Although the central capital is magnificent, the atmosphere of the imperial capital has gradually appeared, but in terms of lively and prosperous, and the folk atmosphere is strong, then the central capital is not as good as Anyang County. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In just a few years, the population of Anyang County exceeded 500,000, which brought great pressure to the government of Anyang County, and also brought sufficient manpower and great prosperity to the central capital.

As the night gradually deepened, Anyang County, which had been noisy for a day, finally quieted down, and it was dark everywhere in the county.

At the time of the two watches, an internal guard cavalry appeared outside the east city, about more than 100 people, and the general was the chief general of the internal guard, Liu Lancheng, Liu Lancheng held a gold medal high, and shouted to the city: "Ordered to enter the city, open the city gate quickly!" ”

The outer city gate slowly opened a crack, a sergeant ran out, checked the gold medal, waved the flag to the city, and the inner and outer city gates opened at the same time. ”

The sound of the horses' hooves was too loud, and Liu Lancheng was worried that it would alarm the target of their trip, so he left his war horse in the urn city, and a hundred soldiers followed him and wanted to run towards the city on foot.

Their target was an alley about two hundred steps away from the East City Gate, and as soon as the team reached the alley, two scouts who had been monitoring it for a long time rushed out, and Liu Lancheng asked, "Are the people still there?" ”

"It's in the house, and there's no one but him."

As soon as Liu Lancheng waved his hand, the soldiers immediately scattered and surrounded the alley, while Liu Lancheng led more than a dozen elite soldiers straight to the alley.

The alley is very short, only seven or eight zhang long, there is only one family at the end of it, the house covers an area of about two acres, the landlord is a local, after selling the residential land in Zhongdu, he got a lot of money, so he bought two pieces of land in Anyang New County to build a house, a house to live in, and the other is the house in this alley to rent out, a month can collect rent 20 yuan, the income is very rich.

The tenant of this mansion is Hu Hongsi, and this is his secret residence, which only a few people know, but the Qi Wangfu Intelligence Bureau has long sent someone to keep an eye on him and discover his secret residence in Anyang County.

Instead of banging on the door, the soldiers jumped over the wall and entered the courtyard, while the rest of the hundred soldiers climbed over the wall from all sides, sealing off all the way out.

Liu Lancheng surrounded the easternmost room with more than a dozen soldiers, and a soldier looked at the window for a moment, nodded to Liu Lancheng, indicating that the person was still in the room, Liu Lancheng waved his hand and ordered: "Do it!" ”

More than a dozen soldiers slammed open the door and lunged inside.

Hu Hongsi, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly woke up from his sleep, and before he could react, several soldiers pressed him to the bed, and his mouth was covered.

Hu Hongsi suddenly understood, and struggled desperately, at this time, a snowy war knife pressed against his throat, Liu Lancheng said coldly: "We are internal guards, if we resist again, we will chop your head with a knife!" ”

Hu Hongsi knew that the general situation was gone, so he stopped struggling, and the soldiers tied him up, gagged his mouth, covered his head with a black cloth bag, and quickly took him away.

There were soldiers in the back to clean up again, removing all traces, just like Hu Hongsi didn't return here to sleep tonight.

The inner guard withdrew with Hu Hongsi like a gust of wind, and the Dongcheng returned to tranquility as if nothing had happened.

.......

At the fourth watch, a carriage stopped in front of the steps of a large mansion on Lanting Street in Zhongdu under the escort of a hundred cavalry, which looked like the mansion of a wealthy and powerful family, but in fact it was the outer office of the Intelligence Bureau of the Qi Palace, and the official office of the Ziwei Palace was the internal office.

Zhang Xuan walked out of the carriage, surrounded by the guards, walked quickly towards the mansion, he came to the back hall, Fang Xuanling came out of the hall, bowed and saluted, "See Your Highness!" ”

"How is he?" Jang Hyun asked.

"He's agreed to work for us, it's just ......"

"It's just that he must promise His Highness his safety, and he doesn't believe me."

Zhang Xuan laughed, "Let's go and see it first!" ”

The two of them walked briskly up the steps to the inner room of the back hall.

In a room in the back hall, Hu Hongsi, who had changed his clothes, sat alone on the couch, he kept drinking water, looking a little nervous, and there were four statue-like guards standing on both sides, looking at Hu Hongsi expressionlessly.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and a guard shouted: "His Royal Highness King Qi has arrived!" ”

Several guards immediately straightened their waists and remained motionless, Hu Hongsi also quickly stood up, only to see Zhang Xuan and Fang Xuanling walking in briskly from outside.

Of course, Hu Hongsi knew King Qi, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down to salute, Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "General Hu, please get up!" ”

At this time, Fang Xuanling glanced at the guards on both sides, the guards immediately retreated, Zhang Xuan invited Hu Hongsi to sit down, and the guards served tea, this kind of formation made Hu Hongsi a little flattered, you must know that he was only a Zhonglang general in the Tang Dynasty, although he was one of the three backbones of the Intelligence Agency, but his status was not high, and he had never been received by the Son of Heaven, and now the King of Qi actually invited him to sit down, you must know that the King of Qi is actually His Majesty the Emperor of the Northern Sui!

Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "I am also a soldier, I know the value of military honor, so I generally respect soldiers, even if it is an ordinary soldier, as long as he serves the country and fights bravely, he will also win my respect, even if he is unfortunately killed, I must send their bones back to their hometown, it is this respect for military honor, so I have also won the heartfelt love of 500,000 Northern Sui soldiers, I hope General Hu can also become one of them." ”

It wasn't until the last sentence that Hu Hongsi suddenly understood Zhang Xuan's deep meaning, he was both moved and frightened in his heart, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "How can he be so virtuous, he has been so loved by His Royal Highness King Qi, and he is willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness King Qi!" ”

Zhang Xuan asked Hu Hongsi to sit down again, and asked with a smile: "I heard that General Hu is in trouble, it seems that his family was detained in Chang'an, what is going on?" ”

Hu Hongsi sighed and said: "In the past, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince treated his subordinates leniently, my wife and children lived well in Chang'an, and I could even go back to Longyou's hometown to live for a while, very free, but since the King of Chu took over Tang Feng three months ago, the King of Chu is not only renamed Bamian Laifeng Tower, but also treats his subordinates harshly and cruelly, he sends people to closely monitor his lowly wives and children, and even threatens his lowly duties with the personal safety of his wife and children, if he does not get the information he wants within the specified time limit, he will put his lowly wives and children to death, not only for me, The same is true for the intelligence envoys in Luoyang, forcing us to take risks. ”

Hu Hongsi is telling the truth, he has long lost confidence in the Tang Dynasty, in the past, it was only because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince treated his subordinates leniently, so that he could not bear to betray, and Li Yuanji was brutal and treated his subordinates ruthlessly and unjustly, if Hu Hongsi hadn't been pinched in his hands because of his wife and children's lives, he would have left the burden long ago.

Zhang Xuan said again: "So Li Yuanji used the lives of your wife and children to force you to get the blueprints of the honeycomb heavy crossbow, right!" ”

Hu Hongsi nodded silently, and sighed for a while, "He ordered me to get a honeycomb heavy crossbow before the Yuan Festival, otherwise he will give me my son's head." ”

Zhang Xuan's eyes showed anger, he remembered the situation when he first saw Li Yuanji, beating a subordinate in Taiyuan, and gouging out the eyes of the subordinate, this kind of brutal character is still the same today, if Li Yuan is planted in the hands of his son, it will not be wronged at all.

At this time, Fang Xuanling suddenly asked, "Is that naval deployment map important to Li Yuanji?" ”

Hu Hongsi was taken aback, "The drawings haven't been sent away yet, and the humble post will be returned immediately." ”

Zhang Xuan understood what Fang Xuanling meant, and said with a smile: "Okay, that drawing is true, but since we know that it fell into the hands of Tang Jun, then this drawing is of little significance, you don't have to return it, just give it to Li Yuanji directly." ”

Hu Hongsi smiled bitterly and said: "That deployment map is indeed very important, it is something that the Son of Heaven has named and wanted, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has listed it as the highest level of intelligence. ”

"And what else is the highest level of intelligence?"

"There are five kinds of intelligence at the highest level, the deployment map of the naval army ranks third, and the first is the battle plan of His Royal Highness King Qi, but this information is needed every time, the second is the details of the Northern Sui in the Chang'an Intelligence Agency, the fourth is the drawing of the Hengyang boat, and the fifth is the drawing of the honeycomb heavy crossbow, which was originally the fifth in Luoyang's troop deployment, but Li Yuanji felt that the honeycomb heavy crossbow was more important, so he replaced Luoyang's troop deployment."

Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "Isn't the grain inventory situation in Northern Sui important?" Could it be that the details of the financial revenue and expenditure of the Northern Sui Dynasty are not important? I think this is really useful information, Li Yuanji actually values the honeycomb heavy crossbow, and his vision is too narrow. ”

"Your Highness, it is difficult for him to become a great weapon, and he is too far from his two brothers."

Zhang Xuan took a few steps and said: "I can't give you the drawings of the honeycomb heavy crossbow, even if it is fake, but I can give you the drawings of the Hengyang boat." ”

Hu Hongsi was taken aback, and waved his hand again and again, "Your Highness, how can the country's heavy weapon be handed over to the enemy?" ”

Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "The Hengyang boat is different from the honeycomb heavy crossbow, even if the Tang Dynasty gets it, it can't be built, first, the Tang Dynasty doesn't have so many superb shipbuilders, and secondly, the Tang Dynasty's national strength can't afford it, and we have only built three ships over the years, so although the drawings are important, they are of no use to the Tang Dynasty, and it doesn't hurt to give them to you." ”

Zhang Xuan also said slowly: "The military advisor is right, the army needs strong national strength to support, in fact, the honeycomb heavy crossbow is the same, you need to use a large amount of fine iron to build a crossbow arrow, ordinary pig iron is not good, ordinary crossbow arrows are even worse, it can't withstand the huge impact at that moment, so it is useless for the Tang Dynasty to get the honeycomb heavy crossbow, the reason why I don't give it to you is because I don't want to use this kind of mass killing weapon on the Tang soldiers, and I have sealed it." ”

Hu Hongsi nodded and said, "I understand, if I can get the drawings of the Hengyang boat, Li Yuanji should let me go this time." ”

Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "Do things for me well, work hard to make meritorious contributions, and when I unify the world in the future, I will give you a knighthood and military position, and let you return to your hometown with glory." ”

Hu Hongsi was overjoyed, knelt down on one knee and said: "I am willing to serve His Highness wholeheartedly!" (To be continued.) )