When it was almost dawn, the blind man found Zheng Fan.

There was not the slightest trace of tiredness on his face.

Two people sat in the courtyard, one on a bench, and a small table in the middle, on which were placed four bowls of white rice porridge, a plate of pickled ginger, a plate of mustard and two salted duck eggs.

The two of them first tacitly picked up a salted duck egg together, the blind man Bei peeled the whole egg and put it in the porridge bowl, while Zheng Fan knocked a hole at one end of the egg, peeled it off a little bit, and dug out the egg with chopsticks little by little to eat.

It can be said that the inn was extremely busy all night last night, and this busyness has continued until now.

But even though everyone has been silent for half a year, when it really works, it is still in order.

"Lord, this world is indeed different from what we imagined before, and it can be said to be much more interesting."

"Hmm."

Zheng Fan knew that he was making a report to himself, and he was not in a hurry, so he waited for the blind man to speak slowly.

The information comes from last night's interrogation of Brother Gongzi plus the information from the blind Bei and Xue Sande, as for Fan Li, he should still be in the barbarian caravan at this time, and he should not be able to come back in a short time.

Blind Bei should have made a summary, to be honest, Zheng Fan was really afraid that Blind Bei Zhen would bring over a copy of the dossier for himself to see.

He liked this way of reporting while eating breakfast.

"Lord, don't dislike me for nagging, I'll just talk slowly from point to face."

"Okay."

"Where we are now, called Hutou City, the scale of the city is not large, strictly speaking, it is a satellite city, including Hutou City, the area where the north of the entire Yan Kingdom and the desert meet, all belong to Beifeng County, which is almost the meaning of the province.

Yan has seven counties, in addition to Beifeng County, there are six counties of Lesha, Tiancheng, Xiahu, Sanshi, Huwei and Yinlang, Yan Guoguo is located in Tiancheng County, it can be said that Tiancheng County is a bit similar to the Gyeonggi area.

And Beifeng County is basically the northern front line of the Yan Kingdom, and a hundred years ago, this was the area where the Yan Kingdom and the barbarians fought each other.

However, firstly, because of the self-division of the barbarians, the decline of the royal court and the loss of appeal, and the inability to unify and gather to launch a major offensive, and secondly, because of the rise of the power of the three countries of Daqian, Dachu and Dajin, Yan also had to shift its focus to the Central Plains.

Therefore, in the past hundred years, although there have been occasional small frictions between the Yan Kingdom and the barbarian tribes, there have been no major battles with a scale of more than 10,000 people.

Tumancheng is the largest city in Yan on the edge of this desert, which was called Tuman City in the early years, and later changed the name of the city because of the tacit peace between the two sides.

This city is also the capital of Beifeng County, it is a large city, and Hutou City, where we are located, is one of the cities that rely on the defense system established by Tuman City, but because it is the closest city to the desert, so in peacetime, commerce and trade are relatively developed.

Today, the Yan Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom, the Chu State, and the Qian State are the four major powers in the world, and there are some other small countries that exist as vassals of the four great powers.

The official system of Yan State is a bit complicated, and his political system is actually more like the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasty, where the monarch and the big family rule the world together, and the royal family is more like the most powerful one among the gate valves, that is, the alliance leader in the gate valves.

The Great Cadres and the Great Jin Dynasty pursued the imperial examination system, and the emperor and scholars ruled the world together.

As for Da Chu, it is a relatively ancient aristocratic system. ”

"Then it seems that the Qianguo and the Jin State are not more advanced?" Zheng Fan asked.

"The Lord is wise."

First of all, I will send a basic sentence, and the blind man continues:

"It stands to reason that the aristocratic system, the gate valve system and the imperial examination system should be a process from backward to advanced, but the development of a country must not only consider its own factors, but also take into account the historical process.

After the Yan Kingdom, because he had faced the threat of the desert barbarians for a long time, in order to unite his strength, he had to delegate the power belonging to the monarch.

Such a system is actually not suitable for centralized power, especially when it comes to external development, it is often tied, just like Sun Shiwan during the Three Kingdoms period.

Therefore, although the Yan State has now had a peace with the barbarians for nearly a hundred years, and although the Yan State has the iron cavalry of the Yan State that other countries are extremely feared, it still cannot unify from north to south according to the historical pattern that we are familiar with.

But it is precisely because of this system of the Yan State that it will be extremely united internally in the face of the oppression of the Qianguo and the Jin State, because the gatekeepers in the Yan State know that once the Jin State or the Qianguo State is destroyed by the Yan State, their good days will come to an end.

At the same time, although the Jin State and the Qianguo State were imperial examination systems, because they had been established for a long time, the scholar class could not be lost, and they became a parasite class that was not inferior to the gate valve, which was somewhat similar to the end of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it also lost its enterprising spirit and enterprising ability.

The nobles of the Chu State only know that they are drunk and dreaming of death, and there is still a large area of barren land in their own backyard that has not been developed, so unless other countries take the initiative to rub it, they rarely go to war with foreign countries.

For nearly 50 years, there had been no large-scale wars between the four countries, and they had entered an era of the four kingdoms. ”

"Oh, that's right."

"In addition, Lord, there is another very interesting thing, you can get an interesting message from the county government document stolen by Xue San, that is, in the West, there are also existing big empires, and the exchanges between the two sides are quite close, and there are often Western missions through the desert into the Yan Kingdom, and then from the Yan Kingdom to other countries. It can be seen that the exchanges between the East and the West in ancient times were much more frequent than in our previous world history. ”

This is the popularization of geographical knowledge, and after the blind man finished speaking, Zheng Fan's first bowl of porridge was also eaten.

When Zheng Fan picked up the second bowl of porridge, the blind man Bei began to report on another aspect, that is, the power system of this world.

"The interesting thing about this world is that it has monks, magic, fighting spirit, and martial artists, so to speak, there are quite a lot of variety.

That prince Wang, oh, his name is Wang Fuqi, he is a side disciple of the Wang family in Beifeng County, this time he came to Hutou City, he came to travel on purpose, saying that he wanted to understand the desert style, and the Wang family is a small family in Beifeng County.

The West majors in magic and fighting spirit, while the East is Xiuzhen and martial artists, all of which are divided into levels based on nine grades, nine for the end, and one for respect.

Probably, the guard you killed last night is not even the ninth grade, or it is about to reach the ninth grade, that is, it looks like it can use a little internal force to come out.

The wife of the captain of the city patrol I saw yesterday told me that her husband was still half a step away from entering the Jiupin Martial Arts Realm, but beating a blind man to death was still as easy as stepping on an ant.

This Wang family is also a martial arts heirloom, Wang Fuqi is indeed much more respected than ordinary people, but in the end, he is a side disciple, and the guard is also a character who does not enter the ranks.

Oh, by the way, the strange mount I saw on the inn door earlier should be the Pi Beast.

According to legend, the mount of the first emperor of Yan is a Pixiu, after the creation of Yan Kingdom, the royal family of Yan Kingdom relied on the Pixiu bloodline to reproduce and cultivate, and made a large number of hybrid varieties, but even the lowest hybrid breed Pi beast is not a person with status.

The Beijing officials released from outside the capital will probably be equipped with a horse, and there may be more in some elite cavalry teams. ”

In fact, for ordinary people, this world is only limited to one acre and three points of land in front of them, and sometimes they can't even remember the year name clearly, just repeating the last meal and thinking about the next meal.

The inn had been open for half a year before, but it was ignorant of this power system, which was enough to see that the sky of the civilian class was really too narrow.

"These things are not new." Zheng Fan put some pickles into the bowl, ate the remaining little porridge together, and then put down the bowl and chopsticks.

After stretching his waist, he continued to the blind man who was sitting in front of him:

"Magic, fighting spirit, martial arts, cultivation and the like are all things that have long been written and painted badly. But just as if you are tired of watching the news about the turbulent area of war on TV and the feeling of being in the turbulent area in person, I am really excited now. ”

Hearing this, the blind man nodded and agreed, he was also very excited, and his colleagues were all equally excited.

At that moment, the blind man Bei, who had just finished eating a bowl of porridge, said when he changed to another bowl of porridge:

"Lord, there are two things before us now, one is to find the way back."

"One can be removed." Zheng Fan said without hesitation.

Although there was a panic about this strange world in his heart, Zheng Fan really didn't want to go back, he came to this world through euthanasia, and in the previous world, he had no relatives, and he was tortured by illness for several years, and when he left, he had no worries, and there was no way to find his way home.

Blind Zibei didn't seem to be surprised by Zheng Fan's response at all, but the choice was up to Zheng Fan, what he should say or what he had to say, and continued at the moment:

"The second thing is that we need to expand our strength according to the plan that the Lord has previously commanded."

Now, all you have is an inn, and it's just an inn.

In the previous six months, the development of the inn has been in a state of stagnation from its establishment to the present.

Because at this scale, the money earned can be regarded as a decent enough life, and if you take care of the relevant yamen and gangs, you can also get a certain amount of shelter and be in a very safe position. ”

It's not that Feng Siniang and others don't have the ability to run the inn higher, but there is no need for this, as stowaways in this world, they have no backing, and they don't have a foundation, so it's okay to do the inn to this point, and if it expands, it is estimated that it will be targeted by wolves.

Of course, the reason why they are no longer worried now is because Zheng Fan's awakening has determined the route, and secondly, they themselves have a tendency to become wolves.

"First of all, what we have to do is money and influence." The blind man said slowly, "This is the initial stage, and in this initial stage, money and influence are separated.

Because at this time, if you have money but no influence, it is too dangerous. ”

"Let's talk about the specifics." Zheng Fan reminded.

He knew that among the seven demon kings, the blind man Bei should be more like a wise man.

"From small to large, since we are now in Hutou City, then I will make our next plan to Hutou City as the core.

Let's first create our own power in Hutou City. Under the premise that the prerequisite for rebellion is not yet mature, the development of our forces can only go to the dark side, which is also what our group of people are good at.

First control a few small gangs in Hutou City, and then gradually become the largest gang force in Hutou City, recruit a group of subordinates who can be used to run errands, at least, we don't have to do everything ourselves like last night. At the same time, it is also necessary to further enhance the relationship with the official forces in Hutou City. This is the first stage of the Tiger Head City Raiders.

In the second stage, we can form our own team of horse bandits in the desert, robbery, protection money, and primitive accumulation, and at the same time, it is best to be able to be in the same stream with the official forces in Hutou City, and have a channel to share the spoils.

The third stage is to form our own caravan and clear ourselves through the previous primitive accumulation and the relationships with other big power backgrounds that we have opened up in the process.

After these three stages are successful, the strategy of Tiger Head City will also be successful. At least, we have a firm foothold in the tiger head city in this world, and the next development needs to be re-planned. ”

finally

The blind man added another sentence:

"Please Lord take the axe."

Zheng Fan shook his head and said very sincerely: "I have no other opinions, I think your plan is very good, you have to eat the meal one bite at a time, well, that's the truth." ”

"The Lord is wise."

"............" Zheng Fan.

This sycophant is too blunt.

"If there's anything I can help with, just tell me, though I ............"

"What subordinates need is trust from the Lord!"

"Hmm............ I trust you so much! ”

Zheng Fan said very seriously.

The blind man shook his head and said, "No, you don't, Lord. ”

"I really, really trust you!"

"No, Lord, you don't."

"You're smart, I believe in you!"

"No, Lord, you don't."

"I really trust you!"

"No, Lord, you still don't."

"I ...... I trust your !! ”

"Or ............ No. ”

"I'm very relieved that I'll leave things to you to arrange."

"No, Lord, you don't."

"Please, I trust you!"

Zheng Fan shouted so loudly that his voice was hoarse,

The next moment,

In the mustard dish, three mustard sprouts floated by themselves and fell into the porridge bowl in the hands of the blind man Bei.

Blind North smiled,

I took a bite of porridge with pickles,

Very satisfying authentic:

"Thank you for your trust."

"Hmm."

Zheng Fan nodded politely, he felt that he should keep a little distance from this strange blind man now.

The blind man put down the porridge bowl, picked up the handkerchief in the cuff and wiped his mouth, and said softly:

"I'm done licking, you go on."