Jizhou went to the southeast, and after going out for about six or seven hundred miles, the customs began to change.

The people here speak with different accents than those in Jizhou.

You feel like you can hear every word they say, but you just can't hear what the whole sentence means.

Fortunately, Li Qi and Master can travel from south to north, and they have encountered any kind of accent, so he can still communicate.

At this point, rumors about the dummy emperor began to grow more and more.

In short, it is still combined with the legends of various gods and ghosts, and this kind of rigid mythological story is slightly low-level.

After all, that dummy emperor does not have the blessing of the Dao of the little real person of Longhu Mountain.

The front army is the leader of the Taitai pressure realm, and the rear team is Yu Jiuling.

The people around Li Qi took Zhang Yuxu, the little junior brother Zhen Gen, Chen Dawei, Gang Gang and others.

A few years ago, when I was driving a horse shop, I felt that there were enough people, and I could even say that there were many talents.

But after the team has grown to its current size, Li Qi feels more and more that there are indeed too few people who can use it.

Especially after Xiahou Zhuo went to Youzhou, Zhuang Wushu went to Jicheng, and Liu Ge led his troops to the northwest.

The only people around him who were really capable of leading the troops to fight were Tang Rival and Tangtai Suppression.

It's not that Zhen Gen and Chen Dawei are not capable of them, but their ability is not to lead the troops to fight.

Therefore, Li Qi has been selecting talents in the army during this period, but talents are always hard to find.

in a village.

Li Qi sat in this small courtyard with a mud wall and looked around, this family is not an exaggeration to say that it is a family with four walls.

The old man came over with water, and Li Qi hurriedly stretched out his hands to take it.

Li Qi asked, "Uncle, are you the only one living at home?" ”

"I'm alone."

The old man sat down, sighed, and said, "If I can still do the hard work, I will not be idle at home." ”

"The young and strong laborers in the village were all requisitioned to Jieshi Prefecture, saying that they were building a big city over there, and each person was given three taels of silver a month, and they were also in charge of food and shelter."

The old man said: "My two sons and two daughters-in-law have gone, and there were originally six or seven hundred people in the village, but now there are only two or three hundred people left, and more than half of them have gone." ”

Li Qi nodded.

Building a big city over there in Jieshi Prefecture?

It seems that this dummy emperor is not an incompetent person.

It is rumored that the dummy emperor said that he was going to beat Li Qi, but he didn't come after waiting for more than half a year.

At this time, I heard that a big city was being built, and it was obvious that there was no intention of an expedition, which shows that this person's thinking is not superficial.

"How long have they been there?"

Li Qi asked.

The old man replied: "It's been almost a year, think about it, go to four people, three taels of silver a month, almost a year, each person can bring back thirty taels ......."

When he said this, the corners of the old man's mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.

"In that case, the rest of the days will be much better."

Li Qi was a little worried in his heart.

This place is still hundreds of miles away from Jieshi Prefecture, and even the people here have been conscripted to work, such a scale, so how many people can there be in Jieshi Prefecture?

There are hundreds of thousands, but there may be millions.

According to the calculation of 500,000 people, 300,000 taels per person, 500,000 people, in less than a year, that is at least 15 million taels of silver.

Don't say it's the fake Li Qi, even if it's the real Li Qi, he can't come up with so much silver.

In fact, it can be seen from this that the military expenditure to maintain an army is terrifying.

Three taels of silver a month is almost exactly the monthly salary of the soldiers of the Great Chu Mansion.

To maintain a team of 500,000 people, not to mention other expenses, let's say that this military salary is 1.5 million taels a month.

Therefore, Li Qi deduced that it was impossible for the dummy emperor in Jieshi Prefecture to really give silver.

He sighed inwardly

Angry, a large number of the people who were deceived into going to work are afraid that there will be no return.

Zhang Yuxu, who was standing next to Li Qi, asked, "Uncle, aren't you afraid of being deceived?" ”

The old man shook his head and said, "That's the emperor of people, how can you deceive people?" ”

Only then did Li Qi understand that the people felt that the emperor had great divine powers, and he could even call for wind and rain, how could he have no money.

"Where are you from?"

The old man's face changed, and he was obviously beginning to doubt because of these words.

At first, he thought that Li Qi and them were the team of Jieshi Prefecture.

Li Qi smiled and said: "I'm joking with you, we are the team of the Human Emperor, just patrolling." ”

The old man sighed.

Li Qi asked, "Are there any other teams around here that are fighting against the Human Emperor?" We were ordered to make an inspection, just to inquire about this matter with your old man. ”

"Not nearby."

The old man shook his head and said: "But since you are from Jieshi Prefecture, you should pass by Gaogang County, there is a Xiangshan Mountain in Gaogang County, and there is a group of heroes in the mountain......

Li Qi said: "That knows, but I just ignored them for the time being." ”

The old man said: "It is said that the gang of heroes on Xiangxin Mountain is a good person, and they don't harm the people, so don't kill the wrong person." ”

Li Qi snorted.

He looked at the little junior brother Zhen Gen who was standing next to him, and Zhen Gen immediately reacted and sent someone to the front army to give an order, asking the Tai to press the border to investigate the gang of thieves in Xiangxian Mountain.

Two days later.

Gaogang County.

Li Qi took the pro-military camp to the county seat, and the Taitai pressure was waiting for him at the gate of the county seat.

"The people in the county town are the same, the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled."

"I don't know what the hell that Li Chi is doing, such a large-scale collection of manpower." ”

He looked at Li Qi and said: "According to hundreds of thousands of manual calculations, it has been about a year, even if you want to build a Jizhou city, it will be fast." ”

Li Qi nodded.

He asked, "Have the people on the incense case mountain checked?" ”

"I've checked, it's actually not a bandit, it's the county commander of Gaogang County and others." ”

Li Qi was stunned.

What is this?

The emperor gave the rebel leader of Jieshi Prefecture the title of king, and the people of the government fell into the grass.

Tantai continued: "The county order of Gaogang County is called He Dengke, and he came to Gaogang County to be an official for about six or seven years. ”

"This person has some skills and knows that the world is chaotic, so he trained a team of more than 800 people."

"At the beginning, it was this team of people who relied on this team of people to block the raids of the rogues again and again."

"But later, the rebels on the side of Jieshi Prefecture became more and more powerful, and his eight hundred people were useless."

"Last year, a general in Jieshi Prefecture, named Yin Rong, led an army of 30,000 to collect migrant laborers along the way."

"When they got here, He Dengke and others dissuaded the people not to go, which caused Yin Rong to be furious and led the army to attack."

"He Dengke took his people and the people of the county town to retreat to the Xiangshan Mountain, but many people felt that the emperor would not harm the people, so they did not go with him."

"The more you go this way, the more you can see that the bastard who pretended to be you used the name of the Emperor of People to deceive countless people. ”

Li Qi snorted.

"Let's go to Xiangshan Mountain, and I'll go and visit this Hedenke."

Two hours later, the incense case mountain.

Li Qi's team stopped at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain, and he raised his clairvoyance to look up at the mountain.

The name of this Xiangshan Mountain is because the mountain shape is like a table case, the mountain is quite high, and there is only one way up and down the mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Li Qi urged the horse forward, and the platform pressed the realm to hold him back.

"I'll go."

Zhantai looked at Li Qi and said, "You can't risk your life. ”

Li Qi said: "Phew." ”

"You are the king of Ning, the lord of the three armies, and the commander of Jizhou, can you be a little conscious." ”

Li Qi said: "Let's come to my senses tomorrow." ”

He urged the war horse to rush forward, and before he could stop it, Li Qi had already gone out.

This horse was given to Li Qi and Gao Xining by Son Tichina, and it is an absolutely good horse.

Li Qi rode up the road, and the platform was worried, so he led people to follow.

Li Qi said that he couldn't go up too many people, so as not to cause misunderstanding, so he only brought dozens of guards.

After walking about three or four miles, it was impossible to ride a horse up again, so I had to get off the horse and walk.

At that moment, a man appeared on the high slope above.

Dressed in a short robe, he carried a bow on his back, a knife at his waist, and a hunting fork in his hand.

"You'd better not go any further."

The hunter-like man shouted at Li Qi and them, "If you go any further, you will all die." ”

Li Qi raised his head and looked: "We are not here to fight, nor are we thieves from Jieshi Prefecture, we are from Jizhou to visit Lord Heden Kehe." ”

"From Jizhou?"

The Orion looked at them, there were only dozens of people in total, although they looked well-equipped and very capable of fighting, but dozens of people were dozens of people, what else could they do.

Orion said loudly: "I have come all the way from Jizhou, open my mouth and shut up and say casually, how can I believe it?" ”

Li Qi said: "Then how can you believe it? ”

Orion said, "Only one person will come up, and the others will stay here." ”

Li Qi said: "Yes." ”

"No, you can't. ”

Orion snorted: "Yes or no, it's not up to you to decide, if you agree, there will be one person who walks up by himself." ”

"If you don't agree, you will all be tied up and carried up, and if it is found that you have ulterior motives, then you will be carried and thrown into the mountain stream."

Li Qi sighed softly.

He looked at the hunter and said, "I really want to go up alone, because I have come with no malice. ”

He paused and said, "But you shouldn't brag." ”

Orion smiled: "Hahahaha...... Brag? If you think I'm bragging, I might as well show you. ”

He raised his hand and whistled, and the voice was loud.

After whistling, Orion said, "Look around you, don't say I didn't give you a warning. ”

Li Qi said: "What are you looking at? Look at the people falling from the sky? ”

His voice fell.

From the height of the nearby tree, a man was thrown down and fell to the ground with a thud.

This is the beginning, and the surrounding trees are falling down one by one as if dumplings.

It was as if all of a sudden they had turned into wood, and they didn't even resist when they fell.

Orion's face changed.

In the hiding place of his companions, people in black robes appeared, cold as ghosts.

These people fell from the trees and bowed down to Li Qi.

As soon as Li Qi waved his hand, those black-robed people immediately retreated, as if blown away by a gust of wind, and quickly dissipated invisible.

Li Qi looked at Orion and said, "I said that if I go up alone, I will go up alone." ”

He stepped forward.

At this time, at least a hundred and ten people were thrown from the trees, and at this time they fell into the hands of Li Qi and them.

Li Qi did go up alone, but he had hundreds of hostages in his hands.

Li Qi walked up to the somewhat frightened hunter and said very seriously: "Don't brag next time." ”

He asked, "How to get there?" ”

Orion shook his head, and then he came back to his senses, and he asked, "Who are you?" Why are you here?! ”

Li Qi replied: "I am a big landowner, why did I come here?" It's just a walk around my own territory. ”