These grain merchants and Qian Jinglun who came to exchange grain were not clear, and Zhou Ming wanted to catch them off guard and couldn't let them go back to ventilate and report the news, so he said to Tsing Yi: "Wait a while, you pay attention to whether there are spies to report back, and not a single fly can be released before the dust settles on this matter." ”

"Yes." Tsing Yi nodded.

"Brother Ming, it's easy to detain them, but Jiang Yuanzhi's side won't let you intervene here, we have to mobilize the people in the village to stand up and defend their own food, otherwise once the news leaks in advance or Jiang Yuanzhi and Qian Jinglun find out that the signs are wrong, it is very likely that they will send someone to kill us, and when the power is very different, we have no chance of winning." Lin Taohua leaned next to Zhou Ming and whispered.

Zhou Ming said: "Wait a while, control them first, and then mobilize the villagers to defend themselves." Later, I will revise another letter and send it to the nearest border army camp and ask them to help protect the people and suppress the bandits. ”

Lin Taohua said uneasily: "Is the border army far away from here?" The military and government of Jinguo are separated, can the people in the border army listen to your coming to suppress bandits? It is only ten days and a half a month away from Baizhou, and these grain merchants did not go back at that time, Jiang Yuanzhi and Qian Jinglun must know that something is wrong, and when the border army does not arrive, Yang Jiaping and these people may not be able to withstand the gang of horse thieves they found. ”

Zhou Ming thought for a while and said: "Don't worry, the border of Baizhou is not peaceful now, and the government and the border army have contact from time to time, so they won't ignore it." And as far as I know, after Wu Lunke was killed as a county magistrate, there has been a border army in this vicinity, and when the time comes, it will not take long to find someone who knows the way to deliver the letter. ”

"As long as we finalize this case before Jiang Yuanzhi and Qian Jinglun find out, in order to avoid suspicion, they will not make a move against Yang Jiaping in a short time, as for the two of us, it should be okay to have Tsing Yi and Bai Yuan here."

In fact, Zhou Ming just tried to make things better, and Lin Taohua of the province was worried. In fact, he has not personally met Qian Jinglun, and most of his opinions come from other people's descriptions, and he should be considered a rational and scrupling person in general. After the case of replacing old rice with new rice was finalized this time, Qian Jinglun was eighty percent likely to avoid this matter and would not rectify him openly, but Jiang Yuanzhi was not necessarily.

Judging from what Jiang Yuanzhi has done over the years, this person thinks that he has rich Jinglun as the backstage, and he is regarded as holding the authority of Baizhou, and he simply regards himself as an existence above 10,000 people under Baizhou Mansion. This time, if he knew about this matter, he really had a good chance that he would send people to Yangjiaping to massacre without any scruples.

Lin Taohua didn't hear many things about Jiang Yuanzhi that Miao Sheng reported to Zhou Ming last night, she just likes to think about the bad when she does things, and prepare in advance. So, after listening to Zhou Ming's words, she turned her head and asked Tsing Yi:

"In addition to assassination, will you arrange troops to lead the enemy in formation?"

Tsing Yi's eyes blinked and nodded.

Although he and Bai Yuan are Zixu's people and can be regarded as an assassin organization, Zixu is different from those sects in the rivers and lakes. They come from a family and serve the royal family, in addition to helping their masters spy on news and complete various assassination missions, they will also go to the battlefield or participate in palace battles, and they will know more than a lot of things. If it weren't for that, Zi Xuyan would be on par with the Qingyan army.

Seeing that Tsing Yi would really arrange troops to lead the troops to fight, Lin Taohua said faintly: "I'm really more and more curious about what Brother Yang does?" ”

"What can you do, do business, the kind of businessman who can open a green building if you are in a good mood." The white duck waited for an opportunity to laugh.

Lin Taohua glared at her, "I want to cover it." ”

The white mandarin duck smiled and stopped talking.

Lin Taohua turned to Tsing Yi and said, "Didn't you tell me a few days ago that you wanted to complete the invitation as soon as possible. In this way, if Jiang Yuanzhi and the others really send someone to attack this time, if you can help Yangjiaping's people win this food defense war, I will agree with Ya'er on the day of welcoming him when I go back, if not, hehe. ”

Tsing Yi thought for a while and said, "Madame's words have to count. ”

Lin Taohua's apricot eyes swept around his face, and then his heart settled down a little inexplicably, and said: "It seems that you are very confident, hehe, don't worry, my words definitely count." ”

"A gentleman's word." Tsing Yi raised his right hand, meaning to make an appointment with her.

Lin Taohua looked at his serious appearance, suddenly pushed Zhou Ming, and said, "I'm not a gentleman, you high-five him and make a covenant." ”

"......" Zhou Ming was speechless, and it wasn't that he had an agreement with Tsing Yi, why did he let him make an agreement? If her words didn't count in the end, wouldn't he be targeted by Tsing Yi?

Tsing Yi was also speechless, and just now he said that talking definitely counts, what does it mean at this time? Isn't that a prelude to a backtrack?

"It's hard to chase a horse." The white mandarin duck who was following Lin Taohua suddenly raised his hand and slapped his palm with Tsing Yi.

Tsing Yi has a black face, "What are you making a fuss about?" ”

Bai Yuan looked at him with disdain and said, "Let the adults promise you, it's really not as good as my aunt and grandmother, I promise you credibility." My lord only obeys the orders of my wife, and if my wife doesn't promise you, my lord will never agree to you. I'm different, Madame doesn't agree, I can be a lobbyist for you, and I can definitely help you do it. ”

Lin Taohua looked at Bai Yuanyu coldly, and didn't know where this guy's confidence came from.

"That's all." Zhou Ming directly clapped the board.

"Get out of the way, hey, what about you."

Zhou Ming and the others walked to the door of Lizheng's house and took a look at the carriage that went out from Lizheng's house.

"Blind eyes, you guys, I didn't see the carriage coming out, get out of the way quickly, don't delay grandpa's trip." The monkey-cheeked creature stood at the front and shouted.

"This gentleman is disrespectful, we are foreign grain merchants, and I heard that there is new rice here this autumn, and the price is cheap, so we hurried here to buy some." Zhou Ming was not shocked or angry, and said gently.

When the man heard this, he looked Zhou Ming up and down, then looked at the people beside him, and then sneered: "We have finished ordering the new rice here, let's leave quickly." ”

"Is that so? Then I am willing to buy all of them at a price higher than the market price. Zhou Ming said with a smile.

"Do you want to be high?"

Before the grain merchant could speak, the surrounding villagers who were silently watching the fruits of their labor being pulled away began to chatter.

"Lizheng, this guest said that he would take away all the new rice, can we sell it to him directly, so that there is no new rice in hand, and it will not attract horse thieves and Hu people."

"Yes, yes, it's much more cost-effective to exchange it for silver money than for old rice."

"Lizheng."

The villagers pleaded their grievances one after another, and some young men were afraid that the grain merchants would take advantage of the opportunity to run away, so they deliberately took a few steps to block the road tightly.

"Damn, I think you're turning the world upside down, hurry up and make way for Lao Tzu. If you delay Lao Tzu's return and cause the grain to be robbed, you will fucking spit out the old rice to Lao Tzu as well. ”

When the grain merchant saw that these sheep-like villagers were trying to resist in vain, he scolded directly.