Xu Ziyuan sat in the carriage, opened the window, and looked at the scenery outside the window carefully, even greedily. Not only him, but the four guards who escorted him back from the Hetao also widened their eyes, looking intently at the scene outside the window, the people outside the window, and the prosperous world outside the window.

These four guards were not from Wuyi, but were recruited by Xu Ziyuan locally, to be precise, four savages who had once had nothing. From their birth to the present, only poverty, hunger, and lack of clothes fill their field of vision, after following Xu Ziyuan, they are finally full, warmly dressed, and follow Xu Ziyuan to build a city in Hetao, now, the city is finally built, they think they have reached heaven, unexpectedly, today to Wuyi, only to find that the best place they once thought was nothing compared to what they were looking for.

This is the real paradise!

Xu Ziyuan's eyes were a little sour, and in a blink of an eye, it had been six years since he left Wuwei Academy and Wuyi, walking on the street and looking out the window, he tried hard to get back some of the feelings of six years ago, but found it difficult to find those memories of the past.

The shop on the street that sold dried braised sheep, braised sheep bones and some liquor mixed with water was gone.

The lame brother who sold potstickers is gone.

The aunt who sold soup cakes, and every time I saw them and the students of the academy come to eat, she always asked them to add more haggis to their bowls.

The neat streets, the neat street trees, the neat paving, the orderly carriageways, the sidewalks, everything, was completely different from when he left.

He left his brigade behind, and he only brought four guards into the city first, just to find some memories of the past. Although I have some understanding of everything here from the Tang Weekly, when I really come back here, I find that I still underestimate the changes in Wuyi.

When he entered the city, he and his guards gave their horses to the soldiers at the gate of the city to hand them over to the large army behind, while he himself, with four men, each spent two pennies, and got into the public carriage in the city.

The carriage is very large, can sit twenty people, climb up along a small ladder, there is a wooden box by the door, each person who comes up, he throws two pennies into it, and then looks for a seat to sit down, if there is no place to sit, he squats in the middle, Xu Ziyuan five people are from the starting point of the car, naturally there is a place. The four guards did not forget their duties, first one by one with Xu Zi in the middle, and then two people sat opposite. In order to make Xu Ziyuan sit more comfortably, the two guards who sat on him occupied a lot of space, but what they never expected was that there were so many people in the car, and in a flash, the car was crowded, not to mention letting Xu Ziyuan sit comfortably, even the two of them were squeezed together with Xu Ziyuan.

originally wanted to have a seizure, in Hetao and other places, they were all characters walking sideways, but under Xu Ziyuan's stern eyes, the two of them could only give up, the only thing they could do was to stretch their bodies sideways, support their arms, and try their best to keep Xu Ziyuan from being squeezed. As for the two guards on the opposite side, they were long out of sight.

It's not that someone goes down, and someone goes up from time to time.

The smell in the carriage was really a little unpleasant, but Xu Ziyuan was a little happier than before, which reminded him of many past events. At that time, the students of their Wuwei Academy often crowded into a carriage and went from the Wuyi Academy to Wuyi City for apprenticeship. At that time, Wuwei Academy was still some distance away from Wuyi City, and now, I heard that it was connected together.

The carriage finally thinned out again, and after a while, the driver's voice sounded outside the carriage: "The terminal is the terminal, and if you want to enter the inner city again, you will have to change trains." ”

Xu Ziyuan got out of the carriage and looked up to see that the inner city of Wuyi had already appeared in front of him. Compared with the great changes in the outer city, the inner city has not changed much, at least the city wall is still the way it is remembered.

"Governor, do you want to change cars?" One of the guards walked over and whispered.

"No need, it's not far away, let's go!" Xu Ziyuan wanted to see if the inner city had changed much, anyway, it was still early, and he wanted to walk.

Along the way, I was finally disappointed, the city wall is indeed the city wall of the past, but the inner city has finally changed.

Two quarters of an hour later, Xu Ziyuan stood in front of the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

He was ordered to return to report on his work.

Dressed neatly, he was about to climb the stairs, but there was a sound of a carriage behind him, and it also stopped at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Xu Ziyuan turned his head, and saw a purple-robed official walking down from the carriage.

Dressed in a purple robe, the level is at least the same as Xu Ziyuan, but what makes Xu Ziyuan a little shocked is that he doesn't know this person, but the number of purple-robed officials is not much, his mind turned around like lightning, and then looked at the appearance of those guards, he already had some understanding in his heart, and when he saw the purple-robed official coming over, he smiled and hugged his fists and smiled: "Dare to ask, but is it the governor of Gansu Dailin?" ”

The person who came was Dai Lin, the former assassin of Xiazhou, and now the governor of the newly established Gansu Province.

"This brother?" Dai Lin returned the salute and looked at the questioner with some astonishment. Those who can stand at this door and prepare to enter the door are naturally not ordinary people.

"A certain Ningxia Xu Ziyuan!" Xu Ziyuan said with a smile.

"It turned out to be Xu Du, look up for a long time!" Dai Lin hurriedly clenched her fists and saluted, the one in front of her, but Li Xiang's henchman, who was born in Wuwei Academy and was a proper child, had much harder roots than herself.

"A certain family was summoned back to report on his work, and so did Dai Tu?" Xu Ziyuan asked with a smile.

"Exactly!" Dai Lin laughed. "Li Xiang summoned the two of us at the same time, it seems that there is something big!"

"Not necessarily, in my opinion, I'm afraid it's not a good thing." Xu Ziyuan shook his head and said.

"Where does this start?" Dai Lin was taken aback, Xu Ziyuan was from Li Xiangyan's lineage, and the source would naturally be more accurate than herself.

Xu Ziyuan didn't say much, he patted Dai Lin's shoulder familiarly, and said with a smile: "I'll know later, in the future, we're just afraid that we will have to live a hard life!" ”

The two stepped on the steps, and at this time, a person also appeared inside, but it was Chen Wenliang, who took over Zhang Xun's position, who personally greeted him out. Today's Chen Wenliang's status is no longer the same as in the past, as Li Ze's personal secretary, his status in the secretary supervisor is second only to Gongsun Changming, and in fact, he has stepped into the core of power in the Tang Dynasty.

Being greeted by him certainly also reflects Li Ze's respect for these two governors.

"Two governors, the subordinate Chen Wenliang." Chen Wenliang clasped his hands into fists as a salute.

"Chen Shaocheng is well!" The two high-ranking governors are all courteous, don't look at the secretary Lin Shaocheng's grade is not high, but he is a typical humble and powerful, and he is in the inner circle of power, as long as he is released from here, the level will not be much lower than them, and the future is only more ambitious. As soon as Zhang Xun went out from this position, he was the governor of Shandong.

"Li Xiang is waiting for the two of you! Today for the two of you, but I left a full half a day! Chen Wenliang smiled, "Please, two! ”

"I'm tired of Li Shaocheng!" The two of them said with a smile.

After a while, the two saw that Li Ze was standing at the door of the study with his hands in his hands, looking at them from a distance. The two of them couldn't help but be moved, and Chen Wenliang also dodged at the right time, and both of them hurried forward. Li Ze had just crossed the threshold, and the two of them had already arrived in front of him, clasping their hands into fists and squeezing them deeply to the ground.

"I've seen Li Xiang!"

Li Ze laughed and helped the two of them up.

"Dai Lin, after a long time, you have changed a lot, if I didn't know you, I really wouldn't be able to see that you used to be a military general who killed the Quartet! What do you think? Does the supervising party feel good? ”

Dai Lin said with a smile: "Don't hide it from Li Xiang, it's a little tormenting, I have lost the books for many years, and now I am picking them up again and reading them again, for Li Xiang's herdsmen, it is much more difficult than fighting for Li Xiang, and my hair is a lot grayer!" ”

He deliberately took off the hood on his head and showed Li Ze the mottled hair.

"Good work!" Li Ze nodded: "The land of Lingxia is already eventful, but now that Gansu Province has been newly built, there are even more things." ”

"I'm about to report to Li Xiangyu."

"Okay, I'll talk about business later, today, I left you with half a day." Li Ze smiled and turned his head to look at Xu Ziyuan.

Xu Ziyuan is his descendant, and Dai Lin is his subordinate, so the two are naturally different. talked to Dai Lin first, not because he despised Xu Ziyuan, but because he didn't treat him as an outsider.

"Thin, dark, the beautiful son of Wuwei Academy back then, now walking on the street, probably no girl throws sachets of flowers to you." Li Ze said with a smile. "After six years away, today can be regarded as a return to home, how does it feel?"

"Xiaguan has already passed the year of his establishment, and there are already two sons and a daughter around his knees, where is he still a young man in the past?" Xu Ziyuan smiled and said: "When I left home and returned to my eldest child, my hometown voice has not changed, my sideburns have declined, I have changed, and Wuyi has changed even more, so I don't dare to admit it, but Li Xiang is still the same as in the past." Hardly anything has changed since I left Wuyi six years ago! ”

Li Ze laughed: "With you capable subordinates, what do I have to worry about!" ”

"Where did Li Xiang come from? If there is no Li Xiang's command, where can we find the direction, I am afraid that we can only work blindly, and there will be no good harvest in the end. The snake can't fly without a head, the bird can't fly without wings, with Li Xiang, there are us people! "Dai Lin is not a sycophant, but sincere, imagining when he was under Du Youcai, where did he ever think about today's situation?

"Li Xiang, the two governors, don't stand outside and talk, let's talk in detail in the house!" Chen Wenliang on the side smiled and arched his hand: "Xiaguan has already made tea for the three of them." ”

"Two governors, please!" Li Ze smiled and stretched out his hand.

Dai Lin and Xu Ziyuan bowed at the same time: "Li Xiang, please." ”