Chapter 49: Getting What You Want
Looking at the map Xiao Changche spread out on the table, Luo Hua was also shocked.
"It even marked out where the water was deep and shallow in the river!" Luo Hua pointed at the dense annotations at the bottom of the map, feeling his scalp numb. "You can't buy such a map for a thousand pieces of money, so Li Dachui just looked at you and made you feel ignorant?"
"Do you think he only has this one in his hand?" Xiao Changcai said: "But speaking of it, he also It's indeed generous. If such a map were mine, there would be no way I could show it to outsiders."
"This person has always been very generous to you!" Luo Hua said with a smile: "You don't say it every year. When I asked him to borrow money and food, he didn’t hesitate. After all, you still owe him a lot of money, right? You should give him a meal!”
Xiao Changchehu made a face: "This man is used to climbing on the pole. If you want to keep him for lunch, he will think about dinner. After dinner, he will think about staying overnight again, so you can't give him any chance." . And it’s not that I won’t pay back what I owe him, I just owe him!”
Luo Hua looked at Xiao Changche with a smile, and he always looked very annoyed when he talked about this Li Dachui.
"If the map like this in Li Dachui's hand covers the entire outside the pass, that would be really amazing!"
Xiao Chang's head shook like a rattle: "This is unlikely. Drawing Such a detailed map requires a lot of manpower, material resources, and crucially a lot of time."
"What if he has one?" Luo Hua asked.
Xiao Changche was stunned: "If he has it, he will have the upper hand in every battlefield."
Luo Hua carefully put the map away: "I will go back and redraw it. This copy must be kept well."
Xiao Changche nodded: "Next time I see him, I really need to probe his voice to see if there is any such map. Is he there in Beiyuan?"
"Really prepared to cooperate with him to fight against Yan Sheng?"
"Why not?" Importantly, if I really win Aquarius State, my strength will reach a higher level, and Linghuye won’t be able to choke me even if he wants to.”
"Yansheng is strong."
"In other seasons, Yan Sheng is indeed strong, but now?" Xiao Changche sneered: "Qingshui River and Juma River are all frozen, and his navy ships The team is unable to move within the harbor, but most of the 100% strength has been lost.”
“I’m afraid the commander doesn’t want to!”
“The raw rice has become cooked rice. What can be done?" Xiao Changche said with a smile: "Besides, the evidence of Yan Sheng's collusion with Bei Yuan is conclusive. If he comes to trouble me, I can use these things to make him lose face. I am not Wan Feng, he thought. Just kill."
"You still have to be careful. People like Ling Huye are sometimes difficult to figure out. What you think he doesn't dare to do, he may actually do it. Like before, could we have imagined that he would kill Wan Feng brazenly?" Luo Hua said. "He has less and less scruples about the court. Every time the court takes a step back, he will take a big step forward."
"So not only do I need to be more powerful, I also need to have strong enough allies!"
"Tai'an City!" Luo Hua said with a smile.
"Yes!" Xiao Changcai: "The intention of Tai'an City is also very obvious, which is to work with the weak to compete with the strong. Among the three families now, I am the weakest, but if I get Aquarius State , as my strength increases, I will have more say."
"Even if we win Aquarius State, we still need talents to manage it!" Luo Hua sighed: "Look at Yan Shengsi. With such wealth, the strength is still not as good as that of Tai'an City, which is only a small city. Where can the general recruit talents? "
"Commander Linghu will probably assign Zhang Ruofa to me. Are you coming?" Xiao Changche laughed: "When Zhang Ruo gets it, let him go to Aquarius Prefecture to be a governor, manage this land for me, and be a people-friendly official. Let this person want to give up. Guys outside the customs, stay close to the people outside the customs. ”
"Where is Aquarius City and the wharf?"
"Of course let Li Dachui find someone to run it!" Xiao Changche said lightly: "Aquarius City should become another trading center like Tai'an City. I will It’s not good, but Li Dachui must have done a good job.”
“Then who will count?”
“Isn’t this simple?” Xiao Changcai: “It’s really done. , Whoever has a harder fist belongs to him. If everyone’s fists are about the same, then we can only divide the profit. As for how to divide it.”
Luo Hua laughed and said: “Let’s see whose fist is harder! The harder ones are divided more, the softer ones are divided less.”
"You can teach me!" Xiao Changche laughed.
Outside the camp, Zhang Ruo turned into a snowman again.
The weather is getting colder day by day, and the snow is getting heavier day by day. Although I am tightly wrapped, my eyelashes are still covered with ice.
Every half an hour, Zhang Ruo would stretch his neck and shout, "Zhang Ruo, the sinner, wants to see Marshal Linghu."
However, no one paid attention to him in the palace.
Wu De had learned his lesson in the past two days. He no longer stood in the open air with Zhang Ruo and suffered from the cold. Instead, he shrank under the eaves on one side. Although it was still cold, it was much better than standing outside.
Accompany Zhang Ruolai in the morning and go back with Zhang Ruo in the evening.
If Zhang Ruo is not handed over, he will not be able to leave. Seeing that the sky was getting dark again today, Wu De walked out from under the eaves, preparing to persuade Zhang Ruo to go back to the inn. There would definitely be no hope for him again today.
Just as Wu De was patting the snow off Zhang Ruo's body and rubbing his frozen body to revitalize his blood vessels, a well-dressed civil servant walked away in the row. come out.
"Who is Zhang Ruo?"
Wu De raised his head and said loudly: "Scholar Zhang is here. Does the marshal want to see the bachelor?"
The civil servant had a look of contempt on his face. , stared at the two people and said: "I'm asking about Zhang Ruo, the criminal who was sent to the army. Who is Bachelor Zhang?"
Zhang Ruo straightened his body and took a step forward, not wanting to stumble and almost fall. fall.
“I am Zhang Ruo, does the commander want to see me?”
The clerk sneered: "The commander-in-chief has a lot of things to do. Where can I see you as a sinner when I have time? Here, here is the document for you. Take the document and get out of here immediately. Don't scream outside the prison every day!"
Zhang Ruo stretched out his hand to take the document, glanced at it, and said in astonishment: "Go to Yuan'an? Serve under General Chariot and Cavalry?"
"What? Are you not satisfied? Still want to pick and choose?" The civil servant said: "Be clear, this is outside the Pass, this is Zhenwu City, and you are not the high-ranking official who wants to abandon us outside the Pass. Hum, fortunately the emperor is a sensible person and has not been deceived by you treacherous ministers. Otherwise, the country we have been guarding for our whole lives will be ruined by you pretty boys!"
"I want to see the commander in chief. I have something to say to the commander in chief!" Zhang Ruo said loudly.
“It’s your mother’s dream!” The clerk sprayed saliva on Zhang Ruo’s face, turned around and left, leaving Zhang Ruo in the ice and snow.
Wu De took the document with a look of joy on his face. Guanwaixingyuan settled Zhang Ruo, which meant that his mission was completely over and he could finally return to Beijing.
"Going to Yuan'an? Going to Xiao Cheqi's tent to listen to him?" In the inn, Yuan Rong and Yuan Tong were very happy when they heard the news. "Bachelor, didn't you ask us to go to the chariots and cavalry to join the army? Now, if you go there too, then we can be together again."
"If you go, Xiao Changche will definitely welcome you. Yes, but if I go, I'm afraid it will make people disgusted." Zhang Ruo smiled bitterly; "But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter where I am outside the customs, it's actually the same to me. And Li Dachui said that Xiao Changche is. A pure general, if you go to his service, you might be able to do something else.”
“Bachelor, Xiao Cheqi is in Zhenwu City now. Since you want to serve under him, do you want us to do it?” Go and visit him?" Yuan Rong suggested.
Zhang Ruo shook his head: "He is now a third-grade charioteer. I am just a sinner in front of the army. In what capacity do I go to see him? Naturally, I will go directly to Yuan'an City where he is stationed. If Xiao Changche wants If you see me, you will naturally summon me in Yuan’an!”
Yuan Rong thought for a moment and felt that this was also the case.
"Then when shall we set off?"
"Early tomorrow morning!" Zhang Ruodao. "Everyone, please clean up, Wu Tixing, are you going back to Chang'an now?"
Wu De nodded: "Yes, but it's just a bachelor who finally came to the outside world. I'm planning to go to the famous place." If you go to Tai'an City, you can't go far."
"Well, if you go to Tai'an City, go and see Qingyun and give me a message saying that everything is fine!"
"Don't you write a letter?" Wu De said.
“No need.” Zhang Ruo said with a smile. "I have worked hard on you along the way, and I have also made you lose several brothers. If Zhang Ruo still has a future, he will definitely repay the punishment with a punishment."
"The bachelor's words are serious, and so are my brothers. He died on official duty. This is what everyone eats. If you live, you will be lucky. If you die, you will be left behind. There is nothing to say. When I go back to Chang'an, the yamen will have its own arrangements and pensions. Mr. Wu will not let his subordinates live for a day. My brother's family is suffering from cold and hunger."
Zhang Ruo nodded: "Okay, okay, let's all go to bed early, we have to go on the road tomorrow!"
The next day, Tiangang. It was dawn, and Wu De, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by the sound of a horse neighing. He jumped up wrapped in a quilt, opened the window a crack and looked down, feeling startled in his heart.
He saw Xiao Dongwei.
The vicious one-eyed general under Xiao Changche.
At this moment, Xiao Dong was sitting on his horse with a golden sword, and behind him were dozens of cavalrymen with the same ferocious look.
“Zhang Ruo?” Xiao Dongwei smiled softly.
“That’s me!” Zhang Ruodao.
"General Chariot and Cavalry has received the official document, saying that you have been sent to Yuan'an City. Hehe, the general asked me to take you there today, so as not to have your head chopped off by the robbers on the way there. Pack up. , let’s go now!”
“There’s nothing to deal with, let’s go now!” Zhang Ruodao. "Can you give me a horse?"
"The chariot general is kind-hearted, but he is afraid that the wind outside the pass will blow you to death, so he asked me to prepare a carriage for you to arrive comfortably. Yuan'an, haha, hahaha!" Xiao Dongwei's laughter was full of evil meaning, and the cavalry behind him were also hehehahaha. Wu De upstairs couldn't help but feel cold breath in his vest.
(End of this chapter)