bastard seizes tang

Chapter 374
"Your Highness, news from Suzhou." Wang Xuance said to Li Ke as soon as he entered the side hall.

"Talk." Li Ke looked at Wang Xuance's expression with a bit of seriousness, obviously something big happened.

Seeing that several principals were also in the hall, Wang Xuance leaned over, leaned against Li Ke's ear, and said in a low voice, "This morning, the government army escorting the ordnance to Gusu Mansion was attacked, and more than half of the government army was killed or injured. All were robbed."

Li Ke's face suddenly sank when he heard this. The ordnance sent to the Gusu Commander's Mansion this time was a letter he personally approved and sent before entering Beijing at the end of last year. The governor should be the first responsibility.

Li Ke quickly asked: "Maybe it is possible to find out who was robbed?"

More than a thousand pieces of ordnance is not a small number. If this matter spreads to the court, it will be a big joke, and there will definitely be cases of impeachment of Li Ke.

Wang Xuance said: "The looters claim to be Liang people, maybe they are the remnants of Nanliang who kidnapped His Highness last year."

Li Ke frowned when he heard Wang Xuance's words.

Li Ke had dealt with those Nanliang remnants. Although they knew some fists, kicks, knives and sticks, they were only a little stronger than ordinary people, and they were not brave. Although they are not as elite as the Forbidden Army and the Frontier Army, they are not deadbeats. Why did they succeed in a surprise attack and robbed the ordnance?
Li Ke was a little surprised when he heard that the self-proclaimed Nanliang people who robbed the armaments, but after thinking about it carefully, there are few bandits in this southeast land. Besides them, who else has the courage to rob Yangzhou? Metropolitan's stuff?

Li Ke asked: "Do you know where the things were robbed?"

Wang Xuance replied: "The friendship between Su and Chang has not yet entered the foot of Hengshan Mountain in Suzhou."

"Has the local government sent people to chase after it?" Li Ke continued to ask.

Wang Xuance said: "As soon as the ordnance party was robbed, Li Guo, the deputy lieutenant in charge of the escort, sent people to notify the Jinling Commander's Mansion in Changzhou and the Gusu Commander's Mansion in Suzhou respectively, and those who wanted to come looking for it have already been dispatched."

Hearing this, Li Ke nodded, feeling a sense of proportion in his heart.

If Li Guo, the deputy lieutenant in charge of the escort, hadn't informed the place immediately after the ordnance was robbed, he might have colluded with the robbers. It has nothing to do with him.

Li Ke asked, "Where is Li Guo now?"

Wang Xuance said: "Li Guo is wounded and is now on his way home. Your Highness wants to see him? He only hurt his left arm, so it should be fine. If Your Highness wants to see him, I will order someone to pass him on. He can come tomorrow."

Li Ke thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "No need, tomorrow the king will go to the camp in person, and also go to see the wounded brother. Also, you should go to the best doctor in Yangzhou city first, and you will follow me tomorrow." The king will go together."

"I'll make arrangements now." Wang Xuance responded, and stepped back first.

After Wang Xuance left, apart from Li Ke, there were only three Caoxing directors who were sitting in the hall, waiting for Li Ke to speak.

They could see that Li Ke still had something important to do, but they didn't dare to act rashly before Li Ke spoke. They just sat in the hall like this, looking at each other for a while.

Li Ke looked at the three people in the hall and thought of something again, so he ordered: "From now on, within half a month, all ferry crossings in Yangzhou are not allowed to sail at night, and you must be more careful when sailing recently. Regardless of the size of the ship, you must inspect every box of the goods you ship, and don’t be lazy. Once you find swords and the like, report it to the king immediately.”

"No." Although the three of them didn't know what happened, but looking at Li Ke's face, it was obvious that it was not a trivial matter. Li Ke ordered, and the three of them responded immediately.

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As night fell and the night was getting darker, besides Li Ke in Yangzhou City, there was another person who was full of worries and also had difficulty falling asleep, and this person was Xiao Yuexian.

Under the bright moonlight, Xiao Yuexian was leaning against the window, smelling the fragrance of flowers blown into her nose by the night wind, but she didn't have the leisurely mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery.

Half a month ago, Xiao Yuexian's master, Zuo Youxian, had already gone south to Suzhou, for the more than one thousand pieces of ordnance in Gusu Mansion.

More than a thousand pieces of ordnance, calculated carefully, is enough to equip hundreds of people. It is indeed a large number, but what are these things?
Hundreds of soldiers, in the troubled times of the end of the Sui Dynasty, might still be able to occupy a county as a foundation, but now is not the troubled times of the end of the Sui Dynasty.

It has been more than ten years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The country is stable, the barbarians are subject, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Not to mention rebelling against the king, even thieves and bandits who rob houses are rare. At such a time, what can be done with a few hundred soldiers.

The Tang Dynasty won millions of soldiers, regardless of the Changan Imperial Army and the Northern Frontier Army, the Yangzhou Metropolitan Government Office in the southeast of An'an alone controls the military of [-] prefectures, and has [-] military command offices under its command. Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor Li Ke waved his arms, More than [-] troops can be summoned. If there is an urgent conquest, [-] troops can be gathered in an instant. .

People all over the world think about safety, with their hundreds of people, even if Sun Wu is alive and Wu Qi is reborn, it will not be able to make any waves, let alone she is a girl.

Since Xiao Yuexian became sensible, she has never been so depressed on a single day. On the one hand, there is hatred of the country and family, Zuo Youxian's ambition and urging Xiao Yuexian all the time, and on the other hand, the powerlessness and fatigue in front of her eyes. Everything seemed out of her control.

With her thin shoulders, adding the dream of revenge and restoration of the country to her body, she was pressed down and could hardly breathe.

But the world happened to be like this, she had no choice but to bear all this with her eyes closed.

Even recently, she always dreams about the days when she was in Linjiang Palace in Yangzhou last year. Those days were the best time she spent.

At that time, she was not surrounded by Zuo Youxian's urging, and she was not suppressed by the national vengeance. She was in the Linjiang Palace, and she was by Li Ke's side every day. Li Ke treated her very well. She just played the piano every day. Free to do what she likes to do, in just three months, it has already won too much.

She often also thinks that if she is really just a Qin Ji in the Yanyu Tower and was given to Li Ke after a chance encounter, then she should be much happier than now.

"dong dong dong dong"

Xiao Yuexian was still thinking about it, but at this moment, there was a rush of knocking on the door.

"Little lady, I have something important to tell you." After a while of knocking on the door, Qing'er's voice came from outside the door.

"What's the matter?" Qing'er knocked on the door in the middle of the night, it must be something important, Xiao Yuexian asked immediately.

Qing'er pushed open the door, and as soon as she entered the room, she said anxiously to her face: "My little lady, the news just came out of Suzhou that the immortal master was ambushed in Qionglong Mountain, and his life and death are uncertain."

(End of this chapter)