The king will never go to court

Chapter 35: Marquis Dingguo's Strategies (1) (For collection and further reading)

Under the same sky, the northwest frontier of Yan Kingdom has fertile fields, but there are no villages or towns.

Occasionally, the roar of wild animals can be heard in the wild forest in the distance.

At the end of the field of vision, a huge stone statue soaring into the sky stands on a rock, overlooking the Huangbei City more than ten miles away.

The seven-foot-high city wall was only as thick as the sole of a foot in front of the huge stone statue.

However, the huge stone statue has gone through many years, and the skin has already fallen off, leaving only a rough outline.

There are rumors that it is a stone statue of a flesh body left in the mortal world hundreds of years ago by an ascended celestial being from the Longyang Empire.

There are also rumors that it was written by a certain hidden master of the Dongyang Dynasty, in memory of a certain senior of the family.

There are also rumors that what the catastrophic mutant beasts in the mountains, rivers and forests did was to break through the Great Wall built in the mountains, rivers and forests by an unknown celestial being, so as to bring disaster to the world.

Even the Shuiyue Sect, the number one sect that has always controlled the power in the rivers and lakes of Bohai County, does not know the origin of the huge stone statue in the distant mountains.

Once a rank warrior went to explore the stone statue, but there was still no trace, and finally came to the conclusion that it was an ordinary statue.

However, a stone statue that is even bigger than Huangbei City is not an ordinary thing.

70 years ago, it was just a dilapidated small village.

Because it is adjacent to the mountains, rivers and forests, there is another quiet path leading to the mountains, rivers and forests. After Yan Guo surrendered in the name of Shuiyuezong, he built a city here and guarded it.

Desolate North City echoes Bohai City to the east, but this place is a paradise for Jianghu warriors.

Because it is adjacent to mountains, rivers and forests.

There are only [-] soldiers and horses guarding the Huangbei City, but many of them are from the Jianghu.

Different from other prefectures, only the city and herdsmen are in charge of Huangbei City, and they are high-quality warriors.

Desolate North City, South City.

Row after row of officers and soldiers were guarding the south of the city, there were hundreds of them, putting great pressure on the people in the rivers and lakes who came and went in and out of the city.

Many people who have lived in Huangbei City for a long time saw such a battle for the first time in more than ten years.

Three days ago, nine thousand armored cavalry came from the east.

Under the orders of Marquis Ding, he took over Huangbei City and conducted a thorough investigation of anyone who entered the city.

One hundred barren north guards, wearing leather armor, carefully inspected the carriages of every caravan entering the city.

Even the caravan that had some ties to the school captain of Chengmen in the past was strictly interrogated.

At the same time, [-] officers and soldiers of the Northern Guards conducted a strict screening of all the inns in the city, and anyone who did not have a badge issued by the government would be directly expelled from the city.

In the wilderness, with no end in sight at a glance, those unknown people in the rivers and lakes had no choice but to rely on connections and take their way.

I hope that I can find a suitable team in the wild north city, so that I can go to the mountains, rivers and forests to get some good things.

"All caravans must enter the city for interrogation, and no documents from other counties are allowed to enter the city."

"Why did the investigation start all of a sudden? What should I do with the goods of my caravan. This official, please do me a favor."

"Get out of the way, don't get in the way. If you get in the way of my errands today, be careful and directly seize your cargo. Go away, go away, and make way for the caravan behind."

"Brother Liu, we belong to the Baishui Gang. Please help me with this shipment. This is our document, issued by the Bohai City Government."

A middle-aged man in a gray robe, with a scruffy beard and wrinkled brows and cheeks, was full of dust at first glance.

While talking, the middle-aged man even stuffed two ingots of silver at the official who inspected the caravan.

The officer inspecting the convoy took the two ingots of silver that were still warm very skillfully, and weighed them in his sleeves, his eyes were full of your sense of humor.

Then he took the document in the middle-aged man's hand, looked at it carefully, and took the two city guards behind him to send a carriage one by one for inspection.

"Why are you documents issued by the Bohai City Government?"

The officer leading the team looked down at the document in his hand and asked casually.

"I can't help it. The border was not peaceful a while ago. Something happened there. The caravan escorted by our Baishui Gang can only take the road of Bohai City."

The man in the gray robe followed behind the leading officer and explained while bowing.

The official who led the team handed back the documents in his hand to the other party, and looked up at the endless carriage team behind the caravan escorted by the Baishui Gang.

His eyes swept over the banners on the carriage, "Changfengtang, Great Sword Gang, Judaomen, Yulongtang and you Baishui Gang.

"All the gangs in the major prefectures of Bohai County have arrived."

"Isn't that right? It's rare to see such a well-organized caravan escort on weekdays. It was originally the territory of our Baishui Gang, and suddenly so many gangs were inserted. I don't know what the big brothers in the gang think."

The man in the gray robe complained in a low voice with resentment on his face.

"It's actually quite good. As long as you gangs don't cause trouble in the city, Master Chengmu still likes everyone to come to Huangbei City to do business."

After inspecting the caravan with a team of officials and several officers and soldiers, they let it go directly into the city.

The caravan behind slowly came to the inspection place at the gate of the city. The carriages of the caravan were [-]% more than the caravan escorted by the White Water Gang.

"Is this the caravan of your Bohai City Gang?"

The officer who led the team waved to a young boy who was walking forward quickly, and motioned for the other party to hand over the document issued by the county government.

The young servant quickly came to the official, took out the documents from his arms, and said with an honest smile, "Officer, we have a lot of goods this time, please make it easy for you. Check it quickly so that we can get it sooner." into town."

"Oh, I see."

The officer leading the team opened the document, but didn't look at it directly, just glanced at it, glanced back and forth at the uninterested young servant in front of him several times from the corner of his eye, and whispered, "Young man, you really don't know how to behave."

Then he shook his head helplessly, threw the document in his hand into the arms of the officer behind him, and shouted in a cold tone, "Check carefully, and don't let go of any suspicious places."

"Got it, Liu Tou, don't worry. We will check it carefully."

One of the officials knew the way, and walked directly to the caravan's carriage with a few officials beside him.

Then there was a burst of rummaging through boxes and cabinets, directly digging out the valuables in the carriage one by one for inspection, which frightened the shopkeeper who followed the caravan in the caravan.

An elderly man walked out of the carriage tremblingly, followed by two middle-aged strong men with strong martial arts. "My lord, we belong to the Ma family's firm in the city, so I ask for your convenience."

The old man bowed to salute, motioning to the middle-aged man beside him to take out a hundred-liang silver note from his pocket.

"The Ma's firm is a firm in Shuofang County. It deals in some scarce goods in Bohai County, all of which are shipped from other counties in the east. It is a well-established firm in the city, but I didn't expect them to invite Bohai The city gang also escorted the goods.”

The official who led the team pondered, took the silver ticket politely, and said with a smile, "The old shopkeeper belongs to the Ma family?"

It was the first time for the old man to lead a team to Bohai County. For the sake of safety along the way, the Ma family company specially invited gangs from Bohai City as guards for the caravan in Bohai City Mansion, including their own caravan guards.

After half a cup of tea, the inspectors finally stopped their crude inspection methods.

The dozen or so carriages that followed were simply checked, and compared and checked one by one in the item column of the document.

A young man in purple brocade clothes lifted the curtains on the wall of the carriage, glanced at the guards inspecting the caravan, and complained, "Master, these officers and soldiers in Huangbei City are too..."

"Mind your own business."

A man's voice full of spirit came from the carriage, and the four men in purple brocade who were following closely on both sides of the carriage and trying to prevent the officials from inspecting the carriage slowly retracted their hands on the hilt of their swords.

"Hey! Where are these people from the rivers and lakes who want to use force in Huangbei City?"

An officer snorted coldly when he saw the four men in purple brocade, but didn't notice the golden fire pattern embroidered on their sleeves and chest.

Then several officials followed the one in front and walked straight towards the carriage.

The old man at the front of the caravan hastily stepped forward and explained, "Officer, these are young people who are ignorant, please bear with me." He then handed several hundred taels of silver bills to the leader of the caravan.

After receiving the silver ticket handed over by the old man, the official who led the team came to the carriage and asked, "What's going on?"

"Brother Liu, we suspect there is something suspicious in the car."

The officer who led the team looked at the man in purple brocade clothes who was a step away in front of him, his eyes glanced over those fire pattern patterns inadvertently, and the same pattern flashed in his mind, but he didn't know where he had seen it before.

He subconsciously touched a few bank notes under the sleeve robe, glanced at the two purple brocade-clothed men in front of him, and yelled at the officials next to him, "What's so suspicious!"

Afterwards, everyone bypassed the carriage and carefully checked the carriages behind it one by one.

In the end, the convoy drove into the south gate of Huangbei City after spending more than half an hour.

After entering the city gate, the caravan drove directly to the Ma's shop in the north of the city.

On the way, the carriage directly separated from the team and disappeared into the crowd, along with four men in purple brocade clothes.

Looking at the carriage disappearing at the corner of the street through the curtains, the elderly man sitting on the slum finally breathed out a foul breath.

"Don't ask who the adult in the carriage is, just wait for that adult to reach the wild north city safely. In order to deceive people, you can invite some local people from the rivers and lakes of Bohai County to escort the caravan. But remember, you can't let people get close to the carriage, and you can't It disturbed the adult in the carriage."

Recalling, before departure, the Patriarch kept telling him that he finally arrived in the wild north city, and he could let go of the burden of being an old housekeeper.

After entering the city, a single carriage was no longer so obvious in the crowd, and finally stopped in front of an inn in a busy city in the north of the city.

One of the men in purple brocade went to the inn counter to book a room, and ordered the inn boy to pull the carriage to the backyard and prepare high-quality concentrate feed for the horses.

A burly man, wearing ordinary purple brocade clothes and a bamboo hat, could not tell the slightest bit. Accompanied by four men in purple brocade clothes, he went directly to the secluded guest room on the second floor.

After checking in, a man in purple brocade clothes kept guarding the door of the room, a young man entered the room with the man in the bamboo hat, and two other men in purple brocade clothes entered the next room to rest.

After entering the guest room, the young man put Master's luggage properly, picked up the teacup on the table, filled it with tea, and handed it to the table.

The burly man lifted off his hat, revealing a very ordinary face, placed in the crowd, he could not be noticed at all, and he couldn't tell the slightest difference from other ordinary people outside the inn, no matter in appearance or temperament.

This person is Shen Yongxin, the owner of the Phoenix Tower after the disguise. He was entrusted by Marquis Ding Guo to go to the mountains and forests to find out if there is a new "Heart of the Ancient River" born.

"You guys check secretly to see if there are other aristocratic clans who have also sneaked into Huangbei City."

Shen Yongxin drank the hot tea in the cup slowly, then closed his eyes to carefully perceive the situation around the inn.

In addition to the hawking along the street and the rivers and lakes warriors passing through the streets and shops escorting batch after batch of goods that have just entered the city.

After some perception, Shen Yongxin did not find any suspicious places around the inn.

"Yes, Master, this disciple will go now."

The young man in purple brocade said respectfully, then exited the room respectfully, and ordered the disciples waiting outside the door to prepare meals for the master.

The young man in purple brocade clothes named Mu Yuge has been guarding the door. After the door was gently closed by Li Lingyun, he asked in a low voice, "Brother Lingyun, you said that we will stay in the inn all the time and not ask about the situation outside. ?”

They are all these disciples, although they are all direct disciples of the Phoenix Tower, but this is the first time they have gone out with the master to practice, and the young man named Li Lingyun in front of them has been arranging tasks for them all along the way.

It is also the wish of everyone to go out and experience more to be able to perform more in front of the host.

"Everyone has eaten first, and then went to the city to inquire about it."

Li Lingyun walked downstairs along the wooden corridor with Mu Yuge beside him.

Stepping into the lobby of the inn, Li Lingyun and Mu Yuge found a table near the street and sat down. When they took their seats, they glanced at the crowd around them and muttered, "I didn't expect that there would be so many people in an ordinary inn in Huangbei City." people."

"That's not true. If I hadn't booked a room in advance, I'm afraid I don't know where I'm going to spend the night."

Mu Yuge looked serious and made Li Lingyun who had just sat down laugh.

Li Lingyun asked the inn boy to deliver meals to the master and the two younger brothers in the guest room, and then ordered some ordinary meals for himself and the younger brothers.

"Do you need some small wine objectively? The wine in this shop is a major feature of Huangbei City."

The boy in the waiting hall held a bottle of wine on a wooden tray, and hurried to the table to ask.

Li Lingyun waved and said, before he could continue talking, Mu Yuge who was sitting by the side turned his head and looked at the young servant who took out an ingot of silver from his arms and threw it directly on the table, urging, "Hurry up and serve the food." , Serve the meal, and just have a pot of hot tea."

The boy picked up the two taels of silver on the table, and respectfully replaced it with a pot of hot tea and two clean cups, then walked quickly across the lobby and gave a glance to the back kitchen. The servant quickly disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Mu Yuge pushed a cup of hot tea in front of Li Lingyun, and his tone became calmer, "No matter where you go, you must have money to move these people."

Facing his senior brother, his icy voice disappeared instantly without a trace.

Li Lingyun finished his tea and said softly, "Be low-key when you're outside, be kind to others, and don't be evil to them."

"Yes, senior brother. Yu Ge respectfully follows your instruction."

Mu Yuge poured himself a cup of tea, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled the faint tea fragrance, "Where should we go next?"

Li Lingyun glanced sideways at the junior brother beside him, with a hint of displeasure on his brows, but his tone was still calm, "Naturally, I will go to other inns more often, and if I find other sects, I will inform the master. I will run out of meals in a while , you ask Lu Shi to go with Wu Jiang."

"Yes, the two juniors should have rested almost as well." Mu Yuge nodded in response.

Li Lingyun picked up the bamboo chopsticks and took a sip of the dish that the servant just brought up. There were both meat and vegetables, and he felt that the taste was not bad. He said while tasting the food, "Remember, don't disturb Master."

"Yes, I will definitely remember my brother's orders."

"It's the same with the two of them. Eat quickly, and then go to inquire about the news after eating."

Li Lingyun pointed to the food on the table, then added a few pieces of chicken into his own bowl, and tasted it slowly.

After eating, Li Lingyun and Mu Yuge split up. Li Lingyun went to the north of the city, and Mu Yuge and the other two Phoenix Tower disciples went to the other three directions.

Passing through a lively street, Li Lingyun headed north along the street. His goal was the busiest street in the north of the city, where people gathered most in the rivers and lakes.

The Fenghua Tower, where all kinds of rare treasures are auctioned, is here, and it is also a sales channel for warriors looking to sell treasures obtained in mountains, rivers and forests.

Fenghua Building is a five-storey attic, surrounded by various restaurants and inns with backgrounds of rivers and lakes, as well as Goulan House and Qinlou Chuguan, which are frequented by some warriors.

There are Jianghu warriors wearing weapons everywhere on the street, but the weapons on their bodies are all wrapped up.

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