Robbing The Convoy of Birthday Gifts
Wu Yong plots with Chao Gai, Gongsun Sheng, Liu Tang and the Ruan brothers to rob the convoy of birthday gifts of the Imperial Tutor Cai Jing. The seven men disguise themselves as date traders and succeed in tricking the soldiers escorting the convoy into drinking drugged wine. Once the escorts are knocked out, the seven men make off with the gifts that are worth a large sum of money. Grand Secretary Liang Shijie, who prepared the gifts for his father-in-law Cai Jing, is furious and he orders the local government to investigate the incident and arrest the robbers.
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