Tongcheng is a small county with a circumference of only five miles. The county faction took more than 30 officials and hundreds of people to meet each other at the White Horse Temple.

The Hu family of Gudukou sent more than 20 armed families and guards, plus the original number of the team, it was huge and magnificent for a while.

Fortunately, when I arrived at the county seat, it was already the time to hold the lights, and there were not many pedestrians, otherwise it was really scary.

Dozens of torches were greeted into the city and sent straight into a large mansion. According to the head of the introduction, the owner of this family surname Zuo, is the surname of Hengbu, the family of farming, after the purchase of this house but rarely come to live, because the county government is small and dilapidated, so specially borrowed to use.

The magistrate has already greeted him outside the door of the house, and after reporting his official position and name, he personally led the way in front, and invited a group of people to enter the main house and sit down.

When King Ding saw that he knew what was going on, he was satisfied, and he lifted up a few words of encouragement. He also introduced Li Dan to meet him.

Li Dan asked Wang Jia to rest, and sent Zhixian out by himself, telling him that there was a chaotic party behind him, and the city should be closely defended in the near future. The magistrate was surprised, and then he realized that it was not for nothing that he asked himself to send someone to greet him.

Li Dan also discussed with him to leave some officials and catch fast manpower to be responsible for guarding the outside of the house, and took out a hundred taels of tickets for the "Zhifeng Hall" of Lujiang to reward the Zhixian for his subordinates, and asked him to recruit 60 brave men in the city to escort the prince's car to Lujiang tomorrow.

"No matter what, please work hard in your county tonight, as long as the car arrives at Lujiang safely, it will be a credit!" When the two broke up, Li Dan finally said.

Money talks. Although the place of Tongcheng is very civilized, but this dynasty started with martial arts, and there was no obstacle to Confucianism to practice martial arts and martial arts, so the magistrate visited several big clans that night, and the brave thing was immediately solved.

I heard that it was Prince Hu who was driving, and the young people of the Zhang and Wen families signed up to participate, and that night they gathered more than a dozen young students with swords and bows and arrows to rush to the outside of the house where King Ding stayed to help defend the palace.

Li Dan was relieved when he learned about it, but he guessed that the group had not left, and he hoped that Zhang Cheng would be accepted by the other party and send useful information as soon as possible.

The next day, the magistrate introduced Li Dan and others to them: "Li Sanlang and Zhou Yiwei are with everyone, Zhou Yiwei is responsible for the close protection of Wang Jia, and the princes are under the command of Li Sanlang."

As soon as the words fell, a few young students obviously frowned.

Li Dan smiled and clenched his fists when he saw it: "Under Li Dan, worship the cavalry captain." This time, Jiangxi Qiuqiu was lucky to understand the Yuan, so he was destined to travel with a Chitose car on the way to Beijing.

Chitose trusts, to be responsible for the head, everyone volunteered to protect Chitose car, Li Dan is fortunate to be with colleagues. But the geese have a head, and since I have made this head, I will march the law of war, and you will try to obey it."

After speaking, he agreed with everyone not to kidnap and plunder the people, obey the command in everything, and seize the three disciplines of returning to the public.

"My brother settles the accounts, as long as everyone does not violate discipline, after arriving in Lujiang, my son will pay the expenses and remuneration for going home according to one tael and six cents of silver for each person, and three taels of silver for each person above the commander of the army, if there are rewards, casualty benefits, and dividends ...... separately."

Seeing that everyone had a smile on their faces, and those students were much more relaxed, they asked everyone to divide into teams, with Li Tiedao, Huang Qin, Lai Wubao, and Gao Cang each leading more than ten people, and each team set up two captains.

He called several young people from the Zhang and Wen families and thanked them. The two hurriedly returned the salute, and their attitude was much more respectful than just now. "Actually, even if Childe doesn't come, we'll be on the road in a few days." Zhang Wenhe of the Zhang family said with a smile.

"Oh? Could it be that Brother Jinfu is also going to take the township test?" Li Dan asked in surprise.

"It's not just me, Wen Zishan and Yao Xuanping too." Zhang Wenhe said.

"Brother Wen Zhou of the lower clan also accompanied him this time, his father-in-law's family is from Lujiang, and he happened to visit this time and talk about some business by the way."

Wen He of the Wen family (Zizishan) is indeed a gentle person, speaking unhurriedly, with a sword hanging from his waist, and a white power suit, quite a chivalrous demeanor.

"Excellent!" Li Dan said, "The four of you don't want to divide the team, just follow me!" Wouldn't it be nice for us to be able to talk and write poetry on the road?" Naturally, they willing.

Fortunately, these are all rich children who have prepared their own horses, and Yao Huang, who is called Yao Xuanping, is said to be able to shoot arrows!

King Ding originally wanted to ride a horse, but yesterday he ran in a hurry, and his inner thigh was really painful.

An attendant quietly gave him some plasters and felt much more comfortable, and when he asked, it was secretly left by Li Dan, and he didn't feel a little more fond of this young but knowledgeable guy, and thought: No wonder Your Majesty talks about Li Sanlang all day long?

But today he didn't dare to ride a horse anymore, so he took an attendant into the carriage for fear of loneliness on Miyun Road.

As soon as this car appeared, it immediately made the Tongcheng fathers and elders wide-eyed, and the two carriages in front of them were decorated with royal wealth and nobility, and everyone thought that they were sitting nobles, but in fact they were empty.

No one had ever seen this four-wheeled car with a horse, and it immediately attracted attention. Zhang Wenhe couldn't help but say, "This car is so weird, I've never seen it!" He looked at the fat coachman (Lu Jiu) waving his whip proudly:

"It's not as luxurious as the car in front of you, but it looks like a house in action, so it should be comfortable to ride. It's really something that only nobles can enjoy!"

"It's more than comfortable." Mao Zai, who was on the horse behind them, laughed, "There are iron plates embedded in both sides of that carriage, and the bow and crossbow can't shoot through!" You will see from the road that this car has many benefits!"

"Hey, the little brother knows so well?" Yao Huang deliberately said that he was only two years older than Brother Mao.

Brother Mao really pouted: "Don't underestimate it, we are the non-commissioned officers of the Raozhou regiment, and we have never lost a battle. I know better than any of you how my son made this carriage!"

"Your son-in-law made it? Brother Mao, is this true?" The businessman Wen Zhou had been observing carefully without speaking, and when he heard this, he hurriedly turned his head and asked.

"No, this is the product of Yugan No. 1 Vehicle Factory, we also have No. 2 Vehicle Factory in Yangbu, which specializes in making mail road carriages and freight carriages, which are all big guys drawn by six horses, and one cart can pull thirty or forty stone ......!"

Brother Mao couldn't help but feel a little proud when he saw that everyone was dumbfounded.

"The deal is coming!" Wen Zhou said to himself, his hand gripping the reins trembling slightly, making the horses sitting down feel uneasy.

In the morning, Wen He went to the city's carriage and horse shop and hired twelve carriages, which were enough for the volunteers to get on the carriages, and two of them were also loaded with beans, alfalfa, and grain.

The carriages were hired so that they could be used in formation, and at the same time, the speed of the whole team would not be slowed down by the walking volunteers.

On the other side of the Longmian River, watching the convoy go out of the city and cross the Zilai Bridge, a sneer appeared on the corner of Hou Jiaotou's mouth: "Ho ho, they really want to go to Lujiang, it seems that the fat man is not lying."

"Do you suspect that the surname is Lu? We thought ......." The attendant next to him was surprised when he heard this.

"Hmph, how do you know the sinister thing when you haven't been in the rivers and lakes for a long time? We must win over and use those who have the ability, but we must not be without the slightest sense of prevention.

Especially that Lu Jiu is still from among them, of course I can't believe it, the necessary test should still be!" Hou Jiaotou stroked his beard and said.

"Oh, then the adults let them go to Lujiang first, is it also a chess game?"

"Of course, if he is one of our people, as I said, he can go to Lujiang first and pay attention to the movements of the convoy after it arrives.

If he weren't one of ours, we wouldn't have to worry about him getting in our way along the way, and Ah Xuan could get rid of him at any time!" Hou Jiaotou waved his hand and made a cutting motion.

"So Ah Xuan is also your arrangement by his side?"

"It's easier to gain his trust by sending Ah Xuan, and it's also a learning opportunity for Ah Xuan. If he brings back an enemy, let him clear it with his own hands, he will remember this lesson, he can remember it deeply!"

"That...... Isn't this arrangement also a test for Ah Xuan?"

Hou Jiaotou smiled and did not answer this question, and turned the horse's head: "Let's go, let's follow from a distance, just don't let them notice!"

In Lujiang City, Qian House.

The head of the family, Mr. Qian Shi, is Mr. Zhai. It sounds like a Confucian student, but in fact he is the president of the Lujiang Chamber of Commerce, and the top three businessmen in the city and even the entire Luzhou Prefecture.

The Qian family caravan once went north to the grassland

, south to the Indochina Peninsula, east to Japan, west to Yeer Jiang Ergu, but due to the geopolitical situation and changes in the internal political situation of the empire, the Qian family suffered a lot of losses and had to shrink the trade route.

At present, the business in the east has almost stopped, and the west is at most Suzhou (Jiuquan), and the wars in the northern Ergu tribes are frequent, and it is difficult for the caravans to go deep into the grassland, and some caravans have been rerouted to Liaodong and Jianzhou, and they dare not venture out of the customs to go north;

In the south, there were frequent reports of merchant ships being robbed by Taixi bandits.

All this affected the Qian family's enthusiasm for trade, and also made their money bags much worse than before. These are all very headaches for Qian Shi.

He has two sons and two daughters.

The eldest son, Qian Min, took the road of studying, but after becoming a lifter, he never won again, and he was unwilling to take over business.

Now that his old playmates have become prefects, he is still just hanging out all day collecting books, annotating ancient texts, and opening a school to teach is just a mixed bowl of rice.

The second son Qian Bu is the opposite of his brother, after winning the show, he announced that he did not want to go through the imperial examination again, plunged into the caravan, and became a big shopkeeper with his own ability, at least in the entire Lujiang Mansion, black and white heard that the name of Qian Erye must give some face.

Originally, Lao Qian still had good moves, and he entrusted his two daughters to his son-in-law Li Mu successively, expecting him to rise step by step and become a towering tree that the Qian family could rely on.

Unexpectedly, Li Mu died in office ten years ago, which cut off his thoughts. Now, Lao Qian has safely handed over the entire family business to his second son, and he writes and paints at home every day, which is leisurely.

On this day, Qian Shi asked people to frame the painting they had just completed and hung it on the wall, and they were tilting their gray heads to admire it, when they suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps.

Qian Bu entered the door and gave his father a salute, not caring about his masterpiece, and hurriedly asked, "Who has my father offended recently?"

"Huh? Where does that begin?" Qian Shi looked at his son a little confused, and felt that this kid had never been so abrupt, what happened today?

"Or maybe you have offended a certain senior member of the DPRK before?"

Qian Shi was even more stunned: "Son, what's wrong with you? As a father, how did he have dealings with any court officials? People are very high, and it's too late to hide from us merchants!"

"That's weird!" Qian Bu looked outside the door and whispered, "Just now, a man found the silver cabinet of Zhifengtang, and took one of our meeting tickets to find the shopkeeper Li.

The three shopkeepers of the silver chest did not dare to make up their minds, so they made sure that he sent someone to deliver me a letter. When I looked at the back of the ticket, it was actually a handwritten letter from my second sister." As he spoke, he took out Zhang Erliang's ticket from his bosom and handed it to his father.

Lao Qian took the ticket and turned it over to take a closer look: "Well, this is indeed your sister's drawing." He looked up at his son, "So this man was sent by your sister to find your Uncle Li?"

Qian Bu shook his head: "I think it's strange, the second sister has never taken the initiative to send someone across the river to find the shopkeeper Li, and someone from Zhifengtang said that the man was very powerful, with a standard Yanling knife in his hand, although he spoke kindly, but he was very majestic, but he looked like a person from the government.

My son felt that something was wrong, so he went to visit it himself."

"Hmm." Qian Shi stared at his son: "What is the result?"

"When the man saw his son, he asked for his identity, and without saying a word, he showed his son the waist card."

"Sure enough, it's from the government? What is written on the waist card?"

Qian Bu licked his lips and said with some difficulty, "Walk in front of the emperor, Wing Long Wei Qianhu."

Lao Qian almost sat on the ground, but as soon as his legs were weak, he was quickly supported by Qian Buyan, allowing him to slowly retreat and fall into the chair.

"No, no!" Qian Shi suddenly seemed to understand: "He didn't come for our family."

"How does Father know?"

"Back then, your brother-in-law once said that the Pterodactyl Guard has branches in each province, and the person in charge is a hundred households, and the Pterodactyl Guard at the level of the political envoy is a thousand households or a thousand households.

And you just said that this person still has the identity of walking in front of the emperor, then he is the person in front of the emperor, not the person in charge of the branch of the political envoy department." ap.

"Yes...... Our family has never fought with the palace

Dealings?"

The more they thought about it, the more confused they became, and finally Qian Shi asked, "Where are the people?"

"I'm invited to the West Flower Hall."

"Ahem, can you still keep people waiting? Don't guess, hurry up, don't let him wait, I'm going to see you!" Qian Shi got up and walked out.

His son saw that he was busy behind and whispered, "Dad, slow down, my son arranged for someone to arrange for him to be entertained with drinks and meals, and he himself said that he had only eaten three dry cakes after two days of travel, and it seemed that he was hungry!"

My son came to tell you while he was eating and drinking, so you can slow down and be careful not to fall ......!"

His words did not stop or slow down the old man at all, but instead made him go faster.

This pterosaur Wei Qianhu, who came to the door with the ticket drawn by the second girl, hurried away hungry because of something? What did he want to say when he was in such a hurry to see himself? Qian Shi desperately wanted to know the answer.

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