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Cui Jiu rushed to Yanle City, the capital of Anle County, half a month ago.

Yanle City is located on the west bank of Baoqiu Water, at the foot of Wohu Mountain, and is only more than 20 miles away from Gubeikou on Panlong Mountain on the east bank of Baoqiu Water.

Anle County is very small, about the same as a medium-sized county in Zhuo County, and the reason why it is specially designated as a county is because of its historical origins, it was one of the three counties of Anju, and its existence represents the heart of Middle-earth to recover Anju. Anzhou was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty and is the birthplace of the Xianbei people, when the jurisdiction of Anle County was at the eastern foot of Mayu Mountain, and the capital was Sanhui City, which was not in the Great Wall at all. The Northern Wei Dynasty was divided, the Xi people took the opportunity to invade and encroach in the south, and the territory north of the water existed in name only, and the jurisdiction of Anzhou shrank significantly, but in order to retain the ancestral industry of the Xianbei people in Anzhou, it immediately expanded its jurisdiction south to the Miyun area within the Great Wall, and named the new jurisdiction Anle County. During the Great War of the Unification of China and Earth, the heroes competed for hegemony and took care of themselves, and the old ministers of the Northern Qi Dynasty led wolves into the house in order to restore the country, and as a result, all the land of Anzhou outside the Great Wall fell, and only Anle County in the Great Wall was preserved.

Anzhou is the ancestral industry of the Sinicized Xianbei people, is the holy place in the hearts of the Xianbei people, can not be desecrated, can not be abandoned, since then Anle County has undertaken the important task of recovering the lost land and washing away the shame, so although Anle County is a border town, and Huaihuang has assumed the same responsibility of guarding the border, but its historical status and administrative level are higher than Huaihuang. Successive generals of Gubeikou Town have concurrently served as the Taishou of Anle County, integrating military and political power, in order to better undertake the mission of recovering Anzhou, however, due to various complex reasons, the Anzhou projectile land occupied by the Xi people has not been recovered by Middle Earth for a long time, and it seems that even the Sinicized Xianbei people have selectively forgotten their ancestral land and are still being trampled by foreign captives.

The current general of Gubeikou Town and the Taishou of Anle County is Guo Xuan, a son of the Guo family of the Taiyuan wealthy family. The Taiyuan Wang family is one of the five wealthy families in Shandong, followed by the Taiyuan Guo family. Taiyuan Guo is also inherited from generation to generation with scripture hairpins, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a generation of Confucianism Guo Linzong, in the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei had the expedition to the West General Guo Huai, in the Western Jin Dynasty because of the noble relatives of the emperor and "Jia, Guo" ****, Yongjia Rebellion after the decline of the Guo family, until the Northern Wei Dynasty re-emerged, Taiyuan Guo's power once surpassed the Taiyuan Wang family, and then the Northern Wei Dynasty split, Taiyuan Guo was also divided into two, one stayed in Shandong to be loyal to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, and one entered the West to serve in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou, and the most powerful person entered the customs, Among them, General Zuo Wuwei, Zhending Marquis Guo Yan and Zuo Houwei General Guo Rong, who have died of illness, are the most trusted by the Holy Lord.

Guo Xuan is Guo Yan's younger brother, who previously served as a general in the Praetorian Guard's Sanwei and Wufu, and was Duan Da's subordinate and had a close relationship with Duan Da. Duan reached Zhuojun and needed his right-hand men, so he lobbied hard and transferred him. Guo Xuan has just arrived, his eyes are black, coupled with the intricacies of local forces, some are in a hurry, fortunately, there are marriage relationships between wealthy families, and Guo's family has won the holy favor, and there are more wealthy families who have taken the initiative to marry over the years, including Fanyang Lu's and Boling Cui's two super wealthy families, so Guo Xuan naturally asked Lu and Cui's for help, and as a result, he quickly gained a foothold in Youzhou, and took advantage of Anle County's unique advantages to make a fortune.

Duan Da did not tell Guo Xuan the secret behind the sudden change in the situation in Yanbei, Guo Xuan's identity and status had not yet reached the level of knowing high-level secrets, but with Guo Xuan's vision, insight and all kinds of information he could get, he still guessed something from it, but it was none of his business, he hung high, he didn't want to and didn't dare to participate in the battle for the imperial throne. However, the development of events was far beyond his expectations, and whether he didn't want to or didn't dare, he couldn't escape the onslaught of the raging tide that was being set off by Youyan.

When Cui Jiu arrived at Yanle City, the first person he visited was Guo Xuan. Although Cui Jiu is the general of the Cui family, his status is very high and his weight is very heavy, even if Guo Xuan looks down on him in his heart, he does not dare to have the slightest slack on his face, and most importantly, the situation in northern Hebei and Yanbei has been violently turbulent in recent times, and Boling even broke out Song Zixian's conspiracy to assassinate the Holy Lord. In this sinister situation, Cui Jiu suddenly appeared in Yanle Town, and came to the border pass of Gubeikou in person, which must have an important purpose, not just to return to the border market or visit relatives and friends, so Guo Xuan attaches great importance to it, high-standard reception, knocking on the side, trying to figure out the reason, in case of accidents.

Cui Jiu was frank and bluntly told him, it was not that he was coming to Gubeikou, but that the twelve ladies were coming, and he had to take care of it.

Guo Xuan immediately realized that trouble was coming. The Twelve Ladies have a special identity, they were once the daughter-in-law of the Holy Lord, although they were deposed by the first emperor, but Prince Yuande never forgot it, and the East Palace did not set up a concubine for a long time, and the Holy Lord and the Queen also intended to marry the Cui family again, but this involved a complex political struggle, and it was not a problem that could be solved by a holy decree. Because the Holy Lord and the Queen miss their sons, they love the house and Wu, and they look at the twelve ladies differently, regard them as a few, and love them doubly. The twelve ladies have thus become "fragrant and sweet", and wealthy families have taken a fancy to this precious "political resource", but the scarcity is expensive, and the competition is very fierce. The twelve ladies are proud, and they have suffered from political hardships, they are mentally mature, far from being comparable to their peers, they are very assertive, they are waiting for the price to sell, not only to sell at a good price, but also to make long-term investments, they can't feed the dog in vain and lose their lives, but this is still secondary, the important thing is that her fate is always in the hands of the Holy Lord, even if she has the heart to escape, but she does not have that power.

Now that the Cui family is in crisis, and the holy lord is in Linshuo Palace, close to Boling, it stands to reason that the twelve ladies should go to Linshuo Palace to intercede with the holy lord, instead of hiding behind Cui Jiu's back and quietly appearing in Gubeikou, unless Gubeikou has a "panacea" to save Cui's in danger.

Guo Xuan can't think of any "panacea" here in Gubeikou that can help Cui's resolve the crisis, and Cui's is a "towering tree", even if there is a crisis, it will not hurt the fundamentals, Shandong's first wealthy family has a deep heritage, and for thousands of years, he has only seen the change of dynasty and not the fall of Cui's family. Therefore, Guo Xuan is willing to "send charcoal in the snow", as long as it does not harm the interests of himself and Guo's family, he is obligated to help.

Guo Xuan's position was clear and clear, and he immediately won Cui Jiu's gratitude. The next day, Guo Xuan went out of the city and met with the twelve ladies hiding in the temple outside the city. The Twelve Ladies said vaguely, the clouds and mountains are covered with fog, but there is a sentence Guo Xuan understands, there may be an opportunity here in Gubeikou, if it appears and firmly grasps it, then the Cui family can resolve this crisis, and Guo Xuan can make great achievements without much effort, and be promoted to the rank of knight.

After Guo Xuan went back, he couldn't figure it out, what opportunities would there be here in Gubeikou? There is definitely no inside the Great Wall, there is the Xi tribe outside the Great Wall, and the Xi King Ah Hui is at the moment in the fierce battle with the Khitans, if there is a chance, and it is also an opportunity to benefit the Middle Earth, unless A Hui is defeated, the five armies of the Xi people are all wiped out, and the Xi people fall into a crisis of life and death, and finally have to ask for help from the Middle Earth, and the Middle Earth takes the opportunity to send troops to recover Anzhou. But this requires a premise, the premise is that the Turks will not send troops, if the Turks send troops, and Middle-earth also sends troops, the Great War of the North and South will break out in advance, which is obviously not acceptable to Middle-earth.

However, what happened next made Guo Xuan realize that there may really be a great opportunity here in Gubeikou, because Lu Junxian of the Lu family in Fanyang came, the Li family of Zhaojun and the Liu family of Zhongshan also came, and the five major families of Youyan, the Zou family, the Jian family, the Yan family, the Shao family, and the Yuan family all came, and they were all people who had heads and faces in the family who could speak, which was enough to show that Gubeikou had huge interests that he couldn't see, otherwise it would be impossible for the wealthy families in northern Hebei and Youyan to flock here.

On the afternoon of September 21, Lu Junxian, Liu Shanbo, Cui Jiu, and Li Sixing of the four wealthy families jointly visited Guo Xuan and made a request, hoping to obtain Guo Xuan's consent to send some of his subordinates out of the Great Wall of Gubeikou to rush to Panlong Fort, the first fortress of the Xi people in Yanshan, together with the Hu Jia caravan that had left the fortress.

Guo Xuan was silent. Although there is a steady stream of merchants coming and going from the north and south of Gubeikou, the number of people and goods that can pass customs are strictly restricted, on the one hand, for the sake of border security, to prevent the north and south from robbers and spies from sabotage, and on the other hand, to check and prohibit illegal goods, contraband and contraband and contraband cannot leave the customs. Of course, there are policies and countermeasures, and it is one thing to stipulate them, and it is another thing to actually implement them.

For wealthy families, there are all kinds of swaggering ways to pass the customs, and there is no need to go through Guo Xuan at all, but now they are jointly making this request, there is only one reason, that is, there are a large number of contraband and contraband out of the customs, and the number of them has exceeded the upper limit, and it has endangered the lives of the family, except for him, the supreme commander of the Gubeikou defense line, no one else on the defense line dares to open the gate.

Guo Xuan weighed it for a long time, and he didn't dare to agree, but if he didn't agree, he would definitely offend the four giants and the five great families of Yanbei.

"Recently, the situation on the opposite side is very tense, the horse thieves on the plateau on the dam burn and kill and plunder on both sides of the big water, and do all kinds of evil, and the five armies of the Xi nationality because of the expedition outside, the interior is empty, Xi Wangfu and Bai Tan are unable to encircle and suppress the heavy troops, resulting in the connection between Xi Wangfu and Bai Tan has been severed, a large number of merchants have to stay in Panlong Fort and Bai Tan, and the north and south return to Yi are seriously blocked. In this situation, the left-behind mansion is very concerned about Gubeikou, and countless pairs of eyes are staring at the pass, and the slightest disturbance will reach the ears of Duan Liushou, and there is no way to hide it. ”

Guo Xuan politely refused, and Lu Junxian, Cui Jiu and others did not embarrass him, and said goodbye and left, but the pressure of the four giants to join forces was too great, and Guo Xuan did not wait for dark, so he hurriedly went out of the city to visit the twelve ladies.

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