Chapter 306: Fears on All Sides
Did Lu Sheng's arrival break the peace of Chuzhou, but as for He Xingzhi, he was just a little unhappy in his heart? Or was he already MMP? Lu Sheng didn't want to guess. At least both sides are very willing to give in terms of face.
He Xingzhi gave Lu Sheng a general introduction to the situation in Chuzhou and the general income status of the people.
Accustomed to seeing the developed business of Jiangnan Province, Lu Sheng still felt an obvious gap in his heart. Even in the relatively poor Gangbuk Province, the commercial atmosphere is very strong.
But in Chuzhou, there is very little commerce, and almost 90 percent of the people live on rented land. The daily life of the people is very monotonous, and it is also very stable in He Xingzhi's mouth.
People rarely move, and even if they go to relatives, they don't move around a few times a year. Compared with the pace of life that Lu Sheng cognitives, Chuzhou can be said to be very slow.
As the capital of Chuzhou, Anqing Mansion is still as prosperous as Suzhou, but it is also the economic strength of the entire Chuzhou that has created the current Anqing.
While speaking, Lu Sheng was taken to a deserted courtyard on the outskirts of Anqing Mansion. It is barren because it is in the middle of nowhere, and there is no barren land within a radius of several miles, and there is not a single family.
But before that, He Xingzhi had already ordered someone to clean up the courtyard.
"Lord Lu, this used to be King Qing's Mansion, and the mansion was vacant when Qingwan was implicated thirty years ago. This radius of ten miles is the property of King Qing. Now it is approved by the emperor and handed over to Lord Lu. I heard that Lord Lu plans to open the Xuantian Academy first?"
"Yes, the real Xuantian Mansion will start operating from next year, starting with the Xuantian Academy. ”
"I have cleaned up the inside of King Qing's Mansion, the construction of Xuantian Mansion, I will definitely support it from top to bottom in Chuzhou, if Lord Lu has any needs, just open your mouth. ”
"Thank you, then. Lu Sheng agreed unceremoniously.
"I will set up a banquet tonight to wash the dust for Lord Lu and your colleagues who have come from afar, and I also ask Lord Lu and all your colleagues to appreciate the light. ”
"Definitely, definitely!"
After He Xingzhi left, Lu Sheng took a group of people to settle in Qingwang's Mansion.
It is said that Qingwangfu is just a house, but in fact, it is a large residential area at all. Within the walls, there are dense buildings like an inner city.
Just looking at this manor, it can be seen how powerful the Qingwang Mansion was back then.
Lu Sheng walked for an afternoon before he walked through the entire Qingwang Mansion. In my mind, I already have a rough plan for the transformation. The southeast corner of King Qing's Mansion can be demolished to build seven eight-story townhouses. There are fifty rooms on each floor, and each room can accommodate eight people.
This can accommodate 3,000 people in one building and more than 20,000 people in seven buildings. Then, there was originally a school in Qingwang's Mansion, but the school was relatively small, and a courtyard around it could be demolished and all converted into a school, and the instructor's dormitory was arranged in Qingwang's Mansion, and the canteen of Qingwangfu was also large enough, and it could be fully accommodated if it was expanded.
As for the playground, it is completely unnecessary, there is such a large open space around, and you can use the open space as a training ground by arranging wooden stakes and fences at will.
Returning to the gate of King Qing's Mansion again, Lu Sheng's heart had already made a decision. Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, Lu Sheng first asked his subordinates to tidy up the room by themselves, and then led a group of officials to the banquet.
The news of Lu Sheng's arrival in Chuzhou was like a stone smashed into the pond of Chuzhou in an instant, and the forces of all parties instantly moved to discuss urgently.
White Horse City is one of the four independent cities in Chuzhou, and the whole city is surrounded by dozens of zhang walls.
The lord of White Horse City is after Li Xin, the flying cavalry general eight hundred years ago. At that time, the Hu people in the northern grasslands harassed the border for a long time, and Dayu repeatedly sent troops to suppress it in vain.
Although Dayu had cavalry at that time, whether it was tactics or combat power, it was much worse than the northern grassland. More importantly, the number of cavalry did not form a scale.
For forty years, Dayu was helpless against the northern grasslands. The people of the north are miserable.
Until Li Xin rose from adversity, a person created Dayu's first pure cavalry ace unit from scratch, White Horse. Since the beginning of the White Horse Army, it has gone through 32 battles, large and small, and each time it has been a complete victory.
And Li Xin's battle of the gods led 10,000 light horsemen from Lanzhou, straight into the belly of the grassland, and fought 30,000 miles, crisscrossing the grassland as if entering a no-man's land.
Two years later, only 3,000 of the 10,000 White Horse soldiers returned to Yumen Pass, but in these two years, the White Horse Army fought from the southwest to the northwest, and then turned back to the west to kill the east.
Ninety-seven large tribes were destroyed, and there were more than 500 medium-sized tribes, and countless small tribes were numerous. Beheaded 20 million Hu people, and reduced the population of Hu people by half.
A grassland overlord people, killed by the White Horse Army, became an endangered creature. After returning victoriously, Li Xin was crowned a prince and sat in Lanzhou.
For hundreds of years after that, the Li family has always been the spiritual belief of the cavalry of the Dayu Army, and the invincible record of the Li family army has been maintained until now. Since two hundred years ago, the Li family has faded out of the military department. The city of Chuzhou was founded and named White Horse.
The rise of each of the four independent cities in Chuzhou is a heart-wrenching chapter in the history books, but at the same time they are mysterious and powerful. After hundreds of years of change, they have been separated from the imperial court for too long.
Because there were no officials sent by the imperial court in the independent city, the governance of the independent city was governed by the city lord himself. There is no need to pay taxes, there is no need for the imperial court to control, and it is self-sufficient, as if it is a country within a country.
There are more than 50 independent cities like this in Dayu. Originally, no one would care about this phenomenon, and no one would think that there was anything wrong. The independent city was established by those who had great contributions to Dayu in those years, and they were loyal and good.
But last year, the cabinet suddenly put forward a theory of the threat of the independent city, which really made the hearts of the city owners of the independent city uneasy.
Their ancestors were loyal, so must their descendants also be loyal? Moreover, the independent city was separated from the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and did not pay taxes to the imperial court, but enjoyed the land resources of the imperial court.
This has made a group of cabinet elders unhappy for a long time. But if the issue of Independence City is raised in normal times, it will inevitably encounter a backlash from the Gate Lord. But taking advantage of the tone of this millennium catastrophe, there are conditions to raise the hidden worries of Independence City.
It's not like we're looking for trouble, we're taking precautions.
In the current situation, the heavenly opportunity is already slim, and anything is possible.
When the imperial court was worried about the problem of the independent city, it sent Lu Sheng to Chuzhou.
"City Lord Li, you are the most well-informed in the military department, but you can tell us, is the imperial court planning to do anything to us if Lu Sheng is allowed to come to Chuzhou?" asked the city lord of Zhongnan with some eagerness.
"At the moment, I haven't gotten any news. It's just that the Xuantian Mansion was originally set up by us next year, but Lu Sheng came so early to surprise me.
Therefore, the three city lords were summoned to come to discuss, and only by gathering multiple sources of information could they find out Lu Sheng's intentions. ”
"We don't know much about Lu Sheng. Born as a scientific research scholar, he took the initiative to ask to be sent to his hometown after completing the scientific examination.
Judging from his life and family situation, he is indeed an ordinary Suzhou citizen. However, it is strange that this person seems to have a peerless martial arts all of a sudden.
Before he entered Beijing to take the exam, no one knew that he had martial arts, and he had never shown any signs of knowing martial arts. But when he returned to Suzhou Mansion, he showed his martial arts cultivation at the peak of the day after tomorrow within half a month.
The acquired realm is not to be feared. However, a month later, he was ordered to investigate the robbery of the official bank. It implicated Princess Changling and Marquis Ning. At that time, Lu Sheng's martial arts were not weaker than Changling.
And what really made Lu Sheng's first battle move the world was indeed the first battle of Jinling last year, a move flying immortals outside the sky, which directly forced back the sword god Liu Qingyun and the sword immortal Bu Feiyan!
In this battle alone, Lu Sheng's martial arts have been set as the pinnacle of innocence. Therefore, the speculation about Lu Sheng's martial arts has always been underestimated and never overestimated. In my opinion, Lu Sheng's martial arts are probably higher than what he shows.
Under the Dao realm, it should be invincible. But this, contrary to his life information, Lu Sheng is only twenty-four years old this year. At such a young age, he is already standing at the top, and in the whole world, who else in the Holy Land can cultivate such a junior?
Therefore, Lu Sheng's identity is as unfathomable as his martial arts, and if we don't find out his details, we shouldn't easily contact him. ”
"Who else could there be? Except for the Nanling Palace, who could cultivate such an amazing disciple? And from the beginning of the capital, he had a relationship with Shen Ling. Starting from Suzhou Mansion, he has been obeying the orders of Nanling Palace.
Isn't this obvious, this person is a killer cultivated by the Nanling Palace?
The Nanling Mansion contributed all his family wealth to Xuan Tianwei, and in my opinion, he was demonstrating a signal.
Even the Sixiang family has handed over their family wealth to the imperial court, shouldn't we, the independent city lords, take a stand. Hehehe...... This is a forced confession!"
He Shen Ruoxu was naturally willing to hand it over, who didn't know that he was the emperor's most trusted person. He handed over the old bottom, and in the blink of an eye, maybe the emperor would double the reward and go back.
But if we fall for his evil and hand over all the inheritance of our ancestors, what will our children and grandchildren eat?"
"The head of the Dongfang family is reasonable, but after all, the imperial court has not officially opened up to us. I don't think the purpose of Lu Sheng's visit is us. ”
"It's impossible for him to move us for the time being, he just came to ask for money, no money, even if he wants to, he can't move.
But we can't just take precautions in front of us, I heard that the recent wind direction of the imperial court has changed, and we intend to rectify the entire layout of Dayu by taking advantage of this millennium catastrophe. The world's gate valves, a pair of eyes are staring. Last time my daughter came back to save her family, she brought me an opinion. ”
"Your daughter?"
"Yes, the Langya Wang clan has always been known for their foresight, and their opinion is that the emperor insisted on creating the Xuantian Mansion despite the opposition of the Manchu courtiers and the opposition of the gate lord Guixun, in addition to weakening the control of the local officials over the people, the most important thing is to weaken the restriction of the gate lord Guixun's imperial power.
Gate valve Guixun is all over the nineteen states of China, and each gate valve is one acre and three points of land in itself. Even local officials obeyed the gate lord first, followed by the imperial court.
Although the turmoil of thirty years ago was suppressed, it was actually just the first emperor who benefited from the fisherman. Ten years ago, the current emperor also ascended to the throne in this kind of competition.
This has happened twice, and the current emperor should not allow it to happen a third time. The throne belongs, and the nobles of the gate have completely exposed their ability to shake the country's capital. The five dragons are really seeking their own death. ”
As soon as these words came out, the hall was shocked.