After the battle, Lu Yunchang was reluctant to follow the three of them to pick up the stumps and severed remains of those famous swords, the young man really couldn't understand that the immortal master had such a family background, why did he still care about firewood, rice, oil and salt like a housewife. Wang Sheng is not like Lu Yunchang who has no heart and lungs, and he has a lot of sadness when he picks up the sword and holds the sword, Lu Yunchang is a swordsman who looks down on swordsmanship, but she is different, and she sees dozens of divine soldiers who were once famous and shocked the rivers and lakes destroyed, and it is inevitable that she will feel angry. When Lu Yunchang threw the last broken sword into the carriage, he caught a glimpse of Wang Sheng's unguarded appearance, and laughed like a girl, that is, the cow is taller and the horse is bigger, and it is not smart at all. Wang Sheng was angry, so he stretched out his hand and grabbed the goose yellow on his waist, and in an instant, the sword aura was rampant, which should not be underestimated. The bold Lu Yunchang was not afraid at all, grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, his palm swirled around on the handle of the Great Frost Long Knife, his eyes were hot, and he asked Wang Sheng if he wanted to fight, who would win and be the eldest apprentice of the Immortal Master. Wang Sheng's face changed, he didn't speak, for a while the pair of young men and girls were deadlocked, the old spy couldn't stand such a childish infighting, so he had to fight fifty boards each, so that the two little cubs knew the importance of the road, and never thought that the young vassal king not only did not persuade peace, but instead added fuel to the fire and made them make a vow to fight three years later, and they were at their own risk. Afterwards, the old spy asked the reason privately, Xu Fengnian smiled and deliberately let the two children be whetstones for each other, and they would not hide their secrets from both parties, and would respectively award the best swordsmanship and sword skills in the world, and he also wanted to see the victory or defeat of this sword battle.

The carriage traveled to the border of Youzhou, Lu Yunchang heard a rush of horses' hooves that had never been heard in other states, single but extremely heavy, the young man quickly let go of the reins, jumped on the horse's back, and looked forward to it, and saw a scene that made the young man unforgettable for the rest of his life, hundreds of fine horsemen were all white horses and white armor, wearing cool knives and crossbows, and the undulating amplitude of the horse's back was absolutely consistent with the horse's hooves landing, no wonder galloping on the post road, only heard the sound, like a war horse running. Beiliang Dama, Xujia Liang knife, these two are the treasures coveted by other vassal kings in Liyang, Lu Yunchang is no better than the lonely and unheard of Wang Sheng, Emperor Wu City is mixed, and the curious Lu Yunchang has a rough dabble in Jianghu affairs and temple affairs, all the way to the west, the young man probably guessed the identity of the fairy boy, but as a Jianghu Erlang in the alleys and alleys of the East China Sea, he never knew the scenery of the northwest side, nor could he imagine the majesty of the Northwest Xu family's iron cavalry。 For a while, the young man was a little stupid, and he only felt that he practiced knives behind closed doors, and it was an embroidery knife to practice back and forth, so it was better to go to the border to join the army and practice a murder knife.

Half of the eight hundred white horse Yi came, seeing King Liang, and at the same time dismounted and knelt down with a knife, Xu Fengnian glanced at it casually, mostly new faces, this is not surprising, most of the original group of personal guard cavalry, most of them as confidants and cronies scattered and infiltrated into the military ranks in various places, especially the batch of white horse righteous servants who followed themselves to Tiemen Pass to intercept and kill the prince Zhao Kai, most of them have a good official body, even if the official rank is not high, but they have some real power in hand, some battlefields show young people, such as the ruthless Hong Shuwen, it is a carp jumping over the dragon gate, and the future is bright. Xu Fengnian raised his arm, motioned for the white horse light riders to mount and follow, and continued to move forward.

Xu Fengnian did not go straight to the palace of the Liangzhou Domain, but turned to Lingzhou in the south halfway, only taking Wang Sheng and Lu Yunchang two children, and the old spy followed Bai Ma Yi to enter Liangzhou first, and then went to Chu Lushan's water room to "point Mao". Xu Fengnian's trip was to see the orange thorn history who was abducted by himself from Beimang, Xu Beitong. The solar terms in the northwest are connected by spring and autumn, so it is called the long winter without summer, not that there is no hot season, the hot time is often much hotter than other places, the earth is high and the sky is near, there is nowhere to hide, the sun is naturally ruthless, but the current is approaching the beginning of autumn, there is no sign of a cool breeze coming, which makes Lu Yunchang, who is not accustomed to the water and soil, a little sick, Wang Sheng, who has been tortured by the bottom life, is still good, and he is as diligent and unremitting as ever in practicing swords. Huangnan County passing through the south is where the Beiliang granary is located, the reed stream is continuous, the water and grass are fertile, it is not only the throat of the plug, but also the waist of the Liangxi corridor, here and now, the middle rice and corn have begun to fill and mature, the late rice has also begun to jointed and pregnant, the cotton cracks the bell and spit the flocculent, a unique style of the south of the Yangtze River, the two children are amazed, all the way south, the two children have always been more eye-catching than Xu Fengnian, one carried a white sheath knife, one carried a backpack, not to mention, there were seven or eight swords tied to the body, it was not like a young ranger, but it was like a seller of inferior swords。

Before the three of them entered the city of Lingzhou, they met a dart team from north to south on the official road, everyone rode a high-headed horse, and the carriage was particularly extravagant, with the banner of Liu Zi, and the flag was embroidered with a black gold fish dragon. The dart team somehow had a dispute with a group of foreign scholars, it stands to reason that Bei Liang is very dependent on going to Liang Shizi at the moment, as long as there are a few taels of real talent in the belly, they will be given reuse, and ordinary people should retreat, but the dart team didn't say a word, so they beat the brightly dressed soldiers to cry dad and call mother, and after eating pain, all of them looked resentful. Lu Yunchang was very clear about the context of the rivers and lakes, and when he saw the flag, he said with envy: "Wang Mutou, look at it with wide eyes, it is the Fish and Dragon Gang, and now one of the top ten sects in the rivers and lakes!" Although it is not as noble as the Kuaixue Mountain Villa on the edge of Chunshen Lake, and it is not as noble as the moonless building in Huishan Daxueping, but the Fish and Dragon Gang dares to accept any people in the rivers and lakes, no matter whether you are a Jiangyang thief or a green forest and grass coward, as long as you have the ability, you can get a position in the Fish and Dragon Gang, so this gang is famous for its many people, no one takes it seriously, a few gangs other than Beiliang, as long as they provoke the Fish and Dragon Gang, even if they are separated by a state, the Fish and Dragon Gang dare to have one or two hundred people under the banner of walking darts, and copy the guys all the way to the past. Hey, the local government doesn't dare to fart yet. ”

Xu Fengnian was indifferent, and then saw the thorn history Xu Beitong at the old site called Jiahe Cang outside Lingzhou City, which was once the largest granary in the ancient world, and the scale is not inferior to the two royal granaries located in Tai'an City and Guangling Road in the current dynasty. It's just that Jiahe Cang has not been used for several dynasties, and it is completely deserted, and there is a big shelf. When Li Gongde, the envoy of the Strategy, concurrently served as the assassin of Lingzhou, he thought about repairing this warehouse, but unfortunately no one responded, and it was difficult to scream alone, so he could only give up. First, it takes a huge amount of silver to repair the Jiahe warehouse, and secondly, it takes great courage to transfer grain into the warehouse, and then the grain enters the official warehouse, and the government is equivalent to a big chicken rib, which is equivalent to spending silver every day to raise grain, and the ordinary granary can also be replaced with new grain to earn a windfall of night grass, but once the Jiahe warehouse is restored, it is destined to be a piece of military aircraft that even the young vassal king has to stare at. In the view of officialdom oil, good words are said to be once and for all, bad words are good to say, Lingzhou officialdom Those old foxes dare not stand by openly, but secretly put a lot of small stumbling blocks, in case Jiahe Cang really tosses up to the stunned Qing, but it will cut off countless people's financial roads, a Jiahe warehouse, not only can collect the taxes of the entire Lingzhou to pay for officials and local military salaries, but also can save food prices and prepare for famine relief, which makes those private and arrogant private warehouses take advantage of natural disasters and man-made disasters every now and then, and obtain huge profits from themFrom top to bottom, from the officials to the officials to the miscellaneous servants, the government tacitly did not work hard, and often gave birth to some rights and wrongs that hindered the progress of the project, and Lord Xu, who was ridiculed as the assassin of Liangzhou, was not angry about this, let alone kill chickens and monkeys, but borrowed two thousand armor soldiers from the Lingzhou general, and then asked for three thousand conscripts from the magistrates of Huangnan County and Longqing County who could control it, almost completely leaving aside the orthodox officialdom of Lingzhou, and at the same time sending Lingzhou to drive Song Yan to rectify the large and small official warehouses in Lingzhou, Probably the officialdom of Shanglingzhou did not suffer from unbearable turmoil, but a small group of bigwigs with clear eyes finally realized it and began to go in and out of the much deserted mansion.

Jiahe was heavily guarded outside the warehouse, and Xu Fengnian did not reveal his identity, but just asked a young lieutenant to help spread the word, saying that the lord of Bishan County, Rouge County, Youzhou, was an old acquaintance of Lord Shi. Xu Beitong, who had been sleeping on the site of Jiahe Cang for a long time, came quickly, but he was more dusty than Xu Fengnian, the youngest person in the history of Beiliang, who looked tired, but the whole person's spirit was good, and he was not surprised after seeing Xu Fengnian, and walked side by side with him silently, which made the captain startled. Jiahe Cang is in full swing, Xu Beitong is regarded as the loser of Lingzhou Tianzi, lifted his sleeve and wiped his plastered face, and said while walking: "Jiahe Cang is the second warehouse of Daqin eight hundred years ago, only inferior to Luoyang Cang, said that it is a granary, in fact, it is tantamount to a city with both offense and defense, Cangcheng is one and a half miles long from east to west, two miles wide from north to south, more than 300 granaries, and no less than 50 granaries, but this is not counted, when renovated, you can clearly see the source of food described in the ancient brick inscriptions, The year and month of entering the cellar and the name of the position of the Li official, the various years of the Great Qin Dynasty have declined, everything has traces to follow, I originally thought that it was a vice to worship the past and depreciate the present, but after arriving at Jiahe Cang, I realized that there are some things in the Dao, and the ancients did it better. ”

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "The wisdom of the people is gradually opening, the good and the bad are mixed, otherwise the Taoist ancestors will not put forward the idea of abandoning wisdom without sacredness, and the saying that the world is declining will be more and more mentioned in the future." There are already few scholars in Beiliang, but they are not the same as all kinds of ingenuity in the officialdom, if you are in the Jiangnan side where the Hao valve is intertwined, you will really not be able to show it. Here, after all, there is still military attache suppression, and the time for civilian officials to rise is short after all. ”

Xu Beitong sighed and said in a deep voice: "As long as the Jiahe warehouse is completed, and there is the autumn harvest in Sanzhou this year as a grain source, it is enough to support the grain and grass needed for the border war for two years, but the premise is that the counties and counties around the country do not overwhelm the layers of hands, and the civil Yicang retracts its claws and does not mix it, otherwise it is a luxury to say two years, half a year." Time does not wait for me, in fact, if you can slowly figure it out, I can even let the local tyrant grain merchants go to other states to buy grain at a high price to fill the cold, this bit of silver is nothing, once the war starts, not to mention gold and silver, even the land is not as valuable as ready-made grain. It's just that Beiliang has been stable for 20 years, and it has become the confidence that they can look in, which is really ridiculous. Those who brought their seed grandchildren out of the country with their families even let out the words, allowing the grain stored in Yicang to rot, and did not sell a grain of good rice to Jiahe Cang at a high price. This reminds me of my grandfather's talk about the battle of will between neighbors, if you only get one penny of silver, your neighbor can get three cents of silver, that is, I would rather not earn a penny together, than other families get those two points. ”

No matter how indignant he was in his heart, Xu Beitong's tone was always light and light.

Xu Fengnian stopped at the front door of a granary with blue gray ancient tiles, and said with a smile: "Lingzhou is so interested and disgusting to you, it's up to them, but I can guarantee you that the autumn grain from Liangyou and Liangyou will definitely fill the Jiahe warehouse." At that time, the guys who escaped the catastrophe when I was the general of Lingzhou will just settle the account for you after the autumn. Anyway, from today onwards, the so-called priceless antiques, as they take them out of Beiliang Road, how much can be moved, but a tael of silver, gold, and a pound of white rice don't want to be taken out. ”

Xu Beitong sneered very unceremoniously: "Whimsical, do you think you can do it? When the water is clear, there are no fish, those generals and captains guarding the border, who doesn't have a family to take care of them?"

Xu Fengnian said helplessly: "It's better than doing nothing, right?"

Xu Beitong's expression was a little soothed and nodded. The vassal kings around him swaggered away from Lingzhou, but in fact, they didn't really touch the reverse scales of Lingzhou officialdom, and there were double talismans of Lingzhou General and His Royal Highness the Prince, no one really dared to tear their faces, but when Xu Beitong personally presided over Lingzhou, where dragons and snakes were mixed, it was inevitable to touch the bottom line of the local generals. Moreover, Xu Beitong is not an old man in Beiliang like Li Gongde, and he is suddenly powerful, even if Song Yan and the four major Wang clans help him to relieve the siege, and there is a Lingzhou general who "stands by the knife" for him, but the officialdom has always been complex and unpredictable. Xu Beitong was in the middle of it, as long as he made a difference, he would naturally make enemies on all sides, Chen Xiliang, who was dealing with the salt administration and Cao Yun at that time, was a lesson from the past, Chen Xiliang was not without good medicine at that time, but what if he had a strategy? Not everywhere did he hit a wall? Xu Beitong sneered in his heart, his temperament was soft, everyone could be bullied, how could he stand on his own feet on the Beiliang Road, where the people were majestic? In Liuzhou, the fourth state of the land of exiles, even if Chen Xiliang successfully defended the city and was not destroyed by nearly 10,000 horse thieves, he also left behind the comment of an indecisive woman, even if he had the opportunity to preside over a territory in the future, he would not want to make achievements in local political affairs.

Xu Fengnian suddenly asked: "The Fish and Dragon Gang is frequently engaged in border trade, has it exceeded the rules?"

Xu Beitong said: "There are spies staring at it, since there is no spy report to the desk of the Assassin's Mansion, there must be no forbidden." ”

After a pause, Xu Beiji frowned and asked, "Have you crossed the boundary?"

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be yet." ”

Xu Beitong said calmly: "The woman surnamed Liu has not visited me so far, probably to avoid suspicion, but such an unatmospheric woman is a good family member of a second-rate gang in a state, and she is destined to be the leader of a big gang that ranks among the best in the entire world." ”

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "It's not her fault, it's hard for her, she should have been an ordinary heroine." ”

Xu Beitong said suddenly: "Since you came back alive, why don't you hurry back to Qingliang Mountain?" I have already prepared the thorns for you." ”

Xu Fengnian said bitterly: "Second sister, it's useless to take the guilt of Jing. ”

Xu Beitong gloated unabashedly.

Then Xu Beitong asked for a large portion of food for the king of Beiliang who had not yet eaten, Jiahe Cang has always treated everyone equally, pickled vegetables are steamed buns, Xu Beitong and Xu Fengnian are squatting to eat, Lu Yunchang sat cross-legged with a knife very arrogantly, and asked for a pot of the well-known Beiliang native green ant wine, but his face was flushed, Wang Sheng tied his sword with a box on his back, and he couldn't squat, so he could only stand.

Xu Beitong smiled and asked, "Are all your apprentices?"

Xu Fengnian snorted.

Lu Yunchang said with a hippie smile: "This Lingzhou official master, the boy's surname is Lu Mingyunchang, he is a native of the East China Sea Wu Emperor City, and he is the master's eldest disciple. ”

Xu Beitong listened to the words of the young man Wen Crepe and smiled.

Wang Sheng snorted coldly.

Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "It is the second apprentice and the third apprentice, and the eldest disciple is a shepherd boy, but now he is still with Xu Yanbing." ”

Lu Yunchang glared and said, "What, Wang Sheng is not a big disciple yet?" Immortal Master, then what am I going to do when I fight with Wang Sheng in three years, fighting for the second child is also fighting for the second child, it's not interesting." ”

Xu Fengnian said indifferently: "Drink your wine." ”

The young man drinks obediently, and he respects his teacher.

Xu Beitong asked softly, "What do you say over there in Guangling Road?"

Xu Fengnian said calmly: "It's been just a few days. ”

Xu Beitong said with emotion: "Wolf smoke, does this also mean that someone in the temple of the Liyang Dynasty has ushered in the most faint afterglow." ”

Xu Fengnian snorted expressionlessly, "The old ones don't go, the new ones don't come." ”