Li Xiaofei had just arrived at the city gate, and someone chased after him. Li Xiaofei didn't hurry and turned around to see that it was the eldest lady of the Xiao family who had rushed over with the government soldiers. Miss Xiao stepped on the back of the entourage from the carriage and went to the ground: "This kid, when he goes to Chuzhou City, he will go out of the city casually, he must be a spy, take him down for me", the soldiers stepped forward to hold down Li Xiaofei, Li Xiaofei did not struggle and said with a smile: "I am a spy, take me to see Lord Xiao", Miss Xiao looked at the soldiers, and said proudly: "Who said that women are not as good as men, Miss Ben is as wise as a torch today, and she has captured a spy among 10,000 people, this time it depends on what my father says", so she took Li Xiaofei back to the palace.

The guards outside the city saw it really and were ready to save Li Xiaofei but were afraid of startling the snake, so they sent two people back to report to King Qinghe. The nine people in the city saw that Li Xiaofei was being escorted by dozens of government soldiers, so they followed the crowd all the way. Along the way, I only heard Li Xiaofei talking with the soldiers of the government, talking about gambling money, fighting dogs, drinking and beauties, and the Miss Xiao family poked her head out of the carriage several times and scolded everyone for not talking to the spies, but after a while, everyone talked and laughed together. When he walked into the lobby of the government office, he remembered the names of the soldiers clearly.

Xiao Shan originally disdained to deal with such trivial matters, and copied the pictures of ladies in the back hall. couldn't stand the call of Miss Xiao in the lobby, so she had to put on her official uniform and come out: "Qian'er, you are messing around all day long, Dad doesn't care about you, but you can't disturb Dad copying Gu Kaizhi's lady picture, what kind of spy you have played enough, just let it go, don't harm other people's lives", Xiao Qian snorted: "Dad, I didn't beat him this time, he himself admitted that he was a spy, and asked questions along the way, isn't this a spy?" Xiao Shan came to his senses when he heard it: "There are still such people? Then I want to take a good look today", Xiao Qian beckoned people to bring Li Xiaofei up, only to see Li Xiaofei pull two government soldiers in and thank them with his left and right hands, and when he arrived at the hall, Li Xiaofei knelt on the ground: "Li Xiaofei, the envoy of the King of Qinghe, visited Lord Xiao, the prince went east to fight against thieves, passed through Chuzhou, and sent me to visit Lord Xiao to borrow the way", Xiao Shan shook his head: "Qian'er, where did you find the servant to find your father to be happy?" Don't make trouble, let's go back", Xiao Qian kicked Li Xiaofei angrily: "Do you have a word of truth, do you have to use torture?" Li Xiaofei raised his head: "Lord Xiao, I have the prince's jade pendant as a certificate, and I also ask the second brother Wang to help me take it out and present it to Lord Xiao", the soldier named Wang Er immediately found a jade pendant on Li Xiaofei and handed it to Xiao Shan, Xiao Shan fixed his eyes and saw that it was really a thing of the palace: "You kid shouldn't have stolen it from somewhere, you hurry up and tell the truth, the official can be lightly haired", Li Xiaofei smiled: "Even if the villain has great courage, it is impossible to steal his jade Peiha from the king of Qinghe, who is both civil and military, Please also ask Lord Xiao to see that at this time, the prince is afraid that he is about to arrive at the West Gate", as soon as the words fell, a soldier from the government came to report: "Liu Jian, the king of Qinghe, brought many soldiers and horses outside the West Gate." said that he invited Lord Xiao to meet on the upper floor of the West Gate City", Xiao Shan looked at Yu Pei and Li Xiaofei, and Xiao Qian also looked at Li Xiaofei with her mouth wide open. Xiao Shan glared at Xiao Qian: "Let you mess around all day long, it's okay for other people to come to the city now?" Xiao Qian was not convinced: "It's just a fleeing prince, whether to take it in or not depends on our mood, cut", Xiao Shan almost vomited blood, and the other driver and Sima next to him persuaded Xiao Shan: "My lord, I still take the soldiers of Qi Mansion to the West Gate City Tower to have a look." Xiao Shan pointed at Li Xiaofei: "Take this kid with you, if they dare to force their way into the city, I will cut this kid first!" ”。

Not long after, Xiao Shan took all the civil and military officials of Chuzhou and 3,000 men and horses to the west gate. Xiao Shan was wearing a heavy Kai and was carried up to the West City Gate Tower by two government soldiers. Xiao Shan poked his head out from between the arrows and saw a person standing alone in a gorgeous costume at the end of the market outside the city, and there were countless flags in the distance, smoke and dust everywhere, and there were not many people and horses. The man saw Xiao Shan poking his head out and waved his hand and shouted: "Lord Xiao, Xiao Wang Liu Jian, led the troops through Chuzhou, and had sent an envoy to borrow the road before, if the etiquette was not careful, I also hoped that the Lord Haihan, if the Lord believed in Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang first rode into the city to meet the adults, and everything was subject to the deployment of the adults", Xiao Shan was shocked and frightened, and looked at the surrounding civil and military forces, and Sima and Sima were all asking the adults to decide, but the generals said that they were afraid of fraud, and they had to let Liu Jian retreat thirty miles first and then let Liu Jian enter the city alone. Xiao Shan felt that the idea of the general was the safest, so he shouted to Liu Jian: "Prince, if there is chaos today, the situation is obscure, for the sake of the people of Chuzhou City, please also ask the prince to retreat thirty miles first, and then welcome the prince into the city", Liu Jian replied: "Everything is under the orders of Lord Xiao, Xiao Wang will withdraw immediately", Liu Jian turned around and made a gesture of retreating, and the flags in the smoke and dust retreated into the distance.

Half an hour later, Xiao Shan came down from the city tower to welcome Liu Jian into the city, Liu Jian led the horse in from the west gate, untied the sword and handed it to Xiao Shan, Xiao Shan excused himself, and Liu Jian tied it back to his waist. Xiao Shan invited Liu Jian to take a carriage back to the mansion together. Along the way, Xiao Shan asked Liu Jian about the changes in the past few months, and Liu praised Xiao Shan's loyalty to the country and his reputation.

When he arrived at the Chuzhou Mansion, Xiao Shan invited Liu Jian to take a seat, but Liu Jian insisted on refusing to resign, so Xiao Shan had to sit on the main seat by himself and ordered someone to bring Li Xiaofei here. Liu Jian breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Li Xiaofei: "Lord Xiao, this Li Xiaofei is the captain of my personal guard, and he is also the envoy I sent, and I also ask Lord Xiao to give me a seat", Xiao Shan wiped his beard: "The prince's subordinates are talented, this young hero is courageous, witty and agile, Xiao admires it, Xiao Mou's little girl is stubborn by nature, and if she offends, please ask Haihan", Li Xiaofei praised him politely and sat down next to Liu Jian.

Xiao Qian heard that a prince was coming, so she ignored the servant's obstruction and ran to the back of the lobby screen to peek. At a glance, Liu Jian was dressed in a gorgeous suit, with a high nose bridge, eyes like fire, elegant manners, sitting on the seat, Li Xiaofei, who had not yet taken off his childish ruffianism, sat next to him and set off very well. Xiao Qian actually came out directly from behind the screen and sat opposite Liu Jian. Xiao Shan waved his hand directly: "Qian'er, don't mess around, the prince and I are discussing military affairs, you go out quickly", Xiao Qian was unhappy and pointed at Li Xiaofei: "This little ruffian can be here, why should I go out, can't I discuss military affairs with the prince?" Xiao Shan was about to speak, Liu Jian laughed: "It is rare that the heroine of the Xiao Mansion has the world in mind, and Mulan joined the army on behalf of her father in ancient times, so Lord Xiao asked Ling Yan to sit down and talk about her opinions."

Xiao Qian saw Liu Jian helping her speak, and couldn't help but open her mouth and asked, "Do you dare to ask the princess's concubine who is also in the army with the prince?" Liu Jian smiled embarrassedly: "The old system of the first emperor, the selection of concubines by the vassal kings must be approved by the emperor, and before it was my turn to be killed by the rebels, the first emperor was killed, and now he is still alone", Xiao Shan coughed twice and glared at Xiao Qian. Xiao Qian blushed, lowered her head and said, "The prince came to replace his father to occupy Chuzhou this time, otherwise he wouldn't have brought so many soldiers and horses?" Xiao Shan was shocked: "Shut up, how can you talk to the prince like this?" Liu Jian smiled slightly: "To be honest, when I set off from Huaiyang, I did think so, but when I arrived at the edge of Chuzhou City, what I saw was that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, merchants kept coming and going, and Chuzhou City was so prosperous, so I changed my mind and decided to come and talk to Lord Xiao", Xiao Shan was at a loss for a while: "This, what does the prince want to talk to me about?" Liu Jian took a sip of water: "I want to ask Lord Xiao to fund me a sum of military expenses, so that I can dismiss my subordinates and let them have a good home." Of course, the money can't be made out of vain, and Xiao Wang has a way to pay you back the money that Lord Xiao paid. My army of 10,000 and 5 people, I will leave 800 people to take them to open up the trade route on the Li River, and after passing through the Li Shui, you can go to Mobei and the Far North, and bring back the treasures that are not available in the Central Plains from there, and then I will give you back a Chuzhou City It is not difficult to do so", Xiao Shan heard that this was tantamount to a fool's dream, the Lizhou City next to Li Shui was in the hands of Hou Tianzhou, not to mention, the team of 800 people went back and forth thousands of miles back and forth in the war-torn Central Plains Mobei Land, and it is unknown whether one of them could come back alive. But now that Liu Jian's army of tens of thousands of soldiers is coming to the city, it is difficult to protect Chuzhou City if it really fights, so it is better to send the money. Xiao Shan glanced at Liu Jian: "Dare to ask how much military spending the prince needs?" Liu Jian pondered for a moment: "100,000 guan money and 20,000 buckets of corn are enough, each sergeant has six guan money and one bucket of rice, plus our current military rations, you can still have three or four guan money left to settle down when you return home", Xiao Shan couldn't believe it, he thought that Liu Jian would ask for at least tens of thousands of taels of gold, no matter how bad it was, it would be thousands of grains and millions of rice for cattle and sheep, but he didn't expect this prince to be so sincere, so he agreed to come down and agreed to transport it to Liu Jian's army in two days.