Chapter 53: The Chen Clan has taken a good start, and the assassins have arrived
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The magnates looked at each other.
If they can resist the eighth-order martial artists, is it necessary to drag their families and the royal family north together?
Sometimes they can ignore His Majesty's will, but not now.
If they dare to disobey Zhang Chengqian now and be expelled from the team, no one knows what will happen.
After a long time, Jin Guozhang stepped forward.
"Your Majesty, Weichen is willing to donate 10,000 stone grain!"
"Your Majesty, Weichen is also willing to donate 10,000 stones!"
"Your Majesty, Wechen is also willing to donate ......"
For a while, the scene resounded one after another with the sound of food donations.
This enthusiastic scene couldn't help but make Zhang Chengqian think that at the beginning of the Jinluan Palace, this group of old foxes cried that their families did not have much surplus food.
After looting a lot, he donated hundreds of thousands of stones.
At that time, his face was still painful, but now he is so generous.
"It seems that the Aiqing have a lot of surplus food at home, thanks to the queen's good start, I know that the Aiqing are so loyal and patriotic."
Zhang Chengqian's comments made the magnates present dare not take this remark.
However, the amount of grain donated gradually increased by 100 or 50 stone as a sign of sincerity.
shouted happily on his lips, but in his heart he scolded the skin-picking emperor and the "generous" Empress Chen.
Especially the Chen family.
deliberately acting in such a play, maybe it was because he had already discussed it with the emperor and was generous to others!
The second prince sent to Jinling to find out their bottom!
"Okay, Aiqing, let's write a letter to the person in charge of guarding the granary at home, and give half of the donated grain to the prince, and half to me...... Huh? It looks like a convoy is coming from the west? ”
The rumbling sound startled everyone.
They looked behind them and were taken aback.
The family emblem hanging on those convoys is their family's!
"Report! Your Majesty! A large convoy of food is coming, and after the general asks, they have come to join you! ”
The general who guarded everyone was smiling.
Finally there is food!
The soldiers had two meals of thin rice porridge a day, and they were already dissatisfied with watching this group of royals and magnates eat and fish every day.
If this continues, we may not be able to reach our destination, and a mutiny will occur.
"Your Majesty, since the adults donated food just now, the last general will lead his troops to receive it?"
"What do you think?"
Everyone present turned pale, but they could probably guess in their hearts why the grain would go north.
Zhang Junlin even dared to rob the Chen family's grain, and the house slaves who heard the news would naturally come north with grain to ask for shelter.
There was a matter of the Chen family donating grain, and they were forced to donate grain, and since they had donated it, there was naturally no reason to take it back.
"The donated grain is His Majesty's, but His Majesty is in charge."
Jin Guozhang smiled flatteringly.
Zhang Chengqian nodded with great satisfaction.
"Give Jin Guozhang a pair of Jin Ruyi, and Jin Concubine Jin as a noble concubine."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"General Sheng remembered, first point out half of it and send it to Jinling."
Zhang Chengqian has not forgotten the most important thing.
He didn't care how much food he had.
Without his life, no amount of food he asked for was useless.
"Also, when you go back to the prince, you will say that the grain will be transported to Jinling immediately, so that he can stabilize and not panic, the Western Chu State is a country of overlords, how can he bully him as a child, send assassins to assassinate him, and say that he is not afraid of the jokes of the world."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The messenger bowed his head, hiding the disdain in his eyes.
Your Majesty, isn't it precisely because you are worried about the assassin's assassination that you want to stabilize His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from staying in Jinling to die?
"The grain cart slowly followed in the rear, and the army continued to advance forward, marching fifty miles in the night!"
It's about running away in a hurry!
But not a single one present objected.
The footsteps of the eighth-order martial artists were not as slow as theirs.
According to the three-hundred-mile expeditious, it may be that at this time, the assassins of Western Chu have arrived in Jinling.
"By the way, pass on my will and raise the level of the prince to deliver urgent letters, so that he can send urgent letters for eight hundred miles!"
When the time comes, he will return to Jinling, and use this incident to force the Western Chu State to settle the matter and withdraw his troops back.
The grain donated today will be donated to Xichu as military food at the right time.
Zhang Junlin must not be allowed to obtain more than 100,000 stones of grain from him.
The powerful royals present also did not care about contacting the house slaves.
They got on their horses and headed north.
The house slaves who were left behind in the first two miles were about to follow and complain.
A group of hungry soldiers with green eyes had surrounded them.
"Pass on Your Majesty's instructions to hand over all the food donated by each family, and you can rest in place."
What?
Donate food?
The house slaves were stunned.
But when he saw the big man in front of him, he knew that the soldiers had nothing to say, and although they didn't know the situation, they still stood aside stupidly.
Seeing that most of the little grain left was taken away, and half of the food that was taken was escorted back to Jinling on the spot, they wanted to cry without tears.
I knew that when I came here, I would have to send the grain back to Jinling, so they might as well stay in Jinling and let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rob it.
What are you tossing back and forth?
"I really don't know what these old men think, so much food will be donated, it's really loyal."
"Shh......h What can we talk about as slaves? Watch your head. ”
No one dared to say more.
Wait for the big men to go north and the grain to return to the west.
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West of Jinling City, in the barracks.
"Hello, His Royal Highness the Prince!"
Five hundred elite soldiers shouted in unison, and the sound was as deafening as thunder.
Zhang Junlin looked at the five hundred elite soldiers whose overall strength had been raised, and gave a thumbs up to Bai Zhi next to him.
"The white girl is amazing, she really did it."
"Thanks to His Highness's willingness to spend money, everyone eats and drinks well, so they have the strength to train."
Bai Zhi's eyebrows fluttered and hinted.
Zhang Junlin heard the deep meaning and pointed to the place where he was cooking.
"This palace has brought new food today, this time, I hope that the white girl will increase the training of another thousand elite soldiers, okay?"
"I'll talk about it when I'm done."
Bai Zhi has also learned well, so she is not so easy to fool.
But Zhang Junlin is confident that after she eats, she will definitely agree to her proposal.
"Let's go, Hongu will take you to ...... together"
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, just teach the cook, you don't have to eat, the young lady is still waiting to pull out the poison for you."
It's not that Angelica doesn't know how to share food.
It's really that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is too good to eat, so he should be able to free up some food for her before he eats first.
Zhang Junlin knew that she was doing it on purpose just by looking at Bai Zhi's big eyes.
"It's fine."
But he still pushed the boat down the river and agreed.
Before leaving the city just now, Dong You came to report that the second prince had woken up.
At this juncture, the poison can only be matched with the second prince after pulling out the poison.
After all, in his heart, this chronic poison is inseparable from the queen's mother and son.
In case the second prince poisoned him in public, he couldn't prevent it.
"By the way, the White Girl, the assassin from Xichu should be on the way, but there is also the possibility of coming in advance, and when the poison is pulled, please ask the White Girl to help me protect the Dharma while eating."
"Eighth-order martial artist, do you think I can protect it?"
Bai Zhi pouted.
Martial artists of the upper third order, let alone one order, there is a gap-like gap between one rank.
She is not humble, when she encounters an eighth-order martial artist is an enemy, how far she runs!
Zhang Junlin stepped into the tent where the medicinal bath pulled out the poison with one foot, and said to Bai Zhi seriously.
"I can't protect it, so at that time, remember to pick up Miss Su and run immediately, don't look back."
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Bai Zhi's heart was shocked.
The silver needle in Su Chanyi's hand trembled slightly, but soon regained its calm color.
As a doctor, even if the sky falls, she has to treat the patient first.
He will never abandon His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!
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Chu County, on the official road in the east of the city.
Liang Wenbo rode on horseback and walked west in the night.
Seeing that the original wasteland outside the city was already green, my heart ignited a vision for the future.
"General Liang, the medicinal herbs distributed by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have arrived in Zhushui Town."
"Then we'll wait here and go into town with the convoy."
Liang Wenbo's voice just fell.
A gust of wind swept past his ears, rolling up the blinding sand.
Liang Wenbo subconsciously closed his eyes, and when he closed his eyes, he saw an afterimage in the wind and sand, with a giant sword behind him, and his feet were like clouds and mist, quickly heading east.
His heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
The other party is a martial artist of the seventh rank or above!
Why is it in South Vietnam?
Looking at the direction he is going, he is going to Jinling.
"Not good!"
Liang Wenbo snorted lightly, and was about to chase after him, when an afterimage flashed, blocking his way.