Yang Ke put down the secret letter in his hand and was silent for a long time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Master Hou, is Sima Yue ready to raise troops?" Zhou asked.

Yang Ke didn't answer, and handed the two secret letters to Zhou together. Take it around and see ten lines at a glance. One of these two secret letters came from Zhang Chang and the other from Tang Zhong. The situation is indeed very serious. Zhang Chang's secret letter detailed that Sima Yue had been entrenched in Donghai County in recent years, and had been wantonly amassing wealth, hoarding grain and grass, and recruiting troops, and that he had two sets of important teams under his command, one was the money-collecting team headed by Chang San, who wantonly monopolized the business routes, occupied the people's interests, and smuggled in the name of businessmen, which was equivalent to Sima Yue's money bag. The other team is a staff and confidant system with Langya Wang as the core. Zhang Chang's information is very detailed, it records that there are more than 90 people in the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Yue Muzuo, who are distributed in nearly 50 counties in 15 prefectures, and the vast majority of them are scholars and low-class scholars, and there are more than half of the people who are contaminated with Xuanfeng than those who are Confucian. Among them, the Langya Wang clan occupied an important position and became the backbone of the Sima Yue shogunate.

Tang Zhong's letter was much simpler, with only one core meaning, Sima Yue and Youzhou Assassin Wang Jun formed an alliance.

Zhou looked at the secret letter, and his heart was full of suspicions, because of the low official rank, he did not enter the core of the central decision-making group, and lacked the necessary intelligence sources and experience in studying and judging the general trend, but Zhou's mind was still very clear, he vaguely realized that this place in Donghai County was much more complex and sinister than Sima Tong's Xuzhou Mansion, if Sima Tong was a tyrant entrenched in the place, only seeking a corner of peace, Sima Yue was much more powerful, supporting the local heroes, reusing the gate lord clan, and connecting the powerful ministers, this is clearly the layout of the world, What's more, this layout is intricate, like a hedgehog shrunk into a ball, which makes people feel like they don't know where to start.

Yang Ke was silent on the surface, but his heart was turbulent. He knew too well the importance of Sima Yue and Langya Wang's alliance of interests, and this move actually opened the prelude to the Eastern Jin Dynasty's "Sima Shares the World". The Langya Wang clan also jumped from the gate valve to the stage of dominating the world. As for Wang Jun, although he has the same surname as the Langya Wang family, he is not from the same clan, but from the Shanxi Wang family, but he is also a big family, but he himself is an illegitimate child and is not very popular with the clan. One day, a big cake fell from the sky, and his father Wang Shen died, because Wang Shen had no children, this unorthodox black son was able to inherit his father's Duke Boling's title, and thus embarked on a career in office, and finally became a prince with a male soldier in his hand, sitting on one side, and even plotting to think about the son of heaven. In a nutshell, this person's character is called no discipline and no lower limit. For personal purposes, colluding with foreign races and luring wolves into the house is a well-deserved traitor. This group of people got together, making Yang Ke realize a serious problem, the inertia of history has begun to accelerate, and he is trying to buy time, assess the civil strife of the Eight Kings, break through each one, and then free up his hands to assess the strategic goal of the border troubles is obviously unattainable. The whole situation is like a huge crossroads, and if you make the wrong choice, the consequences are bound to be catastrophic.

The hall fell into a dead silence, and there was no good strategy to refer to. Hei Qi and the others were completely powerless, they rarely saw Yang Ke's grim expression, and they secretly sweated in their hearts. But Honggu saw the opportunity quickly: "Don't frown, the hall has already set up a banquet, or let's talk while eating." ”

Yang Ke woke up from his contemplation at this time, it was already time to eat, and looking at the depressed expressions of everyone accompanying him, he smiled faintly: "You guys go to eat first, don't wait for me, I want to be alone and quiet." ’

Zhou was still waiting to be persuaded, but Hei Qi understood Yang Ke's habits, and secretly pulled Zhou Chu's sleeve: "Let's step back first, let Hou Ye stay alone for a while." ”

Everyone silently withdrew from the lobby, Honggu looked at Yang Ke, wanted to speak and stopped, her eyes were full of concern, but in front of everyone, it was not good to look too careful, and with everyone, she also retreated, leaving only Yang Ke alone in the lobby, lonely and falling into deeper thinking.

The night was getting deeper, the courtyard door was pushed open with a creak, Honggu held a tray in her hand, swayed lightly, and walked in quietly, until she entered the lobby, she was stunned by the scene in front of her. The hall is brightly lit, the giant candle is shining high, under the candle light, Yang Ke is dressed in white like snow, his expression is focused, he is squatting in a huge pile of paper full of people's names, place names and sentences that he can't understand, the paper is all over the hall, he also holds an oil lamp in his hand, holds a pen in his right hand, and draws lines in the paper. I was completely forgetful, completely unaware that Honggu had walked in. Honggu stood stunned for a long time, and Yang Ke's figure reflected a circle of illusory halo under the reflection of the candle flame, and she couldn't help but look stupid. Yang Ke's line was drawn all the way to Honggu's feet, and he came to his senses, looked up at Honggu, and smiled faintly: "I've worked hard for you, let's put it on the ground first." ”

Hongguqiao's face turned crimson, and she hurriedly turned around, carefully stepped on the gap in the paper, put the tray containing the food on the table, and waited until her face calmed down for a moment before she said gently: "Let's eat something first." ”

Yang Ke didn't raise his head, only said "um", and continued to squat on the ground to write and draw.

"Don't eat and pull down 。。。。。" Honggu looked at the absent-hearted Yang Ke, couldn't help but get angry again, picked up the tray on the table and was about to go out, Yang Ke suddenly sighed: "Look at you, you're always so quick to lose your temper, okay, I'll eat, I'll eat right away。。。。。。 ”

Honggu's temper came and went quickly, and she immediately turned her anger into joy: "This is what I specially cooked for you, and it was brought to you just out of the pot, how can the food be imported when it is cold, and it is not necessary to eat for big things." ”

Yang Ke got up and looked at the hall, there was almost no place to put his feet, looked around, and then had an idea: "Put the food on the ground, I'll sit on the threshold and eat." ”

The two of them sat on the threshold facing the hall, with a tray in front of them, and at a glance there was a pile of dense spider webs connected by ink threads. ”

Yang Ke said while pulling the rice: "No way, I've been tidying up for a long time, and now I don't care about it, and I'm going to start all over again." I can only watch this gossip array while eating. ”

"Are you going to learn Zhuge Liang's Eight Arrays?" Honggu asked curiously.

"This is much more powerful than the Eight Array Diagram, what you see in front of you is the general trend of the world." Yang Ke said.