When Xu Fengnian and Yu Dilong returned to the Fu family's horse team, they naturally didn't get any good faces, Xu Fengnian apologized to Feng Qianxiang, the latter borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, but he didn't have to pay attention to the unforgiving people, he knows that when he goes out, many familiar friends are multiple roads, and others ask for themselves today, maybe they will ask for others tomorrow. The caravan continued on, passing through the Horsehair Mountain, along a winding river that had been dry for many years, and Yu Dilong held a handful of green needle thatch and caragana in his hand, which he put in his mouth from time to time to chew out the pitiful juice. After apprenticeship, this master did not teach him much peerless martial arts, there are only seven ways to breathe, six exhale, only one, the master half-jokingly said, according to this stupid method of diligent practice, once the realm of transformation, it is equivalent to practicing martial arts in sleep, maybe one day you will be able to breathe into thunder. Yu Dilong just did it, and anyway, there was nothing this kid could do except exhale and inhale in the same way. Xu Fengnian rode on horseback, occasionally paying attention to Yu Dilong's breathing, and more often than not, he was wandering thousands of miles.

In addition to the spys who lurked in the water room at the beginning, the Ichthyosaur Gang also followed him from Huishan Daxueping into Beiliang Dakeqing Hongbi, and quietly entered it, and recently there was a little-known Shenjian Cave Lord Mi Fengjie with his finger and mystical means, and he was not allowed to sit in the worship position, and the dead woman Fan Xiaochai also hid in the shadows to protect Liu Nirong, who was already known as the most powerful and wealthy woman in the Beiliang rivers and lakes, of course, the guy who really paid out of his pocket to buy a large number of fields and mansions was he Xu Fengnian. Xu Fengnian even took out more than a dozen boxes of martial arts secrets from Tingchao Pavilion and allocated them to the Fish and Dragon Gang, although they are all second- or third-rate things, but it is enough for the people in the rivers and lakes to squeeze their heads and join the Fish and Dragon Gang, and now the Fish and Dragon Gang really has face, and no one dares to say that the tenth gang in the world is a group of rabble. Xu Fengnian does not expect these slippery Jianghu people who cherish their lives and names to work for Beiliang, but when the war starts, Beiliang needs a stable backyard, and the number of people has reached 2,000 Fish and Dragon Gang, and the worst can ensure the stability of Lingzhou's granary.

If the Ichthyosaurus Gang is just the icing on the cake, then the Fu family has been sending charcoal in the snow for 20 years in Beiliang! Fu Zhensheng's family, led by seven members of his father's generation, led the clansmen and cronies, and silently traveled all over the land of the three states of Beiliang, and even reached the Western Regions in the past few years. With the power of one family, eighty percent of the mines were found for Beiliang, but the Fu family also wondered why it was not difficult for most of these mines to "open the mountain", and why the Beiliang government only recorded it in the file, and sent a soldier to seal the mountain strictly, just not to mine. Fu Zhensheng's father once personally found a huge iron mine, and the annual iron smelting could reach 600,000 catties, and the total annual iron harvest of the Liyang Dynasty in the last years of Yonghui was only 6.5 million catties. Fu Zhensheng's father also helped Beiliang find a mercury source with a total annual income of 1,600 catties in Ganquan County, which is nearly 30% of the entire Liyang. In addition, there are three major "field pits" of copper production in Beiliang, Chengshui Field, Baoxing Field, and Jiannan Pit, and their present life is not the credit of the Fu family without exception. Why did Xu Xiao personally go to the mourning hall of the old man of the Fu family to pay respects? This is the reason, in the future, Liang Mang will start a war, and the competition is not only the number of border soldiers, with Bei Mang's national strength and Bei Liang's toughness, once they clash, both sides know that no one can make a feat of smashing the opponent to death with a hammer, the key is to see who has accumulated the family foundation, which can drag on for a longer time. Beiliang seems to be controlled by the arrogant generals in those places, which is like a private enterprise, and it is terminally ill, but in fact, Li Yishan has long proposed that "the benefits of the mountains and rivers will be exhausted by the outbreak" , so it has been a simple ban on mountains and mines, never reported to the imperial court, but through the local officials to fill their own pockets, the local government does not hesitate to pay a fixed amount of taxes to purchase relevant materials from outside Beiliang all year round, but the method is hidden, and they are all small transactions that accumulate over time, not too eye-catching, even if some people of insight on the court have noticed the clues, but it is not easy to ask the teacher, because not only the Beiliang Daoshan Emperor is far away, but the neighboring states of Lingzhou in Beiliang Youzhou, in addition to Gu Jiantang's old generals in commanding the military power, the local officials and offices have also been infiltrated in all directions, these ten years, those officials and mastersNot to mention that everyone is doing this kind of thing, which is already beneficial to the people's livelihood in the territory under their jurisdiction, and the law does not hold the people accountable, so it is difficult for the imperial court to smash down a hat of collaborating with the enemy and treason? When Xu Xiao was alive, which of the civil and military officials above the temple dared?

The horse team slowly marched forward against the wind and sand.

Xu Fengnian bit his lip.

Xu Xiao definitely didn't leave his son a mess Bei Liang.

It's a strong armor Beiliang!

Xu Fengnian glanced slightly, and saw Fu Zhensheng turning the horse's head, coming on horseback, and then walking side by side with him. Xu Fengnian looked at this young face that couldn't see the slightest bit of sophistication, and felt guilty, Fu Zhensheng's father found the gold mine west of Fengxiang Town, he himself stuck to the same place and continued to explore, so that his henchmen returned to Beiliang to report the good news, but he died at the hands of a group of horse thieves who roamed around, in addition to Fu Zhensheng's father, there were sixteen children of the Fu family who died in battle, and the body has not been found so far. And Fu Zhensheng, a Lingzhou disciple who was dragged down by the family, was once beaten by a group of local gentlemen in the alley at the door of his house after seeing an uneven road, and the Fu family did not complain to Beiliang because of this. The wind and sand were raging, Fu Zhensheng had to say loudly: "Xu Gongzi, there are still more than ninety miles away from Qingcang City, we plan to rush overnight and finish this journey in one go, and I hope Xu Gongzi can hold on." ”

Xu Fengnian nodded without hesitation and said with a smile: "It is reasonable for the guest to be the host." This time, my apprentice and I went to Qingcang City, thanks to Mr. Fu's care along the way, I hope to have the opportunity to invite you to drink in the future. ”

When Fu Zhensheng heard the title of "Mr.", he was obviously stunned for a moment, this is a well-deserved honorific title, and it is almost useless among his peers. What's more, he Fu Zhensheng has no hope of fame in this life, let alone the extravagance of going to the battlefield to win the military merits of the scholar and marquis, he only thinks about inheriting his father's legacy and continuing to travel all over the mountains and rivers of Beiliang, originally thought that he would not be called Mr. by outsiders in his life. For a while, he was a little embarrassed, and there was a heartfelt smile on his face, but it was too embarrassing for him Fu Zhensheng to greet a guy who was almost a stranger. However, Fu Zhensheng looked at that person's expression, for some reason, he seemed to feel a very strange sincerity, this kind of face could never be seen on the faces of the children of Lingzhou who were both group and xenophobic, those people, looking at themselves as the children of the Fu family who had no power or money, have always only had condescending ridicule and pity.

Xu Fengnian said: "The Linyu Cai Anshan and Fengxiang Ma Liuke to the west of Qingcang Military Town, these two local emperors are now subordinated to the Liuzhou Thorn Mansion, nominally one has become the Linyu City Mu, and the other has become the deputy general of Liuzhou, but in fact, they are all under the close surveillance of the Beiliang Army, and they dare not cause chaos. Your horse team will go to Fengxiang this time, and it should be much more peaceful than you imagined. ”

Of course, Fu Zhensheng didn't expect that there would be nearly a thousand iron horsemen to secretly escort his horse team, and he didn't dare to take it lightly at this time, but it was not good to dismiss the kindness of others in person, so he smiled.

After a moment of silence, Fu Zhensheng suddenly asked: "I take the liberty to ask, Xu Gongzi has a long qi, he must be a person who practices martial arts, but I don't know whether to practice swords or swords?"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "At first, I practiced swords, and later I also practiced swords. ”

Fu Zhensheng probably felt that this son-in-law, who must be a nobleman, was greedy and couldn't chew much, and he didn't know how to answer at the moment, so he held back for a long time, and could only say: "I have been practicing knives since I was a child, but I have never been able to enter the house." When we return to Lingzhou in the future, if we can still see each other, we might as well have a discussion. ”、

Yu Dilong sneaked around and grinned.

I thought to myself that this guy is really powerful, and he wants to learn martial arts from his master?

Xu Fengnian snorted, and then asked with a smile, "Why didn't I see your saber?"

Fu Zhensheng said with a smile: "I'm used to using a cool knife, but now we in Beiliang are not allowed to go out with a cool knife, so we can only find an ordinary short knife and stuff it in our bags." ”

Next, Fu Zhensheng really couldn't find a word, and continued to go to the front to lead the horse team to rush overnight, until late at night, the horse team finally arrived outside Qingcang City, Fu Zhensheng rode his horse to Xu Fengnian's side again, and said: "Xu Gongzi, we won't enter the city, don't pass by." ”

Xu Fengnian hugged his fists, "Have a good trip." ”

Fu Zhensheng was a little worried: "The city is forbidden in the middle of the night, how can Xu Gongzi enter the city?" Although there are elite cavalry patrols in the area of Qingcang City at this time, but after all, this place of exile has only been attached to Beiliang for a few days, and our horse team really can't spare manpower......

Xu Fengnian smiled straight and said, "It's okay, I have a proper way to enter the city." ”

Fu Zhensheng was inevitably speechless, and glanced at this person again, knowing that the military discipline on the Beiliang border of Ludao was extremely strict, but it was not comparable to the soldiers and horses in Lingzhou. Since this is the case, Fu Zhensheng stopped talking nonsense and said goodbye to each other.

Not long after the horse team bypassed Qingcang City, they heard an unusual sound of horses' hooves, not only Fu Zhensheng was worried, sitting on the back of the horse and looking nervously, and even pulled out the short knife, even Zhao Jiabao and Feng Qianxiang were also full of solemnity, especially a connoisseur in the horse team said that there were no less than thirty horses after listening to the sound on the ground, which made the Fu family horse team like a great enemy, in the land of the homeless people, as long as they could ride a horse in the past, they were all extremely difficult outlaws, horse fighting skills, only if they were single-handed, they could not even lose to the elite cavalry in the Beiliangbian army。 Although there are more than 100 people in the Fu family's horse team, Zhao Jiabao and Feng Qianxiang are also good at martial arts, but they really have to work hard, how can they not die, I am afraid that they will be even more afraid of getting into trouble, and they will be targeted by the horse thieves in the future, and it is difficult to say how many of them can arrive in Fengxiang Military Town alive along the way. However, a knight of the Fu family who temporarily acted as a spy hurried back, and his face was full of joy that could not be concealed, and he said loudly: "Shaodong, it is a standard dragon elephant ride, and it is our own people in Beiliang!"

Everyone was relieved and smiled at each other. The Dragon Elephant Army under the personal command of the little prince is the iron cavalry of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, and last year it fought the military towns in Beimanggu Saizhou, just like a strong man bullying the little lady.

The dragon elephant cavalry stopped at a hundred paces away, and only one knight with a long appearance continued to move forward, and turned over and dismounted, and walked forward quickly, this kind of move made the Fu family horse team feel confused, even if this marked dragon elephant cavalry team was patrolling outside the city at night, seeing that their identity was almost ordinary people, they didn't need to be treated so solemnly, right? Although Fu Zhensheng and Zhao Jiabao Feng Qianxiang didn't know what to do, they all hurriedly dismounted to greet each other, the sturdy armor commander not only wore a new-style Beiliang knife on his waist, but also held an additional one in his hand, and asked the three people led by the Fu family in a deep voice: "Who is Fu Zhensheng Fu Gongzi?"

Fu Zhensheng replied respectfully: "I am." ”

The standard commander had a hideous scar on his face that slanted his entire face, squeezed out a smile for the first time, strode forward, handed the knife to Fu Zhensheng with both hands, and said, "Our king ......"

The standard commander hurriedly swallowed the second word that he almost blurted out back into his stomach, and said, "Our son, I said that in order to thank you for this escort, I want to give Fu Gongzi this knife." ”

Fu Zhensheng took the new cool knife that even many miscellaneous generals in Lingzhou only heard of its name, and the standard commander grinned: "Our son let you rest assured that the sword, it is difficult to say when you return to Lingzhou, but as long as it is in Liuzhou, no one dares to make irresponsible remarks about this." ”

Fu Zhensheng was stunned on the spot, the standard chief mistakenly thought that this kid was timid, for fear that his words would not work, and he was worried that if he caught someone else, he would not be able to eat and walk around, he was famous for his irritable temperament in the Dragon Elephant Army, and he was almost about to go crazy, but he quickly suppressed it and tried his best to maintain a "pleasant face" , but in fact, it has already made Zhao Jiabao and Feng Qianxiang feel a strong murderous arrogance, not to mention Fu Zhensheng, who is face to face with this standard commander, almost thought that this standard commander turned his face and killed people, the more than 30 solemn and cold elite horses behind him, in the moonlight, even if the Fu family horse team has the confidence to deal with an equal number of horse thieves, but there is no confidence to escape under the charge of this standard thirty horsemen. After the standard chief sent the knife, he turned around and left, muttering, as if to say that the mother-in-law surnamed Fu was not happy, and then Fu Zhensheng and they couldn't really hear it.

After the captain got on his horse, the first standard cavalry disappeared in an instant.

Comes and goes like the wind.

Zhao Jiabao looked at Feng Qianxiang and asked softly, "Brother Qianxiang, do you look a little like the deputy general of the Dragon Elephant Army, 'Scarface' Wang Lingbao?"

The corners of Feng Qianxiang's mouth twitched, and he smiled dryly: "This is impossible." ”

After Fu Zhensheng got on the horse, he hung up the Beiliang knife and said with a smile: "How is it possible! Uncle Zhao, Uncle Feng, let's go." ”

Zhao Jiabao looked self-deprecating, and said with a smile: "That's right, if it's really the legendary Wang Lingbao, who once unscrewed seventeen Spring and Autumn generals, is notoriously bad-tempered, we can't have enough for him to clean it up with one hand." ”

In the distance, on the city wall of Qingcang City, the standard commander walked behind Xu Fengnian, lowered his head and clenched his fists, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Qiqi, the knife has been sent out." The last general has already mobilized 800 horsemen to follow him, and there will be more and more men along the way. The Fu family's horse team doesn't say that one person is dead, but a horse is dead, so you can screw off Wang Lingbao's head and use it as a urinal!"

Xu Fengnian nodded, and said to himself: "It can be said that in addition to you, it is the Fu family that gives Bei Liang the capital to fight Bei Mang to the end." ”

Wang Lingbao raised his head and looked at this back.

It's not like the general's old age when he was always slumped.

But Wang Lingbao clearly remembered that when the general was in his prime, as long as he stood there, he would stand up to the sky!

Wang Lingbao rubbed his face fiercely.

Xu Fengnian turned around and asked with a smile: "Vice General Wang, if I am not mistaken, you entered the Beiliang Army at the age of fourteen, or did you go to the camp first? This has been a battle for almost thirty years, right?"

Wang Lingbao was a little flustered, his face turned red, and he stiffened his neck and said: "Lord Wang, I'm not old, it's just thirty years of fighting, and I haven't fought enough!"

Xu Fengnian was stunned.

Wang Lingbao suddenly shrunk his neck, damn, this prince is the one who killed Wang Xianzhi after all, Lao Tzu is soft, not ashamed, right?

Xu Fengnian couldn't help but smile and said: "The person here in Liuzhou who knows the movement of the troops and horses, you are counted as one, in order to cover for them, give you a battle, how about it?"

Wang Lingbao subconsciously rubbed his hands and asked, "Is this battle big?"

Xu Fengnian said: "There is definite news on the spy report, saying that Fengxiang City is a herding horse, and the thief's heart is not dead, and he is eye-catching with Beimang. ”

Wang Lingbao was anxious, so he habitually scolded and scolded: "Ma Liuke of the dog day, just his thousands of little minions, are not enough for Lao Tzu to casually take out a lieutenant to fill his stomach......"

Xu Fengnian smiled: "Do you want to go or not?"

Wang Lingbao wiped his mouth, a bloody "smile" appeared on his face, and he said: "Go, why don't you go?" Mosquito legs are also meat, and if you don't eat it, you won't eat it. ”

Xu Fengnian waved his hand.

Wang Lingbao ran all the way down the city.

He turned his head and looked at the back again.

I always felt that the general was standing there again.