The Summoning World of the Great Qin Empire

Chapter 1410 A Steamed Bread

There is a Zhuti Mountain next to Zhuti City. After the army went all the way south, the road has become very difficult to walk, and there are many mountains here.

Li Shimin was in Zhu Ticheng City Lord's Mansion, which is the temporary residence of the Shu Emperor, staring at a pair of copybooks in a daze.

Wang Xuance led the army here. The Kingdom of Shu is now facing enemies from many sides. The most important thing is the food, grass and military equipment in the army. Most of them were left in Nanguang City. When he left, Li Shimin had ordered people to burn the food and grass. It must not be left to the Chu people.

The generals who went to burn the food and grass never came back.

Xu Shu stated in the memorial to himself that he had led Duan Tian and other generals to lead the army northward to stop Wang Xuance.

The last sentence in the memorial is written like this: "As a member of the Great Shu Kingdom, I died as the loyal soul of the Great Shu Kingdom. I should stay away now. It is really a pity that I can't see Your Majesty in person."

After reading the memorial, Li Shimin was really in love and couldn't help crying.It's not that the hero has no tears, it's that he broke out due to extreme sadness.

"The Kingdom of Shu, the world, was created in my hands, but why did it die in my hands?"

The guards of the left and right palaces did not dare to answer, and they all knelt on the ground and wept softly.

"Report! An envoy from Qin State has arrived!"

Li Shimin turned his back: "Where is it now?"

"Waiting for His Majesty in the hall." said the guard outside the door.

Li Shimin said: "Go and report, I will be there in a while."

Li Shimin wiped away the tears on his face, and ordered the guards to lead the way. After a short while, he arrived at the main hall. When he took a closer look, Li Shimin had some shame and anger in his eyes. Wang Mang, He Sheng, and Meng Hu who allied themselves with him!
Wang Mang and the others waited until Li Shimin was seated before bowing and bowing: "I pay my respects to the Emperor of Shu."

Li Shimin suppressed the embarrassment and anger in his heart, and asked lightly: "Your emperor sent the three of you here, what's the matter?"

"My emperor has a letter to the emperor of Shu, please write it personally." Wang Mang looked normal, and took out a palm-sized exquisite box from his sleeve.

The officials beside Li Shimin came down in a hurry, took the box, and opened it on one side. After confirming that there was a letter in it, they presented it to Li Shimin with both hands.

After Li Shimin watched it, he frowned and said, "Brave words! You just want to replace the women of childbearing age in our Shu Kingdom. Don't think that I don't know what women of childbearing age are for."

Wang Mang's expression remained unchanged, and he said: "My Emperor Qin has already made it very clear that if five hundred arrows are exchanged for a woman of childbearing age, these subordinate officials will have to personally inspect them."

No one knows better than Li Shimin what the current situation in the country is like. After the battle of Nanguang, Qin lost 15 people, and the military equipment in the army was even worse.

Each archer in the army has a standard configuration of [-] arrows. When it comes to the Shu army, there may not be [-] arrows in a centurion.

To put it bluntly, the army retreated to the south. To put it practically, it was to flee to the south after a defeat. In order to run faster, the sergeants threw away everything they could throw on their bodies. Some fled to Zhuhai with the army. When I picked it up, I had nothing on my body except the clothes I was wearing.

Can you still march and fight like this?
Even if the gods come, they can't!

If Li Shimin can be given enough time, Li Shimin can naturally call domestic craftsmen to make arrows and armor in a hurry, but what time is it now, the Chu army will attack Zhu Ti in a few days, how can there be time to make arrows? Vector armor?

Li Shimin pondered for a moment, and said: "It is too much to exchange five hundred arrows for a woman of childbearing age. It is better to have one thousand arrows, plus a spear, or the sword used by your Qin soldiers, plus a pair of armor." , that's about the same."

Wang Mang said: "The emperor of the Shu Kingdom lives in the palace, so I'm afraid he doesn't know the sufferings of the people."

"Bold! How can you question my emperor!" the chief guard shouted angrily.

Li Shimin waved his hand, suppressed the guard, nodded and said: "Talk about it, if what you say makes sense, I will naturally not blame you, if what you say is unreasonable, I will not let you off lightly."

Wang Mang cupped his hands: "I came from the east and saw someone selling a sixteen or seventeen-year-old Miaolin girl on the way. Does the emperor of Shu know how much a beautiful woman costs?"

"How much?" Li Shimin still really didn't know.

Wang Mang said: "Of course I don't dare to lie to the emperor of Shu. I exchanged a steamed bun for a good-looking young lady. I enjoyed it all the way. This is still a virgin."

Naturally, there is no such thing as steamed buns in this era, but Fusu delivered this kind of food in advance and appeared at this time.

Li Shimin's complexion changed slightly, and he said sharply, "A steamed bun!"

"The young lady is now in the post house. If I have lied, please use the ax and the ax to make the soup. Even if my emperor knows about this matter, he can't say anything else."

Li Shimin couldn't sit still anymore, he stood up and pointed to a guard and said, "Go to the post house and find that man, one steamed bun will replace one man!"

The guards immediately left the palace hall, and within a short time, they brought a young lady. When the lady arrived at the main hall, her face was already pale with fright, but when she saw Wang Mang from a distance, she yelled in a low voice. road:
"Alang!"

Wang Mang smiled, thinking of Li Shimin cupping his hands, looked at the young lady and said, "This is His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Shu Kingdom, please come and meet the Emperor of Shu Kingdom."

I don't know if Wang Mang did it on purpose, but the Emperor of the Great Shu Kingdom said the word "big" with extra force.

Li Shimin seems to have heard something, but what can he do?At the beginning, I looked down on the alliance with Qin, and believed that with the natural danger of Hengpu Pass, Shu was an excellent place, but who knew that Qin really persuaded Chu to form an alliance and crusade against him.

It's just that Feng Shui turns, and this year's fortune is not good.

The girl named Zhaodi immediately knelt down and saluted.

Li Shimin said: "Brother Zhao, I have a question for you."

Hearing the emperor's words, Brother Zhao's body visibly trembled, and he lowered his head and said, "The emperor just asks, and the villain will tell if he knows."

"I ask you, how did you become Wang Mang's wife?"

Brother Zhao sobbed softly: "There is no food in the slave's house. Mother and third brother have starved to death. They can only mark grass on the side of the road and sell themselves cheaply. Only half a catty of food is enough. A Lang threw me a steamed bun. If it's even a catty, the servants will follow Alang."

"Boom——" Li Shimin's head thumped, as if someone had hit him with a heavy hammer. This is the subject of the Shu Kingdom under his rule, who has already lived to such an extent. It was really bought with a steamed bun.

(End of this chapter)