Youbei, Youzhou City.

The New Year in Youbei has always been not very lively, and this year is no different, especially after Wen Li began to build the palace and the new imperial city, there are fewer people on the streets, compared with other big cities, the street vendors are also pitiful, and it will take about two more days before the streets will be a little lively.

In the center of Youzhou City, the part of the imperial city that has just been built is very deserted, if it weren't for the palace people who walked by from time to time, I am afraid that they would think that this gorgeous imperial city is an empty city.

Wen Li sat in the empty side hall and rubbed his hands gently.

On that day in the imperial capital, I was in too much hurry, and the jade seal of the country was not brought out in the future, and the jade seal was always in the hands of that emperor, and I was going to send someone to get it, but no one dared to challenge the prestige of an emperor in the end.

In the past six months, Youbei has become another small imperial court, and most of the important official positions have been held, although most of them are just hanging an empty title and have no real power.

The struggle between the two factions in the small court of Youbei is also becoming more and more obvious, one faction is the people brought by Wen Li from the imperial capital, and most of them are Wen Li's henchmen; The other faction is the local officials in Youbei, headed by Youzhou Mu Lu Junsheng, but most of them are military generals, and there are very few civil officials.

It is said that it is a distribution, but in fact, there is not much conflict between the two factions, Lu Junsheng and his faction are mainly "guarding the border", and their eyes are all on the people in the Buyeo Department of the border line, as long as the things fighting for the court do not involve their interests, they will turn a blind eye to those people and those things.

Wen Li sighed lightly, suddenly got up from the fine pear blossom wooden chair, and walked straight out of the side hall.

It's time for Ruan Ruan to take medicine again.

......

South of Chijiang, Xuzhou.

In the past six months, Wang Kun Ye Lang and his entourage have been running around Xuzhou, they went south from Xuzhou North Street all the way to visit the famous families along the way, famous rangers, with Ye Lang's jade pendant, they went all the way unimpeded.

Unfortunately, they received very little response.

They tested the attitude of those people in the name of the royal family, but most of them only sought self-preservation, and did not dare to form the so-called "coalition army" in Wang Kun's mouth to compete with Tuoba Yan, besides, even if they were formed, what was the use? It's just some rural "princes", some of them don't even deserve the word "princes", and the army composed of such people is unmatched in the face of Tuoba Yan's invincible Chiyun Iron Cavalry

When the jackdaws are double, the end will not be much better.

"Prince, where are we going this time?" Ye Lang tightened the thick cotton clothes on his body, rode forward, and stopped beside Wang Kun to ask.

"The First Evolution"

"Tokai County, Stubborn Stone." Wang Kun squinted his eyes to identify the direction, among the mountains, it seemed that he could see a little cooking smoke, stubborn stones, it should be that.

"Boulder?" Ye Lang was stunned, in his impression, he didn't seem to have heard of such a village in Donghai County.

"It used to be called Liujia Village," Wang Kun turned his head and glanced at Ye Lang meaningfully, and said, "Later, after going through a lot of things, they changed the name of the village to Liujia Village." ”

"Liujia Village?!" Ye Lang suddenly became excited, "That's it...... In the battle of stinging, the soul of the Fuyu department in the north was frightened, and the Liu family, who retreated five hundred miles and was full of famous generals? ”

Wang Kun nodded.

"Are we really going to Liujia Village this time?" Ye Lang was so excited that he wanted to see the child of the big hero in his dream, he couldn't believe it, so he confirmed it with Wang Kun again.

It's the Liu family who came out of the hero!

The current head of the Liu family, Liu Poyu, is seventy-six years old, forty years ago, the battle of the sting, was commanded by him, when he let the army block the footsteps of the Buyeo Division, he personally led the team to attack, at the cost of losing a hand, the Buyeo Khan King was in full swing at that time, and it was that battle that made the Buyeo tribes fall back into chaos, and won more than ten years of peace for the Daxi border.

And the ancestor of the Liu family was one of the five people who helped the founding emperor of Daxi open up the country.

Such a big family, but because they did not accept the gentle co-optation, they were excluded, and no one in the Liu family is now an official in the court.

"It's going to Liujia Village," Wang Kunjing rode his horse forward, "Let's go, don't be noisy like a crow anymore, disturbing people." ”

......

A moment later, the entrance of the stubborn stone village.

The sheep intestine path into the village was blocked by a giant tree for some reason, Wen Yu was hesitating to go up and move the giant tree away, when a head suddenly poked out from behind the low walls on both sides of the path, and said coldly, "Stop, if you dare to take another step forward, we are welcome." ”

Thirteen men, including Wu Ji and Wen Yu, immediately reached out and pressed the hilt of the knife on their waists, they held their breath and stared, carefully observing the surrounding situation, they were estimating how many people there were on the other side.

Ye Lang was also taken aback, and said in his heart Isn't this Liujia Village? Could it be that the prince led us the wrong way and led us to the bandits' den?

Among the group, the calmest one was actually Wang Kun, I saw

He slowly raised his hand and signaled the men behind him not to act rashly, and then he took out the jade pendant from his arms, threw it directly to the man hiding behind the low wall, and said loudly, "Go and tell General Liu Poyu that Wang Kun asks to see him." ”

The man trotted all the way to Liu Poyu's house, handed over the jade pendant to Liu Poyu, and then repeated Wang Kun's words word for word.

Liu Poyu just glanced at the jade pendant lightly, then threw it back, and sneered, "Now I think of our Liu family." ”

"Grandpa, ...... To see or not to see? "The man was in a quandary.

"Of course," the old man stood up suddenly, "Isn't the meaning of our Liu family's existence here?" ”

Even if you want to be in the company of Wen Li, who "exiled" the Liu family from the court, it is enough to be able to do things for Daxi.

......

"Alright, come in." As the man spoke, he sent someone down to temporarily remove the giant wood, returned the jade pendant to Wang Kun, and did not forget to confiscate the weapons of Wu Jiwen and his party.

"Carefully, but carefully." Wu Ji sneered and handed the weapon to the man standing next to his horse, although the other people in the team complained, they still honestly untied the knife at their waists, and just rode their horses to follow Wang Kun towards the village.

When he entered the village, Wu Ji found that this village was already a veritable "stubborn stone" - the defense of the village was really like a stone, tightly fitting and impermeable. About every thirty paces, there was a secret sentry on the roof, and as they walked all the way, before they reached the center of the village, they had already encountered two patrolling guards, you know, they had only walked more than four hundred paces, and even in the army, such a level of security was enough to be called strict.

And those patrolling guards, just by looking at their figures and the posture of walking and holding knives, you can be sure that each of them is a first-class good hand, and if they are placed in the army, they will also be elites, it is not strange that the famous Liu family has such an elite, and it is strange that such a small village, why does it have to make such a strict guard?

"Here we are." The man stopped in front of a somewhat faded vermilion gate and said coldly.

"There is labor." Wang Kun arched his hand at him and was about to enter the door, but the man suddenly spoke again.

"Wait! You can't all go in. ”

"It's okay," Wang Kun smiled, "The old man can be alone." ”

As he spoke, Wang Kun waved his hand at the crowd, signaling them to wait in place, and then walked towards the mansion by himself, as soon as he stepped into the gate with his front foot, an old but energetic voice suddenly came from the front hall, "Prince, it's not the right time to come." ”