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Yangzhou.

The atmosphere in this city connecting the Grand Canal is obviously particularly tense.

From Luokou to Yangzhou, you only need to go down the water, which is only a dozen days’ waterway. A large ship with extremely heavy draft can arrive here with cargo, and then transport countless goods to various places.

At this time, Yangzhou was already a prosperous giant city. Because it connected the south and north of the Yangtze River and the canal, it became one of the important stations of merchants in Kanto.

Two years ago, countless merchants flocked in and transported ships of goods here for distribution, so many people here had a Kanto accent.

Ningwu Town, where Yangzhou is located, was also the governor of the Wei family. Li Yi and the Wei family had long been in-laws. Moreover, the Li Yi, the governor of Chengdu, was born in a large family. He came from the Li family of Zhaojun, which is five surnames and seven families. The origin of the Li family of Zhaojun is the second largest branch of the Li family, second only to the Li family in Longxi. His origin was Li Mu, the second son of the Grand Tutor of Qin Li Ji. Li Ji was the fourth brother of Li Chong, the ancestor of the Li family of Longxi. Li Mu was a famous military general during the Warring States Period. He was the prime minister of Zhao State and was named Wu'an Jun. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Li family of Zhao County, the Li family of Longxi, the Cui family of Longxi, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Zheng family of Xingyang, and the Wang family of Taiyuan, the five major high-ranking clans of the Central Plains. The Li family has many branches, prosperous culture and prominent official positions. Over the years, there have been seven prime ministers.

In order to appease Li, Wei arranged Li Yicheng here. After Li Yicheng took office, he was not as arrogant as other governors. He valued people's livelihood very much. He was very popular with the large-scale water conservancy process during his tenure. In addition, a large number of merchants have recently poured in, which made Yangzhou even more prosperous. However, now, Li Yicheng has encountered a huge trouble.

A month ago, the second prince's edict had already been sent. After reading the edict, Li Yicheng immediately found several of his tribes to discuss it. In the end, they wanted to see the wind direction. After all, Yangzhou and Qin Shaoyou's territory were not bound by each other, so they would not be furious. Although Li Yicheng was a generous and humble person, he might not be willing to let him easily incorporate Ningwu Town into Shence Mansion.

At this time, the report was sent. When Li Yicheng went straight to Ningwu Military Mansion in Yangzhou, he received the report and was shocked. Then he ordered someone to invite some of his confidants.

He sat behind the case and waited for everyone to circulate the news. He then smiled bitterly: "The Wei army attacked Zhang Xian in one fell swoop. Now Zhang Xian has been escorted to Luoyang. Qin Shaoyou seems to be determined. Alas... How can there be so many troubles in this world? Alas..." He pursed his lips and was unwilling to say more. In fact, in essence, Li Yicheng is a non-dispute person, and he is really willing to give up. But the problem is that he knows that he represents the Li family of Zhao County. If the people in the clan see that he gives up so easily, he is afraid...

Most of the friends here are Li's disciples and former officials. After reading the urgent report, their faces suddenly changed.

Qin Shaoyou still took action.

I originally thought that Qin Shaoyou would be distracted from dealing with Guanzhong, but now it seems that people are sharpening their knives at various towns at all. Some even muttered to themselves, in this way, wouldn’t Qin Shaoyou draw out the troops from Hangu Pass? This is even more strange, why didn’t the Wei family move?

In any case, Qin Shaoyou established his power, and someone sighed: "Qin Shaoyou has strong soldiers and horses, now with more than 400,000 armors, and the army is so strong. Who in the world dares to take the lead? Zhang Xian is also a powerful leader, and he also has 30,000 troops, but so what? The Wei army suddenly became defeated after the sudden attack. In just a few days, in my opinion, Ningwu Town is definitely not an opponent of the Wei army. Qin Shaoyou took Zhang Xian, and he must kill the chicken to warn the monkey. The governor, if anyone is dissatisfied, he guessed that Zhang Xian will end up. The subordinates did not increase the aura of other people and destroy his own prestige. But now, there is still a little trick to turn things around."

As soon as the speaker finished speaking, someone sneered: "Why did Mr. Zhao say this? Qin Shaoyou really acted so powerful? He was just a surprise attack. Although he had many soldiers and a large number of generals, the Ningwu army was only 30,000, but the governor was quite popular in Yangzhou. Besides, the princes of the towns in the world were certainly afraid, but if the governor was willing to compile a letter to join the towns at this time, would Qin Shaoyou be afraid at all? Qin Shaoyou had 400,000 troops, but each town also had a million troops. How could he be afraid of him? He was just scaring. He could not attack Zhang Xian today and attack our Yangzhou next time."

The previous person hurriedly said, "This is a bad word. Although there are millions of troops in each town, they are from all over the world. Even if the governors of each town are willing to unite, Qin Shaoyou's disaster is right in front of him. If he takes the initiative to use troops, the towns next door will be willing to rescue, what about Jiannan and Longxi towns? They cannot save the nearby fires. Even if they have the determination to burn their boats and are willing to conspire with the governor, but when their troops arrive, Yangzhou is afraid that it will fall. A gentleman will not stand under a dangerous wall.

, This is the unchanging truth of eternal people. I have to increase the anger of other people. Qin Shaoyou has already made it clear that the Wei family’s seven towns have surrendered, and Qin Shaoyou has not made any trouble. Even Qin Shaoyou, the Wei family’s Qin Shaoyou, is willing to accept it, let alone the governor? Zhang Xian, who refused to surrender, has now been destroyed by a family. How miserable, isn’t this lesson enough? Governor, please think twice and never take this huge risk, otherwise…”

Li Yicheng was a little irritated. He felt that both sides had a reason, but now he continued to delay, obviously he was very unwise. He said, "Unity? This is harder than climbing to the sky. Now all the towns in Hebei are at the mercy of Qin Shaoyou. Zhang Xian has become a prisoner. The towns in Shandong are afraid that they will be shaken. Are the governors of the East and West Roads of Jiangnan and the West are counting on? Alas, this governor is really in a dilemma. It's better to go to Luoyang. If you don't go, it will be too late."

He said he was going to Luoyang, but the others looked at each other.

However, many people think carefully and think that this is the only safe way. As long as this is the case, there seems to be nothing to say. They bow their heads to the point of being obedient, at least they will not lose their wealth.

Li Yicheng sent everyone away, and then ordered people to set off.

In fact, Li Yicheng was in a hurry to go, and he had no choice but to do it. The Wei army could almost go directly to Yangzhou from the canal. If they took action, the next one might be Ningwu Town. Ningwu Town is an important place connecting Jiangnan and Jiangbei. After all, it would be possible to make the Jiangnan towns surrender. If they were one step late, it would be impossible to say that the Wei army would be at the city.

He set off the next day and arrived at Luokou by water.

He has been to Luokou many times. Just like when Wei appointed him as the governor of Ningwu Town, Li Yicheng took a boat to Yangzhou from here. But now he is revisiting his old place, but he is still shocked.

Luokou was indeed the key to the Grand Canal. When the imperial court still controlled the world, almost all the grain taxes from Jiangnan and Jiangbei were escorted to Luoyang from this golden waterway. Therefore, although Luokou was only an affiliated place of Henan Prefecture, it was still prosperous at the time. Although it was not as good as Yangzhou, it was even better than ordinary prefectures.

But when he revisited his hometown and arrived here, he was still shocked by the prosperity here.

The endless cargo warehouse is located on both sides of the shore. The embankments on both sides have obviously been reinforced. A dozen miles along the embankment are densely packed with people. Countless trestles extend out of the riverbed, and cargo ships are everywhere. The nearby lakes have become docks for mooring ships. After entering the dock and boarding the shore, behind this cargo warehouse is a huge city.

It was already dark when we got ashore, and it was almost night. However, this city was obviously a city that never sleeps. At this time, the lights of thousands of families had already lit up, and the shouts were even more lively than the markets in Yangzhou. There were almost no houses here, and there were only countless inns. These inns could not see the end at first sight. Almost all the merchants and followers passed by were merchants. Therefore, although the inns were as numerous as stars, they were already crowded at this time. In addition, there were countless wine shops, tea shops, brothels, singing and dancing, which was very lively.

As soon as Li Yicheng registered the case, a local envoy brought people to meet him and arranged for Li Yicheng to stay in the county central office for a night. Then, Li Yicheng set out towards Luoyang.

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If you have to say that Luokou is a huge city for people to rest and get to the rest, then Luoyang can almost be said to be the largest city in the world.

Luoyang is more than ten times as prosperous as Luokou. There are countless exquisite mansions, and there are glamorous people on the streets, so that Li Yicheng, who had served as an official in Luoyang, couldn't help but be stunned at this time.

Because he discovered that he had lived here for seven or eight years, he was now extremely unfamiliar with Luoyang and could not even find his former residence.

Here, the garrison was obviously a little more stringent. When he entered Luoyang, he ordered people to go to Shence Mansion to report. He thought that someone would come to pick him up to Shence Mansion tomorrow, but he expected that just after he settled down, teams of people came to the place where he lived.

Qin Shaoyou came in person.

Li Yicheng never expected that Qin Shaoyou would be younger than he thought. After the two looked at each other, Qin Shaoyou pursed his lips and said, "But Governor Li of Ningwu Town?"

Li Yicheng hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "I have met Your Highness." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!