Tian Yue learned what happened in Beizhou from the pigeon letter, which made him shocked and angry, the Jin army actually crossed the border to kill people, and killed 30 of his own soldiers, in anger, Tian Yue immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare horses, he wanted to go to Beizhou in person to find this justice!

Wang Yu hurried over when he heard the news, and just saw Tian Yue turn over and get on the horse, he hurriedly ran up and grabbed the reins of the war horse, "Don't be impulsive!" ”

"I don't have the impulse, I just want to go to the field and understand the situation in Bay State, why is this happening?" Tian Yue said with a gloomy face.

Wang Yu persuaded bitterly: "Prince, please listen to me, the matter is not so simple, I'm afraid it was not done by the Jin army." ”

The military advisor persuaded him repeatedly, and Tian Yue gradually calmed down, he pondered for a moment, then turned over and dismounted, and returned to the palace military office.

Wang Yu hurriedly followed, and in the lobby of the official house, Wang Yu said to Tian Yue: "General Sima has never crossed the border to attack the Jin army, and the Jin army has no reason to cross the border to attack us, and more importantly, Yongji Canal is the salt road of the Jin State, which is of vital importance to the Jin State, will they deliberately destroy the safety of the salt road?" What could be more important than salt road safety? Lord Wang, just by virtue of this, he dared to assert that the attack on the patrol soldiers would never be committed by the Jin army. ”

Tian Yue also felt that Wang Yu's words were reasonable, and he took out Sima Li's pigeon letter to take a closer look, only then did he notice that what Sima Li said was suspected to be done by the Jin army, and it was not definitely the Jin army's doing, and he was furious when he didn't see it clearly just now.

Tian Yue sat down slowly, he was really ashamed in his heart, he didn't see it clearly and came to a conclusion, and almost rushed to Beizhou Xingshi to ask for the guilt, but he still couldn't be impulsive!

"Who does the advisor think this would do?"

Wang Yu shook his head, "It's hard to say at present, it may be that the salt lords, the patrol team has hindered their financial path, or it may be that someone wants to deliberately provoke the contradictions between the Wei and Jin sides, such as Zhu Tao and the like, and when the Wei and Jin Dynasty fight, he will take the opportunity to kill back to Hebei, maybe there are internal reasons for us." ”

"Our internal causes?"

Tian Yue frowned, "Can the military advisor make it clear, how could this be done by our insiders?" ”

Wang Yu sighed and said: "Your Highness, there are also many forces within the Wei State, not everyone hopes that the Wei and Jin families will reach a reconciliation, and not everyone hopes that the Wei State will remain stable and there will be no war, Your Highness should be very clear." ”

Tian Yue nodded silently, of course he knew in his heart that there were pro-Zhu Zhu forces in Wei, there were also pro-Li Na forces, and there were even forces bent on returning to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and of course there were also forces that hoped that the Jin State would unify Hebei, which was indeed more complicated.

"So that's the end of it?"

"Lord Wang, if the people behind this matter do not achieve their goal, they will definitely come a second time, as long as we are vigilant, then he will definitely show his feet the second time."

"Alright! I hope so. ”

At this time, a pro-soldier reported in the hall: "Lord Qi, the Ordnance Department has an important matter to ask for a meeting." ”

Wang Yu blurted out, "Could it be iron fire and thunder?" ”

Tian Yue suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly said, "Let him come in!" ”

Ten days ago, Zhuang Ming, the head of Luoyang intelligence, sent the formula for the paper fire thunder, which is also the latest progress of Zhu Jun's current development, which made Tian Yue disappointed, but something is better than nothing, they couldn't even find the door before, and now they can actually make paper fire thunder, at least get started.

After a while, the Ordnance Department ordered Sun Tianliang to walk into the lobby quickly, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and bowed down and said: "Your Highness, you have successfully created paper fire mines and gunpowder arrows. ”

Tian Yue was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where is it?" ”

Sun Tianliang turned around and waved his hand, "Bring it up!" ”

Two attendants walked up to the lobby with two copper plates, Tian Yue strode forward, only to see three paper tubes in one plate, with three thin wires inserted into them, and the other plate was three arrows, and three smaller paper [new] cylinders were also tied to the arrow shafts.

"This is paper fire?"

Tian Yue looked at it for a while and asked, "What is a thin line?" ”

"Returning to the prince, it's the fire rope, light it, it will ignite the gunpowder in the paper tube."

Their fire rope is not wrapped, but with a cotton thread smeared with honey, and then rolled in a gunpowder pile, evenly covered with gunpowder and then dried before it can be used, so that the paper fire mine can not be wrapped too tightly, must leave a gap for the fire rope, they use the method is to seal the bottom with yellow mud, and then wear a small hole in the mud.

"What's it made of?" Next to him, Wang Yu asked.

"In fact, it is fire and nitrate, which has been discovered in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and then add some toner and sulfur powder, mix it, and it becomes gunpowder, and it is contained in the iron fire mine, and the same is true for the paper fire mine."

"What will be the effect of this paper fire mine?" Tian Yue asked.

"It will make a noise and scare the warhorse."

Tian Yue felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, it was time-consuming and laborious, was it only a function to scare the war horse?

Sun Tianliang saw that the lord's face was a little displeased, and hurriedly said: "Lord Qiqi, after all, it is not an iron fire thunder, and the killing effect is not good, but I found that its burning effect is very good, much stronger than ordinary rockets." ”

Tian Yue was still a little interested in combustion, and he immediately ordered: "Prepare the horse, go to the firearms test site!" ”

..........

In the past two days, Tian Xu was so angry that he was about to go crazy, he had already received the news that there was a mistake in killing people and was escaped by the leader Zhou Fei, once Zhou Fei ran to report Tian Yue, he would be finished.

Tian Xu was so anxious that he was like an ant on a hot pot, going back and forth in the house, he sent everyone out to intercept Zhou Fei, he didn't need to catch it alive, once he found it, he would be killed on the spot.

In the evening, Tian Xu connected to the two reports, but found no trace of Zhou Fei, so angry that Tian Xu scolded.

At this time, a family member came to report, "Xu Junshi is here!" ”

Tian Xu hurriedly invited Xu Shize to the inner hall, his staff member Wang Deli was killed, and he can only rely on Xu Shize now.

Unlike Tian Xu's anxiety, Xu Shi was not too nervous, although the idea was his, he seemed calm and relaxed, and he didn't worry about 30,000 at all.

"Strategist, Zhou Fei escaped, do you know?"

"Of course I know, if you run away, why should the sixth master be so nervous?"

"What if he goes to my brother to complain?"

Xu Shi shook his head, "Sixth Master don't worry, he is not so stupid, he went to the prince to complain, and he will die in the end." ”

Tian Xu was stunned, and said for a while: "How does the military advisor know?" ”

Xu Shi said lightly: "The sixth master killed thirty patrol soldiers, what can it say?" ”

"I don't quite understand what the military advisor means, isn't this provoking the relationship between the Wei and Jin families?"

Xu Shi shook his head and said: "Sixth Master, the purpose of our strategy was not to provoke the relationship between the Wei and Jin families, we can't provoke it at all, without any evidence, King Wei will kill on the other side?" ”

Tian Xu nodded, "Don't you say that I almost forgot, our purpose is for King Wei to go to Beizhou, and we ambushed halfway." ”

"So what is the sixth master worried about?"

Xu Shi smiled and said, "Even if he sues the sixth master, how can he prove that the sixth master is trying to provoke the relationship between Wei and Jin?" ”

Tian Xu was right to think about it, and the tension in his heart suddenly relaxed.

He asked, "So what should I do?" ”

"The sixth master has two choices, the first is to don't care about anything, just treat it as if nothing happened, and then admit it when King Wei comes to the door, and the second is to take the initiative to find King Wei to admit it, saying that your smuggling behavior was discovered by the patrol, so an unfortunate incident happened, and the killing of the patrol team was done by your subordinates without authorization, and it was definitely not your intention, so you put this charge on Zhou Fei."

Tian Xu pondered for a moment and then asked, "What reason do you use?" Am I smuggling salt? ”

Xu Shi shook his head, "Salt is not good, it's too sensitive, you can say smuggling copper coins." ”

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"What, you smuggle copper coins?" Tian Yue's eyes widened, and he looked at Tian Xu who was kneeling on the ground in disbelief.

Tian Xu knelt on the ground and said with a sad face: "After the Jin army occupied Hebei, it exchanged small money from the people at a price of one to one, and the younger brother found this opportunity, and sent someone to transport a batch of small money to Jizhou to exchange, and after converting it into old money, it was transported back and forth to exchange it for merchants at one to three, and after only one trip, 10,000 yuan became 30,000 yuan. ”

"So you killed thirty of my brothers in order to make money?" Tian Yue scolded him angrily.

"Please listen to me, brother, this matter is indeed responsible for me, I will not shirk the responsibility, but I definitely did not let them kill the patrol post, I just let them cross the river at night and avoid the patrol post, I didn't expect them to be eager in their own hearts, crossing the river during the day, but they were found by the patrol post, they jumped over the wall in a hurry, killed people, and caused me a big disaster!"

Tian Yue stared at Tian Xu for a long time, and finally believed his explanation, in order not to harm the interests of the people, the Jin State used old money to exchange the small money in the hands of the people one to one, and smuggling copper coins was indeed profitable.

And the military advisor told him that this incident was not like provoking the relationship between Wei and Jin, but a bit like the salt owl's doing, but he didn't expect that it was his brother who was found smuggling copper coins, so he started to kill.

Tian Yue also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, at least he could be sure that it was not the Jin army's doing, otherwise it would be really troublesome.

But this brother was really annoyed that he was always causing trouble for himself, and he asked, "Where are these people?" ”

Tian Xu lowered his head and said: "These people are all outlaws in the rivers and lakes that I let my subordinates recruit, I am worried that they will use this matter to blackmail me when they come back, so I ordered someone to poison them all in Guantao County, but one person escaped, and I am being arrested." ”

Tian Yue knew in his heart that he was definitely not an outlaw in the rivers and lakes, he must be the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Battalion, those soldiers were the elite of the Wei army, everyone could be one as ten, and they were actually poisoned by Tian Xu, Tian Yue was very annoyed.

Tian Yue took a few steps and said: "I don't want to pursue you in this matter, but you have to do three things for me, first, take out 30,000 yuan as a pension for the fallen patrol soldiers; Third, return your Flying Eagle Battalion to the Tiger Guards; Third, you can do this kind of smuggling on Zhu Jun and Li Na's side, preferably smuggling salt, not only will I not interfere, but I will encourage you, but I will not allow you to do it on the Jin side, I don't want to be caught by them, understand? ”

Tian Xu didn't feel distressed about returning the Flying Eagle Battalion to Hu Benwei, but asked him to take out 30,000 yuan as a pension for the killed soldiers, Tian Xu really felt a little painful, but he still had to agree.

"My brother has an order, but my brother doesn't dare to disobey!"