Chapter 143: Fixing the Storm (4)
In the twentieth year of Zheng Mingwu, the proprietor sent the metropolitan governors Feng Zhang, Fu Sheng, and Lan Canghai to lead an army of 200,000 from the central capital to expedition to the grassland. Feng Zhang's army made a detour through the small hills to surround the Nahachu garrison, and Nahachu was forced to surrender, causing the grassland tribes east of the Wulun River to lose their barriers, and Fu Sheng took this opportunity to directly approach the grassland king's court, and the grassland Khan king and Zhongtaiji had to flee to Biluo Lake.
In the twenty-first year of the Ming Dynasty, Lan Canghai led the army across the Wusi Plain, until he attacked the shore of Biluo Lake, defeated the twelve guards of the Khan of the steppe Khan, and forced the Khan of the steppe to sign an alliance under the city, and considered himself to belong to Zheng Ting, and was named the king of Zhenbei.
In the 22nd year of the Ming Dynasty, Fu Sheng set up the Duoyan Governor's Mansion on the south side of the Ulun River, and at the same time moved some of the grassland tribes to Hanoi Prefecture in the northwest.
It was only with the decline of Zheng Ting's strength later, and the strength of Da Zheng continued to shrink, from the western capital of the proprietor to the governor's mansion of Duoyan, and then abandoned the Xiulong grassland and small hills, and retreated to the central capital. The original Duoyan Protectorate gradually became an ownerless city, the caravans of the Central Plains and the grassland gathered here, many grassland horse thieves after getting gold and silver, they would also come here for a pastime, merchants and robbers coexisted peacefully is also a scene here, of course, there are also outlaws who provoked enemies in the Central Plains and had to flee the grassland, and even exiled cultivators are not uncommon, Mu Bai was one of them.
In the early years, when Xiao Yu and Lin Yinping were hunted down and killed by the Molun Temple, they were committed to this city, but Xiao Yu didn't know the details at the beginning, and only later did he know that the inconspicuous earth city turned out to be the once famous Duoyan Governor's Mansion.
There is no city lord in this city, but it is jointly managed by several "big men", and behind these "big men" stand several grassland Taiji or northwest powerful generals without exception. Except for the absence of a city lord here, it is like a small giant deer city, which has its own set of rules, everyone must abide by the rules, and those who do not follow the rules are dead.
Perhaps this is also "equality" and "justice" in a sense.
In fact, everyone understands in their hearts that although this is nominally a three-regardless zone, in the final analysis, it is still the territory of the king of the northwest, and the king of the northwest and his old man don't care about this place with a big palm, which is his business, but the people who are begging for a living in this small earth city can't help but care about the king of the northwest, so those who can do the talkers in the city will carefully polish their eyes and minds, so as not to accidentally anger the prince Xuanhe who made the grassland and the northwest bow down, and bring disaster to himself.
In the eyes of the inhabitants of the city, those who control the entire city are undoubtedly the big men. And the steppe Taiji and the northwest generals behind these people are like rolling snow-capped mountains at the end of the horizon, out of reach. As for the king of the northwest, it is like the high sky outside the fortress, which is beyond reach.
When the big man stands tall, he will naturally see far away, but he will inevitably ignore his feet.
The gale starts at the end of Qingping, and sometimes it is the little people at the bottom who feel the storm first.
For example, in this grassland change, when Zhongdu was only suspicious, most people in this earthen city had already sensed that something was wrong, so the big merchants withdrew the caravan early, and the horse thieves in the brigade quietly fled away, and there was a rare peaceful scene in the earthen city.
In this peaceful scene, the group came to this Duoyan Governor's Mansion, and the number of people was not large, only about 30 people. The leader is a richly dressed man, his appearance is not outstanding, his bearing is like a family in the Central Plains, and the two men and one woman accompanying him are not like ordinary people, no matter how they look at it, they look like four big fat sheep, but in this place where tigers and wolves are rampant, no one dares to make a move, even if it is the most ordinary temptation. Without him, it's just because of the entourage of the two dozen or so guards who look like hard stubble.
The man who had revisited the old place came to the door of an inn in the city with a familiar way, pointed to the signboard of the inn with a horsewhip in his hand, and smiled at a younger man next to him: "Your sister and I lived here for a while. ”
The younger man looked at the inn and said, "I've heard about this place for a long time, but it's the first time I've come here." ”
This group of people is Xiao Yu and Lin Han and others, this time Xiao Yu personally went to the grassland Tami, and only brought Lin Han, Tang Banyan Tree and Qu Cang with him, as for the twenty or so elite secret guards, it was purely to avoid some unnecessary trouble.
If it was according to Xiao Yu's original intention, he would have wanted to go to the grassland alone, but this time it was different, and to suppress the grassland rebellion, it could not be solved by just personal force, so he also brought Lin Han with him. In fact, Lin Yinping is the best candidate, but her body can't withstand such long-distance bumps, so she can only retreat to second.
From Lin Yuan's death to the present, the throne of the King of the Prairie Khan is still vacant, although Xiao Yu is respected as the King of the Prairie, but in the final analysis, it is because he married Lin Yinping, and the throne of the Khan can only be inherited by one Lin family. If Lin Yinping is not a daughter, then she is the undoubted new Khan King, and in the case that Lin Yinping cannot take over, Lin Han will become the closest person to the throne.
According to Xiao Yu's plan, perhaps in the future, after he is lucky enough to sit in the world, he can let Lin Han, his brother-in-law, return to the grassland to inherit the throne of Zhenbei Wang, and then the Xiao Lin family will continue to marry, and the grassland royal court will really become the western capital of the Xiao family.
But after all, this is in the future, and the current vacancy of the throne of the King of the Steppe Khan is a difficult problem that cannot be bypassed.
When I entered the inn, I asked for an upper room, the so-called upper room, which is actually a small courtyard of a single house, which is specially used by caravans or people who drag their families. Xiao Yu has more than 30 people living in one courtyard, which is not crowded, but it is not spacious.
Anyone who can open a shop in this kind of place where dragons and snakes are mixed, their hands will not be too clean, if they encounter fat sheep, they will naturally become a black shop that eats people and does not spit out bones, but there are three kinds of people who can't do it, one is a regular customer, one is a fierce dragon with a deep background, and one is a cultivator with a strange art. Needless to say, regular customers, after all, they must pay attention to a long stream. It's not that the cross-river raptor with a deep background can't eat it, but the aftermath is too great and difficult to settle, and if it is not good, it will lead to annihilation. As for the cultivators, needless to say, the puppet dared to splash the blood of the Son of Heaven in five steps, even if these cultivators could not reach this realm, it would be more than enough to demolish an inn.
The shopkeeper is a very discerning person, and in his opinion, this line of people is undoubtedly the second kind of people, and it is also the second kind of people who are difficult to eat, so he wisely asked his subordinates to send wine and meat like a normal inn, the wine is old wine, and the meat is freshly slaughtered lamb, and there is absolutely no hand or foot.
This is also the reason why Xiao Yu brought more than 20 secret guards, there is a saying in the Dao Gate that the naked eye does not know the true immortals, in the eyes of these ordinary people, Xiao Yu, a master of heaven and man, may not be as bluffing as these more than 20 secret guards.
In the main hall of the small courtyard, Xiao Yu sat alone on a chair, and the other three stood on both sides in two columns. But in the eyes of those who really know Xiao Yu's identity, there is a "momentum" in this not very old man, not the so-called cultivation of cultivators, but the great majesty accumulated and cast by ruling the life and death of millions of people and the conquest and killing.
It is no wonder that the world wants to sigh that the ignorant are fearless, the reason why the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger is because he does not know the tiger, and when he really knows the horror of the tiger, I am afraid that he will never have the courage he once had. Therefore, after Tang Banyan Tree, a thorn in the head, learned Xiao Yu's methods, he also stood aside honestly.
Xiao Yu is very realistic, if I have the ability to sit on an equal footing with me, I will naturally be polite, if I can make Xiao Yu bow my head, then I don't mind being respectful, but if I can't do it, then I Xiao Yu will not be coy, you can only stand or kneel honestly, this is Xiao Yu's rules.
In the northwest, there are not many people who can not abide by Xiao Yu's rules, Lin Yinping is counted as one, Xiao Jin, Lan Yu, Qin Mumian, Qiu Ye, Murong and others may be barely counted as half, as for the others, they are not among them.
Xiao Yu's murderous intent is not heavy, but killing a few people with bad rules is not the slightest hesitation.