The ancestor of the apocalypse is so cool after being reborn!

Chapter 131
On the main street, two carriages staggered past.

The coachman of Tong's family turned his head and said to the people in the car: "Master, the carriage that passed just now is Princess Qian's carriage."

"Princess Qian?"

Tong Song looked out the window, and saw a low-key and luxurious two-headed carriage running in the opposite direction of him, and the two maroon horses running side by side in front were the beauty of Princess Qian's carriage.

It has been a few months since King Qian's Mansion came to Lingnan. Among them, King Qian's carriage is pulled by two black horses, and the two maroon horses are the princess's mounts.

For other masters of the palace, if they dare to ride in a double-headed carriage based on their identities, that is an overstep.

Therefore, the only people who can ride a two-headed carriage in Lingnan are King Qian and Princess Qian.

"Where is she going, how to go to the north of the city?"

Tong Song hesitated for a moment, then asked the coachman to turn around and follow.

The two-headed carriage of the princess went directly to the north of the city along the central axis of Fucheng.

Tong Song confirmed the guess in his heart, and he was even more puzzled, the area in the north of the city was barren and not many people.Even a few families are just shack dwellers who set up tents in the wasteland north of the city.

Xia Jing got off the carriage, went to the wasteland in the north of the city, and chose a large piece of land near the city wall as the site for the iron workshop.

When it comes to building infrastructure, Xia Jing thinks of the indispensable adhesive for infrastructure, that is, the cement that will be popularized in later generations.

Cement can be calcined, but this time the iron workshop may not be able to wait until the day when the cement is produced.

Xia Jing asked Ye Fei to remember the construction site, and got into the carriage to go back to the palace.

Ye Fei got on his horse and rode to the window of Xia Jing's carriage: "Princess, there is a carriage following us all the time, and the driver seems to be the carriage of Young Master Tong's family. Do you want your subordinates to deal with him? "

Ye Fei has the ability of photographic memory since he was a child, and as the personal guard of the princess, he is more cautious than usual.

He usually pays attention to the people and things he comes into contact with, so he naturally recognizes Young Master Tong's driver.

If he hadn't known that he was the coachman of the young master Tong's family, he would have dealt with them the first time he found this carriage.

"Follow him if he likes, we just pretend we don't know and go back home."

Back at the palace, as soon as he got off the carriage at the second gate, he saw the butler Zeng Yan coming in from outside.

Naturally, Zeng Yan also noticed Xia Jing, he walked quickly to Xia Jing, bowed and said: "I have seen the princess."

Xia Jing smiled and asked: "Seeing you are in such a hurry, where did you go?"

"Go back to the princess, the little one just went to see off the prince for the prince." Zeng Yan took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his forehead, answered Xia Jing's question, and smiled at the guards and maidservants accompanying her.

"Guest?" Xia Jing glanced at Zeng Yan, "Who's here?"

Zeng Yan bowed his head and replied: "It is the former Lingnan governor Quan and His Excellency Quan, who came here today to bid farewell to the prince, and tomorrow he will leave for Jiankang to report on his duties."

Xia Jing sneered as she walked in, "This is because the court remembered him."

Zeng Yan raised his head and looked back and forth vigilantly, then whispered: "Da Yu is now suffering from internal and external troubles. The emperor and the court officials are struggling with the current situation. How can they remember him as a fringe figure. It must be Xiang Chao who can be transferred from Lingnan. A certain minister in the middle of the country bribed and used money to clear the way. Otherwise, how could he have received the dispatch document from above so quickly."

Xia Jing frowned slightly, and asked with some doubts: "How do you know he bribed?"

Zeng Yan heard the words, and quickly replied: "Oh, my concubine, it is an indisputable fact that bribery has become a common practice in the court, and it is just a distinction between public bribery and private bribery."

What he didn't say was that nowadays all civil and military officials in the court are openly accepting bribes, and they have no scruples for a long time.

Of course, only the emperor sitting on the high dragon chair may not know about the means of promotion that all officials take for granted.

This time Xia Jing frowned, "Even a slave like you knows something, wouldn't the emperor who has eyeliner all over the world know?"

Zeng Yan took out his handkerchief again and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and licked his lower lip. As a slave, he dared not speak out about the dirty things of the court officials.

It's one thing to know it in your heart, it's another to say it.

The Zhijinwu, the servants, and the civil and military officials were all in the same boat, deceiving the upper and lower, and what they wanted the emperor to know about external affairs, the emperor naturally knew.

The things that the emperor didn't want to know happened right under the eyes of the emperor, and the emperor didn't know or still didn't know.

What are superiors most afraid of?
What I am most afraid of is that the court will be harmonious, and everyone will vent their anger through one nostril.

Seeing Zeng Yan's tense expression, Xia Jing seemed to have something to hide, "Huh?"

Zeng Yan glanced at Xia Jing and smiled embarrassingly: "Princess, you have heard that three people become tigers?"

Xia Jing glanced at Zeng Yan, who was sweating profusely on his forehead, and after thinking for a while, she finally understood, "I understand what you mean, three people become tigers. You said that the court is harmonious, at least when facing the emperor. Civil and military officials are unanimous. They fooled the emperor about the truth of the matter, and everyone agreed, and the emperor couldn't find a way even if he wanted to seek the truth."

Besides, everyone speaks the same caliber, how could the emperor suspect that everyone is committing the crime of deceiving the emperor.

Thinking that the emperor and the eunuch who was the chief inspector of ceremonies and the eunuchs around him wore the same trousers as the foreign ministers, Xia Jing felt sorry for the man who was sitting on the dragon chair for the stamping tool.

Of course, Xia Jing believes that the emperor may have resisted. For example, the robbery of the eldest lady's natal home in Washington may be the result of the emperor's rebellion.

It's just that in the final years of the dynasty, who will win in the game between the monarch and his ministers.

If you ask her, no matter who wins, everyone is actually a loser, and the ruin of the dynasty will only benefit the surrounding Yi people.

Zeng Yan nodded helplessly, the prince knew about this, but he did not dare to challenge the court officials.

After returning to the Yigui Courtyard and driving out all the waiters, Xia Jing went into the space to search.

She remembered that she had talked about how to make cement during the skills training at the doomsday base.

During the training, she took notes in a notebook.

In the study room on the second floor, there are many novels and notebooks in the drawer of the desk.

Xia Jing emptied out all the items in the drawer, and then sorted out the notebooks, and found the original notebook after a while.

In the last few decades, in order to increase the survival skills of the new generation in the last days, the leaders of the base have two survival skills classes every week in the base school.

It will talk about the production methods of some commonly used materials.

This cement is one of them.

Xia Jing turned back, there was glass making process, various ore refining methods, and
I can't chew too much. At present, the cement is produced first, and the smelting technology is improved. First, the level of weapon production is improved, and more sophisticated weapons can be created before talking about other things.

He went out of the space and summoned Ye Fei, and handed him the formula for making cement and the requirements for the construction of the iron workshop.

Ye Fei handed over the two workshops to the people below to hire workers to build them, and he invited Blacksmith Shan to inquire about the points that need attention in the construction of the iron workshop and the tools that need to be purchased.

Tong Family Ancestral Hall.

The Patriarch of the Tong family led Tong Song to kneel down three times and kowtow nine times under the ancestral tablet.

After inserting the incense into the incense burner, Master Tong, the head of the Tong family, said, "My son must take care of himself during this trip."

"Don't worry, Dad, the team I'm leading this time is all my confidantes. With their protection, I'm sure everything will be safe."

"En." Master Tong looked back at the tablet of his ancestors, and only hoped that his ancestors would bless the Tong family to go against the wind, so that everything could be turned into good luck.

Tong Song bid farewell to his parents and family, and rode out of the city with a few guards.

Twenty miles away from the south of the city, there is an extremely wide mountain depression, with hundreds of hectares of fertile land, and the surrounding mountains are beautiful. The mountains are full of peach trees. Every spring, when the peach blossoms are enchanting or when the summer is fruitful, this is the best place for young men and women in Fucheng to go outing. good place.

And the owner of this farm is the Tong family.

The Tong family has raised many guards in this farm, and the value of military training all year round is still good.

The reason why Tong Song came here was to lead a team of servants to suppress the bandits.

Ever since he saw Xia Jing's personal guard battalion go out to suppress the bandits last time, and saw the rich confiscated supplies, he has been moved for a long time.

After so many days of preparation, convincing parents and family members, reorganizing the team, and preparing food and grass, everything is finally ready now, just waiting for the team to leave.

Not to mention leading a team of thousands of people, Tong Song really found a bit of the heroic spirit of a general leading an army.

After marching for two days, Tong Song led the team to a bandit den that had been detected in advance.

The team was resting at a hidden place at the foot of the mountain, and Tong Jian, the captain of the family guard, came over.

"Young master, what are you going to do next?"

Tong Song observed the surrounding terrain and asked, "Do you have any good ideas? Tell me."

Tong Jian really has some ideas about this. In fact, he wants to show his ability in front of the future power holders of the Tong family.

"Master, do you know why the little one suggested coming to the south?"

When Tong Song heard it, his curiosity was really aroused, so he asked casually, "Why?"

Speaking of what he is good at, Tong Jian's face was filled with a smile, "Because Princess Qian's personal guard camp is going to the north, the bandit forces in that direction must be aware of it, and they will be vigilant if they are aware of it, which is not conducive to We acted unexpectedly."

"The bandits in Lingnan have not been surrounded by hostile forces in recent years, and their comfortable life has long made them lose their original vigilance. Life in the bandit den is much better than that of ordinary people at the foot of the mountain. We attacked them unexpectedly and beat them If you are caught off guard, it will be more convenient for us to succeed in suppressing the bandits for the first time."

Tong Song nodded, feeling that this made sense, "Then what shall we do next?"

Tong Jian said with a confident smile: "Rest where you are, and make a surprise attack before dawn tomorrow, and catch them by surprise."

According to the information he collected on the bandit den on the mountain, he knew that there were only about bandits there.

Among them are the old and weak, women and children, and young and middle-aged men who can really fight. There are about a hundred people.

One hundred confronts 1000 people.

The Tong family knows it without fighting to death, it's a complete victory!

With a huge disparity in strength, Tong Jian wanted the first battle to boost the team's morale.

Tong Song had no objection to this, and the two discussed the details of the raid together.

Time passed unknowingly, and the sun slowly sank into the horizon.

In the evening, everyone ate dry food to fill their stomachs, and they sat together in small groups to rest early.

The night was getting darker and darker. At the last dark moment before dawn, the team guards woke up the team members in the dark.

Most of the bandits on the mountain fell asleep, and each of them didn't have much vision for the future life, and everyone basically just muddled along.

Therefore, most of the nights have fun, and I can't sleep during the day.

This is in the arms of Tong's guards.

When the eastern sun jumped out of the top of the mountain, most of the bandits were still asleep, and a few were half asleep.

Even the bandits guarding the mountain gate were in a daze and not awake.

Suddenly, a few black figures jumped in from the mountain gate, and before they could take a closer look, the neck felt cold, and warm blood gushed out from the knife edge of the neck.

After solving the guard at the gate of the mountain, several black shadows successfully opened the wooden gate, and the guards waiting outside rushed in.

They were the first to rush into the house and hacked anyone they saw. Many bandits were hacked to death while they were asleep, and some were awakened by the pain.

In an instant, the entire bandit den was crying and howling.

"Master, we found a small cave over there, which stored a lot of food and property." Tong Jian trotted over.

Tong Song was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Oh, how many belongings are there?"

This year, Tong's family has had a bad year. Ever since King Qian's Mansion came to Lingnan, their family has been bankrupt.

Now Tong's family can't make ends meet, and the old man in the family is very distressed.

No way, he had to come out and find a way to make money.

The idea of ​​suppressing the bandits was inspired by his seeing Princess Qian's personal guards back that day.

Tong Jian's answer was ambiguous, "I haven't counted them yet, I just took a look, and there should be a lot of them."

Tong Song didn't care about his answer, just go and have a look to find out how much money he has.

He waved his hand and said excitedly: "Come on, let's go and have a look!"

More than 100 young and middle-aged men confront him with a thousand guards, and there is no suspense about the disparity in strength.

Tong Song was not worried at all that the bandits would run away.

The so-called small cave is behind the Loyalty Hall built by the bandits against the mountain.

The cave wall is dry, which is quite suitable for storing food and property.

Tong Song looked at the grain stored in the cave and sighed: "Being a bandit these days is really promising. At least you don't have to worry about going hungry, and you can't run out of money. The grain here is probably enough to sell in our shops in Fucheng for a month."

"More than enough!" Tong Jian walked around the grain pile and made a rough estimate.

Tong Song flipped through the belongings, and clicked his tongue loudly, "There are a lot of various kinds of cloth, and there are quite a lot of other properties. I don't know which caravan was robbed?"

The more Tong Jian inspected, the corners of his mouth widened, "Except for a few caravans with strong influence in Lingnan, other small caravans who come to Lingnan to do business will only be robbed by bandits! Young master, we won the first battle this time, and we will sneak attack other bandits later. Wo, I believe that the brothers will have more momentum, and they will not be afraid of death!"

Tong Song pondered what to do with these supplies, "Count these supplies first, and send a team to guard here. We will move forward with other family guards. Do you think this arrangement is appropriate?"

"I didn't expect our bandits in Lingnan to be so rich. I knew we would have taken action long ago, so I wouldn't have taken advantage of the Qian Palace." Tong Jian said and looked at the young master of Tong's family. Find a bandit den that is easy to capture, and if you capture it, you will be able to complete the mission you came out this time."

(End of this chapter)