't that too long life? The new governor, Xu Beizhi, went his own way against this background. He did not hesitate to overdraft Lingzhou's taxes, and decided to rebuild the Jiahe warehouse. From the eyes of the officialdom, it is good to say that the governor is once and for all. Standing on the sidelines, but secretly made a lot of small stumbling blocks, if the Jiahe warehouse is really tossed by that stunned young man, it will cut off countless people and money. A large Jiahe warehouse can not only collect the taxes of the entire Lingzhou for Paying officials' salaries and local military salaries, and at the same time being able to save food prices to prepare for shortages and relief, this allows those arrogant private warehouses to make huge profits by taking advantage of frequent natural and man-made disasters? From the top to the bottom of the government, from rank officials to subalterns to handymen, they all worked tacitly and did not work hard, and there were often some right and wrong that hindered the progress of the project. Master Xu, who was ridiculed as the governor of Liangzhou, did not get angry about it. He was angry, and he didn’t kill chickens to warn monkeys. He just borrowed two thousand soldiers from General Lingzhou, and asked for three thousand corvee men from the chiefs of Huangnan County and Longqing County, which he could control. Don't drive Song Yan in Lingzhou to rectify the large and small official warehouses in Lingzhou. Once illegal actions are discovered, they will not make a big move. At most, they will remove the official hat and replace it with a clean foreign scholar. The officialdom in the state did not suffer from unbearable turmoil, but a small group of big figures with clear eyes finally realized it belatedly, and began to often go in and out of that much deserted mansion.
The guards outside the Jiahe Warehouse were heavily guarded, and Xu Fengnian did not disclose his identity. He just asked a young captain to help spread the word, saying that Bo, the governor of Bishan County, Yanzhi County, Youzhou, was an old acquaintance of the governor. Xu Beizhi, who had been eating and sleeping at the former site of Jiahe Warehouse during this period of time, came quickly, and he was even more travel-worn than Xu Fengnian, a prisoner. The youngest governor in Beiliang's history looked exhausted, but he was in good spirits After seeing Xu Fengnian, he was not very surprised, and walked side by side silently, which shocked the captain. The construction of Jiahe warehouse was in full swing, and Xu Beizhi was regarded as the prodigal son of Lingzhou Tianzi. He raised his sleeves and wiped his face with plaster. First, it is said to be a granary, but in fact it is no different from a city with both offensive and defensive capabilities. The granary city is one and a half miles long from east to west, and two miles wide from north to south. There are more than 300 granaries and no less than 50 granary cellars. At that time, you can clearly see the source of grain, the date of entry into the cellar, and the title of the official who was awarded the chestnut. The Qin Dynasty’s various year numbers declined one by one, and everything can be traced. It's a bad habit, and after arriving at Jiahe warehouse, I realized that there are some things that the ancients did better."
Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "People's wisdom is gradually developing, good and bad, otherwise the ancestors of Taoism would not have proposed the saying of abandoning sages and abandoning wisdom, and the world will decline. It’s not the same as in the officialdom where you have all kinds of ingenuity, if you are in the Jiangnan side where the powerful clans are intertwined, you can’t really use it. Here, after all, there are military officers to suppress, and the time for civil officials to rise up is short after all.”
Xu Beizhi sighed, and said in a deep voice: "As long as the Jiahe Warehouse is built, and the autumn harvest of the three states this year is used as a source of grain, it will be enough to support the grain and grass needed for the border war for two years. I don’t want to get my claws back, otherwise, not to mention two years, half a year is a luxury. In fact, if I can figure it out slowly, I can even let the local Haoheng grain merchants buy grain at high prices in other states to fill the cold. A little silver is nothing, once the war starts, not to mention gold and silver, even the land is worth less than ready-made grain. It's just that Beiliang has been stable for twenty years, and it has become their confidence to be short-sighted. It's ridiculous. Those The one who brought the seed grandson out of the country with his family members even let out the words, let the stored grain in Yicang rot, and did not sell a grain of good rice to Jiahecang at a high price. This reminds me of my grandfather talking about the spirit among neighbors In disputes, if you only get one penny and your neighbors get three cents, then you would rather not earn a dime together than the other family get the two cents more."
No matter how angry he was, Xu Beizhi's tone was always clear and calm.
Xu Fengnian stopped at the front door of a granary with gray and ancient tiles, and said with a smile: "Lingzhou is so excited and disgusts you, so let them do it, but I can assure you that the autumn grain from Liangyou and Youzhou will definitely be filled into Jiahe granary At that time, the guys who escaped disaster when I was the general of Lingzhou, will just settle the score for you. Anyway, from today on, how many so-called priceless antiques and curios can be taken out of Beiliang Road with them? How much, but don’t even think about taking out a tael of silver and gold or a catty of white rice.”
Xu Beizhi sneered very bluntly and said: "Fantasy, do you think it can be done? When the water is clear, there will be no fish. Those generals and captains who guard the border, who doesn't have relatives?"
Xu Fengnian said helplessly, "It's better than doing nothing, right?"
Xu Beizhi's expression eased a little, and he nodded. The vassal kings around him swaggered away from Lingzhou back then, but they didn’t really touch the backs of Lingzhou’s officialdom. With the dual amulets of Lingzhou General and His Royal Highness, no one really dared to tear their skins apart, but when Xu Beizhi personally ruled the Dragon Snake The mixed Lingzhou will inevitably touch the final bottom line of the local general family. Besides, Xu Beizhi is not an old man from Beiliang like Li Gongde, who is suddenly powerful, even if Song Yan and the four Wangs help to make a move, and the general of Lingzhou "stands by the sword" for him, but the officialdom has always been complicated and unpredictable, Wang Fa , Human affection, patriarchal clan, and various rules are mixed in it, each conflicting, a mess, the so-called chaotic knife can only succeed for a while, but in fact it has a long-term consequences. Xu Beizhi was in it, and as long as he did something, he would naturally make enemies everywhere. Chen Xiliang, who was dealing with salt administration and water transportation at that time, was a lesson from the past. Haven't hit a wall everywhere? Xu Beizhi sneered in his heart, he was soft-tempered, everyone could be bullied, how could he stand on his own feet on Beiliang Road, where the people are very popular? In Liuzhou, the fourth state in the land of exiles, even if Chen Xiliang managed to defend the city from being destroyed by nearly ten thousand horse thieves, he still left a comment of indecisive and benevolent women. Some achievements have been made in local politics.
Xu Fengnian suddenly asked: "The Yulong Gang frequently engages in border trade, have they violated the rules?"
Xu Beizhi said: "There are spies watching, since there is no spy sent to the desk of the governor's mansion, there must be no crime."
After a pause, Xu Beizhi frowned and asked, "Have you behaved out of bounds?"
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "Probably not yet."
Xu Beizhi said calmly: "The woman surnamed Liu hasn't visited me so far, probably to avoid suspicion, but such a modest woman, who is a good leader of a second-rate gang in the state, is destined to be unstable and rank among the best in the entire arena. The leader of the big gang."
Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "It's not her fault, it's hard for her, she should have been an ordinary heroine."
Xu Beizhi suddenly said: "Since you came back alive, why don't you hurry back to Qingliang Mountain? I've already prepared the twigs for you."
Xu Fengnian said bitterly: "Second sister, it's useless to plead guilty."
Xu Beizhi had an undisguised gloating face.
Then Xu Beizhi ordered a large portion of food for the King of Beiliang who hadn’t eaten yet. Jiahecang always treats people equally, pickled vegetables are steamed buns, Xu Beizhi and Xu Fengnian both squatted down to eat, Lu Yunchang sat cross-legged and cross-knife proudly, and asked for more A pot of the long-known green ant wine from Beiliang was choked up, and Wang Sheng had a sword tied to his back, so he couldn't squat down, so he had to stand.
Xu Beizhi smiled and asked, "Are you all apprentices?"
Xu Fengnian hummed.
Lu Yunchang said with a playful smile: "This Lingzhou official, the boy's surname is Lu Ming Yunchang, he is from the city of Emperor Wudi in the East China Sea, and he is the eldest disciple of the master. From now on, I will hope that the official will take care of him a little bit."
Xu Beizhi laughed when he heard the young man's words.
Wang Sheng snorted coldly.
Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "It can be regarded as the second and third disciples. The eldest disciple is a shepherd boy, but he is still with Xu Yanbing now."
Lu Yunchang stared and said: "What, Wang Sheng is not a big disciple yet? Immortal Master, then what are I going to do with Wang Sheng after three years of fighting? It's boring to fight for the second child."
Xu Fengnian said calmly, "Drink your wine."
The young man drank obediently, respecting his teacher.
Xu Beizhi asked softly, "What did Guangling Road say?"
Xu Fengnian said calmly: "It's just a few days."
Xu Beizhi sighed with emotion: "The smoke of the wolf is together, does this also mean that someone in the temple of the Liyang Dynasty has ushered in the last ray of afterglow?"
Xu Fengnian grumbled expressionlessly, "The old ones won't go, and the new ones won't come."