The army slowly moved towards the Meng Dynasty (zhao), the capital of Jiang State, and there was still about half a day's schedule. Five days after the army left Xiaojia Village, Yan Qinghou returned most of the army to the barracks, most of which were the defenders of Dongyang City. Qi Guo might still sneak attack, and he asked the garrison outside the city to patrol more so as not to put the people in trouble again.

Yan Qinghou sent someone to inform Yan Che that he would arrive at Meng Chaocheng in half a day. Yan Che thought about it, this trip to Jiang Country, maybe the high-level people of Jiang Country would only show him what he could see, and what he couldn't see probably wouldn't have a chance to see. So in the carriage, Yan Che arranged the plan. Yan Che asked Yin and Ghost Shili to turn into ordinary people, and first infiltrated the Meng Dynasty to find out information. The hidden traces will not be discovered without the other party's advanced perception ability, and Ghost Shili is the incarnation of Yama, which is no different from a mortal in itself, and it is easier to find information in the human world. This trip must not be known to Yan Qinghou, and they must be cautious, they are the best candidates. The two of them took the order and turned into green smoke, but in an hour they came to the gate of the Meng Dynasty. There were several guards at the gates of the city, checking the vehicles and the people who came and went. They looked at the service and appearance of the locals, and walked towards the city gate in the form of locals.

The guards at the gates called out to them and asked if they had passes. Of course, they don't know what a pass looks like, but that doesn't stop them. Ghost Shili saw some people preparing to enter the city, holding token-like objects in their hands, and after showing them to the guards, they walked unhindered, presumably it was a pass. He used soul transfer to exchange his soul with the person with the document, and then manipulated the person's body and gave him both documents on his body. He then returned to his body, and the guards saw that they had papers and let them go with them. The person who was transferred to the soul came to his senses, and he tried to find the documents in his hand but could not find them anymore, so the guards naturally did not let them into the city.

After entering the city, they saw the prosperity of the city, and unlike the humble places in Shinojia Village, the air here was filled with the smell of luxury and wealth. The two looked at each other and lined up separately to feel the situation in the city. First of all, there was no ambush in the city, and there was no preparation for war, so it seemed that no one harmed Yan Che, at least what Yan Qinghou said was correct. Secondly, the prosperity of the city is very different from the outside, all kinds of lights are bright, fireworks and willow alleys, shops and businesses are prosperous, and all kinds of waste are flourishing, and there is no decay at all, and it is difficult to compare with the difficulties of the country that Yan Qinghou said. But they only saw a corner, and in the eastern corner of the city they saw that there was another city within a city, and there was another scene in the city, which was in stark contrast to the prosperity of the city. Ghost Shili decided to stay here to investigate, and let Yin go to the palace to investigate. Ordinary people in the palace are not allowed to enter and leave at will, so he walked in from the main entrance of the palace incognito. The guards standing at the gate of the palace were completely oblivious to a transparent man swaggering through their defenses.

This palace is so easy to enter, there is no barrier, there are no high-level cultivators patrolling, just a few soldiers guarding the entrances. Hidden into a no-man's land, the soldiers did not notice it at all. Secondly, the palace is not too splendid, even a little shabby. There weren't even a few servants walking in the corridors of the palace and the palace, only sporadic guards patrolling. There was no one in the court now, so he looked around. During the conversation of a pair of servants, he learned of the position of the king of this country, and went to King Jiang's dormitory, and found that several people dressed in the appearance of noble sons had entered the main hall of King Jiang's dormitory, and he also followed, and entered the house the moment the door was closed.

There were three men who entered the house, and on the way they called each other brothers, it seemed that they were the sons of King Jiang. They sat down at a table in the main hall of the dormitory, and they talked about it. Then Jiang Wang also walked into the main hall. Jiang Wang looked very old, at least more than the age of a sixtieth birthday, with gray hair, a wrinkled face, and a white beard. Beside him, a woman who seemed to have just reached the end of his life helped him into the main hall. The three princes did not have the slightest sign of respect, did not salute and did not wait for King Jiang to sit down before they began to speak:

"Father, I heard that Yan Qinghou defeated the Qi State. Although Yucheng was once the territory of our Jiang State, it was ceded to the Qi State after our defeat eighteen years ago, but there are still a few small villages that have not been clearly divided. Now that Yan Qinghou has defeated the Qi State, how can we Jiang Guo establish faith and within the Six Kingdoms? If the Marquis of Qi Fushun wants to take the land, let him do that, those villages are only a few hundred people, and now this Yan Qinghou has taken the excuse of saving the people and put Jiang Guo into an unkind and unjust situation. If this Qi State is united with Liang State or other countries to fight, will a Yan Qinghou be on the top?" It was the eldest prince who said this, Jiang Ziye, he was the weakest, advocated a truce and peace, and was most afraid of trouble, when Jiang Guo was defeated by Qi State, it was his idea to cede Yucheng and no longer fight.

"But didn't the three of you agree to the proposal to send troops?" said King Jiang.

"We just wanted people to negotiate and divide the territory of their respective countries, but we didn't expect Yan Qinghou to make a move. At this time, the second prince spoke, and the second prince Jiang Ziyi, the attention of sending troops was what he thought. At that time, the three of them thought that no one in the imperial court dared to send troops, only Yan Qinghou dared to face the battle without knowing the depth of the imperial court. Yan Qinghou has always been their confidant, always pointing out the problems of the three of them in the court, just taking this opportunity to get rid of him. So in the end, only 50,000 people were sent to deal with the 100,000 army of the Qi State. It's just that I didn't expect that Yan Qinghou not only didn't die, but also defeated Qi Guo, and it was really impossible to steal chickens and rice. At that time, the news of Yan Qinghou's dispatch of troops was given to Fushun Hou Jin Zhen, if Yan Qinghou returned to the position of prince, he would have no fun. He continued: "Father, if the Qi State sends troops again, Jiang Guo is afraid that he will destroy the country, so he should choose the person on the throne as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, father, with the crown prince, Jiang Guo also has the capital to make a comeback. The person who echoed was Jiang Ziliang, who seemed to be the most inconspicuous of the three, often going back and forth between the two brothers, and seemed to be a small follower. The two brothers didn't speak, he didn't have the courage to speak.

"Are you too anxious, your father is still in good health, and you are talking as if your father's dynasty is not in danger. Besides, my father is busy with the regent today, and it was napping time, so you came here to disturb at this time, are you thinking about your father's body?" The woman's name is Mengsheng, and she is the adopted daughter of King Jiang.

"When will it be your turn for outsiders to interject?" said the eldest prince Jiang Ziye. Unexpectedly, Meng Sheng glared at him, and he was so frightened that he hid behind Jiang Ziyi. The two sides seemed to be arguing, and King Jiang coughed and said, "This king is going to rest, and the matter will be discussed when General Zhenyuan comes back." ”

Seeing that King Jiang had no intention of talking again, the three of them had to give up and leave angrily.

Meng Sheng helped Jiang Wang to the bed, and Jiang Wang said helplessly after lying down slowly: "Why do you wish I died early?"

Mengsheng covered the quilt with Jiang Wang, persuaded him not to think too much, to take care of his body, and said that he would live a long life and live another hundred years. King Jiang laughed when she heard this, saying that only she was the most well-behaved, and then she watched King Jiang fall asleep before leaving, and gently closed the door.

With a full view of what was happening, he immediately left the palace and joined the ghost ten miles. Ghost Shili also investigated the situation in the city as early as possible, and had an understanding of the city defense and layout of the entire town, as well as the people's living conditions. After the two converged, they turned into green smoke and black shadows in the dark night and flew outside the city, rushing to Yan Che on the march to report today's situation. On the way, the two said that this Meng Dynasty City was defenseless, but anyone who had the ability could come and go at will, and it was not like the capital of a country. The most important hub of the country, on the contrary, are the most ordinary people working in it. But Ghost Shili also found that some places had special enchantments and cultivators, and he easily entered the enchantment, and he also understood the situation in it clearly, and the cultivators were only the most beginner people, and he didn't even find out when he entered the enchantment. In the middle of the night, they returned to Yan Che's group.

The two began to inform Yan Che of the results of the investigation one by one:

1. Although the throne is in the hands of King Jiang, the financial land of soldiers and horses is in the hands of the three princes. King Jiang is now just a puppet who can speak but has no power. The courtiers were basically in the camp of the three princes, and only a few were neutral.

Second, Jiang Guo's strength is weak, there are almost no high-level cultivators in the city, and the city comes and goes freely, without much obstruction.

Third, the people are deeply polarized, and the same city is divided into rich and poor areas. That city within a city is where refugees and the poor are concentrated.

There are many other results, which are greatly unexpected by Yan Che.

"This Jiang Guo is simply terminally ill! What kind of incompetence can bring the people who trust him to such a point. This Yan Qinghou seems to really value me and wants me to revive a dying horse. Yan Che said angrily.

"I can't imagine that in just a hundred years, humanity has made itself so depraved. Yan Tiege said on the side.

"I'm going to think about what to do next. Yan Che replied, and asked the two of them to leave, and the plan would be informed early tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning, Yan Che's army finally arrived at the Meng Dynasty. Yan Qinghou wanted to go and hand over the talismans, and at the same time bring the rest of the troops back to his camp, and after entering the city, he arranged a mansion for Yan Che, and asked him to wait for him to come back at night and meet King Jiang together.

In this way, there will be a day for Yan Che to come and see with his own eyes what this so-called country of mankind is really like.

Yan Che and his party lived in the arranged courtyard first, and there were some servants in it, all of whom were arranged by Yan Qinghou. But since it was arranged by someone else, there is no rest assured that it is not for your own use. Yan Che asked Hua Yao to send these servants away, took over the yard, and began to tidy up the yard after the servants left the yard. Yin and the green wolf began to check the safety of the yard, of course, the yard is very safe, it is really ordinary, there is no secret passage and no secret door. There was a pool in the courtyard, and the shark jumped into the water and found that this pool was connected to the entire city river of the Meng Dynasty, extending in all directions. He dived into the city river of the Meng Dynasty from the water and swam back to find nothing but the dirty water. Onishiri set up an enchantment outside the mansion and set up mechanisms on some of the main roads in the house in case of unpreparedness. The man is all well-trained, methodical, and performs his job. Yan Che didn't sit down for long, and went out at noon. He only let Yan Tiege follow him, and according to what Ghost Shili said last night, he had a general understanding of the layout of the city, and began to witness the current situation of human beings.

Yan Che first came to the rich area, that is, the west and south districts of the city, and it is indeed like Ghost Shili said, everyone here is drunk and obsessed. Green buildings, gambling houses, and tobacco houses are full of people's intoxicated voices, and everyone is confused but everyone doesn't know it. Yan Che's ears can hear people's hearts, and the people here seem to be satisfied, but the words in their hearts are pickled and dirty, and they are unbearable. For example, in a tavern, a few customers staggered out with wine, and the store talked and laughed at the guests, but as soon as the guests left, the store changed their faces, saying that these people owed three days of wine money, and they would have to find thugs next time if they didn't pay back. Another example is the clothing shop, a woman from a large family came first, and she made a generous move, and the shopkeeper couldn't close her mouth with a smile, and a shabby person came behind to buy cloth, and the shopkeeper drove her out of the shop directly. This scene abounds, and people have all kinds of faces constantly switching.

There were a few people walking sideways on the street, with knives pinned to their waists, going in and out of the shops. When they walked to the door, someone brought them the money and greeted them with a smile and sent them away. The tavern had told these people about the matter, and these people took the money from the restaurant and told them that they could get the money back in the evening, but the money would have to be divided into a commission. The shopkeeper was naturally unhappy, but he still smiled and said that it was no problem. As soon as they left, they scolded those people and dogs. Those with knives passed by a fruit stall, and the stall owner seemed to pay less money, so they smashed the stall, took a few fruits and gnawed them, and walked away. just walked in front of Yan Che.

The leader looked at Yan Che viciously, and Yan Che also looked up at this person. Then a minion came out from the side and spoke: "You are new here, don't you know that this Yonghua Street is the territory of our Seven Heroes Gang, Yan Qibao, and Brother Leopard?

Yan Che sneered, thinking in his heart where did this person deserve the word Shangxia, and he had the face of a bully. It is true to say that it is a leopard, if this is in the demon world, someone will immediately say that he ate the gall of the leopard and committed the following crimes. However, Yan Che naturally didn't take it to heart, just smiled. Suddenly, this minion saw that Yan Che was unmoved, and a dull stick came over. The stick snapped and broke into two, leaving only a broken stick in the minion's hand. Yan Che stood motionless, not even blinking his eyes when the stick came down just now. The minion looked at Yan Che unharmed, and his heart was shocked, and he didn't believe in evil and was ready to take a knife. Yan Tiege immediately sent a message to Yan Che in his heart, asking him not to cause trouble first, this kind of ant will be trampled to death casually in the future, and if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan.

Yan Che immediately changed his attitude when he heard it, took out a large bag of money from behind him, and said with a smile: "The little brother has just arrived, and he doesn't know the rules here, so he is offended. Buy wine for Brother Leopard to drink before these. ”

The little minion accepted the money bag, and Yan Qibao said: "I don't need to eat a stick like this earlier, just play casually after I go in." Then he left Yonghua Street with his younger brother.

Yan Che asked where the money came from in the shadows, and Yin said that he had stolen it from the gang. Yan Che smiled: "Fortunately, you didn't make a move just now, if there is a disturbance in broad daylight, someone will know about us in the Meng Dynasty immediately." ”

Yin said: "Yin knows the young master's thoughts, and if the young master doesn't let Yin make a move, Yin won't make a move." ”

"Good. So they went on down the street.

During this day, there are not many Qinglou that have opened for business, but there are many gambling houses. Unlike other places, this gambling house is both rich and poor. Yan Che went to the gambling house to take a look.

There are all kinds of gambling equipment in the gambling house, and dozens of people are gathered around a table. Yan Che approached a gaming table to see that the people at this table were playing dice clocks to guess the points. After a while, the gambling game began, and the gamblers began to press the points on the table, guessing the odd and even double, and guessing the right score to get five times. After the gamblers have put all their money away, the bell-ringers start rolling the dice. After shaking for a while, he put down the dice clock and slowly opened it, the dice inside were one, two, three or six points, and then there was a sigh and boiling, some people lost money and some people won money.

Yan Che didn't understand the meaning of this gamble, just guessing the points could get money without much effort, and there was no sense of accomplishment at all, but everyone was deeply immersed in it and couldn't extricate themselves. After a while, another game started, and some people were happy and some were worried. One of the gamblers seemed to have lost all his money, and the others squeezed him out when he had no bets. He fell to the ground and got up to borrow money from the front desk. This moneylender is not stupid, seeing that the gambler is in rags, he must be a poor man with no family background, and he refuses to borrow money. Just then, the gambler's wife came in with two children and found him. The gambler's wife tugged at the man's clothes, saying that he took the money from the bottom of the box at home to gamble, and the child was hungry and drank porridge every day, and he couldn't even drink porridge in the future. The man was impatient, and the child suddenly said to the lender, "How much is this child worth?" The lender took one look at the child and said that the child was skinny and not worth a few dollars. Then the man said even more inhumanely, "Where is my wife?" The woman was so frightened that she hugged her child, and the person in front of her, who had been with her through thick and thin, was now a wolf. The lender also said that he was too old and no one wanted to send the Qinglou, so he was a servant at most. Even the children are counted as fifty taels. The gambler readily agreed, and signed the deed of sale. The woman wanted to leave with the child, but was caught by the people in the gambling house, and the child kept crying, and the gambler actually stepped forward and slapped him, scolding: "Little rabbit cub, how much money has been wasted by raising you for so many years, and now you can repay your father, you have to thank Lao Tzu." “

Everything that happened was seen by Yan Che. Yan Che had only one thought in his heart: I was going to kill him!

Yin immediately asked Yan Che in his heart: "Young Master, do you want me to do it?" Yin heard Yan Che's killing intent, but he had told him not to cause trouble before, so he asked him how to decide.

Yan Tiege said softly to Yan Che in his heart: "Che'er, don't worry. Maybe there's a more inhumane place you haven't been to. “