December 30, 15th year of Da Cai Pingjing, Chinese New Year's Eve.

The workshop in the Nanlian Mountain area day and night is rare to take a night's vacation, at this time the black lights are blind, but the rumbling wheel rolling sound, the trains are still densely coming and going between the north and the south, and the new and old city covers an area of more than 30 miles in the southeast of Nanlian Mountain, the lights on the streets and alleys are not extinguished, and the starlight is shallow floating on the sea surface in the background of the snowy night.

The snow still stopped for a while, and the roofs of every house were covered with white snow, covered in silver, and the light of fireworks lit up in the night sky, showing wealth and joy.

Many people spontaneously gathered in the square in front of the Hanhou Mansion, guarding the clock on the tall building in front of the mansion, watching the hour hand slide little by little to the twelve hours of the pattern engraving - this is the new timing product of this year's workshop, which is better than the corona in rainy and snowy days, and sent to the Hou Mansion to do a sign of the green vein timing, which was soon popularized in the stations along the railway, and the accurate timing made the train scheduling faster by fifty percent, and the passenger flow and freight volume were greatly increased.

The crowd of people who watch for the New Year is one after another, children are running and frolicking, vendors are peddling food and new gadgets around the square, and the juggling troupe attracts many onlookers, but more people are looking for people they know and gossiping and talking.

"Recently, I heard that Master Hou is gone...... someone said about the rumors they heard recently.

"Going to conquer Xiangnan? I heard that a peace treaty was signed with the Xianghou Mansion, and the Hou Ye did not have the imperial court to be discredited......

An old man listened to it: "It's also ......"

Some scholars sighed secretly when they heard it, and in the past half a year since Xiang Longqi became independent, the influence of the Cai Dynasty has completely faded, and before they know it, the people here no longer care much about criticizing the imperial court.

"I heard I'm going to Dongzhou. A vendor gave the child a candy and put away the change.

"Dongzhou?"

Some people were stunned for a moment and shook their heads in disbelief: "It's so far, the Shanbei Railway still has more than two years to be repaired, how can it pass now." ”

The construction of the railway at the northern foot of Beibi Mountain is no secret, and the people of Yingxiang all know that Shanbei has the opportunity to make a fortune, and many people go to the countryside to bring back fresh goods from the grassland, and more importantly, the railway will go all the way to Stunin!

A merchant from other places bragged about his cattle trading in Shanbei, and suddenly asked: "Alas, you say, will the Hou Ye have formed an alliance with the King of Wei?"

"Shh......h You can't talk nonsense about this, if you don't announce it, you won't be there, and talking nonsense will make the gray guards arrest them as rumors, and it will be difficult to go home. ”

Under the deterrence of the cold figure of the Gray Guard's secret organization, the people looked at each other, and they all tacitly stopped the topic, and just now the foreign merchant muttered: "It's good to form an alliance, I heard that the King of Wei has fused the three caves, I'm afraid that I will soon have to go out of the customs to find persimmons to pinch ......."

But soon he calmed down and didn't dare to say more, and another magician in Taoist clothes brought the topic to Han Hou's whereabouts: "But Hou Ye really hasn't appeared for more than ten days, could it really go...... Hehe, I mean, although the road is difficult, but Qingmai is trustworthy and punctual, and I am afraid that there will be a trace of ......"

"Won't you...... If you want me to say, what are you doing in a barren land? There is no benefit......

"Hehe, Dongzhou is a pioneer and a great benefit, but Hou Ye's waterway and railway can't pass for a while, so I don't know if there is a ......" Another middle-aged man said, and glanced at the magician just now, his eyes tacit.

They are all spies on all sides!

After the Cai Dynasty shielded him for half a year, the Xianhou who once stood in the limelight in the north gradually faded into a shadow, and no one except King Jingzhuang of Chu announced an alliance with Ye Qing.

The blockade of Xinjun Wang's correspondence with Hunan news and transportation still had an effect, except that the various forces in the north were still talking about it when they were smuggling, and they were a little jealous, and Ye Qing left most of the impressions that the princes in the farther away were-"Oh, the unlucky fairy marquis who made the Cai Dynasty blockade", "It's not easy to be a bird", "Has there been any movement recently......?

Although Yingxiang is big, it is only a corner of the country.

This world is too big, a hundred states, a hundred large and small feudal states, each state and each country has a territory of at least a few thousand miles, thousands of miles away and communication, and there are astronomical tides and magnetic interference from time to time, and the leaders of the new forces on the stage of competing for power are still only concerned about the immediate survival, and do not care too much about distant places.

Even local major events that occur from time to time in various places are not painful and trivial matters that have spread to Kyushu.

This is true within Kyushu, not to mention the Eight Desolate Regions that are far away from Kyushu, which are occasionally talked about as anecdotes in peacetime, and are forgotten by the vast majority of people in this winter in troubled times.

In such a big atmosphere of 'everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door, and does not care about the frost on the tiles of others', I heard the news that Hanhou was going to Dongzhou to open up half a year ago, but it has become a forgotten thing.

In the end, even the news itself gradually made people forget, except for a few stakeholders, no one would think that under such a tight lockdown as the Cai Dynasty, Ye Qing could still go to the East China Sea as scheduled.

But some people will not forget, not only the few forces that are close to Ye Qing, but with more and more production capacity, the Cai Dynasty has become more and more closely monitoring the movements in the area of Nanlian Mountain.

When the noisy sound of the square was surging, the bells rang in the night sky, and the hour hand pointed steadily at twelve o'clock, and the old year passed and the new year began!

With the square as the center, people all over the city who heard the bell cheered, and fireworks flew up in the night sky, official fireworks and folk fireworks, colorful and bright reflected in the night sky, boosting the festive atmosphere.

Fireworks and firecrackers sounded all over the city, and at this moment, all of a sudden, the bells and drums rang out in unison, the music was loud, and the crowd was startled.

The yellow umbrella canopy poured out, and the younger ones had never seen the pomp, but they were just watching, and the old man had already pulled people to kneel on the ground and whispered: "Hanhou has traveled!"

"Nanlian Cave Tianzhen Jun, Champion Grand Governor, Han Hou has arrived-" The roll call sounded, and hundreds of guards and ministers were embraced, brilliant under the fireworks.

At this time, the people knelt down and prostrated themselves, and the mountains shouted a tsunami: "Hanhou Chitose, Chitose, Chitose!"

The secret agents hidden in the crowd were speechless, only looking at the flow of people shouting, and Ye Qing on the high platform was silent-the imperial court has been blocked until now, and the Han Marquis has not only not fallen into the hearts of the people, but even Chitose has openly shouted.

Rebels and thieves, nothing more than this!

On the third floor of the Hou Mansion Linguan Building, Ye Qing didn't know or ignore the curses of some people, and after the figure appeared on the railing, he took Cao Baijing's hand and waved at everyone, and the cheers in the crowd below became even louder.

Cao Baijing is under the night lights, the more she looks like a jade person, which makes people never get tired of looking at it, she is now very accustomed to this kind of nobility, but her eyes are more on her husband, seeing that his smile is not as usual, she secretly asked: "What's wrong with the husband?"

"I'm expressing some legitimate resistance to the blockade. ”

Ye Qing responded to her with a smile and said: "Only in a prosperous and prosperous era do we need this kind of fun with the people, I am not brushing up my prestige, my prestige among the people of Yingxiang is estimated to be more than enough, but it is more important to show the strength of Yingxiang - aren't you Cai Dynasty blockading? Blockade a powerful Yingxiang land, to see where the face is." ”

"Husband...... It's cunning. Cao Baijing covered her mouth and chuckled.

Especially when Ying Xiang was in trouble in the official report of his neighbor Yunxia Daily, his husband's slap in the face was undoubtedly very eye-catching, further attracting Cai Chao's attention to Nanlian Mountain, rather than Dongzhou.

Holding this grand Chinese New Year's Eve party in the troubled times is a special manifestation, which makes the people of Yingxiang feel proud of their eyebrows, but some of them also exchange glances with each other and do not speak, until when the people disperse to the streets and alleys, they raise the Taoist shield in the occasional unexpected meeting, and ask privately: "There is a possibility of attracting attention...... Is it real?"

"Immortal ......" Some magicians said that they are all very proficient in light and dark means, how can they not prevent Ye Qingjin Cicada from coming out of the shell?

“...... It's not fake, or the fairy is pretending, but the fairy breath can be camouflaged, the real dragon's breath can't be pretended, and Sanqing can't do it. ”

"It seems that I really won't go......"

"Wait...... Among his wives, only Mrs. Cao appeared?" The local vendor just now looked suspicious: "I have lived in the local area for many years and know the inside story, and other ladies rarely show up, but Mrs. Qian is rumored to be the same as his wife, and every public event is accompanied by two ladies." ”

"No culture, didn't you read yesterday's newspaper, did you? Hanhou Mansion announced that Mrs. Qian was attacking Xiange, and a flower fell on the ...... Turtle body. A sorcerer's gaze flashed, why couldn't this stunning, genius, and loyal maid fall to his side?

He was a local monk who watched Ye Qing grow up, and at this time, his heart was inexplicably jealous, and he lowered his voice and ridiculed: "Tut, just now the news of King Wei's fusion of the four caves spread here, and the Hanhou Mansion issued such news, which is obviously to offset the influence of the King of Wei, it seems that the rumored alliance between the Hanhou Mansion and the Northern Wei Dynasty is not very reliable......

The taboo of immortal induction, even if he scolded the turtle when he was shielded, he didn't dare to say Ye Qing's name in private, which caused a circle of contemptuous eyes around him, and the difference between the immortals and the mortals was like a mud, and no one called Ye Qing the turtle for a long time.

But no one objected to his judgment, thinking that it was a bit possible: "The alliance between tigers and wolves, you say it will be reliable, but for our court, this is a good thing, I hope so......"

Just between some people's whispers, not far away is a wine shop, leaning on the road, newly built, downstairs lively, people come and go.

Upstairs, separated by screens, they are all private seats, and inside they are all drunk, and a few kabuki are singing a cappella, so that diners can't help but nod.

Under the red lanterns on the street, a few gray-clothed people drank and chatted, and in fact, they all had a special small spirit talisman stuffed in their ears, flashing and fluctuating, communicating with the Nanlian Mountain Network.

At this time, staring at the few people just now, they were all angry at the private slander they had just heard against the Lord Monarch and Madame Qian, and a young gray-clothed guard sneered: "Do you think that you can talk wantonly with a shield?" I don't know that this is the core of Yingxiang's network, and the aura is under control, so how can the dignified immortals crack it easily?"