Chapter 14: The Eastern Capital

Jiang Chen and Python Whip Lin did this, and there was a small talk in the lobby of the official post, and gradually the sky was already bright. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info also store a lot of grain and meat in the official post, several Han and Tang Jiashi who can cook in the kitchen behind the official post hall worked for a long time, drummed out a few steamed buns and some vegetable soup, and a large pot of fragrant braised pork, after last night's battle, everyone consumed a lot of physical strength, should have a good meal before setting off to replenish physical strength.

The remaining dozens of armor soldiers and hundreds of black-clothed warriors of the shadow guards sat on the ground one after another, holding steamed buns in one hand and vegetable soup in the other, and several people gathered around to share the braised pork in a large basin in front of them, eating steamed buns and greasy meat, and drinking some hot vegetable soup in Hula Hula, this meal is not rich, but it is good.

Jiang Chen took a piece of fat and thin oily braised pork from the plate in front of him, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly in his mouth, his expression was slightly intoxicated. And the python whip forest on the opposite side didn't eat even a bite of meat, I don't know why he only ate a steamed bun and a bowl of vegetable soup, so he didn't eat anymore, but pushed the plate of meat in front of him in front of Jiang Chen, and said: "I see that His Highness likes meat, so His Highness will eat this plate too." ”

Jiang Chen didn't speak, but picked up the plate and pulled all the meat inside to his plate, feeling a little imageless. Jiang Chen didn't care about this, but swept the food on the table like a storm, completely lacking the domineering and heroic posture of facing those evil people last night, but a little like a beggar who had been hungry for more than ten days, and suddenly ate the cool food of the Manchu Han banquet.

Soon Jiang Chen eliminated two servings of braised pork, seven or eight steamed buns, and four or five bowls of vegetable soup after finally being full of wine and food, and then he also burped comfortably, and the face of the python whip forest sitting opposite him couldn't help but have a few more black lines, he didn't expect that in addition to the mysterious Nine Emperor Princes in His Majesty's mouth, in addition to the martial arts talent that is perverted, even the amount of food is so surprising, I am afraid that behind his name in addition to the martial arts genius, there is also a foodie name.

When everyone was full of food and drink, and the sun had risen, they had prepared some food and prepared for the journey, and it was time to set off again.

Originally, the carriage that Jiang Chen was riding in was not damaged, and it was parked there quietly. The python whip forest may still have a task, just before setting off like Jiang Chen to say goodbye, but he also left more than 30 black-clothed warriors of the shadow secret guard to make up for the battle damage of the original 100 armor soldiers, and then walked in with his subordinates towards Situ Chuan. Jiang Chen didn't ask him what he was going to do, and he didn't want to ask, knowing something would make his situation worse, so the gain outweighed the loss.

The team set off again, and the six sword slaves were still separated to protect the carriage Jiang Chen was riding, and the team once again reached nearly a hundred people, although this Situ Chuan still made people feel a little eerie under the scorching sun, but this time Jiang Chen did not feel any more feeling of being spied on, thinking that the people in the evil path suffered heavy losses yesterday and would not have made a comeback in such a short time.

The only person in the evil path who didn't die last night was the old priest in a white robe, although the ghost god killer summoned by that person was very powerful, and could reach the level of a martial artist, but his own martial arts cultivation was only equivalent to the martial general level of the sixfold realm, and he was captured by several black-clothed warriors of the shadow guard, broke his tendons and tendons, locked the pipa bone, and tied it like a zongzi.

Last night, the shadow guard interrogated the old priest overnight, only to hear the screams in the backyard of the official post endlessly. With the means of the Shadow Guard, he will definitely let him tell everything he knows. As soon as Jiang Chen saw the priest, the man had been tortured very miserably, although he was conscious, but he was covered in blood, and he wanted to commit suicide by going on a hunger strike, but he was knocked open by the python whip forest with a pair of pliers, and fed him personally, and then the person was taken away by the python whip forest.

In fact, you don't need to ask to roughly guess what the python whip forest is doing, this old priest's status in the cult of evil gods is obviously not low, and he can know some things that many ordinary cultists don't know, such as some secret strongholds or something.

But these have little to do with the current Jiang Chen, what Jiang Chen has to do now is to return to the Eastern Capital City as soon as possible after nearly ten years of absence, to meet his future fate and unknown future.

When the cold aura around them disappeared all at once, Jiang Chen knew that they had walked out of this Situ Chuan, at this time they had been walking for a day and a night, during which although there would be some harassment from ghosts in Situ Chuan, they were all cleaned up by the six sword slaves one by one, and there was no danger along the way.

Outside the Situ River, there is the plain of the Pingchuan River, the land is fertile and vast for thousands of miles, the green crops cover a large area of wilderness, and the sun sprinkles the scorching sunlight in the middle of the sky, and at the same time drives the vitality of the Han and Tang dynasties.

When they came out of Situ Chuan, the speed of the team was much faster, after all, there was no need to go around the bends in the mountains, and a straight line led straight to the eastern capital thousands of miles away.

Time passed slowly, and when Jiang Chen looked at the towering cast-iron blast furnace in the Eastern Capital City again, it was already half a month later. Seventy-two cast iron blast furnaces that are like the pillars of the demon god go straight into the sky, at this time they are constantly swallowing smoke, continuously producing a hundred refined iron, these seventy-two blast furnaces are one of the symbols of the Han and Tang Empires, and they were established at all costs at the beginning of the founding of the country, and tens of millions of catties of refined iron are produced every year, and a steady stream of sophisticated weapons are created to arm the army of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Although the seventy-two blast furnaces are magnificent, they are only a drop in the bucket compared to the majesty of the entire eastern capital, the center of the world in the eastern capital, and the capital of the Han and Tang dynasties. The city spans more than 400 miles in all directions, the city wall is as high as more than 30 zhang, more than 7 million people are resident in the city, and the four legions of the elite forbidden army are stationed with a total of more than 1.6 million people.

And the Zhongzhou boundary where the entire eastern capital is located, not counting the capital garrison, there are eight legions around, and the entire Zhongzhou garrison is close to five million, due to the geographical location in the center of the entire Han and Tang borders, it can support any direction at any time in case of war.

Jiang Chen stood outside the carriage, looking at the Eastern Capital City in the distance and didn't know what he was thinking, the Six Sword Slaves stood behind him. In the past half a month, everyone has been on the road almost non-stop, passing by dozens of towns and cities along the way, but except for passing by a big city military camp to extract nearly a hundred military horses for travel to speed up, there is no stop, half a month later, everyone finally came to the front of the eastern capital.

"Let's go into town. Jiang Chen returned to the carriage and said to Zhengang and the others.

The team moved slowly, and the closer they got to the Eastern Capital, the more they felt its majesty, as high as more than ten zhang, twenty zhang wide, and more than four feet thick, and the dragon-patterned city gate completely cast by a hundred refined iron was so shocking. There were many pedestrians at the gate of the city, most of them in a hurry, there were ordinary ordinary people, there were also many wealthy merchants, and caravans coming and going. Hundreds of soldiers wearing silver armor and holding spears and blades stood meticulously around the city gate, monitoring the every move of pedestrians, and their vigilance was very high.

And on the city wall, every three or four zhang, there is a heavy fine steel cannon, which is one of the sharp weapons of the Han and Tang Dynasty Zhen Army, large-scale frontal combat, such as defending the city or attacking the city, these iron cannons are the nightmare of all enemies, these are the masterpieces of the Han and Tang Dynasties, they have created countless killing machines for the Han and Tang Empire.

There are constantly flocks of Machine-Bone Birds flying in the sky, which can carry one person to drive the Machine-Bone Birds, and can also carry five or six infantrymen, equipped with hundreds of crossbow arrows with bowstrings, which is still the masterpiece of the Ministry of Industry.

When entering the city, Jiang Chen and the others were stopped by the soldiers at the gate of the city, although they were all wearing Han and Tang Dynasty standard armor, but the national capital still had to be checked, but fortunately, Zhengang took out the token of the CRRC Mansion to enter the city without inspection.

The eastern capital is divided into the outer city, the palace city and the imperial city, and the outer city is the largest and is inhabited by most of the people and garrisons. Miyagi was mainly inhabited by princely ministers and military marquises, as well as elite royal forest troops. The imperial city naturally speaks for itself, it is where the royal family is, and at the same time, there are 50,000 tiger ben troops directly under the royal family in the imperial city.

And Jiang Chen was standing outside this imperial city at this time, waiting for his father, the emperor of the Han and Tang Empires, to summon him. The Six Sword Slaves and the others had already left, and Jiang Chen was the only assassin standing alone outside the towering palace gate, and hundreds of armor soldiers who were separated around him stared at Jiang Chen tightly.

Jiang Chen stood there with a sheathed sword in his hand, he never left the sword in his hand, even at this moment, he couldn't help but not be nervous by the armor soldiers around him.

The armorer who went in to pass the word had been in for nearly half an hour, and there was still no movement, Jiang Chen was already waiting a little impatiently.

At this moment, the sound of a string of armor rubbing against each other came from inside the palace gate, and there were movements of soldiers inside, and there were many of them. Immediately after that, the red palace gate was pushed open from the inside, and a general wearing golden dragon pattern armor who looked to be in his forties walked out with the hilt of the sword at his waist in his hand, and two groups of golden-armored soldiers poured out behind him, standing with guns on both sides of Jiang Chen.

The middle-aged general walked up to Jiang Chen, looked at the young man in front of him, and then bowed his hand and knelt down on one knee to salute: "The last general, Li Ling, see Your Highness, Your Highness's order to come to greet Your Highness." ”

"Thank you, General. Jiang Chen said lightly. Then Jiang Chen walked into the palace gate under the guidance of Li Ling, and inside the palace gate, nearly a thousand tiger soldiers stood on both sides, the swords and guns in their hands were shining, and a tiger-like momentum rose. Jiang Chen could feel that even if he was a martial saint, it would be difficult for him to fight against the thousands of Tiger Ben Army armorers inside and outside this sect alone, and the martial arts cultivation of these armor soldiers had already reached the fivefold realm, which was no worse than the shadow secret guards under the command of the python whip forest. These people should all be the emperor's direct guards, there are not many of them, but they are absolutely elite.

"Your Highness, please untie your sword. When it was time to enter the second palace gate, Li Ling stopped castration and said to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen frowned slightly, although this is the rule in the palace, no prince or minister is allowed to carry a blade when entering the palace, but it still makes him uncomfortable, since he got the Seven Star Dragon Yuan, man and sword have never been separated.

"There is no need to untie the sword, from now on I will give you the right to carry the sword to the temple. A majestic and domineering, solemn and extraordinary voice sounded from the void.

"This voice?" Jiang Chen frowned slightly, but shook his head, what a great honor it is to carry a sword to the palace, it is enough to make anyone crazy. Jiang Chen could feel his disadvantage, and I was afraid that he would completely change today. To put it bluntly, the gains and losses of the people in the world are often just a sentence from the emperor, what he gives you is yours, if you don't give it to you, you can't grab it, you can only hold it.