Chapter 267: Secret
Zhao Zongchen and Yang Shen both flew in the same direction, because Yang Shen was carrying Lin Xiaoman on his back, and his speed was a little slower. There are only two gates in this city, and General Cao brought them in from the front gate. Because he rested directly after getting drunk in the General Military Mansion, he didn't know where the back door was.
Cao Zongbing didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Sixth would be so bold, he thought that even if Zhao Zongchen wanted to investigate something, he would have to observe it for a few days before he knew the route. I didn't expect that today was only the first day, and when there were still people watching, I actually went out.
So along the way, Zhao Zongchen and Yang Shen went very smoothly. Avoiding the patrolling soldiers, it didn't take long to reach the back door of the city. I saw that this place was heavily guarded, and even the general military palace was not as large as the number of people here.
Lin Xiaoman and Yang Shen glanced at each other, and a thought floated in their hearts at the same time. They can put more troops on one island than the general military office, and they really can't think of anything other than the granary.
But no matter how much military salary is allocated by the imperial court, there are only 5,000 sailors here, and no matter how much food there is, there should not be much more. General Cao will send heavy troops to guard it, unless the military salary here cannot be known.
Although Yang Shen was carrying Lin Xiaoman on his back, he was very athletic. After easily dodging the patrolling soldiers, he reached the door of a warehouse in a few leaps. I saw Yang Shen's fingers flick and shoot out two stones, and the two soldiers guarding the door fell down without a bang.
The door of the warehouse was locked with a copper lock, and Yang Shen stepped forward and was about to use internal force to pinch the chain, but Lin Xiaoman grabbed his arm. Lin Xiaoman touched it from his head. felt out a black hairpin, then jumped off Yang Shen's back, broke the hairpin and stabbed it at the copper lock, and with a click, the copper lock opened in response.
Yang Shen didn't expect Lin Xiaoman to have this ability, so he stared at the hairpin on her hand carefully, but he didn't notice anything unusual. Lin Xiaoman raised his eyebrows at Yang Shen and grinned. As if to say, I didn't expect me to be so interested!
Of course, it's best not to startle the snake, and glanced at Lin Xiaoman funny. Grab her hand and dodge in. Yang Shen blew the fire primer from his arms. I saw the faint light of the fire illuminating the pile of grain and grass in a warehouse the size of a basketball court.
Yang Shen gasped, even if the 50,000 army was kept eating and drinking here, it would be enough to chew for a year! What's more, there are only 5,000 sailors on this island, and they saw that those soldiers were guarding more than one warehouse just now. Even if there wasn't so much grain and grass in those warehouses. It adds up to a lot of money.
If they want to resist the court. Even if the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress it, the people on this island were not afraid of starving to death. This place is bound to become a difficult bone to gnaw in the future, no wonder Zhao Zongchen will go deep into the tiger's den this time. I don't know if he found out about it.
And Zhao Zongchen on the other side also entered one of the warehouses, and was also stunned by the full supplies inside! At the beginning, one of his subordinates strongly demanded that if this Cao general soldier did not come, he would send troops to kill him as a pirate! Now it seems that it was a wise move for him to block his subordinates' proposal in the first place.
But these grains and grass must not only be the military salaries allocated by the imperial court, but also obtained from other places. But this kind of grain and grass can not be stored without a large amount of silver. I thought that before the second brother, he often took a sea ship to the sea in exchange for things on the other side of the sea to sell, and the price was very expensive, and it was not for nothing that he had the strength to hoard grain and grass.
But the second brother would never hand over such a thing to someone like Mr. Cao to do. But if according to the ability of this Cao Zongbing he saw, I'm afraid he doesn't have that much ability to hoard so much grain and grass.
Where did he get all that grain and grass? This is where Zhao Zongchen is puzzled, and Yang Shen also feels very weird. Only Lin Xiaoman suddenly thought very weakly, wouldn't this Cao Zongbing also have the same space as her to grow food?
It's just that this thought just flashed, and Lin Xiaoman quickly threw this thought out of his mind. However, if there is no space to grow food, grain and grass will never fall from the sky innocently. It must have grown from the ground, thinking of this, Lin Xiaoman let out a low voice: "I know, he must have a grain field here." ”
Yang Shen was taken aback by what she said, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "Grain field?" How is it possible, this is on the island! Even if the fields can be cultivated, there is no river to irrigate them, and those seawater cannot irrigate the fields, how can they grow grain? ”
Seeing Yang Shen's disbelief, Lin Xiaoman glanced at him and said, "Who said that there must be no fresh water on the island?" This island is so big, you can also see that this island is so green, there must be fresh water to grow. I'm afraid there are lakes on this island that you don't know about. "This Ryukyu Island is not that kind of small island, before they went to this city, she secretly calculated the time in her heart, and it was not very far. So if you go deeper into the center of the island, is there a different scenery?
In addition, Zhao Zongchen said that he would take the two of them to play, but General Cao sent someone to the wheel battle, and he forced Zhao Zongchen to lie down, and he couldn't walk anymore. He must not want them to know the secrets of this island.
Yang Shen heard Lin Xiaoman's words, coupled with so much food behind him, it was difficult to believe it. He lowered his face and said, "Then let's go deep into the center of the island to investigate, and I'll see how capable General Cao is." Having said that, I believed Lin Xiaoman's words in my heart. It's a bit of an eyesight to think that Mr. Cao, who looks stupid, to have such skills.
When Lin Xiaoman heard Yang Shen say this, he didn't know why, but the gentleman surnamed Sun appeared in front of him. She felt that that ability might not have been possessed by Mr. Cao, but by someone like this.
But this is just her sixth sense, and there is no real evidence, so it is impossible to say it rashly. Hearing Yang Shen say to go to the center of the island, she nodded and said that she also wanted to go and see. And with the same mentality as them, there was also the Sixth Highness Zhao Zongchen, who sensed something strange from the amount of grain and grass, and then lifted the tiles from the roof of the warehouse and flew towards the center of the island.
This Cao general soldier didn't know what to think, they each flew out of the warehouse and headed towards the center of the island, but there were fewer and fewer soldiers along the way. The further they went to the back, the more frightened they became, because when they got to the back, they couldn't see people at all. If Dao Xin really has any secrets, how could Cao Zongbing do this? (To be continued......)