The shopkeeper's surname is Jia, and he is the leader of the internal affairs camp sent to Xiazhou, he took his men to the backyard and walked into the shopkeeper's room, and then said: "Say it!" What's the big news? ”

"Didn't I deliver food to Marven today? Listening to his nonsense, he said that he won't be able to eat our food next month, and he doesn't know if he will come back alive? ”

"What do you say?"

"I said okay, why do you say such unlucky things?"

"He said I don't understand, and a big war will break out soon, and persuaded me to leave Xiazhou quickly."

Shopkeeper Jia came to the room to pace back and forth, Ma Wen is a slight Han general in the party army, a thousand commanders, with more than 1,000 people under his command, basically Qiang and Han people, but the Ma family has a close relationship with the party leadership, they can access the core information, and it is for this reason that they lock the target on Ma Wencai.

Although I don't know if the war that Ma Wencai is referring to is a war to invade Lingzhou, Shopkeeper Jia at least knows that he can get important information from Ma Wencai.

It's time to do it to Marven.

........

The Ma family is the family that the Lingzhou Wuhui and the Liang family fought against back then, and the bloodline of this family is very mixed, including Qiang, Han, Dangxiang and other bloodlines, mainly Qiang people, who have always been allies of Dangxiang people.

Ma Wen is the second concubine of the Ma family, and the first room is the core, that is, the room where the three brothers Ma Tianluo, Ma Tiansha and Ma Tianyou are located.

The second room is also good, just a little worse than the first room.

Ma Wen is only about 30 years old, not tall, but very strong, his father is Qiang, his mother is Han, half Han blood, he has a son and a daughter, and his son Ma Hao is only nine years old this year.

At dusk, Ma Wencai returned to the house as usual, and his wife hurriedly greeted him and said, "Hao'er went out with the nurse in the afternoon, and she hasn't come back yet." ”

Marven was taken aback, "Where did you go?" ”

"The nurse said that she went home, Hao'er must follow, and the nurse took him back, and he has been gone for almost an hour, and he has not come back yet."

"Did you send someone to find it?"

"The housekeeper took someone there, but there is no news yet."

Marven felt a little wrong, he turned back and turned over the horse, urged the horse to run out of the city, ran to the city gate and met the housekeeper, Marven quickly asked, "Did you find my son?" ”

"It's strange, the nurse is not at home, I don't know where she went?"

Ma Wencai was a little nervous in his heart, and he said to the housekeeper: "You go back first, tell Madame, let her not worry, there should be nothing wrong." ”

After saying that, he led two retinues to urge the horse to run out of the city.

The nurse's house is outside the south city, less than a mile away from the city gate, Marven quickly found the nurse's house, only to see that the gate is locked, and the door is still hung with a copper lock, he looks more carefully than the housekeeper, there is dust on the lock, at least a few days have not come back.

Marven realized that the nurse said that going home was just an excuse, where did she take her son?

That's when 'Whoosh! An arrow came and nailed to the gate, Marven was startled, looked back quickly, and saw a figure in the woods flashing and disappearing.

He was about to urge his horse to chase after him, when his attendant shouted, "General, look at this arrow!" ”

Ma Wencai noticed that there was a note stuck in the arrow, and he didn't care about chasing people, so he hurriedly opened the note, and there was a sentence written on it, "If you want your son's life, please get into the carriage alone." ”

He was slightly stunned, a wide carriage 'quack! The ground stopped beside him, the car door opened, and Marven had no choice at this time, so he had to say to the two entourage: "You go back and tell Madame that I will go to find my son, and I already have eyebrows, don't say anything else." ”

The two attendants hesitated a little before Marven shouted, "Stupid, if they want my life, they will shoot them just now." ”

The two attendants had to ride away, and Marven got into the carriage and found two masked men in black inside, one of whom closed the door.

"Who are you, and where is my son?" Marven said sharply.

The black-clothed masked man said coldly: "I'll just say it!" Your son is in our hands, and you want him to live, then you cooperate, and if you don't care about his life or death, you can leave now. ”

Ma Wencai was furious in his heart, he stretched out his hand to draw his sword, but he touched the void, and the sword on his waist was gone?

The other man in black snorted in a cold sweat, and Ma Wencai realized that his sword was in the other party's hand.

"Ma Wencai, since you don't want your son's life, get out!"

The carriage stopped, the door opened, Marven finally calmed down, he was discouraged, and had to bow his head and say, "What do you want me to cooperate?" ”

The doors closed again, the carriage started again, the man in black ignored him, and the carriage fell silent.

The carriage entered the city from the north gate, and the man in black at the head said: "We have to know, when will the party people launch an attack on Lingzhou?" ”

Ma Wencai thought that the kidnappers had kidnapped his son, but the other party's words shocked him, and he came to his senses, "You.... Are you Tang Jun? ”

"Did you just react?"

The man in black said coldly: "Do you mean it or not?" ”

Ma Wencai sighed and said: "It is tentatively scheduled for the end of February, I don't know if it will attack Lingzhou, but at the end of February, we will indeed have to go out to fight troops." ”

"Is this foreign army a decision of the party members, or a decision of the Xiazhou soldiers and horses?"

This point is very important, whether Cui Kuan wants to expand southward, or whether the party members want to attack Lingzhou.

"It should be the decision of the party members, conveyed within our family."

After a moment of silence, the man in black asked again: "What is the relationship between Ma Wencui, the envoy of the Xiazhou soldiers and horses, and you?" ”

"Ma Wencui is my eldest brother!"

The carriage stopped in front of an alley, and the man in black said, "You don't have to worry about your son, as long as you cooperate with us, he will be safe." ”

Since Ma Wencai knew that the other party was Tang Jun, he stopped talking nonsense, the other party was taking his son as a hostage, he got out of the carriage without saying a word, and left in a hurry.

The carriage immediately started and sped away from Xiazhou City.......

The eagle letter from Xiazhou was delivered to Zhangye the next day.

In the hall of Jiedu Mansion, Wang Yue, the commander of the internal affairs battalion, said to Guo Song and several senior civil and military officials: "We also have information from Lingzhou, Ma Wencui was originally a soldier and horse envoy in Yanzhou, and was promoted to the deputy envoy of Shuofang Army Jiedu five years ago. ”

Guo Song said to everyone: "The Ma family is the first wealthy family in Xiazhou, they are actually Qiang people, and the Qiang people are also divided into several branches, there are pro-party people, there are also pro-Han people, the Ma family is pro-party people, at present, the wife of Ma Guidong, the head of the Ma family, is the daughter of the big chief of the party, and Ma Wencui's wife is also a party person, this is the tradition of the Ma family, and the party is married, if I guess correctly, Ma Wencui took refuge in Cui Kuan and won his trust, I suspect that the party is planning behind it." ”

Pan Liao asked: "What does the envoy mean that the Ma family is actually the representative of the party?" ”

"It should be like this, the party members are not easy to come forward, so they let the Ma family represent them, taking advantage of Cui Kuan's weakness that he is an outsider and urgently needs the support of local heroes, and he does what he likes, and he has won Cui Kuan's trust step by step, and the strategy of the party members seems to have succeeded."

"What about the Haoqiang of Lingzhou? What is their status in Cui Kuan's heart? Zhang Qiu'an, who joined the army, asked.

"I'll answer that."

Liang Wu stood up and said: "Lingzhou Haoqiang is generally more resistant to Cui Kuan, the reason is that Cui Kuan wants to increase the number of Shuofang troops to 30,000, but he doesn't have so much military spending, so he wants to apportionment the military expenses to the major giants, arousing everyone's strong resistance, although in the end the army can not be increased because there is no source of troops, but this incident caused Cui Kuan to have a bad relationship with local tycoons and officials. ”

Guo Song nodded, "How many troops can be raised in each feudal town is determined by its own financial resources and the population under its jurisdiction, Shuofang has a sparse population, if there is no support from the imperial court, they are destined to not be able to raise many troops, this is the fundamental reason why Cui Kuan wants to use the Dangxiang Army, and the formation of the Dangxiang Army has increased by 10,000 troops out of thin air, and he does not want him to bear the military expenses, such a good resource, how can Cui Kuan not use it?" ”

Speaking of this, Guo Song said to Wang Yue again: "In the next step, I want to know how many party members, how many children of the Ma family, and how many Han generals are among the generals under Ma Wencui, which is very important." ”

"Ignorance, understood!" Wang Yue hurried away.

"Envoy, there is another suggestion for the humble position."

Liang Wu saluted Guo Song and said: "Although Cui Kuan is not vigilant enough against the party members, the local people in Lingzhou are highly vigilant against the party members, and the humble suggestion is to enable Jun to contact the major families in Lingzhou and support them to be ready to resist the party army at any time." ”

Guo Song nodded, he could indeed write a letter to Liang Yundao.