Fen Zhou, Xihe County.
"Mr. Mo, how was everyone's sleep last night? Has everyone rested enough? "
In the first-floor hall of the best inn in the county, Penglai Inn, Li Tai was having breakfast with Iron Egg and the others as he asked Mo Chui.
This time, the Academy had sent out a total of 32 members of the trump card project. Most of them were students, and some of them were teachers from the Academy's Physics Department. No matter what, the teachers from the Academy were older than the students and had more experience living outside. Therefore, the students' meals and lodging were all arranged by Mo Huai and the other teachers!
"Haha! This inn is not bad. It's quite quiet at night. Just now, I saw that everyone was quite energetic. I think you must have had a good rest last night! After breakfast, we'll set off. This place is more than a hundred miles away from Taiyuan Prefecture. We definitely won't be able to make it today. We won't stop to rest at noon. We'll try to settle down in Qi County before it gets dark. We'll set off from Qi County tomorrow morning. We'll probably reach Taiyuan by tomorrow evening! "
Mo Chui smiled and replied with a relaxed expression.
This time, the Academy had given them sufficient "activity funds" to lead the teachers and students to the north. Before they left, Yan Silu had specially instructed him that the teachers and students of the Academy must eat, drink, and live well along the way. They must not be stingy about money. This was Yan Silu's idea, and also Li Zexuan's idea!
This was because this group of 32 people were the elite members of the Academy's trump card project. They were the Academy's "treasures". This time, the journey to the north was long and tiring. The students were already working hard. Naturally, the Academy would not let them suffer in terms of food and lodging!
Therefore, on their journey from Lantian County to Xihe County, Mo Chui and the rest of the Academy stayed in the best inns and ate the best delicacies, all in order to reduce the fatigue of the students on the journey!
"Mm! Then bring some dry food and try to reach Qi County by tonight! "
Li Tai nodded and decided.
Although he was a student and Mo Chui was a teacher, Mo Chui was the overall commander of this operation. The final decision maker should naturally be him.
Moreover, Mo Chui recognized Li Tai's talent in engineering, so he was not unhappy with Li Tai overseeing the overall situation and commanding the troops. On the contrary, he was happy to help Li Tai by his side. Although Li Tai was born in the royal family and had a certain level of command ability, he was still young and did not have as much life experience as Mo Chui. Often, Mo Chui needed to step in at times like this!
After the two came to an agreement, Dugu Xin walked in from outside and whispered into Li Tai's ear, "Your Highness, this general has already ordered the scouts to open up a path. The rest of the army can move out at any time and wait for Your Highness to leave the city!"
Even though Mo Chui had booked the entire inn last night, and there were no other guests in the main hall, Dugu Xin, who was used to being in the army, had a strong sense of vigilance. He still chose to speak in such a manner to avoid revealing the whereabouts of Li Tai and the rest!
This time, accompanying the teachers and students of the Academy to the north was a thousand imperial guards led by Dugu Xin and Dugu Feiying. Because this mission was confidential, they did not alert the local government. When they came to a county, only the people of the Academy entered the city to stay in the inn, while the imperial guards were secretly stationed outside the city. Under normal circumstances, Dugu Xin would bring a few personal guards to protect Li Tai, while Dugu Feiying would lead the army outside the city!
It was not that Li Tai and Mo Chui were discriminating, but that the physical fitness of the students and teachers of the Academy was definitely not as good as Dugu Xin and the others, who had been in the army for many years. This journey was already very tiring. If they were to sleep in tents outside the city like the imperial guards, most of the people in the Academy would have collapsed before they reached Taiyuan!
"Mm! Are the resources of the Academy safe? "
Li Tai nodded and asked softly.
The main purpose of their journey to the north this time was to build a telegraph relay station. When they left Lantian County, three of the carriages in the Academy's team were loaded with the machinery, parts, and other materials needed to build the telegraph relay station. Such important things naturally couldn't be brought into the city or into the inn. If they encountered thieves, then their journey would be in vain. Therefore, the Imperial Army under Dugu Xin had been guarding the Academy's materials all along the way.
"Don't worry, Your Highness. The resources are safe!"
Dugu Xin replied briefly.
To be able to take away three carriages of the Academy's resources under the protection of a thousand imperial guards, unless the enemy could send five thousand soldiers to kill all of the imperial guards, it was impossible to take away the resources of the Academy.
"That's good!"
Li Tai nodded. At this time, he was almost done eating. He stood up and said to Iron Egg, Meng Wenhao, Mo Chui, and the others, "Everyone, hurry up and eat. After eating, go back to your rooms and pack up. We will leave the city in seven minutes!"
"Yes!"
Everyone answered in a low voice.
Not far away, the innkeeper and the manservant did not dare to make a sound when they saw this scene. They did not even dare to look in their direction because Dugu Xin and the people around him all had swords in their hands. It was obvious that they were not people to be trifled with!
Those who did business knew that it was better to avoid trouble. The innkeeper had instructed his servants to serve Li Tai and the others carefully last night. He did not ask anything that should not be asked. He only thought that Li Tai and the others were some powerful people passing by from another county. If possible, he would not provoke them!
Seven minutes later, the 32 people of the Academy, including Dugu Xin and the others, all left the inn and walked out of the city gate. As for the cost of the accommodation, Mo Chui had already settled it with the innkeeper.
"Innkeeper, who do you think these people are? Their carriages were all made by the Wonderful Taste Pavilion! "
After Li Tai and the others left, the servant of the inn could not help but ask.
"Perhaps they are the young masters of some family on a trip!"
Although the shopkeeper was also curious, he indifferently replied to the manservant's words.
"Heh! Then that slightly plump youth must be that rich family's young master, and that person who just walked in must be their family's guard. But I saw those youths sitting beside that young master, they don't seem to be his family's servants! "
The servant pinched his chin and made a serious guess.
Smack!
However, as soon as he finished speaking, the shopkeeper's palm landed on the back of his head. The shopkeeper angrily roared, "Brat, do you have nothing better to do? Why do you care who they are and where they come from? Get someone to clean the table and tidy up the guest room! "
The servant jumped to the side in pain and rubbed the back of his head. "Oh! I'll go right away! "
"Heh! Curiosity killed the cat. This kid will suffer sooner or later! "
The innkeeper muttered to himself as he watched the servant's back.
However, his attention was quickly attracted by the stack of tang yuan on the counter in front of him. This was the money that Mo Chui paid him for the room just now. Penglai Inn was the largest inn in Xihe County. There were nearly 50 guest rooms. Li Tai and the others had booked the inn this time. The money for a night's stay was not small!
"Who cares what they are doing? We just need to pay for the room! "
The innkeeper said with a smile as he picked up the stack of tang yuan.
"Yo! Sir, are you eating or staying at the inn so early in the morning? "
At this moment, a dark-skinned, burly man wearing coarse short clothes came in from outside the door. The waiter hurriedly went up to greet him, but the burly man simply ignored him and walked straight to the shopkeeper at the counter.
"Innkeeper, did dozens of young men stay at your inn last night?"
The burly man knocked on the counter and asked the innkeeper with an authentic Guanzhong accent.
"Yo, sir, this is a place to stay, not a place to ask for information!"
The innkeeper narrowed his eyes. He heard the other party's accent and knew that the other party was very likely from the capital area. However, the other party's attire did not look like a rich person at all, so he could not be bothered with him!
Smack ~!
Unexpectedly, the burly man took out a string of copper coins from his waist and slapped it in front of the innkeeper. Then he said, "This is a string of coins. If you answer a few questions truthfully, I will reward you handsomely!" String of coins was a string of coins.
In the eyes of ordinary people, a string of coins was already a huge sum of money for Tang Chu, where prices were extremely low. The innkeeper was naturally rich and did not lack this string of coins. However, to be able to get a string of coins by answering a few questions was still a very good deal for him. However, he was a little curious. Did the other party not find it heavy with so many copper coins hanging on his body?
Here, it had to be said that ever since the establishment of the Yanhuang Bank and the imperial court personally came out to promote the tang yuan, more and more people in the Tang Dynasty slowly began to use and gradually accept the tang yuan. After getting used to the convenience brought by the tang yuan, almost no one was willing to use copper coins again, especially in the Guanzhong area. It was very difficult to see copper coins in large transactions in many counties!
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