Realm of Power

In June, when war was raging in the waters of southern China and Libya, there was a rare excitement in southern China.

During the three hundred years of prosperity of the Zhongbia Empire, the great eastern empire, and after encountering several purges by the grassland people going south, in these short but long years, the Zhongbia people have begun to Gradually, they got used to war, getting used to being displaced, getting used to death, and getting used to misfortunes again and again. But this time, the news coming back from Deyang made all the Central and Bian people feel inexplicably excited.

For the first time, Zhongbia’s own army used its own strength to withstand the abuse of the cavalry going south. And it was not the grassland people in front, but the Falcon Empire, which is known as the best in armor in the world. News spread. From disbelief at the beginning to confirmation of this fact, China and Biaru have experienced a roller coaster.

"Have you heard, we defeated the emperor!"

"The so-called emperor is nothing more than that. I thought it was a tiger, but unexpectedly it was a soft-legged cat. It just touched him lightly and scared him away!"

The hall was filled with the sounds of people talking, and the air was filled with various playing and singing songs that composed lyrics and music about the Deyang Great Victory. I heard that the imperial army was marching south, and the wealthy gentry and wealthy households who had fled were returning one after another. The entire country , it seems that after the battle in Deyang, I feel that I have returned to the era when China and Libya were eyeing all directions in the Eastern Continent.

"It's so good. This battle can be regarded as the confidence of my country. I haven't been so happy for a long time. Didn't you see that those imperial Western barbarians are all dressed like iron cans, and the long swords in their hands are bigger than any other person?" High, but because it was too long, before it could be swung, it was attacked by our Chinese and Belgian troops. We fought hand-to-hand, and the weapon was too long. It's just a burden, but these Western barbarians from the empire don't know. How do they know what melee combat means? They were immediately beaten to pieces by our Chinese and Belgian soldiers..." A group of guests were getting excited, and one of them, a businessman from Deyang, was... Dancing and dancing, the Battle of Deyang was vividly described, as if it was what he saw next to him.

This businessman's eloquence is also amazing. When he talked about the wonderful things, people around him kept cheering. In fact, everyone knew that what this businessman said was unreliable, but they could hear the cruel words of Bingjia No. 1 The Falcon Empire can feel proud and proud from the very core. Who cares whether it is real or not?

There was also a young man who was slightly unconvinced and said, "I don't believe that the Western Barbarians of the Empire were so invincible. Think about how powerful the Long family was back then. They marched north and fought for more than a thousand miles, killing grassland people and corpses all over the fields. But in the Western Barbarians of the Empire, We still suffered a loss. I heard that more than 100,000 Long family troops died in the southwest alone, otherwise the Song people would not have been able to escape from the southwest."

Because the empire comes from the Western Continent, and is said to be even more barbaric than the brutal northern grassland people, the name Imperial Western Barbarians has spread like wildfire in Central and Southern China who don’t understand the empire.

"The Long Family? What is that? How can it be compared with what is in front of me? The Long Family is not worthy of its name. The Empire defeated 200,000 people in the southwest battle. They are just trying to gain fame and reputation. They are the local army. How can they compete with me in China and North Korea? "Compared to Tang's regular army." The businessman heard someone retort, and when he saw that it was a young man with a vigorous face, he said with a slight curl of his lips.

"But wasn't it that our Central Asian runner-up was defeated by the grassland people several times..."

"Nonsense, that was in the past, well, now our country has stronger soldiers than Bia, even the Yelu family dared to sign a peace agreement with us, otherwise we would have retaken the Imperial Capital long ago."

"Yes, if the Long family was strong, why would they run back to the southwest?"

Others said one after another that most people thought that the Long family suddenly retreated to the southwest. In fact, they knew the news of the emperor's southward movement in advance. They were so frightened that they left the court and the entire south ran back to the southwest. This theory was also expressed in the court. With the help of the ministers, it spread most widely among the people.

In a box in the tavern, a short and sturdy man wearing a Central Asian robe was looking at a courtyard outside the window. He didn't care at all what everyone in the tavern said. In front of the position, six sharp-eyed guards blocked everyone's route. It can be seen that this strong man is not an ordinary person.

"Master, these people are simply..." A guard heard all kinds of slander against the Long family coming from the main hall, and his face turned red with aggrievedness.

"What? Can't you bear such a little grievance?" The strong man with a deep face grinned, and his eyes were as sharp as a knife. His joints were thick, and his hands were obviously much longer than normal people. The thick calluses are like a layer of withered yellow, even though he is dressed like a scholar Although he wears long robes, but the bow-legged legs that sit open are enough to prove that this is a man who rides a horse all year round. He is none other than Long Po, the head of the Southwest Long Family. I am afraid that the Zhongbia court will not even think of it, making them itchy with hatred. The head of the Southwest Long Family is actually at the Longchang Port controlled by Zhongbia at this moment.

"No, it's just that what these people said was too unpleasant." The guard lowered his head in embarrassment and quickly explained.

"When the Long family was in charge of the court, we tried our best to suppress the civil servants and promote the status of military generals. We have already offended the civil servants to death. Now that we have this opportunity to add insult to injury, the civil servants will naturally not let it go. We want these civil servants to go It’s impossible to fight, but we’re making it up behind our backs The rumors are fanning the flames, but each one is more powerful than the last. If you hear these words too many times, it is just like that. Can our Long family still let them say that they will die? "Long Po paused for a moment and smiled coldly. "If he is so powerful, he will not be killed. The grassland people lost the Imperial Capital twice! "

Long Po looked out the window with a nonchalant expression. It was an old Beiyuan building. Over time, it had become calm and graceful, and the courtyard was mottled and ancient. The outline of the former mansion can still be seen clearly, but it was sealed up by Longchang Mansion. The courtyard where people used to come and go has now grown bushes and weeds, and the valuable items in the rooms have long been moved away. The window lattice has become worn out and mottled.

If Long Po had not been here before, it would be difficult for Long Po to connect this shabby courtyard with the once famous Wu family. The entire Wu family in Longchang Port disappeared overnight. Long Po didn’t know the news until he arrived in Longchang

Long Po came to Longchang Port by water for one purpose: weapons. The Long family needs weapons.

The Wu family is the largest arms smuggler in the Liucheng Port. Ever since the Long family turned against the empire, arms transactions have been cut off. Although they later reconciled with the empire, the empire still maintains an arms embargo on the Long family. Long Po has no choice but to choose Although the number of weapons smuggled by the Wu family is in the hundreds or even thousands, facing the Long family's army of more than 200,000, this quantity can barely guarantee replacement.

Just two months ago, the Wu family received 100,000 gold from the Long family and promised to provide 3,000 sets of infantry equipment. But now, the weapons promised by the Wu family have disappeared like stone.

This time, Long Po came in person to make the Wu family's conspiracy a reality. The three hundred Long family dead men who accompanied him had arrived at Longchang Port in batches. Long Po had already planned it. Regardless of whether the Wu family's conspiracy or not, Everyone must cough up double the compensation, otherwise the Wu family will be completely removed from Longchang. Anyway, without the Wu family, there will be other families smuggling weapons.

But Long Po didn't expect that what he got after arriving in Longchang was the news that shocked him. The Wu family was wiped out. The Wu family was the dominant force in Longchang Port. They had considerable support in the court and held six cities. The arms smuggling in Hong Kong is far more powerful secretly than it is on the surface. It is said that the Wu family has an armed smuggling team, and they are all pirates who kill without blinking an eye. Such a force is unparalleled in Longchang. It’s gone, and the attitude of the Longchang Mansion is even more ambiguous. It is said that it is sealing the mansion, but in fact, what is the difference between it and sheltering?, His eyes swept back and forth in the abandoned mansion below, Long Po’s fingers tapped on the table, the Wu family’s The weapons are hidden in the cellar. This is not something too confidential. If the Wu family is finished, the Wu family's cellar may not be saved. I just don't know who has this batch of weapons.

"Master, the situation is clear!"

A Long family guard dressed as a civilian hurriedly walked upstairs, glanced over, and walked towards the box where Long Po was. He opened the door and whispered in Long Po's ear for a while. The eyes under Long Po's brow became more and more intense. It's getting brighter and brighter, and he murmured in a low voice, "The Lu family and Lu Yangyu are back,,,,, it's no wonder, considering the Lu family's position in the officialdom of Liucheng Port The force that covers the sky quietly destroyed the Wu family and sealed it completely. It was really a matter of hands. "Long Po naturally knew about the Lu family, the number one official family in Liucheng Port, and this As the leading figure of the Lu family, Lu Yangyu is also the person who has high hopes for the Lu family, a wealthy family in the region, to rise to an important position in the central court.

Ordinary people might have scruples about the Lu family, but Long Po would not. Although the Long family is now at odds with the Zhongbia court, it is not something that just the Longchang Mansion can compete with. Lu Yangyu was the one who fought to death in the first place. He is a second-grade man, but Long Po is the former Prime Minister of China and Bibia, a genuine first-grade man, and He also holds an army of 200,000 Long family troops. The garrison at Liucheng Port is the city guard army which generally has no combat power, and there are only 500 people in number. If you count the free money eaten by the local people, it can be pieced together. Three hundred people are enough to stand up to the sky, and the Long family came this time with three hundred elites who had experienced the horrors of life and death.

If necessary, Long Po can even launch a small-scale massacre of the entire Longchang city.

"Now that we've figured it out, it's easy. Whoever eats it will spit it out for me. Let's go to Longchang Mansion!"

Long Po stood up with a serious face. Things from the Long family are not that easy to get! After leaving the tavern, the city's roads went straight forward. Long Poyue walked forward, looking at both sides of the street. His eyebrows couldn't help but frown slightly. Since the trade routes from Central Asia to the north have been frequently interrupted due to wars, six The maritime trade route at Chenggang suddenly became the most important source of commerce in southern Central and South-Bia. With the increase in the number of merchants coming and going, in addition to the towering business houses, the second most popular one is the brothels and Chu pavilions that opened on both sides of the port street. One after another courtesans and talented women gradually became famous here. The bustling city port has been regarded by many Chinese and African literati as a rare piece of pure land in this war-torn era.

Looking at this scene, Long Po, who was used to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood, looked a little dazed, and subconsciously clenched his fingers together, "Is this what the Long family has been guarding? Thousands of refugees were driven south, and they were homeless. I don't know what will happen in the end." How many people can survive you, and here is playing music every night, just like just now Just like that in the tavern, the Long family, who fought bloody battles for Zhongbia, had only left the court for three or four months. From the time when they single-handedly launched a counterattack against the grassland army and wiped out the Zhongbia people from their race, The Southwest Long Family that was saved from the brink became the Long Family with a bad reputation!

Seemingly overnight, he changed from a hero respected by everyone to a coward despised by countless people. Regarding this, Long Po, the head of the Long family, didn't care. As long as it was beneficial to the Long family, even if he betrayed Zhongbia and What the heck, the Long family has been working for the Central and Asian courts for decades, and generations of people have been bloody. On the battlefield, few men can live beyond the age of forty. The Long family has already done all the loyalty it deserves. If not for the Long family's desperate blow, Zhongbia would have been swallowed up by the Yelu family's cavalry and trampled under the hooves of horses on the grassland. Under this situation, all Central Asians only have the status of slaves. How can these people be here chewing their tongues?

The current Long family is only for themselves. This is the current standard of the Long family. The prestige of the court has been lost long ago. If it were not for the Long family, the court would have been destroyed. Ordinary people in Central and Eastern Asia slandered the Long family and let Long Everyone in the family was tired and vomited blood, and more than 100,000 colleagues fought bloody battles. This was the result. The brave soldiers of the Long family were heartbroken and shattered.

The dream of saving China and Biya, and the dream of saving Tianqingluchen, have been slandered and wasted by various parties.

The elites that the Long family had honed over the past few decades had already died in Yanzhou with the previous head of the family, Long Yang. The following group of warriors were the result of Long Po taking advantage of the Yelu family's strength in just a few years. The knife stone is a bloodthirsty and vicious knife polished with the flesh and blood of hundreds of thousands of people. Among these people are hungry people who are watching their loved ones die one by one in front of their eyes, and some who are suffering from torture. There are slaves who were humiliated by the subjugation of the country, the remnants of the defeated army who were abandoned by the Central and Eastern courts after the emperor escaped, and the survivors who survived the massacre by the grassland people. These people have already died once, so they can be brave and not afraid of death. They Or he may be full of deep-seated hatred for the grassland people, but he will never have the slightest attachment to the orthodox court in Central Asia.

The Long family army turned into the big river and was able to leave at will, regardless of the fact that the emperor was aggressively suppressing the situation. This was the last test stone for Long Po. Those who were disloyal to the Long family and those who did not obey the orders of the Long family were not allowed. Those who harbor ambitions for the Bia court are not wanted. Those who are unwilling to obey the evacuation order are either thrown to the Zhongbia court by Long Po, or are driven out of the Long family army. The current Long family army is the Long family's complete 's private army,

At the gate of Longchang Mansion, Long Po suddenly stopped and his eyes fell on a plaque of the Imperial Bank branch hanging next to Longchang Mansion. Long Po's expression changed, Lu Yangyu? Imperial Bank? That would be really difficult to handle. The Long family has completely embarked on the road of self-reliance in Central and Bia. This is why the emperor agreed to let the Long family army withdraw to the southwest. In front of the entire empire, the southwest of Zhongbia can only It can be regarded as a remote place. If the Long family is determined to stand on its own, there is no need for the empire to fight with the Long family. A mere southwest is nothing to the huge empire! As long as the Long family doesn't jump out to stop the empire from conquering Central Asia! This is a tacit understanding that both parties know well. The Long family knows it, and the empire knows it (.)