Realm of Power

Rain fell continuously on the green basin meadow in the southwest. Amidst the white rain, a group of more than a hundred black cavalry appeared in the Guangling River in the core of the southwest basin. They looked at the two rivers that had swollen due to rain in front of them. roll over In the huge city, a young man with black hair at the head raised his hand. The hundreds of cavalry behind them stopped their horses neatly. Their uniform movements were like one person. The momentum of the elite from hundreds of battles came towards them, even in this rainy night. Can't cover it up,

"Why is he here!"

Riding on a horse, Long Benliu, the chief steward of the Long family dressed as a scholar in a fluttering blue shirt, saw the black-haired young man raising his hand, and his calm expression suddenly changed slightly.

In order to allow the Long family to send troops to central and central China without any worries, Long Po signed a secret agreement with the emperor before sending troops. According to this agreement, the Long family agreed to set aside three areas near the southern coast and hand them over to the empire for use. The port construction site. After the port is completed, the Long family in the southwest will own one of the ports. The Long family actually does not value the port, but since the empire is willing to take on the construction work, it only needs to come up with a It is not a bad thing for the Long family to get a port for free by dividing the land. The sincerity of the empire is there, and the Long family is also in urgent need of deploying troops from the border to the central battlefield. The empire can take the initiative to show goodwill, which is what they want. As a result, after signing the agreement, Long Po immediately led 20,000 elite soldiers into central China. The empire also abided by the agreement and immediately reduced the original 30,000 troops on the border to 10,000.

It had been two days since I received the letter from the Imperial Council to send people to Guangling to discuss the port construction site. Long Benliu had made preparations early and specially selected three areas near the southern coast. They were not very good, but they all met the requirements for building a port. Conditions, even if the negotiators of the Falcon Empire had objections to this, he could still use the excuse that the other party did not have exact conditions, but he did not expect that this person would come in person from the empire this time.

"If I had known this, there wouldn't have been such a shabby meeting ceremony."

Long Benliu looked angrily and wanted to hit the wall. Although he had never seen the young man across from him, he had heard about this man's deeds from the head of the family, Long Yang, more than once. Even he was known as the number one general in Central and South Africa. The head of the Longyang family also sighed because he thought that if he met this man, he would be waiting for death. This man was the emperor of the Falcon Empire. He only spent five years to destroy the Gallic Empire with millions of soldiers. A generation of military god emperor,

"In charge of the Southwest Long Family, Long Benliu pays homage to His Majesty"

Long Benliu got off the horse with a slightly pale face, and saluted the black-haired young man opposite him loudly. His green shirt was fluttering in the mountain wind. He tried his best to hide the embarrassment on his face. In front of the supreme emperor of the empire, how could he still do it? Qualified to ride on a horse! The military god emperor actually came to the southwest in person. Even Long Benliu, the fifth-ranked figure among the senior officials of the Long family, suddenly had beads of sweat on his forehead.

The pressure is really too great. The opponent is unprepared. It can be regarded as a direct comeback. Originally, I just thought that I could fool the past by taking out three regions. Now it seems that it is difficult! The identity of the other party's emperor is there. This alone is enough to make all the Long family's thoughts of delaying and fooling into bubbles. Fooling an emperor with millions of troops is really despising longevity, not to mention this person. Although the Falcon Emperor has a Central Asian face, one sneeze can make the entire West The cruel man who trembles in the mainland, who kills people like hemp and lays down millions of corpses, is definitely nothing compared to the emperor. As for humiliating the emperor in the southwest, it is even more of a joke. The empire has never been Twenty thousand people were taken away from the border. This was just a superficial attitude. It was considered as respect for the Long Family Agreement.

With this imperial emperor here, it is definitely not too much to say that there are at least 200,000 imperial troops waiting on the border. As long as there is a disturbance, the army will rush in and destroy everything! Thinking of this, there is such a cool feeling behind Long Benliu's green shirt!

"If you come here without taking the liberty, it would be nice if Supervisor Long doesn't blame you!"

The fat man chuckled and waved his hand on the war horse as a return gift. Although the Long family was a landlord, it was only a regional power. Although there were differences in etiquette between the Eastern and Western continents, such a huge gap was still the same. Sure enough, he Seeing Long Benliu opposite, there was no trace of emotion on his face The expression of displeasure was actually a bit sincere and fearful. That's good. As long as the Long family is at a disadvantage, the empire can get the piece of land it wants most. "His Majesty's visit to Guangling in person really made the Long family shine!" Long Benliu said with a smile on his lips. , personally guided Fatty to ride a horse into Guangling, the Long family’s base camp.

As the headquarters of the Long family for decades, Guangling is tall and solid, and the houses in the city are densely packed. However, it still cannot hide the depression of the city. His eyes scanned the various house numbers hanging in the air, and below were all the closed streets of Guangling. Looking at the Guangling people who were hurriedly looking with their heads lowered, they had basically determined that the scope of Long Po's purge of the native nobles in the southwest was indeed consistent with the intelligence. This purge not only included The gentry had cleaned up a lot, and the four largest families that had been entrenched in the southwest for more than a hundred years, Xiao, Li, Si, and Fei, were almost uprooted. With just a name, the Long family could easily take over the flowers of the four major families. It took a hundred years to occupy one-third of the gateway land in the southwest, truly realizing the control of the entire southwest that all generations of the Long family had wanted. Even the fat man was jealous of the Long family's unpalatable food!

Long Benliu turned back from the front and said with a smile on his face, "I made your majesty laugh! This maple forest road turned out not to be like this. It was full of people and lined with shops. It was the most prosperous street in Guangling. Not only was it home to all kinds of Chinese and Bian There are also a lot of goods, even from your empire. Unfortunately, due to the impact of the Yanzhou War and some turmoil experienced some time ago, some goods need to be reorganized before they can be opened. Now that the cancer is gone, Guangling will definitely satisfy His Majesty. "Trouble?"

The fat man deliberately showed a hint of surprise. This Long Benliu was indeed a big manager. He was the officer in charge of various industrial development and internal affairs of the Long family. The introductions he made along the way did not make the fat man feel that the Long family had been affected by the turmoil. , on the contrary, it is more like the Long family has already mastered the overall situation, which makes people have to believe that the turmoil cannot shake the Long family, and the Long family will only become stronger, as for the cancer. ●⌒...Don't Fatty think the biggest cancer is the Long family? Of course, you can't say this kind of thing. "It's just some southwest trivial matters. It's not interesting, so I won't say it to taint His Majesty's ears."

Long Benliu's hand violently grasped the nervous riding whip, and his face was stunned for a moment in embarrassment. Then he realized that he was always saying along the way that the emperor actually didn't ask at all. It was so abominable. He didn't know how many ruthless characters he had faced. , has always been tight-lipped, but why did he unconsciously say things he shouldn't have said just under the other party's half-smiling gaze? It is said that this military emperor has a pair of eyes that can see through people's hearts. It seems that this is not groundless. He needs to be more careful! Long Benliu, who was a little alert in his heart, never mentioned the so-called turmoil again. What was prepared for the empire was a separate courtyard in Guangling City. It was originally the property of the Fei family among the four major families. In terms of specifications, it could only be regarded as... Above the middle, now that the Emperor of the Falcon Empire is visiting Guangling in person, it is not appropriate to arrange it in that kind of other courtyard, and Long Benliu didn't want the news of the Falcon Empire Emperor's personal visit to Guangling to spread, so he directly changed the original villa into the Fei family's hospital. It was a large mansion complex with four entrances and cornices covering an area of ​​more than 100 acres. In addition to the Empire In addition to the emperor's hundred personal guards, Long Benliu specially mobilized five hundred dragon guards to guard outside the main courtyard of the Fei family.

As night fell, he looked away from the light in the streets of Guangling City. The fat man looked at a guard who walked into the room, and asked in a sharp tone, "Has the Navy Department confirmed that picture? Is it indeed the Dragon Crow?"

"Yes, after receiving the drawings sent by the Song people, the Navy Department immediately confirmed it with the remaining drawings of the Longcrow battleship. The burning and sinking battleship in that drawing should be the one that secretly crossed the Eero and entered Aden two months ago. In the sea area, the survey ship Longcrow is looking for the route in the southern waters of Central Asia!" The imperial guard lowered his head! , with a trace of determination on his face, when he reported to the emperor, his straight and tense body trembled slightly, and his hands were clenched into fists. "Send this to the Song people and tell them that I have arrived in Guangling." The fat man picked up the A secret letter was handed to the imperial guard standing in front of him. "Yes," he understood. "The imperial guard picked up the secret letter and turned around. Fifteen days ago, an imperial businessman who returned from the Song tribe brought back a painting, which was quickly delivered to the emperor. It is said that the emperor smashed his most beloved crystal jade wine glass in anger on the spot. Then a sharp order was sent to the Imperial Navy along with the picture. The Dragon Crow, the ship that escaped from the Imperial Navy, The Imperial Navy survey ship, which had been out of sight for two months and had no news, was finally confirmed to have sunk by the Navy. The matter was classified as a first-class secret by the Navy. The cause of the sinking was obvious, and the attack was clearly marked on the picture. From the shape of the ship, almost without much judgment, it can be determined that it is the Aden Navy that controls the Aden waters.

Since the empire controlled the inland sea, there have been very few ships that have been attacked. Although the Dragon Crow is just a survey ship, it is not something that a mere Aden Navy can bully, let alone besieged or even sunk by the Aden Navy. The empire's resistance has been shaken. The emperor came to the southwest in person, not to negotiate an agreement at all, but for another more important matter. The Southwest Long family was not interested in the port, but the other one expressed the desire to unite with the empire. Sincerity in building the port,

That was the Southern Song Clan. Along with the drawing, there was also the Song Clan's proposal to build a naval fleet with the empire. Fatty did not hesitate to come to Guangling in person. Negotiating the agreement was only part of it, and meeting the Song Clan was the other part. ,

(To be continued.)