Zhongzhou has a large land and a large population, for hundreds of years, it has been the heart of the Central Plains, and its famous city Kaifeng has even replaced Chang'an several times and become the capital of Liyang.

This morning, the sun had just revealed half of its body, and Baili Kaifeng was still shrouded in morning mist.

The gate of Kaifeng City has been opened, and the flow of people outside the city has formed a long queue, slowly and orderly began to march towards the city, hoping to use the goods they brought from all over the city to exchange for white silver in Kaifeng City.

Under normal circumstances, as long as a slightly shrewd businessman does business in this in-demand Kaifeng City, he will make a steady profit.

Among them, there is a group of businessmen who are more special, they are a group of more than a dozen people, all of them are tall and healthy northern men, and some of them even carry a hundred horizontal knives in their hands, just looking at them, there is a huge deterrent.

But the really special thing is not these horizontal knives, nor these dozen men, but their team leader, looking at his body and face, he is an immature young man.

Shen Wansan paid the money for entering the city with a tired face, and did not say a word during the period, so he entered Kaifeng Mansion City in the dust.

The streets are wide, the bricks and stones are old, and even the houses on both sides exude a sense of prosperity.

He was not in the mood to look at the lively scenery around him, and he had seen it twice during this time, and this time, although the journey was smoother, he was still so tired that he didn't want to move a finger now.

Although he was very tired, thinking of the still very powerful martial arts alliance and the three thousand taels of silver owed to Li Wenshuo, he was full of melancholy and didn't dare to rest at all.

Lying on that familiar big bed, calculating how many more times to run the business, it is estimated that he can earn back the money owed to Li Wenshuo, at that time, he will come out alone to create a caravan, if it goes well, this road will make a lot of money.

Thinking about it, he fell asleep, in the dream he made a lot of silver, and Chu Hegui trembled in front of him.

The next morning, he got up very early, washed his face, sat on the table next to the window and grinded, wrote a letter to his two friends in Wanzhou, reported his safety, and asked them to persuade Li Wenshuo by the way if he could lower the interest a little, otherwise, he found that the interest alone could make him make an extra trip.

I went downstairs, had breakfast in a hurry, and brought two helpers assigned by Li Wenshuo to sell the goods.

came to the fang market in the west, found Boss Zhao, who was already very familiar, symbolically greeted a few words, talked about the price, and the transaction was facilitated.

Everything went extremely smoothly, and when he got two thousand taels of silver, after removing the guards and taxes, he made a net profit of five hundred taels on this trip, which was two percent higher than the previous two times.

I turned around and went back the way I came, bought some jerky snacks or something on the way, and walked while eating, and I was in a good mood.

But as soon as he returned to the inn, he heard the news that he knew that this road to wealth on his grassland had been completely cut off.

In the autumn of the third year of the Apocalypse, the 100,000 troops of the Tuoba Department pressed the border, and the Central Plains shook.

It is worth mentioning that Daliang City was saved this time, but it was besieged by the enemy, out of a state of isolation.

20,000 grassland cavalry crossed the Tiannan Strait through the Dark Fragrance Valley, and for some reason, found a path in Leigong Mountain, and under the leadership of Wuyangu, the king of Jiuli, bypassed the long Xiongguan on the border of Liyang.

The war horses ran faster than the news, and before the Liyang army could react, countless military towns were bloodied wherever this cavalry went.

By the time Liyang reacted, more than a dozen military towns two hundred miles south of Daliang City and a stretch of several hundred miles had all been lost, and it was estimated that it was only a matter of time before this majestic city fell into the hands of the enemy again.

In Chang'an City, Liu Ye held his chin, his eyes narrowed slightly, naturally he was not sleeping, his eyes swept over the ministers in the court, they were usually noisy, but now they were extremely quiet.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you have anything to say?"

Hearing this, the princes looked at each other, but no one wanted to speak, after the last defeat, they already knew that the tribe on the grassland, their cavalry was surprisingly strong, and only those strong men in the border army could be qualified to resist.

Moreover, their family background suffered heavy losses as early as the last war, and after returning to Beijing, most of the remaining military power was also controlled by Liu Ye in various names, without the slightest intention of exchanging it back.

It can be said that now in the court, it is really Liu Ye who has the final say.

Liu Ye snorted coldly, his mood was very irritable, although he didn't expect that this Tuoba Department would dare to invade the Central Plains again so quickly, but he still strengthened the defense in the area of Daliang City,

I even sent the guy from the back tiger.

But things have turned out the way they are now.

He sighed in his heart and felt endless tiredness, but the majesty in his eyes was still terrifying: "King Xuan left the general to go to the palace!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a commotion below, although the last time Chang'an rebelled, there was news that Wang Li appeared in the palace, but everyone didn't expect that this person is still in the palace.

When the king left the palace, he did not wear court clothes, but wore a set of pale blue armor, with a pitch-black daze fluttering behind his back, and entered the palace door expressionlessly, without looking at the ministers around him, he walked straight forward.

Everyone stared with bated breath, their hearts pounding.

This man has unimaginable power in his hands, if he wants, he can almost establish a new country in the Central Plains, call him king, and the court can't think of anyone who can balance or defeat him.

At that time, it was definitely much more dangerous than any dissenting vassal king in Liyang.

But no one knows why General Wang Li, why he didn't rebel, and even became Liu Ye's right-hand man.

The sound of footsteps sounded in the main hall, fell on people's hearts, and stopped five feet away from the dragon chair: "Weichen see Your Majesty." ”

Wang Li didn't kneel, just bowed his head, bowed seriously, and then met Liu Ye's gaze without letting go.

The first emperor Liu Yan gave him the privilege of not kneeling when he saw the king.

Seeing Wang Li's heroic eyes, Liu Ye finally had a smile on his face and said, "General Wang, when the national disaster is at hand, what do you think?"

Liu Ye sent Wang Lixuan to the palace, and said directly, you go and lead the troops and drive away the group of grassland barbarians.

Wang Li's expression did not change, and he said in a deep voice: "Back to Your Majesty, the barbarians are menacing this time, they are well-founded, and they are real steppe cavalry, I am afraid it is no longer as simple as just coming to loot some things before." ”

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Wang Li didn't talk much, but this morning he said a lot of things, and after a morning of deliberation, it was finally decided that three days later, Wang Li would lead the army, and Chang'an would send 10,000 people with armor to reinforce Fenghua Prefecture.

As soon as the news came out, countless people in the rivers and lakes, or hot-blooded sons and daughters of dignitaries, asked to go with them and dedicate themselves to the rejuvenation of their families and countries.

For this reason.

The next day, the 10,000 people had become 12,000.

The extra 2,000 people were not mixed with the regular soldiers, and became a separate formation, responsible for taking care of the grain and grass, and as for their leader, it was the famous Marquis Li Wenshuo.

Li Wenshuo also came to Chang'an by himself, before that, he specially visited the old man Tianji, and the other party only said that the world was in chaos, and after more than ten years, there was no more voice.

I didn't even want to see him.

In desperation, Li Wenshuo had no choice but to go to the palace again to see his brother.

The leapman didn't have a clear attitude towards this matter, he said that this matter was related to heaven, and non-human beings could be counted, but he also believed that the old man of Tianji should not talk nonsense.

did not get a definite answer, Li Wenshuo still went to the army, not for meritorious service, but for the sword he had practiced for so many years to have a serious use.

It is just right to come, after all, although these Jianghu people have blood in their hearts, but for those generals whose martial arts are not as good as them, even if they accept the jurisdiction, they will inevitably have dissatisfaction in their hearts.

This is also the most taboo in the army.