As long as half a year, the City of Hope will be the most powerful fortress after half a year, but everything will not be so satisfactory. Shi Miyuan used his energy in the capital to find a catastrophe for everyone in the City of Hope.

Two months have passed, and the rice fields outside the city of hope are lush and green, and the rice has pulled out full ears. On the city wall, Rihito and the captains looked at the endless rice fields, and they were very impressed by the ability of the homeless. Chen Lin looked at his foresight and said happily: "Hehe~! There is still a month to harvest, my lord, and our grain will be multiplied by then. ”

"Yes, thanks to Mr. Chen's foresight, otherwise we will definitely fall into a food shortage in three months, and I don't know how many people will starve to death at that time, I am here to thank Mr. for the people of Li in the City of Hope." Li Ren bowed to Chen Lin very sincerely.

Chen Lin hurriedly jumped open and said to Liren anxiously: "Lord, I really can't stand it, please don't do this." After speaking, he saluted back to Liren.

Li Ren hurriedly supported Chen Lin, smiled happily and said, "If it weren't for Mr.'s foresight, how could we see this field of hope now." As he spoke, Liren pulled Chen Lin and pointed to the green rice fields outside the city.

At this time, although Fang Ning had a smile on his face behind him, his brows were furrowed as tightly as he could. Biting his lip and thinking about it for a long time, he finally walked to Liren's side and whispered this and this in his ear.

Rihito was able to smile at first, but then his brow became tighter. In the end, Li Ren's voice was a little loud and asked Fang Ning urgently: "How long is there left?" ”

Fang Ning arched his hands: "Lord Qiqi, according to the investigation of the spies, there is still half a month to send troops." ”

"~~! What a fucking bastard~! Shi Miyuan, you national thief, your whole family must not die well. Liren, who had never scolded anyone, finally began to scold, and the subordinates behind him scratched their ears and cheeks, not knowing why. They all thought: "What is it that makes the lord so angry?" ”

At this time, the people behind saw Riren walking back and forth in front of him, sighing and shaking his head from time to time. Chen Lin, who was beside Li Ren, was also strange, and asked Fang Ning with a look in his eyes. Fang Ning quietly walked up to Chen Lin and whispered in his ear: "Shi Miyuan used the killing of the two officials in the government on the way here to make a fuss about the current City of Hope, and said that the lord used religion to prepare for rebellion. Moreover, many ministers of the imperial court echoed Shi Miyuan, asking the emperor to send a large army to exterminate the lord and you and me. ”

"Isn't it now that the imperial court is at war with the Northern Yuan? How can they take care of us? Chen Lin asked in disbelief.

Fang Ning frowned slightly and said, "This is the strange thing, when Shi Miyuan asked to exterminate the lord, Beiyuan stopped attacking at the same time. Moreover, the Northern Yuan side put down their words, as long as they can exterminate our Bright Holy Sect, they will negotiate peace with the Southern Song Dynasty. and promised the Southern Song Dynasty to pay tribute to them. ”

"It's strange, how did Beiyuan know that there was a Light Holy Sect? We didn't ask anyone to go to their side to preach? Besides, a Bright Holy Sect is worth such a big move by Northern Yuan? Chen Lin was even more strange. However, he turned his eyes and asked, "Now the imperial court has sent a large army?" When will it arrive? ”

"There is still the Queen Mother on the side of the court, but she can't get too involved in the government. Now the Empress Dowager and Shi Miyuan have reached an agreement, and now a large number of officials and troops have been sent to the border of Chaozhou, and when the Qin messenger comes to investigate, if it is true, the imperial court will annihilate us with a thunderous blow. Fang Ning said it quite lightly now.

"How many troops are there around us now?" Chen Lin asked the most direct question.

"No more, no less, this number." Saying that, Fang Ning compared five fingers in front of Chen Lin.

Chen Lin guessed: "Fifty thousand? ”

Fang Ning shook his head,

"Half a million?" Chen Lin was a little surprised.

Fang Ning nodded at this time.

Chen Lin felt that this imperial court was now coming to an end, and said with emotion: "The imperial court has not launched 500,000 troops once against the Northern Yuan, but it has listened to Shi Miyuan's slander, and now it has launched 500,000 troops to exterminate us, but he Shi Miyuan is worthy of being a national thief." ”

Li Ren stopped his steps abruptly, looked at Fang Ning with a frown, and asked, "Mr. Fang, did the spy report come back and say that Qin sent here mainly to inspect?" ”

Fang Ning shook his head: "No, the spies came back to report the main things, and these things may be explained by Shi Miyuan before the Qin mission comes." ”

"Who is the Qincha, have you inquired clearly?" Rihito asked instead.

Fang Ning clenched his fists and said: "Lord Qiqi, it is not clear who the Qin Messenger is, but the next spy report may be clear." ”

"When is the next time the spies will report?" Rihito fell silent.

"This spy report was last night, and the next time may not be until seven days later." Fang Ning said truthfully.

"Seven days~." Li Ren fell into deep thought again, but after a while, he raised his head and said, "We can't wait for the next time the spies come, now what we need to do first is to hide all the weapons that do not match the equipment of the imperial court into our dungeon, and then we must immediately disguise the entire City of Hope and make this a place of depression." ”

"Lord, what about the rice fields outside the city?" Chen Lin immediately stepped forward and asked.

Rihito thought about it carefully: "In this way, we can mix half of the soldiers with the homeless people who are farming, and then let 20,000 people sign a deed of sale with us, and say that these are made by slaves." ”

Fang Ning suddenly stood up and said suspiciously: "Lord, if you sign the deed of sale, I don't know if they will resist and cause unnecessary trouble." ”

Li Ren immediately said to them, "Now gather 10,000 soldiers and 10,000 displaced people, and I will tell them personally." ”

Every subordinate is now itching with hatred, and at this time Zhang Hu stood up and said to Liren: "Lord~!" If it really doesn't work, we will oppose his son of a bitch, enter the capital to drive this useless emperor down, and let you be the emperor. At that time, we didn't have to suffer from this wretch. ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately aroused the support of eighty percent of the people below, and they all shouted: "Even if we enter the capital, drive the emperor and Lao'er out of power, and let the lord be the emperor, we don't have to suffer from this bird anger." ”

Chen Lin and Fang Ning both looked at each other, although they agreed very much in their hearts, they knew what they were facing in front of them, so it was difficult to agree. At this time, I only listened to Liren frowning and whispering: "Nonsense, keep your mouth shut." It's not that I'm not the emperor now, but now we are responsible for these hundreds of thousands of people. Think about it with your brains, if you turn your face now, what will happen to these rice fields? Could it be that half a year's hard work has made it go down the drain? Do you want to see so many people hungry? Still want to see people eat people? Confused~! ”

Speaking of this, Liren calmed down a little, and immediately said in a soothing tone: "I know that everyone is very breathless, don't I?" I'm also very breathless, but what we have to do now is endure. We have to endure until we have enough food and enough ammunition. You don't need to remind me then, I will take you into the capital in one go. Right now~! Give me all back to my respective teams, train your men well, and when they go to war, let them be like wolves. ”

After speaking, Liren waved his hand at these martial artists and signaled them to retreat, and the martial artists have more or less received continuous military education, and they also agree with what Rihito said today. But the breath in his heart was more or less unbalanced, and the beings sighed and bowed. Fang Ning and Chen Lin looked at these martial artists who had been shouting, and immediately looked at each other and shook their heads.

Fang Ning walked up to Liren's side and thought for a while and said, "Lord, what should the Bright God Sect do now?" It seems that Shi Miyuan is mainly targeting them this time. ”

"Let them stop all their activities, go underground, and manipulate everything secretly. Find a few more people who have committed capital crimes, preferably those who have an old mother, wife and children at home, give them the benefits of money, promise them that we will come for them, send their mothers to their deaths, give their wives and children the best care, and when the Qin messenger comes, let them pretend to be the head of the Illuminati Cult. But if you don't cooperate, you will all disappear for me. Rihito half-squinted his eyes and said something cold and majestic from his mouth that everyone present felt.

Fang Ning hugged his fists and saluted and left firmly, to complete the things that Liren had explained. Chen Lin looked at Liren at this time and said even more cautiously: "Lord, so many rice fields are not something that our family can complete at all, and the flaws in the Qin mission must be here." ”

Li Ren looked at Chen Lin's cautious appearance, and immediately laughed and said, "Flaw? This will not be our flaw, but will be our bright spot, and we will reassure the entire court because of this. ”

"Won't so many paddy fields be our flaws? Won't the court say that we are hoarding food with the intention of rebellion? Chen Lin asked incomprehensibly.

"The imperial court will not say that we are hoarding grain with the intention of rebellion, let alone seizing the matter of the rice fields to pursue me. Do you think they would see a soldier who was untrained, whose weapons were rusty, where the people were sold for their sons and daughters, and where the streets were full of unscrupulous sergeants. Rihito said with a smile.

"They will be very relieved, and they will command the lord to investigate the crime of dereliction of duty, as long as the queen mother is around, it will turn big things into small things, and small things into nothing. But what does it have to do with the continuous rice fields? Chen Lin didn't understand.

"There is no shortage of food in the imperial court now, we can say that these grains are to improve the current situation of lack of money in our Marquis Palace, why is there a shortage of money, it is to relieve the victims. And we can promise the imperial court that once these grains come out, we will pay half of the tribute to the imperial court. Rihito said with a smile.

"What if they don't believe it?" Chen Lin asked carefully.

Liren replied with a smile, "They won't disbelieve it, because we can ask the Qincha to stay here until the grain is ripe, and let the Qincha personally return to the court with the grain." ”

Chen Lin suddenly thought: "But what should we do with this high city of hope? ”

"Huh! It's just a barracks with high walls. Liren said with a smile in a tone of adjustment.