Chapter 467: Substituting One Thing for Another
Tuoba Jin led the Xianbei army to rush over and tried their best to put out the fire. There was a small river next to the accident site, but they had no containers. In the end, they tried their best and only rescued the food closest to them, which added up to 10,000 to 20,000 kilograms, but most of the food turned to ashes.
Thinking of the continuous burning of food, Tuoba Jin couldn't help beating his chest and stamping his feet, "One step late, one step late!"
He Ximing was thoughtful, "Second Prince, is this fire burning too fast?"
Tuoba Jin: "Is that so? But in autumn, the weather is dry, and these grains are tax grains, so they are generally dried. It burned all of a sudden, isn't it strange? And they used a light yellow thing, which seems to be easy to burn?"
He Ximing didn't say anything. He dug in the ashes and only found some unburned grains. Did he think too much?
How could Tuoba Jin and others think that most of this batch of grain had been replaced by others?
They didn't doubt it at all. After all, who dared to falsify the grain and grass submitted to the court?
"The Dali people are really hateful!" Tuoba Jin gritted his teeth.
They often fought with the Dali people, and it was very difficult to intercept their grain and grass. Once they found that the grain was robbed, they would rather destroy it than help the enemy.
Thinking of this, Tuoba Jin's murderous intent suddenly rose, and he wished to slaughter all the Dali people here!
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After running for half an hour, Lu Dayou controlled the grain cart with one hand and pulled off the black mask on his face, "I'm suffocating!"
Others also pulled off their masks and breathed heavily.
Such a high-intensity exercise with a layer of cloth on the face is going to kill me.
"Be careful!"
The grain cart pushed by Zhu Peng almost flipped over due to balance problems. Qin Sheng beside him quickly supported it, and his own grain cart was tightly controlled by him.
Huhu-huhu-
Zhu Peng panted heavily, "Thank you, Sixth Master."
"Zhu Peng, you don't have enough physical strength." Chen Jinlong said. Although the others were also panting, they were not like him, panting like an old cow.
"Yes, you are the boss, don't you feel guilty?"
Zhu Peng rolled his eyes secretly in his heart. Who is like them? Pushing a cart full of food, they can run in the mountains and forests as if walking on flat ground, as flexible as monkeys. And how long have they been running? Half an hour, right? How did these people do it?
"How can I compare with you brothers?"
"That's right." Lu Dayou and others nodded without modesty.
Zhu Peng choked.
Others didn't think Lu Dayou was wrong. Apart from anything else, after more than a year of training, they were first-class in running.
In non-plain areas, the Xianbei cavalry couldn't do anything to them.
Then, Chen Jinlong and other former village chiefs took turns to preach to him.
"Honestly, Zhu Peng, you really need to practice hard."
"That's right, when I first met you, you had gained weight. You must have been immobile since you moved to Youbeiping County."
"If you don't practice, are you worthy of your title as the leader of the Tiger Village? Do you know that with your current strength, if the bandits in Pingzhou were ranked, you would be ranked two or three hundred or more."
Zhu Peng: ...Is he that bad?
"Master Chen, with my thirty years of experience in butchering pigs, this kid is not convinced."
Chen Jinlong and others didn't brag, but they looked at Zhu Peng meaningfully. This time, Qin Liuye said that he would only bring three hundred people. There are few opportunities to go out, and everyone wants to go out, so in the end, they can only rely on their own skills. Each of these three hundred people is as good as Zhu Peng.
Zhu Peng covered his face. He tried to hold back, but he couldn't hold back in the end. "Brothers, you are really amazing. You rob your own people. You are really good at it." Zhu Peng just met them and realized that the target of their robbery was the team transporting tax grain in Pingzhou.
"What do you know? This grain is handed over to the imperial envoy sent by the court as tax grain, and it no longer belongs to their Pingzhou grain." So they can rob.
"Then you are bold, even robbing the court tax grain."
"Otherwise? The grain that we worked so hard to grow is so cheap for the Xianbei army? And did you forget that we are using the name of Weihuzhai?" Chen Jinlong touched his head.
Zhu Peng: ... He was glad before that they were borrowing the name, not borrowing other people's heads. Now it seems that there is no difference?
Qin Sheng found a place with a wide view and announced to rest on the spot!
Chen Jinlong took a final look and said, "It's a pity that those bastards didn't catch up."
"Don't worry, we will deal with them sooner or later! Now we are just warming up, right, Sixth Master?" Lu Dayou asked with a smile.
Thinking of the massacre in Songzhou, Qin Sheng's face turned cold, "This matter is over, and we should go to another place to close the net!"
"Sixth Master, we have probably robbed more than 10,000 kilograms of grain, right?" Zhu Dazhuang approached Qin Sheng and asked.
Each grain cart has about 300 to 400 kilograms of grain. They dispatched 300 people, and each of them robbed a grain transport cart.
Qin Sheng: "Yes."
Zhu Dazhuang, Chen Jinlong and others were all very happy when they heard this.
Zhu Peng didn't understand. They only robbed more than 10,000 kilograms of grain. What was there to be happy about? Such a large amount of grain was all cheaply given to the Xianbei army. Although the batch of grain was set on fire, the Xianbei army had so many people that they should be able to save most of it.
"Xiao Zhu, you're overthinking it. The food will definitely be burned to ashes. They won't be able to save it."
Zhu Peng:......
Thinking of how much food had been burned just now, even as a bandit, he felt heartbroken. If this food was given to him, he would be able to raise several mountains in no time!
"Xiao Zhu, I didn't expect that you are not a big person, but you are very ambitious."
Zhu Peng: Haha.
Chen Jinlong: "After this, we are all stirring the spoons in the same pot. I might as well tell you that with so much grain, only the outermost circle is real."
Hearing this, Zhu Peng was stunned.
"It's a loss, it's still a loss." Zhu Dazhuang muttered after calculating the accounts.
Hearing this, Qin Sheng nodded in his heart. This batch of tax grains contains nearly 100,000 kilograms of real grains alone.
At that time, he felt that too much real food had been mixed in, but his wife said that she could not bear the child and would not be able to trap the wolf.
It took a long time before Zhu Peng came to his senses, "It's an understatement to say that you are so courageous. Aren't you afraid of being discovered by the imperial envoys?" You dare to fake the taxes and grains and the taxes and grains handed over to the imperial court.
Qin Sheng's eyes darkened.
"You are so naive, what do you think we are here for?"
There are only two endings for the two imperial envoys. If they don't find anything strange about the taxes and grains, they can live. If they find out, they can only die. The reasons are all ready, either he will die at the hands of Xianbei or by the sword of a bandit.
The summary is that if you are stupid, stay, and if you are smart, just send them away.