The First National Preceptor of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 663

Xu Tian knew immediately that the imperial court had allocated funds for the project.

But soon, he received some very unfortunate news.

"What? How could this happen?"

Inside the study of the county government office.

Xu Tian stood up directly from the chair.

Song Ren lowered his head.

He stood there with his hands clasped in a gesture of respect.

"Reporting to you, sir, we just received the news."

"Who did it?"

Xu Tian's expression was cold and aloof.

Song Ren shook his head.

"It hasn't been found out yet, but from what I understand, it should be bandits on the road."

Xu Tian narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Those bandits are quite audacious; they even dared to intercept my project payments.”

You should know that the project funds sent by the imperial court are different from other silver.

Even some bandits dared not rob the government's property.

Xu Tian received news of the robbery the next morning.

"It's been a whole night, and we still haven't found anything."

He seemed somewhat skeptical.

I never expected my people to be so incompetent.

"Songren, you can go directly there! Let me know as soon as you have any news."

Songren then accepted the order and left.

Xu Tian had many doubts about this matter.

Soon, he also went to investigate with several guards.

It was located not far from the county government office.

"Sir, this is where we were intercepted."

They didn't even know exactly where the interception was.

"Hmm! What kind of bandits might be around here?"

The guard nodded.

“There is a group of bandits on this mountain. Because their territory is not large, the imperial court has never attacked them.”

Xu Tian finally understood some things.

However, no complete clues were found.

The only clue as to where those people went was the wheels on the ground.

Subsequently, they focused all their clues on the bandits not far away.

"How many years have these bandits been here?"

Every year, such bandits appear in the south.

Moreover, whenever a disaster occurs, the number of these bandits increases.

Some also robbed the rich to help the poor.

It's just that there are very few of them now.

In the afternoon, they gathered with Song Ren.

"My lord, I have found out that bandits did indeed ambush and kill a group of people here in the past few days!"

Xu Tian nodded.

They went to a flat area and sat down there.

"Sir, do you suspect that this group of mountain bandits did it?"

Xu Tian glanced at the small houses on the mountains not far away, which looked like villages.

"Not necessarily, but they are the most likely candidates."

"Who are these people? They even dare to intercept things belonging to the imperial court."

He simply thought these people were incredibly audacious.

Songren said, "This bandit leader is no ordinary person. The local people hate him to the bone."

"Almost everyone lives under his rule."

"So much so that all the people complained bitterly about him."

Xu Tian nodded.

"Oh, is it so?"

He felt that this kind of person was easy to deal with.

Anyway, he planned to clean up these bandit camps once everything was stable.

He didn't expect these guys to provoke him so early.

"Of course, what should we do now?"

Song Ren conducted a series of investigations.

They have been able to confirm that this was the work of the local bandits.

Xu Tian surveyed the terrain.