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Chapter 829 - Chapter 829 Bogus Accusations

Chapter 829: Bogus Accusations Chapter 829: Bogus Accusations Editor: Atlas Studios The general of West Xia was furious when he received news that seven or eight guardhouses at the border of West Xia had been messed with at once.

He grabbed his sword and was about to fight Qi Haoran to the death when he was stopped by his subordinates.

“General, none of our men died!” “Even though none of our men died, our things were snatched away.

He even injured so many of our soldiers.

Qi Haoran is too much!” The deputy general’s lips twitched.

“General, the Han people are imitating us.

Don’t they have this saying ‘to give someone a taste of their own medicine’?

I think that’s what Qi Haoran is trying to do.” The general slammed the table angrily and pointed at his nose.

“Are you on our side or theirs?” “General, I’m just telling the truth.

I have no intention of speaking up for them.” “General, it’s already dark.

Even if we go, we can’t fight them in the dark.

Why don’t we wait and look for them tomorrow?” In any case, they knew very well that neither side wanted to cause a large-scale war.

Thus it would just be fighting on a small scale.

However, they were here to attract Qi Haoran’s attention to the border so that Qin Er could retreat with his men.

Why did Qi Haoran go through so much trouble?

Just to vent his anger?

Of course, Qi Haoran’s purpose for going through so much trouble was to cover up for Liu Dahei and his men.

Although there were very few people at the border of West Xia and it looked as if no one lived there, he still had to be careful of the West Xia soldiers patrolling back and forth.

Qi Haoran was afraid that they would be too free and find traces of Liu Dahei and his men after realizing that there was no news from the two guardhouses.

They had chosen to act at 5 p.m.

because this was the estimated time that Liu Dahei would return to the vicinity.

Only after they lured them away could Liu Dahei come out safely with more than 2,000 people and all that gold.

At this moment, Qi Haoran looked at the gold in the box with shining eyes and asked, “Have you weighed it?

How much is there?” There was a weighing scale in the mine.

Liu Dahei was afraid someone would steal, so he’d naturally weighed it and even recorded it in the book.

At this moment, he took out a booklet sneakily and said, “It’s a total of 23,587 taels of gold.

Your Highness, we’re rich!” Qi Haoran knocked his head and glanced at him.

“Nobody kept any of it for themselves?” Liu Dahei chuckled and said, “How would we dare?

We knew that you’re going to send this gold to the national treasury, so we didn’t even dare to touch it.” Qi Haoran snorted and said, “I won’t hand over the scraps, but you have to make sure to split them evenly.

I don’t want my brothers to fight over a few pieces of gold.” Cold sweat broke out on Liu Dahei’s back as he hurriedly agreed.

Qi Haoran only said that he wanted to transport the gold in the mine.

However, at that time, other than the gold in the mine, the furnace was still operating.

Thus, there was still some gold that had not been sent to the mine in time.

Fei Bai said that once he left, his personal guards would lead the remaining mine workers to refine gold for a day.

Liu Dahei brought his men to distribute this batch of gold.

There wasn’t much gold to be distributed to so many of them.

Other than Liu Dahei and the few lieutenants in the lead, the soldiers were only given two to three taels each.

Qi Haoran warned him not to forget the 300 bodyguards he had brought back previously.

Inequality was a bigger potential source of conflict than scarcity.

He did not want a small piece of gold to cause conflict among his soldiers.

Liu Dahei loved money, but he loved power even more.

He had always known what was more important.

After returning, he took out more than half of his share of gold and also took some from a few lieutenants to distribute to the 300 bodyguards.

Now that everyone had received gold, they were happy.

Qi Haoran waited for their excitement to subside before calling them over.

He said, “Alright, since the gold has been transported back, let’s discuss what to do next.

We still have a section at the mine.

We’ve got to decide whether to continue grabbing more gold or to retreat.

Also, since the two garrisons of the enemy have been wiped out by us, we probably won’t be able to hide this for long.

We can’t let West Xia know that we robbed them of their gold, so we have to find a reason to fool them.

I want you guys to brainstorm some ideas.” Everyone looked at each other and said, “Considering Great Qi and West Xia are enemies, isn’t it natural to kill in war?

Why do we need a reason?” Qi Haoran glared at him.

“You want a war to break out at the borders again?

No matter what, we’ve got to have reason on our side.

Hurry up and think about it.

We’ll take the initiative to settle scores with them tomorrow morning.” The generals: “aEUR|” Geez, they suddenly felt that the West Xia general was a little pitiful.

Qi Haoran couldn’t make up his mind whether to take over the gold mine or retreat, but he did think up an excuse for the killing of those two garrisons.

He lay on the bed and said to Liu Dahei, “At dawn, bring your men to settle the score with the great general of West Xia.

Tell them that his soldiers rushed into the border of Great Qi and encountered my personal soldiers.

During the clash, his men injured me.

Tell them to give us an explanation.” The corners of Liu Dahei’s mouth twitched.

“General, this will damage your reputation.” “Are you stupid?

You could just say that I was taking a stroll with four to five of my personal guards at that time.

Isn’t it reasonable for four to five hundred soldiers to severely injure me when we were so outnumbered?

Just say that you wiped out two of their garrisons to avenge me, then ask him for some compensation.

Because my injuries are very serious, I’d need a lot of expensive medicinal herbsaEUR|” Liu Dahei felt that Qi Haoran was too shameless.

He was even more like a bandit than him, an actual bandit previously.

“General, I know what to do.

I’ll bring my men over now.” Lying on the bed, Qi Haoran instructed lazily, “Act furious and put up a convincing act.

Don’t let anyone see through you.” Liu Dahei kept running out.

Qi Haoran only got up when Liu Dahei went far away.

He waved his hand and called Fei Bai and his deputy general over.

“You guys personally escort this batch of gold back to Ju Prefecture.

If I haven’t returned to Ju Prefecture by then, hand the items over to the Duke of Peaceful State to deal with.” Fei Bai and the deputy general agreed.

After everyone left, Qi Haoran lay back on the bed and fell asleep.

On the other side, the great general of West Xia had just finished breakfast and was fiddling with the report sent by the guardhouse.

He asked curiously, “Why haven’t we heard anything from the two garrisons?

They didn’t send a report yesterday and today.” As soon as he finished speaking, an attendant rushed in and reported, “Great General, a general from Great Qi is shouting from the other side, asking to see you.” The general frowned.

“How do they know that we’re in this guardhouse?” Their command center was mobile, and he had just arrived at this guardhouse the day before yesterday and was about to leave today.

Thus, he was surprised that Great Qi could actually accurately determine his location.

It had to be known that they had yet to find Great Qi’s command center.

The others in the tent shivered.

Was there a spy amongst them, or did the Han people have some secret method to locate them?

The general pushed aside the table and strode out.

After mounting his horse, he brought his personal army to investigate.

Riding on his horse with a dark expression, Liu Dahei stared at them with his big eyes, his horse stopped in front of the border.

With a frown, the general asked, “Who are you?”