across mountains and seas

Jing Yuan sent Cao Yang to the entrance of the stone city tower, respectfully bowed to Cao Yang, and did not say much.

Cao Yang took a deep look in the direction of Haicheng thoughtfully, then turned around and walked to the carriage. When he lifted the curtain, Madam Ye in the carriage had already left.

"When did you leave?" Cao Yang asked the driver.

The coachman replied truthfully: "As soon as the son-in-law entered, Madam Ye left."

"Yeah." Cao Yang responded briefly, then got into the carriage, "Go back to Dongfu Prefecture."

"No." The coachman took the order, turned the carriage around, and drove away.

Cao Yang leaned against the wall of the car, lifted the curtain, and said to Jin Wei who was on the horse, "You lead someone to follow Mrs. Ye, and report her whereabouts at all times."

The guard took the order, "No!" Immediately turned the horse's head and led a group of light cavalry to go.

Cao Yang lowered the curtain, only to feel his forehead twitch violently.

Dong Jingshi is indeed the best collaborator, but this last condition is too aggressive.

There are many empty titles in the imperial court, even if Jing Lan is granted a marquis directly, it will not be a problem.However, such a false title must not be what Jing Lan wanted.

The Dongjing family is located in the corner of Andong Fuzhou. If the imperial court wants to show enough sincerity, it must give Dongjing a real official position.Looking at so many official positions, the one that should be given the most is the post of Governor of Dongfu Prefecture.The governor can be in charge of the military administration of Dongfuzhou, which can be regarded as a reassurance for the Dongjing family from the imperial court.

Once the Jing family assumes the role of the governor of East Fuzhou, it is bound to develop power in East Fuzhou in a legitimate way.Dongfuzhou is the last barrier before Lidu, and it is the only state capital that the imperial court can control.Cao Yang did not dare to give this place to the Dongjing clan.In case the Dongjing Clan becomes powerful and suddenly turns around and takes Lidu first, all these years of planning will be in vain, and the Dongjing Clan will make a wedding dress for nothing.

However, if the alliance with the Dongjing Clan is not made, it will only be a matter of time before the Lidu City is destroyed if the imperial court is so weak and exhausted.When Cao Yang thought of the bad debts of the imperial treasury, he felt his head hurt even more.He is still worried about the military pay for the second half of this year. Once it is allocated, he can only hope that there will be no natural disasters this year, otherwise the imperial court will have no money left to allocate funds for disaster relief.

The mountains and rivers are fragmented, and there is a gambling game in front of them-whether the Dongjing family has the "ambition" to compete in the world?

If he wins, the imperial court can relax, and the great wish in his heart may be realized.

If you lose, the Great Liang will decline and the dynasty will change.

The Cao family, which has been prominent for hundreds of years, will end up in the same fate as the Ye family in the previous dynasty. They will be exiled outside the customs and will be slaves forever.

"Yeshi..."

More than 200 years ago, Kyushu was not the Kyushu of Daliang, and the mountains and rivers were just as precarious.General Zhechong Chu Ba led three thousand brothers to start a family, and conquered Daliang's country step by step.The dynasty was changed, and the clans of the previous dynasty were expelled from the pass, and driven into the thousands of miles of desert in Xishenzhou.

Chu Ba issued a special decree. From now on, the Ye family in Jiuzhou, Daliang will be slaves forever, and the Ye family's children will never be hired, and the Ye family's daughters will be slaves on their behalf.

The Ye family had lived in the desert for many years, and intermarried with other races in the desert. Over time, they became the aliens in the population of Daliang.

After more than 200 years of suppression of slavery, the Ye clan no longer had the noble lineage it once had.In Daliang, no one would marry a woman of a foreign race except the people in the Jianghu.Although the women of the foreign race were born beautiful, no one dared to gamble on the official career of the descendants, and they were only greedy for these foreign women for a while, and discarded them after playing.

Mrs. Ye approached Cao Yang directly in Lidu.

Just because of Ye's power behind her in the desert for many years, and because she is Ye Zhen's niece of the late wife of the Dongjing family's head, Cao Yang had to meet her.

There are too few chess pieces available in the imperial court, so it is not for nothing that they are delivered to the door.

What's more, she also brought a Dongjing family's secret - the Dongjing family has a mechanism beast that can defeat thousands of troops. If you can build one, you can build a second, third, or even more. If they can get the support of the beasts, the imperial court does not need to raise more soldiers, and most of the monthly military pay can be saved for other places.

It's not that Cao Yang never thought of wooing the Dongjing family, it's just that the Dongjing family has avoided the world for many years, and I'm afraid he won't easily agree to cooperate.

"My son-in-law only needs to go to a show, if it doesn't look good, just pretend I haven't been there." Madam Ye said.

Cao Yang frowned, "What are you planning?"

"Aunt Ye really died strangely, and Mrs. Jing has avoided seeing us Mrs. Ye for many years. For decades, we have not been allowed to enter the city to worship Auntie. There must be a ghost among them!" Mrs. Ye directly explained the reason for her visit, "I want to ask someone Answer."

"How do you know that the Jing family has a mechanism beast?" Cao Yang asked suspiciously.

Mrs. Ye replied seriously: "Decades ago, my aunt once wrote to grandpa about Jing's secret research and development of the mechanism beast. Not long after grandpa received that letter, my aunt heard the news of her death. Think about it, son-in-law, How can there be such a coincidence in the world?"

Cao Yang nodded, "Okay, I'll go with you to Dongfuzhou to watch this show." After a short pause, "How do you plan to force that mechanism beast from Haicheng out?"

"Jing Duo, the eldest son of the Jing family, died at the hands of Shurawei, so as long as he is willing to spend money this time, he will be able to buy Shurawei and attack Haicheng again." Madam Ye said firmly, "Don't worry about this matter, I will It can be done well. I think Shura Tingding also hopes to slaughter Haicheng as soon as possible, lest those wolf cubs in the city grow up and be retaliated against."

Indeed, I saw this scene today, and I also saw the legendary mechanism beast.

Cao Yang needs to think about it quietly, how should he gamble in this endgame, so as to have a greater chance of winning?

At the same time, in the main hall of Haicheng, Jing Tan asked that sentence.

"Sister-in-law, what kind of tiger skin do you want?"

Liu Xi smiled slightly, and looked at Jing Lan firmly, "Governor of Dongfu Prefecture, Alan, do you think this official position is awe-inspiring?"

Jing Lan frowned, "You want Cao Yang to give us East Fuzhou?"

"Not bad." Liu Xi answered simply.

Jing Lan gasped, and said in a low voice, "You open your mouth like a lion, and you have a big appetite."

Liu Xi smiled lightly, and his eyes fell on the evil spirit in the court, "I don't know how to open my mouth like a lion, it's good to open my mouth with evil spirit."

Jing Tan was shocked when he heard that, "Sister-in-law, what are you and Xiao Wu going to do?"

Liu Xi replied in a deep voice: "Haicheng has always been passively beaten. If the situation is not broken, it will only become more and more difficult. Today, the Asura Court can think of using children as a shield to attack Haicheng. I don't know what other tricks they will come up with tomorrow." Another attack?" As she spoke, she shook her head, "They bit us, not only will I have to pull out their teeth, but I will also take their nest!"

"The most important thing for you is to take good care of your injuries!" Jing Lan said suddenly.

Liu Xi was stunned for a moment, raised her eyebrows, and asked in a cold voice: "What if I don't listen?"

Jing Tan felt that the atmosphere was not right, the two seemed to be fighting.

Xiao Wu started to be indifferent again, and his sister-in-law started to be aggressive with Xiao Wu again. The only one who can solve this problem is mother.

Jing Tan quickly thought of a countermeasure, and said with an apologetic smile: "Xiao Wu, sister-in-law, I remembered that my mother told me something just now, so I will go to my mother first..." After speaking, Jing Tan quickly left the main hall.

Jing Lan said displeasedly: "This trick again! Move Aunt Hong here every now and then!"

"Alan." Liu Xi called her suddenly, her tone softened a lot.

Jing Lan replied coldly, "What?"

Liu Xi said solemnly: "Mr. Chen in the recording room died last night. No, it should be said that the inner ghost wearing Mr. Chen's human and leather mask died last night."

Jing Lan was shocked, "Dead?!"

"Uncle Jiu said, he is the ghost we have been looking for." Liu Xi deliberately repeated the words "Uncle Jiu said", "What do you think?"

"If the ghost was really him, we would have been poisoned to death." Jing Lan didn't believe that Mr. Chen was the ghost, but Uncle Jing Jiu was so sure that there might be other evidence.

Liu Xi nodded, "So?"

"So you go back and rest!" Jing Lan glared at her fiercely, "I don't even look in the mirror, my face is as white as something..." Halfway through the "fierce", Jing Lan thought to herself that she seemed to be talking too much Then she changed to another thing, "Remember to close the doors and windows before you cry when you go back." After finishing speaking, she was going to ask Uncle Jing Jiu to clarify.

Heh, this girl actually still remembers this!

Liu Xi said softly: "Wait!"

Jing Lan stopped and turned around, "What advice do you have?"

Liu Xi deliberately walked very slowly, approached Jing Lan slowly, and made a gesture to help Jing Lan straighten her clothes, "The owner of the family must be prudent in doing things, don't always be reckless like a monkey in a hurry..."

Jing Lan was rarely so close to her, and seeing Liu Xi's pale face more clearly at this moment, she couldn't help but sullenly said, "Take care of yourself first, then talk about me."

"Here... there is a light blue crescent moon tattoo." Liu Xi poked Jing Lan's heart with his fingertips, speaking in a very low voice, enough for Jing Lan to hear clearly.

Without waiting for Jing Lan to reply, Liu Xi took a step back and smiled softly, "The Patriarch has an order, how dare you disobey? Sister-in-law is obedient, go down to rest first."

Jing Lan turned her face away, this troublesome woman is getting more and more "presumptuous"!

After all, uncle and sister-in-law are different, so it's better to stay away from her in the future.

Having made up her mind, Jing Lan walked out of the main hall with Ning Guang in her hand before she left the main hall, and went to ask Uncle Jing Jiu for a question.

Liu Xi watched Jing Lan walk away with a smile, her smile gradually faded.

If the Dongjing family wants to survive in this troubled world, the first step is to have a legitimate identity in the court.With this status, it is only natural to recruit troops and expand one's own strength.

Only when a person is strong enough can he be invincible and hold his life firmly in his own hands.

Before Jing Lan is completely strong, she will be Jing Lan's sharp claws and rise up in East Fuzhou, so that everyone in Haicheng can sleep peacefully and don't have to worry about the Shura Guards attacking again.

Jing Tan quickly invited Aunt Hong, along with her third younger brother Jing Yuan, when the three of them arrived at the main hall, they found that Jing Lan and Liu Xi were no longer in the main hall.

Jing Tan called the maid from a distance to come over, "Where are sister-in-law and Xiao Wu?"

"Back to Second Young Master, the young lady has gone back to her room to rest." The servant girl replied, "The young master left with his sword in hand."

"Strange?" Jing Tan waved his hand to signal the servant girl to step back and help her, and at the same time was full of doubts—clearly sister-in-law didn't follow her just now, why did she suddenly listen to Xiao Wu's words and go back to rest?

Aunt Hong let out a long sigh, and said distressedly: "Xi'er is a sensible person, so naturally she wouldn't care too much about Xiao Wu, and she has suffered a lot."

Jing Tan hesitated to speak.

Aunt Hong asked directly, "Just say what you want to say."

Jing Tan whispered: "Sister-in-law is such a good person, do you really want to live with such a person?"

Aunt Hong shook her head, "Of course not!"

"Mother, I want my sister-in-law to go, but I don't want my sister-in-law to go." Jing Yuan also couldn't bear Liu Xi, "For some reason, I feel at ease every day she stays in Haicheng. But I don't want my sister-in-law to be like this." A person dies forever."

Aunt Hong sighed softly, "If she wants to leave, I will definitely not stop her. But if someone bullies her in the future, I will definitely come to the door with a knife and beat that person hard!"

"I'll go too!" Jing Tan and Jing Yuan said in unison.

Aunt Hong patted the two of them on the shoulder in relief, "Okay! I'm going to take Xiao Si and Xiao Wu with me!"

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, Jing Tan's eyes dimmed, and he subconsciously looked in the direction of Liuxi's small courtyard. Although the cornices of the small courtyard could not be seen here, as long as Jing Tan knew that Liuxi was there, his heart would be at ease many.

if……

Jing Tan was startled to realize that his thoughts were overstepping, and hurriedly suppressed these unsettled thoughts, and buried them deeply in his heart.

The author has something to say: Gengwen~ Mrs. Ye is the niece of Yezhen. In fact, she is considered to be of the blood of the former emperor's family. Of course, the Ye clan is also a force. The story slowly develops.

Jing Xiaowu: Second brother, you are a little dangerous.