After a polite greeting, Tong Guan introduced the main officials of Tongyuan County to Yang Huairen one by one, and finally led him into the city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Tongyuan County is not big, like Yang Huairen's pasture for the same reason, there are few trees in this place, and the timber used for construction has to be transported from other places, and the price is also expensive, so the houses of the common people are all adobe, and only a few government offices, some houses of rich families and shops on a main street are made of bricks, tiles and wooden beams.

The shape of the county seat is also interesting, because the whole city is built in the valley of the Huanjiang River, and the shape of the county seat is an irregular rectangle, more than two miles long from north to south, and less than one mile narrow from east to west.

There are no tall buildings in the city to block the view, and there is only one main street that runs through the north and south, so from the moment Yang Huairen walked into the south gate, he saw the gate of the north city from a distance.

The Tongyuan Military Division and the county government in the city are in the center of the city, across the long street door to the door, Tong Guan directly led Yang Huairen into the Tongyuan Military Division.

The courtyard of the Tongyuan Military Division is very large, and it feels like it occupies one-tenth of the entire county, but the place that really belongs to the office is very small, even inferior to the Tongyuan County Ya opposite.

In the huge courtyard, there are several independent courtyards around, Tong Guan arranged for Yang Huairen to live in a relatively large courtyard, and said that the Hou Ye had a little rest, and in the evening he booked a banquet for the largest Western Regions building in Tongyuan County, to wash the dust for Yang Huairen.

Yang Huairen didn't say anything polite to him and agreed. First, he knew that he was going to stay in Tongyuan County for a while, he was out of the house, and during this time, he had to rely on the care of officials from all walks of life in Huanzhou, and a real power official like Tong Guan naturally wanted to give people face.

Second, he was really curious about Tong Guan, and wanted to get to know him up close, and see what kind of ability this eunuch had the biggest official position in history and the highest eunuch with the title.

Three, I heard that Xiyulou is the largest restaurant in Tongyuan County, and it seems that the food here has some characteristics of Chinese and Western characteristics, Yang Huairen, as a chef, naturally wants to see and understand from the bottom of his heart.

In the end, Yang Huairen felt that since he came, he was idle anyway, so it was better to be in line with the principle of peace when he came, and in this place in Huanzhou, he should also appreciate the different life styles. Even if you don't get used to it, it's a big deal to go out of the city and go back to your own pasture and herd cattle for a few months.

Tong Guan can also be a person, and the yard arranged for Yang Huairen and his party should be regarded as the largest one in the Tongyuan Military Division, with a dozen acres of land, and this courtyard also has a name, called Baihuayuan.

The environment in the hundred gardens is elegant, and the style is a bit out of place with this earthy yellow county town, in addition to more than 20 houses of different sizes, there is a large flower garden in the middle of the yard.

The time is already the end of March, the spring of the Central Plains in March, it is the season of spring full of flowers, it may be that Huanzhou is located in the northwest inland, the spring breeze comes a little late, the dead grass in the garden garden has just emerged from the soil to a little bit of tender green, the garden wants to live up to its name, about to wait for another month.

The internal guards, except for a few who hid their identities and rented houses in Tongyuan County, most of them also lived in the Tongyuan Military Division, but it was another courtyard arranged by Tong Guan.

In this way, Yang Huairen and several of his brothers lived very spaciously. Tong Guan also left more than 20 little maids in the yard to serve them full-time, and he was very thoughtful and thoughtful.

The middle and largest of the hundred gardens was left for Yang Huairen to live in, Brother Hei Niu and Brother Tianba lived separately, and Ke Xiaochuan and Xuan Shen lived in the room behind him.

Xiao Qi hasn't slept on the beam for a long time since he became a parent, since everyone didn't bring a female dependent, he naturally continued to sleep on the beam, Yang Huairen couldn't stop him, he jumped on the beam, and with his small physique, he couldn't see him from below.

And the three Lianzi brothers led a dozen of the best guards in kung fu to live in the houses around them.

Yang Huairen felt that this arrangement was not necessary at all, he had just arrived, and there was no enemy in Tongyuan County, everyone was so careful, it was too cautious.

It was Lian Zigeng's reason that persuaded him, he is the one who is about to become a father, he is complete when he leaves home, and when he goes home one day, he must go back intact.

In the evening, Tong Guan arranged for them to come to the Western Regions Building, not far from the north of the military mansion. The Western Regions Building is said to be a building, but there are only two floors, and the scale looks like the size of Suiyuan, but the style is really a combination of Chinese and Western, the pavilion of the Great Song Dynasty, and the style of the Western Regions.

Yang Huairen and his entourage were invited to a large single room on the second floor when they entered the door, and as soon as they entered the door, Yang Huairen found that the officials he had seen during the day had arrived, and it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time.

Yang Huairenqian gave in, but he was still invited to the first seat, and Tong Guan and Yang Shihu were separated. The sky was still bright, so Tong Guan did not order the food to be served, but personally made tea for Yang Huairen and briefly introduced the situation in Huanzhou to him.

From his mouth, Yang Huairen learned that although Huanzhou is called a state, it is actually just because its strategic location in geography is more important, in fact, Huanzhou is a county, so when it is said to the outside world, it is Huanzhou, and the locals call it Tongyuan County.

In terms of area, the size of Huanzhou is even as large as the three or four prefectures in the Central Plains, but the population is quite sparse, with only more than 8,000 households in the whole county, less than 50,000 people, and more than 60% live in the county seat.

Because they are all mountains, there are no very good products here, and there is little arable land, and there is not much food, so the peasants who make a living from farming are living in a difficult situation.

The main source of income for the county government should be the tax revenue from border trade. More than 60 miles northwest of Huanzhou, out of the river valley is a prairie, where is the boundary of Western Xia.

To the west of the steppe was Weizhou in Western Xia, where the Jingsai army of Western Xia was stationed, with about 30,000 men.

Yang Huairen was quite surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect that less than two hundred miles away, there were 30,000 Western Xia troops, it seems that Huanzhou is still quite dangerous, in case there is any war between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia, Huanzhou will bear the brunt.

Tong Guan explained to him with a smile, in fact, Hou Ye didn't have to worry at all, the 30,000 Xixia troops of the Jingsai Military Division were not to be afraid at all.

Although the Western Xia was a regime established by the Dangxiang people, in the Western Xia Kingdom, the Dangxiang people accounted for only 30 percent, and the largest number of the Western Xia Kingdom was actually Han people, accounting for almost 40 percent.

The other 30 percent of the population is the Hu tribe including the Qiang, Uighur, Tubo, Khitan, Tuyuhun, etc., and their armies are the same.