Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

Li Xu would write and draw in the room when he saw someone. No matter how mysterious the island is, it is an immovable place. With Wu Cang and Jiang Lin, Li Xu is not afraid that he will not be able to find the island, but what will happen next? To proceed, we still have to think about it.

Attacking the island is unrealistic, the reason is not sufficient, and the strength of the Kou family army and the navy is not enough, but since he knows that the opponent is already planning to attack Nanyue, he can't be unprepared.

After waiting for a whole day, Kou Xiao and the others finally came back, bringing back a total of eight prisoners, including Jiang Lin, Ye Changqing immediately took Jiang Lin away, what the two said in private is unknown to others.

Seeing that Kou Xiao came back intact, Li Xu put his heart into practice, and saw that most of the allergic pimples on his face had subsided, so he asked, "Is everything going well?"

Kou Xiao smiled, with brilliance in his eyes, he seemed to be in a good mood since Li Xu left him in anger, "It went well, Zhang Quan died, and there were a few of his confidantes on board, I also killed them together, and brought a few People who don’t matter come back and may not get much information.”

Li Xu told him about Wu Cang and said, "They both grew up on the island. Although they are marginal characters, they are enough."

Kou Xiao was covered in blood, he was afraid of tainting Li Xu, so he said: "I will go change my clothes first, and I will bring him here later for questioning."

Li Xu naturally agreed, and sent someone to prepare the food. The hot water had already been boiled, and it was carried into Kou Xiao's room.

There are very few rooms here. Li Xu and Kou Xiao each share a room, and the rest are warehouse kitchens and the like. Can't hide it either.

Li Xu sat in the room revising the plan he had written, and was distracted by the sound of water next door. When he came out this time, he could clearly feel the difference between him and Kou Xiao. better.

He seldom had this kind of worrying emotion, and Kou Xiao teased him from time to time, so Li Xu had to admit that he might or should probably like him a little bit.

"Hiss!" There was a slight gasp from the next door, Li Xu frowned, then thought of something, dropped the pen and paper and strode out, he knocked on the door next door, walked in and saw Kou Xiao coming out of the tub Stepping out, a slender and strong thigh landed on the ground, water droplets slid down the texture of the muscles, and soon gathered into a pool of water on the soles of his feet.

Li Xu opened his eyes and asked uncomfortably: "Put on your clothes quickly." Thinking of his own doubts, he turned his eyes back and quickly scanned Kou Xiao's whole body. The palm-length wound didn't look deep, it looked like it had just been cleaned, and blood was still oozing out.

Kou Xiao casually grabbed the clothes hanging on the side and draped them over his shoulders, and walked up to Li Xu. He was still steaming all over his body, with a strong hormonal aura, and wrapped Li Xu gently.

Li Xu trembled all over, he didn't expect to push him away, instead he asked, "Didn't it go well, how did you get hurt?"

Kou Xiao laughed in a low voice, the more he laughed, the more he laughed, and his arms tightened, "A little injury is fine, if you feel bad, just take medicine for me."

Only then did Li Xu push the man away, and took a step back. This time he could not retreat, just in time to see the change in Kou Xiao's body, and the valiant little Kou Xiao was facing him, which made people shocked.

Kou Xiao tied up the straps of his clothes, casually covered them, and explained: "The general has no intention of offending, but this thing is out of control, it will be fine after a while."

Li Xu was speechless, but he didn't dare to continue discussing this topic, otherwise he might not be able to get out of this room, "Are there any other injuries?"

Kou Xiao turned around, pointed at his back and said, "There is still a knife wound here, come over and help me see if the wound is deep."

Li Xu knew that he couldn't see himself, and he couldn't put medicine on his back, so he thought about asking someone to come in, and look at the bulging thing under his clothes that didn't subside. I don't know how to explain this scene.

He walked behind Kou Xiao, pulled off his clothes, and saw a longer knife wound, but fortunately, it only hurt a little fur, just like the wound on his arm, without bleeding a lot.

He knew that Kou Xiao would wear light armor on weekdays, probably because of that, the knife wounds were not cut too deep, Li Xu applied medicinal powder on him, then put white gauze on it, and told him not to touch water these few days.

Kou Xiao's clothes were stained with blood again, but he only brought two sets of laundry this time when he went to sea, one was given to Li Xu, and he threw it away when it got entangled in his body because he thought it was in the way. I had no choice but to ask Li Xu for help: "Does the lord have any extra clothes to borrow?"

Li Xu had a lot of kelp this time. Liu Shu sorted out two big boxes for him. They had all the food, clothes and clothing, so naturally there was no shortage of clothes.But he searched and searched, and found that only this one was the loosest one on his body, and the rest Kou Xiao might break if he wore it. After consulting Kou Xiao's opinion, Li Xu took off the one on his body and let him wear it. Changed into a black suit.

Kou Xiao wore Li Xu's clothes and went out. The two stood in front of them, and the surrounding voices suddenly disappeared. Everyone looked at this and then that, and they were a little shocked.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that King Shun has a lot of trust in General Kou, and the relationship between the two is harmonious, but no matter how harmonious it is, it is a master-slave relationship. No one would have thought that a character like King Shun would give up his clothes for others to wear, and General Kou actually He also went out wearing a suit of clothes that were too small without any burden in his heart, and his expression was even a little smug.

After a moment of silence, the surroundings returned to normal. Li Xu asked several high-level officials to go in for a meeting, and brought Wu Cang and Jiang Lin with him. If these two people are really trustworthy as Ye Changqing said, they must be wooed.

In the room, Li Xu sat at the main seat, Kou Xiao sat below him, and the rest of the people naturally had to stand. Li Xu called Jiang Lin to the front, with a smile on his face, and said very gently: "How many times before?" If you offend me, I hope Mr. Jiang will not take it to heart."

Jiang Lin blushed, knelt down and said he didn't dare, he hadn't had much contact with Li Xu, he didn't know his character, hearing a dignified prince apologize to him, he was so frightened that he almost lost his wits.

Li Xu asked him to flatten, and then said: "Since the two of you have made a choice, then I will ask straight to the point, what is the name of the island you live on?"

Wu Cang and Jiang Lin looked at each other, and Wu Cang stood up and said, "Actually, there is no specific name. People who lived there since we were young called it Coral Island, because the waters near the island are rich in coral, and outsiders usually call it Nafeng Island." island."

"What kind of person is the island owner? What's his name?"

"In fact, we rarely see him. I heard that he brought people to settle on the island at the earliest, and gradually developed into the scale it is today. We don't know his name, but we only know that his surname is Wu."

Li Xu asked them to share more information about the island owner, any aspect is fine, such as whether he has wives, concubines and children, what confidantes he has and so on.

Wu Cang said everything he knew. The owner of the island should be not young, about 50 years old, and has no wife, but there are a lot of concubines. The adopted son will also be the successor of the island owner, and he is nearly thirty years old.

Li Xu kept this information in his mind. He still wanted to ask about the gold mine, but he didn't ask in the end. Since Ye Changqing said that he discovered it by accident and that it was a secret on the island, it is estimated that the two would not know. Know.

"Do you still have relatives on the island?" Li Xu asked about the two of them with concern.

Wu Cang shook his head, "Both our parents have passed away, we have no other relatives, only a few friends we got from somewhere."

"Oh, so what do you do for a living on the island?"

Wu Cang smiled self-deprecatingly, "People of our level have to participate in labor since they are ten years old. They are all tasks assigned by the island. Food is distributed every month, and occasionally they have to cooperate with fishing at sea, or Follow the escort on the island to go out on a mission like this time."

"What does the mission include? Will it hijack a ship and kill people?"

Wu Cang's face tightened, he lowered his head and said nothing, Li Xu understood what he meant, and sighed, "In this way, he is no different from a pirate."

Wu Cang blushed and said, "Life at sea is like this. When there are always some natural disasters, we have to rely on robbing if there is no harvest. These years are much better. I don't know where the island owner found a caravan. They will deliver food to us regularly."

Li Xu thought about the incident where he was assassinated. The third prince must have a connection with the island, maybe he was the one who gave the island food, but how did he manage to transport the food to the sea quietly? Where did this ship come from?

Li Xu suddenly realized that he knew too little about the enemy. Although the two of them had no confrontation now, they were always on opposite sides. It would be too scary to know nothing about the enemy.

"Have you ever seen those who deliver food? Don't you know where they came from?"

"I haven't seen it before. There is a port on the island that is a special channel, and it is surrounded by heavily guarded troops. We are not allowed to approach it. The people and things received by the island owner usually come ashore from there."

"Oh, how many troops are there on the island? Are there many permanent residents on your island?"

Wu Cang shook his head, "We don't know how many people there are on the island. We have lived in a designated area since we were young, and we can't cross the border without permission. There are about ten thousand people in our area. It is said that there are ten such areas. , but it’s just heard that we don’t know the number of people in each district.”

"It's really tight." Li Xu couldn't help but admire the island owner, it's not easy to occupy land and become king.

In such a place, even if the eyeliner is mixed up on the island, it is difficult to make a difference, and it is too guarded.

After Wu Cang and Jiang Lin went out, Li Xu looked at the remaining people who were all people he could trust, and asked, "The sea has been calm recently, and the people on that boat haven't returned for a long time. They will be found on the island soon." Abnormal, they may send another person at that time, do you have any countermeasures?"

Ye Changqing glanced at Kou Xiao, his eyes stayed on the clothes on his body for a moment, and then asked: "My lord, I sent a total of more than [-] people to the island before and divided them into three batches, but the news from there couldn't get through. These people are afraid that it will be difficult to work.”

"Their role is not to pass on the news. It's just so that our people won't lose their eyes when they go to the island one day. It's good that they live on the island peacefully."

"The navy currently has only 1000 people and twelve warships. My lord, it's time to recruit troops, otherwise it will be difficult to resist the opponent's attack with this thousand troops."

Kou Xiao squinted at him, "Do you think the Kou family's army is dead? On an island, even if there are [-] islanders, the number of guards on the island cannot exceed [-], and it is impossible for them to come out in full force. Only a few thousand."

"But you forgot, they have contacts with the third prince, and there are people behind them to support them, and if all the islanders are like this time, then 10 people, everyone can fight, this number is terrible." The reason why Li Xu didn't attack rashly was that it was easier to defend the city than to attack it, not to mention that it was the opponent's lair, so the defense must be good, and they knew nothing about the island, so the attack would just give away their heads for nothing.

"Then what is the high opinion of the prince?" Kou Xiao turned his head and asked.

Li Xu took out the plan he had written, picked up a pen and added one, and handed it to him, "From the information we have so far, it can be seen that there are also businesses on the island with the mainland, but they are relatively hidden. My It means that the first step is to cut off the fleet that sends food every month. Once the island is short of food, there are only two ways to go. One is to go out to plunder, and the other is to buy food from the mainland. If it is the first way, Unless he has made all the preparations, he will only send a small group of pirates out. These people can be divided into groups and consume the island's troops bit by bit. If it is the second type, it will be easier to handle. Do normal business with them, control the input of food and salt on the island, we will sell whatever they need, since there are gold mines on the island, I believe the island owner will be happy to do business with us."

"Once we intercept their ship, will they send troops to attack immediately after they find out? Since the other party is ambitious, they may have been waiting for this day." Kou Xiao frowned and thought, the sea that has been wiped out one after another in the past few years Could the thief come from that sheltered island?Judging from the situation he encountered at the time, it didn't look like it, because they seemed to be different forces, not a whole.

Or, they were bewitched by the island owner and became the island owner's whetstone, but later when the Kou family's army suffered a great loss, it is not known why the other party did not come behind.

Thinking about it this way, many things can be figured out. The opponent may not have prepared enough, or it may be because of his reputation that he did not send troops to attack at that time.

"We can only take one step at a time." Li Xu glanced at them and assigned them tasks, "Jia Ping continues to train the navy, and the conscription is handed over to General Kou. As for Changqing, how is the caravan going? gone?"

Ye Changqing licked his lips and said excitedly: "Don't worry, even if you want to do business with the other party now, you can be sure that nothing will go wrong."

"You definitely can't come forward, so who is the main caravan?"

Ye Changqing went to ask someone to come in, Li Xu was very surprised when he saw the person coming, it turned out to be the son of Elder Qin, the boatman he met at the seaside.

"Do you know what your choice means?" Li Xu asked in a deep voice.

"The villain knows that the prince is the master, and everything he does is for the common people. The villain is willing to help you with all his heart."

"Does your father know what you're doing?"

"General Ye said that we should not reveal our real identity to anyone who knows our true identity. My father only knows that the villain has joined a firm, but he doesn't know the details of the firm."

Ye Changqing added: "This firm was newly established by Qin Zuxin on the surface, and he recruited the manpower, because his father had the prince's eyes, so the Qin family's tide rose, and with the latest fleet, so Qin Zuxin established the firm to be a seafarer. trading."

"In this way, won't others suspect that he is from the palace?"

Qin Zuxin has his own set of arguments, "Although my father is doing things for the prince, it is to better integrate the shipbuilding techniques of various schools and build bigger and better ships for the Qin family. With this fleet, the Qin family Getting rich is just around the corner.”

Li Xu nodded clearly, pondered for a moment, and said, "Then do a few things to make this reason more logical, but in this way, it will damage the Qin family's reputation, you have to think it through."

"Don't worry, my lord, the villain understands." Qin Zuxin knew when he embarked on this road that he might not be able to glorify his ancestors in this life, and might even ruin the reputation of the Qin family, but what he gains must be lost. regret.

After he left, Li Xu asked Ye Changqing: "Can he know martial arts?"

"No, and he doesn't need to. He just needs to be a shrewd businessman."