Chapter 957 Distributing Food

Inugami Mita said: "This is not good. If they are just a bunch of little guys and the other party doesn't care about their life or death, then the four of us will have offended Datang."

Takada Mari and Sakagabe nodded in succession. They were actually the most miserable people. They were caught in the middle and no one dared to offend them.

Sugawara said: "We can't offend the Tang Dynasty, but can we offend the Emperor?

Don't forget, our family members are all in Heian Kyo. If we don't inform the Tsuruta family about this, our family members may suffer.

Moreover, today we also went to find that woman and told her that we were willing to seek refuge with Marquis Lantian.

Once there is news about the Tsuruta family, if he lets us take action, we will tell the news to the woman and let them escape.

If it is just surveillance, then we can continue to act as if nothing happened. Anyway, for us, both parties cannot and cannot afford to offend."

The three Inugami sighed, and finally decided to use Sugawaraue's strategy, and then asked Sugawaraou to send someone to inform the Tsuruta family.

The distance between Tsuruta Castle and Shikoku Castle is as fast as one day and one night.

However, just as Sugawara sent people out of the city, Hongfu Nu received news.

"Madam, as you expected, someone is out of the city, and they are members of the Sugawara family." Ichiro Matsumoto said with admiration.

Hongfu Nu snorted coldly: "How could the four of them escape from my eyes by playing any tricks? They were just passing news.

Now there are four thousand defenders in Shikoku City. You want to find a way to purchase all the food in the city and transport it out of the city within one day.

If someone stops you, use the name of the Tang Dynasty caravan. If you still can't leave the city, then collect the food and distribute it to the people in the city for free."

"In this way, we will lose a lot."

"After capturing Shikoku Castle, your Matsumoto family can send someone out to manage Shikoku Castle." Hongfu Nu said.

"Thank you, madam." Ichiro Matsumoto said excitedly.

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One day later, Li Derjian received the message from Hongfu Nu, and immediately led his army and hot-air balloons to disembark and set off for Shikoku City.

Taro Matsumoto looked at the elite navy of the Tang Dynasty and the weapons in their hands. He knew that his eldest brother Ichiro Matsumoto had made the right bet, and that the Matsumoto family had made the right bet.

On the other side, in Tsuruta Castle, the head of the Tsuruta family, Genichiro Tsuruta, learned that the Tang Dynasty caravan had landed in Akihi Castle, and immediately assembled an army and headed for Shikoku Castle.

At the same time, he also sent a team of troops to quickly go to Shikoku City to capture Hong Funu and others.

Regardless of whether the other party is a businessman or not, as long as they are sent by Li Feng, they must be executed to prevent the news from leaking.

At the same time, the news that someone was purchasing grain in Shikoku City also reached the ears of Sugawara and other four city lords.

"Someone is buying grain on a large scale?" Sugawara's face darkened, "Go and invite the other three city lords to come to the house."

"Yes, sir."

In fact, there was no need for Sugawara to ask, the other three city lords had already hurried over.

"Brother Sugawara, it's bad, that woman is buying grain and transporting it out of the city." Inugami Mita rushed to Sugawara Mansion, shouting as he ran.

After hearing this, Sugawara came out and said, "You won't let the soldiers stop them from leaving the city?"

"It has been stopped, but it is too late. At least half of the food has been shipped out of the city." Inugami Mita said.

Sugawara's expression suddenly changed and he said: "No, your city gate has prevented them from leaving the city, and we haven't issued an order yet.

Come, please hurry up and notify all the city gates that food is not allowed to leave the city anymore."

"Yes." A samurai from the Sugawara family immediately agreed.

Not long after, Takada Mari and Sakagabe also came, and their expressions were also very bad.

After Sugawara invited them into the house, he began to say: "Members of the Tang Dynasty are buying grain and sending it out of the city. Do you have any ideas?"

Inugami Mita said: "What else can you think of? The other party wants to provoke a war. Otherwise, why would they need so much food?"

Sakawabu also said: "I think so too. Although we have closed the city gate now, I have inquired that all the major grain stores have no grain to sell, and they have all been bought up."

"Now we need to get the remaining food in our hands as soon as possible. If there is a war, we will have no food." Takada Mari said.

Others nodded, food is very important, especially when fighting, food is the basis for victory. Without food, soldiers will be hungry. Hungry soldiers will have no fighting spirit, and then they will think wildly, and in the end they will only lose the battle.

Since ancient times, the three armies have not moved, and food and grass have gone first.

Now there is only half of the food left in their city, or even less than half of the food, and they must take it into their own hands.

Sugawara immediately ordered his servants to buy all the grain. However, as soon as the servants left, soldiers reported to him that the Matsumoto family was distributing grain to the people.

"Distributing food? You are not mistaken, right?" Inugami Mita said.

The soldier said respectfully: "I don't dare, you don't dare. People in the entire city have already lined up in a long queue. In order to prevent accidents, the government has sent officials to maintain order."

Sugawara and others looked at each other in confusion. They didn't understand what the hell Hongfu Nu was doing. She spent so much money to buy food, and finally it was just to distribute it to the people. No matter how you look at it, there is a conspiracy.

"No matter what, let's go and take a look now. We must stop them from continuing to distribute food." Sugawaraue said.

"Yes, we are going to stop the distribution of food immediately. We cannot be without food, otherwise the consequences may not be something we can bear." Sakagawa agreed.

The other two nodded in agreement.

Immediately the four of them went out, and each brought a team of 100 people with them.

At the entrance of Ichiro Matsumoto's inn, there were four long lines lined up, almost from the east to the west of the city.

"Master, there are more and more people. If we continue to give out free gifts like this, the Matsumoto family may go bankrupt." A housekeeper said anxiously.

Ichiro Matsumoto said: "It doesn't matter, even if my Matsumoto family doesn't have a penny anymore, these grains will be distributed to the people.

Compared with the future, the Matsumoto family's net worth is nothing."

The housekeeper was a little stunned when he saw Matsumoto Ichiro, so he went back without saying anything. If he couldn't convince himself, he could only find someone who could convince Matsumoto Ichiro.

Hongfu Nu has been looking down from the second floor. As long as the food is in the hands of the people, it will not be easy to take it back. Even if it is taken back, the people's support will be lost.
Chapter completed!