It is warm and cold in February, and the red and green buckets are fresh.

The entire team is almost composed of the concubines in the palaces of various princes or the second and third elders who are not eligible to inherit the title, except for one person - Feng Ziying, the eldest son of the Shenwu general Feng Tang.

However, Feng Ziying is in a different direction from Jia Lu, Jia Lu goes west to Datong Mansion, and Feng Ziying goes northeast to Liaodong Frontier.

Feng Ziying obviously didn't want to talk to this group of concubines.

The Feng family and the Jia family are also good friends in the world, and Feng Ziying and Jia Fu are also equals, and they are familiar with Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, and even Jia Baoyu.

However, he only nodded to Jia Luluo, even if he said hello.

Feng Ziying didn't take Jia Lu in his mouth, and Jia Lu naturally couldn't take care of him, so he nodded in return.

"Look at his hanging appearance, who do you look down on?" Niu Jizu next to Jia Lu muttered in a low voice.

Jia Lu smiled and did not answer.

Niu Jizu hugged Jia Lu again and said: "I said Jia Lu, have you offended someone?"

Forget about throwing you to Datong Mansion, why are you still arranged to go to that ghost place in Xuande City?

When you got the letter in your family, didn't you dredge it for you? Anyway, I moved to the Great Wall!

Look at me, Xuanfu, although it's also colder, isn't it a little closer to Shenjing?

How nice would it be to go into the mountains to hunt rabbits and roe deer? ”

Jia Lu smiled: "What's wrong with Xuande City?"

You see that last year, the Mongolian Tartars all hit Datong City, but didn't they still bypass Xuande City?

What is it called? The most dangerous place is the safest place, you know?

Just you, be careful not to get bitten by a rabbit! ”

Niu Jizu was not in the mood to laugh with Jia Lu, but said with a little loss:

"Jia Laosan, we didn't know each other when we didn't fight, and we were also brothers.

I know your temper is stubborn, but I still have to say that if the Mongols come, if you don't know well, you should run!

No matter how hard the fist is, it can't be as hard as the curved bow and arrow of the Tartar! ”

Jia Lu smiled and said, "Niu Er, you think too much, do you think I'm going to be a taishou?"

When I arrived in Xuande City, I was just a pawn.

The Mongolian Tartars are really coming, is it a war or an escape, can it be my turn to speak? ”

"I'm just telling you not to be too stupid, it's too brainless!" Niu Jizu hated that iron could not be made of steel, and raised the horsewhip in his hand to fight.

"Hehe, I know, you should take care of the old cow."

Due to the vehicles loaded with luggage, the convoy did not travel fast, and it took 11 days to reach Datong Mansion, an important town on the nine sides.

Datong city wall is built tall and majestic, the wall is 14 meters high, the upper width is 12 meters, the lower width is 18 meters, it is solid and precipitous, all kinds of city defense facilities are complete, it becomes a defense system by itself.

The city wall is based on regular stone strips, stone slabs, stone squares, stone pillars, etc., and the wall is rammed with "Sanhe soil" section by section, and the periphery is built with blue bricks.

It can be said that Datong City's defense capability is almost completely inferior to that of Shenjing City.

Jia Lu couldn't figure it out, how could the Mongols, who didn't have Hongyi cannons and professional large-scale siege equipment, dare to come to fight Datong's idea?

Why did the envoy of Datong Jiedu abandon the city and flee when he heard that the Mongols were coming?

After resting in Datong City for two days and roughly appreciating the customs of Datong, the children of the family who came from the same road also went their separate ways, but Jia Lu was left in the barracks.

When I asked, I found out that it was to wait a few more days for the convoy of Datong to send supplies to Xuande City before letting Jia Lu follow the convoy to Xuande City.

After another seven days, Jia Lu finally came out of Gushan Pass and came to Xuande City, the military city he was about to guard.

Xuande City is located one hundred and fifty miles northwest of Datong City, and in the middle of the nameless rolling hills from north to south is a gourd-shaped clearing.

The two raised bellies of the gourd are each a village, slightly larger on the north side and slightly smaller on the north and south side.

And Xuande City is built on the waist of the gourd, which can also be said to occupy the best geographical advantage.

Both villages are farmers who lost their land in Kannai decades ago.

They were originally recruited as civil husbands and followed the border army to build Xuande City.

After the construction of Xuande City, because of the protection of the border army, there was a large area of land to cultivate in front and back of the city, so more than 2,000 people stayed and settled.

After decades of reclamation, two villages of former Xuande and later Xuande were formed.

The circumference of Xuande City is 500 zhang, the wall is one zhang and six feet high, the rammed earth is piled up, the blue bricks are paved outside, there are only two gates in the north and south, and there is also the urn city.

Compared with the majestic and magnificent Datong City, Xuande City is like a malnourished child, guarding the land north of the Great Wall with a thin body.

When you enter Xuande City, someone naturally responds.

Someone led Jia Lu directly to command the envoy Yamen, and Xuande commanded Wang Jian to meet Jia Rui.

"Mark Jia Lu to see the commander!" Jia Lu wanted to arch his hand, but he felt that something was wrong, so he still gave a military salute.

After looking at Jia Lu with interest, Wang Jian said, "You are Jia Lu?"

Well, I threw my pen from Rong at a young age, and I have a great future!

It's just that you are weaker, and I am afraid that my son and brother from Shenjing will not be able to wield knives and guns.

I heard that you are very proficient in writing and ink? ”

Jia Lu had no choice but to say: "There is a talent who is famous on his body, and he has studied in the Guozi Prison for a year. ”

Wang Jian nodded and said: "Excellent, it just so happens that Xuande is now a member of the ambassador, and you can read and write, so you will be in charge." ”

Ambassador Cang...... Jia Lu's face was black: "Obey the commander's arrangement." ”

"Come on, take Jia Lu back to the room to rest and settle."

Wang Jian spoke, and a small official stepped forward and bowed down and made a gesture of invitation: "Ambassador Jia, please come here." ”

Jia Lu couldn't help but be speechless for a while, more than a thousand miles away came to let him be a storekeeper from Jiupin?

No, the prefecture-level warehouse ambassador is from the ninth grade.

It stands to reason that the state and county ambassadors are not in the stream and have no grade.

But Xuande City is a military state, and such a small city is a commander, so what level is the ambassador of Xuande City?

Jia Lu was a little muddy for a while.

But none of this matters, he has now come from Shenjing to Jiubian, to Xuande City, and has his own job - storekeeper.

And if there are no accidents, it will be a long time coming.

Follow the little official to a separate courtyard at the back, which is the treasury of Xuande City.

He said that he was in charge of the treasury, but in fact he was in charge of only the armory. The silver treasury and the grain depot were in charge of another person.

What surprised Jia Lu was that he, an unpopular petty official, actually had three small main rooms as a place to stay, which was not bad.

was packing the clothes and luggage he brought, but he heard a person on the door ask, "Dare to ask if it's the new Ambassador Jia?" ”