"Sir, can you save my young lady first? Don't worry about the money. Five hundred thousand taels will not be less. I will deliver it to your house when the time comes." Taishu said quickly.
Li Ke snorted coldly: "Everyone will say it with empty teeth. That's half a million taels of gold, not half a million taels of money. That's more than half a year of taxes from the Tang Dynasty."
"You'd better write an IOU, and I can rest assured that I will give the elixir to your young lady to take."
"Human life is at stake. Otherwise, I would never sell such a pill that can revive human flesh and bones to your young lady."
Uncle Tai immediately said: "Okay, okay, I'll write, I'll write..."
Sishe had already prepared the Four Treasures of the Study and placed them on the stone nearby.
After the uncle had written the IOU, Li Ke looked at it for a long time, then slowly put the IOU away and stuffed the Dali Pill, which cost only three cents, into the girl's mouth.
"Okay, you should rest and rest. Don't move. The king will take you to Yangguan tomorrow. You can rest there for half a month and you will recover."
The girl ate the Dali Pill, feeling it was sweet, sour, and quite delicious. She had runny nose and tears streaming down her face, and looked at Li Ke with emotion.
"My benefactor, thank you for your help."
"Hey, you've seen me outside, aren't you? We are all citizens of the Tang Dynasty. Outside this territory, we are just one family. Don't be polite to me."
"Woooooooo..."
Li Ke happily walked out of the camp gate, holding 500,000 taels of gold in his arms. He took out a powerful pill from his arms and started chewing it.
The weather here was still very cold. Li Ke hugged Tuo Luojia to warm the bed and slept until dawn.
Yan Yunda dismantled the carrying racks on the caravan's camels and made a stretcher for the injured girl. After breakfast, the group drove the camels towards Yangguan.
The items carried by these camels were also valuable tea, sugar, porcelain and colored glaze.
This made Li Ke a big profit again, because the girl said that these goods should be regarded as thanks to Li Ke for his life-saving grace.
A group of people finally arrived at Yangguan.
After getting the news, the prince-in-law Xiao Rui came to greet him from a distance with a team of people.
"The last general, Xiao Rui, has met His Highness King Qin!"
"Brother-in-law, there is no need to salute. We will go back to the customs first and then talk about other things."
Xiao Rui looked at the camel team behind him and the wounded on the stretchers, and wondered why this camel team had left the pass half a month ago. Why was it back now, but the guards who went out were missing.
Could something go wrong?
At that time, the camel team was about to leave the customs and go to Shanshan to do business. He never gave instructions because Shanshan was robbed by the people from the Western Regions again, and the entire Southern Region, since Qin Qiong disappeared, the Tang Dynasty had lost control of the Southern Region. Got control.
However, a month ago, the King of Qin returned from Chang'an and asked General Ashina Sheer to lead 20,000 cavalry from Yangguan to Shanshan to suppress the enemy.
Later, General Niu Jinda took his people to Shanshan again, and the news that Datang regained control of Shanshan and Qiemo in the southern region came later.
This camel team had to leave the customs, and it had the approval document from the military department, and he had no way to stop them, so he let them go.
Li Ke saw that Xiao Rui had been looking at the old man and the injured girl, so he said: "I encountered a robber and was rescued by this king."
Xiao Rui was shocked, how could he encounter thieves? He would not be surprised if he encountered enemy troops. After all, Tuyuhun was destroyed, and the remnants of the team fled into the desert to survive.
But before he came, the thieves were cleared once, and more than 3,000 thieves were killed that time. After he took office, for the safety of business and grain roads, he once again dispatched 5,000 cavalry to clear out the surrounding 200 thieves and remnant forces within the area.
So where did these damn thieves come from?
Within his jurisdiction, thieves actually appeared, intercepted the caravan, and killed so many people. This was his dereliction of duty.
At the beginning, the King of Qin repeatedly issued orders that thieves and various forces were not allowed to appear in everyone's jurisdiction. Once they did, they would be wiped out with all their strength. The Tang Dynasty's food routes and logistics material transportation channels must be guaranteed.
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Xiao Rui immediately knelt on the ground: "Please punish the King of Qin. The general will be guilty of dereliction of duty."
Li Ke helped Xiao Rui up. Before interrogating the thief, he intended to take care of his brother-in-law to scare the monkeys. But after the interrogation, Xiao Rui could not be blamed for this matter.
But Yangguan and Yumenguan are the eastern gates of the Western Regions and the gateways to the Tang Dynasty. They must be guarded. This is the most critical place.
Especially now, when the hidden family in the Central Plains, the four major forces in the Western Region, and himself are engaged in a competition.
"Brother-in-law... If you weren't brother-in-law, I would have killed you with a knife in front of all the soldiers. But I can't bear the thought that if I do you, my sister will be a widow."
Cold sweat broke out on Xiao Rui's forehead, and his head dropped even lower.
"Please punish me, Your Highness!"
"Okay, I'll fine you a year's salary, and then I'll fine you guard Yangguan for another year."
Xiao Rui finally breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and said, "Thank you, Your Highness."
Li Ke helped Xiao Rui up and asked Xiao Rui to lead the way. The group entered the pass. Starting from the critical moment, Li Ke inspected the key points of the military fortress one by one.
However, after the inspection, Li Ke still nodded. Xiao Rui did a good job. Even if a strong enemy invaded, he could still wait until friendly forces came to help, so that he would not be suddenly defeated.
Under Xiao Rui's rule, although it was not a regular Sixteenth Guards army, it still had strict military discipline.
The injured girl and the old man were so afraid of the young man who saved them when they saw Xiao Rui. But this young man was just the son of Fang Xiang's family and had nothing to do with Xiao Rui.
But Xiao Rui is like a child who made mistakes, always following Mr. Fang, and sometimes he has to explain something to Mr. Fang?
"Uncle, do you think this young master is a bit strange?"
Uncle Tai looked at Li Ke who was still talking in the distance and said: "It's a bit strange. The legendary young master of the Fang family is an out-and-out playboy."
"But today, it seems that he doesn't look like a dandy at all. Instead, he has a domineering air."
"Miss, have you noticed that the people around Young Master Fang are all masters, capable of killing people like crazy, but they are not the kind of killers and death warriors trained in the family, but soldiers trained on the battlefield."
"But it doesn't make sense. Legend has it that Mr. Fang has no military knowledge at all and is a complete waste."
"How is it possible to command such a powerful army? And let Xiao Rui of the Xiao family obey his words?"
"Miss, could it be that...he...he is the King of Qin?" The uncle suddenly opened his eyes and asked the lady in disbelief.
"Where's the portrait? Take it out quickly..."
Uncle Tai searched for a long time but could not find the portrait. The portrait was lost in the fierce battle with the bandits!
"lost!"
My breasts hurt because of the girlish anger, why did I throw them away?
She also hated herself. When she came out of the family, her father and grandfather had repeatedly warned her to recognize the portrait clearly, but she did not look at it. In her opinion, there was nothing good about the children of the royal family. .
He went there this time just to perform a mission, not to actually find a man to marry.
But now the claws are numb!
Biquge
