Zhuo Bufan sat cross-legged on the ground, a ray of winter sunlight shone on him through the window, and an awkward long sword was placed beside him.
Kata!
There was the sound of the wooden door opening in the distance, and the sound of steady footsteps getting closer and closer. Zhuo Bufan opened his eyes and saw Li Xiang, the lord of Xiliang City who had defeated him and Long Qingyuan in thirteen days.
"Looks like he's recovering!" Li Xiang saw Zhuo Bufan's gaze and looked at how Zhuo Bufan looked much better now than when he was bleeding from his seven orifices. At least he looked much normal.
"Thank you City Master Li for taking care of me!" Zhuo Bufan said neither humble nor overbearing, and sat cross-legged on the ground, showing no intention of getting up.
Li Xiang didn't care, and walked into the cell: "I came here this time to know some news about Jiuyuan County!"
Zhuo Bufan closed his eyes: "You can kill me or chop me into pieces, but if you want me to betray the king, you'd better die because of this!"
Li Xiang did not force him, but chatted like a friend: "Presumably without the help of Longling City's army, your master must be very anxious! It is already February, and the snow that fell a few days ago is considered the last snow.
King Jiuyuan has soldiers from the three cities of Taiyuan, Shangyuan and Jiumu, and they are all elite troops, but the governor Luo Tiansheng seems to be even better!"
Li Xiang was minding his own business and said, "I'm a little busy these days, but I found this in Long Qingyuan's bedroom the day before yesterday!"
"For a letter of appointment, you can fill in your name freely!" Li Xiang said to Zhuo Bufan with a smile: "I have to thank you, otherwise it will be difficult for me, Li Xiang, to get Tupocheng!"
Zhuo Bufan opened his eyes: "City Lord Li, why don't you just stay outside your pass? Why come to the muddy waters inside the pass?"
Li Xiang shook his head: "If no ferocious beasts entered the pass, I, Prime Minister Li, should be holding my beloved wife in Xiliang City at this time, instead of coming to the pass to be busy.
Just tell me what I want to know and I will let you go!"
Zhuo Bufan was silent for a while: "What do you want to know?"
"Is King Jiuyuan really going to rebel?" Li Xiang said with some gossip: "This old prince has been in power for a long time. Now, Uncle Holy Master, if he rebels like this, isn't he afraid of being destroyed by the imperial capital?"
Zhuo Bufan said: "If the king doesn't take action, he won't survive this year. This piece of land has been spotted by others, but if the other party comes in, you may have to confront him, Lord Li!"
"Prince?" Li Xiang asked?
Zhuo Bufan shook his head: "It's not the crown prince, it's the eighth prince. Your Majesty is determined to let the eighth prince leave the capital. His Majesty Jiuyuan County plans to give it to the eighth prince."
"Isn't the Eighth Prince very good?" Li Xiang remembered that the Eighth Prince's reputation was pretty good: "If the Eighth Prince comes over, he won't kill King Jiuyuan!"
Zhuo Bufan put his hand on the broken sword: "The Eighth Prince's mother was the most beloved by Your Majesty. She died giving birth to the Eighth Prince. Your Majesty seems to have been indifferent to the Eighth Prince these years, and even had some indifference. In fact,
Protect the Eighth Prince.
At this time, the smoke was spreading, and the fights between several princes and the prince became more and more serious. His Majesty has issued an edict that Jiuyuan County is the fiefdom of the eighth prince. As soon as the eighth prince reaches adulthood, someone will escort him here. The eighth prince
My surname is Luo, and Luo Tiansheng is the uncle of the eighth prince."
Li Xiang frowned when he heard this: "The eighth prince's uncle is Luo Tiansheng. In this case, Luo Tiansheng should not serve as the governor of Jiuyuan County!"
Zhuo Bufan chuckled and said: "Your Majesty really loves and protects the Eighth Prince. In a world where war is everywhere, what is a safer place than the northwest?
With my uncle as the county guard, the old prince will be eliminated, and the northwest will be extremely safe."
"That's right, but is this northwest land really safe?" Li Xiang put his hand on the hilt of his sword.
Zhuo Bufan raised his head and looked at Li Xiang: "In the past, you only needed to kill the prince to be safe. Now, even if the prince does not resist and surrenders all his troops, they will be very uneasy. After all, you are here, Lord Li.
Why don't you, City Lord Li, do a business deal with my prince?"
"Refuse!" Li Xiang said immediately: "Rather than get involved, I might as well just watch quietly. When you both show your flaws, wouldn't it be better for me to come out and be a fisherman again?"
After Li Xiang finished speaking, he turned around to leave. Zhuo Bufan was a little puzzled: "You just asked this question?"
Li Xiang laughed: "What? Do you think I asked too few questions? There are not many things I want to know, and there are not many things I want at the moment. Tupo City, Longling City and Langya City, these three
From today on, this city belongs to me, Prime Minister Li. Remember to tell your master when you go back!"
After Li Xiang finished speaking, he led the people away. In Long Qingyuan's bedroom, he saw many envelopes. The Long family had been in contact with the contemporary King Jiuyuan more than forty years ago. In the past, the Long family only sent some money.
In the past ten years, the Long family has begun to expand its army.
Zhuo Bufan said that in order to resist the Eighth Prince, King Jiuyuan began to worry about the Eighth Prince ten years ago?
The eighth prince was just a child in ten years. At that time, Daqian was still relatively calm. The turmoil started eight years ago. Several princes were very good. The prince was not sitting on the Diaoyutai. The other princes had opportunities.
Pull him off his horse.
It is said to be for defense against the Eighth Prince, but rather for power. It only needs to cut off the waterway. The northwest land is almost isolated from the outside world. It is a more closed place than Shu.
Letting this man go back is just to let King Jiuyuan know who the owner of Tupo City and Langya City Longling City is!
As for what King Jiuyuan really thinks, Li Xiang doesn't really want to know.
As soon as he returned to the city lord's palace, Li Xiang saw that the transportation team had arrived, and the various talents and food Li Xiang needed had finally arrived.
All the mud houses in the North City have been demolished, and 200,000 slaves have been assigned to the four military camps in the city. They eat and drink with the captured Longling City soldiers every day.
To prevent the spread of various infectious diseases, these slaves were thrown into the bathhouse every three days.
Li Yi sent a thousand construction workers. As compensation, she would transfer 10,000 farmers from Yuankuang to other professions, and then transfer 10,000 people from Dark Fortress to Xiliang City.
The increase in the number of Xiliang's army has increased the pressure on Xiliang's already weak military industry, which has to add a large number of blacksmiths and arsenals to build a psychic cannon production line.
At this time, Xiliang City had five Yuan mines and sufficient Yuan stones. Xiliang's war weapons began to enter the era of spiritual energy instead of the previous era of cold weapons. The representative was the Xiliang Navy.
Li Yi, who was seriously short of manpower, reached out to Yuankuang and Dark City, taking 10,000 people from each side.
After Li Xiang assigned the tasks, he said to his bodyguard: "Go and tell Liu Zhen, I'll wait for him at Xiliang Taoist Temple!"
Liu Zhen, the family patriarch, became the only internal affairs manpower that Li Xiang could use in Longling City. It was okay for the five commanders of the Five Dragon Army to let them fight, but let them do internal affairs.
Li Xiang left all the matters of getting married to the soldiers of the Five Dragon Army to Liu Zhen. Liu Zhen did a good job. Five thousand soldiers of the Five Dragon Army had already got married. The remaining women were not willing to remarry, and Li Xiang did not force it.
, there will be more time in the future.
Xiliang Taoist Temple is a place prepared by Prime Minister Li for those children. It is surrounded by Xiliang soldiers. These children will study here for two months. After the study and assessment are completed, they can return home.
In the past two months, these children will be in a closed state, surrounded by the Xiliang army and a hundred monks. Each of them needs to convert more than fifty children. If it still fails after two months, then the time will be extended.
.
The mother's children seemed very quiet just now. They were in a group with the same street and surname. The largest number of children gathered around the children of several big families. They did not dare to make a fuss.
These people with long knives around them are the people who killed their father. They had been warned before they came!
Children are innocent, they hate just hate, hate just hate, everything is in front of their eyes.
Li Xiang is dressed in red armor, and in the minds of those children, he is a big devil from hell. If it weren't for this big devil, their father would not have died, and they would not have come to this place.
Ignoring the hateful looks of these children, the more they hate themselves, the better, so that people can get close to them. The Xiliang intelligence agency also needs to be established, otherwise it will be too shabby!
