Lucheng can be said to be a necessary place for business travel between Jin and Yan. Many places in the city are very close to the cities in Hexi, and most of the streets are small courtyards with pink walls and black tiles.
Chen Hai walked into the small courtyard where Qi Hanjiang and his family had settled. The courtyard was very common. The wall ash was peeling and mottled. The green stone steps and the wall feet paved with green bricks were covered with moss. Two jujube trees were planted in the yard. I don''t know which year they were planted and grew dense branches and leaves. After autumn, they were covered with golden jujubes. At this time, no one thought about picking. Sometimes the wind came in, The dates fell in the brick courtyard, and no one wanted to clean them up.
"These are all flaws!" Chen Hai pointed to the falling dates in the yard and smiled with Qi Hanjiang.
"Ah..." Qi Hanjiang was a little stunned. After a while, he realized where the flaw was. Pinglu grain is expensive. Although gold silk jujube is not a spirit, it also has the effect of nourishing qi and blood. Let it wither and don''t know to collect it. If outsiders see it, does it mean that people in the yard are thinking elsewhere?
Qi Hanjiang also didn''t know how to repent. He ran smiled and said, "I''m careless in everything. I thought of charging the trap. You let me do this meticulous work. How can I be too considerate at a time?"
Chen Hai wanted to temper Qi Hanjiang''s carelessness. Unexpectedly, he broke the jar and fell. He also complained that he sent him over and stared at him without much wordiness.
It was not certain that they were going to start in Lucheng. Wu Meng and Ge Tong lurked in the other two alternative cities with their hands. They haven''t come to meet yet. Only Qi Hanjiang led more than a dozen of his lineal Hu guards and disguised as a small caravan that can''t return to Yanzhou. They have been lurking here for more than half a month.
Everyone didn''t expect that the LORD would sneak into Lucheng to meet everyone, and they all came to salute.
"Don''t be polite in Lucheng." Chen Hai waved his hand and asked everyone to spread out and get busy with what they were doing. There''s no need to get together with him.
Although Lucheng remained neutral and couldn''t help the business travel in and out of Yanzhou, when he came over, he noticed that there were several secret outposts outside the alley, which showed that Lucheng kept enough vigilance against the business travel in Yanzhou concentrated in this alley.
Lucheng is the first city out of tieliuling in the west, and it is also a big city for business travel. It is impossible for Dong Shi not to send people to infiltrate, and even in the name of aboveboard taiweizong, he built a Taiwei guild hall at the entrance of this alley called Wuqiao lane, and sent a leader of the spiritual realm to stay here all year round, so as to provide necessary convenience for business travel from Hexi to Jinzhou.
It''s just that the main business of Taiwei sect here is Du''s children who have deep personal grievances with the Marquis of Zhaoyang Pavilion. Even if Lucheng did not obey the order of rebellious Zhang and expel the people stationed in Hexi at this time, it will certainly strengthen the monitoring of Taiwei guild. Qi Hanjiang and them lurked over and had no contact with Taiwei guild for the time being.
"You ask someone to invite Du Linan over," Chen Hai said to Qi Hanjiang.
At that time, in fujiaoling, Yanjing, in order to rectify military discipline, Chen Hai used a red pith copper whip to execute a staff, abolishing Du Yong, Du''s favorite son of heaven, which can be regarded as a deep personal feud with Du.
Although Du Linan, who presides over the Taiwei guild hall, is a son of Du, Qi Hanjiang and his team have only been lurking in Lucheng for more than ten days, and their entry and exit are still monitored. When it comes to their familiarity with Lucheng, they are definitely not as familiar as Du Linan, who has been stationed in Lucheng Taiwei guild hall for two years.
Jingjue army wants to take Lucheng. Make good use of Du Linan and get twice the result with half the effort.
The business trips stranded in Lucheng in Yanzhou are mainly concentrated near Taiwei guild hall.
As soon as Chen Hai had drunk a cup of tea in the quiet room, Qi Hanjiang had sent someone to invite Du Linan.
Du Linan is less than 30 years old. He is of medium build. He has steady steps and silent stepping on stones. He has achieved accomplishments in the later period of the spirit realm. He is an inner disciple of taiweizong on the seven peaks. In the blue gray coat, he also wore a fox fur and a leather melon hat unique to Pinglu. He was not so much a Xuanzong disciple as a rich merchant of a philistine.
"Hello, Mr. Du. I''m Chen Hai. I''d like to invite you here to discuss some good things." Chen Hai asked Du Linan to speak in the quiet room and brew him a spirit tea himself.
Du Linan came into the yard and recognized Chen Hai through the door.
Du Yong may be a little insignificant in Yanzhou. After all, there are hundreds of disciples like Du Yong in the five-year palace selection. Only people like Chen Hai who can enter the green bird list will shine for a while. However, for Du Yong, who has the opportunity to cultivate daodan, may be related to the prosperity of the Du family after a hundred years.
The abolition of Du Yong is more painful for Du than the death of 100 unimportant collateral children and the destruction of his foundation.
Had it not been for the prince Dong Chou''s forcible suppression, Du had planned to mobilize people to assassinate Chen Hai in Yanjing.
Du Linan was still in the clan at that time. He was also called back to the clan by the family owner to participate in the assassination.
Although this matter forced the aristocratic son Dong Chou to suppress it, the Du clan will not easily forget this hatred.
Du Linan saw Chen Hai''s portrait and knew that Chen Hai was an abandoned son of Yao. At the earliest time, the rumor of the so-called national envoy borrowing troops spread to Lucheng. Du Linan was the first to think of Chen Hai, but he didn''t expect Chen hai to come to Lucheng in person. He was stunned for a while and left without shaking his sleeve. Instead, he came forward and saluted: "Du Linan has seen the national envoy."
Du Linan was not qualified to participate in the establishment of Jingjue capital protectorate by Dong Ning, the princess of Yuecheng, in the depths of the northern desert, and Dong''s support for the Ye''s remnant to establish the West Qiang Royal Army to restore the country. No one even informed him of some more core secrets, but he still knew the general things.
Even though most of Hexi''s protectors and taiweizong didn''t give Chen Hai a formal identity at this time, Du Linan knew that Chen Hai''s horse thieves in the depths of the desert were the foundation for the establishment of Jingjue army, which actually meant that Hexi tacitly accepted Chen Hai''s status in Montenegro; Besides, it is said that GE Xuantong, the chief elder of the ancestral hall, is in charge in Heishan at this time. How can Du Linan throw away his sleeve because of the private feud between the clans?
Chen Hai''s presence in Lucheng is very surprising, but it also means that Jingjue army and ye''s Xiqiang Royal Army have been dormant in Montenegro for half a year without any movement. Lucheng is the next big move.
Du Linan may not be able to think about Du''s private feud with Chen Hai. There is a faint and uncontrollable excitement in his heart. At the same time, he does not expose Chen Hai''s false identity to match the national envoy.
"Can the national envoy allow Li Nan to come as soon as he goes?" Du Li Nan entered the quiet room and didn''t sit down to drink tea, but asked to leave temporarily.
Qi Hanjiang stared angrily and warned Du Linan not to play any tricks under their eyes.
Chen Hai asked Qi Hanjiang to take it easy. Du Linan wouldn''t be so urgent if he really wanted to betray him.
Du Linan could guess what Qi Hanjiang suspected and said frankly, "if you don''t trust me, you can come back to the guild hall with me."
There are several people around Chen Hai. Zhou Jun and Wu Meng became famous first. Ge Tong, Zhou Jingyuan, Shen Kun, Ding Shuang and others have long been on their own. Only Qi Hanjiang, who was born as a Kou Nu, has been fighting around Chen Hai and has no chance to stand on their own. Although Qi Hanjiang took jiuzhuan gold liquid pill in Heishan this time, he opened up the social ancestral orifice to know the sea and step into the Ming orifice before Zhou Jingyuan, Shen Kun, Ding Shuang and Zhou Jun.
Du Linan doesn''t know Qi Hanjiang either, but since Qi Hanjiang doesn''t trust him, he doesn''t mind Qi Hanjiang coming with him.
Qi Hanjiang snorted coldly and motioned the Hu Wei outside the door to let Du Linan leave alone.
Although they only have more than ten people in the yard, Qi Hanjiang still has the confidence that Du Linan really wants to hide some crooked heart to report and break out of the siege to escort Chen Hai out of the city.
Taiwei guild hall is more than 100 meters away from the yard here. Du Linan soon ran back. The cup of tea made by Chen Hai for him has not been cool.
Du Linan moved to Chen Hai and sat down. He put a pile of old and new papers in his hand on the table and said, "these are the data Li Nan has collected in the past two years since he came to Lucheng. Please see it, Ambassador."
Chen Hai came to Du Linan just to know the details of Lucheng. Du Linan naturally knows these materials like the back of his hand and can directly tell Chen Hai. However, due to the old resentment between Chen Hai and Du, Du Linan will discount Chen Hai and Qi Hanjiang if he talks more and more in detail.
Du Linan held all the data he collected in the past two years, which is also convenient for Chen Hai and them to verify whether what he said is based, so as to save a lot of unnecessary speculation.
Chen Hai looked through the pile of materials held by Du Linan, including the topographic map on both sides of the Luhe River, the layout of Lucheng urban defense and official streets and alleys, and the large and small residences of Lucheng five nationalities inside and outside Lucheng.
In addition to the military officers, generals and soldiers of the city guard, Du Linan made a detailed investigation on the scale of the private soldiers of the five ethnic groups, the soldiers'' armour and equipment, the list of the main children of the five ethnic groups, and their division and marriage relationship.
In addition, after Du Linan arrived in Lucheng, the main caravans in and out of Lucheng in the past two years, as well as the guild and defense forces set up by the main patriarchal forces of the Western Qiang state in Lucheng were observed in detail.
Whether old or new, the handwriting of these materials is the same, which shows that these materials were sorted out by Du Linan after he arrived in Lucheng, and sorted out in an extremely detailed and orderly manner.
If Du Yong had not been abandoned by him, he would have stepped into the state of Mingqiao at this time, and would be very likely to build a Taoist pill and become the owner of Du''s new generation in the future. However, in Chen Hai''s eyes, Du Yong is far worse than Du Linan in front of him.
Chen Haishi wondered how Du was willing to send such a son to Lucheng.
Du Linan seems to be on his own when he comes to Lucheng, but due to the dead feud between Hexi and the Western Qiang state 20 years ago, Du Linan''s hosting of Taiwei guild hall in Lucheng is an irrelevant role that may be assassinated by Hu Haoyong of the Qiang at any time.
Du Linan brought this pile of information, which also shows that Du Linan is more eager to make achievements in the face of clan private grievances. Chen Hai guesses that it is probably the same idea that Du Linan will choose to come to Lucheng? If you stay in taiweizong or Du clan, the intelligence like Du Linan has threatened the collateral disciples of the direct branch, I''m afraid it''s even harder to make a head start.