Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 64 Main Route
Taiyuan City.

At the gate of the city, the guards stood lazily in twos and threes, poking around and checking some people entering the city.

A donkey cart loaded with tea came from outside the city. The city gate officer sitting in the shade under the city saw it from a distance, his eyes lit up, and he immediately waved to several guards.

The guards were also familiar with the procedure, and stopped the donkey cart when it came to the city gate.

"My lords, this is the entrance tax."

The tea merchant driving the donkey was not surprised by this situation, and took out the money he had prepared long ago.

A guard took it and sent it to the city gate officer. The latter weighed it and said, "This is not enough."

The tea merchant's face changed slightly when he heard the words, and he said with a smile, "My lord, what are you talking about? Don't you usually talk like this?"

The city gate officer snorted coldly, walked up to the tea merchant and stared at him.

"It's normal now? Don't you know that the rebel Su Yuan is plotting to attack the cities of Mozhou now? In order to protect the people, the state shepherd is diligently lighting lamps and boiling oil every day. Why are you small businessmen not at all?" Do you know how to understand?"

After finishing speaking, the city gate officer put his hand on the donkey cart and stared at the tea merchant suspiciously: "Could it be possible that you have some secret connection with the Zhenbei army? I think there may be problems with this batch of tea, so we have to get them to the tea shop." The yamen will strictly investigate!"

"Don't! The villain knows his mistake!"

When the tea merchant heard that he wanted to detain his entire truckload of tea, he became anxious.

He said it was an inspection, but he knew very well that as long as the tea leaves entered the yamen, it would basically never come out again.

"My lord, you keep these..."

The tea merchant hurriedly took out several taels of silver and stuffed them into the hands of the city gate officials.

Only then did the latter remove his hand from the donkey cart, cursing in his mouth, "Be smarter next time! You're such a troublemaker."

"Yes Yes……"

The tea merchant dared to say more, and hurried into the city with a donkey cart.

The city gate officer sat back on his chair and told the guards: "Remember all of you, the war is about to start, and the state shepherd is very short of money. In the future, the gate tax for entering and leaving the city will be doubled."

"Yes!"

At this time, a thin man came.

The man was dressed in a gray shirt, with a cloth wrapped around his face, revealing only a pair of dark brown eyes.

"Stop, have you paid the city entry tax?"

A guard stopped the man, but the latter ignored him and continued walking into the city by bypassing him.

"Hey."

Seeing this scene, the city gate officer immediately jumped up from his chair.

He went over to stop the gray shirted man himself, and said, "You deaf thing, can't you hear that you have to pay the city tax?"

Several guards blocked the entrance gate horizontally, and the man stopped when he couldn't go around.

"I have no money." The man's voice was very hoarse, like a pair of cloth shoes rubbing hard on the sandy ground, which made people feel very uncomfortable.

"No money?" The city gate officer looked disgusted, and glanced at a small cloth bag behind the man, "Take that bag down, what's in it?"

The man in the gray shirt was unmoved.

The city gate officer was angered by this wordless contempt: "Left and right, take it down for me!"

"Yes! Your lord!"

Some of the guards snatched the man's baggage, and some grabbed his shoulders and arms.

It's just that none of them saw that at this moment, a trace of extreme anger flashed in the man's eyes.

There are evils everywhere in this world, I really want to destroy them all!
"You want to see it? Then show it to you."

His hoarse voice fell, and the next moment the bag was opened, the city gate officer and several guards only saw a flash of cold light, and then, several blood holes appeared on their necks, and blood gushed out from the blood holes.

"You... ah..."

The city gate officer held his neck and looked at the gray-shirted man in despair and fear.

The latter had no expression on his face, tied up his bundle and walked into the city.

poof...

The bodies of the city gate officials and guards fell down, and the surrounding people did not react to what happened in an instant.

After a few breaths, someone screamed.

"Someone killed the official!"

Most people don't want to cause trouble, so they leave quickly.

It's just that almost every one of them was secretly praising: good kill!

Soon, a team of officials came to deal with it, and after an hour, several new guards came in.

As for the few who died, it seemed that nothing happened, and did not cause any disturbance.

Some people at the scene later guessed that the murderer might have a lot of background, and the state shepherd would not dare to provoke him.

This is indeed the case.

In the State Shepherd's Mansion, Xu Yichuan took the letter with the black peach blossom ink pad from the gray shirted man.

After reading it, he also felt a little fear of this man.

"You... Nine thousand years old sent you to kill Su Yuan? The Yunshan faction's assassination failed before, and he should be protected by a master. Are you sure you can succeed..."

"It's not something you should worry about." A Wu said blankly, "You just need to follow the orders of the adoptive father in the letter."

"This is no problem! As long as you can kill Su Yuan, I will raise my troops immediately!"

Xu Yichuan patted his chest and said.

It turned out that in the letter Fu Chengyang wrote to him, he had sent an assassin to assassinate Su Yuan, and when Su Yuan died, Xu Yichuan would immediately raise troops from the Mozhou government to attack Beifeng City.

Of course Xu Yichuan was willing.

He also probably knew that without Su Yuan, the Zhenbei Army would be in chaos, and it would not be difficult for him to win by then.

only……

Xu Yichuan was still about to ask something, but Jia Wu had already turned and left, disappearing before his eyes.

This……

Xu Yichuan suddenly felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to his forehead.

He thought to himself that he was indeed the killer sent by Fu Chengyang, who came and went secretly, and his martial arts should be extremely high.

"It is said that the 'Spider' organization is full of masters, and there are four levels of 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D'. I don't know what level this person is..."

"Forget it, the less I know about these things, the better. As long as I can get rid of Su Yuan, I will continue to be my state shepherd in Mozhou, and I can do whatever I like about other things."

at the same time.

Beifeng City, Zhenbei Wangfu.

Lu Wuyou stayed up all night, and wrote down all the important information he knew about Mozhou, and handed it over to Su Yuan for review.

The information includes the city defense deployment of some cities in Mozhou, as well as the names and residences of some generals.

Among them, the more content is related to the four families of Xu, Chen, Lu and Che.

Before Su Yuan met Lu Wuyou, he was not very interested in these things.Because he felt that as long as the city was knocked down, it would be enough to make drastic changes.

Anyway, he has summoned soldiers to execute and carry out his will, so he doesn't need to worry about any hindrance.

But now, after reading these things written by Lu Wuyou, he has a deeper understanding of why the four major families can cover the sky in Mozhou with one hand.

This is not only because they will find backers and send a large number of gifts to high-ranking officials in the capital every year, but also because all of them are local wealthy families.Clan populations are in the tens of thousands.

Just imagine an ordinary family of five or seven, what can they do if they are bullied by such a large number of wealthy families?Not at all, just endured.

There are not many clan forces of this kind in Beifeng City, because it has not been long since Beifeng City was newly built, and clans of this size cannot be formed naturally.But it is very common in other old cities with a long history.

Lu Wuyou also stated that the existence mode of large-scale clans, that is, the great patriarch, as the patriarch, is actually similar to the emperor in the clan.

Marriages and funerals of the children in the clan can be managed by the big clan head, and disobedience is not enough, because if the small family leaves everyone, they will not be able to afford food. This is also a deliberate design of the big clan.

This made Su Yuan figure out one thing. The fact that the power of the clan is getting weaker and weaker in modern society is definitely one of the important factors for the small family to be able to live independently from the clan.

Then, if he wants to eat and digest Mozhou well, he must ensure that the big clan disappears so that the small family can survive.

Su Yuan's heart gradually became clear. Although he could suppress it purely by force, that kind of peace is actually a kind of white and terrifying peace.The peace he wants is the peace in which all the people live and work in peace and contentment.

"Break down big clans and promote small families." Su Yuan regarded this as his main route for governing Mozhou.

As for how to capture Mozhou, he has already made up his mind about this matter, and he can start action immediately.

(End of this chapter)