Fenzhou, the county seat of Xihe County.
"Mr. Mo, how did everyone sleep last night? Are you almost rested?"
In the lobby on the first floor of Penglai Inn, the best inn in the county, Li Tai asked Mo Chui while having breakfast with Tiedan and others.
This time the academy dispatched a total of thirty-two members of the Killer Project, most of whom are students, and some are gentlemen from the physics department of the academy. In any case, the gentlemen of the academy are older than the students and have more experience in outside life. It needs to be richer, so the students’ food and daily life along the way are all arranged by Mo Huai and other gentlemen!
"Haha! This inn is not bad. It's quite quiet at night. I just saw that everyone was in good spirits. I think they had a good rest last night! After breakfast, we will set off. This place is more than 100 meters away from Taiyuan Prefecture. We will definitely not be able to make it today for a journey of 3 miles. We will stop and rest at noon and try to settle down in Qi County before dark. We will start from Qi County tomorrow morning and arrive in Taiyuan at dusk tomorrow!"
Mo Chui smiled and replied with a relaxed expression.
This time when he led all the teachers and students to go north, the "activity funds" provided by the academy were quite sufficient. Before leaving, Yan Silu specially told him that the teachers and students of the academy must eat well and live well along the way. You must not worry about money. This is what Yan Silu means, and it is also what Li Zexuan means!
Because the thirty-two people in this group are all elite members of the academy's trump card project and are the academy's "treasure pimples". This trip to the north is long and tiring, and the students are already very hard-working. Naturally, the academy cannot be there. They suffered a lot in terms of food and accommodation!
So along the way from Lantian County to Xihe County, Mo Chui and everyone in the academy stayed in the best inns and ate the most delicious food, in order to relieve the students of the fatigue of traveling. !
"Well! Then bring some dry food and try to reach Qi County tonight!"
Li Tai nodded and decided.
Although he is a student and Mo Chui is a teacher, he is the commander-in-chief of this northbound operation, and he should naturally be the one who makes the final decision.
And Mo Chui also recognized Li Tai's talent in engineering, so along the way, he didn't feel unhappy with Li Tai's overall overview and command and dispatch. On the contrary, he was happy to help Li Tai check and fill in the gaps, because Li Tai Although he was born in the royal family and has certain commanding abilities, he is still young and does not have as much life experience as Mo Chui. Often at this time, Mo Chui needs to step forward!
After the two reached an agreement, Dugu Xin walked in from outside and whispered in Li Tai's ear: "Your Highness, the general has ordered the scout team to take the lead in clearing the way. The rest of the army can leave at any time and wait for His Highness to leave the city to join us!"
Although Mo Chui had booked the entire inn last night and there were no other guests in the inn lobby at this time, Dugu Xin, who was used to being in the military and had a strong sense of vigilance, still chose to use this way of speaking. This is to avoid leaking the whereabouts of Li Tai and others!
Accompanying the teachers and students of the academy this time were the Thousand Imperial Palace Imperial Guards led by Dugu Xin and Dugu Feiying. Since this mission involved confidentiality, their group did not alert the local officials along the way. When they encountered the county town, they were only members of the academy. People enter the city and stay in inns, while a thousand forbidden troops are secretly stationed outside the city. Under normal circumstances, Dugu Xin will take a few personal guards to protect Li Tai personally, while Dugu Feiying leads the army outside the city!
It's not Li Tai, Mo Chui and others who treat them differently, but the students and gentlemen in the academy. Their physical fitness is definitely not as good as that of soldiers like Dugu Xin and others who have been in the army for many years. The journey of traveling and horseback is already very hard. If they were allowed to sleep in tents outside the city like the Imperial Guards, most of the people in the academy would probably have collapsed before they reached Taiyuan!
"Well! Are the academy's supplies safe?"
Li Tai nodded and asked softly.
The main purpose of this trip north was to build a telegraph relay station. When leaving Lantian County, there were three carriages in the academy's carriage team that were loaded with machines, parts and other materials needed to build a telegraph relay station. Naturally, such important things could not be brought. When they entered the city and brought them to the inn, if they encountered thieves, they would have walked so far in vain, so the academy's supplies were always guarded by Dugu Xin's imperial guards along the way!
"Your Highness, don't worry, the supplies are safe!"
Dugu Xin replied briefly.
To be able to take away three carriages of supplies from the academy under the guard of a thousand forbidden troops, unless the enemy can send five thousand soldiers and horses to kill all the thousand forbidden troops, it is absolutely impossible to take away the supplies from the academy.
"That's good!"
Li Tai nodded. At this time, he had almost eaten, so he stood up and said to Tiedan, Meng Wenhao, Mo Chui and others: "Everyone, hurry up and eat and drink. After eating, go back to the room to pack your things, and we will leave the city together in half a quarter of an hour." !”
"yes!"
Everyone murmured in agreement.
The innkeeper and the boy not far away did not dare to say a word when they saw this scene, and they did not even dare to look here, because Dugu Xin and the people around him all had swords in their hands, which looked bad at first sight. Provoke the Lord!
Anyone who does business understands that doing more is worse than doing less. The innkeeper ordered his servants to serve Li Tai and his gang carefully last night. He didn't ask any questions that shouldn't be asked. He just thought that Li Tai and the others were from other counties. If a powerful person from somewhere passes by here, he will not be provoked if he can!
Half a quarter of an hour later, the thirty-two people from the academy, plus Dugu Xin and others all left the inn and walked towards the city gate. As for the accommodation fee, Mo Chui had already paid the innkeeper.
"Shopkeeper, who do you think these people are? The carriages they ride in are all made by Qiquge!"
After Li Tai and others left, the waiter at the inn couldn't help but asked.
"Perhaps the young master from some family is traveling~!"
Although the shopkeeper was also curious in his heart, he calmly responded to the boy's words and said.
"Hey! The fat young man just now must be the young master of that wealthy family, and the man who just walked in is the guard of their family, but I see that the young men sitting next to the young master don't seem to be him. Servant of the house!"
The boy pinched his chin and guessed seriously.
"Pa~!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, the shopkeeper slapped him on the back of the head. The shopkeeper roared angrily: "Aren't you idle? Do you care who he is or where he comes from? Hurry up and get someone to take care of him." The tables are wiped and the guest rooms are tidied!”
The boy was in pain for a moment, jumped to the side, rubbed the back of his head and said, "Oh! I'll go right now!"
"Hey! Curiosity killed the cat, this kid will suffer sooner or later!"
The shopkeeper looked at the boy's back and murmured to himself.
However, his attention was quickly attracted by a stack of Tang Yuan on the account table in front of him, which was the rent Mo Chui had just paid him. After all, Penglai Inn is also the largest inn in Xihe County, with nearly fifty guest rooms. Li Tai and his party rented the inn this time, and the room for one night was quite a lot!
"What do they care about? Just pay the rent!"
The shopkeeper picked up the stack of Tang Yuan and said with a smile.
"Hey~! Sir, are you eating so early or staying at the hotel?"
At this moment, a tall man with dark skin and a coarse short coat came outside the door. The waiter rushed to greet him, but the big man ignored him at all and walked straight towards the shopkeeper at the counter.
"Housekeeper, were there dozens of teenagers staying at your inn last night?"
The big man knocked on the counter, spoke an authentic Guanzhong accent, looked at the shopkeeper and asked.
"Hey, sir, this is a place where we stay, not a place where we can inquire about information!"
The shopkeeper's eyes narrowed. He heard the other person's accent and knew that the other person was probably from the capital area. However, the way he dressed did not look like a wealthy person at all, so he didn't bother to talk to him!
"Pa~!"
Unexpectedly, the big man took out a bunch of copper coins from his waist, slapped it in front of the shopkeeper, and then said: "This is a regular amount of money. If you answer certain questions truthfully, a certain family will thank you greatly!"
In the early Tang Dynasty, when prices were extremely low, a consistent amount of money was already considered a huge sum of money in the eyes of ordinary people. The shopkeeper was naturally a rich man, and he was not short of this amount of money, but after answering a few questions, he would Being able to get a lot of money was still a very cost-effective deal for him, but he was a little strange. Wouldn't it be too heavy for the other party to hang so many copper coins on his body?
Here, I have to say that since the Yanhuang Bank was established and the imperial court personally promoted Tang Yuan, more and more people in the Tang Dynasty began to slowly use and gradually accept Tang Yuan. After getting used to the convenience brought by Tang Yuan, , almost no one is willing to use copper coins anymore, especially in the Guanzhong area. In many states and counties, it is basically difficult to see copper coins in large transactions!
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