The city of Wangzhou is now built in the north shore of the Qionghai Sea, the south side of the North Mountain, the city is not big, the square is square, the east and west, the north and south of each city wall have a length of about 600 zhang.
The rammed-earth trapezoidal walls are more than five feet high, and the weeds and blooming wildflowers that grow from the walls sway in the wind, telling people about the ancient city of the city.
Coincidentally, similar to Luoyang, the city of Wangzhou is also divided in two by a river.
It's just that Luoshui runs through the city, dividing the whole city into two parts, north and south, and the Lulin River, which originates in Zhaojue, now the East River, meanders straight into the city, and it also divides the city into two halves.
It's just that the river comes from the north and divides the city into two parts, east and west.
The sea is open, the distant mountains and jungles are lush, the reeds on the bank of the Lulin River are like clouds and mist, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the city of Wangzhou is like a famous pearl inlaid here.
In the city, Xicheng is the most prosperous place, the governor's mansion, the assassin's mansion, and the county government club are all concentrated here, as well as countless merchants, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, as well as the mansions built here by merchants and some tribal leaders and leaders.
Hedong is a different scene, with smooth and cut pastorals, graceful willows, winding paths, and simple and elegant alleys, full of a pastoral style.
However, Hedong is not all farmhouses, such as Tonghai Lane is a very prosperous wharf, and you must pass through here to go to Qionghai; Fish Market Street is the most prosperous aquatic product wholesale market, and all kinds of aquatic products are used; Yingchun Lane is the concentration of Flower Street and Willow Lane, where the green building concentrates women from various places and races, with different styles, beautiful and generous, it is the favorite place for literati and scholars, officials and businessmen to stay in the gold cave.
Connecting the east and west of the river are three wooden bridges, the middle one is the most wide, from which most of the city's residents travel between the east and west cities, so that many vendors came into being on both sides of the bridge, and various stalls and sheds squeezed the wide and flat road on both sides into a laneway, and the road was full of such stalls on both sides.
There are a lot of stalls are very miscellaneous, there are all kinds of snacks for sale, there are also handicrafts for the people of various tribes, as well as for the sale of jewelry and satin cloth transported from the Central Plains, if you have leisure and leisure, you might as well go around on the stalls that sell small handicrafts, and you can not turn out of three stalls, you can find a beautiful girl who is as handsome as a flower and pure as the Lulin River.
The deep mountains breed handsome birds, and the firewood houses are beautiful.
Don't look at her in a patched shabby dress, and her black and shiny hair is not a hairpin, but when her big black and white, innocent eyes look at you, you will feel that the fairies in the sky are no different.
Such a place is not like heaven on earth, this is heaven, but hell is also with it.
Hidden beneath the tranquility and serenity of this small city lies violence and iniquity.
The people here are fierce, and it is common for them to draw swords against each other if they don't agree with each other.
There are no city orders with whips or clubs to maintain order in the market, and the order of the small town is maintained by the customs and habits that have been passed down for thousands of years and the spontaneous force of the people to maintain its balance.
The emperor is far away, so this place has become a paradise for outlaws, and many criminals who are wanted for crimes in the Central Plains have fled here to form gangs, like wolves foraging in the wilderness.
However, the fierce folk customs of this place suppressed their fierce flames, although they did evil, they did not dare to be blatant, and the main way to make money was smuggling, and tried not to compete with the local people for food or against them.
In the face of such simple and fierce people and ubiquitous outlaws, the most clever means for local officials is to adopt the method of ruling by vertical arches and doing nothing, and allowing the localities to develop according to the rules and norms formed spontaneously over thousands of years.
The officials only need to make friends with the heads of the tribes and maintain good relations with them, which is enough to ensure that the local peace is too peaceful during their tenure, because even if there is any conflict between the various departments, or even a large-scale tragic armed battle, hundreds or thousands of people die, the leaders will also use their own rules of survival to solve it.
No one is willing to be an official, they are the emperor here, no matter how big the trouble is, they will solve it by themselves, relying on the government is not only incompetent, it is taking the initiative to hand over their power Most of the officials stationed here by the imperial court were also reluctant to make trouble, and the most common thing they did was to collude with the chieftains, scheming, plundering property, forming friends, and promoting their children, who were willing to ask for trouble, thus making the local people even more ignorant of their existence.
Yang Fan led the horse and walked slowly in the bustling crowd.
He had been in the Western Regions for more than half a year, and had even been to the Tubo Royal City and the Turkic Xue Yantuo City, which enriched his experience, and although there were many strange costumes and people here, they were not as strange as what he had seen in the South Seas, so he was not too surprised, and quickly adapted to the atmosphere here.
The ethnic composition of the people here is extremely complex, and in order to communicate, most of the people of various nationalities speak the official dialect of the Tang Dynasty, although it is inevitable to have a strong local accent, Yang Fan can still understand it.
He chased Huang Jingrong all the way, and after he arrived at Jiannan Road, he heard that Huang Jing, the imperial historian, was assigned to Shuzhong to investigate the Liuren, and Yang Fan followed Huang Jingrong's footsteps all the way.
Yang Fan had just arrived in this city, and he had already inquired about a few garrison officers and soldiers who had come to the city to drink and eat fish, and Huang Jingrong had already arrived here, and the local officials and chieftains were setting up a banquet for him.
He didn't bring anyone, and it was useless for ordinary soldiers to bring three or five, so they could only add trouble to his itinerary, and he promised Princess Taiping in person, but he didn't want her to worry.
After he made arrangements for Sun Yuxuan and Ma Qiao, he took the holy decree appointing him as the ambassador of the governor of Zhudao, and chased him alone.
As long as Huang Jingrong has not revealed his bloody mouth, devouring the lives of those innocent wanderers, and using their blood to stain his splendid future, there is no need for Yang Fan to reveal his identity, after all, he should have just arrived in Chang'an at this moment, without his guard of honor and two deputy envoys, his sudden appearance here is likely to expose the fact that he disobeyed the holy decree.
A beautiful girl walked in the crowd, looking at the dazzling array of goods on the stall with great interest.
Those handsome little village girls who are naturally beautiful and don't know it will also feel jealous when they see her.
Their beauty may have their own merits, but their temperament is different.
If those beautiful little village girls are like the clear stream under the bridge, this girl is like a bright white cloud in the sky, if those beautiful little village girls are the fairy daughters in the sky, then this beautiful girl is Chang'e in the Moon Palace.
The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, fair-skinned, wearing a snow-white smock and beard skirt, an emerald green tie around the waist, and a pair of black satin short-waisted leather boots at her feet, which looked playful and lovely.
There were three or four silver rings around her neck, and there were bells of all sizes on the silver rings, and all kinds of silver ornaments on her hair ornaments, and there was always a pleasant jingle when she walked.
Especially her long legs, which make people impressed at first sight.
Her legs are slender and long, accounting for more than half the length of her body, and they are as slender and graceful as the legendary merman, and when they shake, they naturally have a very seductive sense of rhythm.
When Yang Fan saw her beautiful and lovely appearance, her eyes suddenly lit up, beautiful women will always attract the attention of men.
Of course, this beautiful girl attracted more than one gaze, and several men in the crowd also stared at her at the same time.
Yang Fan's gaze was an appreciation of beauty, but those few eyes were full of greed.
A few unkind-eyed outlaws have quietly stared at this girl, these people really don't dare to make trouble in the public, although the official mansion here is a decoration, but there are strong people here who are difficult to keep their rules.
But this does not mean that these outlaws will never be traitors in their duty, if in a place with few people, they do not mind taking this beautiful girl away, if this exotic beauty is transported to Yangzhou and sold to those salt merchants, in exchange for money can let them live comfortably for a lifetime.
They followed them for only a while, and then gave up their plans to take them captive.
The girl looked playfully around, seemingly alone, but about ten steps behind her, she was always followed by four white-robed men who were not smiling and had serious expressions, all of whom were wearing a Yu knife.
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Seeing the Yu knife they were wearing, the outlaws who were stunned noticed that the girl's charming gourd had a crank short sword hanging from her waist, and the short sword was as delicate and graceful as the girl's body, which was clearly a sheath.
As a result, a few desperate evil thoughts disappeared without a trace as if a snow lion had encountered a fire.
This girl, they can't afford to mess with her, whether it's beautiful or rich, it's better to live than to live, they fled here from the Central Plains, isn't it just to live, there's no reason to crash into the ghost door by themselves.
It was nothing that the girl was dressed in white, but it was obvious that the four strong men who were her entourage not far behind her were also wearing white robes, it was no coincidence, they must be white barbarians.
The white barbarians and the Wumanians are the two largest ethnic groups in the southwest region, the Wuman, dressed in black, the length of the clothes covers the knees, and they live by herding and do not know how to farm.
Bai Man likes to wear white clothes, no longer than his knees, ploughing and weaving agricultural mulberry, which is similar to the Han people.
Since the Shu Han Dynasty, the Baimantou people have often been held official positions in the Central Plains court, and their writing and language are also similar to those of the Han people, and most of their tribes are monstrinized Han people.
Therefore, it is richer and more powerful than the barbarians, but it retains the bravery of the barbarians.
Don't offend the locals, especially the local clans, this is the first rule of the Central Plains outlaws to save their lives here.
Moreover, judging from the decorative weapon worn by this girl, it was clear that she was not an ordinary white barbarian, let alone someone they could provoke.
Because the short sword she wears is a "sheath", which is a sword that only barbarian kings can enjoy The sheath is the first of the three most famous weapons in the Southwest.
The shape of the sheath is like the blade of a halberd, the handle is decorated with gold, and its blade is extremely sharp, don't look at it small and slender like a toy ornament, but it can sharpen iron like mud, blow hair and break hair, and pierce the thorns, which is a precious weapon worn by the king of the southwest tribe.
The four white-clothed men who followed behind were equipped with Yu Dao at their waists, which was second only to the Duo Sheath in terms of nobility, and the same as the Duo Sheath, the casting method of the Yu Dao was also secret, and only the senior craftsmen of the barbarians knew its casting method.
The blade of the Yu knife was quenched with strange poison, and the throat was sealed with blood.
These two weapons are not something that ordinary barbarians can wear, and ordinary barbarians wear at most one: "Ronin Sword", so just from the weapons worn by these people, those experienced Central Plains outlaws can guess that this girl is extremely noble, and it is not something they can afford to provoke.
A few outlaws quietly retreated, and the girl in white didn't know that there were a few blind guys just now, planning to kidnap her and sell her to those fat-headed and big-eared salt merchant giants in Yangzhou as concubines.
She looked around, looking at everything interestingly, bouncing and jumping like a little sparrow foraging, and in a short time she bought a mess of knick-knacks, and held them in her arms.
As she walked, she saw a stall selling all kinds of ornaments made of horns, it seemed that she was tempted again, she stood still, holding a bunch of useless things that she might not not look at all after she bought them back, tilted her head, a pair of beautiful big eyes flickered and didn't know what she was thinking, and then suddenly a joyful voice shouted: "Sister Xun'er, Sister Xun'er" On the road ahead, a little girl suddenly saw her, and immediately ran over with a cry of joy, and threw away the old family who was following her.
"Ha Xiao Xuelian, I was just going to find you" The girl in white saw the little girl who ran to her, and she smiled brightly, she quickly greeted her, and handed the things in her arms to the little girl, so panicked that the little girl hurriedly picked up her skirt and grabbed it, and the girl in white who came out of her free hand pinched the little girl's pink face affectionately, and said with a smile: "Yo has grown taller again, look like this, I will soon be my sister-in-law."
When the little girl heard her teasing, her face turned into a lovely red apple.
The little girl is picturesque, happy and angry, although she is only twelve or thirteen years old, she is already a beautiful embryo, it seems that a few years older, she will really become a beautiful big girl.
Yang Fan led the horse, and was about to pass by them, but when he heard their laughter, he glanced at them curiously, and suddenly stopped, and his eyes widened in shock.
If it weren't for the girl in white who called "Snow Lotus", he might not be able to recognize it even if he walked opposite the little girl, but he had already heard the name Snow Lotus, and then looked at her appearance, although the female college had changed eighteen, but the little girl Snow Lotus had not grown up after all, so she vaguely saw a little familiar charm.
Yang Fan was surprised: "Yang Langzhong's family, how could they appear here?"
To be continued: