Tianmen Pass as the waist of the frontier town, the scale is much more magnificent than other cities, the city wall of Zhongzhou Taihe City in the dynasty is not higher than nine zhang, open nine gates, one door and five holes, take the meaning of the ninety-five supreme. But Tianmen Pass as the first barrier across the Qianyuan and the north of the city wall has 12 zhang, open four gates, one door and three holes, the city wall is several zhang thick, the female wall watchtower stands in a forest, with the rammed earth as the base to pile up the huge Qingxuan stone unique to Xiongzhou, the rammed earth is mixed with sheep blood and eggs to increase the viscosity and then tightly compacted after the pile of Qingxuan stone, in the gap to glutinous rice soup poured soil to build the city, standing in the cold wind, after the wind boiled indestructible, it is so strong that the city can make the army of the tiger and wolf in the north daunted countless times in decades.

Three people and three horses stopped outside the city gate, looking up at the northern boundary of this desolate ancient city, the gate of heaven closed the city gate to open three holes, and the middle of the city gate hole hung with the slate stone carving of the Tang Hui Emperor's handwritten imperial book 'Tianmen' two words, although Tang Hui Emperor is one of the best faint monarchs since the establishment of the Qianyuan Dynasty, he likes women and treasures, especially for the treasures of the craftsmen who are living in the people.

A hundred years ago, Yongzhou produced four famous sons of the world, two of them are good at painting Danqing, one calligraphy can be called decisive, the remaining one is the poetry of the ancient and modern Shuo Confucian, these four are called the four great talents of the south of the Yangtze River, the first one has lived in the peach blossom nunnery for a long time, loves to drink good Danqing, claims to be the owner of the peach blossom nunnery, said the sentence 'and pick the peach blossom and sell the wine money' was widely spread by the later generations of readers, and the name moved the world.

The calligraphy and painting of the peach blossom hermitage can be called a must, among which the landscape and the ladies are the most, and the prefect of the first five products during the reign of Emperor Tang Hui took a "mountain road pine sound map" Changed a second-grade court dress, after that this atmosphere grew in the government and the opposition, countless officials scattered their hands in the folk to loot paintings, utensils, treasures, beauties, and beauties, and then sent them to the palace overnight and waited for the court's favor, the wind direction of the court and the opposition was so that there was no good man to concentrate on government affairs, and the ministers and traitors swarmed, so the Qianyuan Dynasty had the first border turmoil in seven hundred years, and then Emperor Hui committed suicide by hanging the beam, and the second son ascended to the great treasure, and the year name was Zhezong's broken old calendar to change the new calendar, after 32 years of suppressing cholera, and Zhezong died in another five years, the prince succeeded to the throne, and the year number was positive, which was the son of heaven of the Tang family in the current dynasty。

Although Emperor Tang Hui is not a Ming monarch, but the one-handed ink Danqing can be called everyone, but at that time, the dynasty was turbulent, and there were very few ink treasures in the world, and the hanging outside the Tianmen Pass was one of Emperor Hui's ink treasures, which was originally intended to reward the border soldiers, but who in the dynasty did not know, it was not that the faint monarch misled the country, how could there be such a barbarian foreign captives and forced chaos.

The black-clothed young man on the horse looked at the majestic Jiancheng of Tianmen Pass and couldn't help but admire: "It is worthy of being the first town in the frontier, and it is really majestic." ”

Chen Changge, who was carrying a gun, bowed his head slightly and said: "For more than 50 years, countless soldiers and armor have been buried here, and countless poets who yearn for military horses have come here to see the majesty of Jiancheng. ”

Tian Baiyi, who was dressed in a green shirt, said with a slight picket at the corner of his mouth: "With a million Zhentianmen, the blood is dyed in Kunlun, and it is under the protection of such a majestic city that it is so reckless as the Yin of Hongyong Mansion." ”

Tian Baiyi felt disgusted as soon as he thought of the lust of the Hongyong Mansion Yin, Chen Changge and Liu Yuanshan looked at each other and shrugged slightly, this way is not easy, fighting with the people and fighting with the corrupt officials, and having to compete with the wind and snow thousands of miles away, that's the case, whether there can be news at Tianmen Pass is not yet known, maybe Tiancheng's kid is buried in the Wanjun bush and can't even find a pair of bones, even if he barely finds out the news, he is alive today, what about tomorrow?

In the past few days, Chen Changge also felt that it was a bit reckless to go to Tianmen, but for a friend, if he ignored and ignored his conscience, he would be at ease, and he would do his best but be worthy of it, and in the evening, the sky was not yet completely dark, and the three of them rode three horses and slowly entered the Tianmen Pass.

Wang Laohan of the City Gate Restaurant watched the three of them ride slowly, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. It wasn't until the three of them disappeared from sight that they came back to their senses, laughed at themselves and scolded themselves for being old and improper, and they were still greedy for other girls' beauty, and couldn't help sighing: "Old, old." ”

Wang Laohan picked up the account book and continued to sketch and calculate a few more silver coins in today's account, at this time the sky was dark, there were no guests in the wine shop, only the table guests sat in front of Wang Laohan's counter, the drinker was a young man, the face was cold, people did not dare to look closer, looking at it was not a kind patron, the grade in his twenties had a resolute face, his eyes were cold, his eyes were high, his eyes were thin, there was a shallow scar on the right side of his face, and his palm was full of martial arts practitioners, and a short knife was placed beside him, looking at the woman in green clothes who had just ridden by, her eyes flashed, she didn't say a word, she just gulped down the spirits。

Wang Laohan is honest, ordinary guests here the old man loves to take the initiative to talk a few words, on the street to buy and sell don't care what the identity of the customer is to leave a familiar face is good, but like this look fierce and cold old man is discouraged, now this kind of martial artist in this troubled era is better to provoke less, the old man thought, so he silently hooked the man's bill, three bowls of spirits together a total of a few copper coins, don't want it, even if you buy a stable.

The old man was ready to take three bowls of wine for nothing, but who knew that the young man was still a righteous patron, and he threw down more than ten copper coins without saying a word, picked up the short knife and followed in the direction where the three of them disappeared.

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After nightfall, the bright moonlight covered the waist of Tianmen Pass, Chen Changge and the three of them entered the customs to find a clean old shop, many businessmen in this world fled as early as two months ago, and found a home to make Tian Baiyi quite satisfied with the inn and stayed, although Tian Baiyi did not pay much attention to the environment, the cold broken temple that day also survived, and there were too many opinions to ask how it was good, but women, it is normal to be more delicate, so Chen Changge took the two of them to find a few more, and the master in white said that if he went out with a woman, he should have some responsibility。

But this responsibility and Liu Yuanshan's eagerness are two different things, this guy has never been so eager for Uncle Liu, Liu Yuanshan, who is the most greedy for enjoyment on weekdays, gave all the good things to Tian Baiyi, and lived out of a slave appearance, if the crazy master Ji Rong saw this kid so spineless, the wine gourd would definitely hurt more than before.

In Xiongzhou City that night Chen Changge painted a few portraits of Xiang Tiancheng, since childhood and the master in white to learn Danqing ink, this kind of portrait is naturally painted is extremely exquisite, and I am about the same, when entering the city, Chen Changge took the portrait and asked a few, most of them were the first to sigh the portrait of the painter shook his head and said I don't know, the huge gate of heaven, the people are more than one million, it was originally a needle in a haystack, a little bit of it.

Chen Changge sighed and turned over to sleep, just closed his eyes and suddenly sat up, picked up the Tinghan gun standing at the head of the bed, stared around with a cold face, since entering the city, Chen Changge vaguely felt that someone was following them, that person's breath was different from ordinary people, more strange than his own Tuna method, very easy to recognize, I vaguely heard it a few times in the evening, and it was gone after entering the store, and now it appeared again and couldn't help but make Chen Changge secretly frightened.

After listening to the gun for a while, the man's breathing disappeared again, and Chen Changge didn't dare to sleep carelessly by leaning on the head of the bed, not daring to sleep, and always paying attention to the movements around him.

There are a total of seven rooms on the second floor of the inn, three of them opened three, and the corner of the room was given to Tian Baiyi, the two rooms are sandwiched between the left and right, if there is any wind and grass at night, it will not make a woman isolated, if it is an ordinary woman, it is okay, this woman's appearance is too eye-catching, it is better to be careful.

Liu Yuanshan couldn't stand the snoring like thunder in the past few days, but Tian Baiyi, a cold and beautiful woman who was rescued by the two, had not closed her eyes, her jade shoulders were leaning on the head of the bed, fiddling with a token carved with phoenix nirvana in her hand, staring at the lifelike phoenix on the token, her eyebrows frowned slightly.

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The next day, the golden rooster sang three drums and five drums, seeing that the sky was bright outside the window, the three of them went out of the inn with the sound of people frolicking on the street, walking aimlessly on the street of Tianmenguan and asking people, asking more than ten people in a row, the bold said that he didn't know, and the timid saw that the young man was holding a spear and did not dare to speak and run away quickly.

Liu Yuanshan smacked his tongue and shook his head: "Ask like this one by one, and when we go back, Old Man Xiang will burn the anniversary." ”

Chen Changge glared at Liu Yuanshan, and said angrily: "Say something bad in the morning." ”

Tian Baiyi, who was leading the horse slowly, said softly: "It's really inappropriate."

"You see, I'm right, Elm's mind doesn't turn. Liu Yuanshan saw that Tian Baiyi agreed, so he was even more proud and said: "Tiancheng came to join the army, I'm afraid I don't have much opportunity to wander around the city, and if you want to ask, you have to go to the military and political yamen to ask." ”

"Is it casual to enter the military and political yamen? ”

Liu Yuanshan said abruptly, "You stupid, have you forgotten to carry two hundred taels of silver in your father's arms?"

The two teenagers in Tianmen Pass tore up the noise in front of a peerless beauty.

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Although Tianmen Pass belongs to the county town, it is also an important border town, naturally there are more regular official positions and official offices than ordinary prefectures and counties, and there are three types of yamen under Tianmen Pass: the county guard yamen, the city belongs to the yamen, and the military and political yamen.

The county guard yamen is a county guard office, in charge of the government affairs of the county's various prefectures, Tianmen Pass is too shou Qin Xiong is also the commander of the Xiongguan army, most of them are not in the county guard yamen on weekdays, only the deputy officials in the yamen sit in the town, if the subordinate governments have something to report to the government officials will go straight to the city downstairs of the commander's house.

The city's yamen is in charge of the city's affairs, in charge of the people in the city, if there are some beatings and provocations, lost property, noisy and discordant and other trivial matters in the city, it will be taken over by the city's yamen, also known as the people's yamen, these two official offices are the same in all counties in the world, the only difference is this military and political yamen.

The military and political yamen is divided into two places, the inner yamen and the outer yamen, the inner yamen is in the military camp of the Qinguan army, and the outer yamen is located in the city, and the administrative level is the same as the other two yamen, but the things in charge are extremely special.