Chapter Thirty-One

Suppress bandits

Yuan people used ox horns as trumpets, and when Li Wuduan heard the horn whining, he knew the time had come.

The convoy of pressing boxes was walking in the trough, and when the arrows rained down, the leading soldiers who walked in the front shouted warning, "Avoid!"

After a shower of arrows, the horse neighed and broke free from the rein, and all the wooden boxes containing the money caught fire, and the money could not be taken away.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!" the soldiers ordered, "This is disaster relief money! Don't leave it behind!"

The army was in chaos, and the Yuan bandits launched a second wave of arrow rain.The army had to disperse, each looking for a bunker to hide.

After the rain of arrows subsided, the leading soldiers turned back to look for Li Wuduan. Li Wuduan signaled to be calm, took off his cloak and hung it on a stick, and stretched out from behind the stone. The arrow pierced through the air and shot the cloak to pieces.

The soldiers followed suit, removing their armor and stripping their clothes to induce the bandits to shoot all their arrows, and the valley was full of wailing.

Not long after, a gust of wind passed by, and there was commotion on the mountain. Yuanyu came down the wind, and heads appeared one after another on the steep slope. Two vanguard teams came down to check.

Li Wuduan threw two stones as a sign, and the soldiers hiding in the dark immediately swooped down to kill them.

After a short scream, the people on the mountain knew that they had hit the trick. When the horn blew, people rushed down from the mountain, and the two sides fought in the canyon.Seeing that the kill was about the same, Li Wuduan roared and retreated, leading the soldiers to fight and retreat, and retreated out of the canyon.

After winning the battle, the people of Yuan couldn't wait to put out the sporadic flames with lime branches, smashed the wooden box violently, and the gold, silver and money flowed out like this.

"My son..." the leading soldier whispered, "That's our military salary."

Li Wuduan waved his hand, "Don't make a sound, send a few people who are good at stealth to follow up, and find out where the money is sent."

A group of people in night clothes quietly followed the Yuan bandits, Li Wuduan took the wounded soldiers back to the base camp, and joined the other two troops escorting the disaster funds in the military tent.

Outside the tent, when dawn came, there were a lot of wounded lying around outside the tent, and the military doctors were in a hurry.

"That's military pay!" The roars of the crowd broke out in the tent.

The soldiers from all walks of life obviously robbed the Yuan bandits for money before they evacuated, and recognized the official bank in the box.

The imperial court did not distribute relief money, and the money in the box was branded with official bank logos, so it could only be military pay from above.

"My lord, didn't you say that you used stones to deceive those Yuan people!"

Li Wuduan was bandaging his shoulder injury, grinning in pain, "Why are you panicking? Can you starve to death?"

"Aren't you going to starve to death!" Several soldiers cursed.

"If you don't have money, how can you fight? I went to see the grain and grass. The remaining corn and meat are only enough to reward the soldiers tonight!"

"Save and eat."

"Save today, then tomorrow! The day after tomorrow! We will always finish eating, so what will we eat now!"

After Li Wuduan bandaged the wound, he moved his shoulders and neck, "There are tens of thousands of disaster funds, how can we use stones to scare those cunning bandits?"

"But we only have two thousand soldiers! All the rations are put in, and we can't afford the money of tens of thousands of people!"

Li Wuduan rubbed his eyebrows and said: "The boxes are all made of compartments, only one team is real gold and silver, the other team has real gold and silver on the top layer and stones on the bottom, and the third team is all stone chariots and horses.", the soldiers desperately defended and dragged back..."

"What!? It means that all the money has been taken in, and the car that was snatched back is a stone!"

"My son! You are so confused!"

Li Wuduan: "..."

There was a lot of scolding in the tent, and the soldiers outside the tent also looked unhappy. The soldiers from Capital hadn't suffered such hardship for many years, and everyone was dissatisfied with Li Wuduan, so naturally they complained.

Only some veterans who had been with Li Yezhen and Li Yuechuan in the past were loyal to Li Wuduan, but this group of people was a minority, and they were all sent out by Li Wuduan to investigate the Yuan bandit's lair.

"Tomorrow, I will go to General Ji and King Jin to borrow troops, and when the people who followed the old lair come back, I will take the Yuan bandits with them!" Li Wuduan said.

"I'm afraid I've starved to death here in Jindi before that!"

In the next few days, Li Wuduan either went to find the King of Jin or General Ji, and he wanted to borrow money and soldiers, and he only needed two or three thousand soldiers, how easy is it?Li Wuduan was kicked around by the scholar-bureaucrats under King Jin and the general's staff like Cuju, but nothing was done thoroughly.

Back at the barracks, the soldiers following the Yuan bandits came back and answered, saying that the group of people were stationed in the deep mountains, a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the patrolling Yuan bandits who changed shifts had traces of Yuan soldiers on them.

The group of bandits has recently been arguing over the hijacking of food trucks and the uneven distribution of stolen goods. The enemy is fighting among themselves, and it is a good time to attack the cottage!

Li Wuduan immediately summoned the soldiers to discuss it, and when he talked about it, he was thrown cold water again.

"There is no food, no reinforcements, and the number of Yuan bandits is more than five thousand. Are the soldiers starved to death?"

"How to attack the copycat? We are also discussing!"

Several officers and men drank porridge all night this morning, and after they couldn't say a few words, they quarreled again in the tent.

Li Wuduan didn't expect that it would be easy to play with the people of Yuan Dynasty, but the progress of the plan was stuck on his own people, and his head suddenly became dizzy, only then did he know the difficulty of leading troops.

After a day and a night of quarreling like this, soldiers outside the tent came to report on the second day, and a Capital post officer covered in black armor and dusty with travels came into the tent.

"See you son!"

Li Wuduan looked haggard: "You are..."

"My servant is ordered to deliver some things to the prince." The post officer unloaded the burden, took out the letter and the burden from his arms, and handed them to Li Wuduan.

Li Wuduan: "Who sent it?"

The post officer looked around, shook his head, and signaled Li Wuduan to read the letter himself.

Li Wuduan opened the letter, and after reading it through, his expression relaxed, his eyebrows beaming and he unwrapped the package, revealing the stacks of bank notes inside.

"Okay! Hahahahaha!" Li Wuduan laughed, "Jun'er is really good! It really solves my urgent need!"

After sending off the post officer, another person came in the tent, a servant of Jiang Prefecture Li's family. It was still a letter and a bundle, delivered by three horses who ran away to death.

Li Wuduan had already guessed what it was, and excitedly opened it up with trembling hands to see.First, there was a letter written by Li Yuechuan, scolding him for being ignorant of good and bad, and sneaking up to suppress the bandits. After two pages of scolding, the last two lines wrote a strategy, and the last sentence was that if he could not suppress the bandits, he should not go home.

"..."

Shaking the bag again, a wooden token fell out, rotten to the point where only two halves remained, a note was stuck on it, it was a letter from Li Yezhen, and Li Wuduan asked Li Wuduan to take this broken token to find General Ji to borrow troops.

How can such a small thing carry such a big burden?

Li Wuduan rummaged through the bundle again, and took out five taels of silver, two cakes of tea leaves, and salt wrapped in crumpled yellow paper.

Li Wuduan: "..."

Li Wuduan is not angry, Jiang Prefecture is not a rich town, it is a place so poor that he would not even want to fight a war, the Li family's belongings were all used by the two elders and himself to add to Qin Jun's New Year's Eve, These five taels of silver are already the sincerity of the family.

Fortunately, with the bank note and secret letter sent by Qin Jun, Li Wuduan knew that the king of Jin would let go of the loan, and immediately ordered people to buy good wine and meat, so that the soldiers could eat and drink enough to train and prepare for the battle.

As long as the king of Jin is willing to borrow someone, if he holds the badge and is the general of the border guards, if he still doesn't let go, he just doesn't know how to flatter him, and he can only go down a step. Li Wuduan is full of confidence and freshens himself.Angrily went to negotiate with King Jin.

As for Capital, Qin Jun was still in poor health, took medicine, fell asleep, and was still exhausted every day. She was ill for two days and couldn't live in the bamboo garden anymore, so she moved back to the palace.

The imperial doctor only said that Qin Jun was young, worried and thought too much, exhausted his mind, so he was weak and weak.

Qin Bian failed to hide this matter from Qin Bian, and Qin Bian became angry, forbidding Qin Jun to intervene in the suppression of bandits, and took back the postman sent to her to deliver the letter, and ordered Qin Jun to stay in the princess mansion and have a good rest.

Outside the palace gate, under the city wall.

The two figures meet and talk.

The Uncle King shook his head helplessly: "The blind doctor is haunted by ghosts. The old slave used to be kind to him with a bowl of water. Now that the three prescriptions have saved the girl, the kindness is gone, and it is difficult to find anyone."

Ji Si sneered, as if trying to contain her anger, she turned around and said, "Get lost."

The Uncle King thought for a while and said, "The girl is climbing up to the princess now, did she forget the old promise with the old slave?"

Ji Si tilted her head, her eyes gradually lost warmth, "You want me to help you find someone who wears green boots and white jade, and it's only March with just one shoe, so you want to take revenge?"

"The old slave dare not. He has been looking for an enemy for decades, so why is he in a hurry for just a few months? The old slave is just afraid that the girl will forget what he wants." Uncle King said.

"Looking for my origin, I've never forgotten it," Ji Si sneered, putting her hands on her waist with murderous intent, "If you talk too much, just get lost."

Uncle King: "The old slave is back now, still inquiring about the whereabouts of the doctor."

Ji Si said, "Report at any time."

The Uncle King saluted and left the wall, Ji Si turned around and was playing with the golden crow and jade pendant, seeing a carriage approaching from afar.The Minister of the Ministry of War dressed in official clothes, got out of the carriage in a hurry, showed his token at the palace gate, and entered the palace gate in a hurry with a wooden box under his arm.

After watching it, Ji Si went back to the princess mansion through the side palace gate.

At the end of February, Capital hadn't seen the weather getting warmer yet. Qin Jun was lazily lying on a rattan chair wrapped in a thick fur, holding a hand stove, and had just sent away Ji Guifei who came to care for her.

"Where are people?" Qin Jun asked lazily.

Jin Xiu held the medicine bowl and fed Qin Jun the medicine spoon by spoon, "I don't know."

Qin Jun's face was wrinkled into a ball, and she swallowed the soup with difficulty: "Why don't you know, you don't know that she fell ill today and let people run around?"

Little Taozi was looking at the stove, and she spoke up for Jin Xiu when she heard the words: "No, who can stand Miss Yan, when she got up in the morning, she first shaved off the peonies and holly in the courtyard, and split the rockery to pieces, so that it was not destroyed.There is a whole yard. I am going to come to the main hall with a sword in hand to make trouble. Are these flowers and plants more precious than people? Can they withstand her cutting?"

Qin Jun held the candied fruit in her mouth and said vaguely, "Of course human life is more precious."

Xiao Taozi was immediately displeased: "Miss Xie's bald peonies are worth hundreds of taels of silver. The princess used the money from her own treasury to fill in the lack of the prince. She never thought that the most valuable things in this palace are these flowers and plants.stop!"

Jin Xiu frowned: "Xiaotao."

Xiaotao's eyes turned red immediately, "What's the matter, the princess ordered me to keep the account. After taking care of it for so long, it's half empty at once. Can't you feel sorry for it? That's all! Anyway, it's not my money, it's the princess's dowry! If it's less, it's less, and it’s not the servant’s turn to speak up! The servant’s answering back, I’m going to invite my hand!”

Qin Jun rubbed her nose, knowing that the property in the storeroom was saved by the sixth princess for fourteen years. It might be a lot, but if it is divided into fourteen years, it is not too much.It's halfway through again, so it's naturally distressing.

"Shoubanzi will be exempted," Qin Jun called Xiaotao, "I don't want to punish Xiaotaozi, I know you care about me, well, I'll punish you for sweeping the floor."

Xiao Taozi was sad and wiped her tears, "Princess is soft-hearted! So much money, woo woo woo."

Qin Jun: "..."

There is no way around this. Jindi is far away from Capital, and the officials don't take it very seriously. The Ministry of Finance manages finances and has always been stingy on military supplies. Li Wuduan's foundation is not in Capital, so how could he be willing to give more money?

Food and grass cost money, and disaster relief funds cost money. Marching and fighting are the most financially consuming.

"Forget it," Qin Jun yawned, reaching out to hug her, "I'm sleepy."

Just after she finished speaking, Jin Xiu put down the candied fruit plate, and saw Ji Si walking in with a hostile face.

Ji Si picked Qin Jun up and carried her to the couch in the inner room, and ordered Qin Jun concisely: "Close your eyes and sleep."

Qin Jun: "..."

Are you courageous when you are sick?

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