In the seventeenth year of the calendar, February 15

Qi He, Yan Kui, Cao Yuanjiang and other frontier envoys inspected the party and came to Beiling Mansion City.

Yin Zhouhuaidao of Beiling Mansion and Xie Lang, the chief soldier, personally greeted him at the city gate, and led Qi He Yankui and his party to the post house in the city to rest.

The post house, a side courtyard

Yan Kui asked Guangshan to help take off his armor, and a personal guard brought a basin of hot water to serve Yan Kui to wash, and when he was busy, the door was knocked gently, and a black-clothed guard leader entered the door to report.

"General, there is news from the dark line in the city, there is a small move on the side of Yin Zhouhuai Dao of Beiling Mansion, he sent someone to hook up with Qi He's people at General Pass, and planted a spy next to Xie Lang, the chief soldier of Beiling."

"Spies?"

Yan Kui stopped wiping his face, threw the towel in his hand back into the basin, splashed half a foot of water, and asked with a frown.

"Do you know the identity of this spy?"

The leader of the black-clothed guard lowered his head and replied in a deep voice: "The general forgives the crime, the identity of the spy is not clear for the time being, and the secret line is the information obtained from the female dependents in the mansion of Liu Quan, the head of the government."

It was only known that Zhou Huaidao inserted an eyeliner spy next to Xie Lang through Liu Quan, but Liu Quan's specific identity of the spy was not revealed to anyone, so the dark line was not accurate for the time being.

However, this matter was just handled by Liu Quan in recent days, and I think there should be some hands and tails, and my subordinates should go back and take people to carefully investigate Liu Quan's movements in the past few days, and there should be gains. ”

"Hmm."

Yan Kui nodded and said, "This matter should be done as soon as possible, what Zhou Huai said, he wants to follow Qi He, then we have to find a way to pull Xie Lang to our side."

If the soldiers in Xie Lang's hands are used by me, then eighty percent of the soldiers and horses in Beiling Mansion are our people, even if Nanling and Hongyang lose in the future, with the basic plate of Beiling, we are not afraid of the momentum of Qi Cao and the others. ”

The leader of the black-clothed guard solemnly clenched his fists: "Don't worry, general, your subordinates will definitely find out this person." ”

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After that, the leader of the black-clothed guard said goodbye and left, and soon after, another young man wearing a cloak quietly came to Yan Kui and turned over and bowed.

"The Dark Web Beiling Branch is the leader of the Dark Seventeen, and I have seen the lord."

As Yan Kui's secret trump card, it is definitely impossible for the dark web to give up Beiling, Yan Kui's base camp, in fact, the dark web forces are now distributed in half of the Northern Jin Dynasty, and Yongzhou and Gyeonggi are the top priorities of the dark web forces.

Moreover, among them, Yongzhou Tong'an, Beiling, and Nanling, because they involve the foundation of Yan Kui's power, are naturally the places where the dark web tentacles have explored the longest.

Compared with it, because the black-clothed guard is on the bright side, it is affected by Yan Kui's own status, it is inconvenient to expand aggressively, and his strength is now far inferior to the dark web.

For this reason, He Chun, the commander of the black-clothed guard who vaguely knew where the dark web was located, was anxious that he was burning inside, urging his subordinates to do a good job every day and make more meritorious contributions, wanting to suppress the dark web in front of Yan Kui.

But there are a lot of elbows, and the black-clothed guards are far surpassed by the dark web, if it weren't for the last territory of the army, I'm afraid it would have been swallowed up by the dark web long ago.

Of course, this is He Chun's own idea, Yan Kui has no intention of merging the black guard with the dark web.

The intelligence and secret service departments have too many powers and their positions are extremely confidential and important, and they are most taboo to be dominated by one family and be deceived by their superiors, so it is the most in line with the interests of those in higher positions to divide them into two departments and contain each other.

Now, Yan Kui is only a third-grade heavy general, and his status and power have not reached certain requirements, so it is not good for the black-clothed guard to develop hard, he knows it in his heart, and he has made arrangements early, and when he is not afraid of outsiders in the future, it is logical for the black-clothed guard to develop vigorously.

When the time comes, the black-clothed guard will ask for money, Yan Kui will give money, ask for people, Yan Kui will give people, and then he will not dare to say, and there is still a lot of hope for driving side by side with the dark web.

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Yan Kui has not revealed this idea for the time being, after all, he is still looking up to the dark web a lot, if the people on the dark web know that Yan Kui intends to "unload the mill and kill the donkey", who would dare to do things for Yan Kui.

Now that the dark web has developed to the present, although most of them are still loyal to Yan Kui's system soldiers, they have also recruited some foreign aborigines, and because of the disadvantages of the system soldiers being too rigid, some of these newly recruited natives have stepped into the non-core leadership.

Even if Yan Kui is conceited that the system soldiers of the dark web will not betray him, he must also take into account the thoughts of this part of the people............

The leader of the Beiling branch of the dark web who came over today is the dark seventeen, and he is a system soldier, and now Yan Kui's foundation is not very stable, and he is not worried about the loyalty of these natives of the dark web, so he has never been in contact with the system soldiers, and he does not let the people of the dark web leak the news of himself and the Tong'an General's Mansion to these natives.

Therefore, until now, these natives who have joined the dark web only know that they have added a powerful and well-organized intelligence agency, but they do not know who their master is.

At most, it can be inferred from the work of daily contact that this master is a military boss, who is it exactly?

No one knows.

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At this time, the master behind the dark web natives guessed their heads, sat comfortably on the bed, and comfortably inquired about the information that the dark web had discovered in Beiling.

And his personal guard, Monk Guangshan, pushed the rest of the guards aside, carried the vajra by himself, and concentrated on guarding the door for Yan Kui.

As the commander of Yan Kui's personal guards, Guangshan spends most of his time with Yan Kui in addition to eating and sleeping every day, and his understanding of Yan Kui is more familiar than Huang Weier's wife.

It can even be said that except for the rebirth and fierce general systems, Yan Kui has almost no privacy in front of Guangshan.

Therefore, although few people around Yan Kui know about the existence of the dark web, Monk Guangshan knows very well that his general's mobile phone still has an intelligence network that is more powerful than the black-clothed guard.

Not to mention the loyal and commendable Guangshan commander, in the room, Dark Seventeen was reporting to Yan Kui about the information about Yin Zhouhuaidao and Xie Lang, the chief soldier of Beiling Mansion.

"Zhou Huaidao intends to be self-reliant? Isn't he King Jing's man? ”

When Yan Kui heard that Zhou Huaidao had not contacted King Jing for many days and was planning to meddle in the military power, he looked a little surprised.

Dark Seventeen's face remained unchanged, and he replied directly: "Actually, it is very easy to guess that Zhou Huaidao is alienating King Jing, according to our brothers in the capital, the involvement between Zhou Huaidao and King Jing is not very deep.

The two of them really got in touch with each other after Zhou Huaidao confirmed that he was the Yin of Beiling Mansion, King Jing took the initiative to woo him, and Zhou Huaidao also threw himself under King Jing with the snake out of the psychology of looking for a backer, but in fact, there was no deep entanglement of emotional interests between the two, and the relationship was very weak.

Therefore, at present, King Jing is weak, the situation of seizing the crown is unclear, and there are changes in the border army, Zhou Huaidao is alienated from King Jing, intends to take refuge in Qi He, and interferes in the military power of the border army, which is not very difficult to understand. ”

"I said yes, it turned out to be a wall grass."

Yan Kui suddenly realized, sneered and sneered, and said coldly: "This Zhou Mansion Yin is smart but smart, but unfortunately he didn't use it to the right place, it is not a good idea to sway in the wind above the officialdom.

Look at it, now King Jing is so anxious that he can't care about this side of the frontier, this guy can still be at ease for a while, and when King Jing comes back to his senses, as long as he has the opportunity, the surname Zhou will definitely have no good fruit to eat, two or five boys, not everyone can be it. ”

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After losing Zhou Huaidao's two sentences, Yan Kui inquired about other information about him, and then learned that there were still two Zhou Huaidao's fierce rivals hidden in the Beiling Mansion.

One is from the Sipin Mansion, and Cui Hua, the second-in-command of the government.

The other is the right attendant of the original household department who has just been demoted to Beiling, and Kong Gongbo, who is now the same as the five products of the Beiling Mansion.

Kong Gongbo doesn't need to say much, as mentioned before, he was implicated in the maritime case today, and he was demoted to the Beiling Mansion to make a small five-grade acquaintance.

However, Kong Gongbo is also a bigwig-level figure who has been a household servant in the end, and it is definitely impossible for him to spend his old age in Beiling Mansion in peace, so as soon as Kong Gongbo arrived in Beiling, he was soon unwilling to be lonely in the mansion to stir up trouble and rain, and wanted to replace Zhou Huaidao, expand his political capital, continue to serve Duanwang, and win more merit from the dragon.

Although Kong Gongbo is a degraded official, with the aunt of the Empress Dowager Kong, and the identity of the core of the backbone of the Duanwang Party, no one would think that he would be in a slump from now on, so under Kong Gongbo's deliberate pull, many flexible officials took refuge in him.

Soon, Kong Gongbo gathered a group of people who were not weak, although they were not comparable to Zhou Huaidao and Fu Cheng Cui Hua, but they also became the third largest force in the government, staring at Zhou Huaidao every day and wanting to get Zhou Huaidao down and take the position himself.

In addition to Kong Gongbo's impatience with Zhou Huaidao below, let's talk about Fu Cheng Cui Hua.

This person is the son of a local rich family in Beiling, although he has no fame, but he was an official in Beiling when he was a teenager, from an eight-grade petty official, step by step to the second-in-command of Beiling Mansion, and his network foundation in Beiling is unfathomable.

Before the Jin and Zhou wars, Beiling fell, the general soldiers of Fu Yin were killed, Cui Hua led the remnants to flee to Guangqing Mansion, which greatly preserved the vitality of Beiling Mansion, and then when the Northern Jin Dynasty launched the battle to recapture Beiling Mansion, Cui Hua responded positively, mobilized his influence in Beiling, and made great contributions to the war and logistics, and was rewarded by Di Yi, the commander of the Jin army at that time.

Later, Beiling returned to the rule of the Northern Jin Dynasty, and everyone thought that Cui Hua, who performed well in the national war, would be promoted to the rank of Fu Yin, but a Zhou Huaidao was parachuted.

Just imagine, if you were Cui Hua, what kind of mood would you have?

Cui Hua simply hated Zhou Huaidao to death, and dismantled this beast who robbed him of the position of Mansion Yin, and broke his bones and scattered ashes.

However, after all, Cui Hua has been an official for half his life, and his mind is gloomy, although he hopes that Zhou Huaidao will die tragically immediately, he never shows any resentment towards Zhou on the surface, and his words and deeds are all a businesslike attitude, and he slowly relaxes Zhou Huaidao's vigilance.

If it weren't for the fact that the dark web had occasionally buried dark lines around Cui Hua before, it is estimated that it would have been concealed by Cui Fucheng, who is very deep in this city.

Cui Hua, who looks like usual on the outside, is secretly like a poisonous snake, staring at Zhou Huaidao secretly, as long as Zhou Huaidao makes a mistake, he will immediately show his fangs and kill Zhou Huaidao with a fatal blow.

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"Tsk, I didn't expect this Cui Hua to be such a tolerant character."

Cui Hua hid it too well, although Yan Kui had seen him several times, he had never found that he still had such thoughts behind his back, and now after listening to the dark seventeen reports, he couldn't help but be amazed, and then said categorically.

"This person can't bear Zhou Huaidao, and secretly raises it, just for my use, I am too strong here in Beiling, if I hold Fu Yin in my hands, it is easy to cause taboos above.

But I can't let Zhou Huaidao and Qi He block me here, just use Cui Hua to contain it, remove Zhou Huaidao if necessary, and pull the Beiling Mansion into our hands. ”

Yan Kui couldn't help but get up and take two steps, his face changed several times, and then explained to Dark Seventeen: "Let people keep an eye on Cui Hua, don't let go of every move, I have the opportunity to meet him, and try his depth again." ”

Dark Seventeen nodded, clenched his fists and replied: "After the subordinates go back, they immediately set out to arrange a dark line with Cui Hua's side and Cui Mansion, and set the lord to keep an eye on him." ”

Yan Kui was pleased, and said: "Kong Gongbo is also staring at some, but although this person is under the command of King Duan, he is too ostentatious, I am not optimistic that he can succeed, just keep an eye on him and don't want him to cause trouble for us, if necessary, you can let him be a shield for Cui Hua to attract Zhou Huaidao's attention." ”

Dark Seventeen wrote it all down in his heart and said, "Don't worry, my subordinates must be arranged."

The dark web has always been thoughtful, Yan Kui was very relieved, he found a stool in the room to sit down, and asked about Zhou Huaidao's installation of an inside line next to Xie Lang as reported by the leader of the black-clothed guard.

Yan Kui thought that the strength of the black-clothed guard was limited, and it was understandable that he couldn't find a specific candidate, and there were many people on the dark web, and he had been working in Beiling for a long time, so he should be able to have information about this secret agent, but he didn't want to hear Yan Kui's inquiry, so he shook his head with a guilty face.

"Back to the lord's words, his subordinates have also heard about this matter, but they haven't investigated it clearly, that Liu Quan, as the head of the government, has contacts with the three sects and nine streams on weekdays, and he is as smooth as a ghost, and if he wants to get information from him, it will not be effective in a while.

But the lord can rest assured, when he goes back, his subordinates will definitely give priority to investigating this matter, and with the full efforts of the dark web, I believe that there will be results soon. ”

"No need."

Yan Kui waved his hand, and said with some meaning: "There are already clues on the black-clothed guard's side of this matter, so you don't have to follow the work, or focus on Cui Hua and Kong Gongbo." ”

"Yes, my subordinates obey."

Dark Seventeen lowered his head slightly, his eyes changed inexplicably, although he was a system soldier, and he was not naturally comparable to normal humans in terms of emotion and psychology, but he was not a machine without fluctuations.

As the core backbone of the dark web, he has been secretly lurking in the shadows for many years, and he has long honed a set of ideas that are more intelligent and flexible than ordinary system soldiers, and he also has a scheming psychology that ordinary system soldiers do not have.

To put it simply, Dark Seventeen has evolved on the basis of the original!

Although his loyalty to Yan Kui remained the same, he also had some rich emotions, such as when he heard Yan Kui mention the black-clothed guard, he unconsciously instinctively carried a trace of disgust and resistance, and at the same time felt panic and jealousy about Yan Kui's act of trusting the black-clothed guard.

The lord intends to raise the black-clothed guard to contain and balance the dark web............

Dark Seventeen felt the deep meaning behind Yan Kui, but the loyalty to Yan Kui in his bones made him dare not and could not be dissatisfied with Yan Kui, and could only become more and more hostile to the black-clothed guard.

Hmph, a bunch of black-skinned dogs picking bones behind us to eat, wait and see, you will have to be crushed under the dark web for the rest of your life, unable to move.

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Coincidentally, just when Dark Seventeen was slandering the black-clothed guard, the leader of the black-clothed guard who had just left from Yan Kui was also pondering the dark web.

There are no stupid people who do intelligence.

Yan Kui often obtained some information that could not be obtained through ordinary channels without going through the black-clothed guards, so that the black-clothed guards led by He Chun gradually knew that Yan Kui had an intelligence network hidden in the shadows.

And after careful comparison, He Chun and the others also found that the strength and scope of activity of this secret intelligence network under Yan Kui far exceeded that of their black-clothed guards.

This conclusion made the black-clothed guards have a great sense of crisis in their hearts, and several times, He Chun wanted to ask Yan Kui about the matter of this secret intelligence network, but in the end, out of various concerns, he never announced it.

But secretly, He Chun and his black-clothed guards regarded this secret intelligence network as an imaginary enemy, and consciously or unconsciously confronted it.

Unlike the vast majority of the members of the dark web who are system soldiers, the black guards are in the army, the background is pure, and the person in charge is He Chun, so they advocate recruiting smart and flexible people to join, so the proportion of the black guards system is almost fifty-fifty.

In this way, although the loyalty is not as good as the dark web, but the flexibility and creativity are stronger than the relatively rigid dark web, and it just so happens that most of Yan Kui's army are system soldiers, and they just need these black-clothed guards with flexible brains to be scouts and secret agents, so they have a tacit attitude towards the situation of the black-clothed guards.

At the same time, this also leads to the fact that the black guards are much more complicated than the dark web.

On the dark web, like the Dark Seventeen, the "people of insight" who are wary of the black-clothed guards are a small number, and on the black-clothed guards' side, all the people above the high-level are vigilant against the dark web early.

and tried to obtain information on the dark web, hoping to suppress or weaken it and maintain the status of the black guards under Yan Kui.

The leader of the black-clothed guards who went to report to Yan Kui at the post house today is one of the staunch supporters of this idea, and belongs to the hardcore "hawks" among the black-clothed guards.

Just now, after he came back from Yan Kui, he immediately began to prepare to investigate the spies that Zhou Huaidao had planted in Xie Langna, but he accidentally learned from his subordinates that in addition to himself, there was also a force secretly investigating the matter.

For some reason, the leader of the Black Guards almost intuitively concluded that this group of people was the secret intelligence agency under Yan Kui, the future enemy of the Black Guards.

Thinking of this, the leader of the black-clothed guards was furious in his heart, this was running to grab a job in his own hands, and he didn't take them in his eyes at all.

Too much deception!!

The leader of the black-clothed guard didn't even sleep with his face, and personally went into battle to supervise his subordinates to investigate, and vowed to catch up with the other party, pull out the dark line of Zhou Huaidao, and send it to Yan Kui, so as to greatly increase the face of the black-clothed guard.

Maybe it's the pressure that makes the motivation, not to mention, with the leader of the black guards, the matter really came to an eye quickly.

Two days later, when Xie Lang, the chief soldier of Beiling, came to visit Yan Kui, the leader of the black-clothed guard quickly sent the information he had just obtained to the post house.

Zhou Huaidao's dark line was found............