Since Zhao Yan knew that Wang Qi Hongpu was a dead soldier living in the Mingyue Merchant in Cangzhou, he had suspected more than once that the Mingyue Merchant had some kind of inexplicable relationship with Wang Qi's forces.

He wasn't sure if Wang Qi's forces and the Mingyue Firm were one, but he could be sure that the relationship between the two was by no means as simple as the outside world seemed, and the Mingyue Firm was by no means a business alliance that followed the rules.

It is not easy to abide by the rules, and to cover the entire sphere of influence of Daxia, and even let many high-level officials of the town guard government have to give face, if you want to say that local businesses are bigger in the local area, they can indeed do this.

However, this is in the Great Xia Kingdom, where there is no telephone, the Internet, and the flow of ordinary people is very small, it takes at least a year or two for a message to go from south to north, and that is still the transmission speed of immortal cultivators.

Therefore, where did Mingyue Firm have such a great ability to establish such a high reputation among the people from south to north, there is only one answer, to invest force, use black hands, and annex local businesses.

Zhao Yan had never seen a real high-level immortal cultivator in the Mingyue Firm, and he guessed whether the Bright Moon Firm had handed over all the black hand to Wang Qi's forces.

In this way, it can be said that the Mingyue Firm expands with the help of Wang Qi's forces, and if it is discovered one day, it can directly get rid of Wang Qi's forces, and Wang Qi's forces want to expand with the help of Mingyue Firm's sphere of influence, and even plan to control Mingyue Firm, and the two have entered the stage of cooperation.

Zhao Yan felt that he was simply a genius, and he figured out the internal situation of the two families as soon as he thought about it.

He thought about it, and couldn't help but laugh, secretly scolding himself for being a childish ghost.

smiled, and returned to the gate of Mingyue Firm, more than a dozen immortal cultivators on the street were still wandering around, and Wang Qi Hongpu did not come out, it seemed that there would be no other actions for a while.

Although Yecheng is a wild city, its name is not as good as the hundreds of state cities officially recorded in Great Xia, but it is not inferior to Yanzhou City in terms of scale and flow of people. In this restaurant alone, the number of diners coming in and out is more than double that of the largest restaurant in Yanzhou before.

Diners near the left were chatting while eating, and the topic attracted Zhao Yan's attention.

"A few days ago, Zhang Wenda, the commander of Huaizhou, led a team of 2,000 to pacify a troublesome tribe in the southern country, which is really happy. ”

When someone heard the news, they immediately questioned: "What kind of crime is it, don't do a bad thing done by the official army, let's still follow a strong fight." ”

The diner next to him heard the prickly words of his neighbor, put down the dishes and chopsticks and began to defend Zhang Wenda: "No, no, although Zhang Wenda, the commander of Huaizhou, is stubborn and rigid, he has always been friendly with the people and does not do anything to oppress the small people." ”

The diner who spoke first also said: "After this, it probably means that the small tribe always robs people who go to Mangshan to beg for a living, and usually has the help of the southern barbarian marquis Gumujian to maintain it, and our people are not easy to refute his face, but this time it provoked Zhang Wenda's hands, and it was useless for the barbarian marquis to come forward, saying that if the other party is leveled, it will be leveled." ”

When Zhao Yan heard this, he remembered that the old master had said before going south that the two brothers, Zhang Dehou and Zhang Deyan, had returned to their hometown in Huaizhou, but they didn't know what the relationship between the two brothers and Zhang Wenda, the commander of Huaizhou, was.

He secretly thought that if the Zhang family brothers and Zhang Wenda were relatives, then if they had to deal with Wang Qi's forces in the future, the operability would be greater, and they might be able to use Zhang Wenda's forces to attack Wang Qi's forces.

While thinking about it, Zhao Yan raised his hand and poured out a cup of tea, and accidentally bumped into this good news, and his mood became a lot better.

If it can really be said that Zhang Wenda can be used to deal with Wang Qi's forces, and when the Huaizhou clean-up operation is launched, its momentum and quality will definitely surpass Yanzhou, and maybe a good result will be obtained.

Zhao Yan put down the teacup, full of ambition in his heart, and had already begun to look forward to the things within the boundaries of Huaizhou, planning how to move Zhang Wenda.

As a result, his gaze at Mingyue Business also became hot, he believed that as long as he arrived in Huaizhou and told Zhang Wenda what he had seen and heard, half of the matter would be completed, and the other half would be Zhang Wenda himself, and he could not control it.

However, the whole thing is very clear, for the forces of immortal cultivators, the elimination of Wang Qi's forces is equivalent to striking at the enemy, taking the opportunity to collect wealth, and gaining fame, and for the town guard's mansion, clearing and suppressing Wang Qi's forces is the merit of living and free, and it is the promotion of capital.

Therefore, he believed that Zhang Wenda, as a member of the party, would definitely not let go of the good opportunity to clear Wang Qi's forces, and now he sent Wang Qi Hongpu and his party to Huaizhou.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yan's originally calm heart made waves, and a big stone in his heart was about to be moved.

He smiled and glanced at the Mingyue business, planning that if Wang Qi Hongpu didn't come out of it again, he would take Bai Bao to take a shower in the open room of the restaurant first, relax and then monitor.

But at this moment, Wang Qi Hongpu came out, and more than a dozen immortal cultivators around him immediately followed Wang Qi Hongpu's footsteps without a trace and went towards the south of the city.

Zhao Yan saw it and knew that Wang Qi Hongpu did not plan to stop in Yecheng, and was about to leave Yecheng overnight.

He guessed that Yecheng should be an important point of contact between the north and the south of Wang Qi's forces, and Wang Qihongpu's arrival in Yecheng was a predetermined plan, so he had never heard Wang Qi's forces and other immortal cultivators mention Yecheng along the way, but they entered Yecheng without any surprise.

Zhao Yanxian silently remembered the location of Yecheng, took Bai Bao to find a no-man's land, and secretly followed Wang Qi Hongpu to the south of the city.

After leaving the city, Wang Qihongpu continued the old method, marching into the eastern mountain range, not intersecting with the crowded settlements, and reducing the possibility of being discovered.

In this way, another month and a half passed, and the course of action of Wang Yuhongpu and the immortal cultivators gradually shifted to the southwest, and there was a great momentum to end this march.

Zhao Yan followed the underground and advanced, and generally saw that the surrounding mountains were almost extending inland, that is to say, they were now close to the southernmost point of the Qilian Mountains, and beyond that was the confluence of the Southern Country, the estuary, and the Mangshan Mountains.

Moving in the southwest direction for more than ten days, in the night of the near Nian Pass, Zhao Yan felt that the movement on the ground gradually became dense and noisy, and the breath of Wang Qi Hongpu and other immortal cultivators slowed down again.

With the last Yecheng experience, Zhao Yan didn't need to think much to understand that the last stop of Wang Qi Hongpu and others, Huaizhou was above. After he followed Wang Qi Hongpu around the city for a while, he clearly heard a dozen or so immortal cultivators above quickly distributing around, while Wang Qi Hongpu led a few people forward, listening to the movement, he should be walking briskly on the stone steps.

Judging from the situation, Wang Qi Hongpu had just entered the Huaizhou Mingyue Firm.