And every kingdom of princes shall have fifteen cities, large and small, and each shall command the lord of the city to guard his territory. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The lord of the big city is above the doctor, the lord of the middle city is the middle doctor, and the lord of the small city is the doctor below.

Xingguo, as the great prince of the Great Shen Dynasty in the north of the Great River in the Northern Wilderness, although it is not as good as the Northern Wilderness Princes Bo Chongguo has more than 120 cities, but as a thousand times of the city of 72, it is also one of the powerful countries in the Northern Wilderness.

Beilin City has several large cities in the northern Xinjiang of Xingguo, but it can only be regarded as a lower middle city in the whole Xingguo, so the city lord Cheng Yu is the title of middle doctor, and the deputy city lord is Ye Dafu and Fei Dafu two lower doctors, each stationed in the east and west two small cities.

Strictly calculated, Beilin City should be an urban agglomeration composed of three cities, one middle school, two small cities, but the east and west cities, which are ten miles away from the main city, are only small cities within a radius of one mile, and the military significance is more obvious.

Therefore, the market trade and economic activities within a radius of thousands of miles of Beilin City are carried out in Zhongcheng, and generally people from all over Beijiang refer to this city when they mention Beilin City.

With the deliberate spread of the Ji family, what happened in the Qing clan's fiefdom was also spread throughout Beilin City for the first time.

Let many lords and their families inside and outside Beilin City have more material to talk and laugh about: the Qing clan is really ridiculous, as a nobleman, he is so downtrodden that he eats grass seeds like slaves.

Of course, there are also many people who see:

Such a fire, even if the Qing clan grits its its teeth and pays this year's public endowment, I am afraid that the people of the feudal land will be scattered in one winter, and if they are unable to cultivate next year, they will still not be able to pay the public endowment in full, and they will inevitably be reprimanded by the monarch at that time, and it is a matter of course to cut off the feudal title.

In fact, if the old lord encounters this situation, it will be easier to deal with it.

Whether it is to buy some food from the lord who has been friends for generations, or sell part of the family property, you can barely cope with it, and many lords are also willing to make friends with such old lords, and by the way, they can exchange some antiques and ancient furniture.

The new lord of the Qing clan has only a history of less than fifteen years, lacking the precipitation of the background, and everyone doesn't even have the heart to take a look after laughing, and the only concern is that it will be before the Qing clan will be deprived of the title and fiefdom by the monarch.

In the city lord's mansion, the middle doctor Cheng Yu wore a crown on his head and a tie robe, standing silently in the courtyard and looking at a small bare tree with only a few leaves.

He is in his thirties, his face is white and his beard looks particularly elegant, and the formal clothes of the doctor with basalt lines add a bit of majesty.

Fa Ze, the retainer in charge of the clerk of the City Lord's Mansion, stood aside and said respectfully: "My lord, the news of the fire in the Qing Clan's grain field has spread all over Beilin City, and the grain harvested this autumn has suffered heavy losses.

Now the king ordered Uncle Yun to give Shangqing to use troops in the northern Xinjiang, once the Qing family defaulted on the public endowment under the pretext of the fire, I am afraid that it will provoke the anger of the monarch and Yun Shangqing, and the minister thought that it was best to send someone to the Qing clan to find out the situation, and it was best to let him pay the public endowment in advance! ”

Cheng Tong couldn't help but sneer: "Qing's fire? Well, a child has been forced to feed on grass seeds, and he still doesn't let go, those people have already come to you! Don't I know about all the mess that Fei Zhong messed up? ”

Fa Ze was sweating from Cheng Yu's words, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed one after another: "My lord, my subordinates are never instructed by anyone, but considering that the lord is responsible for raising food for the front line in northern Xinjiang, he is dedicated to his ears!" If there is the slightest disrespect, may you be punished by the Lord! ”

Cheng Yu turned his head and stared coldly at the retainer who had followed him for many years and said: "I don't know how many stupid people will believe the words that are circulating outside, there are indeed many people who offended that woman at the beginning, but are there fewer people who have received her favor?"

Over the years, I have been loyal to the monarch and impartial, but I don't want to be a gun in the hands of a nobleman! Fei Zhong is just a distant relative of Shangqing Qi's five suits, but my Cheng clan is a relative of Shangqing Yun's five clothes and three generations, think about it before you say something! ”

"Stomp Pedal Pedal

A rush of steady footsteps interrupted Dr. Cheng's reprimand, and soon another deep-clothed retainer entered from outside.

The man was an elegant man of about thirty years of age, wearing a crown and a sash, dressed in a scholar's robe, and soft sheepskin boots, but holding a gray linen cloth in his hand.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, the man first glanced at Fa Ze, who was kneeling on the ground, in surprise, and then hurriedly bowed to Cheng Tong and saluted: "The minister has just finished counting the new corn in the warehouse this year, I don't know what the lord called me for?" ”

Cheng Yu showed a smile and said, "Tuo, have you heard about the fire in the Qing Clan's Valley?" ”

The elegant man is called Zhongcheng Tuo, because his great-grandfather was appointed to preside over the construction of the Beilin City, and the generations lived in the middle of the Beilin City, and he was called the Zhongcheng clan from three generations ago, and it was also a popular practice at this time to take the place name and occupation as the surname.

When Zhongcheng Tuo heard Cheng Yu ask, he immediately shook his head and said: "What the lord said, the minister has already found out clearly, I didn't expect that someone would dare to do such a heartbreaking thing!" On the night of the Autumn Moon Festival, someone took advantage of the emptiness of the Qing Clan's fiefdom and sent eight assassins to assassinate and set fire.

Among them, there were three assassins who turned out to be good hands in the Jiupin Lux realm, and this fire caused the Qing clan to suffer heavy losses, but fortunately, the assassins did not succeed, as far as the minister knows, the young master of the Qing clan can be regarded as bold and wise in the process of dealing with the assassins! ”

"Oh?"

Cheng Yu was surprised when he heard the appreciation of his retainer Nakajo Tuo, "What I have heard for several days in a row is that the young master of the Qing clan is unbearable, stupid and cowardly, it is said that he does not understand aristocratic etiquette at all, why do you respect him so much?" ”

At this time, even Faze, who couldn't stand on his knees, pricked up his ears to listen.

Zhongcheng Tuo smiled at Cheng Yu and said, "The city guard Sima Ziche is resting, didn't he go to the Qing clan a few days ago?" I remember that the lord personally sent him to hold accountable the beast tide, and after the Zichejun Sima came back, there was no shortage of praise for the Qing clan. ”

As soon as he heard this, Fa Ze immediately nervously glanced at Doctor Cheng, but he remembered that after the son of Che Yanxi came back that day, he truthfully reported the conflict between the Ji clan and the Qing clan, and was extremely dissatisfied with Ji's water immersion salt Ze blocking the Qing clan from going out.

Doctor Cheng was very angry that day, if it weren't for the fact that Uncle Yun sent his retainers to Beilin City to supervise the transportation of grain and grass that day, so that Cheng Yu was busy and couldn't spare the slightest energy, I am afraid that Ji's would have been unlucky at that time.

As expected, Cheng Yu also remembered the incident that made him angry a few days ago, thinking of the fire that suddenly ignited in the Qing clan now, it is not difficult to think of what happened and the master's envoy, which made his face very ugly.

Then he said angrily: "Fei Zhong and Ji Dan don't know the general situation, the Northern Xinjiang Xianyu is constantly increasing troops and the war is fierce, how dare the two of them be so ignorant?" If something happens to the Qing clan, how will the many lords who have supported the war in the northern frontier think of the king? How can soldiers fight with peace of mind? ”

Nakajo Tuo's face was impassive, and he continued: "The Qing clan is worthy of being the cornerstone of the country, even if most of the harvest is burned by the fire, when the minister sent a messenger to investigate, the head of the Qing family has already bagged all the public grain that needs to be paid this year, and there is no arrears in paying the messenger immediately!" ”

"What? This matter is absolutely impossible, what will the Qing family eat after paying the public endowment? Fa Ze was shocked and accidentally said his heart, which also revealed how well he knew the inside story of this matter.