Compared with Guan Nei, Xiling begins to enter the cold period in mid-November.

The winter in Xiling is much longer than that in Guan Nei. The weather starts to get cold in October. In November, you have to wear a fur coat. Especially at night, the cold is so cold that it is difficult for people who have just arrived in Xiling from the east to adapt here.

severe cold climate.

Fortunately, the Yuwen family had already prepared winter clothes for the soldiers of the White Tiger Camp.

Over the years, the Yuwen family has never treated White Tiger Camp poorly, and there has always been no shortage of military uniforms throughout the year.

Although the White Tiger Camp has been established as the Protective Army, the Xiling Protectorate really cannot produce thousands of sets of winter military uniforms at the moment. Fortunately, Yuwen Chengling is very sensible in this matter and will send the prepared winter uniforms to him.

When they arrived at the Duhu Mansion, they were distributed to the soldiers of Baihu Camp by the Duhu Mansion.

After Su Changyu came once, no one in the city came to Baihu Camp again. It was not until the Duhufu sent someone over to ask Baihu Camp to send people to pick up military uniforms that Yuan Shangyu sent Qin Xiao and a dozen cavalry to the city.

Transport the military uniforms back.

The news that the Yuwen family was about to move to the customs was not widely publicized, but the Yuwen family began to clean up their houses and properties, but many people knew about it.

This great change did not set off huge waves in Xiling.

Black Feather General Su Shoumo led the Guards Night Crow into Fenggan Mansion City. Although it was low-key, it had already spread throughout Fenggan Mansion City and spread rapidly outward. People naturally still remember that Black Feather General repelled the Wu army sixteen years ago.

The people in the city are naturally happy to hear the Tuo people's past and return to their old friends. After all, in the eyes of the Xiling people, General Black Feather is the nemesis of the Wu Tuo people. As long as General Black Feather and Black Feather Night Crow are around, the Wu Tuo people will not dare to

Give birth to a coveted heart.

Sixteen years ago, the imperial court gave the Xiling family many privileges, and once made the Xiling family the actual controller of Xiling. However, on the surface, the Xiling Protectorate still existed, and the governor's mansions in each county still existed, even in the local area.

The officials at all levels are no different from those 16 years ago, so in the eyes of the people of Xiling, Xiling is still a part of the Tang Dynasty in the past 16 years, and the people of Xiling are still the people of the Tang Dynasty.

They knew that the Xiling clan had great power in this land, but in the eyes of the people, that was only because they were marquises of the Tang Dynasty.

In the past sixteen years, although Xiling suffered from natural disasters and plagues, and the people suffered hardship, the trade between Xiling and Wutuo has slowly recovered, and has become very prosperous in recent years. People even feel that the Wutuo people no longer dare to think about going eastward.

As for the assassination of the White Wolf King, the situation in Wutuo is undergoing drastic changes. Of course, ordinary people cannot know all this.

When General Black Feather came to Xiling, many people thought that he might just return to his hometown to take a look. After all, the general's army had not been mobilized. Even if it was mobilized, it would not be unusual for the imperial army to mobilize its troops.

But many aristocratic families in Xiling know how much this incident has affected them.

The children of the aristocratic families no longer dare to show their teeth in the streets and alleys, and even many children of the aristocratic families who are usually arrogant and arrogant about the principal are simply confined to their homes.

The news of the Yuwen family's migration into the customs cannot be kept secret. The well-informed aristocratic families already know the clues. For this reason, they are even more worried. If the Yuwen family leaves, what will happen to the remaining aristocratic families?

situation?

They have not forgotten that it was not just the three great clans who sat back and watched the bloody battle between the Xiling Protectorate and the Wutuo people. Hundreds of powerful families in Xiling stayed out of the matter. The three great clans were just the leaders.

Already, now that the Yuwen family is moving to the Pass, will the remaining family suffer retaliation from the imperial court?

For this reason, many heads of aristocratic families went to the Yuwen family almost every day to ask for an audience with the old marquis, hoping that the old marquis could give guidance to the major aristocratic families. They did not even know that Changyi Hou had left Fenggan City, and naturally he was regarded as such by the Yuwen family.

Tactfully turn away people.

When Qin Xiao led people to Fucheng, it was not dark yet.

He was thinking of inviting these brothers to a restaurant for a good meal, but he didn't know whether it would violate military law, so he didn't want to delay. He had to do business first, so he went directly to the Governor's Mansion and informed them.

The soldiers from the Duhufu came out and said: "The military uniforms are over there in the warehouse. Come with me to get them." Then he cupped his hands to Qin Xiao and said: "Qin Cavalry School, the general has an order for you to go in." He signaled to the man next to him.

The soldiers led Qin Xiao to see General Heiyu.

The Duhu Mansion is quite grand. In name, it is the highest government office in Xiling. Before the Wutuo Rebellion, it was the office and residence of the Duhu. It is very luxurious.

However, after the Tang army withdrew from Xiling, the Protectorate of Xiling no longer had the authority to collect taxes from Xiling. Instead, the expenses of the Protectorate had to be allocated from the Xiling family every year, and the Xiling family would naturally reduce it for various reasons.

Expenses of the Protectorate.

There are six Cao Cao below the Duhu Mansion. At first, each of the six Cao Cao had their own place to run errands, but now all six Cao Cao have moved into the Duhu Mansion to run their errands, crowded into a courtyard to the west of the Duhu Mansion. Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty wanted to show the majesty of the Celestial Dynasty.

, the built Protectorate Palace was huge and spacious, with many courtyards. Although Liu Cao moved all of them to the west courtyard, it was still barely enough. After all, in order to reduce expenses, Liu Cao also cut many officials, and the few remaining people

Half of them have been doing nothing over the years.

Qin Xiao followed the soldiers and walked around the Duhu Mansion for a long time, marveling at the hugeness of the Duhu Mansion. Finally, he came to a large courtyard and saw two night crows guarding the door. He knew that these must be the black crows.

Where General Yu lives, General Black Feather is probably the only one in the world who can use Night Crow as a guard.

Qin Xiao saw General Black Feather once at the foot of Tiandu Peak that night, but the distance was far away and he couldn't see clearly. The thought of seeing the world-famous General Black Feather alone soon made him really excited.

"You two, this is the Qin Cavalry School." The soldiers from the Protectorate Palace bowed and cupped their hands to the two night crows and said, "I am here to see you on the order of the general!"

The two night crows looked at Qin Xiao at the same time, and one said: "Are you Qin Xiao?" It seemed that he had heard Qin Xiao's name before.

The black-feathered nightcrows that Qin Xiao knew were Su Changyu and Meng Zimo. They were both extraordinary people. He admired the black-feathered nightcrows from the bottom of his heart and immediately said: "I am Qin Xiao."

"So you are so young." A night crow said with a smile: "You are very brave. Did you stand up for Meng Zimo and assassinate that bastard son of the Zhen family?" His tone was quite kind to Qin Xiao.

feeling.

Qin Xiao thought to himself that a lot of people knew about this, and said with a smile: "It's not that I was bold, it was just impulsive at the time."

"If a young man is not impulsive, then he is not a young man." Ye Ya said with a smile: "You are a good boy." He pointed inside and said: "Hurry in, the general has an order. If you arrive, go in and see him directly.

, no need to report.”

Qin Xiao bowed his hands respectfully to both of them before entering the courtyard.

This courtyard is very large. What is different from other places is that there are many trees in the courtyard and the shade is dense, but all the trees are as tall as spears, piercing the sky.

There were several houses on the edge of the forest. Qin Xiao walked slowly over and saw a man carrying a small wooden bucket and a wooden ladle in the other hand. He was scooping water from the bucket to water several trees.

Newly planted saplings.

He was wearing a dark gray cotton robe, simple and simple. He was over fifty years old, but there was no sign of a hunchback on his back. He seemed to have noticed Qin Xiao approaching. He stopped watering his hand and looked up. Qin Xiao hurried up.

In front of him, he bowed and saluted: "Qin Xiao pays homage to the general!"

He really didn't expect that General Black Feather would be dressed like this, let alone that he would water the trees himself.

The general stood up and said with a smile: "You came just in time. You can water the rest. The new seedlings that have just been planted can't be done without water." He put down the barrel and handed the wooden ladle over. Qin Xiao hurriedly reached out to take it.

Afterwards, the general held his waist, walked to the side, and sat down on a big rock.

Qin Xiao carefully watered the sapling. The general watched and gave instructions: "There is no need to water that sapling. For the next tree, don't water it too close to the root. Water to the side." His tone was kind, like an elder teaching.

It is a very important thing for your descendants to do.

"It's just a sapling now. As long as you take good care of it, in a few years, it will be like other trees, towering into the sky." The general said in a gentle voice: "What do they think about integrating the soldiers in the camp into the Protective Army?"

Qin Xiao said hurriedly: "They are all very happy and said that if they have the opportunity to serve the country, they will be loyal to the court."

"It's good to think like this." The general said: "Serving the country is naturally important, but the most important thing is the folks in Xiling. They need to stand up and protect them."

"yes!"

The general looked up at the sky and then said, "Do you have that jade pendant with you?"

"Jade pendant?" Qin Xiao was startled and turned around, but he immediately realized it and hurriedly put down the wooden ladle, took out the tiger head jade pendant that Han Yunong had given him from his arms, stepped forward and handed it to the general with both hands.

Meng Zimo is a night crow, so Han Yunong can almost be sure that he is also a night crow.

When the general mentioned the jade pendant, Qin Xiao didn't react at first, but he immediately thought of the tiger head jade pendant given to him by Han Yunong.

He always carries this jade pendant with him.

The general did not take it, but just said: "We have finished pouring the water."

Seeing that the general refused to accept it, Qin Xiao had no choice but to collect it again by himself. He went over to continue watering the saplings, only to hear the general slowly say: "When Han Yunong handed the jade pendant to you, he naturally didn't tell you the origin of this jade pendant. Such.

There are thirty jade pendants in total. They were made by the palace supervisor of the saint at that time. They were used to reward the thirty black-feathered night crows who attacked the king's tent at night. The saint had an oral instruction at that time that holding this jade pendant would avoid a single death penalty.

.”

Qin Xiao was startled. He knew that this jade pendant was not simple, but he did not expect that it was a gift from the palace and could even prevent death.

"But I begged the saint to take back his life." The general picked up a leather bag beside him, opened the stopper, raised his head and took a sip, wiped his mouth casually, and then continued: "Ye Crow serves the country and serves the country.

As part of our duties, we eat the food cultivated by the people and receive the taxes paid by the people. We naturally have to shoulder the responsibility of protecting the land and the people. There is no reason to avoid death penalty for this. The ancients have said that if a prince breaks the law and the common people
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