After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1110 Qiao Lizi Gives Birth

Thinking of the scene where the Eastern Desert army conquered the Northeast Prefecture, marched south, took the fortress of Taizhou Prefecture, joined forces with the Western Rong, and then the two armies stormed into the capital of the Great Wei, slaughtering and plundering the Marquis of Wenchang and other noble families of the Great Wei, and the old scholars of these noble families still wanted to preach to them, Dong Mangfu couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, Liang Wei is truly laughable. They're like they don't have brains... I heard they've even been secretly cooperating with the capital. Hahaha, cooperating? A bunch of spoils of war, they actually want to talk about cooperation with us? They don't even deserve it!"

Dong Mangfu couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the information his friend, who lived in the capital, had given him.

"To seek the skin of a tiger is to be devoured by it." This is a simple truth that anyone who has ever hunted knows, yet the noble families of the Great Wei do not understand it, and even believe that they can tame a tiger with their words.

Dong Mangfu simply couldn't understand what kind of books these old scholars of the Great Wei, like Marquis Wenchang, were reading!
"Luckily, our eastern region belongs to the Eastern Desert. If it were Liangwei, we would have been dragged down to death by these self-righteous literati!"

Upon hearing this, the people of the East roared: "Slay through Wei, slaughter Wei's grain-producing lands, build a new capital, and may the Eastern Desert prosper forever!"

The shouts echoed all around Dingmang Platform, deafening and seemingly carrying the stench of blood, as if they had eaten raw meat and hadn't rinsed their mouths.

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Fearing that Dongmangfu would lead his troops to launch a night attack on the camp, Wenchanghou and his men dared not stay overnight at the foot of Wangdong Peak. After obtaining the letter from Dongmo State, they immediately broke camp and headed to the pass camp of Tianmang Prefecture.

Traveling day and night, they arrived on the afternoon of the 21st.

General Chi came out to greet him: "Lord Wenchang, you've had a long journey. Where is the official letter?"

"Here it is." Marquis Wenchang handed the box in his arms to General Chi.

General Chi refused to accept it, saying only, "Marquis Wenchang is His Majesty's special envoy. He came to Tianmang Prefecture only to question Dongmo and demand justice from Dongmo on behalf of Great Wei. This letter of state should be reviewed by Marquis Wenchang and then dictated to me."

"Ha," Marquis Wenchang sneered inwardly, cursing Emperor Wuxing again... "ungrateful wretch! He supported him in seizing the throne back then, but after Emperor Wuxing conquered the capital, he was wary of him at every turn and even entrusted him with the hot potato of questioning Dongmo."

He was even given an oral decree that he did not need to send the official letter to the capital for the emperor to open in person; he could simply review it and then take countermeasures against the contents of the letter submitted by the Eastern Desert.

What countermeasures could a mere civil official like him possibly take against the wolves and tigers of the Eastern Desert?
Therefore, Marquis Wenchang planned to send this hot potato of a letter of state to General Liang... General Liang was loyal and patriotic, and if he saw that the letter of state from Dongmo was disrespectful to the Great Wei, he would definitely strike Dongmo.

Then he wouldn't need to negotiate with Dongmangfu again and again... Dongmangfu is a second-class royal, a lackey of the Dongmo people, he can't be the master of Dongmo, negotiating with him is useless.

Moreover, the Eastern Desert's use of delaying tactics makes its intentions very clear: it wants to attack the Great Wei. Wasting time on verbal negotiations is useless; sending reinforcements is the only way to deal with it.

"Please send a military doctor skilled in poisons and a craftsman skilled in mechanisms to inspect the box before I can take out the letter from the Eastern Desert Kingdom," Marquis Wenchang said in a gentle tone.

"Alright." General Chi immediately made arrangements.

After much effort, the inspection was finally completed, and it was confirmed that the Eastern Desert Kingdom's letter was safe and harmless before it was read.

The letter from Dongmo was more polite than that from Dongmangfu, and it formally answered why there were Dongmo spies within the territory of the Great Wei.
It is said that these spies were arranged by the late King of the Eastern Desert, who was Dongmangfu's great-grandfather.

The great-grandfather died suddenly and was unable to properly hand over internal affairs to the new Eastern King, which is why the Eastern Kingdom was unable to withdraw its spies in time, leading to the current situation.

As for what explanation the Great Wei wants from the Eastern Desert, that is to say?
Please submit this to the Eastern Desert in the form of a formal letter.

That's utter nonsense.

If we raise the issue, it will require discussion and could drag on for a long time.

Moreover, the scapegoat was a second-class Eastern King who had been dead for decades, which shows the Eastern Desert's perfunctory attitude and contempt for the Great Wei.

This perfunctory response was merely a delaying tactic to allow the poisonous flames of the Eastern Desert to grow and spread; otherwise, they wouldn't even offer a perfunctory response. After reading the official letter, even Marquis Wenchang and General Chi, who had a way out, had grim expressions and said in unison, "Inform General Liang. He is His Majesty's confidant and was sent by His Majesty to guard the Northeast. He needs to know."

Whether the two are capable of fighting is unknown, but they are adept at scheming and shifting risks.

They began writing letters to General Liang, the Commander-in-Chief's Office, and the capital. After writing several letters, they immediately arranged for fast horses to deliver the letters and official documents to the pass and camp.

Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
"General Chi, the reinforcements from the Tai Zhou Prefecture have arrived. There are 30,000 troops, and they have also brought a lot of supplies!"

The messenger team had barely left the camp when a messenger came to inform General Chi of the news. His voice was filled with joy, showing how the arrival of reinforcements had boosted the morale of the soldiers.

Thirty thousand menial laborers are nothing, what kind of reinforcements are they, what is there to be happy about!
General Chi and Marquis Wenchang had already received the news that this reinforcement was mostly made up of porters, with very few truly capable elite soldiers.

However, the two still happily went to welcome the reinforcements.

The Zhao family, including the deputy general Zhao who had been demoted from the Tai Zhou Prefecture, were also among this batch of reinforcements. Both father and son were as thin as monkeys, but they were lucky not to fall ill.

But as soon as Deputy General Zhao arrived at the pass camp, his heart sank... There was no killing intent like that of the Northwest Army. Could such an army win battles?

Deputy General Zhao felt that he and his son were in grave danger.

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The main camp at Tianmang Prefecture Pass and the various villages in the mountains were still busy figuring out how to meet the enemy and how to survive the great battle. The atmosphere was oppressive, like the calm before a storm.

The atmosphere in Taifeng Town, however, was joyous and cheerful.

Just because...

"General Manager Jie has brought grain to our Baofu County. Each quota is 25,000 jin of grain, and with six quotas, that's a total of over 100,000 jin of grain!"

"We have enough food to eat in Baofu County, so we don't need to be afraid of the Dongmo people attacking anymore. With food to eat, we dare to fight the Dongmo people!"

The villagers chatted happily, gazing at the main road, waiting for the Xie family's grain delivery team to arrive!

Dangdang Dangdang!
Dangdang Dangdang!
"Fellow villagers, step back, step back, don't crowd the road. There's nothing to see here. It's just grain delivery. Most of the grain has already been left in the county granary. The grain delivered to our Taifeng Town is not much, only about 50,000 jin!"

"Fifty thousand catties of grain is not enough? It's enough for the whole town to eat until they die!" The villagers didn't think they were exaggerating; instead, they disliked Lu Pangsan for becoming increasingly tactless and gave him glares.

"..." Lu Pangsan wanted to curse, but his throat was sore from shouting that he couldn't argue with the villagers. So he could only bang the gong and shout, "Everyone back up, don't push, or you'll be in trouble if you get hit by a car!"

"No, Lu Pangsan, why are you cursing people? We're all from the same village, how can you be so vicious!"

"That's right, the Qin family is celebrating the birth of a new member, and you're cursing the villagers in town? You're trying to ruin the Qin family's joy!"

Lu Pangsan: "...I give up on you guys. Is the Qin family the one with the happy event? It's the Xu family and the Qiao family. It's the Xu family that has a new baby, not the Qin family. You people keep spouting nonsense and causing trouble, ruining other people's reputations. The Qin family will have to send you all to jail and make you stay there until next year!"

Qiao Lizi gave birth.

Born on the sixth day of the second lunar month, a boy, the Xu and Qiao families were overjoyed.

The happiest person was Xiao Fubao, who even took leave from work to stay home and take care of Xiao Lubao.

After staying at home for three days, and then refusing to go to school on the fourth day, his elders saw through his little scheme and dragged him to the town school by Qiao Songguo.