He Mulan has never thought that a person's political talent comes from heredity, but the truth tells her that none of those who can calmly play politics are from ordinary families.

Yuan Fang didn't mention it, he was born in the Yuan family of Chen County, and his ancestors didn't know how many politicians, Cui Hao and Gu Bi didn't need to be mentioned, and this Huya general Yuan Poqiang, who seemed to have more muscles than his brain, was actually using his identity as a military general to cover up the skills of a clever politician.

The same is true for Kumoti, no matter how high his status in the army and how superb his martial arts are, most of the time, he can always figure out what he wants to achieve behind a thing.

This is a unique talent that belongs to the political family, but unfortunately, He Mulan does not have it, and Hua Mulan does not have it, so they can only serve the Wei State as a qualified military general.

Yuan Poqiang's mention is very good, he has even found enough money to impress the situation of Bei Liang, as long as He Mulan nods, no need to worry about Tuoba Tao, they can take Nuo Da Bei Liang as a tribute and pay tribute to their Great Khan.

The question is, is this kind of surrender that Tuoba Tao wants?

Can things go so smoothly as he says they do?

Can the human heart really be calculated?

He Mulan took a deep breath and said to Yuan Poqiang: "Your plan is very good, but after all, we are from Wei State, and we are not familiar with Beiliang, let alone understand the complicated relationship between them. ”

"What's more, this is a bit like seeking skin with a tiger, Queen Meng and the ministers of Beiliang are not so easy to talk to, and if they are not careful, they will make wedding dresses for others."

Yuan Poqiang didn't expect He Mulan to be so rational, even if he said it so incendiary, he didn't get excited, his heart couldn't help but sink, and he asked a little unhappily: "Then what do you think?" Wait here until there is news from Heijo? Then we have completely lost the initiative! ”

"Li Envoy Jun is dead, I am now the chief envoy of the mission, I don't think cooperating with Queen Meng is the best way, what I should do now is to collect as much information as possible and contact the officials of Shangqin Khan City and the Bailu officials. The news of the death of the frustrated Qu Mengxun will soon spread far and wide......"

He Mulan calmly replied to Yuan Poqiang.

"What we need to do now is wait and see what happens."

"You're the elm head! You simply want to avenge the revenge of the Tiger Army, so you don't want to cooperate with Queen Meng! Yuan Poqiang saw that the once-in-a-century opportunity was decisively rejected by He Mulan, and he couldn't help but redden, and shouted without grace:

"This is the best way to deal with the Wei State! You should think about it for the good of our country! ”

"I don't think it's going to be of much use to attract people with money, and judging from the current situation, Queen Meng doesn't care about her own death, what method can you use to control her to listen to you obediently? What if she got the centaur and took Bodhi into Guzang, but in the end she chose to kick us away? ”

He Mullan was very practical.

"I don't agree."

"You'll agree!" Yuan Poqiang didn't convince He Mulan, gritted his teeth and took out a bag of things from his arms, "What if you add this?" ”

He Mulan looked inexplicably at Yuan Poqiang, who opened the small bag, and asked puzzledly, "What is this?" ”

A mess of wood chips and debris? It's not like sawdust, it's like some kind of splinter.

"It's a pack of hedgehog thorns, and the thorn head is stained with leopard blood." Yuan Poqiang looked at He Mulan in a threatening tone, trying to find clues from him.

"This is what Li Shun's family found me and gave me, it should have been collected from Li Shun's clothes, and on the day he was attacked by a leopard, someone sprinkled these near the room where Li Shun lived, so the female leopard attacked Li Shun, bitten him, and even gave him his life."

"What? Li Shun was designed to die? ”

Mullan's eyes widened.

"Who would do that?"

Yuan Poqiang felt that he really underestimated this Huwei general, look at her innocent eyes, and then listen to her innocent tone that day, if it weren't for Li Shun's family's words, Chen Jie and Zheng Zong caught a lot of hedgehogs that day, maybe even Yuan Poqiang would feel that he was suspicious of being wrong.

Maybe Li Shun himself is also a little unclean, so Gai Wu was chased to Mulan by the leopard, but Mulan's methods are not clean, and Li Shun's death is really too unjust.

"That day, there were many people who saw Chen Jie and Zheng Zong catch hedgehogs, and there were also rumors in the Tiger Ben Army, saying that it was the general that you like young hedgehogs the most......" Yuan Poqiang seemed to smile, "The heroic General Hua actually likes this kind of thing?" Who believes it? Unless you need a hedgehog to do something then......"

He Mulan almost got stuck in his throat in one breath, and he couldn't relax for a long time.

What the hell is her favorite little hedgehog!

She just showed a look of nostalgia for the little hedgehog and the little mouse, and then was misunderstood by Chen Jie and Zheng Zong, so she made a move to catch the little hedgehog to please her!

And those hedgehogs had long been ordered to be thrown away by her, and none of them were left, and they even became a method of planting blame.

Who the hell is so scary?

If you can get close to Li Shun, you must be a high-ranking and powerful envoy in the mission, and you know her and Li Shun's every move very well.

Is it the clans behind Wang Jin who are coming to take revenge?

Or do you just want to exclude dissidents and take yourself down?

He Mulan's face became ugly, and the more he thought about it, the more complicated it became, Yuan Poqiang originally thought that he had guessed wrong, and when he saw He Mulan's face was not good, he was confident that this matter had something to do with He Mulan.

He Mulan is a popular person around the Son of Heaven, if it weren't for the way, Yuan Poqiang didn't want to offend him, he had always offended anyone in Great Wei.

But now there is no way, he wants to make meritorious contributions too much, the Northern Expedition was originally the best time for him to make meritorious contributions, but because of the birth of Mulan, the light of these young generals has become dimmed, and this time to envoy Beiliang, I don't know why His Majesty would let her be the deputy envoy and leader, obviously it is more suitable to be familiar with the terrain......

The flame of Yuan Poqiang's desire for fame in his heart was burning, and at this time, He Mulan seemed to have become an obstacle to him from seizing the territory for the Great Wei and his further progress, but he also knew in his heart that he had no actual command over the Tiger Ben Army, and he couldn't beat He Mulan, so he couldn't act rashly now, and he just wanted to blackmail her with Li Shun's affairs.

"If General Hua agrees to plan Beiliang, I will never share your credit, the first credit is still yours, this bag of hedgehog thorns, I will also pretend not to know and give it to you." Yuan Poqiang made his words appear more sincere, "Queen Meng, if you are worried, I can go and negotiate in person." She is a smart person who knows what is best for her and her son. ”

"I act above board, the hedgehog Yunyun you said is pure speculation, I do the right thing, even if you hold that thing to His Majesty, I don't know!" Seeing that Yuan Poqiang actually threatened her, He Mulan couldn't help but be even more irritable when he thought that he had calculated her every time before and then sent a bunch of things to appease her, which was exactly the same as the current situation.

"I don't want any credit either! I just want to bring these Tiger Ben Army back to Pingcheng safely! ”

"So, is everyone willing to go back to Pingcheng with you like this? You have lost your son, you have lost your princess, you have lost so many people, and the cause is only because of your gullibility! Do you think you won't be punished for returning to Heijo like this? Will the Tiger Army be able to get the glory and reward they deserve? As soon as you return to Pingcheng, you will face shame and endless abuse! ”

Yuan Poqiang sneered: "Not only you, but even the envoys who went on this mission are the same, they failed to send an envoy and let Fuqu Muqian ascend the throne, the reason is because something happened in the desert, don't think about going further in this life, even if General Hua doesn't think about the Tiger Army, you have to think about these envoys." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, General Yuan has come back from afar, so let's go and rest."

He Mulan was already impatient and verbose with Yuan, and began to call Chen Jie: "Chen Jie, send General Yuan to rest and wash!" ”

Chen Jie and the other guards were guarding far away outside the tent, and when they heard He Mulan shouting inside the tent, they immediately went in and asked Yuan Poqiang to go out.

Yuan Poqiang didn't expect He Mulan to dump him behind closed doors, and he didn't take the hedgehog thorn as a thing, obviously he had no fear in his heart, and couldn't help but put away the bag of things with a cold face, and dropped a sentence with some annoyance: "Even if His Majesty thinks that the evidence is insufficient, the Li family will not let go of anyone who may be the murderer, I hope General Hua can always be so 'open'!" ”

With that, he brushed his sleeves away with anger on his face.

Chen Jie sent Yuan Poqiang all the way to the camp on the right side of the Tiger Ben Army, and then turned back to He Mulan's tent, and heard that He Mulan was instructing Na Luo Hun not to let Yuan Poqiang get close to Queen Meng's tent, and his heart was even more strange.

"General, what did General Yuan say about his majesty's suspicion, what is the Li family?" Chen Jie saw that Yuan Fang was also there, and he was even more strange, "Master Yuan, haven't slept at night so much?" ”

Yuan Fang accompanied the envoys to receive the envoys of Beiliang for one night, at this time should have gone to bed, since the mission died a large number of people, Yuan Fang did a bunch of people's things as a master book, from Cao officials to the clerks were not spared, and had become another backbone in the Tiger Ben army.

"I called him, and I have something to discuss with him." He Mulan replied to Chen Jie casually, "Speaking of which, it's still something you provoked, what I like little hedgehogs, everyone knows it, just now General Yuan also took a pack of hedgehog thorns and threatened me, faintly accusing me of murdering Li Shun!" It's ridiculous! ”

She rubbed her forehead, seemingly irritated by the sudden hostility that came from Gen Poqiang.

"What hedgehog thorn?"

Yuan, who knew what Zheng Zong had done, was shocked and pretended to ask He Mulan casually.

"I'll talk about that later, let's talk about the important ...... first," He Mulan skimmed over this section and began to talk about the fact that Origin Poqiang hoped to be able to recruit people with wealth and silk, and escort Queen Meng and Fuqu Bodhi back to Guzang to seize the throne.

Once Fuqu Bodhi got the throne, Fuqu Muqian became the one who killed his father and seized the throne, and from then on, he could no longer turn over the wind and waves, and the Liangguo could also become Liangzhou, just like the current Xia Kingdom.

Mo said that he was a little weak about Li Shun's affairs in his heart, and Yuan Fang, who didn't want Yuan Poqiang and He Mulan to tear their faces, even Na Luohun and Chen Jie, who were listening on the sidelines, had their faces full of brilliance and applauded loudly.

"That's smart! It doesn't take a single soldier to take Beiliang! ”

"I really want to see the way Frustrated Muqian's eyes bulge out! General, why don't we say yes! ”

Seeing that Na Luohun and Chen Jie both had such attitudes, He Mulan felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Yuan Poqiang's words are really heartwarming, but there is no man who wants to make a contribution in his heart, and no one does not want to get such a feat.

The upper army is scheming, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is the siege.

The most important thing for Yuan Poqiang to succeed is to rely on armed forces, and it is also because of this that Yuan Poqiang wants to discuss with Hemulan.

With the ability of everyone in the Tiger Ben Army to easily become a centurion, most of the remaining elites can quickly lead a team of 100 people composed of recruits, pretending to be Queen Meng's "crusade team" to conquer Guzang.

If the recruited manpower is enough, it can even shake Beiliang's army and fight Guzang brightly.

Yuan Fang tried his best to persuade He Mulan: "I know that you hate Queen Meng to the core, which of us doesn't hate?" Just for the sake of frustration with the Bodhi Prince, we lost thousands of our people, and even the possibility of friendship between Wei and Liang came to naught, but because of this, we can't let them get their wish......"

"It is best for the Liang country to have turmoil at this time, and only if the Liang country continues to be in turmoil, it will be beneficial to us. I believe that even if His Majesty and Cui Taichang are here, they will choose to put aside their prejudices for the time being. ”

"Do you think I don't agree because of my hatred for Queen Meng?"

He Mulan looked at Yuan Fang and Na Luohun and the others in disbelief.

"Am I such a big-picture person?"

It was the first time that someone close to her had such a big disagreement with her.

This made He Mullan a little sad.

Yuan Fang, Na Luo Hun and the others straightened their expressions uneasily, and shook their heads: "No, it is precisely because the general is too cautious that we are worried that the general will miss this good opportunity." When a country is in turmoil, the time is the best, and if we wait for the frustration to be ready, we will not even have this advantage. ”

Na Luo Hun thought about it, and also echoed and said: "I heard Yanzi say before that Lao Sangtou has always wanted to take out a huge treasure in Dunhuang. It is said that he once sent this treasure to a safe place in Dunhuang with the most trusted person of the Tiantai army and the Tiantai army, and after the Tiantai army was dispersed, the old mulberry wanted to take out this treasure to improve the lives of the clansmen, I think about it now, this is too much of a coincidence, maybe the wealth that General Yuan took out of Dunhuang is this money......"

Lu Shuihu is poor, even if the mercenary business of Gaitiantai was good back then, but the commission of a few thousand people is not much, but it can be regarded as rich.

If it is really Lu Shuihu's own treasure, how can the old mulberry who is a confidant get it? The only possibility is that the money was hired by someone else to escort and hide there, and it was not Lu Shuihu's money at all, so Lao Sangtou escaped with an injury, and even his fingers were cut off.

It is very likely that that money is actually a treasure of the Nanliang royal family.

"If it is a treasure of the whole country, maybe it can really attract a lot of people......" Yuan Fang looked at He Mulan with an expectant expression, "The people of the northwest are fierce, many people are willing to risk for gold, General Yuan's plan may really be ......"

"Calm down! Let's go back and rest first! ”

Seeing that one or two of them seemed to be stunned, He Mulan reprimanded them repeatedly.

"This matter, let's go back, the envoy of Beiliang is still in our camp!"

Yuan Fang, Na Luohun and the others couldn't help but shake their heads when they saw that He Mulan couldn't listen at all, and didn't dare to say anything, just showed a pity expression, and left the camp.

***

This dispute seems to have ended unhappily, but in fact it has developed into a very terrible situation.

As He Mulan thought, if this matter is planned, the benefits of Wei are really amazing, and what they spend is just a sum of money, not to mention that the money in the Wind City is originally from the Liang Kingdom, and the treasure that Yuan Poqiang said is also the relics of the Southern Liang, these losses can be made up after the Northern Liang is included in the country, and the wealth of the Northern Liang, the future taxes will also continue to supplement the deficiencies of the Wei State.

They have Queen Meng in their hands, staggering treasures, and local snakes and swallows who are familiar with the local situation, and it has become easy to even recruit troops.

The generals behind Queen Meng can form a righteous army at any time, let alone a recruiting team with the elite as the core.

The envoys of Wei did hope to make up for their mistakes in this line of work, and Yuan Poqiang's words gave them the opportunity to show their abilities.

So before He Mulan was aware, the envoys of Wei had already privately united with Yuan Poqiang to act, and there was a dark tide between the two parties, and Yuan Poqiang was also a powerful politician, and he had his own five hundred private soldiers, so in the early morning, when He Mulan led the Tiger Ben army out of the oasis to welcome back the treasure transported from Windy City, there was a mutiny in the camp.

The envoys of Wei followed Yuan Poqiang, killed the envoys of Beiliang who were left behind to "stabilize the Wei people", and successfully broke through the big tent guarding Queen Meng and grabbed Queen Meng.

Liu Zhen is a white egret official, at the beginning of the Yuan Poqiang control zhì, even the news can not be transmitted, the Wei envoys in the camp of the Beiliang envoy to make a movement, in order to divert the tiger from the mountain to lead the town guard of the camp led Na Luo Hun and part of the tiger army, Yuan Poqiang led his own private soldiers, as well as hundreds of Lu Shuihu people, snatched Queen Meng out, escaped in the desert.

Yuan Poqiang joined the mission in the oasis this time, and he didn't bring the Xianbei old department he recruited, nor did he bring his huge wealth, obviously he still had some vigilance in his heart.

At this time, he took away the Lu Shuihu people, the envoys, and his own private soldiers, probably to take them to join those Xianbei tribes, so as to plan the "big event" that he wanted to discuss with He Mulan the day before yesterday.

When Mullan, who had returned to the oasis with a large dowry, saw the chaos of the entire camp and the panicked appearance of the Tiger Army, the whole person began to tremble with anger.

***

"What the hell is going on! Why aren't you all guarding the camp! "Hermulan knew that horse thieves were rampant in the desert, so every time the Tiger Army took out the dowry from Windy City, he would personally lead a group of men and horses to escort the treasure back to the Oasis from Windy City.

This process has been going back and forth many times, and there has never been a bad cuò. The camp in the oasis is not big, Na Luo Hun is not stupid, the distance between the two places is less than a day, even if there is really danger, just report it quickly, who knows that He Mulan returned to the camp with men and horses, but got such news!

"Why did your Lu Shuihu people actually go with Yuan Poqiang? Not to mention that you also want that treasure, and you have been temporarily hired by Yuan Poqiang! You've accepted my offer to escort us back to Heijo! ”

Thinking that Lu Shuihu, where his apprentice was located, was also involved in this matter, He Mulan was almost crazy.

If it weren't for Gai Wu following her all day today, she might really think that Gai Wu would also take refuge in Yuan Poqiang. After all, Gai Wu has always been obsessed with restoring the former majesty of the Tiantai Army.

"What happened?"

Gai Wu also asked the old Tiantai Army who hadn't left with an ugly face, "Why did Lu Naluo follow Yuan Poqiang?" Are you employed? ”

Although Gai Wu is not the leader of the Tiantai Army, he has always been respected by the Tiantai Army because of his identity as the son of Gai Tiantai.

Most of Lu Shuihu, who stayed and didn't leave, were injured, or were loyal to Gai Wu and unwilling to leave, and it was even very likely that he was instructed by Lu Naluo to deliberately stay and pass on the word.

"Young master, it's not that we are treacherous, but General Yuan is holding the Tiantai Banner and ordering us to assist him in escorting Queen Meng out of the oasis......" Lu Shuihu's face was full of helplessness, "Seeing the Tiantai Flag is like seeing the leader, you are not the leader of the Tiantai Army now, after Lu Naluo verifies the authenticity of the flag, he can only obey the command of the Tiantai Banner." ”

"Tiantai Banner? How is the third rooftop flag in the hands of Yuan Poqiang! ”

Gai Wu gasped, from the time of the envoy to the present, Yuan Poqiang has never been the slightest different from him and the Tiantai Army, nor has he had any personal contact, who can know that the Tiantai Banner that commanded the Tiantai Army is in his hand?

Yes, today's Tiantai army is no longer his father's time, the Tiantai soldiers during the Qin Tianwang and Yao Tianwang periods were immediately 10,000, roaring all over the place, and having a Tiantai flag is equivalent to getting an army of tens of thousands of people.

And the current Tiantai Army is scattered, and the largest ones have also been reduced to mercenaries, doing some bad deals.

Yuan Poqiang himself is not without people, why should he contact the already broken Tiantai Army?

Can ...... now

The number of Tiantai troops left behind was about two or three hundred, and a few of them heard Gai Wu's questioning and replied to him: "It is said that the lord of Nanliang once saved the Tiantai army in the hands of Yao Tianwang in the past, and the big leader sent a Tiantai flag in order to express his gratitude. Lao Sangtou said that the treasure of Dunhuang was also sealed by the lord of Nanliang entrusted by the big chief, and the lord of Nanliang paid one-fifth of the gold as a commission, and General Yuan was the son of the lord of Nanliang, and it was normal to take out the Tiantai flag at the same time as the gold. ”

Gai Wu then remembered that the two uncles seemed to have said that they had made a big deal before, pretending to be a sand thief to rob some treasure, and then hid it. It's a pity that there are many organs there, and the treasure can't be taken out without the key to close the mechanism, and there are generals who have guarded it for generations, otherwise the money will be taken out, and the Tiantai army will soon be able to restore its original size.

"Where's the old mulberry? Also taken away? ”

"No, Lu Naluo said that Lao Sangtou is Lu Shuihu's sinner, and he is no longer allowed to call himself the Tiantai Army, so he didn't take it away, and we took care of him."

Lu Shuihu hurriedly shook his head.

The dead Gai Tiantai is obviously a wise and brave person, the three Tiantai flags he left behind, none of them were given to ordinary people, one side was given to Helian Chang and Helian Ding, who were still princes at the time, one side was given to the lord of Nanliang, and the other side should be given to Buddhism, these three forces are of great help to the life of Lu Shuihu people, and they can lend a helping hand after Lu Shuihu is in trouble.

In this way, even if the Tiantai army is broken, with this incense that has helped them, under the care of Buddhism, in the apricot city of the Qin State, and if they really can't get mixed up and go to the northwest, they can get a place to breathe.

It's just that now this rooftop flag has appeared at an inopportune time!

"The envoy is dead, Queen Meng is gone, Feng Heng returned to Qin Khan City to spread the news of the death of Fuqu Mengxun, in addition to the dowry taken out of these Windy Cities, there are more than 2,000 Tiger Ben troops left." Yuan Fang and He Mulan left the oasis together, and now when they see this situation, they can't help but sigh.

"I can't imagine that this General Yuan seems to be a good person to get along with, but he is actually a ruthless person."

"If you are not ruthless, how can you let him escape to Wei." He Mulan's face was already extremely ugly, "Now that most of the dowry in Windy City has been taken out, and now that it has become like this, the shape is no longer under our control, we still gather people and horses, go back to Qin Khan City, and find a white heron official to send back the news." ”

"Where's Liu Zhen?"

"Taken away."

Na Luo Hun's face was ugly.

"If General Yuan doesn't want to rebel, then he wants the Egret Officer and Jingzhong to spread the news, and he needs the Egret Officer to prove his innocence, hoping that he is the latter."

If Yuan Poqiang planned so much in order to get Guzang City, then Tuoba Tao would have been furious and directly launched a large army to break through the Northern Liang Kingdom.

If Yuan Poqiang is really for the Wei State, it can be regarded as a terrible loyalty, and it can be regarded as good news.

It's just that if he spent so much thought and money, and even used the Tiantai Banner and Nanliang relics, but let Wei gain a large territory, it would inevitably make people doubt his motives.

After all, he is the prince of Nanliang, hasn't he thought about returning to the country at all?

He Mulan thought about the same as Na Luo Hun, and Yuan Fang was also worried about what would happen after Queen Meng was taken away, and the Tiger Ben army of 5,000 people could go anywhere, but now there were only more than 2,000 people left.

Now that the Tiger Army has returned to Qin Khan City, Feng Heng is not there, once the connection between Qin Khan City and the oasis is cut off, more than 2,000 Tiger Ben troops will starve to death here even if they sit in the oasis.

I can only hurry back to Qin Khan City to avoid that Yuan Poqiang is really a rebellion, and the bottom of the kettle will directly lose all the Tiger Ben army here.

"The army is leaving, the other dowries are gone, the envoys of Beiliang have arrived, and the people and horses of Beiliang are definitely not far away, once it is found that the envoys have not returned for a long time, there may be twists and turns."

With a dark face, He Mulan ordered the remaining Tiger Ben army.

"Withdraw to Chin Khan City!"