Madam, protect me!
Chapter 392 The Situation of Yue
Daxia.
Ruizhou.
Cang County.
Ruizhou is located in the southwest of Daxia, bordering Yue State. It has a population of only one million. There are many mountains and few plains in the state. Although it is located in a remote area, there are many merchants from other places, especially in summer and autumn, when countless caravans gather here.
Because the mountains of Ruizhou are rich in mushrooms.
The terrain here is complex and has unique climatic conditions. The vast forests are rich in mushroom resources.
These mushrooms are deeply loved by wealthy families. Every year when the mushrooms mature, a large number of caravans will come here to buy mushrooms from local people at a low price. When they arrive in Chang'an or Jinyang, they will sell them at dozens of times the price.
There are also some special mushrooms. Although they are not suitable for consumption, after being refined by doctors with special techniques, taking them can make people feel like floating in the air, and it is easy to make people intoxicated.
This kind of mushroom is more expensive. In order to grab high profits, even though mushroom picking is extremely dangerous and there is a certain possibility of losing one's life in the mountains, many people still flock to it.
In a restaurant in Cang County, a young man said gratefully: "Brother Huang, thank you for bringing me here to make money and taking me to eat such delicious food. When I make money, I will definitely repay you!"
Another man put his arm around his shoulders and said with a smile: "You and I are brothers, why are you so polite? Come, drink some soup. The mushrooms here are extremely delicious. You can't drink it in Chang'an..."
The young man drank several bowls of mushroom soup until the bottom of the pot was empty. He wiped his mouth and said with lingering taste: "It's really delicious. Do those rich masters drink this every day?"
The man smiled and said: "You are wrong. If you bring this mushroom to Chang'an, the price will be more than a hundred times higher. Those rich masters can't drink it every day. If you can pick a car, dry it and transport it back, you and I will be rich..."
Half a day later
The young man followed several figures, walking on the dark mountain path, and asked in confusion: "Brother Huang, didn't we say that we were in Ruizhou? It seems that we are about to leave Ruizhou..., is Yue State in front?"
The man waved his hand and said: "So many people are picking mushrooms in the mountains of Ruizhou, how can there be so many mushrooms to pick? Fortune and wealth are sought in danger, and you can pick more in Yue State. Do you still want to buy a house and marry a wife? If you do, follow me..."
The young man heard it and stopped asking.
A few days later.
Somewhere in Yue State, in a dungeon.
The young man looked at the elder brother who had known him for a long time and treated him very well, and asked in confusion: "Brother Huang, what do you mean by this?" The man put a knife on his neck and sneered: "Write a letter to your family and send 500 taels of silver, and I will let you go back..." The young man was shocked and angry, and shouted: "You, you, you are kidnapping, aren't you afraid of the government!" The man surnamed Huang pulled the corner of his mouth: "Government, you are talking to me about the government?" After a while, the young man squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, begging: "Don't hit me, don't hit me, you know the situation of my family, where can I get so much money..." The man stepped on his face and said: "It's okay if you don't have money, write a letter to your relatives and friends, and say that you are picking mushrooms here There is a lot of money to be made. If you can call ten people over, I can let you go back..."
The young man asked in a trembling voice: "What if I can't call so many people?"
The man said with a smile: "I can't raise money, and I can't call people. This kind of waste is useless. I have to tear you apart and sell you."
"Tear, sell it apart?"
"Although your rotten life is not worth much, if you sell it apart, you can still sell a lot of silver. Your heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and your blood can save a lot of people. It can be regarded as your merit..."
"Don't, please, don't do this to me, I'll write it now, I will help you get more people!"
...
Soon, the man led a few people out of the dungeon and walked through a long and narrow passage. On both sides of the passage, there were some small cells, each of which contained one or several figures. They either grabbed the bars of the cell and begged bitterly, or curled up in the corner of the cell and wailed in pain...
As soon as the man surnamed Huang walked out of the dungeon, a man came towards him and raised his hand and said, "You are back just in time. Go to the prison and pick ten people. The young master will be of great use..."
Hearing the word "young master", the expression on the man surnamed Huang's face immediately became much more serious, and he immediately nodded and said, "I know, I'll go right away."
He walked back to the dungeon and picked ten people from a row of cells.
These ten people looked dying, and they were either sick or injured. They couldn't trick new people into coming. Even if they were sold to others as slaves, no one would want them. It would be a waste of food if they were alive.
The ten people were taken outside, and the man surnamed Huang picked two people and said, "You two, follow me."
He led the two people through several corridors and came to a room.
Two young men in elegant clothes sat inside. The man surnamed Huang bowed to them and said respectfully, "Young Master, Your Highness, the people are here."
In the middle of the room, there was a table with two wine glasses on it, filled with light green wine.
A noble young man walked to the table with his hands behind his back, pointed at the two wine glasses, and said to the two men, "Choose one each and drink them."
The two looked at each other. Although they didn't know what had happened so far, their intuition told them that this glass of wine could not be drunk.
However, the current situation does not allow them to choose.
The man surnamed Huang kicked them twice and said, "Why are you still standing there? Didn't you hear what His Highness said? Drink it!"
The nobleman did not hide anything. He looked at the two and said frankly, "One of the two glasses of wine is poisoned and the other is not poisonous. If you drink the poisoned wine, you will die within a quarter of an hour. If you choose the non-poisoned one, you will be lucky and can leave here..."
The two looked pale. Looking at the two identical glasses of wine on the table, they knew that they had no choice but to observe the wine in the glass carefully.
After observing for a few breaths, one of them quickly reached out and picked up one of the glasses. When the other reached out, it was too late. He could only tremble and pick up the remaining glass. His face was even paler than before.
Seeing their hesitation, the man surnamed Huang urged, "Why are you standing there? Drink it!"
If you don't drink it, you will die. If you drink it, you still have half a chance of survival.
The two gritted their teeth, raised their glasses at the same time, and drank the wine in the glass.
The nobleman walked to another young man who was sitting and drinking tea, and asked with a smile: "Brother Ximen, who of them drank the poisoned wine?"
Although he prepared the two cups of wine, he had someone mess up the order, and he himself didn't know which cup was poisonous and which was not.
The young man put down the teacup in his hand, flicked a few fingers quickly, looked at the man who first picked up the wine glass, and said lightly: "He looks dead, his life is about to end..."
The man shuddered and forced himself to suppress the panic in his heart.
The man surnamed Huang glanced at the two and said: "You two, go outside and wait, don't dirty this place later."
The two walked outside with great trepidation. The man who had just stood in the yard and was said by the young man to be dying suddenly trembled, and the whole person collapsed on the ground, his body twitching constantly, and blood spurted out of his mouth, and soon he was motionless...
A person next to him saw this scene, although his legs were shaking violently, his heart was full of joy of surviving a disaster.
Fortunately, fortunately he was slow and didn't grab the cup of poisoned wine...
He looked at the man surnamed Huang tremblingly and asked: "Manager Huang, can I go home now?"
The man surnamed Huang nodded and said: "Don't worry, Your Highness is a man of his word. If he says he will let you leave here, he will let you leave here..."
The man knelt on the ground, kowtowed several times, and thanked him profusely: "Thank you, Manager Huang, thank you, Your Highness!"
The man surnamed Huang smiled and didn't say much.
Of course he would keep his promise and let him leave here, but he didn't say where to send him.
Come here, and still want to go back?
With this man's body and appearance, although he cannot be sold to others as a male prostitute at a high price, he can still be sold to Chu and Wei as a slave. He will never be able to return to Daxia...
The nobleman walked outside, looked at the corpse on the ground, waved his hand, and said: "Carry it out and bury it, and call two more people to come..."
After that, he walked into the room again and exclaimed: "As expected of Brother Ximen, the next half-saint of the Ximen family must be you..."
The young man closed his eyes and said nothing, but the slightly raised corners of his mouth showed that he was very pleased with these words.
At this time, the noble son said again: "I wonder if Brother Ximen can help me calculate my fate?"
The young man opened his eyes and asked: "What do you want to calculate?"
The noble son smiled and said: "I want to calculate how long I can live..."
The young man shook his head and said: "With my current cultivation, I can't calculate other people's lifespans. If you want to know, give me your birth date and I will ask my grandfather to calculate it for you next time..."
The noble son was surprised and said: "Thank you, Brother Ximen..."
He found paper and pen in the room. Just after writing down his birth date, the man surnamed Huang brought two other people here...
...
Yue State.
Although Yue State is called a country, unlike the five dynasties, the central court of Yue State does not have complete control over the entire territory of Yue State. The country has a total of ten states, and only half of the territory is in the hands of the Yue State court.
No mistake, one sentence, one post, one content, one content, one book, one bar!
The other five states were occupied by the two major separatist forces within the territory of Yue State.
These two forces, which are called the White Wolf Army and the Black Tiger Army, occupy two states and three states respectively. There are frictions between the three forces, and the actual control range often changes. Generally speaking, they always present a three-legged tripod.
In Qinzhou, Yue State, in a heavily guarded deep mountain.
Loud slogans echoed in the mountains. From high in the sky, you can faintly see that many soldiers are training in the flat area of the mountain.
This is the base camp of the White Wolf Army.
The White Wolf Army and the Black Tiger Army are called Yue State forces, but many people know that the Yue State court is backed by the Wei State, the White Wolf Army is secretly supported by Daxia, and the Black Tiger Army is backed by the shadow of the Chu State.
In front of the camp built with high walls, two figures suddenly fell from the sky.
The two came, one old and one young. The guards of the village felt a flash before their eyes. After they reacted, they immediately pointed their spears at the two and shouted, "Who are you?"
This is the White Wolf Army's base camp, and there are patrols all the time. Soon, the two were surrounded by a team of guards.
"Who are you!"
"What are you doing here!"
Facing a circle of sharp weapons around him, the young man looked calm, threw something out, and said, "Li Nuo, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice of Daxia, where is the general of the White Wolf Army?"
A captain took the thing he threw out, and after taking a look, his face immediately became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "You wait here!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he hurried into the camp.
In a barracks somewhere, a middle-aged man in armor put two military tokens together, and the joints were tightly connected, without any gaps, and the patterns on them were completely matched.
After a while, as two figures walked into the barracks, the middle-aged man bowed to Li Nuo and said, "Hello, Lord Li."
Li Nuo also clasped his fists and returned the greeting: "General Bai is polite."
After greeting each other, the two looked at each other.
There was a rare momentum on the body of this middle-aged general. This momentum was felt in Lanzhou when Li Nuo and Yiren first returned to Daxia from Zhao State. This was the breath of a military strategist.
However, the oppression given to him by the person opposite was stronger than the last time he met the general.
His military cultivation should have reached the fifth level.
Military strategists need to grow in war, and the chaos in Yue State is just right for cultivating military strategists.
Li Nuo felt the aura of military strategists in many people here.
In addition to military strategists, this general also has a very friendly aura.
In addition to being a military strategist, he is also a Confucian disciple. Although the Confucian cultivation is not as good as that of military strategists, he has also reached the second realm.
Li Nuo released a Confucian aura at the right time. The next moment, the expression on the middle-aged general's face changed significantly. He stretched out his hand and said enthusiastically: "Lord Li, sit down..."
Having a military token in hand, it means that he has been approved by the court. After Li Nuo sat down, General Bai asked directly: "I wonder what instructions Lord Li has here?"
Li Nuo said: "Many people in Daxia have been kidnapped and taken to Yue. This time I came to Yue to rescue them."
Hearing this, General Bai's face was slightly deep, and he said: "Lord Li has just come to Yue and doesn't know much about the situation. This matter involves a wide range of people. Not only the royal family of Yue is involved, but people from Wei are also involved. With the power of the White Wolf Army, it is almost impossible to rescue them unless the court is willing to reinforce..."
Before Li Nuo came, the three provinces had already expressed their views.
Yue is an independent country. Unless it wants to destroy Yue, the court cannot send troops openly.
The possibility of secretly reinforcing is almost non-existent.
Daxia's external environment is extremely bad. In addition to Wei, Chu also has a tendency to transfer troops to the border. Daxia can't beat either of these two countries, let alone two. Almost all the troops that can be mobilized are used to defend against these two countries, and they can't be distracted at all.
Li Nuo can only think of ways to deal with Yue's affairs.
General Bai said helplessly: "We are the weakest in the strength of the Yue court, the Black Tiger Army, and the White Wolf Army. There is only me in the fifth realm of the White Wolf Army, and there are about a hundred people in the fourth realm. The Black Tiger Army has two fifth realms and about 150 people in the fourth realm. The Yue Central Army is supported by Wei behind the scenes. It has three fifth realms and its military strength is several times that of ours. It is said that among them, there is also a sixth realm of Wei..."
Listening to General Bai's analysis of the strength of several major forces, Li Nuo had a very strange feeling.
This was the first time he felt the gap between small countries and big countries.
When the martial arts conference was held, a small martial arts village had dozens of masters living in it. As a country, Yue had only three fifth realms, and their top combat power was about the same as that of the Li family.
Of course, this does not mean that the Li family can fight the Yue Central Army alone.
A Grandmaster can fight one hundred against the third realm, but he is not yet a saint. Facing an endless army, his true energy will always run out.
When the army has more than 10,000 people and is led by a military strategist, even if these people are of low realm, the semi-saints will have to temporarily avoid the sharp edge.
Li Nuo learned from General Bai that the White Wolf Army has about 20,000 low-level soldiers, the Black Tiger Army has 30,000, and the Yue Central Army has more than 50,000. In a head-on confrontation, the White Wolf Army will never be able to defeat them.
If the Yue court was willing to cooperate and release the people, it would not have reached the point of fighting.
But they were unwilling to cooperate, so they had no choice but to fight.
It is impossible for Li Nuo and Dongfang Xuan alone to bring so many people back from Yue. Only by completely clearing all obstacles along the way can the purpose of this trip be achieved.
Although Li Nuo is not weak, he cannot match the army.
Senior Dongfang cannot act casually.
As the sixth realm, compared with warriors and other half-saints, the Yin-Yang family can only be used as a deterrent.
When facing opponents of the same level, their fighting style is to die together.
Before the opponent attacks, sacrifice your own life, deprive the opponent of his life, injure the enemy 800, and lose 800 of your own.
He follows Li Nuo, and plays a more deterrent role.
The current situation is that they must fight, but they can't win.
If the court can't provide help, Li Nuo can only mobilize people himself...
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