After having had enough wine and food, Xiao Han and his party came out of the restaurant and did not go back to the county government office. Instead, they went straight to the low city wall of Ningcheng and stood on the wall, looking down at the surrounding situation.
It has to be said that from the military point of view, the geographical location of Ningcheng is definitely a wasteland! There is no danger to rely on, nowhere to defend, and no profit!
Surrounded by the vast expanse of fields, Ningcheng stands alone like a strawberry on a cream cake. It looks extremely eye-catching and extremely attractive.
"Such a good place, if I are added to it, it should be enough to tempt those people, right?"
Facing the slightly warm south wind in the afternoon, Xiao Han stood on the wall with his hands behind his hands, and suddenly said this sentence out of nowhere.
"Huh? What did you say?"
Over there, Liu Hongji was squatting on the ground in boredom, playing with the piled stones and rolling logs. Suddenly he heard Xiao Han seeming to be talking, so he quickly got up, looked at him and asked.
When Xiao Han saw this, he just smiled, shrugged and changed his words: "Nothing, just looking at this county, it is indeed quite poor!"
"Poverty?" Liu Hongji curled his lips when he heard this, and then looked behind Xiao Han.
There, the county magistrate, who was like a follower, was muttering about something together with his master, the magistrate.
"Hey, don't be deceived by that poor county magistrate! Just now your fool told me that when he was looking for a hut in the county government office, he saw his wife and children hiding in the house and eating. Hoof!" Realizing that no one noticed them at this time, Liu Hongji immediately leaned into Xiao Han's ear and said mysteriously.
"Hiding in the house and eating ham?" Unexpectedly, Xiao Han burst out laughing when he heard this: "Old Liu, when did you become so petty? The wife of a county magistrate did not eat dragon liver, phoenix gallbladder, or delicacies from the mountains and seas. She only If you want to eat a piece of cake, you still have to hide and eat it! This kind of treatment is probably worse than the lowest steward in your family, right?"
"Who said I'm petty? I'm not petty!" When Xiao Han said this, Liu Hongji suddenly felt a little petty, but he couldn't admit it even to death.
To be honest, if he were in Chang'an, he wouldn't think so at all.
Mainly because these days, all I hear and see are victims of disasters and refugees! That's why he felt that it was a waste of money for the county magistrate to eat hooves.
In fact, if you really think about it, even though he is a county magistrate, in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, he can only be regarded as a seventh-grade official with the rank of a sesame seed and a mung bean!
However, the identity of this fat county magistrate will be left to future generations. It is a series of official positions such as county magistrate, county party secretary, public security director, education director, organization director, etc., and his power is almost terrifying!
You tell me, such an official with a lot of real power! My wife and children have to hide in the house to eat a piece of chicken. This is not incorruptible, so what is incorruptible?
"Why are you laughing?!"
After forcing himself to explain himself, Liu Hongji, who was blushing, suddenly found Xiao Han looking at him with a mean smile on his face, so he immediately lost his temper and scolded: "Hey, are you possessed by evil spirits today?" Why are you so nervous?"
"You are the only one who is crazy, your whole family is crazy!"
Very good, Liu Hongji completely froze Xiao Han's smile on his face with just one sentence!
Then, Xiao Han rolled his eyes at Liu Hongji angrily, and asked angrily: "Stop talking about this, let me ask you, if someone wants to capture this small town, how many days do you think it will take?"
"Capture this small city? How many more days will it take?" Liu Hongji looked at Xiao Han and gasped as if he had a toothache: "Just this city? You value it too much! As long as you give me five hundred sons and one stick of incense If you have time, change its name to a different one! If you are willing to give me a few cannons, I won’t even have half a cup of tea!"
"Tsk, tsk, is this place so vulnerable?" Xiao Han scratched his head when he heard this, then stomped on the city wall under his feet. When he saw the loess rustling down on one side, he sighed helplessly.
When Liu Hongji saw Xiao Han's appearance, his expression became more and more strange. He asked tentatively: "What do you mean by that? Are you hiding something from me?"
When Xiao Han saw this, his face turned red and he shook his head: "No, it's okay!"
However, Liu Hongji didn't believe his words at all. He stared and asked, "No, something must be wrong! Hurry up! Tell me honestly!"
"It's okay!"
"Is everything okay? If you don't tell me, believe it or not, I will go home right away?"
"Don't go, don't go, I said, I said, isn't it okay?"
Seeing Liu Hongji preparing to leave, Xiao Han finally raised his hands to surrender, and then saw him leaning towards Liu Hongji's ear with a helpless look on his face, and whispered something in his ear...
"What! How dare those people come to attack the city!"
A moment later, a cry of surprise completely broke the silence at the top of Ningcheng!
The three county magistrates who were muttering behind them suddenly turned their heads and looked towards Xiao Han. Their eyes were full of confusion, shock, and horror!
"Damn it, didn't I tell you to keep your voice down?" Xiao Han was also startled by Liu Hongji's scream! When he reacted, he immediately began to regret why he didn't hold it back just now and insisted on telling this idiot what happened!
He should have known a long time ago that this guy is a bald man with a lice on his head and can't hide anything!
"Master Marquis, what did you just say? Attack the city? Does anyone want to do harm to Ningcheng?"
Sure enough, before Liu Hongji, who realized that he had made a mistake, could cover his mouth, the fat county magistrate had already trotted over with an anxious look on his face and solemnly asked the two of them.
"Ahem, this...I'm just guessing!" Xiao Han laughed dryly when he saw this, and said helplessly: "It can't be done accurately at all, it can't be done accurately!"
"Guess? How can Mr. Hou guess?" However, the more Xiao Han behaved like this, the more serious the county magistrate's face became.
At this time, he had completely forgotten the huge difference in identity between himself and Xiao Han! He only had to solemnly raise his hands to him and asked: "This matter is related to the safety of more than 8,300 people in Ningcheng. Please don't hide it, Lord Marquis."
"Hey, I guessed it from those refugee prisoners."
Although, with Xiao Han's identity, he could just scold the fat county magistrate without any explanation!
But thinking that if someone wanted to harm him, he would probably have to rely on this guy's power in the city, Xiao Han could only sigh and explain to him:
"Their small team alone has robbed three or four villages in the past few days! Together with the other teams, all the villages around Ningcheng that are probably easy to attack have been captured. The rest are not as good as Ningcheng. Easy to attack! Do you think they will turn back and attack Ningcheng when the time comes?"
