Xiaoqi

Over time, a lot of information about these merchants' homes was collected, and all of them were stored in Teng Xiao's mind.And the reason why he wanted to do this was because he was thinking that if there was another opportunity to fight again someday, he would go to these merchants' caravans to get some money and food.

Because of this, even though Teng Xiao had never seen her before when he saw Zhen Shi, the owner of the Zhen family caravan, he was no stranger to her at all.Because he once had the idea of ​​the Zhen family caravan, but he also heard that the head of the Zhen family caravan was a woman, which made him quite embarrassed. He always felt that bullying women was too rude, and this is not what a man should do. thing!Therefore, to this day, he has not really made up his mind to rob the Zhen family caravan, nor has he put it into action.

"Fortunately, I didn't do anything, otherwise I would have caused a catastrophe today!" When the lord Li Li introduced Zhen, thoughts raced through Teng Xiao's mind.

After the lord's introduction, Teng Xiao bowed and said, "I have met the lord's wife. Before that, I knew that the Zhen family in Zhongshan is the richest family in the Central Plains, and the Zhen family's caravans usually go to and from the east of the river. Unceasingly, the general looked greedy, and even,,, wanted to borrow some food and pay, in case the army needed it. Hehehe!"

Teng Xiao learned that Mrs. Zhen was the wife of the lord at this time, so he simply told the truth without any concealment, and his intention was self-evident.

There has always been a shortage of food and grass in Anyi's camp, and now that the God of Wealth's grandma is in front of her, how can she get nothing?

What's more, the protagonist Li Li is right next to him.It's not shameful to cry poor in front of your lord, how can you miss such a good opportunity, let alone when!

"Oh?" Just as Teng Xiao expected, after he said these words, not only Zhen Shi was stunned, but even Li Li was shocked.

After a while, Li Li looked at Teng Xiao with a dumb smile, lightly patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You are really good at finding opportunities to reach out! This is the first time I met Zhang Ji. How dare you ask for money and money?" I really have you! But this matter has nothing to do with me, whether you can do it or not depends entirely on you. After all, the food and wages of my Xiliang army battalions are very tight, not the Anyi garrison, so I can't make an exception to take care of your Wuwei battalion; otherwise. As soon as the case is opened, the other battalion commanders will rush forward. They all run to me and cry poorly."

After speaking.Li Li walked up to Guo Meng as a bachelor, and pulled Guo Meng, a sworn brother, to reminisce about the old days. He really didn't care how Mrs. Zhen replied to Teng Xiao.

Seeing her husband being such a rascal, Zhen couldn't help but love and be angry with Li Li, but there was nothing she could do.In fact, she had already sent Li Li a large amount of money and food, which had already been shipped a month ago.It must have been put into the Xiliang government treasury by now.

Now facing Teng Xiao, the chief general of Anyi, asking for food and salary, Zhen knows that he is the leader of the army that her husband Li Li trusts very much. He is also one of the three generals in the Xiliang Army stationed on the border of the Central Plains. The other two generals are: Pingnan General Xu Rong in Henan and Hexi, and Pingbei General Bocai stationed in Tongguan and Huayin.These three generals have more than [-] troops in their hands.Nearly half of the main force of the Xiliang Army was there, and they were Li Li's most trusted generals on the frontier.

Therefore, Mrs. Zhen would not refuse Teng Xiao's request to borrow food, and instead of borrowing food, he would give him some food and salary.But this account has to be settled on Li Li's head, who made him the master of Xiliang!As for how Li Li will compensate the Zhen family afterwards and what benefits he promises to the Zhen family, this is a matter that the Zhen family needs to discuss with Li Li in private, and she likes to discuss things with Li Li alone.However, like the absurd thing of being slept together three nights ago, although Zhen Shi was extremely excited and enjoyed it very much, she still found it difficult to accept it subconsciously. She felt that it was too slutty. she.

"Since there are difficulties in the Anyi camp, I should do my best, and I hope General Teng Xiao will not be too little." After making up her mind, Zhen raised her hand with a smile to signal Teng Xiao to get up, and said in a voice After a short pause, he continued: "Let's do this. On behalf of the Zhen family, I will subsidize 300 stones of food and grass and [-] million yuan for the Anyi defenders. In addition, there are some summer single clothes in the caravan that came later. If the general doesn't mind it, you can keep it." Get off the ten chariots, and Quan will be a concubine to reward the soldiers for their achievements in defending the frontier. I don't know what the general wants?"

"Eh?" Hearing Zhen's generosity, Teng Xiao was stunned, wondering whether he should accept the money or not.Then he turned his head to look at Li Li, hoping that the lord would have a hint, or express his opinion directly.Unexpectedly, Li Li was whispering with Guo Meng together, he didn't seem to notice the scene here at all, and he didn't hear the number of gifts from Zhen Shi.

This time, Teng Xiao felt like he was in a cocoon, and he regretted borrowing food from the Zhen family.At this moment, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Guo Jia, the new Right Army Adviser, nodding with a smile, looking at him with deep approval in his eyes.

In an instant, Teng Xiao suddenly realized that he had done the right thing.Now that Mrs. Zhen is the wife of the lord, it is naturally inconvenient for the lord Li Li to borrow money from his own woman. Doing so would lose the dignity of a man and would be embarrassing.Therefore, it became a matter of course for the general guarding the border to ask the newly promoted wife of the lord of the Zhen family to borrow food and pay, and the lord was also happy to see the success, and it could even be said that it was exactly what the lord wanted.

"The last general, on behalf of the [-] Anyi officers and men, thanked Madam for her kindness!" After trying to understand the reason, Teng Xiao immediately expressed his thanks loudly, and bowed his head to bow down.

At this moment, Li Li came over suddenly, reached out to support Teng Xiao, and said with a smile, "Okay, we are not outsiders, so why be so polite. Let's go, Yuanmen is not a place to talk, let's talk inside."

When speaking, Li Li turned his back to Mrs. Zhen, and looked at Teng Xiao approvingly, and then the two ministers looked at each other and smiled, everything was kept silent.

Chapter 472

Before he knew it, Li Li had been lingering in Anyi camp for five days.

During this period, more than a dozen Zhenjia caravans left Jizhou safely and arrived in Anyi one after another.

Among them, under the leadership of He Man, thousands of retinues and dead soldiers of the Zhen family rushed to Anyi first, second only to Li Li and his party of 14 people.

According to He Man's report after returning, they encountered an extremely powerful "white wave thief" in Shangdang territory, and the two sides almost fought.Thanks to Li Xuan's prior arrangement of more than a dozen personal soldiers to follow in the retinue, just when the two sides were at war, the personal soldiers who had been with Li Li all the year round recognized the leader of this group of white wave thieves as Gao Shun, the leader of the camp.Therefore, when Gao Shun saw the gold guard badge handed over by his own soldiers, a misunderstanding disappeared, and then he entered Hedong County unimpeded all the way, and then went straight to the Anyi camp.

After the return of the Zhen family's retinue team, it means that the relocation of the Zhen family from Jizhou has been more than half successful, because most of the Zhen family's direct descendants are also among the retinue.

Among the more than ten Zhen family caravans that returned later, the money, food and goods were not damaged at all, and [-]% of the maids and old servants arrived in Sili safely.

In this way, it indicates that the relocation of the Zhen family has been completed.

As for the remaining seven caravans that have not returned for a long time, if not unexpected, they should have been detained by the Jizhou defenders.

Fortunately, Duan Yao, Xu Chu, Chen Dao and the [-] soldiers of the Jinyi Guards came back unscathed, not a single person was missed.

This made Li Li and the others very fortunate. If they had been detained or found their whereabouts by the Jizhou sergeant, the result would have been very different. Fighting and wounding were inevitable.The most important thing is that if any one of Duan Yan, Xu Chu, and Chen Dao is detained in Jizhou, Li Li can't stand by and watch, let alone die, and he will definitely send troops to attack Jizhou.This is how they get out of danger.

However, once Li Li sends troops to Jizhou, it will definitely disturb the existing pattern of the states in the Central Plains, and thus trigger the Central Plains War.If this is the case, the most likely scenario is that the princes of the towns in the Central Plains once again join forces to confront the Xiliang army.Because none of their individual princes are opponents of the Xiliang Army, at least for now, no princes of any line can independently confront Li Li head-on. Even the increasingly powerful Jizhou Yuan Shao dare not face Li Li's Xiliang Army head-on.

On the sixth day, no caravan entered the territory of Sili from morning till night.And Li Li, who was waiting in the camp, did not receive any scouts or spies.These caravans seemed to have disappeared without a word, and the result was exactly as Li Li and others expected. The seven subsequent caravans of the Zhen family must have fallen into Yuan Shao's hands, and the more than [-] caravans who followed the caravan The retinues and maids must also be in danger, and it is difficult to leave Jizhou alive.

Calm down and think about it.Whether it is Li Li or Zhen Shi, they can actually imagine that this will happen sooner or later.After all, Yuan Shao in Jizhou was not an easy person.Not even a soft-hearted person.Among the nearly [-] Jizhou Army, there are many people who are greedy for money and dereliction of duty, but there are also soldiers who strictly abide by military discipline and enforce the law, and such sergeants still account for the vast majority.

As the night approached, Li Li finally saw the secret report sent by Teng Xiao.

This is the only secret report that has been sent back from Feige in Yecheng, Weijun, in half a month since the evacuation from Zhongshan to the present, and its content must be related to Yuan Shao's chariot general's mansion.

After reading the letter and silk.Li Li sat there for a while without saying a word.Then he went back to the inner room to get dressed, his eyes signaled Zhen Shi to go to the tent to discuss matters after dressing up, and then he walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army with a big wave of his hand.

After a while, Li Xuan, Guo Jia, Huan Fei, Duan Yao, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, Tie Xiao, Guo Meng and Jin Gu all entered the tent.During the period, Zhen's and Ma Yunluo's two daughters also came in, while Teng Xiao and Li Zhi followed Li Li to enter the handsome account first.

Except for the dozen or so of them, none of the other generals in the army had received an order to discuss matters, let alone know that the lord Li Li would be in command in the middle of the night to discuss matters.

After everyone was seated, Li Li's originally solemn expression calmed down, the expression on his face was very peaceful, and the brows were stretched out, making it impossible to see a trace of joy, anger, sorrow or joy.

"I called everyone here in the middle of the night because of this secret letter. The content of the letter is very simple, just one sentence. I want to tell you to listen to it: 'Yuan Xi has returned to the mansion, and the 370 two servants of the Zhen family have shown their heads to the public." On the letter That’s the content of this, let’s all talk about it, what problems will we face next, and what should we do?”

In the commander's position, Li Li didn't have any extra greetings, and directly stated the content of the letter, and then threw out the topic of Kui Ye's discussion for everyone to discuss.This straight-forward way of discussing matters was the first time since Li Li had been in charge of Xiliang's military administration for two years. Although there were few words, the discussion atmosphere in the big tent was quite dignified, and a slightly depressing atmosphere quietly formed.

Yuan Xi, who fell into the deep mountains and disappeared without a trace, is still alive, and returned to the Cheqi General's Mansion in Yecheng two days ago.As expected, the seven caravans from the Zhen family who had no news of them fell into Yuan Shao's hands, and all of them were punished, and Yuan Shaoxiao was the first to expose their corpses to the public for three days. (Note: The owl's head is exposed to the public for at least three days, otherwise it will take longer, seven days or half a month is possible.)

When Li Li's words fell to the ground, everyone in the big tent lowered their heads and thought about it. Among them, Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Chen Dao and others who arrested Yuan Xi and Feng Ji that day were secretly surprised. They wondered how Yuan Xi was still alive.

At noon that day, Yuan Xi was beaten to death by Chen Dao. When he set out to leave Wuji City in the afternoon, Yuan Xi lay half dead in the carriage.Then he tried his best to run away with all his strength. After running to the top of the mountain, he stumbled and fell down the mountain stream. He disappeared and his life and death were unknown.

It stands to reason that if a seriously injured person falls into a mountain stream, even if he is lucky enough not to fall to his death, his injuries must be added to his wounds, and he will be disabled even if he does not die. There is absolutely no reason for him to climb up the mountain stream alive and return to Ye City within twelve days.

You must know that Li Li and his party rode lightly on fast horses day and night, and it took them six days and six nights to get out of Jizhou; for a seriously injured person like Yuan Xi, it would take more than half a month to return to Yezhou anyway. city?Even though Zhongshan Kingdom is closer to Yecheng, Yuan Xi was seriously injured, and riding a horse was definitely impossible, and the carriage might not even be able to sit, so how could he return to Yecheng so quickly?Could it be that he had another adventure after falling down the mountain stream, not only did he not fall to his death, but he got a chance to recuperate, and after resting for a day or two, he rode a fast horse back to the General's Mansion in Jizhou?Is there really such a bizarre thing in the world?

However, no matter how puzzled Huan Fei, Chen Dao and others were, the incident had already happened.

Yuan Xi returned to Yecheng alive, and immediately told Yuan Shao what had happened, so the Zhen family caravan traveling in various counties and counties in Jizhou was severely arrested. And was immediately shown to the public.

It can be seen from this that Yuan Shao's ruthless methods this time are completely different from when Li Li and others left Jizhou ten days ago.At that time, even though Yuan Shao was furious, he was still able to restrain himself. He didn't order all counties and counties to kill the Zhen family caravan and clansmen, but only asked them to arrest them, without showing any intention of killing.Now that Yuan Xi returned to Yecheng, Yuan Shao immediately killed him when he learned what was going on, and it was the most drastic method to show the public.

With such brutal methods, it is not difficult to see that Yuan Shao has already learned about Li Li's stature and appearance from Yuan Xi, and now Li Li's true identity is ready to be revealed.Yuan Shao could deduce without thinking that the "Zheng Feng" Yuan Xi saw was Li Li from Xiliang, and that the princes the Zhen family was going to defect to were Li Wenchang, whom he feared very much!

Because Yuan Shao has Li Li's portrait in his hand, just like Li Li's family case also has his portrait of Yuan Benchu. Although the two have not met formally, they have "long-time friendship".It's just that this kind of friendship has been going on for a long time. It's not that I hope that the other party will be better, but that the other party will be unlucky in the future, that they will be unlucky, and it is best to die!

In fact, it's not just the two of them who think this way, the princes of the world also think so.This may be the so-called empathy and empathy.If all the princes in the world are dead, then the only person who is still alive can dominate the world and aspire to the top of the country.

"My lord, the matter has come to an end. It is useless to worry too much. We can only face it calmly." Just as everyone in the big tent bowed their heads in thought, Li Xuan, who was sitting first on the left, broke the silence first, and even ended the previous conversation with one word. thing.

After a short pause, Li Xuan said calmly: "Yuan Shao has already known the identity of the lord at this time, so he can infer that the Zhen family is attached to the lord, and he also knows that the lord has left Jizhou and returned to Sili safely. At the same time, Yuan Shao should be very clear that he had missed the most favorable opportunity to rob and kill the lord, and it was the only time he was close to the lord, but turned a blind eye, so that the lord led the Zhen family to calmly evacuate Jizhou.

Because of this, Yuan Shao was annoyed, ashamed and indignant, hating himself not only for not discovering the lord in time, but also for not preventing the lord from leaving Jizhou. consortium.So he became angry and resentful. He failed to capture the lord and the members of the Zhen family, so he could only vent his anger on the servants and maids of the Zhen family, and show off all the servants of the Zhen family to the public.The cruelty of his means and the violence of his heart are heinous, and he is completely different from his usual tolerance and kindness.

However, the generosity, benevolence, righteousness and sageness he showed before, and his acceptance of advice and advice were nothing but an act of buying people's hearts, which is a way of scheming.This kind of power tactics is just a means for the heroes to compete for the world, so as to win people's hearts and pretend to be deliberate, not by nature.Perhaps Yuan Shao's bloodthirsty, tyrannical nature is his true nature, and it is also his true face under the deliberate disguise! "

Chapter 473

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Xuan's ups and downs voice filled the whole big tent, explaining the reason why Yuan Shao in Jizhou was so violent.

However, many people in the big tent could hear the real intention of Li Xuan's words, but no one interrupted, and on the contrary, everyone admired him sincerely.Because Li Xuan let everyone know that comforting a sad person does not necessarily mean wiping her tears with a cloth towel, or weeping with her, but comforting her in another way.