In the official room, Guo Songshou stood in front of the window, looking at the dark clouds and gloomy sky in the distance, and felt that the mountain rain was coming, and at this time, Wang Yue reported behind him about the capture of Zhu Jun's spies.

"Judging from the current situation, Zhu Jun's intelligence in Taiyuan is relatively weak, which should be because they didn't pay much attention to Taiyuan some time ago, and it is said that they have more than 300 spies in Chengdu."

"What do you think now?" Guo Song asked.

Wang Yue bowed down and said: "I feel that Zhu Jun will definitely not be satisfied with the information of the Iron Fire Thunder, they will definitely continue to put pressure on them to know the details of the Iron Fire Thunder, we can plan the plan, give them the wrong information, and lead them astray, for example, the Iron Fire Thunder is made of fire oil, let them spend a lot of time to develop, and when they wake up and want to turn back, it will be too late." ”

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "We can't underestimate the wisdom of craftsmen, the phenomenon of saltpeter explosions has appeared for hundreds of years, it is impossible that no one pays attention, I guess they have thought of this, but they don't know the recipe and process, we must not be smart." ”

Wang Yue was ashamed and said: "It's too simple to consider humility. ”

Guo Song glanced back at him and said with a smile: "Actually, your thinking is not wrong, taking them in the wrong direction and delaying their time, this is also something I have been thinking about, the key is how to do it." ”

Wang Yue was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Please make it clear!" ”

Guo Song pondered for a long time and said slowly: "Give them a correct direction, it is made of saltpeter particles and fire oil. ”

Wang Yue was taken aback, "Really tell them saltpeter?" ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Don't worry! Just knowing that saltpeter is useless, they can't make iron fire and thunder in ten or eight years, you have to make him believe, at least give him a little hope. ”

"I'm worried that he can make paper fire thunder and bluff people."

"Isn't that great? Let him scare Li Na and scare Tian Yue, this is exactly what I was looking forward to. ”

Wang Yue was still a little incomprehensible, but since the lord had an order, he could only implement it to the letter.

"Obey the order!"

Wang Yue retreated.

Guo Song picked up a piece of information from the table, this is the information sent by Tiancelou from Chang'an, Zhu Zhu's accession to the throne is imminent, this is the news that Guo Song has been waiting for a long time, it should be the stimulation brought to Zhu Zhu by Li Shi's change in Chengdu, but Guo Song also faintly felt that Zhu Jun's accession to the throne may have a certain relationship with himself, and his own seizure of Hedong has brought a lot of pressure to Zhu Zhu, or the jade tablet Zhu Zhu has not forgotten two years ago.

Two years ago, Guo Song created a sign for Zhu Zhu, but Zhu Zhu was not fooled, so Guo Song has been unable to understand, which link went wrong? If it is because of the Golden Body Pavilion, but Guo Song feels that this reason is a bit far-fetched, he is still busy recovering the Western Regions, and he has nothing to do with him Zhu Zhu.

Later, Guo Song slowly understood, not because he doubted the omen, but because the time for Zhu Zhu to ascend the throne was not yet ripe, although the time for Zhu Zhu to ascend the throne was still immature, but the situation had made Zhu Zhu unable to wait any longer.

Guo Song has been waiting for Zhu Zhu to ascend the throne, that is, he hopes that he will self-destruct the foundation, and now many Guanlong forces support Zhu Zhu because of the existence of the Northern Tang Dynasty, once Zhu Zhu ascends the throne, the Northern Tang Dynasty will disappear, and many forces that originally supported the Northern Tang Dynasty will no longer support him.

Guo Song knew very well what this meant, which meant that Zhu Jun's taxes would be greatly reduced, which meant that many officials would not be news for him, which meant that the imperial examination held in Chang'an would face failure, and Zhu Zhu would slowly cool down without a political foundation.

This day is finally coming.

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Zhu Zhu's accession to the throne is imminent, the atmosphere in Chang'an began to become very depressing, Chang'an Shunfeng Lou deployed a large number of spies in Chang'an City, and Zhu Zhu's plum blossom internal guards also patrolled around the city, monitoring the people, and it was strictly forbidden to talk about Zhu Zhu's accession to the throne.

Shunfeng Lou and Meihua Internal Guard are special institutions established by Zhu Zhu three years ago, and they are not the same as the nature of Tiance Tower and Internal Guard in Taiyuan, Tiance Building is to collect intelligence from the outside world, while Shunfeng Lou is to monitor and assassinate all kinds of forces that oppose Zhu Zhu internally, Taiyuan's internal guard is a counterintelligence agency, and Chang'an's Meihua Internal Guard is to openly arrest and suppress the people who oppose Zhu Zhu.

Shunfeng Lou is in the dark, and the plum blossom guard is in the light, these are the two terrorist institutions that terrify Chang'an and the people of Guanzhong.

In Chang'an Jinfeng Restaurant, Zhang Leizheng and Li An drank on the second floor, and Zhu Zhu strictly forbade the use of grain to make wine, which made fruit wine very popular in Chang'an, mainly wine.

Among them, Meishou wine still firmly occupies the high-end market, while the mid-end market is divided by three wines from Zhangye, Zhangye wine, Jiuquan wine and Xiliang wine, which Zhangye wine is the business of the Hexi military, Jiuquan wine is the industry of Anjia, and Xiliang wine is the industry of Longxi Li.

Zhang Lei is the proprietor of Meishou wine, and he is also the general distributor of Zhangye wine, and in Chang'an, he is known as the king of wine.

And Li An is also the leading businessman in Chang'an, he is not only a famous jeweler in Chang'an, but also the largest cloth merchant in Chang'an.

In addition, Ang Lee's cloth shop also distributes cotton from the Western Regions, which is mainly provided by Li Wenyu's firm.

Zhang Lei poured Li An a full glass of wine and asked, "I heard that Zhu Jun will officially ascend the throne tomorrow, will it attract a wave of killings?" ”

Li An picked up the wine glass and smiled slightly: "Why is there a killing, it should be an amnesty, right?" ”

"I'm not talking about ordinary people, but the royal family of Chang'an, I heard that Zhu Zhu has put many people under house arrest, Lao An, many royal families are your big customers, you should know this matter very well, how are they doing?"

Li An shook his head, "So you are lonely and unheard, there are a total of seventy-seven royal families, and yesterday Zhu Zhu had already sent someone to send them out of the country, and they went to Chengdu." ”

"You actually let them go?" Zhang Lei was stunned.

"What's the point of killing them?"

Li An smiled faintly and said: "At least let the people of the world feel that he Zhu Jun is still merciful, and he will not kill the nobles of the old dynasty, so that his accusation of rebellion and usurpation will be slightly lowered." ”

Just then, a bartender ran over and whispered, "Don't say it!" ”

When the two turned around, they saw five or six men with knives wearing embroidered plum blossom brocade robes walking up from the staircase, and they were the ruthless plum blossom guards.

Several plum blossom internal guard sergeants glanced at everyone, all the wine guests bowed their heads to eat, no one dared to speak, at this time, a thin man stood up and pointed to the two wine guests next to him, just now they were talking loudly about the fate of the emperor Li Wei, several plum blossom internal guards immediately rushed forward, pulled out their knives and shouted: "Come with us!" ”

The two drinkers turned pale with fright, got up and trembled, and said, "We didn't say anything! ”

One soldier grabbed one of them by the placket and threw him down the stairs with a hard flick, and the other was so frightened that he crawled down.

The restaurant was suddenly silent, and the plum blossom guard headed by the inner guard said to everyone: "Eat well, don't talk about government politics, so as not to attract death!" ”

With a wave of his hand, he escorted the two drinkers away, and the thin man followed, but the shopkeeper did not dare to stop him from asking for wine money.

Zhang Lei lowered his voice and said to Li An: "The thin one just now was a tailwind?" ”

Li An nodded, "It's them, we have to be careful when we talk in the future." ”

Zhang Lei felt that someone next to him seemed to be eavesdropping on them, so he quickly cleared his throat and said, "Lao An, I'm really sorry, this year's cotton is mainly supplied to Hedong, and there is really no extra inventory." ”

This is the main reason why they met today, the warmth effect of cotton is excellent, and it gradually began to heat up in Chang'an, the only supply of cotton is a few cloth shops in Li An, but they also have no stock, so Li An asked Zhang Lei to come out to drink, just to ask him for goods. ”

"I don't care, you promised last year, give me 20,000 catties of cotton this year, you only gave me 5,000 catties, and you will give me at least 10,000 catties this year."

"I'll try my best! You know I'm going to have to convince the lady, hey, I've got a big head! ”

Li An said with a smile: "I plan to start planting cotton, in places where the water and heat are better, Lingzhou and Fengzhou are good, planting tens of thousands of acres, which is more profitable than growing grain." ”

Zhang Lei pouted, "You think about planting cotton too simply, it takes a lot of hands to grow cotton, especially when picking cotton peaches, and cotton ginning also requires machines, and it is necessary to peel dead people by peeling cotton seeds by hand." ”

"There's always a way, I can take my time."

"Then whatever you want, don't blame me for not reminding you then."

The two drank a few more glasses of wine, then got up and took their leave.