Li Chengqian's proposal was supported by all the generals and commanders present, but when it came to determining who would follow him, huge differences arose.
"Cheng Chumo, how can you follow His Highness the Crown Prince? Looking at you, you can tell by your words that you are not a good person?
If you offend Lu Lai with your words, we will have to come out to settle things for you. If you offend some dignitaries and reveal your identity, won't the prince's private visit incognito have no effect? "
Li Chengcheng watched Cheng Chumo compete with him for the last spot to follow, and the fight was quite helpless.
Now Li Chengqian has chosen him as his personal bodyguard, Yuchi Baolin. This guy is a little tanned, maybe because of his father's skin, and he looks like a handyman. It is very appropriate for him to lead the horse and let Li Chengqian act like a young master.
As for the young master? There is still one.
Changsun Chong also looks like a scholar, and there is no problem in accompanying Li Chengqian despite being frail.
Xu Yunyan must follow, there is no problem. In addition to the three of them, he also selected ten soldiers who were slightly short and dark-skinned and looked like domestic servants.
Just a few people were ready to go out, but the other generals in front of them were not satisfied.
"???????????????How can there be so few people? Can you add a few more? Please add a few more."
Under such circumstances, two young generals from the Li clan were added, who were passers-by to Xu Yunyan and were used as coolies.
As for the others, two people with more than a hundred cavalry were arranged along the way to listen to orders at any time. Once a situation arises, they will provide support as soon as possible.
As for the war horses? It's not like they were pulled on board after the navy had more ships.
They were also pulling horses to please Xu Yunyan, and they also spent manpower and material resources to pick up Xu Yunyan's horse Wang Xiaohong from Chang'an City and bring it to Xu Yunyan.
It's just that this time the horse king did not let Xu Yunyan ride. Of course such a handsome horse must be ridden by the young master Li Chengqian, and Xu Yunyan did not act like a general this time. Instead, he became a steward, beside Li Chengqian and Changsun Chong. Nodding and bending, he ran forward and backward.
As for those soldiers? But it’s a huge loss.
Not only were the armor and other items loaded on the poles, but also the armor of these men. As for their weapons? Fortunately, they all used short weapons, but it was because these short weapons eliminated many generals, just like Yu Chigong proudly looked at the eliminated Cheng Chumo.
But in the end, it felt like there were few people. Cheng Chumo and Li Chengcheng started fighting here again. In the end, neither of them gave in to the other. Li Chengcheng even used a spear to show off his strength. In the end, it was Xu Yunyan who came forward.
"You two really don't want to stay together. How about you two choose a few more people to go another way? You don't have to follow us, right?"
As soon as Xu Yunyan finished speaking, the soldiers in front of him were smiling happily, but the navy commander Jiang Fangguo was a little hopeless.
"You all left, but you stayed here. I'm here to watch. I also want to go into the mainland with you."
However, as soon as Jiang Fangguo expressed his emotion, everyone in front of him looked at him and shook his head.
"You still want to follow us? We can't figure out the direction at sea. If you want to follow us on land again, we are afraid that if you accidentally direct us to the mountains, we will not be able to get out."
Jiang Fangguo had no choice but to say weakly.
"No, this will never happen. You have to believe me. You really have to believe me."
Jiang Fangguo had a grimace there to convince everyone to believe him. But when everyone saw Jiang Fangguo like this, they did not ridicule him again. They still had business to do, so they immediately went to do whatever they needed to do.
In an instant, the group of people began to separate. Everyone was doing what he was supposed to do. When he was supposed to be, he was secretly preparing to assist the prince, Li Chengqian, to do their work. When he was supposed to, he was moving forward on another route to investigate the situation in another place. People are marching in another place.
In this way, both sides were not involved, leaving only Jiang Fangguo and the original navy wailing there.
But who made Jiang Fangguo really do something wrong?
After watching Li Chengqian leave, all the navy generals looked at him with resentful eyes. After Jiang Fangguo scratched his head, none of the generals wanted to apologize to them at all. Instead, they looked at them,
"Why are you still watching? It's not like you guys are ignorant. It's just that I don't know the direction, but you don't know either?"
Jiang Fangguo started to talk at length here.
"I don't know him, but it's okay if you do."
Jiang Fangguo has a lot of excuses, all kinds of messy excuses at his fingertips, etc. It is called a six to shirk responsibility.
However, in order to save himself from the embarrassment, Jiang Fangguo finally began to gather them all together and narrated here carefully.
No matter what, the scale of the Navy will increase in the future. When every expedition is not done by oneself but by other people, this situation cannot happen again.
However, Jiang Fangguo did a very good job. While teaching the course with many soldiers at the scene, he did not forget to look around for traces of the Tang army.
You can’t find the main force, but you can also find the soldiers, right?
Jiang Fangguo also arranged for someone to go out to find someone, and planned to meet him and find out what kind of place it was, but it was not a new island. If that was the case, the excitement would be huge.
Xu Yunyan, Li Chengqian and the others in front followed a road after climbing over the mountain and headed towards the most inhabited place that could be seen at the end of the line of sight.
As for Li Chengcheng and Cheng Chumo, they were being judged by many people who were with them, most of whom were members of the Li clan.
"Let's see who can be a young master riding a horse, and the other can be a peasant husband leading a horse."
In the end, there was no need to think about it. Of course, many of the Li family's descendants would support Li's descendant, Li Chengcheng. Moreover, the prince of the county had the same status as many of them. They were also convinced that he could be so powerless.
Immediately after the results came out, Li Chengcheng rode his horse triumphantly, and looked at Cheng Chu who was leading his horse reluctantly and shouted silently.
"Stop being so dilly-dallying, let's run in front of them first and give them a chance encounter, so we can blend in together, right?"
Cheng Chumo, who was still quite unhappy with Li Chengcheng, heard this, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yes, you are absolutely right. We should move forward quickly and find a shortcut to meet the team in front."
Li Chengcheng and a group of people were marching forward at high speed, but unfortunately for them, after crossing the mountain, the road they took was not suitable at all for Xu Yunyan and the others.
Even if they moved forward, they would not be able to reach the front of Li Chengqian's road, but Xu Yunyan and the others finally arrived at the village in front of them at sunset.
Looking at the people in the distance who were like the people of the Tang Dynasty returning to the village to rest at sunset, everyone couldn't help but feel relieved.
This is indeed my location in the Tang Dynasty, and the villagers saw these handsome young men coming at the intersection. They were very curious, but they didn't pay too much attention to anything, and hurriedly came forward to ask.
"I wonder why you gentlemen came to my Zhaojia Village?"
Zhaojiacun? It’s Zhaojiacun again!
A place that made Xu Yunyan feel a bit hard to let go and didn't know how to face it. After everyone asked about the purpose of the group of handsome young men in front of him, Li Chengqian did not rush to answer immediately. Instead, he straightened himself out after getting off the horse. The clothes on his body were like those of a scholar, and he showed them a simple scholarly etiquette.
"Xiao Ke has traveled all over the world to increase his knowledge. He hopes to have the opportunity to take the imperial examination and become an official. Traveling so far has made everyone laugh."
Li Chengqian's polite appearance made these people very curious, but when they looked at Li Chengqian, they said, "Being an official? Being an official is good. You don't have to do anything, someone will take care of you. When you have food, you can open your mouth and wear clothes. It's really good." There is a way out, but I don’t know if those of us who spend all day digging for rocks in the dirt will have the opportunity to have an official in our family."
These people seemed to yearn for officials, and they also said shocking words, which made Li Chengqian stunned.
"Um, I don't know what you mean by this? Isn't being an official meant to benefit the people? How can you be so luxurious and lascivious that you can put your hands on food and open your mouth? Are you being waited on every day?"
As soon as Li Chengqian said this, one of the impatient farmers was talking here.
"Isn't it like this? More taxes are paid every day. After the taxes were paid on the grains that were just collected, taxes came down again, and they had to pay the imperial grains again."
"What? Accept the emperor's food?"
Li Chengqian was surprised for a moment and asked in disbelief.
"Why is this so? Why haven't your local officials received the notice? Hasn't His Majesty decreed that the people will never pay too much in royal grain and taxes? They only need to pay taxes, and the taxes are much lower than before. Why? Are you suddenly asked to pay the royal rations again?"
After Li Chengqian said something, the man in front of him was shocked.
"What? Such a good thing! I haven't heard of it. We should still pay the taxes we were supposed to pay before. After paying, we thought we would be able to have a few days to go out and work to supplement the family income, but suddenly we were asked to do so. He handed over grain to the emperor and asked us to go out as corvees to escort the grain and fodder. Aren't these people who came back from other places in a hurry and happened to be busy at home for a few days to perform corvee work? "
"How could this happen?"
Li Chengqian was shocked, "Where are you from? Who is in charge? How could such a thing happen?"
"So that this young man knows that we are on the border of Fuzhou, Jiangnan East Road. The grain we are sending is what the county asked us to send to Fuzhou. We will leave tomorrow. Could it be that these are all fake?
That's not right. The government officials came to the village to read out the documents issued by the government. How could they be fake? Did this young master just hear this? Someone is always going to complain. "
This frightened Li Chengxian.
"How dare these officials do this?"
But just when the young man looked at Li Chengqian and asked, ready to say something more, an older man next to him pulled his clothes.
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"Okay, Zhao Da, let's not talk about this. Let's go home first. If the young masters don't dislike it, there are a few dilapidated houses in the village where we can stay for one night. If the young masters find it difficult to stay, then I There really won’t be any place to entertain the young masters later.”
People nowadays are quite hospitable. When students from abroad come here, they all want to entertain them warmly. They just want to look familiar or leave a little bit of affection. They will really use it when something goes wrong in the future. That's not the case. A beautiful thing?
Hearing what the old man said, Li Chengqian nodded, "As long as we have a house, we can live there for one night. It's pretty good for us wandering students to have a place to stay while traveling.
It just so happens that I will go to the county town with you tomorrow. His Majesty clearly has an order, but why didn't the county town receive the notice? There is such a big gap. "
