Chapter 599: Dialogue with Su Chi

After inspecting for a while, Lin Xuanzhong found that the city was still very deserted, but fortunately, the existence of the night army could add a little vitality to Qucheng.

While inspecting the situation in the city, Lin Xuanzhong told Wang Yiyao in detail about the specific purpose of going to Qincheng, and then specially explained that Wang Yiyao would secretly pay attention to the situation in Qucheng after he left. If there is a suspicious person coming or going, they must find out the identity information, in short, they must guard against all those who may be the eyes and ears of the bandits.

After Lin Xuanzhong made it clear that he wanted to find the city lord of Qincheng to cooperate in attacking the bandit village, Wang Yiyi finally understood the real purpose of Lin Xuanzhong's going to Qincheng, so the information about the bandits was naturally more worthy of their attention. If one or two bandits can be caught and tortured about the situation in the bandit village, it will naturally be very good.

After handing over the responsibility of guarding Qucheng to Wang Yiyao, Lin Xuanzhong specially told Wang Yiyao to inform Zhang Jiutian to bring all the villagers of Orchid Village to the city as soon as possible. Now there are a lot of empty houses in the city, and it is safer for those villagers to live in the city than to stay in the village. At the same time, the hunt for ferocious beasts continued, and the army was short of food, and the available food could not last long.

Time is very tight for Lin Xuanzhong, so after explaining the big and small affairs, back to the city lord's mansion, Lin Xuanzhong led a group of people to go out from the back door in disguise, and then a guide led all the way to the hidden route, and hurried to Qincheng. The group's move was precisely to prevent the bandits from knowing Lin Xuanzhong's movements.

When they arrived at a meeting point in the city, they all switched from walking to riding horses, and quickly left Qucheng. With the speed of their horses, they could reach Qincheng in about an hour.

Qincheng is still the same as usual, there are a large number of guards at each entrance, and there are people who stand on high places to patrol the distance and enter the city, because there is no city wall to prevent bandit raids. Among those guards were the original city guards, as well as men drawn from various families. In short, in order to protect the safety of the city, Su Chi gathered almost all the martial cultivators in the city.

An hour later, when Lin Xuanzhong and the others were about to enter the city, they were unexpectedly stopped by those guards, and handed a letter with their identities and intentions to one of the guards and asked him to send it to the city lord's mansion, and at the same time, Lin Xuanzhong asked the other guards not to show off. Because of Yu Tong's existence, in fact, those guards could already guess the identity of Lin Xuanzhong and his party, so they were also very polite to Lin Xuanzhong and others.

On the way to accompany Lin Xuanzhong and others into the city, the original captain of the guard was most curious about Lin Xuanzhong's identity.

Among the dozen or so people, only Lin Xuanzhong was hidden in the cloak, but he was at the forefront, and the others were obviously led by Lin Xuanzhong, but it seemed that Lin Xuanzhong's realm was not the highest. The captain of the guard didn't understand what was going on after thinking about it, but it was a pity that he was only a guard captain who was only at the sixth rank of the martial realm, and he didn't dare to take the initiative to ask Lin Xuanzhong's identity because of his own strength.

Not long after, a few people from the direction of the City Lord's Mansion met with Lin Xuanzhong and the others, and after talking to the captain of the guard, those people very respectfully asked Lin Xuanzhong and the others to follow them.

Seeing that the person who came knew the original captain of the guard, and his identity was obviously higher than that of the captain of the guard, Lin Xuanzhong did not doubt the identities of several people, and he could also speculate that Su Chi must have read his letter.

After taking away the horses of Lin Xuanzhong and the others, the person with the highest status among the newcomers led Lin Xuanzhong and the others, not going through the streets, but walking through the alleys, carefully bringing Lin Xuanzhong and the others into the city lord's mansion.

According to the person's introduction on the way, Lin Xuanzhong already knew that there were indeed many bandits in Qincheng now, and the two sides had to be careful when meeting. However, although he entered through the back door of the City Lord's Mansion, before Lin Xuanzhong and the others arrived at the back door, Su Chi had already led a large group of people to wait at the back door.

As soon as Lin Xuanzhong arrived, Su Chi brought someone up to greet him, welcoming Lin Xuanzhong's arrival, and apologizing for not being able to go further away to greet Lin Xuanzhong.

After the meeting between the two sides, the first thing Lin Xuanzhong did was to look at the city lord of Qincheng in front of him. Su Chi and Xing Hu's temperament is very similar, but one has a white face and the other has a beard, so it seems that Su Chi, who is still white-faced, is more energetic.

"My lord, please," when Lin Xuanzhong took off the hat of his cloak and revealed a head of white hair, Su Chi could already be completely sure of Lin Xuanzhong's identity, and immediately invited Lin Xuanzhong to the inner hall as soon as possible.

When they arrived at the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, the servants there had already prepared tea and served it directly to Lin Xuanzhong and the others.

On the other side, Su Chi let Lin Xuanzhong sit on the main seat, and did not rush to ask Lin Xuanzhong's intentions, but just blindly praised Lin Xuanzhong for his young and extraordinary bearing, and he became a general at such an age. Lin Xuanzhong, who said something of praise, had to wonder if it was Su Chi himself who was standing in front of him, because if Su Chi was really an upright person, he shouldn't be so good at touting.

In fact, when praising Lin Xuanzhong, Su Chi also felt that he was a little out of shape, but when facing Lin Xuanzhong, he always had a feeling of praise, so much so that he said many words of praise. Thinking about it carefully, Su Chi felt that the problem was still with Lin Xuanzhong, because Lin Xuanzhong's identity, strength, age, and appearance revealed an extraordinary appearance, which was many times stronger than the so-called sons of the people Su Chi saw on weekdays.

After Su Chi and Lin Xuanzhong were polite, they gradually showed their usual posture. At the same time, some family patriarchs specially notified by Su Chi earlier arrived one after another, and six or seven people arrived one after another. Coupled with Su Chi himself, there were a total of eight seventh-order martial cultivators in the hall. In a blink of an eye, Su Chi found all the high-level martial cultivators in the city.

Su Chi's purpose in letting those family masters come was obvious, it was nothing more than to deter Lin Xuanzhong.

"I don't know what General Lin wants to discuss with Su when he comes this time?" After giving Lin Xuanzhong a brief introduction to the seven family heads, Su Chi immediately asked about Lin Xuanzhong's intention.

"In the future, I naturally want to talk to Su City Lord about the grain requisition?" In order to see the attitude of Su Chi and those family masters in terms of grain requisition, Lin Xuanzhong only talked about the grain requisition for the time being.

"The general wants to collect food in the city?" Su Chi furrowed his eyebrows, and then asked with an ugly face: "Didn't General Lin see that there are many refugees in the city who can't eat?" Taking out the attitude when he talked to Yu Tong and the others yesterday, in Yu Tong's eyes, Su Chi's behavior instantly became normal.

After Su Chi said this, Lin Xuanzhong remembered that when he passed by a place just now, he inadvertently noticed that there were many people in tattered clothes waiting in a long line to receive food to eat, and it seemed that those people were the refugees in Su Chi's mouth. Thinking like this, Lin Xuanzhong glanced at the other family heads again, and sure enough, their faces were not good-looking after hearing the word requisition.

"Could it be that the city lord doesn't even ask how the general is going to collect grain, so he wants to categorically refuse the general?"

"Please also General Lin to make it clear!" Su Chi's face softened, and under Lin Xuanzhong's unfazed rhetorical question, Su Chi couldn't adhere to the tough attitude just now.

"How many households are there in your Qin City?"

"Including the nearby villages, there are about 3,000 households. ”

"It's really not much!" According to the grain levy standard given above, if the corresponding rations can be collected from each household, it will only be enough for 100,000 troops to eat for half a month, which will not meet Yan Nantian's requirements at all. Unexpectedly, the two cities combined were only 10,000 households, and Lin Xuanzhong couldn't help but sigh for the prosperity of the small secluded city before.

Compared with the prosperity of the small secluded city at that time, it was more and more understandable why there were only eight seventh-order martial cultivators in front of him. Calculate again, according to the requirements of Yan Nantian, at least 7,000 households must be able to meet the standard of grain collection, unless the benchmark for collecting grain from each household is raised, but judging from the current situation, they can't even do the normal grain collection, let alone levy grain after raising the grain collection standard.

"I heard that General Lin didn't collect grain in Qucheng, and he also helped the people of the main city to restore order?" When Lin Xuanzhong was silent, Su Chi couldn't help but break the silence.

"Why does the Su City Lord still know about Qucheng?"

Don't hide it from the general, Qucheng has always had the eyeliner sent by Su," the tone changed, and Su Chi continued: "Su feels sorry for everything that Qucheng has suffered, and Su doesn't want the same thing to happen again in Qincheng." ”

"I don't know what City Lord Su means?" Su Chi faintly talked about the meaning of those bandits, and Lin Xuanzhong took the opportunity to ask.

"Since General Lin asked, Su Mou made a long story short," After a slight pause, Su Chi continued: "Actually, it is not impossible for General Lin to collect grain in Qincheng, but he must first agree to a certain condition of Su. ”

"I don't know what conditions the city lord Su has?"

"Don't hide it from General Lin, the scale of the gang of bandits in Xiaoyin Mountain is growing day by day, and Su and the people in the city have always been very jealous of the gang of brutal bandits, and they don't want that gang of bandits to loot Qincheng, so I hope that General Lin can send an army to exterminate those bandits. ”

"It must not be difficult to exterminate those bandits with the ability of the night army, and when the general succeeds, Su and the people in the city will be very grateful. Not only can the general pay the grain according to the general's requirements, but the general can also get more property in the bandit village, which can be used as military funds, I wonder what General Lin thinks of Su's conditions?" After Su Chi finished speaking, the seven family heads behind him looked at Lin Xuanzhong one after another, all hoping that Lin Xuanzhong could give them a satisfactory answer.

"The city lord of Su can't help but say too lightly, the terrain of Xiaoyin Mountain is steep, and there are many positions that can be used for ambushes, once that gang of bandits knows that Ben is going to lead the army to encircle and suppress them, they will inevitably be on guard, and then Ben will not succeed in suppressing the bandits, but will suffer heavy losses, how do you let Ben explain to the above?"

Su Chi's words of praising the night army made Lin Xuanzhong angry, if Su Chi wanted to use them as spearmen, then Lin Xuanzhong would rather capture Qincheng first. Although there are not many troops, if you really want to say it, once you find a suitable place to attack the city, and then face each other head-on, even if the number of martial cultivators in Qin City exceeds the strength of the night army, Lin Xuanzhong will not be afraid of them.

In addition, the people of Qincheng do not yet have the ability to ambush the night army, so it will be easier to capture Qincheng than to capture the bandit village.