Nangong Mo sat down leisurely, looked back at the middle-aged man who was staring at him tightly, and said, "General Cao's trickiest thing right now... Isn't it food and grass? "General Wude's surname is Cao, and his single name is a martial character. I don't know who remembered the name General Wude.

The middle-aged man's eyes changed, and a trace of murderous aura flashed in his eyes. Behind Nangong Mo, his eyes shrank slightly, and the whole person tensed up. Nangong Mo relaxed and leaned on the back of the chair behind him and smiled: "Coincidentally, in the next... Can help the general solve this problem. ”

The middle-aged man pondered for a moment and said, "Why does General Ben believe you?" Childe's surname is Mo? General Ben has never heard of anyone surnamed Mo in this Great Xia. "Although General Wude was only born as a small dart, he also traveled everywhere in the early years when he was dart, and he can be regarded as well-informed.

The folding fan in Nangong Mo's hand was closed, and he said with a smile: "General, this world is so big, are there only a few families on the surface?" There is a good saying, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. Back then, the Shen family was rich in the world, and the general could see what happened to him? ”

The middle-aged man nodded slightly, and he didn't know if he was persuaded by Nangong Mo. Just said, "Even if what Your Excellency says is true?" What is your identity? Why does General Ben believe that Your Excellency can help General Ben solve the problem? Nangong Mo casually threw out a token and said: "It is the next generation of the Mo family who is in charge, and the Mo family happens to have dozens of grain stores and thousands of hectares of land in the territory of Great Xia. Does the general think it is enough? ”

The middle-aged man unconsciously fumbled his fingers and lowered his head in thought. But Nangong Mo knew that he was already tempted. The key is not those dozens of grain banks and thousands of hectares of land, but that with grain banks, grain can be purchased from all over the country and transported to Lingzhou. Now the imperial court does not know that the situation in Lingzhou is okay, once the situation in Lingzhou is exposed, as long as the imperial court blocks the notification of grain transportation to Lingzhou, the hundreds of thousands of troops who are doing this will be able to starve themselves to death. Even if they don't starve to death, the soldiers are hungry but they want to mutiny.

After a while, the middle-aged man raised his head and asked, "So, what does Mo Gongzi want?" It's not going to... Plain help General Ben, right? "General Wude is not stupid, how can he not know that there is no pie in the sky in the world after walking the rivers and lakes for so many years?

Nangong Mo played with the folding fan in his hand and said with a smile: "This is nature. Only a win-win situation can make this business long-lasting. Isn't it? ”

The middle-aged man said, "So, Mo Gongzi might as well tell me, what do you want?" ”

Nangong Mo said with a smile: "I sold grain to the general, and the general gave me silver, which is a transaction in itself." If the general is done in the future, it will be best if he can hand over all the trade routes to the Western Regions to my Mo family. ”

Although General Wude is not a merchant, he still knows how much a trade route is worth. Squinted at Nangong Mo and said, "Young Master Mo is really a businessman. But... It sounds like Mo Gongzi doesn't have much confidence in General Ben? That's why I use the word if, if he fails, he naturally doesn't have to fulfill the agreement.

Nangong Mo said: "The general also said that I am a businessman, and I only believe in what I can see with my eyes." ”

General Wude sneered and said, "In this case, in business, what does Mo Gongzi have that General Ben can see?" ”

Nangong Mo said: "Within a month, this son will raise a million loads of grain for the general. However, the general's money for food ......"

General Wude snorted lightly and said, "General Ben is not short of that money. As long as you can raise a million quintals of food. Nangong Mo got up and said, "Then, please wait and see." ”

"Okay."

"Say goodbye below."

General Wude was not difficult for them, and directly asked them to send them out. When he went out of the door, he walked for a while and said in a low voice: "Childe, there are people following behind, do you want to get rid of them?" Nangong Mo shook his head and said, "No, let them follow." Spread the word to Lin Changfeng, and immediately asked people to mobilize food to Lingzhou. ”

"Do you really want to give General Wude food?" Wei was stunned and couldn't help asking.

Nangong Mo Qingli's face showed a cold smile, "He has a life to take my food, and he has a life to use." Will General Wude still save zài in a month? "Although General Wude is destined not to be able to enjoy these grains, the people of Lingzhou still need these grains for the winter.

"One million quintals of grain, we are afraid that we will not be able to raise so much for a while." Dangerous voice.

Nangong Mo said: "It's okay, let people send the news back to Jinling, and His Majesty the Emperor will naturally solve it." "If they can raise that much, then it's a big problem. Although the emperor hates incompetent people, he will never like courtiers who are too powerful.

For the next two days, both of them wandered around Lingzhou City. General Wude's men stared at it for two days and didn't find any movement between the two, so they slowly withdrew. On the third day, Lin Changfeng came back and brought back some news about the Lingzhou garrison.

Lin Changfeng sat at the table and took a big sip of tea, and then said: "I just knew that when the river burst its embankment, a military camp happened to be washed away, so the loss of the Lingzhou garrison itself was not small. Otherwise, Cao Wu would not have mastered Lingzhou City so easily. Now Cao Wu has about 30,000 or 40,000 regular imperial troops attached to him, and there are 70,000 or 80,000 ordinary people who want to rebel with him. There are also some people in the rivers and lakes gathered by Cao Wu and more than 100,000 strong men who were arrested. Therefore, Cao Wu does have more than 200,000 soldiers and horses in his hands now. ”

Nangong Mo tapped lightly on the edge of the table and said, "However, there are actually only thirty or forty thousand people who can really fight. Moreover, these 30,000 or 40,000 people may not really be loyal to Cao Wu? ”

Lin Changfeng deceived his head and said with a smile: "But that's the case." However, even if this is the case, these people are not something we can deal with. "As far as they are concerned, even if those people can't fight, 200,000 people can drown them with a mouthful of spit," In addition, there are bad people everywhere who really can't survive and occupy the mountains as kings. So... Now this Lingzhou is indeed devastated. ”

Nangong Mo snorted lightly and said, "Go Shan Xin to get it out for me, I'll be useful." ”

Lin Changfeng looked at her in some surprise, and Nangong Mo said: "After all, we are not familiar with the life of Lingzhou, so it is better to find someone familiar with it to ask." Is there anyone more than Shan Xin, the prefect of Lingzhou? Lin Changfeng said with a smile: "Shan Xin is now locked up in the General's Mansion, if we rob the General's Mansion, this Lingzhou City will not be able to stay, don't you still want to do business with Cao Wu?" ”

"I lied to him." Nangong Mo said leisurely, "It's not that I don't want to live anymore, even if I really have food, I don't dare to sell it to him, not to mention, I don't have it at all." "She has a lot of silver in her hand, but if she wants food, she really can't get much. Whether it is her dowry or Wei Junmo's private house, there are not many shops in the grain business. Lin Changfeng stroked his forehead and said, "Then Miss Mo, you are still boasting that Haikou wants to raise a million loads of grain." ”

Nangong Mo looked at him silently and said, "You misunderstood what I meant, I mean you asked people to go back to Jinling and ask for a million loads of grain." Don't worry, there are so many stupid people in Jinling City, just mention it to Your Majesty, there will be food immediately, and you don't even need to open the treasury, Your Majesty will be very happy. ”

The people who are cheated by you will definitely not be happy.

"Where is the defeated Lingzhou garrison? Did you find it? Nangong Mo asked with a different topic. Lin Changfeng's expression was solemn, and he nodded: "I found it, but their condition is not very good." ”

"Guessed." Nangong Mo didn't care, "If it's good, it won't be silent until now." Now that we know the place, let's go and see it. Hopefully, there won't be only a few hundred left. ”

The situation of the defeated Lingzhou garrison was indeed not good, and the rebels were menacing, and they were forced to retreat to a remote and barren small county town. It has just suffered from floods, and the already barren county town has no food and no people, and the defeated army can barely survive without supplementary support. Even if he wanted to send someone out for help, he was killed by the masters of the rivers and lakes under Cao Wu. Cao Wu obviously didn't plan to fight with them, as long as he trapped this small city, he could starve them to death.

When Nangong Mo and the three of them came, they saw the city guards on the city tower in tattered clothes and thin faces. Suddenly, at this time, three neatly dressed people appeared under the city tower, and the soldiers guarding the city were also shocked, and hurriedly went to tell the main general.

Nangong Mo was not verbose, and directly shook the gold medal in his hand and said, "Open the city gate." ”

Although he is a soldier at the bottom, the lifelike golden dragon on the gold medal can still be recognized. Occasionally, literate people even recognized the four big characters on the gold medal: "If I am here." ”

"This..."

"Open the gates!" A somewhat hoarse and low voice came from the castle tower. Soon, the closed gates were opened, and the three of them soon met the man who had given the order. It was a young general who looked to be in his early thirties, the man had a thin face, a tired look, and bloodshot eyes. Even that robe was stained with a lot of dust, which looked very unkempt.

The man glanced at the three of them, and finally fell on Nangong Mo and frowned, "This girl... Carrying the Majesty Xià Gold Medal Order Arrow, I don't know what identity it is? Originally, he didn't want to talk to Nangong Mo, but seeing a delicate girl's house at this time is really not something that can make people happy. Even if she was sent by His Majesty. Even sending a helpless sour man over is more useful than a girl, right? But helplessly, the position of these three people showed that the two men behind him were led by this beautiful woman, and the gold medal of His Majesty was still in his hand.

Nangong Mo put away the gold medal and said with a smile: "Nangong Mo, please ask the general's name?" ”

The man pondered for a moment before he seemed to remember something, then looked at Nangong Mo and said, "It turned out to be the lord of Xingcheng County, and he has admired his name for a long time." The deputy commander of the last general, Lingzhou Wei, made Jiang Congfeng. "Although it is far away in Lingzhou, Nangong Mo's famous Jiang Congfeng has heard of it. At the same time, I was secretly relieved in my heart. At least this county lord should not be a weak lady who needs to be protected from rumors. Regardless of whether it can help or not, as long as no one causes trouble in the current situation, Jiang Congfeng feels thankful.

Thinking of the current situation, Jiang Congfeng had to swallow the helplessness and bitterness in his heart. In the chaos in Lingzhou, the commander was killed, and one of his deputy commanders, who had almost been set up before, could only hurriedly gather the remnants of the defeated army to defend this small city. He knows a little about His Majesty's style of doing things today, and no matter what the outcome of this incident is, he, the deputy commander, will not be able to escape the crime of dereliction of duty and land.

Nangong Mo nodded and said, "Deputy Commander Jiang, it's hard work." ”

Jiang Congfeng smiled bitterly, "Don't dare, eat the king's Lu and be loyal to the king." Now the situation in Lingzhou... The last general really can't afford the word hard work. ”

Lin Changfeng touched his chin and said, "Miss Mo, are we going in to talk?" "What's the deal with standing at the gates of the city and blowing the wind?

Jiang Congfeng hurriedly said: "It's the last general's negligence, please come in the county lord." ”

Jiang Congfeng led the three of them into the city, and the small county town was empty, and only occasionally felt the gaze coming through the windows of the streets on both sides. While walking, Jiang Congfeng said helplessly: "There were originally less than 30,000 people in this county, and some escaped after being washed away by the flood that broke the embankment, and now there are only about one or two thousand people left in this city." However, now the city is about to be unable to hold on, and these people also want to run out. ”

Nangong Mo said lightly: "The outside may not be better than here." How many soldiers are there in the city? ”

Jiang Congfeng hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Now there are less than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city. ”

Nangong Mo frowned, Cao Wu had at least 200,000 soldiers and horses under him, whether it was a rabble or not, they were always living people. What's more, the less than 20,000 people under Jiang Congfeng's hands don't look like any elites.

"How many soldiers and horses did Lingzhou originally have?" Nangong Mo asked.

Jiang Congfeng said: "There are seven guards in Lingzhou, with a total of more than 35,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, Lingzhou is the fief of the king of Yuejun, so there are more than 20,000 soldiers of the king of the county. In addition, there were more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in each city. Originally, there were less than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Lingzhou. Nangong Mo nodded and said, "But now, General Wude has more than 200,000 troops under his command, and we have less than 20,000. ”

Jiang Congfeng showed a hint of shame on his face, although Great Xia has only been established for more than 20 years, the soldiers and horses in the Jiangnan area have been comfortable and have long lost the combat power at the beginning of the founding of the country. Now the real elite soldiers and horses of Great Xia are all in the border passes, controlled by the vassal kings. Lin Changfeng followed behind the two and said lazily: "County Lord, what should we do now?" ”

Nangong Mo looked at Jiang Congfeng, and Jiang Congfeng said: "More than ten miles away from here is the camp of the rebels, there... At least 50,000 soldiers and horses were stationed. However, they are all rabble. ”

Nangong Mo looked at him with a smile and raised his eyebrows, Jiang Congfeng naturally understood what Nangong Mo meant, and tens of thousands of rabble besieged them in this city and couldn't move. Jiang Congfeng coughed lightly, touched his nose and said, "County Lord, let's... There is no more food or grass in the city. "How can we fight a war without food? If he said that there were no reinforcements for a while, Jiang Congfeng was not sure if he could hold on. Now that the Lingzhou disaster has just passed, even if you want to grab grain and grass, you don't know where to grab it.

Nangong Mo nodded and said, "Don't worry, there will be grain and grass, and there will be no reinforcements." ”

Late at night, Nangong Mo and Lin Changfeng left the small city and went straight to the rebel camp more than ten miles away. Standing in the hidden place outside the barracks, looking at the barracks in front of him, Lin Changfeng frowned, and sighed: "I really don't understand what the use of you coming here, Miss Mo?" We don't have anything now, it's impossible to fight the rebels, do you plan to capture the thief and capture the king first? ”

Nangong Mo laughed in a low voice: "When did I say that I was going to fight the rebels?" "She doesn't know much about fighting. Pointing to the barracks in front of him, there was a faint figure shaking at the door of the barracks, Nangong Mo said, "How loyal do you think these people are to Cao Wu?" Lin Changfeng scoffed, "Loyal? Cao Wu wants to be the next founding king, but I'm afraid it's still a little short. "Just by virtue of the way he made such a mess in Lingzhou, his methods are more than a little worse than when he was today. Lin Changfeng looked at Nangong Mo in surprise and said, "You want to recruit An?" ”

Nangong Mo said: "Otherwise, what are we going to do?" But... Before recruiting An, I'm afraid that I still have to see blood! ”

It was already ten in the middle of the night, and it was quiet in the camp. Only the sound of singing and dancing could be heard faintly from the deepest part of the barracks. Nangong Mo smiled coldly: "The eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, these people seem to be enjoying it." "This is true of the commander of this barracks, as are the four sworn brothers and sisters I met in Qingshui Town before. Nangong Mo really had some doubts about whether these people wanted to rebel or be funny.

Lin Changfeng said with a smile: "Are people in the rivers and lakes, they are used to being informal. ”

Most of the generals under Cao Wu's command today are the dart masters who dart with him at the beginning, or the people in the rivers and lakes who have friendships. These people do not have the quality of generals from military families, nor do they have the struggle to survive from the real poor people. To put it bluntly, they are just for their own ambitions and delusions. So it's really not surprising that this kind of thing starts to do nonsense before the eight characters are skimmed.

The two men flashed into the barracks like two black shadows. Passing through tents and avoiding one-on-one patrols, we soon reached the main tent in the center of the barracks. There were four guards standing outside the main tent, and the sound of singing and dancing in the tent and the smell of wine permeated from inside, making people swallow their saliva. From the tent, you can also see the voice of the dancing girl Miaoman.

A soldier yawned and looked at the tent behind him, and said with some envy: "What a fragrant wine, I'm hungry." ”

Another soldier gave him a blank look and said, "If you are hungry, endure it, who is not hungry." No matter how good the food is, we don't have our share. Be careful that your head hits the ground to be true. The soldier smashed his mouth and muttered a little unwillingly: "The people above have wine to drink, meat to eat, and beautiful girls." We can only blow the cold wind here, why is there such a big difference between these people? ”

"If you had rebelled with General Wude in the first place, and if you had also called General Wude brothers, you could have sat in it and drank wine and eaten meat now. Does our general know? That's General Wude's brother-in-law. ”

The envious soldier sighed and said, "Who let our lives be bad?" But we're pretty good, at least we still stutter. I heard that some of the people who were arrested below simply starved to death. "If there is a lack of anything now, there is no shortage of people, and if there is no one, we can catch it.

"What is starvation?" The soldier on the opposite side sneered and said, "I heard that ......" glanced at the side vigilantly, and the soldier leaned into his companion's ear and whispered a few words, and his companion's eyes suddenly widened, and he said in shock: "Really... It's true? ”

"Is this still fake?"

"Gross!" The young soldier finally couldn't take it anymore and rushed to the corner to the side and vomited.

There were a few soft pops, and the person who originally wanted to say something only felt a sudden pain in the back of his head, and he didn't know anything when it was dark in front of him.

Nangong Mo stood at the door of the big tent, looking at the few guards lying on the ground, and after glancing at the tent that was still singing and dancing, his pretty face was like ice.

The big tent sings and dances, the fragrance of wine is overflowing, and there is no chill of late autumn outside. Sitting on the throne was a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, who was lazily leaning back in a chair and hugging a bewitching and beautiful woman in red, while enjoying the song and dance below, while enjoying the wine offered by the beauty. Sighing with satisfaction, "This is a good day for people to be comfortable." ”

What is the chaos in the world? Nowadays, it is very comfortable to have such a day when thousands of troops are calling forward and supporting beauties, and they are in power. Thinking of the days when I worked hard to risk dangers, run the rivers and lakes, and pretend to be my grandson, I suddenly felt that I had lived for so many years and was not a human life. No wonder so many people in this world want to be emperors and want to dominate the world, as long as they live such a day, they are reluctant to give up.

"General, drink." The beautiful dancing girl snuggled into his arms and brought a glass of fine wine to his lips. The man haha, raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, "Beauty, General Ben really likes you so much." How is it? General Ben, you're much better than that husband, aren't you? Wuji leaned on him softly and said with a forced smile: "This is nature, where is that wretch comparable to the general's heroic martial arts?" ”

The man sneered, and suddenly reached out to pinch Maihime's chin and smiled, "Is it really true?" It doesn't matter, General Ben likes to see the grievances of you who have to serve General Ben even though you don't want to. Ha ha. "If in the past, such a beautiful woman who was raised in the boudoir of a big family would not even look at him, but so what? Now don't say it's these dancing girls, even if it's a young lady from a big family, and the lady loves a concubine, isn't she all allowed to do whatever she wants?

Just as the man proudly threw the woman to the chair next to him, he stood up and wanted to commit violence to the woman, when a cold voice came from behind him, "Originally, I didn't want to kill you so quickly, but you really make me feel disgusting." ”

The cold blade appeared on his neck at some point, and the man's body stiffened, and he forced himself to calm down and said, "Who is the girl?" "In the end, it is a person who has walked the rivers and lakes, but it is not so frightened that he cries and shouts that his mother's legs and feet are weak when he encounters something.

"If you look back, don't you know who I am?" Behind her, the woman said leisurely. The man turned around slowly, and the dancing girls who were originally serving in the big tent had fallen to the ground at some point, and not far in front of him, a beautiful woman dressed in black looked at his neck with cold eyes. He didn't dare to move, because he clearly felt that if he moved, his head would be separated from his neck.

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