On the main street, two horse-drawn carriages staggered by.

The coachman of the Tong family turned back to the people in the car: "Young master, it was Princess Qian's carriage that passed just now. ”

"Princess Qian?"

Tong Song looked out the window, a low-key and luxurious two-headed carriage was running against him, and the two jujube red horses in front of him were the symbol of Princess Qian's carriage.

King Qian's mansion has been coming to Lingnan for a few months, and King Qian's carriage is pulled by two black horses, and the two jujube red horses are the princess's mount.

Other palace masters, with their identities, dare to sit in a two-headed carriage, that is to exceed the system.

Therefore, the only people who can sit in a two-headed carriage in Lingnan are King Qian and Princess Qian.

"Where is she going, how is she going to the north of the city?"

Tong Song hesitated slightly, then asked the coachman to turn the head of the car and follow.

The princess's double-headed carriage went directly to the north of the city along the central axis of the city.

Tong Song confirmed the speculation in his heart, and wondered even more in his heart, this area in the north of the city is barren and not inhabited. Even if there are a few families, they are just shantytowns who have built sheds in this wasteland in the north of the city.

Xia Jing got out of the carriage and went to the wasteland in the north of the city, and chose a large piece of land near the corner of the city wall as the site for the iron workshop.

When it comes to infrastructure, Xia Jing thought of the indispensable adhesive for infrastructure, that is, the cement that was popularized in infrastructure in later generations.

Cement can be calcined out, but this iron workshop may not be able to wait for the day when cement will be produced.

Xia Jing asked Ye Fei to remember the address, and then got into the carriage and prepared to return to the palace.

Ye Fei rode on horseback and rode to the window of Xia Jing's carriage: "Princess, there is a carriage behind us that has been following us, and the driver who is driving the carriage seems to be the carriage of the eldest young master of the Tong family." Do you want your subordinates to deal with him? ”

Ye Fei has had the ability to remember since he was a child, and he is more cautious than usual in acting as the princess's personal guard.

He is very attentive to people and things he has been in contact with, so he naturally recognizes Young Master Tong's coachman.

If he hadn't known that he was the coachman of the eldest young master of the Tong family, he would have taken action against them when he found this carriage for the first time.

"If he likes to follow, let's follow, let's not know, go home."

When I returned to the palace, I just got off the carriage at the second gate and saw the housekeeper Zeng Yan coming in from outside.

Zeng Yan naturally also noticed Xia Jing, he walked quickly to Xia Jing, and said, "The little one has seen the princess." ”

Xia Jing smiled and asked, "Look at you in a hurry, where did you go?" ”

"Back to the princess, the little one just sent off the guest for the prince." Zeng Yan took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead, answered Xia Jing's question, and smiled at several guards and maids in her car.

"Guest?" Xia Jing glanced at Zeng Yan, "Who is here?" ”

Zeng Yan bowed his head and replied: "It is the former Lingnan Thorn Shi Quan and Master Quan, who came here today to bid farewell to the prince, and tomorrow he will leave for Jiankang to report on his work." ”

Xia Jing sneered as she walked inside: "This is the court remembering him." ”

Zeng Yan raised his head and looked back and forth vigilantly, and then whispered: "Dayu is now suffering from internal and external troubles, and the emperor and the ministers of the court are anxious in the face of the current situation, how can they remember him as a marginal figure." The whole adult was able to transfer out of Lingnan, and he must have bribed a certain minister in the DPRK and the central government and used the money to clear the way. Otherwise, how could he have received the above dispatch documents so quickly. ”

Xia Jing frowned slightly, and asked a little puzzled, "How do you know that he paid a bribe?" ”

When Zeng Yan heard this, he hurriedly replied: "Ouch, princess, it has long been an indisputable fact that bribery has become a common practice in the court, but it is only clear that bribery is made in person and bribery is paid in private. ”

What he didn't say was that now the civil and military officials of the court are all openly bribing and accepting bribes, and they have no scruples for a long time.

Of course, the promotion methods that the hundred officials are accustomed to may ultimately be unknown to the emperor sitting on the high dragon chair.

This time, Xia Jing's brows tightened, "What even a minion of yours knows, will the emperor who has eyeliner all over the world know?" ”

Zeng Yan took out a handkerchief again, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and licked his lips, those dirty things of the court officials, he really didn't dare to say it as a slave.

It's one thing to know in your heart, it's another to say it.

Zhi Jinwu, the inner servants and the civil and military officials are in the same stream, deceiving the superiors and the subordinates, and what they want the emperor to know about the outside affairs, the emperor naturally knows.

What he didn't want the emperor to know was happening under the emperor's nose, and the emperor didn't know or didn't know.

What are the people in power most afraid of?

What I am most afraid of is that the court is harmonious, and everyone breathes out of one nostril.

Xia Jing saw Zeng Yan's nervous expression, and seemed to have something unspeakable, "Huh? ”

Zeng Yan glanced at Xia Jing and smiled: "Princess, have you heard that three people become tigers?" ”

Xia Jing glanced at Zeng Yan, who was sweating coldly on her forehead, and after thinking for a while, she had a hint of clarity, "I understand what you mean, the three of them become tigers." The court you said was harmonious, at least in the face of the emperor, the civil and military officials were unanimous to the outside world. They fooled the emperor about the truth of the matter, everyone spoke in unison, and the emperor couldn't find a way to seek the truth. ”

Besides, everyone is on the same page, how can the emperor suspect that everyone is committing the crime of bullying the king.

Thinking that the emperor even wore a pair of pants with his ministers, Xia Jing took pity on the seal man sitting on the dragon chair.

Of course, Xia Jing believes that the emperor may have also resisted, for example, the copying of the eldest lady's maiden mansion may be the emperor's rebellion.

It's just that in the last years of the dynasty, who can win the game between monarchs and ministers in the end.

If you want her to say, no matter who wins, in fact, everyone is a loser, and the dynasty will only cheapen the surrounding Yi people.

Zeng Yan nodded helplessly, the prince also knew about this, but he didn't dare to challenge the courtiers.

After returning to Yigui Courtyard and driving out all the people who were waiting, Xia Jing entered the space and rummaged through.

She remembers that when she was training in the skills training of the post-apocalyptic base, she had talked about the production method of cement.

At that time, she took notes in a notebook.

The study on the second floor, in the drawer of the desk, and a lot of books.

Xia Jing poured out all the items in the drawer, sorted them out one by one, and found the notebook after a while.

In the last few decades, in order to increase survival skills for the new generation in the last days, the base school will have two survival skills classes every week.

It will talk about how to make some commonly used materials.

This cement is one of them.

Xia Jing turned back, there is a glass production process, there are various ore refining methods, and

At present, the cement is made first, and the smelting technology is improved, and the level of ordnance production has been improved first, and more sophisticated ordnance has been created.

Out of the space, Ye Fei was summoned and handed over to him the recipe for cement production and the requirements for the construction of the iron workshop.

Ye Fei handed over the two workshops to the people below to hire workers to build, and he invited a single blacksmith to ask about the places that needed to be paid attention to in the construction of the ironshop and the tools that needed to be purchased.

Tong family ancestral hall.

The head of the Tong family led Tong Song to bow three times and bow nine times on the ancestral tablet.

Finally, the incense was inserted into the incense burner, and the head of the Tong family, Master Tong, spoke: "On this trip, my son must take care of himself." ”

"Don't worry, Dad, when I go out this time, the team I bring are all my henchmen, and they will protect you and ensure that nothing goes wrong."

"Hmm." Master Tong looked back at the ancestral tablet, and only hoped that the ancestor would bless the Tong family to go against the wind, and everything could turn evil into good fortune.

Tong Song said goodbye to his parents and family and rode out of the city with several escorts.

Twenty miles away in the south of the city, an area of extremely wide mountain col, fertile land hundred hectares, the surrounding mountains are beautiful, the mountains are planted with peach trees, every spring when the peach blossoms are enchanting or the summer is fruitful, here is the best place for young men and women in Fucheng to go on an outing.

And the owner of this grange is the Tong family.

The Tong family has raised a lot of guards in this grange, and the perennial training force value is still good.

The reason why Tong Song came here was to lead the family team to suppress the bandits.

Since the last time he saw Xia Jing's personal guard battalion go out to suppress bandits and come back, he was moved early when he saw the rich seized materials.

After so many days of preparation, convincing parents and families, reorganizing the team, and preparing food and grass, now everything is finally ready, just waiting for the team to start.

Not to mention leading a team of thousands of people, Tong Song really found a little bit of the heroism of the general to lead the army.

After two days of marching, Tong Song led the team to a pre-detected bandit den.

The team rested at a secret place at the foot of the mountain, and Tong Jian, the captain of the family guards, came over.

"Young Master, what are you going to do next?"

Tong Song observed the surrounding terrain and asked, "Do you have any good ideas?" Let's hear it. ”

Tong Jian really has some thoughts about this, in fact, he wants to show his ability in front of the future rulers of the Tong family.

"Does the young master know why the little one suggested coming to the south?"

When Tong Song heard this, it really aroused his curiosity, so he asked casually, "Why?"

Speaking of what he was good at, Tong Jian's face was suddenly full of smiles, "Because Princess Qian's personal guard camp is going to the north, the bandit forces in that direction must be aware of it, and if they are aware of it, they will be vigilant, which is not conducive to our unexpected actions." ”

"In recent years, the bandits in Lingnan have not been surrounded and suppressed by hostile forces, and the comfortable life has long made them lose their original vigilance, and the life in the bandits' den is much better than that of the ordinary people under the mountain. Our surprise attack caught them off guard, which made it even more convenient for us to succeed in suppressing the bandits for the first time. ”

Tong Song nodded, feeling that this made sense, "Then what should we do next?" ”

Tong Jian smiled heartily: "Rest in place, wait for the surprise attack before dawn tomorrow, and catch them off guard." ”

According to the information he gathered from the bandit den on the mountain, he knew that there were only about 200 bandits on it.

Among them are also the elderly, weak, women and children, and young and middle-aged people who can really fight, about 100 people.

A hundred against a thousand people.

The Tong family doesn't have to fight to the death, they know it, they win!

There is a huge disparity in strength, and Tong Jian wants to increase the morale of the team in the first battle.

Tong Song had no opinion on this, and the two discussed the details of the raid together.

Time passed imperceptibly, and the sun slowly sank into the horizon.

In the evening, everyone nibbled on dry food to fill their stomachs, and then sat together in piles early to rest.

The night grew darker and darker, and in the last dark hour before dawn, the team guards woke up the team members in the dark.

Most of the bandits on the mountain are asleep, and they don't have much hope for the future life, and everyone basically gets by.

Therefore, most of the time I have fun at night and I can't wake up during the day.

This is exactly what the Tong family's guards are doing.

When the sun in the east jumped out of the mountaintop, most of the bandits were still asleep, and a few were half-asleep.

Even the bandits guarding the mountain gate were dazed and unconscious.

Suddenly, several dark shadows jumped in from the mountain gate, and before they could take a closer look, their necks were cold, and warm blood gurgled out from the knife on their necks.

After solving the guards at the mountain gate, several black shadows successfully opened the wooden mountain gate, and the guards waiting outside rushed in.

The first to rush into the house, cut down on sight, many bandits were hacked to death in their sleep, and some were woken up in pain.

In an instant, the whole bandit den was crying wolf.

"Young Master, we found a small cave over there, and a lot of food and belongings were stored in it." Tong Jian trotted over.

Tong Song was overjoyed when he heard this: "Oh, what is the property inside?" ”

This year, the Tong family has had a bad year, and since King Qian's mansion came to Lingnan, their family has made a fortune.

Now the Tong family is unable to make ends meet, eating and saving grain, spending and silver, and the old man in the family is distressed.

There was no choice but for him to come out and find a way to get money.

The idea of suppressing bandits was also inspired by the fact that he saw Princess Qian's personal guards come back that day.

Tong Jian replied ambiguously, "I haven't counted it yet, but if I look at it, there should be a lot of it." ”

Tong Song didn't care about his answer, just go and take a look at the amount of property.

He waved his hand and said excitedly: "Let's go, let's take a look!" ”

More than 100 young and middle-aged people confronted his 1,000 guards, and there was no suspense about the disparity in strength.

Tong Song was not worried that the bandits would run away at all.

The so-called small cave is behind the Zhongyi Hall built by the bandits on the mountain.

The walls of the cave are dry, but they are suitable for storing food and goods.

Tong Song looked at the grain stored in the cave and sighed: "Being a bandit is really promising these days, at least you don't have to worry about starvation, and you can't spend all your money." I'm afraid that the food here will only be enough to sell in the shops in our Fucheng for a month. ”

"More than enough!" Tong Jian circled around the grain pile and made a rough estimate.

Tong Song looked through the belongings and smacked in his mouth, "The amount of various cloths is considerable, and there are a lot of other belongings, and I don't know which caravan was robbed?" ”

The more Tong Jian checked, the bigger the corners of his mouth became, "Except for a few caravans with strong power in Lingnan, other small caravans that come to Lingnan to do business are only robbed by bandits!" Master Da, this time we won the first battle, and then we will sneak attack other bandit dens, I believe that the momentum of the brothers will be stronger, and they are not afraid of death! ”

Tong Song pondered how to dispose of these materials, "These materials should be counted first, and a team of men and horses will be sent to guard here, and we will continue to move forward with other family guards, do you think this arrangement is appropriate?" ”

"The little one didn't expect that our bandits in Lingnan would be so rich, and they knew that we would have acted a long time ago, so how could they pick up a bargain for King Qian's mansion." Tong Jian said and looked at the eldest young master of the Tong family, "It is estimated that we can find another bandit den that is easy to capture, and we can complete the mission that comes out this time." ”

(End of chapter)