Two days later, three hundred miles outside Chengdu, next to a loess road leading to Chengdu City.

The road is not wide, at most a horse-drawn carriage can pass through, and after the official road was completed, there were few pedestrians on weekdays, and after years of desertion, and now it is spring, the road is overgrown with weeds on both sides, and the jungle is silent even during the day.

In the words of the person in charge of the Tsing Yi Building in Chengdu, this is a road that even bandits do not pass through on weekdays. According to the intelligence, the convoy escorting Song Jiahaiyan took this road towards Chengdu City.

Since Duzun Fort has announced that the people of Bashu have reached a consensus with the Song family to sell the Song family's sea salt in Bashu, why does this convoy not take the safe and spacious official road, but to take this uncared for, bumpy and difficult loess road?

While making the news known to everyone, he acted quietly and quietly wanted to hide people's eyes, this kind of thunder and rain made Richard and Li Guanchen brothers and sisters feel more and more that there must be something strange between Duzun Fort and the Song family.

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves from the end of the road, Richard moved his ears, exchanged a look with Li Guancheng beside him, and the two immediately disappeared into the jungle behind them.

After waiting for a while, I saw a convoy slowly coming along the loess road, the convoy had a total of thirteen carriages, each carriage was painted with the mark of Duzun Fort, about half a zhang away from each other, and there were eight people guarding the front and back, left and right.

The temples of these people with weapons bulged slightly, obviously they were all good at external skills, and a middle-aged man with a gloomy face at the front of the convoy rode slowly forward on a tall horse, with a long sword pinned to his waist.

As the convoy passed, Richard noticed a deep axle mark on the loess road, and the contents of the carriage were obviously extremely heavy.

After the convoy passed, Richard and Li Guancheng quietly followed, the convoy advanced for about a few miles, and then walked out of the jungle to an open field, the middle-aged man on the horse looked around, suddenly raised his hand and made a gesture, and the convoy behind him slowly stopped.

I only heard him say aloud: "Rest here tonight, the old rule, half of the people keep the first half of the night and the other half of the night, and set off early tomorrow morning." ”

With that, he turned over and dismounted, while the strong men behind him walked towards the jungle to collect firewood.

Richard squatted on a tree and observed for a while, and when a strong man walked under the tree, his eyes were condensed, and he quickly took out the incense given to him by the person in charge of Tsing Yi Building, and shot out the firewood in his arms with internal strength.

"Poof."

The incense was like a sharp silver needle that easily shot into the firewood, making a faint and invisible sound. The strong man glanced back, thinking that it was the sound of himself stepping on the dead branches and leaves, and continued to walk forward without doubt in his heart.

The fire was raised, and only four strong men were left around each carriage, and the rest quickly fell asleep around the fire.

Richard and Li Guancheng stood aside, quietly waiting for the incense inserted into the firewood to take effect, as the firewood gradually burned, the four strong men guarding the fire rose a sense of sleepiness, only to feel that the eyelids continued to fall as if they were filled with lead, and the upper and lower eyelids continued to fight.

"Bang."

As the first strong man fell to the ground, the other three strong men also fell one after another. Richard's face was overjoyed when he saw this, "The incense has taken effect, Xuanxuan, hold your breath." ”

As he spoke, Richard slapped his palm lightly towards the fire, and the slight wind of his palm was like a gust of wind blowing through the fire, causing the flames on the fire to sway. The power of the incense mixed in the air quickly spread to all directions, and the strong men guarding the carriage soon fell down one after another, just like the first four.

When the last person fell to the ground, Richard and Li Guanxuan immediately walked out of the jungle towards the convoy, and when they came to a carriage, Richard directly lifted the curtain, only to see a mouthful of wooden boxes in the carriage.

Richard opened a wooden box, and in the wooden box there was a bamboo tube with a turquoise color, and he picked one up and looked at it, and a hole was drilled at one end of the bamboo tube, and a wooden plug was stuffed on it, and the wooden tube was pulled out, and the bamboo tube was full of white salt.

He then opened the other bamboo tubes, and saw that they were all the same. Richard couldn't help frowning, "Could it be that this is really just salt transportation?" No, if you want to transport salt, why do you need to take this loess road. ”

One bamboo tube after another was inspected, and when Richard checked a bamboo tube under the wooden box, he finally found that something was wrong—this bamboo tube was no longer filled with white salt, but black gunpowder!

Li Xuanxuan, who was inspecting another carriage, suddenly exclaimed at this time: "Brother, come and see!" ”

Richard put all the bamboo tubes back in place and got out of the carriage and walked towards Li Xuanxuan's carriage, and the scene in front of him made him frown deeply, only to see that in a wooden box opened by Li Xuanxuan, there was a dark cannon barrel!

Richard frowned deeply, "It's a good Ming plank road to secretly Chen Cang, on the surface, it seems to be transporting the sea salt of the Song family, but secretly it is actually buying gunpowder and cannons from the Song family. What do you want to do? ”

The status of Duzun Fort in Bashu is lofty, almost the same as the status of the Song Valve in Lingnan. Duzun Fort must not have purchased such a large number of cannons and gunpowder for self-defense, nor could it be to stabilize its position in Bashu.

If the weapon is not used for self-defense, then there is only one use left - attack!

The land of Bashu was the Great Sui in front of the Great Sui and there were barbarians in the back, and Duzun Fort could only be one of the two if it wanted to attack. It is unlikely that the barbarians will be able to establish such a stable rule in Bashu, and the cooperation of these barbarians is inseparable, and even the two sides are very likely to cooperate secretly, after all, in the original book, the barbarians used to take Xie Hui as the horse's head.

In this way, there is only one last possibility left for the purpose of Duzun Fort - Great Sui!

"Knowing that the Great Sui is in turmoil now, maybe it will cease to exist tomorrow, so Duzun Fort is starting to sit still and want to get a piece of the pie?" Richard frowned and muttered in a low voice, feeling extremely tricky in his heart, first there was no god, and now it is the Duzun Castle, staring at Chang'an City with more and more eyes, but the evil emperor relics have not been born for a long time. If he really waited until the world was in chaos and the evil emperor relics were born again, even if he said that he only had no intention of the evil emperor relics in the world, how many people would believe it?

No one will believe it. On the contrary, there will only be more and more people competing for the Evil Emperor Relic, and this Evil Emperor Relic means that there will be one more supreme master on his side.

"It seems that it's time to go on a trip to the Yin Sect and Cihang Jianzhai." Richard sighed lightly, no matter who the two sects are looking for tomorrow's co-masters, they must be allowed to stand up and attract attention.

The affairs of the rivers and lakes and the affairs of the world must be separated, otherwise if this continues, the situation will only become more and more chaotic, and eventually evolve into a big chaos that no one knows how the outcome will be.

(End of chapter)