Although there are people coming and going in Huiji City, it can't hide the decadent atmosphere that spreads all over the city.

The reckless Gao who was walking on the street glanced at the people of Yue Guo with disdain, and said in a low voice to the remnant bamboo beside him: "Remnant bamboo, you see that this Yue country is still a big country!" You see how much worse it is than my Han Kingdom, lifeless. It is as vibrant as my Han Kingdom, as if it is in spring all year round! ”

Remnant Zhu smiled: "That's because Yue Guo was unlucky to meet the Lord, you must know that destruction is much easier than construction!" Suppose a person can earn 10,000 yuan in his life, but a short sword of only 20 yuan can make the person die. And now the price of food in Vietnam is so high, although it is not our lord behind the scenes, but the things that add fuel to the fire, the lord has not done anything small! ”

"Then why doesn't the Yue Kingdom destroy my Han Kingdom?" Mangao asked suspiciously.

"That's because the lord is the first to strike, for example, the price of grain, the lord has tempted the merchants of the Wu country to come and participate, and the Yue country is too busy to take care of itself, and it is possible to deal with my Han country. It's Haiyan, if Yue Guo has a little patience and slowly raises the price, I'm afraid that my Han Kingdom will not have such a good time now. But now that the Lord has the Sanyi Clan, he is not afraid that the Yue Kingdom will be stuck in the Han Kingdom on Haiyan. ”

Mang Gao nodded and said, "Don't say it, our lord is not an ordinary ......."

"Alright, don't say it!" Remnant Zhu pulled the manggao and said in a deep voice.

Mang Gao just wanted to ask why, but found that he had unconsciously come to the vicinity of Cangqiao, where there were Vietnamese patrols, and he had to be much more cautious when he arrived here. Some words may be heard by people if they are lowered like that, and it doesn't matter if ordinary people hear a few words, but if the Vietnamese army hears a few words, it is likely to arouse their vigilance and even be arrested.

However, neither of them was an ordinary person, although there were Vietnamese soldiers patrolling nearby, but both of them looked as usual. Remnant Zhu even pretended to be a Yue countryman, and with a fluent Yue language, he came to the warehouse to ask about opening a warehouse and releasing grain, and when to open a warehouse to release grain, everything was like an ordinary Yue person. The most important thing is the accent, if you don't know that the other party is a remnant bamboo, just listening to this accent, I'm afraid that Mang Gao will also misunderstand that this is a native Huiji.

Not to mention those Yue soldiers, when they spoke, Mang Gao and Remnant Zhu did not pay attention to this, but secretly looked at Cang Li. Remnant Zhu also kept taking out the information of the warehouse from the other party's mouth, such as how many people were stationed in the warehouse and so on.

It seems like a long time, but in fact, Remnant Zhu and Mang Gao have only been in Cangqiao for a little more than a quarter of an hour. After all, if you stay for a long time, others will also be suspicious.

Back at the stronghold of Jiantai, Remnant Zhu collected information from the details of Jiantai, combined what he saw and heard today, and discussed how to plan with Mangao. But the plan is very simple, this has a lot to do with Fan Li, although Fan Li sent troops to garrison Cangli, but he is not a human being or a god, and there are not too many soldiers and horses in Yue now. Cangli only sent two soldiers, that is, 400 people to garrison, divided into two groups of garrisons at night, each batch stationed for more than six hours.

In Fan Li's opinion, these people were enough, but he forgot that an assassin was not a soldier, and he didn't need to storm Cangli. He just needs to set it on fire!

Under such an arrangement, that is to say, as long as they were not stupid to sneak attack Cangli during the rotation of the Vietnamese army, they would only face 200 Vietnamese soldiers. Moreover, these 200 people are also stationed in the six large warehouses, which is like a big palm spread out. And the remnants of the bamboo are a full of seventeen people, plus the good hands of the platform, there are more than twenty technical masters, this is like a fist, although not as powerful as the big palm of the Vietnamese army, but what they have to face is just a finger of this big palm.

Although the situation is good, Remnant Zhu is not in a hurry to do it, even if Yue Guo will open a warehouse to release grain tomorrow. Of course, there are also Fan Li's factors, and in the news he came out today, there is a very important one, that is, Fan Li, the secretary of state of Yue, is likely to come to the warehouse in person tonight, and it is not Fan Li who comes, Fan Li will bring a hundred people to strengthen the defense. In the eyes of Remnant Zhu, it is impossible to fight hard with Fan Li, and the effect is better after opening the warehouse the next day to release grain.

The people of Yue are more emotional, and after tasting the sweetness of opening a warehouse and releasing grain, they are willing to let them buy grain that is three times the price of opening a warehouse and putting grain, or even become higher when the time comes? It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!

Although the situation was good, Remnant Zhu still did not make a decision. He first sent this plan to Juwucheng through carrier pigeons, and let Yang Zilu review it. It's troublesome, but it's timely. The carrier pigeon goes back and forth for a maximum of six hours, and in such a short time, the remnants of bamboo can still afford it.

But there is a saying in this world that plans can't keep up with change. Yang Zilu could only hurriedly read the plan sent by Remnant Zhu, and scribbled down a good word for people to send back, while Yang Zilu himself returned to Longyou City with thirty cavalry.

That's because after about two and a half months of war, the war in the country is finally coming to an end, and it is impossible for Yang Zilu to continue to stay in Juwucheng. The battle between Chu and Wu can almost be said to be a remake of last year's battle between Wu and Chen. At the beginning, it was the Wu army that chose to retreat, but this time it was the Chu army that chose to retreat. And the Wu army is like the original Chu army, watching the departure of the Chu army from afar, of course, if there is something to take advantage of on the way of the Chu army's retreat, the Wu army does not mind letting the Chu army go back with fewer people, but unfortunately, the Chu army did not give the Wu army any opportunity.

And when Chu State withdrew from the army just now, Wu Ming was also shocked, so he found Yang Zilu to come back, but all this was surprisingly peaceful, but Yue Guo caused an uproar!

On the first day of opening the warehouse, there were no accidents, the only thing that happened was that many people rushed to buy grain. And Fan Li keenly noticed that some of them had repeatedly bought food, so Fan Li made a decisive move and sent someone to arrest them. There was no need for punishment, and these people vomited out one by one, it turned out that they were all ruffians and the like. The reason why they repeatedly bought grain on a large scale was not because they had no surplus grain at home, but because those grain merchants gave them benefits and asked them to buy grain on their behalf, and the grain they bought was naturally sent to the grain merchants.

When Fan Li heard this, he immediately knew the danger, if this situation was allowed to develop, the grain in the warehouse would not be sold for half a month in less than half a month, and the 110,000 stone grain that would have been sold for half a month in seven or eight days would be gone.

Fan Li immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered everyone to limit the purchase of one day's grain, and announced that those who bought more grain would be sent to the mine for one year of labor. This can greatly deter those ruffians, those ruffians are just bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, so that they take the risk of sending them to the mine to serve for a year in order to earn so many coins, they don't have so much courage.

The actions of the grain merchants also made Fan Li pay attention to them, which unconsciously gave them a chance, Fan Li did not go to the warehouse that night to guard, but returned home to formulate a plan to deal with the grain. And Fan Li is indeed a genius, and he soon thought of a way. Fan Li's strategy was to let the officials distribute bamboo sticks to each household at night that could buy a day's rations, and all the countrymen used the bamboo sticks to buy grain, which also seriously limited the opportunities for those grain merchants to fish in troubled waters.

However, the arson of the remnant bamboo made Fan Li's strategy doomed to be useless. On the first night after the opening of the warehouse to release grain, a total of twenty skilled combat masters such as Remnant Zhu and Manggao secretly set off towards Cangqi, and the time they chose to do so was very unique. It was about 5:45 a.m. at 3 o'clock. And at this time, it is less than five quarters of an hour before the rotation of the Vietnamese army! Although the time is short, the benefits are also numerous.

By this time, the Vietnamese troops, who had been stationed in Cangli for nearly eleven hours, had reduced their spirit and vigilance to the lowest. There are even some soldiers who secretly hide in the corner to sleep, and even if they don't sleep, they are like big smokers with a cigarette addiction, yawning constantly. Especially since they can be rotated soon, they don't have the slightest vigilance in their hearts, and the most they can do is just longing to go home and sleep.

And this time is the closest time to dawn, the moon goes home, the sun does not come out, it is the darkest period of time in heaven and earth.

Remnant Zhu shot in this situation, although the time was very tight, but the timing was very accurate, which can be called pinching the three inches of the Vietnamese army. Twenty good men were divided into three groups, and they quickly attacked, and without knowing it, they assassinated the sentinels inside and outside. At the same time, they also got the key to the warehouse, but they didn't immediately let people set fire to the remnants of the bamboo, because they set fire to the periphery of the warehouse, don't look at the fire seems to be very big, but in fact, as long as it is saved in time, most of the grain can actually be saved.

However, the fire inside the warehouse is different, because the air is not very well circulated at the beginning, the fire is not very large, and the smoke screen is also very small. By the time the rest of the Vietnamese army found out, the remnants had already attacked the other three warehouses, and they might even have fled. But in fact, the flames are actually squeezing, and when the fire comes out, the fire has reached the point where it is out of control.

After they set fire to the three barns in the remnant bamboo, the Vietnamese army has not yet found out. Even more so that they didn't know whether to be surprised or happy, after they attacked the remaining three warehouses, the Vietnamese army had not yet found out. And they didn't lose a single manpower, the only thing that could be considered wounded was not caused by the Vietnamese soldiers, it was because the unlucky guy was too anxious to escape over the wall, and he fell to the calf.

It wasn't until the flames rushed out of the roof of the warehouse that the Vietnamese army reacted. But by this time it was too late! At that time, the sky of Huiji City was fiery red, and the billowing smoke was like a demon descending, looking down at the world with laughter.

............ "Fan Li, what's going on this time?" Gou Jian stared at a pair of bloodshot eyes, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said to Fan Li in an unkind tone. Gou Jian, who was obviously sleep-deprived, did not use Doctor Fan to call Fan Li this time, which shows the anger in his heart.

Fan Li folded his hands on the floor, his forehead slowly fell on his palm, and said in a sincere tone: "Minister, I have lived up to the lord's hopes for the minister, and I didn't look at Cang Li, this time it was the minister's fault." ”

Gou Jian saw Fan Li's sincere apology, although he was still angry in his heart, his anger also went by three points. Just wanted to say something, suddenly saw Fan Li's sleeve robe black in many places, and his hair was quite messy, and when he sniffed carefully, he could still feel the burning smell of talking from the hall. Gou Jian immediately understood, I'm afraid that Fan Li also went to the warehouse to put out the fire in person, Gou Jian was in a conflicted mood for a while, you said scolding! Gou Jian couldn't scold again. Don't scold, Gou Jian doesn't want to let Fan Li go for nothing.

When Gou Jian was in a dilemma, Wen Chong strode into the main hall, followed by Dr. Ji Ran. Seeing this, Gou Jian immediately couldn't take care of Fan Li. Gou Jian asked Wen Chong and Ji Ran nervously: "Young birds, Doctor Ji, how about the loss of Cang Li?" Who did it exactly? Didn't find any evidence or anything like that? ”

When Wen Chong heard this, the already heavy mood in Dengshi's heart became even heavier, he opened his mouth, and finally turned into a sigh, pointed at Ji Ran and said, "Ji Ran, come on!" ”

"Yes!" Ji Ran replied without being arrogant or humble, and said in a deep voice: "Lord, this time, the six warehouses of 160,000 stone grain, in the end, only about 4 stone and 5,000 stone were rescued, and a small amount of charred food still needs to be separated, and the final grain saved is estimated to be about 42,300 stone. And it is not known who did it, but it is certain that it was caused by man. For this reason, 46 warriors of the Great Viet Kingdom sacrificed their lives for this. ”

"What!" When Gou Jian heard this, he couldn't help but tremble, holding the floor with both hands, and growing his mouth. It is not known whether it was for the shock of the dead soldiers, or for the loss of food. But I'm afraid it's the latter.

After saying this, Gou Jian moved his mouth, but Gou Jian didn't know what he was talking about at the moment, and he also felt that his heart was very painful, very painful.

Of the 160,000 stone grain, 150,000 came from the leftover after the reduction of the multi-life government, and the other 10,000 stone was left after a month's grain was given to the Wu army of the Guwu State. Originally, according to Gou Jian's estimate, after sending away Wu Ming and Yang Zilu, the two plague gods, he had about 50,000 stone of grain left, and he made up his mind not to move this batch of grain to prevent the price of grain in Yue from being inflated again.

But now everything has changed, Gou Jian now doesn't say that there are 50,000 stone of grain left, and even the rest of the words, Gou Jian doesn't know how to live. Thinking of this, Gou Jian couldn't help but feel bitter, his throat was sweet, a mouthful of blood had been spit out, his eyes were dark, and the person had fainted on the ground.

"Lord! Lord! Seeing this, Wen Chong, Fan Li and other doctors were so frightened that their hearts and livers were pounding, and they only felt that the end of the world was nothing more than that, in case Gou Jian died, they really didn't know what to do, they and Gou Jian were in the same together.

Although Gou Jian was made to vomit blood by himself, Remnant Zhu did not have any sympathy, but took the opportunity to spread rumors. I have to say that although rumors are rumors, there is not such a sentence in this world, and a lie is told 10,000 times before it becomes the truth. And there is such an idiom in China, three people become tigers.

In fact, the rumors of the remnant bamboo are very ridiculous, the remnant bamboo said that on the first day of opening the warehouse to release grain, 10,000 stone of grain was released, but it was sold at the price of ten yuan and one stone, that is, one day of Goujian is equivalent to a loss of 200,000 yuan, so how much money does it cost to open a warehouse and release grain? So Gou Jian was reluctant, after all, it was sold at the grain merchant for thirty yuan a stone, and the price was three times. But Gou Jian didn't want to break the promise, so Fan Li, the minister, offered a plan to Gou Jian and set fire to the warehouse. But before that, the grain was moved, so that Gou Jian would not break the promise, and he could make a lot of money.

This rumor is actually very easy to debunk, as long as the people go to the warehouse to see the charred grain, this rumor will be dispelled. But as the three of them said, one person said that there was a tiger in the market, but he didn't believe it. Two people said that there were tigers in the market, and they were skeptical. When the three said that there was a tiger in the market, they believed it.

In fact, if you go to the market and take a look, you will know that this is actually just a rumor. But very few people from Yue Guo do this, and this rumor has intensified, and even now when it comes to this rumor, those people of Yue Guo seem to have witnessed the process with their own eyes, and they say it vividly.

But whether this fire was directed and acted by Gou Jian, or what Gou Jian said by refuting the rumors himself, I don't know that the force sent someone to set the cangli on fire. The grain is as if they have been beaten with chicken blood, everyone is in good spirits, and their expressions have become dejected after hearing the news of Gou Jian's opening of the warehouse to release grain, and now they have become arrogant.

The price of grain has also risen all the way, from the original 30 yuan a stone, to the first day after the fire opened, the price of grain soared to 40 yuan a stone. And the grain merchants don't know what modesty is, one by one they are arrogant as if they are in an arrogant competition, once someone bargains, the grain immediately puts on an expression of whether you like to buy or not.

A digression here, although Gou Jian has already determined in his heart that the fire was planned by Yang Zilu, there is no evidence in the end. Therefore, you can only eat coptis dumbly and replace it with a certain force, after all, it is not a trivial matter to slander a prince.

It is precisely because of Gou Jian's vague performance that many doctors are suspicious of the rumors. At the court meeting three days later, there was even a doctor from the Yue country who spoke and tactfully persuaded Gou Jian, the Lord Yue Guo is your Yue country, and the people of Yue Guo are your people, how can you covet a little money and direct and perform a fire by yourself? Isn't this a suspicion of Gou Jian's character? was so angry that Gou Jian, who had just been rescued, vomited blood again and fainted.

(To be continued)