Shao Mingqian didn't answer him, but asked, "How many people do you have in 'Bairui City', and who is the leader?"

The man's face was embarrassed, he looked at Shao Mingqian and looked down at the knife on his neck, and said in a low voice: "One ...... There are more than 10,000 people, and the leader is Uncle Li of Lihu, the current 'Marquis of Shunyi'. ”

"'Double-faced Fox'?'Bairui City' has no fortified city to defend, and it is not a key road, what is he doing here as a shrewd person?" Shao Mingqian asked, staring at the man.

The man's hair was looked at, and he avoided Shao Mingqian's gaze and said, "Uh...... This, since the two heroes know Uncle Li, it is better to go to the army to inquire about Uncle Li, and I really don't know many things about the humble position. ”

When he said this, Liang Xie immediately knew that he was talking nonsense, with the skills of his subordinates, even if his position is not high, his status must not be low, otherwise, if the 100,000 army is such a skill, the imperial court is afraid that it will be difficult enough to deal with Lu Zhengrong, how can he still have the strength to deal with Yang Yiyou, who can be the first anti-thief, and the 'golden horse' outside the gate.

Shao Mingqian didn't seem to see his lie, and said lightly: "Since you don't want to say it, it's up to you, I'll leave you an arm, go back and tell Li Hu and Lu Zhengrong that they have the ability to make it to the enemy, and those who rob ordinary people can't become the climate, and now the thirty-six anti-king has destroyed the twenty-eighth road, if you don't restrain your subordinates, the next one to be destroyed will be him." ”

Shao Mingqian said that he glanced at Liang Xie, Liang Xie understood, and the blade moved to the man's right shoulder, and the man was already shocked when he heard that Shao Mingqian was going to break his arm, and when he saw Liang Xie's knife about to be cut off on his right shoulder, he was suddenly frightened and pale, and he didn't care about anything else at the moment, he knelt down with a puff, kowtowed, and said: "Two good men spare their lives, villains...... The villain was willing to listen to the two of them. ”

Shao Mingqian nodded, Liang Xie withdrew the knife, and Shao Mingqian asked, "Then let's talk about it, what are you doing in 'Bairui City'?"

"Yes...... Yes......" The man said 'yes' in his mouth, but he didn't go down, Shao Mingqian was not in a hurry, just stared at him, the man couldn't avoid it, so he said: "Actually...... It's nothing to say, the reason why Uncle Li occupied 'Bairui City' was to see if there was any grain and grass in the city...... You also know that the famine is severe now, not only our family is short of food, but when the accident happened, the people brought by Uncle Li happened to be nearby, so I wanted to take advantage of it, this ...... The less people know the news, the better, how do you know that the news of the heroes is also very well-informed, we came from the front foot to the back foot of the hero, but I don't know which general of the righteous army the hero is?"

This man babbled on and on for a long time, Liang Xie gradually understood that this group of people began to see that they looked good, not like people who had nothing to eat, they wanted to rob him and his senior brother's silver, and after finding out that the two were people on the road, they mistakenly thought that a certain anti-king's subordinate came to the city to rob them of 'business' after getting the news, as for what the news was, it is unknown.

Shao Mingqian nodded after hearing this: "The lord of my family has a deep friendship with the Deer King (a relative of the non-emperor, the Deer King), and our two families are also considered a family, if you didn't force me to embarrass me, I wouldn't have made a move." ”

The man heard Shao Mingqian's words and knew that his arm was saved, and he was overjoyed: "Yes...... Be...... What the general said was that the villain was reckless, and the villain who knew that the general was the king of the sea should tell Uncle Li and let Uncle Li personally bring people to greet the general. He said and slowly stood up, Shao Mingqian smiled at him and ignored it, and the man was even more overjoyed.

Shao Mingqian waved his hand and said with a worried face: "It's not necessary, I'm just worried that you and I can get the news, and others will naturally get it, and if it's too late, I'm afraid that others will take the lead." ”

The man said: "General rest assured, such a large batch of grain and grass is not something that anyone can eat, Uncle Li has sent people to patrol the streets to visit, once the grain and grass are hidden, there will be a large army, and then the 10,000 people in the city plus the 50,000 troops of the Lu Tianwang a hundred miles away can support at any time, no matter what he comes from, he can't stand up to us." ”

This sentence is half-true and half-false, and it does not mean to threaten Shao Mingqian and Liang Xie, after all, 10,000 troops is not a small number for any force, if there are still 50,000 horses nearby, then it can be said that if there is no perfect preparation, no matter who wants to take advantage of these 60,000 horses, it is almost impossible.

Coming for the sake of grain and grass, tens of thousands of horses were mobilized, and it was newly obtained news, speaking of which, Liang Xie faintly felt that this matter seemed to be related to the destruction of the branch of the 'Yang Dao League', because in addition to the 'Yang Dao League', he really couldn't think of anyone in 'Bairui City' and the grain and grass that made 10,000 horses red-eyed, and the grain and grass of the anti-king would never be placed in such an easy to attack and difficult to defend city, and the government had already run out of food, otherwise there would not have been so many rebellions, and the only one who met the conditions was the 'Yang Dao League'. The 'Yang Dao League' will work hard every year to transport a lot of grain from 'Gumengzhou' and other places, and looking at 'Zhongzhou', only the 'Yang Dao League' can afford such a big deal. Sure enough, Shao Mingqian asked in the next sentence: "If the other party had transported all the grain and grass away before yesterday, wouldn't we have pounced?"

The man said with a grim face: "The general may not know that the river of 'Bairui City' has long been cut off, and more than 30,000 stones of grain are just based on carts and horses, so how many carts and horses are needed? Where can I find so many carriages and horses in this year? Even if there are, thousands of carriages have already spread all over the mountains and fields when they go out of the city, where will there be no news?"

Speaking of which, Shao Mingqian has confirmed that the 'Yang Dao Alliance' has stored more than 30,000 stone of rice in the granary of 'Bairui City', this number is no different from what the man said, it can be seen that he suspects that this group of people is coming for the 'Yang Dao League' branch to destroy the door, and it is really not bad, it is rumored that killing people is the habit of the subordinates of the 'Tota Heavenly King', but if it was really Li Dingtian's people, Lu Zhengrong did not dare to come to the tiger's mouth even if he was one of the most powerful forces in the anti-king, so it can be seen that the rumors of this matter are also somewhat untrue. Thinking of this, Shao Mingqian nodded again and asked, "In your opinion, who did this?"

The man shook his head and said: "I don't know, the 'Yangdao League' is the largest gang in 'Zhongzhou', and there are many masters in the gang, I heard that General Zhang Qianqiu and Zhang Da once led more than 3,000 people to attack." Yang Dao League' was defeated by the opponent of more than 100 people, it is said that the deputy general Li Fenfei was broken by an invulnerable one-armed master of the opponent to break through thousands of troops and horses under the horse, and its alliance leader Shao Mingqian is said to be good at driving ghosts and moving mountains in the million army to take the head of the general such as probing the bag, even the rainbow encountered had to be defeated, like this kind of force we generally will not touch, the rivers and lakes dare to move the 'Yang Dao League' is estimated to be left with 'Juntian Jiuding' and 'Dayu Tiancheng', or the 'Six Dragons Gang' is not known to kill back. ”

Shao Mingqian nodded, and immediately said when he saw that he couldn't find a reason to ask: "Well, what you said also has some truth, please say hello to the 'Shunyi Hou' on behalf of my family master, and please also give the local people a way to live, after all, we also have no food to revolt, and I will say goodbye to you here, if you have time to meet the 'Shunyi Hou' in person these days." ”

Seeing that Shao Mingqian didn't mention the matter of breaking his arm, the man hurriedly said: "General, please rest assured, the villain will go back and ask Uncle Shi to release rice for disaster relief, and never insult the people again." ”

Shao Mingqian smiled and left with his fists clenched, and Liang Xie put the knife back into the sheath and followed. The branch of the 'Yang Dao League' in 'Bairui City' is still ten miles away from here, it is a relatively remote place in the city, and it needs to cross two streets, and along the way, except for the beggars and homeless people are the rebels patrolling the streets, and those so-called rebels are no better than robbers.

In this regard, Shao Mingqian can only sigh, the world is drought, the famine is becoming more and more serious, tens of millions of people are displaced and have no food, when plunder becomes the only way to survive, human nature can no longer tolerate kindness.

Shao Mingqian can only kill people even if he is invincible in the world, but if he wants to save people, he still has to look at God's means. Gu Mengzhou's mobilization of grain over there is hope, but the transport is not passable, the cost of land transportation is appallingly high, assuming 10,000 stone of grain, transported to thousands of miles away, along the way people eat horses to chew, to the ground I am afraid to say less to lose as much as one percent, this is not counting the money of people, if the weather is bad, the road is difficult to walk, the car is broken, the horse is sick, etc., plus the money of people and employees, there may be upside down.

For example, when one tael of silver buys one stone of rice, at that time, the coachman and man of long-distance transportation would have to take five to seven taels of silver a month, and ten thousand stone of grain would be transported for a month, and there would be basically nothing left after deducting the money of people and employees for a month.

In recent years, food and water are more expensive than everything, everyone can mix a mouthful of food and drink a mouthful of water, no one dares to talk about wages, but it can be transported by land, but the cost of land transportation is high, the speed is slow, and the amount of transportation is far from being compared with Caoyun.

This is also the main reason why it is extremely difficult to transport grain from 'Gumengzhou' when there is a famine in places with fewer rivers such as 'Zhongzhou', 'Tangzhou', 'Xijiang', etc., because the transportation cannot be afforded, and the merchants generally buy locally, hoard goods and sell them locally, and they cannot transport grain across the state to sell, and it is very easy to lose money. The Six Dragons' waterway ships are also difficult to do, and most of the large ships of the 'Six Dragons' are also customized in the 'Osumi Amagi' section, which is difficult for outsiders to know.

Shao Mingqian didn't speak all the way, nor did he clash with the 'righteous army', and when he encountered it, he only spread his body to avoid it, and Liang Xie followed closely and avoided them one by one, and the two crossed the two streets and gradually approached the branch hall along the road ahead. This place was originally the location of the 'Zai Wu Tang', not specialized in the grain business, but later bought a piece of land nearby and built a warehouse, and now the scale is much larger than when Li Wan was there.

Shao Mingqian's feet were extremely fast, and Liang Xie did not fall a step, the closer he got to Liang Xie nearby, he obviously felt that the aura on his senior brother's body became more and more gloomy, and it was not as calm and calm as before, and after walking a hundred steps, an indescribable sense of uneasiness hit Liang Xie's scalp couldn't help but feel a little numb, and then looked at Shao Mingqian's steps It seemed to be a little heavy.

After walking dozens of steps, the branch hall has arrived, and a huge courtyard stands gloomily in the dim sky, the gate of the courtyard is hidden, and the courtyard is gloomy, without the slightest anger coming out. Shao Mingqian's hand pressed on the door knocker but did not immediately push the door open, Liang Xie could clearly hear Shao Mingqian's deep breath behind him.