The rise of the prince

Chapter 463 Bandits
"Say something sooner." He Qian lowered his head and whispered.

Li Xingzhou put the rabbit aside, patted his thigh, and said with a smirk, "I should have eaten you earlier, so sit here."

He Qian didn't speak, her face was about to bleed, and she took a few steps over with a beautiful white porcelain honey pot: "I'm afraid you'll bully me if I tell you."

"Hehe, the little girl still has a scheming mind."

"Then it's not your fault. You were the one who plotted against me first. If it wasn't for that or that, no one would know you."

"Do you regret it?"

The little girl shook her head mechanically, so nervous that she forgot how to shake her head.

"I don't regret it either." Li Xingzhou put his arms around her waist and straightened her black hair between the two of them: "A rascal, the head of the family, the young supervisor of the Military Weapons Supervision, the minister of Honglu Temple, Commander of the New Army, Beijing-North Transit Envoy, Prince of Pingnan County. I have learned a lot along the way, and I have only been around for so many decades, so don’t let yourself regret it.”

The little girl leaned back: "It's up to you."

Life is short, the more things to do, the more you will feel this kind of emotion, and the more successful people will be, the more emotion you will have.

When living is no longer a burden but an ambition, you can truly appreciate the shortness of life and want to borrow another 500 years from the sky.There are not many people who can survive to that point, but Li Xingzhou feels that he has arrived.

The normally carefree little girl, naughty and lively little girl, is extraordinarily quiet now, like a well-behaved rabbit in winter in his arms, like an illusion.

Along the way to the north of Beijing, many officials gradually realized that their involvement was nothing. Afterwards, the news of the downfall of Yu Chengan and others swept across and brought fear into everyone's heart.

Many people were terrified and came to him in person. When they met, they knelt down and kowtowed, confessed their mistakes bitterly, and said how they were forced to be helpless.

Li Xingzhou borrowed the donkey from the slope, took gentle measures, fined some silver taels, and let those people go.

He knew that these people were not clean, but there was nothing he could do about it. At this point, it was time for a compromise. More than 20 people from North Korea and China were overthrown, and nearly 30 people from Beijing North were arrested. He had achieved his desired goal.

There must be breaks just after passing, and the road is in the middle. Without these people, the entire Jingbei Road will be in chaos, especially at the critical moment when the bandits in Heishan are in trouble, and everyone will suffer along with it.

"Don't be shy, brush honey." Li Xingzhou reminded the little girl sitting on her lap with a smile, it is warm in winter, like holding a hand warmer.

"I'm not shy." She said blushing, and obediently brushed the golden and beautiful rabbit with honey. "Why do you send so many people to the north?"

"Do you still remember how we caught rabbits?" Li Xingzhou raised his eyebrows and asked her.

The little girl nodded.

"After the heavy snowfall, the birds and rabbits in the mountains were driven to a dead end and came out to look for food. The grass was covered by the heavy snow, so there was nowhere to eat.

At this time, you can catch a bunch of rabbits and a basketful of birds with just a handful of wheat, not because they are stupid, but because they are extremely hungry and have no choice, even if they know it is a trap, they still want to go.

Animals are like this, and so are people, as long as they are hungry, they dare to do anything. "

Li Xingzhou flipped through the fragrant roasted rabbit, and said, "Now that the university is closed and the winter is so cold, they don't come out to grab it in autumn. If you don't want to die in winter, you have to go out of the mountain."

"Oh," the little girl agreed, "You know so much."

"Do you want me to teach you?" Li Xingzhou asked with a smirk.

"Teach me?"

"Hey hey, come to my room at night, and I'll teach you how to think so much."

"Big bastard, don't think about it unless, unless you have agreed with my father that there will be more, and you have to go through the door." The little girl lowered her head and whispered, leaning back on his chest shyly, not as carefree as usual.

Sometimes winter is not necessarily only severe cold.

The scouts of the Xiang army, the scouts of the new army, patrolled northward on horseback under his command, always beware of the Heishan bandits, especially the northern counties of Jiangzhou, because these counties have feuds with the Heishan bandits.

Back then when Zhong Daoyu was young, the methods of encircling and suppressing the Black Mountain bandits were brutal, men, women, and children did not leave anyone alive. Many of the soldiers came from the counties in the north of Jiangzhou. These counties also hated the Black Mountain bandits because they were closest to the official road to the north. , was the one who was robbed the most by Black Mountain thieves, and he felt that he was right when he killed the thieves.

But the Heishan thief was cut off by the new officialdom, and felt that robbing the officialdom was revenge, and it was only right and proper.

No matter what reasons the two parties have, the bloody feud is forged.

The rabbit baked with honey, the meat is sweet and elastic, very delicious, the little girl is clamoring to go tomorrow.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, and someone shouted loudly: "My lord, something is wrong, something is wrong!"

The little girl panicked and quickly jumped off his lap. Li Xingzhou went to look at the door. Outside was a soldier of the New Army with snowflakes on his body and head, steaming.

"My lord, the black mountain bandits have robbed Wei Teng!" he said in panic.

Li Xingzhou was also surprised: "Where did the news come from?"

"Sent from Taiyuan Mansion, on the [-]th night of the winter moon, a large number of black mountain bandits climbed the wall and entered the city at night. There were thousands of them, and killed more than a dozen defenders. The rations transported to them were robbed! Burned!"

"How about casualties?" he asked immediately.

"There were not many casualties. Seventeen defenders were killed, nine civilians were killed, and more than thirty civilians were injured. It is said that bandits were injured when they set fire to the granary."

"Thousands of bandits, how can there be so many?" Li Xingzhou said to himself.

"I don't know, this is what the captain guarding the city said. He said that thousands of people rushed into the city, and some were waiting outside the city. They came for food, so they didn't kill too many people." Said out of breath.

"Don't worry, speak slowly." Li Xingzhou asked the soldier to rest, and asked He Qian to pour water for him, and then spoke slowly.

According to his description, Li Xingzhou finally knew the whole story. This soldier was originally a scout of the new army. He was patrolling in the north of Jiangzhou. He met an official courier from Taiyuan Prefecture. The courier was unlucky because the snow was too deep and he was buried under the snow. He tripped over a tree branch, couldn't walk, and almost died in the mountain, just happened to bump into him, and asked him to send the urgent news.

the fifteenth night of the winter moon
It has been more than ten days now, the mountains are covered by heavy snow, the news from Weiteng to Taiyuan, and then from Taiyuan to Jiangzhou, without a delay of more than a month, it is considered fast.

But Li Xingzhou was very surprised, how could there be so many black bandits!

Thousands of thieves!You must know that when the Black Mountain bandits were most rampant in the past, there were only a few hundred of them, and those over five hundred were considered the largest groups, because the Black Mountain bandits were scattered villages, each occupying the mountain as king, and no one could let them All united.

It is very bad news that there are thousands of people coming out now, which shows that there may be capable people within them to unite these people!

The second is how they broke into Witten.

Weiteng is also known as Weizhou. The grain collected and transported by Ningjiang Prefecture was transported to Weiteng, then transferred to Taiyuan, and finally sent to resist Sanjiao Town (Daizhou, Ninghua, Baode). With these grains, the northern soldiers can defend every year. On the frontier, confront the Liao people.

It is inconceivable that such an important place was breached by a group of bandits!Because there are strong bows and crossbows at the top of the city, the bandits are supposed to be beaten.

After thinking about it, he didn't have any reliable ideas, so he could only wait for further news.

(End of this chapter)