Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 226
The southwest suburb of Luoyang City is only separated from Shendu Garden/Xiyuan and Xishi by the Fanfang under the city of Dingdingmen.The army horses that had been gathered around, and the heavy fences and horse refusals set up were surrounded and blocked by groups.Only the citizens who came to parade on the streets were left, beating gongs and drums and clamoring for everyone to wait patiently at home for follow-up checks.

In fact, as a place where a large number of foreigners from foreign domains and vassal states gathered and settled for a long time.As Luodu, Fanfang has evolved over the years, and it is also divided into two parts: inside the city and outside the city.Among them, Fanfang, which is located near the West Market in the city and has many different regional characteristics, is the facade and location of Datang Huairou's inclusive world.

Therefore, to be eligible to live here, one must either be a descendant of various ethnic groups who have been naturalized in China for many years, or be a Hujia who has lived in China for a long time, or be the relatives and children of envoys from various countries and their retinues and subordinates.Basically belong to the middle and upper classes of outsiders and other groups.What can be shown is that there is no worry about food and clothing, the folk customs are honest, the scholars and people are virtuous, and the scenery is beautiful.

It is located in the suburb of the city separated by a wall in the northwest corner of the city.Formed by several tributaries of the Yongji Canal, it used to be a swamp and pond area, but due to the spontaneous gathering of a large number of foreign populations, one of the many urban villages in Luodu - Xiqu Fanfang, which was born, represents the Among the two sides of Luodu Fanfang, the other side is not so glorious and even a little gray.

Because, there are a large number of low-level practitioners related to Xishi Fanfang.In other words, although they are working in the West City, they themselves cannot afford the living costs and daily expenses of settling and staying in Luodu City.Therefore, with the sound of drums opening and closing the Dingding Gate every day, they worked in the city's west city during the day and returned to rest outside the city at night.

Because this is a piece of wood piles and trusses piled up on the former large and small rivers, swamps and ponds.Daily necessities are undoubtedly much cheaper.As long as you are willing to pay the minimum price of a penny, you can get a shelter the size of a coffin board, and it is only a few pennies to cheat your stomach with all kinds of inferior ingredients from unknown sources.

Therefore, over time, there have also been many Tibetans and Hu descendants who have been stranded in the middle land for generations, as well as fugitive slaves and abandoned children of those Fanfang families, and even criminals with corresponding backgrounds, fugitives, smugglers, Conventional gathering place.So over time, even the local or foreign scholars of the Tang Dynasty rarely set foot in the period.

It is like a boil moss on the corner of the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty; it may not look good and there are many potential problems; but it is an indispensable metropolis, an indispensable part of the pyramid-like ecological circle.Even the poor people of the Han family can find some kind of psychological superiority to teach their children through some invisible chain of discrimination.

Of course, compared to the surrounding areas of the West Market in the city, those relatively well-planned and unique Fanfang of various ethnic groups; Xiqu Fanfang is an out-and-out hodgepodge.Randomly pull a person from the street here, maybe he can have the blood of Persia, Daqin, and Tianzhu.Therefore, it is the big and small fan gangs and gangs that can play a role here.

And they also represent the dregs and marginalized people who are disgusted by the mainstream of the tribes of various ethnic groups in terms of appearance and body.Because the Tu ethnic groups in places such as Fusang, Silla, Annan, etc., only need to go through one or two generations of intermarriage and mixed blood in appearance; they will quickly abandon their original ethnic groups and old identities, and since then generations have adopted authentic Tang people call themselves.

The same goes for many tribes in the Northern Fortress, the Western Regions, and the Southern Man.On the contrary, Daqin, Persia, Tianzhu, etc. have been in contact with China since the Han Dynasty. While maintaining their own relative characteristics, they also have a large-scale Fanfang settlement area in the city.And the many vassal groups that followed constituted the supplementary source of Xiqu Fanfang.

Because most of them are too obviously non-human in appearance and appearance, coupled with the lack of official legal status and stable financial resources, it is basically impossible to get out of here and seek a new life and career outside .Therefore, their greatest hope is to be favored by the Fanfang in the city, or else the next generation will look like Tang people.

However, being dark under the lights in the usual sense does not mean that Luoyang County or Henan Prefecture have completely given up the power to control and extract benefits from this area.In fact, this area, like many lower workshops in Luodu City, has its own name and nationality, as well as a workshop owner elected by various forces to be in charge of negotiations and official affairs in the open.

He was even able to look decent, paying regular household dingqian and variegated city tax according to the household registration and the rank of the number of dingkou; and among the performance evaluation rankings of more than 20 Chengxiafangs, he barely maintained a bottom-to-bottom ranking The tail position of the crane.Officials from Henan Prefecture and Luoyang County can also enter to investigate several cases, which serve as proof of the existence of Wang Fa.

Only in private, there are fan gangs and gangs occupying several streets and squares; in the gray daily life full of order and chaos, a certain dynamic renewal batch is maintained.Of course, once the officials made up their minds, these voices that claimed to be unambiguous in Fanfang suddenly became silent.

However, compared to the blockade of Xiqu Fanfang, the market and streets were depressed and dead silent.If someone accidentally peeks down, they will find that at the bottom of the multi-layered Fanfang, among the old rivers and canals, there is a movement of rushing and advancing like fire; The armored soldiers are wading forward at the edge.

And in the middle of the most spacious underground river channel, there is a series of boats that are paddling forward.Bright wind lamps are placed at the stern of each boat, like a long dragon protruding into a cave, illuminating the dark river alley, the dark and mottled covered beams above the head, and the mossy, climbing plants. Wooden stakes and long columns standing in forests of vegetation such as snails;
As for the secret censor department, the main target to deal with this time is located deep in the underground river alley of Xiqu Fanfang; the people known as "horse king" and "horse supervisor" and their lair.And he is also the only one who surfaced in the series of attacks on the secret censor department.It was his subordinate who was in charge of picking up the boat on the bank of Gushui.

Although, what can be obtained from the last two accomplices on the ship who were almost frightened crazy is very limited.I only know that it was under the instruction and arrangement of this person that they specifically stole a boat, came to the edge of Gushui to wait and respond, took away an important person who was hunted down, and after getting the key items, they could kill Kill the opponent.

However, this result is enough to constitute the secret censor department, determined to use the reason of targeting the animal disaster party hidden in Dujidao; to mobilize all forces to uproot them and the forces under their command.Instead of just being satisfied with sending someone to get rid of such a person, it is likely to be the result of being an agent on the table or acting as a scapegoat.

Therefore, on one of the riverboats, Xin Gongping also read to Jiang Tian all the news and records about this legendary figure in the underground world in Luodu City's Xiafang.In fact, there are many legends about this "horse supervisor", and there are different opinions.In other words, he is the opposite of another kind of "Hidden Marquis" who just fell in the city.

It's just that Le Xingda, the "Hidden Marquis" who is relatively active among the various families in the city; this man is quite influential in many urban workshops, has mastered many low-ranking people and black channels, and claims to dare to take any business "" "Ma Dugong" is kept quite mysterious; few people have seen the real face, and have only dealt with his subordinates of different identities.

Therefore, there are rumors that he is the founder of the Ma family, the number one prince who discovered Xinzhou/Beiju Luzhou, and the remnants of the branch family that Boyonggong stayed in Zhongtu to guard the ancestral temple.It is also said that he is actually a descendant of the Ma family, a member of the clan of Ma Sui, the former Taiwei and male of Beiping County, but was expelled from the house by the Dafang.But after all, there is no visible light.

Therefore, this gentleman has been hiding in the underground world of Luodu City's Xiafang all year round; using various eyeliners and powerful contacts from the three religions and nine streams, he has woven a sensitive web of rumors for himself.In the repeated raids and arrests of Henan Prefecture or related government offices, he paid a certain price and escaped unscathed.Yes, even Luoyang County is no longer qualified to target him.

However, this time he missed the game after all, and was forced to expose more things.For example, this hidden lair hidden deep underground in Fanfang and the most important shelter is located.After reading this, Xin Gonggong couldn't help but stop, and asked Jiang Tian, ​​who was taking a good look at the situation, "Officer, is there something I don't understand?"

"If you have any doubts, the ride hasn't started yet, so hurry up and say it." Jiang Tian then withdrew his eyes, and sighed in his heart how he and these sewers are really destined!Actually have to drill again.

"Dare to ask the officer, with such a big fanfare, the whole city may have heard about it; aren't you afraid of leaking the secret in advance, which will lead to another failure?" Xin Gonggong hesitated and said:
"..." Jiang Tian smiled, but did not answer him directly, but looked at another Cheng Shilian beside him with a cold and thoughtful face, and said, "Shilian, then what are you doing?" want?"

"Subordinates feel..." Cheng Shilian, who had become somewhat gloomy and ruthless because of the changes during this period of time, thought for a while before saying, "Is this a deliberate attempt by the headquarters to scare the snake away? As the saying goes It's Xiang Zhuang's sword dance aimed at Peigong. What the headquarters wants is not the life and death of the Ma family's thieves, but to show an attitude so that people who have relations with all parties in the city will completely abandon this person and cut off their ties. basic attitude."

"Yes, this is also the root cause of the previous attempts by the government to arrest and pursue him without success." Jiang Tian couldn't help but nodded and said, "So, there is also a key point in this action, that is, whether we can obtain the information related to the animal disaster." , there is evidence of a direct relationship; as long as the crucified relationship is confirmed, it doesn't matter whether he is dead or alive."

At this time, several small boats that opened the way in front suddenly made a sound of thumping one after another; then, someone came to report: "Qi to the deputy supervisor, there is an obstacle underwater ahead, and it is being cleared." A wet iron chain was pulled out from the wooden stake that was pulled out underwater.

(End of this chapter)