When the old gentleman Chu Tian led his disciple Liu Xia to draw the blueprint nervously, Xiao Yiran relaxed instead. When I first came to Beiping Mansion, I wanted to look around for traces of the Northern Song Dynasty that had lived for more than ten years, but I was busy surveying the imperial city and discussing the planning of the palace, so I didn't spare time. Now that it's okay, there is no need to do it yourself to draw the blueprint, so Xiao Yiran took Qingwen and Musk Yue to tell the housekeeper Cui Jian, and said that he wanted to go shopping on the street.

"Miss, Beiping doesn't have to respond to Tianfu, let's let Shi Yuan send someone to go with you."

"Don't bother, just arrange a guide."

After seeing Xiao Yiran's skills, Cui Jian also knew that even if he didn't send guards to follow, there should be nothing wrong. So he called Shi Yuan, and asked him to choose a more clever guide from among the men, and at the same time called Julian and instructed:

"Be careful when you accompany Miss to the streets."

"Yes."

Julian bowed down and agreed, leading the butler who Shi Yuan had found, and the two of them accompanied Xiao Yiran on both sides of the carriage on which the master and servant were riding, and came to the street together.

In the imperial city, Xiao Yiran did not go less during this time, there were all newly built buildings, and there were no traces left by history at all, so he just instructed Dao Dao to go around the inner city outside the imperial city. Because after 400 years, the Yanshan Mansion of that year has evolved into today's Beiping Mansion, which has long been a vicissitudes of life, and the changes are too great. Xiao Yiran was in the inner city, and he went around for three days in a row, but he didn't find the old site of the Yanshan Mansion at that time.

Xiao Yiran was still a little unwilling, so he went to the outer city for two more days, but still did not find any clues, so he said to Julian:

"Let's see if we can find a copy of the Beiping Mansion Chronicles."

Julian walked out in response, and first said to Cui Jian, who asked him to find Shi Yuan. After listening to Julian's intentions, Shi Yuan said:

"There is no Beiping Mansion here, wait for me to look for it at the mansion, and then reply to Miss."

After a day, Shi Yuan really found a book of Fuzhi, but he didn't say Beiping Fuzhi, Xiao Yiran looked at the three words "Dadu Zhi" on the cover, and couldn't help laughing at himself, too, changing Dadu to Beiping is just a matter of the first year of Hongwu, only eleven years ago, where will there be any "Beiping Fuzhi"?

Xiao Yiran finished reading the entire "Dadu Chronicles", and there was not a single word mentioning the predecessor of Beiping, Yanshan Mansion. It's just that before the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, this place was called Yanjing, that is, the middle capital of the Yuan Dynasty, also known as the accompanying capital. It was not until later that the capital of the abandoned Yuan moved to Yanjing and was renamed Dadu.

Xiao Yiran, who found it to no avail, guessed that after wars and many times of construction, I am afraid that the place where today's Beiping City is located is no longer where Yanshan Mansion City was located in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

Just when Xiao Yiran wanted to find the traces of the former Yanshan Mansion, in the Beiping Guard led by Zhao Cheng, in addition to the 2,600 people who stayed behind, the remaining 3,000 soldiers were besieging Feilong Village.

The sudden arrival of 3,000 soldiers was something that the bandits of Feilongzhai never expected. At that time, although the other party had already revealed his identity and said that he was the caravan of Yanwangfu, it was just that the bandits of Feilong Village did not take it seriously. They didn't know very well who King Yan was, and naturally they didn't know the temperament of King Yan. Because it was the middle of winter, there was just a lack of food and grass in the cottage, and a group of bandits didn't care about Yan Wang or Yan Wang, and planned to rob it first. It wasn't until the siege of Xiao Yiran that the bandit leader who was the second in command, known as the "second master", was worried that he would wait for the officers and soldiers if he was delayed, but he didn't want to hurt too many people, and the purpose was also to prevent the prince who didn't know the details from getting angry, so he sent officers and soldiers to clean up, so he hurriedly evacuated. Unexpectedly, officers and soldiers were still recruited. There is no need to ask, it must have been the prince who ordered the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress after hearing the report of his subordinates.

Seeing that there were only more than 300 brothers in his cottage, and the officers and soldiers were ten times his own, the two owners of the village were suddenly full of sorrow. Although in the first year or two after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there were officers and soldiers who came to encircle and suppress them, but those few times were far less dangerous than the immediate one. It was not that there were few officers and soldiers in those few times, but that the officers and soldiers this time seemed to be determined to exterminate them. This is what they are most afraid of and the most puzzled.

Although it was Feilongzhai who wanted to rob the caravan, and then wanted to rob people, after all, the caravan was not robbed, and no one was robbed, and even only injured more than a dozen people on the other side, and none of them were killed, why did the officers and soldiers in front of them put on this posture of not destroying Feilongzhai and vowing not to give up? Could it be that among the people who were robbed that day, there were any important people who could not be successful?

The two bandit leaders, one Zhao Liu'an and the other Li Cunqing, were originally sons and daughters of good families, but in the turbulent years at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, they could not eat enough and worried about their lives, in order to save their lives and protect their relatives, they organized a group of people to hide in the mountains and make a living by looting. When the emperor went on the northern expedition today, Zhao Liu'an and Li Cunqiao also received the court envoys who came to recruit them, but they were used to being the king of the mountain, and they did not think about it far away for a while, but only summed up, so that the king of the mountain was more leisurely, why should he be recruited by the court, and he was constrained by others, so he decisively refused.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the two also knew that the world had changed, and they could no longer act as recklessly as usual, so they were not without scruples when robbing passing merchants. Their most scruples were that they could not provoke the local garrison to endure it so much that they came to encircle and suppress themselves. Therefore, every time you act, you will not do things absolutely. The first point is to try not to kill people, and then when robbing merchants, try not to drive the other party to a dead end. There have even been cases where when the robbed merchant felt hopeless and wanted to commit suicide, Feilongzhai would return half of the goods and go out.

"Second brother, after the last incident, I heard what you said, what was done at that time was not too much, how could the current situation occur?"

"yes, big brother, I don't know what's wrong with this? Could it be that the identity of the girl who used a branch to block arrows was a little different? ”

Thinking of that girl, Li Cunmiao's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he said to his eldest brother Zhao Liu'an again:

"Big brother, haven't you seen it, I've lived for nearly forty years, and it's the first time I've seen such a good-looking girl. If I can get it back, even if I sleep all night, I will be willing to die immediately. ”

"Well, you've said this a million times. Have you never seen a woman in your life, why are you so fascinated by a teenage girl? ”

"The eldest brother didn't see it with his own eyes, and it's not an exaggeration to say that the goddess of heaven descended to earth."

"You still don't want to be obscene, let's think about how to get through the difficulties in front of you."

"Big brother, although the other party has ten times the number of us, after all, we have a geographical advantage. Now the arrows in the stockade are enough to last for half a month and twenty days, so let's defend for a while. I don't believe that these officers and soldiers will hold out after a long time. ”

So far, Zhao Liuan has no good way, so he can only follow Li Cunqiao's method for the time being, and insist on it for a while.