Xu Fengnian, under the escort of the eight hundred white horse Yicong, did not go straight to Hutou City according to the original plan, so as to dispatch in the center of the Huaiyang Guandu Protectorate, but shouted to a place further south, with a beautiful scenery that can rarely be called a beautiful mountain and clear water in the North Liang Road, with abundant water, steep mountains, and a geographical victory. It is here that Beiliang wants to build a more majestic city than Hutou City, and the giant trees that have been collected from the deep mountains of Nanzhao in Xishu and stored in Beiliang for many years have almost hollowed out countless boulders from the Tianshan peaks of Lantau Cave and transported them along the wide post road. Under the decisive command of the young feudal king, with the Qingliangshan Palace, the Sanzhou Assassin's Mansion and the garrisons in various places as the main force, almost the entire Beiliang Road except for Liuzhou was moved by this new city, like a majestic qi machine in the master's body, and began to run rapidly. Xincheng by Xu Fengnian personally set up the post of master craftsman, Li Gongde and a Mo family tycoon as the governor, four Liangzhou Thorn Shi Wang Peifang, who was half a grade higher in the history of the assassin, Wang Linquan of the former Qingzhou God of Wealth, a total of six people, served as the deputy supervisor involved in specific affairs, and mobilized all the garrisons south of the Liangzhou border pass in one go, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers under the age of 50 in the three states, all of them settled here, broke ground, and were in full swing.

Now in Beiliang, the only person who can give orders to Xu Fengnian must be Xu Weixiong, who has just been named Princess Fujing by the Liyang Imperial Court. In the twilight of the setting sun, Xu Fengnian and Xu Weixiong and the powerful governors and deputy eunuchs walked slowly along the riverbank together, and the Mo family giant who walked out of Qingliang Mountain and entered the WTO with Yang Guangdou, the assassin of Liuzhou, could not get away for the time being, and Li Gongde, who was also one of the governors, naturally had to be present to tell the young feudal king about the process of building a new city. In the past few years, Li Gongde can be said to have tasted all kinds of life, first he was promoted to the second grade of the economic envoy, and became the leading frontier official of the Liyang Dynasty, and then the chair under the ass was not hot, and he met Beiliang to "change the dynasty" The turbulent pattern, sure enough, Xu Beitong took away the title of Lingzhou Assassin that he firmly held concurrently, and then Song Dongming served as the deputy envoy of the unruly system, sitting in Qingliang Mountain, in the eyes of Beiliang officialdom, it was naturally the handiwork of the new Liang King out of consideration of checks and balances, but just when everyone mistakenly thought that Li Gongde was going to roll up and cover himself soon, the young vassal king immediately used Li Gongde as the governor of Xincheng, and the bleak scene of the mansion in the early spring of the second year of Xiangfu was still vivid, and now many officials began to regret that they did not take the opportunity to burn the cold stove。 And after Li Gongde rushed here, he also judged the two of them like before, and slept with the Mo family giant, so that even Tian Peifang, who was the most important health preservation, also suffered a lot.

Li Gongde said with a dry mouth, and casually took off the kettle mixed with multi-flavored fire-dispelling Chinese medicine from his waist, poured a mouthful, and then said with heartfelt emotion: " The prince, who has been a magistrate in Beiliang for most of his life, is digging out his mind to ponder the way to be an official, even when he sits in the carriage after leaving, he is just secretly glad that the prince has not forgotten my Li Gongde, at that time, he lifted the curtain, looked at the iron cavalry guards sent by the palace, and then looked at the faces outside the car that were flattering again, and felt very comfortable, as if he had slapped them with his own hands, and he was happy. ”

Although Tian Peifang is a high-powered Liangzhou assassin, he is still not qualified to walk side by side with Xu Fengnian and Li Gongde, so he can only take a few steps away and follow behind them, because the master did not deliberately hide his voice, he listened to Tian Peifang in his ears, and after chewing, he really admired the old guy who was the most good official in Beiliang. Tian Peifang felt that he had benefited a lot, and he had the feeling that "listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years".

Li Gongde turned his head to look north at the address of the new city, and laughed softly: " Back then, he promised Hanlin to go to the border to join the army, in fact, at first he only thought that this baby son was messing around in the border army, relying on his father's relationship, it was almost the same to get a lieutenant, and when the time came, he returned to his hometown and returned to the place where his father's words worked, and he would be on the rise, and it would be better to be a general in the future, or to be a assassin in the future, than to fight for his life on the border, so when I heard that this kid had secretly become a white horse crossbowman, I was really scared to lose my soul, and I heard that Li Hanlin actually followed the Dragon Elephant Army into Gusai Prefecture, and it was also as a scout who opened the way, I was a father, during that time, I did not burn incense and worship the Buddha and ask for the BodhisattvaSo when this kid Hanlin came home alive, there were a few more young people around him who were regarded by him as brothers in life and death, and I wanted to scold him, but I was reluctant to scold him! I like Li Gongde, who is greedy for money and afraid of death, how did he give birth to such a son?!"

When Li Gongde said this, the pride on his face was extraordinarily heavy, and he laughed: "How did you give birth to such a son who made my father feel so ashamed?!"

Li Gongde, who was so busy that his lips were full of blood blisters, paused, "So when this rabbit cub, who has been a profligate since he was a child, suddenly one day, he said that he wanted to take the money he earned by cutting the head of the Northern Mangman, and invited me to the best restaurant in Lingzhou for a drink." My Li Gongde is comfortable, and I am more comfortable than being the dream envoy of the Northern Liang Dao. ”

Xu Feng said in a young voice: "Hanlin has been promoted from the crossbowman to the commander of the capital according to his merits, I persuaded him to join the army back then, in fact, he was the same as Uncle Li, just thinking that he would go to the border pass to calm down, so as to save Lingzhou from having nothing to do, and getting into trouble all day long, and the most difficult thing at that time must be Uncle Li, who is the new envoy." I didn't expect Hanlin to be so reborn and become the first-class warrior in the Northern Liangbian Army on his own. ”

Li Gongde suddenly lowered his voice and said hoarsely: "To tell you from the heart, if you can repent, you still don't want Hanlin to join the army, after all, I am such a son, if I don't have it, I will be gone, who will give me a pension and send me to the end of my life? Even if he Li Hanlin is a prodigal who has not made a lot of money in his life, in the eyes of the father, as long as he lives well, it is better than anything else." But there is no regret medicine in the world to buy, since Hanlin has come to this point, no matter how frightened my Li Gongde is every day, I can only do my best to obey the destiny of heaven. ”

Li Gongde took the lead in unruly stopping and turning around, looked at the city site, and muttered: "I, Beiliang, want to build a high-rise building on the flat ground here, and let this city dominate the border pass! I, Li Gongde, don't say anything to contribute to the Beiliang border army, but just take this opportunity to personally experience it, so that my son who is fighting on the front line has more to rely on." ”

A father's love is like a mountain, and all fathers in the world are the backers of their sons, from beginning to end, from old age to death.

Li Gongde, who was a little out of shape, laughed at himself, "Lord Wang, you will go back to do things first, otherwise you will spray the Mo family giant who is not very good-tempered with spit all over his face." ”

Xu Fengnian smiled and agreed, after the official hat made the adults leave, Wang Linquan and Tian Peifang, the deputy eunuchs, also took advantage of the situation to fill the position, especially Wang Linquan, who has a special identity, not only was he Xu Xiao's pawn when he was young, but his daughter Wang Chudong was one of the future concubines of Beiliang, but because of the hurried death of the old Liang King, this great event has always been dragged on the side of Qingliang Mountain. Now Beiliang Road, the two in-laws of the Beiliang Palace, it stands to reason that the children of the Lu family who were born in Qingzhou should get ahead, but with the passage of time, the ending is unexpected, and the Wang family with a copper smell has come to the fore, but the Lu family seems to be unadaptable, and there are almost few young children who serve as real power officials in Beiliang, and Lu Dongjiang, the contemporary head of the family who has the best calligraphy attainments, is even more depressed. The Beiliang officialdom had different views on this, and they were originally betting on Wang and Lu's two families, but after Wang Linquan became the deputy supervisor of Xincheng and Lu Dongjiang did not have the opportunity to take this position, it was completely one-sided. But maybe it is Qingliangshan for the Lu family's face not to be too embarrassed, one of Lu Dongjiang's nephews became the head of the degree responsible for the construction of grain and grass in the new city, different from the unattainable but temporarily set up deputy supervisor, in Beiliang This is an official position that is easy to turn positive, at this moment this Lu family disciple is more than 20 steps away closely followed, most of the men of the Lu family are suave, this person is no exception, today he deliberately took off his official robe, put on a new and bright brocade dress, in the team seems to be particularly above the customs, and there are several scholars of the same age with him。

Xu Fengnian actually recognized this person's identity at a glance, Lu Chengyan's cousin Lu Chengsong, the leader of the Lu family in Qingzhou among the Cheng characters, but Xu Fengnian was a little helpless about this person's standing out from the crowd, and it was the simplest truth to follow the customs when entering the countryside. Xu Fengnian sighed in his heart, and after chatting with his father-in-law Wang Linquan, he deliberately turned around and stopped, looking at Lu Chengsong, who was still separated by three rows of officials. This presumptuous move made all the officials, including Tian Peifang, a little unhappy in their hearts, and their cultivation was slightly inferior, and they had already frowned, you Lu Chengsong is a small seven-grade master, and it is just that you can meet the prince by virtue of the special status of the children of the Lu family, but where is the qualification to piggyback on outsiders?

Xu Fengnian turned a blind eye to this, and after Lu Chengsong saluted, he asked with a smile, "Uncle Lu is okay?"

After Lu Chengsong straightened his waist, his waist did not bend down, this small action made the nearby officials feel very disgusted, although under the influence of the general's informality, Bei Liang would not deliberately follow the rule of "the Son of Heaven cannot look up, and the princes cannot look at it level", and the violators will naturally not be exaggerated to the point of needing to stab themselves in the eyes to apologize, but Lu Chengsong's arrogance revealed in the bones of the Central Plains is really too disgusting. Lu Chengsong was still in the posture of no one else, neither humble nor arrogant: "Uncle is in good health, and he has to write more than a dozen words at home every day." ”

Even Tian Peifang couldn't help but roll his eyes, you kid have something to say, do you mean that Lu Boyi had to pretend to be idle because he couldn't display his ambitions? Tian Peifang squinted and stared at the young face he had seen at the banquet, and had an urge to burst into foul language, others don't know, his Liangzhou Thorn History is very clear, the prince intended to let Lu Dongjiang serve as a Liangzhou driver, but the head of the Lu family disliked to give people a hand, he was unhappy, and refused, and the prince proposed to go to the White Horse Academy, which is as famous as the Qinglu Cave Academy, to be the mountain master, Lu Dongjiang was still unhappy, and Tian Peifang was still unhappy at that time for himself to occupy the "pit" of the Liangzhou Thorn History There was still some guilt, and he personally set up a banquet to invite Lu Boyi, but as a result, none of the men of the Lu family of Lu Dongjiang's generation were present, only Lu Chengsong, a young man who had not grown up, entered the mansion, on the other hand, Wang Linquan, who is equivalent to Lu Dongjiang's identity, is also a relative of the emperor of Qingliang Mountain, which time he meets people is not all kind? What's wrong with the reader, I, Tian Peifang, or Yao Baifeng, have praised a few words of the reader, is it possible that your Qingzhou scholar surnamed Lu is expensive in the world, and my Beiliang scholar is not worth anything? In the Liyang Temple, among the older generation, there are Yao Baifeng, who is in charge of the Guozijian, Yan Jiexi, a scholar of the Imperial Palace, and even if the white-eyed wolf Jin Lanting is not mentioned among the young people, there is also Sun Yin, who is already ranked in the center of Chen Wang and the famous Jinghua?

Xu Fengnian said with a pleasant face: "Now the establishment of a deputy envoy is a rule of the imperial court, and the deputy envoy of Song has always complained to me about the heavy affairs, and he can't be busy alone." After all, Beiliangdao is different from other places, and it must not be difficult to have a proper deputy envoy with the imperial court. ”

Lu Chengsong, who heard the sound outside the strings, inevitably looked excited, but he glanced at Wang Linquan standing beside Xu Fengnian for the first time, and the latter remained silent.

Then Lu Chengsong introduced to Xu Fengnian: "Lord Wang, this is Zhang Huanzhi, who is very famous in the Jiangnan Shilin, and his piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are exquisite, especially the mountains and rivers are far and near, and there is a tendency to be thousands of miles away. Moreover, if Zhang Huanzhi participated in the imperial examination, he would definitely be able to win the top three places, so he gave up his bright future and came to Beiliang alone. ”

Compared with the famous and romantic Lu Chengsong, the young scholar named Zhang Huanzhi is much more restrained, and he saluted respectfully: "Zhang Huanzhi, a grass man, is sincerely afraid when he sees the prince. ”

Tian Peifang carefully observed his words and expressions, as long as the prince showed a trace of dissatisfaction, he could let this young man named Zhang Huanzhi sit on the cold bench in the Beiliang officialdom.

Xu Fengnian had already looked at Zhang Huanzhi, and said with a smile after hearing this: "It's hard for you." ”

Zhang Huanzhi was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said in a trembling voice: "Don't dare." After arriving in Beiliang, I saw and heard it with my own eyes, and I knew that Beiliang was very different from my impression. ”

Xu Fengnian laughed, turned around and continued to move forward, and it didn't take long for Tian Peifang, Wang Linquan, and others to go back to do things, only walking side by side with Xu Weixiong on the riverside, and not far away was the white horse Yicong who was in charge of guarding.

Xu Feng asked in a young voice, "Xuanyuan Qingfeng took the initiative to contact the water room?"

Xu Weixiong nodded and said: "Daxueping first contacted Liu Nirong of the Fish and Dragon Gang at that time, and Wutong Courtyard and Fushui Fang were a little hasty, so we planted many spies with Jianghu identities among those three passers-by, and by the way, these dead soldiers from other places moved back to Beiliang, and they were responsible for guiding speech." ”

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "No wonder Xuanyuan Qingfeng said that he wanted to fight and let me lose to her, if I knew that there was such a stubble, I would have agreed." This favor is not small. ”

Xu Weixiong asked, "How are you after meeting Mr. and his party?"

Xu Fengnian shook his head and said: "After all, the old gentleman is still holding the identity of the Shangyin School Palace, and he can't help himself in every move, and being able to come to Beiliang has already crossed the bottom line of the Liyang Zhao Room." I guess Qi Yanglong will soon make countermeasures in the capital and release the news, just waiting for Mr. Han to take over the position of the Great Sacrifice Wine after returning from his travels. ”

Xu Weixiong turned his wheelchair, stopped behind and looked at the river, and said softly: "Mr. deliberately did not enter Liangzhou City at that time, and I knew that Mr. had made up his mind." If Mr. enters the city, we will be disappointed, because it means that Mr. really has no desires and will return to the palace with all his disciples. Since the suspicion was shown to the Liyang Imperial Court, it means that at least one disciple will quietly stay in Beiliang. ”

Xu Fengnian said in surprise: "Xu Huang, Sima Can, as long as one of them stays, it's very good." ”

Xu Weixiong probably remembered the time spent studying in Shangyin School Palace in those years, and he was a little distracted.

Xu Fengnian said softly: "Don't worry, the old gentleman is still very strong, and he has ridden a horse for ten miles." ”

Xu Weixiong raised his head and glared, "You don't know how to dissuade?!"

Xu Fengnian rolled his eyes and said: "At that time, the old gentleman relied on the old man and asked me to send them twenty miles away, I was in a hurry to Huaiyang Pass, and Xu Huang was already desperately stopping them, so I didn't say anything." ”

Speaking of this, Xu Fengnian smiled evilly: "The old gentleman only let me send ten miles in the end, and he said that it was my heart, but I think in fact, the old gentleman really can't bear it." ”

The corners of Xu Weixiong's mouth curled.

Xu Fengnian squatted down next to the wheelchair, rubbed his temples, and sighed: "Why is the Lu family not enlightened." Could it be that the intelligence of the entire family is focused on the two of them? Wang Linquan is not a fuel-efficient lamp, although he has been standing by and watching, he is quite kind, and he has not fallen into the well for the Lu family, but he is barely a family, if Wang Linquan can take a step back, Qingliang Mountain will also live a lot in peace. ”

Xu Weixiong asked calmly: "So you deliberately proposed to let Lu Dongjiang be the deputy envoy of the chicken ribs and beat Wang Linquan in person?"

Xu Fengnian said bitterly: "It's a side knock, but if I ignore the Lu family again, this wealthy family who does not hesitate to move into Beiliang in the hands of Lu Lao, I'm afraid that it won't take three or four years for the local officials in Beiliang to eat all the bones." When did you say this, even my Wutong Courtyard is secretly selling calligraphy, painting and antiques in exchange for salt, iron and grain from other places, this Lu family is good, the gold and silver that the old worshippers have worked hard to save, and they have bought more than 30 pieces of calligraphy and painting alone, since there is no choice to take root in our Beiliang, even if they are like Wang Linquan, and those families who moved out of Beiliang bought land at a low price. Is this a vassal and elegant situation? Everyone is complacent there, and they feel that they have taken advantage of it......"

Xu Weixiong suddenly gloated and said: "Actually, you underestimate Wang Linquan's life, this God of Wealth has quietly bought a lot of priceless calligraphy and paintings at a low price since the beginning of the spring, and it should be to surrender his identity to the Lu family. ”

Xu Fengnian said with annoyance: "Sister, why didn't you say this kind of thing earlier?"

Xu Weixiong smiled and said, "Blame me." ”

Xu Fengnian immediately raised his hands, "It's me who acted abruptly." ”

Xu Weixiong sneered: "Tang abrupt? Our Beiliang King will still do things abruptly? Otherwise, how could he fight with the world's second Tuoba Bodhisattva from the northern part of the Western Regions all the way to Snow Lotus City, and the fight is called a hearty and earth-shaking, which is really majestic." I still want to let someone make a 'No. 1 in the world' plaque, and hang it at the gate of Qingliang Mountain when I turn around. If you think the four words "number one in the world" are cheesy, how about 'invincible'? Isn't it more domineering?"

Xu Fengnian knew the temperament of this second sister, where did he dare to only add fuel to the fire, he pulled a grass from the ground with a sad face, bounced off the soil and put it in his mouth.

Xu Fengnian suddenly sighed with emotion: "A huge Beiliang, in all aspects, it's not a dog to be in charge for three years......"

Xu Weixiong stretched out his hand and slapped him on the head, "Who is the dog?!"

Xu Fengnian said helplessly: "I don't have the second half of the sentence, just wanted to say that it was not easy for our father to be in charge?"

Xu Weixiong looked at the sky and whispered, "Yes." ”

Xu Fengnian, who was originally squatting, simply sat on the ground and slowly chewed the grass roots.

Xu Weixiong didn't think of a little song that had never spread.

Back then, she and his sister married Jiangnan.

On that day, there was a young man in the Wutong Courtyard, knocking on the wine bowl with chopsticks.

Send you thousands of miles until the mountains become flat.

Don't hurt and leave, please drink six or two.

One or two wish you a rainy and oily umbrella in the south of the Yangtze River.

I hope you can gently shake the fan in the hot summer.

I hope you don't forget to add clothes in winter.

Four, two, may you gather more every year without separation.

May you be free of illness and worry-free, and your heart will always be wide.

Six, two may you be happy without wind or rain.

Six, two, three.

The remaining three.

I'm in the northwest, pass after pass.

Separated from you, mountain after mountain.

Finally, I wish you peace.

Xu Weixiong exhaled a long breath, turned his head and said softly: "Don't do stupid things in the future, I will let my father and mother ...... Also, there are your sister's worries. ”

Xu Fengnian snorted, then spit out the grass roots, looked into the distance and said softly: "Tuoba Bodhisattva went to Liuzhou, Huang Man'er is there, I just don't worry." ”

Xu Weixiong lowered his head, his expression could not be seen clearly, the breeze was blowing, and the hair on his forehead was undulating.

Xu Fengnian stood up with a smile, "Sister, I'm going to Huaiyang to close." While Tuoba Bodhisattva is not at the border, I will personally go to Hutou City. Sister, don't worry, this time you will definitely not be rash, as long as you see a bad opportunity, the wind will be tight!"

Xu Weixiong raised his head and said inexplicably: "Call Second Sister!"

Xu Fengnian scratched his head, "It's all the same." ”

Xu Weixiong waved his hand, "Go, when you get to Hutou City, twist him hundreds or thousands of Beimang heads!"

Xu Fengnian laughed and said, "This is what you said personally." ”

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Three days later, in the twilight, when a person's figure appeared at the head of Hutou City, the Beimang army, which had been besieging the city day and night for more than a month, suddenly withdrew its troops and made an unprecedented truce.

Looking at that person from afar, the whole army of Beimang was terrified.

At dawn the next day, the wind was blowing, and Dong Zhuo, the king of the North Courtyard, rode under the dense Beimang iron armor guard, but still only dared to take a hundred steps out of the battle, looking at the head of the tiger head city from afar, he did not have any grandiose words, just raised his arms high, and then waved down heavily.

The most tragic battle in the second year of Xiangfu began.