Chapter 196: Hoarding Military Food

Xiao Fan's expression was very satisfied when he left the wing room. He felt that his attitude towards Zhang Hongqiao was very correct. From now on, he followed this example and saw her a banana every day, only looking at her but not getting into her body. Of course, if she had any needs, Xiao Fan would never refuse.

It is necessary to maintain a certain distance and be vigilant against such women of unknown origin. Putting aside emotional factors, no one wants to sleep with a woman who has a secret ulterior motive or even murderous intentions, which will be fatal. A peerless beauty can't do it either. No matter how beautiful the patterns on a snake are, its essence is still a snake. Who dares to sleep with it?

——Of course, Xu Xian didn’t count. Not only did he dare to sleep, he also made the big white snake’s belly bigger. This proved that he was a very amazing person, and Xiao Fan could not compare with him.

After throwing Zhang Hongqiao into the wing room, Xiao Fan ordered two clever little maids to serve her, and ignored Zhang Hongqiao.

Peiping is a dangerous place. Xiao Fan is not so stupid that he is addicted to Zhu Di's nose. As an imperial envoy in the court, he has a lot to do.

As Xiao Fan entered Peking, there were more personal troops from the Yan Prince's Mansion outside the imperial envoy. Under the banner of protecting the imperial envoy, they were actually closely monitoring Xiao Fan's every move. There were also many vendors outside the Jietai Temple, including fruit sellers, fat and powder, and many people wearing ordinary people's uniforms walking around outside the temple, cutting prices with vendors, but they kept glanced at the temple.

Of course, these tricks cannot be hidden from Xiao Fan's personal army. The Jinyiwei's old profession is to keep an eye on people, track and monitor. They are the ancestors who do these things. In the eyes of the personal army, the guards of the Yan Palace are too unprofessional to do these things, and they are simply ridiculous.

When the personal army reported the matter to Xiao Fan, Xiao Fan smiled and told them to go lightly.

A few days later, Xiao Fan, Daming and Daliang wore official uniforms and fought the ceremonial guards of the imperial envoy, and visited several border camps outside Beiping City, but they were fighting the banner of rewarding the army on behalf of the emperor.

The sign was too big, so Zhu Di was not inconvenient to object, so he had to send someone to secretly issue military orders. No one in the Yan army in Peking was allowed to talk too much with the imperial envoy, nor could he disclose sensitive military topics such as the number of soldiers in the camp, the land and quantity of food and grass, etc.

The soldiers of Peking who received the secret order were speechless. No matter how friendly and humble Xiao Fan was in the army, he could not get any valuable information. The Yan army made Xiao Fan encounter a small soft nail.

Xiao Fan didn't think it was offended. This result was originally expected. If they really asked whatever they asked, it would be a ghost.

The ceremonial war left the city and returned to the city. No one noticed that more than a hundred people were missing in the three thousand ceremonial wars. All of them were as the ceremonial war passed through the most crowded street market. More than a hundred soldiers quietly disappeared among the people watching the fun, changed into casual clothes, and then walked out of the city gate in a low-key and leisurely manner, scattered and disappeared in the villages, farmlands and grass outside the city.

Xiao Fan sat in the carriage and saw the subordinates of the Jinyiwei quietly merged into the people through the rear window of the carriage. Xiao Fan put down the curtain and a mysterious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. - Build the plank road openly and crossed the Chencang secretly. The net has been scattered. Whether he can catch a big fish depends on his subordinates' ability. Xiao Fan is very confident in them.

In the evening, a dealer carrying fruits and vegetables came to Jietai Temple. The dealer wore a hat and covered his entire face tightly. In front of the guards of the Yan Prince's Mansion, he carried the load into the kitchen of Jietai Temple.

After entering the kitchen, the dealer did not dare to delay, so he hurriedly threw down his load and walked quickly to the imperial envoy behind the temple.

At the side door of the headquarters, Xiao Fan's personal army had been waiting. When he saw the dealer coming, he nodded at him without saying a word. He waved his hand and led him into the side door and brought him to Xiao Fan.

"The villain Wang Gui, kowtowed to Commander Xiao." The dealer took off his hat and bowed.

Xiao Fan frowned and said, "Wang Gui? Wang Gui from the Chen family business?"

Wang Gui raised his head, showed a flattering smile on his face, and arched his body and said, "Mr. Xiao is so good at memory. It's really a villain who can be remembered by a nobleman like you. It's really a villain's ancestral grave that is emitting blue smoke."

Xiao Fan suddenly lowered his face and said coldly: "I have a good memory, but Wang Gui, your memory seems to be very bad! Have you forgotten what I said? You opened a rice shop in Peking and bought the Yan army's military rations, so you just keep your business honestly and never meet with me. When I need you, I will send someone to find you. Do you think my words are indifferent?"

Seeing that Xiao Fan looked bad, Wang Gui hurriedly knelt down again and said in panic: "Stop angry! The villain did not attract anyone's attention when he came. Besides, the villain did not want to disturb you, sir, but the shopkeeper Chen said that the matter was serious, so the villain must report to you in person, please decide..."

Xiao Fan's expression suddenly became solemn: "Chen Ying'er asked you to see me? What happened?"

Wang Gui reported: "Sir, when the villain was still in the south last month, the King of Yan sent someone to pass an order to the villain, saying that from this month, the Yan army needed a large amount of food. In the past, only more than 1,000 stones were needed per month, but this time, the King of Yan needed 10,000 stones, and the number of purchases will be carried out every month. Manager Chen felt something was strange, so he urgently ordered the villain to come to Peking to report to the Lord."

Xiao Fan frowned deeply and said, "More than a thousand stones turn into ten thousand stones? Does it take ten thousand stones a month?"

“That’s right.”

Unconsciously knocking on the table, Xiao Fan's heart suddenly stumbled, and his heart suddenly sank.

Zhu Di is now ready to stockpile grain!

What does this action mean? It means that he has begun to make final preparations for rebellion. If enough food and grass are stored, he will rebel just after the Yan army is trained well!

The situation is getting worse and worse!

Xiao Fan frowned and said, "How many places are there for King Yan to stock up on grain?"

Wang Gui said: "There are more than a dozen places in the entire Peking Prefecture, such as Xuanfu, Chengping, Baoding, Jizhou, etc. The troops garrisoned in various places have special grain and grass warehouses for the soldiers."

"How do you hand over the food and grass to the Yan army on weekdays?"

"The villain just needs to send the grain and grass outside the western suburbs of Peking, and the grain and grass officers of the Yan army will be accepted, and then they will send people to distribute the grain and grass to the troops stationed in various places in Peking..."

"Do you supply all the food and grass that the Yan army ate?"

Wang Gui smiled and said, "How is that possible? There are so many people in the Yan army, and it is impossible for the villain to take on this business alone... However, the villain has been with the Yan army for more than a year and has gradually gained the trust of the King of Yan, and the price of the villain's food is much lower than that of others, so nearly 70% of the food and grass eaten by the Yan army is supplied by the villain..."

"Who supplies 30%?"

"That was purchased by the generals of the Yan army from various places from local grain merchants on their own, but most of the grain and grass must be operated by the western suburbs of Peking for them."

Xiao Fan's heart became heavier and heavier. It seemed that it would be impossible to burn more than a dozen places where grain was stored. At most, one or two places would not hurt Zhu Di's vitality. At that time, he wanted to cut off Zhu Di's food route, so he sent Wang Gui to take over the transaction of supplying Yan's food and grass. Chen Ying'er also made great efforts and deliberately lowered the grain prices to supply Yan's army. This made Zhu Di relax his mind and gradually handed over most of the grain and grass procurement to Wang Gui.

Now it seems that the Yan army's grain channels are not so easy to break. There is more than Wang Gui in the world, and Wang Gui does not provide grain. Most of them are grain merchants crying and shouting to take over the Yan army's procurement rights. Xiao Fan originally planned to find a way to scare away the big grain merchants around Peking, so that Wang Gui formed a monopoly in Peiping, so that Zhu Di had to rely on Wang Gui to provide grain, which was equivalent to snatching Zhu Di's neck.

Unfortunately, the time was too short, and Zhu Di's pace was too fast, so many things were not too late to do.

Xiao Fan felt a deep loss in his heart. Could it be that the chess piece that was painstakingly laid over a year ago became a waste of chess in a blink of an eye?

Xiao Fan was unwilling to give up, very unwilling to give up!

He has never failed to harm others, and he has damaged one by one, and he cannot break the record with Zhu Di, which is a shame for him.

After a long silence, Xiao Fan suddenly asked, "Do you know how the food and grass eaten by the Yan army soldiers?"

Wang Gui smiled and said, "Sir, you can tell the right person. The villain has been dealing with the Yan army for more than a year. Although he has never allowed the villain to enter their camp, the villain is very familiar with the food and grass officials in the Xijiao camp. Once he drank too much and told the villain how to make marching rations..."

Xiao Fan's eyes gradually shone with light and said with great interest: "How are the marching rations made?"

"Generally, the food and supplies in the rear are sent back every half a month. Rice is the main one, mixed with a little wild vegetable bran and wheat. When there is no war, two pots are made of each hundred households, and rice is built on the spot. If there is any war or marching, dry food is distributed to the soldiers. The dry food is to grind the rice bran and wheat into powder, add some ingredients, steam and dry it repeatedly, and put it into the soldiers' luggage, which can be taken out at any time. According to the grain and grass official, this method has been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years. The military books say that this thing is called 'soldier grain balls'..."

"Soldiers and Grain Pills..." Xiao Fan murmured to himself, his expression was thoughtful, but his eyes lit up a lot.

"Is the salt they eat also in this military food ball?"

Wang Gui nodded and smiled, "Yes, the soldiers are so fast that they don't have time to build rice in the pot, so they can only eat hard dry food. However, if there is no war, the salt they eat is not directly put into the pot, but put a cotton cloth in salt water in advance and boil it several times. The cloth strip absorbs the salt. When making rice, you only need to tear off a corner of the cotton cloth and throw it into the pot. The rice in the pot will smell salty..."

Xiao Fan suddenly realized: "So that's what it is..."

I don’t know if I don’t say it, I’ve gained some knowledge this time.

Wang Gui naturally knew that there was deep resentment between Xiao Fan and Zhu Di. Seeing that Xiao Fan asked so carefully, he couldn't help but understand a little, and leaned forward and laughed, "Do you want to use your brain on the food and grass of King Yan?"

Xiao Fan patted Wang Gui on the shoulder and said seriously: "Well, I just made a wise decision. I plan to send you to sneak into the Yan army camp, steal all the cotton strips that they absorbed salt, and then replace them with used menstrual belts..."

Wang Gui's legs became weak, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, and said pale: "Sir, please spare your life! Although the villain eats, drinks, whores and gambling on weekdays, he will not die!"

Xiao Fan laughed and said, "Okay, I'm scaring you. With your skills, you will be shot into a sieve by others before entering the Yan army camp..."

After turning his eyes, a rather sinister idea gradually took shape in my heart.

Since a move of chess can't be discarded, it may be of great use to Wang Gui...

"Don't leave now, wait for me here, I'll go back..."

Xiao Fan walked towards the wing room on the right side of the shaft without looking back.

Bang!

Xiao Fan kicked Taixu's door open without hesitation.

Taixu was so scared that his face turned pale, covering his heart, looking like he was about to die, and glared at Xiao Fan in shock and angrily.

Xiao Fan was immediately embarrassed and said carefully: "Master, did I scare you?"

Taixu gritted his teeth and said word by word: "What do you think?"

Xiao Fan turned his head and looked at the door, hesitating: "How about... I'll go out now, and then knock in the door with a gentle and gentle sound?"

Taixu said dejectedly: "No need, I have calculated a lot by counting my fingers. You are my disaster..."

Rolling his eyes, Taixu snorted, "What are you here?"

Xiao Fan's expression suddenly changed, with a bit of pleasing meaning, and he smiled and said, "Master... do you have any medicine?"

He was too stunned for a moment, and then sighed sadly: "A good cabbage, I finally let you hunch it!"

Xiao Fan was stunned: "Master, what are you talking about?"

Taixu said despised: "You said you wouldn't touch her, you have to take medicine when you deal with it. Why are you pretending to be a gentleman? Bah!"

Xiao Fan opened his mouth wide: "…………”

Taixu looked sour, and hummed a few more times. He took out a small porcelain vase with blue and white paint from his arms and handed it to Xiao Fan, saying, "Take it! One pill a day, take it under warm water, but it will be guaranteed that the sex will not be defeated for a long time, and the battle will be dawn every night! Little bastard, why don't you have the ability to ask for so many wives?"

Xiao Fan took the porcelain bottle and was stunned for a while. Then he quickly stuffed the porcelain bottle into his arms, and then said sternly: "Master, you misread me! I am definitely not that kind of person. I really haven't touched that girl from Hongqiao!... What I want is another kind of medicine."

"What medicine?"

"Is there any kind of powdery, colorless and odorless chronic medicine mixed in food? After taking it, it can make people gradually lose their energy and weak limbs, but the doctor can't find anything wrong..."

Taixu thought about it and was furious: "This is clearly something used by the flower thieves in the world to harm good women. What do you want this medicine? In front of such a big official, what kind of woman do you want? Why do you have such a heavy taste? You are not virtuous and defeated!"

Xiao Fan wiped his sweat and said, "Master, you misunderstood. My taste has always been light..."

Taixu shouted with righteousness: "What are you called Qinglan? We Wudang is a well-known sect. The kind of medicine you want is a wrong thing. As a disciple of Wudang, your virtues and character are so low. Would you ruin Wudang's reputation?"

Xiao Fan burst into cold sweats: "Master, I really don't mean that..."

"Tell me!...Which girl did you like? I can just steal it for you in the middle of the night, why do you have to use medicine? I will leave my bellyband for me? "
Chapter completed!