Chapter 280 Luo Yang's Little Thoughts
"Got it. You can go down and rest first. Let others do the rest."
Bai Li's normal behavior towards his subordinates made Luo Yang raise his head quickly. A hint of joy flashed in his bloodshot eyes, but it disappeared in an instant.
"It's okay, I just need to rest for a while."
After saying this, Luo Yang was reluctant to leave. This was one of the few opportunities for him to get close to Bai Li.
after……
He was afraid that he didn't even have this chance!
"Luo Yang is here too?"
Nangong Min came in, and Luo Yang, who wanted to stay a little longer, said goodbye and left.
"Luo Yang has learned that Qu Feng and his confidants have escaped. I think there's a secret passage in the city. We need to find it as soon as possible."
Bai Li felt a little distressed when he saw the dark circles under Nangong Min's eyes, and just wanted him to rest as soon as possible.
"Then I'll take the others with me. They haven't rested yet anyway."
Nangong Min was talking about the team led by him that had just returned from outside.
"No, you're not iron men. You can't keep working non-stop. I'll go and take care of someone else. You guys can rest."
Nangong Min was still insisting when Bai Dalang came in.
They were given the day off last night, so today it was their turn to do their work.
"Brother-in-law, you guys just got back? Are Uncle Huanan and the others okay?"
“They’re all settled in.”
Nangong Min rubbed his eyes, unable to hide the fatigue on his face, and forced himself to answer.
This was also what he wanted to report to the commander when he returned. He hadn't had time to say it yet, but he just happened to ask.
After everyone settled in the city last night, Bai Li remembered the troops still left outside the city, so he asked Nangong Min to take a dozen people out to settle Ji Huanan and the others.
For this Western Expedition, she selected 30,000 men from the barracks, in addition to 500 former members of the Bai family army, 500 cavalrymen, and Nangong Min's private soldiers, a total of 35,000 men.
However, she divided the troops into two parts. She led 30,000 troops to march through the open road, while Ji Huanan led 15,000 people to take a shortcut to Qinzhou and meet up with the main army in the birch forest outside the city.
After the two armies joined forces last night, Bai Li only led 20,000 troops to attack the city, leaving 15,000 men behind to block the enemy reinforcements and prevent his side from being surrounded from both inside and outside.
However, Ji Huanan and his men did not receive any enemy reinforcements last night, so Bai Li arranged for their troops to continue lurking outside the city, so he sent Nangong Min out of the city to make arrangements.
"That's great. Go and rest. I have tasks for you tonight."
After Bai Li said this, Nangong Min felt uncomfortable insisting, so he had to tell her to take a rest and then went down.
"Brother, you and your second brother, second uncle, and third uncle should go to the city to find the secret passage. The sooner the better."
Bai Li loves men, but she is very decisive when it comes to ordering her own brother around.
“Sister, is there a treasure in this city?
Wow! Aren’t we going to be rich then? "
Bai Li rolled his eyes at his money-minded elder brother, "What are you thinking about? You can only dream at night. It's broad daylight now!"
Bai Dalang: He doesn't want to be all about money, but he really needs money now.
Thinking back to the time when he regarded money as dirt, he was a handsome young man with a jade-like face. Who wouldn't praise General Bai as a handsome and spotless young master?
But when Bai Dalang learned about Zhou Yu's identity, he began to dislike this character.
After Zhou Yu returned to the palace, through her efforts she had persuaded the emperor and the empress dowager to agree to her marriage with Bai Dalang.
But his military rank was not high, and his family did not have much money. How could he propose marriage to Zhou Yu, and how could he save her face?
He was almost worried to death these days, especially after seeing Nangong Min give his sister several manors, countless gold and silver, and thousands of acres of land as a betrothal gift, he suddenly felt like a pauper.
He couldn't even afford the smallest of his sister's betrothal gifts.
Although Zhou Yu said that she didn't mind, he couldn't let her suffer too much, right?
"Then what secret passage are we looking for? We still have a lot to do!"
Upon hearing that there was no treasure, Bai Dalang instantly lost his spirit.
"There is a secret passage in the city that has allowed the defending general to escape."
"so what?"
Bai Dalang still had no interest. It was fine to ask him to lead the troops in training, but why look for a secret passage?
"Are you stupid? They can go out from the inside and come in from the outside!"
"I'll go right away!"
Bai Dalang shuddered, and immediately jumped up from his chair as if his tail was on fire.
Oh my goodness! This is a top priority!
If one day the enemy sneaks into the city and kills you, that would be a truly unjust death!
Bai Dalang left in a hurry. Bai Li rubbed his brows tiredly, and just as he cheered up and opened the city defense deployment map, Wu Lanzhi came in again.
"Marshal Bai, we've counted the number and family situation of the people in the city. Half of them are from Ximen, two-thirds moved here from the Great Zhou, and the remaining one-third moved here from other countries."
"Do they have any resistance to us Great Zhou people?"
"Most people accepted us quickly, only a few resisted, saying..."
"What did you say?"
Bai Li asked with a frown.
Wu Lanzhi gritted her teeth and said bitterly, "They said that our Great Zhou was so poor that we couldn't even get enough to eat, yet we came to bring disaster to them.
They had lived well under the rule of Simon Kingdom before, but we came and destroyed their beautiful life."
"Let's investigate what their previous standards for a good life were."
"I've asked around. Their land outside the city belongs to the Simon court. They only need to give 60% of the harvest to the court, and the rest is theirs to use as they please."
"So how's their harvest?"
"The annual yield per mu is 200 to 300 kilograms. Each person can cultivate three to five mu, and a family can cultivate about ten mu."
"In other words, after a year of hard work, based on ten mu of cultivated land, they only get about 1,200 kilograms of grain into their own granary?"
"This only happens in a year of good weather and good harvests."
"A family has less than 100 kilograms of food per month. Is this considered a good life?"
The common people have no fat or water in their stomachs, so they have a big appetite. A strong man can eat three pounds of rice in one meal.
A family needs at least five strong laborers to cultivate ten acres of land. Five strong laborers need to eat at least five kilograms of grain a day, and that is when they eat thin food.
It's conceivable that with less than 100 kilograms of food, they couldn't even get enough to eat porridge every meal for a month, and yet they dared to laugh at the people of the Great Zhou?!
Wu Lanzhi also realized, "That's right, they are not even as good as the common people of our Great Zhou, why are they laughing at us?
I'll go right now and explain to them the benefits of being an ordinary citizen of our Great Zhou and what a good life is! "
Wu Lanzhi came and went like a gust of wind. Bai Li smiled and lowered his head to look at the picture again.
Wu Lanzhi became more and more capable of taking charge of things on her own, which saved her a lot of trouble.
Bai Li found several loopholes in the defense map, then opened the Simon map to see the routes between Qinzhou and the various prefectures and counties in Simon, and estimated how long it would take for reinforcements to arrive after Qu Feng escaped.
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