Zifeng walked to the small stall and looked at the food on it, and her saliva was about to flow.

Qingfeng Lan looked at Zifeng in front of him now, and suddenly had the feeling of returning to the town prison city, still the simple girl, or the confused girl.

The four of them walked around the street, and when they finally returned to the City Lord's Mansion, the stomachs of the four of them bulged out significantly.

Qixing saw Qingfeng Lan and the others coming back, and looked at them with envy: "You guys are too boring, go to play when you enter the city, I still have to do tasks, you are too bullying." ”

Zifeng held her stomach and sat down with difficulty: "Qixing, you don't understand my sadness, I eat too much, and my stomach is so uncomfortable." ”

Qingfeng Lan also sat aside with his stomach up: "Yes, we are in pain now, and we can bear this pain." ”

Although the Wang sisters didn't eat as much as the two of them, they also stood on the pillar.

Qixing saw that these two shameless people were still mocking themselves vigorously, and stomped their feet angrily.

Wu Hongtian walked in, followed by a middle-aged man.

"Ninth Princess, this is Yan Hao, the city lord of the Desolate City. ”

Qingfeng was stunned for a moment, sat up and asked with a puzzled expression, "Yan Hao?"

Wu Hongtian smiled and shook his head: "Ri Tianhao." ”

"Oh, I thought it was Yan Hao, the former lord of Prison City. ”

Yan Hao bowed slightly and asked, "Do you know my brother?"

Qingfeng's eyes widened: "Your brother?"

Wu Hongtian explained with a smile: "The Yan family is a general, Yan Hao and Yan Hao are brothers, and the Lord Yan that the benefactor met before is the brother of this Lord Yan." ”

Qingfeng Lan stood up and walked in front of Yan Hao, looking up and down: "Are you sure your brother is a brother?"

Yan Hao smiled elegantly: "Don't you think it's like an adult?"

Qingfeng nodded frantically, and the two of them were not similar at all. Yan Hao is five big and three coarse, he is brave and unscrupulous, and he can only fight. And the Yan Hao in front of him is obviously a scholar, the bookish aura on his body is very heavy, his smile is also gentle and elegant, and his figure looks weak, how can these two people be brothers?

"It's normal for adults to feel that it doesn't look like it, when His Majesty saw our two brothers, he didn't believe that we were brothers, this is mainly because the two of us have different habits since childhood, brother, I like to dance knives and guns, I like calligraphy and painting, when I grow up, my brother joined the army, I am in politics and poverty alleviation, and I have different habits for many years, so I really can't see it from the appearance. ”

Qingfeng nodded, it is true, the living environment of the two people for a long time is different, and there will be some changes in appearance, but it is the first time I have seen such a big difference between them.

Seeing that Qing Feng Lan had accepted the fact that he and his brother were brothers, he then took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Qing Feng Lan: "When the adults left the imperial capital, my brother wrote me a letter, asking me to do my best to help the adults. Your Majesty can tell me anything about it, and I will also use all the resources of Wilderness City to assist your Lordship. ”

Qingfeng Lan took the letter and opened it, and the content of the letter was to explain that Yan Hao was Yan Hao's younger brother, and stated that Yan Hao could be fully trusted.

Qingfeng Lan closed the letter and handed it back: "Since General Yan said that I can trust you, then I won't hide it, Lord City, I need to know the situation in Liaoyuan City." ”

Yan Hao took the letter back, a flame ignited in his hand, and in a blink of an eye, the letter turned into ashes: "My lord, I was already prepared when I received my brother's letter. With that, he walked towards the map on the side.

"My lord, if it is said that this time it is a deep attack on the empire, it is better to say that some royal family has betrayed the empire. ”

"Hey!!" Wu Hongtian hurriedly stopped him.

Yan Hao smiled and said: "General Wu doesn't need to panic, everyone in this room can be trusted, otherwise Lord Qingfeng will not allow them to be here, as for the matter of the wall having ears, in my city, I am everything, no one can escape my eyes, so the general does not need to panic." ”

Wu Hongtian was still not at ease and looked at Qingfeng.

Qingfeng Lan smiled and nodded: "I believe that the city lord of Yan has been operating in this desolate city for several years, so he naturally has his own set, so there is no need to panic." ”

Wu Hongtian was relieved at this time, but he still took a few steps back, standing at the door and vigilant about the movements around him.

Yan Hao saw that Wu Hongtian had accepted the fact that it was safe here, and continued to point to the map: "This attack on the empire by Shenzhen, in fact, took a total of seven days, and the total number of troops is about 100,000, and most of them are currently in Liaoyuan City. And not a single person died in the siege this time. ”

After Yan Hao finished speaking, he paused, looked at Qingfeng Lan out of the corner of his eyes, and saw him nodding slowly, but there was no trace of unexpected emotion. Yan Hao's eyes narrowed, this person is indeed the same as what his brother said, bottomless.

Qingfeng Lan heard the sharing of Yan Hao's information, and his heart was even more puzzled, after receiving the order, he returned to the room, and put a letter on the bed in the room, the letter said the benefits of the three ways of the army, said the inner ghost, said everything in Liaoyuan City, said everything in the deserted city, who is the person who believes to him? If it is someone who knows himself and has this ability, then there is only the fifth sister, but if it is the fifth sister, why not show up to meet him?

Yan Hao thought that Qingfeng Lan had already seen through all this, and continued: "And the news that the imperial capital received about the fall of the two cities is fake news, and Cangyun City now doesn't know that it has fallen in the eyes of the imperial capital. As for the Locked Domain City, when the prince left Tianfang to return to the imperial capital some time ago, he walked through the Locked City, and this time Shen Zhen quietly passed through the Locked Domain in the middle of the night, so Liaoyuan was the only city that fell. ”

Qingfeng Lan touched his nose: "You just said that it was a certain royal family's act of surrendering to the enemy, why did you say that?"

Yan Hao smiled: "Lord Qingfeng is still a little unclear about the establishment of the empire, so my subordinates will explain it to you." ”

Qingfeng Lan nodded and sat back, indeed, after such a long time, I know the imperial capital thoroughly, and I don't know much about the city guards in the empire, so I am willing to explain, why not?

"All the cities in the empire will be divided into princes, princesses and princes, these people have the right to change the lord of the city under their name, and also have the right to increase the tax revenue of the city, etc., but the only thing that cannot be moved is the defenders and garrisons in the city, and only His Majesty can transfer and dispatch the army. This mechanism is also one of the reasons why the empire has not fallen for so long. ”

"Then you mean to say that the prince to whom Liaoyuan and the lock domain belong is suspected of treason?"

"Exactly. ”

"Then do you know which prince Liaoyuan City and Lock City are divided into?"

"This matter is not difficult to check, every time a city is sealed, the emperor will show a will, the content of the will is to simply explain which prince a certain city belongs to from now on, this kind of will except for the imperial capital to admonish, no one will record, but unfortunately, there are records under the subordinates. ”

"Wouldn't it be good if you do, go to the imperial capital, explain what happened here, I think those who are hostile to this prince will definitely get rid of him enthusiastically. ”

"The subordinates also think so, but the elder brother said that everything will have to wait for the adults to come to the Wasteland City to make plans, so the subordinates now ask the adults to decide. ”

"What is there to decide about this? Go directly to the book, explain the situation, and then write down the number of troops in the deserted city, and naturally the prince will come to recruit in person. ”

When Yan Hao heard Qingfeng's words, he knelt on the ground with a thud and kowtowed three times in a row: "My lord, this person's subordinates don't dare to go to the book, and they can't go to the book, and they don't want to go to the book." ”

Qingfeng Lan was a little confused by Yan Hao's move, why did he suddenly kneel down? and kowtow? What kind of trouble is this?

"Lord Yan, please get up, let's talk slowly if you have anything to say, I don't even know what to do if you are like this. ”

Yan Hao raised his head and looked at Qingfeng Lan, and then looked at Zifeng: "The subordinates know the relationship between the two, so the subordinates will say it directly, Lock Domain City, Liaoyuan City and Cangyun City are all subordinate to Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess." ”

"What?" Qingfeng stood up directly.

Looking back at Zifeng, Zifeng looked at Yan Hao in front of him blankly.

Qingfeng thought for a moment, then sat back in his position and looked at Yan Hao in front of him: "City Lord Yan, get up and tell me everything you know." ”

Yan Hao slowly stood up, with tears in the corners of his eyes: "My lord, these three cities have been divided into the names of the nine princesses before the ninth princess was born, in addition to these three cities, there are six more, and the town prison city and the desolate city are also one of them." Back then, His Majesty loved Princess Mingyue the most, until Princess Mingyue married into the imperial capital, she could always use her own surname, and then Princess Mingyue was pregnant with the ninth princess, His Majesty was very happy, and immediately ordered the Nazhi to seal the ten cities with the best scenery and the best properties in the empire to the nine princesses. But when Princess Mingyue knew about it, she hurriedly stopped it, Princess Mingyue didn't want the ninth princess to participate in the disputes of the empire, if there was a city, then there was a possibility of competing for the throne, Princess Mingyue didn't want to watch her children get involved in this whirlpool. But the prince and the princess must have a fief, if you don't give the ninth princess some cities, those princes will inevitably be suspicious, and it will backfire when the time comes. Princess Mingyue finally decided to agree to accept these cities, but she had to choose for herself. Later, Princess Mingyue chose a total of nine cities, these nine cities are all places where His Majesty and Princess Mingyue spent their youth, although it is not a rich place, but it is also the common memory of the two. This time this kind of thing happened, I immediately contacted my friends in the imperial capital, and after they traced it, they found that the Ninth Princess had sent an edict to Lock Domain City and Liaoyuan City. ”

Qingfeng Lan looked back at Zifeng, who shook his head slightly, with a blank expression. It seemed that she didn't even know that she had nine cities.

Yan Hao took out two copies of the oracle from his arms and handed them to Qing Fenglan: "I asked my friends in the imperial capital to copy these two oracles, please take a look." ”

Qingfeng Lan picked up the oracle and looked at it, then walked up to Zifeng and put it down: "Have you seen it?"

Zifeng picked up the oracle and looked at it carefully and shook his head: "I haven't seen it, and the words are not my font." ”

After speaking, he dipped his fingers in water and wrote a few words on the table.

At a glance, it can be seen that Zifeng's words are very clumsy, although you can see what is written, but the words are not very good-looking, and the words on the oracle are very delicate, and at first glance they are the words written by everyone's ladies.

Yan Hao looked at the words on the table and asked suspiciously: "Why is the ninth princess written like this... ”

Qingfeng sighed: "Hey, you also know that it didn't take long for the Ninth Princess to return to the emperor." ”

"Well, I heard about it, and I said that I was raised at my brother's house before, and I complained about my brother because of this. ”

"Actually, it's not your brother who takes care of her, Zifeng used to live outside the town prison, where she was poorly dressed, and the full food she could eat was the limit, not to mention reading and writing, when I found her, she couldn't even write her own name, and now it's very good to be able to write like this, how can she write such delicate words." ”

"Your Excellency means that the oracle is fake?"

"The obvious thing, this time it should be a person who doesn't know the inside story to fake. Zifeng, have you ever shown your words in front of anyone?"

Zifeng lowered his head and thought for a while: "I have only seen fourteen and you and seven stars, and my father has never seen it." ”

"My lord, then these princes and princesses are all suspicious. ”

"Let's investigate this matter later, now we have to think about how to fight against the 100,000 army of Shenzhen. ”

"My lord, Shen Zhen's military has grown over the years, and I have learned from the merchants who have traveled to and from the Desert City that they are now building a strong cavalry, as if they have learned the technique of Suju. ”

"You write to the Cangyun City Lord now and ask him to get ready. Then inform the lord of the lock city of the situation. Finally, try to contact the Lord of Liaoyuan City. ”

"My subordinates will do it. ”

"General Wu, inform Yang Cong to enter the Lock Domain City, and if you encounter the returning Shenzhen army, stop it at all costs. Inform the Hu Xiangli to go to the Cangyun River between Lock City and Cangyun City to station, encounter the Shenzhen army, and leave them behind at all costs. ”

"My subordinates will do it. ”

It didn't take long for Wu Hongtian to hurriedly run back: "Benefactor, 80,000 cavalry of the Suju Kingdom appeared on the border of the Tianfang Kingdom. ”

Qingfeng Lan frowned, what are you going to do?

"Report to General !!, the messenger of Lord Wu is waiting outside the hall. ”

"Please!"

After a while, a man dressed in cloth walked in, and after seeing Wu Hongtian, he hurriedly took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Wu Hongtian.

Wu Hongtian took the letter and glanced at it, and immediately handed it to Qingfeng Lan.

Qingfeng Lan took the letter, and it was written that Qingfeng personally opened.

Qingfeng Lan opened a new one, and the letter said the approximate military deployment of Suju Country, and then there was the purpose of the 80,000 cavalry this time.

After reading it, Qingfeng Lan handed the letter to Wu Hongtian.

"Oh, it turned out that the fourteenth princess was sending troops, it scared me to death, I thought I had to rely on the 20,000 people in my hand against 180,000 people. ”

"Fourteen, what's wrong with fourteen?" Zifeng asked, standing up.

"It's nothing, before we set off, I asked people to send a letter to Fourteen, but I didn't expect her to mobilize 80,000 horses, it seems that no matter where she goes, the talent is always so dazzling. ”

"What did you write to Fourteen?"

"I just said that you want to recruit in person, and then told her about the possible situation, but I didn't expect her to directly mobilize 80,000 horses to wave the flag and shout for you, you are really sisters. ”

"That's right, I'm the one who will marry her in the future. ”

"Heh, okay, you go back and rest first, Qixing doesn't know where to run, I'm a little worried about him, I'll go out and look for it." ”

Uh-huh, then you should rest early, too.

Qingfeng Lan nodded and walked out.

Zifeng looked at Qingfeng's back and muttered, "Actually, I read so many books just so that I could stand next to you, not behind you." ”