"Battal Commander, the scouts are here to report that the slaves from the Fulmet Kingdom are about to arrive." The deputy reported to Liu Yan the latest information on the slave team from the Fulmet Kingdom that came to trade.

"Are we here?" Liu Yan repeated and ordered: "Tell the brothers to be more vigilant. Then inform the city officials so that they can also be prepared."

"Yes! Battalion Commander, my subordinates will go now!" The adjutant clasped his fists at Liu Yan and quickly turned around to give the order. But Liu Yan stood at the top of the city and looked at the dust rising in the distance, and couldn't help but fall into memories.

Liu Yan is now a battalion commander under the Guard Bureau. Originally, the city guard battalion he was responsible for was stationed in Haijun Town. However, since the Xia Kingdom decided to launch a war of plunder, he and his city guard battalion were transferred to Naturalization.

The city serves as a defensive force.

After all, the rest of the army has a plan to take turns. If Shanhaiguan is not the gateway to the Xia Kingdom and must have a certain amount of combat power, it is estimated that the entire Shanhaiguan will be handed over to their city guards for defense.

This certain amount of combat power means that the conscript brigade from Tianma Pass was dispatched to Shanhaiguan to replace the elite troops that left.

In addition, the City Guards had limited strength and had to guard major towns in the country. Therefore, only one battalion was dispatched to garrison Guihua City during this period. After all, they were doing their own job - defending the city!

When the Xia Kingdom reorganized its entire army, it established a Military Department and a Guard Bureau under the Military Department. The director of the Guard Bureau was Zhang Wei, the former commander of the Xia Guard Brigade.

During the reorganization, Liu Yan chose to follow Zhang Wei to the second line, and changed from the close combat battalion commander of the guard brigade to a city guard battalion commander of the city guard army.

Although he had long known to retreat to the second line, even if he still held the same position and military rank as before, compared with when he was in the elite army, his status in the heart of the monarch and his future were all on two levels.

But Liu Yan still decided to leave the front-line army and retreat to the second-line army with Zhang Wei. His original intention in doing so was not other than that he valued friendship.

I remember that when he was conquering the Southern Barbarians, Liu Yan was just a small formation leader, and his mind was filled with the idea of ​​making great achievements, and this idea has not faded away until now.

He was different from Yan Ren and Qi Jun at the same time. Although he valued merit, he valued emotions even more, even though he was just a rough guy.

"I hope these people from the north can behave themselves. If not, the battalion commander wouldn't mind adding some merit!" Liu Yan looked at the approaching team and returned to her eyes from her memories. There was a hint of sternness in her eyes.

expect.

Fifty thousand young slaves tied in strings and five thousand soldiers responsible for escorting them. Such a huge team appeared outside Guihua City, which made the residents who didn't know it thought it was the blind thief who was coming to rob again.

Woolen cloth.

Babu set out from Nanshan City and drove 50,000 young slaves to the "Guihua City" in Xia Kingdom, which he still didn't know what it meant.

"I am an envoy from the Kingdom of Fulimet. I heard that the Kingdom of Xia is purchasing young slaves. I sent 50,000 young slaves here to do business with the Kingdom of Xia." Babu was outside the city, riding on a wildebeest.

He raised his head and shouted loudly towards the city.

Such a big event must have been notified to the Xia Kingdom in advance, but now Babu still needs to make a statement, otherwise he will be regarded as a thief by the uninformed Xia Kingdom soldiers and be attacked by the Xia Kingdom.

Liu Yan accompanied Zhou Yi, the administrative director of Guihua City, and walked out of the city gate together under the escort of a small group of city guards.

"Your Excellency, the envoy, has come a long way and has not been far away to greet you. I hope you will forgive me." Zhou Yi saluted Babu from a distance and shouted to Babu in the local language.

Zhou Yi's qualifications can be said to be very exciting. When the Xia Kingdom was still a lord, he was already a liaison officer stationed in the southern tribes. He was responsible for collecting intelligence on these tribes, and during this period he even learned some knowledge about the indigenous people.

He can communicate with the indigenous people in the south in a simple way by using gestures and drawings.

Then when the southern natives wanted to invade the Xia Kingdom, he was the first to discover the clues, so his merits were valued by Chen Ping.

At that time, Chen Ping joined the Xia Kingdom, which gave Yang Song the foundation to establish an intelligence network. Therefore, under Yang Song's promise to Chen Ping, "If you want people, give people, and if you want things, give things."

Transferred to the intelligence department as a team leader of the intelligence field department.

Next, Zhou Yi received professional training from Chen Ping and foreign language training from Chang Sun Sheng. When he participated in the counterattack against the Southern Barbarians, he followed Zhang Wei throughout the whole process and conducted many rounds of persuading the natives to surrender and shouting messages.

After the expulsion of the Southern Barbarians, he served as Yang Zhong's translator on Feilong Island, causing Yang Zhong to become a "King of the Southern Barbarians" in a daze.

Later, Zhou Yi participated in the war to rescue the caravan, defended Tianma Pass, and counterattacked to occupy Linhai Basin. His achievements accumulated more and more, and his status became higher and higher.

Chen Ping also recalled Zhou Yi to his side for guidance many times because of his achievements. Finally, when Xia State was short of talents, he recommended him to participate in the administrative management rapid training course and became the mayor of a newly built town.

Until a few years ago, the Xia Kingdom decided to establish a foreign trade window, that is, when building the Guihua City, it needed a chief official who knew administration, military, confidentiality, and had a vision.

Zhou Yi's experience was a perfect match, and Yang Song took a liking to him, so he was reused by Wei and became the mayor of Guihua City.

Although Guihua City is a city that has become prosperous due to trade, it is only a town-level administrative unit within the Xia Kingdom's internal administrative divisions, so he is only a town mayor.

However, his status as "town mayor" is completely different from that of "town mayors" in other small towns. His status is much higher, sometimes even more important than a "county magistrate".

Because Guihua City is directly under the central government, it also has an important position in the heart of the monarch Yang Song, so even ordinary county magistrates must bow to Zhou Yi first to show respect.

"Zhou Yi is the chief official of this city. Your Excellency, the envoy, please come into the city." Zhou Yi walked to a stop five or six meters in front of Babu, leaned half sideways, and used his left hand to guide Babu to invite him.

Enter the city.

Babu first took two steps forward, and then seemed to remember that there were 50,000 slaves behind him, so he pointed to the team behind him and asked Zhou Yi: "It's easy to say, but what about these slaves behind me?"

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Zhou Yi smiled at Babu and said, "Of course we will stay outside the city. After we finish negotiating the deal, our Xia Kingdom will only deal with these people."

Seeing that Babu seemed to want to say something else, Zhou Yi raised his right hand and said first: "Don't worry, Your Excellency, the messenger, the deal will be concluded within today, and it won't take much time."

Seeing that the other party had already talked so much, Babu couldn't say anything more. If he said a few more words, it would be as if he didn't dare to enter the city. Wouldn't this be a disgrace to the country of Fulimet?
Chapter completed!