After a short stay in Julu City, Xu Beiyou continued to travel north, and the three-foot-deep snow could stop countless caravans, but it couldn't stop Xu Beiyou, the great sword immortal, and soon he went all the way north into the territory of Houjian Chaozhou.

At this time, Chaozhou is no different from Liaozhou, and it is also full of snow, which makes it hard to believe that this is the Mid-Autumn Festival and August, but it is like a cold winter wax moon.

Xu Beiyou's trip to Houjian naturally also knew the news that Wanyan Beiyue was not in Daliang City, and he wanted to go directly to Tianhai City to meet Wanyan Beiyue, but after having a deep discussion with Xiao Maha, he changed his decision, and planned to take a walk in Houjian first, to see what the current situation of Houjian is, and whether it is really as Xiao Maha expected, so that he can know how to speak after seeing Yan Beiyue, and have something to say.

Later built in the Great Chu period, at the beginning of the same as the grassland departments, by the later Taizu Emperor formally founded the country, the capital of Daliang City, to the Khan King called. It was not until Emperor Taizong of Later Jianjian led his army south to the Central Plains, destroyed the Great Chu, and began to emulate the Central Plains Dynasty system, which officially enthroned the imperial capital of Jiangbei and changed the title of Khan.

After the construction of the heyday, almost won the world of Chu, but did not last long, first Jiangdu was defeated in a battle, followed by Emperor Taizu Zheng led a large army to rejuvenate the Northern Expedition, after the construction of the army in the fatigue of the long war defeated again and again, retreated to the imperial capital, Emperor Taizong died depressed.

At that time, the generals in the imperial capital supported his son to succeed to the throne, which was to establish Emperor Sejong later, and Emperor Sejong, who was hastily enthroned, had to give up the imperial capital and withdraw from the Central Plains in the face of the menacing Zheng army, and even the three northeastern states that had been occupied for many years had to be abandoned, leaving only the land of Kyushu today.

In order to separate nomadism from farming, the successive emperors advocated the system according to customs, forming a pattern of "north and south courts", which is also known to the world as the king of the south and the north court.

Before Xu Beiyou left the imperial capital and went to Houjian, he had read the dossier classics about the temple system in Houjian, and when it came to the temple pattern of Houjian, in addition to the kings of the north and south courts, he also had to mention the descendants of Houjian.

As we all know, today's Xiao family is divided into two branches, as early as the Great Chu period, generations rooted in the imperial capital of the Xiao family has been a prominent family, and later built a large army to conquer the imperial capital, Xiao is divided into two branches, one followed many families to cross south, to Jiangdu, and later from the dragon to the Emperor Taizu of Dazheng, back to the imperial capital, become the founding hero of Dazheng, that is, Xiao Yu, known as Yanzong. The other Xiao clan was coerced to Daliang City and took root in Daliang City, that is, Xiao Zheng, Xiao Shu, and Xiao Maha, which were called Shuzong.

After Emperor Muzong died of illness, Xiao Siwen, the head of the Xiao family, who was already a heavy minister of Houjian, did not mourn secretly, and supported Emperor Jingzong to ascend the throne, Emperor Jingzong reciprocated the favor, named Xiao Siwen as the king of the North Courtyard, and summoned his daughter Xiao Sui into the palace, first named the concubine, and after March was named the queen, the Hou Jian Xiao family became the Hou Jian Hou clan.

The two emperors and queens have a very good relationship, after the death of Xiao Siwen, Emperor Jingzong was weak, and gradually handed over the power to Xiao Xuan, with the passage of time, all government affairs of Houjian were dictated by the queen Xiao Xuan, Emperor Jingzong only listened to the report, never intervened, and even passed on the history of the bachelor, after which the words of the queen were recorded, also known as the edict, and as a formula, the status of his wife was raised to the same level as himself.

Later, Emperor Jingzong died of illness on the way to hunting, leaving a testament, the heir of King Liang, and the military affairs were subject to the queen's orders. After the Holy Emperor succeeded to the throne, he honored Xiao Yu as the empress dowager, that is, the famous Empress Dowager Xiao, who was regent by the Empress Dowager Xiao.

From the beginning of Jingzong to the end of Daozong, that is, the little emperor who died in the rebellion of the five kings, Empress Houjian has always come from the Xiao clan of Houjian, and the Xiao clan has become a well-deserved Houjian clan, second only to the Wanyan clan of the imperial family.

After Emperor Daozong succeeded to the throne, the young lord was lonely and weak, and his biological mother Xiao Nanxian was the queen mother, and Xiao Zheng, the younger brother of Xiao Nanxian, served as the king of the North Courtyard and took charge of the government. Later, Xiao Nanxian suddenly burst into the deep palace, and then the five kings led by Wan Yande raised troops to expel Xiao Zheng, Xiao Zheng fled to Julu City with his son Xiao Shu and grandson Xiao Maha and defected to Xiao Yu, who was already in the northwest at that time. At this point, the two Xiao families were reunited.

Later, it was the well-known Northern Expedition Houjian, Xiao Yu teamed up with Murong Yan to quell the rebellion of the Five Kings, supported Wanyan Beiyue to ascend to the throne, formed a brotherly alliance, and married his sister Xiao Yue, the eldest princess of Chongning, to Wanyan Beiyue, thus, Xiao once again became the descendant of Houjian.

From this point of view, the relationship between the Xiao family and the Wanyan family is not deep, the relationship is not far away, and the relationship between Wanyan Beiyue and Xiao Yue is excellent, so Xu Beiyou's trip to Houjian this time is not completely uncertain.

At this time, Xu Beiyou has come to the Chaozhou Mansion, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, even if it is placed in the Central Plains, it is also one of the best cities, in today's Fucheng, the so-called farming and nomadism are not so clear, mostly mixed and clustered, several generations of intermarriage, it has long been difficult to distinguish each other, Xu Beiyou picked a home in the downtown inn, the shopkeeper and the ancestors of the guys are all people from the Central Plains, and the original Houjian Xiao in general, was coerced by the Houjian army to come to Houjian, and took root in this land, there have been several generations。

Xu Beiyou walked around the city during the day, looking at all walks of life, looking at the peddlers and pawns, and also looking at the dignitaries and nobles, what is the situation of Houjian now, whether this heavy snow will force Houjian into such a desperate situation as the grassland, not in a few words of the temple magnates, but in the many subtleties of the folk market, just like Xiao Maha's winemaking village, through the quality of wine sales, you can deduce all kinds of recent situations, the so-called one leaf knows autumn, but so.

When night fell, Xu Beiyou returned to the inn, this "visit" The impact of this heavy snow on the post-construction must be there, fortunately it is not as serious as the grassland white disaster, the key is that the grassland is a pure nomadic race, and the post-construction has become half farming and half nomadic after so many years of evolution, and there is no disaster of war, there is always some harvest, although the life of the people at this time has been very difficult, but it has not developed to a desperate situation, and it is far from the boiling of public resentment, which makes Xu Beiyou a little more at ease, and the general trend still has room for turnaround.

After all, the people's hearts are changeable, they all say that people's hearts are like water, ripples are repeated, and the second half of the sentence is called the people's movement is like smoke, if they can't settle the hearts of the people, the seemingly docile people will also change.

Xu Beiyou was not sleepy, it happened that the heavy snow that had been falling for many days stopped this afternoon, so he simply pushed open the window and looked at the new moon.

It was at this time that he accidentally spotted two familiar figures that he hadn't seen for a long time.