Chapter Two Hundred and Four: The County Lord
Five years ago, in the mansion of a rich man in Jincheng, the sky fell into the sun, and his wife immediately gave birth to a daughter, this woman was one year old without a teacher, literate and hyphenation recited like a stream, one year old has learned all the words, two years old is holding the book of soldiers and sleeping, three years old has been able to give advice to his father shopping mall, four years old is the Jincheng city lord love, and recognized it as a righteous daughter.
This woman is now more than four years old, and in another month, it will be her fifth birthday, and it is also the ceremony of the county lord's sealing, don't look at only more than four years old, but it is a standard beauty embryo, with light eyebrows and big eyes, a small nose and mouth, like a finely carved jade bracelet, although it is only a month, but the people of Jincheng have already begun to get busy, cleaning their houses inside and out.
The reason is that since the establishment of Jincheng, there has not been any county lord, the reason is because the city lords of the past dynasties, their descendants are all men, and the previous city lords also wanted to recognize a righteous girl as the county lord, but they have never found a suitable one, and they never thought that now there is finally a city lord who is satisfied.
"How's it going?"
In a room in the City Lord's Mansion, a forty-year-old man with sword eyebrows asked, and on his left and right sides, there was a maid who was sorting out his clothes.
"The city lord and the people of the city are extremely excited, this is not only a happy event for the city lord, but also a major event in Jincheng", the man in a military uniform replied respectfully.
"I'm not asking about it"
This sword-eyebrow man, who is Sima Hong, the city lord of Jincheng, waved his hand to let the maids retreat, and then said: "The wish of dozens of generations of ancestors, that is, our Sima family can have a daughter, it is really not good, and we have to find a suitable daughter to recognize her as a righteous daughter, hehe, I didn't expect to finally find it in my generation."
"That's the city lord, you have a good management, and Jincheng is now also a big city with the top ten strength, and the soldiers under your command are strong and strong...", the man in military uniform smiled.
"Okay, okay, less sycophancy"
Before the man in uniform could speak, Sima Hong interrupted him, and then said: "I said, no one else is here, you don't have to behave like this, I invited a lot of people at the sealing ceremony next month, what do they say?"
"Back to my father, the city with the same strength as our Jincheng City, I have ordered someone to send a post, and all the people in the city have repaired their own houses, and it can be seen that the people also attach great importance to this, but...", the man in military uniform glanced at Sima Hong without saying anything.
This man in military uniform is Sima Hong's son, of course, only one of them, this Jincheng city lord Sima Hong, but married a wife, a side room and several concubines, and gave birth to more than a dozen sons to Sima Hong one after another, which made Sima Hong very worried, according to the ancestral rules, no matter how many sons you have in the city lord, after the current city lord leaves office, only one descendant can stay in the city lord's mansion, and the rest of the descendants must not stay in the city lord's mansion, nor can they hold important positions, let alone give these descendants any money, they can only be self-reliant.
And if you want to be a city woman, it is not so simple, in addition to the city lord in the city lord's palace affairs hall, more than seventy percent of the ministers agreed, but also have to be carried into the city lord's mansion, put on the city lord's dragon chair, behind the city lord's dragon chair, there is a dragon and phoenix screen, if the phoenix on this screen can be lit up, its identity as the county lord can be supported by the whole city, but obviously the daughter of the rich armor is obviously qualified, because in the past, not only the phoenix image on the screen suddenly appeared, but also a lifelike blue phoenix, Appears in the main hall, and then disappears into the screen.
Sima Hong didn't know that the man in uniform was worried about the county lord's announcement, but the problems that might arise during the sealing ceremony.
Fighting beasts, is the most popular entertainment for this strange execution, are other cities will bring beasts to fight, if only two cities, Jincheng is naturally worthwhile, but now send out more than 100,000 posts, including banquets for other city lords' posts, there are no less than fifty, if these cities each bring a beast to come, Jincheng may not have so many beasts to fight, then it will be disgraced.
"The soldiers are coming, the water is coming to cover the earth, and there is a January scene, you are sending people into the deep mountains and old forests to find some rare beasts to come back"
Sima Hong then gave an order to the man in military uniform, although there are many treasures in the warehouse of the city lord's mansion, they are all ordinary things, and the county lord's sealing ceremony is extremely important, plus the phoenix manifestation, so the rewards cannot be vulgar.
After the uniformed man was ordered to leave, Sima Hong ordered several ministers to summon several ministers to make detailed arrangements for the preparations for the sealing ceremony.
At this time, thousands of miles away, on a three-zhang wide dirt road, a team of carriages was slowly moving forward.
The last few carriages of this team of carriages are each equipped with four large wooden cages, each cage is locked up with a fierce beast, tiger, cheetah, black bear, crocodile, etc., but these beasts are different from Lin Fan's cognition, such as the yellow and green tiger, with two toothed teeth only one foot long, its appearance is very similar to the saber-toothed tiger in the Quaternary glacial period of the earth, but its appearance is much larger than the saber-toothed tiger.
And Lin Fan is now hiding in a big wooden cage next to the tiger, this wooden cage is locked up with a light black python that is more than four feet long, relying on the ability of the frog to communicate with all things, Lin Fan and the three beasts, the cat is in a circle of giant pythons, with the horse team towards Jincheng.
Fortunately, the three beasts didn't need to eat much, not to mention Lin Fanna, although he had lost his strength, his soul was also the soul of the Tianyuan Period, so there was no need for three meals a day, and after the carriage stopped and bumped, it finally arrived in Jincheng after more than 20 days.
Jincheng, its area is about more than one million hectares, the area outside the city is not counted, the strange star cities have experienced thousands of years of evolution, has set a number of rules, which jointly formulated between the city, it will be separated by thousands of miles, within the thousands of miles of each city, whether it is mountains and rivers, are under the jurisdiction of this city, once this rule is violated, all the cities will join hands to annihilate it.
The day after tomorrow is the county lord's sealing ceremony, but the name of the county lord has not yet been decided, Sima Hong can be said to have a headache, his ministers are divided into three factions, one is his henchmen; one is the old faction, this faction is the team of the late old city lord, equivalent to the minister of Tuogu, the weight and status of the speech can be said to be very important; and the other faction is the newcomer faction, the ideas and concepts of the new and old factions are extremely different, so they often quarrel in the affairs hall.
The old school named the county lord Sima Nanyan, and the new school named Sima Muqing, Sima Hong himself had already thought of a name, that is, Sima Chen, but this name had not yet been announced at the court meeting, and the old and new factions fought for each other, and after thinking about it, in order to avoid getting angry, Sima Hong still did not say the name he took, otherwise the old and new factions would join forces to fight with him.
Just when Sima Hong had a headache, in the gate of Jincheng, many envoys from other cities also came to Jincheng with gifts, although nothing happened in the past 20 days, but Lin Fan was uncomfortable and panicked, every day the people of the horse team would come to feed the beasts in the wooden cage, Lin Fan was worried that the people of the horse team would find out, so they let the python swallow themselves in their stomachs, and when the people of the horse team left and vomited, this situation also lasted more than 20 times.
When there was still a mile away from the gate of Jincheng, Lin Fan jumped out of the car with the three beasts, and at first he was still standing a mile away from the city gate, looking at Lin Fan who had entered the city gate with triumphant eyes, and then he frowned, because the city gate was heavily guarded at the moment, and anyone who entered and exited had to be checked in detail, according to the news he had heard in the past 20 days, the people of each city had their own city identity card, but Lin Fan didn't have this Jincheng identity card at all, how to enter the city?
The defense of this Jin city is solid, not to mention the city wall that is about seven zhang high, Sima Hong is still on three sides outside the city wall, digging a moat more than 30 zhang deep and hundreds of zhang wide, with Lin Fan's current situation, he still can't do a good job and jump straight into the city, but when he saw outside the city gate, there were two men in military uniforms who seemed to be the commanders, and when they were standing together chatting, he had an idea in his heart at the moment.
The crowd outside the city gate can be said to be endless at this moment, some of the envoys want to enter the city, and the day after tomorrow to meet Sima Hong at the Xuanfeng ceremony, and some are the ministers and rich armor subordinates in Jincheng City, all of whom return with rare treasures, and the people who go out of the city have the same purpose, that is, they have not yet found a gift that can be sent, and they want to take advantage of the last two days to look for it.
"Who's coming?", asked a soldier with a gun outside the city gates.
A man took out an invitation and a token from his bosom and replied, "I am an envoy sent by the lord of Seoul to attend the ceremony of the proclamation of your county lord."
After several soldiers inspected, they let the Seoul envoy and his party enter the city gate, and at the other end of the city gate, there were officials from the Ministry of Etiquette waiting here, and naturally the envoys would be taken to the designated inn to rest.
"Uncle, are you still busy?
The two men in military uniforms who were chatting must have a higher rank than the other soldiers, because the color of the armor of these two people was not the same as that of those soldiers who were in full swing, Lin Fan shouted enthusiastically when he ran to the side of these two, and the two commanders looked at Lin Fan with a pleasant face.
As soon as Lin Fan shouted this, the hundreds of soldiers in the passage of the city gate all thought that he was still the nephew of one of the two commanders, so although they were surprised by Lin Fan, who had a green snake around his neck, a colored bird on his shoulder, and a turtle in his hand, they did not stop him, but let him run into the city.
"Your nephew is good," the taller commander laughed.
The shorter commander was surprised, "What? I thought it was your nephew."
"Wowhaha~ I'm really a smart person"
After entering the city, Lin Fan looked up to the sky and laughed, the first thing to do next was to take a look at this so-called county lord, if it was really Zhou Chenxi, then she had to think about arousing her memory, if not, she had to look for it again.
However, although the county lord has not yet been officially announced, he has already lived in the city lord's mansion, and the maids take care of him day and night, and after the official sealing, there is also his own county lord's mansion, not to mention the future, even now, how Lin Fan approaches this county lord is difficult, although the day after tomorrow is the announcement ceremony, but the people invited are all princes and ministers, rich celebrities, and envoys from various cities, and the ordinary people of Jincheng do not have this qualification, let alone Lin Fan, who is only four years old at the moment.