Qiao Chengyun looked at Mr. Liu and had a bad premonition in his face.
"My lord, what do you mean by this? Common people don't quite understand!"
Liu Mingzhi handed the torch to the guards and walked towards the carriage carrying the goods: "Didn't Shopkeeper Qiao say that he was afraid of being robbed by bandits when traveling at night? In that case, I have nothing to do, why don't I send a team of soldiers to escort you?
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Qiao Chengyun's fat body trembled and he forced out a smile: "Sir, you're welcome, the goods of the grassroots will arrive at the destination and be delivered to the owner soon, so I won't bother the officers and soldiers to escort them!"
"Arrived soon?"
"Yes, yes! We'll be there soon. We only have one more day's journey to get there before dawn."
"Oh, I understand. You are going to Hengzhou, which will be very fast!"
"Your Excellency has a keen eye, the common people are delivering goods to Hengzhou!"
Liu Mingzhi looked sideways at the middle-aged man from the Kingdom of Jin: "You said you wanted to follow Shopkeeper Qiao to buy tea, silk and exquisite porcelain, right?"
The middle-aged man glanced at Shopkeeper Jin with a slight worry on his face: "Yes, the common people are planning to sell these things. Your Excellency also knows that His Majesty the Emperor of your country has opened trade routes to exchange goods and services. The people of our two countries are thinking of the Emperor."
Your Majesty is so kind."
Liu Mingzhi nodded happily and looked at Song Qing: "Vice General Song, tell them what Hengzhou produces!"
Song Qing looked at Shopkeeper Qiao and the middle-aged man with a sneer: "Hengzhou produces everything except tea because of the water and soil. It's a big joke that you go to Hengzhou to sell tea!"
The middle-aged man's expression changed, and he looked at Liu Mingzhi who had already gone to inspect the goods with a somewhat gloomy expression!
"preparation!"
Cheng Kai suddenly shouted loudly, and the archers stepped forward and immediately bent their bows and aimed arrows at the dozens of guards around the middle-aged man. The sword and shield soldiers immediately surrounded the archers and protected them.
Liu Mingzhi turned around and looked suspiciously.
Cheng Kai grabbed the command flag and looked at the middle-aged man sharply: "If you dare to act rashly again, I will kill you with thousands of arrows piercing your heart!"
The middle-aged man shrank his eyes and stayed in place, not daring to make the slightest move. Liu Mingzhi drew out his Heavenly Sword and prepared to cut off the rope binding the canvas.
Qiao Chengyun hurriedly walked up: "Sir, these are just ordinary goods. They have been inspected by the officials in the state and city! If you don't believe it, you can see that these are customs clearance documents approved by the grassroots from the Ministry of Household Affairs. The grassroots are in a hurry to deliver the goods to you, sir."
Just do your best and let the common people go!"
Liu Mingzhi did not answer Qiao Chengyun's words and cut off the rope on the cart with his sword. The canvas fell down, revealing the sack on the cart.
Liu Mingzhi reached out and patted it, and the sound of food came out.
Qiao Chengyun breathed a sigh of relief: "Sir, you have seen that it is really just some food! We are all ordinary people, how can we transport materials prohibited by the imperial court!"
"Ordinary people? You are a Mediterranean people. Bald people also have to be searched today. My commander, Liu Mingzhi, has decreed by His Majesty to suppress bandits in the south of the Yangtze River. If you don't rush on your way during the day, you will have to meet my commander who returns from suppressing bandits at night. If not,
It would be remiss of me to conduct an inventory!"
"Search!"
"yes!"
Qiao Chengyun couldn't help but swallowed when he heard Young Master Liu announcing his family status!
The middle-aged man looked at Mr. Liu with surprise and looked up and down.
The cavalrymen dismounted, one on guard and the other untied the ropes around them.
When Qiao Chengyun saw the carriages being untied one after another, sweat broke out on his forehead in the winter.
"Commander, look! Feather Arrow!"
Liu Mingzhi took back the Heavenly Sword and hurriedly walked up. Song Qing took the torch from the personal guard and rushed over.
When Liu Mingzhi looked at the bundles of arrows on the bullock cart, his expression changed sharply. He took a torch and walked towards the back. He couldn't help but gasp when he passed a cart.
Swords and armor, bows and arrows, food and cloth are all available. Although each vehicle is not loaded with much and is hidden in sacks, these supplies combined are more than enough to arm an army of 10,000 people!
Song Qing grabbed an iron-tied bow and stretched the bow string. The tight sound was soft and sweet. He handed the iron-tied bow to Liu Mingzhi with a livid face: "They are all stone bows. Equipped with phoenix feather arrows, they are a great weapon."
ah!"
Liu Mingzhi held on to the lines on the bow: "You bastard, the officials in the state capital along the way actually allowed the iron bow to flow into the hinterland. It is simply dereliction of duty and incompetence."
Qiao Chengyun saw the iron bow in Young Master Liu's hand running at a speed that was inconsistent with his body. He looked at the bow and arrow wrapped in a sack in the frame with horror and his face trembled.
"Why do we have these things? Didn't we say that we only have some swords and armor?"
The middle-aged man and Shopkeeper Jin took a deep breath and closed their eyes as if resigned to their fate.
Among the types of weapons prohibited from trading by the Dalong Court were the iron-tied bows, which were as famous as the rhubarb bows.
"Hey, Shopkeeper Qiao, Shopkeeper Qiao, your home has quite a lot of nursing homes, and you are brave enough. You dare to equip the iron-tired bows that even the soldiers are not allowed to equip, as well as the Jin Kingdom's standard bows and arrows, the triangular arrows!"
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Qiao Chengyun suddenly collapsed to the ground, pointing at shopkeeper Jin and the middle-aged man not far away: "You guys are cheating on me!"
Liu Mingzhi slowly walked up to the middle-aged man: "What else do you have to say? You know in your heart who this batch of supplies is for, and I know it in my heart as well. Let's go back to camp and talk to me about it!"
The middle-aged man looked at Liu Mingzhi with an embarrassed expression: "I fell into your hands, do we have any choice?"
"Escort them all back!"
"The commander-in-chief and his men are all imprisoned in the torture chamber. General Han is counting the supplies. They really provide help in times of need. They replenished our food and grass as soon as they were exhausted!"
Liu Mingzhi kept waving his fingers on the map, with a trace of unconcealable joy on his face.
"It's a time of need, it's really a time of need! I was just worried about how to approach the main altar of the White Lotus Sect, and they came. I absolutely love them!"
Song Qing, who was holding the candlestick, was stunned and immediately came to his senses: "Commander, you are not going to let the brothers down."
"Shhh, see it through but don't tell it through. Don't make any announcement until it's decided!"
"Commander, you have really made a fortune. All kinds of materials combined are worth more than half a million taels of silver, especially the 50,000 arrows we are in urgent need of!"
Han Peng walked into the big tent with joy on his face, and howled with a loud voice before he walked in!
"General Han!"
"The end is here!"
"Send a message to Zhou Baoyu and the golden eagle, and travel through the starry night to join forces!"
"Ah? Yes!"
"etc!"
"What's wrong, Marshal?"
"How many iron tire bows are there in the supplies?"
"About three thousand, all of them are top-quality iron bows!"
Liu Mingzhi pondered for a while: "Tell Zhou Baoyu to dispatch three thousand lightly-armed infantrymen and rush over with only swords and armor!"
"yes!"
"Commander, the method is a good one, but the caravan only has a thousand people. How can we hide it from their spies when there are ten thousand of us?"
"Thirty-six strategies to steal the sky and change the day!"
"Thirty-six strategies again? I don't quite understand!"
"The oxcart can not only carry supplies, maybe we can return to Beijing before the end of the year to renew the order!"
"hiss"
To put it mildly, to put it mildly, my good wife, you are so careless!