Chapter 384 – Halberd Across the River

The people of the city, building a house is the first big thing, and symbolize the completion of the new house to set up the beams, and is the first big thing. Then a country state or border fortress, city or military town was built on the day, the significance of the plaque is equal to the ordinary family beams, so the significance is important.

Today Liangzhou pass outside the city will be hanging plaque day, did not deliberately pick a good day, but in the last side of the main city wall is completely finished, unanimously passed a resolution, hanging plaque on the same day, no delay! Not to supervise the construction of the city that a large group of big men in Beiliang do not care, is really the situation is urgent, can not care about those things on the icing on the cake. Otherwise to the Northern Liang Road, led by Li Gongde, that set of civil officials, in this bird shit place to stay for nearly a whole year, almost everyone every day to follow the soldiers and servants with eating loess and drinking sand, betting so much effort, would not want to find a lucky day to hang up that plaque? This kind of deep feelings, perhaps not less than a daughter to get married.

The construction of this city, may be called unprecedented, not only the scale is better than the first northwest border city of tiger city, and less time-consuming, in addition to 10,000 big snow dragon cavalry, as well as “Wei Xiong” “fat tiger” two heavy cavalry army of more than 9,000 riders, almost all of the Liangzhou Border troops are rotated to participate in the construction of the city, of course, also conscripted all the military households craftsmen and youths in the three states of Liangling and You, together with a steady stream of people from Northern Liang who traveled to the Liangzhou Pass, the number of people to build the city has always been roughly maintained at around 100,000 or so. Historically, the so-called national efforts to build a city and town, often also pay attention to saving people’s efforts not to miss the agricultural time, most of the “30 days to strike, quickly build the face of the wall”, and then intermittently over a period of several years to be able to complete, but the northern Liang this almost exhausted Qingliang Mountain Xu family base of the large construction, is simply a broken pot of boiling water in general feat, only to use the version of the main wall of yellow earth, dug up the soil, the main wall, the main wall, the main wall, the main wall, the main wall, the main wall, the main wall, the main wall, the main wall. The main wall of the yellow earth, on the digging out of the city south of the dragon’s head, tiger’s tail two small mountains!

Only at dawn, Li Gongde and neighboring, as the deputy envoy of the Mozi family, Song Changsui, together with early to get up, climbed to the top of the city, strolling in the wide walkway, I do not know when the weight has been slimmed down by twenty pounds of the Lord Secretary, subconsciously habitually stomped his feet, sideburns of the old man and then smiled smugly, I have my iron rooster Li Gongde day and night staring at the wide-eyed staring, can be Who can cut corners? What’s more, there will never be anyone who dares to slack off, this is not just a matter of what silver is not silver, but one of the most obvious reasoning in front of everyone, “this city in Liangzhou in, this city died Guannei death”! Lifetime in the official field in the smooth flow of the northern Liang civil leader, although the appearance of many thin, but the body bone look is a lot of hard, if the official field of the Lingzhou civil officials can come here, see this Lord Li will be surprised, and even I am afraid that they are not recognized, Li Gongde body of the kind of public cultivation to accumulate half a lifetime of the oily gas faded, and replaced by the invisible emanation of the kind of the only origin will be kind of The old man in the end is a man of letters, the old man in the end is a man of letters. In the end, the old man is a man of letters, reached out and touched the inner short wall, hehehe laughs: “In the past, in the Qingliang Mountain, the council hall of the martial arts more than the literature, I always do not understand what the great generals and those brown men are talking about, what is the horse path ah daughter of the wall ah, I was here before it suddenly realized that, just like this daughter of the wall, in fact, long ago in the books have played with a good number of border poems are singing Over, the name ‘look out of the corner of your eye’ well, the daughter wall daughter wall, or this call is good to listen to the ear, every time in this city walk, I have to think of home negative true that people do not worry about the girl, before it is Hanlin that guy let us when the parents of the helpless, the wind and water rotate na! Now I think, or the great general had the foresight to say that the world of fathers and daughters to raise children, often the more later, the son the better to feed, the daughter is the more trouble.”

Song Chang Sui said in a deep voice: “Old Li, you also know that I’ve never been the kind of person who likes to praise people, your family Hanlin, really good. The battle at Longye’er Plain was beautifully fought! All of the elite scouts under North Mang Dong Zhuo’s command, including the Crow’s Fence, were wiped out, this battle is really a great success!”

Li Gongde with cracked lips twirled his whiskers and smiled, “Right, this kind of thing, it has to be praised by outsiders in order to be comfortable, I’m a father who always tastes wrong when I say more. To be honest, the old Song, you are also really calm, I wait for you to wait for a good period of time for these words! It’s suffocating me to the point that I’m almost suffocating my internal injuries.”

Song Chang Sui helplessly said, “Before this, I was so busy that I didn’t have the energy to gossip with you.”

Li Gongde lamented: “It is also, I boast that this life as an official quite insight, in short, all day pondering to ponder, are pondering other people, although it can not be said that all do not do things, such as this must be personally, unimaginable, it feels like in just one year, my Li Gongde life owes to the official pragmatic are paid back.”

Song Chang Sui would smile.

Li Gongde suddenly slapped his hand heavily on the arrow fletchings and exclaimed, “Such a good city wall, if you still can’t defend it, don’t say that you’ll be killed by the Northern Mang barbarians, or even cursed by me!”

Song Chang Sui froze, then looked around, inside and outside the city was again that most familiar scene of building a city, the sound of trumpets rising and falling, although this huge city under his feet was already ready to be hung with plaques, there was still quite a large scale of works to be continued, this Mojia momentary asked with a soft laugh, “Are you really willing to scold them?”

The originally imposing Li Gongde suddenly lost all his temper, and only murmured softly, “So many children of the Northern Liang Border Army …… I, Li Gongde, am willing to scold my son, but also can not afford to scold them ah.”

Newly appointed assassin of Liangzhou Bai Yu can go to Wudang Mountain to meet friends to steal leisure, as the North Liang Road Transit Envoy and Deputy Sectional Envoy of a certain person, but not a moment of leisure, he hoofed it all the way from the flow of the state of Qingcang City, and then passed through the western gateway to Liangzhou Qingyuan military town, until lifting up the curtains of the car will be able to look at the silhouette of that majestic city of Guanwai. It seems that since the moment Xu Beihao left Qingliang Mountain and went to Lingzhou, he has been on the move, working as an assassin to buy rice, building grain silos all over the territory, acting as a forwarding ambassador, strategizing on the transportation of grain, having a private meeting with Han Lin in the Lianghuai Road, and going to the western region of Mt. Ruta to bring 20,000 monks and soldiers for the defense of Qingcang City of Liuju Prefecture, and this time, after attending the plaque-hanging ceremony, he immediately had to go to Lingzhou again to keep an eye on the grain entering Liang. The grain was brought into Liang before he could rest assured.

He had been living out of his home all these years, and seemed to be either on horseback or in a carriage, which was bumpy anyway.

Outside of this carriage, there was not a single elite rider from the Northern Liang Border Army to escort him, and as a matter of fact, given Xu Beihao’s high rank and his own significance to the next Liangmang war, even sending him a thousand Northern Liang iron riders as his escort would not be too much to ask for.

However, it was precisely for this reason that the young strategist’s position in the Xu family’s Qingliang Mountain or in the young feudal king’s mind was even more unparalleled.

Because there were only eighty people escorting the carriage around.

Eighty riders each carrying a sword.

Eighty people from the Wu family’s sword mound!

Contemporary Sword Crown Wu Liuding, Sword Servant Cuihua who carries the ancient sword Su Wang, Devil Zhu Huang who can be infamous even in the Sword Graveyard, Helian Sword Idiot who has a deeper understanding of the Sword Dao than any other person in the world, Zhang Luantai, Gongsun Xiu Shui, and Nalan Huai Yu……

If this wasn’t considered an extravagant array, I guess there weren’t many escorts under the sky that could be called elite.

Full of tired Xu Beihuan although sleepy to the extreme, but still can not sleep, several times to close his eyes for a long time to open his eyes, simply sit cross-legged, from the pocket took out the old pen journal from the hands of Li Yishan, gently flipping through.

Heard Xu Fengyen mention, listening to the tide of the pavilion that big golden plaque, is away from the sun old emperor’s handwriting handwriting. Qingliang mountain gate on the four big words of the Northern Liang Wang Fu, is the handwriting of Wangfei Wu Su, after the first city such as the Northern Liang customs outside the city need to hang plaques, Xu Snapdragon intended to be his big old man will not be ashamed of, want to let Li Yishan on behalf of the work, but Li Yishan did not agree, the human butcher had to go to the Wutong courtyard with the son of His Highness to ask for advice on writing, and in the end, the waste of the rice paper I do not know how many baskets, which is only hard to boil out the later! “Tiger Head City” three words, once laughed that I Xu Snapdragon even the next life of the word are written. After that, such as the Qingcang city Liuzhou assassin’s residence of the plaque, is the young feudal lord from the master Li Yishan’s legacy of writing in the selection of those words, because Li Yishan’s in Beiliang, the merits of needless to say, and Li Yishan’s in the flow of the state, is even more far-reaching significance. Before listening to the tide pavilion and wutong courtyard those treasured antiques one by one scattered in the central plains.

Xu Beihao and Xu Fengnian once had a conversation that sounded very relaxed and leisurely.

“You’re not heartbroken?”

“Who am I, Xu Fengnian? I’m the eldest son of Xu Snapdragon! What good things have I not seen under the sky, when have I ever been that petty person? I’ve always thrown money at those ranger children, poor readers who can write beautiful poems, and fortune tellers who measure words, without blinking an eye!”

“Oh? Then how come when I just casually picked up that pair of ‘children climbing urns’, as well as when I threw that square of fish brain jelly ‘mountain line’ ink stone into the box, your eyes are so fast that you can blink to be able to fan up a big wind?”

“I’m not reminding you to move more gently, bumps and bruises, hurt the quality, it will not sell well.”

“And the quality? Just a few dozen or so hundred stones of grain and grass for a low price, talk about the quality is not a bit vulgar ah?”

“A difference of a few stones of grain for each item is a lot.”

“You really don’t mind?”

“No. Orange, you’ve asked this sentence at least seven or eight times.”

“Oh, for some reason, every time I ask you once, I feel quite secretly happy in my heart, much more comfortable than drinking that green ant wine.”

“Orange, you go ahead and get busy with your business, I’m going to drink the green ant wine.”

“One last question ……”

“I’m really not heartbroken!”

“Not this, I just want to ask, your entire family belongings are so spoiled by me, then what about the bride price for you to marry your daughter-in-law over the door?”

“The old rules! Cucumber! Cold!”

Xu Beihao put away the pen journal and also collected his thoughts, lifting the curtain of the car window and looking towards the imposing northwest new city.

In the chaotic world, the most worthless is outside the body, even when human life is not worth a penny, what else can be valuable?

A let countless readers dislocated Hongjia north run, has long proved this point, the old time the public official hall of swallows, flew into the common people’s homes. Countless valuable antiques and paintings are first picked up from the muddy ground, countryside latrines, vendors under the table, small courtyard corner pile, only until the peace and prosperity of not seeing the smoke and wolves, only to re-value up.

Xu Beihao originally not so low-priced trafficking, just after the Spring and Snow Building changes, the Central Plains has been a chaotic weather, from Hong Jia North run only twenty years, most of the old generation of readers are still fresh in their memories, this set of people will not be in such a moment to collect things, and then cheaper, can be more than the Great War together with the other people to give things for nothing I’m afraid that they are too heavy to come to the affordable? So unless it is really obsessed with the literati and have a collection of the rich and noble family of books, only at this time will come to the news, they go out of their way to come to Beiliang is one thing, can rely on the face by the door to buy the object of choice, and another thing, lying in the canal to enjoy the blessings of twenty years on the handful of Tai’an City, the first class of the noble and public officials, are willing to give that face to the backdoor, it is the third thing, each of these background deep Cao transport officials, willing to look at the silver or the face of love, from their respective jurisdictions of the canal to take out the grain, and after weighing the thickness of the thighs of the family history, enough to be with the Jing’an Road Deputy Secretary Wen Taiyi and the Deputy Festival Minister Ma Zhongxian wrist, dare not be afraid of the two as the days of the border officer to write them off, is the fourth thing!

But the real vital thing, not in the cheap sale of cultural relics, not even in the grain into the cool, but the northern Liang can through this move along the Guangling Road, the fish and dragon gang and whisking water room two forces of dark and light penetrate all the way to the Qingzhou Xiangfan City!

Once the refusal of the north city in case of loss of defense, Liangzhou Liuzhou doomed to nothing, then the remaining border troops of the North Liang army, will not be too overwhelmed, even if Chen Zhi Bao in the western Sichuan has long been left behind to deal with the Xu family, the North Liang cavalry is still able to have a road to go diagonally into the hinterland of the Central Plains!

Since this is the case, how can Xu Beihao not lose his family?

It’s just that when Xu Beihao opened the door to this intention, the young feudal king agreed without saying a word, which made his well-drafted belly full of axioms all meaningless.

And in Xu Beihao’s heart, there is a hidden thought that will not be told to the mouth.

That is as long as Northern Liang took the second Liangmang battle.

Then the Central Plains can’t be less than my share of the Northern Liang?

Xu Beihao sighed and was about to put down the curtain when a rider who was already close to the car slightly steered his horse closer and asked with a smile, “Is the Deputy Sectional Envoy in such a hurry to enter the city?”

The person who asked the question was Nalan Huaiyu, a woman swordsman of the Sword Mound with a spirited but delicate mind, after all, she was the woman who had won the Rouge Award for two consecutive times, and although she was not small in age, she still had a charming demeanor that did not diminish, especially with her sword on her back and her gallant horse, which was indeed an absolutely beautiful sight.

Xu Beihao asked with a smile, “Nalan Huaiyu, if I sell your sword for three or four taels of silver, do you feel pain?”

Nalan Huaiyu was confused, then laughed sweetly, “Whether it hurts or not is not to be mentioned first, but I will definitely beat you up so much that your parents won’t recognize you!”

Xu Beihao laughed, “You haven’t answered the question yet?”

Nalan Huaiyu laughed, “It doesn’t hurt! It’s not like I know about your relationship with the king, if you dare to sell my stuff like this, I dare to go to Hearing Tide Pavilion to get something better! This sword of mine is only about a hundred years old, and the material is ordinary, it’s not worth a hundred taels of silver, so old me, I’m heartbroken my ass!”

Xu Beihao laughed and inexplicably sighed, “I’m quite heartbroken.”

Nalan Huaiyu, who has always been free with his words and actions, couldn’t help but snicker, “Lord Xu, is your brain upside down from the carriage?”

Xu Beihao suddenly smiled in a playful manner, “Nalan Huaiyu, do you want to know what someone said about you?”

Nalan Huaiyu narrowed his eyes, like a cat that had its tail stepped on.

Of course, as one of the top of the Wu Clan’s sword mound, she was more than a tigress.

Xu Beihao lowered his voice and said, “Seeing as you look like you want to hear it, that person said ah, Nalan Huaiyu must have lived a very tiring life.”

Nalan Huaiyu frowned tightly, not saying a word.

Xu Beihao glanced at her and quickly lowered the curtain.

Nalan Huaiyu followed that line of sight he had earlier and slightly lowered her head.

It seemed to be her own breasts.

Nalan Huaiyu came to a sudden realization, and without getting angry, she laughed and cursed loudly at the carriage, ”You don’t have the heart of a thief, and he doesn’t have the guts of a thief! Both are no good!”

Lying in the carriage, Xu Beihao smiled knowingly and slowly closed his eyes.

In fact, that unpunched comment, of course Xu Fengnian hadn’t said it.

But Xu Beihuan felt that guy was the one who would say such words, so he took it as saying it for him.

But the comment that Nalan Huaiyu didn’t have the guts of a thief was very chewy.

Xu Beihuan thought about this one and found it quite interesting.

Closing his eyes and resting his mind, Xu Beihe said to himself: ”So many people have already died at Miyunkou in the Western Region, and people have started to die over at Qingcang City in Liuzhou, so it’s going to be the turn of this Liangzhou Pass next. So I hope that one day in the future, Nalan Huaiyu, you will be able to speak your heart to him in person. So you have to live …… you have to live too.”

Between the last two sentences, Xu Beihao paused for a long time.

The White Horse Bazaar outside of the new city was said to be a bazaar, but in reality, it was no different from the slightly larger towns over in Lingzhou.

This bustling market is definitely the most mixed place in the world today. There are Beiliang border troops wearing armor and swords patrolling inside and outside the city, Jianghu people who traveled north to this place after participating in the siege of the devil in the western region, all kinds of Lingzhou merchants and traders who come here to do business, Chinese scholars who don’t know what to do with their lives and want to enjoy the scenery of the border, people of various nationalities from the three states of Beiliang Road who came to participate in the construction of the city, Taoist priests and monks who read the fortunes of fortunes and interpret the signatures of the people and also help to write family letters, Taoist priests and monks who are full of enthusiasm for their own lives, and people who have a lot to say to the public. Taoist priests and monks, there are full of passion to leave home to join the army but was rejected by the children of generals and commoners, there are fed up to come here to fish in the water of the wandering Han …… and even occasionally you can see the civil officials of the Northern Liang Road, two or three, come here to sit down, drink green ants wine, on a plate of peanuts and a bowl of soy sauce beef, busy and take the time to go, not a good idea. The coming and going in a hurry is not fast. There are various Shuyuan readers in the elderly scholar’s leadership, a set of books to this study tour. It is said that not long ago, even the renowned Central Plains Shangyin Palace fish everyone, also with well-read disciples to travel here, and there are gossip that the family school of fish everyone, and our king has a little unclear relationship …….

Everyone is either busy or leisurely, but they all know in their hearts that the moment the figure of the young feudal king appeared in this new city.

The second Liangmang war.

It is only then that the prelude has truly begun.

Since a thousand years, regardless of the Central Plains or grasslands, the world’s largest number of cavalry, will be all the way to the south, until they hit the strongest iron horsemen!

Today is the day when the plaque will be hung on this Rejecting North City!

The sun is blazing in the sky.

The White Horse Bazaar was becoming increasingly crowded along the east and west walls, heading north.

Then the people who were involved in the construction of the city were able to stop their labor and leave the city through the east and west gates, joining the two powerful and dense lines.

Refuse North City Refuse North City.

The main gate is naturally in the north!

The Northern Liang Border Army’s sword points to it, and the Xu Family’s iron horsemen’s lance points to it.

It has been twenty years to the north!

How the people of the Central Plains perceive it, how the court of Liyang calculates it.

I, the Northern Liang Iron Horsemen, have never cared about them.

Respectively to the northern Liang capital guard Chu Lushan and northern Liang Road, led by Li Gongde, many civil and military officials, have gathered in the refusal of the northern city under the main gate, set up the ladder, just waiting for that piece of the plaque covered with the northern Liang Xu word king flag, high up, and ultimately hung in the city head.

Ten thousand Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, like white snow surging above the earth.

Led by Yuan Zuozong, they first stopped at the vast open space to the north of Reject North City.

They were followed by two heavy cavalry armies, the Lip Tiger Army and the Wei Xiong Army, which stopped at the left and right flanks of the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry respectively.

Lastly, there were the left and right cavalry armies of the Beiliang Pass under He Zhonghu and Zhou Kang.

After the thundering of the horses’ hooves, there was a brief moment of silence.

I don’t know who was the first to raise their heads and look.

Everyone saw a brilliant white rainbow slowly cut through the sky in the distant sky.

That white rainbow landed at the head of the city with a bang!

After he appeared and revealed himself, Li Gongde and Chu Lushan looked at each other with a smile and began to have people lift the plaque.

That young man waited until the huge plaque was suspended above the city gates, and then slowly drew out the battle sword at his waist.

At the same time, the cavalry underneath the city, everyone silently drew their Northern Liang swords.

The water was deep and silent.

The sound of the hooves of the Northern Liang iron horsemen is the most majestic war drum under the sky.

Sword of Xu.

Rejecting the North.

That scene.

The halberd across the river.

In another hundred years and a thousand years, it will also be a great wind flow.