Liaozhai Great Sage

"If my predictions are correct, my lord should have secretly escorted his children, wives and children out of Yangzhou City by now to avoid the danger of being punished." Li Xiuyuan took a sip of tea and said slowly.

Li Bing looked at Li Xiuyuan in surprise, he didn't expect the guerrilla general to guess such a secret thing immediately.

Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "Don't be surprised, my lord knows that Li Liangjin's rebellion will implicate him, but he still sticks to Yangzhou City and does not surrender to the enemy. Isn't he just wanting to take advantage of the imperial court's decree? It's just that It's a bad idea, there are quite a few capable people and strangers among the six headhunters of the imperial court, and such a trivial matter as finding someone will not trouble them."

"Li Xiuyuan, how dare you~!"

Li Bing immediately stood up angrily, thinking that Li Xiuyuan wanted to blackmail him with this matter.

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "My lord, why should you be angry? Although I, Li, am not a gentleman, I am a reasonable person. I can't control the safety of the magistrate's heirs. It's just that I feel that if the imperial court's order comes down, I don't know what my lord thinks about me. What are the chances of the wife and children surviving?"

Li Bing's expression turned ugly. Of course he knew the court's skills. The headhunters among the six gates were spread all over the world. As long as the reward order was issued, there was no one they could not find.

"Master Zhifu, I have a plan to save your wife and children, I wonder if your lord will listen?" Li Xiuyuan suddenly moved his head, looked at him and said seriously.

"What can you do to help me, this dead bone in the tomb?" Li Bing asked.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Help me with weapons, food and grass. I took Li Liangjin's head to claim credit from the imperial court. When the time comes, I will call your name. Although it is not enough to save your life, it can protect the lives of your children."

"Troubleshooting the granary and armory is also a capital offense," said Li Bing.

Although he is mediocre as an official, he is not incompetent. He still knows what can and cannot be done.

"It is indeed a capital crime, but even execution is death, tampering with the arsenal is death, but the death of the former is the death of a family, and the death of the latter is just you, and your wife and children can be preserved." Li Xiuyuan said.

Li Bing trembled all over, and he was very scared when he talked about his death, but he knew that he had no other way to go.

Who let himself be tricked by his nephew Li Liangjin?

"Why do I believe you?" Li Bing struggled and hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth and said.

Li Xiuyuan said: "I have [-] infantry and [-] cavalry, how can I not protect a few people?"

"You are just a guerrilla general, how dare you refuse to surrender under the imperial decree?" Li Bing said.

Li Xiuyuan said again: "I have the ability of ghosts and gods to be unpredictable. It's easy to call wind and rain. It's easy to protect your wife and children."

"Boom~!" When he was speaking, there was a burst of thunder and a strong wind outside.

Dark clouds instantly enveloped the sky over Jinling City, and there was a feeling that a thunderstorm was coming.

It's just that this kind of change came too fast. Yangzhou City, which was still clear before, was shrouded in dark clouds, making people suspect that the dark clouds seemed to appear out of thin air.

"How? Can this ability convince you?" Li Xiuyuan's eyes flickered with a golden light.

He has divine power in his hands, and the past few days of experimentation have been able to change the four seasons and weather, call the clouds and call for rain, and as he continues to explore, the changes brought about by the divine power will become greater and greater.

Li Bing looked at the dark clouds outside, Lei Ming constantly showed shock in his eyes, and looked at Li Xiuyuan in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe that the young general in front of him had such abilities. To pray for the clouds and worship the rain, you still need to go to the altar to do it, and it will take two or three days to see results.

How can it be like this, has the ability to call the wind and call the rain.

But Li Bing still had some scruples and said: "General Li has learned Taoism, but this is nothing more than the ability of heretics. Mr. Li can call wind and rain, and maybe he can bring the dead back to life?"

"Bringing the dead back to life is of course not possible." Li Xiuyuan said calmly, and he glanced at the dark clouds outside.

In an instant, the dark clouds dissipated, and the sky became clear again.

Seeing this, Li Bing was secretly shocked again, thinking that Li Xiuyuan could already trust three points.

If a person with such ability can't protect his wife and children, he can only blame himself for his bad luck.

"You can't bring the dead back to life. If you only rely on these small techniques, the Taoist priests and mages enshrined by the court can also do it. It's not a special skill. If you want to buy this official's life, the general must have real ability." Li Bingdao: "Otherwise How dare I entrust my family and life to you."

Li Xiuyuan said with a smile: "You are very picky, even those who are going to die are picky."

He thought for a while, and then said, "Is there someone above me?"

Li Bing's eyes lit up: "Which senior official is it?"

"Before you said that the imperial court enshrined many Taoist priests and mages. Do you know the mage who protects the country, Cihang Pudu?"

Li Bingdao: "He is a big celebrity around the official family. He is under one person and above ten thousand people. The official family trusts him very much and favors him more than the current prime minister."

"Well, it's good to know. This protector of the country is my superior. If I ask him to do something, he will definitely not refuse me." Li Xiuyuan said.

Li Bing became excited when he heard the words: "Is this really true?"

"..." This official still trusts people in the officialdom more.

"If this can't protect your wife and children, you can go to Yan Luo and sue me if you become a ghost after you die. If I don't fulfill your request and protect your wife and children, you can let Yan Luo seduce my soul. Although I know some tricks, I don't dare to offend Yan Luo in the underworld." Li Xiuyuan said.

Chapter 477 Armory

The end result is obvious.

Li Bing agreed, and as a prefect, he used power for personal gain, opened granaries and armories, and used them to finance Li Xiu's army.

And after the incident happened, he was responsible for all the crimes, but correspondingly, Li Xiuyuan had to ensure that his wife and children would not be punished.

After the deal was concluded, the prefect Li Bing immediately took Li Xiuyuan and others to the armory in Yangzhou City.

"The armory has been sealed for a long time, and many of the previous accounts have been damaged. Now it is unclear." Li Bingdao: "I can't tell you how many weapons are in this armory, but General Li can rest assured that the accounts here The armory has not been touched by officials, because no one can open the gate of the armory without the imperial decree."

"Oh, there is such a thing? Is the gate locked too firmly?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

Li Bing shook his head and said: "It's not for this reason, but any soldiers, soldiers or even officials who approach the armory will hear the roar of the beast. Some people see a strange beast crawling in front of the armory at night, and no one dares to approach it. I didn't believe it when I first took office, so I sent people to check the warehouse, but the clerk passed out as soon as he got close to the armory. Soldiers try hard and end in failure.”

"I feel that the armory is protected by ghosts and gods before it is born, so I didn't take care of it, and continued to seal it up."

"I'm afraid that the gold energy in the armory is psychic and has become a spirit, protecting the armory." The Yangzijiang King who was traveling with him said in a low voice.

The weapons in the army have been piled up in the armory for a long time, and it is not impossible for the golden energy to condense and become a demon.

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said: "Then this news is a good thing for me, at least it can prove that the armory has not been emptied by corrupt officials. I heard that many officials will buy and sell the armory for personal gain on the grounds of loss. .”

"It's true, but because of the protection of ghosts and gods, the arsenal in Yangzhou City not only has no previous prefects to make an idea, on the contrary, there are no people willing to come here to manage the warehouse, and now it is almost abandoned." Li Bing said. .

Li Xiuyuan looked around.

The walls and the floor of this warehouse are made of old bricks and stones. Weeds are overgrown in the cracks between the walls, the stone skin is mottled, and the doors and windows are crumbling. It is true that no one has managed it for a long time.

However, directly in front of him, a huge warehouse door appeared in front of him.

The vermilion lacquer on the door of the warehouse has faded away, but the pattern of brass and brass sticking to the door looks more and more lifelike, full of energy, as if it is about to come alive.

"Go, open the warehouse." Li Bing gestured.

The treasury officer who was accompanying him immediately walked over with a few yamen servants carefully, holding an old key in his hand, and was about to remove the copper lock on the gate.