Chapter 1033: Good News Arrives
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Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "I found that as long as His Royal Highness personally came forward to say the surrender, there was no unsuccessful one, this time it seems to be a trivial matter, but it is of great significance, I think His Highness intends to use him at a critical moment, right!" β
Zhang Xuan nodded, "Hu Hongsi is a very useful fish, if he wants to play a role at a critical moment, he must be raised as a big fish, and the Tang Dynasty must be convinced of his intelligence, so some valuable information must be given to him one after another, and he can even be allowed to rebel against certain officials, just like a person lying, nine and a half of the ten sentences are true, but the most critical half of the sentences are false, so that it can play a role at the key strategic level." β
"Has Your Highness thought of how to use him?"
Zhang Xuan nodded slowly, "I've already thought of it, but it will take time to slowly cultivate Hu Hongsi and wait until the critical moment to use him." β
At this time, the bell of Wugen was faintly heard in the distance, and Zhang Xuan remembered that today was Chinese New Year's Eve, so he smiled and said: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the military division should go back to accompany his family!" There should be nothing important this New Year, and after the New Year, we will make good plans for the military deployment in the new year. β
"Good! I'll clean up and go back, Your Highness has also worked hard, hurry up and go back to rest! β
Zhang Xuan also got into the carriage and left the foreign office, but he was not in a hurry to return to the palace, but let the carriage move slowly in the middle capital, he was busy every day, dealing with state affairs, military and politics, and he had not paid attention to the changes in the capital for a long time.
The road leads directly to Ziwei Palace, it is a moonlit night with fresh air and no wind, and only the sound of his carriage can be heard in the street, and when the carriage stops, there is silence all around.
Next to the window is a tall poplar tree, the bare branches criss-cross, the shadow clearly cast on the clean and flat stone slab, the left side is also a piece of intertwined branches, the branches are reflected by the moonlight white bright, under the cover of the branches can see a black high wall behind, this should also be a wealthy family, Zhang Xuan vaguely remembers that he has been here, it seems to be the family house of the Bohai Gao family in Zhongdu.
Zhang Xuan inhaled the refreshing air a little greedily, at this time, the shadow of the tree on the ground in front of him disappeared, and the earth was suddenly shrouded in darkness, Zhang Xuan looked up at the sky, a huge black cloud came at some point, obscuring the moon, a light white flower fell on his face, and his face suddenly felt cold, it was snow! The sky began to fall large snowflakes, the north wind howled, and on the eve of the fifth year of Xingning, a sudden heavy snow swept the entire land of Hebei.
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On the fourth day of the first lunar month, on the thousand-step corridor of the harem of Taiji Palace, Li Yuanji is excitedly walking towards Ziyun Pavilion, Li Yuanji is also a person who is good at martial arts, tall and burly, heroic and upright, an eighty-pound Fang Tian painting halberd makes it superb, although it is not as powerful as the old three Xuanba, but he is also a fierce general of the three armies, the right Weiwei general Shi Huaiyi has entered the top 20 in the world heroes, and Li Yuanji is indistinguishable from each other.
However, Li Yuanji's ineffective performance in dealing with Liu Wuzhou in Taiyuan, as well as the disastrous defeat in the suppression of Song Jingang, made his father Li Yuan not very worried about him, and did not dare to let him replace the army, and instead put him in charge of external intelligence and internal surveillance.
Compared with leading troops to fight, Li Yuanji prefers his current position, especially monitoring hundreds of officials and assassinating traitors, which makes him feel an indescribable excitement.
Today, Li Yuanji received important information from Zhongdu, which made him overjoyed and hurriedly reported to his father, he urgently needed political achievements to prove his ability.
Since Song Jingang and the Tang Dynasty reached a compromise, the war gradually subsided, and Li Yuan began to enjoy the life of the emperor to the fullest, indulging in beauty and dance music every day, but during this time he became obsessed with divination and astrology, and spent most of his day in the Ziyun Pavilion, the tallest building in the Taiji Palace, standing on the roof to see the starry sky.
At present, there is a famous warlock living in Ziyun Pavilion, called Yuan Shoucheng, and his nephew is the famous Yuan Tiangang in history.
Yuan Shoucheng was also a warlock in the famous earthquake pass, especially good at celestial phenomena and divination.
In the quiet room on the fourth floor of Ziyun Pavilion, Li Yuan was staring at the locust tree outside the window, and Yuan Shoucheng said slowly: "The so-called mind is to see things with the heart, such as this big tree, what we see with our eyes is the leaves and trunks, but if we look with our hearts, we can see more abundant trees, see the worms wriggling in the bark, see the busy magpies on the treetops, see the mosquitoes buzzing under the leaves, and even see the sleeping eggs in the roots, Your Majesty, many things are invisible to our eyes, but we can feel them with our hearts, In fact, everything in the world is the same, and if you look at it with your heart, your majesty will find the other side of things that are more and richer. β
Li Yuan smiled slightly, "Actually, people are the same, they know people and faces, but they don't know their hearts, but I can see through each other with my mind." β
"Your Majesty is absolutely right!"
This is, a magpie stopped in front of the window and chirped twice, and then flapped its wings and flew away, Li Yuan asked curiously: "What can be done about this?" β
Yuan Shoucheng said with a smile: "The magpie is a dependent bird, the song is crisp and pleasant, and there will be good news from the family." β
As soon as the words fell, there was a guard outside the door to report, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has an urgent matter to see!" β
Li Yuan and Yuan Shoucheng glanced at each other and laughed together.
"Announce him to him!"
Li Yuan really admired Yuan Shoucheng's unpredictable prophetic skills in his heart, and Yuan Shoucheng was even more interested, so he got up and retreated.
Not long after, Li Yuanji hurriedly walked into the room and knelt down to salute, "Sons see father!" β
After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, he favored a lot of concubines, and gave birth to several sons, but what Li Yuan really valued was the four sons born to his original wife Dou, the eldest son Jiancheng, the second son Shimin, the third son Xuanba, and the fourth son Yuanji.
Therefore, Li Yuan attaches great importance to his four sons, although the fourth son Yuanji has caused him a lot of trouble, but Li Yuan still trusts him as always, although he is not allowed to lead the troops for the time being, but Li Yuan still handed over the extremely important intelligence agency and the Xuanwu Huofeng who monitors hundreds of officials to him, he believes that his son will gradually mature after experiencing setbacks again and again, and will eventually live up to his expectations.
Li Yuan smiled and asked, "You have brought me good news?" β
"Exactly!"
Li Yuanji took out a scroll from his bosom and presented it with both hands, "This is the garrison map of the Yangtze River Naval Division of the Sui Army, the ports where they are stationed, the types and numbers of warships, and the number of soldiers stationed in the Navy are clearly marked. β
Li Yuan's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly took the scroll and unfolded it, he looked at it carefully, and was immediately overjoyed, with this map, they would be able to fight in the south and the Northern Sui Navy in the future, this was the information he had been waiting for for a long time, and he couldn't get it after it was built, but Yuan Ji actually got it.
Li Yuan looked at the seal on the map again, and was even more surprised in his heart, this was actually the original, and he hurriedly asked, "How did you get this?" β
"Qi Yu's father, his subordinates used the relationship of the Zheng family to buy a protΓ©gΓ© of the Zheng family in the Northern Sui with a lot of money, this person is a member of the Northern Sui Military Department, because there is a lot of rain this summer, many drawings in the treasury of the military department are moldy, and when the drawings were dried not long ago, he secretly hid this map and brought it out."
Li Yuan frowned, "But this is the original, what if the military department finds that it is lost when it is checked?" β
"Father, rest assured, Erchen's subordinates have made a fake and put it back in its place, it is exactly the same as this map, unless you specifically distinguish its authenticity, otherwise if you just check it normally, you will not see that the drawings are fake."
Li Yuan was relieved at this time, nodded and smiled: "The emperor's subordinates are very capable, but that Lang general surnamed Hu?" β
"It is this person, the imperial brother was too tolerant of them in the past, and there was no pressure, so they were also messing around in Zhongdu, eating, drinking and having fun all day long, and they didn't get any important information for a few years, and after the sons took over, they put pressure on them, and under pressure, Hu Hongsi broke through again and again, not only got the Yangtze River naval garrison map, but he also reported to me that he already had the hope of getting the drawings of the Hengyang boat."
Li Yuan was pleasantly surprised, the Hengyang boat is an important weapon of the country, how many years has he coveted it, if the Tang Dynasty also has such a huge ship, whether it is material transportation, the rise of national strength or morale, it will have a huge impact.
Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the Intelligence Agency Tang Feng, he clearly instructed the prince to build a Hengyang boat by all means to get the drawings of the Hengyang boat, and they also wanted to build the Hengyang boat of the Tang Dynasty.
I didn't expect that the long-cherished wish that had not been realized for many years was realized by Yuanji today for himself.
Li Yuan couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and asked, "Why can you get the drawings?" β
"Back to my father, the drawings of the Hengyang Boat are in the warehouse of the Ministry of War, and the officials we have placed in the Ministry of War have also seen it, just because there are too many of them, there are five large boxes, and he has to wait for the opportunity to get them out, Shangyuan Festival happens to be on duty, he will be in charge of the key, he will first move the drawings out of the warehouse, and then take them out of the Ziwei Palace little by little, and he will be able to get the drawings before the end of January at the latest."
Li Yuan breathed a long sigh of relief, Yuan Shoucheng was right, and sure enough, it was his son who brought him good news.
(To be continued.) )