"Your Majesty, the Grand Secretary has sent out a message: whoever cuts off Jiang Tian's head will receive all of the Grand Secretary's funding."
"More than a dozen rebel groups were all eager to try."
Upon hearing this, Li Chuang slammed his fist on the table: "A bunch of rabble dares to try and steal the Grand Secretary's favor from me? They should take a good look at themselves in the mirror."
"Chen Youliang, the rebel leader, is also eager to try. This guy might beat us to it."
"Chuang Wang, you know Chen Youliang is cunning and ruthless, willing to use any means to achieve his goals."
Li Chuang frowned upon hearing this; he knew Chen Youliang well.
Of these dozen or so rebel armies, Li Zicheng feared Chen Youliang the most.
"The assassination of Jiang Tian is urgent and cannot be delayed any longer." Li Chuang clenched his fist. "I want all of Jiang Tian's places too."
"Summon the assassination squad here. It's time for me to reveal my trump card."
"promise……"
Half an hour later.
More than 100 people knelt in Li Chuang's military camp tent.
"This time, you only have one target, and that is Jiang Tian. You only have two choices: first, bring back Jiang Tian's head and you will be rewarded for your merits."
"Secondly, if you die in the Battle of Dragon City, your entire family, including nine generations, will be executed by slow slicing."
Li Chuang's meaning is very clear.
These assassination squad members either completed their mission to assassinate Jiang Tian, or their entire families were executed.
"promise……"
"Set off quickly. I have high hopes for you. Don't disappoint me, and don't let your families down." After Li Chuang finished speaking, he waved his hand lightly, as if shooing away flies, and dismissed all 100-plus members of the assassination squad.
These 100-plus members of the assassination squad were only the core members.
Li Chuang's assassination squad had more than 2,000 members.
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Longcheng County Government Office.
"Qianyu, where are you rushing off to again?" Jiang Tian noticed that Nangong Qianyu was about to leave right after finishing her meal.
“I dare not fail to complete the task that Xiang Gong gave me. So many starving people have come from outside the city, and the land we had before is simply not enough to distribute.”
The grain supply is dwindling.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Tian scratched his head.
“You can let the servants do this. There’s no need for you to do it yourself.” Jiang Tian grabbed Nangong Qianyu’s hand. “Look at your hands, they’ve become a bit rough. Rest well at home and take good care of them.”
Nangong Qianyu smiled slightly: "Husband, yesterday you told me to work hard and to hand over all the affairs of Jizhou to me in the future."
Besides, I wouldn't trust anyone else with this; there are so many things in Dragon City and its three cities that require my attention right now.”
"The earth will keep turning without you." Jiang Tian pinched Nangong Qianyu's rosy cheeks.
What exactly is Earth?
"It's just a ball."
“I’m going,” Nangong Qianyu said, giving him a kiss. “Recently, more and more starving people have been flocking here.”
Jiang Tian opened the system space and looked at the system repository.
The system warehouse was piled high with grains, and there were also many kinds of meat.
"I'll go with you."
“What are you going to do?” Nangong Qianyu stopped Jiang Tian. “The disaster victims there are too chaotic, dirty and smelly. You just take care of your own business.”
"If you're not afraid, why should I be?"
The two men left the county government office and got into a carriage.
Luo Xiaohu personally led the team.
More than 100 guard cavalrymen dressed in bright armor and carrying horse-slaying swords protected both sides of the carriage.
When pedestrians saw Jiang Tian's group come out, they all made way for them.
This avoidance was not out of fear, but out of respect for Jiang Tian.
They knew that if the heavens hadn't sent down, they would have long since become starving corpses by the roadside, devoured by wild dogs.
The streets are becoming increasingly bustling.
More and more people are starting businesses.
Those who do business know that Longcheng has abundant food, fruits and vegetables.
In this era, the easiest business to do is the grain business.
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Outside the city.
Nangong Qianyu specially set aside an open space.
This place is mainly used to shelter disaster victims.
This area stretches for more than ten miles.
There is a large pot every twenty or thirty meters.
The pot was filled with millet porridge and rice porridge.
The disaster victims who flocked from all over the country were given food first, and those who wanted to stay were registered with the government.
The military will select from these disaster victims, and those who pass the selection will be enlisted.
Those that don't meet the standards will be cleared for farming.
In short, once you're on Jiang Tian's territory, you won't die if you want to survive.
Li Chuang's assassination squad members quickly dispersed.
They looked around the area, which stretched for miles, and saw disaster victims everywhere.
Cao Shu and Chen Ping came over.
“We are mainly divided into two groups,” Cao Shu said, taking a bowl of porridge and drinking it by the roadside. “Our group is looking for opportunities outside the city.”
These fleeing people said that Jiang Tian would come to the outskirts of the city every now and then.
That's the perfect time for us to launch an attack.
"Even if our sneak attack fails, Gao Meng and Zhou Shijie's group will still carry out assassinations on Jiang Tian's way back to the city."
"This time, Jiang Tian is doomed."
"Are all the crossbow bolts poisoned?"
"The poison has been fed, and the Sorrowful Breeze is ready. As soon as Jiang Tian arrives, we'll release the Sorrowful Breeze first."
"We'll go up after he and his men are drugged."
"This time, Jiang Tian is doomed."
Just as Cao Shu and Chen Ping were talking quietly, patrolling guards passed by them.
The two immediately fell silent, buried their heads in the broken bowl, and drank the porridge in large gulps.
"Where did you guys come from?" To Cao Shu and Chen Ping's surprise, the patrolling soldiers stopped right in front of them.
"Sir, we fled from Qingzhou."
“The land in Qingzhou is barren, and the people eat each other’s own flesh. We really have no way to escape here.”
"What are your orders, sir?" Chen Ping quickly put on a smiling face.
These patrolling soldiers were all dressed in gleaming armor and carried warhorse sabers.
Cao Shu and Chen Ping answered each other fluently, which made the patrolling soldiers even more suspicious.
The disaster victims who were able to reach the soup kitchens to receive soup were all emaciated, pale and thin, and almost all of them were on the verge of death.
Although Cao Shu and Chen Ping were not fat, they looked energetic and did not look like disaster victims at all.
The ordinary disaster victims were terrified when they saw the government soldiers arrive; they were trembling and unable to speak.
These people, however, were able to answer fluently without the slightest hesitation.
This surprised the patrolling soldiers even more.
Han Xin had already informed all his soldiers that the rebels intended to attack Longcheng.
These patrolling soldiers aren't stupid either.
They were trying to prevent the other side from having spies among the people.
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