Zhenguan Xiaoxian Wang Li Shen Li Shimin

"Three hundred thousand strings of cash?"

Wang Xuance was also a little surprised. He knew better than Li Shen how difficult it was to earn this 300,000 strings of cash.

Three hundred thousand strings of cash is an astronomical figure for others.

What surprised him even more was when King Ji started to have an idea of ​​money and what it could be used for.

He actually knew how many people he could feed in a year and how many border troops he could support.

"Are you surprised? I am also surprised. I didn't expect that I only asked Wang Hongfu to give a little help to his industry.

He actually had such a big harvest.

Three hundred thousand strings of cash! I don’t believe he will do nothing after getting this money. You should send someone to keep an eye on them immediately.

Evacuate the outside members and don't alert the enemy. We can't make any mistakes at this time."

A smile appeared on Li Shen's face. A year's work finally paid off.

"Your Highness, I think the peripheral members cannot be withdrawn." Wang Xuance said.

"Huh? Why?" Li Shen was puzzled.

"Your Highness, we can use the peripheral members as bait, pretending to build a plank road but secretly attacking Chencang. I estimate that the peripheral members sent to monitor the Jin Palace have already been known to the Jin Palace.

If we suddenly disappear, it will only arouse the suspicion of the King of Jin. It is better to play along and make them think we have discovered nothing."

Wang Xuance explained.

Li Shen thought it made sense:

"Well, you're right. Let them keep watching and we'll attack from both sides."

"But... Your Highness, aren't we being a little hasty? This is just the beginning. If we send people to watch too closely and let them notice, won't they be afraid to act?"

Wang Xuance thought about it and gave his advice. He felt that Prince Ji was too impatient.

"So what do you think?" Li Shen frowned after hearing this.

"Your Highness, since you are raising a tiger, you must naturally make it more ferocious. Since your intention is not to do it yourself, it is better to let it return to the mountains.

We can just watch from the sidelines. As for how the tiger performs, it all depends on his own ability. Didn’t the prince say that there can’t be two tigers on this mountain?

Wang Xuance's eyes were wise,

"But tigers can hurt people. I'm just afraid that they will hurt the people around me." Li Shen was a little worried. Even rabbits bite when they are angry. He just wanted to kill someone with someone else's knife, but he didn't want the tiger to hurt anyone.

"Hahaha, Your Highness forgot that this tiger is actually called a big insect. Since it is an insect, we can crush it to death at any time."

"Wow~~~Xuan Ce, your smile is so sinister. You are a scholar, who did you learn to smile like that from?

I now feel that you are a bad person, even worse than me."

Looking at Wang Xuance's smile, Li Shen couldn't help but scream. His eyes narrowed, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he looked like a villain with a forced smile.

"Uh~~~~~~" Wang Xuance was speechless. Aren't these the movements you usually do? He was just imitating them.

Li Shen's expression changed, and he became serious again:

"You're right, then we should just ignore him and watch from the sidelines. However, we still have to be careful that he doesn't hurt innocent people.

And although he has made a lot of profit this year, I feel that this is not enough. Money alone cannot make him arrogant.

I have to think of some way to constantly stimulate him without suppressing him.

Ouch, that’s a bit nerve-wracking.”

Li Shen felt a headache. For someone who didn't understand conspiracies and intrigues, thinking about these things was simply torture.

He is a good man.

"Alright, forget about it. Never mind. Let it be. I'm going to go to the bathroom."

Li Shen shook his head and stopped thinking about these things that he couldn't figure out. He walked out of the carriage and stood on the shaft.

After shouting for the team to stop, I started to search, but it was too difficult to put on too many clothes.

"Your Highness, a group of people are coming from behind, with thousands of people." At this moment, the guards behind came to report.

"Huh?" Li Shen shuddered at the thought and held back his urine. Heat expansion and cold contraction made it difficult to urinate.

I leaned over the carriage and looked back, and indeed I could vaguely see a group of people a few miles away.

"Hurry up and give me the telescope." Li Shen put away his tools and gave the order hurriedly.

Li Shen took the telescope and looked carefully, but because the wind was too strong, the snow on the ground was blown up, and the distance was too far to see whose team it was.

"Your Highness, could it be the Crown Prince's team?" Wang Xuance also came out to take a look.

"That shouldn't be the case. Didn't they say yesterday that the Crown Prince would bring a few important officials to visit? It's already so late, the court should have been dismissed long ago."

Li Shen lowered his telescope and shook his head. The morning court session should have ended long ago. How could Li Chengqian not come out until almost noon?

"Since it's not His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, let's prepare to meet the enemy." Wang Xuance immediately jumped off the carriage after hearing this, and the guard camp also began to change its formation. The carriage was protected in the middle, and the front row was ready to charge at any time.

Li Shen also returned to the carriage, which at least was not afraid of a barrage of arrows, and watched the situation behind through the glass.

The atmosphere became tense, and all the guards gripped their weapons tightly, ready for battle.

"Bang bang."

Suddenly, two knocks on the glass startled Li Shen.

Li Shen turned around suddenly and saw a big face appearing in the side window.

"What are you doing, you bastard?"

Li Shen went to the side window, opened it, and started cursing at the big face outside.

Tie Niu stretched out his big hand:

"Your Majesty, would you like some beef jerky?"

Li Shen lowered his head and saw Tie Niu holding a thick piece of beef jerky. Li Shen was stunned for three seconds, and then his face turned ugly:

"You bastard, it's already this late and you're still eating beef jerky, bullshit beef jerky, you bastard.

Where did you get this beef jerky?"

Li Shen was going crazy. The atmosphere was already so tense, and this idiot actually asked him if he wanted beef jerky.

Just when Li Shen was concentrating, Tie Niu knocked on the window twice and almost sent Li Shen away.

"The princess asked someone to give it to Tie Niu, saying that he would eat it if he was hungry on the road." Tie Niu said naively.

"I won't eat it. Didn't you hear someone coming from behind?" Li Shen said angrily.

"It's still a long way off, and they're not enemies."

When Tie Niu heard Li Shen say he didn't want to eat, he withdrew his hand.

"Bullshit, how did you know that?" Li Shen became even angrier. This idiot used to be very obedient.

"Crack." "Crunch."

Tie Niu took a bite of beef jerky, and Li Shen gritted his teeth at the sight. Damn, how can you still bite it when it’s frozen?

I only heard Niu Niu's muffled voice explaining:

"The enemy didn't speed up, nor did they change their formation. Their speed was even and their formation was neat. They must be the Imperial Guards or Wuwei of Chang'an City."

"Huh?" Li Shen looked back immediately after hearing that.

(I checked the information. In the early Tang Dynasty, the annual expenses of border troops were between 10 and 15 strings of cash, which included spring and winter cloth, corn, as well as rewards and subsidies.

I also found out that a set of armor for the Xuanjia Army costs 150 strings of cash, and various weapons such as lances, bows and arrows, and horizontal swords cost 30 strings of cash, plus the cost of horse harnesses and the like.

It costs about 280 strings of cash to form a Xuanjia soldier. Based on Li Shen's guard battalion of 3,000 people, it costs 840,000 strings of cash to form one.

Moreover, the annual maintenance cost is about 50 guan, which does not include the selection and training of soldiers, the loss and replacement of equipment, and the loss and maintenance of horses.

Therefore, Li Shen's 3,000 elite soldiers and a million soldiers per year are reasonable.)