The money shopkeeper was invited to sit down, he said with shame: "I have collected a lot of information in the south of the Yangtze River in the past five years, including officialdom, taxes, economy, people's sentiments, and the city walls and topography of various counties, and I have also collected a lot of army defense, so Liu Shining sent troops to attack Changzhou, that is, I told him that Changzhou has no troops to garrison, and there is a lot of food in the city, but I didn't expect him to suffer a big loss, and now he wants to hold me accountable. It's just an ordinary businessman, what do you want me to do? ”

"Is Liu Shining in Xuanzhou now?" Li Bing asked.

"Not in Xuanzhou, he is in Xunyang County, Jiangzhou, his father is buried there, he has to keep filial piety for at least three months, and now the army and the people are talking a lot about him, he has to pretend?"

"What discussion?" Li Bing asked again.

"His father was supposed to be buried after 7749 days, but he changed it to 21 days to be buried, not only that, but when his father was not buried, he sent troops to attack Jiangnan and suffered a fiasco, which made the whole army and the people very dissatisfied with him, saying that he was disloyal, unfilial and unrighteous."

Li Bing nodded, "He is indeed too anxious, and wants to take advantage of our unstable foothold to give us a blow, but he hurts himself, so does the money shopkeeper know how many troops there are in Xuancheng County?" ”

The shopkeeper shook his head, "I don't know, I'm only responsible for collecting information about Jiangnan, I don't know about Liu Shining's situation, everyone is dissatisfied with Liu Shining, or my father wrote to me." ”

Li Bing's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Then how did your father give you the letter?" ”

"My father sent someone to deliver the letter, but I can also use the pigeon letter to communicate with the family, and we also have a branch in Qu'a County, where there are a few carrier pigeons, which are specifically related to the family."

"We want to know about the garrison in Xuancheng and even Xuanzhou, can you ask your family for help?"

"No problem, we are very willing to serve the imperial court!"

At this time, Wang Yu asked on the side: "Just now, the shopkeeper said that he had collected a lot of various information about Jiangnan, is there any information left behind?" ”

The money shopkeeper nodded hurriedly, "Of course it's all there, if you need it, I can hand it over." ”

Li Bing took two steps and said to the shopkeeper Qian: "Now the top priority is that I want to know the garrison situation in Xuancheng and Xuanzhou, and I ask the shopkeeper Qian to rush to Qu'a to send a letter immediately." ”

"I'm ready to go, it's just ..... There's just one thing I need to ask the general for help! ”

"Say it! What's up? ”

"There are three guys in my shop, two of them were brought by me from the family, they don't know anything, and the other one is called Zhao Qiang, he is an intelligence spy sent by Liu Shining, his task is to spy on me, and he is very skilled in martial arts, we dare not provoke him, I implore the general to eradicate him for us."

Li Bing nodded, "No problem, I'll send someone to kill him for you now." ”

.........

When Wang Yu followed the shopkeeper back to the store, a guy greeted him and said: "Shopkeeper, a few officials came just now, and invited Zhao Qiang to go to the county office, it seems that a friend of his committed the crime, please go to testify!" ”

The money shopkeeper immediately understood that this was General Li's use of a means to get rid of Zhao Qiang for himself.

He said coldly: "Let him go, take care of what you do, don't expect me to protect him!" ”

The guys all know that Zhao Qiang is not small, and he is often rude to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper has been dissatisfied with him for a long time, so the shopkeeper's attitude is not surprising.

Wang Yu entered the shop and said with a smile: "Yes, literati like this kind of shop, whether there are any good four treasures of the study, I personally buy a set." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "I have the best Xi ink, Xuan pen, rice paper, and Yan inkstone, and I will give Mr. a set!" ”

"There's no need to send it down, as long as the thing is good, just at the normal price!"

The money shopkeeper hurriedly went to the back room to get something, Wang Yu carefully looked at the rice paper, and found that this paper was really good, and the quality was even better than the white linen paper used to make the edict.

"Good paper!" Wang Yu couldn't help but praise.

A guy next to him introduced: "This is actually not the best, there is a kind of paper that is much better than it, and the shopkeeper will know it when he takes it out, it is thin and thin, like a layer of skin, extremely tough, and the yield is very scarce, we generally don't take it out and sell it." ”

Wang Yu suddenly remembered that His Royal Highness the King of Jin entrusted himself with something, after taking Xuanzhou, look at the good paper produced locally, the introduction of the guy made him full of expectations, as thin and tough as the skin, maybe His Royal Highness the King of Jin will be satisfied.

After a while, the money shopkeeper took out two large hand-held boxes, and he first handed the red lacquer box to Wang Yu, "This is what Mr. asked me for, all of them are inside, and then this is the best study of the four treasures of the store, according to the normal price of a set of fifteen yuan, Mr. give me ten yuan on the line." ”

Wang Yu took out a stack of white paper from the box, and sure enough, it was white, fine, and tough as skin, Wang Yu smiled: "How much is this kind of paper?" ”

The money shopkeeper smiled bitterly: "This kind of paper is made by our Qian family, it was made three years ago, the annual output is up to 100 catties, and it is generally not sold to the outside world, and the small shop is only five catties, if Mr. likes it, five catties can be given to you." ”

Wang Yu shook his head and smiled: "It's not that I like it, I guess His Royal Highness the King of Jin will like it, you sell me all five catties, and I will dedicate it to His Highness!" ”

I heard that it was for His Royal Highness the King of Jin, the money shopkeeper hurriedly took out the remaining four catties of white paper, carefully packed it in a big box, Wang Yu counted a total of thirty yuan, he paid thirty taels of silver, and let the entourage carry the things away.

Watching Wang Yu walk away, the guy wiped his sweat and said, "Shopkeeper, this official position is not small!" ”

"Coming from Chang'an, the origin is very big, if our paper is favored by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, maybe we will enter Beijing to open a store!"

The eyes of several guys are full of yearning, everyone wants to go to the capital!

At this time, the money shopkeeper suddenly slapped his head and hurriedly ordered: "Hire me a carriage quickly, I have an urgent matter to go to Qu'a County!" ”

.........

The war horse fully recovered its strength after three days of recuperation, and the 10,000 cavalry were also in place one by one, and began to carry out adaptive training.

Li Bing turned around and saw Wang Yu standing on the edge of the school field waving to him, next to him was a short and fat middle-aged man, Li Bing recognized at a glance that it was the money shopkeeper he saw a few days ago.

Li Bing hurriedly urged the horse to the side of the school field, he turned over and dismounted and stepped forward and asked, "But there is news in Xuanzhou?" ”

Wang Yu nodded and smiled: "Exactly!" ”

Li Bing was overjoyed and hurriedly returned to the big tent with the two of them.

Back to the big tent, Li Bing read the intelligence, as he expected, there were 13,000 enemy troops in Xuanzhou, but not all of them were deployed in Xuancheng, but most of them were deployed on the eastern border of Xuanzhou.

Among them, 5,000 were deployed in Liyang County, which was to defend against the enemy's attack on Xuanzhou from the direction of Jiangning and Changzhou, and 5,000 people were also deployed in Sui'an County, which was to defend against the enemy's attack on Xuanzhou from the direction of Huzhou, and finally 3,000 people were stationed in Xuancheng County.

"Money shopkeeper, how did your family get this information?" Li Bing asked.

The shopkeeper bowed down and said: "General Hui, the villain has an uncle who is currently serving as a military officer in the Xuanzhou Prefecture, and he knows these troop deployment plans, which are not a secret within Xuanzhou. ”

This is also right, the troops at the front rely on Xuanzhou for logistical support, and the person in charge of logistics is clear about where and how many troops are deployed.

Li Bing walked quickly to the sand table, looked at it carefully for a while, he turned around and smiled: "Does the military advisor see any characteristics of Liu Shining's deployment?" ”

Wang Yu slowly stepped forward and said: "It can be seen that he obviously has some insufficient troops, especially in the defense of Liyang County, he wants to use Liyang County to defend both the Jiangning line and the Changzhou line, but Liyang is not on the way through these two lines, but is located in the middle of the two lines, the defense is well done, both sides can indeed be prevented, if the defense is not done well, then both ends can not be prevented." ”

"When the military advisor says that the defense is good, does he mean that a large number of scouts are sent?"

Wang Yu nodded, "That's what it means, but no matter how well the defense is done, it doesn't make sense to the cavalry, even if their scouts find the cavalry, when they go back to report, the cavalry has passed, so I support the general cavalry is what it means, the cavalry's breakthrough ability is very strong." ”

"But intelligence says that Xuancheng also has 3,000 soldiers to defend."

Wang Yu laughed, "What are three thousand soldiers in front of ten thousand cavalry?" The momentum of the cavalry was enough to crush them. ”

Li Bing pondered for a moment, then nodded, "You can send troops overnight!" ”

Wang Yu pointed to Jiangzhou again and said: "We are attacking Xuanzhou, Liu Shining will definitely go to the rescue, Jiangzhou must be empty, why don't the general send another army and take the opportunity to seize Jiangzhou." ”

"The military advisor is talking about the waterway?"

Wang Yu nodded, "Escorted by the water army, if Liu Shining is not fooled, then land in Wuhu County and completely wipe out the defenders of Xuanzhou!" ”

After walking a few steps, Wang Yu smiled slightly: "Let me plan well, put down a few more buttons, and be sure to let Liu Shining lead the army to rescue Xuancheng!" ”