Tongguan, the earliest belonged to the West, originally this was not a city, at that time Tongguan, the north and south are mountains, although the middle is a plain, but no one lives, so it is just a road, is the only road between Chang'an and Luoyang, the two major cities in the West.

Later, the state of Hu rose to prominence in Hanzhong, annexed Chang'an County, and eyed the western kingdom. In order to prevent the invasion of Hu to the east, the western country built two checkpoints between the mountains, one near Chang'an and the other near Luoyang, and then deployed a large number of troops in the middle, so far, Tongguan began to gain popularity.

However, after all, the difference in strength was too great, coupled with Hu Guo's divisive plan, in the end, Hu Guo took Tongguan after paying five times the corpse of the defending enemy. At that time, the land of Tongguan was full of blood, and it is said that there was not a single grass that was not dyed red, and Tongguan was also close to desertion.

Emperor Hu sighed when he rebuilt Tongguan: Tongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it is being built from scratch!

However, the geographical location of Tongguan is too poor, and it is not easy to build it from scratch. Until ten years ago, this place was divided into the third prince Kulei.

According to the rules of the Hu State, when the emperor is sixty years old, the princes will each lead 3,000 soldiers below the saint to fight, and the winning one will be the crown prince to inherit the throne, and if the emperor dies in advance, then the princes will also fight in advance.

Mu Zhen, the emperor of Fangjin Hu, was fifty-seven years old and had three princes, the eldest prince Meng Shulie, thirty-seven years old, fiefdom Nanpi; The second prince, Tuokotai, was thirty-five years old, fiefdom plain; The third prince Hu Lei is much younger than the two elder brothers, twenty-five years old this year, and has a fiefdom of Tongguan.

Compared with the plains and Nanpi, Tongguan is much more desolate, and Emperor Hu is really biased, and he doesn't consider the plight of his youngest son at all. In the War for the Throne, if you want to win from the war, you must have a strong army, and if you want an army, you must first have money. In addition to the income from the fief, the eldest prince received the support of Yue Yage, and the second prince received the help of Chen Ji Qianzhuang.

This powerful one was snatched away by the two eldest brothers, and the rest of the rich businessmen, the prince of Hulei couldn't look down on it, so he had no choice but to do it himself, but fortunately, he had an excellent military advisor, and with the help of the military advisor, he summoned the recklessness on the rivers and lakes from all walks of life and opened three shops to make money.

The first one is called the news shop, which is a place to sell news, because of his status as a prince, he can always find out some news or intelligence that is not easy for others to get, as long as it does not involve harm to Hu Guo, he sells them all.

The second is called the bounty shop, Hu Guo is so big, there will always be some things inconvenient for the imperial court to do, such as suppressing a small bandit, sending some letters, transporting disaster relief materials and other trivial matters, which used to be handled by relevant departments, and the pay is far greater than the income.

After the opening of the bounty shop, in addition to doing tasks to make money, it also attracted many nobles to offer bounty tasks, such as catching crickets and fighting wild dogs, and the prince was not greedy.

The third is called the Saint's Shop, which holds the saint with severed hands and feet for everyone to watch and amuse. In the Hu Kingdom and the Southern Dynasties, once consecrated, they would be made noble, with a large amount of silver every month, and all members of the family could receive the Yulu on time, but the saint had to contribute to the country and participate in the sage army directly under the emperor.

There are many saints, there will always be some who disobey the emperor's orders, or who are defeated in the war and captured, the saints are invulnerable, but they will also be injured or even killed by other saints. For this reason, Hu Lei spent a lot of effort to build a saint shop in Tongguan City.

People are always very strange animals, the more lofty things are, the more they want to conquer, even if the thing itself is not noble, for example, all the Yue Ya Ge is famous all over the world, mainly because it monopolizes a business, and all the noble women of Hu must enter the Yue Ya Pavilion no matter what purpose they want to do this business. Some aristocratic women are neither young nor beautiful, but their business is better than that of young and beautiful girls. Similarly, there are few people watching the ordinary cripples, and the people who are closed in the saint's shop have a lot of people watching, not only Hu Guo, but even the Southern Dynasty has many people coming every year, and there was a popular saying at that time: If you don't go to the saint's shop, you will live in vain for a lifetime!

As soon as these three shops came out, the popularity of Tongguan was getting stronger and stronger, and today, ten years later, it is far behind the plains and Nanpi, so whether a place can be built or not, the key is to see the ability of the ruler.

"This mountain is really high!" Before entering the city, Bianliang stood in front of the gate of Tongguan and sighed, the gate of Tongguan is naturally the two checkpoints, the city gate is originally very high, but compared with the high mountains rising to the sky on both sides, it seems very small, almost all people come to Tongguan for the first time, the praise is the mountain is high, few people will pay attention, in fact, this city gate is much higher than other cities.

Yes, the mountain is really high, reaching into the sky, but no matter how high the mountain is, it can't stop the climbers.

At this moment, on the top of the mountain, there are people, overlooking the city tower, because the distance is too far, the city wall is the size of tofu, and the people under the city wall are even ants.

There are not many people who can see the world as ants in Tongguan City, and the thunder is definitely the most weighty, but this young man who trampled the mountains under his feet did not look happy, his brows were tightly locked, as if he wanted to lock the rivers and mountains, but he was alone, how to lock the rivers and mountains, fortunately, there was someone by his side, the person who would never leave him for a moment, not a guard, but a military advisor.

The military advisor's face is always covered with a black cloth, and his body has always been covered with a black robe, the wind is strong on the top of the mountain, and the wide black robe hunts in the wind, but what is even louder is his voice, "Your Highness, rest assured, the people of the Xue family will enter the city today." "He is very sure, because this mission is not difficult, and the people sent out are so strong.

After listening to the words of the military advisor, Hu Lei's face did not soothe much, taking the Xue family into the city, after the military order of the Xuzhou army to attack Xiangyang City was issued, it was not a difficult matter, even if Master Li did not surrender, he was confident that he could break through Xiangyang City and bring the Xue family to Tongguan, so what the military advisor said did not need him to worry about at all, what he was worried about was the secret in the mouth of the old general Xue, when he would be able to pry it out.

"For this matter, my father has promised the little princess to his son!" Hu Lei opened his mouth and said, what he wanted to say was that all the means he needed to use were used, but in the end he got nothing, this time, should he look forward to the Xue family who entered the city today? Compared with the Xue family, he is more looking forward to the strategy of the military advisor, he needs a method, a method that can dig out the secret, regardless of the cost.

"That son betrayed him." The military advisor replied, using a princess as bait to lure the son of the Xue family into the bait, let him defect in the war, and imprison his father, how can such a son be a qualified lobbyist. It's a pity that the emperor didn't listen, and let Xue Gongzi keep persuading, wasting four years in vain.

Hu Lei understood what the military advisor meant, and he didn't approve of using Xue Gongzi's waste, but they had too few cards in their hands. The Xue family is all in Xiangyang, and I don't know who can make that old General Xue, whose bones are harder than Tongguan City, speak. But in any case, it is better than doing it like this, so he listened to the advice of the military advisor and asked his father to send troops to attack Xiangyang County.

Everything went according to plan, and the people of the Xue family could be delivered today.

When Su Lei came to the mountain to see, what he wanted to see was not the Xue family, but the hope of seeing the old general Xue speak.

"There's always hope." The military advisor said that for more than ten years, he had experienced all the pain in the world, and he thought that his heart was as hard as a rock, but when he went to the saint's shop, his heart would still hurt, so people will always have weaknesses that need to be explored.

"How?" Hu Lei asked, hope for this kind of thing, too ethereal, what he needs is something realistic, and, in another three years, it will be the battle of the prince for the throne, and there is not much time left for him, he doesn't want to hope, what he wants is a way.

"Xue Liuguang is not a person who is afraid of death." The military advisor said that Xue Liuguang is the name of General Xue, since he is not afraid of death, why is he living so humiliatingly? A hint of cunning flashed in the military advisor's eyes, "But he's still alive." "Since he is alive, there must be a reason to live, as a saint, Xue Liuguang wants to commit suicide, and no one can stop him.

"So what?" Listening to the words of the military advisor, a glimmer of light seemed to appear in front of Thunder's eyes, and he wanted to grab it and clear the clouds.

"So we're going to find out why he's alive." "There are only two reasons for a person to live, one is for people, and the other is for things. If Xue Liuguang can't let go of anything, there must be someone who can't let go.

"I hope to see Miss Xue soon." Speaking of this, the military advisor began to laugh, a laugh worse than that of a night owl.

"Miss Xue?" Suddenly Lei muttered to himself, suddenly he seemed to understand something, and his eyes became sharp, as if he was about to stab down from the top of the mountain, piercing the ants on the ground, after a while, he turned to stare at the military advisor, and at the same time clenched his fists, and said word by word, "Xue Mulan, you must find it!" ”

Miss Xue turned out to be Xue Mulan.

Yes... Sneeze... Xue Mulan sneezed as soon as he entered the city, was he blown by the cold wind? But there is no wind in this Tongguan City, maybe it is an aroma allergy, she remembered that when she was a child, her aunt always liked to wear some sachets, she was easy to sneeze when she smelled it, and the doctor said that she was allergic to aroma.

At this moment, a carriage also entered the city, and the carriage went fast, speeding past the three men, and the windows were hung with blue curtains, which covered the people in the car, but could not hide the fragrance wafting from the car.

Xue Mulan couldn't help but look at it twice, thinking that it wouldn't be so coincidental, and her aunt also came to Tongguan.

The curtain of the car has not been lifted, she can only guess who is in the car, looking ahead along the carriage, the road in Tongguan City is really wide, there are so many people, it is very lively.

The bottom of the mountain is so lively, the mountain is also lively, I don't know when, there is another young man on the top of the mountain, wearing a white shirt, with his hands behind his back, looking leisurely, without the slightest smell of wind and dust, and in fact, he has just climbed this high mountain, but this high mountain is not a burden for him at all, and he just jumped a few times, far easier than he was in a hurry before.

As soon as he saw this young man, Hu Lei's face became much warmer, and he said with a smile on his face, "Young Master Chen, it's hard. ”

The young man clasped his fists and saluted him first, then saluted the military advisor, and then said, "Your Royal Highness, the carriage has entered the city. ”

Hu Lei nodded, who was in the car, naturally there was no need to ask, what arrangements were made after the car entered the city, and he didn't need to bother, these things were shared by the military advisor for him.

The military advisor also spoke at this time, "Since the young master is here, why don't you go to the sage's shop and have a look?" ”

The young man looked at the two most powerful people in Tongguan in front of him, and nodded helplessly, although the military advisor was asking, but it was not an errand, he liked freedom and did not like to be bound by the trivial matters of the world, but as a member of the Chen family, he always had to consider the family. People, with responsibility, what is the real freedom.

The young man did not linger on the mountain any longer, and he was afraid that the military adviser would give him another problem, so he went down the mountain.

The mountains have never been a problem for him, but they are just a jump.

Yes, the young master of Chen Ji Qianzhuang, the son of the richest man, no one would think that there is anything in this world that can stump him.

Yes, it's okay, but there are people, women, who makes the young master amorous!

The mountain can be jumped, and the sea of love can jump out.