Chapter Ninety-Eight: Welcome!
After arranging everything in the Holy City, Lu Chen set out on his way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Long Yan originally wanted to prepare a personal guard for Lu Chen, but was rejected by Lu Chen. Now there are not many city guards in the Holy City, and he can't poach people from it anymore.
Lu Chen only planned to take away the one hundred Yulin army sent to them by Tang Xuanzong when he came to Minzhou City. These people were all the guards around the emperor, and they had already been brainwashed, so it was naturally impossible for Lu Chen to let these people stay in the Holy City.
Even now, these people have not been to the Holy City. They only heard that at the junction of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, Lu Chen was building fortifications similar to those of the city. But they didn't think about the city, after all, building a city in that kind of uninhabited place could not develop at all, and they subconsciously thought that Lu Chen was just building some defensive measures to prevent the Tubo people from invading again.
These more than 100 people had been staying in Lin Yuan's barracks at the beginning, and when Lu Chen left the barracks with Long Yan and the others, he did not take these Yulin troops with him. Later, Lin Yuan rebelled, and these people slipped away directly from the team. Now that Lu Chen has appeared, these people naturally found Lu Chen again, and their mission when they left Chang'an was to protect Lu Chen and Li Xinran, but along the way, they found that these two people didn't seem to need protection.
On the third day, Lu Chen finally did everything he had to do. He only took a dozen people from the Holy City, and these people were all people from the Zushi tribe who had learned the way of doing business by the two people who had followed the Datang Express before. According to what the old patriarch said, these dozen or so people all wanted to wander in the outside world, and it just so happened that Lu Chen needed manpower, so he arranged for them to follow and learn the use of the printing press, as well as some ways of doing business, of course, what they learned was the most basic.
Lu Chen wanted to bring these twelve people back to Song Cai, and because these twelve people were from the Zushi tribe, they were absolutely reliable in terms of loyalty.
This time, Lu Chen returned, and a total of more than 20 carriages were used. Among them, mainly gold, silver and jewelry seized from the Jiang family, although only one-third of the total, the amount is still very large. Before, Lu Chen and Long Yan were looking for a place to place the other one-third of the gold, silver and jewelry. It took them a full day to dig the basement before they hid all the belongings seized from the Jiang family underground.
You must know that these are the wealth that the Jiang family has accumulated for more than a hundred years. Especially in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, taking advantage of the chaos in the world, who knows how many secret things the Jiang family has done? Lu Chen guessed that many of these riches were accumulated at that time. Every piece of gold and silver can be said to be stained with blood.
More than 20 carriages left the boundary of Minzhou City, and on the way, they passed by the small county town where they came, but they did not go in, but went around directly. After passing through this small county town, it is the scope of the Jade Dragon Gang.
Not long after Lu Chen entered this familiar wood, a group of big men suddenly walked out from behind them, and one of them pointed at them and said loudly, "What are you pulling?" Passing through the territory of the Jade Dragon Gang, don't you know that you have to pay tolls? ”
Lu Chen walked in front of this group of people, smiled slightly, and then took out the jade pendant given to him by the previous Jade Dragon Gang owner, and said, "This brother, we are all our own people."
Seeing this jade pendant, the big man first glanced at Lu Chen in disbelief on his face, and then hurriedly arched his hand and said, "In Xia Wu Mang, I didn't know that Your Excellency was the brother of the owner of the village just now, please bear with me if you are offended!" ”
Seeing this, Lu Chen's hand that had been holding the sword slowly let go, after all, he didn't know if the owner of the village had fought Long Er when he went back. If that dragon wins, once Lu Chen takes out this jade pendant, he will definitely be besieged and killed, but fortunately, judging from the current situation, it is the village master who wins!
Lu Chen hugged his fists and said, "You don't have to be like this, we have an urgent matter to go to Chang'an City this time, so we won't visit Guizhai!" ”
"Brother is polite, after the civil strife was quelled, the owner of our village said that if we see the person who holds this jade pendant, let us treat that person like him! Let's escort you to be able to pass this generation, there are a few small cottages in the back, they don't know your identity, it's still a little troublesome."
Hearing this big man's words, Lu Chen did not refuse, but directly agreed. On the next journey, Lu Chen noticed that there were figures flashing in the forests on both sides, probably because they should be afraid of the Jade Dragon Gang, and no one came out to rob the road.
When they walked this way, this group of big men of the Jade Dragon Gang immediately separated from them, and the road behind them was much easier without mountain bandits.
Hearing that he was going to the capital, Lian Feng looked very nervous along the way, and Lu Chen did not tell him that this time he was not only going to the capital, but also going to meet Tang Xuanzong. Seeing Lian Feng's nervous appearance, Lu Chen thought in his heart whether to take him to see Tang Xuanzong. After all, he was going to attend Tang Xuanzong's forty-fifth birthday, and if Lian Feng made any indecent moves there, it was likely to anger Tang Xuanzong, and the consequences would be very serious.
While thinking, the carriage was moving forward, because this time the carriage was full of gold and silver, so that each carriage was a little unable to pull even two horses, and the speed could not be fast at all.
They walked for a full five days before they saw the majestic Chang'an City in the distance.
Seeing Chang'an City, Lu Chen's kind smile involuntarily appeared in his mind, and after leaving this period of time, he still missed this loving mother. The only thing that gave Lu Chen a headache was that he didn't know if Li Lan would urge marriage when he went back this time. Thinking of this, Lu Chen felt very depressed. He can't let go of Ying'er in his heart, and he still wants to do a big career. Once you get married, you will form a constraint on yourself, and some things will not be easy to do.
After thinking about it for a while, Lu Chen could only shake his head helplessly, anyway, there was a big brother on top of him. When the time comes, he really can't stand it, so he will move Lu Yan out, anyway, he used to do this every time before. Because Lu Yan was focused on the imperial examination, he was naturally unwilling to spend time getting married.
At this time, Li Xinran, who was riding side by side with Lu Chen, saw the hint of smirk on the corner of Lu Chen's mouth, rolled his eyes and asked, "What are you thinking?" ”
"Huh? That one...... Cough..... Isn't this homecoming? I am happy~" Lu Chen came back to his senses and hurriedly explained.
Hearing Lu Chen's words, he saw Li Xinran glance at Lu Chen, and said, "Who knows if you are thinking about those girls in the Drunken Immortal Building, hum!" ”
Lu Chen: "............, this is really wronged!" But he can't explain it, it's okay if he doesn't explain this kind of thing, the more he explains, the more he can't explain it.
Soon, they came to the front of Chang'an City, and when the soldiers guarding the city saw that it was Lu Chen, they immediately said loudly in surprise, "General Lu and General Li are back, everyone get out of the way!" ‘
Under the surprised gaze of Lu Chen and others, I saw these officers and soldiers guarding the city standing in two rows at the gate of the city, welcoming them, and even the people in Chang'an City around them also joined the welcoming procession.