Broken Leaf City is located on the south bank of the Broken Leaf River, the city is more than ten miles in five days, the city wall is rammed by clay, the bottom side is one zhang wide and one zhang high, it is a rare male city in Anxi.

Broken Leaf City is one of the four towns in Anxi, and has always been an important town in Anxi, where the great poet Li Bai was born in the early Tang Dynasty.

Broken Leaf was built in the first year of Gaozong Tiaolu, and it is the farthest fortified border city in the northwest border area of the Tang Dynasty.

Before Empress Wu became emperor, the founding general of the Tang Dynasty, one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, and a descendant of Cheng Cheng, the Duke of Lu, moved to Broken Leaf City to live.

This descendant of the Cheng family is Cheng Biting Jin Shaozi, the concubine of Cheng Zhibi of Guangping County.

When An Lushan troubled Anxi, the descendants of this Cheng family have multiplied for four generations, and the family has gradually grown, because of the family origins, many of the children in the family have served in the Anxi army, because of the merits of assisting the Anxi Governor to pacify the Anlu Mountain Rebellion, the third generation of the Cheng family of the Broken Leaf Cheng family was enshrined in the Broken Leaf Festival, and the Broken Leaf Cheng family became the top family in Anxi.

Cheng Huanyuan, the contemporary head of the Broken Leaf Cheng family, holds many positions such as the Broken Leaf Festival Envoy and the Governor of Anxi. His younger brother Cheng Huanzhang was previously the governor of the Yueshi Governor's Mansion and the commander of the Tocharian army, and he was also one of the only three generals of the Anxi Governor's Protectorate, although he has now been removed from these two positions, but he still maintains a huge influence in the Tocharian army.

After hundreds of years of operation, Broken Leaf City has long become Cheng Shi's own place, and the successive Broken Leaf Festival envoys are either members of the Cheng family, or people related to the Cheng family, especially after the party rebellion, the Anxi clan does not distinguish between Hu and Han, and all gather troops to protect themselves, and the entire Anxi territory is full of feudal towns for a time.

However, the Anxi Han Dynasty is different from the Central Plains Domain, and the Anxi Domain has always been loyal to the Central Plains Imperial Court.

This may be due to the fact that the Han people in Anxi are surrounded by thousands of Hu people and have a deeper sense of identity with the Han people.

The Cheng family of Broken Leaves is such a feudal town, this time the imperial court transferred troops, and the town of Broken Leaves sent more than 10,000 troops, and there are also the same number of Hu people of various ethnic groups in Anxi, and most of the officers in the army are the elite children of the Cheng family, in order to reinforce the Central Plains Imperial Court, the Cheng family can be said to be elite.

Similarly, such as the Shule Yang clan, the Yan Yi Zhang clan and the Liu clan, the Qiuzi Guo clan, the Pei clan and the Li clan, etc., are all the top Han clans in Anxi.

But what these old Han clans in Anxi didn't expect was that after they transferred their family strength to the Central Plains, other small Han families in Anxi suddenly attacked together and fought for the right to protect the Anxi Governor's Mansion.

Most of these small families are new immigrants who have moved to Anxi in recent years, and they are dissatisfied with the interests of the Anxi trade road being controlled by these old clans, so they take advantage of the weakness of the old clans to jump out and fight for power and profit.

In order not to exacerbate the contradictions as much as possible and maintain the stability of Anxi, the Anxi clan took the initiative to give up some of their interests and rights, and Cheng Huanzhang was removed from his post because of this.

However, it seems that their concession did not let the other party stop, but intensified their efforts to seek more benefits, and even secretly joined forces with foreign races in Anxi, advocating the strategy of consolidating cadres and cutting branches in the Metropolitan Protectorate, advocating that the Tang Army should be concentrated in the four towns of Anxi, and the surrounding state capitals should be handed over to the 'pro-Tang' Hu people to manage, and proposed to abolish the ban and allow the Hu people to form a vassal army to make up for the lack of Tang army strength - you must know that since the An Lushan Rebellion, the first decree of the rebuilt Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is this ban, It is strictly forbidden for the Hu people in Anxi to have any form of armed force, and to grant land to attract domestic immigrants and increase the number of Han soldiers, it is the existence of the ban that has ensured that there has been no civil strife in Anxi for hundreds of years, but now there are people who want to abolish this decree.

Old clans like the Cheng family have all personally experienced the turmoil more than 200 years ago, and they still remember the brutality of the Anxi Zhuhu, and they are most afraid of the rise of the Hu people's power, and they can be regarded as the absolute 'Hu suppression faction' in the Anxi Protectorate. However, these old clans in the Anxi Protectorate do not account for the majority, the largest number are those new immigrants who have immigrated to Anxi for less than a hundred years, these people do not know what the Hu people did back then, and they have not experienced the horror of the Anxi Han people being killed to the point that there is not one in ten, they only see the meek sheep-like Western Regions Zhuhu under the prestige of the Tang Army, plus Li Lingzhi faint, most of them advocate cooperation with the Hu people, and they are the 'pro-Hu faction' in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

Therefore, when the Anxi clans were no longer ready to back down and began to try their best to enhance their strength, they suddenly found that they had no one available.

Today, the largest number of Han Chinese in Anxi is the group of new immigrants, but most of these people are controlled by these 'pro-Hu' families, who use various methods to prevent new immigrants from joining the army, so that the Anxi army is in a dilemma of insufficient soldiers.

And at this time, a 'foreign remnants' suddenly appeared in front of the Cheng family, and also showed a good potential and willing to cooperate attitude, the Cheng family not only wanted to unite with it, but also worried that this was a conspiracy of the 'pro-Hu faction', and they had been hesitating until the return of Cheng Yun and others this time...

"Uncle, this is what Panjiabao took to prepare for trading with my Anxi, the Pan family called this thing spiritual iron, my nephew tried it personally, its characteristics are almost the same as iron essence, the iron brick that my nephew brought back originally weighed fifteen or sixteen pounds, and my nephew ordered someone to take down a piece and create a straight knife to try, and the effect is indeed not much different from a few iron essence treasure knives kept at home." Cheng Yun held a tray in his hand and handed it to the head of the Pan family in person, and there was a small iron ingot and a straight knife that was missing half of it on the plate.

At this time, in addition to Cheng Huanyuan and Cheng Yun, the head of the Cheng family, there were several other powerful figures in the Cheng family.

The head of the Cheng family didn't speak, and looked at a chubby middle-aged man who looked like a businessman sitting next to Cheng Huanzhang.

Seeing the gaze of the head of the family, this person stood up unhurriedly, and walked to Cheng Yun step by step, Cheng Yun called in a low voice

"Third uncle." This person is the half-brother of the head of the Cheng family, the third in his generation, who is responsible for taking care of the Cheng family's business, and has a wide range of knowledge.

Doing business has to deal with people from all walks of life, and it is indispensable to usher in the send-off, so Cheng Yun, the third uncle, always has a smiling expression, coupled with his chubby figure, he looks like a Maitreya Buddha, but if someone despises him because of this......

Scold!

The blade of the straight knife suddenly burst out with a battle light nearly half a foot long and half a foot wide!

This fat man with the air of a businessman is actually a master at the level of a government guard!