In the territory of Yuzhou, on the shore of the river, Leyang City.

In a secret room somewhere in the city, a fat man like a ball of meat was listening to the report of his men. It was the height of summer, there were no windows in the secret room, and it was unusually hot, although there was a huge pot of ice in the room, but the sweat still flowed down the fat man's head like a waterfall, down the back of his ears and neck, and into the bright yellow satin gown, which looked unusually embarrassed.

This fat man is the person in charge of Yunqi City's intelligence, the commander of Jin Mancang Jin.

"Is there any news from Ning Yuchuan?"

"Commander, Beigong Mu led 20,000 gale horses to search around the Ning Yu River for many days, but nothing has been found so far. On the surface of Ningyuchuan Lake, the Beigong family and Jingzhou also requisitioned more than 1,000 fishing boats to pull nets for investigation, but so far there has been no harvest. The three princes personally took a boat to all parts of the lake every day, searching for no less than eight hours, and in this case, no one dared to slack off, but these days passed, and every day was still disappointed. ”

Hearing the report of his subordinates, Jin Mancang's eyes flashed a gloomy color, unlike the other commanders in Yunqi City, due to his identity, there was no intersection between him and the young city lord Shi Zhiyi, and the two had never even met, but this did not prevent him from caring about the young city lord.

In the army system of Yunqi City, more than half of them are the descendants of soldiers who participated in the defense of Yunqi City and the battle of the siege of Wushan to kill the Demon Emperor Huilong with Marshal Shi Xuanlai thousands of years ago.

However, Jin Mancang's ancestor was not born in the army, but the first batch of merchants who went north after the disappearance of the demons, and earned the first pot of gold between the Yueyin Grassland and Kyoto, and then settled in Yunqi City, and together with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under Marshal Shi, he became the first batch of residents of Yunqi City.

With the influx of more and more people from all directions, in order to avoid the disorderly growth of the number of residents in the city, as well as the problems of urban management and security caused by the rapid increase in population, Yunqi City has gradually strengthened the restrictions on the settlement of foreign population in the city.

For the common glory and memory of this city, as well as the transformation of Yunqi City from an invincible city to a commercial capital in the past thousand years, I am accustomed to seeing the rare treasures and customs from all corners of the mainland, and precipitate them together, casting the pride of every Yunqi City resident - that is the sense of glory and pride that I am proud of being a resident of Yunqi City.

Over the millennia, the Jin family's business has grown bigger and bigger, but with the increase in wealth, no amount of gold can no longer satisfy their heart's thirst for family glory. Yunqi City, which is based on martial arts, has an unusually strong martial style, and the military exploits of their ancestors are often the confidence of the children in the streets and alleys to brag and compare with each other.

Even an ordinary sergeant in the six guards of Yunqi City, the ancestors of his family may have participated in the battle to besiege and kill the Demon Emperor thousands of years ago, bathed in the glory of saving the human race, and these are exactly what the Jin family, who was born as a merchant, lacked.

Starting from Jin Mancang's great-grandfathers, the Jin family has joined the army one after another, but the six guards and one army in Yunqi City are strictly managed, and all promotions are based on strength and military merits, and the huge financial resources of the Jin family cannot help them in their careers in the army. Before Jin Mancang, his uncle Jin Zhengyang became the captain of the team of Jin Jinwei, which was already the highest achievement of the Jin family on the road to the army.

And when Jin Mancang enlisted in the army, he was extremely ordinary in martial arts, and it stands to reason that he was just a big-headed soldier in his life, but at that time, a colleague of his in the Longzhang Guard always thought that he was flexible and thoughtful, and he would definitely make great achievements in espionage.

And Jin Mancang later, he was really transferred to Yunqi City to be in charge of intelligence Ying Qiongwei, and then, as his colleague said, the business talent of the Jin family's bloodline was vividly exerted by him in espionage, and in just thirty years, he gradually grew from the lowest front-line personnel to the commander of Ying Qiongwei, one of the giants of Yunqi City's military and political system, which is a height that countless thousand-year-old military families have been difficult to reach in several lifetimes.

And the discerning colleague of Long Zhangwei at the beginning was Shi Huaichuan, the current city lord of Yunqi City, who entered the army incognito.

Whether it was his duty or his gratitude to the city lord for his kindness, Jin Mancang didn't want to see Shi Huaichuan's only son have no news of him, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

"Is there any important news from other aspects?" Jin Mancang continued to ask.

"On Bongan's side, Aoba used the six-winged lightning bee to send a message marked as urgent. ”

"Feng'an, the capital of Yongzhou?" Jin Mancang's nerves immediately tensed, and the sensitivity of more than thirty years of intelligence experience told him that this information must be extraordinary. Ying Qiongwei's current intelligence focus is on the banks of the Great River and the vicinity of the Ningyu River, and the attention to Feng'an, which is more than 2,000 miles away from the Great River, is not high, and the importance level of the intelligence is naturally not high, in this case, Aoba actually used the six-winged lightning bee to deliver the news, which in itself already shows that the importance of this information is far from the ordinary urgency.

"Yes, the intelligence said that the Beigong family dispatched four Gale Cavalry 10,000 regiments yesterday to surround Feng'an within 300 miles in the name of arresting the thief Shi Zhiqing, and pull the net for investigation. However, according to our intelligence, Shi Zhiqing was not near Feng'an at this time, so Aoba used some of our secret channels to learn that the real target of the Beigong family was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy. However, the specific identity of the teenager and the specific reason why he was pursued by the Beigong family could not be further confirmed. ”

"If Aoba's energy can't confirm his identity, that's right! This proves that this young man's identity is sensitive, even within the Beigong family, there are very few people who know the truth, and once his identity is leaked, it will have a huge impact on the Beigong family. ”

Combined with the age of this young man who was being hunted, the timing of the attack of the third prince in Ning Yuchuan, and the Beigong family's deliberate false news in an attempt to hide the world, Jin Mancang judged that this young man, Bacheng was Shi Zhiyi, the young city lord of Yunqi City, who he was looking for!

And why his own young city lord disappeared in Ningyuchuan, but appeared in Feng'an, which was more than two thousand miles away, this is not the focus of Jin Mancang's current concern. If the attack on the Three Princes was a huge conspiracy in itself, then nothing that seemed impossible could rule out the possibility of its existence.

The most urgent thing at the moment is how to assist the young city lord to get out of the siege of the Beigong family, not to mention that Jin Mancang judged that there was a possibility of eighty percent, even if it was only half a percent, it was worth the entire Feng'an branch of Ying Qiongwei to go all out!