Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 601

Looking into Yun Shang's cunning eyes, Liu Ming remained silent for a long time and believed her.

Liu Ming opened the door for Yun Shang and hurried out. After Yun Shang entered the room, she found the room better than she expected. Simple as it was, it was much better than an inn. It had everything she needed, even a make-up box and a bronze mirror. Qian Liu and Qian Zhui were packing and making the bed for her. Yun Shang took out a piece of paper from the desk, and stared at it.

Qian Zhuo saw her action, turned to look at the table, and found that there was not good ink in the ink stone. She immediately put down the thing in her hand, poured a cup of tea, and added some water in the ink stone. Then she took the ink stone and gently rubbed it.

However, Yun Shang didn't move for a long time. After a long while, she looked up and asked Qian Zhuo, "how many rices does our ordinary people eat every month?"

Qian Zhuo was stunned by the question. Qian Liu giggled, "Your Highness, I know our servants have a petite appetite of about 30 kilograms per month. The servants who have good appetite could eat about 40 kilograms each month. Why do you ask this, your highness?"

Yun Shang smiled and said, "since I got up this morning, I walked around the city for three times. There are nine stores that sell rice in total. All of them are selling 3600000 kilograms of rice in total every month. The monthly food is about 35 kilograms of rice per person, which is equivalent to the monthly food of one hundred thousand people. There are forty thousand people in the Qian citywide total..."

Qian Liu and Qian Zhuo immediately knew what Yun Shang meant. "You mean there are 60000 soldiers in the eldest princess' army in total, your highness?"

Yun Shang put her hand in her sleeve. In a daze, she remembered that she had given the map to Liu Ming. Even though there was no map, she could still clearly draw the military location of the nearby hiding place of the eldest princess' army in her mind.

"The troop of the eldest princess is divided into eight groups. Two of them are near the Qian city gate, including the one in the center of the Mount Kirin. The rest of them are all small towns. If nothing goes wrong, the forces of these two sections are from the Qian City. One is to say, the total number of these two sections should be about 60000." Yun Shang said softly. After a pause, she continued, "I think the troops at each point should be an integral number. Generally speaking, the distribution of troops at these two places should be divided into two kinds."

Yun Shang didn't hold a pen. She only drew circles on the paper with her fingers. "For the first one, the leading point of the Mount Kirin is the core area. The troop deployment is two times as large as that of the other area. 40 thousand people from the Mount Kirin, and 30 thousand from the other place." Yun Shang thought for a while and continued, "this is the most likely way. The second way is the average quantity of people, and each point is thirty thousand people."