Datang: Integrate three times the combat power of Lv Bu at the beginning

Several people got off their horses, Xue Rengui said to him: "Little Er, give our horses some water and some high-quality fodder."

Xiao Er led the horse, patted his chest and said: "Guest officer, don't worry, the fodder in our tavern is famous for hundreds of miles around."

Li Chengqian felt ashamed when he heard that.

This Xiaoer is really interesting. He runs a tavern and is famous for horse fodder.

The three shook their heads and smiled bitterly, and entered the tavern.

It was just a meal, and the weather was very hot. There were a lot of customers in the tavern. There were more than a dozen tables, and nearly [-]% of the seats were occupied.

Mostly passers-by.

The three found a seat by the window and sat down.

I ordered a few side dishes, four catties of sauced meat, four plates of steamed buns and a few jugs of good wine.

In Xue Rengui's words, when you come out with His Royal Highness, you must eat and drink well, and His Royal Highness has plenty of money.

Originally, Li Chengqian was the crown prince, and the lords of the Tang Dynasty, his status was extremely high.

Below one person, above ten thousand people.

But with Li Chengqian's personality, he would never want to be an arrogant prince.

So Xue Rengui and the others respected him very much, but they were not cautious.

Li Chengqian is also willing to become one with them.

When the dishes were served, the tavern was overcrowded and there were no seats left.

Li Chengqian was not too hungry, he drank low-alcohol old wine and took a few mouthfuls of vegetables.

Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance gobbled it up, they are good at martial arts, and they have a huge appetite.

Li Chengqian reckoned that this amount of food was not enough for the two of them to make.

a little while...

At their table, the two wanderers started chatting after drinking a few glasses of wine.

A big man with a dark face said, "Have you heard? Something big happened in Xuzhou."

The round-faced man next to him stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth indiscriminately, and mumbled while chewing: "What happened?"

The black-faced man whispered: "The inspector sent by the emperor to Henan Road was assassinated."

"Ah?" The round-faced man let out a cry of surprise, swallowed the food in his mouth, put down his chopsticks, and said with wide eyes, "Who did it?"

The big black-faced man put his index finger in front of him, and hissed, "Slow down." The round-faced man hurriedly covered his mouth, raised his eyebrows slightly, and motioned for him to continue.

The black-faced man looked around and said softly, "I don't know who did it, but I'm sure that a lot of money and food for disaster relief in Henan Province have been stolen."

"The victims of the disaster did not receive relief food at all, and what was distributed in many places was bran."

"Bran?" The round-faced man said in astonishment, "Isn't that what livestock eat?"

The sound in the tavern was noisy, if it wasn't for Li Chengqian's amazing hearing, he really couldn't hear what the two of them were saying.

Hearing that they were talking about Henan Road, he listened silently.

The round-faced man was full of curiosity, and continued to ask: "His Royal Highness destroyed the Eastern Turks and Fusang. It stands to reason that my Tang treasury was so full. How could it be reduced to the point of distributing chaff to the victims? It shouldn't be."

"Prince Li Chengqian fought for the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty is very rich now." The black-faced man carefully explained: "To tell you the truth, I have a cousin who works in Xuzhou, and all the money brought by the court is real money. With white flour and rice."

The round-faced man put down the wine cup in his hand and listened intently.

He asked, "Then how did this relief food turn into bran? Is it all the fault of those corrupt officials in Xuzhou?"

"It's not just Xuzhou." The black-faced man looked disdainful, "Is there any place in the world where disaster relief money and food can really be distributed to the people."

The round-faced man was surprised: "Aren't they afraid that the disaster victims will gather together to make trouble?"

The black-faced man shook his head, "The disaster victims are not considered human beings at all in their eyes. Their lives are worthless. They have money, food and people, so they just suppress them."

Hearing his words, Li Chengqian's eyes drooped unconsciously.

He originally thought that his extermination of the nine clans because of Lu's embezzlement of ink pensions would be enough to sound the alarm for officials all over the Tang Dynasty.

It now appears that he was wrong.

The black-faced man was right, the people after the disaster were really worthless in the eyes of those officials.

For the sake of one's own strength, disregarding the victims of disasters is the status quo of Datang and not an example.

Some officials also hope that natural disasters will come to their own borders, so that they can make a lot of money from the country.

It's really sad that the victims of the disaster have turned into cash cows in their hands!Alas!

If he hadn't used iron and blood to rectify this matter, the corpses of corrupt officials who did not kill would be scattered all over the field, and there would always be people who would not have a long memory.

Li Chengqian would never let him end well for such an official who holds a high position but has no eyes for the common people.

"They treat the disaster victims like this, the court will just sit back and ignore them?" the round-faced man asked in disbelief.

"What's the matter?" The black-faced man picked up the wine cup and drank it down. "The audience said that the disaster victims rioted, and the officials protected each other. How could the court pursue it?"

"But this time they really miscalculated. The emperor secretly sent an inspector to visit them privately and exposed all their scandals. They jumped the wall in a hurry and had no choice but to assassinate the inspector."

"How do you know so clearly, this is a serious crime of beheading." The round-faced man's eyes widened, "You...you are not afraid of them killing people to silence you."

"What are you afraid of?" The black-faced man didn't care, "They are from Henan, we are from the pass, who will chase here."

The black-faced man approached him and said in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, my cousin who works in Xuzhou has already found me. He sneaked out from Xuzhou."

"I'm afraid over there..."

Speaking of this, the black-faced man's face froze, and he kept silent.

"What are you afraid of over there..." The round-faced man said anxiously, "You said it!"

The black-faced man pointed to the sky, "I don't dare to say anything further... Okay, have you finished your meal? Let's leave, I will treat this meal to you."

"Son, check out!"

He put down a few pieces of silver as he said, got up and walked out.

"Oh, don't go, let's find a quieter place and continue talking..." The round-faced man refused to let it go, and chased after him.

From the beginning to the end, Li Chengqian didn't look up at them.

Chapter 268 Clue Interruption

Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance were so hungry that they didn't pay attention to Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian put down his chopsticks and looked at the two of them, and said calmly, "Let's withdraw."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out.

Xue Rengui grabbed the jug on the table and drank it down, "Shopkeeper, pay the bill."

Then he threw an ingot of silver on the table, picked up the horizontal knife and the bundle and walked out.

Li Chengqian stood on the official road, looking at the two men who went north.

Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance have already led the horses and chased them out.

"Your Highness, did you find anything?" Wang Xuance looked in the direction Li Chengqian was looking at.

Li Chengqian pointed to the two people who were gradually disappearing in the distance and said: "Those two people may have information we want to know, let's go after them."

After the words fell, he got on his horse and chased after him.

Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance followed closely behind.

just for a moment...

When the figures of the two were getting closer, the round-faced man suddenly flew out from the horse.

The distance was too far, and Li Chengqian couldn't see clearly, but he knew it intuitively.

The round-faced man was shot by a powerful arrow.

Li Chengqian said loudly: "Quick, someone wants to kill them."

As he said that, Chitu suddenly accelerated, turning into a bolt of blood-colored lightning and galloping towards the man.

When Li Chengqian was less than five hundred steps away from them.

Three men in black suddenly rushed out of the dense forest on the left and attacked and killed the surviving black-faced man.

The black-faced man fell off his horse in fright.

Li Chengqian frowned, took out the cloud piercing bow, and three Sun Chasing Arrows stood on the bowstring.

Boom, whoop, whoop, whoop...

The Sun Chasing Arrows released from the bowstring made a piercing sound, and galloped towards their respective targets.

When the three men in black rushed within five steps of the big black-faced man.

They suddenly felt a danger that made the hairs stand on end.

Turning around and looking, before they had time to be surprised, three Sun Chaser Arrows pierced their chests.

boom! boom! boom!

The three men in black immediately vomited blood and fell to the ground.

"Ah!" The black-faced man screamed, and ran northward frantically.

Li Chengqian rode his horse galloping, he had a hunch that these three people were definitely not the only ones in black.

Sure enough, before the black-faced man had run far, an arrow suddenly flew out from the dense forest on the left.

Go straight to his back.

Li Chengqian's face was gloomy, his eyes shot out, and he took the arrow casually.

call out……

The Sun Chaser Arrow, which was as fast as lightning, directly bounced the arrow that was aimed at the black-faced man.

Behind Li Chengqian, Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance had dismounted from their horses, carrying horizontal knives in their hands, and went to the dense forest on the left and right sides respectively.

at the same time.

Li Chengqian had already rode his horse to the front of the black-faced man.

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The red rabbit horse suddenly appeared in front of the black-faced man, stood up, and the frightened black-faced man immediately fell to the ground.

Immediately he turned over, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Master, please forgive me, please forgive me, I don't know anything!"

Li Chengqian got off his horse and said softly, "Okay, Ben... I didn't come to kill you."

Hearing this, the black-faced man looked up at Li Chengqian in a daze, then kowtowed and thanked: "Thank you this young hero for your rescue, thank you this young hero for your rescue."

At this time, there were sounds of fighting in the dense forest on the left and right sides.

In just a moment, Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance came out with the bloody knife.

Xue Rengui said: "Master, no one was caught alive, they have poison in their teeth, they are dead men."

Li Chengqian nodded, looked at the black-faced man, and said in a deep voice, "Take us to find your cousin from Xuzhou."

"Ah?" The black-faced man looked at Li Chengqian in shock, and then pretended to be stupid: "Cousin, I don't have a cousin!"

Li Chengqian said softly: "You don't need to act in front of me. I heard everything you said to that person in the tavern. If you don't want to die, take us there quickly."

He did not choose to reveal his identity, because even if he told this person that he was from the imperial court, this person would never believe it.

Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance looked at each other after hearing this, they didn't understand what Li Chengqian meant.

"This..." The black-faced man was full of remorse, he didn't expect that this matter really brought him a fatal disaster.

"Don't worry..." Li Chengqian said lightly, "We are not from Xuzhou, so we won't touch him."

Immediately afterwards, the black-faced man seemed to have made some kind of decision, and said in a deep voice, "He's in Liujia Village, twenty miles away from here, and I'll take you there."

Li Chengqian turned his head to look at Xue Rengui, "Rengui, give him your horse, you and Xuan Ce will ride together, and we will go to Liujia Village."

"Yes, young master." Xue Rengui said as he handed the reins of the racing horse to the black-faced man.

Soon...