At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was a feudal town, but in Western Europe

Madam Ma's voice also came at the right time: "Bao Jing'er, give me a hand, this wolf is too heavy, I can't get out."

Helping Mrs. Ma push away the wolf's body, the two discovered that the wolf was not stabbed to death by Li Baojing at all. A sharp short dagger was stuck in the wolf's neck, and this was the real cause of death.

It seems that the screaming wind that Li Baojing heard just now was someone throwing this dagger.

"Who are you?" A somewhat immature voice sounded behind Li Baojing, frightening her almost to the ground, jumping a few steps forward like a frightened sparrow, Li Baojing turned around, and saw a black-skinned young man with red lips and white teeth standing in the shadow of a fir tree like a ghost.

After tidying up her clothes, Mrs. Ma stood up, bowed with a smile and said: "My slave Ma Chu is the wife of Ma Bangde, the magistrate of Shuyan County. Thank you benefactor for your help. These two are my distant cousins. We all escaped from Chang'an."

"Chang'an?" The young man muttered to himself, "I'm obviously in Hebei, why did I come to Chang'an? After this, it's hard for Master to explain..."

Mrs. Ma took a step forward and asked softly: "Dare to ask your benefactor's name? We are a few weak girls, living in the wilderness, it is really inconvenient to pass, if you can take us to Fengtian to find my husband-in-law, you will definitely clean up Courtyard, treat each other with the friendship of regeneration."

"Me?" The boy in leather armor pointed to himself, "My name is Nie, Nie Yin, you can call me Nie Yin. As for taking you to Fengtian, I'm sorry, I can't do it, I'm going to Hebei.

As for taking you on the road, to be honest, I arrived here overnight, and I don't know where it is... But you can come with me, I think you are all rich and powerful, and I will find someone You are in a big city, how about you ask someone to inform your family? "

"Very good, very good." Madam Ma quickly thanked, "Thank you Nie Jun for your kindness. When the family comes, I will definitely thank you."

The young man named Nie Yin was not polite, nodded his head and walked to the corpse, pulled out a dagger as thin as a cicada's wing, and the hand holding the dagger wrapped around his head, and the dagger disappeared miraculously.

With Mrs. Ma's short knife, Nie Yin easily peeled off the wolf's skin, then gouged out a few pieces of meat and put them in the wolf's skin. Holding the wolf's skin, he took the three girls on the road.

"I don't know my benefactor, do you know where to go?"

The dark-skinned boy frowned: "Although I don't know how I got here, I have a faint feeling in my mind that there is something in the west that attracts me. Maybe let's go west first, and wait until we find a stream or something. The road will be fine."

Chapter 2 Jun Nie seems to be hijacking that general

The end of winter in Hamburg was not as cold and wet as before. Stepping on the muddy ground, a group of four people moved forward slowly along the mottled light and shadow on the ground. Walking in the forest was the most excruciating, and it took more than a quarter of an hour to walk. Li Baojing felt his throat a little itchy.

"There are a lot of pines and firs here, and it looks like Liaodong, but Liaodong is much colder than here." I don't know if he thinks walking in the forest is too boring, Nie Yin said softly, "I don't know the geography and hydrology of Chang'an. This is Qinling?"

"The Qinling Mountains are not like here." Li Baojing looked familiar with the Qinling Mountains, "The gentle slopes of the Qinling Mountains are surrounded by streams and very cool. It's too humid and stuffy here."

Carefully stepping over a slippery moss-covered rock and walking behind Nie Yin, Mrs. Ma asked tentatively, "Mr. Nie has been to Liaodong?"

"Accompany Master to visit an old friend." Nie Yin said shaking his head, "I have lived there for more than a year... Hey, look, it seems to be out of the forest ahead."

Passing through a bush, Li Baojing carefully tore off the dress hanging from the branches, stepped on the dry leaves on the ground, and a country road surrounded by fences on both sides appeared in view.

"Great." Lu Shaoniang applauded happily.

"What a coincidence, this path is also facing east and west, and there happens to be cooking smoke over there, let's go, let's go get some water."

Stepping on the flat dirt road, Chen Chongyi and his group quickly walked towards the north. With the noise, a small village appeared in front of everyone. To be precise, it was not even a village, a "village" There are only five households in total, a small settlement with a total of ten people.

This house is a bit strange. Li Baojing carefully looked at these huts made of mud. It happened that there was a small courtyard at the front of the village, and an old farmer was walking out of the small courtyard with a hoe.

"Stop, old man." Mrs. Ma shouted at a trot, but soon she stopped hesitantly, because under the gray hair, it was clearly a long face of a barbarian with tall eyebrows and deep eyes.

Looking at this face, Li Baojing stepped forward slowly, and asked softly in Sogdian: "Old man is well, is this the Western Region?"

The old farmer first looked them up and down, his face changed, and then he gestured with his hands and feet, and said a lot of unclear and incomprehensible words. It seemed that he could not understand Sogdian.

Seeing that he could not communicate, the old Saxon farmer thought for a while, first he dragged out a bench and a basin of clear water from his home, gestured for them to drink, and then pointed in another direction with his finger, probably signaling that he would come back soon.

The old farmer limped away. Of course, the three girls would not drink the water he gave, but they didn't know whether they should stop where they were and wait for the man to come back.

"Nie, Mr. Nie?" Turning around, Mrs. Ma wanted to ask Nie Yin's opinion, but there was no one behind her, and Nie Yin disappeared immediately, "Where are people?"

"Strange, you were still here just now?" Lu Shaoniang was also a little frightened, she looked around and shouted loudly, "Brother Nie, where have you been?"

"Stop screaming, I'm here." Nie Yin's voice came from mid-air, but he came down from the fence lightly, "I just went into his house and looked through it. I'm just an ordinary farmer. The Central Plains is very different, and I have seen many things in the Western Regions, and they look different."

Hearing this, Li Baojing's expression suddenly changed. When she was in Chang'an, she had heard from the Sogdian Merchant Traveler that in the west of the Western Regions, further west than Persia, there was a place called Dashi. She shared this knowledge with the three of them: "Could it be that this place is Dashi thousands of miles away?"

Now the faces of the three of them changed, and Nie Yin hurriedly asked, "Is there a land route between Dashi and the Central Plains?"

"I don't know." Li Baojing was a little frustrated.

Listening to the conversation of several sisters, after thinking for a while, Lu Shaoniang said seriously: "I have an uncle who used to be the military commander of Miyun County Duke (Gao Xianzhi), and they fought several battles with big cannibals. If we can fight, there should be a land route."

"The situation is still unknown, let's wait." Mrs. Ma sat down on the bench, "My husband and I will return to Beijing this year to report on our work, and we will visit our relatives by the way. Unexpectedly, we sat in the carriage and chatted. The poems and this song were robbed by the rebels, but I escaped, I really don’t know what my husband will do.”

"Brother-in-law is lucky, he will be fine." Li Baojing came to Madam Ma's side and comforted her by stroking her back.

Mrs. Ma was frustrated for a while, and then forced a smile: "My husband is the most shrewd in his life. He has a lot of tricks. If he is caught by the rebels, he will definitely be able to play tricks. I'm afraid he will be implicated. If I'm not there, I'm afraid he will lose his head."

"Buddha bless, no, no."

Only then did Mrs. Ma turn her gaze to Li Baojing: "Bao Jing'er, you said earlier that you are the Li family, which lineage do you belong to? Could it be the clan?"

"No." Li Baojing shook his head, "I was born in the Li family in Longyou. My father was a guest official since I was a child and lived in other places. I came to Chang'an with my uncle Li Yusheng."

"It turned out to be General Li's niece." Madam Ma immediately gave a thumbs up, "General Li forced Wang Wujun to retreat in the first battle. He is famous all over the world. I have produced another famous general in my dynasty."

Li Baojing lowered his head, smiled gracefully, but said nothing, and continued to chat with Mrs. Ma about the scenery of Chang'an, while on the other side, Lu Shaoniang and Nie Yin were still staring at each other.

"Can you teach me how to fly over walls?"

"Two steps."

"How? How am I going?"

"The legs are too short, you can't learn."

"You called me short-legged?" Lu Shaoniang glared at Nie Yin angrily.

Nie Yin rubbed her head like teasing a child: "Eat more meat and drink more milk, and your legs will grow."

"I'm a lady, and I don't allow you to touch my head." Lu Shaoniang covered her head, crouching down with her head in her arms and took a few steps back, staring at Nie Yin like a small animal.

Hearing this, Nie Yin couldn't help but smile on his face, he laughed twice, and was about to speak, but Nie Yin's ears suddenly moved slightly, visible to the naked eye.

"They're here." Nie Yin suddenly lay down on the ground, "To the southeast, there are about seven or eight people."

The three girls immediately lost their mind to make trouble, and looked at Nie Yin nervously.

Nie Yin stood up and patted the ashes on his palms: "Go and hide behind that bush. I'll negotiate with them. If something goes wrong, I'll turn my back on you. Hurry up and run into the woods, and I'll follow after you."

Li Baojing and others hurriedly picked up their skirts and walked around behind the bushes. Looking at the branches on the bushes, Li Baojing was cruel, tore off the hem of the skirt, and hid behind the bushes: "Hide further, Chu My sister has poor eyesight and can't see clearly, Shao Niang has short legs and runs slowly, I'll watch here and report to you if I find anything."

Amidst Lu Shaoniang's protest of "my legs are not short", Mrs. Ma dragged her to hide in the bushes further back, while Li Baojing squatted behind a branch a little ahead, watching the direction of Nie Yin.

"Here we come." Li Baojing whispered.

"how?"

"It's a Confucian scholar, that's great, it looks like Han Chinese. Well, they are negotiating now, I don't know what they are talking about, but Mr. Nie didn't back away...

Hiss, Nie Jun seems very excited... Oh, there is another group of people, a general wearing light armor, no, Nie Jun suddenly rushed up, as if he was going to hijack the general... He did it, he Throwing into the arms of that general... into the arms? "

"what?"

"what?"

Chapter 2: Nie Yinniang

Feng Sen didn't expect that this time the shaking people came in groups of men and women. First, there was a group of boys with three Confucian scholars and two warriors last night, and then another group of girls came this morning. He said that his three Why are there only two warriors? It turns out that the one left is Miss Nie.

Looking down at Nie Xiaoniang's black face in her arms, Feng Sen's face was also a little dark under the strange and strange eyes of everyone.

Yes, the black-skinned young man with red lips and white teeth is actually a girl disguised as a man. Her real name is Nie Yinniang, yes, she is Nie Yinniang in "Nie Yinniang", but at this time Nie Yinniang is still very young, only fifteen or sixteen years old.

And the reason why the two knew each other was due to her master, the old nun who didn't look like a good person at first glance, the old nun was Zhenhui's concubine when she was young.

When the old nun brought Nie Yinniang to Liaodong to find Zhenhui, there was a lot of trouble, and Feng Sen ate a wave of melons. It was also thanks to the farce that Feng Sen met Nie Yinniang, who was still young at the time.

Different from the supernatural Nie Yinniang in the legendary novels of Tang Dynasty, the real Nie Yinniang has no prominent background, her father is not a Wei Bo general, and her appearance is mediocre. She is just an ordinary orphan girl who was picked up by an old nun with extraordinary talents.

But Feng Sen didn't know this at the time. He didn't know if his physical age affected his judgment of mental age, so after deliberately making friends, he inexplicably got an extra child.

Ma De, it's not right to think so. There was Nie Yinniang when I was a child, and I had Adol when I grew up. Why do I always have a relationship with Lori?I'm not a lolicon!

Encountering an old acquaintance in a foreign land, and being a childhood sweetheart, Feng Sen stroked Nie Yinniang's hair in surprise, but while he was happy, he suddenly felt something was wrong, mainly because of the little nobles, bannermen and hundreds of households around.

The meaning of "I didn't expect you to be so good" in their eyes was ready to come out. From the eyes of others, it was a handsome black-skinned boy who threw himself into Feng Sen's arms and began to flirt with each other.

Nie Yinniang originally had a heroic appearance, plus her brows were deliberately changed, her complexion was a little darker, and she looked more like a man. Feng Sen could recognize it at a glance because Nie Yinniang used the original voice when she first called him, not now. This magnetic male false voice.

Coughing, Feng Sen pushed Nie Yinniang out of his arms calmly, and said loudly on purpose: "Yinniang, where are you going, disguised as a man?"

"I knew you wouldn't die." Nie Yinniang's magnetic and low voice rang in everyone's ears, and she gave Feng Sen a light hammer, "But it still scared me to death, and I was ready to take Zhu Tao's head to avenge you."

"You can do this now?" Feng Sen asked in surprise. Back then, she came to cut Feng Sen's hair in the middle of the night according to her master's instructions, but he punched her two front teeth away.

Nie Yinniang smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm only [-]% sure...."

Although Nie Yinniang didn't finish her sentence, Feng Sen also knew what she meant, regardless of whether she succeeded or not, she would die. Although Nie Yinniang had left many miraculous deeds in the assassin business, she was still a mortal in the end, and she couldn't really be killed with one blow and travel thousands of miles like in martial arts dramas.

Patting Yinniang on the head, Feng Sen was about to speak when he saw three women, two big, one small, and three women slowly approaching from a distance. These three women were wearing simple and elegant skirts, and their steps were slow. Delicate and soft, her hair was tied into a conch on her head for easy movement, and the sound of gold and jade lingered in her ears constantly.

Mrs. Ma who stood at the front bowed to Feng Sen, and said with a strange smile: "My concubine is Ma Chu, these two are my younger sisters, and they both escaped from Chang'an during the Jingyuan Rebellion. Help, I don’t know the name of General Gao? Where is this place?”

"Mr. Nie?" Feng Sen's face changed and he quickly stated again, "You are joking, Yinniang is a woman, but she is just disguised as a man. As for where this place is... let's go back to the city first and then talk about it."

Soon, a rough open carriage came slowly from a distance and stopped a few meters away from them, and Wang Sima was waiting beside the carriage on a black horse.

The wheels grunted.

Sitting in the carriage, Li Baojing and the others rubbed their swollen ankles while constantly looking around. Walking out of the small village, they saw a plain. On the side of the road, Hu people with various hair and pupils migrated with their families. with.

According to Feng Sen's order, in Hamburg, villages with less than [-] people will be relocated and merged according to the land conditions, and on the foundations of their remaining fields and houses, one hundred households and one thousand households will be established. In this process, Feng Sen's special engineering team will learn from it and prepare for the banner people to go to various parts of Saxony to build barracks in the future.

Walking on the dirt road, the population gradually changes from sparse to dense, and the noon sun shines on people's shoulders, even in spring, it seems a bit hot.

At this time, Hamburg was like a large construction site. The money and booty obtained in the Saxony War continuously transformed the roads on the ground and the fields beside the roads. In fact, Feng Sen had asked Chen Chongyi to take people to the north to inspect the Alster River. He planned to build a dam on the upper reaches of the Alster River to prevent annual floods.

The wheels ran over the wooden bridge over the Alster River, and the bridge deck and axles made creaking sounds. In the distance, the city of Hamburg had already shown some outlines.

"Sir, do you dare to ask your name?" Li Baojing thought for a while, and then casually asked Wang Sima beside the carriage as if he was bored.

Wang Sima turned around and cupped his hands: "The servant's name is Wang Jiao, and he is from Taiyuan. He is the marching Sima of the Jingnan Army. Back then, when the four towns mutinied, my family's Jiedu led troops to suppress it. I didn't want Zhu Tao's scheming and unprepared attacking commander to end up like this."

"Jingnan Army?" Mrs. Ma tapped her index finger on her knees and recalled carefully for a while, "Ah, I remembered, my husband told me, was it the Zhongyi Jiedu that was wiped out by Zhu Tao? It belonged to Pinglu Town, The sage even made a special decree to posthumously."

"Yes." Wang Sima still calmly led the way ahead, "At the beginning when Zhu Tao's rebel army came, I was caught off guard and trapped in the valley. When I was desperate, a fog suddenly covered my eyes, and that's why I came here."

"Where is this place?" Lu Shaoniang stood up holding the edge of the carriage, "Is it a feast? Can I go back later?"

"This place is called Europa." Wang Sima held the reins, turned his head, and stared at the three of them with a serious face: "To the west of the Great Food, there is a sea called the Mediterranean Sea, and the west of the Mediterranean Sea is here. Go back... When I came, there were more than a thousand people, and none of them dared to march back, you three weak girls..."

Except for Lu Shaoniang who was still a little ignorant, a haze appeared on the faces of Mrs. Ma and Li Baojing.

Chapter 2: Sharing the spoils, oh no, the reward conference

On the fourth day of the Triumph, Hamburg has had five consecutive days of sunny weather, but the increasingly humid and dreary air still heralds the coming of continuous spring rain.

Many Han people are very puzzled by the weather here. Although there is a lot of rain in Liaodong, they have never encountered a situation where there are more than a dozen rains a day, each raining for three to five minutes, and they don’t know whether to wear clothes when going out. coir raincoat.

And some clever traders quickly discovered this. A short cloak with a hood that only reached the elbows became popular among soldiers. Even Feng Sen himself bought one, and Aunt Zhu even tattooed a little golden dragon on that cloak.

If this is in the Central Plains, it must be a taboo. This is already in Europa, so if Li Shi has the ability, come and beat him.

According to the usual practice, in the next month after the bazaar has just opened, basically no bazaar will be held, and the vendors will go to the next bazaar location to buy and sell goods.

But today, merchants who got the news from all over the world came to Hamburg one after another. With them, there were Frankish freedman landowners, Saxon chiefs and warriors, bannermen and rebels from all over the country, of course. The "vagrant warriors" who came to join the army are also indispensable-although everyone knows that this is the high emotional intelligence of bandits.

However, most of the warriors at this time had no integrity, and they were basically half-soldiers and half-bandits.

Although there were quite a few people in the original Hamburg City, the permanent population of the original city was about 2000, and more than [-] of them were actually soldiers. In fact, it was quite deserted.

The Hamburg city planned by Feng Sen is actually not small, it is built strictly according to the seven-mile country, and it is even bigger.

According to Feng Sen's calculations, it should be able to accommodate a permanent urban population of about [-], but there are usually only [-] to [-] people on weekdays. Therefore, on the streets of Hamburg, except for the slaves on the construction site, there are actually very few pedestrians.

But after Feng Sen, the newly appointed full-power Duke of Saxony, returned, the number of people on the streets of Hamburg skyrocketed exponentially, and the few taverns were almost bursting. grow, and the flags of various colors are fluttering in the wind.

Most of these people are nobles and manor owners from all over Saxony. They are going to meet Feng Sen, the new Duke of Saxony, to check his identity.

Compared with the previous reward meeting, this time there were also soldiers patrolling and maintaining order, but the soldiers of the Tang army were no longer there. Instead, they were banner men wearing chain mail, holding spears, shields, bows and arrows, squeezing through the crowd and directing the flow of people.

It was still the mound on the banks of the Alster River last time, and this time the award ceremony was also held here.

But this time, the award ceremony was no longer in the open air. A fence blocked the crowd outside. Inside the fence, wooden boards and tarpaulins were laid on the ground, and the baggers shuttled between the benches, delivering the pastry or milk to the participants. hands of the attendees.

The nearby trees were basically cut down, and it was no longer possible to ride on the trees like last time to watch. Fortunately, there was still a part of the coating that was responsible for the message. They would translate Feng Sen's words into the local language and announce it loudly to the subjects outside the venue.

And on the wooden platform in the center, it was no longer boring to wait as before, but two bards sang loudly poems adapted from the deeds of Feng Sen and the heroic soldiers.

After the bell rang three times, the bards stopped singing. They bowed to Bishop Zhenhui behind them, and then slowly exited the wooden platform.