Chapter 143: The First Letter
Finally settled down, Liu Million's room soon sounded snoring, and when it was late at night, Liu Qiu's room was still luxuriously lit with an oil lamp. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
By the dim light, Liu Qiu opened a package of luggage, put away some of the messy clothes wrapped in it, knelt in front of the oil lamp, and spread out the wrapped cloth. Liu Qiu turned it out again, and immediately showed the difference of this cloth, it turned out that the inside was filled with dense words with ink.
These words are neatly written, and they are lined up horizontally and vertically. I saw that after Liu Qiu flattened it, he approached his little head and counted it. It turned out that this was the password that Zhou Bian agreed with him, and Liu Qiu was in charge of the first fixed intelligence station outside under Zhou Bian's direct management, so Zhou Bian specially compiled a set of passwords for it to transmit messages, and Jiang Ping's subordinates relied on the most primitive method before, using people to communicate, not to mention the trouble, and could not transmit a lot of information, and Liu Qiu was a trial point for a new method.
I saw that Liu Qiu first found the word he wanted, and then put a number of columns, which was the fifteenth column, and then a few lines, which was the twentieth line, so Liu Qiu picked up the pen and wrote the five words "fifteen and twenty" on a small piece of linen cloth he found, and then Liu Qiu conceived the text and went to find the next word.
This encryption method is naturally not worth mentioning in the future, but it is the most secure in this era, even if someone robs the secret letter in the future, I don't know what it is.
In the middle of the night, Liu Qiu finally wrote the first secret letter, yawned and sealed it, took a small cloth bag and sewed it to death, put away the quilt cover, and couldn't bear to sleep anymore.
On the second day, this nameless small hotel was still not open, Liu Million was busy paying taxes or something, and the guys were boring cleaning, but Liu Qiu patted his head, "Oops, I have a package that fell in yesterday's inn, I'll go get it." So saying, he said hello to the cook, locked the backyard and went out, and the owner's nephew went out to play, and the guys naturally didn't say anything.
The layout of the city of Zhengdu is similar to that of Luoyang, and the Han Palace where Han Hou lives is in the north, and a large amount of land is set aside in the south for the development of commerce, so the popularity of the southern city is the most prosperous. After Liu Qiu went out, he turned left and right and came to Nancheng.
The streets of the southern city are particularly wide, and there are still some archways erected on the road from time to time, or built for the money of the big merchants, or built for the meritorious service of important officials, each with its own history. Originally, this archway was all glamorous, making people look forward, but under the slightly dilapidated large archway on one side, there was a large group of people sitting around.
The one who prepared it was said that it was a large group of men in short clothes. The short coat is a long robe that the scholars like to wear, and the top only reaches the thighs, which is worn by those who work hard, which is convenient for work. And this group of men is the so-called short-term workers in later generations, squatting here waiting for the employer to come and recruit people, whoever has an emergency job can come to shout, as long as the price is negotiated, the man is naturally willing to exert his strength.
Seeing that the boy was dressed in coarse clothes, he didn't look like a child of a rich family, so a group of men raised their eyes and continued to chat. This boy is naturally Liu Qiu, I saw Liu Qiu first looked at the dilapidated archway, and then looked into the depths of the crowd, and saw a young man who seemed to be not very gregarious squatting alone, with a sweat towel on his left shoulder, although it was not common in this early winter season, it was not strange.
Liu Qiu hesitated for a while, and finally stepped forward and said, "This old man, the weather is very good today." ”
The young man looked up suspiciously, "Where is the weather good today, it was still raining when I went out in the morning." ”
"Oh. My family has a big house in the middle, but it is a little broken, and I need to find someone to make up for it, is my brother willing to help? Liu Qiu recalled carefully and said.
"I can do any job, but my salary is 20 yuan a day, and I only receive Korean coins." But the young man answered the question fluently.
"Well, no, twenty dollars is too little, my master said that I must have thirty dollars a day."
"I can do work for 30 yuan a day, but I only charge 20 yuan a day."
The men who were chatting not far away also heard it, and immediately laughed, how could there be such a conversation, and there was something good to shout, "I also did a good job, call me to go, I can do anything to move stones and build beams." ”
Seeing this excited group of people, Liu Qiu couldn't help but shake his head, I don't know who thought of this code, it's really awkward to say. "I've taken a fancy to this person, and if I need to, I'll come back to you tomorrow."
Saying that, Liu Qiu beckoned to the young man, turned his head and left, the young man hurriedly followed, ignoring the envious eyes of the group of people around him. I only heard someone behind me talking, "How did this Liu'er get lucky today, I rarely saw him go out to work." ”
The young man followed Liu Qiu to a small alley where no one was around, Liu Qiu stopped and looked, and saw that the man was still following him, so he asked out loud, "Are you from the west?" ”
"Yes, the little ones are those from the north, but they come from the west and go to the south, and they do not want to stay in the east."
"Well, that's you." Saying that, Liu Qiu took out the small cloth bag that he had wrapped last night from his bosom and handed it to the man, "Send it to the high mountain in the west, without delay." ”
The young man hurriedly took it, "Yes, my lord, the little one will live up to his expectations." The little one is gone. After saying that, the young man quickly disappeared into the crowd.
Liu Qiu looked around and saw that no one was coming, so he flicked his sleeves and set foot on the way back to the hotel. Liu Qiu's letter naturally couldn't run back to deliver it by himself, so he still had to ask someone to help, this young man was one of Jiang Ping's spies who stayed in Zhengdu, but when Liu Qiu came, he naturally became the one who helped run errands and deliver the letter. But what Liu Qiu still can't figure out is why the king is so complicated, bring an entourage or a guy or something, wouldn't it be good for him to send a letter, and why do you have such a big set of codes?
The young man who disappeared was also very capable, and went back to his residence to get some dry food, clothes and other things and went on the road. This person is the capable spies trained by Zhou Bian and Jiang Ping, although the number is not large, only about thirty people, and they can only take care of a few cities near Han Wei when they are scattered, but these people are all useful, and they can basically find out some big news for the royal family. Such spies exist in all countries, also known as fine work or something, and Zhou Bian's future thinking is to establish an intelligence station, just like Liu Million's hotel, like a steel thorn deep in the enemy's rear, it may be invested now, but it can be of great use when needed in the future.
Of course, if there are more people, it will be better to do intelligence work, for example, today Liu Qiu handed over the letter to A, and then A handed it over to B, and B sent it to Luoyang, B didn't know Liu Qiu at all, and never met Liu Qiu, so if B was arrested, he could only confess A, and at this time Liu Qiu had time to escape. The manpower of the royal family is definitely not up to this level now, and there is no major conflict with the princely powers at present, so this is the case for the first time, and it can be regarded as a framework for future intelligence organizations.
Besides, A received Liu Qiu's letter, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, hurried all the way, and finally arrived in Luoyang five days later.
In the palace, Zhou Bian opened the tight cloth bag of this bag with a smile, looked at the full capital numbers, and scolded with a smile, "There are so many letters written for the first time, it is estimated that most of them are nonsense and waste of cloth." This was the first letter he received written with his own original encryption method, and Zhou Bian was extremely happy in his heart.
But when he heard the king say this, Liu Ruoshui on the side was unhappy, "What does the king say, why does my brother talk nonsense, no matter what, he is doing things for the king." Quickly bring it and let the slave and maid write it again for the king. ”
Zhou Bian smiled and handed over the cloth full of numbers, "That's what this king said, look at you in a hurry." ”
Liu Ruoshui smiled and stopped answering, took the piece of cloth and went to the side, took out a large piece of cloth that was exactly the same as Liu Qiu's quilt cover, and counted it with a frown. Liu Ruoshui is Zhou Bianding's palace decryptor, this little girl is very bright, it didn't take long to learn the method, so it didn't take long to write another piece of cloth, and ran over happily, "Wang, also tell the slave maid, is my brother okay in Zhengdu, did he ask me?" ”
Although Liu Ruoshui can decipher, he can't recognize the words, so he can only count them and write them down, and then give them to the king. It's not that Zhou Bian specifically found someone who didn't know how to avoid leaking secrets, but Liu Ruoshui, who was specially designated, this girl is extremely smart and close to her, so it is worth using.
After taking the cloth, Zhou Bian looked at it, but he was happy at first glance, it turned out that Liu Qiu didn't know many words, and he learned them after being taken in by the royal family, so this article is full of vernacular. I saw that it was written crookedly, "Long live the king, I arrived in Zhengdu, the road is safe, but I heard that there are bandits in Songshan, but we were very careful and did not encounter them." There are a lot of people in Zhengdu, and we bought a small hotel. Zheng Du has to charge money for entering the city gate, and he also has to charge a lot of money for the hotel, I heard that it is because South Korea lost the war. ”
It took a long time for Zhou Bian to understand what Liu Qiu was talking about, one is that there are bandits in Songshan again, it seems that it is time to pay attention, whether to go to training again, this is worth considering. The second is that South Korea began to scrape the people on a large scale, it seems that this time the defeat is not small, but I heard that Wei sent troops north to fight Zhao, Wang Sunman was also taken by Wei Hou to watch the war, I don't know how, it seems that the intelligence work is still not enough. Thinking that Zhou Bian put down the cloth, when he turned his head, he saw Liu Ruoshui's resentful eyes, and he couldn't bear it, so he said, "Your brother said in the letter that you don't have to worry, he is fine, and you want to take care of yourself." ”
Unexpectedly, Liu Ruoshui pouted, "The king is a liar, although Ruoshui can't recognize a few words, but his name Ruoshui and his sister still recognize a few words, and there are no words in Brother Fangcai's letter." ”
This little girl, forget it if you know it, why do you want to say it, really, Zhou Bian couldn't help but be embarrassed, but he argued strongly, "He used another way of saying it, just like the king is also called the Son of Heaven, and the younger sister can also be called Xiao Nizi, that's what he said." ”
"Really? After all, you're still thinking about me. Hehe. Liu Ruoshui smiled.
Zhou Bian also smiled, but put the cloth into his arms, "This king still has something to do today, you go down first." ”
After seeing Liu Ruoshui leave, Zhou Bian was the only one left in the lobby, Zhou Bian's face became serious again, and he stretched out his hand, but a person came out from behind the screen in the room, and it was Bai Gui who should be in Chengzhou.
"Bai Aiqing, are you ready?"
"Don't worry, I have done everything that the king told me before, and the weapons have been secretly transported into a house in the Dingding Gate, and no one is paying attention." Bai Gui bowed and replied.
"Good. This king wanted to let them go, but it was they who did their own iniquity, who is to blame? Zhou Bian frowned, obviously a storm was approaching Luoyang City.