At night, there was silence all around.

Beside the official road, several bonfires were emitting dazzling light.

There were many corpses lying in the distance. Their clothes were stripped off and they were lying naked on the ground in a neat row. Their empty eyes were looking up at the sky, as if they wanted to ask for an answer.

Several thin horses were tied up, looking at their dead owners, shaking their heads uneasily.

He Shikai looked at the bonfire in front of him.

The flames were boiling, and new flames were constantly coming out of the dismantled timbers of the carriage, spraying everywhere.

He Shikai glanced at the generals in the distance and muttered unhappily: "Barbarian warriors."

His own knight approached him and asked in a low voice: "He Gong, these people are going to enter Beishuo territory tomorrow, are they really useful?"

He Shikai glared at him, "Do you really expect these guys to scare Liu Taozi?"

He Shikai took off the water bag from his waist, took a big mouthful and said slowly: "Liu Taozi is not afraid of them. We bring them with us for other purposes."

The knight narrowed his eyes and whispered: "My lord, that general and his subordinates are all drunk, why don't we take the opportunity to kill him, let a few brothers commit suicide, and then tell Hulv Xian that they were attacked.

Put the blame on Liu Taozi!"

"That's bullshit."

He Shikai said coldly.

The knight immediately did not dare to speak, and He Shikai looked at him again, "I can tell you, without my order, no one is allowed to make their own decisions or act rashly."

"I came here this time to appease Liu Taozi. He will not surrender to the king, but we must at least ensure that he will not vote for the puppet Zhou Dynasty."

"If he takes his cronies to the puppet Zhou Dynasty and opens the gates of various places, the Zhou people will be able to invade Jinyang on the 15th."

He Shikai also felt a little tricky at the moment.

Gao Zhan hated Liu Taozi so much that he gnashed his teeth. Liu Taozi caught him like that, causing Gao Zhan to miss many opportunities.

But he still had some worries in his heart.

He is not afraid of Liu Taozi leading troops to rebel. Liu Taozi's poor place cannot be self-sufficient in food. Moreover, this is his family's old base, and the military households are all his own family members. Even if he leads the military households in rebellion, there will be no food.

Ordnance will be finished sooner or later.

The military rations transported by the temple each time are given according to the six-month quota based on the number of local soldiers, which is very meaningful.

Gao Zhan was afraid that Liu Taozi would defect to the enemy.

Among the military households in the frontier fortress, there were not only his own family members, but also those of the puppet Zhou Dynasty.

The military provisions for the Puppet Zhou Dynasty have always been relatively sufficient. If the two are combined, there will be no need to fight for the throne of Qi.

He Shikai came to the frontier for two purposes. The first was to restrict Liu Taozi's continued development, disrupt his contacts with Shuozhou and Hengzhou, and isolate him!

The second thing is to try to appease Liu Taozi to prevent him from jumping over the wall in a hurry.

He Shikai rubbed his hands and kept thinking about how to tame this tiger.

He was quite excited.

He quite enjoyed this feeling.

The next day, when it was dark and bright, everyone continued on their way.

The official road leads into the distance, and there are gradually more dense forests on both sides. He Shikai is riding a horse, and some malicious prying eyes can be vaguely detected from the dense forests on both sides.

Fortunately, there are not many dense forests here, and we walked through it in a short time.

The wild dog disappeared from the hillside not far away with a bone in its mouth. The crow neighed loudly, but its location could not be found.

After passing through the valley entrance, I saw a simple checkpoint.

There was no checkpoint here originally, and of course, it is not considered a checkpoint now. It is simply a fence set up to keep away horses, and soldiers set up camp here.

On the opposite side, there is also a fence, and several soldiers are on guard around it.

The two sides faced each other with solemn expressions, holding the knife with their hands and looking unkindly.

He Shikai and others showed their place of passage, and then they were able to pass. The general guarding the pass said angrily: "There are thieves and robbers in the north, so be careful!"

The monk smiled and nodded, officially stepping into Beishuo's territory.

Some border soldiers stopped them, checked where they were passing, and then sent someone to take them there.

He Shikai was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, these frontier fortress people were quite polite and actually sent someone to escort them there.

Walking on the road, you can see many saplings on both sides. The saplings are planted at regular intervals, but they are not like road protection forests. They are not so dense. Looking around, you can see that the saplings are spreading all the way.

I smiled and asked the escorting soldier, but the soldier didn't speak at all, as if he couldn't hear anything.

After walking for a long time, I saw a group of busy people in the distance, who were repairing the village.

When we arrived at the river, we saw some people who seemed to be salvaging mud, and a brand new arrow tower rising from the ground in the distance.

The general from the big city looked disdainful and raised his head high.

He Shikai's face became increasingly serious.

Since entering Beishuo, he has not seen people begging along the road, nor wild dogs with bones in their mouths. All he has seen is a group of busy people.

Everyone is busy and seems to be doing something.

But what really made He Shikai feel uneasy was that there were no officials with whips or knights with crossbows around those who were doing things.

He vaguely felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

The further you go, the more lively Beishuo becomes.

In many places, you can see newly built villages and walled cities, and you can see people busy on the farmland, and shepherd boys pulling cattle passing by from a distance.

He Shikai finally couldn't bear it any longer. He grabbed the general on the side and asked in a low voice: "Where did he get so many things??"

"ah?"

"who?"

"General Liu Liu, this place is the most barren. Where did he get so much money and food? He is building construction everywhere. There is no quiet place along the road. Where did he get so much money and food??"

General Pi pondered for a moment, "Let's grab it."

"When he first took office, many people came from Beishuo, saying that Liu Taozi sent evil men to ransack homes and kill people, killing people everywhere. He had demolished all the temples in Beishuo, leaving only one small temple.

"

"They were all stolen."

He Shikai's expression softened a little.

He looked at the desolate land around him again, and his heartbeat was not as fast as before.

If it is just based on robbery, it will be a one-time transaction that cannot be sustained. If it is used for construction now, it will not be sustainable in the future, and it will not develop to the point of being self-sufficient. That is easy to say.

They passed many new towns and villages along the way.

Of course, these are not considered cities. A good war horse can jump over their walls.

However, it was actually much more lively than before. People were coming and going, and some were sitting at the door to rest. When they saw the noble people passing by, they were not afraid at all and pointed and said something.

General Pi was furious and wanted to draw his sword immediately.

"General, this is Beishuo, and Beishuo is not Shuo. Indiscriminate killing is not allowed here."

The knight leading them suddenly spoke.

He Shikai was stunned, damn it.

You kid can talk?!

General Pi looked at the knight and became even more angry. He pulled out his sword and said, "Why don't Beisuo talk about Daqi Law?!"

"Speak."

"There is no rule in Da Qi Law that others cannot look at you when you are walking."

"Hahaha, I think you are deliberately going against us. Jin He was like this, and it is still like this now!!"

Just as the two screamed, the villagers in the distance suddenly stood up and ran back to the village.

After a while, I saw a group of people rushing out. There were more than sixty people. They could not be called armored soldiers. They were not wearing armor, but they had plenty of weapons. Among them were three powerful crossbows, which were already aimed at the soldiers.

Wait for a few people.

After them, more than a hundred young and strong men came out with hoes, stones and wooden sticks, and surrounded them with water.

General Pi never dreamed that one day he would be surrounded by a group of auxiliary soldiers and civilians!!

He yelled angrily, "Come on, whoever has the ability will go."

He Shikai hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him, "General, calm down and calm down. This is what the governor ordered. Do you want to disobey his military order?"

Hearing Hu Luxian's name, the general Pi calmed down his anger.

He Shikai apologized to the knight and wanted to give some money, but the knight did not accept it. He stepped forward to ask everyone to disperse, and then led them to move on.

General Pi stopped talking, just pursed his lips and looked fiercely.

He Shikai's expression wasn't much better either.

If this continues, the frontier fortress will know the general but not the temple.

Wuchuan.

The streets were extremely noisy, and knights galloped past on horseback from time to time.

He Shikai took a deep breath and looked at the general next to him.

"General, General Liu is a hot-tempered man. You can just sit aside later. Don't get angry, let alone have any conflicts with him!"

"I'm really afraid that the general will suffer a loss!"

General Pi was furious, "No matter how many people there are, they can't even try to scare me!!"

"I'm not afraid of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, so why should I be afraid of Anxi?!"
To be continued...