Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 168 Xiao Tongzi's deduction of the plot direction

Jiang Yizhou heard the other party's question and said calmly: "Hey, what for? So, what do you usually use your big sword for?"

Of course it’s murder.

Could this woman really dare to kill them all? After all, they had just revealed their identities.

The remaining Deadpools looked at each other in confusion. They were crazy. This woman was really crazy.

"Stop it, put the knife down."

"I am King Kang, the third son of the current emperor."

"Put down the knife, and we can talk about it. If you don't like my suggestion, just ask me, and I..."

King Kang's voice trembled as he tried his best to save the situation.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, Jiang Yizhou used his consciousness to communicate with Xiao Tongzi.

Just when she was about to chop the man in front of her, Xiao Tongzi suddenly spoke, which made her feel a little surprised.

Logically speaking, when she decided to separate these people and close the door, Xiao Tongzi should have understood what she was going to do.

Why did it ask at the critical moment?

Is there something wrong?

Jiang Yizhou then sent a message to the other party: "I am clearly going to kill the culprit who is behind all this and put me in this dead end. When I used my mind reading skill just now, I have already found out his true thoughts and confirmed that he is the one behind all this. Why are you stopping me?"

After a moment, Xiao Tongzi responded: "No, I didn't stop you just now, but..."

Jiang Yizhou was even more confused, "If you're not stopping me, then why?"

Xiao Tongzi sighed: "Just now, based on the information you read with your mind reading, I made a small deduction based on the current situation and found that this third prince named King Kang actually has the fortune to be an emperor."

Jiang Yizhou was also shocked, "What? Can such a person be the emperor?"

Xiao Tongzi: "Yes, just like you said, even a fool can sit in that position. So, with his background and many people recommending him, it's not surprising that he got the position."

Jiang Yizhou: "So you stopped me because you wanted me to 'cooperate' with him?"

As for the fact that she had just killed two guards of the other party, it would not affect future cooperation. After all, interests come first.

Xiao Tongzi: "This can be considered as a way out for you at the moment..."

Jiang Yizhou denied it without waiting for the other party to finish: "I will never cooperate with someone who doesn't want to make the country strong and the people well-fed, even if he is the emperor who already sits on that throne..."

Xiao Tongzi still remembers the other party's resolute expression when he first bound to him. It's the same expression now, even more resolute and decisive than before.

It quickly said, "Of course I don't suggest or force you to cooperate with him. I just want to tell you what I just deduced. In other words, if you kill him now, it is very likely to reverse the established direction of this world."

Jiang Yizhou: "..."

...A big knife suddenly appeared in Jiang Yizhou's hand, and then he rushed over with murderous intent.

But he suddenly stopped three or four steps away from King Kang.

Several people were already sweating coldly.

However, when they saw that the woman actually stopped, they thought that what they had just said had worked.

It seems that she is still afraid of the identity of King Kang... Haha, common people are common people...

The prince is a member of the royal family. It is an honor for a commoner like me to even meet him once.

However, before they could fully relax their pride and satisfaction, they saw the woman jump high again, holding up a big knife, and chopping down at King Kang's head.

Jiang Yizhou chopped down with his sword, and if he hadn't restrained his force a little, he would have cut the man in half.

The main problem is that after a person is split in half, everything inside will flow out, and it is very difficult to clean up.

Furthermore, the other person’s face cannot be destroyed, otherwise how would people know his identity?

When Jiang Yizhou chopped from the left side of the neck to the right side, he almost cut off half of King Kang's body.

It was not until King Kang fell off his horse's back and onto the ground that the remaining four Deadpools recovered from their shock.

Kill...kill...

This woman actually killed the third prince and the third king?

They looked at each other and knew that this woman would never let them go no matter what.

So he decided to fight with all his strength, and at the same time he stood up, drew his sword and rushed towards Jiang Yizhou.

However, these horses were somewhat intelligent and felt the strong murderous aura emanating from Jiang Yizhou, so they dared not move forward. The more they urged the horses, the more they shook their heads and raised their hooves, and the more chaotic the scene became.

Then he was easily killed by Jiang Yizhou.

Jiang Yizhou was delayed for a little while, while outside, Qi Hao and Liao Qi also dealt with those guys.

All chopped up with a knife.

Jiang Yizhou asked people to gather the bodies together and put them into Xiao Tongzi's space.

As for the rest, let Qi Hao and Liao Qi take people to clean up the venue.

Qi Hao and Liao Qi actually already knew the identity of the person who came to the farm tonight.

I felt frightened and uneasy.

After all, these people are extraordinary.

I didn't expect the head of the family would not care at all and just kill him.

They couldn't help but ask, "Master, what if... the higher-ups investigate?"

Jiang Yizhou said coldly: "What should we do? They are hiding their heads and showing their tails. Who knows who they are? Do you know?"

The two men lowered their heads and said in unison, "I don't know, I don't know."

Jiang Yizhou ignored him, said a few words, and then rode a horse towards the border in the middle of the night.

When she was dealing with the other party just now, besides wanting to see the real thoughts of those who stood at the top of the power pyramid, she also wanted to take this opportunity to use her mind reading skills to get a glimpse of the current situation.

When she asked him how he would govern in the future, she read two points from his subconscious thoughts: one is to unite with foreign tribes to fight against the army that was disloyal to him; the other is to unite with the officials in the court and the aristocratic families to consolidate his position. For example, she promised that after she ascended the throne, she would make his daughter and granddaughter a concubine, and then give these powerful people promotions or some conveniences and real power, etc.

Jiang Yizhou also found information about the secret connection between King Kang and the barbarians from the other party's fleeting thought.

Although she had never had any hope for these people from the beginning, she still felt boundless anger when she saw with her own eyes what these people were really thinking.

Just cut it off with a knife.

At the same time, because Xiaotongzi was upgraded, and the entire Yunshan and Tianshui were in a thriving construction, the people were loyal and generated a lot of positive energy, so now we can make some simple deductions.

It is to infer the development of things based on the information that has been collected.

Just now, based on the information read from King Kang's mind, Xiao Tongzi deduced a very terrifying development: war, natural disasters, and people's miserable lives.

According to Xiao Tongzi's deduction, King Kang instigated court ministers and imperial concubines to give advice to the emperor in order to overthrow Du Heng, the commander of the border guards who supported his brother, the crown prince.

The size and expenditure should be reduced on the grounds that the border is now peaceful and there is no need to guard it, which would be a waste of military pay.

At the same time, let him go back to Zezhou to suppress the bandits... and take the opportunity to use the power of the army to wipe out the entire Tianshui.

Du Heng was so angry when he saw the transfer order that he almost went crazy. These people just eat and do nothing.

What bullshit border peace... Those barbarians are now harassing the border, and the people are suffering, so they have been forced to retreat more than a hundred miles.

If this continues, the empire that our ancestors worked so hard to build will be devoured by those barbarians.

He also said that the two countries should have eternal peace and should not erect a high wall to sever the friendship between the two sides.

Fuck friendship.

They come here to burn, kill and loot, and you still want to talk about friendship with them?

These people, for the sake of their own official hats and the little benefits in front of them, have even lost their own principles in life.

It's not that there are no principles, but their principles are to protect the interests of their own family. As long as they can maintain a large tract of land and resources, that's enough.

Families are permanent, dynasties are transient.

Some of these great families have been passed down for hundreds or even a thousand years. After so many dynasties have changed, they have not only not weakened, but have become even stronger.

With these aristocratic families serving as officials in the court, they naturally uphold the interests of their own families. As for the country and the general public...what do those have to do with them?

Even when war comes, it is cheaper for them to annex land and buy slaves at low prices. The best way to make money is from war and national disasters.

Du Heng knew very well that if he left now, the barbarians would march straight in from here.

That large area was a vast wasteland - it was not originally a wilderness, but there were more attacks and some people died while others fled.

As a result, those foreign races were able to enter a no-man's land as if they were in a deserted place. The closest to the border was Zezhou, and below Zezhou was the hinterland...

So, he absolutely cannot leave.

But if you don't leave, you will be disobeying the order and your property will be confiscated and your family will be exterminated in an instant.

Just as he issued the imperial decree and continued to guard the border, the attacks by the barbarians became more frequent, more brutal, and more in-depth.

He was very nervous. After all, he had disobeyed the order and he didn't know when the sword hanging over his head would fall.

However, after half a month, there was no order from above to dismiss him from his post or to return to Beijing to be punished. Instead, he suddenly received a secret letter.

It wasn't called a secret letter, it was just that an arrow suddenly shot onto the city wall with a note stuck on it.

It says: Thirty miles west...

Thirty miles west? No more?

Du Heng frowned and asked the patrolling guards, but they couldn't find out who left the note.

It seems that the other party is very skilled and he did not leave this note for no reason.

In that case, let’s take someone to take a look.

In order to prevent it from being a trap set deliberately by the enemy, he sent out three groups: one to investigate, one to provide support, and one to raid the enemy's position from the side.

Thirty miles, it takes less than an hour to get there on horseback.

Then they saw more than a dozen people lying in a mess on the wasteland covered with sparse weeds.

Du Heng was shocked. He ordered people to go forward and check, while asking another team to search the surrounding area quickly.

The bodyguards checked and brought back a few identity tokens.

One of them is...

Du Heng quickly dismounted and checked it out himself.

It looked like these people had been hacked to death not long ago, and their blood was very fresh.

On the exquisite golden token was the word "Kang".

He looked at the lifelike face, which still contained the fear and pain of the last moment of death. He had no doubt that this person was... King Kang.

How did he get here? And he was hacked to death.

The corpses under the black cloaks around him were also confirmed to be his personal follower Deadpool.

These people are all top-notch masters. Even if they are facing a barbarian tribe of hundreds of people, even if they cannot win, they will definitely have no problem escaping.

But now, so many of them died here at the same time.

Soon, another exploration team reported: no traces of barbarians were found within a ten-mile radius, not even large-scale horse hoof prints.

Also, King Kang had so many people, and they died here, so where were their horses?

It's like it appeared out of nowhere.

Not right.

In any case, get them all back first, and then you can report.

On the way back, Du Heng suddenly became cheerful.

He finally had a legitimate reason to continue guarding the border.

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Jiang Yizhou took advantage of Xiao Tongzi's space and after running for more than two days, he finally threw it out.

Then she continued to return to Tianshui to be the head of her family.

Another month passed, and everything was peaceful on her farm.

It was as if the previous unexpected events were just an illusion, and even the business of her farm's various properties was getting better and better.

More than half a year passed in the blink of an eye, and just as winter began, snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

It's two months earlier than in previous years.

In addition, there has been little rain this year and the vegetation is not thriving, so most people are short of food and firewood.

There are many more beggars, vagrants and people selling their children on the streets.

But soon, these children were bought by Tianshui Farm, and those homeless beggars who were willing to work were also hired.

In two months, Tianshui Tianzhuang took in nearly two hundred people fleeing famine and disaster.

But the situation continues to deteriorate, and it is conceivable that there will be more to come.

Jiang'an County Magistrate Yang personally visited Jiang Yizhou to thank her for taking in these refugees and alleviating the current predicament.

But more victims are rushing here from surrounding areas that have suffered more severe cold waves.

In fact, Jiang'an County was originally on the edge of the cold wave, and those refugees did not want to come here, but when they heard about Tianshui Tianzhuang and the name of the head of the Jiang family, they flocked here.

If there are too many refugees, things will easily get into trouble.

Magistrate Yang asked what the county government needed to do here. This was originally his duty as the local official, but now a farm was being asked to do it. He felt very ashamed.

After getting to know the new county magistrate over the past few months, Jiang Yizhou felt that he was much better than the previous two and was a responsible and ambitious person.

However, the county government is now penniless, with no money and no people - the former county magistrate had taken away several layers of land from Jiang'an County. As for the original yamen runners, apart from those who used backdoors to get paid for nothing, they were either colluding with the big families and had already been eliminated by Jiang Yizhou.

Seeing that the other party took the initiative to discuss with him, Jiang Yizhou did not take advantage of it and put forward his own suggestions very sincerely:

Although Jiang'an County is relatively cold, it is not so cold that you cannot walk outside.

So her plan was: those refugees who had a skill would go to work in various workshops, and those who had nothing would go to reclaim wasteland and build roads.