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Chapter 4 Yunzhou City - Gathering of All Forces

Hurrying is boring. Zhao Jun, who has lived in the Bianjing Imperial Palace since he was a child, has never even been out of the palace a few times, quickly changed from being excited about the surrounding scenery to boring.

The official road in this season is not like the road in the previous life, there are various scenery around it, except for the high speed, it basically runs through the city.

Almost all the official roads are four or five miles away from the nearby city, and there are only endless wilderness and bare roads around. There is no one around, and no one lives in this wilderness.

Unless you rush to the next city, you can see the faintly visible villages rising from the distance from the occasional fork in the official road. The rest is the same wilderness, which is boring and boring.

In this way, Zhao Jun and his entourage headed north along the official road, passing through many cities, and finally arrived at Yunzhou County after three months.

As I said before, Yunzhou County was not originally the boundary of the Song Dynasty. It was newly attached 50 years ago. It used to be a frontier area of ​​the Song Dynasty. Liaobei County, which is close to Yunzhou County, used to be almost a military The town was specially set up for the defense of the northern border.

With the annexation of Yunzhou County, although Liaobei County has not completely recovered into a normal state and county, the military towns adjacent to Yunzhou County have been abolished a lot, and they no longer have the chill and aura of being a border military state. Solemn.

However, it may be that the imperial court was also worried that the newly attached Yunzhou County would surrender and rebel. Therefore, on the surface, Liaobei County has gradually normalized, but the garrison troops have not decreased at all. .

This not only saves the imperial court's large expenditures for comprehensive defense, but also reassures the imperial court that it will not have no resistance in the event of an accident in Yunzhou County.

This also led to Zhao Jun and his party being strictly interrogated by the garrison troops in Liaobei County even though they revealed their identities when they left Liaobei County.

Not for anything else, just to check just in case, Zhao Jun and his party easily left the checkpoint and came to the boundary of Yunzhou County.

The most different between Yunzhou County and other land boundaries in the Song Dynasty is that it is a special state county with a large area of ​​grassland and part of the land adjacent to Liaobei County belongs to the plain.

In addition to the villages that can be seen from time to time when just leaving the boundary of Liaobei County, what the team faces is the endless grassland and the occasional large tracts of cattle, sheep and horses driven by herdsmen tribes. group.

That is the real beauty of seeing cattle and sheep in the wind and grass.

The beauty of the scenery is beautiful, but when you travel for a day and a night without seeing a city, and finally you can only camp in the wilderness, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it becomes a place where birds don't shit.

Accompanied by the complaints that gradually sounded in the team, the team finally arrived at the destination of the trip, Yunzhou City, after half a month after constantly asking the herdsmen they met for directions!
The only city established by the Song Dynasty in Yunzhou County, the administrative center of the Song Dynasty to control the entire Yunzhou County!

Even though he was prepared in his heart, the corners of Zhao Jun couldn't help but twitched fiercely when Zhao Jun jumped out of the carriage and saw the crude city building in front of him, which was said to be a city, but could not even be compared with an inferior city in the inland area. Down.

The dilapidated city wall made of stones less than two people high, and the crooked city guards standing at the gate who were still dozing off.

This dilapidated appearance is just like a refugee city that was crudely built just after a disaster!
"This fucking is really "simple" enough!"

A word of emotion or complaint that he couldn't tell was spit out from Zhao Jun's mouth, and a touch of bitterness floated on Zhao Jun's face.

There is no other way, with the current conditions, it seems that in the past few years, I will be busy with some things in the future. If I want to live a good life in the future, then the hard work in the early stage must be indispensable!

After tidying up the complicated emotions in his heart, Zhao Jun shook his head and returned to the car helplessly, and immediately ordered to enter the city.

The news of the arrival of Zhao Jun, the vassal king, quickly spread to Yunzhou City, and everyone in Yunzhou City who had some strength got the news.

In the center of Yunzhou City, a large building that is much better than the messy tents or stone houses around it, the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion, soon gathered a lot of people.

Li Yi, the current governor of Yunzhou County, looked at the huge crowd of people below, their heads grew big!
Originally, after receiving the news of Prince Yun's arrival, he immediately wanted to go to meet him, but before he could even get out, he was blocked in the Sheriff's Mansion by these ghosts and snakes who rushed to the door.

Among them were his subordinates, as well as Cheng Cheng, the highest military official in Yunzhou City, Xiangjun Defense Envoy.

Of course, more are the tribal chiefs under the jurisdiction of Yunzhou County in Yunzhou County, as well as some families who moved from the inland and settled in Yunzhou County.

These people represent all forces in the entire Yunzhou County.

On the side of the Sheriff's Mansion, Li Yi, the Sheriff, represented the administrative power of Yunzhou County Dasong, that is, the strongest force on the "surface" of Yunzhou County.

The highest military officer, Defense Envoy Cheng Cheng, represents the military force of the Song Dynasty in Yunzhou County. The Yunzhou garrison of 2500 people is the military power base that guarantees the basic interests and control of the Song Dynasty court in Yunzhou County.

And those tribal leaders represent the tribes in Yunzhou County, and they form the basic board of the entire Yunzhou County, which is equivalent to the clan forces in various places in the interior.

The remaining group of people with the smallest number is the branch of some families who migrated from the inland of the Song Dynasty. The power they have should not be underestimated. stable.

But what they hold in their hands is the trade chain between the mainland of the Great Song Dynasty and Yunzhou County!

Yunzhou County is located in the grassland, so it can be said that the supplies are extremely scarce and lack everything.

In order to maintain the stability of Yunzhou County, the court of the Song Dynasty opened the trade authority between Yunzhou County and inland cities after Yunzhou County was attached to the Song Dynasty. Entering Yunzhou County ensures the stability of Yunzhou County.

And some of these families saw the benefits, so they migrated some branches to Yunzhou County to settle down, and gradually controlled the various channels of the Song Dynasty to Yunzhou County by virtue of their own power in the inland of the Song Dynasty. Monopolized the trade channels of these materials and made a lot of profits from them.

Use some extremely cheap inland materials, such as iron pots, tea dregs, and the lowest-quality salt, to exchange batches of high-quality war horses, cattle and sheep from Yunzhou County, and hand them over to the inland to earn higher profits.

So don't look at the fact that these inland family forces have few people in Yunzhou County, but their status in the entire Yunzhou County is also very important.

Almost every tribe has a relationship with them, almost in a state of semi-restraint. After all, herdsmen are also human beings, and as human beings, they have to eat and have enough to eat!

If you want to have enough food in Yunzhou County and get those inland materials that are not easy to get in the Song Dynasty, you have to be coerced by these families who control the trade channels.

And there is only one purpose for these people to gather here after receiving the news that King Yun, the vassal king of Yunzhou County, has arrived in Yunzhou City!
That is, in the future, the calm situation in Yunzhou City under the current balance of forces among all parties will change because of this King Yun who came to Yunzhou City from Bianjing?

If so, how can they maintain their own interests during these changes?

Therefore, as soon as they received the news, they came in a hurry and blocked the way of Li Yi, the prefect.

Dragging this county sheriff, the highest chief executive of Yunzhou City on the surface, to the sheriff's mansion, he must give them an answer, or a reassurance!

Li Yi said in his heart: "I'm going to your mmp, I'm not sure about my future, you ask me to explain it to you, who the hell will show me a clear path?!"

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