Chapter 660: Disrupting the enemy's logistics in advance
Hearing the shouts of selling herbs from the street in front of him, Liu Wei gently clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and rode his horse towards the place where the shouts came from.
The herb seller was shouting and telling the people who passed by him how good his herbs were, and around him, there were already crowds of people watching the excitement.
Among the crowd of onlookers, there were quite a few people who were asking the man who sold herbs about the efficacy and use of various herbs.
Standing on the periphery, listening to the man selling herbs explaining various effects of herbs to the onlookers, when he heard that Sanqi can stop bleeding, Liu Wei turned over and jumped off the horse, led Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and others, separated the crowd, and squeezed in.
Seeing that the king of Luoyang was coming, the crowd of onlookers consciously moved aside, and all their eyes shifted from the man selling herbs to Liu Wei's body.
When the man selling herbs saw Liu Wei, he quickly stopped shouting, lowered his head, and showed a little nervousness in his expression.
Glancing at the man, Liu Wei didn't say anything, he squatted next to the herbs on the ground, reached out and took out a few sunburned black-brown blades of grass from a cloth bag, put them in his hand, looked up at the man and asked, "What is this?" ”
In Luoyang City, I am afraid that except for those old people who are so old that their brains are confused and children who have not yet remembered, there are few people who do not recognize Liu Wei.
"Sanqi!" Looking at the few leaves that Liu Wei held in his hand, the medicine seller responded tremblingly.
"Sanqi?" Looking up at the man, Liu Wei pursed the corners of his mouth, threw those leaves into the cloth bag, stood up and said to the man: "The leaves of Panax notoginseng are oblong, the leaves are full, the juice is abundant, and it has the effect of stopping bleeding and removing stasis. If you look at the ones you sell, the leaves are just oval, although they will become much thinner when dried, but they are not smooth in your hands, and they don't look like dried notoginseng at all. ”
As soon as Liu Wei said this, the man's legs suddenly weakened, and he knelt on the ground with a "poof", kowtowed to Liu Wei and said: "Your Highness spares your life, Xiaomin knows that it is wrong!" ”
"Confiscate his fake herbs and send him to the Luoyang Palace for interrogation!" Standing up, Liu Wei snorted coldly and gave an order to several guards behind him.
The guards hurriedly answered, two of them stepped forward to restrain the man, and the other few people cleaned up all the herbs that the man had placed on the stall, and escorted the man in the direction of the Luoyang government.
"Your Highness spares your life, the villain knows that he is wrong!" Dragged by two palace guards like a dead dog, the man struggled while shouting injustice to Liu Wei.
Liu Wei didn't pay attention to him at all, jumped on horseback, shook the reins, led Wang Liu and the others, and went straight to the palace.
As soon as he returned to the palace, Liu Wei entered the back garden, and before he could decide which princess to go to, a palace guard quickly followed, bowed down with his fists, and said to Liu Wei: "Your Royal Highness, Xu Junshi asks to see you!" ”
"As soon as the person was sent to the official mansion, Xu Shu followed?" Knowing that Xu Shu asked to see him, Liu Wei frowned slightly, waved his hand at the guard, and said to him: "Please go to the small pavilion in the back garden to meet this king!" ”
When he arrived at the small pavilion in the backyard, Liu Wei went straight to the pavilion, and Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and several guards stood under the pavilion, standing straight in two rows.
After a while, Xu Shu, who was summoned by Liu Wei, hurried over.
As soon as he came to the bottom of the pavilion, Xu Shu clasped his fists with both hands, bowed down to Liu Bian, and said to Liu Bian: "Your Highness, Your Majesty just remembered something, it is quite important, disturb Your Highness, and I hope Your Highness will forgive me!" ”
"Yuan Zhi has worked hard all day, how many worries have he shared for this king?" Standing on the gazebo, Liu Wei raised his hand towards Xu Shuxu and said to him: "If you have something to say, it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”
Striding up to the small pavilion, only two or three steps away from Liu Wei, Xu Shu stopped and said to Liu Wei: "I don't know if Your Highness knows about the marriage between Lu Bu and Yuan Shu." ”
"I've heard of it." Liu Wei smiled slightly, looked at Xu Shu, and said to him: "However, Lu Bu did not send his daughter to Huainan, which shows that he still has two hearts for Yuan Shu. Once Yuan Shu is proclaimed emperor, Lu Bu is afraid that he will be the first to raise troops to oppose it. ”
"Yes!" When Liu Wei said this, Xu Shu hugged his fists, bowed down and said to him: "Your Highness's expectation is not bad, Lu Bu should have such a plan." However, from this incident, it can also be seen that Yuan Shu is ready to move, and intends to use troops against Xuzhou! ”
"Xuzhou is really eventful now." Xu Shu said that Yuan Shu also coveted Xuzhou, Liu Wei smiled coldly, answered, and didn't say anything more.
"Then Yuan Shu occupies Xuzhou, and when he gets a firm foothold, there are only two ways to choose!" Putting down the fists he had picked up, Xu Shu then said to Liu Wei: "Our army is also going to fight Huainan sooner or later, and His Royal Highness ordered someone to send someone to the official mansion to ......."
"You mean the one who sells counterfeit medicines?" Xu Shu mentioned the person who was sent to the government just now, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Xu Shu and said to him: "Fake medicine harms people's lives, and since this king has captured him, he will not be allowed to cause trouble in the world again." The only way to deal with this kind of person is to kill and warn them! ”
"You can kill it every day, but you can't kill it now!" What Liu Wei didn't expect was that as soon as his words fell, Xu Shu said to him: "This person can be used by our army, if His Highness kills him, it will be a pity." ”
"How?" Frowning slightly, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Xu Shu and asked him.
"Fake drugs are harmful to people, everyone knows it!" Seeing a little unhappiness in Liu Wei's expression, Xu Shu hurriedly said to him: "Now that the Huainan War is imminent, we will definitely buy medicinal materials on a large scale." His Majesty had already seen the medicinal materials sold by this person, and if it weren't for the fact that His Highness was as knowledgeable as His Royal Highness, he would definitely not be able to tell the truth from the fake. ”
"Those who know the quality of medicinal materials better than this king, I don't know how many there are in the world." Liu Wei smiled slightly, waved his hand at Xu Shu, and said to him: "If this person goes to Huainan to sell fake medicines, in order to disrupt the Huainan army's medicinal material reserves, this method is absolutely not feasible!" ”
"If His Highness wants him to go, this matter is absolutely impossible!" Looking at Liu Bian's cold face, Xu Shu did not give up persuading Liu Bian, and then said to him: "If he has no way out, and someone makes a little adjustment, then what will happen to him?" ”
Liu Wei was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Xu Shu, and a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes in an instant.
"The two armies are fighting, if you kill the enemy on the battlefield, then it's ......" After hesitating for a moment, Liu Wei frowned, and said to Xu Shu: "But how can this king bear to use a counterfeit medicine seller to transport fake medicine to Huainan in order to achieve the goal ......of weakening the Huainan army?"
"Your Highness!" Liu Wei was still a little unwilling to take advantage of a fake drug dealer, and he had a black hand on the Huainan Army's medicinal material reserves, Xu Shu hurriedly persuaded and said: "The so-called non-toxic husband is not a husband!" The heavier the losses suffered by the Huainan army, the fewer soldiers our army will die on the battlefield in the future......"
"That's it!" Before Xu Shu finished speaking, Liu Wei waved his hand at him and said to him: "If you can protect the soldiers under the command of this king, this king can't take care of so much." This matter will be handed over to the military advisor! ”
"No!" Originally, he didn't plan to ask Liu Wei to personally handle this matter, but he just wanted to win Liu Wei's promise, and after Liu Wei's words, Xu Shu responded, said goodbye to Liu Wei, and left the Luoyang Palace.
Looking at Xu Shu's departing back, Liu Wei's brows gradually twisted.
The needs of war are really varied, and sometimes some extraordinary measures have to be taken, but Liu Wei never imagined that one day, in order to win the war and reduce the casualties of the soldiers under his command, he would do something like using counterfeit drug dealers.
Night crept down, and when the night covered the entire Luoyang City with its inky light veil, in an alley of Luoyang City, there were five dormant figures.
The four people in front were all wearing inky night clothes, and the one who followed behind them was wearing the deep clothes of the common people.
Behind the four nocturnal walkers was the same dealer who sold counterfeit medicines.
was put in prison, originally he thought that he would die this time, but he didn't expect that just when he was desperate, four people who broke into the prison at night appeared and rescued him. "Look around, don't let the fugitives escape!" On the street, such a shout can be heard from time to time.
Every time they hear such a shout, the counterfeit drug dealer shuddered all over.
The real medicinal herbs, although quite abundant in the mountains, are not easy to find. He originally wanted to get some fake medicine and sell it in the market to make a fortune, but he didn't expect to run into the king of Luoyang.
What he didn't expect was that this thing, which no one had done in Luoyang, would be a disaster that he had committed the crime of killing his head.
"Let's go!" In the market, the shouts of searching for fugitives gradually faded away, and the man in black in the lead beckoned, and with the people behind him, he quickly rushed towards the city gate.
It's strange to say, on weekdays, when Luoyang City arrives at night, the city gate is already closed, but today there is a gap inexplicably, and there is no one guarding the city gate.
Finding that there was a gap in the city gate, the man in black who led the way did not say anything, and waved to everyone behind him again, and jumped out of the cat.
If the man who sells counterfeit medicine often runs to the city gate in the middle of the night, he will not believe that the city gate can be passed so easily.
But he had never run near the city gate at night before, and he had no understanding of the situation of the city gate guards.
followed the four men in black out of the city, and it wasn't until they ran far away in one breath that the man selling counterfeit medicine let out a long breath and raised his hand to wipe his forehead.
Near the city gate where a gap was loosened, dozens of dormant soldiers of the Luoyang Army, seeing the man in black fleeing from the city with a man selling counterfeit medicine, and continuing to lie dormant for about a stick of incense, the officer raised his arm and greeted the soldiers: "The people have left the city, close the city gate, and report to the military advisor!" ”
A group of soldiers walked out of their hiding places, most of them ran to help close the city gates, and one soldier ran to the Luoyang government.