The most cattle country medical concubine

Chapter 501 The Strategy of Customs Clearance (4)
This little maid is clever, remembering what she said before, if you can't sleep at night, you can try to eat something to promote sleep.

"Go and see what's in the kitchen." Li Min agreed.

Nian Xia slipped out of her room, asked Chunmei to guard the door, and walked to the kitchen by herself.

In the kitchen, I searched over and over again. There are ingredients and rice. The problem is, they are all raw, so a fire must be lit.Thinking about cooking porridge for Li Min with some meat.When I was so busy, I suddenly heard a slight babbling sound as if the wind was hitting the door and window.

Afraid that the fire in the kitchen would go out, Nian Xia hurried over to close the window tightly.In this way, it seems that a figure can be seen passing by the window.

The cooked porridge was brought back to Li Min's room, and Nian Xia asked Chunmei who was guarding the door: "Is anyone still awake?"

"Sister Nianxia is talking about sentry posts?" Chunmei asked her back.

When Nian Xia heard this, he rolled his eyes: "I asked what the guards do, they don't need to sleep. I asked those who should have gone to sleep."

Chunmei seemed to realize something suddenly, and said, "Just now I saw Aunt Shang got up, maybe she was going to the toilet."

The toilet is next to the kitchen not far away.When Nian Xia entered Li Min's room with a bowl, he said: "Just now, the servant was lighting a fire in the kitchen to cook porridge for the eldest grandma. Aunt Shang might think it was strange to light a fire at night, so she ran to the kitchen window to take a look, but in the end, the servant was taken aback. Jump."

"How did you scare me?" Li Min answered the little girl's words as if casually.

Nian Xia said it carefully: "The servant went to the window, but there was no one in sight. When I came back, I asked Chunmei and found out that it was Aunt Shang."

Li Min could tell that the little girl was angry because this Aunt Shang could go into the kitchen seriously to see what was going on, but she acted furtively, as if she was staring at her secretly, wanting to read Xia all day long. Grabbing her is like Xia's little braid.Because who doesn't know, Aunt Shang is older than her in studying in Xia, but now she is being ridden on top of her head by a little maid.

"Being upright is not afraid of the shadow slanting. I don't know how many times I have told you this. Why bother to keep everything in my heart and make things difficult for myself." Two sentences taught and comforted the little maid , After Li Min drank a few mouthfuls of porridge, he found his stomach warmed up, pulled up the quilt and lay back on the bed, and fell asleep much easier.

Nian Xia tiptoed to help her put out the candles in the room.I know that she has the habit of not liking to turn on the lamp when she sleeps.

On the second day, when the cock crowed.

The leading soldiers sent by Meng Haoming to investigate at Yanmen Pass have returned.

"Return to the master." The disguised soldier did not have time to remove his makeup, and knelt on one knee in front of Li Min and Meng Haoming to return, "The messengers sent by the emperor last night passed through the Yanmen Pass."

The emperor looks like he's officially getting serious.

"This morning, on the way back from Yanmen Pass, some of the caravans I met had already gotten word that it might be more difficult to pass the customs and set off to return to the capital."

In winter, due to heavy snow and road closures, the number of caravans passing through the customs to Beiyan will be greatly reduced.However, at this time, before the real heavy snow comes, many caravans are willing to take this last journey, bringing the full carload of New Year's goods to Beiyan Saibei, including the Donghu and other ethnic groups in the west and north of Beiyan .

At this time, there are actually a lot of convoys and people to clear the customs.Moreover, if you choose to return at this moment, the loss is really not small, at least you will lose the entire winter, and there are storage fees for storing the goods in the capital, living expenses for people and horses, hotel expenses, etc.

"If the number of people passing through the customs decreases in the past two days, it will not be good for us to fish in troubled waters and pass through the Yanmen Pass. However, if the emperor does not catch people in one day, he will definitely not lift the martial law. That is to say, those caravans will soon I understand that it is meaningless to wait for the situation to improve. Merchants who have no way to bear the loss can only continue to take risks to pass the customs, which is in our interest." Li Min analyzed and said to Meng Haoming, "If the Banner Master Meng has no objection, This concubine thinks that we can prepare to leave tonight."

Meng Haoming had no objection to her accurate analysis.The only remaining problem is how to fish in troubled waters and pass the level.

Let the rest get out.Li Min only left Meng Haoming to discuss.

"Banner Meng, my concubine just heard from the soldier that the troops stationed at Yanmen Pass have not changed. It is General Guo and Guo Zida who are in charge of guarding Yanmen Pass. Does Banner Master Meng know about this General Guo? "

Meng Haoming nodded: "General Guo has been guarding the Yanmen Pass for not a day or two, but for decades. At that time, General Guo was still a fierce general who had made great achievements on the emperor's battlefield. He had a strong personality, With a mighty style, Old General Guo has the title of a tiger that never grows old in 30 years."

Guo Zida, who is almost 60 years old now, is about the same age as Lord Wanli.It can be said that he was a general who accompanied Wanli Lord's generation.Guo Zida's experience in the army can be considered rough.He was not from a noble family, but he was a butcher. Later, something happened to his family. One year when the army was recruiting, he went to the recruiting office with a butcher knife and said that he wanted to join the army.It is said that his butcher knife for slaughtering pigs is still stuck in his waist.

The age of joining the army is old, but joining the army is voluntary, and it is definitely different from those soldiers who were forcibly recruited.Guo Zida, who was very active on the battlefield, started to stand out on his own within a few years.When the emperor sent troops to clean up the Nanman tribe that year, Guo Zida took the lead on the battlefield, captured the leader of the rebel, cut off the head of the rebel, and presented it to the emperor.From then on, he stepped into the eyes of Lord Wanli, who was already the emperor at that time.

Guo Zida's official position, accompanied by his military achievements, has been rising all the way.It stands to reason that such a capable and mighty officer must be reused by the emperor.Moreover, everyone knows that Lord Wanli regrets that there is no general who can fight to replace Duke Hu.

Li Min's guess is really not wrong.

"Old General Guo was defeated for the first time. I heard that the only defeat was the first time that year when the imperial court ordered the emperor to lead troops to Beiyan to join the battle of Donghu. At that time, Donghu Torn apart, Maodun Shanyu's tribe sprang up suddenly. Old General Guo had just arrived in Beiyan, so he was not familiar with Beiyan's battlefield. Besides, he was a Central Plains native through and through, and all the generals he led were also Central Plains natives. People from the Central Plains cannot adapt to the northern climate all at once. Like me, when I first arrived in Beiyan, if the prince hadn’t called a military doctor to stare at me, I’m afraid I’d have been defeated by the powerful weather in the north.”

Hearing his words, Li Min couldn't help guessing, maybe the battle with Donghu involved altitude sickness, so he asked again carefully: "Do you feel short of breath, can't breathe, light-headed, nauseous, want to vomit."

(End of this chapter)