In the Shangshu Mansion.

The butler Xu Bo knocked on the door of the study.

Xu Bo pushed the door and said, "Master, someone is asking for a visit."

Zhang Shi raised his head in confusion.

At midnight, this time, someone still wants to see you.

"Who is it?"

Unconsciously, Uncle Xu whispered: "It's the prince's man."

King Wu...I haven't seen him for a while, why did I find someone to inform me for no reason?

Zhang Shi frowned: "Please come in."

Soon, a middle-aged man in black outfit walked in.

He bowed respectfully and held his letter with both hands: "Mr. Zhang, the prince asked me to send you a letter."

"Who are you? Why don't the prince talk to each other in person if he has something to do, and he still has to send someone to deliver a letter?"

"In the Prince's Guard, Qianhu, Jiang Hu."

Zhang Shi trembled and took the envelope, looking at Jiang Hu in surprise.

The Prince's Guard... Before the vassal states were reduced, the local vassal states still retained it.

But the guard has been cancelled long ago!

The King of Wu actually secretly hid this private soldier?

Zhang Shi quickly opened the envelope and looked carefully. As he looked at it, the cold sweat broke out.

Haiyuan City is exposed... The prince goes there in person?

Zhang Shizhe said anxiously: "Apart from this letter, what else has the prince said? Will the prince come back?"

Jiang Hu said: "The prince asked you to keep a useful body. I have already brought you the words. Lord Zhang, let me leave you here!"

After saying that, Jiang Hu turned around and left.

Uncle Xu came over carefully and asked, "Master, why didn't the King of Wu leave with his guard?"

Zhang Shi directly lit the letter paper with an oil lamp, watching the decayed ashes fly constantly, thinking about something.

"Well...you go down first."

.........

Jiang Hu left the Shangshu Mansion and headed straight to a large mansion not far from the royal mansion.

There are many people wearing black uniforms on duty in the mansion, and they look particularly strict.

He walked through the hall and went straight into the study room in the backyard, and called several people by the way.

The study is decorated in a unique way, with a table in the room.

On the desktop is a map that looks like a county town.

As soon as he entered the room, Jiang Hu opened the right path and said straight to the point: "Everyone, the prince has gone far enough."

"Within three days, we will conquer Taoyuan County and grab the merits of infinite powers, and then set out from Jiangling Port. By then, the prince should have been ready to pick us up at another port."

Someone asked: "Thousand Houses, what is this immeasurable merit? Why does the prince attach so much importance to it?"

Jiang Hu looked at the map and said, "I don't know, I heard from the prince that it is a magical object that can break mountains and crack stones! This object is what the prince values ​​the most. He went to capture Fang Zhengyi. If he didn't succeed, it all depends on us.

You must never make any mistakes when you prepare both hands!"

Jiang Hu pointed at the map: "We only have two thousand people, and the next day we will send 200 people to disguise themselves in Taoyuan County and grab the city gate."

"The rest of the people are hiding in the woods two miles away. When the time comes, we will go directly to the city to kill them!"

"The total number of guards and constables in a county will not exceed 500, and they are all mediocre. You each lead a soldier, and the two teams will guard the city gate and don't let people go out. The rest will search separately for the merits of great success.

, kill if you block the road, we must fight quickly!"

"That's all. At noon, I have sent Xiaoliu out to investigate the situation in Taoyuan County first. I should be able to come back tomorrow and make detailed arrangements at that time."

Everyone began to take turns pointing at the map to discuss plans to prevent unexpected situations.

Suddenly, a panicked figure broke in and stood in front of Jiang Hu panting.

Jiang Hu said in shock: "Xiao Liu! Why are you back so soon? The investigation has been completed?"

Xiao Liu panted hard, and after a while, he said, "I...I...I haven't passed the toll station..."

"What!? Toll station?" Jiang Hu was stunned.

"Ah! Toll station! After entering Taoyuan County, it is full of his mother toll stations! I didn't bring enough money, so I couldn't get through two stations..." Xiao Liu looked sad.

Everyone in the room fell silent.

Everyone practices in a farm outside the city on weekdays and rarely has the chance to come out. I have never heard of this kind of thing.

Isn’t this a robbery?

Jiang Hu was furious: "You are a elm-head?! Can't you take a detour?"

Xiao Liu was so aggrieved: "I want to go around! But there are people patroling the places that are a little easier to walk on! Unless you pass through the mountain, you must pass through the toll station!"

"It's so fucking evil! I thought a toll station would disappear after passing, but I didn't expect another one after leaving three hundred feet! Their toll station was like a tea stall. They were obviously officers and soldiers, wearing linen outside.

Clothes! Isn’t this a hooligan!!!”

"Also, the horse is tired of walking, and there are people selling fodder on the roadside, so I didn't think much about it. Who knew that a fodder costs two cents of silver! I also said that this is a shit greenhouse grass. Isn't this a life-threatening person?

I only had twenty cents left on my body when I stood there. They would even surround me if I didn’t pay.”

Jiang Hu slapped the table suddenly and was very angry: "Fuck the bad guy! Why didn't you kill them?"

"Everyone of them has a knife..."

"Did you give the money in the end?" someone asked hurriedly.

Xiaoliu cried: "I really have no money. They detained my horse and found me some money, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to pay the toll station. I ran back..."

"I'll charge you when you go in and get the fee out!!!"

"yes...."

“…….”

"Qianhu, we have met a real robber, what should we do!"

Jiang Hu held his chest and gasped for a few times, feeling a little at a loss.

Things are different from what I imagined. Have robbers become regular now?

"Thousand Houses...what should we do? We can't go over the mountains, right? That's too time-consuming, brothers can't stand it!"

"In my opinion, we might as well rush in, kick off their bird toll station, and then quickly rush to Taoyuan County!"

Xiao Liu hurriedly stopped him and said, "No! Absolutely not!"

"There is a toll station every three hundred feet. If you turn the first one, the people behind you will go back to inform us. And I don't know how many toll stations there are. Then we will do anything once the city gate is closed.

No!"

"What should I do with Qianhu?!"

Jiang Hu's face was calm, and he didn't expect that a small county town would be so troubled! This situation was unheard of, and there was no such thing in the military books...

Jiang Hu blushed and hesitated: "Everyone... raise money, let's go over the toll station first..."

"Qianhu, aren't we going to rob us?!"

"Shut up! Xiao Liu, how much does it cost per person at the toll station?"

Xiao Liu recalled painfully: "One or two liang per person, two liang a horse..."

There were 4,000 taels of horses in total... At this moment, Jiang Hu's eyes were full of confusion.

When the prince left, it seemed that he had no money left for him except for the run-off fee... The money was not enough.

Xiao Liu's weak voice came: "Why don't we sell horses..."
Chapter completed!