I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then grabbed Li Hu by the collar.

"Are you burning newspapers at the grave to fool the ghosts?"

"I checked all the intelligence before I came here. Let alone finding Tian Wen, you don't even know where he went!"

"You tell me you found it now? Do you think I will believe you?"

"Sir, I really found it." Li Hu quickly explained.

"fart!"

"If you find it now, I will jump down from here and die..."

Just as Jiang Yuan was spitting everywhere, his eyes inadvertently swept across dozens of figures in the distance.

"Ok?"

Li Hu weakly stretched out a hand and said, "Sir, look at what that man is wearing. Is it an official uniform? I don't think anyone else would run around like that except him."

"Yeah, that's true." Jiang Yuan nodded seriously.

"Then, sir, what you just said about jumping down..."

"Are you free? Hurry up and go down to pick someone up!" Jiang Yuan said lightly.

Li Hu shook his head helplessly and muttered as he turned and left: "Don't play if you can't afford it!"

Jiang Yuan took a deep breath and patted Wang Gang's shoulder with a smile. These guys finally arrived.

"Wang Gang, come on, follow me down to pick them up."

A moment later, when Tian Wen and his group entered the city, Jiang Yuan immediately took Wang Gang to greet them.

"Master Tian, ​​after not seeing you for dozens of days, you are still as charming as ever."

Tian Wen's face suddenly turned dark. "Do you know how to speak? The last time we met, I was the lord of a city, and that was quite glorious."

But now he has become a stray dog, so how can he still be elegant?

"Lord Jiang, you're joking. I can't compare with you." As Tian Wen spoke, he looked at the still quiet and peaceful environment in Taiping County with envy.

In the streets and alleys, vendors pushed their carts and hawked their wares, children made a scene in the streets, and a few street urchins were looking at someone's young wife with shifty eyes...

Damn it! The good thing about being in such a remote place is that no rebels have noticed this place for such a long time.

"Hey, why are you saying these things? Since we are here, we are all family. Come, tell me what the current situation is in Luoyun City." Jiang Yuan asked impatiently.

Tian Wen's face grew increasingly gloomy. Luoyun City, one of the largest cities in western Yunzhou, was breached before it could even hold out for nine days. This was truly a great shame!

"Lord Jiang, as you can see, Luoyun City has been captured. General Li died on the battlefield to protect me."

Hearing this, Jiang Yuan's face was full of disbelief.

Who the hell are you? You're his biological father, and you're not even willing to risk your life to protect you?

"Ahem, well, of course, but General Li has been poisoned by an arrow, there's really nothing we can do." Tian Wen explained after two dry coughs.

Jiang Yuan nodded immediately. This made sense. At least when reporting to his superiors, it would be said that he died in battle, rather than suffering from a poisoning attack while fleeing. This was obviously much better sounding.

"Well, I roughly understand. I wonder how many rebels are still in Luoyun City now?" Jiang Yuan asked.

When asking this question, Jiang Yuan had already made up his mind.

The purpose of letting Tian Wen come over was to gain military merit. If the other party was a soft persimmon, he would naturally have to be squeezed hard.

If the opponent is prickly, then sorry, Tian Wen and his guys will cut them into pieces when they arrive.

Upon hearing this, Tian Wen was excited: "Master Jiang, the guy who led the rebels to attack Luoyun City is called Ding Yin."

"Before attacking Luoyun City, he had 20,000 men under his command. However, due to the desperate resistance of our Luoyun City soldiers, the number of rebels is now less than 10,000. Lord Jiang only needs to lead 30,000 troops to recapture Luoyun City!"

As soon as Tian Wen finished speaking, Jiang Yuan immediately shook his head: "No."

"Nothing?" Tian Wen asked subconsciously.

Jiang Yuan spread his hands and said, "There aren't 30,000 soldiers. Where can I find 30,000 soldiers?"

"Are you kidding me? Our entire Taiping County only has a population of 8,000, and we only have a little over 2,000 soldiers. How could there be so many people?"

Tian Wen looked suspiciously at the soldiers patrolling back and forth on the four walls of Taiping County. There were probably more than two thousand of them.

"Master Jiang, then on your city wall..."

"You're mistaken. Let's go. Lord Tian has come from afar and has been frightened along the way. Now that we're here, I can't be stingy."

Jiang Yuan said this and dragged Tian Wen to Taiping Restaurant.

At the dinner table, as the exquisite dishes were served one after another, Tian Wen could no longer hold back, rubbed his hands and started eating.

"Sir Tian, ​​you left the city in such a hurry, did you take all the money and food with you?" Jiang Yuan asked indirectly.

"No, to be honest, Lord Jiang, I didn't even bring my wife with me. I could only settle her in the tunnel built in the city. As for the family property, I really couldn't take care of it." Tian Wen said while stuffing food into his mouth.

Hearing this, Jiang Yuan immediately shook his head in disappointment.

It seems that there is no hope of making a fortune from Tian Wen, but never mind. When he left the imperial capital, the Ning family gave him 50 million taels of silver, and there were more than 80 million taels after the thirteen families had their properties confiscated, which added up to over 100 million taels of silver.

This is really a small part of the profit. The real big part is the various rare treasures and antique calligraphy and paintings collected by the thirteen families. If all of them are sold, the conservative estimate is more than 200 million taels of silver.

It is worth mentioning that Li Hu was really too much. When he left, he actually packed a large bag of things from Chen Liu's room.

Jiang Yuan took a look afterwards and found that there was nothing special about it, just some imperial seals from past dynasties and so on.

Thinking back to this, Jiang Yuan finally understood why Chen Liu was able to get to the dock so quickly and shout loudly when he left the imperial capital.

At that time, Jiang Yuan only felt that Chen Liu was expressing his feelings and was reluctant to let them leave.

Now that I think about it, Chen Liu should have been standing at the dock and cursing people.

After Tian Wen finished his meal, Jiang Yuan arranged a room for him at the Taiping Inn and lazily returned to the city wall again.

Before he could speak, Li Hu rushed up excitedly with a few pieces of paper.

"My lord! My lord! There is news!"

"What news? The rebels are coming?" Jiang Yuan asked quickly.

"Sir, just now, news came back from Luoyun City. Three days ago, a group of rebels from nowhere arrived in Luoyun City, and then they seemed to be leading their troops towards our Taiping County!"

"And according to reports, just one day later, the defenders of Luoyun City left the city, and their target is also our Taiping County!"

After Li Hu finished speaking, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Was this just a coincidence? Or was it that the group of defeated soldiers was a big fish, which directly led to Ding Yin sending troops after receiving the news.

"By the way, sir, my men asked an artist to draw the two leading guys in the group of fleeing soldiers. Take a look." Li Hu said as he handed over the drawing paper in his hand.

Jiang Yuan's eyes froze in an instant: "Fuck!"

"Are you sure? Long Guangxian came all the way to us after his defeat in Caiyun City?!"