Tasa has been staying in an inner-city hotel these days, anxiously awaiting a reply from the border town. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The towering inner walls divided the royal capital into two different worlds, and entry and exit were strictly controlled, and both nobles and wealthy merchants were required to be thoroughly inspected in the small room at the entrance, and no signs of illness, such as fever, flushing, and dark spots, were allowed in. After leaving the inner city, you must return in the evening of the same day, otherwise you will have to spend the night outside as soon as the sun sets and the city gates are locked.

But this still can't stop the spread of the evil plague, yesterday he had heard rumors that there were nobles in the inner city who were infected, if it wasn't for the church finally releasing the first batch of holy medicines, I am afraid that the nobles would have to evacuate the royal capital en masse.

Just six days after the letter was sent, news finally came from the Margaery Chamber of Commerce. He hurried to the agreed place, a tailor's shop, and was led into the basement by the clerk, where the owner of the Chamber of Commerce had been waiting for a long time.

I saw Margaery sitting at a low table, and there was a basin of iced mango water on the table, which was constantly emitting bursts of cold air. Tasa, who was covered in sweat, walked up to her and sat down cross-legged across from her, and suddenly felt a cool breeze rushing towards her face, and she couldn't help but feel refreshed.

"Your Highness has entrusted me with the letter to you," she said, handing over a folded parchment envelope, the seal of which looked intact in flame-paint.

Tasa eagerly opened it and took out the letterhead, which gave a brief account of the plan of action, the news of the departure of the First Army, and the tasks he needed to complete. After reading it carefully, he quietly put the letter in his arms and looked at Margaery, "Does Your Highness have any requests for you?"

"No, he just sent the letter to the messenger - of course, there is a charge for express messaging, and I have already recorded it. ”

"Ahem, that's right," Tassa cleared his throat, "Your Highness needs to get all the fugitives back to the West in a very short time, so he wants you to provide a large number of ships for uninterrupted transportation, rather than one or two fleets." ”

"Even if they're infected?" Margaery guessed with interest, "I don't think he wants to kill the whole West, so...... Your Highness has found a cure for the plague?"

"That's true," he nodded, "and in fact there were patients in the first fleet, but they didn't break out until they arrived in town. Now they are on their way back to the royal capital, and all the crew members are safe and sound. ”

"His Highness Roland is such an incredible man that even the church has not come up with an antidote so quickly," Margaery exclaimed, "so how many days does he plan to spend transporting refugees?

Tasa held out three fingers.

"This ...... Impossible!" The businesswoman was stunned for a moment, then shook her head again and again, "Even if half of these people die, there are still more than five thousand, and the delivery in three days means that I need to prepare nearly a hundred sailing ships, and even if the other ships of the Chamber of Commerce stop and divert them for transportation, it will only be enough to meet this number - but in this case, I may suffer losses in the thousands of gold dragons, and the number of customers lost as a result cannot be counted, and even if the steam engine is free, this part of the amount cannot be offset by the free steam engine." So...... I beg your pardon for refusing. ”

"If everyone were sitting on deck, instead of lying in a cabin with bed boards, a ship could carry twice as many people," Tassa insisted, "and if it weren't comfortable, the ore-carrying two-masted galleon could carry about two hundred people at a time, just by lifting the hatch covers." There should be quite a few such ships for your old friend Hogg, right?"

"In Silverlight City, he does have several of these large ships...... "Margaery looked hesitant, "and according to your calculations, you can probably reduce the number of ships to about fifty." But...... It's not a good deal. ”

Tasa also thinks so, to get dozens of ships to converge on the canal, it takes a lot of effort to dispatch and coordinate alone, and the cost of chartering a ship is not all in his own pocket, and it is laborious and laborious, and there is not much work to be gained, so it is not a good deal. At this point, he could only resort to one last resort.

At the end of the letter, His Highness wrote a small line: If Margaery is unwilling to help, tell her that lightning is coming.

This sentence makes people a little confused, is there any special relationship between the businesswoman and the lively and cute blonde girl......? But His Highness must have his own reasons for saying this. Thinking of this, Tasa slowly spoke, "It is also a last resort to rush to transport it away in three days, what Your Highness has done is equivalent to taking food from the mouth of a tiger, if it drags on for too long, the church is likely to come to the door - and Lightning is also in the team this time, it is dangerous for them to find out that there is a witch." ”

"What did you say?" her voice rose sharply, "lightning is coming, too?"

"That's exactly what Your Highness said in his letter," Tasa pretended to be an honest man, "probably to guide the team and provide early warning." After all, this is the territory of the new king, Tifeco. ”

"I see," Margaery said, standing up, "when do you need a ship?"

"It should have been four days later, if they weren't delayed on the road. ”

"I'll do my best," she said as she walked over to her desk and began to pick up her pen, "but I have one condition, you must tell me where Your Highness's party is stationed, and if they want to enter the city, I can arrange for plenty of rooms." ”

Well, it seems that this trick does work, "I think that's fine," Tasa whispered, "and I have something else that I need your help with." ”

"Come on," Margaery sighed.

"I need a fleet of wagons hauling barrels, the more barrels the better, but not filled with ale or wine, but with river or well water. According to Her Highness's letter, the key to the solution to the plague was the witch Lily, who was able to turn ordinary water into a cure for disease. However, there was a serious flaw in the plan, and that was that the rats were not to be allowed to approach the First Army camp - if they knew that there were people in the camp who were constantly making "holy medicines", Tasa bet that the news would be all over the city the next day.

"River water and well water?" she raised her eyebrows, "are you sure?"

"Don't worry, Your Highness will pay for it. Tassa laughed.

For the sake of secrecy and security, the journey from the place where the team was stationed to the royal capital could only be transported by him personally. If you carry water bags to eliminate the evil plague like you did with fugitives from the eastern border, not to mention the trouble, the efficiency is also very low. He had to find a way to bring in as much purified water as possible at once.

Huge kegs mounted on horse-drawn carriages were obviously a good choice. (To be continued.) )