"The news is that Mr. Li arrived at Xichuan City at noon yesterday." Xiaoyu said.
"This trip must be very hard. Just get to Xichuan and send a message to Li Didi, asking him to have a good rest for a few days and don't have to rush back."
Tubo is located on a plateau, so even a trip there would have been difficult in previous lives, let alone now.
It was beyond Jin Feng's expectation that Li Didi came back so soon.
"Yes," Xiaoyu nodded.
"What else did the intelligence say?" Jin Feng asked: "Are Didi and the others okay?"
"Not good," Xiaoyu shook her head and said, "Only seventeen people came back from the mission, and ten of them were Tibetan envoys. Mr. Li seems to be injured too, with a bandage on his head!"
"Only seven of our people came back? Is Didi injured?" Jin Feng frowned and asked, "What's going on?"
Li Didi did not go alone on his mission to Tibet. He was accompanied by more than 20 other officials and guards.
As a result, only seven people came back now, and Li Didi was injured. Apparently they encountered an accident on the road.
"I don't know," Xiaoyu shook her head: "The brothers stationed in Xichuan only saw Mr. Li entering the city and then going to Qing Mansion. The brothers stationed in Xichuan sent the news back before they had time to visit Mr. Li.
The brothers over there have already sent a greeting card to the Qing Mansion, and will send the news back as soon as they learn the specific situation."
After all, it is hundreds of miles from Xichuan to Xihewan. No matter how fast the flying pigeon delivers the message, there will be a delay. This is something that can't be helped.
Li Didi entered Xichuan City yesterday afternoon, and Zhong Ming's team has now passed the news back, and the speed is already high.
"If Qing Xinyao sends a memorial, send it to me immediately!" Jin Feng looked at Tie Shixin again.
"Yes," Tie Shixin agreed.
Li Didi's mission this time was to send an envoy to Tibet, which was related to the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and there were also casualties. After Qing Xinyao learned about the situation, he would definitely write a memorial and report to the Privy Council.
Li Didi went to Qing Mansion yesterday afternoon. Under normal circumstances, Qing Xinyao would have met with him yesterday afternoon, and then he would have written the memorial last night and arranged for it to be delivered this morning.
If you arrange an airship, you can receive it this afternoon or evening.
But the Privy Council receives too many memorials every day. They will sort them out tonight, arrange the memorials according to the urgency of the matter, and send them to the Ninth Princess for review tomorrow morning.
Jin Feng was very concerned about Li Didi's affairs and couldn't wait until tomorrow morning.
All they heard today was bad news. The Ninth Princess and Jin Feng were in a bad mood. They scolded the ministers a few more times and announced that the meeting was adjourned.
Jin Feng did not go back and stayed in the Imperial Study Room waiting for news from Xichuan.
Just as Jin Feng had guessed, not long after lunch, the Privy Council received a memorial from Xichuan.
Not only Qing Xinyao’s, but also Li Didi’s.
Tie Shixin knew that Jin Feng was anxious, but he didn't even look at it and hurriedly sent it to the imperial study room.
The Ninth Princess was taking a lunch break at the time, and Jin Feng met Tie Shixin in the imperial study.
Chapter 1654 Greedy Patrol (2 / 2)
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Instructing Zhuer to call Princess Ninth, Jin Feng opened Li Didi's envelope first, took out the memorial inside and read it.
The Ninth Princess was also very concerned about Li Didi's affairs. She came in before Jin Feng finished reading the memorial.
Sitting next to Jin Feng, she gestured to Zhuer to help her with her hair and asked, "What did Li Didi say? What did they encounter in Tubo?"
"Didi said that not long after they arrived on the plateau, they were discovered by the Goshawk tribe, and then the Goshawk tribe started to hunt them down!"
Jin Feng said: "Didi and the others sacrificed more than a dozen brothers before they finally arrived at the territory of the hostile forces of the Goshawk Tribe."
"Aren't Didi and the others disguised as a caravan? Why are they still being hunted down?" Ninth Princess asked with a frown.
"Because the Goshawk tribe is more greedy than we thought, they not only want to confiscate all the goods of the caravan, but also capture Didi and the others as slaves!" Jin Feng said helplessly.
The Goshawk Tribe has now occupied half of the plateau. Before setting off, Li Didi and the others were prepared to encounter the Goshawk Tribe for interrogation. They also specially dressed up as a caravan and planned to encounter the Goshawk Tribe's checkpoints or patrols.
Get by with some money.
It's a pity that the patrol team of the Goshawk tribe is too greedy. Not only does it want money, but it also wants all the goods. Even Li Didi and the others are not going to let it go.
Li Didi had no choice but to order the patrol to be eliminated.
Then the chase began.
"Isn't it okay for Li Didi and the others to bring a fan?" Princess Ninth asked again.
There are no supply points on the plateau. Li Didi and the others cannot take an airship to the plateau, so they can only ride horses.
Because of Wei Laosan's rebellion, there are now hot air balloons on the plateau.
The Goshawk tribe is the tribe with the hot air balloon and the tribe with the most hope of re-pacifying the plateau.
As the inventor of hot-air balloons, Jin Feng knows very well what hot-air balloons mean in this era.
Li Didi and the others were originally alone deep behind enemy lines. If they were discovered by the other side and the other side sent out hot air balloons, Li Didi and the others would not be able to escape at all.
In order to prevent this situation, Li Didi and the others not only brought a hot air balloon, but Jin Feng also designed a fan specifically for them, which could barely solve the problem of the hot air balloon not being able to move autonomously.
The so-called blower is a fan.
Although the fan needs to be driven by manpower, the efficiency is very low, and it is difficult to fly against the wind. However, when the wind is downwind, the speed of the hot air balloon can be increased, and some directional adjustments can be made. When the wind is against the wind, the hot air balloon can also fly
Fly slower.
This is equivalent to giving the hot air balloon some ability to move autonomously in disguise.
Hot air balloons on the plateau were already lagging behind those of Sichuan and Sichuan. With the help of fans, if Li Didi and the others were surrounded, they could break out from the air with the help of hot air balloons.
"Didi and the others were surrounded three times on the plateau. The first two times they broke through with the help of hot air balloons and wind turbines. But for the third time, the Goshawk tribe summoned a large number of hot air balloons in advance. Didi and the others' hot air balloons just arrived.
As we ascended into the air, we were surrounded by hot air balloons from the Goshawk Tribe."
Jin Feng gritted his teeth and said: "Of the three hot air balloons, only the one with Didi escaped in the end. The other two hot air balloons were shot down by the Goshawk tribe because they were covering Didi!"
"Damn the Goshawk Tribe, wait until I pacify the Central Plains before dealing with them!" The Ninth Princess clenched her fist and smashed it on the table.
"Wuyang, I'm afraid we have to deal with the Goshawk tribe first." Jin Feng said helplessly: "Didi said that they bombed a branch of the Goshawk tribe during the breakout.