empire wars

Chapter 4 Grain Store Bills
Outside Mingwu City, the atmosphere was inexplicably tense, even embarrassing.

Especially the soldiers guarding the city gate were obviously very confused when they got the order.

The endless stream of caravans stayed hundreds of meters away, watching from a distance, not afraid of a battle.

After all, Qin Yuan's team seemed not to be trifled with, but they thought too much about attacking the city.

"Feng Chengjiu, are you brave? You don't even know me and the young master. If you don't open the door again, I'll beat you until your father doesn't know you."

Qin Qinye pointed at a young man on the top of the wall who broke the door and cursed.

"Young Master, Uncle Ye, Vice General Qin is dead, and there is nothing we can do about it."

Feng Chengjiu said with a bitter face.

How could he not know the origins of the pedestrians in the city, except for Qin Yi and other faces who were a little strange, the rest were his elders.

"What is Qin Chi?"

Qin Qinye cursed, "The master is the head of the family, and the young master is the future head of the family. Who do you want to listen to?"

"This" Feng Chengjiu looked at a few people around him, and everyone looked hesitant.

"Chengjiu, ask someone to notify General Qin Chi. You should personally inform my grandfather and spread the news of my return back to the clan."

Qin Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and the general raised his voice a few words.

"Yes, the little one will go right away." Feng Chengjiu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Master, this Qin Chi has ulterior motives, so he must be careful to guard against it."

Qin Qinye reminded.

"Ah."

Qin Yuan nodded slightly.

The Qin family now has three generations. The first generation is Qin Yuan's grandfather, the former head of the family. He abdicated eight years ago and has been recuperating at home. He doesn't care about world affairs. His line belongs to the direct line.

There is a second grandfather who belongs to the collateral lineage, but has a lot of say in the Qin family.

There are three people in the second generation of the family, the eldest son of the family is Qin Yuan's father, Qin Wang, who logically assumes the position of head of the family.

The second uncle was good at martial arts since he was a child, and he has seven layers of body training. He is one of the best existences in Mingwu City, and he claims to be invincible in the whole city.

He is aggressive, he fought with others not long ago, he won the battle, he didn't know how to restrain himself, threatened to beat ten of them, and was beaten to death by the gang, in the end, Shen and Gu's two children paid a lot of silver taels, which was regarded as a contribution to Qin Wang's formation of private soldiers a contribution.

The third uncle has studied hard since he was a child, and finally obtained his fame. Now he is an official at the foot of the emperor in the imperial city of Luodu.

The second grandfather has two sons, the eldest son Qin Chi and the second son Qin Ming.

Qin Chi has been in the army as Qin Wang's lieutenant general.

The second son, Qin Ming, was at home. Since the old housekeeper was unwell, he was in charge of internal and external affairs.

In the three generations of the Qin family, Qin Wang has only one son, Qin Yuan, who has been trained as the young head of the family.

As for the second uncle, he has a son and a daughter. The daughter is only ten years old, and the son is just born. He doesn't even know what his father looks like.

The third uncle has already set up his own family, so naturally there is no need to mention it.

On the contrary, it is from the second grandfather's lineage, and there are many males in the third generation.

"Hiss, this is a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain."

Qin Yuan patted his headache. It seems that Qin Chi and Qin Ming had planned to seize power from the Patriarch, so he encouraged Qin Wang to lead his troops to leave.

If Qin Yuan and Qin Wang both die in the hands of the Northern Qiang people, I am afraid that the Qin family will be ruled by Qin Chi and Qin Ming.

"Phew, no matter what, I'm the young head of the Qin family, and my grandpa isn't dead yet."

Qin Yuan looked at Qin Yi next to him, feeling confident.

It seems that his biggest enemies in the power of the Qin family are those two cousins.

"Under the city is Qin Yuan's nephew?"

Soon, on the city wall, Qin Chi shouted condescendingly.

"It's me, cousin."

Qin Yuan responded.

"Is Patriarch Qin here?"

Qin Chi's sharp eyes scanned the faces of the group of horses, but he didn't see the familiar figure.

The tip of Qin Yuan's nose felt sore, and he wailed with tears in his eyes, "Father. Father, he was killed by the Beiqiang thieves!"

"Nephew, don't be sad, go to the city to rest quickly."

Qin Chi breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the news he got a few days ago is true.

After all, Qin Yuan is the young head of the Qin family and the real eldest son.

Even if he wanted to make things difficult, he couldn't do it in front of everyone, and it wasn't necessary.

"Open the gate."

Qin Chi's faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and it flashed past.

Qin Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the people around him with a calm expression.

"Qin Yi, you guys restrain your breath and don't make it public."

"Yes."

"Uncle Qinye, tell me not to divulge any news about the Northern Qiang cavalry battle and Qin Yi and the others. As for the horses, they said they bought them on credit from the caravan."

"Understood, young master." Qin Qinye's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly ordered.

Qin Yuan exhorted a few words, pinched his arm again, and immediately burst into tears uncontrollably.

The city gates opened wide, and Qin Chi personally led a group of well-equipped soldiers with sharp swords to grandly welcome Qin Yuan's return.

"Victory or defeat is a common matter for military strategists, but it's just the owner of the house... alas."

Entering the city, Qin Chi saw Qin Yuan who was crying and comforted him a few words.

After confirming again and again that after Qin Wang's death, he did not let the army he brought take action, even if he wished to kill Qin Yuan with a single blow, the Qin family would completely control it.

But if he did it in public, he would not be able to get away with it in name, and he would be labeled as disloyal and unjust. He didn't want to do it unless he had to.

Qin Chi seemed to be unable to hold back the smile on his face, so he made up a reason to leave and return to the army.

These days, he has been staying in the barracks, building a good relationship with the generals in the army, and buying people's hearts.

Originally, many people rejected his kindness. After all, Qin Wang is not dead yet. Now the situation is different, and I believe many people will take refuge in his side.

As for Qin Yuan, he was just a half-grown child, how bad he was crying, even Qin Wang was no match for him.

"How is his strength?"

Looking at the leaving team, Qin Yuan narrowed his eyes and asked.

Qin Chi only inquired about Qin Wang's news, and didn't take him to heart at all, even the words he had thought up a long time ago were useless.

"Seventh level of body refining."

Qin Yi said solemnly, "Within three moves, I have a chance to take him down."

Qin Yuan was famous, and his hanging heart finally let go.

These ten luck points are really worth it.

It seems that the Nine Layers of Body Refining is not a Chinese cabbage, it's just that the luck system is too against the sky.

My second uncle claimed to be invincible in Mingwu City, but he was only at the seventh level of body training, and only ten fingers in the entire Mingwu City reached this level of strength.

Qin Chi has been claiming to be at the sixth level of body refining, which seems to be hiding his strength.

In the past, in the entire Qin family, no one was his opponent in terms of strength, even Qin Wang was only at the sixth level of body training.

Qin Yuan thought about strategies along the way. Since the strongest force surpassed Qin Chi, he is not afraid of him being cruel.

I want to use gentle means to slowly seize power from the hands of the two cousins.

Or use iron and blood methods to control the Qin family neatly.

On the way back to the city, Qin Yuan passed by his grain store, and got a thick account book under the panicked eyes of the shopkeeper.

The more Qin Yuan looked at it, the darker his face became. Even if he didn't understand accounting, he could still see many loopholes and a lot of money and food were inexplicably missing.

(End of this chapter)