Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan, one horse Pingchuan.

On one side is the towering rolling mountains, and on the other side is the clear river Weishui, like a moat, blocking the whole land.

Since a short rest day in Huayin County, the land of Qinchuan at this time, along the Weishui River, the Hedong Army and the Shadow Moon Cavalry, as well as the 5,000 men and horses that came out of Tongguan, rushed all the way to the west, and its speed was simply staggering, shaking the heavens and the earth.

In less than three days, they arrived at Baling. It is only less than twenty miles away from Chang'an City.

At this time, Lu Zhaoyi suddenly informed Shadow Spirit Shadow Snow that everyone was camping in place, not to cross the river, and once someone crossed the Bahe River, they would be executed immediately.

The order was issued, and the generals and colonels of the various armies, under the call of the commander, set up camp in the same place one by one, and as the sun set, it gradually became darker, and the sky became darker and darker.

They are waiting for orders.

The 10,000 horses in the east of the river, the 5,000 cavalry of the Shadow Moon, and the 5,000 people of the original Tongguan garrison, formed an army of 20,000, which was stationed twenty miles outside Chang'an City, undoubtedly to deter those Guan sergeant clans.

This deterrent effect is intangible, but effective.

The sky was completely dark, and the moonlight shone down through the clouds and shone on the earth, and everything seemed so strange. Chinese Net

In the tent, Lu Zhaoyi had just finished discussing the plan with Shadow Spirit Shadow Snow and several generals among the Black Armor Guards, and he hurriedly asked others to retreat, leaving only Xue Cifeng here.

The crowd shunned.

The two had been looking at each other for a long time in the camp, and finally, Lu Zhaoyi broke the silence first.

"Right now, we're only forty miles away from Huaili, do you want to go back and see your family?"

Huaili, Fufeng County, is the place where Xue Cifeng's family is entrenched, coincidentally, Baling is only twenty miles away from Chang'an, and Huaili to Chang'an is exactly twenty miles.

Not only that, if Chang'an City is the center, within a radius of 20 miles, it is the most densely populated place in Guanzhong, and it is also the place where the major scholars in Guanzhong gather together.

Hearing this, Xue Cifeng frowned slightly, a little unclear, but instead, he seemed to have figured it out.

"Seven Niangzi, do you want to test Xue?"

Lu Zhaoyi chuckled, "Among smart people, don't talk foolishly. The first time I saw Xue Lang, Qi Niang was always uneasy, but His Majesty once told me that he trusted you. But if you want to build trust, you have to try a few times. Isn't it?"

Xue Cifeng was stunned for a moment, and then tilted the corners of his mouth slightly, "This is natural. When the Seventh Lady said this, Xue was very pleased, I don't know what the Seventh Lady asked me to do?"

"Xue Lang is really witty." Lu Zhaoyi smiled and bowed his head, "Since we arrived in Baling, the fifteen warriors in Guanzhong must also be eyeing each other, and your Xue family, as one of them, is also a big threat in Qi Niang's heart......

"So, you want me to go back and convince my father to surrender to you?"

"How can it be called surrender? It should be assisted, the head of the Xue family should think through it, and it is really not a wise move to be an enemy of His Majesty."

Hearing this, Xue Cifeng had a bitter smile on his face.

This woman made it clear that she wanted to use him as a gunman.

But because she was the rumored Lu Qi Niang, Xue Cifeng didn't dare to be too offended, but said with a slightly cold face, "What if Xue doesn't agree?"

"Xue Duwei, Qi Niang is just a woman. I won't threaten you, and if you don't, I hope you won't regret it."

Her words were very light, without a threatening tone, but when they reached Xue Cifeng's ears, there was always something weird.

So, he half-jokingly said, "Could it be, is the Seventh Lady going to let the Qingzhou Army enter the customs?" Hehehe......"

Halfway through laughing, suddenly, he saw Lu Zhaoyi's face, calm and weird, between the slender willow eyebrows, there seemed to be a trace of fierceness, slowly revealing on the surface.

In a trance, he felt a chill in the back of his neck, and secretly swallowed a few mouthfuls, and the beads of sweat couldn't help but flow down his forehead.

The 150,000 Qingzhou Army was once the sharp blade of Wugong to seize the world, and it was also a killing weapon that shocked the world. Xia Pei dreamed of obtaining the Qingzhou Army's talisman, but even if he got the talisman, he couldn't mobilize it.

Because of the whole army, only Gou Chenzi's order can make the Qingzhou army obey.

But just last year, the disease in Huainan County was raging, and Lu Qiniang's mobilization of the Qingzhou Army also came out, causing a sensation in the world.

Now, she actually wants to transfer the Qingzhou army into Guanzhong, once it causes a big war, only with the strength of the fifteen warriors in Guanzhong, there is almost no resistance power.

For a while, Xue Cifeng couldn't help but be a little flustered.

Seeing him like this, Lu Zhaoyi couldn't help but sneer.

"Xue Lang, Qi Niang is a woman, and it is not what Qi Niang wants to see, but Qi Niang is the last thing she wants to see the dead."

This is as if she did not do the 5,000 people who were slaughtered by the Hedong Army and the Shadow Moon Cavalry outside Tongguan a few days ago. Besides, half a year ago, the people who were killed in Jiangzuo Stone Town had nothing to do with Jiang Chengcheng's Dongning army who came by boat overnight outside Jiang Cheng City.

Xue Cifeng was shocked when he heard it.

But he still maintained a smile on his face, "Seven Ladies, although Xue is not talented, he is also a dignified man, on one side he is a relative, and on the other side he is a prince of heaven and earth. I will never fail Your Majesty."

"Oh?" Lu Zhaoyi raised his eyebrows, his eyes flashing with cunning.

Xue Cifeng's heart sank, and then he realized that he had almost fallen into this woman's trap, so he relieved it with a cough, "That is the case, Xue Mou will leave!"

When the words fell, he turned around and wanted to leave, but after walking a few steps, he suddenly remembered something, looked back at Lu Zhaoyi, and said with a solemn expression: "If the seventh lady is idle, you need to think about it, "Where to return to the poor, settle under the grass" The meaning of this sentence."

After saying that, he left without looking back.

Where to go, settle down.

This is, in the western suburbs of Luojing, Xia Pei sent her out of Luojing late at night, and said it in her ear.

She couldn't help but raise her eyebrows, perhaps, this Xue Sanlang is indeed a person that Xia Pei believes in, but there are too many incomprehensions about this person.

If it was true, this person had a close relationship with Xia Pei, then it would not make Guanzhong so chaotic.

But since the Yongzhou incident, Xia Pei did only inquire about Yongzhou and discuss with the palace, and did not implement the law of specific measures, could it be that Xue Cifeng was secretly assisting the emperor in all this?

She shook her head, if she wanted to solve the mystery, she still needed to test it step by step.

At this moment, there was a commotion outside the tent, and instead, Ying Xue rushed in, with a happy expression, and sold the guanzi.

"Qi Niang, guess who's coming?"

Lu Zhaoyi was speechless and rolled his eyes, "Guess what, call someone in!"

Hearing this, Ying Xue smiled, rubbed her nose, and pointed to the outside of the tent, and in an instant, two figures ran in from outside, a man and a woman, and the woman among them ran forward desperately and hugged Lu Zhaoyi.

"Qi Niang, I'm here, I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss you so much!"

Seeing this woman clearly, Lu Zhaoyi's eyes flashed, but the other party reported it too tightly, she could only struggle, holding her voice and saying, "Qi Niang, if you don't let go, there will be only one Qi Niang left in this world."

The woman who broke in was none other than Qu Family Qi Niang, Qu Zhiyun. And with her was Ying Feng, the deputy commander of the shadow guard who was sent to Guanzhong half a year ago.

On the occasion of the reunion, the two naturally had to catch up.

Qu Zhiyun cried and laughed, like a child, Lu Zhaoyi's heart softened, stretched out her right arm, and wrapped it around her slender shoulder.

As for Shadow Wind, he stood in the lower position with a helpless face, his eyes swept over the women in the tent, his eyes blinking, blinking.

Lu Zhaoyi saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

"Zhiyun, how did you and Shadow Wind get together?"

Who knows, as soon as Qu Zhiyun heard this, her eyes widened, "Don't talk nonsense, I and Ying Feng happened to meet in Wuguan a month ago, so didn't we come over together!"

I haven't seen her for half a year, Lu Zhaoyi looked at her, and found that she had indeed changed a lot, becoming more lively, talking more and more, and her mood was also more calm, much less, and she used to be like a little daughter.

Correspondingly, Qu Zhiyun has been in the past few months

The experience also made her skin more and more watery, and her eyebrows were a little charming and heroic, which was even better than before.

"I received a letter from Shangyong Dividing the Rudder before, saying that you want to enter the customs, but I didn't believe it at first, until an hour ago, we heard that 20,000 troops were coming from Tongguan in the Dao Pavilion, and we knew that it was you who came......."

"That pavilion chief is really excessive, we wanted to come to you, but we were stopped by the pavilion chief, saying that jackals are dangerous, but they didn't let us pass ......."

From the moment she came in, Qu Zhiyun chattered endlessly, talking about her own grievances, and Lu Zhaoyi laughed when she heard it, "Okay, okay, this matter is not the pavilion chief's fault."

"Don't make a fuss, I have something to tell you......

As she spoke, she raised her right hand, signaled silence, and asked Qu Zhiyun and Ying Feng to step forward, "You entered the customs before me, what did you hear?"

Qu Zhiyun was stunned for a moment, then reacted, nodded, and was the first to say, "When I entered the customs, I just had one feeling, there were too many people."

Shadow Wind also responded, "Yes, after I entered the customs, I found out that just the population near Chang'an, there are actually millions of people, and eighty percent of the people in Yongzhou are gathered here. Moreover, there are officials stationed in every county, and there are many people who have migrated from other places......

Lu Zhaoyi was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what they meant, so he asked, "Earlier, we came here in a hurry and found that the land along the way was barren and did not look like farming.

"Qi Niang, you don't know something." Shadow Wind hurriedly stood up and explained.

Compared with Chang'an two hundred years ago, it was a prosperous scene, but after two hundred years of wind and frost, today's Chang'an, the scholars stand side by side, occupy Guanzhong, and the cultivated land is barren, and it has long declined.

In addition to the fertile land occupied by the scholars, there is no land for the people to cultivate in other places in Guanzhong, because of the hegemony of the scholars, the people in Guanzhong are living in dire straits.

"The merchants, farmers, craftsmen, and so on have been cornered by the nobles, who, relying on their wealth, exploited the people wantonly, and even built tall buildings to squeeze slaves."

"Moreover, those nobles also imposed compulsory taxes, which is simply oppressing the people and making the people complain!"

"Under such circumstances, the people in Guanzhong naturally hate those scholars, but because of the forces behind them, the people dare not act rashly."

Hearing the end, Lu Zhaoyi fell into deep thought, and soon slowly turned around and looked at Ying Feng, "You don't have to tell me this anymore, I just want to ask one thing now, are the fifteen warriors in Guanzhong all breathing out of one nostril?"