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Chapter 187 Inspection
"County Wei, don't see that this pass city is close in front of you, and it will take a long way to go there." Xiong Shan raised his hand and said, "The guard over there is Wu Xunjian, who is famous and has more than a hundred soldiers. Miao Bing."

The so-called "inspection", the official position is not much different from the county lieutenant.

The county lieutenant belongs to civil defense and is generally held by a civil servant;

The inspection is a military defense, and it is held by a military officer with a long term of office. It is set up along the border or at an important point of the pass.

Li Xia asked: "As you said, if you give this Wu Tong some money, can he let us cross the border?"

Xiong Shan grinned, and said: "A few years ago, I dealt with Wu Xunjian. He is from Miao, but he is no different from Song Dynasty. In the past, I took merchants across the border, and they just paid some money. "

Fearing that Li Xia would not believe it, he said again: "The county captain knows that Junlian Prefecture produces salt."

"Salt?"

"Yes, Junlian produces well salt. Although Wu Xunjian is a military officer, he is also a private salt seller." Xiong Shan said: "He produced salt in Junlian Prefecture, and sold it to Wumeng via Wuchi Road and Shimen Road. Everywhere. In the past, there were merchants traveling on the road, and they were also given some road tax."

"It's okay to say it so blatantly and bluntly?"

"It's no big deal. As long as the Miao soldiers and the Zhai soldiers subdue him, the prefectures and counties will turn a blind eye. After all, it is this land boundary, and the imperial court can't control it. That's this inspector Wu. There has been trouble. Besides, even if he doesn’t sell it, the imperial court can’t receive salt tax from this land.”

Li Xia also understands that it is not easy for Wu Tong to be able to suppress people of all ethnic groups, sell salt, and collect taxes here.

If any official is troublesome and wants to control the smuggling of salt by the guards in the state of Jiji, he will cause a big disturbance instead, and the gain outweighs the loss.

"Then inspector Wu is very rich?" Li Xia asked.

"I don't know, I'm not familiar with Wu Xunjian..."

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"Qingfu county captain? Why did you come to Lao Tzu's territory? There are more than 180 people..."

Wu Tong listened to the report, thought for a while, and said in a deep voice, "Stay outside, let Li Xianwei come in."

After he finished giving his orders, he didn't put on his armor. He walked a few steps in his silk clothes, put down his wine glass, and went out to greet him.

There are more than dozens of people in Guancheng, from all ethnic groups, most of them are Miao people, who are gathering in the hall to throw pots.

Wu Tong shouted loudly, ordering these people to stop.

After a while, some Zhai soldiers led Li Xia, Xiong Shan, and Huo Hu in.

"Hahaha, County Lieutenant Li is so young and handsome." Wu Tong went up to greet him, and said loudly, "I didn't know that Qingfu County had such a handsome county captain. Good! Good!"

"I met Wu inspector."

"Li Xianwei doesn't need to know too much, acquaintance is like a brother... buy wine, I will have a few drinks with the county lieutenant!"

Xiong Shan also came forward and greeted Wu Tong. Both of them were Miao people, so they didn't talk too much about etiquette.

While talking, Xiong Shan handed over a cloth bag.

That was the money Li Xia gave him for bribery.

But Wu Tong didn't answer, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "Li Xianwei, how about having a drink or two before we talk?"

"it is good."

After a while, the wine was set out, and Wu Tong was quite enthusiastic. He drank a big bowl first, but he didn't persuade the wine too much.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, we turned to the topic.

"Li Xianwei, I grow up with you, haha, don't you mind calling yourself 'brother'?"

"It's natural."

"Haha, brother Li, why did you bring someone to my brother's land?"

Li Xia asked: "Wu inspectors know that Wu Lianghetai has led troops to attack Shu, and Zhang Dutong has gone to Mahu County to fight?"

"Of course I know, I received the letter two days ago." Wu Tongdao said, "I didn't expect that, in the past, the soldiers of Shu fought against the enemy in the north of the river, and now they have to fight the enemy in the south of the river."

He laughed loudly, and said again: "This is the first time that the Mongolian army went north after taking down Dali. The north and the south attacked Sichuan and Shu. The situation is different, different."

Li Xia felt that this was quite reasonable. The soldiers and people in Sichuan and Shu had resisted Mongolia for more than ten years, and there were famous generals such as Yu Jie.

From the fact that Zhang Shineng quickly mobilized [-] sailors, it can be seen that the defense line in the north is secure.

But in the south, the Mongolian army marched northward from Dali for the first time, and the Song army's response seemed to be slow. At least the Sichuan-Yunnan main road was not fortified.

Wu Tong in front of him also didn't care.

Li Xia asked: "Aren't inspector Wu worried that the Mongolian army will go north along Shimen Road?"

"Haha, Brother Li was afraid of this? I was too worried. I was too worried. When you came, you walked the five-foot road, right?"

"good."

Wu Tongtong: "This road is not easy to walk, is it? If you go further south, it will be even more difficult to walk. One man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it. What are you afraid of?!"

"The strength of Wu Xunjian..."

"Don't look at my brother, there are only a few dozen people here." Wu Tongdao: "In each village, there are many soldiers. You don't have to guard this city at ordinary times. It's boring."

Li Xia held the wine glass and didn't drink much. He looked around the city and saw that there were only a few dozen soldiers in the village, and they didn't wear armor. They were all lazy.

Seeing him pondering, Wu Tong laughed again.

"Brother Li, do you look down on elder brother and these people? Let me tell you, even these people are enough to keep the five-foot way. Haha...Hai Jinliu! Show Brother Li a hand."

He suddenly shouted, and a lazy Miao soldier got up, picked up his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow outside the hall.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow was directly nailed to the flagpole more than eighty steps away from the hall.

Luhu turned his head to look, and couldn't help but praise: "Excellent."

Wu Tong didn't look at it, and said: "Brother, these soldiers of the village were all unearthed and grew up here. The mountains and deep valleys are like walking on flat ground. When the Mongolian army came, it was only blocked by this trail. No matter how many people he came, they would all be buried. Down."

Li Xia asked: "Don't you need to send someone to explore the way ahead? What if the Mongolian army sneaks up?"

"A sentry was set up along the way to the south. When the Mongolian army came, there was a burst of smoke, and they were directly placed here by the Mongolian army. And each village will notify itself, hahaha... How many people can the Mongolian army come? More than a thousand people leave This trail is invincible, and Wu Manqian also snatched them all."

As Wu Tong spoke, he glanced at Li Xia, and smiled again: "Looking at Brother Li's age, I'm afraid he hasn't fought a war, right?"

"Indeed."

"You can tell at a glance." Wu Tongtong: "Brother, I know what you think. You think that the Mongolian army invaded Shu, and we guard this mountain road every day... Hahaha, too young, too young. Fighting That's not the case, that's what laymen think. Most of the time there are two things in war, one is to go, and the other is to wait. The Mongolian army is walking, and my brother is waiting. When the Mongolian army arrives, my brother will close the door, Wan Fumo open."

Li Xia said: "Inspector Wu is familiar with the terrain in this area, so he can lift weights like light. I am a new county captain. I want to go for a while, and I plan to go a little further. I wonder if I can let it go?"

Wu Tong was still laughing, looking quite hearty, pointing to Li Xia, and said: "Careful, brother Li is too cautious, too cautious. The officials of Yingfu County are familiar with the terrain so much that their elder brother's land is not counted, but they must Go to Yunnan?"

"Be careful, there is no big mistake, and I ask Wu Xunjian to make it easier."

"It's easy to say, easy to say, let's talk about something else today."

Wu Tong was a little overjoyed, blushing, leaned forward, and said, "Brother Li, come closer, brother wants to ask you...Jiang Chun and Fang Yankai are probably not easy to get along with, right?"

(End of this chapter)