Royal Gold Magistrate

Inside the Shangshu Mansion.

Butler Xu Bo knocked on the door of the study.

There was a sound from inside the door, Xu Bo pushed the door open and said, "Master, someone wants to see you."

Zhang Shi looked up suspiciously.

Zishi, this hour, and there are still people asking to see me.

"who is it?"

Uncle Xu unconsciously said in a low voice, "He belongs to the prince."

King Wu... I haven't seen him for a while, why somehow I found someone to inform me.

Zhang Shi frowned: "Please come in."

Not long after, a middle-aged man in a black suit walked in.

He saluted respectfully and said with both hands: "Master Zhang, my lord asked me to send you a letter."

"Who are you? Why doesn't the lord have a face-to-face meeting and send someone to deliver a letter?"

"I have thousands of households in the prince's guard, Jiang Hu."

Zhang Shi took the envelope tremblingly, and looked at Jiang Hu in surprise.

The Prince's Guard... When the vassals were not cut down, the local vassals still had reservations.

But this guard has been canceled long ago!

King Wu actually hid this private soldier in secret?

Zhang Shi hurriedly opened the envelope and looked at it carefully. Cold sweat dripped down when he watched it.

Haiyuan City has been exposed... the prince will go there in person?

Zhang Shi folded the letter and said anxiously: "Apart from this letter, what else did the prince say? Will the prince come back?"

Jiang Hu said: "My lord wants you to keep a useful body. I have already brought the words. Mr. Zhang, let's go!"

After finishing speaking, Jiang Hu turned and left.

Uncle Xu approached cautiously and asked, "Master, why didn't King Wu take his guard with him when he left?"

Zhang Shi directly lit the letter paper with an oil lamp, watching the ashes flying around, thoughtfully.

"Well... you go down first."

.........

Jiang Hu left the Shangshu Mansion and went straight to a mansion not far from the Wang Mansion.

In the mansion, many people in black clothes were on duty, looking particularly strict.

He walked through the hall and went directly to the study in the backyard, and called a few people along the way.

The decoration of this study is different, and there is a table in the room.

On the desktop is a map, which looks like a certain county.

As soon as he entered the room, Jiang Hu went straight to the point and said: "Everyone, the prince has gone far enough."

"In three days, we will conquer Taoyuan County to grab the infinite merits, and then set off from Jiangling Port. By then, the prince should be ready to pick us up at another port."

Someone asked: "Qianhu, what is this immeasurable merit? Why does the prince attach so much importance to it?"

Jiang Hu looked at the map and said: "I don't know, I just heard that the prince said that it is a kind of divine object that can open mountains and crack rocks! This thing is the most important thing for the prince. If he goes to catch Fang Zhengyi, it will be up to us if he doesn't succeed. Prepare with both hands and never make a mistake!"

Jiang Hu pointed to the map: "We only have 2000 people, and we will send 200 people in disguise to enter Taoyuan County in the future and seize the city gate."

"The rest are hiding in the woods two miles away. When the time comes, we'll go straight into the city and kill them!"

"The total number of guards and arresters in a county will not exceed [-], and they are all mediocre. You each lead a soldier, and the two teams guard the city gate so that no one can go out, and the rest will search separately. , Kill them if they get in the way, we must make a quick decision!"

"That's roughly the case. I have already sent Xiao Liu out to investigate the situation in Taoyuan County at noon. I should be able to return tomorrow, and I will make detailed arrangements then."

Everyone began to discuss plans by pointing at the map in turn to prevent accidents from happening.

Suddenly a panicked figure broke in and stood panting in front of Jiang Hu.

Jiang Hu was surprised: "Xiao Liu! Why did you come back so soon? The investigation is over?"

Xiao Liu panted hard, and after a while he said, "I...I...I haven't passed the toll booth..."

"What!? Toll booth?" Jiang Hu was dumbfounded.

"Ah! Toll booths! The territory of Taoyuan County is full of fucking toll booths! I didn't bring enough money, so I can't get through after two stations..." Xiao Liu was crying.

Everyone in the room fell silent.

Everyone practiced in the Zhuangzi outside the city on weekdays, and rarely had the opportunity to come out. I had never heard of such a thing.

Isn't this fucking highway robbery?

Jiang Hu was furious: "You are Yumu head?! Can't you take a detour?"

Xiao Liu was so wronged: "I want to go around! But there are people patrolling the places that are a little easier to walk! Unless you go over the mountain, you have to go through the toll booth!"

"Damn it! I thought it would be gone after passing a toll booth. I didn't expect another one after walking three hundred feet! Their toll booth was set up like a tea stall. It was obviously officers and soldiers, and they were wearing sackcloth outside. Clothes! Isn’t this a hooligan!!!”

"Also, the horse was tired from walking, and there was a fodder seller on the side of the road, so I didn't think much about it. Who knew that a piece of fodder cost two renminbi! They also said that this is grass from a bullshit greenhouse, isn't it killing people! It's over! I only had [-] Wen left on my body after two stops, and they surrounded me even if I didn’t give money.”

Jiang Hu slammed the table, angrily: "Fucking unscrupulous people! Why didn't you kill them?"

"They all have knives..."

"Then did you pay in the end?" Someone asked hurriedly.

Xiao Liu cried: "I really have no money. They detained my horse and gave me some money, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to get out of the toll booth. I ran back..."

"Go in and pay the fee and come out and pay the fucking fee!!!"

"yes...."

"........"

"Qianhu, we have encountered a real robber, what should we do!"

Jiang Hu pressed his chest and gasped for a few times, feeling a little at a loss.

Things are not the same as I imagined, have all the robbers become regular now?

"Qianhu... what should we do? We can't go over the mountain, right? That would take too much time, brothers can't stand it!"

"In my opinion, we might as well rush in, overwhelm their bird toll booth, and then quickly raid Taoyuan County!"

Xiao Liu hurriedly stopped him: "No! Absolutely not!"

"There is a toll booth every [-] zhang. If you lift the first one, the people behind will go back to report the news, and we don't know how many toll booths there are behind. When the gate is closed, we will do everything. No!"

"What about Chito?!"

Jiang Hu's face was serious, he didn't expect such a small county town to be so troublesome!This kind of situation is unheard of, and there is no such thing in military books...

Jiang Hu blushed hesitantly and said: "Everyone... let's raise money, let's go to the toll booth first..."

"Qianhu, didn't we go to rob!!"

"Shut up! Xiao Liu, how much is a person at the toll booth?"

Xiao Liu painfully recalled: "One tael alone, two taels on horseback..."

A total of 4000 taels including people and horses... At this moment, Jiang Hu's eyes were full of confusion.

When the prince left, it seemed that he didn't leave any money for him except travel expenses...not enough money.

Xiao Liu's weak voice came: "Why don't we sell the horse..."

......