Yu Wenhua and a group of guards escorted Gao Qianxue and Murong Rose and others to the north, and after passing through Youzhou to the northwest and leaving the military capital pass, they soon arrived in Erlong City. However, it was not Yi Feng who came to greet Erlong City, nor Wang Bao, the eldest of the Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry who came to see him off when he passed by the south last time, it was his old acquaintance in Chang'an, Li Jing, who came to greet the group.

Li Jing arrived in Yanzhou three days ago, and he set out from Chang'an, and did not go east with his new boss Qu Tutong, but followed his uncle Han Hong, the governor of Daizhou, one step ahead. Instead of taking Tongguan, he crossed the Yellow River at Pujin Pass of Feng Yi in Tongzhou north of Tongguan, and took the Pujin Bridge. After entering Hedong, he went all the way along the Fen River to Taiyuan, and then continued to the north, to Daizhou, he also went to Yanmen Pass with his uncle Han Hong, met his brother Yao Wang, and spent a few days in Yanmen Pass, saw the tense atmosphere on the border pass, and saw the active preparations of the border troops under the Daizhou Governor's Office. Originally, he wanted to stay for a few more days, but at this time, he suddenly got news that it was the cavalry of several tribes in Mobei who had gone east to raid the Xi, Khitan, Xi and other tribes that had long been attached to the imperial court. And Yi Feng, the new governor of Wuzhou in the imperial court, has personally led 20,000 soldiers and horses and took the initiative to go north, as if he wanted to compete with the cavalry of the northern Mobei tribe who went south. After hearing this news, he finally couldn't sit still anymore, he was worried that Yi Feng, the young manager, would be defeated by the Mobei people if he dared to go north, and secondly, he also wanted to arrive in Daning as soon as possible and prepare early. In case Yi Feng's army is defeated, if the Mobei cavalry takes advantage of the situation to go south, then Daning will become an important pass on the Great Wall to resist the southward movement of Hu cavalry.

When leaving Yanmen Pass, his uncle Han Hong and eldest brother Li Yaowang both selected a team of elite generals from their subordinates. Pull him out and go north with him. Coupled with the family generals who took all the way north from Chang'an, Li Jing already had a team of 200 people when he left Yanmen. However, when he went north through the Xin Dynasty, the closer he got to the Great Wall. I also found that this place is becoming more and more desolate. The newly purchased Yanzhou used to be the territory of Yanzhou, and it was once placed in Northern Yanzhou during the Northern Qi Dynasty, but later this place was completely destroyed in the war, and the population fled to Youzhou and Daizhou. After leaving Daizhou, south of the Great Wall and north of the Sanggan River, this river valley was originally quite fertile. But it was a barren land. The state seat of Yanzhou is in Huai'an City, and there are only more than 100 households at present, and I heard that this is because Huaihuang is now lively in the border market. Therefore, many small traders from the northeast of the river often settle here, so some nearby mountain hunters and some people from Daizhou came here to open some restaurants and inns and tea shops, and gradually gained some popularity.

Seeing that Huai'an County, the seat of Lianfei Prefecture, actually looked like this. Li Jing also had a more and more bad feeling about the Daning Town he was going to. But when he ran all the way to the Daning military town on the Great Wall. But I was a little surprised to find that it was much more lively than Huai'an County. There is a fort here, which is built in the south of the Daning Pass of the Great Wall, and there are thousands of households in the fort, and the cross streets are full of shops, and the shops on the street are full of people. It was only after entering the town general's mansion in the east of the city that he found out the situation of Daning Town from among the subordinates who came to see him. Because it is the only pass to Youzhou and Hedong in Hebei. Therefore, in less than a year, there are only a few dozen households here. It has grown to the scale of more than 1,000 households. It is the current fort city, which was also built after the rise of Huaihuang Town. Originally, there was also the inspection department and fort set up by the Huaihuang army, but after the imperial court officially set up the two prefectures of Concubine and Wuzhou, and appointed Yi Feng as the governor of Wuzhou, the Wuzhou side withdrew the inspection and garrison troops south of the Great Wall, and many of the people who were originally placed here later moved back to the north of the Great Wall. But in the end, there are still some people left, so although it is not as lively as it was some time ago, it still has a large scale.

Daning turned out to be a pass, which belonged to Shangguan, and there were Shangguan orders from the eighth grade and Shangguan Cheng from the ninth grade. This time the establishment of Yanzhou, Daning Pass also directly skipped the garrison and was upgraded to a town, and it was also a medium town. According to the imperial court system, as the middle town of the border army, it has 800 soldiers, and the middle town will be from the five products. However, when Li Jing arrived here, he immediately inquired and learned that there were only twenty soldiers in this fort built by the Huaihuang army. It turned out that the 100 garrisons stationed here had withdrawn to the north of the Great Wall. Fortunately, although the Huaihuang army completely withdrew south of the Great Wall, the order here was still good, but there were only twenty soldiers, which still made Li Jing sigh very much.

Fortunately, there were 200 family members he brought, and early the next morning, Li Jing began to ask people to recruit Daning town soldiers. The town garrison soldiers belong to the border army, not the kind of government soldiers of the central army, and they are soldiers in wartime and farmers in leisure. The main body of the garrison was convicted prisoners, and the rest were recruited locally. However, in addition to the recruitment list posted, there were not many applicants, and I only knew the reason after careful inquiry, mainly because the conditions and treatment on Li Jing's recruitment list were too ordinary, although Li Jing's Daning soldiers were well treated, with three monthly salaries per month, two liters of rations a day, and clothing and cloth for spring and winter. But if such conditions are in other frontier areas, it may still be good, such as the Yanmen Pass area in Daizhou, Han Hong recruits soldiers with such conditions, and even only elite soldiers have this condition. But this place is close to Huaihuang, and the conditions of the Huaihuang army are much better than this. Although it is said that the conditions given by the Huaihuang Army are high, but the recruitment requirements are also high, there are still many people who feel that in comparison, the recruitment conditions in Daning Town are too different.

After Li Jing heard his subordinates report on the treatment of the Huaihuang Army, he was a little incredulous. Not only three meals a day, but also monthly food in addition to monthly salary, not to mention all kinds of subsidies and allowances. Now Li Jing has no choice, he is not as wealthy as Yi Feng. In the end, less than 100 people applied in Daning, and half of the unqualified ones were eliminated after selection. Li Jing had no choice but to send his generals out and let them go to nearby villages and townships to recruit soldiers, and raised the recruitment conditions a lot. This method is really useful, at a market pass like Daning, he really thinks his conditions are low, but in some ravines, the poor mountain hunters in those villages are very tempted by this condition, and these mountain people are recruited, the conditions are not bad, in line with Li Jing's requirements, honest and obedient and the body is not bad.

Li Jing recruited all the way, and finally arrived near Erlong City. This was originally one of the lively fourteenth cities under Huaihuang. But after the establishment of Wuzhou, almost all the people here moved away. The rest of the new city, which had just been built, became a large bazaar. Many merchants from Youzhou settled here to rest after leaving the military capital pass. It's not as lively as it used to be, but it's not bad. Li Jing entered the city with the newly recruited recruits, and this large shopping mall, which was controlled by various trading houses, immediately became a little nervous. Since Yi Feng built this city, it has become lively day by day. When the imperial court set up the two prefectures of Fu and Wu, Yi Feng withdrew the soldiers and people in the original city. It's almost entirely controlled by the merchant houses in the city. The Huaihuang army withdrew, and the county commanders of Yanzhou had not yet arrived, and this period of time was simply the most surviving days for these merchants. There is no more oppression and exploitation by the government. Business here is even more prosperous than it used to be.

As soon as they heard that a large group of officers and soldiers had come today, the bosses of the commercial houses in the city immediately became nervous and held a nervous meeting to negotiate. He sent people to inquire again, and got the news that the newly appointed Daning Town would bring troops to come. Someone carefully explained Li Jing's background. I heard that it was the nephew of the governor of Daizhou, and it turned out to be a driver of the capital military department, and the businessmen did not dare to be careless. In the end, everyone felt that Li Jing should be treated well, even if Li Jing couldn't manage the two dragon cities in the future, he didn't dare to offend carelessly. Therefore, when Li Jing led his troops to the outside of the city, the bosses of the commercial houses in the city had already come to greet them. Li Jing came here today to turn the lower edge and ask for money and food for the army. Seeing that the merchants were so cooperative, he smiled and said to his subordinates. This saves a lot of work. He left all the recruits he recruited outside the city, and he only brought a few generals into the city.

A wine feast is down. Li Jing received thousands of stones of grain and thousands of yuan contributed by the bosses of the commercial banks in Erlong City, as well as some cloth and clothing, etc., and the richness of the harvest surprised Li Jing. I thought it would be good to come over to fight the autumn breeze and get a hundred stones of grain back. But unexpectedly, these merchants are generous. Li Jing was quite happy, and the wine became more and more lively.

In the middle of the wine, someone came to report that a large group of people came over, and there were more than 1,000 people, but they had just left the military capital and were an army.

At this time, everyone couldn't help but be surprised, Li Jing also hurriedly sent someone to investigate, and soon the horse returned that it was Sima Yu Wenhua, the new governor of Yanzhou, and several people from the new Yanzhou governor's mansion joined the army, of course, there were also the family members of the governor of Wuzhou, his wife and concubine in Jiangnan. In addition, the generals also whispered to Li Jing that the elite of the thousand people was the soldiers and horses of the Jin Palace. Li Jing had also heard rumors that Yi Feng was the illegitimate son of King Jin, but there were rumors that Yi Feng was the prince's son-in-law. Originally, he thought that Yi Feng should be the son of the prince, but now he saw that Yi Feng's wife and concubine were escorted by the people of the Jin Palace, and he couldn't help but be confused. But no matter what, he had to go to meet him. Yu Wenhua is not only an acquaintance of Chang'an, but also this light son of Chang'an is now his new boss, he is the general of Daning Town, and Yu Wenhua is the Sima of the Governor of Yanzhou, Sima is in charge of military affairs, and he happens to be his top boss. What's more, there are Yi Feng's wives and concubines in that team, although Yi Feng is the governor of Wuzhou, he doesn't dare to snub Yi Feng's wives and concubines.

When Yu Wenhua said through the carriage window that Daning Town's general Li Yaoshi and the merchants of Erlong City came to greet him, Murong Rose was still a little strange. Out of the military capital pass, near here is the original Tiger League's Erlong Hall, how did it come is not the Tiger League's people, but Daning Town General. And the news of their going north had already been sent to Huaihuang, why didn't Yi Feng come to greet him.

After a while, the maidservant girl came back and said to Murong Qiangrose, "Miss Xiao just told the slave maid that her brother had just inquired about it, saying that her uncle had just led the army to leave Huaihuang and go north a few days ago, and now she is not in Huaihuang, and she heard that the Tiele people in Mobei have gone south. ”

Murong Qiang Rose smiled slightly when she heard this, and said to Gao Qianxue, who also had a big belly on the side of the wide carriage: "This little lady Xiao is quite flexible, it is estimated that when she arrives in Huaihuang, it won't be long before she can hold San Lang in the palm of her hand." ”

Gao Qianxue sat on a thick fluffy cushion, half-reclining, holding a scroll in her hand and watching. After listening to Murong Qiangrose's words, she said casually: "That's also a poor person. ”

Murong Rose disagreed, "Sister, you are still so leisurely at this time, that Miss Xiao is so beautiful, and she has a foxy face, she can seduce men at a glance." Don't look at her looking pitiful in front of us now, such a woman is the best at pretending. Don't forget, they are also from a royal background, and they used to be a princess. ”

"That's a long time ago." Gao Qianxue, who was also a princess, said lightly.

"She is different from her sister, although she is no longer a princess, but she has a princess and aunt." Murong Rose looked at the careless Gao Qianxue and said hurriedly, "You don't remember that our family San Lang is the illegitimate son of the King of Jin, right?" ”

"Hmm."

"That's it, speaking of which, Princess Jin should not like San Lang the most, but now, Concubine Xiao picked up her niece from Chang'an and wanted to send her to Huaihuang to be a concubine for San Lang, don't you think this thing is very unusual?"

"Maybe it's just that Concubine Xiao wants to take this opportunity to ease the relationship with San Lang, after all, the current San Lang is not the San Lang she saw when she was in Yangzhou half a year ago." Shallow slopes.

"If you want to say that Concubine Xiao wants to take the opportunity to ease the relationship with San Lang, there must be one. But I don't think this matter will be so simple, if King Jin does what he said in the past, and Concubine Xiao really wants to ease relations with San Lang, there is no need to bring her niece over. I think she just has a conspiracy. At least, she didn't have a good heart, and she wanted to put her own people next to San Lang, who knows what kind of heart she has. ”

Gao Qianxue put down the book, raised her head, and chuckled: "What are you afraid of, isn't there still us." ”

Murong Qiang Rose chuckled, in fact, it was not her turn to say these words, not to mention, it was normal for a man like Yi Lang to have a few women, and it was impossible to stop it. What I said just now is actually just to get closer to Gao Qianxue and have a common goal, so that the two will get along more naturally in the future. Murong Qiang Rose and Gao Qianxue have lived together in Jiangnan for half a year, although the two always meet and smile on weekdays, but in their hearts, they are still a little pimple, no woman is really willing to share her man with others.

Hey, I robbed a Yuan Jiyao before and sent it to Yi Lang, and now the Xiao family has arranged a niece to conceive a famine, and there are really more and more women around Yi Lang.

"I hope to give Yi Lang a son." Murong Qiang Rose said secretly in her heart, she glanced at Gao Qianxue's belly, secretly hoping that she could be better than her husband, and that she could give birth to a son. Suddenly, she also felt a little strange in her heart, she used to fight for her life with men in Northern Xinjiang, and compete for power in the green forest, but now she no longer thinks about the green forest, the rivers and lakes, and the things in these backyards. If it had been a year ago, such a thing would have been unimaginable. But now, this is a fact that has really happened to me. Compared with the precautions against the poor Xiao Suyuan, at this time, she was very calm about the news that Yi Feng led the troops north, and she didn't have the slightest worry in her heart.

PS: There was a power outage yesterday, so I'm sorry for the lack of updates. Recently, I have back pain, I didn't save the manuscript, and I broke off the update as soon as something happened, and I was quite depressed, sorry. (To be continued......)