Chapter 205: The People of Xiliang City
"There's Lord Law. www.biquge.info"Zhao Qing took a few old people from the auction house to watch at the door of the auction house, and the young man who was directing people to carry dozens of heavy boxes from the auction house.
The large boxes are all wooden boxes with iron edges, and each box has a seal affixed to it.
After hearing Zhao Qing's words, the young man hurriedly returned the salute: "Shopkeeper Zhao is serious, everyone is doing things for Xiliang." ”
Then, the two of them counted the number of boxes together and completed the handover form.
Finally, Zhao Qing said to the young scribe: "Say hello to Lord Li on behalf of the subordinates." ”
"Definitely, Shopkeeper Zhao, then I'll go back to my life first."
After watching the young scribe leave with more than a dozen carriages, Zhao Qing turned around and smiled at a few old people and said, "Thank you for your hard work." ”
"Hehe, what's this, but just come and see, it won't help much."
"That's it, that's it, I'm idle at home anyway, so I should go out for a walk and move this old bone."
This is one of the rules of the auction house, every time the silver is handed over, there must be at least three people present in the auction house, and all you have to do is to see the end all the way.
After seeing off the three old people, Zhao Qing was about to walk back to the auction house when he saw a person on the other side of the street walking towards him.
Zhao Qing smiled at the visitor and said, "Don't you have any official business today?" ”
"Rest today, so come and see you." The person who came was Jing Xiaosheng.
A hundred guards with a knife back then is now a thousand generals, the same position as Fang Du.
Zhao Qing looked left and right, with a little caution in his eyes, and then said, "Go in and talk." ”
Jing Xiaosheng walked in directly as if he had returned to his home, no stranger at all, or it could be said that he was familiar with the road and knew everything about the auction house very well.
Judging from the distance between the two of them, Jing Xiaosheng seemed to be the master who took Zhao Qing in.
After arriving at the study, Zhao Qing opened all the doors and windows, and deliberately paid attention to the window.
"Don't worry, when I came, I didn't find any suspicious people." Jing Xiaosheng sat on a chair and said.
"It's better to be cautious." Zhao Qing sighed and said.
"That's too, you have kept so much gold and silver privately, once discovered, a hundred times is not enough to die." Jing Xiaosheng didn't have a serious look at all when he said this, more like he was making fun of it.
"Can't you mention it less?" Zhao Qing was a little helpless, and Jing Xiaosheng had to say a word every time he came to him.
Jing Xiaosheng smiled and said, "I've gotten used to it in the past two years. ”
"Tell me, why did you suddenly come here today?" Normally, Jing Xiaosheng would not come to the auction house, but at this time, Zhao Qing knew that there must be something.
"Just when Yongchang was out of the city, he happened to run into Fang Du, and Fang Du said the previous words again, let the two of you go with him."
Zhao Qing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and didn't speak, this is not the first time, so he gradually ignored it.
"After Yongchang left, Fang Du also said that the adjutant general is nothing more than that." Speaking of this, Jing Xiaosheng looked directly at Zhao Qing with his eyes.
When Zhao Qing heard the words "Deputy General", his body trembled, sat on the chair and whispered: "I haven't figured it out in the past two years, you have also risen to a thousand total, and the room degree is also a thousand total, why is the change in room so big?" ”
"People are different, don't compare me with him." Jing Xiaosheng was a little disdainful of Fang Du.
Since, after Fang Du was promoted to a thousand generals, the more people under his subordinates, the more he changed, he was more and more respectful, but he was conceited and arrogant to his subordinates, and every time he mentioned it was "there were only a few thousand soldiers under the deputy general."
This made Xu Yongchang and Zhao Qing more and more distant from Fang Du, and they could no longer be the same as before.
"Is there any news from Ma Ye?" After a long time, Zhao Qing opened the topic.
"Message?" Jing Xiaosheng smiled: "What news?" On the other side of the desert, Ma Ye did not dare to send people in rashly, as for the place near the edge of the desert, Ma Ye had already sent enough people to keep an eye on it, as soon as the adults returned, he would immediately inform us. ”
"Actually, I'm worried about the situation over there." As he spoke, Jing Xiaosheng suddenly said.
Zhao Qing frowned: "What's wrong?" ”
"Yongchang came to me before leaving the city just now, and explained everything to me, the army of the Celestial Empire has approached our Xiliang, and the Governor's Mansion wants to contain the alien cavalry at night, and not long ago, a large number of alien cavalry poured into our territory at once."
"Is there finally going to be a war?" Zhao Qing leaned back in his chair, but his thoughts returned to the scene of the monster siege two years ago.
"Well, I'm here to tell you about it." Saying that, Jing Xiaosheng stood up and was about to leave, and when he walked to the door, he turned back to look at Zhao Qing and said solemnly: "Back then, I didn't agree with you telling Fang Du these things, just to see his attitude, and now I can tell you with more certainty that Fang Du is no longer an adult's personal soldier, and he has parted ways with us, so don't try to convince him again, so as not to spoil the adult's big thing." ”
Looking at Zhao Qing, who was thinking deeply, Jing Xiaosheng left directly without replying.
Zhao Qing was stunned: Back then, the three of us swore to be generals, so we swore allegiance to the adults, but now that Fang Du has really become a general, he has forgotten all the oaths of the year......
Everything is as vivid as yesterday, but Jing Xiaosheng, who has never made an oath in front of adults, can swear to follow adults, even if there is no news from adults in the past two years, they have not complained about waiting for adults to come back, but Fang Du thinks that he has already surpassed adults, and has become more and more arrogant, treating his old brothers as if he were subordinates, and completely looking up to himself.
Jing Xiaosheng is right, Fang Du is indeed no longer an adult's personal soldier.
Since, two years ago, Xiliang successfully resisted the monster siege, the fame has flourished, making the business of Xiliang City more and more hot, as for the auction house, half of the items auctioned by the auction house come from various merchants, and the other half is from absolutely boring, the rare equipment that the five masters and more than ten of them took out by themselves, as well as the high-quality medicines refined by the breeders, otherwise the auction house would not have such a big income.
In the first year, Li Gu always supervised the income of the auction house, and every auction would be personally present, and then because he saw that Zhao Qing did a good job, and the things in his hands were also very busy, so he completely handed over everything to Zhao Qing to deal with, and the auction house auction proceeds were all handled by Li Gu before, and now Zhao Qing is responsible for sorting out, and then the account book will be handed over to Li Gu for seeing, and occasionally Li Gu will come to check and check the number of silver taels, most of which are still directly transported into the warehouse.
Therefore, Zhao Qing had a lot more opportunities to get his hands on it, but Zhao Qing did not forget the words of the hermit, and acted cautiously all the time.
And Jing Xiaosheng reminded him every time he saw Zhao Qing, for fear that Zhao Qing's affairs would be exposed accidentally.
With the help of the auction house's abundant oil and water, Zhao Qing did not fill his own pocket, but used the money to dredge the soldiers in the city and turn the Xiliang soldiers into soldiers close to his side.
In addition, most of them were transported to the Xiliang horse thieves, and the Xiliang horse thieves were given excellent equipment to strengthen them, and the reason why Zhao Qing had so many was not for Xiliang City, nor for the Xiliang horse thieves, but because now the leader of the Xiliang horse thieves is Ma Ye, the disciple of the Tianyin Ke, that is, his own people.
The Xiliang horse thief nominally belongs to Xiliang City, but in fact he is already a private soldier of the Tianyin Ke.
If at the same time, the Tianhermit gave an order, and Xiliangcheng ordered again, then there is no doubt that the Xiliang horse thief must have followed the instructions of the Tianyinke to do things.
In the past, the walls of Xiliang City revealed a dilapidated smell even during construction, but two years later, the walls of Xiliang City have been renewed.
Not only is it new, but it also exudes a towering momentum, and looking at the arrow towers on the city walls, it makes people feel like a strong fortress that cannot be overcome.
After two years of hard work, the city walls of Xiliang City have been strengthened to the highest defense, not only that, each city wall has thirty-six arrow towers, as for the city defense equipment, it is a mechanism that you can't even think of.
After Xu Yongchang came to the Xiliang horse thief's station, he saw people who were busy all around, and he searched for a long time before he found Ma Ye.
When Ma Ye saw Xu Yongchang, his first reaction was: "It's coming so soon?" He knew that the news had been conveyed to Xiliang City not long ago, and within a few hours, Xu Yongchang ran over.
"What are you doing here?" Xu Yongchang looked at the people who were busy carrying things, and suddenly became a little puzzled, is it to move?
"It's a different base." Ma Ye didn't think so.
After hearing this, Xu Yongchang was stunned: "Change strongholds? ”
"That's right, my people were chased and killed by more than 10,000 alien cavalry, so I will plan to lure the alien cavalry here, but unfortunately I couldn't kill all of them, so I can't stay here, I believe it won't be too long, at least 100,000 alien cavalry will kill me, hey...... You're moving fast, you're being gossiped there. When he spoke, Ma Ye did not forget to direct the people below to do things.
"Then you should pay more attention to yourself, I am here to send instructions to the Governor's Mansion this time." After speaking, Xu Yongchang handed over the paperwork to Ma Ye, and said, "It's not too late to read it later, is there any news from adults?" ”
Ma Ye put the paperwork in his arms, sighed and said, "No, if it weren't for the fact that Master said not to look for him when he left, I would have taken someone into the desert to find Master, and Master has not heard from him in the past two years...... It's really worrying. ”
"No news, or good news." Xu Yongchang smiled slightly.
"If only I had you as optimistic." Ma Ye sighed and said, in the past two years, in order to expel the alien cavalry, the brothers around Ma Ye have died one after another, and now there are few people who can rest assured, as for the old people of the Xiliang horse thieves, Ma Ye directly asked them to go to Xiliang City to retire, and they went to the auction house to wander around if they had nothing to do.
"Actually, I'm also worried about my lord, but it's useless for me to worry here, the city lord said the same thing, instead of worrying, it's better to do Xiliang City well to welcome the return of the adult."
It is not only the Heavenly Hermit who has lost news in Xiliang City in the past two years, but also Zhan Thirteen, who has never come back since Zhan Thirteen went out to find foreign aid when the monsters attacked the city.
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