After nightfall, Meng Fang returned.
Strictly speaking, this was the first time Meng Fang used a telescope to detect the enemy's situation.
Meng Fang didn't know if he could see clearly over a thousand miles, but he could clearly see the mountains more than ten miles away. He could see exactly how many people were gathered on each hilltop, and how many people were on guard duty on each main peak.
With this thing, you can get twice the result with half the effort!
Previously, he could easily hit a willow leaf within 300 meters using a telescope and a crossbow. Not only could he hit it from a hundred paces away, but even from three hundred paces away!
It's hard to imagine that everything, including the thresher and Building No. 2, were invented by Your Majesty, right?
Your Majesty's brain seems to be working better since being struck by lightning.
Moreover, Your Majesty is indifferent to fame and fortune. If the world knew that these were all his inventions, would people still call him a tyrant?
However, what worries Meng Fang the most at this moment is: "Reporting to Your Majesty, according to my estimation, there may be about 80,000 bandits gathered on Wuya Peak. I have also discovered an extremely serious problem." The number of bandits is increasing again and again, but he can only rely on estimation to know the exact number of people.
Baili Tang listened to Meng Fang continue speaking.
"There may be thousands of elite soldiers like me in the mountains, disguised as bandits, sneaking in. It's even possible that these elite soldiers are in league with the bandits... The bandits may not have received formal training, but with these people behind the scenes, I'm worried..."
Baili Tang interrupted him: "Can crops, vegetables and fruits be grown in the mountains?"
Meng Fang shook his head. "The mountains within a fifty-mile radius, centered around Wuya Peak, are mostly karst. The mountains aren't conducive to water storage, making them unsuitable for growing crops. The streams and ponds at the foot of the mountains are good for raising fish. Your Majesty, are you trying to deprive them of their food supply?"
The idea was good, but Meng Fang thought it was impractical. Bandits wouldn't concentrate on one hilltop, nor would they store food in one place. Furthermore, they would heavily guard it.
"My dear Lord Meng, what must you eat every day?" Baili Tang thought that this karst geology must be a karst landform without a doubt.
"Food!" Sure enough, he was right.
"What else?"
"Vegetables, water."
"What else?"
"Sauce."
"What else?"
Meng Fang shook his head. He didn't know what it was anymore. He figured it didn't matter whether he ate fruit or not.
Baili Tang thought of two things: "Salt and Vitamin C!!"
"Salt?!" Meng Fang nodded excitedly. Why hadn't he thought of that? Zhang Dongzheng hadn't thought of it before. After all, they didn't have 21st-century souls, and their minds were filled with different things. "The soldiers haven't eaten salt for several days, and they will be exhausted... But Your Majesty, what is Weixi?"
It seems that Meng Fang heard "Vitamin C" as "Vitamin C".
Baili Tang explained, "Vegetables and fruits contain this substance. If a person does not eat vegetables or fruits for a long time, the consequences will be as serious as not eating salt. So, Lord Meng, what you need to do now is to prevent them from eating these two things. If vegetables and fruits cannot be grown on the mountain, they must be transported from the foot of the mountain. But you have to have other intentions..."
Meng Fang excitedly said: "Feint to the east and attack in the west!!"
Smart people, no need to say more.
"This journey will undoubtedly be dangerous. First, go to the various armies and have them each select one hundred elite soldiers to form ten teams. Whichever team can complete the mission first will be rewarded with three thousand taels of gold, and each member will be promoted two levels and their salary will be doubled."
Where there is a huge sum of money, there will always be brave men!
Three thousand taels of gold, divided among one hundred people, each person gets thirty taels. You can also get promoted two levels, doubling your salary. Just asking you, isn't that great?
Don't you want to rebel?
That's how the disagreement arose.
"But destroying their salt is the key. It's also a secret between us." It takes a month or so for people to get sick if they don't eat vegetables and fruits. If a person doesn't eat salt for seven or eight days in a row, the body's functions will begin to decline, especially now, in the last days of summer, when the weather is still hot and dry. People sweat more and lose salt in the body faster.
That's why Baili Tang ordered Meng Fang: "Make sure to find out their way up the mountain and prevent the salt and vegetables from getting up there. There must be salt stored in the mountains. Find a way to get up there and dump the salt into the stream."
This time, the two were discussing and there was no one around. The only two people Baili Tang could trust now were Meng Fang and Zhang Dongzheng.
Zhang Dongzheng had just returned. He must have been discussing countermeasures with the other officials. "Your Majesty, if you want to sneak into the mountains, I have a plan. You can have someone disguise themselves as a vendor transporting vegetables and fruits."
Baili Tang nodded: "That's a good idea. However, Master Zhang, you seem to have forgotten Lin Yiyi. At a time like this, someone who approaches you proactively will inevitably arouse suspicion."
In the spy dramas I've watched before, when a spy wants to assassinate a big shot, he or she will inevitably use various means to suddenly appear next to the big shot. For example, in a dance hall, on the road, at a banquet... Yu Tang really doesn't know what the writers are thinking.
It's hard to explain. Mr. Zhang doesn't even know what a television is, but he can think of this. Isn't his thinking very advanced?
Baili Tang continued, "Sometimes, being active and being passive are completely different. If a woman takes the initiative to approach you, nothing will happen to you; but if you force her..."
That makes sense...
"Did you hear that, Lord Zhang? His Majesty means that we should be passive! Disguised as peddlers, at most we can go to the foot of the mountain. We can't even enter the mountain, let alone get close... Besides, such a large den of thieves must have its own purchasing and procurement staff." General Meng finally turned the game around.
"Your Majesty, I dare not agree with you. When it comes to the woman you like, how can there be any active or passive relationship?" Lord Zhang ignored Meng Fang and said deliberately. He certainly knew that his method was not feasible.
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