"I see, Erin did a good job!"

Tang Xuan sat on the sofa and gently touched the head of the little flower cat.

Erin told Tang Xuan all the information word for word, and got the reward she expected.

"Judging from the intelligence, there should be other forces besides the grain merchant who wants to occupy the daughter city."

Tang Xuan's expression changed, and he muttered thoughtfully.

"Viscount Huohuo Xiaoski, the son of Count Huohuo Bigski, he has a hundred well-trained and powerful knights, and he should be making trouble in the dark."

Murong Xiling suddenly spoke, and when the words fell, Tang Xuan's face turned pale, whether it was an earl or a viscount, it was a force that Daughter City could not afford to provoke for the time being, unless there were iron weapons.

"Also, I'm wondering if Ion, as the grain merchant said, is he the traveling merchant in the first place?"

After all, Tang Xuan had just come to the Mi Wei Miao Kingdom not long ago, and he didn't know much about the stakes, according to the system of Journey to the West, these counts and viscounts were all people who were planning to expand their territory, and they would attack Daughter City one day.

Therefore, the current situation must be resolved as soon as possible, all iron tools and weapons must be produced, and the entire daughter city must be put in order to start training powerful battle knights.

"Chances are, the traveling merchant who sold us cloth and horses is very strange, and he could very well be Ion!"

Murong Xiling exclaimed.

"And the grain merchant is going to set fire to my granary?"

Tang Xuan sneered, since this is the case, then let you have no return!

"Tang Xuan, if this is really the case, then should we strengthen the guards of the granary?"

Murong Xiling asked.

According to the news, a few days later, the grain merchants were going to send people to set fire to the granary, and in order to prevent their plot from succeeding, they had to strengthen the guard of the granary.

"You don't have to be like this, just listen to my arrangement," Tang Xuan took out a cannon from his bag and handed it to Yuruo, "You take this thing well, and everything is under my command." ”

"What is this?"

Yuruo and the others surrounded him, puzzled.

"This thing is called a cannon battle, it is used for communication, if there is anything in Jade, light this artillery battle, we can hear the sound from a few hundred meters away, so that we can support."

With that, Tang Xuan walked out of the City Lord's Mansion and lit a cannon outside the city.

Rumble!

The sparks rose into the sky, and immediately made a loud noise, which went straight into the sky, deafening, causing Shelley and Erin to blow up their hair, frightened, and hurriedly threw themselves into Tang Xuan's arms.

"Don't be afraid, the artillery will not hurt you."

Tang Xuan laughed softly, the little fox and the little flower cat are really timid, not like them at all.

After testing the power of the cannonball, everyone returned to the castle lord's mansion and began to discuss countermeasures.

......

The next day, the granaries of the entire City Lord's Mansion were empty, and all the grain was transported by Yuruo and other knights to Tang Xuan's room in the City Lord's Mansion.

After all, Tang Xuan is a man with a golden finger, and he has storage space, so he is not afraid that there will be no place to store these grains.

"Why do you want to empty the grain?"

Murong Xiling was puzzled, and emptied the granary, wouldn't it be impossible to lure the snake out of the hole?

"Catch turtles in the urn, close the door and beat the dog!"

Tang Xuan explained with a smile that he had his own careful thoughts, and if he emptied the granary, wouldn't those arsonists be empty?

"In the urn... Turtle catching... Shut down the door and hit the dog? ”

Murong Xiling frowned slightly, puzzled, she walked to the granary alone, the entire granary was extremely dark, and it was not impossible to see what was placed in it at all.

She began to understand what Tang Xuan meant, the arsonist must have acted at night, but at night the entire granary was terrifyingly black, even if the torch was burned, she couldn't see the huge granary clearly.

The arsonists did not know that there was no food in the granary, and when all the arsonists had entered the granary, they could send knights to arrest them and put them on trial.

Thinking of this, Murong Xiling clapped her hands, a smile appeared on her pretty face, and she ordered Yuruo and the knights to lie in ambush in the grass, hide themselves, and wait for the arsonist to attack.

On the lookout, the corners of Tang Xuan's mouth hooked up a heavy smile, his eyes were full of approval, and he only heard him mutter: "Xiling is really smart, if I am not in the daughter city in the future, I can leave the affairs to her." ”

At night, the quiet moonlight was intoxicating, Tang Xuan sat on the sofa studying the drawings of the iron smelting industry, and Erin was by his side.

For some reason, Erin is very fond of Earth's maid outfits, and in the City Lord's Mansion, she often wears maid outfits.

"Young Master Tang Xuan, what kind of material is this knife you gave me?"

Erin took the Swiss Army knife and looked at it closely, she asked, puzzled.

"It's an iron knife, hard and sharp, and I'm working on the ironmaking process right now."

Tang Xuan patiently explained, and he compared the sharpest bronze knife and iron knife in the Journey to the West world.

Erin suddenly realized, "This is iron, light and sharp, much better than bronze!" ”

Not only did he study the iron-smelting process in books, but Tang Xuan also consulted many experts on his mobile phone to ask about the matters that need to be paid attention to in iron-smelting.

"Erin, can you do me a favor?"

Tang Xuan suddenly asked, when he was studying the iron-smelting process, he suddenly had a great inspiration and thought of a way to deal with the grain merchants.

"Young Master Tang Xuan, even if you command, Erin will definitely complete it!"

When Erin heard that there was a task, she stood up with a serious expression, her crystal eyes blazing, and she looked at Tang Xuan.

Squeak!

The door opened suddenly, and Shelley entered the room with a group of knights, each with a bag in his hand.

"Young Master Tang Xuan, you have found what you wanted."

As the words fell, Shelley and the knights opened their bags one after another.

There was a fresh smell of fragrance and earth coming from the bag, which contained countless rotten tree roots.

"Look at this luster should be a hundred years or even a thousand years long, and it is well done."

A golden light flashed in Tang Xuan's eyes, in his eyes, these were not rotten tree roots, but silver with white flowers!

Reaching out and touching Shelley's little ear, the latter said with a resentful expression: "Young Master Tang Xuan, what do you want these rotten tree roots for..."

"This is not a rotten tree root, this is a century-old ginseng, which has the effect of prolonging life and is worth a thousand gold!"

Tang Xuan said excitedly that if he wanted to build an iron-smelting plant, he would need a lot of expenses, and these ginseng were the capital he used to buy devices from the earth.

"Shelley, Irene, you two come with me."

Tang Xuan walked into the hall with the two beast-eared girls, and Murong Xiling was already waiting for them there.

"Tang Xuan, it's time to tell me about your plan, right?"

Murong Xiling said with a resentful expression, and did not forget to glare at Tang Xuan angrily a few times, this guy, don't you tell yourself any plans, isn't this treating her as an outsider?

"Shelley, you lead some knights tomorrow, be sure to ride a horse with a mask, and then set fire to the center of the daughter city."

Tang Xuan's words fell, and everyone stood up in a panic.

"Arson? Tang Xuan, are you crazy? ”

"Young Master Tang Xuan, you..."

Murong Xiling and Shelley Dai frowned and shouted puzzled.

"Shelley, after you set the fire, lead the knights to the bamboo forest in the daughter city, and wait there."

After Tang Xuan finished giving the order, he said to Murong Xiling: "Xiling, you prepare a large amount of water first, and put out the fire immediately after Shelley set the fire." ”

"Erin, I'll write a letter, and you'll be in charge of delivering it to the grain merchant with a throwing knife."

"Letters?"

Murong Xiling didn't understand Tang Xuan's approach, which was arson and letters.

"After the arson, we will add fuel and vinegar to the bandits and horse bandits, and then lead the grain merchant to the place where Shelley is waiting, and I will lead some of the people there, and then we can arrest the grain merchant!"

Tang Xuan said, the people in the entire hall were shocked, only Tang Xuan could come up with such a method, right?

"Good idea, but how do we lure the grain merchant to the bait?"

"Xiling, tell me about the situation in the entire eastern border."

"Okay, the current eastern border is the territory of the Earl of Huohuosky, and the lords of these cities in the eastern border are all baronials, and the grain merchants are the count's subordinates," Murong Xiling said, suddenly realized, she clapped her jade hand, and a little smile appeared on her face, "I see, you have to write a letter to pretend to be an earl to lure the grain merchant to take the bait." ”

"Clever, worthy of a pity."

Tang Xuan snapped his fingers and cast an approving glance at Murong Xiling.

"Young Master Tang Xuan, all the arsonists have been caught, and now they are being taken into the dungeon, waiting for your whereabouts."

Yuruo walked in from outside the door, saluted Tang Xuan, and said respectfully.

"How many are there?"

"Fifteen."

Hearing this number, Tang Xuan's heart blossomed, aren't these arsonists just ready-made labor?

After leading everyone into the dungeon, the previous grain merchants had been tortured by leeches, and their faces were pale and bloodless.

And the newly caught arsonists all bowed their heads and wore heavy anklets and bracelets.

"Very good, since you dare to make trouble in my daughter's city, then don't think about going out for the rest of your life, stay in the dungeon, and wait for death!"

Tang Xuan's voice was cold, without any emotion.

After hearing this, everyone turned blue with fright, they had already seen the precedent, those people were tortured by leeches and did not look like men, they didn't want to do that.

"Lord Castle, we don't have a next time, you have a lot of them, let us go!"

Many arsonists knelt in the dungeon, begging Tang Xuan to let them go.

"Leave you alone? I can give you a way out! ”

Tang Xuan sneered, since there is a labor force that doesn't need money, then why wouldn't he do it?

"Thank you, Lord Castle, for your kindness!"

After these arsonists heard Tang Xuan's words, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed, excitedly.

"Yuruo, after seven days, untie these people's bracelets, send them to the mine, mine minerals for us, don't think about eating if you don't work hard!"

Tang Xuan's cold voice sounded again, giving these arsonists a blow to the head, and they fell from the hope of life, and immediately fell into the despair of death.

For those who violate his bottom line, Tang Xuan will definitely not be spared.