Jinan Prefecture, Jinyiwei Yamen.

Su Hao looked at the six men and one woman in front of him curiously. All seven of them were not too old, probably more than 20 years old. He did not expect that someone would come to send carbon at this time, and they were still in the left Taoist warlocks.

They are all considered big-hearted people in the circle.

Mei Shanshui Master!

Yinshan Sect!

There are many records of these two leftist sects in the travel notes of the Su family’s ancestors. Meishan naval masters are only inherited in the Meishan area of ​​Huguang, and rarely go out of Meishan. They worship the gods Chi You and Zhang Wulang, who are good at using talisman water and witchcraft.

He is an orthodox sorcerer who uses magic to treat diseases. Of course, being good at saving people also means being good at harming people. After all, there is no separation between medicine and poison.

The Yinshan Sect is a complete ghost cultivating sect, good at raising ghosts, and it is not a small-scale raising. Some strong Yinshan sects will conquer the evil ghosts in various places, and then support them. The most powerful ones even raise an entire battalion in the underworld.

There are many ghost soldiers, ghost generals, and old ghosts with second-rate strength like Fu Bo.

However, unlike Uncle Fu, the ghost soldiers and generals raised in the underworld are not treated as well as Uncle Fu. In addition to the incense and incense, Fu Bo also has the occasional support of his magic power, which is equivalent to the ancestors of the Su family.

These ghost soldiers and ghost generals are more like being captured as young men. They usually only receive a little incense from the Yinshan Sect. The relationship with the Yinshan Sect is an employment relationship. You spend money and I do things. The Yinshan Sect disciples want to invite these

When ghost soldiers and ghost generals do things, they have to pay for mana and incense, which is similar to his paper-based killing technique.

It's just that these ghost soldiers and ghost generals can still be worshiped by the Yinshan Sect to some extent, so even if the incense and mana are sometimes insufficient, these ghost soldiers and ghost generals will not easily backfire.

Moreover, because they have been in and out of the underworld all the year round, the Yinshan sect has developed a lot of affection in the underworld, and can ask many questions in the underworld. Most of the folks who are good at traveling in the underworld have learned from the Yinshan sect.

"I wonder what official position some of you want to seek under my command?"

After recovering his thoughts, Su Hao asked with a smile. Although he didn't know what these people wanted from him, since they dared to come, he dared to accept them.

The strength of a few people is only in the second-rate realm, but the methods of the left-handed warlocks are weird, and if they are used well, they can also play a powerful role.

"Su Qianhu, our Meishan lineage is good at healing. The battle in Jinan Prefecture is about to begin. We can treat the injured for Qianhu."

Xu Zhou cupped his hands and said that he was Dong Shichang's eldest disciple. This time he came to Jinan Mansion with his junior brother and junior sister on Dong Shichang's order.

"Su Qianhu, our Yinshan sect is good at exorcising ghosts and leaving the underworld. Whenever you are given an order, we will definitely obey it."

Wu Shi from the Yinshan Sect also followed suit.

"In that case, let's join the army for the time being."

After pondering for a moment, Su Hao said: "I have set up a medical clinic in the army before. Several Taoist friends from Meishan can serve as medical officers. The medical officers are trial hundred households, each of whom has ten subordinate officers."

"As for the Taoist friends of the Yinshan Sect, the trading houses I have secretly set up in various places are purchasing various supplies for me. When the imperial court arrives, the roads will definitely be blocked. At that time, these Taoist friends will transport these materials for me.

Come to Jinan Prefecture."

These two things are the most suitable for seven people to do. The Meishan lineage is good at treatment, so it is most suitable to send them to treat wounded soldiers. Although he has gathered most of the doctors in the city into the army and purchased a large amount of medicinal materials...

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However, there are many injuries that cannot be treated by ordinary people, and they still have to rely on magic. Moreover, if they become medics, Xu Zhou and the others will not have access to military power. Without military power, they will have nothing to do even if they have any evil intentions.

The same goes for Wu Shi and others. It is not an easy task to transport supplies into Jinan Mansion from the outside. The imperial court will definitely have people block the main roads in various places. He originally wanted Uncle Fu and Zhao Xiaoer to do this.

, but now that Wu Shi and the others have come to their door automatically, they will naturally make the best use of them.

And he is not afraid that Wu Shi and the others have different intentions. As long as they don't take away all his caravans outside, otherwise the loss to him will not be big if three or two caravans are taken away. After all, they are just small businessmen with dozens of people.

As long as you have money, it is only a matter of time to form dozens more caravans.

Time flies, in the blink of an eye, four

The months passed in a blink of an eye. Both sides were accumulating strength, and the impact of seizing grain and cutting off the canal was gradually emerging. It took the court four months to gather the soldiers and horses that could have been gathered in more than two months.

, and has not moved in Cangzhou.

"Boy, these are four demon spirit paper armors. You and Zimo go to Dongchang Mansion to help Tang Xiangjin and the others defend the city. You will keep these four demon spirit paper armors in peacetime, and they will be given to Tang Xiangjin and the others in time of war."

Su Hao handed four pieces of demon spirit paper armor to Zhao Xiaoer. He originally planned to refine the demon spirit paper armor to distribute to Tang Xiangjin and the others when he had spare time in the future. He didn't expect that the imperial court was so incompetent that it took four to even gather troops.

Months gave him enough time. In these four months, he refined seven demon spirit paper armors.

"One for He Liu, one for Tang Xiangjin, one for Liang Ping, and one for Luo Yi. These four demon spirit paper armors should improve their combat power a lot."

After a pause, Su Hao continued, although the Demon Spirit Paper Armor cannot make a qualitative difference in Tang Xiangjin's combat power, it can definitely improve it a lot. Even if it cannot reach the level of Zuo Yifeng, it should be able to reach the level of other Jinyi guards.

The level of thousands of households.

As for why it should be divided among Tang Xiangjin, He Liu, Luo Yi and Liang Ping, it is mainly to prevent problems in the future. The four of them are not in the same group. Tang Xiangjin is closer to Yang Bao and Hao Yi, while Tian Ming and Liang Ping are close to each other.

Even better, it goes without saying that the four of Luo Yi and He Liu, Jiang Shizhong and Gan Yang have worked together for many years, so it goes without saying.

The last thing in this world that cannot be tested is the human heart. He doesn't want Tang Xiangjin and the others to fall into internal fighting because of the four demon spirit paper armors. If one party is too powerful, it will easily breed ambition. Next, Dongchang Mansion and Jinan

The contacts with the Dongchang Mansion will become less and less. If someone becomes ambitious, then the Dongchang Mansion may not be defeated by the imperial court, but fall into the hands of its own people.

The four demon spirit paper armors were given to Tang Xiangjin and the other four, plus Zhao Xiaoer and Ding Zimo. The Dongchang Mansion should be able to defend it. Needless to say, Zhao Xiaoer's strength is also that of Ding Zimo's.

After breaking through to the first-class realm, he also gave Ding Zimo a demon spirit paper armor. In the past four months, he had recruited more than 70,000 new soldiers. In addition to the original more than 20,000, there were already nearly 100,000.

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In addition, he also dispersed the 4,000 elites who had been trained for more than two years and led the new recruits separately. As long as they trained for a year and a half, plus a few battles, 100,000 new recruits would be on the right track.

Already….

In terms of food, there will be no problem in the past two or three years. In the past four months, in addition to the grain supply, more than 100,000 acres of the more than one million acres of land in Prince De's Mansion have been used to recruit new soldiers, saving more than 80 acres.

Ten thousand acres of rent, the remaining grain collected by more than 200,000 shi, plus the grain seized from Prince De's Mansion and the Tong family, and finally the grain collected from tax collection of more than 300,000 shi, all have

There are more than 1.7 million dan of grain, which is enough for three years.

"Master, only Jiang Shizhong and the other three are left in Jinan Mansion to help you. I'm afraid it will be difficult to resist the imperial army."

Taking the demon spirit paper armor, Zhao Xiaoer frowned and said, originally the power of Jinan Mansion was weaker than that of Dongchang Mansion, and now she and Ding Zimo were sent to Dongchang Mansion, although she didn't know the current situation.

Su Hao's strength has reached what level, but facing the imperial army, it might not be that easy.

"Don't worry."

Hearing this, Su Hao smiled and said, "As a teacher, you have to have your own rules."

Although refining the seven demon spirit paper armors in the past four months has delayed a lot of his practice time, now his eight extraordinary meridians have been opened, and he only needs to completely connect all the meridians to achieve success.

He has become a master of martial arts. This won't take too long. He should have broken through before the imperial army arrives.

After hearing Su Hao's words, Zhao Xiaoer didn't say anything more. Since Su Hao said so, he naturally wouldn't treat his own safety as a trivial matter.

………

Cangzhou.

As more and more soldiers gathered, the entire Cangzhou Pier became a huge barracks, with military tents standing tall.

In the county government office, Wang Congyi and Yang Guodong had sad faces.

"Governor, the food the court has given us is too little. I'm afraid it won't be enough to last us until we capture Dongchang Mansion."

Yang Guodong grimaced. In the past four months, Cangzhou has gathered people from all over the world.

There are 140,000 soldiers and horses. These soldiers and horses alone consume 70,000 to 80,000 shi of food every month.

However, this time the imperial court only sent them 120,000 shi of food. This food was only enough for the army to consume for more than a month. The attack on Dongchang Mansion would not be successful in a short time.

On the other side of the canal, the more than ten miles long river channel from Tuhai River to Dongchang Mansion has been filled in by the rebels. If you want to dig it out, you will need to recruit a lot of civilians, and it will not be dug out in a short time, let alone

The important thing is that without the upstream water source, the waterway from Dongchangfu to Xuzhou is impossible to sail at all.

Food from the south of the Yangtze River can only be transported to Dongchang Prefecture by land. Taking the land route will consume too much.

"I will report this matter to the court."

Wang Congyi sighed: "It's just that the imperial court is also short of food now. If it's really not possible, then we can only feed the people."

Feed the people!

Hearing Wang Congyi's words, Yang Guodong frowned even more. He just robbed the people.

"Send the order, break camp!"

Seeing Yang Guodong's expression, Wang Congyi was also helpless. The court had no food and the rebels wanted to suppress them. If he didn't rob the people, how could he find food to feed the hundreds of thousands of troops?

"yes!"

Hearing this, Yang Guodong could only sigh, then turned and left.

Soon, the army set off, and more than 2,000 large and small ships came down the river one after another. With such a convenient transportation thoroughfare like the canal, naturally no one would be stupid enough to walk on two feet...

It took five days for the army to arrive at the Dezhou Water Transport Terminal. By this time, Dezhou was already empty of people and all valuables had been cleared away.

Wang Congyi did not stop, and the army went down the river again, heading towards Linqing Prefecture.

Naturally, such a huge movement of the imperial army could not be hidden from anyone. As soon as the army left Cangzhou, the news had already spread to Jinan and Dongchang Prefectures.

………

Linqing Prefecture, Prefecture Government Office.

"Governor, information about the rebels has been sent."

Yang Guodong came to Wang Congyi with more than a dozen pieces of information.
To be continued...