People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 299 Shangxi Gold Mine, King Li Zhen of Yue

In the study, Li Xuan stuffed Liu Silang's letter into his sleeve.

Raising his head, he looked towards the northwest, with a cold look in his eyes: "This king is plotting against others, but I didn't expect that other people are plotting against this king."

Li Xuan sneered, and unconsciously pressed her right hand hard on the table next to her, and a fingerprint immediately fell off the table.

Li Xuan was staring at Qiu Shenji in Shezhou, but behind Qiu Shenji, there were also many people staring at Li Xuan.

Under such circumstances, it was much more difficult for Li Xuan to kill Qiu Shenji than expected.

You have me I have you.

Just like Qiu Shenji himself couldn't figure out how many people around him were helping Li Xuan to keep an eye on him.

Similarly, Li Xuan couldn't figure out how many people in Wuzhou were helping Qiu Shenji to keep an eye on him.

The two of them are pawns for Li Zhi and Empress Wu to reach the southeast. As for the result of their secret fight, perhaps no one will care at all.

Whether it's Li Zhi or Empress Wu, what they really care about is Tianyin Sect. The fight between Li Xuan and Qiu Shenji is just a child's play.

Liu Ji on the side couldn't help shaking his head slightly at this moment: "In this world, how many people can count on the prince."

"No, there are, and there are many of them." Li Xuan shook her head with a complex expression, and said, "I am aware of my shortcomings. Among them, at this time, if you pay enough attention to this king's opponent, you can quietly lay out the layout and trap this king to death step by step."

"What the lord is talking about are very few people in this world, all of them are talented ministers, so it's not easy to target the lord." Liu Ji looked at Li Xuan, with an inquiring look in his eyes.

Li Xuan didn't pick up on it, but seemed to be thinking for himself: "For example, at present, most of my attention is placed on Dongyang and Wuzhou, but some ignore Hangzhou, Yuezhou, Taizhou, etc. Kuozhou and other places, if someone deploys around here at this time, it is easy to trap this king to death."

Li Xuan is very clear about his strengths and weaknesses. His strength is that he is good at focusing, but it is precisely because of his good concentration that his vision narrows unknowingly.

Now others are in Dongyang, paying attention to Wuzhou, and even ignore Hangyue Taikuo, let alone the distant Luoyang, Chang'an, and the vast western region of Tubo.

Thanks to Liu Ji’s reminder today, I really need to pay attention to this point in the future.

Looking at Liu Ji, Li Xuan nodded slightly, but then said, "Your Majesty and the Empress hope that I can focus on Tianyin Sect, so I shouldn't be distracted."

"In this case, the Tianyin Sect will be in trouble." Liu Ji sighed, and said sadly: "I really hope that the Tianyin Sect has such an ability to see the overall situation, but unfortunately, they don't have it."

Li Xuan looked straight at Liu Ji, and Liu Ji smiled indifferently: "Actually, as far as my lord can think, Tianyin Sect's attention has always been on Yuezhou. As long as the soldiers in Yuezhou's capital are cleared, Then, next, they can turn around and, like tigers going down the mountain, go straight to the Wuyue states, even cross the Yangtze River directly, enter Yangzhou, cut off the water transportation, and also cut off the imperial court's rescue soldiers.

They have their own plans, and they will not change because of anyone. Even if they leave one or two secrets, the effect is very limited.

But they didn't even think about it, would the court sit back and watch them do this? "

Wang Fanglin, Wang Dali, Duan Baoxuan, Yuan Jiazuo, Shen Qian, Lai Jingye, Dou Xuande, which one of these people is easy to provoke.

Not to mention, there are still people like Li Xuan and Qiu Shenji who represent the will of the empress and enter the southeast.

The Great Tang court has fully activated, and now they are just watching the Tianyin Sect show more people.

Li Xuan waved his hand and said: "This king can't control too far away, Fang Yunxiu, Tianyin Sect Wuzhou hall master Fang Yunxiu, his layout in Wuzhou, Dongyang's layout is not simple, this king wants to completely break the situation , I still need to spend a lot of thought... but fortunately, there are people who are leading us now, Mr. Ling, and they are heading there."

Saying that, Li Xuan looked up to the southeast direction, the southeast direction of Dongyang.

With just one glance, Liu Ji's expression instantly became extremely embarrassing.

Because he knew that once his son escaped from Dongyang City, his next step would be to go to the southeast, which was the direction of Yuezhou.

"I also ask the lord to let the dog go. If the old man has an afterlife, he will tie a grass ring and be a cow instead of a horse." Liu Ji pulled his hem and knelt down in front of Li Xuan.

Li Xuan looked at Liu Ji very calmly, not moved by his kneeling in any way, but said lightly: "Now in Dongyang, it belongs to Fang Yunxiu's subordinates. In Dongyang City, this king killed 90 people. Your son's subordinates Not counting, there are still 60 people in the stone courtyard today, so there are already 150 people, and the Tianyin Sect is only in Dongyang, is it just 150 people?"

Li Xuan's cold eyes swept towards Liu Ji, who stood there abruptly, motionless, with a drop of cold sweat dripping down.

It never occurred to Liu Ji that Li Xuan was so sensitive to numbers that he could calculate the exact number in no time.

Li Xuan looked at Liu Ji indifferently, he knew many things far more than Liu Ji imagined.

From An Rongxiang's memory, he saw that there were at least 3000 elite soldiers from the main altar of the Tianyin Sect, and they were divided into two teams. One team went to Wuzhou, Taizhou and Hangzhou to defend Yuezhou, and the other The team went to Shezhou, and it seemed that they wanted to break the situation in Shezhou.

If it is divided into two teams on average, then go to Wuzhou, Taizhou and Hangzhou should have 500 troops,

Wuzhou, Taizhou, and Hangzhou are equally distributed. There should be at least 500 people in each state.

If Li Xuan came to arrange the arrangement, in the whole Wuzhou, his focus would be on Jinhua and Dongyang. Even if it is distributed equally, Dongyang should have 250 people, but now only 150 people have been found, so where will the remaining 100 people go? up.

Moreover, this is only an average distribution. If considering the importance of Wuzhou, Taizhou and Hangzhou are different, then deploy less manpower in Taizhou, and then draw 200 people to support 100 people in Wuzhou and Hangzhou. If all 100 people are deployed in Dongyang, then combined with the remaining 100 people, Tianyin Sect still has at least two hundred elite soldiers in Dongyang.

Two hundred elite soldiers, if there is an internal response in the city, it will not be difficult to take down the entire Dongyang by opening the gate of Dongyang and occupying the county.

Then the question arises, where are the two hundred elite soldiers hiding now.

"If you refuse to tell the truth, there is no need for me to talk nonsense with you." Li Xuan stretched out his hand and pulled a piece of paper from the side, laying it flat in front of Liu Ji, and said flatly: "Write your name, five Personally, with the information you gave just now, there are only five places left!"

Liu Ji's expression couldn't help changing slightly, he never thought that the punishment of King Nanchang would come so soon.

But he had to lower his head again and wrote out several important names.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and Li Xuan turned her head.

Soon, a Qianniuwei handed in a note.

After reading the numbers on the note, Li Xuan looked at Liu Ji indifferently, and said expressionlessly: "According to the records, your Liu family has always purchased grain from Dongyang and sold it to other places, but this year, But you suddenly started to increase the inward grain transportation, especially Shangxi Township."

With the word "Shangxi Town", Liu Ji's face immediately changed.

"There is a gold mine in Shangxi Town. In the early days, the people sifted gold sand from the stream to get gold. Later, the gold sand in the stream was exhausted. Some people left, and some began to dig underground. Found a gold mine underground, and that gold mine is now the property of the Qian family in Wuzhou, and standing behind the Qian family is the King of Yue, the King of Yue, Li Zhen."

Right now in the entire southeast, after all, there are only three princes.

One is Yue Wang Li Zhen whose fief is in Yuezhou, the other is Cao Wang Li Ming who is appointed governor of Suzhou, and the other is Nanchang County King Li Xuan who is appointed as Wuzhou Biejia.

"If it were someone else, maybe there is really no way to take that gold mine, but this king is different. Although this king is only the county king, this king is now an official in Wuzhou, let alone the official. In the hands of this king, there is still a letter written by the King of Yue, and all the people of the King of Yue's family, etc., all obey the orders of the king, Captain Liu, do you think the king should or should not, and now send troops to attack Shangxi Town."

After a short pause, Li Xuan sneered slightly, and said in a slightly cruel voice: "Perhaps in Shangxi Town, we may have a chance to meet Mr. Ling."

Liu Ji just knelt on the ground and didn't stand up. Under Li Xuan's cold gaze, he finally said, "What the lord said is correct, the dog... indeed went to Shangxi Town."

In a word, all the strength in Liu Ji's body seemed to be drained, and he sat there paralyzed.

Li Xuan looked at him, and said with cold eyes: "There is one thing, Captain Liu may not be very clear, in fact, this king has been watching the entire territory of Wuzhou since Luoyang, everything, coal mines, gold mines, iron mines, etc. Mine and other various mines, the purpose is to find out how many bandits of the Tianyin Sect are hidden in these places."

Liu Ji couldn't utter a single word, he knew that what Li Xuan did was actually completely right.

Because for many years, the mines in various places have been extremely demanding on the treatment of miners, and the miners are becoming more and more dissatisfied.

These miners are basically strong men in their prime of life. Once they are armed, they will immediately become good soldiers.

When the time comes to siege the city and attack the county, it will be too late to roar up.

But no matter how good the soldiers are, if they encounter people like Li Xuan, it is difficult for many of them to survive.

This guy's calculations are too astonishing. If he doesn't do it, if he does, it will inevitably result in countless casualties. .

If Liu Dao really met Li Xuan on the battlefield, Liu Ji was really worried about whether his son, who had never been on the battlefield, would be an opponent of Li Xuan, the king of Nanchang County.

Liu Ji looked at the hem of Li Xuan's sleeves, and he didn't know at all why the king of Nanchang, who had never been on a battlefield, was so familiar with fighting on the battlefield.

"In my hands, there is still a batch of secret gold and silver. If the prince..." Liu Ji's voice was a little shaky.

"Of course, it's too easy to attack the mine directly, and it's also too boring. In fact, this king may not necessarily attack the Shangxi Gold Mine right now." Li Xuan looked at Liu Ji with a half-smile, and said lightly: "Maybe I can keep it for the end, it all depends on how the captain's value is measured by this king... By the way, where are the things that the captain hid now?"

"Suzhou." Liu Ji bowed his head slightly, and said, "People like me will get another layer of identity after our own, and then use this layer of identity to buy land and houses in other places. I can also have a retreat."

"Naturally, there are some things that need to be guarded against." After a slight pause, Li Xuan looked at Liu Daodao and asked, "Where do these things exist in Suzhou now?"

"Suzhou, Huitong Cabinet Workshop." Liu Ji spit out a line of names lightly.

Li Xuan was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Where?"

"Suzhou, Huitong Cabinet Shop." Liu Ji's words were very affirmative, and he immediately followed up and said: "I also met the fourth son of Liu Xueshi's family in Huitong Cabinet Shop in Suzhou..."

He didn't remember the other words that Liu Ji said later, and the four words echoed in his mind all the time: "Huitong Cabinet Square."

In Yangzhou before, the price model handed over to An Rongxiang by the Empress himself was also in Suzhou, also in Huitong Cabinet.

(End of this chapter)