Yuan Xun had no choice but to invite Yuan Gongchen out. Zhao Mingchen didn't seem to notice anything abnormal, he was very cordial and enthusiastic to Yuan Gongchen, but he was much more indifferent to Yuan Xun. Rong Yanmen is in the position of the left governor of Nanping, with nearly 400,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and there are many famous generals, Yuan Xun only lives behind a few people in Lingfeng Mirror, and Rong Yanmen's westward expedition, Yuan Xun's first miraculous achievement, and the main general of the First Road Army, Jiang Ning does not know his own reasons, but Zhao Mingchen is like this, although Yuan Xun knows that he has other plans, but he is helpless, but he cannot expose the contradiction between Rong Yanmen and the old emperor in Jiang Ning's eyes.

This section of the river, the two sides belong to Jiangning's Wuzhou and Jiangjin's Wangjiang, Zhao Mingchen got on the boat and traveled a hundred miles, everyone can see the Wuzhou City on the south bank and the Wangjiang City on the north bank. Then go down sixty or seventy miles of waterway, and then arrive at the mouth of Chengyang Lake, Chengyang Lake is the inlet of the Qingjiang River into the river, and Jiangning has 10,000 elite water battalions stationed in Chengyang Lake.

Jiang Ning had just brought Liyang under his rule, and as time passed, Yuan Xun believed that the water camp in Chengyang Lake would be the main base of the Jiangning Wing Tiger Army.

When the boat passed through the mouth of Chengyang Lake, Zhao Mingchen saw a large-winged ship coming out of Chengyang Lake, and said to Yuan Gongchen: "General Li Gonglin will also return to Jiangning today, and he should be on the boat behind." ”

Jiangning brought Southern Fujian under his rule, and Xu Ruyu used many Southern Fujian generals, such as Zhao Jingyun, Ding Mianchen, Li Gonglin, Luo Boyuan, Peng Muqiu and others. Before Xu Ruyu's southern conquest of Fujian, Southern Fujian was separated from Wuling Mountain and Zhencheng Ridge, and Zhongzhou was not familiar with Southern Fujian, but Wu Qingyi had already heard of Li Gonglin's name. When Li Gonglin was young, he was a left-handed landscape painting famous all over the world, his mountains and rocks and peaks, big axes and sharp and solid, opened a generation of genres, before Xu Ruyu went south to Fujian, Li Gonglin only served as a calligraphy and painting in the palace of Fujian to worship such a scribe.

Wu Qingyi wondered in his heart: how did the painter master of the past become the general of Jiangning now?

The big wing ship issued a flag asking to approach, and Zhao Mingchen said with a smile: "Presumably, General Li knew that your envoy had passed the mouth of Chengyang Lake at this time, so he rushed over and went to Jiangning together." ”

In addition to the mast sail as the driving power, the big wing ship was also equipped with more than 30 boaters, slurry into the water, and after a while, they caught up.

Li Gonglin came over from afar: "Lord Zhao, but lead the envoys of Nanping to Jiangning?" Li Gonglin went to Jiangning to report on his work and borrowed a ship from General Jun, how about his companionship? Without waiting for this side to respond, the big wing ship came up, connected the two ships with a hook, and Li Gonglin boarded the envoy ship with two escorts.

Zhao Mingchen introduced Yuan Gongchen, Yuan Xun, Wu Qingyi and others to Li Gonglin, and Li Gonglin saluted one by one, and his demeanor was very humble.

Li Gonglin, as a captain of the Suwei Army, occupies an important position in the Jiangning Army, Wu Qingyi has long admired his name, and he did not dare to be rude, so he took off the green veil covering his face and saluted in return, saying: "Tsing Yi has seen General Li. ”

Li Gonglin saw Wu Qingyi's beautiful face at first glance, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and said: "'Spring smoke deliberately hides in the fairyland, but the hands are long and the sleeves are short, and one peak and two peaks are occasionally exposed, which is just stunning, and it makes the tourists upside down (Wang Yinze)', when I borrowed the boat from the king's passing water, he knew that I intended to be in the landscape on both sides of the strait, so he gave me a poem to give me a stunning metaphor for the landscape. ”

Wu Qingyi's jade face was flushed, and he said, "General Li is in love." ”

Li Gonglin laughed and said: "Although Gonglin knows that it is difficult to keep his face like jade on drawing paper, he is willing to do his best today, and I hope that the girl in Tsing Yi will not refuse Gonglin." ”

Wu Qingyi said: "I'm afraid that Tsing Yi's ugly face will insult General Li's painting skills." ”

Yuan Xun thought that Li Gonglin would test the details of this side with this person who called Zhao Mingchen when he came on the boat, but he didn't expect that Li Gonglin would paint a portrait of Wu Qingyi as soon as he got on the boat. When Li Gonglin was young, he was famous all over the world, wanton surname, and he didn't know the convergence until he was middle-aged.

But this kind of bearing can be the most tormenting, if it weren't for Yuan Xun feeling that Li Gonglin's skills are not weaker than himself, he would have already given birth to a heart of intersection.

Li Gonglin said to Yuan Xun: "I have Yunjian snow in the boat, Lord Zhao may wish to come over and drink with the noble envoy of Nanping, but I am right to wave my pen and drink." ”

Li Gonglin is known to the world with landscapes, knowledge and talent, Yuan Xun knows that Xu Ruyu uses Li Gonglin as a general, then Li Gonglin's attainments in the art of war are also outstanding, but Li Gonglin avoids talking about military affairs, and when it comes to calligraphy and painting, he is not Yuan Xun's director, Zhao Mingchen is careful to abide by the duties of petty officials and officials, when sitting around, he only holds a pot and pours wine on the side, but does not put his beak, but Wu Qingyi has a wide range of knowledge, and is also good at Danqing, and Li Gonglin's words are harmonious, so that Yuan Gongchen watched the envy on the side.

When Yuan Gongchen was young, it was not that he was so unlearned and unskilled as he is now, but he was sent to the Jiangguan Metropolitan Mansion for nearly twenty years, and all Lingyun's ambitions were exhausted.

There are only 300 miles of waterway from the mouth of Chengyang Lake to Jiangning, Li Gonglin and others walked for three days, but still felt that the boat was going too fast, and the Danqing painted by Wu Qingyi was only close to the eyes of the pupils, Li Gonglin said: "The daughter of Shao Gong and Tsing Yi are stunning, I have never seen them, and this pupil can't start." On the three-foot painting paper, Wu Qingyi insisted on leaning against the window and staring, with spring sorrow hidden between his eyebrows like water, which made people feel intoxicated when they saw it.

The two boats entered the Sangpo Lake at the northwest foot of the Shengyou Mountain, and through the misty smoke clouds on the Sangpo Lake, they could see the buildings on the Shengyou Mountain.

Li Gonglin transferred to the north and directly led the troops to the Liyang battlefield, but had not yet entered Jiangning City, standing at the bow of the ship at this time, looking at the buildings on the other side of Sangbo Lake.

Jiangning built the city at the southwest foot of Shengyou Mountain, including Qingfeng Mansion and many buildings are built on the slope of Shengyou Mountain, the city wall of the east city is integrated into the mountain of Shengyou Mountain, standing on the Sangbo Lake but can not see, only can see the pavilion on the high place. Shengyou Mountain is the highest more than 130 zhang, overlooking the earth and stone in the distance, at this time it is the dawn of the east, the glow of the ten thousand roads, the layers of mountains are dyed, the heaven and the earth are red, and the light of Sangpo Lake reflects each other, from here to see the past, the scenery is the most magnificent.

Jiangning was originally a medium-sized city, after Xu Ruyu entered Jiangning, he extended nearly 20 miles to the west along Jilong Mountain and Zhoushan Mountain, and built a new city, including Qingfeng Mansion, all the Sicao Mansion occupied most of the original Jiangning City, but this old city was the most prosperous place in Jiangning.

Jiangning city south of Longzangpu, Longzangpu through the chiseled square mountain, broken long wall for desecration, there are two sources, divide out Gaochun, Lishui two places, cross the southeast of Jiangning, divide into two branches, one around the south city wall and enter the river, for the outer Longzangpu, one from the water pass into the city, twists and turns ten miles, come back out of Jiangning City, merge into the Sangbo Lake, for the inner Longzangpu.

Li Gonglin, Yuan Xun and others left Sangbo Lake by boat, turned into Neilongzangpu, crossed the water pass, and entered Jiangning City, Zhao Mingchen pointed to both sides of Neilongzangpu and said: "This is the prosperous place of Jiangning. ”

Wu Qingyi raised his eyes and saw that merchants on both sides of Longzangpu were gathered, the market was prosperous, the singing buildings and dancing pavilions, the sound of the piano and the wine vessels, endlessly, and he thought: The prosperous atmosphere of the southeast is concentrated in this place.

The two ships anchored the shore, Li Gonglin led more than ten men to Sima Ya first, and the big wing ship sailed to the water camp outside the city. In addition, the officials of the Honglu Division received Yuan Gongchen and others, and Zhao Mingchen only accompanied Yuan Gongchen, Yuan Xun, Wu Qingyi and others to the post house and turned back. In addition to the accompanying officials, Yuan Xun also brought 28 guards, 16 attendants, and 8 boatmen, but except for the accompanying officials who could walk in the city, the subordinates were not allowed to leave the post house, and if they needed to travel to guard, they were provided by Jiangning.

The security near the post house is quite tight, after Xu Ruyu entered Jiangning, Jiangning City became the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yuan Xun did not think that the people accompanying him could quietly sneak into the city to spy on intelligence. Rong Yanmen asked Yuan Xun to send an envoy to Jiangning, hoping that he would have contact with Jiangning's officials and generals, so as to test Jiangning's reality. However, unexpectedly, Linxiang also sent envoys, so that Yuan Xun lost the opportunity to contact Jiangning officials in name only.

Yuan Xun remembered that Zhao Mingchen came, Xu Ru foolishly expected that Nanping would send envoys, and the person who was ordered by him to wait in Wuzhou was by no means as simple as the deacon of the Honglu Division, and said secretly: Who will this Zhao Mingchen be?

At this time, the little official who claimed to be Zhao Mingchen stepped into Qingfeng Mansion under the guidance of Peng Muqiu and went straight to the inner house Lixiang Courtyard, Peng Muqiu asked as he walked: "I heard that Chengyu Yaxiu Wu Qingyi is also on this trip, but is this really the case?" Rong Yanmen Xiluo Shudi, Wu Clan stubbornly resisted, Wu Qingyi is the daughter of Wu Renli, Rong Yanmen captured her, how could she come to my Jiangning with the envoy group, Brother Zhao has ever figured out the secret? ”

After Xu Ruyu met with Huo Qingtong in Wuzhou, he returned to Jiangning, and Zhao Jingyun expected that Jiang Ning's complete victory in Liyang would make Rong Yanmen no longer able to despise Jiang Ning, and Rong Yanmen would definitely send his cronies to Jiangning to test the truth. Zhao Jingyun volunteered to stay in Wuzhou and wait for the envoys of Nanping, and under the pseudonym Zhao Mingchen, he first contacted Yuan Xun and others.

Zhao Jingyun smiled slightly and asked, "There is still a shortage of officials on the side of the Honglu Division, so Mu Qiu can recommend himself." ”

Wu Qingyi was accustomed to living in seclusion, the boat traveled on the water for more than ten days, and he did not feel tired, he rested in the post house for a long time, and in the afternoon, Yuan Xun asked people to send a document that could walk in Jiangning City, so he wanted to see the scenery of Jiangning, and asked the maid to invite Yuan Xun. Yuan Xun had already been ordered by Rong Yanmen, and during the mission, he did not restrict Wu Qingyi's whereabouts, and when he saw Wu Qingyi asking people to invite, he was worried that he didn't know how the security in the city was when he first came to Jiangning, and he had no clue when he was closed in the post house, so he went out of the post house with Wu Qingyi. At this time, Yuan Gongchen was invited to meet Mei Tierui in Honglu Division as an envoy of Jiangning.

Yuan Xun was not afraid that someone in Jiangning City would be unfavorable to him, so he only asked Honglu Si to send a small official to accompany him, take the carriage of the post house, and go north along the Qingshi Street on the west bank of Neilongzangpu. Yuan Xun sat in the car, thinking that this trip may not be satisfactory. Jiang Ning only recognized the identity of Yuan Gongchen's Nanping envoy, and abandoned him as a deputy envoy, not only did he have no place for the night banquet of the Hong Gong Division, but the appointment of the Qingfeng Mansion also pointed out that Yuan Gongchen would go alone, maybe when he left Jiangning, he might not be able to see Xu Ruyu.

Two carriages folded into a long street to the west, Xu Ruyu extended Jiangning City to the west, and built a city outside the West City, which was the New West City, and this long street was going to the New West City. The new West City has not been built for a long time, but there are many shops and people. The various forces that entered Jiangning with Xu Ruyu, at the request of Xu Ruyu, placed most of their industries in the new West City, which has gathered a little bit of prosperity in the southeast, especially in the area of Jiming Mountain, which is comparable to the East Market of Neilongzangpu. The city expands to the west, and Jiming Mountain has become the mountain in the city, about 20 zhang high, at the top of the mountain, you can see the whole city of Jiangning. The long street that Yuan Xun and others walk can gallop straight to the foot of Jiming Mountain, go up along the ramp, the pavilions stand on both sides, to the steep place, a stone step hangs down, the end of the stone steps, the top of Jiming Mountain is Jiangning Stacked Smoke Pavilion.

The carriage traveled to Jiming Mountain, Yuan Xun and Wu Qingyi got off the carriage and walked, Wu Qingyi has always been covered with green gauze, but pedestrians suddenly saw her clear eyes, and they were already depressed.

The accompanying officials and Yuan Xun and Wu Qingyi said: "The wine in the Stacked Smoke Pavilion ranks first in the southeast, and it is the elegance of the Jiangning scribes to climb the mountain to drink. ”

Yuan Xun laughed softly: "Jiangning wine is franchised by the Jiang family, and the wine in the stacked tobacco building naturally cannot be worse than other places. He didn't look at the embarrassed look on the face of the accompanying official, turned his head sideways and said to Wu Qingyi: "The Stacked Smoke Building is run by Jiang Lingtian's sister Jiang Yunuo, presumably the girl in Qingyi is willing to see her." ”

Wu Qingyi said with a smile: "Jiang Yunuo is famous in Jiangning, although she is a daughter, she is not weaker than a man, she may not be willing to see Qingyi." When it was evening, Tsing Yi asked General Yuan to drink a pot of clouds and snow. ”

Jiangning West City is behind Jiming Mountain, and other markets are built in the Xiangfang, although Jiangning West City is also laid out according to the Xiangfang, but the outer wall of the Xiangfang is opened, Yuan Xun asked in surprise: "When will the West Market be closed at night?" ”

The accompanying official asked rhetorically: "There is no gate in the West Market, and the outer walls are all open, how can the market be closed?" ”

Yuan Xun is proficient in the art of war, and is also quite good at government affairs, the city will be built in the wing, close the door at night, after the night, not only the market is not allowed to stay, but also the long street is forbidden for people to walk, Jiangning is different from other places.

Yuan Xun was silent, lingering in the market with Wu Qingyi, his slightly raised eyes seemed to be listless, but he did not miss a place that was different from other places, but he was quite surprised in his heart, although he was first in Jiangning, he couldn't see too deep in the place, but just by what he saw, it can be seen that Jiangning's control over the residents in the city is quite relaxed.

The existence of the city is mainly reflected in the value of rule and military, and the control of the inhabitants of the city is quite strict, seeing the situation in the city of Jiangning, Yuan Xun can't help but doubt the definition of the city in his heart.

Although Wu Qingyi can't see such a far-reaching, he can also feel the difference between Jiang Ning and other places, and it seems that acting in Jiang Ning, a little out of the ordinary, there is nothing to do. When he crossed the street corner, he heard his name "Xu Ruyu" in his mouth, but the accompanying officials did not have a trace of abnormality on their faces, as if this was the case.

It was getting late, the faint twilight came over, Wu Qingyi also felt tired, everyone went to the stacked smoke building together, turned to the front of Jiming Mountain, and saw a circle of people not far from the ramp, and there was a dispute among the crowd. In order to prevent accidents, Yuan Xun and Wu Qingyi stood at a distance and watched. After listening to it for a while, it was only foul language, and I couldn't hear what the dispute was, and there was a sound of "pounce" in the crowd, and I wanted to argue to no avail, so I resorted to force. The onlookers couldn't help the strength of their fists and palms, and forced them out of the way, revealing their mouths, so that Yuan Xun and Wu Qingyi could see the battle inside. But it was six teenagers who were beating each other there, and one teenager leaned against a stone beast one foot high on the side of the road to resist the combined attack of five people. The six long and short blades were scattered on one side, and the six teenagers did not think of taking weapons against the enemy, which made Yuan Xun a little surprised, and turned his head sideways to the accompanying officials and said, "These six teenagers are all wearing Jiangning's military uniforms?" The accompanying official showed an embarrassed look and said, "Qingfengwei will come over soon, and the people from the Stacked Smoke Building will come when they hear the news." ”

Just the strength inspired by the fist can force the onlookers to come, and the skills of the six teenagers made Yuan Xun secretly frightened. Especially the boy who is one against five, the youngest, about fourteen or fifteen years old, between the opening and closing of his fists and feet, he already has a little bearing, compared to the other teenagers, his strength is still weaker, and he can seal the five teenagers on the periphery and prevent them from getting close. Seeing that they couldn't bully him, the five teenagers glanced at the blades on the ground on the side. The encircled young man had no fear on his face, took advantage of the surprise of the person in front of him, sealed his horizontal elbow, swung to the left, saw him expose the empty door in front of his chest, and the ape body got into the arms of the man, just let other people's fists and feet, when he was attached to the body, his right palm struck, and the person was violently propped open, and his right foot was crutched, and his foot was useless, and he moved one step sideways and retreated.

The young man who ate the trick was stretched out a foot away before he stopped his steps, the corners of his mouth overflowed with blood, he wiped it away with a wave of his sleeves, his eyes fell on the weapon on the ground on the side, he walked over and picked up an iron sword, and walked forward again. The accompanying official's face changed greatly, and he was about to step forward, but he saw the besieged young man shouting: "Do you want to be shameless, and you want to use weapons again after beating now?" "Sticking to the stone beast, he stepped back, let the iron sword that had been stabbed, jumped on the back of the stone beast, stepped on the beast's head quickly, ignored the sword palm that struck upward, pounced forward, jumped high into the air, curled up and fell, narrowly avoided the iron sword that was reversed, rolled to the side of the pile of weapons, scooped up a silver spear, and did not wait to stand up, bowed like the moon, the gun came out of the heart of the moon, and struck away, out of six feet, and suddenly waved a few bullet shadows, and stabbed five people.

The five of them were horrified, and they quickly retreated a few steps away from the gun, and the sword-wielding young man entangled the man, and the others took their weapons one after another, and the six of them were entangled in one place. Seeing that they had picked up their weapons, everyone no longer dared to stand close and watch, and hurriedly got out of the way. The young man with the gun was weak, and after fighting for a while, his moves had gradually deformed, and the five teenagers surrounded the stone beast.

Yuan Xun saw the accompanying official and said: "The young man was forced into a corner, and the silver gun could not be used, and if he didn't give up his weapon and admit defeat, he was afraid that he would be injured." ”

The accompanying official looked depressed and secretly wondered: At this time, how can you allow yourself to go up and dissuade? said: "They are all young generals from the martial arts hall, not Qingfengwei's people coming, and the garrison can't dismantle them......" looked up and saw a carriage coming down the ramp, and was overjoyed, and said, "They are blocking the road, the carriage is coming, and they must get out of the way." ”

The carriage went close, the six teenagers were still unconscious, the young man with the gun was striking the horizontal knife in front of him, let it open, could not retract the momentum, stabbed on the carriage wood, the wood could not stand the tip of the spear spit out the Dan energy, and shattered, the cart horse neighed, the person stood up, the front hooves kicked a few times in the air, fell to the ground, ran out, pulled the coachman off the car; The carriage leaned forward, half of the wood was supported on the ground, and the side of the road was dumped.

Seeing the trouble, the six teenagers didn't care about fighting again, and they picked up their weapons and were about to scatter, but when they saw a white shadow flashing behind the carriage, they shouted: "Who dares to escape?" He snatched the swords from the two teenagers in front of him and threw them to the ground.

The young man with the gun had already run a few steps, and when he heard this, he scooped up his shirt to cover his face and swept towards the mountain. A man on the mountain was dressed in a green shirt, and when he saw the young man with a gun running towards him, he was blocking in front of him, and the young man with a gun didn't have time to see clearly, so he stabbed the gun and stabbed the man's shoulder, so he saw the man's face clearly, and hurriedly put away the gun, turned around and ran down the mountain, and didn't dare to approach the man in white, but he heard the man in white shouting: "Jingluo, if you cover your face, will others not recognize you?" ”

The young man froze suddenly, stood there stiffly, turned slowly, put down his shirt, and showed a delicate face.

Yuan Xun glanced at the man in white in surprise, and secretly said that Jiang Ning is really the land of the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger, and the cultivation of this person in front of him is even stronger than Li Gonglin, and he appeared to deter the six troublemaking teenagers, and it seems that he is also an important minister of Jiang Ning. Carrying the man in green shirt who was blocking the young man with the gun, he walked down slowly, and when he got closer, Yuan Xun couldn't help but change his face slightly, although the man in white was strong, but after all, there were traces to be found, that is, this man in green shirt stood in front of him, it seemed ordinary, but he couldn't feel his existence, Yuan Xun sighed secretly, and knew who the man in green shirt was in front of him. The man in green shirt glanced at him as if he was aware of it, and his eyes fell on Wu Qingyi's eyes and stopped for a moment.

Wu Qingyi couldn't help but ask, "Is that person Xu Ruyu?" ”

The man in the green shirt has cultivated to the realm of perfection, standing there, dissolving with heaven and earth, people below his realm can no longer lock his qi, the move cannot lock the opponent's qi, and no matter how strong the move is, it will not be able to exert the power of the emergency. It was rumored in the morning that Xu Ruyu had reached the realm of the grandmaster, Yuan Xun only boasted about Jiang Ning, and at this time, he knew that this was indeed the case, if it were not for the fact that he had been by Tianji Xueqiu's side for several years, Yuan Xun would not have recognized that Xu Ruyu had reached the realm of perfection.

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