Chapter 127: West Market
At night, Guo Jingxiang was in the dim house, and the faint moonlight that came in through the window paper shone on Guo Jingxiang's body.
Guo Jingxiang, who was standing in front of the window, seemed to be talking to himself, and said: "He has not resisted returning to Beijing at present, but he has not given a specific time to return to Beijing at the first time, everything will have results tomorrow, let the marshal rest assured, everything is under control." ”
Under the illumination of the moonlight, it could be seen that after Guo Jingxiang finished talking to himself, a black shadow flashed.
On the other hand, after Guo Jingxiang left, Zhan Tianxia and Yang Yunchao were still discussing the specific details of entering Beijing after consultation.
This time, the imperial court issued an order to summon Yang Yunchao, and specially specified that he would bring the unicorn cavalry regiment into Beijing together, obviously knowing that the unicorn cavalry regiment had officially advanced to the ace army and summoned the military spirit.
And at this juncture, it is obvious that this so-called holy decree will not only be the words of the royal family, but also the meaning of the military department, two of the three forces in the court have clearly shown their covetousness to the unicorn cavalry regiment, so if you want to keep the unicorn cavalry regiment, you must take action from the war family and find a way out of this maelstrom.
Early the next morning, Guo Jingxiang was arranged, accompanied by Zhan Debang, to have a good time in Zhan Cheng.
Guo Jingxiang actually had little interest in visiting the war city at first, after all, he was a member of the imperial court, the food and beauty of the imperial capital, nothing, and the war city was far away from the frontier, perennial war, and it was not like the great rivers and mountains of the Xianwu Empire, with unique beautiful scenery and profound cultural history.
A city built on the frontier of the Xianwu Empire, even if it is often heard of the economic construction of the battle city, the politics and people's livelihood are governed very well, and it is one of the best in the entire Danzhou, even surpassing the economic status of Danzhou City.
However, as the political, economic, cultural, and military center of the Xianwu Empire, Guo Jingxiang, the capital of the Xianwu Emperor, has been staying for decades, not to mention that there are no characteristics, but the economy is relatively high now, and the people's livelihood governance is relatively good, but these will not be better than the imperial capital, so Guo Jingxiang is not interested in playing in the battle city.
And Guo Jingxiang is not good at refusing the arrangement of the war world, after all, people have sent their eldest son to entertain him personally, and he is most likely to become the next head of the war family, which can be said to be full of affection, and Guo Jingxiang is not convenient to brush off the kindness of the war family.
After all, people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, and if they want to mix well in the officialdom, they have to mix well and be comfortable, so they have to make more friends and offend people less, so even if they are not interested at all, Guo Jingxiang still pretends to be very interested, with a face full of joy and irritability, and just started his one-day trip to the battle city.
The group swaggered and unscrupulously started a one-day tour of the battle city.
With the local Zhan Debang as the "tour guide", the group first started the tour from the West Market of the war city.
The West Market of the Battle City is a large market, which was originally a group stall activity organized by some local residents who wanted to make a living, but later due to the strict regulations of the City Lord's Office, coupled with the fact that the War Family in order to promote the local economic construction in the official name, integrated the large merchants in the city, and established a large goods trading market in a formal and legal manner, this West Market can be said to have made a great contribution to the economic prosperity of the Battle City.
As one of the first large-scale goods trading markets built by the warlords in the official name of the warring city, the prosperity of the West Market is comparable to that of the local officials, merchants, and famous families in the warring city around the location of the city lord's mansion, and the tax it contributes every year is enough to support the normal training expenses of the city gate guards for a year, which can be seen.
It is precisely because of this that Zhan Debang took the lead in leading Guo Jingxiang and his party, including the Praetorian Guards who guarded Guo Jingxiang along the way, of course, all of them were impossible, but Guo Jingxiang selected the officials from them as a benefit and took them to play.
Anyway, the expenses will be borne by the fighters, otherwise there will be public funds for business trips, and it will be a waste if you don't spend them, so it is better to use these public funds to buy these Praetorian Guards who want to escort themselves and protect their safety all the way, I have to say that Guo Jingxiang is really a good calculation.
The group first came to the West Market, because the West Market is a regular and legal market promoted by the City Lord's Mansion, so there is a law enforcement team set up by the City Lord's Mansion, which is specially used to maintain market security, mediate disputes, and maintain the prosperity and stability of the West Market.
In the case of not affecting normal transactions, it can be said that the law enforcement team of the West Market has the power of life and death in the West Market, this kind of position with sufficient oil and water is generally held by the various merchants in the city, the children of the big families, usually they are rampant and domineering in the West Market, there is no king law, usually accept bribes, reverse black and white, help big traders, big businessmen suppress small merchants and hawkers, etc., etc., a series of things, to make profits for themselves.
Ordinary small traders and hawkers don't dare to mess with people at all, otherwise the law enforcement team wants to rectify a person who does business in the West Market or is handy, just let you suspend business for rectification, you can't stand it, and even more ruthlessly you can be deducted from the big hat of illegal contraband, and arrest people in prison, first a fat beating, and then all kinds of means are on board, ordinary people can't support a few rounds at all, just obey, even if you meet a hard stubble, you can directly detain it for various crimes, and then directly behead it in accordance with the law, a hundred.
In fact, the City Lord's Mansion has known these things for a long time, and the war world is also clear, but he is all open with one eye and one eye closed, for these evils, but in the war world, it seems that it is just a small fight, and it will not be done at all, after all, everyone has a backer behind them, and the local head snake headed by the war family, originally this law enforcement team was established to win over the descendants of these major families and give them some benefits.
Fortunately, these people are also very measured, they don't make a big mess, they usually make small fights, never provoke people they can't afford to provoke, and usually in the two aspects of commoners and nobles, win over a wave, suppress a wave, never offend to death, and will not affect the trading market in the West Market because of personal grievances, thus affecting taxes, and not touching the bottom line of the war world, so they let it go.
And today, these were originally not afraid of the sky, not afraid of the earth, in this West Market, the eldest of the day, the second of the West City Law Enforcement Team composed of the sons of the family, also known as the Young Master Law Enforcement Team, the West City Demon King, is at the gate of the West City, all the staff are together, standing in a standard military posture, the usual crooked hat is also brought right, the military uniform full of oil and wine stains has also been washed, the whole team is heroic, I don't know that the city gate guard temporarily took over the West City Law Enforcement Team to deploy here!!
In fact, they looked like this completely to leave a good impression on the upcoming Zhan Debang and Guo Jingxiang and his party.
Late last night, their father woke them up from the bed, and told them that tomorrow the Zhan Jia Zhan Debang Zhan Gongzi should bring the three members of the imperial court, who is also the minister of the Qin Mission, Guo Jingxiang Guo to come to the West Market to play and act, so that they must put away the usual appearance of hanging children and leave a good impression on Guo Daren, it doesn't matter, especially to Zhan Debang, Zhan Gongzi Zhan Gongzi, give him a breath of air in front of Guo Daren, and show the best side of Xishi.