Su Ming Building, between the crane moon.

As the time continued to approach noon, Qian Jiang's head also began to sweat, using clothes to make a fan to make himself less hot, relieve anxiety, and keep drinking tea.

"You can't really come, right?" Qian Jiang kept beating the drum in his heart.

Knock knock.

When there was a knock on the door of the private room, Qian Jiang was startled, and quickly reacted, put the teacup on the table, wiped the sweat from his head, sat upright, cleared his throat, made sure that he looked light, and then said, "Who?"

A small servant's voice came from outside the door: "Guest, your friend is here." ”

Hearing the little guy say that his friend was coming, Qian Jiang was overjoyed, raised his eyebrows, and said secretly: "It's really here, I'll just say that no one can resist such a temptation." ”

Retracting his expression and smiling, Qian Jiang said, "Okay, invite my friend in." ”

The door of the private room was opened, and the general sent by Sun Caixing also wore clothes similar to those of Qian Jiang and walked in with two personal soldiers.

From their actions, Qian Jiang could see that they were Xu Jun's people, and the temperament of the soldiers was not hidden at all.

Qian Jiang didn't break it, after all, he was here to talk about business this time.

Pointing to the seat opposite, Qian Jiang said: "Your guests are coming, please sit down." ”

General Xu Guo sat down and said, "Yesterday, Your Excellency said that there were 100,000 catties of white rice, and only 5,000 taels of silver were sold, I don't know if this batch of white rice was sold?"

Qian Jiang poured a cup of tea for the general and said: "I communicated with your subordinates yesterday and made an appointment to discuss here in detail today, so naturally I have great sincerity, how can I sell it." ”

General Xu Guo felt that it was awkward to speak like this, and heard Qian Jiang say that he was waiting for today's cooperation talks, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency is really sincere, and I also came with sincerity today, but we are always a little rusty when we call each other like this, my name is Lexu, I don't know how to call your Excellency?"

The other party reported his name, and Qian Jiang could only report his name and said: "Brother Le, hello, in Xia Tian Zhen." ”

I don't know the real name and pseudonym used by the other party, but after all, he is a general of the Qin State, and there must be a record in the Xu army, so Qian Jiang naturally will not report his real name, but uses the pseudonym he used in the grain store.

Knowing Qianjiang's name, it was much more convenient for Le Xu to call it, and he took out five thousand taels of Xu Guoyin tickets from his arms and put them on the table and said: "Brother Tian, everyone is a businessman, and I won't beat around the bush, I want the 100,000 catties of white rice, not only the 100,000 catties, I also want more white rice, how much I want, just charge it at this price." ”

Qian Jiang glanced at the silver ticket of five thousand taels, and his heart was excited, but he said with an intriguing expression on his face: "Brother Le just gave me the silver ticket of five thousand taels, aren't you afraid that I will disappear with the money like this?"

Le Xu pushed the silver ticket in front of Qian Jiang and said, "I don't think Brother Tian will give up more money for a mere five thousand taels." ”

Qian Jiang laughed and said: "Brother Le is really a cheerful person, okay, I will accept the five thousand taels, after the meal, I will take Brother Le to get the 10,000 catties of prepaid white rice, if the brother is not enough, the younger brother should prepare the manpower and serve it to the house." ”

Le Xu saw that Qian Jiang didn't touch the five thousand taels of silver tickets at all, and he was more at ease with Qian Jiang, so he took out the formulated agreement and said: "Brother Tian is also a cheerful person, but we must always pay attention to the rules when doing business, sign this agreement, accept the silver ticket, and let's eat again." ”

Qian Jiang took the agreement and looked at it, confirmed that there was no problem, and asked his subordinates to submit pen and ink and sign their names.

Handed back an agreement to Le Xu, put away the silver ticket and the agreement, Qian Jiang said: "Okay, the agreement has been made, this will be served?"

Le Xu looked at Qian Jiang's signature on the agreement, the smile on his face was even stronger, and he folded the agreement and put it away, Le Xu said, "Okay, serve the food." ”

Qian Jiang beckoned the little guy over and said, "It's time to serve." ”

After completing the talks so smoothly and obtaining 5,000 taels of silver tickets, Qian Jiang was beautiful in his heart at the moment, and his spirit returned, and he was very excited.

Le Xu didn't expect that the business would be negotiated so smoothly in a few words, without any resistance, without thinking, it was so directly completed, and he was very happy in his heart.

In this way, the two of them pushed the glasses and changed the lamps during the banquet, and drank a little flutteringly, and the two ended the banquet, walked out of Su Ming Building, and walked to the warehouse prepared by Qianjiang.

From a distance, Fan Zhe saw Qian Jiang walking over with a person hooked shoulders, this person had never seen before, but the obvious military temperament of the two people behind him showed that Qian Jiang's plan had succeeded.

Back in the house, Fan Zhe reported to Shen Congrong: "Qin Shuai, General Qian's plan has been completed, and the other party is here." ”

After Shen Congrong heard Fan Zhe's report, he was overjoyed, slapped the table and said, "Okay! This Qianjiang, this time there is really him, inform Bai Ren and prepare to take someone to send food to Xu Ying." ”

"Yes. Fan Zhe went to inform Bai Ren, who was pretending to be a member of the grain transport team, to prepare to transport grain.

Shen Cong in the room sat on the chair calmly, the smile on his face couldn't hide it, this Xu Jun is really interesting.

Qian Jiang led Le Xu all the way to the prepared location, pointing to the rows of grain transportation lanes: "Brother Le, look, these are all white rice, a total of 10,000 catties, a lot." ”

As he spoke, Qian Jiang untied a bag, reached out and grabbed a handful of rice for Lexu to see clearly.

When Le Xu saw the white rice in front of him, he couldn't see his smiling eyes, and patted Qian Jiang on the shoulder and said, "Okay! But Brother Tian, you have to borrow the grain transportation team to use it, otherwise it will be really difficult to bring it back." ”

In the middle of his arms, Qian Jiang waved his hand and said proudly: "There is no problem, the package will be delivered to the door." ”

Qian Jiang looked at Bai Ren and beckoned: "Captain Sun, greet the brothers of the grain transportation team, escort the grain cart, and go with Brother Le." ”

Hearing that Qian Jiang casually gave himself the identity of Captain Sun, Bai Ren could only endure it, nodded and said, "Yes, you can rest assured that the big shopkeeper is there." ”

Bowed to Le Xu, and Qian Jiang said: "Shopkeeper Le, I'll bother your brothers to guide the way." ”

Le Xu said: "Of course, come with me." ”

After speaking, Le Xu hugged his fist at Qian Jiang and said, "Brother Tian, there will be a period later, don't forget our agreement." ”

Qian Jiang patted Le Xu's shoulder and said, "That's natural, Brother Le just rest assured." ”

After some politeness, Le Xu finally left with Bai Ren and them.

Watching Le Xu's back turn the corner, the smile on Qian Jiang's face narrowed, he was not half drunk, and said with a sigh: "It's really hard to serve, brother and brother are short." ”

Shaking his head, Qian Jiang turned into the house and went in the direction of the main house.

Entering the main house, Qian Jiang took out the agreement and the silver ticket and said, "Qin Shuai, fortunately, I am not dishonored." ”

Shen calmly took the agreement and the silver ticket, looked at the content of the agreement and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you have made a great contribution this time, and there must be a big sum of money from you in the credit book." ”

Qian Jiang smiled and said: "I was very nervous before they came, but I didn't expect that they really came, and the conversation was smooth." ”

Shen calmly pushed the silver ticket back and said, "General Bai Ren, they have set off?"

Qian Jiang sat down, poured a cup of tea, and washed away the taste of wine in his mouth: "Well, it's time to set off, Xu Jun definitely didn't expect that they would lure the wolf into the room by themselves." ”

Shen Congrong glared at Qian Jiang and said, "We are not wolves, if they didn't want to cross Yunmeng Mountain to attack us, how could we be here?"

Qian Jiang realized that he had said the wrong thing, slapped himself twice and said, "Look at my mouth, I should be beaten." ”

Shen said calmly: "Okay, don't be stinky and poor, take the five thousand taels of silver tickets and go down to rest first, go find a money village tomorrow to change, deal with the deal you set before, and give the rest to Fan Zhe, he looted the whole city before he got 10,000 catties of white rice." ”

Qian Jiang smiled, picked up the silver ticket, and went down to rest.

Bai Ren took a group of sergeants, pretended to be a grain transport team, followed Le Xu to meet with Xu Jun's grain transport team, and then marched outside the city.

As soon as they merged, Bai Ren knew why they didn't see a large number of grain transporters going out of the city collectively in the city before, and Xu Jun broke up the grain transport teams separately and divided them into dozens of grain transport teams to ensure that they would not attract attention, and they also quietly displayed tokens when they passed the customs to quickly get out of the customs.

Bai Ren's grain transportation team was also broken up, mixed in the Xu army's grain transportation team, and went out of the city in stages, while Bai Ren followed the Xu army's grain transportation team out of the west gate and made a detour to the Xu army's camp.

Such a marching route is naturally used to confuse the hidden piles of the guests, and Bai Ren secretly praised Gao Ming in his heart, but it is a pity that he has been mixed in with their ranks.

Bai Ren wrote down this marching route in his heart, and found that this road was not far from the route of the group of mountain bandits, and he had a plan in his heart.

came to the Xu army camp all the way, and very smoothly explored the layout of the other party's camp, and after entering the camp, the grim situation inside the Xu army was completely revealed in front of Bai Ren.

The loose defenses, the rising fighting spirit, the fighting in the camp, all kinds of problems were all seen by Bai Ren.

Le Xu said to Bai Shinobi: "Don't look around, don't talk about things here, although I have business cooperation with your shopkeeper now, but we can change partners at any time." ”

Bai Ren lowered his head and didn't speak, showing a weak look, and said that he would do it in a default way.

Le Xu nodded with satisfaction, instructed Bai Ren to put the white rice into the granary, and then arranged for people to send Bai Ren and them back to the border town.

said that it was sent, but in fact it was naturally a kind of surveillance, to avoid Shiren from leaking the things about the camp.

Under the surveillance of Xu Jun, Bai Ren and the others were very peaceful along the way, and they didn't even glance at it squintingly, and returned to the border town smoothly.

Entering the border town, Xu Jun also dispersed, Bai Ren They still didn't make any out-of-the-ordinary actions just in case, returned to the warehouse prepared before, and stayed until after the curfew at night, before climbing over the wall to Fan Zhe's house.

After telling the discovery of the day, and showing all the grain transportation routes drawn by the scouts to the generals, Bai Ren sat on the side, drinking tea.

Xu Jun's measures were completely expected by Shen Congrong, although Xu Jun's internal division was serious, and there was a big problem as a whole, but in this kind of matter, they would definitely not deal with it at will.

After Bai Ren's report, Shen said calmly: "Well, these are completely expected by us, General Bai Ren will no longer be convenient to go out of the city in the next time, and General Qianjiang is definitely the focus of Xu Jun's attention at this moment, and it is not convenient to go out of the city." The plan to ambush the Xu army's grain transport troops depends on the generals, and it is necessary to make a detailed plan before the action, and there must be no mistakes. ”

Although Qianjiang's temporary plan played a very good role before, such a plan could not be controlled, and it was very easy to have problems.

General He analyzed: "Judging from the current situation we have, the Xu army has four grain transportation routes outside the west of the city, each route is five miles apart, equipped with letter cannons, echoing each other from afar. If we can't annihilate everyone in an instant, then the letter cannon will inevitably attract the attention of others, and even the attention of the city, so that we will be exposed in advance. In this case, we are very passive. Therefore, we need to rely on crossbows to launch surprise attacks, but how to transport crossbows and arrows out of the city is a big problem. ”

Bai Ren didn't think this was a problem, and said: "This point is actually not difficult, although General Qian and I are exposed to the surface at the moment, but our other guests and generals are still in the shadows, tomorrow I will go out with General Qian to attract the attention of the Xu army, and focus their attention on us as much as possible, and the generals can carry crossbow arrows out of the city through our other merchant convoys." ”

Shen calmly nodded and said, "There is no problem, but although the crossbow machine and the soldiers were able to get out of the city, how could they attract Xu Jun's attention to those mountain bandits?"

Bai Ren said confidently: "This point is even simpler, after the generals robbed Xu Jun's grain and grass, they only had to gather the grain carts in one place, cut the grain bags, leave rutted white rice along the road, and push all the way to the edge of the mountain bandit village, Xu Jun wanted not to pay attention to that group of mountain bandits." ”

General He questioned: "The time when the Xu army's grain transport team left the city was around noon, and it was broad daylight, so we blatantly pushed the grain truck to the edge of the mountain bandit village, is it really feasible?"

This is indeed a problem, such an action in broad daylight, the mountain bandits are not blind, when they don't touch this batch of grain, Xu Jun will be fine when he gets back the grain, and it will not play a role in containing it at all.

Bai Ren smiled and said: "General He's concerns are naturally no problem, but judging from what I saw in Xu Ying this afternoon, even if the mountain bandits did not take this batch of grain back to the village, judging from Xu Ying's rising fighting aura at the moment, if this group of soldiers dies, they will inevitably fight, if they don't fight, it will be in line with Song Hui's way of governing the army, and they will definitely not allow this situation to happen." ”

Shen said calmly: "Having said that, it's still inappropriate to do it like this, our sergeants can't be exposed in front of the mountain bandits." In this way, tomorrow we will arrange for a group of scouts to follow the trail of the bandits, and give me the grain on their way, so that they do not see any of us, and if they can go back without touching this batch of grain and grass, they will push me to the gate of their village. ”

Shen Congrong's plan was comprehensive, and the generals thought for a while and said, "Yes." ”

The plan was decided, so Shen calmly dispersed everyone and went to rest.

The next day, everyone started to act according to the plan, Bai Ren and Qian Jiang each led two personal soldiers, walked around the town, discussed the grain and grass business, and after grinding and chirping in the store for a long time, they would finally get rid of it because the price was not suitable, and the people sent by Sun Caixing to monitor them were just slipped away by them.

On the other side, the generals mobilized their men and horses to divide into four routes, hid the crossbow machines and arrows, and went out of the city through the west gate, without attracting anyone's attention.

After leaving the city, General He quickly arranged and sent scouts to follow the road map of the mountain bandits given by Bai Ren to explore the traces of the mountain bandits, while the others hid in the mountains and forests, just waiting for the arrival of the Xu army's grain transportation team.

Under their unremitting waiting, Xu Jun's four-way grain transportation team finally appeared.

General He raised his crossbow machine, aimed it at the leader of the grain transport team equipped with letter cannons, and shouted as they entered the firing range: "Release!"

The sudden sound caused Xu Jun to fall into a momentary pause, and just as they were still thinking about what it was, a deadly arrow flew out of the forest and pierced their bodies.

When the leader saw the arrow, he reacted, rolled and dismounted, touched the letter cannon with his hand, and shouted: "Enemy attack!"

But just when he shouted out this enemy attack, half of the men and horses had already fallen, and before his letter cannon could be fired, he was killed by General He's arrow, and he could no longer fire the letter cannon.

Under the sudden attack, Xu Jun had no ability to resist, so he was shot and killed on the spot.

General He shouted: "Clean up the battlefield, push the grain cart and meet them!"

The same scene was played out in other places at the same time, and the four-way grain transport team was destroyed by the Qin army. Half an hour later, all the grain carts were gathered.

General He looked at the people around him, but there were no casualties, and he found the other commanders and said, "Are the scouts back?"

Just as General He's words came out, the scouts returned.

"General He, the path of the mountain bandits has been ascertained, they are plundering a caravan fifteen miles away at the moment, if there is no accident, they can return to twenty miles outside the village in an hour. The scout reported on his findings.

General He said, "Okay! Push on the grain cart and go." ”

The heavy grain cart pressed the ruts on the ground and walked in the established direction.

The grain cart was parked on the road that the mountain bandits had to pass, and General He hid them to the side, waiting for the arrival of the mountain bandits.

Sure enough, within the scout's estimated time, the bandits arrived singing unknown songs.

"Look, there's a grain truck ahead!" a mountain bandit shouted to the leader after seeing the grain truck.

The second master spit out the dog's tail grass in his mouth, slapped the mountain bandit and said, "Lao Tzu saw it, and made a fuss." ”

Approaching the grain truck, the second master opened a grain bag, and a large amount of white rice flowed out, and the mountain bandits exclaimed again: "It's actually white rice!"

The second master put away the knife in his hand, grabbed a handful of white rice and rubbed it in his hand, squinted his eyes and said, "Who stopped here with so much white rice? Why don't you see a guard?"

The mountain bandit said: "Why are you thinking so much about it? This white rice is much more delicious than those millet and chaff, isn't it better if there is no one to guard it?"

The second master thought about it, he was originally a mountain bandit, why did he think so much? He threw the white rice in his hand on the ground, spit it and said, "It's also here, come on, push these white rice, let's go!"

The mountain bandits whined and pushed the white rice to the bandit village.

Seeing the mountain bandits pushing away the white rice, General He smiled and returned to the city with the sergeants.

In the camp of the Xu army, Le Xu was anxiously turning around at the gate of the camp, and the other grain transportation teams had returned, why were there still four teams missing?

After waiting for more than an hour, he still didn't see any trace of the four teams, and Le Xu guessed that eighty percent of them had an accident, so he walked to Sun Caixing's tent.

Looking at the anxious look in front of him, Sun Caixing scolded: "How do you become a general?

Le Xu said with a bitter face: "Mr. Sun, there is really an urgent report, four of the grain transportation teams we sent out have disappeared, and they have not come back yet." ”

"What?" Sun Caixing slapped the table and stood up and said angrily: "Who dares to be so bold as to rob our grain carts, go, take the army to check for me! I want to know who did it!"

Le Xu was waiting for this sentence, and now he was about to make meritorious service again, and saluted with a sad and indignant face: "Yes, the last general will go to investigate thoroughly." ”

After Le Xu left, the more Sun Caixing thought about it, the more angry he became, and kicked over the table in front of him, how could he still have half of the Confucian style?

In the mountain bandit village, the second master scooped up the white rice with a bamboo tube, commanded his subordinates to put the white rice into the warehouse, and found the big boss and said: "Big brother, do you guess I went down the mountain today and hit something good?"

Looking at the second master with a mysterious smile on his face, the big boss snorted: "What good things can be?

The second master handed the bamboo tube to the big boss and said: "Big brother is clever, it is white rice." ”

Seeing the white rice in the bamboo tube, the big boss sat up straight, pinched some and put it in his mouth and chewed it, confirmed that it was white rice, raised his eyes and looked at the second master and said, "Is it really white rice?"

The second master stretched out his right hand, raised two fingers, and motioned for the big master to guess.

The big boss lay down on the chair again and said, "Two bags, I thought it was many." ”

"No, big brother guess again. The smile on the face of the second master is even stronger.

The big boss looked at the second boss and said, "Two cars?"

The second master shook his head again.

The big boss sat up straighter again and said, "Second brother, don't sell it, let's talk about how much." ”

The second master said: "Not much, just more than 20 big cars." ”

"How much?" the big boss looked shocked and stared at the second boss.

The second master said: "More than 20 big cars, don't be so surprised, big brother, I have already let the little ones into the warehouse, you can take a look with me." ”

The big boss stood up and said, "Let's go, take me to see." ”

When he came to the warehouse, the big boss looked at the twenty carts full of white rice that had just entered the warehouse, walked up and checked the grain bags on them, and said, "These twenty carts, I'm afraid there are 10,000 catties of white rice?"

The second master said: "I don't know, there should be." ”

The big boss glanced at the grain cart again, and then stared at the second boss and said, "Second brother, tell me honestly, where did you rob this grain cart from, and did you have any life?"

The second master scratched his head and said, "Big brother, don't hide it, I picked up this grain truck." ”