Chapter 16: Provocation ()

With a modest and leisurely smile, Wuqi stood beside Lu Chengfeng with his hands behind him and looked up and down at everyone behind Yi Yan.

In addition to Lu Chengfeng, the newly appointed Dianjun, Yi Yan also has three most important officials, Dian official, Dianmin and Dianxing, from Xiaomeng City.

According to the control of the Dayan Dynasty, the suzerain of the Lü Kingdom, the city guard was responsible for the work of a certain place. The Dianjun was fully responsible for the military and military of the army, the Dian officials were responsible for the supervision and assessment of the officials, the Dian people were responsible for the people's livelihood production, and the Dian criminals were responsible for the daily public security of the criminal law. The four official positions were responsible for the city guard, but were independent of the power of the city guard, and there were also supervision and restraint between each other. It was a complete and thorough official system.

Xiaomeng City is located in a remote place, surrounded by original primitive forests, but due to the abundant resources, the oil and water are very rich every year. Although Yi Yan is full of treasures, the three Dian official, Dianmin and Dianxing in the city are also full of jewelry, which is as gorgeous as a jewelry booth.

Wuqi looked at the people around Yi Yan warmly, and he found many good things worthy of his efforts. His hands behind him rubbed each other, and his fingers trembled excitedly. The bright world was not a good time for him to rob, but he had to wait.

As the city guard, Yi Yan introduced the officials who were accompanying Lu Chengfeng. After listening to Yi Yan's introduction, Wuqi suddenly grinned. The Dian officials, Dianmin and Dianxing of Xiaomeng City were all members of the Yi family. I believe they all came to Xiaomeng City to work and make a fortune.

With Lu Chengfeng's introduction, the officials stepped forward to greet Lu Chengfeng. Although the position of Dianjun is important, it is not worthy of such respect for these people. The identity of Lu Chengfeng, the eldest son of the Lu family in Liyang, was the most important reason for Yi Yan to come out of the city gate to welcome him. It was also because of this identity that other officials of all sizes were so polite to Lu Chengfeng.

After a greeting and saying polite words that almost made Wuqi yawn, Yi Yan held Lu Chengfeng's hand intimately and took him to the city guard palace in the city. Other officials surrounded the two of them, chatting and laughing, talking to Yi Yan and talking to Lu Chengfeng. It was a harmonious scene, as if the entire Xiaomeng City was welcoming Lu Chengfeng, the new army.

Following Lu Chengfeng, Wuqi looked at the small Mengcheng while walking.

The road surface in the city is pretty good. It is paved with rough hexagrams dug from the mountain. There are also ditches three feet wide on the roadside, which leads to the clear water in the ditches and flows. The sanitary conditions in the city are very good. On the roadside, which is three meters wide, there are rows of restaurants, shops, inns, and houses. The tallest building is only three-fold. The brick, stone, civil and wooden structure is paved with green tiles.

The brigade of the brigade could be seen at any time on the road. The vehicles were filled with various mountain goods, animal skins, herbs, ores, and the beams were almost broken. Following the brigade were all the strong men with high cattle, big horses, strong and brave men, wearing soft armor, holding sharp swords, and full of evil spirits. They were obviously all heroes who were honed in the field of life and death.

The restaurants, shops, and inns on the roadside are mostly evil men who blow their noses and stare at each other and draw their swords at each other. Sometimes there are some slim women wearing red and green incest and slim women coming in and out here, and their voices are indulging in and out with those evil men.

Xiaomeng City is very prosperous, beyond Wuqi's expectations. This prosperity carries a savage and rude atmosphere, and a deformed prosperity, but Wuqi likes this taste. He took a few deep breaths and he really likes this taste.

Whether it was the convoy on the road or pedestrians, they all retreated to both sides of the road and made way for a highway. In the barbaric place of Xiaomeng City, Yi Yan represents the national law and the most powerful force within a radius of hundreds of miles of this city. No one dared to violate the majesty of defending a city.

From time to time, there were also a team of city guards wearing black clothes and black armor patrolling the road. When they saw a group of people, the city guards hurriedly retreated to the side of the road to salute. Wuqi looked at these city guards, but found that their cultivation and spirit were much worse than the Tianzi Bing camp sent to Mengcun, and it seemed that they were just face-saving.

After walking three miles along the road towards the city, a magnificent mansion rose up in front of the ground.

This mansion is about a mile long and wide, with a protective wall outside. This wall is much more atmospheric than the city wall of Xiaomeng City. It is made of bluestone strips, which are five meters high and three meters thick, and its defense is at least ten times that of Xiaomeng City's wall.

On the wall, soldiers with brightly-clad armored and energetic clothes wandered back and forth, guarding the mansion tightly. Compared with the soldiers outside the gate of Xiaomeng City, the patrol soldiers here are absolutely elite, while the soldiers guarding the gate are garbage-like goods.

Yi Yan showed a smug smile, and he pointed to the mansion and said with a smile: "Lu Dianjun, this is the city guard's mansion, which is where we live and work in our daily life."

Lu Chengfeng looked at the small castle in surprise and said in surprise: "Oh? The public housing of the city guards and Dianjun, Dianjin, Dianjin, and Dianxing are all here?"

Yi Yan patted his belly with both hands and swept up a snow-white wave of flesh. He sighed: "Xiaomeng City is located in the wilderness, and it is very dangerous around it. Those barbarians cause trouble every now and then, and the city walls outside do not bear the trouble. Those barbarians often go into the city to burn, kill, loot. For the safety of all the lords, it took me two years to build this city guarding mansion!"

The three members of the Yi family, Dian, Dianmin and Dianxing, were hurriedly flattering and praising Yi Yan for spending huge sums of money to build such a city guard for the safety of the officials present. This is really a contribution to the present and a great success. In the future, many adults who took over the city guards of Xiaomeng City will be grateful to Yi Yan for his style of planting trees and later generations to enjoy the shade!

Wuqi sniffed heavily, and he asked in a thick voice: "Since you have money to build the city and guard the palace, why not build the outside wall? If there is a strong city wall at one point, wouldn't it be better to block the barbarians?"

Dian Li, Dian Min, and Dian Xing were all surprised, while Yi Yan was covered in white flesh like snowflakes and shivered. He screamed in a sharp voice: "No money, really no money, how much tax revenue will be in this ghost place in Xiaomeng City last year? The city guard's book is really no money. The wall repaired has exhausted the tax revenue of the city guard's next ten years, and there is no money to build the outside city wall!"

Don't have money? Wuqi turned his mouth aside. He just quickly glanced at Yi Yan's jewelry worth a huge million.

Lu Chengfeng laughed dryly for a few times, and didn't say anything. He looked at the many patrol soldiers on the wall, and then looked back at the two teams of the City Guard patrols escorting them here, rolling their eyes without notice. The on-duty soldiers in the City Guard Mansion were much more elite than the City Guard patrol team.

After a complicated ceremony that made Wuqi confused, Wuqi followed Lu Chengfeng into the city guard mansion. The seven car drivers and the slaves who drove the car were arranged into the Dianjun mansion in the city guard mansion. A luxurious house with three fronts and three backs, and dozens of maids and maids were arranged in advance.

Wuqi also saw Lu Chengfeng's seven carriages for the first time. In addition to Lao Hei, Xiao Hei, a black father and son, there were eight maids, eight servants, and two wet nurses who were breastfeeding.

Wuqi also learned from Lu Chengfeng that this wet nurse was the candidate for the medicine.

Human medicine! Wuqi has a little more understanding of this world.

After a quick arrangement of the maid and maid, Yi Yan sent someone to invite Lu Chengfeng to the banquet to greet the wind.

The reception banquet was arranged in the inner hall of the city guard's mansion. The promising people included all the officials of Xiaomeng City below Yi Yan, and there were more than 200 people in the messy ones. As Lu Chengfeng's disciple, Wuqi was naturally qualified to promising. Under Yi Yan's personal reception, he sat behind a desk behind Lu Chengfeng.

The spacious inner hall is enough to accommodate four or five hundred people. In the middle of the meeting, Yi Yan sat cross-legged behind the case. On both sides are seats for the four major officials of Dianjun, Dianjin, Dianmin and Dianzheng. Except for Lu Chengfeng, there is only one Wuqi behind him, and there are three or five or more guests behind the other three.

Except for these five, the other officials were divided into three rows in the lobby, one left and one right, according to their official positions, and a total of six rows of cases were arranged.

Wuqi looked at the strip about three feet long and one and a half feet wide in front of him. It was made of heavy wood. It was covered with dozens of layers of bright lacquer, which could be seen by people. The paint surface was inlaid with fine geometric patterns with gold and silver threads, which were very dignified and generous but magnificent.

The inner hall of the banquet was paved with red sandalwood floors, and each person sat down was a thick and soft cashmere blanket, which was very gentle and comfortable. There were two rows of large pillars in the hall, made of a whole piece of golden nanmu, carved with dragons and phoenixes, flowing gold and colorful, and the magnificent spirit came to the face.

The ceiling of the inner hall is also made of red sandalwood ceiling, with dozens of lanterns hanging on it, which makes the lobby lights clear and dusty. In the corners of the inner hall, there are branch-shaped candlesticks, and the bright big candles are burning vigorously. I don’t know what spices are mixed in the candles, and a refreshing and warm fragrance flows in the air.

Just now, Wuqi took a shower in Dianjun Mansion, wrapped his bare head with a headscarf, changed into a comfortable and loose silk robe, and stepped on a pair of warm cloth boots under his feet. At this moment, he was soaked by the warm fragrance in the air, Xunshuangran felt that she wanted to fall asleep.

Yi Yan's style is very luxurious, but Wuqi admires this luxury very much. At least, it is much more comfortable than the conditions in Meng Village. Wuqi is not an ascetic monk, and can make himself feel more comfortable. Why does he have to endure hardship?

After thrusting his waist vigorously, Wuqi sat upright behind Lu Chengfeng, constantly looking at the other officials sitting in the lobby.

The others were all focused on Lu Chengfeng, constantly showing his bright smile to Lu Chengfeng. As for Wuqi, except for a few little maids standing beside him, no one paid attention to him.

Suddenly, he heard Yi Yan's applause, and he shouted loudly: "All people are here? Come, wine comes, let's welcome Lu Dianjun. From Liyang to Xiaomeng City, we worked hard for thousands of miles. Lu Dianjun thought it was hard for him!"

Hundreds of maids walked out from the back of the hall like butterflies, and placed a bronze wine lord in front of everyone, injecting fragrant wine.

Everyone raised their glasses and shouted to Lu Chengfeng: "Lu Dianjun worked hard all the way, and worked hard all the way!"

Lu Chengfeng raised his wine glass, stood up with a smile and said a few humble words to everyone. After a series of polite words, everyone drank the wine.

Yi Yan clapped his hands again. This time the maids served various delicacies, dish by plate, bowl by bowl, and bowl are full of delicacies. Each dish is not large in weight, but there are many varieties. The strange fragrance is elegant and makes people smell it and their index fingers are thrilling.

Wuqi hadn't had a serious meal for several days. Seeing the delicious wine and food in front of him, he hurriedly grabbed the chopsticks, picked up a bright yellow trembling elastic deer tendon and stuffed it into his mouth. The meat was fragrant and the juice was plump, and it was indeed very delicious.

While enjoying the delicacies in his mouth, a muffled sound suddenly came from the lobby, and a bronze wine lord was thrown to the ground and smashed into a copper cake.

A burly man sitting upright behind Yi Xing, stood up and shouted sternly, "Where did the savages from the mountains and forests come from? Do you understand the rules? The adults have not spoken yet, and you have eaten next to you?"

Many people in the hall looked over, and a little oil was slowly dripping from the corner of Wuqi's mouth, which was very eye-catching under the light.
Chapter completed!