Chapter 304 Fisherman (Nine)

"Lord, Linzhou's urgent telegram was sent by Ren Yong." Li Ming had just been idle for a few days, and Yi hurried in.

"What's going on?" Li Ming asked casually while receiving the telegram.

"When Linzhou was building roads, he found a group of soldiers hiding in the dense forest. After a hard battle, the troops monitoring the migrant workers in the road construction industry wiped out about 2,000 people and captured more than 300 people. I wonder if it could be Li Jiao......"

When B reported, Li Ming had already read the telegram quickly. He slapped the telegram on the table and ordered: "Tell Ren Yong to confirm the identities of those people as soon as possible, and search for many companies in the surrounding dense forests. I hope it will be Li Jiao and the others."

This situation made Li Ming, who had already thrown Li Jiao behind his head, excited. Unexpectedly, Li Jiao could be excavated in Linzhou. If Ren Yong confirmed that he was the remnant of Li Jiao, his last big trouble would have emerged from the water.

Half a day later, Ren Yong called Li Ming in person, and there seemed to be a hint of fear in his voice.

"Your Majesty, please forgive my fault. After I personally confirmed that those people are indeed the remains of Li Jiao, and Li Jiao has been found in it..."

"Really?" Li Ming interrupted him excitedly and asked anxiously: "Where is he? In your military camp? Send him here immediately!"

"No...no." Ren Yong became stuttering: "Your Majesty, those soldiers didn't know that they were Li Jiao's remnants. During the fight, Li Jiao had been killed and his body was parked in the military camp..."

"Is that true..." Li Ming subconsciously responded to the evidence, sat dejectedly on the chair without saying anything for a long time, not knowing what it felt like.

Li Jiao was once his biggest enemy. Once upon a time, he wished that Li Jiao would die immediately in front of him. However, when he heard the news of Li Jiao's death, he felt a sense of loss. At this point, the only descendants of the Li family in the Tang Dynasty were Princess Changle. Li Song, who fought for the struggle for the country back then, all died at his own hands. Is his actions right or wrong? Even Li Ming himself cannot answer this question.

"Emperor... Emperor, I... I ask for your forgiveness. I failed to protect Li Jiao. Now, what should I do with his body?" Ren Yong mustered up the courage to ask stammeringly.

Li Ming came to his senses and whispered: "Let me go ahead, I'll think about it first."

According to Li Ming's previous thoughts, after he caught Li Jiao, he should have a trial meeting like Li Qing and then be executed in public. However, Li Song's death caused a great impact on his soul. Now that he thinks about it, he feels very regretful. Since Li Jiao has been killed, he should have written off his previous actions.

He decided to make a decision in his heart. He grabbed the phone again and answered Ren Yong, whispering: "Let him bury him in place, and the other soldiers who died in battle were buried together. After all, these are all loyal soldiers, and they should be buried in peace. Don't erect the tombstone, and his affairs will end here, don't mention them again."

Putting down the phone, he walked out of the study, listening to the laughter and the cry of the baby from the room next to him, slightly dispelling a little of the haze in his heart.

Now, he is already a father and has a greater understanding of family affection. The birth of the child has also made the killing that gradually gathered in his heart gradually disappear.

A month later, Lin Long went to Linzhou to welcome Li Chaoyang back.

This time, Li Chaoyang brought back a convoy of twenty trucks and transported back various equipment he urgently needed.

In the back garden, Li Ming held a banquet to greet Li Chaoyang. During the meal, Li Ming drove Zhang Yao and Lin Long away, and then asked quietly: "Last time I asked you to check Tan Ying's affairs, I have been very busy. I forgot about this matter. How is she now?"

Li Chaoyang smiled mysteriously and replied: "I thought you were talking casually at that time? Why did you use my name? It made me very embarrassed at the time. Fortunately, I was smart and covered up this matter. Fortunately, she is a doctoral student in the Department of Space Physics of Peking University, but she has no new home yet. When I saw her last time, I heard that you asked me to see her. I was so excited that I repeatedly asked me to visit you, but I dragged it over with various reasons. By the way, thanks to her help to purchase these items this time, otherwise, this helium production system alone would not be introduced. She asked me to tell you and want to see you."

Li Ming smiled bitterly, recalling the scene when he was at the Tianshan Ranch. The scene when Tan Ying came to the ranch to report him on the dark night made him unforgettable for his life. However, he and she were destined to have no such fate. As a modern woman, he would never share himself with Zhang Yao and the others. Therefore, this relationship can only be regarded as a beautiful memory.

"This matter will gradually fade away with the passage of time. We don't have this fate. Tan Ying is a good girl, but she is not suitable for this society. At present, I don't want other modern people to know the existence of this space, which will bring huge disasters to this space. Brother, I hope you can also remember this point. For the sake of the millions of people in this space, you must keep this secret."

Li Chaoyang stared at Li Ming for a while and said with a wry smile: "It's hard to let you go so much. That Tan Ying is indeed a very cute girl. It's a pity to give up like this, but what you said makes sense. Sometimes things are not that perfect. Listen to you, I will keep this matter secret."

"Now material desires are ripe in society, and people have great ambitions. Once they know the existence of this space, they will immediately suffer. This is an undeveloped virgin land and a pure land among human beings. I hope to transform this place in my own way." This is the last sentence Li Ming said before the two broke up.

The summer of this year passed very quickly. Before people could experience the heat of the scorching heat, the cool autumn came in a hurry. After a rare and leisurely summer, Li Ming began to prepare his plan to go north.

This summer was peaceful for the Tang Dynasty, but it was undoubtedly a disaster for the Zhou Dynasty.

During the process of besieging Yunxiao City, the Desert Legion gradually occupied the entire territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom in three groups, and even began to launch an attack on the Mengyin border. However, the well-equipped Tang border defense forces were defeated, which made these white people no longer dare to take half a step south. In just over five months, the entire territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom fell, and Yunxiao City was also captured after being trapped for more than three months.

Ximen Hu, who lost his martial arts, desperately escaped from Yunxiao City under the escort of the disciples of Longyi Temple. The Emperor Liu Guanghe of the Great Zhou Dynasty, who had become the queen for a few days, was blocked into the palace. Liu Guangning refused to surrender and led the palace guards to the last one, and finally committed suicide under the siege of the enemy. Princess Changle, who was hiding in the deep palace, was searched out, and after suffering all the humiliation, he was taken to the city to be executed. Lin Shuang, who was hiding in Yunxiao City, snatched her body out in the middle of the night according to Li Ming's instructions and sent back to the Tang Dynasty overnight.

Returning to Yunxiao City, Emperor Liu Gu of the Great Zhou Dynasty naturally relied on the efforts of the Desert Legion. According to the prior agreement, Liu Gu gave Tuhu and the northern part of the Great Zhou to those white people, preparing to make a comeback on this limited territory.

However, the tragedy of attracting the wolf into the house inevitably happened to Liu Gu.

Since Lin Shuang personally rushed back to the Tang Dynasty with Princess Changle's body, the two assistants he left behind were not as good as him, so most of the information in Yunxiao City was obtained based on the changes in the city. Since the white people entered Yunxiao City, they had to kill a large number of Great Zhou officials and people every day, but the troops of the Great Zhou Kingdom were not established. A month after entering Yunxiao City, Li Ming finally concluded Liu Gu's tragedy based on the situation there.

When she told Man about this judgment and recent information, she showed an expected calmness. Perhaps she had already guessed this ending in her heart, but this ending was helpless and irreversible. Perhaps she had already accepted this result in her heart.

Lin Shuang carried Princess Changle's body and rushed to the Tang Dynasty day and night. In fact, it was midsummer. Although the body was treated with lime, it was still inevitable to rot. It was difficult for Lin Shuang to get through the way. It was just that after he returned to Nanguo City, he lay in bed without eating for half a month.

After greeting Lin Shuang, Li Ming ordered the Imperial Hospital to deal with Princess Changle's body, then freeze it in the cold storage, waiting for his use.

On this day, great news was finally received that the southern grain-producing areas began to harvest. The grain produced in these grain-producing continents in Jiang, Hu, Ping and Zhong accounted for more than half of the Tang Dynasty. The grain from these places was enough to support Li Ming's troops to engage in a large-scale war.

Li Ming also began to create momentum for his expedition plan on this day.

Since Li Ming came to power, the tax on farmers has been greatly reduced. Only 20% of the food in autumn each year, and 80% of the remaining food belongs to the farmers themselves. However, this tax method is normal. If there is a wartime situation, the wartime tax can be temporarily increased.

For Li Ming, he was unwilling to force the levy of the people, as that would make his good reputation disappear. Therefore, he needed an excuse to encourage the people to take the initiative to give away the surplus food from his home.
Chapter completed!