Anyang County, the ancient city, is the second large city from west to east above Yashui.
Logically speaking, guarding an elegant river, connecting the three poor counties, three rich counties, and even the counties in Jiangzhou, this ancient city should be a rather prosperous city, but in fact, it has never been the focus of the development of Anyang County. , even because it is so close to Xingcheng, ships departing from Xingcheng do not even have to stop here too much, and ships from Guangjun enter the Yahe River via Ganshui and directly skip the ancient city. For various reasons Added together, the result is that this place is not wealthy.
If it is not wealthy, it will not be able to gather wealthy merchants, let alone dignitaries. In addition, it is too close to the northern part of the Dagu Mountains and is located in a "remote" area. It is the most genuine city in Anyang County besides Nankou City and Shuanglong City. The border town has a narrow terrain and is adjacent to a poor county. Therefore, not only is commerce prosperous, but agriculture and animal husbandry are not prosperous either. ..
The population is small and there is not much money to be made. If it were not for the permanent presence of a border army that is never short of pay, it would be a problem to maintain the dignity of a big city.
The sun was shining brightly on this day, and many pedestrians were seen walking in the streets and alleys of the ancient city. On the city wall, a team of elites were patrolling. The leader was a very young man. His eyes were indifferent, his brows were lowered, he was naturally noble, and he was wearing bright silver. The armor extends from both sides of the neck to the back of the shoulders. It is a piece of silvery-white fine fur. It is extremely soft and looks extraordinary. It is exactly what Luo Chuan had seen in the Huaicheng Restaurant, and was traveling with Wei Changhe from Anyang County. Young Master, Yan Zhuo.
Compared with that time, Yan Zhuo was obviously more calm at this time, and there was an indescribable change in his whole body, as if a recruit who had been training in the rear for a long time had seen blood once he went to the battlefield.
He started from the north city wall and headed east, then passed the south city wall. It was not until the afternoon that he came to the west, where he saw another person.
The man had a golden helmet and armor, a golden cloak, and a golden sword at his waist. Even the tassel on the sword's head was golden. Under the slanting sunlight, he looked extremely wealthy.
Yan Zhuo quickly came behind the golden-armored general, clasped his fists and saluted, "My subordinate, Yan Zhuo, pays homage to General Bai!"
The golden-armored general turned around when he heard this, revealing a rosy face that didn't look very old. When he saw Yan Zhuo saluting, he smiled and stretched out his hand to help him, and said, "Young master, you don't have to be polite, I'm going to patrol again." Are there walls on all sides?"
Yan Zhuo nodded.
General Jin Jia nodded and praised, "You are still more like your grandpa, good, very good."
Yan Zhuo looked to the west. Apart from the elegant water winding westward and some farmers collecting screens far and near by the river, there was nothing but wasteland. "General, there was an assassin who assassinated you in the city yesterday. Your subordinates are about to go there." At that time, the general's order for all armies to stand firm came, but my subordinates did not send any troops. I am relieved to see that the general is fine today, but can the general capture the assassin and find out his identity?"
General Jin Jia shook his head, "That assassin has at least the strength of the peak of the Sixth Realm, and if he misses a hit, he will run away. Nowadays, most of the strong men in our Anyang County are in the southern frontier. We don't have any strong men in the Third Realm here." There is really no good way to deal with such an assassin in charge. We can only be careful and guard against it. As for the identity..." He laughed and said, "The person behind the assassin should want us to think that... They are from Guangjun."
Yan Zhuo looked at General Jin Jia, "Yun Bailou has stationed a lot of troops in Xingcheng, and he obviously has evil intentions. Coupled with the navy of Guangjun, the strong man of the upper three realms and the Yin spirit who are always by his side, this The person behind the assassination cannot be him!"
General Jin Jia looked at Yan Zhuo with a smile, reached out and patted his shoulder. He had no intention of respecting the person in front of him as a prince of a county. What he said was even less polite, "Sir, when marching and fighting, we must always be based on Make judgments based on the facts. If you put a shit basin on someone's head before the matter is fully investigated, you will be led by the nose by people in the dark."
"What the general taught me is," Yan Zhuo bowed his hand as a gift, but did not mean to accept the words humbly. "But now we can't find out the facts. We should be more careful in general."
General Jin Jia was not angry when he heard this. Instead, he sighed and pointed at Yan Zhuo, laughing and scolding, "You, you, you, you are more like your grandpa, then you show your true colors again, your grandpa."
Would my father be so helpless when encountering such a thing? He looked to the west and sighed softly, "Yun Bailou has invested a lot of troops in Xingcheng, and he must be trying to stir up something in this small world. We should deal with it carefully, yes, but now that we are sure Before his true intention, what can we do rashly? Whatever we do is risky, and we may fall into the other party's trap."
Seeing Yan Zhuo's disapproval, he added, "Moreover, anyone with a discerning eye can see what he wants to do this time. Nine times out of ten, he is going to the south or west. Today's Southwest Hanzhou , only the Second County of Liguang and I, Anyang, are left. You know the current Anyang County, can you easily turn against the Second County of Liguang?! You must not!" ap..
Yan Zhuo frowned and said nothing.
General Jin Jia glanced sideways at Yan Zhuo's expression, with a cold look on his face, "Now the prefect of Li County is determined to recover Heyu City. Heyu City has already fallen into the hands of the monsters. How can it be so easy to recover? That's it. Lu Dongfeng, one of the top ten famous generals, has gone. I'm afraid he can only look at the city and sigh. What's more, he has not brought Lu Dongfeng with him. It is inevitable for him to return in defeat. Although our Anyang County has not sent troops to support this coalition, we have not sent troops to support it. His heroic feat of resisting the barbarians, but if he were defeated once, when Yun Bailou sent troops from Xingcheng to go south, our troops left the ancient city, threatened Guangjun's retreat, and forced Yun Bailou to retreat, which would be considered worthy of his resistance. I feel so angry, what else can I do?"
Yan Zhuo looked back coldly and said, "What the general means is that we will not be on bad terms with any of the two counties of Li and Guang, nor will we be on good terms with any of them. We will stand by and watch as Li County goes south to fight against the barbarians. , in the future our Anyang County will go south to fight against the barbarians, will anyone from Li County or Guang County send a soldier for us?! General Bai, don’t forget, today’s Li County and Guang County are both the same as our Anyang County ...Bordering!"
After hearing Yan Zhuo's words, the golden-armored general couldn't help being shocked, but he pretended to be relaxed on his face and said earnestly, "Sir, I have received a message from the prefect from Yuanbeicheng every day in the past few days. Letter, you should know that you are anxious, and the governor is even more anxious. But the governor sent me to the ancient city to take charge. Does he want us to take the initiative to fight to the death with Guangjun? No, he wants us to see how the situation will turn out first. It is up to us to draw conclusions after the development. Now, the Western Front is safe, and the two counties of Li and Guang have not yet broken up. You and I are just here talking about truth all day and night. What conclusion can we draw? What’s more, the situation is now in chaos, and the facts are unclear. Qing, just like the assassin yesterday, you can definitely tell that the person behind it is not the young but scheming prefect of Li County?!"
Yan Zhuo was silent again.
Seeing that he had stopped talking, General Jin Jia smiled again and came closer, "Young master, there is no need to worry. The soldiers will come to cover up the water and the earth. We, Anyang County, are destined to sit on the sidelines this time. No matter whether we stay out of it or we still have to perform the show, In the last paragraph, there won’t be much loss after all, so you can rest easy. I heard that the Crown Prince will arrive in the ancient city in two days. By then, you brothers will have a good gathering and relax.”
Yan Zhuo's face moved slightly and he asked in surprise, "Brother is coming to the ancient city? Now that General Bai has come to the ancient city, shouldn't the eldest brother be in charge of An City?"
Seeing this, General Jin Jia waved his hand and said, "Hey, Ancheng affairs will still have to be sent to Yuanbeicheng and handled by the prefect himself. There is no need for your elder brother to be in charge. As for other things, as long as we wait for the border area to be fine, what can happen to Ancheng? ? He wants to come to the ancient city also to see you. You brothers should have a lot to talk about after not seeing each other for a long time."
Yan Zhuo nodded, then bowed and retreated.
Behind him, the smile on General Jinjia's face gradually dissipated, and after a long time, he snorted softly.
