Chapter 045 New Wolf Smoke Old Afterglow

After the battle, Lu Yunchang reluctant to follow the three together to pick up those famous sword limbs and broken bones, the teenager really do not want to understand the fairy master has this kind of family background, how to still with the housewife like catty about wood, rice, oil and salt. Wang Sheng is not like Lu Yunchang heartless, pick up the sword to hold the sword when there is more sadness, Lu Yunchang is a despised swordsman, she is different, witnessed dozens of once-famous jianghu magic weapon destroyed, it is inevitable that the heart has a feeling of solidarity. Lu Yunchang in the last handful of broken swords into the carriage, glimpsed Wang Sheng soulful look, teased with a woman like, is a cow tall horse a bit, not at all watery. Wang Sheng in a rage, reached out to hold the waist of the goose yellow, in a flash, the sword Qi horizontal, not to be underestimated. Bold Lu Yun Chang was not afraid, grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, palm in the big frost long knife hilt swirled around, eyes hot, asked Wang Sheng want to fight, who won who do the immortal master’s great disciple. Wang Sheng face, did not speak, a time this pair of teenage girls stalemate, the old spies can not see this kind of childish infighting, will be beaten 50 boards, so that the two cubs know the importance of, do not want to think of the young feudal king, not only did not persuade and, on the contrary, add fuel to the fire let them set up a three-year battle in the oath, life and death is responsible for their own. Afterwards, the old spy privately asked the reason, Xu Fengyen laughed and said intentionally let them two children for each other as a whetstone, and for both sides will not hide, will be awarded the world’s finest swordsmanship knife skills, he also wanted to see this sword fight winners and losers.

Carriage traveled to the border of Youzhou, Lu Yun Chang heard a rush of hoofbeats that have not been heard in other states, a single but unusually heavy, the teenager hurriedly loosened the reins, jumped to the horse’s back and looked up, the result was to see a scene that the teenager could not forget for the rest of his life, hundreds of elite riders are all white horses and white armors, wearing a cool sword and negative crossbow, the horse’s back undulation amplitude and the landing of the hoofs are absolutely consistent, no wonder it galloped in the stagecoach road, only to hear the sound of the sound, like a A war horse is running away. Northern Liang horse, Xu family Liang knife, these two, are the other feudal kings of Liyang coveted treasure, Lu Yun Chang is not better than the ignorant Wang Sheng, Wudi City mixed, curious Lu Yun Chang on the jianghu things and temple things have a shallow dabbling, all the way to the west, the teenager roughly guessed the identity of the immortal son of the boy, but as the East China Sea to mix with the city of the jianghu son of the lanes and alleys, from the northwestern border of the scene, but also imagined not Northwest Xu family iron horsemen of the majestic, at this time to see with their own eyes, the teenager has the most intuitive impression, only think to give him a few thousand cavalry, any it Wudi City masters like clouds, but also can crush a few back and forth. For a while the teenager is a little crazy, only feel closed to practice knife, practice to practice are embroidered knife, not as good as to go to the border to join the army, to practice a murderous knife.

Eight hundred white horse righteousness came to half, see the king of Liang, at the same time dismounted to support the sword kneeling, Xu Fengyen casually scan a glance, more than new faces, it is not strange, when the set of pro-guard cavalry, most as the heart of the cronies dispersed infiltrated into the military everywhere, especially follow their own to the Iron Gate gate intercepted Prince Zhao Kai’s batch of white horse righteousness from the, most of the not bad official status, rank even if it is not high, but there are some real power in the hands of a number of the battlefield performance Some of the battlefield performance of the young characters, such as ruthless son Hong Shuwen, more carp jumped over the Dragon Gate, the future is bright. Xu Fengyen raised his arm, signaling the white horse cavalry to get on their horses and follow them, continuing on their way.

Xu Fengyen did not go straight to Liangzhou Clan King’s Mansion, but in the middle of the road to the south of Lingzhou, only with Wang Sheng Lu Yun Chang two children, the old spy followed the white horse righteousness first into Liangzhou, and then go to Chu Lushan whisking water room “point of time”. Xu Fengyen’s trip was to see the orange assassin, Xu Beihao, who was abducted by himself from North Mang. Northwest of the festival is spring and autumn, so it is called winter long without summer, not to say that there is no summer heat, the hot time is often too hot than other places, the ground is high and close to the sky, there is no place to hide, the sun naturally sunny hard, but now near the beginning of the autumn, the same as the signs of no cool winds will come, which makes the soil and water is not suited to the Lv Yunchang a little sickly, has been subjected to the bottom of the life of the polishing of the Wang Sheng is okay, practicing the sword, as usual, diligent and unremitting. He practiced his sword as diligently as ever. South through the Huangnan County is the granary of Northern Liang, reeds and streams continuous, water and grass is fertile, not only out of the plug of the throat, but also the western corridor of the Liang waist where, at this time here, middle rice and corn are beginning to grout and ripening, late rice is also beginning to pull out and pregnant tassels, cotton cracked bells and spitting fluff, a faction of the south of the river outside the plug of the chic style, look at the two children wondered at, all the way to the south, the two children always more attention than Xu Fenian, one of them is carrying a white sheath sword. Carrying a white-sheathed sword, a backpack box not to mention, the body is also bundled with seven or eight swords, it is not like a young ranger, but rather like a bad sword sales.

Before the three entered the state city of Lingzhou, on the official road, met a dart team from north to south, everyone rode a high horse, the carriage is also particularly luxurious and elegant, playing the word Liu banner, the flag embroidered with a black gold ichthyosaurus. The dart team somehow with a group of foreign scholar disputes, according to the reason that the northern Liang is now extremely rely on the Liang scholar, as long as the belly has a few two real talent, will be awarded the important use, ordinary people should be shunned, but the dart team is not say anything, the brightly dressed group of scholar beat the crying father and mother, after the pain, each eye resentment. Lv Yun long to the jianghu vein very clear, see that flag, on the face of envy said: “Wang wood, wide-eyed look, is the fish and dragon gang, now the jianghu ten sects in the head of a. Although not as good as the Spring God Lake, the dart team is not as good as the Spring God Lake, the dart team is not as good as the Spring God Lake! Though not as noble as the fast snow mountain manor on the edge of the spring god lake, more than the Hui mountain snow ping that lack of moon building high up, but the fish and dragon gang what the jianghu people dare to accept, any you are JiangYangDaOi or green grass, as long as there is the ability to fish in the fish and dragon gang to fish on the position of the oil and water, so this gang is notorious for the many people who do not have to be put in the eyes of the several gangs outside of the northern Liang, as long as to mess with fish and dragon gang, even if the fish and dragon gang, even if the fish and dragon gang, even if the fish and dragon gang, even if it is a state, the fish and dragon gang. A state apart, the fish and dragon gang also dared to one or two hundred people under the banner of dart, copied the guy all the way to kill the past. Hey, the local government still don’t dare to put a fart.”

Xu Fengyen indifferent, after the Lingshou city called Jiahe warehouse in a former site to see the assassin Xu Beihuan, this warehouse was the ancient world’s premier granary, the size of the dynasty are now located in Tai’an City and Guangling Road on the two major royal grain silos, the north of the honoring salary south of the manna, the two are known as in the world. Just Jiahe warehouse through several dynasties have not been used, deserted, empty a big frame. When Mr. Li Gongde was the governor of Lingzhou, he thought of repairing this warehouse, but unfortunately no one responded to it, so he could only give up. One to repair Jiahe warehouse needs a huge amount of silver, two to transfer food into the warehouse is the need for great courage, and then food into the official warehouse, the government is equal to a big chicken ribs, is equal to every day to spend silver to feed food, unusual granary can also be followed by the new food for the old grain to earn unseen night grass cross-country wealth, can be once the Jiahe warehouse resumed use, it is destined to be even the young king of the clan have to stare at a piece of the military machinery, who dares to do something in this place, it is not too much to kill. Whoever dares to make a move in this place, is not too long to live? The new governor Xu Beihao is in this context bent on overdrafting Lingshou tax, determined to build Jiahe warehouse, in the eyes of the official oil, good words that the governor is once and for all, bad words is over-ambitious, Lingshou officialdom those old foxes do not dare to stand by and watch openly, but secretly a lot of small trips, in case of Jiahe warehouse really to the rash to toss up, can be cut off from the road of countless people’s fortunes, a Jiahe barn! The government can not only collect the tax of the whole Lingzhou to pay the salary of the officials and the local army, but also be able to save the price of food to prepare for the famine and relief, which makes those private private warehouses of the civil society to take advantage of the natural and man-made disasters from time to time to obtain huge profits? From the top to the bottom of the government, from the officials to the servants to the handymen, all of them tacitly agreed to do their work without contributing, and there were some rights and wrongs that hindered the progress of the project from time to time, but Lord Xu, who was ridiculed as the assassin of Grain Prefecture, didn’t get furious about it, and didn’t make an example out of it, he just borrowed 2,000 soldiers from the General of Lingzhou, and then asked the governors of the two counties of Longqing County, which were under the control of the General of Huangnan County, to take care of the 3,000 laborers and strongmen, and left Lingzhou alone almost completely. Orthodox officialdom, at the same time, sent Lingzhou special driver Song Yan rectify the size of the official warehouse in Lingzhou, once found to have unlawful actions, but also will not make a big fuss, at most, is to move off the official hat, replaced with the bottom of a clean foreign scholar to sit on the position, by and large, the officialdom of the Lingzhou has not suffered unbearable turbulence, but a small handful of penetrating mind of the big shots, but also finally hindsight, began to go to that often cool a lot of the Secretary General make In and out of the residence.

Outside the Jiahe Cang is heavily guarded, Xu Fengyen didn’t reveal his identity, he just asked a young lieutenant to help him pass the message, saying that the Bishan county chief of the rouge county in Youzhou is an old acquaintance of the assassin. Xu Beihao, who had been sleeping and eating on the former site of Jiahe Warehouse for some time, soon arrived, more dusty than Xu Fengyen, the traveler, the youngest assassin in the history of Beiliang, looked exhausted, but his spirits were good, and he was not surprised to see Xu Fengyen, but silently walked with him, which made the lieutenant startled. Jiahe warehouse big construction, hot, Xu Beihao is regarded as lingzhou heavenly loser, lifted his sleeve and wiped his dusty face, said while walking: “Jiahe warehouse is eight hundred years ago, the second warehouse of Qin, only inferior to Luoyang warehouse, said granary, in fact, it has been no different from a city of attack and defense, warehouse city east and west length of one and a half miles, north and south width of two miles, more than three hundred granaries, grain cellar no less than fifty, but this is still a city, but it’s not the same, but the city is still the same. Grain cellar not less than fifty, but this is not enough, when renovated, can clearly see the ancient brick inscriptions described in the grain source, into the cellar year and month as well as the granting of chestnut officer’s position name, the various years of the Great Qin Dynasty a no, everything is traceable, I originally thought that revering the ancient and derogating from the present is a vice, after arriving at the Jiahe Warehouse, only to know that there are some things, the ancients do is to be better.”

Xu Fengnian laughed: “The people’s wisdom is gradually opening up, the good and the bad are mixed, otherwise the ancestors of Taoism wouldn’t have raised the idea of extinction of the saints and abandonment of the wisdom, the saying that the world is losing its way will be mentioned more and more in the future. Beiliang readers have been counted less, but it is not the same in the officialdom of a hundred clever, you if the valve in the Jiangnan side of the intertwined roots of the first, only really not open. Here, after all, there are still military officials suppression, civil officials raise the day after all short.”

Xu Beihao sighed, said in a deep voice: “Jiahe warehouse as long as built, and then this year’s three states autumn harvest as a food source, enough to support the border fighting two years of food and grass, but the premise is that the counties do not layer over the hands of withholding, the civil righteousness of the barn retracted claws also do not interfere, otherwise do not say two years, half a year is a luxury. Time is not waiting for me, in fact, if you can slowly figure out, I can even let the local luxury grain merchants to go to other states to buy grain at high prices to fill in the cool, this silver is nothing, once the war is on, not to mention the gold and silver, that is, the land is also not ready than the food to the value of money. Only two decades of stability in the northern Liang territory, but they can become the bottom of the rat’s eye, it is really ridiculous to the extreme. Those who will be seeded children and grandchildren with their families out of the country, but also put out the word, let the grain stored in the warehouse moldy and rotten, but also do not sell a grain of good rice at a high price to the Harvest Warehouse. This reminds me of my grandpa when he talked about the dispute of will between neighbors, if they only get a penny neighbor can get three pennies, that is, would rather we all together do not earn a penny, but also do not want to get that two more points.”

Regardless of how resentful in his heart, Xu Beihao’s tone is always clear and light.

Xu Fengnian stopped at the front door of a green-gray ancient tile granary and smiled, “Lingshou is so excited and disgusted with you, just let them be, but I can assure you that the autumn grains from Liangyu and Youyi states will definitely be filled into the Jiahe warehouse. At that time, the guys who previously dodged a bullet when I was the general of Lingshou will just settle the scores for you in the fall. Anyway, from today onwards, the so-called valuable antiques and treasures, as they bring them out of the Northern Liang Road, they can move as much as they can, but don’t even think of bringing out one tael of silver and gold or one catty of white rice.”

Xu Beihao sneered very nonchalantly, “Whimsical, you think you can do it? When the water is clear, there is no fish, those generals and lieutenants guarding the border, who doesn’t have relatives?”

Xu Fengnian helplessly said, “It’s better than doing nothing, right?”

Xu Beihao’s expression soothed a few points and nodded. Around the clan king at first swaggered away from Lingzhou, in fact, did not really touch the scales of the officialdom of Lingzhou, and there are Lingzhou generals and His Highness’s double amulet, no one really dares to tear the skin, but when Xu Beihao personally dominated the mixed dragon and snake Lingzhou, it is inevitable to touch the last bottom line of the local generals’ gated family. Moreover, Xu Beihao is not Li Gongde, such as the old man of Beiliang, suddenly powerful, even if there are Song Yan and the four Wang’s to help support the move to solve the siege, with the Lingshou generals for its “by the sword and stand”, but the officialdom has always been complex and difficult to predict, the king’s law, human feelings, patriarchal law, all kinds of rules mixed with them, each with a conflict, a mess of paste, the so-called messy knife to cut off messy hemp, can only The so-called chaotic knife to cut the mess, can only be a moment of success, in fact, a long and deep trouble. Xu Beihao in which, as long as something to do, will naturally all sides of the enemy, then proceed to deal with the salt and canal transportation Chen Xiliang is a lesson from the past, Chen Xiliang hands were not no cure, but the chest has a strategy and how? But what if he had a lot of tactics? Xu Beihao laughed coldly in his heart. How could he stand on his own feet in Beilang Road, where the people’s culture is so strong, if he is soft and can be bullied by everyone? In the fourth state of Liuzhou, the land of stragglers, even if Chen Xiliang managed to hold the city, not to be destroyed by nearly 10,000 horse thieves, but also fell into a comment of indecisiveness and women’s benevolence, and in the future, even if he has the opportunity to preside over a side of the territory, but also do not want to make progress in local politics.

Xu Fengnian suddenly asked, “The Fish Dragon Gang frequently engages in border trade, has it exceeded the rules?”

Xu Beihuan said, “All of them have spies keeping an eye on them, and since no spies have been sent to the desk of the assassin’s residence, I think there must not be any violation of the prohibited things.”

After a pause, Xu Beihuan frowned and asked, “Have you crossed the line?”

Xu Fengnian shook his head, “There shouldn’t be any yet.”

Xu Beihuan calmly said, “That woman surnamed Liu has not paid me a visit so far, probably to avoid suspicion, but this kind of woman who is not atmospheric is good enough to be the head of a second-rate gang in a state, and is destined to be unable to sit down as the head of a large gang that ranks among the top in the entire Jianghu.”

Xu Fenian laughed: “It’s not her fault, it’s hard for her, she should have been an ordinary jianghu warrior woman.”

Xu Beihao suddenly said, “Since you came back alive, why don’t you hurry back to Qingliang Mountain? I’ve already prepared the thorns for you.”

Xu Fengnian said bitterly, “On second sister’s side, it’s useless to ask for thorns.”

Xu Beihuan had an undisguised gloating face.

Then Xu Beihuan asked for a large portion of food for the king of Beiliang who had not yet eaten, Jiahe Cang has always been treated equally, pickles on steamed buns, Xu Beihuan and Xu Fengyian both squatted and ate, Lv Yunchang was very proud to sit cross-knee across the sword, but also wanted a pot of the long-famous Beiliang local product green ants wine, and ended up choking with a red face, Wang Sheng’s back box bundled swords, squatting can not get down, so he could only stand.

Xu Beihao laughed and asked, “Are they all disciples you took?”

Xu Fengnian hmmmed.

Lv Yun Chang playfully said, “This Lingshou official, the kid’s name is Lv Yun Chang, he is a native of Wudi City in the East China Sea, he is the master’s eldest disciple, so I hope that the official will take care of him in the future.”

Xu Beihao laughed at the youngster’s literal words.

Wang Sheng snorted coldly.

Xu Fengnian smiled, “Sort of a second and third disciple, the eldest disciple is a shepherd boy, but now he is still following Xu Yanbing.”

Lu Yun Chang stared, “What, Wang Sheng is not even the eldest disciple yet? Immortal Master, then what am I doing fighting with Wang Sheng after three years, it’s meaningless to fight over and over and over again to come up with a second, it’s meaningless.”

Xu Fenian said blandly, “Drink your wine.”

The teenager dutifully drank, still honoring his teacher.

Xu Beihao asked softly, “What exactly did the Guangling Dao side say?”

Xu Fengnian calmly said, “It’s just in the next few days.”

Xu Beihuan sighed with emotion, “With the wolf smoke coming together, does this also mean that someone in the temple of Liyang Dynasty has ushered in the last ray of afterglow.”

Xu Fengnian hmmmed expressionlessly, “If the old doesn’t go, the new doesn’t come.”