About seven days later, Jin Guoping Tangcheng Fan Tao Fuzhong. Wang Li rushed back to Jin at night, and without waiting for a day of rest, Fan Tao urgently made an appointment with Wang Li to ask about Bailiyan.

"Brother Wang, has Wei Xian investigated it clearly?"

"It has been roughly investigated, Wei Xian is indeed a Qi person, and he is six points similar to Bailiyan. This person is also proficient in medical skills, but it is strange to say that Wei Xian is not only proficient in medical skills and the art of war, but also proficient in farming, grazing and many agricultural things, and even rumored to ......"

Wang Li wanted to speak and stopped, and suddenly aroused Fan Tao's appetite:

"What is the rumor?"

"It is rumored that Wei Xian has witchcraft and can sell it to the wealthy in Guangxin City at the price of an inch of silver and ten stones of cold ice in the hot summer."

Hearing this, Fan Tao was suspicious:

"How is this possible. The northland is very hot in the summer, and in the winter he wears only clothes made of thin cotton, and it never snows in the summer. This must be a false rumor, and it is not credible. ”

"But I have secretly spied many times in the deserted village where Wei Xian is located, and Wei Xian is indeed good at farming. And Baili Yan is claustrophobic all the year round, and has never gone abroad to Pingtang City, where did he learn the method of farming. Even if it is contained in the book, it is not just on paper. In the next thought, Wei Xian should not be Bailiyan. ”

"Even if it's not Bailiyan, why didn't you get rid of him. By the way, why did you only return thirty-seven of the fifty men who dared to die, and the remaining thirteen? ”

"I was about to talk about it. There are frequent mountain bandits in the north of Xianguo, and I have been robbed and killed by horse thieves and mountain bandits many times, and I accidentally lost thirteen people, and I was almost captured by horse thieves. ”

"And so on!"

It is true that Wang Li was robbed and killed by mountain bandits, but he only lost six people, and the other seven people were killed by Wang Li and Bailiyan, as long as there is no alive, of course, it can also be blamed for the attack with the mountain bandits.

It's just that Fan Tao is still skeptical, but he can't help but not believe it. If Wang Li secretly shielded Bailiyan to hide it for him, then Wang Li would have to go through the gang sooner or later when he returned to the Jin Kingdom, so Wang Li would not be asking for his own death.

But what Wang Li said was true, and Fan Tao still couldn't rest assured. After thinking about it, he asked again:

"Wei Xian, what do you think?"

"Kill it and then get rid of it." Wang Li resolutely echoed Fan Tao with his conscience, he knew that Fan Tao was testing himself, and at the same time he was also thinking about how to get rid of Bailiyan. If you blindly cover up, it is easy to expose your feet.

"But Xihuan sent a letter to inform him that he intended to help Guangxin Duke usurp the throne, what do you think of this matter?" Fan Tao said.

"Her Royal Highness the princess has a long-term vision, and she has lived in the tomb for a long time, and she knows the Xian country well. If Wei Xian could rebel with Guangxin Gong, it would be justified to get rid of him, and at the same time, it would prevent him from fleeing to other countries. But in case Guangxin is allowed to gain his talents, this matter is self-defeating and difficult to do, I don't know what Mr. Fan's plan is. ”

"This matter is very tricky, Xihuan intends to force Guangxin Gong to rebel, but as far as I know, although Guangxin Gong has the intention to usurp the throne, but he is indecisive and more than serious, and he will never do it if he is not sure of it, and it is very difficult to promote Guangxin Gong to rebel.

But I don't know what Xihuan thinks, asserting that he can force Guangxin to rebel within five or six years, and if he can really succeed in five or six years, God will help me to enter the country. ”

Xihuan frequently sent secret letters to and from the Jin Kingdom, claiming that he could force the opposition to Guangxin Gong within five or six years. But how to force the opposition to Guangxin Gong, Xihuan did not mention a word. But King Jin approved Xihuan's plan, which meant that Wei Xian was already a part of Xihuan's plan, and Fan Tao would kill Wei Xian again, but King Jin would not agree.

……

Soon after the deserted village was besieged by horse thieves, the number of royal guests gathered in the deserted village had reached more than eighty people, and compared with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of royal guests, the scale of dozens of people was really not worth mentioning. Tang Zhao's injuries regained consciousness on the fifth day after the wound was cleared, and he was able to walk on the ground on the tenth day.

The reply letter brought by Zhao Xun arrived with the light leather armor, although they were all old things, but they were better than not. The deserted village has not recovered from the siege of horse thieves, and dozens of strong laborers have been missing, and Bailiyan has added 50 families from all over Guangxin and Beihai.

Early that morning, Song Jie and others reconnoitred and returned, but as always, they gained nothing:

"Fucking thieves, these turtle grandsons, I've been looking for seven or eight days, and I don't even have a shadow, what a fucking nest."

Gu Shan scolded in his mouth, Song Jie washed his face by the river and said:

"According to the surrounding people and the government, this group of horse thieves is haunted, and it is not easy to find their lair. I think it's still that I and others are understaffed, and it is difficult to scatter a large number of people to find traces of horse thieves. ”

At this time, Fang De touched his chin and said:

"Song Jie, you said that Guangxin Gong did not send troops to suppress thieves, is it weird?"

According to Wei Langzhong, Guangxin Gong and Ding Yang Hou have always had a disagreement, and the horse thieves are running around with Guangxin, Ding Yang, and Lincheng, and Guangxin Gong rashly sent troops into Ding Yang City's territory, and Ding Yang Hou is afraid that he will not agree. Besides, it is understandable that people have given money and food and have not treated us badly. ”

"But I always found it weird. At the beginning, you and I were robbed and almost killed, and the attack on the deserted village was related to Dingyang City, is there no connection between them? ”

Fang De got to the bottom of it, and Song Jie said disapprenously:

"When we find the horse thief's lair, everything will fall into place, now hurry back to the village."

Back in the village, a hundred strong men were practicing under the leadership of Ma Sen and Ma Lin, and other royal guests were also fighting alone and practicing coordinated tactics.

Although the royal guest is an idle guest in the rivers and lakes, he also has the way of the art of war.

In wartime, the royal guest also has the habit of worshipping the general, so the royal guest is not a rabble, but where all the royal guests concentrate on fighting, they must drill the military column, even if they are grinding guns in battle, the relatively strong individual combat strength, as long as it is supplemented by a simple array, the ability of the royal guest to attack the city can not be underestimated.

The biggest lesson of the attack on the deserted villages is that the peasants and tenants are seriously underarmed, have no organization and coordination, and lack a sense of self-defense and protection.

Nowadays, the martial spirit is extremely common, and everyone will defend themselves with fists and feet. It is not a big problem to fight alone, but in the face of an organized armed invasion, it is easy to suffer losses by relying solely on individual martial arts.

Recently, during the agricultural slack, Bailiyan arranged for the young men in the village to follow the Yuke drill, laying some foundation for the future training of the guards.

"Brother Song, I had a harvest last night." Baili Yan stepped forward.

"I've been rummaging through the entire Lincheng rule for days, and there is still no news, so wait for the others to return to the village and make plans."

At this time, Fang De asked:

"Wei Langzhong, what is the festival between you and the horse thief, why do you want to buy your head, three hundred inches of silver is not low."

Bai Liyan smiled bitterly:

"Yes, I have been practicing medicine for a living, and if I want to say that I have offended anyone, I am afraid that the king of Yama will not buy the account."

As soon as the words came out, Fang De, Gu Shan and the others laughed.

In recent days, there has been no trace of horse thieves, and Bai Liyan has vaguely guessed that most of the people who want to buy his head are Guo Peng and Zhang He. There is no love without a reason in this world, and there is no love without a reason.

If Wang Li hadn't appeared, he would probably suspect that the Jin State had instigated it. Now that Wang Li has let himself go, the people he has offended can be counted on one hand.

However, what is intriguing is the attitude of Jiang Min of Guangxin Gong, if you want to say that you were still in the dark at first and didn't know, Guangxin Gong and Chen Yunfeng should probably know, it is not ruled out that the army was invited to suppress the thief that day, Guangxin Gong already knew that it was Guo Peng and Zhang He who did it, but he didn't say a word, which is obviously unreasonable.

Either Guangxin Gong was unwilling to directly offend Guo Pan and Ding Yang Hou, or he was fighting cattle across the mountain to the fake hand Yuke, but he didn't want to get too involved in the countermeasures of Ding Yang Hou and Guo Pan, so he nominally opposed and secretly acquiesced to the Yuke to suppress the thief.

If so, why not make it clear what's at stake? Do you really not believe in yourself?

At this point, there seems to be no clue.

In the morning, two carts came from Zuixiangju and Gongfu and dragged each of the twenty stones of cold ice back to the city to enjoy. Baili Yan went to the Gongfu by the way, and explained to Jiang Min about the formation and training of the guards.

Organizing and training a hundred guards, not too much, not too much, not a lot less, for Jiang Min is a drop in the dime, for the deserted village and Zhao Xun, the cost of a hundred guards is by no means a small amount. But after all, if you want to form a team of people who are not controlled by him under Jiang Min's nose, it is still unknown whether Jiang Min will let go.

However, the cost of the hundred-man team was very large, and it coincided with the attack on the deserted village, and at this time, it was proposed to train the guards to deal with the security protection caravan, and Jiang Min should have no reason to directly refuse.

Since the last capture of the horse thief war horse, the time to travel between the deserted village and Guangxin has been greatly shortened. The speed of an ordinary pack horse is desperate, and it takes half a day to run twenty miles, and the weather is very hot, and the horse is still coughing. Since there was a captured war horse, it was also an instant to gallop for twenty or thirty miles.

As soon as I entered the city, the streets and alleys were filled with all kinds of inferior living goods. Compared with last month, the price has increased by more than 10%, and Jiang Min not only did not accept the advice of "banning the market rationing", but also did not know where to get a large number of commodities to circulate in the market at the same price as inferior goods.

Taking linen cloth as an example, the door width of linen cloth produced in Xianguo is wider, while the door width of linen cloth being sold in the market is obviously shorter by one inch.

The same is true of cotton cloth, which is woven on a similar loom of silk, so the texture of cotton cloth is delicate and the yarn is denser. The cotton cloth that is being sold in the market has a thicker yarn, like sand paper. Obviously, it is not the cotton cloth produced in Xianguo, let alone the cotton cloth that the government has hoarded before, but the goods obtained from abroad.

In addition, there are cooked cowhides, coarse linen, etc., the number of sales is significantly more than in the past, and the people are more inclined to buy products with newer textures, and inferior expired goods have become unsalable at this time.

When he came to the mansion, Jiang Min was on official business in the inner house. Guangxin City, as Jiang Min's fiefdom, in addition to the daily basic administration, the fiefdom has its own affairs, at least half an hour a day to read the official documents submitted by the counties, the content is also varied.

"Lord, Wei Xian asks to see?" Wang Jiu entered the door and said.

Jiang Min raised his head and frowned, thinking that Wei Xian couldn't find the horse thief, he was here to ask for help.

"Let him come."

"No."