It was not what Du Wei expected.

He actually received a rare cold reception along the way in Mulan City.

With the respect of the Duke of the Empire, favored by the Regent, he himself came from a famous martial arts family in the Empire (although the Rollin family has fallen, in the aristocratic circle that is extremely particular about family and tradition, he still regards Du Wei as his own), not to mention that Du Wei himself is also a powerful magician.

Along the way from Dìdū, in any city he visited, the local chief executive received Du Wei with the most solemn understanding.

But when they came to Mulan City, the convoy arrived at the gate of the city, and the officers of the Royal Forest Army who opened the road looked for a long time, but they did not see a single person who was the governor of Nulin Province, not even the lowest-level reception official.

This made the officer of the Imperial Forest Army very annoyed, who are they, they are the pride of the sky, they are the Imperial Forest Army by the emperor's side! Seeing the third rank of the Imperial Forest Army! Along the way, in addition to being extremely respectful to Du Wei, those magistrates are also respectful to them, the Imperial Forest Army, when have they received such a cold reception?

Seeing that there was not a single governor at the city gate, even the soldiers guarding the city gate blocked the way and demanded to see their own customs clearance documents...... With such a huge convoy and a regular army of hundreds of guards, it is natural that it cannot be casually put into the city.

Just when the officer of the Imperial Guards was about to get angry, in Du Wei's carriage, Philip jumped down, walked to the side of the Imperial Guards officer, and whispered a few lakes, and the officer angrily took out the official document from his bosom and threw it to the soldiers defending the city.

"See clearly! the badge on Lao Tzu's armor!" the Imperial Forest Officer shouted arrogantly.

Who knows, the garrison of Mulan City thinks it is tough. He glanced at the Imperial Forest Army coldly, and replied in a non-obtrusive manner: "It's because you see that you are the Imperial Forest Army that you have to check it out of purpose! If you don't have an order to leave the garrison without permission, the sight is the same as the crime of rebellion!" ”

The Imperial Forest Army ate turtles, but they didn't dare to get angry because of the order of Du Wei brought by Philip, waited patiently for the other party to check the documents, and then whipped his horse like a vent, and then led people to the city.

The soldier guarding the city looked at it coldly, but mocked: "Hmph, people from the south don't know how to cherish horses, and people who don't care for their horses are also worthy of being cavalry." ”

This happened to be heard by Du Wei in the carriage, and he was silent for a long time before sighing.

The Imperial Guards are indeed overwhelmed.

Maybe they are the best equipped and the best treated, but ...... This army, which was piled up with gold coins, always made Du Wei feel too fancy and gorgeous.

Originally, Du Wei also planned to find a way to leave these five hundred royal forest troops after arriving in the northwest, but along the way, this idea was still dispelled by him, and these proud royal forest troops were not in Du Wei's plan.

It's just that Du Wei then smiled at Philip beside him: "It seems that this Governor Bohan doesn't seem to be friendly to us." ”

Philip also looked puzzled, although he is a young man who Du Wei is optimistic about, but after all, he has no experience in politics, although his knowledge is good, but there are some things that he can't see through now.

Du Wei's psychology has long understood.

I didn't come to the northwest, and here in the northwest is Governor Bohan leading the overall situation against the Northwest Army, and I came...... What would Bohan think? He would probably think that it was the Empire that did not trust him!

You must know that although Bohan is only the governor of Nulin Province in name, in fact, Du Wei heard it before he came, because the two previous lords of Desar Province were driven away by the Northwest Army, and in such a chaotic situation, in fact, the government decree was also commanded by the governor of Bohan.

It's strange that the person who shares the food is here, and people are willing to give their good faces!

The convoy went all the way into Mulan City, Du Wei sat in the carriage and looked out the window, looking all the way, he found that this capital city of Nulin Province was really a very climate, bustling streets, and pedestrians coming and going. There are also those merchants, which are bustling and prosperous.

The group crossed the streets and went directly to the governor, and on the way, the governor finally fell into the bow.

Several governors came on horseback from the officials who were in charge of receiving them (which made Du Wei sigh very much, it seems that in this place in the northwest, everyone can ride horses, and even these civilian officials seem to be quite skilled in horseback riding), blocking the way of Du Wei and his convoy.

The person who came was extremely respectful to Du Wei in his attitude, but the meaning of the words was worth pondering.

"Lord Duke, our Lord Governor, let us welcome your Lord into the city, but this morning the Governor has a lot of things in his head, and the military salary delivery in the autumn of this year is in a hurry, so it has delayed time, and I also ask Lord Duke to atone for his sins, we will lead the way in front, Lord Governor has already arranged the residence of Lord Duke, and the administrative mansion of Mulan City is in front......"

Before he could finish speaking, Du Wei frowned slightly.

Executive Mansion?

In the Empire, the administrative mansion was the place where each place was responsible for receiving official personnel to and from other regions, which was equivalent to the post house in ancient China, but the problem was ...... Those places generally only receive some low-level officials, and a powerful person like Du Wei would dare to let Du Wei live in that kind of place whenever he went to a place? Along the way, every time he went to a city, the local local officials would choose the best place in the city for Du Wei to live in, and they would even be eager to invite Du Wei to live in their own home.

But this Governor Bohan is good, he dared to do such a thing, not only did he not come, but he also directly threw Du Wei to the administrative mansion!

What made Du Wei frown was not that he disliked the bad conditions of the administrative mansion, but that he couldn't imagine that this Bohan Governor's attitude towards him was so bad that he even saved the politeness on his face.

In this way, the people around Du Wei were a little unhappy, and even Philip, a rookie in the political arena, felt that it was a bit excessive, and the servants and soldiers under Du Wei were all angry.

Du Wei thought for a while, suddenly smiled, and then stepped out of the carriage, looked at the two Mulan City officials, and said in a calm tone: "Don't you know that the Governor is in the city now?"

The one next to him was about to answer, but the other quietly pulled him, and then said with a smile: "Lord Duke, it's really unfortunate, our Lord Governor left the city early this morning, and the Northwest Army sent someone to collect the materials and salaries for the autumn yesterday, as well as the affairs of several merchant groups of different races in the grassland, so that the Lord Governor is really inseparable......

Du Wei nodded, but he sneered.

Out of town early this morning?

Along the way, everywhere he went, the cavalry of the Grand Front Station under his command would run in front to make announcements, and along the way, whenever he stopped at one place, those magistrates would also inform the next place of their itinerary, and in this way, the governor must have known about his arrival today.

With his current identity, since he knew that he was coming, he still chose to go out early this morning, open his eyes and talk nonsense!

Thinking of this, Du Wei suddenly had a thought in his heart.

You want to avoid me? I just want to meet you! Governor Bohan, although you have been meritorious in the Northwest for many years, this shelf is ridiculously big, right?

Then Du Wei simply ordered the people around him: "Everyone go to the mansion with these two gentlemen to rest...... General Longbottom, Philip, come with me to the Governor and take a look, Old Yan, take your men with me!"

The faces of the two Mulan City officials changed, but Du Wei didn't discuss them at all, and directly gave an order, he was the duke's honor, how dare these two guys stop him?

This governor is in the most central location of Mulan City, a typical building in the northwest region, the shape is simple and almost ugly, but it is extremely strong, people have not approached, Du Wei felt a busy atmosphere in the governor's bow from afar, the governor's gate is constantly busy officials in and out, and there is a side door next to it, there is a long queue, but Du Wei looks a little weird.

The people in line, dressed in different ways, some in leather robes, some in southern silk robes, judging by their temperament, were probably merchants and the like, and they all gathered in a long queue at the side gate of the governor, but they did not know what to wait for.

Du Wei looked at the official who was leading the way, and before he could speak, the official immediately explained: "My lord, these are people from the trade group who have come and gone to the governor to receive the official document of the trade share for the next quarter. ”

"Trade share documents?" Du Wei glanced at Philip behind him with some confusion, but the young man was also at a loss, it seemed that he didn't know, after all, he had only been to the West Quilt a few years ago.

"Yes. The official smiled: " This is an initiative of the Governor, all parts of Nulin Province have to purchase a large number of materials every year, including military funds to supplement the Northwest Army, as well as the required official rations, as well as various official goods, the procurement of these things is from the people, and then the Governor came up with this method, let these merchant groups come and go to distribute, at the beginning of each year, these merchant groups will send people to Mulan City to compete, and then our Governor will select the most reputable, the lowest bid of a few merchant groups. Give them the power of compradors, so that we have a lot of trouble, the things we buy every year are cheap and good, and there are a lot of financial expenditures, and the people you see in the queue are scattered small caravans, they do not have the strength to participate in the competition at the beginning of each year, but the Governor also deliberately allocated some shares of procurement, as long as these merchants spend money to buy ...... Now that summer is coming to an end, these merchants have come to compete for their share of the autumn, and lately these people, the Governor's Treasurer, have been busy on all fours. ”

It doesn't matter if you don't listen to it, this listening immediately shocked Du Wei's heart!

This is what Governor Bohan did...... In Du Wei's view, it is almost the kind of extremely advanced financial means that he knew in his previous life: bidding!

As soon as he entered the governor's bow, this official immediately quietly sent someone in to report, Du Wei saw it in his eyes, but he didn't stop it, but just looked at the governor's demeanor with a leisurely face.

Clearly, this Bohan Governor had a good habit: thrift!

As the highest administrative body of the province, this governor was far inferior to the garrisons of some cities that Du Wei had seen along the way, there was no fancy makeup in the courtyard, only busy officials coming and going, and the soldiers standing guard stood straight, even if Du Wei and his party walked past them, they did not squint.

This official led Du Wei in, but the expression on his face was very embarrassed, he seemed to be deliberately delaying time, and slowly took Du Wei silently around the governor, how did Du Wei not know?

Finally, a man dressed in the clothes of a low-ranking official came in front of him, came in a hurry, and whispered a few words to this guy, and the official's face became more and more ugly, turned to Du Wei and saluted, and said with a smile: "Lord Duke...... Our Lord Governor has just returned, but he is now talking to several leaders of the Northwest Foreign Merchant Groups, do you see, do you want to go to the Governor's lounge and sit down? Ah, by the way, you must not have tasted our Mulan specialty, sand honey, right? I'll have someone send it to you. ”

It is true that Du Wei has never drunk such a thing as sand honey, but as a learned pharmacist, how can he not know about this kind of thing? It is nothing more than a kind of bee that grows in the bitter arid land of the northwest, collecting nectar from local special plants such as cacti.

"No need, I'll go directly to the Governor, well, is he meeting with the leader of the foreign tribes in the northwest? ”

"But ......" The official was about to say something, Du Wei's face had sunk, and he glanced at this guy coldly, where did he dare to say anything, ** coughed, and asked the guy next to him to report quickly, but he had a bitter face and slowly led Du Wei inside.

Walked to the innermost part of the governor's leaning, in front of him was a hall, but the door was closed, and there were several heavily armed garrisons standing in the distance, Du Wei came here, several garrisons were about to block, and the accompanying officials next to him hurriedly went up to block them.

He was sweating profusely, and suddenly saw that the guy he had just sent to report the news was also anxiously waiting out of the window, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and the guy smiled bitterly at the official: "Your Excellency the Governor left an order before going in, no one is allowed to go in and disturb, I have been waiting here for a long time, and the guards will not let me go in to report." ”

Du Wei didn't pay attention to these people, and walked inside, the two guards standing at the door looked at Du Wei's style, hesitated, and still stepped forward to stop him, but Longbottom had already run over, pushed one away, and shouted coldly: "Get out of the way!

The title of this duke made the two guards retreat a little, after all, on the entire dalu, there are very few people with the title of "duke", and they are all big people with great power, but they are not something that a small guard like himself can offend.

Du Wei was about to push the door when he suddenly heard an angry roar from inside.

"You cunning Rolands, do you think we steppe people are foolish!!Tell you, Lord Governor, if you don't agree to our deal today, then we'll bring someone to get it ourselves!"

As he spoke, there was a commotion from inside, as if some weapon had slashed through the table.

Du Wei glanced at Longbottom, who nodded, raised his voice and shouted: "Damn, which tribe's bastard dares to go wild here!

With that, Longbottom kicked the door over with a single kick, and then swaggered inside.

Du Wei then followed, and saw a handsome middle-aged man sitting behind a desk, dressed in the uniform of an imperial governor, with a document on the left and a long sword on the right.

There were also three guys in the room dressed in steppe costumes, one of whom was extremely burly, with a brutal face, and his hair was even more strange, and his head was shaved bald all around. Only a super whip was pierced in the middle, and under the leather robe on his body, he was wearing a leather armor, his face was full of arrogance and anger at the moment, and he was holding a snowy scimitar in his hand, and in front of him was a table that had been cut in two.

The three prairie people were all full of rebelliousness, the person who was waiting behind the desk with his chin raised, and the man with the scimitar was even more intimidating, and he was still gently slashing the scimitar in his hand, and the shining knife light was reflected on his face, adding a bit of hideousness.

And the man sitting behind the desk was naturally the legendary Governor Bohan, in the face of these three arrogant aliens, his face was calm, and he looked coldly at the guy standing in front of him holding a scimitar.

Apparently, before Longbottom broke in. The two sides seemed to be talking about something, and those alien people on the grassland were savage, and they immediately pulled out their knives to intimidate.

But Longbottom's intrusion disrupted all that. Sitting behind his desk, Governor Bohan's face immediately sank, and he exclaimed, "What man!"

Du Wei took two steps and looked at Bohan from afar. He smiled and said, "Your Excellency, it's not easy to see you. I'm Dewey Rudolph. ”

Bohan raised his eyebrows, and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Longbottom, on the other hand, glared at the alien with the knife: "Which tribe are you from?"

Looking at Longbottom, the arrogant alien was just about to make a fortune, but he stared at Longbottom up and down a few times, and his face was full of arrogance just now, but suddenly he became as if he had seen a ghost, and his hand was loosened. The knife also fell to the ground, and he stared at Longbottom with his mouth wide open: "You, you, you...... Mossack! Mossack is back!"

The two aliens behind him looked older, but looking at Longbottom's expression, it was even more jīngcai, and one of them even seemed to tremble with fright.

Longbottom snorted coldly: "You know me!"

The arrogant man was forced by his eyes, and involuntarily took a step back: "Lord Mossack...... I'm from the Bilon tribe...... I'm ......."

Before he could finish speaking, Longbottom suddenly went up, raised his foot, and kicked the guy in the stomach fiercely, pitying the burly man. One kick was put down, but it seems

I didn't even dare to hide. Longbottom went up and grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up. As soon as he raised his hand, such a big person was thrown directly into the yard by Longbottom.

"What were you doing just now! Damn! Lao Tzu has only been away from the northwest for a few years, and you guys have not even forgotten Lao Tzu's rules! Dare to show your knives here!"

Longbottom looked coldly at the remaining two guys.

One of them was already shaking, and the other could barely speak, so he quickly distinguished, "Lord Mossack...... I don't dare. It's just, it's just ......"

"What ass! If you can't speak, cut out your tongue and go back to someone who can talk!" Longbottom glared, and the guy almost softened, but he spoke immediately

The moment is much smoother: "No, no...... We are not convinced, Lord Mossac, this Governor buys our clan's war horses every year, but this year his price is for us

He only bid 20,000 gold coins for 3,000 good horses! Isn't each of our tribe's finest horses worth even ten gold coins?"

Longbottom sneered: "How much do you want?"

"Four...... Forty thousand. ”

"Fuck off!" Longbottom scolded, and then said fiercely: "Go back and tell your leader! 10,000 gold coins! 4,000 horses! Send them to you in four days! If there is a single horsehair missing, Lao Tzu will take someone to fetch it himself!"

The alien almost stopped crying.

10,000 gold coins, 4,000 horses, that's a big loss!

But before he could speak, Longbottom had already frowned and said, "Lao Tzu has finished speaking, what are you still doing here! Wait for the old man to invite you to dinner! Get out!"

In the end, the sentence of "get out" immediately made these two guys feel like they had been forgiven, where did they dare to say half a word?

Du Wei sighed in his heart.

Damn it...... This is called majesty! The 205 generals who crisscrossed the northwest in those years really lived up to their reputation!