In the southwestern suburbs of Luoyang City, it is only separated from Shendu Garden/Xiyuan and Xishi City by the Dingding Gate and the Fanfang under the city. The army and horses had been gathered from all directions, and the numerous barriers and barriers set up to block the horses were completely surrounded and blocked. Only the officials who were patrolling the streets were left, beating gongs and drums and shouting for everyone to wait patiently at home for subsequent enumeration.
In fact, as a place where a large number of foreigners from other regions and vassal states gather and settle down for a long time. As Luodu, Fanfang has evolved over the years and is divided into two parts: inside the city and outside the city. Among them, Fanfang, located near the West Market in the city, has many different regional characteristics and customs. It is the facade and place of Huairou of the Tang Dynasty that embraces the world.
Therefore, those who are eligible to live here are either descendants of various ethnic groups who have been naturalized in China for many years, or are Hu Jia, a merchant who has lived in China for a long time, or are the relatives and descendants of envoys from various countries and their retinues and subordinates. Basically, they belong to the middle and upper class families of outsiders and other groups. What can be shown is that they have no worries about food and clothing, the people are honest and honest, the scholars and the people are virtuous, and the scenery is stunning.
It is located in the suburbs separated by a wall in the northwest corner of the city. It was formed by several tributaries of the Yongji Canal. It was once a river swamp and pond area, but due to the spontaneous gathering of a large number of outsiders, Xiqu Fanfang, one of the many lower city squares in Luodu, was born. In the two-sided Luodu Fanfang, there is another side that is less glorious and even a bit gray.
Because there are a large number of lowest-level employees related to Xishi Fanfang. In other words, although they work in the Western Market, they cannot afford the living costs and daily expenses of settling and staying in Luodu City. Therefore, every day, with the sound of drums opening and closing the Dingding Gate, they worked in the West Market in the city during the day, and returned to the outside of the city to rest at night.
Because this is a piece of land built with wooden piles and trusses on what used to be rivers and swamps. Daily necessities are undoubtedly much cheaper. As long as you are willing to pay the minimum price of one penny, you can get a shelter the size of a coffin board, and it only costs a few pennies to fill your belly with a variety of low-quality ingredients from unknown sources.
Therefore, over time, this place has also become home to many people of Tibetan origin and Hu origin who have been stranded in China and engaged in low-income jobs for generations, as well as runaway slaves and abandoned children from Fanfang families, and even criminals, fugitives, and smugglers from corresponding backgrounds. The agreed gathering place. As a result, over the years, even the local or foreign scholars of the Tang Dynasty rarely set foot in the period.
It is like a piece of moss on the corner of the Eastern Capital of the Tang Dynasty; it may not look good and has many potential problems; but it is an indispensable metropolis and an indispensable part of the pyramid-like ecological circle. Even the poor people of the Han family can find a certain sense of psychological superiority through some invisible chain of discrimination that can be used to teach their children a lesson.
Of course, compared to those around the West Market in the city, which are relatively neatly planned and have unique characteristics, Xiqu Fanfang is an out-and-out hodgepodge. If you pull a random person from the streets here, you might be able to have the blood of Persian, Daqin, and Tianzhu ethnic groups. Therefore, it is the large and small Tibetan gangs and gangs that can play a role here.
And they also represent the remnants and marginalized people who are despised by the mainstream of the Tibetan people of all ethnic groups based on their appearance and body shape. This is because the Tibetan ethnic groups in places such as Fusang, Silla, Annam and other places will quickly abandon their original ethnic groups and old identities after one or two generations of intermarriage. The Tang people considered themselves.
And many ethnic groups in the Northern Fortress, Western Regions, and Southern Barbarians are nothing more than this. On the contrary, the Qin Dynasty, Persia, Tianzhu, etc. have had ancient exchanges with China since the Han Dynasty. While maintaining their own relative characteristics, they also have large-scale fanfang settlement areas in the city. The many vassal groups that followed formed the supplementary source of Xiqu Fanfang.
Because most of them are too obviously not of my race in appearance and appearance, coupled with the lack of official legal status and stable financial resources, it is basically impossible to get out of here and seek a new life and career outside. . Therefore, their biggest hope is to be favored by the fanfang in the city, or else the next generation will look like the Tang people.
However, darkness under the lamp in the usual sense does not mean that Luoyang County or Henan Prefecture has completely given up its authority to control and extract profits from this area. In fact, this area, like many of the lower buildings in Luodu City, has its own name and nationality, as well as its owners who are elected by various forces and are responsible for negotiations and official affairs.
He was even able to pay a decent amount of household income and miscellaneous city taxes on a regular basis according to his household registration and household rank; and in the performance evaluation rankings of more than 20 city buildings, he barely maintained a place near the bottom. The famous crane tail position. Officials from Henan Prefecture and Luoyang County can also enter and investigate several eucalyptus cases as evidence of the existence of the king's law.
Only in private, the Tibetan gangs and gangs occupying several streets and districts maintain a certain dynamic update in the gray daily life full of order and chaos. Of course, once the official decision was made, these voices that claimed to be the most decisive voice in Fanfang suddenly became silent.
However, after Xiqufanfang was blocked, the market and streets were in depression and silence. If someone accidentally peeks down, they will find that at the bottom of the built-up fanfang, among the old rivers and canals, there is a movement of people running and advancing like fire; those are groups of people. The armored soldiers were wading forward at the edge.
In the middle of the most spacious underground river channel, there is a series of rowing boats. A bright wind lantern is placed at the stern of each boat, and like a long dragon reaching into a dark cave, it illuminates the dark river alley, as well as the dark and mottled roof beams above the head, and the moss-covered and climbing trees. Wooden piles and long pillars with snails and other excrescences;
As for the secret censorship department, the main target this time is located deep in the underground river alley of Xiqufanfang; the person known as the "Horse King" and "Ma Supervisor" and the lair where he occupies. And he is also the only one who has surfaced in this series of attacks on the Censorship Department. He was responsible for picking up the boat on the bank of Gushui.
Although, what can be obtained from the mouths of the last two accomplices on the ship, who were almost scared crazy, is very limited. I only know that it was because of this person's instruction and arrangement that they were allowed to steal a ship and come to the edge of the valley to wait and respond, taking away an important person who was being hunted, and after obtaining the key items, they could kill Silence the other party.
However, this result is enough to form the secret censorship department, which is determined to use all its power to uproot the beast-causing accomplices lurking in the capital, and to uproot them and their subordinates. Rather than just being content with sending someone to get rid of such a person, it is probably the result of being put on the table as an agent or acting as a scapegoat.
Therefore, on one of the river boats, Xin Pingping read to Jiang Tian all the news and records about this legendary figure in the underground world in Luodu City. In fact, there are many legends about this "horse overseer", and there are also different opinions. In other words, he is another kind of opposite of the "Yinhou" who just fell in the city.
However, Le Xingda, the "Yinhou" who is relatively active among the various gates in the city; this man is very influential among many city sects, has access to many low-life people and black channels, and claims to be "dare to take on any business" "Ma Supervisor" has remained quite mysterious; few people have seen his true appearance, and have only dealt with his subordinates of different identities.
Therefore, some people in the rumors claim that he was the founder of the Ma family, the number one prince who discovered Xinzhou/Beiju Luzhou, and that Boyong Gong stayed in the Central Plains to guard the ancestral temple. Some people also believe that he is actually a foreigner who was expelled from the family by his eldest son, a member of the Ma Sui clan, a former Taiwei of the former dynasty and the Duke of Beiping County. But after all, it is an existence that cannot be seen in the light.
Therefore, this gentleman has been hiding in the underground world in the lower square of Luodu City all year round; using various informants and powerful contacts in the three religions and nine streams, he has built a sensitive network for himself that can be moved by rumors. In the repeated raids and raids by the Henan Prefecture or related yamen, he escaped unscathed at a certain price. Yes, even Luoyang County is no longer qualified to target him.
However, this time he finally made a mistake and was forced to expose more things. For example, this secret lair and the most important shelter is hidden deep underground in Fanfang. Thinking of this, Xin Gongping couldn't help but stop. He took the initiative to ask Jiang Tian, who was looking at the surroundings, "Sir, is there anything I still don't understand?"
"If you have any questions, the ride hasn't started yet, so tell me right away." Jiang Tian then looked back, sighing inwardly that he was so destined to be connected to these sewers and so on! I actually have to drill it again.
"I dare to ask, sir, with such a big fanfare, the whole city has heard about it. Aren't we afraid that the secret will be leaked in advance, which will lead to another failure?" Xin Pingping said hesitantly:
"..." Jiang Tian smiled, but did not answer him directly. Instead, he looked at the other man beside him, Cheng Shilian, who had a cold and thoughtful face and said: "Shilian, what are you doing?" Thought?"
"My subordinates feel that..." Due to the changes during this period, Cheng Shilian, who had become a bit gloomy and cruel, thought for a moment before saying: "Is this a deliberate attempt by the headquarters to alert the snake? As the saying goes. It was Xiang Zhuang who danced the sword with the intention of Pei Gong. What the headquarters wanted was not the life or death of Ma's traitor, but to express an attitude so that all the people in the city who had connections with him would completely give up on this person and break away and cut off their ties. basic attitude.”
"Yes, this is also the reason why the search and pursuit of him have always been fruitless due to the government officials." Jiang Tian couldn't help but nodded and said: "Therefore, there is also a key point in this time's actions, which is whether we can obtain him and the beast." , there is evidence of a direct relationship; as long as the relationship that crucifies him is established, it doesn't matter whether he is dead or alive."
At this time, several small boats leading the way suddenly made a sound of winter one after another; then, someone came over and reported: "Reporting to the Deputy Supervisor, there is an obstacle in the water ahead, and it is being cleared." However, someone else came immediately. A wet iron chain was pulled out from the wooden pile pulled out underwater.
