White funeral drapes can be seen everywhere in Fengri City. Some people even lit incense and candles for the recently deceased emperor and placed them at their doorsteps. However, there was no tablet. Royal rules prohibited ordinary people from enshrining royal tablets privately. Just burn some incense and candles to express your feelings.
The military situation in the south is gradually cooling down. The two battles of Baektu Gorge and Sambichu really broke the backbone of the barbarians. There is no possibility of setting up a royal court in the remaining Huzhuyuan, and it is even impossible for them to defend Huzhuyuan. If they don't run faster and wait for Zuo Yuliang to continue to march south, it will be difficult to escape.
Therefore, the only remaining main force of the barbarians needs to be broken into pieces and returned to the appearance of scattered tribes, wandering in the mountains or wandering in the plains. They cannot be fixed in one place, otherwise they will die under the sweep of the army.
Of course, the response of the barbarians had long been guessed by everyone on the Jingjun side. Whether it was Zuo Yuliang or Wen Mingju, even the half-empty Shen Hao knew that the big battle in the south was over, and all that was left was to finish the campaign. It counts as much as it can be wiped out. We will not continue to fight the barbarians. At most, we should completely withdraw our troops by March next year and complete the deployment of regular garrison troops.
Under this situation, the most direct feeling in Jingjiu Dynasty is that the shops that were originally closed on the streets began to gradually reopen. Some of them still have the same shops and the same people as before, but some failed to survive the "cold winter" and were forced to sell their shops and replace them with other businesses.
With more shops, there are more people on the streets. Whether they are strolling around or shopping or selling things, this is how the crowds of people are attracted by the shops.
Shops reopened, those who sell goods, those who work hard, those who drive cars and horses, those who open inns... A chain reaction directly made every city come alive.
The strategy of tightening money and food supplies is still there, but it has been reduced to the lowest level. It has not been canceled because Zuo Yuliang's side is still raiding Huzhuyuan, and the main forces of the four major front armies are still withdrawing to Wuhu in batches and have not returned. After arriving in the pass, the daily baggage demand is still very high and I dare not relax.
However, considering the current war situation, the reserves in the official warehouse should be able to cope with it. Therefore, street vendors can set up stalls, restaurants are allowed to open, and even wine can be sold. However, if you want to open up and drink, it is still not possible. Although you can buy alcohol, it is limited. The local government sent people to the door to approve how many kilograms of wine a shop could sell per day. If you dared to sell more, you would be put in jail. So do buyers.
So there is a new job of selling wine for others, which is to wait at the door of the wine shop early in the morning, buy your own share, but do not drink after buying it, just wait beside the wine shop, and wait. When someone asks, he sells it to others at a high price. The yamen turned a blind eye to this kind of private transaction, and couldn't control it.
It can be said that restaurants and inns are open, but the Flower House is not among them. On the one hand, the flower house is both a restaurant and an inn, and at the same time, it is a place of fun and entertainment. Now that the funeral of the late emperor is still going on, and the money and food shortage is not over, we simply keep the flower house in place and still refuse to let it go. move.
I don’t know how many merchants involved in the flower house business have lost their hair, but there is nothing they can do.
The flower building is not under construction, so the girls inside can only live on a meager living allowance. For those top or popular singers, it's not a big deal. After all, they have saved a lot, so it's not a big problem if they don't open for a year or two. But those singers in the middle and lower reaches are anxious. They don't have much money, and their expenses are not small. If they don't make as much money as possible while they have time, what will they do in the future?
Of course, there is still a distance between flower houses and ordinary people, especially those high-end flower houses. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are gold-selling caves. How can ordinary people have the money to go to such an occasion? Even if you want to play with women, it's better to just go to the most ordinary local house.
Therefore, no one cares about the sorrow in the flower house.
Outside a vacant house in the west part of Fengri City, a well-dressed man would pass by every few days and sit down on the stone stairs at the door to rest. There are too many people like this in this area of Xicheng, and no one will pay attention to them. Every time, only a few beggars who have been squatting on the street corner would look here twice, intentionally or unintentionally.
People are like this. They always like to take people and things that happen every day for granted without thinking about them. The suddenness that they always feel is what is worth noting, and they ignore the mystery hidden under the "normal" appearance.
A piece of information about this vacant house and the new faces that appeared near the house were quickly reported through a hidden channel, and then centralized sorting and screening, and then assigned to some people who were responsible for testing and tracking. for further confirmation.
Finally, the systematic information network was summarized into the same dossier.
The name of this dossier is "Follow-up on the Follow-up Moments and Arrangements of Yueying Tower".
"So Zhang Yinxiong has completely let down his guard?" Shen Hao put down the follow-up file and handed it back to Wang Jian. He picked up the tea on the table and took a sip with a smile. The tea was a little hot, so he drank it. I blew it before.
It's almost December, and the temperature in Fengri City is already a bit freezing. However, because of the air conditioning this year, it's not just Shen Hao who doesn't feel cold in the apartment. Many people who have installed air conditioning will also have a warm and comfortable life. I experienced a very different winter in the past.
At least with the air conditioning in the room, there is no need to burn a brazier. Sitting in the room will be much more comfortable without the smoke.
Wang Jian also held a cup of hot tea in his hand. When Shen Hao asked him, he smiled and said, "Yes, sir. Zhang Yinxiong was very cautious at first, but he was relieved when he found that the magic circle he set up on the door and in the room never responded. Come. Later, I went to Miss Lianxiang’s yard and felt completely relieved.
On the 23rd, he had unusual contact with others for the first time since he came into our sight. It was just at the entrance of a tea house next to the teleportation circle. It took only a short time, but our people still discovered it. Then, while following him, he asked someone to look for Miss Lianxiang to identify him. As expected, Zhang Yinxiong began to get in touch with the other senior executives of Yueying Tower.
However, after following him to Xinliang City, he lost track of him. In the end, we only knew that the man took a boat and headed east. According to the analysis of the Fourth Department, the man may have gone to the east toward Weishui. "
"Weak Shui? Are you saying that the man went to the City of Wasted Death?" Shen Hao did not see the final analysis of the four parts in the file. There should be no evidence, so it was not entered into the file.
"Yes."
"But now the waterway border in the east is under strict control. Can he go back?"
Wang Jian chuckled and said: "Sir, I can go back. As long as you know the ropes, it is really easy to bypass the yamen and military interrogations. The most convenient way is to hide on the Tianyi Chamber of Commerce's cargo ship, or get a false identity for yourself , then go ashore and follow the convoy into the city as a cover."
"Convoy? Haha, isn't that just throwing yourself into a trap? Keep an eye out, maybe this time we will be able to get ahold of the Yueying Tower's roots in the City of Fusi."
