After a few days of quiet like this, a message came back from the mountain, just six simple words: Concubine Xiao De killed Li Chuwen.

After Zhou Nan saw it, he just cleaned it up briefly, and took Zhou Fu and Zuo Xiaosi to Yizhou the next day.

This was the first time that Zhou Nan saw the real ancient state city. When entering the city gate, the city wall of Yizhou City is three zhang high, it is built with loess plate, from a distance, it is a kind of earthy yellow, just like the color of the withered yellow grass in autumn. The strange thing is that there are only two gates in Yizhou City, east and west, and there is an arrow tower on the city gate, and there are soldiers on duty standing on the city tower, holding spears in their hands. The city gate was erected with the flag of the Liao Kingdom, which was written in Khitan and Chinese, and Zhou Nan saw that one of the flags had the word "Gao" on it. There were two rows of soldiers standing at the city gate, full of swords and guns, heavily guarded, and the people outside the city were simply searched outside the drawbridge, and then released, to the city gate, and checked again, this time mainly to check the number of goods, according to the goods to collect taxes. Zhou Nan, Zhou Fu, Zuo Xiaosi, all three people, are dressed as civilians who have suffered military disasters and are in other places, Zhou Fu did not bring a bow and crossbow this time, it was instructed by Zhou Nan, and now the two armies are facing each other, Yizhou is a critical city, and the city gate is bound to be strict, and it is to cause trouble. So the three of them were all barehanded, dressed in rags, with bast shoes, and Zhou Nan deliberately painted some grass ash on his face to make his complexion look dark. The three of them had nothing in their bodies, one was poor, and the accent was a local accent, so they naturally went into the city smoothly.

Entering the city, walk along the east and west streets, which are lined with grass-yellow houses of the same color as the city wall, and on the roofs of the houses are felt roofs made of grass, and even worse, there are no houses made of loess, only grass houses made of branches and straw. Although he was prepared in his heart, Zhou Nan was still frightened when he looked at it. When I arrived in the center of the city, I saw that there were many stone and wood houses and shops on both sides of the street, operating restaurants and inns, although dilapidated, but they were better than nothing. Secondly, there are some obviously quaint masonry courtyards on the north side of the street, which occupy a spacious area, and there is no need to crowd the wandering refugees in front of the door. Zuo Xiaosi quietly told Zhou Nan that these mansions were the residences of the Khitan people in this city. In the middle of these houses, there is a mansion, it seems that it should be the state government, almost occupies the position from the street to the north city wall half of the state city, in front of the street is the state government, outside the state government gate is a spacious open space, there are two stone lions standing in front of the gate, the black lacquer gate is closed. There are no guards either, and it seems that this state government is not very open. There is another doorway on the east side behind the state office, like the back house of Lord Zhizhou. There was a row of elm trees outside the wall, and there were soldiers guarding the door.

Zhou Nan looked around, but he couldn't see anything, so he took the two to a secluded place and said to the two: "You two go back and forth, go and explore around, see if there is anything unusual in this city recently, and there are temples and the like in this city." I'm here staring and waiting for you. Zuo Xiaosi agreed, and walked east with Zhou Fuyi one after the other

Zhou Nan found a corner on the street, where there were already a dozen refugees like beggars, taking advantage of the cool breeze, stretched out their legs and sat against the wall. Zhou Nan walked over, seven or eight steps away from these people, and found a clean place, like that group of people, also sitting on the ground, but his eyes were staring at the gate of Zhizhou's back house, wanting to see what was abnormal in Zhizhou.

The mansion behind the state government in front of me should be the private residence of Gao Feng, the governor of Yizhou, and the state government in front of it is a whole building connected together, the wall and the houses inside are built of blue-gray bricks, unpretentious, only in the doors and windows of the house, vermilion or black paint, only to show the status and momentum of the owner of the house. The roof is gray terracotta, and the slope of the roof is not as steep as Zhou Nan imagined, almost flat. The tiles at the eaves are all in the shape of lotus flowers. The walls are decorated with blue bricks on all sides, and the middle is a whitewashed wall. No frills. The gate of the back house is a wide wooden gate, with three rooms, a row of five wooden pillars in front, painted vermilion, the gate is also painted vermilion, and the threshold is black, and now the gate is open, and there are two rows of soldiers standing on the left and right sides outside the gate. Looking in from the gate, it is a stone sculpture with a height of two feet like a pagoda, which is probably the decoration of the Liao people's house in this period. There was no one walking around the house, and no one was entering or leaving the gate.

The reason why Zhou Nan wanted to come to Yizhou at this time was because Zhou Nan knew that Ye Luchun died shortly after Tong Guan led the army to the first Liao expedition. And after the death of Yeluchun, his wife Xiao Puxian was supported as a regent by Xiao Gan, Li Chuwen, Yelu Dashi and other ministers, this Xiao Puxian inherited the Xiao family style, without mercy, and after coming to power, Li Chuwen and his son, who secretly colluded with Jin Guo and the Great Song Dynasty, were solved, and Li Chuwen's home was also copied. Moreover, because of Li Chuwen's affairs, this Xiao Puxian woman was always suspicious of Han officials and felt that Han officials were unreliable, so she was ready to clean up Yanjing and Han officials and generals near Yanjing to avoid civil strife.

When Xiao Puxian's daughter executed Li Chuwen's father and son, the rumor of the next big cleanup of Han officials came out, and the Han officials around Yanjing inevitably wanted everyone to be in danger, and they would look for a way back at this time, which was human nature. Moreover, the Han people, who are often in Yanjing and often survive between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, have long been trained to be extremely powerful, not to mention this fateful time.

Gao Feng, the governor of Yizhou, was the first Liao official in history to rise up and take refuge in Tong Guan. This Gao Feng teamed up with his deputy Wang Yi to find a monk to be the connector, went directly to Tong Guan, and made an appointment with Tong Guan for twenty days to participate in a big event. Gao Feng really found the right monk to find this monk. Twenty days later, when Liu Guangshi, who was sent out by Tong Guan, led people to Yizhou to meet Gao Feng, he was about to get under the city of Yizhou, and met the Liao Niulan Supervisor who came out to fight the autumn wind. And Gao Feng and Wang Yi, who were standing on the tower of Yizhou City, were a little excited when they saw the banner of the Song Army from afar, and gave an order to kill the Khitans in Yizhou City, some men, women and children. Originally, he was going to let the Song army see his sincerity, but it was the bullpen supervisor who came back victoriously, when Gao Fengzheng didn't know what to do, it was this monk who asked Gao Feng to close the city gate, and the bullpen supervisor saw that the city gate was not open, and felt that it was not good, and immediately led people back to Yanjing City to report the news.

The three passers-by, Gao Feng who surrendered to Cheng, Liu Guangshi who answered, and the bullpen supervisor who broke the good thing halfway, were confused, and they made mistakes, anyway, they all did what they had to do in the end. As for why this Gao Feng is not as famous as the Zhuozhou guard Guo Yaoshi who followed the trend and surrendered to sincerity, it is because Gao Feng is not thick-skinned enough, his heart is not black enough, and his motivation is not strong, and he was finally overshadowed by Guo Yaoshi.

This is the opportunity that Zhou Nan is waiting for.