July 10 of the first year of Shengong.

In the long night, the soldiers in strong clothes surrounded the carriage and slowly moved forward.

The commander of the city guard of Deshu Gate carefully inspected the documents presented from below, and with the help of the afterglow of the torches, the imprints of the Lingdu branch of the Guangdong Prefecture and the prefecture were clearly visible. The documents and the waist card of the general Zuo Wuwei, who was in charge of the escort, were correct, and the captain of the city guard asked the city gate to be opened.

The heavy gates were pushed open with a creak. The leopard rode a horse and rushed to the forefront. Two rows of armored soldiers followed by the leopard riders. The soldiers, armed with spears, crowded around the sides of the carriage. Each carriage was loaded with goods, and the outside was wrapped in thick skin, so that it was impossible to see what was inside.

The captain of the city garrison led a group of soldiers to guard the vicinity nervously to prevent accidents.

There were more than a dozen carriages, and when the long convoy was over, the captain of the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and ordered his subordinates to close the door.

The long convoy passed through the towering palace walls and came to a dark courtyard. This courtyard is located on the edge of the imperial city, but it is very different from the surrounding buildings, the walls of the whole house are built very high, and there are watchtowers around it, like a fortress.

There were many people standing in front of the house, with torches.

When the carriage approached the gate of the house, the leopard rider still did not dismount. An official walked up to one of the leopard horsemen at the head and said, "The carriage and horses are tired, the general has worked hard all the way!" ”

The leopard rider didn't say a word, took the document handed over by the official and looked at it, and then said: "The tax silver of the Guangdong government has been escorted to the silver treasury, you count it, and you will go back to the yamen to restore your life!" ”

The officials hurriedly agreed, and the treasury was guarded by the household department, and there were already many small officials waiting here. Several officials worked together to tear open the cloth covering the carriage, which had the seal of the Guangdong government on it, and tore it after checking that it was correct.

The carriage was loaded with a mouthful of boxes.

These tin boxes are sturdy enough to keep knives and guns out from the outside.

A total of 10,000,000,000 taels of tax silver collected from Lingnan Road were packed in boxes and transported all the way from Guangdong Province. Lingnan Province conducts trade and transportation with overseas countries every year, so tax silver is also the first in the world.

With so much tax money, it is natural that it needs to be closely guarded. These leopard riders are all elite iron horsemen of the right guard, escorting the tax and silver all the way from the distant Lingnan Road into Beijing. The war in the north is tight, and a large amount of military expenditure is required, and these taxes are enough to meet the urgent needs. Therefore, in terms of defense, it is also a top priority.

Along the way, the leopard riders repelled numerous attacks. The great Jianghu sect has long been notified by the six gates, and if anyone dares to pay attention to this tax silver, the imperial army will then come to destroy its sect. It's just that under the heavy money, there will always be people with red eyes and hot brains, and they will go to snatch the tax silver.

Now, when they arrived in the capital, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The general took off his helmet, and the leopard riders scattered around looking for a place to rest. When they arrived in the Divine Capital, their mission was over. The tax money was then stored in the treasury of the household, and had nothing to do with them.

Many of the sergeants' armor was stained with blood.

Fu Zhuo is only weak, he is relatively young in the right guard, this is the first time to go out, and the veterans next to him often take care of him along the way.

Fu Zhuo had an older brother who was in the same gang as him, but this time he was escorting tax money and was assassinated by a bandit in the dark.

Although afterwards, the local government sent troops to destroy the bandits' den, but his brother was not saved because of excessive blood loss. There is no greater pain than witnessing the death of a loved one.

Along the way, Fu Zhuo was always sullen.

The rest of the veterans knew, and they just sighed helplessly. The dignified Zhou guards did not die on the battlefield, but were secretly killed by a bandit.

The general said angrily: "Fu Zhuo, for the death of your brother, the yamen will give your family a pension." After doing this work, the yamen will give three days off as usual. Accompany your father and mother well! ”

Because of his young age and the leopard rider who followed the general, the general knew Fu Zhuo.

Fu Zhuo hurriedly bowed: "Subordinates understand! ”

It was still very hot and humid in July.

Since the tax money is transported here, there is no need to keep on nerves. This is on the edge of the imperial city, and it is necessary to keep quiet at night, and a few soldiers squatting by the wall can't chat loudly, so they are very bored, so they have to look at those local officials and officials to review the tax silver.

Each box had a specific lock with a number engraved on it, and only the officials of the treasury had a key to open it. There is a seal at the mouth of the box, and after one official checks that it is correct, the remaining two officials can tear the seal open and open the box for inspection.

The inspection process was carried out in front of the silver store, because it was late at night and there was no one on the street. After the silver is counted, the money can be put into storage. If there is a difference, the first person to be held accountable is the right guard who is responsible for the escort. All the generals brought the silver, but they did not leave.

These people counted quickly, the old official raised his pen, and with the other hand, he raised his thin paper to record, and everything was in order.

"I heard that the Northern Wilderness has been restrictive a lot recently, why do you still need so much military spending on the Mobei side?"

"What do you think those feudal towns are good about? At the beginning, our Great Zhou army had all hit the Zuoxian Royal Court, and the army of the feudal town was closed, and they sat and watched us fight with the people of the Northern Wilderness, and they were so cheap. I heard that the soldiers over there are almost adult private troops, and if there are some horse thieves on the border, they dare to report to the imperial court tens of thousands of troops to commit crimes, so as to ask for a large amount of military expenses. ”

"Then the court doesn't care?"

"Tube? Who doesn't know about this matter in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty! It's over with one eye and one eye closed, after all, it is still up to them to guard the north of our Central Plains! ”

The veteran said in a deep voice: "I think this feudal town, sooner or later, there will be disaster. But this has nothing to do with us, things that only big people think about, we just need to eat military salaries and do things. ”

A few people only dared to talk in a whisper, and a few people even smiled and said that they would go to the restaurant to eat and drink together for three days.

Fu Zhuo patted his companion on the shoulder and said that he was going to relieve himself under the tree, and the veteran smiled and waved at him.

Voldra left the wall, spared a corner, and walked under a tree. The armor was very heavy, so he put aside the sword in his hand first. Looking up at the sky with a long sigh of relief, he suddenly realized that under the moon, there was a black shadow that appeared above the bright moon.

The dark shadow is getting closer and closer.

Is it a bird?

Fu Zhuo rubbed his eyes, and he suddenly saw that the black shadow was gradually expanding. In the dark night, a huge black shadow seemed to cover the entire sky.

The moonlight was shrouded in black shadows, and everything I could see could not be seen. The patrolling Wuhou raised his head, and countless people looked at the figure.

The scales were shining, the face was angry, the beard was flying, and a huge dragon head appeared in Fu Zhuo's sight.

Fu Zhuo's heart was beating wildly, and he was about to scream, but suddenly there was a loud bang that shook his heart.

That's a dragon.

Dragons are rarely seen, but they can be found in some legendary stories.

The dragon was huge, with wings outstretched, and half the size of a square meter. There was a burst of coercion from the huge body, and the wind swept around.

This dragon has nine heads.

Nine dragon heads, opening their mouths at the same time.

More than a dozen carriages were sucked into the dragon's mouth at the same time.

The local official's lieutenant panicked, and the general shouted and pulled out the saber at his waist.

Subsequently.

The general and his subordinates, the right guard, totaled one hundred and twenty people.

was slapped to the ground by the nine-headed demon dragon.

The dragon's claws flew by, and the entire street was about to be torn off, mixed with human corpses.

Call!

The demon dragon soared into the air and escaped above the nine heavens.

Fu Zhuo was stunned for a while, and he hurriedly ran to the place where he had been.

There were corpses everywhere, or rather, it was impossible to tell whose corpses it was.

Under the dragon's claws, more than a hundred people, all of them were smashed into pieces, and their flesh and blood were blurred. Even the strongest Bright Light Armor was shattered.