Qi Feng asked Meng Jiaozhou for tea and mercury, Meng Jiaozhou only felt a little confused, seeing that everyone was staring at him, he hesitated, finally put away the knife, reached into his arms, took a stack of silver tickets in his hand, counted them, and then looked up and said to Qi Ning: "Ben general...... Ben will have 1,700 taels of silver tickets here, this ......! ”

Qi Ning raised his head slightly, but did not speak, Qi Feng stretched out his hand, Meng Jiaozhou handed it over in a daze, Qi Feng counted it, and sighed: "General Meng, one thousand seven hundred taels, these hundreds of brothers, each of these hundreds of brothers can only get five taels of silver, and even ten taels of silver is not enough, this is ..... Isn't that a little too little? ”

Meng Jiaozhou immediately said: "Don't worry, I'm going to get it right away, ten taels of silver per person, which can be regarded as tea and mercury for everyone, I don't know..... What if you don't know what to do? ”

Qi Feng sighed and said, "That's all it can be." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" handed the silver ticket to Wu Dalin and said, "Leader Wu, the tea and silver that General Meng gave to the brothers, I have you to distribute it to the brothers." ”

Wu Dalin was amused in his heart, and he was not polite, he stretched out his hand to take it, arched his hand to Meng Jiaozhou, and said, "Thank you, General Meng." ”

Meng Jiaozhou breathed a sigh of relief, and at this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, turned his head to look over, and saw a knight with a flag on his back coming here, Pegasus like lightning, well-armored, very different from the group of cavalry under Meng Jiaozhou's hand, everyone was wondering, the knight with the flag on his back shouted from afar: "The prince has an urgent letter, where is General Meng?" ”

Meng Jiaozhou turned the horse's head, Pegasus greeted him, and when the knight saw Meng Jiaozhou, he took a letter and handed it over, but he didn't stop, turned around and flew away.

Meng Jiaozhou took the letter, immediately opened it, sat on the horse and read the letter, Qi Ning and Wu Dalin glanced at each other, thinking that they had just gone ashore, so it happened that King Taishan sent the letter, and I didn't know if it had anything to do with the mission.

Meng Jiaozhou glanced at it a few times, then stuffed the letter into his arms, and then rode over and smiled at Qi Ning: "Jinyihou, you are guests from afar, I will just have official business to go to Xuzhou City, you are going to Linzi, Xuzhou City is a must pass, and I will escort you along the way." ”

"Oh?" Qi Ning smiled: "In this way, there will be General Lao Meng." ”

Meng Jiaozhou said: "It's just a way, but with Ben General, your road is naturally unimpeded, otherwise every time you pass a checkpoint, you will have to go through interrogation, which will delay a lot of time." ”

Qi Ning felt strange in his heart, secretly thinking about the letter that Meng Jiaozhou received, but he didn't know what was written, but since this Meng Jiaozhou could go along the way, it was not a bad thing.

Leaving from the Eastern Qi Army's riverbank defense line, Qi Ning sighed in his heart, although he was not clear about the deployment of the army, but even so, he could see that the Eastern Qi Army's formation was full of flaws, and the spirit of the Eastern Qi defenders was sluggish, morale was low, and he thought that the frontier was important, but the Eastern Qi appointed a mediocre and incompetent person like Meng Jiaozhou, fortunately, there was no war between the Eastern Qi and the Chu State, otherwise once the two countries really clashed, as Han Yu said, with the appearance of the Chu army, it would be really easy to cross the river.

Meng Jiaozhou was also true to his word, and when he left the camp, he sent another 1,800 taels of silver tickets, and took a total of more than 3,000 taels of silver before and after.

Qi Ning thought that Meng Jiao Zhou was rich and generous, but now it seems that it is true, and it is very easy to take out a few thousand taels of silver.

Meng Jiaozhou repeatedly instructed Qi Feng to let Qi Feng remember the amount, and when he arrived in Lu Wangcheng, he must explain the amount to the Ministry of Rites, so as not to repay the debts of the Ministry of Rites at that time.

Qi Feng was amused in his heart, but he was also full of promises.

The journey was also very smooth, Meng Jiaozhou was very familiar with Xuzhou, in order not to delay the mission's trip, he sent people to prepare food in advance, and the diet of the mission in Chu was not as good as the food in Dongqi.

At noon the next day, I saw the mountains and mountains ahead, and traveled more than ten miles, and suddenly saw a roadblock on the road ahead, and the heavily armed Dongqi soldiers guarded the road, and saw the embassy brigade coming, and someone had already shouted loudly: "This road has been sealed, no one is allowed to pass, find another way." ”

Qi Ning frowned slightly, but Meng Jiaozhou's face was slightly annoyed, and he urged him to step forward and said in a loud voice: "I am Meng Jiaozhou, I was ordered to see King Taishan, and I didn't let us go over." ”

Over there, he said in a cold voice: "It doesn't matter if you are Meng Jiao Zhou or Jiao Meng Zhou, no one is allowed to pass on this road, and there is no mercy for trespassers!" ”

Qi Ning looked at Meng Jiaozhou and said suspiciously: "General Meng, in this Xuzhou territory, there are still people who dare to block your way?" ”

Meng Jiaozhou had boasted about Haikou before, with him with him, unimpeded, I didn't expect that the road was blocked here, Qi Ning asked on the side, Meng Jiaozhou's face was extremely ugly, he glanced at it, and saw that there were only more than ten soldiers who closed the road, and there were thirty or forty soldiers led by himself, plus more than two hundred people in the mission, and there were three hundred people in the black press, much more than the other party, and he was full of confidence, and scolded: "Damn, my eyes are blind, Lao Tzu is Meng Jiaozhou, the confidant of King Taishan, you dare to block my way, Want to find death? ”

The group of soldiers looked at each other, and then they all burst into laughter, and one of them laughed and said: "Where did the wild dogs come from, dare to bark here, seek their own death, and still speak wildly." ”

Meng Jiaozhou pulled out his knife and said angrily, "Who are you? Who told you to block the road? ”

Someone on the other side sneered: "If you entangle here again, you will definitely not forgive, and you won't get out of here." ”

Meng Jiaozhou changed color even more, and said loudly: "Damn, I'm really looking for death, come on, tie up these dog offal for me, and Lao Tzu will hand them over to King Taishan." ”

The group of soldiers under Meng Jiaozhou's hand suddenly shouted, urging the horse to step forward, and the other party saw that he was going to make a move, and more than a dozen soldiers immediately formed a column, all of them took off their bows and arrows, and bent their bows and arrows to this side, and the first one had an ugly face and said coldly: "King Taishan? Hehe, even if it is the King of Taishan, it can't control our heads, we are the people of the Flying Tiger Battalion, the prince's own soldiers, you dare to do it to us, do you want to rebel? ”

Meng Jiao was stunned, and the group of soldiers under him also looked at each other.

Qi Ning and Wu Dalin glanced at each other, watched coldly, and did not speak, but they all thought in their hearts, Eastern Qi has Qing and Xu Erzhou, and the national capital Lucheng is in Linzi, Qingzhou, since the prince of Eastern Qi is the prince, he naturally lives in the capital, why did his personal soldiers appear in Xuzhou to block the road? The two of them almost thought, could it be that the prince of Dongqi actually came to Xuzhou?

Meng Jiaozhou heard that the other party was a person from the Flying Tiger Battalion, and his arrogance suddenly weakened, although the King of Taishan is powerful, but the prince is the prince of the empire, even the King of Taishan does not dare to provoke easily, let alone himself? I was glad in my heart, and secretly thought that I was fortunate that I didn't really fight, otherwise if I hurt the prince's own soldiers, the consequences would be really unimaginable.

At that moment, he had already smiled and said: "It turned out to be a brother from the Flying Tiger Battalion, hahaha, I almost injured my own people by mistake, it was all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!" ”

The pro-soldier sneered: "Your own people? Who is your own person with you? You are talking wildly, how should this account be calculated? ”

"This ..... It's all ours and it's not. Meng Jiaozhou hurriedly said: "Has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince come to Xuzhou?" Offended, we left the detour. "Turn the horse's head, and go away.

Someone on the other side said coldly: "Wait, it's not so easy to leave." You just called us dog offal, didn't you? ”

Meng Jiao didn't say a word on Tuesday, raised his hand to himself is mouth, and said: "It's my mouth that is cheap, it's me who makes a mistake, I'm sorry for a few brothers, I don't know Taishan with eyes, you adults don't remember villains, don't worry about me." ”

"It's okay not to care." Seeing Meng Jiaozhou's confession, the other party all called it a day, and the person in front of him smiled: "In order to show that you know your mistakes and can change them, kneel down and kowtow to each person, and we don't care." ”

Meng Jiaozhou frowned, hesitated, and the other party sneered: "What, don't you want to kowtow?" ”

"Brother of the Flying Tiger Battalion, give me some face." Meng Jiaozhou thought to himself that the Chu State Mission was on the side, if there were no outsiders, it would not be a big deal to kowtow, but in front of everyone's eyes, he really wanted to kowtow to the other party, and there was really no place to put this face, "I will prepare a banquet to apologize to a few people, and I hope to raise my noble hand for today's matter." ”

The more Meng Jiaozhou retreated, the more proud the more than ten princes' personal soldiers became, and they all said, "Do our brothers still lack a banquet?" You say that we are dog offal, you are offending His Royal Highness the Prince, and a banquet can be settled? If you can't get down on your knees, don't leave today. ”

Meng Jiaozhou turned over and dismounted, knowing that this group of arrogant soldiers was not easy to deal with, he got the weight of King Taishan, and naturally no one was in Xuzhou, but he was not a fool after all, he knew that offending the prince was a great thing, and when the time came, he was only afraid that King Taishan would not be able to protect himself, so he stepped forward and took two silver tickets from his arms and stuffed them, the leader glanced at the amount, smiled faintly, took it, and reprimanded: "In the future, your dog's eyes should be widened, for the sake of King Taishan's face, I won't care about you this time, if you want to offend next time, There will be no forgiveness. ”

Meng Jiaozhou even has the truth that money can make ghosts grind, break wealth and eliminate disasters, although he hates it in his heart, but he still smiles on his face: "Don't dare, don't dare!" He turned around and said, "Let's avoid this road and go another way." ”

Qi Ning suddenly asked, "General Meng, if you change the route, I don't know how long it will take?" ”

Meng Jiaozhou said: "It's just a delay of about a day." ”

Qi Ning nodded slightly, raised his hand and pointed to the front and said, "Since this is the case, let's go from this road, we can save a day on the road, why change the road." ”

Meng Jiao was stunned on Monday, slightly discolored, thinking that this matter had just been settled, why did this brocade wait still make trouble, the prince's personal soldiers over there heard it clearly, and someone immediately sneered: "Yo, there is really someone who is not afraid of death, Meng Jiaozhou, who is this?" Hmm, under the banner of the State of Chu, is it a native of the State of Chu? ”

On the team's car, there was a flag and the word "Chu" floating, but it was also a soldier of the Chu State who could be recognized at a glance.

Meng Jiaozhou hurriedly said: "This is the Jinyi Hou of the Chu State, leading the delegation into Beijing to face the saint." ”

"Even if the emperor who went abroad came, he had to take a detour." The soldier sneered: "We are ordered to block this road, and no one is allowed to pass." ”

Qi Ning said lightly: "Ben Hou was ordered to go to the capital of Eastern Qi, and he passed along the way, but there were obstacles, and he killed God when he met God, and killed Buddha when he met Buddha!" ”