Chapter 548 Add fuel to the fire
Feng Miao realized that it was urgent, so he turned over and climbed onto the horse's back, and patted the horse's butt!
"My sister is at home! Come on, Uncle Yang Er, I'll take you back with me!"
Yang Er originally went to Xiucheng with Liaodongying and Xiao Lanyi to provide disaster relief.
A few days ago, the victims of the disaster had just cut out a batch of Ming paper, which filled five carriages, and he was leading people to transport it back to the capital.
Now, he suddenly rushed back alone.
This must be a big deal.
At this moment, Xiao Nuobao was sitting in Feng's arms, chatting with Madam Wu who had just come to the house.
Seeing Yang Er sweating profusely, she thought that there was something wrong with Xiucheng's special products, so she jumped off the ground and ran out.
"Uncle Yang Er, what happened? Why did you come back by yourself?"
The little fat girl asked anxiously. She pulled him to the end of the corridor with her little hand, not wanting people in the house to hear.
Yang Er didn't even have time to drink his saliva before he said, "Nuobao, your third brother sent me to deliver the Ming paper, but when I walked twenty miles outside the capital, I met a few sneaky foreigners, so I wanted to hurry back and report it!"
"Those people wanted to leave the capital by taking a small road. At first I didn't pay much attention, but then I heard them whispering something about not having a customs document and having to be careful on the road, and there were also a few words in the Oirat language!"
"I felt something was wrong, I was afraid it was a spy, so when they went to pee, I picked up a lone person and knocked him out, and quickly tied him up and brought him back."
After saying that, Yang Er ran out of the door and untied a sack on the horse's butt.
When he opened it, he saw that there was a living person inside!
Feng Miao slapped his forehead, and he was saying, why did I feel that the black horse was running out of breath just now, it turned out that it was carrying three people including him.
Xiao Nuobao widened her eyes.
Although the Wala man in front of her fainted temporarily, a strange bag was revealed in his sleeves, which was the snack bag she had eaten from Gu Yiyi's offerings.
This person must be related to Gu Yiyi.
At the very least, he picked up the things that Gu Yiyi had left over!
Xiao Pangya was overjoyed, and quickly asked Yang Er to tie up the sack, and followed her into the palace to hand it over to her father for questioning.
Although Xiao Nuobao had obtained firearms and some strange food from Gu Yiyi.
However, if they could find out Gu Yiyi's next move, it would be best to interrogate the people around her.
After Mu Yihan learned about it, he immediately sent the Wala man to prison and gave Yang Er a reward, praising him for his vigilance and being a role model for the soldiers.
When the Wala man woke up, the first thing he saw was the dark and oppressive prison.
"Tell me, where are you going to leave the capital this time?"
"Are you going back to your hometown Wala?"
"Your saint, what news did you bring back? If you don't tell the truth, you can forget about this stinking skin!" The black-armored soldier interrogated with a branding iron.
With the smell of burning flesh, wailing and screaming came one after another.
At first, the Wala man wanted to hold on and uttered a few curses.
But soon, his eyes narrowed, and he looked at the mice that were about to drill into his heart, and his eyes were filled with fear.
"I said... I said, I'm just a messenger, just going back to my motherland to pass on the message for the saint..."
"Ah!!! No... I said... the saint is training a firearms army, and wants to flatten your land next spring, ah ah!"
People are under extreme fear.
Even the brain will be devoured by pain, and it is impossible to think of a lie that can be answered fluently, so they can only tell the truth.
After several more tortures, the Black Armored Army finally learned that Wala actually ignored the opposition of the people and bought up asphalt just to build firearms and wanted to annex Nanji.
The Black Armored Army was shocked by this.
This was quickly reported to Mu Yihan.
But after hearing this, Mu Yihan's expression was very calm. He had already known about the ambition of Wala from his concubine.
He narrowed his eyes, and said with a smile in his cold voice, "Very good."
"Good?" The black-armored soldier who came to report looked up in confusion.
The army is coming.
What's good about this?
Mu Yihan looked amused, "I only knew that Wala had wolfish ambitions, but I didn't expect that they would be so stupid as to sacrifice the people to support the war."
The people's hearts are like water. Only water can carry the boat of power, but at the same time, it can also overturn the boat.
Since the other party handed him a knife.
Then don't blame him, he stabbed it back fiercely.
Mu Yihan called two spies and ordered them to leave immediately and go to Persia and other countries.
"Since Wala wants to buy the asphalt, you should contact the foreign envoys and tell them that Nanji is willing to pay three times the price to buy their asphalt." Mu Yihan ordered.
The two spies hesitated, "Master Imperial Master, the asphalt in Persia and other places is as expensive as gold. If we pay three times more, the national treasury will not be able to afford it, right?"
Mu Yihan shook his head calmly, "Who said we want to buy it? We are just helping to raise the price and making a fool of ourselves."
Soon, according to Mu Yihan's instructions, the spies of the Black Armor Army set off and found seven or eight foreign envoys including Persia.
Knowing that Nanji was willing to pay a high price, they quickly notified the royal family of their country and tripled the price of the already expensive asbestos.
The Wala had just received the news from Gu Yiyi and knew that they would go to war in the spring, and they were excited.
At this time, it was a matter of life and death, so how could they be careless about the asbestos?
Therefore, the Wala royal family ordered that even if they tried every possible way to make money, they must accept this high price and purchase asbestos regardless of the consequences.
As a result, the people of Wala complained even more.
From time to time, officials broke into people's homes, beat civilians, and extorted harsh taxes from them.
The Wala were not good at governing the country, and in this forced collection of asbestos taxes, the local gentry interfered and plundered them even more.
As a result, before the Wala army even set out to fight, the people had already found it unbearable, and even in the poorest areas, some people were ready to rise up and rebel...
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On the other hand, Xiao Nuobao knew about Gu Yiyi's plan and did not dare to relax.
She went to Cangcheng again and urged the workshop to speed up the progress.
"Lin Chunlai, if there is only one month now, how many fire bomb eggs can you make, and the new type of fire gun?"
The little fat girl took a deep breath, and her chubby little face showed the tension before the battle.
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