The efficiency of the Wei State was really high, and as soon as the state apparatus was activated, the entire Anyi City began to have continuous news every day. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After sending away 30,000 Wei Wushu who went west, it was only ten days, and the spies outside the city brought back the news that the Hexi soldiers were close to Anyi, and there were actually 70,000 Hexi soldiers, well-equipped, 30,000 for 70,000, plus other adjustable soldiers, it seems that Wei Hou is determined to do another big vote.

You don't have to guess to know that Wei Hou is definitely going to do it with Zhao Guo, but I hope that Zhongshan Guo can hold out until the Wei army arrives, otherwise another country will be destroyed, Zhou Bian thought so, but he also quickly accelerated the actions of his subordinates, on the one hand, he sprinkled a lot of strength to Zhongshan State in the east and Zhao State in the north, Zhou Bian wanted to analyze the balance of forces between each other to judge the next situation, on the other hand, he accelerated the penetration of Qi Qin and Qin, and wanted to set up a line with the high-level in order to persuade these two countries to send troops or give Zhao other help, If he can defeat Wei, it would be the best, and the Marquis of Wei might let himself return to China under the pressure of the Marquis of Qi and Zhao, even if the two armies of Wei and Zhao were deadlocked, it would be conducive to depleting the national strength of Wei and making the name of Marquis of Wei's uncle a burden.

It's just that there is too little I can do, with the newly opened restaurants and shops in the world, as well as the support of the Luoyang royal family, the dark group has only developed to more than 200 people today, and there are thousands of people on the outside, but there are still too few people who can do it.

In short, Zhou Bian believes that the battle of Wei and Zhao will be a turning point, because in the real history, the prosperity of Wei State is due to the fact that Qi State intervened in the war with Zhao State, and Zhou Bian did not know whether this era would be like this, but if he worked hard, he might still be able to make history develop in the direction he wanted, so the messengers who rushed to Qi State one after another should put more pressure on Gu Luo.

At this time, the remnants of Qi had already left Linzi.

"There is no problem with the paper matter, if you continue to do this, the layout of the king has been completed, and the person in charge of the dark group has been connected with Zheng Wuwei, and I should go back and report to the king." Falling thought so.

Also, as a big businessman, although he will also run around, he will never let himself be in charge of a certain piece of business alone, he prefers to control the overall situation in the family, even if he goes out just to develop, fight fires or inspect, people who are used to control will not be willing to stay away from the center of power, so since he has decided to serve the royal family, the goal he has set for himself is that he is no worse than Bai Gui, and he believes that he can do it, so after the paper matter is done, he embarked on the journey to the west, He was going to Anyi to meet the Son of Heaven again, report to him in person, and listen to instructions.

From Linzi to the Central Plains, due west of Changguoyi is the only way, here is also a place where businessmen gather, people come and go very prosperous, in Changguoyi, the habit of stopping down, ready to stay for one more day, not only for the next long trip and rest, more importantly, many years of business experience let Gou Luo develop a habit, that is, every time you go to a Dayi, you have to go to the most prosperous restaurant and restaurant to sit down, listen to what the businessmen in the lobby are talking about, in the era of no network and no newspaper, If you don't have your own intelligence network, listening to it in a crowded place is really the best way to get information.

As soon as he walked into Changguoyi, he sent away a few entourages to find the inn, and he walked into the largest and most luxurious restaurant in Changguo, Changcheng Restaurant, with his escort.

This is the third time that he has walked into this restaurant, and when he saw the familiar old shopkeeper behind the door, he nodded and smiled, and the old shopkeeper also returned a salute, but he believed that although he remembered the old shopkeeper, the old shopkeeper would definitely not remember a guest who had only come three times in ten years.

The hall is very large, just like the many restaurants inside and outside Linzi City, one by one the wooden pillars are propped up, and about divided into several pieces, there are a few small neatly placed on the ground, the guests around the small number have kneeling and sitting, sitting cross-legged, and there are also sitting with leaning legs crookedly, obviously compared to some famous wine shops in Linzi to be much more casual, the guests have talkative scholars, there are tourists who gossip things, but the most is a bunch of businessmen who exchange information with each other, which is also very different from the phenomenon of many scholars in Linzi.

The guy in the store had already greeted him, bowed down and asked if he wanted a private room or a lobby.

"It's in the lobby." Smile and smile, in the private room, it is a place to talk about business behind closed doors, the customs of the people, and the lively conversation in the hall.

"This way, please." The man led the way, bypassing the thick and tall wooden pillars, around a table of guests, and from time to time he touched lightly with the guests who got up and walked back and forth, and continued to walk forward after the accompaniment.

Gou Luo was not in a hurry, and walked slowly, while listening.

Suddenly, a word drifted into his ears, and he could no longer hold up his steps. I only heard the man say, "Marquis Wei has already announced that he will send troops to save Zhongshan Kingdom." ”

"There are also a lot more people coming and going between Zhao and Wei, some fleeing from Zhao, and some rushing to Zhao to make a fortune."

Stopped, and the voice came into his ears intermittently, "Brother Wei came to Qi Country in a hurry, is the wealth of the war so good?" It is still the stability of the Qi country, and the way of the peaceful world is good for business! ”

The guest behind him stopped, and the guy soon found that he also stopped, "Hakka, the vacant seat is still ahead!" ”

Luo Luo waved his hand, "Just sit here, I know these friends." ”

When the guest said this, the man nodded naturally, and hurriedly ordered to add utensils, and he sat down on his knees with a wave of his hand, while several guards were looking for another place.

With many years of experience in business, Luo Luo quickly got acquainted with these people, a few glasses of wine down, with a wave of his hand, I have wrapped this wine, and several people have begun to call each other brothers.

Doing business is dealing with people, and observing words and colors is the most basic, and inquiring about information is also a basic skill.

Soon, Gou Luo got the news he wanted, just a month ago, Wei Hou began to transfer troops, nearly a month ago, Wei Hou announced in a high-profile manner that he would save Zhongshan and perform the duties of the country of Bochang, maybe the troops have been sent in the past few days, but the news must still be on the way.

The news delivered by the people who rely on business travelers will definitely be slower than the official one, maybe now the Qi Palace has been discussing this major event in the west many times, but it is certain that the king must have an order to come, maybe he just missed it, Gou Luo thought so, but he still drank with these new friends, exchanged their respective information, and said goodbye politely.

Going out is the entourage who went to find the inn, and those who can follow the master of the house to go out are naturally capable people, the inn has already been found, but it is not enough to bow his head and ponder, and after a while, he raised his head, "Vacate the guest room tomorrow morning, and then return to Linzi." ”

"Back to Linzi?" The attendant steward, fearing that he had heard it wrong, repeated it again.

"Yes, back to Linzi." Woo Luo affirmed. Gou Luo believes in his own judgment, the king must have instructions to come, maybe not yet, maybe missed, Gou Luo knows the king's layout, is to want Qi to balance Wei in order to return to Luoyang, at this time when something big happens, it is obviously more useful to stay in Linzi than to go to Anyi to meet the king.

The next morning, just after dawn, the group of people went on the road against the sun, and when they returned to Linzi, they were much faster than when they just left Linzi, and the two-day journey was completed in less than a day and a half.

By noon, Luo Luo was already sitting in Zheng Wuwei's hotel.

This is a very ordinary small restaurant, the front is a lobby, can accommodate four or five small several, the back is four private rooms, barely for some medium businessmen or declining aristocrats to come to gather, although the business is not bad, in the bustling Linzi city is inconspicuous.

In the innermost private room, Gou Luo's expression was serious, after the guys in the store retreated, only Gou Luo and a few of his entourages remained, a wooden wall of the private room opened, it turned out to be a secret door, Gou Luo walked in, and it went straight to the backyard, and it was a dark room.

In the dim oil light, Zheng Wuwei was really waiting inside, and there were also several messengers from the royal secret group who came in a hurry. It turned out that as soon as the Gou Luo entered the city, he asked the entourage to take the first step to contact Zheng Wuwei and the royal family's dark group in Linzi.

Although it is two families, the connection between the two is very close, because paper is the property of the royal family, and the Wu family is only an agent, so a considerable part of the dividends from selling paper are still handed over to the dark group in the development, and the dark group needs to rely on some of Zheng Wuwei's relationships and signboards in Linzi to do things, so it is as close as a family.

So a message came from the entourage that the people from the dark group and Zheng Wuwei were waiting in the shop.

Seeing that the head of the family had gone and returned, Zheng Wuwei didn't say anything, but the person in charge of Linzi of the secret group on the side stepped forward, reported the situation of Anyi, and handed over the king's letter at the same time.

Indeed, as the Woo Luo thought, the messenger from the west and the Gou Luo who returned to the west crossed over, and then the messenger copied a letter and chased it westward, but in this era of very underdeveloped communication, it is still difficult to find a person, so the Gou Luo has not met, but fortunately the Gou Luo himself returned to Linzi, thinking of this, the Gou Luo himself couldn't help but be a little proud of his wisdom.

However, after reading the two letters from the king, Luo Luo frowned, and after waving his hand, there were only three people left in the dark room, Luo Luo, Zheng Wuwei and Zheng Guanxi, the head of the dark group. Every time I heard this name, I felt inexplicably shocked, but then I thought that this was a pseudonym taken by the king, and I was relieved again.

"Wei Hou intends to save Zhongshan and fight Zhao, everyone knows this. The king asked me to wait to find out the attitude of Qi first, and then find a way to prompt Qi to send troops. Although the letter didn't say why, it was obvious that if Qi could combat the arrogance of Wei, it would be of direct benefit to the king's return to China.

After a pause, neither of them reacted before meeting, and then continued, "According to the king's intentions, it would be best if the Qi State could be prompted to send troops directly, followed by secretly organizing soldiers to help each other, not playing the flag of the Qi State, and the third is not to send troops, only supporting weapons and food, and finally the Qi State will not take any action." The king's bottom line is to support weapons and food. As he spoke, his brows furrowed even deeper, obviously in the current view, if the Qi people had chosen to do nothing, it would still be very difficult to promote the transformation of Qi Hou.

"Lord Wu, it's hard to hurry back, let's sit down and talk!" That Zheng Guanxi made a gesture of please, and after he sat down, he asked Zheng Wuwei to sit down first, and then sat down by himself.

"Fortunately, Lord Yu has opened up the situation, otherwise I would have been sitting here until tomorrow dawn, and I still don't know what to do. The king once commanded, Linzi affairs, all listen to the orders of Lord Wu, I don't know about the king's will, Lord Wu does he have specific ideas? Zheng Guanxi arched his hand.

It is true that he wants to devote himself to serving the royal family, he has been met by the king, and he has indeed been entrusted with the important task of going to Linzi to open the paper market, but if he is close to the king's heart, he thinks that he is still inferior to these people in the dark group, but he is in the perspective of the royal family, maybe it is the same, because of a time problem, he has served the royal family for less than half a year, and many of these people in the dark group have followed the king from Chengzhou, and the other is a family problem, I believe that whether it is the royal family or the princes and lords, they will guard against the big families in the country, right?

But he didn't care, he believed that one day he would reach the same height as Bai Gui, because of his ability, he never doubted, but for business, that is the strength of the fall, and for intelligence and to promote some things behind the scenes, it is not his strength, at least not yet, but about these, it is said that the king has personally trained the first batch of members of the dark group, although I have not heard that great results have been achieved over there, but in the collection and processing of intelligence, there is indeed a set, in the past few months, In Linzi, he had a deep understanding, so after laughing, he spoke, "Let's listen to your thoughts first." ”

That Zheng Guanxi is also a simple person, and he arched his hand and said, "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, there must be shortcomings, and I hope that Lord Wu won't laugh at it." In fact, after the king's instructions came, we had already begun to discuss, if Qi decided to send troops directly, it would be easy to do, if we were unwilling to help Zhao Guo, then we had summarized three directions to deal with. ”

Actually had three ideas, Wu Luo immediately sat up straight when he heard this, on the way back from Chang Guoyi, Gu Luo guessed that the king's intention must be to hope that Qi Guo would send troops to save Zhao, and he thought about it for a day in the car, but if Qi Hou had no intention of sending troops, it was very difficult for him to promote this matter, of course, if Qi Hou intended to send troops, then how to reflect his role? So Gou Luo immediately set his hopeful eyes on Zheng Guanxi, but in the dim dark room without windows, there was an oil lamp, but the other two couldn't see this gaze at all.

"First, it is the public opinion orientation that the king once said, that is, to spread some views in Linzi, causing civil discussions, forcing Qi Hou to react, we have summarized it, the point of view can have two parts, one is that Qi failed to save South Korea last time, so that Wei Hou became the uncle, this time will not send troops to Zhao, Qi is not declining, the second is that the Song State controlled by Wei State has bordered Qi State, if Wei State invades the land of Zhao State and becomes stronger, then will it find an opportunity to attack Qi State to show its strength. We can talk about these points of view in wine shops, etc., and try to guide them in these two directions, and the Qi country does not prohibit scholars from discussing state affairs, which may have an effect. ”

After listening to Zheng Guanxi's words, the perennial business life has taught him not to despise any little person, but after listening to Zheng Guanxi's words, his eyes still lit up, and he deserved to be a dark group cultivated by the king, and his thinking was very clear.

"And the second?" Fallen asked.

"The second is to take the high-level route. Since Lord Wu came to Linzi, he has successfully connected with Duan Ganpeng, and he can influence Duan Ganpeng, the housekeeper of Duan Ganfu who has been befriended and Duan Ganming, the descendant of his descendant, to ask them to find out the news, and propose to Duan Ganpeng, as long as we can persuade the above two people and tell them to tell Duan Ganpeng about our analysis, maybe they can get Duan Ganpeng's approval, and even improve their status in their hearts, they will definitely still do it, the key is what we teach them, whether we can impress Duan Ganpeng, this is the key point and the most difficult place. ”

His eyes lit up again, there were more than a dozen descendants of the Duan Gan family, Duan Ganming was not the most valued one, if with the help of outsiders, he could show his face in front of the head of the family, Duan Ganming would swallow it even if he knew that it was a poison. Indeed, the key is whether the words taught to him can impress Duan Ganpeng, you must know that Duan Ganpeng's wisdom has been verified.

"And the third?" Gloomy then asked, his voice still calm.

"The third is the next policy, the nobles of the big countries have the style of raising soldiers, you can choose a person to recommend himself to a certain Linzi nobleman, and persuade him to let him go to Qi Hou again, so that Qi Hou can send troops, the difficulty of this matter is especially above the second strategy, because if we can say that Duan Ganpeng, then Duan Ganpeng will help persuade Qi Hou, obviously it is more difficult to persuade Qi Hou directly, and we don't know Qi Hou well."

Luo Luo nodded, compared with the previous one, this is indeed a good idea, but what he thought of was to find an opportunity to meet Duan Ganpeng directly and persuade the latter, but he didn't think about it, but he was said to be the next step by Zheng Guanxi, and his heart was not very comfortable for a while.

However, as a person who aspires to become a big man, this ability to adjust is still there, and the discomfort in my heart is only a trace, and it flashes away.

After a deep sigh, as soon as the three of them discussed, the royal office in Linzi headed by Gou Luo set a plan, the first two strategies were implemented simultaneously, and the third plan was set as an alternative, of course, it still depends on the war situation between Wei and Zhao, if Wei won a big victory or even attacked Zhao, then I can't wait to meet the Marquis of Qi directly.

The general details must be clear, including how to probe the news of the Marquis of Qi and his ministers, how to walk the rumors to guide the direction of the Linzi Shizi's speech, how to adjust the opposite side at any time, a new set of intelligence work plans has just been released, of course, the most critical place is how to indirectly persuade Duan Ganpeng, and finally, there is a most basic premise, that is, to find out the meaning of the Marquis of Qi.

Back in the front private room, it was already more than an hour later, and only Zheng Wuwei was here to accompany Luo Luo to drink.

"What do you think of them now?" Woo Luo asked casually.

"Do you mean Brother Kansai? He has a clear mind and is a person who can do things. Zheng Wuwei replied respectfully.

"No, I'm asking them, the Son of Heaven and the people behind it."

"Huh? The villain doesn't understand. ”

"This Zheng Guanxi used to be just a pawn, these are all taught by the king!" He took a deep sip of wine and sighed.

Zheng Wuwei didn't answer, but at this time, his opinion on the head of the family to serve the royal family had changed greatly.

After being full of wine and food, walking out of the restaurant was already full of stars, and he moved his body and stepped into the carriage back to his residence.

And at this moment, west of Linzi, in the newly renovated small manor, Duan Ganpeng stepped out of his luxurious carriage, and the tired day of the court meeting finally ended.