As the seat of Yangzhou Prefecture, the guarding power of Yangzhou Giant City can be imagined. Inspections in and out of the city were so strict that tens of thousands of people were crowded outside the city, forming scattered settlements outside the city. Obviously, this Yangzhou City, like Jinghua City, is not so easy to enter.

Xi Ze didn't dare to trespass, he wandered around the Grange village outside the city, and found a figure like a snake in the land after several twists and turns. It is said that snakes have snake paths, and rats have rat paths, which has been true since ancient times. After spending a large amount of gold, the land snake promised to smuggle Xi Xue into Yangzhou City.

As for Xi Ze's desire to get an identity certificate, the local snake loves money and can't help. The official identity card is very strict, and the body is not a simple piece of paper, it has scientific and technological content in it, not to mention the lowest bastard like the head snake, even the people in the yamen can't handle it.

The identity of this local snake named Sanpi Ge is the right-hand man of the grange manager of a chamber of commerce magnate in Yangzhou City, and what he often does is to transport the fresh crops in the grange into the city. Although Yangzhou City is large, it is expensive to cultivate crops in the city. Xi Ze and Aned pretended to be Brother Sanpi's hard-working subordinates.

Brother Sanpi is greedy for money, but he is cautious, and his eyes reveal the cunning of a small citizen. He asked Xi Xue again and again about the experience of the two before he was willing to accept Xi Ze's list. After all, if Xi Xue and the two really have a problem, he will suffer. Xi Xue, who was at a loss, had been prepared and reacted quickly, defusing Brother Sanpi's temptations and "surprise attacks" several times, and dispelling Brother Sanpi's doubts with a set of impeccable experience.

But Xi Xue almost made a mistake. That's it! As long as the Han Empire was within the reach of the imperial power, it would handle the identity as soon as it was born, recording appearance, name, birthdate, and even DNA and other information. Anyone who has no means of support is a problem black household. Xi Xue actually asked Brother Sanpi about his identity, and it was strange that Brother Sanpi was not suspicious. In the end, Xi Xue could only be explained by the statement that he encountered a beast on the road, and the lost Sanpi brother did not dig deeper.

"Don't underestimate the world!" Xi Xue sighed.

However, there was still a little trouble when entering the city. Because Anhd's height of nearly two meters was too conspicuous, he was directly taken out for questioning by the sharp-eyed ten people. Brother Sanpi immediately responded slipperily, saying that this subordinate had a serious illness when he was a child, and after he became ill, he became mute, and his face was ugly, but he had a lot of strength, and he was honest and capable, and he quietly stuffed him with a small ingot of silver.

In this way, Xi Ze and Anhd's team were able to enter Yangzhou City smoothly. Who knows, just after passing through the tunnel of the city gate, which is estimated to be a mile long, I heard a commotion.

"Kill the rebel bandits! None of the people and others will retreat! ”

"Run! Kill! ”

"Comrades, kill me, kill all these feudal lackeys! Anti-imperialism, anti-feudal! Kill! ”

I saw a large group of people rushing out of the street in front of me, fighting together, looking at the swords and swords, a chaos, one after another people died on the street, their heads were thrown away, and blood was sprayed. On both sides of the fight, one side was a catcher in an ochre uniform, and the other side was dressed in modern clothes, some with guns in their hands. But these people with guns were killed in the face of those who were carrying knives.

Twenty ochre clothes are fast, and five of them are divine veins! On the other hand, although the number of people in the other group is large, there are only two Divine Vein Warriors, and their combat power is not as fast as which ones. In addition, the 20 catchers cooperated closely and cooperated, but the other gang was scattered and fought on their own, some only cared about escaping, and some even shot at the pedestrians on the street with red eyes.

But soon, this group of scattered people was quickly killed by the gang, leaving only one alive. The man was still yelling and shouting, "Haha, you kind of killed me!" Tell you, you want to get information from my mouth, dream! You feudal lackeys, garbage scum! Bah! ”

Xi Xue couldn't help but ask Brother Sanpi: "Brother Sanpi, who are those?" Brother Sanpi glanced at Xi Ze, dragged a sentence that made people squirt rice, "You are really a hillbilly", laughed again, and said: "A group of pretentious arrogant people." Claiming to be a democratic republic, but doing something shady to see. This group of people is just a mouse. Democratic republic? Hey, the democratic republic can't afford to build the majestic wall behind us! Boy, give birth in Yangzhou City. If I am told that you have committed any rebellion, I will be the first to report you to the yamen. Smuggled into the city, I have at most a frontier, and there is still a way to live. Collusion with the party is a major crime of the Yijiu clan...... Hey! ”

How can you not be a little ruthless in the mixed market.

Xi Xue said with a smile: "Brother Sanpi is joking, we are all innocent and good citizens, how can we collude with the party?" You can rest assured. ”

"It was better to do so."

The buildings in the city are distributed like a chessboard, row upon row, most of the streets are straight, and the main and secondary can be divided according to the width of the street, and the streets and alleys are lined with pedestrians in an orderly manner, but it has the same prosperity and liveliness as Jinghua City.

Naturally, as far as the eye can see, it is full of ancient style, and there is no trace of modern atmosphere. It's a complete old-fashioned world.

Brother Sanpi's team walked through the streets and alleys, and finally stopped at the back door of a magnificent house, and then Brother Sanpi sent Xi Xue and the other four people who were smuggling together.

"Guys, have you figured out where to go? If not, it is better to go to my second uncle's house. My second uncle is a character, he opened a restaurant in this prosperous Yangzhou, thinking that we have a fate on the same road, I can introduce you to his old man, and it is good to be a helper in the restaurant. How is it? A man who had smuggled into the city with Xi Xue said.

Xi Xue and Aned were naturally not interested, and politely refused. Coming to the street, Anhd said: "Now that you have entered the city, what next?" ”

Xi Ze said: "Find a place to settle down first." Don't be in a hurry, you can see it, this place looks calm on the surface, but in fact it is an undercurrent. If you're in too much of a hurry, it's easy to be targeted. Our set of nonsense can fool others, but it can't fool people in the official face. ”

As soon as he entered the city, he encountered officials who beat and killed the so-called rebellious parties, which is also a coincidence, and it is also possible that those chaotic parties are too active and rampant, causing trouble everywhere. Just now, along the way, I saw a lot of fast patrols and many plainclothes. In this case, where does Xi Ze dare to inquire?

Anhd said: "Why bother? It's okay to just arrest an official person and ask it? Xi Xue rolled his eyes, and had to introduce "Didi Niu" to her, and explain its magical effect, and finally said: "Haven't you noticed that every official wears a jade pendant?" That thing must function just like mine one. Move one, provoke a group, what will you do then? ”

Anmet asked, "Is it really that amazing?" Xi Xue said a little proudly: "So don't underestimate the scientific and technological power of our human beings." ”

Then Xi Zedan found out that he had to rely on the person or the road guide to live in the hotel, it was really dependent, where did he get this thing? It's best to choose a gritted tooth: can a living person be suffocated by urine? So I wandered around the streets and alleys with Anhd and found a place to stay, a house that no one lived in! It's empty anyway, and they won't be able to live long.

Leaving Anmet in this makeshift location, he walked around the city by himself. Focus on going to crowded places. A lot of people means a lot of mouths, a lot of mouths, and a lot of information is revealed. Xi Ze's knowledge of the Han Empire was very limited, so he could only take this clumsy approach.

However, Xi Ze soon scratched his head. Without him, because even if he is a city person, his knowledge is very limited. They discussed trivial matters that didn't help him at all. It is rare to hear some high-minded talk about the world in a high-end restaurant, which is also about the interior of the Han Empire, although it is useless, but it also gives Xi Xue some insight.

It turned out that the Han Empire was not monolithic, and the government and the opposition were full of various contradictions. For example, the contradiction between the prince and the left prime minister Yu Bo people in the almost public realm has led to the fact that the court has divided the *** and the left prime minister's party. In addition, there is the contradiction that is only visible to people of color, and even if the imperial law stipulates that all colors, races, and races are equal, it cannot erase the conflict between them. In addition, the rivers and lakes (corresponding to the temples) were full of anti-imperialist and anti-feudal forces and factions, which never stopped causing trouble for the imperial court.

One of the most sensational events in the world recently was that in Yongzhou, one of Kyushu, a party with the name of the "Independence Party" launched a revolutionary uprising.

It is said that this revolutionary uprising has the shadow of foreign forces. Who else could this "foreign power" have besides the Confederacy? It's just that the Confederation divided the member states, and it's hard to say which country it is. However, the scholar class of the Han Empire generally believed that the confederation of China was the most likely. In the words of an old man who seems to be a gentleman: "This is born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other?" The Chinese people do not die in my heart. Hmph, I'm a big man, the country is in good fortune, and I can't die. ”

In addition, family power has risen vigorously in the empire, and there has been a tendency for family interests to outweigh national interests. There is also the martial arts that the family arose. The Divine Veiners were called "warriors" in the Han Empire. Because of the Han Emperor's "Xingwu Revolution", the Han Empire had a huge number of divine vein warriors, which formed a large number of martial arts sects, gangs, and forces. These existences already have the potential to threaten the imperial court.

However, in Xi Xue's view, although the rule of the Han Empire is not peaceful, it is still very stable! Why? The most core force is in the hands of the imperial court! There are a number of "peerless national warriors" level warriors in the world, and the imperial court accounts for eighty percent! The upper and lower classes are like a chasm, the lower classes have nothing, no strength, no weapons, no transportation, what to do against imperialism and feudalism?

In Xi Ze's view, the national policy of the Han Empire can be summed up in four words, that is: "strong army and weak people"!

After listening to the trivial things all day, Chen Sesame and rotten grain, Xi Xue had an impulse to directly arrest a person from the government and torture him to extract a confession, so he couldn't believe it and couldn't ask it. Of course, this can only be a last resort. Xi Xue knows very well how strict the management system of high-tech communication is, and it really provokes a nest.

But there's another way. Isn't Yongzhou making a revolution? There must be a mix of fish and dragons there, and when they get there, who will take care of them?

"Go back and rest. There's no rush anyway. Yangzhou City is so big, I only turned a small area this day. Take a break before continuing. I still don't believe it. Thinking so, Xi Ze went to a "Quanjulai" barbecue restaurant to buy forty catties of barbecue and returned to the temporary foothold. But I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the house, I saw people lying on the ground in the house.

Xi Xue was surprised: "What's going on?" Are they the masters here? No, there's no sign of inhabitation. Anheard said: "These people came out of a secret passage under a dry well in the back yard. As for the rest, I don't know. ”

Xi Xue frowned. Dry? Secret passages? No matter how you hear it, it's not a good sign. Throw the barbecue to Anhd and scavenge it on the people on the ground. Soon a letter was found from one of them, and when the letter was opened, it was a bunch of disordered words, obviously deliberately scrambled into ciphertext, which could not be deciphered without specific means.

Xi Ze's eyes flickered, looking at the people in one place, "Could it be that these people are the legendary rebels?" ”