Traveling through time with billions of supplies to become a farmer's little fortune

The two of them were being stared at by a little kid and felt a little overwhelmed.

One of them wanted to go up and touch the little girl's head, but just as he stretched out his hand he remembered that she was not only a princess, but also the imperial teacher of the dynasty.

If my hand really fell on someone's head, I might be punished for insubordination. After thinking about it, I put down my outstretched hand.

After a while, the Marquis came out of the carriage, wearing light casual clothes.

"I heard about the reputation of Taiping Escort Agency when I arrived in Liumei County. I heard that you have wiped out bandits in several hilltops and have achieved remarkable results!"

After the Marquis finished speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and asked, "And I heard that your Taiping Escort Agency has a sharpshooter who never misses his target. I wonder if you have the honor to see him today."

Lord Wu Hou originally heard that a group of bandits from Liumei County had gone up the mountain. When he led his men there, he only saw corpses on the mountain. Some of the corpses had arrow holes on them.

All the arrow holes hit vital points, and judging by their trajectories, they were clearly made by one person.

Later, I asked around in the nearby villages and found out that the bandits in the mountain were wiped out by people from the Taiping Escort Agency.

It is also said that the bodyguards there are all very powerful, especially the archer.

The people living at the foot of the mountain praised the Taiping Escort Agency to the skies. Although Lord Wu Hou did not believe it completely, he confirmed one thing from this: the bandits on the mountain were indeed killed by the Taiping Escort Agency.

The main reason why the Marquis invited them here was that cavalry were not good at close combat.

Archers are quite good at long-range restraint on cavalry. Wanting them to join forces to suppress bandits is secondary. The most important thing is to recruit them.

Su Muyao just tilted her head and listened attentively. On the surface, she looked like an ordinary well-behaved child and didn't say a word.

Then the escort said: "Your Majesty, you are too kind. Where do the archers come from? The escorts are all villagers in the village. They have only been trained for one or two years. They are far from the level of the sharpshooters that your Majesty mentioned."

The Marquis saw that Mingqi's expression was not fake, and he couldn't help but asked with some doubt: "But I have actually seen that your hit rate is indeed very high."

At this time, Ming An at the side said with a smile: "My Lord, I think you must have made a mistake. What we use is not a bow but a crossbow. The crossbow is quite good. Basically, it can hit whatever you point at. So no matter who uses it, it will hit the target every time."

The Marquis was a little disappointed. The crossbow's range was not far enough and it was troublesome to wind the string. It could only fire single shots and was completely useless against the enemy.

I originally thought I could find a very powerful archer.

"It's a crossbow..." The Marquis' voice was full of regret.

Ming'an and Mingqi had no idea what the other was regretting. Ming'an said, "Since the prince is here, why don't we fight the bandits together."

"I heard that many bandits have been entrenched in the mountains for many years, and the people living at the foot of the mountain are suffering. Now that the Marquis is here, let's go together!"

The reason they said this was that the two brothers felt that from the disappointed tone of the Marquis just now, it seemed that he was about to withdraw.

Mingqi also said: "I heard that there are nearly 8,000 to 9,000 bandits in that bandit village, which is why we dare not act rashly.

With the Marquis here today, I believe we can wipe them out in one fell swoop."

The Marquis simply nodded: "How many escorts do you have now?"

"1000" Ming'an said and then added: "But now we have new bodyguards, about 600 people."

Su Muyao held her forehead as she listened. After all this time, it turned out that you, a thousand or so people, were going to fight against another group of eight or nine thousand people.

The Marquis just said how many people he would bring, and then several people started to plan for battle.

Only Su Muyao kept shaking her head as she listened. It was only from here that she realized that the crossbow they had was actually the one she had taken out.

But it shouldn't have been in the hands of the escort. Su Muyao suddenly asked, "Uncle, I want to ask where did you get that crossbow?"

A few people were still discussing the deployment when they heard Xiao Naituan's voice sounded behind them.

The Marquis was startled and looked back quickly. He was relieved to see that Little Naitian was not running around. He had just been discussing with them how to eliminate the bandits and had completely forgotten about Little Naitian.

Ming An replied: "My dear little princess, we bought that one at a high price, and I heard that we only sold three.

We just happened to pick one of them up because many people didn’t believe it had this use and it wasn’t demonstrated at the time.”

Su Muyao gritted her teeth in anger when she heard this. She had worked so hard to make something, but in the end it was sold by someone else.

How does this old man manage his subordinates? How dare he give such weapons to such people?

The Marquis also noticed that something was wrong with the little girl and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you so angry?"

Then I heard the little girl angrily say: "This crossbow is a new type I developed. It was sold to someone else less than a month after I gave it to the emperor."

The Marquis was unmoved. Although he felt strange that someone would sell it to him, what use could this crossbow have? Just sell it!

"The crossbow I just made is not an ordinary crossbow. Not only can it fire continuously, but it also has the highest stability and long-range attack capability..."

The Marquis almost spit fire after hearing what the little princess said.

"Which bastard sold it out? I'm so pissed off." As he said that, he was about to pull the little girl back to the palace.

How could Su Muyao be willing to do that?

"My Lord, please wait a moment. Why don't we kill these bandits first? Then I'll give you a few more to play with. What do you think?"

The Marquis then remembered the purpose of this trip and nodded.

So he took his men and headed towards the bandit mountain.

On the way, Ming An introduced to everyone: "I heard that there are nearly 10,000 bandits in this mountain who plunder 30% of the food from the people every year. These people are very miserable. Every year, apart from paying taxes, they can only barely make enough to eat and wear.

But the remaining food was only enough for basic needs, and it was all looted by these bandits.

I heard that anyone who resisted would be brutally killed, and the government had tried to intervene before, but because there were so many bandits in the mountains, they were unable to do anything about it."

The Marquis was furious when he heard this: "Didn't the government report this?"

"How could it not have been reported? I heard that it was reported more than once or twice, but it was always suppressed by the people above, who said that they couldn't do anything about it."

Su Muyao heard something fishy from their conversation. It was obvious that the officials above must know the bandits, otherwise they would not have stopped them from reporting further.

For cases like this that are harmful to one side and cannot be handled by local authorities, basically after reporting, there will be special people to deal with it.