The wind and snow in Lanting are much heavier than before, but this is also the late autumn that Lanting people are used to, and the snowy Lanting City is also much more depressed than before. In the past, the gate was always open, and now there are only a few small doors left for a few merchants who have not completely withdrawn - this is to reduce some wind and snow, and most of the merchants have to return to their families before the Shangyuan Festival, and a small number of merchants will choose to stay in Lanting City to accompany the Lanting people through this cold autumn and winter, of course, once they survive until the New Year, they will exchange for the best goods in Beiting at the lowest price.

Ma Xiongzheng led people to inspect various towns in the northwest, and also mobilized the local garrison to help the people shovel away the excess snow in the city, which was already a routine activity every year after Zhao Fu grasped the real power of the northwest town guard, which not only won the unanimous praise of the people in the northwest, but also was very supported by the army - Zhao Fu would award a huge honorarium to the team that shoveled the most and fastest snow in the name of the northwest town guard and a commendation document stamped with the seal of the town guard.

Zhao Fu actually didn't know that his family was so rich at first, he always thought that his father, who was deeply valued by the emperor and loved by the military and the people, should be a very "incorruptible" person, but when he knew that the largest "reselling and smuggling group" in Lanting City was actually his Zhao family, and when he knew that the family with the most wealth in the Lanhe Empire was still the Zhao family, he was confused, just like a beggar who was told that he was the long-lost son of the richest man in the world, and now he was going to inherit the family business......

Later, the old Cao housekeeper explained that this Zhao family was my Zhao family, and the Lanting Zhao family was a small branch from the Lanhe Zhao family, and its business scope was just such a small area as Lanting City, and the Lanhe Zhao family was the real behemoth, a family that rivaled the wealth, and such a big business in Lanting City was just a small wealth given to the branch in the eyes of the Lanhe Zhao family.

Although it is only responsible for the trade of goods in Lanting City, Lanting City has a large population, and the garrison is also the largest town in the northwest, and Zhao Yicheng is the northwest town guard, so almost all the non-military supplies in the army are the caravans of the Zhao Mansion. Now Zhao Fu seems that this is a typical case of abuse of power, but everyone thinks that this is a very normal thing, and even the emperor knows and acquiesces. At that time, this was called a family business, not a collusion between officials and businessmen, to be precise, officials at that time were businessmen.

Zhao Fu's family is now in a state where one person is fed and the whole family is not hungry, and the money and grain allocated by the imperial court to the northwest have never been in arrears. Therefore, Zhao Fu waved his hand and took out most of the money, which should be disaster relief and poverty protection, and meritorious soldiers should be rewarded, and many livelihood projects in Lanting City that had been in disrepair for a long time were renovated.

If Zhao Fu's title of "town guard" was more of a remembrance and joke of the old town guard, then the current "town guard" is a well-deserved town guard, but it is just a little smaller.

Although Zhao Fu has never regarded himself as a child, he will still take advantage of the convenience of age, such as the current Lanting, who gathers the most commanders in the northwest, but he has the most voice in Lanting City, and he will not be restricted by large and small restrictions because of this age: people will praise the merits of the town guard if they do good deeds, and if they accidentally do bad things, people will quickly forgive and forget because they are still young.

And just today, a letter from the capital came to Lan Ting: first of all, it was naturally an old-fashioned sentence such as congratulating Zhao Fu on killing the enemy in the frontier, and then it was to let the new city protector Qin Shangxi take up the post of the Northwest Town Guard, Zhao Fu and other generals of the Northwest faction were not angry and disappointed because of this, because there was a more shocking promotion appointment later: Appoint Zhao Fu as the new northwest town guard, succeed his father's business, and guard the frontier!

This decree is actually very simple, it can be said to be a holy decree that everyone is happy about: Qin Shangxi was able to enter the northwest military hub, and Zhao Fu also took over his father's position and became the well-deserved governor of the northwest.

Now the relationship between Zhao Fu and Qin Shangxi has eased a lot because of Qin Zhirou, and Qin Shangxi also understands that the military affairs in the northwest are not something that he can take over with His Majesty's appointment.

Zhao Fu was very dissatisfied with this will, after all, he looked beautiful, thirteen years old, no, now Zhao Fu is fourteen years old. Fourteen-year-old town guard! It was a position that many people couldn't do at the age of forty, but Zhao Fu began to command the troops and horses in the northwest at the age of fourteen, and soon this became the talk of the entire Lanhe Empire before and after dinner.

In fact, Zhao Fu could already be regarded as a guard in the northwest, even if he couldn't move the northwest soldiers and horses himself, but with Feng Yu and them, the entire 100,000 regular troops in the northwest were all at the mercy of the order. It seems that Zhao Fu has benefited the most from this holy decree, but in fact, Zhao Fu is already the actual "Northwest Guard", and when Qin Shangxi was transferred, his appointment as a city protector had not yet been taken out...... This can be regarded as the court's lukewarm "reward" for the northwest, just like the emperor gave the moon to a greedy minister as a fief.

In fact, what the holy decree brings is not a reward, but the will of the capital: the northwest can continue to let your Zhao family guard it, but you can't watch without my people in the northwest!

Zhao Fu only read it once, and then asked Cao Zhongqing to throw this holy decree into his father's library, which was not what interested him, because it was not only a messenger who came from the capital to announce the decree, but also secretly sent a leader from the Night Wolf Army.

The Night Wolf Force is not the main army of the Lanhe Empire, nor is it a military position similar to the imperial court guards, but a real underground army that does not exist in the history books. The Night Wolf Force is a unit founded in the previous dynasty, the original purpose was to supervise the battle team, Lin Fengyi is the supreme commander of this army, it can be said that the soldiers of the Lanhe Empire are most yearning for not the Imperial Guard, but this underground army with brilliant achievements.

The night wolf, the hunter in the dark, is not the longest and brightest knife in the Lin royal family, but it is definitely the sharpest knife. Although this force has been very low-key recently, its deterrent power is even much higher than the laws of the Lanhe Empire.

Zhao Fu was very curious about this mysterious special forces, so he directly threw the Qin Cha to Feng Yu and let Feng Yu entertain him.

"Did Your Majesty send you for something?" Zhao Fu met with the night wolf leader in a secret room, and Zhao Fu was surprised that the other party actually ...... Zhao Fu is a little indescribable, in Zhao Fu's heart, the person who really walks in the dark should be a person with tattered clothes on his body, and he may be mistaken for a beggar at any time, but this ...... The person in front of him is clearly a noble son!

It's also a night wolf and a wild wolf, but it's possible for a pervert! The person in front of him was dressed in brocade clothes, drinking tea very elegantly, if it weren't for his hair tied up by him and a long sword pinned to his waist, it would be difficult for people to think that this was a professional soldier.

"Lin Hanyu." The night wolf first signed up for the number: "It's nice to meet the youngest town guard in history. ”

"I'm glad to meet you too...... Brother Night Wolf. ”

"What? Am I not like that? Lin Hanyu is also very well-cultivated, and he just smiled at Zhao Fu's suspicions.

"Few people believe that someone from the royal family would be a night wolf." In the secret room, Zhao Fu showed the calmness of a fourteen-year-old boy.

Lin Hanyu was still smiling, but this smile revealed a murderous aura. The Night Wolf Army is an extremely secret force, and the Night Wolf Army must have the royal family in it is a more secret secret, even the Emperor Lin Haoyan only learned after he ascended the throne that he actually had a cousin who served as the leader of the Night Wolf Army.

Zhao Fu's reaction was even more fierce than Lin Hanyu's, and he directly drew his knife. Lin Hanyu reacted extremely quickly, and immediately drew his sword to fight back, and the small secret room was soon occupied by the loud sound of fighting.

Lin Hanyu's combat experience is not comparable to Zhao Fu's, but Zhao Fusheng has a strong internal breath as a foundation, and the two are even equal for a while.

But it was only this time, and the next moment Zhao Fu's sword was shaken open by Lin Hanyu, and Lin Hanyu's sword slashed towards Zhao Fu's neck - Lin Hanyu is a royal family is a very important secret, if it is spread outside, it will definitely shake the national capital of the Lanhe Empire more than the death of a town guard, so Lin Hanyu hopes to solve Zhao Fu here.

But the sword was stuck outside Zhao Fu's neck, and he couldn't do anything. Although Lin Hanyu was surprised, he was not discouraged, and was about to put away his sword and cut again, but Zhao Fu withdrew the shocked knife with his backhand, easily put it on Lin Hanyu's neck, and then smiled and put the knife away.

During the whole process, Lin Hanyu couldn't guess what Zhao Fu wanted to do, Zhao Fu took the knife first, and then Zhao Fu took the knife first, what does this mean...... He couldn't figure it out at all.

"Don't worry, it's a secret, I won't tell it." This time, it was Zhao Fu's turn to drink tea elegantly, "I took the knife, I just want you to know that you can't kill me, but I can kill you, and it's easy." ”

"What the hell do you mean?" Lin Hanyu asked.

"It's not a big deal, I just want to remind you that I can guess it, and others can guess it. The Lin family is not a big surname in Lanhe, I want to suggest that you change your name, Brother Night Wolf. Of course, Zhao Fu knew that Lin Hanyu was not asking this, but he just didn't say it. Does he want to tell Lin Hanyu, "Actually, I just don't like your high-profile style"?

"Taught...... Yu is ...... on weekdays and don't use his real name...... "Lin Hanyu is thinking that he is also a person in the military system, and the other party is the youngest town guard in history, so he can only show respect by saying his real name, but he didn't expect that the result was that Zhao Fu guessed the identity of the royal family.

"Uh...... Ahem, that's the truth anyway, you just understand. Zhao Fu was embarrassed.