In my dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty, I snatched Wu Zetian from my lap.

Deep in the woods, the battle broke out without warning, but ended extremely quickly.

After a short while, more than twenty guards from the mountain tribes returned, carrying several people with them.

In the wild, in the darkness, they are practically kings. Their primal survival skills, passed down through generations, are something ordinary people can't easily fake.

"Your Highness, it's these few!" Huang Tu stepped forward, looking very relaxed, without even a scratch.

Under the torchlight, there were seven people in total, six men and one woman, who were injured and pinned to the ground.

Li Yuanchang approached and lifted the white-clad woman's chin with one hand.

The woman seemed uneasy and was struggling, as if she disliked Li Yuanchang's hand.

"Was that crying just now yours?" Li Yuanchang calmly scanned the woman's face. She was clearly a living person, not some ghost.

The person in white was just a disguise; he even had an oval face, but he looked like a bandit who had been out in the wind and rain, and his skin wasn't very good.

"One person does the deed, one person takes the blame. Let them go." The woman in white gritted her teeth and broke free from Li Yuanchang's grasp.

Li Yuanchang smiled upon hearing this: "You have quite a temper."

"Why are you pretending to be a ghost to scare us?"

"Murder for money?"

The woman in white looked up and said, "We only seek money; we never take lives."

Guo Chao sneered, grabbing his hair: "People like you would do anything for money. If you hadn't been caught, you wouldn't be saying things like that!"

"Speak! Did you commit the Three Sets of Post Stations incident? How many people have you harmed? Where are your accomplices?"

"I told you, we never kill anyone, we just rob some valuables." The woman in white was somewhat angry and even tried to bite Guo Chao's hand.

"You're asking for death!" The guards were furious at his arrogance.

"stop."

Li Yuanchang interrupted.

He had already realized that the group of women in white were not the ones he was looking for. First of all, their methods were wrong, and their abilities didn't match.

Secondly, those thugs who commit murder and robbery have vicious eyes and a different aura. This woman in white and the other men don't seem to be that kind of people.

No matter how much you press them, you won't get anything out of them.

Even if you didn't set up the three post stations,

"Is it right to only seek money?"

"How many people will be scared to death or become ill by dressing up as ghosts like this? Is that something you should be doing?"

Li Yuanchang's questions left the woman in white speechless, and she lowered her head in shame.

"Do you have any accomplices?"

"That's it, just the seven of us."

"Really?" Li Yuanchang's eyes were like sharp swords that could pierce through people's hearts.

The woman in white dared not look directly at him, but insisted, "There are only seven of us."

"Then you'll have to pay the price for this," Li Yuanchang said calmly.

Sensing the murderous intent emanating from the surrounding merchants, the woman in white said uneasily, "You are not merchants!"

"You guessed right, you've kicked a hornet's nest." Guo Chao drew his sword.

"No, no!"

"Don't kill Miss Jiang! We came up with this plan to feed the elderly, women, and children in the village. We haven't killed anyone, and you can't kill us!"

"Miss Jiang is a good person, please!"

Six men rushed out and stood in front of the white-clad female ghost, pleading desperately.

"Good people can be haunted by ghosts and rob people of their property?" Guo Chao sneered.

"We have no choice, we have no choice at all!"

"The people of Baekje are suffering from natural disasters and man-made calamities. All the grain has been requisitioned by the nobles, and the common people are starving. Only in the territory of King Han can we find food. If we don't take this approach, we will only be waiting to die!"

"We still have over two hundred women, children, and the elderly there!"

As they spoke, the group burst into tears, their cries so poignant that they moved many to tears.

Guo Chao and the others were stunned. They felt that Li Yuanchang didn't seem to be lying, and they all looked at him.

"Kill one of them and let them go!" the woman in white pleaded at this moment.

Li Yuanchang glanced at her, then his gaze swept over the group. Judging from their speech and appearance, they certainly didn't seem like bad people. If what they said was true, then they could be considered righteous people who robbed the rich to help the poor.

There won't be a next time.

"Get lost."

In the end, he did not kill him.

This was the situation in ancient times. Apart from the Tang Dynasty and the regions under its rule, which enjoyed "national prosperity and peace," small countries like these were almost devoid of any semblance of justice.

In later TV dramas, it seems that they only ate worse food and wore worse clothes.

But in reality, they had no food or clothing at all, and all their wealth was basically robbed by the upper class. This was the case in Japan, and it wasn't much different from the former Goguryeo.

"Thank you, thank you!"

The six men kept kowtowing, then grabbed the woman in white and tried to run away, fearing that Li Yuanchang would change his mind.

But the woman seemed unwilling to leave. After taking a few steps back, she suddenly said, "If I can tell you who did the thing at the three post stations, could you give us some food?"

Her eyes glanced at the carriage, revealing a longing for food.

The moment these words were spoken, the room fell silent, and all eyes turned to look at them.

Li Yuanchang squinted: "You know?"

"I know!" the woman in white gritted her teeth.

"Lying is not a good habit. Just because I let you off the hook once doesn't mean I'll let you off the hook a second time." Li Yuanchang scrutinized the other party, suspecting that he was lying.

"I really know. I'm from Baekje and live in this area. I made some discoveries a few days ago," the woman said.

Li Yuanchang approached, his eyes burning: "What did you discover?"

"I'm telling you, can you give me two cartloads of grain?" the woman in white said, trying to bargain.

"Sure!" Li Yuanchang blurted out, "but it must be valuable information."

Upon hearing this, the seven were overjoyed, never expecting such a turn of events to lead to them receiving food.

Li Yuanchang never expected to get the information he wanted in this way.

"Can you keep your word?"

"What do you think?" Li Yuanchang asked in return.

The woman in white paused for a moment, then said, "A few days ago, we tried to rob some supplies on a small road in Baekje."

"But we encountered a group with weapons, and in the end we didn't dare to attack."

"But I heard them talking about stallions and goods on the Silk Road. They said the road was full of Han Chinese goods, and they even claimed to have robbed them many times successfully."

"That's why we came here to try our luck."

Li Yuanchang's eyes sharpened: "Where are they?"

"They are soldiers from Gancheng. I can take you there!" said the woman in white.

"Is Ganseong within Baekje territory?" Lee Won-chang asked again.

The woman in white nodded: "Yes, the Gan family are the masters of Gan City and the most powerful noble family in this area."

"They were the ones who basically carried out the robbery of your goods."

"Are you so sure?"

"What I heard was that they not only robbed your people, but also insulted you, calling you outsiders and saying that Han people are rich and fat pigs."

Upon hearing this, the guards' eyes turned cold, revealing a murderous intent!

You bastard!