Changsun Hong's intelligence is very accurate, and those seemingly tough Semu people and Han soldiers will also desperately spit out everything they know in exchange for a chance to survive under the threat of death.

Kublai Khan is really still in the mausoleum.

According to the itinerary, he should have left here two days ago and headed north to Lizhou.

He hesitated, apparently believing that it was insignificant.

A day or two, no harm.

Because he wants to stay here and find out the situation of the salt well, salt is something that is missing in the grassland, but it is an indispensable thing.

It's not that people have to eat salt, nomads eat meat as the staple food, and animal meat and dairy products often contain enough salt to meet the needs of the human body.

The inhabitants of the grassland need salt mainly for curing meat and other purposes, and if the meat is not salted, it will stink after two days, which is very inconvenient for people who live in pursuit of water and grass all their lives.

When the army goes out to fight, it also has to rely on cured meat as military food, and it takes ten days and half a month to walk in the desert Gobi, and there is no cured meat, and it is extremely troublesome to rely on the cattle and sheep that accompany the army.

You can't always graze cattle while fighting, so Great Mongolia needs salt. During the great Genghis Khan's previous expeditions to the west, there were a large number of cured meat as military rations with the army.

Lingjing supervised the production of salt, so Kublai Khan came here from Fushun to inspect on the spot.

As a prince, Kublai Khan has a meticulous personality and likes to see everything with his own eyes, which has to be said to be the true biography of Yao Shu.

Everything must be bowed in person, the four-character mantra of Zhang Jiuling in the Tang Dynasty made Yao Shu reasonable, he often taught Kublai Khan that there is no natural intelligent son of heaven, only the emperor who knows everything by heart. To avoid being deceived by the courtiers, those in high positions must have a clear mind.

One of the characteristics of the Lingjing Prison is that the salt production is high, but the salt wells are scattered and not concentrated in one place like the Fushun Prison, which caused Kublai Khan to have to spend a little more time.

The sky is not beautiful, it actually rained, the rain gradually increased, from a drizzle to a heavy rain, this weather can not go anywhere, of course, it can't go.

Kublai Khan could only stay depressed in the post house, flipping through the books in the supervision yamen.

Lingjing Supervisor Cheng is a clever man, the Mongols opened the door and surrendered as soon as they came, there was no crime in the city, except for some large families who were looted, there was no major turmoil, the population in the city was also a lot left, there was still a rare popularity on the street, some shops closed for a few days and found that there was no hindrance, and reopened. Such a harmonious scene is difficult to see in Sichuan, which is full of Shura fields.

Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the Mongols attached great importance to the salt-producing land and strictly ordered it not to be disturbed, and it was also important for Kublai Khan and Yao Shu to be in the city.

The eunuch has a heart, and serves Kublai Khan every day, eating and drinking, and singing beautiful women, but what is in the city is eager to send it to Kublai Khan.

So Kublai Khan lived very well, even if the weather was not happy, he was not in a hurry to leave.

Unlike Fushun Prison, the walls of Lingjing Prison City are very tall.

There is no moat outside the city, and there are low shanties by the four gates, and in the past, countless people from the surrounding area who begged for food lived in the middle, doing some business and living, and came over on weekdays, shouting and making noise very lively.

But in the past two days, the people withered, many people ran away, thanks to the Mongol army slaughtering the city all the way, many people were afraid of the Mongols burning and killing, and fled before the Mongols arrived, leaving empty houses all over the ground.

These empty houses are like haunted houses, empty and homeless, and there are people who take advantage of the chaos to walk through them and do some bad things that are angry with the gods, and no one cares about them.

Niu Er is such a person.

He was originally a splash here, relying on the city to help the idle and mix up some money to live, and sometimes went to the salt administration yamen of the transfer department to help the salt Ding do some trivial things, oppress the good and fight and fight, do big things without committing small things, in short, he is a character who has a headache for everyone when he sees it.

When the Mongols arrived, he was also a little afraid, there was a lot of hearsay, even if the daring hooligans met the matter of destroying the city, he would be frightened, but he had nowhere to go, and the people were lazy, and he felt that if he died on the way to escape, it was better to risk staying in the city, the city was so big, and there were many places to hide.

With such a fluke mentality, he, like many people, stayed.

Sure enough, after the prisoner surrendered, the Mongols went into the city and raided the courtyards of several rich people, but they did no harm to the others.

After a few days like this, Niu Er became bold and went to the street, only to find that there were not many Mongols left in the city, and there were notices posted at the gate of the city, everything was as usual, and it was the people of the Yanzheng Yamen who maintained order, and because of the lack of manpower in the Yamen, it seemed that they did not care about the shack area outside the city.

This is a good time to make a fortune, Niu Er is keenly aware.

In the places outside the four gates, there are some shops, especially the south gate, which is leaning on the official road, and there are a lot of people in those places, because they are outside the city and if they are fighting, they are the first to suffer, and they all run away, leaving their houses and shops unattended.

Niu Er went happily and returned with a full load, although the owners collected the money, but many goods were not moved, just cheaper Niu Er.

On the first day, he also killed a man.

It was an old man who was guarding the shop, hiding in the cellar, and when Niu Er lifted the cover and went in to search, the old man grabbed him and didn't let him take away the things that belonged to his family.

The years of war and chaos are the time when the horse thieves are rampant, Niu Er has heard the story of Mr. Storyteller on weekdays, and he yearns for the chivalrous man of the Tang Dynasty, hoping that one day he will also become a high roller who eats meat and drinks wine.

From that day on, Niu Er completed the transformation from an ordinary splash to a robber who killed people and sold goods, and the process was smooth and smooth.

In the past few days, Niu Er has been walking outside the city, constantly plundering property, breaking in and stealing where no one is around, breaking in and robbing when someone is guarding, killing people if he dares to resist with a knife, and even encountering his peers' splashing skin, and doing a lot of things like black and black.

Because he is young and vigorous, he has also learned a little fur kung fu with Yan Ding, he has the strength to do it, and he is ruthless and abnormal, ordinary people are not his opponents, and he has accumulated a lot of family wealth day by day, which is piled up in his own home in the city.

The heavy rain did not dampen his enthusiasm for making a fortune, and the plan to make a little more during this time supported him to spare no effort to rush.

On the afternoon of this day, in a shop outside the south gate that used to sell meat, he actually ran into a family of refugees.

This is a family probably hiding somewhere else, hiding for so many days, running out of food, coming out to look for something to eat, and ran into Niu Er in this shop.

There are three parents and daughters in this family, the daughter is fourteen or fifteen years old, an ordinary peasant girl, clothed and hairpin, but in the eyes of Niu Er, who has not touched a woman for many days, she is a fairy.

So it's normal, Niu Er knocked the father unconscious with a punch, kicked over the mother, put the crying daughter on the shoulder, and drilled out.

Shuttling through the shack area, the panicked shouts of the woman in the middle of the empty house were naturally no one could hear, and Niu Er walked on the street with a big thorn, and he was not worried at all that someone would take care of him.

Oh, there's an inn in front, of course, it's unmanned, and it just happens to be used for errands.

Niu Ermei smiled lewdly, pinched the buttocks of the woman on her shoulder, and smiled obscenely: "Don't be afraid, baby, it will make you happy later, hehehehe!" ”

Kicked open the door, ran to the back, a row of guest rooms slipped open, Niu Er casually nodded with his fingers, clicked on one, and entered the door urgently.

Before he could see where the bed was, he was covered from behind.

Two knives pressed against his throat.

(End of chapter)