The next morning, Li Lizhe visited the Dongyang Valley Camp.

The Eight Thousand Tribes in the Camp are Li Li’s current family background, so he has to be extra cautious.

It is said to be a division, but in fact, the only part that is really on the surface is the 500 personal soldiers stationed in Longxiang Li's Mansion.

The Three Thousand Dragon Xiang Camp Iron Cavalry was nominally under his command, and Dong Zhuo provided food and salary.

The five thousand infantrymen were the soldiers he recruited privately, and they could not be easily shown to others. He would provide all the needs himself and bear a heavy burden.

At present, the money supplied to the infantry camp is still the robbery gains he privately seized in Chenliu City, and some additional food and grass Fan Yong can barely support it for the time being.

Without stable money and food support, the soldiers of the Infantry Camp will be hungry next month.

Li Li had no foundation and no savings in Chang'an City, and his salary could only support the daily expenses of the mansion.

Nowadays, he was trapped in Chang'an City and lived entirely on salary and had no other source of money and food.

For a moment, Li Li was really stumped.

But it is useless to be anxious about this kind of dilemma. As long as he does not have his own territory, it is impossible to completely solve the problem of food and wages.

After walking around in the camp, Li Li explained to Li Fu, Li Zheng and Bo Cai again.

Give them power so that they can have the greatest right to make decisions on the spot, without reporting everything, and require them not only to solve the problem of food and grass, but also to train soldiers.

Afterwards, Li Li and his group left Dongyang Valley again and set off for Chang'an.

On the way back to the city, Li Li seemed worried and frowned.

"Wenchang, are you worried about the army's food and grass? I heard from the servant that Tai Shi Dong's Tai Wuli stored a large amount of money and food, which could provide the 300,000 army with ten years of food and food. Can you ask Tai Shi for food? If it really doesn't work, borrow some food and grass for emergency response and return it to him later!"

Chen Yu looked at Li Li's gloomy face and felt very uncomfortable, so he said enlightenedly.

"Uh! Hahaha!"

Li Li was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Yu'er, you really dare to think about it! Borrow food and grass from Dong Zhuo? Even if the sun comes out from the west, you don't want to lend a grain of food from Dong Zhuo!

Meiwuli did store a lot of money and grain. Not only did Dong Zhuo's years of wealth gain, but also the blood and sweat of the entire Sili people and the century-old accumulation of money and grain in Luoyang Imperial City. It is rich enough to compete with the country! However, it is still a bit exaggerated to say that it can supply the food and wages of the 300,000 army for ten years, and it is not worth trusting. However, supplying for five years should not be a problem."

The reason why Li Li said this is indeed targeted and not speculation.

According to historical records, since Dong Zhuo's death, Wang Yun squandered some of the money and food of Meiwu. Later, Li Jue and Guo Si controlled the government and fought endlessly. It lasted for seven years, but there was no shortage of food and grass. This itself illustrates the problem.

If it weren't for Dong Zhuo's large amount of money and food stored in Meiwuli, where did nearly ten generals of all sizes, including Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, etc., come from the food and food of more than 200,000 soldiers under their tent?

By plundering money and food alone, I am afraid that all the food from the homes of all the people in the prefectures and counties in Xiliang will not be enough for their hundreds of thousands of troops to spend seven years.

After Li Jue, Guo Si and others controlled the government, they could live in peace at first, and they began to attack and kill each other two or three years. The cause of the conflict was probably in the distribution of food and grass, rather than simply raising disputes for fame and fortune.

As for Li Jue's final agreement with the young emperor and all officials to leave Chang'an and go to Luoyang, perhaps because there was no extra grain to support these people, he just became angry and agreed to their request casually.

"Report! Report to the general, at the foot of the mountain at the bend ahead, a group of robbers are surrounding and killing passers-by merchants."

Just as Li Li and Chen Yu were rushing to the road while talking, a personal soldier rushed over and hurriedly told about the emergencies on the road ahead.

"Robbers? Let's go by two more bends and be Chang'an City. There are still robbers here who dare to block the road and commit robbery? What a strange thing!"

Li Li murmured to himself in shock, then ordered the scouts of his personal soldiers: "Well, get up, continue to find out, see who was robbed and killed, where did the robbers come from, and how many people are there? Go quickly!"

The scout then bowed and took the order and left. Under the whip of the horse, he disappeared at the end of the road in a flash.

"Wenchang, let's go and save people quickly. If we go too late, the robbers will succeed!"

Chen Yu is a daughter's family and is kind-hearted. When she heard that someone was in danger, she rushed up to help save the person.

Li Li walked slowly on his horse and walked forward slowly, "Yu'er, don't be anxious, just hurry up and get ahead slowly.

These days, there are chaos and natural disasters, and the lives of ordinary people are not easy. If they are extremely hungry, perhaps those honest farmers will also do things that block the road and rob. This kind of thing happens every day, and it is not worth making a fuss.

Besides, merchants always take entourages with their entourage when traveling, and are more than enough to deal with ordinary robbers. In fact, as long as they are willing to give up some money to the robbers, they might be fine."

Seeing that Li Li was not concerned about his own affairs, Chen Yu said so relaxed, and felt a lot of relief in his heart. He was not in a hurry to rush, and followed Li Li to ride his horse without rushing.

"Report! General, his subordinates have found out that the person who was robbed was Cai Zhonglang's daughter, and the robbers were Pegasus thieves who had been wandering around Nanshan in the past two years. This time, more than 300 Pegasus thieves were dispatched. Depending on the situation, they should have arrived here last night and happened to meet Cai Zhonglang's family."

The scout said the inquiry in one breath, and spoke very quickly, which made Li Li not know what he said.

"Wait, who is Cai Zhonglang? Who is his daughter? You make it clear, don't say it so quickly, just say it slowly!"

The scout heard Li Li's tone of bad voice, so he patiently explained: "Report to General, Cai Zhonglang is the left general Cai Yong, whose courtesy name is Bo Ji. He was named General of Zhonglang by the Grand Tutor half a year ago.

Cai Zhonglang's daughter is Cai Yan, whose courtesy name is Zhao Ji. She was previously the daughter-in-law of the Wei family in Hedong, and her husband's family was Wei Zhongdao, the eldest son of the Wei family. However, less than a year after she married into the Wei family, Wei Zhongdao pleated blood and died of death, while the Cai family became a widow. She returned to Chang'an at the beginning of this year and has been living in Cai Zhonglang's house since then."

Li Li was slightly shocked and said in surprise: "It turns out that Cai Zhonglang is the old master Cai Yong! But why didn't you see him in court recently?

Well, by the way, mistress, why do you understand Cai Zhonglang’s family affairs so clearly? It’s so clear!”

"This...hehehehe!"

The scout's mistress was stunned by Li Li's question and said with a silly smile: "Report to General, I used to be a member of Luoyang and was a fellow townsman of Chenliu with Cai Zhonglang. I have always respected the old man very much. Later, I was recruited by General Li Jue as a scout. Before going to the war at the beginning of this year, I followed General Li Jue to Cai Zhonglang's mansion to go to Cai Zhonglang's mansion, so I know all the things about Cai Zhonglang's house."

Li Li smiled at the mistress and said, "Hahaha! Miss three, you are very smart and will have a promising future. It seems that I have recruited you into the personal army team as the right one. Do it well. You will be the team leader in no time! Lead the way forward and we will go to save people. Since Cai Zhonglang's daughter was robbed, we can't stand by and watch!"

"To put it nicely, I think you just heard that the man was Cai Da Tsai and decided to save people so simply! Men all have this kind of virtue, hum!"

Seeing Li Li running away with a whip on his horse, Chen Yu poked his red lips and looked at Li Li's back away with anger and muttered a few words. Then he rode the horse and followed more than ten personal soldiers to chase him.

At the bend of the mountain road, at the foot of the mountain.

A group of more than 300 robbers, each with a good Xiliang war horse, whistling and surrounding a carriage in a noisy manner.

Around the carriage, five strong entourage entourages held long swords to protect the carriage, constantly swinging their swords to resist the robbers rushing over.

At this moment, more than ten corpses of entourages were lying on the ground. It was obvious that the entourages of the Cai family were at the end of their power and could not resist them for long.

The robbers did not seem to be in a hurry to kill the only five entourages. They stabbed the five entourages all over the body and were playing with the dying entourages, but they were reluctant to take their lives.

"How can you, the bold thief, beside the foot of the imperial city, let you commit arbitrary crimes?"

With a loud shout, Li Li jumped down from the mountain road and rushed down with a long sword in his hand.
Chapter completed!