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106. Go home for a New Year

There was once a royal palace in this northwest.

The royal palace was well preserved. Although no one lived in it for many years, there were all kinds of things inside. But fifty years ago, a group of Rong people came to Daqin and stole the royal palace.

There were only a few hundred soldiers in the group of Rong. At first, the soldiers of the border had never discovered them at all, but later they discovered them, but they had already robbed the palace completely.

It was indeed completely clean... The royal palace was already abandoned and there was not much valuable stuff, but after these Rong people came... they pried away all the iron pots in the kitchen.

For the Rong people, the iron pot is also a valuable thing, and it can even be replaced by a Daqin man who can steal the female slave.

This royal palace cannot be occupied, so before Qin Yu left the capital, the Ministry of Revenue allocated some silver to him.

Of course, given that Daqin is particularly short of money now, the Ministry of Revenue allocated very little silver to him.

Such a small amount of silver is not enough for Qin Yu to repair the palace... Therefore, in everyone's eyes, Qin Yu has nowhere to go.

But in fact... as early as a year ago, Qin Yu had already started to let someone build his palace in the northwest.

He did not avoid people when he built the palace, but probably no one thought that it was actually building the palace...

When he asked someone to build the mansion he would live in in the future, he made three requirements: one was to be solid and others could not easily break it, one was to save money, and the other was to be close to the border.

So... his caravan bought a large piece of land near the border and finally made a city wall with soil...

Because the wall was built a little larger and higher, it attracted the attention of the Northwest Army. However, the Northwest Army sent people to come and take a look and found that the people who built the city wall were from Daqin, so they ignored it.

They didn't know why someone built houses on the border, but built city walls and dug trenches. It was obvious that they were from Rong people, so there was nothing to do with them.

Later, I saw someone building many houses in this mud wall, and someone burned bricks and built a building here. Everyone decided that this place should be built by a fur merchant.

This fur merchant probably was a little afraid of death, so he built such a high city wall...

No one expected that the house built on the wasteland would be the future royal palace. The officials in the northwest were very worried about where King Duan lived.

The place where Qin Yu's fief is located is Guangning Prefecture.

Few officials came to the northwest, but there were still officials in the northwest. At this moment, the prefect of Guangning Prefecture invited some of the officials under his rule in his own residence, and then discussed how to resettle King Duan.

"The palace is dilapidated. Wouldn't you ask me to wait for construction?"

"There is no tax available here, so where does the money come from?"

"I heard that King Duan brought many people here, so what should those people eat, drink, defecate and urinate?"

...

These people are becoming more and more worried. In fact, there are rich people who are officials in the northwest. After all, selling medicinal materials such as cattle and sheep in the northwest can make a lot of money, and collusion between officials and businessmen has never been uncommon.

But that was their money, so they naturally didn't want to spend it on Duan Wang, especially because Duan Wang was still a prospect.

Officials from Guangning Prefecture were talking about Qin Yu, and the people from the Northwest Army were also talking about Qin Yu.

"This King Duan is so good. What are you doing in the northwest? Isn't this causing trouble? We are too late to fight, so we still have to protect him?"

"Be careful! King Duan probably doesn't want to come here either."

"I don't want to worry about him either... those officials want to listen to him, so we don't have to listen. Instead, it would be fine if we went to see him last time."

The soldiers of the Northwest Army did not know much about King Duan, but only knew that this prince was a useless man and was "exiled" to the Northwest, so naturally he did not pay much attention to it.

However, as soon as they finished talking, an elderly general hurried in from outside and said, "General, I have heard of a big news!"

What he had said before was Li Chong'an, the Northwest Guardian.

Now seeing the young general running from outside, he immediately stood up from his seat: "What news? Could it be that the Rong people are coming?"

"No, General, I've heard about Taiping Taoist! I heard that Taiping Taoist rescued Duan in Wanshan County and helped Duan recover the people of Wanshan County!" The young general was full of excitement: "Prince, do you think he will come to the northwest?"

"Maybe..." Li Chong'an's eyes lit up when he heard this. The person who was most convinced by their Northwest Army is Taiping Taoist!

The person who had despised Qin Yu before said quickly: "General, I'll visit King Duan immediately?"

"The King Duan hasn't even arrived in Guangning Mansion, what are you in a hurry?" Li Chong'an said: "You might as well practice more when you have time!"

Li Chong'an is not the leader of the Northwest Army now, but the Northwest Army is almost under his control. This... is because the actual leader of the Northwest Army is a person who does not like to take over power, does not like to do things, and is a little afraid of death.

This person has many shortcomings, but also one advantage, that is, he knows his own weight.

Since he is not capable of fighting with the Rong people, he will stop fighting and give others the opportunity to make contributions.

As a result...it was such a person who made him survive even though he had never made great contributions. Moreover, because he was born and had a good family background, he took charge of the Northwest Army after he got older.

But because he is older, he becomes more and more afraid of death, and he becomes increasingly unwilling to stay in the border in recent years... If it weren't for this, Li Chong'an would not be able to act without permission when he received the news from Taoist Taiping.

The Northwest Army was looking forward to Qin Yu, but Qin Yu was still moving slowly. After leaving the county magistrate, he arrived at Guangning Prefecture for two more days.

At this time, Qin Yu had already contacted the person who was arranged here by himself, and had a clear understanding of the situation in the northwest.

Qin Yu was a little confused about how to evaluate Zhang Jian, the general of Northwest.

This person is greedy for life and fears death, but he will not be able to treason the enemy and sell off his country. How can I say that, he is the most common mediocre and inaction official in the Qin Dynasty...

There are really too many such officials in Daqin. Qin Yu can't hate him, so he doesn't hate him too much. Of course, he can't like him.
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