Water Margin people

Chapter 338

A few days later, the crowd arrived outside the Daming Mansion.

"Worthy of being a famous mansion in Beijing, the city is not inferior to Tokyo in the slightest."

Sun Lei looked at the Daming Mansion in the distance and said.

"This Daming Mansion can also be regarded as an accompanying capital. After the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were occupied by the Liao Kingdom, there is no barrier in the land of Hebei, so we can only rely on the city walls to resist."

Gongsun Sheng said, the land of Hebei was originally flat, and the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom could come and go unhindered, and now the only thing they can rely on is the city to stop them.

"Let's go, let's enter the city in batches."

Seeing that the gate of the city was indeed heavily guarded and interrogated strictly, Sun Lei told everyone that there were about forty or fifty soldiers at the gate of the city, and an officer was sitting in the middle.

Everyone has a legitimate certificate in hand, and it was issued by Tokyo. The guards at the gate of the city did not question too much when they saw it. Sun Lei noticed that the people from the northern regions were the ones who questioned the most severely.

"This city is so lively!"

Li Shishi looked at the lively streets curiously. Since leaving Tokyo, he has passed through many cities along the way, but none of them can compare with the Daming Mansion.

"Let's go, stroll around the city!"

Sun Lei took Li Shishi's hand and began to stroll around the Daming Mansion. He was also a little curious about this Daming Mansion. This is also a famous place in the Water Margin. Lu Junyi, the richest man in Beijing, is here.

The scale of Daming Mansion is not as large as Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, but the city is also majestic with drum towers, bustling streets, densely populated, with thousands of dance pavilions and singing stages, and tens of thousands of forest palaces and Buddhist temples. It can be regarded as a super big city in this era.

Li Shishi bought a lot of things, mostly special snacks, rouge powder and some small jewelry, which Li Shishi couldn't afford before.

After wandering around until the afternoon, Li Shishi finally ran out of five taels of silver in his hand, and happened to arrive at the Huihe Inn near Dong'anmen.

"Brother, here!"

Seeing Sun Lei, Ling Zhen quickly waved to him.

"Is everything here?"

Sun Lei looked at Ling Zhen and asked.

"It's all here, Junshi Xiao and the others have gone out to find someone, and Daoist Gongsun also said to go out and have a look."

Ling Zhen replied.

"Brother, this Daming Mansion sergeant is not ordinary. The Sa family paid attention when they entered the city just now. They should have been trained hard!"

Lu Zhishen looked at Sun Lei and said, Tang Bin and Hao Siwen next to him also nodded, agreeing with Lu Zhishen's statement that the defenders of Daming Mansion are much stronger than Tokyo, and they have to pay attention to this.

"After all, it is an important town in the north, one of the four capitals, and it has to defend the Liao Kingdom. The elite soldiers have nothing to say. I heard from Yang Zhi that there are two supervisors in the Daming Mansion. The soldiers and horses are supervised by Wen Da Dao and Guan Jun. Metropolitan Li Tianwang Li Cheng, Yang Zhi is very afraid of these two people, although they haven't fought each other, Yang Zhi said that he can see that the two of them have extraordinary martial arts skills, and they are well-managed, quite strategic!"

Sun Lei said, Yang Zhi had stayed in the Daming Mansion for a few months, but he had only fought Suo Chao, the vanguard of the Daming Mansion's army, and Zhou Jin, the card soldier. Zhou Jin was average in martial arts, but Suo Chao was not easy, and Wen Da , Li Cheng's martial arts are even higher than Suo Chao.

"My little brother has also heard about the reputation of those two people. They are the main guards of the Daming Mansion. Even Liang Zhongshu listens to their opinions in the Daming Mansion's soldiers and horses."

Xu Ning said, he used to be an officer in front of the temple, and he knew a lot of news in the army. The reputation of this sword master and heavenly king Li Cheng is not only famous in the Daming Mansion, but also in Tokyo.

"So that's the case, but it's not important anymore, we're not here to fight the Daming Mansion, don't worry."

Sun Lei looked at the crowd and said with a smile, the number of soldiers in the Daming Mansion will be another matter, anyway, he is not planning to fight the Daming Mansion right now.

At sunset, Xiao Jiasui and others came back.

"Military division, it doesn't seem to be going well?"

Seeing Xiao Jiasui and Wen Huanzhang's expressions were not very good, Sun Lei knew that they must not have found Xu Guanzhong.

"Brother, little brother knows too few people, and the Daming Mansion is too big, it's too difficult to find someone."

Xiao Jiasui shook his head helplessly and said, he walked around Jingnan all year round, and he didn't know many people in Hebei, and Wen Huanzhang was the same, they searched for several people but they didn't find out where Xu Guanzhong was, some even didn't know that there was Xu Guanzhong.

"The two military advisers have worked hard, this matter cannot be forced, but I do know where to go, where might someone know Xu Guanzhong."

Seeing Xiao Jiasui and Wen Huanzhang, Sun Lei still felt a little sorry, thought about it and said.

"Which one is going out?"

The two asked quickly with joy on their faces.

"Goulan Wazi!"

Sun Lei said four words, isn't Yan Qing's favorite place to go is Sanwa Liangshe.

"Hey! Why is this kind of place again!"

Lu Zhishen was furious, and slapped the table. Why does Sun Lei always go to Goulan Wazi to find people?

"Look for the Taoist priest to go to the Taoist temple! Find the teacher to go to the nunnery! Find the monk to go to the temple! Don't normal people go to Goulanwazi for leisure and entertainment? Is it possible to knock wooden fish in the temple and chant sutras?"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and asked, I can't blame myself for this matter, what can I do where Yan Qing likes to go?
"Didn't you say you were looking for a talented person? A talented person would go to that kind of place?"

Lu Zhishen said indignantly that he disagreed with Sun Lei asking those messy people to go up the mountain.

"Who told you that talented people don't go there? The man we are looking for is proficient in the art of war, martial arts, and strategy. What is rare is that he has a deep understanding of the geography of the world, has traveled all over famous mountains and great rivers, and has won martial arts exams. Isn’t this kind of person a master of all three religions and nine streams? What’s so strange about going to Goulan Wazi?”

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and said, Xu Guanzhong is different from traditional talents. How can ordinary traditional talents learn so many foreign languages?This is the current Confucian orthodoxy, and learning things from other races will be considered deviant, and Tiantian Jingshiziji is the right way.

After hearing this, Lu Zhi could only hum a few times. He understood it, but he was still a little dissatisfied.

"Brother is right, that person is indeed very likely to be there!"

Wen Huanzhang suddenly realized that he was looking for Xu Guanzhong with his own preference, but Xu Guanzhong was different from him, he went not only to elegant places like libraries and teahouses.Xu Guanzhong likes to travel, likes to make friends with different people, and is even willing to learn about other races. Isn't Goulan Wazi the right place to go?

"Brother, why is it so troublesome, you just say who it is and where it is, I'll catch it!"

Li Kui said, since he knows where the person is, why bother.

"Brother Tieniu is right, I am willing to go with you!"

Tang Longzheng felt that he had done nothing, so he also spoke.

"Are you sure you can take down that person?"

Sun Lei looked at Li Kui and laughed.

"Brother, don't look down on people. How can there be any good man in this city? I'll go and get it!"

Li Kui patted his chest and said.

"Okay, then it's up to you."

Sun Lei laughed.

"Brother, I'm afraid it's not good to use force!"

Xiao Jiasui hastened to persuade him, there is no one who would go up the mountain when recruiting talented people. Although he didn't know Xu Guanzhong's character, most talented people have arrogance.

"Military commander, don't talk about frustration, and I don't want to beat him, so I'm going to invite him!"

Li Kui looked at Xiao Jiasui and said.

However, what Li Kui showed was a big hand like a cattail fan. I'm afraid this is what he thinks.

"Tie Niu, don't make a fool of yourself! There are quite a few masters in this Daming Mansion."

Jiao Ting looked at Li Kui and said, Li Kui made a fool of himself eight out of ten times.

"Yes, don't play hero fist, we Liangshan can't afford to lose this man."

Tang Bin also looked at Li Kui and said, Li Kui is really a hero who can't win with his crop skills.

(End of this chapter)