On this day, Xiao Che and the four of them have left the Northern Qi Dynasty, and soon they are about to enter the Northern Yan, if they go all the way south from here, then they will go to the clan land of the Wenren family, but now Xiao Che obviously does not want to go back, he did not go south, but went all the way west along the Northern Yan Empire. The city of Sark is just to the west.

It's not far from Sark, but it's thousands of miles away. The Northern Yan Empire is the largest empire in the northern part of the Qingxuan Empire. Both the population and the land area are the most extensive in the north.

However, the population and territory of the Northern Qi Empire are not much smaller than those of the Northern Yan, and the most important thing is that the Northern Qi Empire is extremely cohesive, which is its greatest advantage.

Comparatively speaking, the Northern Yan Empire not only did not have much cohesion, but also the forces of all parties were almost scattered. However, these forces were aimed at Emperor Yu rather than the Northern Yan Empire, so the overall strength of the Northern Yan Empire was still strong.

The most typical and the strongest of the scattered forces is the Wenren family.

However, neither Emperor Yu nor the scattered forces can completely solve it now, which is why the current stalemate situation has been formed.

In recent years, the power of the Wenren family has become stronger and stronger, and it has almost escaped the control of Emperor Yu.

This is inseparable from the hardcore alliance of the Xuanfu and the Wenren family.

Overthrowing Emperor Yu's rule was also the goal of the Xuanfu. After all, the Murong Qing sisters and brothers are from the Xuanfu.

If the Murong Qing sisters and brothers were to return to the helm of the Northern Yan Empire, it would be more beneficial to the Xuan Mansion.

The first stop for Xiao Che and the four of them to Beiyan was Yanling Pass. This was the border between the Northern Yan Empire and the Northern Qi Empire. The general guarding here is Duanmu Yu of the Duanmu family.

As one of the top ten families of the Northern Yan Empire, the Duanmu family is quite powerful even if its strength is not as strong as the Wenren family. Duanmu Yu is the descendant son of the Duanmu family, in the Duanmu family, every son needs to leave the family to go to other places to experience when he is young, some are civil ministers, and some are military generals.

It can be said that among the top ten families, only the Duanmu family is a family that has both civil ministers and military generals. The Wenren family is the strongest family among the generals, and the Gongsun family is the strongest family among the Wenchens. The Duanmu family is occupied on both sides, although the civil and military are not the most powerful families, but the Duanmu family will always stand tall in the court, which is enough to see its terrible place.

Originally, the main generals guarding the border passes were all Wenren families, but since Emperor Yu ascended the throne, the Wenren family took the initiative to stay away from the court, and all the children of the family stepped down and stayed in the southeast of the Northern Yan Empire with the family. This decision left too many military generals vacated in the empire, and for a while, the number of Emperor Yu's descendants was insufficient, so he could only be handed over to the rest of the families, and the Duanmu family became the main force among these generals.

As the power of the Wenren family has become stronger and stronger over the years, Emperor Yu is also very uneasy, but he has nothing to do, and his current situation is extremely embarrassing. If in the past, he could still have an absolute advantage over the Wenren family, which only had a million troops, but after the development over the years, the actual military strength of the Wenren family exceeded five million.

On the contrary, he was always worried about the Wenren family's counterattack.

But what he didn't know was that the Wenren family had no intention of meeting him at all, and even if there were, it couldn't be now. If the Wenren family goes north to fight to the death with Emperor Yu now, no matter what the victory or defeat is, it will make the national strength of the Northern Yan Empire plummet, and when the time comes, these countries outside may not be so peaceful, I am afraid that they will all be like hungry wolves, pounce and bite hard.

The Wenren family would never let the empire have such a crisis.

Now the Wenren family's method is one word "cannibalization". Speaking of which, this is Xiao Che's suggestion.

And Xiao Che is just taking advantage of the situation according to the actual situation.

Now, as long as the Wenren family develops quietly, its strength will inevitably be thriving. If Emperor Yu does not raise troops, then he can only be replaced by the Wenren family and Murong Qing's sisters and brothers little by little.

You must know that now the Wenren family has completely and completely openly stood on the side of the Murong Qing sisters and brothers, and most of the people gathered under the Wenren family are because of the Murong Qing sisters and brothers. After all, Emperor Yu usurped the throne at the beginning, but it was known to the world.

He was able to sit on the throne without the support of Lord Sark, but now Lord Sark is gone, and even Sark City has existed in name only. Although the new Sark City is still called this name, it has almost nothing to do with Emperor Yu, and now it has become the base camp of Murong Qing's sisters and brothers.

The current situation is that almost half of the southern region of the Northern Yan Empire has become the world of the Murong Qing sisters and brothers and the Wenren family, and Emperor Yu has completely lost control of it, although the Wenren family still maintains the integrity of the Northern Yan Empire in name, but everyone knows that this is only the surface.

Recently, Emperor Yu has not been idle, he is only busy with one thing every day, which is to find a backer.

He wants to be supported by more and more powerful Supreme Realm martial artists. If there was no powerful Supreme Realm martial artist to back up Emperor Yu, then Emperor Yu was only afraid that he would not even be able to sit on the throne now.

However, it was not so easy to find a strong enough Supreme Realm to support him.

Yanling was closed, and Xiao Che and the four of them secretly saw Duanmu Yu.

Don't look at Duanmu Yu as the main general of the border pass, the thin skin and tender meat that can be born look like a scholar. Don't look at his white and pure appearance, he looks weak, but if you know him, you will know that he is not a kind person.

When this person took office, corruption was rampant in Yanling Pass from top to bottom, and there were countless evil businessmen and thieves, and the surrounding people were deeply affected by mountain bandits and bandits. The first thing Duanmuyu did when he came here was to rectify corruption, and then he began to exterminate the bandits.

This made the people very grateful to him. His approach to tackling corruption is very practical. At that time, the corruption methods of these border generals mainly relied on accepting bribes from bandits and bandits, so that they turned a blind eye to the robbery of bandits and bandits. Everyone gets the benefits, and the same is true for bad business.

When Duanmu Yu learned of this, he quickly found the most critical place, he organized the generals to do business with the surrounding people in the name of Yanling Pass, not only that, but he also distributed the taxes paid by the people uniformly, and most importantly, he used high remuneration to motivate the soldiers to suppress bandits. In addition, he conducts a census of all the people in the area under his jurisdiction, and every household must be registered.

It was clear to him that most of these bandits were people from the surrounding area, and that they did so because of oppression and poverty.

He issued a decree that if someone in the Yanling Pass area is a bandit, once it is verified, the whole family will be executed, and if it is reported meritorious, it will be given a tax exemption policy and a reward of spiritual coins.

After such a toss, Yanling Pass was quickly managed in an orderly manner, and sure enough, there were many fewer bandits, and the soldiers at the border pass were also grateful to him because of their rich days.

Duanmu Yu led the army to suppress the bandits when he had nothing to do, and soon, there was not a single bandit in the entire Yanling Pass area.

It can be seen that Duanmu Yu is a very good talent.

Xiao Che knew the details of Duanmu Yu, although they hadn't seen it, Xiao Che knew that Duanmu Yu would definitely see him. What's more, although the Duanmu family is nominally on the side of Emperor Yu, in fact, the Duanmu family and the Wenren family are secretly friends.

Sure enough, when Duanmu Yu saw Xiao Che's letter and physical evidence, he secretly took them to the mansion and avoided the spies in the mansion.

You must know that in the Northern Yan Empire, the "Black Swallow" organization is pervasive and ubiquitous. In particular, their leader "Hades" has made countless people talk about it.

Even Xiao Che knew how terrible "Black Swallow" was, but they didn't know the true position of "Hades" at all.

However, putting aside the personal position of the "Hades", the existence of the Black Yan Organization is to serve the Northern Yan Emperor alone, no matter who the emperor is, as long as the Northern Yan Empire exists, the "Black Swallow" will be loyal.

It can be said that "Black Yan" is not an organization loyal to someone, but an allegiance to the emperor of the Northern Yan Empire. No matter who this emperor is.

Even the "Hades" can't break the rules of the "Black Swallow", but the tree moves the dead and the living, and he can do a lot of things within the rules.

"Lord Xiao, I didn't expect you to come to me. "This is the most private place in Duanmuyu's mansion, and no outsiders will come over.

"Brother Duanmu, I have traveled so far that I want you to come here to visit. I've always heard people talk about you. I've wanted to see my brother for a long time. Xiao Che said with a smile.

"Brother Xiao is polite, Uncle Wenren is my idol. You're the one I admire the most among my peers. "If you let the people of Emperor Yu know about Duanmu Yu today, I am afraid that they will not trust the Duanmu family.

Duanmu Yu is only three years older than Xiao Che, and can almost be said to be the same age.

What's more, Duanmu Yu had known about Xiao Che for a long time, after all, the Wenren family and the Duanmu family were secretly connected. Moreover, over the years, the rise of the Wenren family has an inseparable relationship with the Xuanfu, and Duanmu Yu naturally knows this.

Xiao Che and Duanmu Yu talked for a long time, and the two felt a little strange at first, but the more they talked, the more speculative they became, Huo Qing, Zhou Xiaodie and Dongya did not interject on the side, it was not that Duanmu Yu forgot them, but that he and Xiao Che were too involved in chatting.

"Brother Duanmu, what do you think of Emperor Yu?" chatting about Xiao Che and Duanmu Yu, they talked about Emperor Yu.

"It stands to reason that I, as a courtier, should not talk about Emperor Yu. But I am also a courtier of the Northern Yan Empire. To be honest, I don't agree with what Emperor Yu did, but now the Northern Yan Empire must not be messed up. Once it is messed up, I am afraid that there will be a danger of falling apart. If it causes turmoil and chaos in the empire, I am afraid that no one will win the hearts of the people. Duanmu Yu's words went to the root.

"Brother Duanmu's words are to the point, so how do you think to break the situation?" Duanmu Yu's words, Xiao Che agreed very much, and then he continued to ask.

"Wait, wait for the opportunity, wait until the day when Emperor Yu himself will die. "Duanmu Yu, as a bystander, has long seen Emperor Yu's personality.

"Hahaha, what Brother Duanmu said is very true. Duanmu Yu's words were almost the same as Xiao Che's thoughts, to deal with Emperor Yu, he could only wait for him to die.

However, with the character of Emperor Yu, he will definitely die. Xiao Che had no doubt about this.

Now the strength of the Xuanfu is insufficient, and after Huo Qing and the others from Stone City settle down, the Xuanfu will go all out to investigate the Supreme Realm powerhouse behind Emperor Yu.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.

Now they don't know who the supreme who supports Emperor Yu is, once they figure it out, it will be much easier to deal with Emperor Yu.

The two talked for a long time, and it was the people in the house who sent a message to Duanmuyu, and then he knew that it was time for dinner, and soon he entertained everyone for dinner.

"Old man Huo, this girl and this brother Tai, I really can't help it, I talked with Brother Xiao too much before, and I ignored you, I will punish myself. "Dinner is naturally wine, Duanmu Yu is drunk in one gulp.

"Haha, the general doesn't have to be like this. The three of them responded politely.

Dinner was quite enjoyable. However, Xiao Che and the others did not stay here for long, and the next day, the four of them said goodbye to Duanmu Yu and set off on the road.

At the time of parting, Duanmu Yu looked at the figures of the four people in the distance, and was unconsciously dazed.

But soon he seemed to notice something, and saw that he drew the saber at his waist at some point, and saw a flash of light, and a man fell from a tree not far away.

Duanmu Yu didn't even look at it, and with a wave of his hand, the fire flashed, turning it into ashes.

This person was naturally the watchdog sent here by Emperor Yu. However, they are not "Black Swallows".

In the empire, the "Black Swallow" will never be exposed, and the "Black Swallow" is more of a national level to act.

A trivial matter like today's "Black Swallow" will never pay attention to it.

After leaving Yanling Pass, the four of them came to a city located within the Northern Yan Empire, Oulai City.

Strange to say, this city of Ole is also a very special city, and their race is different from that of the Northern Yan Empire. The people of the Northern Yan Empire were tall and dark-skinned.

And the people of this city of Ole are white people of extremely white complexion, both men and women.

According to legend, their ancestors were not native to the Qingyuan Continent at all, although there is no historical evidence, but they are indeed Caucasian.

In the city of Orle, although these hundred people nominally respected the Northern Yan Emperor as the lord of the country, they enjoyed a high degree of autonomy. This is also unique among the many city-states of Northern Yan.

More often than not, these whites call themselves Northern Yan, but Ole.

As soon as Xiao Che and the four of them entered the city, they found that there were not only 100 people here, but also many Beiyan people living here.

The autonomy of Olai is completely different from that of Sark. In Sark City, Sark City Zhu is the absolute "emperor". Sark can be seen as a country within a state.

But the autonomy of Oulai City is only partially autonomous, and the selection of the city lord of Oulai City is different from that of other cities in Beiyan, and the city owners of other cities rely either on appointment or on the strength of their own families.

In the city of Ole, the lord of the city was elected by all white citizens.

The lord they elected was not called the lord of the city, but the consul.

Moreover, elections should be held every five years, which can more effectively eliminate the negative effects of long-term power ownership.

The consuls of the city of Orle were very powerful, and they were in charge of the affairs of the city during this period, and not only that, but they also often had to decide the course of the development of the city.

You know, this is the most important thing in a city, if there is no direction of development, or the direction is wrong, then the damage caused is incalculable.

Over the years, I don't know how many consuls have been replaced, but every consul is working hard to develop Oule City better.

However, when Xiao Che and the others came here, they were a little uncomfortable.

The architecture of the city of Olle is also very unique, and the biggest difference between the buildings here and the rest of the world is that the buildings here are all made of marble.

Not only that, but they carved beautiful murals on the marble houses, which not only showed the major developments of the city of Ou Le in the past, but also the major historical events of the Northern Yan Empire.

For example, Emperor Yu's usurpation of power was engraved on household utensils through some metaphorical images.

Most of the utensils produced here are made of porcelain stone, and various patterns are carved on them, and some can even become a series of stories.

This made Xiao Che and them like it very much, even Dongya. After many years of experience abroad, although Dongya has also been to the Northern Yan Empire, he has never been to Oulai City, and he has no understanding of this like Xiao Che. Not to mention Zhou Xiaodie, who is not from the Qingyuan Continent.

The only one here who understands this is Huo Qing.

And when he came to Oulai City before, Xiao Che obviously felt that Huo Qing's heart would fluctuate, maybe because he thought of something.

In fact, Xiao Che didn't know that Huo Qing was not only an outstanding military strategist, a general and a martial artist, but also a very powerful carving master.

However, carving is just after-dinner entertainment for Huo Qing, but even so, his carving ability is quite strong.

In the early years, he took one of his carvings into a competition anonymously and won the championship.

However, this incident did not make Huo Qing take carving as his main thing, on the other hand, he was still a general of the empire at that time, so he was naturally responsible for the soldiers of the whole army. However, over the years, Huo Qing has long ceased to carve.

It's not because he doesn't like it, it's because he met a girl when he was younger, and it was she who made him give up carving altogether.

At that time, Huo Qing led a large army to conquer the northern part of the Qingxuan Empire, and he was also in his twenties. As a result, he fell in love with a girl from a hostile force.

The girl didn't know that he was the general Huo Qing at first, and the two became acquainted because of carving, and later fell in love.

The two had a very good time.

However, the good times did not last long, and Huo Qing received an order from the emperor of the Qingxuan Empire, asking him to lead the army again to completely pacify the northwest of the empire. After receiving the order, Huo Qing naturally did not dare to slack off. So on that day, when the woman learned Huo Qing's identity, she did not follow him, but chose to separate. Her father and brother's family were in the land that Huo Qing wanted to conquer.

Even though the two sides are undying enemies, this girl is also a person with a straight personality, and she chose the latter in love and national righteousness. Huo Qing had no choice.

In this way, a couple went to each other, and the result was that Huo Qing's army was victorious, originally Huo Qing wanted to let this girl go, but who knew that this girl committed suicide in his arms after seeing Huo Qing for the last time.

Since then, Huo Qing has never carved a single object.

That's love, and it ends.