373. The greeting of Quanzhou City

100,000 besieging thieves collapsed in one day, those who fled in rout, those who surrendered, and the haze of Quanzhou City was completely dissipated.

Out of prudence, it has not completely lifted the state of combat readiness, and still strictly controls the outer city gates, and is not allowed to enter and leave at will without the permission of the pacification department.

However, martial law was relaxed in the city, people were no longer confined to their homes, and market shops were reopened.

Hearing that His Royal Highness King Yan was coming, many people called friends, helped the old and the young to come to greet them, looking forward to seeing the majestic demeanor of the successor of the empire with their own eyes.

A main street, from Deji Gate to the south gate of Luocheng Town, and then from the south gate of the town to Chongyang Gate, three zhang wide, as long as four miles, that is, Zhongshan Road in later generations.

Both sides of the street are planted with three or four zhang high thorn tree, if it is in the flowering period, you can see the city full of clouds, the red flower is like the grand scene of burning the sky, so Quanzhou City is also called Thorn Tree City.

At this time, there were no flowers on the treetops, but they were full of black pods, and the trees were crowded with people, and there were many people of different skin colors who were also looking forward to it.

Quanzhou is indeed the largest port in the East, or even the largest port in the world, but it is located in the southeast far from the Central Plains, and no real emperor has ever visited.

Although there are thousands of clans living in the city today, how can they be compared to the future emperor who will dominate the entire empire.

What's more, King Yan is quite legendary, his talent is unrivaled in the world, and his poems are popular in the world for a long time, and they have become a must-have repertoire in Goolan Washe, which is better than Liu Sanchang back then.

There is also a magical ability to turn stones into gold, and he has casually operated several industries like gold and silver, which has attracted the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to rush to buy shares.

There are also some surprising new things that have been launched from time to time, setting off a trend.

That's all there is to it, I didn't expect him to be extremely good at military affairs, only with 3,000 soldiers and horses to dare to save Quanzhou, 100,000 thieves in front of him is just a chicken, tile dog, vulnerable.

And when he comes to Quanzhou, he will inevitably bring about great changes, whether for better or worse, and it will be closely related to everyone in the city.

Therefore, even if the government did not publicize and organize, it still attracted the attention of almost the entire city, and spontaneously gathered on the streets where King Yan entered the city.

High-rise buildings and pavilions along the street, or restaurants and tea shops, or Goolan tile houses, or other business transactions, and even private residences, all places where you can have a high view of the street scene have become sought-after goods, and you have to spend a lot of money to get one.

Occupied by those who were not qualified to go to the dock to meet them, the wealthy merchants and gentry, and the people of the Yanai, who set up wine banquets, called female servants to accompany them, and talked about the current situation and waited leisurely.

Ordinary people could not afford this money, so they could only crowd on both sides of the street, or carry the elderly, or carry children, or hold their wives and daughters tightly, stand on tiptoe, stretch their necks and look south.

Some idlers and scoundrels, they squeeze around in the vast crowd, and when there are a few more purses in their hands that they don't know who touched, if they meet a beautiful little lady, they must be able to rub the oil and dip it cheaply, and from time to time arouse the coquettish scolding.

There are also countless small merchants and vendors, carrying baskets and carrying food and soup and drinks, flowing around eagerly and hawking, adding to the countless liveliness.

Such a scene is not at all like a city that has just gotten rid of the siege of thieves, and it can only be said that the Chinese people's ability to adapt is too strong.

Except for a small number of officials and archers, most of those who blocked these crowds and maintained order were the servants of the high-ranking families in the city.

This is mainly due to the fact that there are few soldiers in the city, and the city's defense needs to be maintained, and tens of thousands of thieves who have been captured outside the city have to send troops to guard them, so as not to cause any chaos.

After waiting for a long time, some people inevitably become anxious.

"The sun is going to set, why hasn't His Royal Highness King Yan come yet, isn't there something wrong?"

"What can go wrong, even if you encounter the remnants of the thieves, Your Highness can easily extinguish them."

"It is said that His Royal Highness is the reincarnation of Marshal Zhao Gong, who can drive thunder and lightning, call for wind and rain, and his command is also a god general, and the earth-shattering thunder outside Nanguan and Linzhang Gate in the morning is proof, how can a mere thief obstruct His Highness's itinerary?"

"Yikes! The drought and thunder are ferocious, shaking people's hearts and livers, and the dust on the roof beams has been shaken off, but it turns out to be the magic power of His Royal Highness King Yan...... This prisoner of thieves has besieged the city, and for many days there has been no livelihood income, and the house will not be able to open the pot."

"Haha, Guo Si, you have to ask the God of Wealth for your little needle and thread brain to make a living? It's not too cold......

"If it is really Zhao Gongming who came into the world, wouldn't King Yan be eight feet long, with a black face and thick beard, a helmet and armor, an iron whip, and come across the black tiger?"

"Definitely not, what Tianhuang nobles pay attention to is a graceful and elegant demeanor, how can he be like a vulgar martial artist, I see, King Yan must be chic and handsome, gentle and elegant."

"Hehe, what's there to fight about, we'll be able to see it when King Yan arrives, why don't we make a bet?"

"I'm afraid you want to eat fart, how noble King Yan is, how can he easily show his head, it's an honor for us to see his car, don't even think about it when you see the real face."

The people on the side of the road are talking nonsense, and the people who claim to have some identities upstairs are also talking about it, but they can get more information and pay more attention to more realistic topics.

"Our temple in Quanzhou is big and small, and I don't know if it can withstand the toss of the big Buddha of King Yan......

"It is rumored that King Yan has a very fierce temperament, and he does not take the ancestral tradition in his eyes at all, the scholar said that he will kill it, this time there is chaos in Fujian, and he will definitely kill people's heads and blood will flow into a river, hey, I really don't know how many people will be implicated."

"Do you know why King Yan's army arrived in the morning, but he did not enter the city for a long time? …… It's not for any other reason, it's because he personally led people to Fashi early in the morning, attacked Pu Baguan's house, and slaughtered the Pu family......

"This King Yan is good at collecting money, and he must be very fond of money, but isn't it killing chickens and taking eggs like this, it's really unwise, after this incident, where will there be merchants who dare to come to trade in the future, and we are afraid that Quanzhou will be depressed from now on."

"As far as I know, the Pu family is one of the main perpetrators of this turmoil, isn't it also deserved to end up like this?"

"Hehe, the Pu family is a businessman, if you can do a good job, how can you risk the disapproval of the world, not all of them are forced by the King of Yan, the trade of the Goryeo Kingdom is all swallowed by the King of Yan, how can you let go of this piece of big fat meat in the South Seas, instead of waiting for the King of Yan to harvest, it is better to start first, and Bo Yibo."

"This is understandable, but to do such a decisive thing must be prepared and go all out, but they even did such a thing as attacking Quanzhou City, but why didn't they plot against King Yan, but let him break into Quanzhou with light troops."

"Hey, who said they didn't attack King Yan? This siege of Quanzhou is actually to lure the king of Yan to take the bait, and the king of Yan is a bold one, and he dared to come south after hastily ordering thousands of soldiers and horses...... They sent more than 20,000 people to ambush and intercept them...... It's not that King Yan was not blocked, but he was defeated by King Yan, and he was still completely annihilated, so he didn't send any news back, and these people in the Pu family were caught off guard......

"Shhh...... Could it be that King Yan is still resurrected in vain, and Sun Wu can't be possessed? Needless to say, if there are 20,000 people, but I have also seen the private soldiers on the Pujia ship, all of them are brave and brave, and I don't know how many lives have been received and how much blood they have drunk on the sea, and it is said that there are many generals recruited in the Great Food Country, all of whom have fought in battle, and there is a regular army like the Left Wing Army, how can it be ......

"In our Great Song Dynasty, no matter how good you can fight, there is a family law of using literature to control martial arts, even Di Wu Xiangyue Wu Mu can't do it, but that is the King of Yan, that is the future official family of our Great Song Dynasty, how can this be controlled? I can't say it, after the Great Song Dynasty, we will be a martial artist, and my generation of literati can only bow down and be small, and become concubines......

It can be said that at this time, the literati Lin generally did not have a good impression of King Yan, even if he was not directly involved in the chaos, it did not mean that he had no opinion on King Yan, and when they talked about King Yan in private, there would basically be no good words on their lips.

These people themselves don't

has the courage to oppose King Yan with practical actions, but he is still on the side of the rebellion and the strong, even if he can't do anything substantial, at least he has to suppress King Yan's reputation.

In the midst of the discussion, the noise on the south side of the street suddenly subsided, replaced by a series of neat footsteps, sounding as if a person had come out, but magnified countless times.

"It's coming, it's coming, King Yan is finally here......

The people's spirits were lifted and their eyes were fixed to the south.

The first thing that catches your eye is not the various ceremonial guards that everyone expected, at first glance it is just an ordinary military parade, but a closer look is not unusual at all.

From afar, I only felt that the armor light was a little dazzling, and when I got closer, I found that this queue was abnormally neat, with a total of ten columns of ten people in each column, and two phalanxes before and after a hundred people, horizontal and vertical, no matter how you look at it, it is a straight line.

The marching speed of the phalanx is not fast, the soldiers in the formation hold their heads high, holding spears under their armpits in both hands, and the tips of the spears shining with cold light are pointed obliquely at the sky in front of them.

The sound of the footsteps has a peculiar rhythm, as if it beats on the hearts of every spectator around it, which is so dazzling and shocking that many people forget to breathe.

It's just two hundred, but it seems to be a thousand troops, or a steel giant, bringing strong deterrence and oppression to everyone.

Invincible!

Such a thought popped up in everyone's hearts inexplicably.

Originally, some people were still skeptical about King Yan's defeat of tens of thousands of traitors, but this moment has all disappeared.

Not far behind the two infantry phalanxes, there was a huge cavalry phalanx, more than 100 armored cavalry, which was absolutely huge in Quanzhou.

There is also no complicated guard of honor, only a simple and simple black recognition flag, on which is written a golden "Yan" character.

The horses are of different colors, but they are all five feet tall at the shoulders, and the horses are all wearing terrifying visors, and their eyes are shot out of the holes, like gods and demons, and there are even fresh blood stains on the armor, which is murderous.