readx;? Closed City, located in the southwest desert of the most prosperous and vast city, with a population of millions of people, the scale is much larger than Wenyang City, although its location is located in the southwest desert near the north end, but its influence and appeal undoubtedly shrouded the entire southwest desert south of more than 7,000 miles. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Excluding the three thousand miles of uninhabited Nansha forbidden land in the center, the actual influence and sphere of influence of the closure of the city, from Wenyang Mountain in the north to Xihuang Mountain in the south, includes fourteen cities of acceptable size, including the southernmost West Imperial City, as well as hundreds of villages scattered in the southwest desert, and there are more than 10 million people living in the holy area in the entire southwest desert area, and these people will be more or less controlled and influenced by the closure of the city。

It's just that although the closure of the city is powerful, the real ruler of this powerful power is not Fang Chengtian, the lord of the sealed city, who led the emperor's edict, but Lou Yi, the sect leader of Louzong. And it is not the army of more than 10,000 cities in the fourteen cities in the southwest that has the power of life and death of tens of millions of people in the southwest desert, but thousands of disciples of the Lou Sect.

These are already facts that everyone in the southwest region knows about. And the reason why Lou Zong retained the various city lords of the fourteen cities in the southwest and the so-called city army, and did not completely replace them, was not because Lou Yi was benevolent, but because Lou Yi did not have the courage to openly oppose the emperor.

Although Lou Yi is nominally only the sect master of a sect in the southwest, in fact, the power held by this sect master is far more than just a sect.

But on the surface, the lockdown is still under the control of the city lord.

The fourteen cities in the southwest are scattered in the desert, often intriguing with each other, and they can't unite at all, so although the fourteen city lords are more or less dissatisfied with Lou Zong, they are always powerless, dare to be angry but dare not speak, and in the end, under Lou Yi's grace and power, they are often overpowered.

Among them, Fang Chengtian, the city lord of the closed city, is the most humiliated, because Louzong's lair is in the closed city, so there is no power for Fang Chengtian to speak here, among the fourteen city lords in the southwest, the city lord with the highest status in name is Fang Chengtian, and in fact, the city lord with the most real power is also Fang Chengtian. And the other thirteen cities, including the Western Imperial City, are not directly controlled by Lou Zong, so the real power in the hands of the city lord is still very large, and Lou Zong is very good at using benefits to buy them, and will not blindly suppress them, so in the hearts of these city lords, the resentment against Lou Zong is far less heavy than Fang Chengtian, and then he will not be stupid enough to join forces with Fang Chengtian and risk his life to become an enemy of Lou Zong.

Grace and power are combined, this is the key to Lou Zong's ability to become bigger and bigger, and even completely suppress the tens of thousands of city troops in the fourteen cities in the southwest with the strength of a few thousand disciples. In other words, Lou Zong's current status in the southwest is not only because Lou Yi himself is strong enough, but also partly because of the indulgence and compromise of the Fourteen Cities in the southwest.

Now that Lou Zong has become the emperor of the soil here, this strange pattern in the southwest desert area of seven thousand miles has long become a thing that people here are accustomed to. In particular, the people who are locked down have developed a unique habit, that is, no matter what happens, they don't have to ask the city lord for their lives, as long as they can take care of the relationship between the Lou Sect, then everything will naturally be solved. Although this kind of thing sounds absurd, it will naturally be strange over time.

In today's lockdown, although the guards of the city gate are the city army, the people who really decide when to open and when to close are the disciples of Lou Zong. Although the people who maintain law and order on the street are city soldiers, the people who really have the power to determine who is right and wrong, and who to arrest and who to release, are the disciples of Lou Zong. Although the person who levied the tax grain was the city army, the person who finally got the tax grain was a disciple of Lou Zong. It can be said that today's lockdown from the city lord Fang Chengtian and all the city troops under his command are all begging for food from Lou Zong.

Such days are absolutely miserable for an active and motivated city lord, and every day there is a feeling of pain and torture under the fence to endure humiliation. But for a mediocre city lord who has nothing to do all day long, has no ambitions, and is at peace with what happens, such a day is tantamount to a paradise of great enjoyment, because he can eat and dress well without doing anything, and be rich and glorious all his life.

And today's lockdown city lord Fang Chengtian is just like the latter, who is at ease with encounters and has no ambitions. This person has not always been like this, once upon a time Fang Chengtian also had to fight, but after suffering a few big losses in the game with Lou Zong, he no longer dared to be presumptuous, over time he was also used to this kind of idle and muddy days, and slowly liked this way of living, at least in the southwest desert where the emperor was far away, his family could live in brocade clothes and food, although he had no rights, but he was also worry-free.

The third day after the fire in Wenyang City.

In the early morning, the people in the lockdown began their daily life as usual, and the larger shops on the street opened one after another, and cloth houses, money houses, wineries, pawnshops, pharmacies, blacksmith shops, and inns were lined up one after another. And on the street also began to gradually gather from all over the village and township hawkers, selling rice and noodles, selling firewood, selling vegetables, selling fish and meat, selling rouge gouache, selling candy knick-knacks, in short, there are countless people, for a time shouting, frolicking, talking and laughing sounded in the sleeping night of the lockdown, noisy and noisy, the street also began to gradually become lively, horseback riding, sedan chairs, walking...... Some of them are dressed in brocade robes, some are dressed shabbyly, some are bookish, some are businessmen, in short, there are all kinds of people, etc., and on the streets in the early morning lockdown of the city, one after another lively markets have been formed. Based on this alone, it can be seen that the lockdown city is far richer and more prosperous than the poor Wenyang City.

In the center of the prosperous area in the north of the city, there is now a magnificent official residence, although this official residence is not as large as the Wenyang Marquis Mansion in terms of area, but it is far more magnificent than the Wenyang Marquis Mansion in terms of wealth. Beyond the residence is a wide east-west street, and although there are many people on this street at the moment, there is not a single vendor. Two huge stone lions stood majestically in front of the gate of the official residence, and on the left and right sides of the gate there was a vermilion column of three people with the thickness of three people, which was used to support the huge gatehouse, and eight guards with steel knives stood on the left and right of the gatehouse, looking at the people passing in front of the gate with cold eyebrows. The two vermilion gates in the gatehouse were spotlessly clean, and on the four open gates hung two huge bronze tiger's mouth knockers, and directly above the gate, a huge red plaque was hanging there, and on the plaque were written four gilded characters "Closed City Houfu". Through these four words, it is enough to recognize that this is the mansion of Fang Chengtian, the lord of this closed city.

Although Fang Chengtian has no power or ability, he is quite impressive in the pomp and circumstance of this official residence.

Hou Mansion is divided into three before and after, there is a good area of the back garden at the end, there are rockeries, lakes and ponds in the garden, although the city is located in the arid desert, but in this back garden is the year-round birds and flowers, the four seasons are like spring. Among them, there are countless kinds of rare flowers and plants, pavilions and pavilions have unique styles, in this back garden, I am afraid that few people will remember the thousands of miles of desert and endless vastness outside the lockdown.

This back garden was built by Fang Cheng Tianhua, and he also personally inscribed the plaque "Baicui Garden" for this garden. There is such a ballad in the closed city: "Thousands of miles of desert grass withered, all things in the courtyard are born, and the scorching sun shines in the sky, only the wind and the moon are full." "The scenery, charm, and comfort of Baicui Garden are well-known things in the lockdown city, and although almost all the people here have heard of Baicui Garden, there are very few people who have actually come in.

And this Baicui Garden has also become the best embodiment of Fang Chengtian's greed for enjoyment and indulgence in fun.

At this moment, it was early in the morning, and in a prescription pavilion in the Baicui Garden, the stone table was full of all kinds of delicacies and wines, which were the breakfast carefully prepared by the people for Fang Chengtian. More than a dozen handmaidens with good faces were standing respectfully on both sides of the square pavilion at this moment, waiting carefully, but there were only two people sitting at this huge stone table at this moment.

One of them, a man over fifty years old and bloated, was the lord of this closed city, Fang Chengtian. Today, Fang Chengtian was wearing a light blue loose robe, and the casual dress exuded by his cloak made people not see the majesty of the city lord at all, this person was less than six feet tall, but he had a long fat head and big ears, his fat face was even more oily, thick eyelids and small eyes, especially when he was laughing, his eyes were almost narrowed into a thin line.

And sitting opposite Fang Chengtian at this moment is a young man in his thirties, this person looks a little similar to Fang Chengtian, but the overall look is much more handsome than Fang Chengtian, he is quite neat in dressing, his body is quite thin, plus he is wearing a moon-white boy's shirt, he looks a little chic from a distance, and even his speech and demeanor are far from being as casual as Fang Chengtian. This person is Fang Chengtian's only son, Fang Qingyun.

Fang Chengtian named his son Qingyun, which is enough to see his expectations and hopes for his only son. However, it is a pity that this Fang Qingyun, like his father, is just a clever master. But the only thing he is stronger than Fang Chengtian is that Fang Qingyun's ambition is much greater than Fang Chengtian, Fang Chengtian is willing to succumb to Lou Zong as a puppet, but Fang Qingyun is unwilling, he has been doing everything possible to seek power from Lou Zong, but he still has nothing to do to this day.

At this moment, the father and son had just gotten up, and going to this Baicui Garden to have breakfast had already become a daily habit of Fang Chengtian and his son.

"Dad, how did you sleep last night?" Fang Qingyun personally got up and poured a glass of wine for Fang Chengtian, and asked with a smile on his face, "You can still use the red child I found for you......

One of Fang Qingyun's favorite things to do on weekdays is to look for good food, good drinks, and fun for Fang Chengtian, and this Hong'er is also a Qinglou woman who Fang Qingyun redeemed from outside at a high price the day before yesterday.

"Huh...... It's not bad!" The so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and he can teach Fang Qingyun a son like his father, this Fang Chengtian is naturally not a righteous person, "I'm old, in the future, you kid should pay more attention to the major affairs of the city, don't keep your mind on these things all day long!"

"What Dad said is that the child just thought that Dad might like it this time, so he ......"

"Ahem, okay, okay!" Fang Chengtian didn't seem to want to talk too much about these things in front of so many subordinates, so he waved his hand lightly, "Let's get down to business, Qingyun, you are not too old now, when do you plan to inherit the lineage for our family?"

"Dad, you know that the child has great ambitions, and if he doesn't become famous for a day, he won't get married for a day!" Fang Qingyun made a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, but Fang Chengtian was disdainful for a while.

"Fart!" Fang Chengtian's face sank and he scolded, "Do you think I don't know what your kid is thinking?" I'll tell you......" Fang Chengtian's words said that he looked left and right quite scruples, and then deliberately lowered his voice and said in a deep voice, "Let me tell you, you have a few pounds and a few taels, I know very well your father, don't think about those who don't have it all day long! If you want to compete with Lou Yi, your kid is not qualified at all, if you dare to come nonsense, we will be unlucky to follow you!"

"Dad, Lou Yi is an old man after all, and I'm still young......"

"Shut up for me!" Without waiting for Fang Qingyun to quibble, Fang Chengtian shouted angrily, "Let me tell you, the most important thing you have to do now is to quickly find a girl to start a family and inherit the family for our family, so that your father and I will be blind when they die!"

"Bah, what is not dead, dad, don't talk nonsense, I will consider this matter!" Fang Qingyun said and picked up chopsticks to clip a piece of dim sum for Fang Chengtian, "It's just that you let me learn to manage city affairs, but even if the child learns, in the end, he is useless as a hero?"

Fang Qingyun's words made Fang Chengtian frown, and then asked with a sinking face, "What do you mean by this?"

"What the child means is that although our Fang family has inherited the position of the city for generations, but in the end, we have no real name, and the big things in this city affairs have to look at Lou Zong's face!Dad, this Lou Zong is the biggest stumbling block for our Fang family...... "Fang Qingyun said with a sad face, "As the only son of the Fang family, how can the child not think about the descendants of our family?" Today, Lou Zong still needs us, so our Fang family is still the lord of the closed city in name, but if one day later, Lou Zong no longer needs us, then won't our Fang family become a pile of dry bones in the mass grave outside the closed city?"

This time, Fang Chengtian did not reprimand Fang Qingyun as usual, but with Fang Qingyun's words, there was a trace of strange light in his small eyes, as if Fang Qingyun's words reminded him of something.

If Lou Zong is not removed, it will always be a huge scourge for Fang Chengtian.

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