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    Yang Huaiyuan and the others came back. Three days after the Shangyuan Festival, the group finally returned to Tianfeng City under the escort of a group of county soldiers.  Compared to the scene when Tie Heng and Miao Jue came back, they were much miserable.  Fortunately, they all survived, but everyone was injured, among which Yang Huaiyuan was the most seriously injured.  Tie Heng went to visit and later found out that the main force of the demon-slayers had been lured eastward by Yang Huaiyuan and the others. They were chasing and intercepting them all the way. It was only because Yang Huaiyuan risked his life to kill the other masters several times that they narrowly escaped death.  He survived and escaped from the mountainous area. Finally he met a group of county soldiers who came to rescue him, and he was considered safe.  The price paid was that Yang Huaiyuan's vitality was severely damaged, which might even affect his future cultivation.

    Except for Yang Huaiyuan, the others all had minor injuries. The main reason was that Professor Qiao broke three fingers on his left hand, and Professor Xi was hit by an arrow in the knee, which caused some suppuration and may leave him disabled.  Because Yang Zhenbei had the support of his father, he only suffered some injuries from a fall, but overall it was not serious.  Zhang Jiaoyu, on the other hand, knew neither martial arts nor magic. Although several other people had been protecting him and he had not suffered much damage, he had to flee in the wind and snow for several days in a row.  He was haggard and ended up seriously ill. Tie Heng listened to several doctors discussing that he might be in danger of his life.

    Fortunately, the school was willing to spend money and collected a batch of precious medicinal materials in a short period of time. It also invited the best pharmacists in the school to work together to refine a Xuan-level top-grade Nine-turn Yuan Yang Pill, which finally saved this old man.  However, if he wants to fully recover, he will need to be recuperated for at least a few months.

    A few days later, it was the day when the school started. During this period, except for visiting Yang Huaiyuan and others a few times, Tie Heng had been immersed in his own affairs.  I practiced meditation, perfected the designs of several magical instruments, and quietly purchased some materials for making the instruments and refining elixirs.

    He is not short of money now, but he does not dare to spend it casually. He is deeply afraid of arousing others' suspicion. He only places a few orders anonymously in the Jingping Society to purchase some rare materials.  The other thing is to check out various oddity shops and make a list to know which materials you don¡¯t have to worry about collecting by yourself.  He also went to the auction houses and black markets in the city several times, gaining some knowledge and gaining a little more confidence.

    On the morning of the first day of school in February, Gongsun Bian and Zhang Ruize rushed back with unhappy faces, but did not see Feng Shiyou.  When Tie Heng asked his four senior brothers, he found out that Feng Shiyou and a large group of teachers from the school were still in that dirty land. The new semester had started and they were not planning to come back.

    Tie Heng also learned from the excited and sad narrations of the four senior brothers that the value of that dirty land far exceeded everyone's previous estimates, and it contained too many good things.  In addition to animal and plant resources, there are also some hunted demons. Countless rare minerals from the demon world are buried under the mountains that stretch for dozens of miles. Many types are priceless treasures.  There is no doubt that all the forces or individuals involved in this development will make a lot of money. The only difference is that some people will make more and some will make less.  This is also the reason why Feng Shiyou and the others have not returned to the city yet. They have already received instructions from the school to compete for more shares for the school.

    In addition, Gongsun Bian and the others secretly brought back a major piece of news to Tie Heng, that there might be a war!

    Last winter, the weather was abnormal, with heavy snowfall in Fuzhou and other southern regions, and serious snow disasters in the north.  Especially on the prairie, it was snowy and windy for several months, and the cold current was raging. As a result, countless cattle and sheep of the Huns and other nomadic peoples froze to death, and many people also froze to death and starved to death.

    Now the emperor and the central court saw an opportunity to take advantage of it. Not only did they close the border markets and prohibit caravans from entering the grasslands, they also decided to send troops to give these Tatars, who had been invading the borders all the year round, a harsh lesson.  The mobilization of troops and horses began before the New Year, and now several armies have gathered in various state capitals in northern Xinjiang. They are just waiting for the spring to bloom and the snow to melt, and then the armies will go deep into the grasslands to look for opportunities for decisive battles.  It would be best if we could completely eradicate these alien races. If the other side avoids the war and moves north, we should wait for an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on them, so that these alien races will be severely damaged and unable to move south within a few years.

    Such a big war is not just because of the generational hatred between the farming people and the nomads, there are more complicated reasons.  To put it bluntly, the coming of a new era of brokenness made the emperor feel a crisis.  He had to concentrate all his strength to fight, but the three major vassal kings and the four major factions controlled a total of eight states, accounting for almost a quarter of the Daiei Dynasty's thirty-three states.  Each one of them appears to obey the imperial court, but in fact they listen to the instructions but not the propaganda. They are just like a small independent kingdom.  In particular, the three princes and kings are all ambitious people, and they are also eyeing the supreme power to rule the world.  They have become a thorn in the side of the Daei Dynasty. The emperor is worried that if the large-scale invasion of demons causes the court's strength to suffer greatly and the central authority to weaken like it did a hundred years ago, these local powerful factions may take the opportunity to become bigger again, or even change the dynasty.

    So the emperor decided to firstTake action. This Northern Expedition is to solve a problem first so that you can go back and deal with the three major princes and kings and the four major sects.  The profound meaning of this is actually known to everyone in the world. After all, the conflicts between the imperial court and several local separatist forces have been at a stalemate for decades, and they had fought several wars in the past.  If several forces hadn't united together, or even colluded with the foreign races on the grassland, to fight against the imperial army, preventing them from concentrating all their efforts on attacking one side, they would have disappeared long ago.

    But this time, in order to avoid focusing on one thing and losing another, the emperor took precautions early.  The Twelve Tianyu Guards, who have been guarding the capital all year round and are the emperor's personal army, have allocated a large part of their military strength and been sent around the territories of the three major princes and kings and the four major sects to prevent them from making any changes.  After decades of accumulation and training, each of the current Tianyu Guards has sophisticated equipment, strong soldiers and horses, and they are all elite soldiers and generals who have experienced battles for a long time.  strong army.  As a deterrent force, it is enough to make all forces dare not act rashly.

    The team of Tiger Guard knights that Tie Heng met that day was one of them.  Hu Benwei was ordered to station in Yuezhou. Fuzhou was to the west of Yuezhou and they happened to pass by it. To the east of Yuezhou was Haizhou, which was King Ning's territory.

    This King Ning is the most powerful among the three princes. In addition to Haizhou, he also occupies Tongzhou in the north of the Yangtze River.  These two state capitals are not large in area, but they are densely populated. Together they have almost 7 million households and a population of more than 30 million.  The two places are also close to the East China Sea, and are located on the north and south sides of the Longjiang estuary. River and sea transportation are very developed.  There are also frequent trade exchanges with the island countries in the East China Sea, and industry and commerce are extremely prosperous. Therefore, the local area is extremely wealthy, the market is prosperous, and the quantity and quality of the army are also extraordinary.  Especially the navy, it is said that the scale is larger than the imperial fleet, and the performance of the ships and warships is also more outstanding.  In addition, King Ning had a reputation as a courteous and virtuous corporal. He also had strong financial resources and generous spending, which attracted many strange people from China and overseas to join him.
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