Ling An put the things on the desk and said, "Young Master, this is the distribution map of the four frontiers of the world, as well as the imperial capital and the Kaiyuan Shadow Personnel; And this booklet, which records all the events that have taken place in the counties of the world during the past two months. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"It's been two months, and it's useless to send it."

Ignoring the booklet, Ling Feng unfolded the parchment roll, the parchment was too big to be unfolded on the desk, Ling Feng got up and spread it on the ground.

After spreading it out, Ling Feng realized that it was three sheepskins sewn together, with a lot of cities painted on it, and many red dots, and various place names; At first glance, you can see that this is a detailed map.

"It's a good map, it's so detailed."

Ling Feng looked at it, on the map, the red dots in the three places of Northern Xinjiang, the Imperial Capital, and Kaiyuan were particularly dense, and sometimes there were two red dots in a small county town, and there were more in Kaiyuan, and the red dots were dense.

Ling An said: "In the counties of the four Xinjiangs, I have arranged more than 10,000 people, some of them are official shadow personnel, some are people from the rivers and lakes, and some are supernumerary personnel who took refuge later, and there are more than 10,000 people in each county..." ”

"You wait." Ling Feng frowned and said, "The personnel are so messy, aren't you afraid of leaking secrets?" ”

Ling An smiled: "Young master, don't worry, it won't; Last month, I sent more than 2,000 official shadows to various counties, and each county had a dozen to a hundred people, and if there was a traitor, the official shadow personnel would immediately kill him, and besides, the real secrets were only known to those who trusted, and those who were not supernumerary could not know about them. ”

Saying that, Ling An pointed to Han Ziyu's mansion in Kaiyuan, and said: "Ruziyu Military Division, this Han Yi and Han Er are the ones who took refuge later, and they are supernumerary personnel; Their task is to spy on Han Ziyu, and there will be no other tasks, they don't even know who they are loyal to, and they don't know you, young master. There are many people like this all over the world, and I bought them with money, or I grabbed their families and coerced them. ”

"Well, that's fine..." Ling Feng kept staring at the map.

After looking at it for a while, he understood that the distribution of shadows in the world was roughly as follows:

In the imperial capital, Kaiyuan, and northern Xinjiang, each county has more than ten to a hundred official shadows, such as those inconsequential small counties, there are only ten shadows, and those large counties, important checkpoints, there are a hundred, such as the imperial capital, such as Surabaya Pass, these two places have arranged a hundred.

In addition to these three places, the counties in the south, west, and east of Xinjiang are very rare, and there are only a few official shadows in one county, and the rest are supernumerary personnel.

Ling An said: "In every county, we have an industry, most of them are restaurants, and some of them are blacksmiths, in short, by now, they have been able to support themselves. ”

Ling Feng smiled: "It's good to be self-sufficient, which means that you don't have to let me spend money in the future?" ”

Ling An looked embarrassed, scratched his head, and said, "Young Master, I called you here just to tell you that I have no money..." ”

"What?"

Ling Feng's gaze finally withdrew from the sheepskin map, and shouted, "What are you talking about, there is no money again?" When you were in Qingliang County, didn't you just take hundreds of thousands of gold? ”

"Young master, hundreds of thousands of gold is too little, just to make up for the industries in the western, southern, and eastern counties, in addition to the imperial capital, Kaiyuan, and northern Xinjiang to establish secret post stations along the way, buy off Pang Yi, Liu Hai, Bai Ku and other important generals under the command of others, originally there were more than 100,000 taels left, but I established a base in the back mountains of Chuangu County, and spent a lot of money to envelop the masters on the rivers and lakes, alas, now there are tens of thousands of taels left."

Ling An shook his head again and again, his face bitter.

Ling Feng was really speechless, in order to engage in this shadow, he had spent more than 600,000 taels of gold before and after, if it was used to buy food and equipment for the army, it would be enough to support hundreds of thousands of troops, of course, the premise was that he could buy food.

But right now, it's just for this shadow, and it's not done yet. According to Ling An, if you want to inquire into the internal affairs of other forces in detail, you must break into more money.

"I don't have any money now, those hundreds of thousands of taels are the taxes paid by the three northern counties for many years, as well as the people's fat and people's ointment collected by Wei Ning, and now they are all for you; Why don't you save some money, you and I are making money. ”

Ling Feng said with a displeased face: "With the speed at which you use money, even if you have more money, I'm afraid you won't be able to supply it." ”

Ling An smiled bitterly: "Young Master, there is no way; Let's take a few days ago, I bought Pang Yi's personal guard, just a small personal guard, it cost me 5,000 taels of gold, and I also arrested his whole family and seized it, and the price we had to spend during this period was not small; This is just a guard, if you want to buy off ministers and important generals, then.... ”

"Okay, don't talk about it, I'll figure out how to deal with money."

Ling Feng asked, "Are you still okay?" ”

"It's gone."

Ling Feng got up and said, "Let's go, take me to see Uncle Zhong, I haven't seen him for a long time." ”

"Young master, Uncle Zhong has returned to Chuangu County."

Ling Feng sat back again: "Why did he leave so quickly and didn't come to say hello." ”

Ling An said: "Young Master, now that our business is bigger, Uncle Zhong is busy every day without touching the ground, how can he have time." ”

Ling Feng nodded, Ling Zhong had followed his father for decades, he was loyal and his contributions were not small, now that he was in his old age, he didn't expect to be busy before and after, he really couldn't help it.

"By the way, let the ladies in the backyard out, and let them help Uncle Zhong take care of the family's business, so that they don't have idle meals, and don't let Uncle Zhong work so hard."

Ling An smiled: "Young Master is really merciful, okay, I'll inform Uncle Zhong now." ”

"You go down first."

"Yes."

After dealing with Ling An's affairs, Ling Feng returned to his seat and continued to look at the map.

........

Last night was the last day of the year, yesterday has passed, and now is the new year.

In the territory of Kaiyuan, the war can be said to be imminent, Han Ziyu personally led an army of 200,000 to attack the city south of Liuhai, and Bai Ku himself also led an army of 50,000 to the west, intending to prevent Liu Hai from sending troops to rescue, as well as to contain Liu Hai.

The White Withered forces had an army of about 400,000 people, and in addition to the soldiers stationed in various places, these 250,000 people were the limit of the expedition.

These things are very troublesome in Kaiyuan, but for the imperial capital, it is just news, with Jiang Lin stationed at the border of the imperial capital, the officials of the imperial capital do not feel the crisis, and the emperor, Liu Hai was beaten in his expectation, the conspiracy succeeded, what else can he say except for happiness.

The emperor gave Liu Hai an order that unless Liu Hai reached the last moment, he was not allowed to send troops to rescue.

The emperor's will was only passed on to Jiang Lin, which could be said to be a secret decree, but after Jiang Lin received the holy decree, he told Ling Feng the content of the holy decree, and Ling Feng knew it completely.

In fact, even if Jiang Lin didn't pass the news, Ling Feng would know, because the eunuch in charge of delivering the message had a very good relationship with Ling Feng, and the day after Jiang Lin sent the news, the little eunuch gave the news to Ling Feng.

In fact, this news was useless, Ling Feng could guess the little emperor's mind with his toes, nothing unusual.

If the emperor wants to get all the land of Kaiyuan, then he must greatly weaken the power of Bai Wei and the power of Liu Hai, how to weaken it? Of course, it is a good battle, and when the two of them are both defeated, the emperor will make another move and occupy all the cities in Kaiyuan County in one fell swoop. (To be continued.) )