August 14, the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liangzhou City.

Everything here seems to have changed in the past few years, just like when Sun Ning lived here temporarily.

The towering walls, the wide streets, the bustling crowds, and the shops that are still open are really the same as when they left.

This made Sun Ning and Guo Chong, who were sitting in the carriage and looking at everything around them, couldn't help but feel a little emotional, as if time had frozen here.

Although they had all been disguised, for the sake of safety, the two people who knew Liangzhou the most, and Liangzhou was also the most familiar with them, chose to hide in their cars and enter the city, rather than risk passing in front of the gatekeepers.

And at present, their identities are not in the slightest danger of being exposed, and even when they all arrived in front of the Guo family's mansion, they were only intercepted and expelled by the guards, and there was no too much interrogation.

"It seems that Liangzhou City has been quite stable in the past few years, and it has hardly experienced any major changes." Sun Ning laughed in a low voice, which reminded him a little of the assassination he encountered when he first entered Liangzhou City.

Guo Chong on the other side obviously remembered that incident, and said with emotion: "I think Brother Sun, when you first came to Liangzhou, it brought a huge opportunity to our Guo family. It's a pity that in the end, I still made wedding dresses for others, and no matter how many cities I laid, it was only cheaper! ”

"Yes, from Gyeonggi to Lianghu Lianghuai, if you say which side has expanded the fastest in the past two years, it is undoubtedly your Guo family, at least everyone thinks so, including those many soldiers who are still working for them on the front line. I think that seventy or eighty percent of the soldiers should still only regard themselves as Guo Jiabing. ”

Sun Ning said, a light flashing in his eyes: "Brother Guo, do you say that your father and those who are already close to your Guo family will really agree with the current situation?" ”

Guo Chong smiled thoughtfully: "Then you have to ask them before you can have a result." ”

"This is the purpose of our visit to Liangzhou, I just hope to have a good result."

As the words fell, the curtain was lowered again, and this small team slowly passed in front of Guo's mansion and merged into the crowd in front.

The soldiers who guarded the door only tracked it a little with their eyes, and they no longer took it to heart.

Liangzhou is open to the outside world, and there will be people passing by the gate of the mansion every day, and they are most afraid that someone will break through the gate, so how can they really spend a lot of effort to inquire about the origin and identity of the other party.

And just after Sun Ning and his party left, a man in extraordinary military uniforms came out of the side door of the Guo family's mansion, which was Guo Yan's second son and Guo Chong's brother, Guo Han.

After several years of experience, Guo Han's temperament is a little more calm and capable than back then, his eyes are introverted, and he looks more and more confident.

At this time, he smiled and sent two men dressed as officials out of the door, and finally admonished: "Two adults, tomorrow's Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival should be held more grandly, don't let the people in the city feel that because there is war on the front line, our days in Liangzhou will be affected." ”

These two officials are the governors of Liangzhou and Tongzhi, although they do not have much power on weekdays, they still work hard in many trivial government affairs that are close to the people.

For example, whenever there are some celebrations during festivals, they are indispensable to bring people to arrange Zhang Luo. I was invited to Guo Mansion today for tomorrow's Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival.

How dare the two of them take it in front of the future lord of the Guo family, and hurriedly replied: "General Guo, rest assured, we have already arranged the preliminary work, and tomorrow's lantern festival will be lively and lively, and the scenery will not let the people see anything wrong." ”

"By the way, there is one more thing, I hope the major general can do some cooperation."

"But is it a matter of safety for tomorrow's lantern festival? Don't worry, I've already arranged it, and there won't be any omissions. ”

"No, we hope that the major general can also make an appearance at the lamp mountain in front of the state government when the time comes, so as to play a better role in calming people's hearts."

"Well, that's fine, I'll bring someone there then." Guo Han agreed without hesitation, and then sent the two out of the door, and waved goodbye to them with a smile.

It wasn't until the two of them left in the car that the smile on Guo Han's face suddenly stopped, and he looked back at the left and right and said, "Is there a battle report from the front line?" ”

Since a large army gathered in the south of the Yangtze River more than a month ago and put on a posture of breaking through the Yangtze River defense line at any time, not only Lianghuai and Huguang have troops and horses transferred over, but even some troops from the left side of Liangzhou have also been transferred to the south.

And Guo Yan, as the commander on the bright side, also set off from Liangzhou early and rushed to the front line to command the defense. In this way, Liangzhou City was fully entrusted to his Guo Han.

With Guo Han's current ability, it is more than enough to defend a small Liangzhou City, and he has more thoughts on the front line, always thinking about the possible war over there.

If it weren't for the experience of many years ago, he wouldn't even be able to go along the Yangtze River with his father and fight with the Jiangnan army.

"Back to Major General, we and the enemy have had a few small battles on the water surface of the Yangtze River, but we have not been able to distinguish the winner or loser. As far as some people on the front line said, the posture put on by the Jiangnan side looked more like self-defense, rather than really wanting to send troops to our disadvantage. A cronie hurriedly replied.

"Forgive them for not having such skills. If it weren't for the fact that there was still the Pingtian Army in the north, I would have taken the initiative to send troops to kill the river and take a look. After Guo Han exhaled a breath of turbidity, he turned back to the house.

It's just that after walking for a while, he speaks again: "There haven't been any incidents in other parts of the city, have they?" ”

"What does the Major General mean...... They? The last two words, this one said vaguely and in a low voice.

After seeing Guo Han bowing slightly, he said cautiously: "There is nothing unusual, the guys who wanted to be placed in the barracks before were temporarily shelved because of the front-line war." ”

"Hmph, they're not confused." Guo Han snorted coldly again, then quickened his pace and returned to the front yard, where there were still many affairs waiting for him to deal with one by one.

With the deepening of the Zonghenghui's control over the entire Liangzhou, coupled with the death of his uncle Guo Feng and the defection of his brother Guo Chong, there are fewer and fewer trustworthy people in the Guo family in Liangzhou, and now many things have almost all fallen on Guo Han, so that he can be busy almost from morning to night.

But there is an extremely important thing that he cannot ask, that is, the supply of grain, grass and baggage to the front line, which is arranged by the people of the Zongheng Society.

And its purpose is obviously to control the more than 100,000 soldiers on the front line with this, so as to prevent them from having any thoughts that they shouldn't have.

Looking at the Chinese book in his hand, thinking of this, Guo Han's face became gloomy again......