After going around on more than a dozen small roads, and bypassing a few mountains, after two days of trekking, Wei Yingnan and others finally came to the main road, and the surrounding scenery gradually became prosperous, there were many inns and taverns, and the pedestrians along the way gradually increased, hawkers carrying burdens, and business travelers doing business, the road suddenly became lively.

After walking for a long time, the sun rose, and the day became much hotter and hotter. Wei Yingnan lifted the curtain and looked at the sky, the sun was hanging high, and a tea shop could be seen not far ahead, so he ordered to stop and rest.

"Shopkeeper, find the coolest place for my master to rest, and then bring your best tea leaves, remember, there can be no trace of tea powder. Xun Yang commanded the shopkeeper in a loud voice, and then casually took out a silver ingot from his bosom and threw it on the counter, the ingot of silver was enough for them to drink more than a dozen jars of tea.

When the shopkeeper saw the silver ingot, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly bowed his waist and invited these distinguished guests to the innermost part to rest, and then offered carefully brewed tea, and even offered the lion a cup of tea, and prepared some fruit snacks.

As he was leaving, the shopkeeper stole a glance at the lion lying on the stool, and saw that it hung its head, licked the tea slowly, and behaved like a noble son. The shopkeeper couldn't help but be curious, and said secretly: "Huh, the pets raised by this rich person are different, the owner is luxurious, and the pets are also expensive." ”

Wei Yingnan raised the teacup and took a sip of tea, his expression was noncommittal, he was naturally not used to drinking this kind of coarse tea, but when he went out to walk, he had to be at peace with what he encountered, and Wei Yingnan endured the dissatisfaction in his heart.

Not far behind him were a few green trees, the shade of which was cool and pleasant, and the occasional breeze was pleasant.

Wei Yingnan looked at the endless stream of pedestrians on the road, thinking that there must be a big city nearby, so he asked: "I see more and more pedestrians on the road, is it almost there?"

Xun Yang glanced at the Jiang Guo kid who was drinking tea on the other table, and then leaned over and said, "Hui Gongzi, just now Weichen asked the Jiang Guo kid, according to him, there is still one day to go to Dongwang City." ”

Hearing the news, the corners of Wei Yingnan's mouth finally showed a smile, the road has been very bumpy in the past two days, but it has exhausted him, the son of Wei.

At this time, Xun Yang reminded in a low voice: "Jiang Guo's army is stationed in Dongwang City, presumably it must be heavily guarded, and after arriving there, Gongzi still needs to be more careful." ”

Wei Yingnan smiled indifferently and said, "Don't worry, I have my own measure." ”

"On this trip, we mainly looked at the size of Jiang's army to confirm whether Jiang really had any movement to expand its army. In the past two years, Jiang has formed an alliance with our Wei State, received the blessing of Wei, and lived a peaceful life for two years. If Jiang Guo has always been obedient and obedient, and everything is safe, our Wei State can always protect them. However, if Jiang Guo is only obedient on the surface, but behind the scenes, he is secretly expanding his army and has the intention of hegemony, then Wei State cannot sit idly by. We can raise an obedient dog, but we must not raise a tiger, and if we raise a tiger cub, one day, he will bite us back. Wei Yingnan said this, his eyes suddenly became much more serious.

As the so-called raising a tiger is a problem, so when raising it, it must be clear whether it is an obedient "dog" or a biting "tiger".

"If Jiang Guo is really secretly expanding his army, it means that Jiang Guo is a 'tiger', and then it must be killed before it grows up. Wei Yingnan's face was cold, and he said coldly.

"What Childe said is very true. At the beginning, Jiang Guo gave up half of the armor iron ore in their border mountain to Wei State, and Wei State agreed to form an alliance with Jiang State, and now, more than half of the armor iron ore in the border mountain has been mined, and in another year or two, it will almost be mined. At that time, Jiang Guo had no armor iron ore, and our Wei State did not need to protect them, and it all depended on the meaning of Gongzi if they wanted to kill or stay. The corners of Xun Yang's mouth pulled up a sinister smile and said.

Wei Yingnan smiled coldly, at this moment, he was like a judge who controlled life and death, his eyes were indifferent, like a cold pearl.

Jiang Guozi sat in a seat a little farther away, he held his little face with his right hand, making a bored look, looking at the green trees outside, in fact, he secretly urged the Tao, strengthened the hearing of his ears, and secretly listened to Wei Yingnan and Xun Yang's conversation.

"Bastard, this prince of Wei is really not good, he must not let him find out that Jiang Guo is secretly expanding his army. Jiang Guozi said secretly.

Wei Yingnan picked up the teacup and continued to drink the coarse tea with little taste. Taking advantage of the tea and chatting, Xun Yang said to Wei Yingnan again: "Speaking of army expansion, Jiang State is a small country after all, with a population of only one million, even if the army is expanded, it will increase by tens of thousands at most." Wechen is really worried about the other big countries. Childe, Weichen recently found out the news, I heard that the Liang Kingdom is secretly building a giant army, it is said that the use of medicine, the body of ordinary soldiers into huge, can be more than ten meters high. ”

Hearing this, Wei Yingnan put down the teacup in his hand, his little face was heavy, and said, "Well, I have also heard about this matter." I heard that it was two years ago, at that conference, oh, by the way, the medicine tasting conference held in Wuxian City, Liang Guoren hired a medicine wizard with a lot of money, he can use medicine to refine giants, and since then, Liang Guo has begun to want to build a giant army. ”

Xun Yang nodded and continued: "Originally, the Liang State wanted to invade the Jiang State, and its purpose was to get the armor iron ore of the Jiang State to strengthen the weapons and equipment of the army, but it was robbed by our Wei State. Liang Guo had no choice but to give up the plan to strengthen weapons and equipment, and instead devoted himself to developing giant soldiers. The people of Liang know very well that compared with the heavily armored army of our Wei State, their army's weapons and equipment are too backward, whether it is chariots, armor weapons, etc., they are far inferior to our Wei State. Therefore, they want to refine giant soldiers, and they want to make up for the lack of weapons with the huge bodies of soldiers. Obviously, Liang Guo wants to compete with our Wei State. ”

"The giant army of the Liang State must be on guard. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to select students for this 'Heavenly Selection' exam, I planted many spies in the team sent to Liang Guo, hoping to find out information about the giant army, and it would be great if I could catch a giant back. Wei Yingnan said with a chuckle.

Hearing this, Xun Yang admired and said: "Oh, it turns out that Gongzi has already made arrangements, and Weichen admires it very much." ”

"Hehe, however, compared to the giant army of Liang State, I am more worried about Zhao State's Divine Arrow Heavenly Soldiers. Wei Yingnan clenched the teacup on the table, said in a heavy tone.

Hearing Zhao Guo's Divine Arrow Heavenly Soldier, Xun Yang's face also sank a lot, "Zhao Guo's Divine Arrow Heavenly Soldier is indeed amazing." The weaponry of our Wei State can be said to be the most advanced in the entire continent, except for crossbow arrows. Speaking of crossbow arrows, it should be the first in Zhao State. Their crossbow arrows not only have a long range, but also extremely sharp, ten centimeters thick shields can be shot through a hole, and even more, they can equip the crossbow arrows on the back of the eagle and shoot sharp arrows from a height of 10,000 meters. ”

Wei Yingnan nodded, then lowered his voice and said, "So, this time I specially sent General Sanpin Zhenyuan, Xue Huai, and General Xue to Zhao State, hoping to take this opportunity to steal out the drawings of Zhao State's crossbow arrows." ”

Hearing this, the corner of Jiang Guo's mouth couldn't help but sneer, and he secretly said in his heart: "Huh, I can't imagine that this state, the largest country in the East, Wei State, would also do such a stealing act." ”

Most of the tea had been drunk, and at this time, the number of customers in the tea shop gradually increased, and the merchant hawkers soon crowded the entire tea shed, and the people who came again could only carry the tea bowls to the bottom of the big tree next to them.

After there were more people, the voices became noisy, and everyone was a trader who came and went to various places to do business, and naturally chatted from all over the world to relieve the boredom of the journey, chatting and chatting, and everyone began to talk about a strange "big event" that happened at the border in the past two days.

"Hey, have you found it? In the past few days, the dozen or so thieves' cottages entrenched on the border of Jiang Country have all disappeared. One of the vendors picked up the conversation and said.

"Yes, when I came back from this trip to do business, when I passed through the border of Jiang Country, it was all the way smooth, and I didn't even meet a single robber and bandit. The other man picked up and continued, "In the past, when I passed through the border, did I not encounter a robber? If you are lucky, you will be robbed of half of your money at most, and if you are unlucky, you will encounter a cruel thief, not to mention money and goods, and even your clothes will be ripped off, if you dare to resist, it will be a knife directly. These robbers have lived on the border for many years, occupying the mountains as kings, which is killing people and overstepping goods, and doing all kinds of evil. ”

"But why did the thieves suddenly disappear?"

"I've heard that the dozen or so cottages are either gone, or all of them have been wiped out. One of the vendors lowered his voice, creating an eerie atmosphere, and said.

"Impossible! That's a dozen cottages, and there are thousands of thieves! Who can wipe them all out in just a few days? Could it be that the state has sent a large army to wipe them out?" said one of them with a bold guess.

Hearing this, the other person hurriedly shook his head in denial, and said: "Jiang State is adjacent to Rong State to the west, Xu State is located in the north, and Cai State is located in the south. And among those thieves, Jiang Guoren, Rongguo people, Xu Guoren...... There are all of them, dragons and snakes are mixed, and the border is already a place of chaos and strife, and several countries are still fighting each other. Therefore, over the years, the more thieves at the border have been cleared, the more they have been, and they have not been eliminated at all. ”

"Well, if it's not the armies of a few countries, who would it be? Who has such a great ability to exterminate thousands of thieves?"