Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Chapter 861 True and False Princess 31
Although there were young and strong men protecting the grain transport team behind, and the spies sent out by the mountain stronghold had found out that there were no large groups of refugees and rebels along the way, so there was no need to worry about the grain transport team being attacked, but everyone was afraid of accidents and still ran to meet the grain transport team composed of middle-aged people from the mountain stronghold.

And this grain transportation route will remain open in the future.

Linlang has planned to build bastions in towns and counties along the road to keep the grain route open.

Because Linlang had bees as a means of observation, he knew that the rebels had gone to other places to find food and came here secretly, so naturally no one noticed that the city was occupied by someone.

So Linlang sent people to repair the city walls and build bastions along the way, and soon everyone felt at ease.

Before, everyone had been afraid of the danger of going out of the mountains, but now that no one is harassing them and they can freely build city walls and bastions, everyone is naturally relieved.

Many of these infrastructure projects had been done in the mountains before, so everyone had experience and was naturally able to do them with ease.

Seeing that the city wall was repaired and the bastions along the way were quickly built, everyone felt completely relieved and began to grow crops between Ping'an Village and the provincial capital. Since bastions were built nearby, there was no need to worry about rebel armies or refugees coming, so they could grow crops.

Those refugees or rebels knew which places they had visited before, so generally they would not go back to places they had visited before. After all, all their things had been moved away, and they would starve to death if they went back again. This was also the reason why Linlang and his group were able to develop here without being discovered by the rebels or refugees.

Because rebel armies or refugees usually act in large groups, not just a few people. After all, it's too easy to die when a few people act outside. Only when a large group acts together can everyone feel they can survive.

The fact that most people act together means that they will not go to places they have been to before, because they know there is no food in those places. If there are few people in a place with no food, they might be able to find a few melons and dates to survive, but if there are many people, they cannot survive with those few melons and dates, so these people generally will not go to places they have already visited.

Otherwise, these people would return to Mamu Cang, and most likely they would find that the place they had visited was now inhabited.

When did the various forces discover that there were people in this place?
It was not until three months later, when Linlang had occupied three nearby empty cities, that anyone noticed something was wrong.

However, Linlang had already occupied three prefecture cities at that time and was on the way to occupy the fourth. Seeing someone coming to inquire, Linlang used a bee to track the other party's tracks and found that it was a spy sent from the direction of Beiguguan. It was estimated that Beiguguan wanted to see if there were any refugee rebels nearby, and then saw Linlang and his group.

Linlang was not afraid of them seeing her. After all, she was very powerful now. The people of Beigu Pass probably didn't want to confront her head-on, lest they suffer heavy casualties. If they were unable to defend Beigu Pass, it would lead to refugees crossing the pass into the capital, which would be bad.

What's more, Linlang is not developing towards Beiguguan, but in another direction. The city closest to Beiguguan is actually the city where Linlang just came down the mountain. After three months of development, that city has already become impregnable and is not easy to be taken down by Beiguguan. It is estimated that Beiguguan will not place its troops on cities like Linlang.

Therefore, the most these people could do was to send a letter to the capital, asking the capital to send troops to eliminate Linlang and others.

Those people in the capital couldn't even defeat the refugees who had no equipment before, so Linlang was not afraid of them at all.

If she wasn't more confident than when she just came down the mountain, Linlang would definitely have detained those spies. Although she wouldn't kill them, she wouldn't let them go for the time being.

Linlang did not arrest the spy at Beigu Pass because she was confident that nothing would happen even if she was discovered.

That is to say, there were spies in the direction of Beigu Pass, but no one in other places came to investigate the situation here, because the plains south of Beigu Pass were in chaos, and some places were deserted for hundreds of miles due to the attacks of refugees, rebels, bandits, and defeated soldiers. Naturally, no one would come to investigate in a deserted place.

When the defenders of Beiguguan received the news, they did not send troops to attack Linlang, but instead reported to the court that these cities had been occupied.

And the imperial court did as Linlang thought and sent a large army to attack Linlang.

However, it would probably take quite some time from the time the court discussed the matter to the time the troops were dispatched, because the court had been becoming increasingly chaotic recently.

The main reason was that the area south of Beiguguan was in too much chaos, and bandit suppression was needed everywhere, which required money. However, the imperial court had no money to pay troops to various places to suppress the bandits. So now there was a new rebel group in Linlang that needed to be suppressed. Although the imperial court planned to send troops to fight, it did not send out a large army to attack for a long time due to insufficient manpower and money.

Of course, the main reason is that Linlang has never been like those rebel armies that attack cities everywhere. Linlang's side is very quiet, so their main attention is still on those cities that have not been broken.

Anyway, Linlang's city had already been breached, so we don't need to worry about it for now. The key is to protect the cities that have not been breached yet.

Because of this thinking, although the imperial court said it wanted to attack Linlang, it delayed sending troops because all the troops were sent to protect the cities that had not yet fallen.

Seeing that the imperial court could not send anyone to attack her for a while, Linlang breathed a sigh of relief and continued to expand her territory.

Although she was not afraid of fighting with people from the imperial court, it would naturally be a good thing if she didn't have to fight.

Just as Linlang was developing smoothly, the story of the true and false princess in the capital had come to an end - just like in the original world, the false princess and others were executed.

Although the world was already in danger, it did not affect the emperor's ability to deal with these people.

It is no wonder that the emperor is still the monarch who has the final say in the capital. The most important thing is that Beigu Pass has not been broken and the imperial court still has a lot of territory, so the emperor can continue to live a good life.

If Beigu Pass was breached, Linlang estimated that it would be necessary to wait for a powerful rebel army to emerge in the world and attack Beigu Pass before Beigu Pass would have a chance of being breached.

And that powerful rebel army must at least be one of the best in the world, the kind that can establish a country. Ordinary rebel armies that have only conquered a few prefectures cannot take over Beigu Pass.

And now the world has just fallen into chaos. It will probably take several years for the various rebel forces to fight each other and emerge as the strongest one. Therefore, Beiguguan will not be lost for the time being, which means that the imperial court can still hold on for a few more years.

In fact, regarding the matter of the real and fake princess, Linlang felt that it was mainly because the fake princess was too vicious and stupid, which brought her fatal disaster. Otherwise, when the midwife came to her, she would just ignore her. The midwife was cautious, and if the fake princess ignored her, the other party would not dare to expose the matter. After all, if the matter of the real and fake princess was exposed, only the fake princess would die, but the midwife would be killed along with her entire clan. In this case, how could the midwife dare to tell others about the real and fake princess? She certainly didn't want all her sons and grandsons to be beheaded.

So the fake princess was really stupid. After being threatened by the midwife, she rashly took the initiative to attack, which led to people discovering something was wrong, investigating her, and eventually causing her death.