Chapter 139: The Land of Plenty
Hezhou, is the northwest border town of the Tang Dynasty, since ancient times is the place where many ethnic groups gather, the merchants are endless, Li Shiming wasted a lot of effort to recover Hezhou from the Turks, after decades of governance, this Hezhou shows a prosperous scene, here you can see the Hui people, Turkic people and even Khitan people everywhere. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In front of him is the boundary of Hezhou, along the way, no one seems to have attacked the Garqin Mausoleum, everything is very calm, the more calm it is, the more Zhu Mingyang feels a little uneasy, Zhu Mingyang has a feeling of wind and rain.
Zhu Mingyang held the reins of the horse, staring at the map in his hand, but his eyes were always locked on Hezhou, the situation here is complicated, if someone wants to assassinate the Garqin Mausoleum, this will be the best place. Although Zhu Mingyang brought more than 100 forbidden troops, and the officials of Hezhou would also take care of it, but the enemy was in the dark, but he was in the light, so he had to be careful.
Before arriving at Hezhou City, I saw the crowds of people in Hezhou from a distance, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going in front of the city gate, and it was difficult to compare it with the Linzhou City that I had just walked through. Even Zhu Mingyang's team of more than 100 people did not have passers-by to look at it, it seems that teams like Zhu Mingyang often appear in Hezhou.
After Zhu Mingyang led the team into the city, he walked slowly towards the Assassin's Mansion, and saw two officials guarding the gate of the Assassin's Mansion from a distance. Zhu Mingyang approached the official and took out the fish talisman in his hand and gave it to the official.
"You were sent by the imperial court?" A servant asked suspiciously, obviously not seeing the dress of the forbidden army of the soldiers behind Zhu Mingyang.
"Exactly!" Zhu Mingyang said firmly.
"You guys wait here!" After speaking, the official flew into the Assassin's Mansion.
After a while, a middle-aged man dressed in the official mansion hurriedly walked out of the Assassin's Mansion, but saw that the middle-aged man was about in his early forties, although he was thin, his face still showed a trace of shrewdness.
"In Xiahe Prefecture, Liu Sheng, Lord Zhu came from afar, and he missed the welcome, don't blame him!" The middle-aged man could see at a glance that Zhu Mingyang's identity was different from others.
"Lord Thorn Shi is polite!" Zhu Mingyang hurriedly replied.
"I've been in the official document of the imperial court for a while, according to the distance, Lord Zhu should have already arrived in my Hezhou, why did he come late?" Liu Sheng chatted while letting Zhu Mingyang into the mansion.
Zhu Mingyang told Liu Sheng about the journey from Chang'an, and Liu Sheng was secretly surprised, but he didn't expect that the young man in front of him was really as unfathomable as a rumor.
Liu Sheng had already arranged a banquet for Zhu Mingyang and the others, and even the meal in the Garqin Mausoleum was prepared, Zhu Mingyang introduced Li Chunfeng and others to Liu Sheng, Liu Sheng and Li Chunfeng looked at each other and smiled, it turned out that they were colleagues, and the two of them had been officials in the same dynasty for many years before Liu Sheng took office, and Liu Sheng was surprised that Li Chunfeng was also committed to following Zhu Mingyang, and people could still find a beautiful girl when they reached middle age.
This Hezhou is really a rich place, the table is full of delicacies, Zhu Mingyang even saw the long-lost mutton skewers, when his mother set up a food stall on the street, when she leaned on the guests, she would secretly bake an extra skewer to satisfy her hunger, thinking of this, Zhu Mingyang thought of his mother again, he couldn't help but pick up a string of mutton skewers and put it on his nose and sniffed.
"I didn't expect Lord Zhu to be interested in our mutton skewers in Hezhou, we have more Uyghurs in Hezhou, and Uyghurs are particularly good at the practice of mutton skewers, please Lord Zhu to taste whether it suits the taste!" Liu Sheng saw that Zhu Mingyang was interested in lamb skewers, and said with a smile.
"It's been a long time since I've eaten lamb skewers like this, and it's really memorable!" Zhu Mingyang said with praise.
"Don't just eat, come and drink!" After all, Gao Yanyan has been a bandit in the mountains for many years, but she still can't change her bold personality.
"Good! Come to this cup to catch the wind and wash the dust for Lord Zhu! Liu Sheng picked up his glass and said.
"Thank you, Lord Liu!" Everyone hurriedly raised their wine glasses and saluted back.
After three rounds of drinking, Zhu Mingyang suddenly became interested in this rich Hezhou.
"Lord Liu, I don't know how you used to govern this river state so prosperous!" Zhu Mingyang asked humbly.
"Well! Let's start with 'people'. Liu Sheng paused.
"People?" Everyone looked at Liu Sheng in confusion.
"The environment of this Hezhou is very complicated, you can also see from the costumes of pedestrians on the street, there are Hui people, there are Khitans, there are Turks, and even Tubo people, of course, there are Han people, so I set up a market in Hezhou that is specially responsible for the trade of various countries, and officials who know the Chinese language come to the official market, and the Assassin Mansion will also collect the special products of various countries, and sell the special products of various countries to merchants, so within a few years, the government treasury will be rich, and the people will be rich!" Liu Sheng said slowly.
"Wonderful, wonderful!" Zhu Mingyang was full of praise after hearing this, but he didn't expect that this Liu Sheng really had some ability, and he could recommend him to manage those poor places after he went back.
"My lord has really won a prize, compared to those big things of my lord, what am I worth?" Liu Sheng Langlang said.
"See, both of them are so powerful, you must be better than them!" Gao Yanyan praised Zhu Mingyang and Liu Sheng to each other, pulled Li Chunfeng's ears and said, but Li Chunfeng's tears of pain came out.
"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed when they saw this......
When they had eaten and drunk, everyone rested. Zhu Mingyang returned to the room but couldn't sleep, he lined up in front of the window and looked at the moon with the strength of wine. The moon was very round tonight, and he remembered the good time when he watched the moon at the house with Cuicui and Xu Yue'er, and he actually skipped a trace of sweetness in his heart.
With a "whew", a black shadow flew in front of Zhu Mingyang's eyes, and Zhu Mingyang woke up and looked out the window. "Whew!" Another black shadow flew by, Zhu Mingyang hurriedly chased out, the black shadow did disappear in the Thorn Shi Mansion like a ghost, Zhu Mingyang rubbed his eyes, could it be that he was drunk and saw the wrong thing.
For a long time, Zhu Mingyang never saw the black shadow appear again, he found the forbidden army and arranged for soldiers to change the vigil back and forth, not letting go of 10,000 just in case, Zhu Mingyang understood that any small detail could cause irreparable losses.
After everything was arranged, Zhu Mingyang yawned and walked back to his room, he was always a little sleepy after a few days of driving, as soon as he entered the room, Zhu Mingyang fell on the bed, just when he turned over and wanted to sleep, he suddenly felt that there was an extra package at the head of the bed, he grabbed the package and opened it gently.
In the dark blue linen package, there was a sword and a wooden box, this sword and wooden box Zhu Mingyang couldn't be more familiar.
"Cuicui, Yue'er!" Zhu Mingyang was completely awake, he searched again, but saw a few lines written in the dark blue linen.
"If you want to save Madame, tomorrow the sun will set and come to Songming Rock!" Zhu Mingyang took the linen cloth in his hand and ran out as if he was flying!