Ma Liu is the intermediary between Li Linfu and the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, his disappearance makes Li Linfu no longer able to know the news from the palace, which is almost equivalent to making him a blind man, what the emperor said today, what his mood is, what he moves, he knows nothing, he can no longer prepare in advance for the emperor's thoughts, which makes him very uncomfortable.

Li Linfu was furious at home, "Go and find it, quickly find it for the old man, you must find it, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death, the old man doesn't believe it, Chang'an City is so big, where else can he go?" Even if you turn Chang'an City upside down, you have to find people! ”

Li Linfu's anger made the staff and doglegs tremble one by one, and a middle-aged man with a gloomy face trembled and agreed: "No, there will be people on the next horse, and in addition, find the Chang'an County Commander and the Wannian County Order, let them touch the officials and arrest the fast, and they will definitely get the people back!" ”

Li Linfu waved his hand irritably, and the middle-aged man retreated in a hurry.

At this time, a young staff member arched his hand and said, "My lord, will this Ma Liu abscond without permission?" ”

"Absconding?" The young staff's words made Li Linfu stunned for a moment, and then he was a little unsure, "Why did he abscond?" ”

"Maybe he's made something big wrong that you can't forgive? Knowing that he was going to die, he chose to abscond? ”

Ma Liu's responsibility is too confidential, he directly represents Li Linfu to contact the eyes in the palace, and all the sources of information must be handed to Li Linfu through Ma Liu's hands, how to contact the eyes in the palace and other eyeliners in Chang'an City, this is only Ma Liu's mastery, therefore, Ma Liu's disappearance is directly equivalent to Li Linfu losing control of the intelligence network in his hands.

After listening to the words of the young staff, Li Linfu was also a little uncertain in his heart, all in all. It is impossible for Ma Liu to disappear for no reason.

Another staff member in his forties twisted his goatee and said: "Xiangye, Ma Liu disappeared suddenly, we didn't notice it in advance, and we didn't find anything abnormal, this matter exudes a strangeness, and there are several possibilities." The first is what Mr. Hu said just now, Ma Liu made a big mistake that we didn't know and had to abscond; Second, he was kidnapped or killed, and the other party had an ulterior motive, either it was premeditated by our opponent, or it was caused by a personal enmity between him and others. ”

Li Linfu's eyes froze, "What Mr. Zhang means." The other party found out that Ma Liu was the key to our control of eyeliner, so we tied him up or killed him? ”

That Mr. Zhang nodded, and said with a solemn expression: "If it's the first type, it's not a big problem, as long as he is still in the territory of Datang, we have a way to find him and arrest him back, but if it's the second type." In any case, it is a big loss for us. If Ma Liu died, then Xiang Ye would lose control of the eyeliner, Zhang had already reminded Xiang Ye that this matter could not be fully controlled by Ma Liu, but Xiang Ye didn't listen! The most terrible thing is that the other party has mastered the method of contacting our eyeliner by forcing Ma Liu, so as to do so. We became deaf and blind, but the other party gained our eyeliner, and the strength is so long, the gap is completely reversed in an instant! ”

After listening to Mr. Zhang's analysis, Li Linfu's face turned a little pale. He was worried: "Will the other party stab this matter to the emperor?" ”

"Probably not, even if they stab the emperor, there is no direct evidence, Xiang Ye does not directly control the eyeliners himself, they do not do much harm to Xiang Ye by doing this, they are not so stupid, controlling those eyeliners is much more beneficial than stabbing this matter to the emperor, Xiang Ye's opponent is not so stupid! The key now is for us to immediately rearrange the eyeliner, re-establish the contact method with the eyeliner, and we must change the contact method before the opponent and regain control of the eyeliner, which is very unfavorable to Xiangye."

Li Linfu nodded, and immediately said to him: "This matter will be handed over to Mr. Zhang to be fully responsible, with Mr. Hu's assistance, how much money is needed to go to the account office to withdraw, and the old man will fully support it!" ”

"No!"

Losing Ma Liu and temporarily losing control of the eyeliners made Li Linfu suddenly think of Zhao Ziliang again, but it was obvious that Zhao Ziliang could not take refuge in him, and he was already sure of this. However, Zhao Ziliang's existence obviously prevented him from getting news from the palace.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Linfu said: "Wu Zhen, Zhao Ziliang is really too much of a hindrance, and the old man doesn't want to see him again!" ”

The middle-aged man named Wu Zhen kept his head down, and when he heard Li Linfu's voice, he immediately bent down and agreed: "No!" ”

"Wait!" An old staff member next to him added: "Whether it is successful or not, you can leave something on the scene to blame other opponents, if Zhao Ziliang dies, it is best, even if the people sent fail to succeed, Zhao Ziliang will definitely go to someone for trouble when he sees what the assassin accidentally left behind, he is a general, forgive him and have no scheming to see something, let's muddy the water so that we will not be found."

Li Linfu thought for a while, then nodded to the person named Wu Zhen, and Wu Zhen gave up his hand again.

Zhao Mansion in the city. There are many officials surnamed Zhao in Chang'an City, but this is Zhao Ziliang's mansion in the city.

Early this morning, Zhao Ziliang was about to go to the Left Prison Guard's Mansion, Wang Can led a burly middle-aged man and a few people who looked like dart masters to walk in quickly, "General! ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "Wang Can, is there anything wrong with you coming over so early?" ”

"General, Zheng San entrusted Mr. Wang of the Weiyuan Dart Bureau from Broken Leaf City to escort two things to the general, this is Mr. Wang's dart" Wang Can said and introduced the strong man next to him to Zhao Ziliang.

The strong man held a big knife and arched his hand to Zhao Ziliang and said: "The villain Wang Wei has seen the general, and Lord Zheng entrusted the Dart Bureau to send two things to the general, one is this letter, and the other is this long wooden box, in view of the agreement, the villain can't open the wooden box, and he doesn't know what is inside, please ask the general to inspect the goods."

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang took the letter and opened it quickly, and said to Wang Dart: "Take a look at the wooden box!" ”

Wang Dart Head took a long wooden box from the two dart masters behind him injured and handed it to Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang took it and opened the seal, opened it, and saw a sheathed war knife with exquisite shape, simple color and revealing majesty lying inside.

"That's right, Wang Darthead, this is this thing, thank you, Xiaode, take some silver money to buy some wine for Wang Darthead and his brothers!"

Bai Xiaode promised: "No! ”

Wang Darttou hurriedly bowed his hand: "Thank you, general!" ”

After Wang Darttou and his subordinate dart masters left, Zhao Ziliang smiled and said to the others: "Zheng San said in the letter that they are not bad over there and often contact each other, and he said that not long after we left from Broken Leaf City, that blacksmith Fu Kun obtained a piece of Tianshan Cold Iron by chance, and it took three months to use it to create a war knife, named 'Chopping Knife', this is it!" ”

Saying that, Zhao Ziliang took out a beautifully shaped and simple war knife from the wooden box, this war knife is a little longer than an ordinary knife, if it is an ordinary person, it may not be used, because it is too long for a two-handed knife for foot combat, and a little too short as a cavalry weapon, but Zhao Ziliang is tall, and his arm span is longer than that of ordinary people, just suitable for this war knife, this length is obviously designed by blacksmith Fu Kun specifically for Zhao Ziliang's height and arm span, Zhao Ziliang and the scabbard together with both hands and danced a few times.

Subsequently, Zhao Ziliang pulled out the war knife from the scabbard, the whole war knife is a special black, this may be the material itself is this color, it has a special texture, the shape of the blade is similar to the horizontal knife, but it is slightly different, its back is slightly bent inward, the blade is convex outward, and the later Japanese samurai sword is very similar, the knife body has moire, both sides of the blood groove, the front end of the back of the knife also has serrations, extremely sharp.

Zhao Ziliang held this battle, he felt very heavy, it is estimated that it should be three times the weight of the general horizontal knife, I am afraid that only a fierce general with infinite strength can use it, and it is in Zhao Ziliang's hands, it feels just right, even if you hold it to fight and chop for several hours, you will not feel tired, but it will not feel too light, this is just right.

Zhao Ziliang took the knife and said to Bai Xiaode: "Come, pull out your knife and try its sharpness, what Tianshan cold iron, make it look very tall, whether it is sharp or not has to be tried to know."

"No!" Bai Xiaode agreed, and pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist with a swoop.

"Look at the move!" Zhao Ziliang said and raised his knife to slash at the top of Bai Xiaode's head.

Bai Xiaode immediately blocked with a horizontal knife, everyone only heard a click, the horizontal knife in Bai Xiaode's hand fell in response, and the blade of the chopping knife in Zhao Ziliang's hand stopped two points above Bai Xiaode's head, but there was still a strand of hair that was cut off by the knife and scattered on the ground.

Although the horizontal knife in Bai Xiaode's hand is not a great treasure knife, it is definitely much tougher and sharper than the waist knife of an ordinary general, but under the knife in Zhao Ziliang's hand, it was cut into two pieces like cutting tofu without holding it out once.

"Hahaha??????" Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed, looked at the ship chopping knife in his hand with affection, and said, "What kind of material is this Tianshan Cold Iron, which can create such a sharp and tough weapon?" ”

Wang Can and the others shook their heads one after another to say that they didn't know, but Bai Xiaode said: "General, who knows this kind of thing, only blacksmiths understand this, but my subordinates heard my father mention it once when he was young, he said that on the Tianshan Mountain, there are not only Tianshan Snow Lotus that can live and die, flesh and bones, but also the treasure Cordyceps sinensis, but also Tianshan Cold Iron, this Tianshan Cold Iron is generally in the top of the Snow Mountain Absolute Domain all year round where the snow is covered, and it has been frozen by the ice for thousands of years, and the texture is rare in the world, so the weapons created are also extremely sharp!" ”

"Oh, I see!" Zhao Ziliang nodded and said with a smile: "Today, General Ben is very happy to get the treasure sword, treat yourself to dinner at noon, go to the Drunken Immortal Tower, everyone goes, everyone goes!" ”

Wang Can and Bai Xiaode and other servants all showed joy on their faces, and they were happy to have wine to drink and meat to eat. (To be continued.) )