After leaving the resting pavilion, Xu Chong took the tiger servant and walked forward along the avenue.
I looked up at the sky and saw that the sun had begun to set in the west. I guessed it would be about four o'clock in the afternoon.
He lowered his head and looked at the Qiankun bag, which was already filled with mung beans.
Since it was less than five miles away from Liangzhou City, Xu Chong did not transform into green soldiers to help carry things, mainly because he was afraid of causing misunderstandings among the Liangzhou City defense troops.
Without the help of the mung bean soldiers, the tiger servants were covered with packages and followed closely behind Xu Chong.
Mainly because the six heads of the Six Evils of Liangshan took up space, but for the tiger servant who had already broken through to the elite monster level, it was nothing at all.
Fortunately, the temperature is relatively low now, so the heads are not rotten, but there is just a slight smell, which is difficult to detect unless you are close to them.
If it had been summer, these six heads would have been extremely putrid and miserable.
As the master and servant strode towards the front.
Soon, a majestic city appeared on the distant horizon.
The most powerful city in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty: Liangzhou City is already in sight!
From a long distance away, people can clearly see a dark black solid city wall standing on the plain, with almost no ends visible on the left and right sides.
The city wall is five feet high and extremely thick.
As Xu Chong followed the flow of people entering the city, he kept approaching the city. Due to swallowing the red fruit, his eyesight was now excellent.
From a distance of several hundred meters, one could clearly see that many soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in yellow were stationed on the strong and majestic city wall.
Especially through the wall stacks above the city head, you can even faintly see groups of soldiers holding long guns, patrolling back and forth to change defenses.
Under the southern defense of Liangzhou City, the city gates are double-opened, with the left gate going out of the city and the right gate entering the city.
Xu Chong followed the crowd entering the city and headed directly towards the city gate on the right.
Outside the city gate, there are routine inspections by officers and soldiers, as well as offices for minor officials.
When entering the city for the first time, you must show your household registration, certificate of residence, Taoist talismans and other things, which are included in these Xu Chong parcels.
In addition, when foreigners enter the city for the first time, they have to pay taxes, register, and then hand in important items such as their household registration certificate, and then they will be issued a temporary waistband with identity information engraved on it.
With this temporary waist card, you can freely enter and leave Liangzhou City in the future, but only within Liangzhou.
Wait until the day comes when you no longer want to stay here or want to go elsewhere, then go to the relevant departments in the city to hand in your temporary badge and exchange for your household registration certificate.
Anyway, when entering Liangzhou City for the first time, there will be some cumbersome processes and procedures...
In this world of Xianwu, the mobility of people is not very high.
If ordinary civilians have no backing and no money, the government will not allow them to run around.
Ordinary people can't go anywhere except staying in their hometowns and farming. On weekdays, going to the county town to attend a rally means traveling far away.
Of course, except those homeless bandits.
Currently, within the Tang Dynasty, the three major categories of people with the highest mobility and freedom are immortal masters, warriors, and literati.
There are also some special industries such as caravans, escort agencies, etc. However, they generally carry road signs and flags. Under normal circumstances, officers and soldiers will directly let people go without any special interrogation.
It took Xu Chong some time to successfully lead the tiger servant into the city.
Liangzhou City is worthy of being the most majestic city in the northwest.
The city was bustling with traffic and bustling to the extreme.
Especially brothels, there are many...
But the Dou Spreader dismissed it because he had more important things to do, and he carried the heads to exchange for money.
A fairy seal was stamped on the middle of the tiger servant's forehead. The content of the seal was very simple and crude: Demon!
There were many immortal masters in the Tang Dynasty, and they were accompanied by demon servants. Therefore, when entering the city, you must put the immortal seal on them.
After being stamped with the Immortal Seal, if the demon servant commits a crime in the city, it will definitely leave a special aura. As long as someone reports it to the government, the government will soon send people to track down and arrest him.
After entering the city, Xu Chong immediately went to the Yamen. He must exchange the heads of the Six Evils of Liangshan for the reward. Otherwise, if he waits another day, it will really stink.
Sure enough, Xu Chong's guess was correct. There was indeed a reward for the heads of the Six Evils of Liangshan, but not a lot.
Except for the head of the alliance leader Zhou Tiequan, which was worth one thousand taels of silver, the other five heads together were only worth five hundred taels.
A total of one thousand five hundred taels of reward silver was exchanged.
To be honest, this is much less than Xu Chong imagined.
"The heads of the Six Evils of Liangshan must be more than this. There must be something fishy in them..."
Now, Xu Chong had almost eight thousand taels of silver in his hands.
Such a huge sum of money should be enough to last for a long time.
There was no place to stay that night, so Xu Chong had no choice but to run to a famous brothel in the city and stay there for a night. He spent a little money and a few curvaceous, flower-like girls made the immortal very happy.
The next day, I still had no place to stay, so I had no choice but to go there again and was still very happy.
On the third day, Xu Chong finally settled down.
I spent several hundred taels of silver to buy a fairly spacious courtyard in the city, and then hired a housekeeper.
The housekeeper's name is Wang Fu, and he is an old man who seems to be somewhat loyal. Since he is a local and is familiar with everything in Liangzhou City, he is asked to buy all the furniture for the new house... and all the miscellaneous things.
Butler Wang is very reliable and hardworking.
That afternoon, the entire house was clean, bright and brand new.
You only need to bring your bags and check in directly.
In the evening, after dinner, Xu Chong sat leisurely in the living room drinking tea, looking at his newly bought house, feeling very happy.
It has been more than three months since I traveled to this world of immortal martial arts.
From today on, he finally has a house in this world that can protect him from wind and rain.
Steward Wang bent over and stood aside respectfully, saying: "Everything that the Immortal told me to buy has been taken care of. If there is anything else that I haven't done well, please ask the Immortal to tell me."
Xu Chong took a sip of hot tea and said with a smile: "You have worked as a housekeeper for many immortal masters before. You should have more experience in this matter than me. If there is anything you need, Butler Wang will take care of it."
After hearing this, Wang Fu thought for a while and asked respectfully: "When the immortal comes to the city this time, does he plan to live alone and cultivate, or does he want to go on stage?"
Xu Chong said: "For now, I plan to go on stage to become an immortal. After all, it is our duty as monks to be able to subjugate demons and eliminate evil for the people."
"The philanthropic mind of an immortal is admirable!"
Wang Fu added: "If the immortal wants to go on stage in Xianwufang, he will have to hire two fairy boys. If he is at home, he will also have to hire a cook, a maid and two servants."
Xu Chong nodded, "This matter will be left to the housekeeper Lao Wang."
"By the way, Butler Wang, I plan to go on stage at Xianwufang tomorrow. I wonder if there are any rules and etiquette there?"
Steward Wang thought for a while and said: "Xianwufang is under the jurisdiction of the City Patrol Department. Generally, if an immortal warrior wants to enter Xianwufang to perform on the stage, he must first pass the test of the City Patrol Department. Only after passing the test can he be qualified to enter it and perform on the stage.
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Xu Chong learned from Wang Fu that Xianwufang was a special area planned by Liangzhou officials, specifically for those immortal masters and warriors to do their work.
There are a total of ten prefectures and ninety-three counties in Liangzhou, which is larger than any province on Earth in its previous life.
Within each jurisdiction of these prefectures and counties, there will definitely be various murderers, criminals, or monsters.
If we only rely on the Demon Suppression Department and the six doors, we will definitely be overwhelmed, after all, the manpower is limited.
For example, Liumen, they usually only put their limited manpower on those major and important cases, and arrest some relatively powerful felons from the imperial court.
The same goes for the Demon Suppression Division, which will only subdue those old demons that cause harm to one party.
As for the remaining small shrimps, the City Patrol Division will select some of them that are more powerful, or the largest ones to take over.
And for the remaining caterpillars, the City Patrol Division can't take care of that much. After all, manpower is limited, and good steel must be used on the blade.
Therefore, we can only let each prefecture and county government find a solution on their own.
However, some thugs, criminals, and demons are more or less troublesome, and the various prefectures and counties have nothing to do with them. If they are reported to the City Patrol Department, they will be recorded as incompetent. Once again, these local officials will
The black gauze hat may not be guaranteed.
Therefore, many times, officials in those prefectures and counties, and even many victims, would rather pool their money and go to Xianwufang to hire someone to solve the problem, rather than reporting it easily.
The Tang Dynasty officially supports this kind of thing, so a special area like Xianwufang will be set up in every state city.
To put it bluntly, the immortal masters and warriors in Xianwufang are all bounty hunters.
They not only take jobs from ordinary people, but also from the yamen of various prefectures and counties. Like some powerful immortal masters and warriors, they even dare to go to the City Patrol Department to receive bounties.
But to enter Xianwufang to take the stage, you must pass the test of the City Patrol Division.
If you don't have any real skills, it's impossible to let you in.
The so-called test is when the city patrol department asks you to capture a murderer or to eliminate an evil spirit.
You can be one person or a group of multiple people.
After passing the test, you can enter the Xianwu Square to take the stage, and at the same time obtain the talisman to participate in the Xianwu Conference.
This can be regarded as the screening before the Xianwu Conference.