Chapter 129: Tang Clan's Paper Flower (8)
Qing judged it as the Tang Clan's second victory, but that wasn't actually the case. In fact, it was their third victory.
This was because the Imperial Censor had presented a dilemma of death by blockading the Tang Clan - either starve to death or die for treason.
What came back was food waste thrown out ostentatiously outside the gates and walls.
Strangely enough, it always fell exactly where the soldiers or guards were standing, and the Tang Clan's official stance on this was:
‘Eh? Why are you standing there?’
The Imperial Censor, with his eyes rolled back in anger, went around turning Chengdu upside down trying to find the Tang Clan's supply line.
But how could that be easy?
Even from the perspective of the Central Plains people, Chengdu had been a prosperous ancient capital for over two thousand years, a land where dynasties had nested.
In other words, there were already plenty of passages dug by ancestors, to which the Tang Clan had added and improved underground passages over hundreds of years.