Hu Xu took a while to find his words, "How about I take you there?"
After saying this, he regretted it. He wanted to send him off just now, but the other person was about to leave the city, so he abducted him back. Now he said this again, it didn't sound very credible.
Song Qiao smiled, "No need, we're not going the same way."
He was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Then let's go together."
Song Qiao nodded and went to lock the door.
Hu Xu waited a few steps away, and after she caught up, they walked towards the street together.
————Empty Nest Cat Dividing Line————
After traveling day and night, Lou Yunchun's envoys and honor guards arrived at Tingzhou, the location of Beiting Protectorate, five days later.
After the establishment of the Dudufu, Tingzhou followed the example of the capital by building two inner and outer cities. The Dudufu was located in the inner city, with it as the center. Housing, markets, farmland, and city walls were built to accommodate the people, provide for trade, farming, and defense. It was the most prosperous place in Tingzhou.
The outer city was mainly defended, with a training ground expanded and city walls built. The walls were several thousand feet long and surrounded the inner city. There were horse-faced soldiers, enemy towers, corner towers and city gates on the walls, and they were heavily guarded at all times.
There is also a semicircular urn in the outer city, connected to the city wall. There are arrow towers, gates and battlements on the urn to defend against enemy attacks.
In addition to the inner and outer city walls and the urn city, Tingzhou's defense also included diverting water from the Tianshan Mountains to dig a moat, which surrounded the city tightly.
It is like a heavily defended capital city, and Beiting is the small country ruled by this capital city.
Old Duan sat on horseback, gazing out, and then whispered to Lou Yunchun in the carriage, "Good fellow, look at this place, it's all wrapped up like a motherf*cking rice dumpling, and the security is tighter than in the capital. I'm afraid Guo Yuanzhen has had evil intentions for a long time."
Lou Yunchun lifted the carriage curtain and looked out. Seeing the strong defenses and tight security, he felt a little depressed. He was afraid that Guo Yuanzhen would be difficult to deal with. Seeing that the gates and gates were all closed and there was a row of soldiers standing on the city wall, he knew that Guo Yuanzhen was trying to show him his power.
Since entering Beiting and passing through numerous checkpoints, Guo Yuanzhen should have heard of his visit long ago. Officials from various regions were supposed to personally welcome the imperial emissary from the capital, according to protocol, but Guo Yuanzhen was nowhere to be seen.
Not only did they not see anyone, they even refused to open the city gates. Such disregard for rules and etiquette showed that they did not take the emperor seriously, and their rebellious intentions were obvious.
Old Duan asked again, "Sir, do you want me to knock on the door?"
Lou Yunchun shook his head. "Don't bother wasting your voice. He's just trying to leave us hanging." Besides, they were representing the emperor, so knocking on the door would be disrespectful. He thought for a moment and said, "Have the musicians play the royal music in unison, loud and clear."
There are twelve musicians in the ceremonial guard, who are responsible for playing royal music to demonstrate the power of the prosperous dynasty and the majesty of the emperor.
Old Duan turned back and told the musicians to play music, "Play music, the louder the better!"
The gong officer on the gong cart swung his arm and struck a huge gong, startling both the people and the horses. Fortunately, the border soldiers were all good at riding and shooting, and they quickly stabilized the team.
Old Duan felt his head buzzing, followed by a deafening drumbeat. He quickly spurred his horse forward, and then saw Lou Yunchun slowly stuffing two balls of cotton into his ears.
Where did he get the cotton?
After a careful search, it turned out that he had picked it out from the cushion under his seat.
He scratched his ear and then reached out to Lou Yunchun.
The team followed Wang Le and stopped in front of the moat. The city guards were ready to respond, but they only heard Wang Le. No one came forward to knock on the door, and no one got off the car or horse. Only Wang Le kept playing.
Upon seeing this, the captain guarding the city hurriedly sent someone to report to the governor's office, and then deliberately shouted downstairs, "Who is coming?"
But no one came out to answer from downstairs. He shouted twice more, and was answered by even louder music.
It’s not that Lou Yunchun and others didn’t want to answer, but they simply didn’t hear it.
Anyway, Lou Yunchun's order was not to open the city gate, so Wang Le would not stop. Therefore, no one even looked up at the city wall, but just kept plugging their ears with cotton.
Wang Le played for nearly an hour, and the musicians stopped to rest and let the people accompanying them clear their ears.
Old Duan took the cotton out of his ears and asked Lou Yunchun, "They were shouting just now. Should we go out and answer them?"
Lou Yunchun also picked some cotton, rubbed his ears, and shook his head, saying, "No need. Let's wait until the musicians have rested before continuing."
Old Duan said "yes" but in his heart he was crying out: "Do we need to continue?" Even cotton wouldn't help; his ears were almost going deaf.
On the city wall, the person sent by the captain guarding the city came back with a report, saying that he should hold the people back for two or three days before letting them in.
The deputy came over and whispered to the captain, "Isn't this a bad idea? After all, they're envoys from the capital."
Although the captains defending the city disagreed in their hearts, they had no choice but to obey since Guo Yuanzhen had given the order. "Let's delay it for now. After all, we are on our territory. Even if there is some noise, there are only about a hundred people. It won't cause any trouble."
Besides, they had already arranged other gates for civilians and merchants to enter and exit, using the excuse that the East Gate was to receive envoys. Blocking them would not be a big deal.
The deputy couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
They all knew what Guo Yuanzhen had been planning over the years, but now he was not afraid of the might of heaven and acted disrespectfully. It seemed that he could no longer hold back and was about to take action.
Suddenly, Wang Le stopped at the city wall. The two of them looked down and still no one came to knock on the door.
The captain thought to himself, "He's quite stable. If it were someone else, they would have knocked on the door or scolded him this morning."
The second deputy asked, "Should we call again?"
The captain shook his head. "No, it's hard to come up with an excuse once we start talking. Let's wait until they knock on the door."
The deputy replied, "Yes."
Then, he went over to arrange for the soldiers to change shifts.
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