Chapter 879 879. Terrible place

   Camp.

  After the magistrate cleaned up, he finally looked like a human being. When he came to the main tent, he kept wiping away his tears, "General, thanks to Miss Chu, otherwise I would have been imprisoned to death."

  Tang Jinghong looked at the magistrate, and went straight to the point, "Why did they kidnap you? And why did they imprison you?"

The magistrate sniffed, "I was kidnapped a year ago. At that time, my wife and daughter went on an outing. I was busy with work so I didn't follow. In the afternoon, the people under my command came to tell me that my wife and daughter had gone out. There was an accident, let me go and have a look."

   "I was worried about them, so I didn't suspect him. Without saying a word, I rode on the horse and rushed to the place where they happened. But what greeted me was not my wife and daughter, but a group of bandits."

   "That's how I was captured, and then imprisoned."

   "General, can you send someone to the government office in Linzhang City to see my wife and daughter, I haven't seen them for more than a year."

  Tang Jinghong signaled to Meng Shengdong, "Go and have a look."

  Meng Shengdong cupped his fists, "Yes, General."

  The magistrate continued, "As for why I was imprisoned, I was testing those bandits. It seems that I have taken a fancy to the fertile land of Linzhang City."

   "The general should know that Tangling's land is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is barren. Only the land near Linzhang City is relatively fertile, and there is a plain."

   "I tested those bandits, they didn't reveal anything else, they only said they were used to plant treasures."

  Tang Jinghong had a bad guess in his heart. The land was probably used to grow drugs. "If it was a bandit, it would not be so bold to kidnap a city magistrate."

  The magistrate nodded straightly, "The general is right. They were ordered by others. The bandits who imprisoned me didn't have any brains, but what they did was extremely meticulous and leak-proof. It can be seen that there are masters planning behind it."

   Tang Jinghong thought for a moment, got up and left the main tent, and walked to the tent where a group of bandits were tied.

  The bandit was still in a state of losing consciousness. Chu Qingzhi had taught Tang Jinghong to wake him up by pricking him between the eyebrows with a silver needle.

  Tang Jinghong woke up the third child, "Can you answer the question properly?"

  The third child looked at the group of soldiers, and immediately became cowardly, "After you tell me, can you let me live?"

  Tang Jinghong said, "It depends on your performance."

  The third child hurriedly said, "I will definitely behave well. If you ask, I will tell you everything I know."

  Tang Jinghong asked, "Tell me about the origin of your cottage."

  The third child was eager to pay off his merits, and said honestly, "Our cottage was established more than a year ago. The boss is a butcher in Linzhang City. He was wronged and murdered, so he became a bandit."

   "The second child has some unknown origins, I don't know."

   "I'm a beggar, and I've been with the boss all the time. Originally, the boss just wanted to find a place to hide, and wait for the wind to pass and escape to live in another place."

   "Unexpectedly, the second brother appeared at this time. He persuaded the boss to form a cottage, and brought back all the men who fled around to act as bandits."

  "The fleeing people come from all directions, and they are all people who can't survive. Now there is a way to survive, and they all agreed to join."

   "After we got the manpower, we started to loot houses and build cottages."

   "Suddenly one day, a mysterious person appeared. Only the boss and the second child had seen him, and no one else had. With the help of the mysterious person, the cottage expanded a lot and became what it is now."

  Tang Jinghong pondered, "That mysterious man helped you expand the cottage, it's impossible to do nothing, what does he want?"

  The third child said, "He didn't want anything, so he borrowed our cottage to transport things, one box after another, and he didn't know what it was."

  Tang Jinghong asked, "Where did things come from?"

  The third child shook his head, "I don't know, I only know that things are often shipped to our cottage, and then shipped away after a few days. When I asked the boss, the boss only said to make a fortune, and didn't reveal anything else."

   "Why put it for a few days?"

   "I don't know, those things were secretly placed in a room, and then secretly transported out of the room a few days later, and carried away from the back mountain."

   Tang Jinghong glanced sharply, "Since it's a secret, how do you know?"

  The third child hurriedly said, "I saw it secretly."

   "Kaiming, put him on a bet and go to the cottage to have a look."

"yes."

  When he came to the cottage, seeing the empty village, the youngest dared not have second thoughts, and hurriedly took him to the room where his things were stored.

  The house was also remodeled from a cave, filled with bottles and jars, much like Chu Qingling's pharmacy.

   It looked nothing special like this. Tang Jinghong looked around the room and found a hidden compartment. He walked over and removed the stone that put the oil lamp, and there was indeed a trap.

  He twisted the mechanism, and the cabinet for bottles and cans was moved away, revealing a door, and a smell of medicine rushed over from the door, which was very pungent.

  Tang Jinghong walked over, took a look, and secretly thought, this is the real pharmacy.

   No, it’s a smoke distribution room. The smoke made from Afulan is filled with the smell of that smoke, which is very similar to the Afulan that I smelled in the capital before.

  If it is planted in Linzhang City, then this is the right place to make cigarettes.

  There are still some medical tools on the table, and there are extra medicines in the basket.

  Tang Jinghong walked out of the house and ordered sternly, "Set fire to this place."

   "Yes, General."

  Tang Jinghong returned to the camp on horseback, took the prefect with him, and went to the fertile land that the prefect had mentioned.

   This is a very vast plain, one hour away from the camp by horseback.

  After a group of people came here on horseback, they understood everything.

  The plain is full of asparagus, each of which is very lush, and some of them have bloomed in the middle. At a glance, they are very spectacular, but the white and beautiful flowers are full of sin.

  Many people were weeding in the field, and there was a man in charge standing on the edge of the field, and four people stood behind him, looking at the plain together.

  Soldier Xia Lanfeng's eyes were shocked, "General, I didn't expect that all the places where food should be grown are all planted with this harmful thing."

  Tang Jinghong's voice was a bit stern, "Bring people up and bring all those people up."

  Xia Lan responded, "Yes."

Those people were terrified when they saw the soldiers, especially those who acted as stewards. They didn't look proud at all, and knelt down to beg for mercy, "General, please forgive me. thing."

   Tang Jinghong's eyes were full of coldness, looking at the few people kneeling in front of him, "Who told you to plant it?"

  The steward hesitated, "General, yes, yes..."

  Xia Lanfeng kicked the steward on the ground and rolled around a few times, "If you don't tell the truth, you will be killed now, crazy thing!"

   The steward was in pain and didn't move for a while.

  One of the subordinates behind him glanced at the steward, and said hastily, "I said, I said, General, please forgive me."

   Tang Jinghong didn't speak, but moved his sharp eyes like blades to him.

  The subordinates couldn't help being terrified, "General, we planted these drugs under the order of the prefect of Linzhang City. He threatened our family, and we dare not refuse. Please be aware of the general."

  Looks like it's time to meet the magistrate, Tang Jinghong slightly lowered his eyes and thought.

  The real magistrate next to him was frightened physically and mentally when he heard this. This kind of thing is obviously a serious crime of beheading. If the person pretending to be him leaves in the future and puts him on top, isn’t he the one who died?

  He understood why the other party imprisoned him instead of killing him.

  Tang Jinghong ordered, "Pull up all these drugs, and then burn them. Not a single one will be left!"

   "Yes, General."

  Xia Lanfeng led a group of soldiers, walked quickly to the plain, and pulled out the drugs one by one.

   Seeing this, the subordinates quickly turned their backs on the merits and said, "General, we are also willing to contribute. This thing harms others and ourselves. If we are not forced, we are not willing to serve it."

   Tang Jinghong nodded, "Go."

  A middle-aged man among the farmers who helped take care of it said, holding back his fear, "General, we are also willing to destroy those harmful things."

  Tang Jinghong looked back at the middle-aged man, "Go."

  A group of farmers also went, and one of the teenagers was the last one. He looked at Tang Jinghong, hesitated for a moment, rushed over and knelt in front of Tang Jinghong, "General, please, please help me find our family back?"

   "Tell me what's going on?" Tang Jinghong looked at the boy, very ordinary and timid.

  The young man cried and said, "General, we are all nearby villagers. After the government occupied our farmland, they also drove out the surrounding villagers. Now the village is empty, and the former villagers can't be found."

"when did it happen?"

   "A year ago, when I went to the county town to sell eggs, I escaped being driven away, but I didn't escape being caught serving A Furong. General, I asked many times, but there was no news."

   "When the villagers left, did they take their finances and clothes with them?"

   "No, everything in the house is intact, except that everyone is missing."

  Tang Jinghong slowly raised his brows. If so, the villagers would be in danger. "This general knows about it. I will send someone to check it out."

  The young man kowtowed, "Thank you, General, thank you, General."

  The magistrate came over, "General, what shall we do next?"

  Tang Jinghong glanced at the magistrate, but said nothing.

  …

   Camp.

  Yi Chuanchuan walked into the tent, and saw Rong Shenning and Du Zhaolin wrapped in quilts and wagging, "What's wrong with you?"

  Rong Shenning rolled his eyes in discomfort, "I feel uncomfortable, I feel so cold."

  Du Zhaolin gritted his teeth, "I'm also very uncomfortable. It's spring, but it feels like the twelfth lunar month of winter. Liu Shu, go and help us find a military doctor."

   "Okay, you wait, I'll find someone." Although I usually hate these two people, I can't just watch them die.

  Yi Chuanchuan came out of the tent and went straight to the military doctor's tent, "Rong Shenning and Du Zhaolin are sick, one of you should go and see."

  Several military doctors were dispensing medicine, and they looked at each other, but they were unwilling to go.

  (end of this chapter)