I have to say that Serrot's work efficiency is really not covered, and it has only been a day since the two talked, and someone informed Yang Chen and Xili that evening that they would go to the government affairs hall the next morning to gather with the officials and go to Xiluo City.

The ostensible mission of these officials was to raise money for disaster relief in the cities along the route to be shipped to Cilo. There, he assisted the staff sent by the Government Affairs Department to complete the food inventory and deliver it to each and every victim.

This is the most basic layer.

However, some nobles learned from the eyes planted in the government affairs hall that these people were transporting food fake, and cooperating with Xili to investigate the nobles along the road was real.

In the eyes of those nobles, according to the current form, the series of plans discussed together before could not contain this disaster, coupled with the fact that some nobles secretly bought the alchemists of the Alchemy Guild, and the cheap pesticides that the government department had high hopes for would be delayed for a few days.

It's just a pity that the key to this kind of inspection has always been to win by surprise, and it is possible to find clues when the other party is caught off guard. But now that the nobles know the specific plan, they will inevitably cover up the truth in advance, so that Ciri and the others will return in vain.

So the nobles who got the news had already begun to sneer and make a countermeasure. In their opinion, no matter how cautious the government affairs department is, it will not be able to escape the magic of the aristocratic forces!

It's a pity that no matter how proud the nobles are, they only think of the second layer, and the main reason why the officials accompanied them this time was to be able to smoothly bypass the nobles and reach a consensus with the victims, so as to pit the nobles again.

Ciri went here, ostensibly to investigate the hidden accounts of the nobles and embezzle evidence of government taxes, but in fact, the deeper reason was to reach a consensus with these nobles and exchange poultry for food without a single hair!

You think I'm on the first level, but I'm on the second level, you think I'm on the second level, but I'm actually on the third level......

Yang Chen, who clearly understood all the plans, couldn't help but sigh, Serrot was really a master, he was really an old mille-feuille, and the intrigues and tricks were one ring after another......

......

In a blink of an eye, in the early morning of the next day, Ciri was dressed up neatly and put on her silver-white armor again, looking heroic and majestic!

As for Yang Chen, he was still the same, wearing a loose magic robe and another armor box around his waist, which was exactly the same as his previous outfit.

When Ciri saw Yang Chen like this, he wanted to speak again and again, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Just let Yang Chen hide behind her during the battle.

Although Heri is a political novice, she still feels that the atmosphere today is a little unusual based on her years of experience in the military.

The door of the government hall was closed, and only in the courtyard could officials be found hiding in the carriage waiting, and further out, a well-equipped army had been assembled.

There are 500 armored soldiers, of which at least 100 are cavalry, and the entire formation is not scattered, and it looks like an elite division.

Yang Chenxili glanced at each other, but he didn't expect the Government Affairs Department to make such a big move this time.

You must know that in Noonan, a strict system of separation of military and government is implemented, and even if it is the government affairs department, there are very few troops under his command that can really be mobilized.

With such a move, Yang Chen and Ciri both felt that the entire Midwestern Plains would be even worse than expected......

Xili and Yang Chen rode into the small courtyard of the government affairs hall one after the other and met with many officials.

Everyone didn't say anything, just saluted and greeted Ciri according to the process, and didn't say a word about the itinerary......

I have to say that everyone is still very cautious, for fear that others will know about the plan......

After that, when everyone was all together, they notified the guards to start marching.

The soldiers who were responsible for guarding everyone this time were carefully selected from the few city defense troops under the control of the Government Affairs Department and the Supervision Department, not to mention that there were only five hundred people, but their combat effectiveness was comparable to the same number of Yu Guards.

Fifty of the five hundred were extraordinary, and although they were only improvised, they were like a commanding arm.

Yang Chen doesn't know anything about military affairs, but Ciri sees it brilliantly.

She knew very well how rare it would be to get this patchwork army under order and ban in just a few days. Ciri became interested in the Archon for a moment.

Ciri and Yang Chen were both sitting in the carriage at this time, accompanied by a main person in charge of this mission. As a subordinate agency of the Government Affairs Department, Deputy Minister of the Audit Department, Glade!

Glade was probably just over forty years old, in the prime of his life, and because of his outstanding business ability, he was so trusted by Serrot that he was sent to be the supreme commander of the operation!

Ciri saw the commander in charge of the escort through the car window, and felt very strange, so she asked Glade about the origin of the commander......

Facing Ciri, Glade naturally spoke endlessly, and after a while, he told him all the information he knew.

The general in charge of this escort was named Schiller, who had been serving in the Blackstone Fortress before, but because his mother was seriously ill, he asked his superiors to transfer him back, and he was willing to give up all his exploits just to be able to return to Cecil City to take care of his seriously ill mother nearby!

By chance, he was favored by Serrot, and specially hired the senior pastor of the Church of Light to treat Schiller's mother, and since then he has sworn allegiance to Serrot.

After that, Serrot mobilized his contacts and sent Schiller to the northern military center to take up the position of commander, and only recently transferred back to Cecil City.

Originally, under the arrangement of Serrot, Schiller would directly serve as the commander of the Praetorian Guard in Cecil City, but on the one hand, due to Serrot's weak influence in the military, and on the other hand, he was directly promoted from the commander of a border military town to the commander of the Praetorian Guard, I am afraid that it will be difficult to convince the public, so he was sent by Serrot to carry out this escort mission!

I hope that after this mission, I can accumulate more experience and complete Schiller's promotion!

After listening to Glade's story, Ciri's heart suddenly understood.

In Noonan, as the commander, he can probably manage more than 2,000 people under his hands, just like Ciri, who was the commander of the Feather Guard, and there are more than 2,000 outstanding Feather Guard soldiers under his hands.

It's just that the Feather Guard Army was originally one of the best elite troops in the entire Noonan, although the number was only 2,000, in fact, its supreme military commander, although he was called the commander, could already be equal to the rank of the commander of the first army.

The Praetorian Guards are much more numerous than the Feather Guards, but as an elite unit of the same level, the value of their leadership positions is still much higher than that of other commanders......

Therefore, even if Schiller has been in the army for many years, he has made great achievements in the Blackstone Fortress, and he has gone north to defend for many years, he still has some gaps with the commander of the Praetorian Guard in the eyes of the military.

At this time, Ciri still has a heart of love, and if Shearer can perform very well along the way, Ciri will also find a way to pull him into the Feather Guard.

In comparison, Ciri has been in the Yuwei Army for many years, and he also has feelings in his heart, not to mention, although Lao Muen, who is now the commander of the Yuwei Army, still behaves decently, but after all, he is old and his energy is not as good as before, and he can't compare with a young general like Hiller in many ways.

Thinking of this, Ciri didn't make a sound, just looked at the tall figure outside.

On the side, Yang Chen looked at Xili's actions, and felt a little uncomfortable inexplicably, as if his own dog had secretly run away with someone else......

"Hmph......" Yang Chen suddenly snorted coldly.

Ciri was also interrupted by Yang Chen's cold snort for a while, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Yang Chen, as if asking, what nerves did you suddenly have?

Yang Chen felt a little better when he saw Xili turning his head to look at him for the first time, but he still pretended not to pay attention to her.

Ask about the itinerary of the trip.

Glade inexplicably felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong, and he didn't want to answer, but before leaving, Serrot specially emphasized that he should try his best to meet Yang Chen's needs, and when there was a discrepancy between the plan and the reality, he should ask Yang Chen's opinion as soon as possible.

So, Glade had to explain. "The next stop, we will first go to the granary outside Cecil City, extract grain and transport it all the way to Cree City, and then where to collect some relief materials from the local nobles and officials, and then ......"

Yang Chen just wanted to attract Xiri's attention, but as for the arrangement of the specific route, he was not interested.

After listening for a while, he couldn't help but interrupt Glade, and in order to show that he was listening, he asked about some details of the city of Kree.

Glade wasn't too confused when he was interrupted, but he just felt that Yang Chen was learning about the specific information of Kerry City.

So he informed the government affairs department of all the information 1510 that he had learned.

"Kree City is one of the few cities that are relatively close to Cecil City, and there are not many nobles living in the city, and the strength is relatively weak, and it is one of the few cities that is greatly influenced by the government department. The most powerful of these families is called the Solon family, and its main source of income is beer production, so it is also called the beer family. The current head of the family is Baron Heroda, whose ability is average, but his ambition is not small, and he has always wanted to open up the market of Cecil City and transport his own beer to Cecil City for sale...... Ahem, a lot of grain was traded from them!"

After Yang Chen listened, he thought for a while, in his opinion, this first foothold must have been carefully arranged by Serrot, the influence of the government affairs hall in the city is still relatively large, and the Solon family is small enough, and it must not have the ability to install eyeliner in the government affairs hall, maybe even Xili may not know that he is in the grain transportation team, so as long as he enters the city and cooperates with the city lord's mansion for a sudden review, there will definitely be obvious gray income on his account records!

In this way, after coercion and inducement, I don't have to worry about signing a confidentiality agreement with it......

In addition, the Solon family, as a beer production family, will inevitably have a large amount of barley and other grain storage, so there is no need to worry about the lack of food stocks caused by the Solon family's strength.