"Oh, can't there be a place nearby where a large amount of food is stored?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but ask in surprise when he heard Hu Yicheng's words.

"Hehe, I understand. I guess Hu Yicheng is talking about the food escorted by Wang Shi, right?" As soon as Zhao Yan finished speaking, Huang Wude next to him suddenly smiled, and at the same time looked at Hu Yicheng with a meaningful look. He thought that although Hu Yicheng looked honest, he was also a person who would avenge his revenge. If Wang Shi had less military escorted, no matter what the reason, he would probably not be able to hand over the job after returning. This was probably to revenge the slap he was slapped by the other party yesterday.

"Well~, my father-in-law is wise, and the villain thought of this solution in his helplessness. I hope my father-in-law understands it!" Hu Yicheng was also a slippery man. When he saw Huang Wude's appearance, he immediately coughed and apologized. Fortunately, he didn't know Huang Wude's identity in advance, and he was afraid that he would not dare to act like such a prudent thing in front of the other side.

Zhao Yan is not a fool who is not a human relationship accident. Naturally, he also saw Hu Yicheng's selfishness, but! No! Wrong! There is only one way now. After all, you can't let these 3,000 people go hungry. So after thinking for a while, he ordered Huang Wude: "Old Huang, you can talk to Wang Shuo about this matter. Let him take out some food first. I will write a note by myself at that time, and I will not let his Shangguan blame him!"

"I'll do it now!" Huang Wude immediately spoke when he heard Zhao Yan's order. When he was in the capital, he only listened to Zhao Shu's orders. Now that he left the capital, everything was naturally dominated by Zhao Yan. In addition, he also knew that Zhao Yan did not want to see Wang Shi, so he asked him to come forward. This was also a good opportunity to share Zhao Yan's worries.

With Huang Wude's identity, even the Hezhong prefect behind Wang Shi would be polite when he saw him, so he came forward to do this, and Zhao Yan didn't take it seriously. However, what he didn't expect was that after a while, Huang Wude brought Wang Shi in with a wry smile on his face, which surprised Zhao Yan and Cao Song. Huang Wude should know that Zhao Yan didn't want to see Wang Shi, and with his shrewdness, it should be impossible for him to bring the other party in. Could it be that there is any reason for this?

"Prince, I'm afraid we're going to be hungry these days!" As soon as Huang Wude came in, he immediately smiled bitterly and said to Zhao Yan.

"What's going on?" Zhao Yan asked in a deep voice, and turned his head to look at Wang Sheng beside Huang Wude.

Wang Shi bowed to Zhao Yanshen at this time and said, "The prince doesn't know that although the escorts are nominally food, they are actually just a cover-up. This time, the escorts are mainly firearms sent from the capital. There is not much real food, even if we add our dry food, it is not enough for 3,000 people to eat for a few days!"

"What? Firearm?" Zhao Yan was shocked when he heard this, and then walked to the window to look outside. He lived on the second floor. He could see dozens of big cars parked outside at a glance. The closest of these big cars was only twenty or thirty meters away. If it exploded, he might tear it to pieces in an instant.

"Huh~, Fortunately, it's raining now. Otherwise, if an accident occurs, the entire inn will probably be bombed into the sky!" Zhao Yan secretly wiped the cold sweat and said to himself.

No one knows gunpowder better than him. Although the soldiers on the front line rely on firearms to win, gunpowder also has many shortcomings, such as the instability of gunpowder. There are countless accidents caused by gunpowder alone. At least hundreds of craftsmen died of such accidents. In addition, accidents are also prone to accidents during the transportation of gunpowder. He remembered that a month ago, a team of gunpowder transported gunpowder was bombed into the sky due to accidents, and more than half of the entire team died and injured. These are bloody lessons. If the inventor of gunpowder also died in gunpowder accidents, I am afraid that I would not know what people in the future evaluate him?

Wang Yan escorted gunpowder. This thing was naturally not eaten. In the end, Zhao Yan had to ask him to take out the food for cover-up first, hoping that the rain could stop within two days, otherwise everyone would have to go hungry. In addition, Zhao Yan did not forget to ask Wang Yan to pull the car with gunpowder a little far away from the post station, so as not to razor the post station to the ground in case of accidents.

Perhaps Zhao Yan and the others were lucky. The continuous autumn rain finally stopped after two days. The weather turned from cloudy to clear. The sun in the sky emitted endless heat, as if it was to emit its last energy after this autumn rain. This also made the road dry very quickly. After Zhao Yan and the others waited for another day, they set off immediately. As for Wang Shen and the others, they were actually on the same road as Zhao Yan, but Zhao Yan didn't want to be with a bunch of gunpowder, so they accelerated and distanced themselves from the other party.

However, on the way, Cao Song once reminded Zhao Yan that firearms were the top priority of the Song Dynasty and officials at all levels also attached great importance to them. Wang Shi was sent by the Hezhong Prefect to escort the firearms. From this, we can see that he was still valued. Maybe he could become an official again in the future with the recommendation of the Hezhong Prefect. Zhao Yan didn't care too much about this. Anyway, Wang Shi had nothing to do with Princess Bao'an, and no matter how he was tortured, it had nothing to do with him.

Next, Zhao Yan and the others did not encounter too bad weather. They walked all the way northwest. Xu Jingqingzhou and other places finally came to Xi'an Prefecture. Zhao Xu, who was in the rear, stayed here. When Zhao Yan on the carriage saw the city walls of Xi'an Prefecture from afar, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After more than a month of trekking, he finally arrived at his destination.

Xi'an Prefecture has a high city and deep rivers, and the roads are well connected. It used to be one of the busiest cities on the border of the Western Xia. Now, after being occupied by the Song Dynasty, it has become the base camp for the Song Dynasty to invade the Western Xia. Most of the materials transported from the Song Dynasty were hoarded here and then moved to various armies on the front line. Most of these affairs were handled by Zhao Xu himself, which was also what he was best at.

As the base camp of the Song army, Xi'an Prefecture naturally had a large army stationed, and the defense was very tight. Before Zhao Yan and his team arrived at the city gate, they were stopped by the patrol team. After Huang Wude's men showed the pass document, the other party let it go. However, this was just the beginning. Then several levels checked Zhao Yan and his identities, and it was difficult to send it to the city.

When the carriage entered Xi'an Prefecture, Zhao Yan deliberately opened the car window and looked at the strong city of Xi'an Prefecture at close range. He saw that the tall city walls of Xi'an Prefecture were covered with black sanks. These were all left by the explosion of shells. In addition, the city gate was also black. It is said that the city gate was exploded with a large amount of gunpowder, and Zhao Yan found that the city gate was also new. It seems that the city gate here was indeed blown up.

After passing through the city gate, Zhao Yan immediately felt a lively atmosphere coming to his face. Although the outside of the city was heavily guarded, the city seemed like another world. The shops on the streets on both sides of the city gate had already opened, and some small vendors in the open air were also shouting lively, including Song people, Tubo people, and even some Dangxiang people. Everyone was leisurely and contented. It seemed that they had already escaped from the war. Only the Song army patrols that walked through the streets from time to time showed that this place was still in a state of war.

It is worth mentioning that the Xixia was a country established by the Dangxiang people. The Dangxiang people naturally had the highest status in the Xixia country, especially the Western Xia plundered nature. Many Han people who were robbed from the Song Dynasty became slaves and were bullied by the Dangxiang people. In addition, the Xixia even said one thing to the Song Dynasty, which made the Song Dynasty hated the people of the Xixia people extremely.

However, although the Song army now occupied a lot of places in Xixia, the Song army did not retaliate against the people of Xixia, and everything remained the same. This was mainly to stabilize the people's hearts and prevent the occupied people from resisting on a large scale. These were also what Zhao Yan learned from Zhao Shu. He even knew that Zhao Shu was already formulating a plan to disintegrate the people of Xixia. After completely occupying the Xixia, the plan would tell the truth step by step. Any Xixia who dared to resist would be ruthlessly suppressed. If this plan was implemented successfully, then there was no need to worry that the Xixia area would be separated from the rule of the Song Dynasty as it did last time.

It was also the first time that Zhao Yan entered a city of Xixia people. He looked around curiously, but he was soon disappointed, because the economy of Xixia was much worse than that of the Song Dynasty, and there was nothing to see on the market. Of course, this was a bit absolute. Some of the Hu merchants from the Western Regions were still interesting. Xixia just blocked the original Silk Road, and Hu merchants from the Western Regions could only come to Xixia with goods. Very few could go to the Song Dynasty, so there were many Hu merchants here, and there were even some brown-haired and blue-eyed Hu women selling goods. Unfortunately, Zhao Yan has no time now, otherwise he could choose a few of them from them to take them home as gifts.

Zhao Yan was rushed to scold Zhao Xu by Zhao Shu, so he did not notify Zhao Xu in advance. When his carriage stopped at the commander's mansion in the center of the city, he asked someone to go in and report that the commander's mansion was originally the governing mansion of Xi'an Prefecture. After Zhao Xu moved in, he changed the plaque and the guards were much stricter than before.

Zhao Xu had just received the news from the city patrol soldiers. He knew that an army from the capital had come to the city. When he was guessing why the army came, he didn't expect that someone outside reported that his younger brother Zhao Yan was waiting outside the gate of the general's mansion. This surprised and happy Zhao Xu, and hurried to the door to greet him in person.

Zhao Yan, Cao Song and others also got off the carriage and were looking around the scenery around the general's mansion. When they saw Zhao Xu coming out of the gate, Zhao Yan immediately laughed and stepped forward and said, "Brother, long time no see, you have caused such a big disaster!"

Zhao Xu was stunned when he heard Zhao Yan's words, then immediately reacted and smiled bitterly: "So third brother, you were sent by your father. I wonder how your father asked you to deal with this matter?" (To be continued...)

Chapter 470: Brothers Reunite:
Chapter completed!