Gao Dali's eyes widened, looking at the giant city standing in the mountains in front of him, full of incredulity.

When did such a majestic giant city appear in Huangzhou, shouldn't this be Baishi City?

But White Rock City is obviously just a small ruined city with low walls.

Can't you go to the wrong place?

Gao Dali rubbed his eyes, then took out the map and looked at it carefully, and found that this was indeed the location of White Rock City.

"Gao Dali, you are also the head of the Ouchi, why do you look panicked, what kind of system do you become?"

Emperor Qianwu frowned, quite dissatisfied with Gao Dali's uncontrollable emotions, walked a few steps up, and suddenly froze there, showing the same surprised expression as Gao Dali.

Your Majesty, you are embarrassed to say that I am, aren't you yourself?

Gao Dali secretly said in his heart, naturally he didn't dare to show it, and even turned his head away, looking like he didn't see it.

The dragon's face is pale, this is absolutely unsightly.

After a long time, Emperor Qianwu came back to his senses, coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment, and looked at Gao Dali: "Gao Dali, are you sure this is Baishi City?" ”

Gao Dali raised the map, pointed to the position above, and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, this is indeed White Rock City." ”

Emperor Qianwu finally believed, but the more so, the more surprised he felt, in his impression, the White Stone City was so majestic and majestic, the highest part of the city wall was no more than five zhang, but in front of him it was more than ten zhang, what happened.

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

After all, it was the art master who was bold, and Emperor Qianwu called Gao Dali to walk towards Baishi City together, and when he got off the mountain road, he came to Baishi City, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.

Because there are many evil beasts lying on the plain, I don't know how many, but most of them have not a single corpse that is complete, basically all of them are fragmented, and some of them are obviously corpses from a long time ago, they have decomposed, and even turned into a pile of white bones.

The plain is also uneven, and there are countless large pits densely packed with them, and the pits are scorched black, and there are many black pits with wisps of gunsmoke, which is very strange.

Whether it is Emperor Qianwu or Gao Dali, they are all martial arts masters, and they are well-informed, but they can't see how these evil beasts were killed, the key is that there are no traces of weapons left on the ground.

"It's weird, how the hell did they kill these evil beasts?"

Emperor Qianwu was full of doubts, puzzled, and looked at Gao Dali.

Gao Dali also shook his head blankly.

With doubts, a master and a servant came to the foot of Baishi City.

When they got closer, the two of them opened their mouths wide when they looked at the city wall, because the white stone city in front of them was not a vain appearance, but a real fortified city.

The dark red city wall was actually made of square rocks, and there was no gap between the rocks, even the sharpest blades could not penetrate it, because a large amount of evil beast blood was spilled, so it looked dark red.

And such a wall is more than ten feet high.

Impregnable and indestructible!

Even the capital doesn't have such a solid wall.

The more Emperor Qianwu looked at it, the more frightened and frightened he became, there was such a strong city in the territory of Daqian, this must not be Baishi City, because Baishi City could not be like this, he had been here once more than ten years ago.

Could it be that the barbarians outside the Southern Wilderness have already silently invaded the Wasteland, seized the White Stone City, and established such a fortified city under the noses of the Wasteland governors?

Damn, what are the wine bags and rice bag officials in the barren state eating, don't you know at all?

This is to prepare for the invasion of the country!

The more I think about it, the more likely this is, Emperor Qianwu can't care about Li Changfeng's life and death at the moment, because in his eyes, the barbarian clan has already established such a strong city, and Li Changfeng, who was originally stationed in office, must be dead, he wants to immediately return to Beijing as a teacher, gather the army of Daqian as soon as possible, take action here, regain the lost territory, and avenge Li Changfeng.

Before he could turn around and leave, Emperor Qianwu heard a voice from above the city wall: "Two people there, what are you doing?" ”

Hearing the question, both Emperor Qianwu and Gao Dali changed color.

Now the two of them have regretted it a lot, they shouldn't have been, they shouldn't have gone out on patrol, and they shouldn't have been too curious and got so close.

Well, now it's been discovered.

Gao Dali immediately hurriedly whispered: "Your Majesty, the old slave covers you, you leave here immediately." ”

Emperor Qianwu shook his head: "No, if you leave now, it will be easier to be killed, these barbarians can even kill evil beasts easily, and it is even more impossible for the two of us to escape." It's better to say that we have come here to do business, and maybe we have some hope of survival. ”

Although the Qianguo has been at war with the surrounding tribes all the year round, it has never cut off business in private, after all, they can exchange things of great value to each other, so generally both sides will not kill merchants.

Emperor Qianwu immediately shouted to the guards on the city wall: "We are merchants from Xiazhou, and we have come here to conduct trade. ”

Sure enough, after hearing that it was a merchant, the garrison on the city wall exchanged words for a while, and someone shouted: "Open the door!" ”

The tall and thick city gate slowly opened, and at this time, Emperor Qianwu and Gao Dali could only enter the city inside the enemy, and find another opportunity to escape in the future.

After entering the city, the two of them, who had been shocked by the city wall once, were shocked by everything in the city one more time.

What catches your eye is a smooth and open black road, the ground is paved with neither slate nor dirt, but countless black stone particles are flattened, and there is no hard slate when stepping on it, it is solid and a little soft, and it is not easy to hurt your feet when you walk on it.

On both sides of the main road are houses of two or three storeys to four or five storeys, and they are quite neatly built and planned, not as cluttered as other towns.

The streets are full of people, and there are countless vendors with stalls on both sides, making it seem bustling and lively.

Among them, I also saw a lot of warriors from the rivers and lakes.

It's just strange that the city seems to be very peaceful in addition to the excitement, even if there is an occasional quarrel, there is no scene of fighting, and there is no other place to kill people without saying a word.

Emperor Qianwu was silent, such a prosperous and lively scene was not much better than the capital, and the capital was not so peaceful, and the roads were not so smooth.

Could it be that the barbarian tribe has developed to this point?

How many troops do you have to send to recover the lost territory?

Gao Dali next to him has followed Emperor Qianwu for many years, so he naturally knows what he is thinking in his heart, and he was also shocked at first, but he slowly noticed some truths, and said in a low voice to Emperor Qianwu: "Your Majesty, master, you see, these people are not Southern Barbarians, they seem to be all Great Qian, and they all speak the language of Great Qian." ”

Hearing these words, Emperor Qianwu carefully observed the pedestrians around him, and found that it was indeed as Gao Dali said, no matter how he looked, skin color, clothing, and speech, he was the same as the great Qianren.

What's going on?

Did he misunderstand?

At this moment, a city official led a group of guards to hurry over, and as he walked, he shouted: "Excuse me, please let me go, thank you." ”

The pedestrians on the road were not afraid, and they all consciously got out of the way, until the city official came to the two, his eyes lit up, and said, "I am Zhao Yong, the city official here, I heard that the two are merchants from Xiazhou, right?" ”

Seeing Zhao Yong, the eyes of the two lit up, this is clearly the official uniform of the Great Qian, not the barbarian, which means that this is the city of the Great Qian.

But when did White Rock City develop to this point?

Why didn't the imperial court know anything about it?

Emperor Qianwu didn't speak, and Gao Dali stepped forward and saluted: "Yes, Lord Zhao, we are merchants from Xiazhou and want to come to Baishi City to do business. ”

Zhao Yong was suddenly shocked, most of these two people were the inspection officials of the secret visit.

Listen, this accent is a pure Beijing accent, and the businessman is outside, how dare he wear fancy clothes so swaggeringly, and he is not afraid of being robbed?

Especially how chaotic the wasteland outside Baishi City is, no one knows better than him.

It is only some officials who do not know the habits of businessmen, so they dress up in disguise.

According to His Royal Highness's intentions, it is necessary to control these two inspection officials well, and not let them tell everything about White Rock City to the outside world.

Zhao Yong, who already had a plan in his heart, laughed and said, "Hahaha, it turned out to be a businessman from Xiazhou, and I heard that it is a well-known rich place. I don't know if the two of you are in business or something? ”

Emperor Qianwu smiled and said, "We are mainly dealing in tea. ”

"Okay, it just so happens that we have all of these in White Rock City, I don't know how much the two of you want." Zhao Yong said, it seemed that he was talking about business, but in fact he was talking in code, wanting to know how much money the two inspection officials would have to charge before agreeing.

Emperor Qianwu thought for a while and said, "One hundred thousand taels." ”

100,000 taels!

Zhao Yong gasped, these two inspection officials are simply lions with a big mouth, they dare to say so much as 100,000 taels, they are really greedy.

Immediately, his face sank a little, and said: "I'm sorry, 100,000 taels is a bit much, this matter needs to be told to His Highness, the two of you, please come to heaven and earth with this official to be happy together, oh, have a light meal, it just so happens that Your Highness is also there." ”

"In that case, please lead the way."

Although he wondered why Zhao Yong was not only unhappy when he heard the big business of 100,000 taels, but his face became a little ugly, Emperor Qianwu's mind had already flown to Li Changfeng.

Hmph, this kid will definitely be surprised when he recognizes me, I must teach this son a lesson, Baishi City has become so good, he didn't even tell me to know.

Gao Dali is also ready to watch a good show, this Nine Emperor Princes is a little unlucky.

"Okay, please come with me, you two."

Not long after, under the leadership of Zhao Yong, the group came to a three-story restaurant.

Emperor Qianwu and Gao Dali could vaguely hear the sound of laughter and laughter, as well as playing the piano, and then looked up at the plaque on the restaurant, the dragon flying and the phoenix dance wrote four big words: heaven and earth!

Seeing this, Emperor Qianwu showed a smile and said, "It seems that His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes has not lost the elegance of the royal family, even if he comes here, he will make such a good place, it must be a place for literati to gather." ”

A meeting place for literati?

But no, the literati's favorite thing is to visit the Qinglou, what is not the place where the literati gather.

Zhao Yong blinked, laughed and said, "It seems that this old man is also a literati, and there must be something you like in it." ”

When the group walked in, they saw that the space inside was open, and it looked bookish everywhere, which was unique.

On the central stage on the first floor, several singers were playing, and many people in the audience either applauded and cheered, or hugged one or two scantily clad women, and some people reached into the clothes of these women without any scruples, and put their hands up and down, very happy.

Emperor Qianwu's figure froze.

Gao Dali was dumbfounded.

, this is a meeting place for literati?

Isn't this a green building?

The dignified emperor visiting the green house?

The dignified manager of the big house visiting the green building?

"Hahaha, are the two of you satisfied here?" Zhao Yong saw the dumbfounded appearance of the two in his eyes, and couldn't help but give a thumbs up to His Highness in his heart, or His Royal Highness knew the mentality of these inspection officials best, so he didn't say anything, and directly brought it to heaven and earth to talk about it, everything was silent.