Seeing that everyone didn't understand what he meant, Zuo Chengzu had to whisper to all the people: "there is a rumor that you should have heard of, that is, the puppet Prince of the Zhong Dynasty had taken something away when he fled."

After hearing this, Lu Ling was shocked: "the meaning of Taishou is the jade seal!"

All of them were surprised. They quickly looked to Chengzu. He nodded and said, "yes, if it's true, it's probably in this mountain, so..."

On hearing this, everyone was excited. If the jade seal was really here, and then it was taken by himself and others and dedicated to his master, it would be a great achievement!

"Only if you want to send out a large army, you must report to the Lord for approval before you can send out troops. Besides, the rest of Zhong's evils are hiding in the mountains. If they are not careful, they will escape again. It doesn't matter if they run away. But if the jade seal is taken away by them again, it's not so easy to find them again." Kong Xin frowned and said;

"yes, it needs a long-term consideration. It's better to report it to the Lord first. If only Yuanrong crossbow soldiers and tieyingruishi of the guards could be sent here. After all, there are Zhongshi's remaining evils in the mountain, and there are a lot of imperial guards. It's hard to win them all just by the guards of Lujiang Prefecture and Xuanwu camp." Wu'anguo has also participated in many wars in recent years, and his vision is far from that of Qingzhou at the beginning, he added;

after listening to their opinions, Zuo Chengzu realized that he was thinking too simply, so he said: "in this case, we should report to the Lord as soon as possible and wait for the Lord's arrangement, but we must also be prepared."

"You can rest assured that Xuanwu camp will strengthen the monitoring of the situation in the mountains. At the same time, starting tomorrow, Xuanwu camp will send two school soldiers to Anhui county to block it in the mountains. However, we need to strengthen the investigation and understanding of the situation in the mountain. No matter how the Lord arranges, at least we should have a detailed understanding of the specific situation of the remaining evils of the Zhong family and the situation around their gathering place. It's better to find out the situation of this place and the surrounding roads. " Kong Xin nodded

In the mountains to the north of Wan County in Lujiang County, in the valley more than 100 li away from Wan County, in a big valley called yuqianlong, the original town has now become a county with tens of thousands of people. It is Ji Ling, the former Prince Yuan Yao and the tens of thousands of troops led by them who suddenly came from Shouchun city. More than a year ago, while the attention of several vassals was focused on Shouchun City, Ji Ling led 20000 imperial guards and thousands of soldiers, escorted nearly 10000 officials and their families to flee here. After a year, he has taken root.

In more than a year, more than 20000 families of taxi soldiers arrived here one after another through various channels. In addition, there were thousands of people in the valley. Today's yuqianlong has been renamed the city of Yuqian county. In addition, the surrounding villages and towns have already settled down with 50000 or 60000 people. It is also because of the sharp increase in population that Ji Ling and Shu Zhao have been greatly affected The people are very busy, because they don't have much food.

At the beginning, although they carried a lot of food and grass into the mountains, the food and grass supplies were only enough for their 30000 people to consume in a year. In fact, Shu Zhao also knew the importance of food and grass, so after the army arrived at yuqianlong, they began to turn all the thousands of guards back to the fields. In addition, thousands of families and aborigines, a total of more than 10000 people stepped up reclamation.

It's just that they didn't expect that from the beginning of this year, after they sent out to spy on their families, they brought all of them to the mountains through various ways. As a result, the population in the mountains has increased from less than 30000 to nearly 60000 in less than a year, so there is not enough food in the mountains.

The county government of Yuqian county is now the temporary palace of the crown prince. Although it is known that the Zhongshi emperor has returned to heaven, the crown prince Yuan Yao refuses to ascend the throne and still serves as a director in the name of the crown prince. The civil and military officials of the Zhongshi Dynasty have no strong objection. In fact, the title of emperor Yuan Shu is the result of his willful action. There are not many people who sincerely support him, most of them They all just follow the trend, so after the Zhongshi Dynasty existed for less than two years, it was destroyed by the joint attack of several vassals, and everyone was almost sober.

Now, Yuan Yao has not succeeded to the throne, and no one has forced him. Now we all know that there is no absolute strength to support him. All things are just flowers in the water and the moon in the mirror.

In the hall of the county government office, Yuan Yao was in a high position. Looking at his subordinates, he said: "gentlemen, now the snow has begun to close the mountain, and the Tang army outside the mountain probably won't notice us at this time of the year, but now our form is not good. We can see what we should do. However, before you begin, I would like to ask senior general Jun and Mr. Shu to introduce us to you. "

Ji Ling got up and saluted Yuan Yao, saying: "Your Highness, since we broke through the encirclement in Shouchun last year, we have only 20000 imperial guards and 5000 garrisons. When we arrived at yuqianlong, because of the large number of soldiers and the small number of people, we have released all the 5000 garrisons to the field, so now we have only 20000 imperial guards. However, although we have a small number of troops, the imperial guards are very small It's the most elite army, so its combat power is not weak. If it's against the outside of the city, the Tang army will be able to compete with Tang Guogong's guards. If it's guarding the city, it will be able to resist 100000 troops for half a year. "Ji Ling's words let the army breathe a sigh of relief, at least their own lives are now guaranteed, but the next Shu Zhao's words made everyone feel bad for a moment.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the 20000 royal guards are powerful, but the amount of money and food consumed is not small. The monthly money alone needs nearly 60000 Guan, and the grain is nearly 40000 Shi. Now there are nearly 60000 people in Yuqian county and our control area, and these 60000 people are almost the families of our soldiers and officials, except 20000 royal guards So these people need us to support them. " Shu Zhao is now in charge of the logistics of yuan Yaojun, while Yuan Si and Yan Xiang are in charge of the government affairs of Yuqian county and surrounding villages and towns, and Yan Xiang is in charge of the internal affairs of yuan Yaojun.

"But the food consumption of these 40000 people is only 30% of that of the Imperial Army, so the monthly food consumption is about 50000 stone, but..." At this point, Shu Zhao looked around at the crowd, and then whispered: "now our grain reserves are less than 200000 stones, that is to say, only enough for us to save less than three months and four months. Now it's December, and we won't have summer grain harvest until the end of June next year, so we will have no food for more than two months..."