"Picking up the stars!" Ma Chao looked up at the majestic atmosphere, the mountains were undulating, and the mountains were high into the clouds, and blurted out.

"This pass is the fortress for our Dongyang Mansion to enter Xiling County, in the past, this pass was too important when the Tianlong Dynasty was not unified.

It protects more than a dozen counties along the coast of Dongyang and the surrounding area, and some people once said that once they take the Xingxing Pass, they will also take Haizhou Province.

Taking Haizhou is equivalent to opening up the passage to the sea. "Tao Ding is familiar with military books, and he will come when he opens his mouth.

"**Cheng actually fled here, did he want to go out of the customs and go to Xiling County?" Ma Chao said with a touch of his chin.

"It's not. Ye Canghai looked at the Star Picking Pass and shook his head.

"Didn't he come here for what he was doing? If he wants to hide in the mountains and forests, I don't think there's a need for that. Although this Xingxing Mountain is tall and densely forested, after all, there are soldiers stationed there, so wouldn't it be a self-arrest if you accidentally bump into it? What's more, there are dense forests everywhere, who can't hide anywhere?" Ma Chao asked.

"He wants to get in. Ye Canghai looked at the mountain and said.

"Wouldn't that be more dead?" Tao Ding felt that this statement was not valid.

"Although Xingxing Pass is the only way for Xiling County to enter our Dongyang Mansion, that refers to the past.

Now it's different, a new channel has been opened.

It's just that this passage is relatively narrow, and ordinary people can walk around.

It was impossible for cavalry and soldiers to pass in large numbers. Because, it is a sheep intestine path, naturally steep, and there is a cliff below, and you will die as soon as you fall down.

And the bulk of the goods have to go through the Xingxing Pass, and because of the risk, the vast majority of the people still choose to go through the Xingxing Pass.

And the flying fox is only one person, and if you want to enter Xiling County, you will also choose that trail.

Instead, he ran up the mountain, and he was definitely about to enter the Star Picking Pass. Ye Canghai said.

"Entering the Star Pass is to send you to death, and it is even more impossible. Ma Chao shook his head.

"What do you mean by ** Cheng and someone in Xingxingguan?" Tao Ding has read books after all, and his mind is much more flexible than Ma Chao.

"yes, I didn't think of that. Ma Chao patted his head and suddenly realized.

"It's not that you didn't think about it, because you didn't dare to think about it at all. "Ye Canghai Road.

"Well, the Xingxing Pass is an important checkpoint for entering the western inland and entering the southern coastal defense, and it is said that the guard is still a general. Ma Chao nodded and said.

"Temurda, the four-rank flying tiger general, is still the royal family. Taudine said.

"It seems that the Seagod King attaches great importance to this place, and actually sent an imperial prince to guard the pass. Ma Chao sighed.

"Of course it has to be, otherwise, how can you rest assured?" said Tautin.

"My lord, isn't this quite troublesome. If ** Cheng enters the Star Picking Pass, what should we do?" Ma Chao touched his head.

Let me tell you Ma Chao, Temurda is not under the jurisdiction of the Dongyang Mansion garrison, and even the Haizhou General Army has no jurisdiction. Of course, he was nominally subject to the Admiral's control, but the Admiral couldn't control him. Taudine said.

"Then isn't he invincible in our Haizhou Province, and when the time comes, what will he do?" Ma Chao asked with a puzzled expression.

"Hehe, where there is fire, there is water, and the Seagod King will not let him do this.

There must be checks and balances on power.

The Admiral can't control him, but there is a Haizhou King in Haizhou Province.

He was the prince of the royal family, or the uncle of the present king, and this Timurda was controlled by him. Ye Canghai said with a smile, some time ago, he made up for it in the prison, and he also felt a lot about some rules and systems of the Seagod Kingdom and the Tianlong Dynasty.

For example, the Sea God Kingdom is only a candidate country under the Tianlong Dynasty, and the monarch of the candidate country can only be called the king, commonly known as the 'great king', and cannot be crowned emperor.

There is only one emperor, and he is His Majesty the Son of Heaven of the Celestial Dragon Dynasty.

And there are many subordinate countries of the Tianlong Dynasty, and there are dozens of large and small, which is a bit like a microcosm of Asia.

These many subordinate states are divided into hierarchies, and the first rank is, of course, the pro-kingdom, and the king of the pro-kingdom is the prince of the emperor's title.

The second level is the candidate country, like the Poseidon Kingdom.

Some of the kings of the candidate countries are royal relatives, and some are not.

Further down there are the county kingdoms, which are even smaller.

In addition, there are some local countries and so on.

For example, the small country is only the size of Aoki Prefecture, and the small county kingdom is as big as Dongyang Prefecture.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the centralized system was implemented, and the dynasty still managed these subordinates very strictly.

However, it is different now, it is a looser situation.

There are often civil wars between subordinate countries, and even the destruction of the country occurs from time to time.

As long as you don't rebel, the Celestial Dragon Dynasty doesn't care about it in normal times.

Ye Canghai took the lead, continued to go up, and finally climbed to the front of the Star Picking Pass.

"Cheng's body is in the gate. Ye Canghai said.

However, for some unknown reason, the pass was actually closed and not allowed to pass.

As a result, a large number of merchants and goods were blocked in front of the gate, complaining one by one, complaining and complaining.

"Brother Tai, have you been in retreat for a few days?" Ye Canghai mixed into the caravan and asked a middle-aged man.

"It was just closed, and it didn't give us a word in advance. It's better to plan early and go up the mountain later. It's okay now, up and down, and I don't know how many days I'm going to stay. The middle-aged man sighed.

"Could it be that something happened?" Ye Canghai asked.

"I don't know, a few hours before the retreat, we were about to enter the retreat, and suddenly a large number of armor came out.

They said it was a drill, and they asked us to stay where we were, or we would be killed.

How dare we move? We just kept it, and then the armor came back one by one, saying that the drill was over, but they were closed and not allowed to pass. The middle-aged man said.

"I don't think all of them came back, there were more than a dozen squads when they went out, and when they came back, there were only seven or eight squads, and a few squads didn't come back. It must have been that the drill was not completed yet, so the retreat was not allowed to pass. At this time, a thin-faced man next to him came over and said.

"If there is a customs clearance document from the government, I don't know if you can let it go?" Ye Canghai asked.

"It's useless! what kind of place is this star picking, they don't bother to care about what paperwork you don't care about.

A few years ago, to arrest a murderer, Dongyang Mansion issued an announcement.

As a result, the catchers were still not allowed to pass.

At that time, there was a small head who caught a fast and said a few words, saying that the territory of this Xingguan was also from Dongyang Mansion.

As a result, he was beaten half to death on the spot, and his head was almost cut off.

Frightened, the catchers quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and finally hung at the pass to show the public for a day and a night before releasing them.

At that time, no official in Dongyang Mansion dared to stand up and save people. The thin-faced man said.

"Eight hundred miles of expedited customs clearance?" Ma Chao asked.

"Don't talk about eight hundred miles, it's useless to rush thousands of miles, I heard that they don't even sell the face of the governor of Haizhou. The middle-aged man shook his head.

"Just sneak in. Ma Chao joked.

"Then you are sent to death, and there are all strong people on it. Moreover, there are many dark sentinels in ambush, and a row of cold arrows can make you go to the western sky. The thin-faced man looked at Ma Chao with a foolish expression.

"This star picking pass is so easy to break into, it has already been broken through, they have a complete defense means and the art of mechanism. In addition, there are many soldiers and generals, even the congenital strong are in and out, and they still honestly show that people follow the rules to enter the customs. The middle-aged man sneered.