At this time, Wu Yanqi and Meng Zhixiang, who set off without notifying any colleagues or relatives, also came to Chitang Pass and looked at the tall Chitang Pass city wall. The two glanced at each other, and they both saw a wry smile in each other's eyes, worried about this time.

Meng Zhixiang hesitated for a moment, and arched his hand to Wu Yanqi and said, "My lord......"

"Hey! Brother Zhixiang, what are you talking about, we are equals, don't talk about adults or adults! Hearing this, Wu Yanqi waved his hand on horseback, interrupted Meng Zhixiang's words, and said politely.

Meng Zhixiang saw that Wu Yanjue's eyes were sincere, and knew that Wu Yanjue's words were not modest, so he was not hypocritical, and nodded. Then he said: "Brother Yanqi, when you say this, Zhixiang is not welcome. Let's go into the city without a banner! Otherwise, I am afraid that it will not be good for that person to be wary. ”

Wu Yanqi frowned when he heard this, and said, "Isn't this okay?" He must have received the documents that we and the other two of us were going to come, and with a little calculation, he would know the approximate time of our arrival, and he only needed to send someone to the city gate to guard it. Our trip is very hidden, and it is extremely easy to be discovered, and it will be even worse to be discovered at that time! After all, if we enter the city secretly, it is easy to startle the snake! ”

Meng Zhixiang pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "What Brother Yan Qi said is very true, but I didn't think about it. Well! It is better for one of us to be the master of the light and the other to be the dark, which is the best. After all, the stakes are high, in case ...... In case he really reversed. I'm afraid it's time for Taiyuan to fall! ”

When Wu Yanqi heard this, he also pondered for a moment, and said: "Okay, now there is only this way, so that my lord is clear, Brother Zhixiang is sick, how about secretly investigating?" ”

"Very good!" When Meng Zhixiang heard this, he didn't shirk it, although it seemed that he was secretly investigating the danger, but it was not easy for Wu Yanqi to deal with Li Siyuan.

What are the details of ............"? Li Cunhuan took his eyes off the military book in his hand, looked at Sun Dingshi, the envoy of the Jinyi Guard, who was standing in the dark corner, and asked in a deep voice.

"Hao Yi was discovered by Li Siyuan because his soldiers robbed a civilian woman before. not only arrested his soldiers, but also arrested Hao Yi and beat him with twenty military sticks, saying that Hao Yi was not strict with his subordinates. The last general took advantage of Hao Yi's resentment towards Li Siyuan, and had already bought off Hao Yi, the guard of Shiling Pass, but Li Siyuan paid very close attention to the two passes, and Hao Yi had no way to secretly open the city gate. The last general can only use a discordant plan against Li Siyuan. But I don't know if Li Keyong will believe it," Sun Dingshi said with a little indifference in respect, as if he was saying something insignificant.

"Will Li Siyuan blame Hao Yi for this trivial matter? Could it be that there is fraud in it? Hearing this, Li Cunhuan held his chin with his left hand, frowned slightly, and muttered. Robbing people's girls is a big deal in modern times, but in this troubled world, everyone can eat people, but robbing people's girls is not a big deal. This is also the greatest sorrow of people living in this era.

When Sun Dingshi heard this, he explained: "This Hao Yi is not an ordinary person, and he has been the guard of Shiling since his father, and it has been thirty-eight years now. The Hao family was based on Shiling Pass, and established caravans to often travel between the grasslands. Not to mention the wealth of the family, and recently, there happened to be a group of stranded war horses on hand, a full 200. ”

"Oh! That's a lot of energy! When Li Cunhuan heard this, he couldn't help frowning, in the ordinary small tribes on the grassland, I am afraid that there are no two hundred war horses. War horses are not ordinary horses, war horses need to be trained. Although it is said that ordinary horses can also go to battle, they are more likely to panic, and even run wild when they encounter a sting. In addition, in terms of physical strength, physique, and battle awareness, they are far behind the war horses. And often only one war horse is trained among seven or eight horses, so war horses are very precious.

Of course, this also has something to do with the unformed horse breeding system in the East. Although this is a very shameful thing, I have to admit that the war horses in the East are not as good as the war horses in the West. This has a lot to do with the casual cultivation of oriental war horses, which has led to the loss of many excellent bloodlines.

Li Cunhuan doesn't have to think about the rest to know, Li Siyuan must have taken a fancy to the Hao family's war horse. What's more, he was defeated by himself before, and he lost a lot of soldiers and horses, so he naturally needed to replenish urgently. In addition, the Hao family's power in Shiling Pass is deep-rooted. Li Siyuan wants to command the Hao family, so naturally it is indispensable to beat it. With so many reasons, it is already an inevitable thing to do something to Hao Yi, which is why this beating appeared.

Li Cunhuan nodded and asked, "This is trustworthy!" By the way, I heard that Li Keyong sent an envoy? will definitely spy on Li Siyuan, who is the messenger? ”

"It's the old man of the past, the main envoy is Wu Yanqi, and the deputy envoy is Meng Zhixiang!" Sun Dingshi replied respectfully.

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he nodded thoughtfully, and he remembered these two people after thinking about them carefully. Needless to say, Meng Zhixiang established Houshu and passed on the country for two generations, and it was destroyed by Zhao Kuangyin more than thirty years later, so Li Cunhuan was particularly familiar. On the other hand, the familiarity is that the last time Zhu Wen sent troops to Chengde, Li Keyong sent these two to sue for peace with him.

Li Cunhuan hesitated and asked Sun Dingshi, "What do you think of Meng Zhixiang?" ”

"This person's ability is very good, Li Keyong appointed him as the Taiyuan Zuo coach, and trained thousands of good soldiers and horses for Taiyuan every year. Li Keyong even married Meng Zhixiang with his niece, which can be imagined to be important to Meng Zhixiang. I'm afraid it's not easy to rebel. When Sun Dingshi heard this, he shook his head and said.

Li Cunhuan couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, it can be seen from the situation that Meng Zhixiang later became the emperor, Meng Zhixiang is a person with great ambitions. Generally, people with great ambitions are terrible, but they can also be lured to their advantage, and they are easier to use by the enemy than those who are upright and gentlemen. However, Sun Dingshi's words are not wrong. The current Meng Zhixiang is not the later Meng Zhixiang, a person's ambition is bred with his ability.

Li Cunhuan is a typical example, at the beginning, he just wanted to get rid of the identity of a small soldier and become a general. Later, just for self-preservation, he became the envoy of the Lu Long Festival. Now, he has the ambition to dominate the world. It can be said that ambition is very difficult to touch. If you can arouse him, even the monstrous waves will not be extinguished. If you can't hook up, this person will become a more saint than a saint.

Li Cunhuan sat sideways at the old Taoist priest who seemed to be sleepy, and Zhou Yanpet asked, "Sir, do you think Meng Zhixiang can rebel?" ”

Zhou Yanpet staggered up his waist, as if he had just woken up. waved the dust in his hand, and said to Li Cunhuan: "There is a demon in your heart, so you can naturally tempt it." If there is no demon in the heart, it can be created naturally. There are no saints and gentlemen in this world, and the reason why they are saints and gentlemen is only because they have not encountered enough things to tempt them. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Yanpet seemed to think of something, looked at Sun Dingshi standing in the shadows, and asked: "I remember that Meng Zhixiang seems to be from Xingzhou, so the Zhaoyi Festival made Meng Fangli surnamed Meng, what is the relationship with Meng Zhixiang?" ”

Sun Dingshi didn't answer Zhou Yanzhong's words, looked at Li Cunhuan, saw Li Cunhuan nodded slightly, and then replied: "Meng Zhixiang is a native of Longgang, Xingzhou, so the Zhaoyi Festival makes Meng Fangli his uncle, so the Zhaoyi Festival makes Meng Qian his uncle." Although his uncle and uncle were in opposition to Li Keyong, his father served in Hedong. After two generations, Li Keyong trusted him a lot, but he did not get angry. ”

Zhou Yanpet smiled: "What is there to be angry about, in the past, the three brothers of the Zhuge family of the Three Kingdoms served Wei, Shu, and Wu, but they didn't see any suspicions from their monarchs." Among them, Zhuge Liang and his nephew Zhuge Ke have become the prime ministers of a country under one person and above ten thousand people. However, since Meng Zhixiang was born in the Zhaoyi Meng family, I am afraid that he has the idea of restoring the family's former prestige. Your Highness may wish to lure him to the throne with the Zhaoyi Festival, and perhaps he can get unexpected results. ”

Li Cunhuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and he did not hesitate to praise him, and said with a smile: "Mr. is really my Zhuge Kongming!" Mr. Dezhi is like a fish in water! ”

Even if Zhou Yanpet is a thin red dust, he was praised by Li Cunhuan at this time, and he couldn't help but show a somewhat triumphant expression on his cheeks.

When Sun Dingshi saw it, he couldn't help but show a little disdain on his face, and at the same time a little jealousy. Xindao: I worked hard to rebel against Hao Yi, but I can't get His Royal Highness's appreciation as easily as this old Taoist priest, which is really infuriating.

Li Cunhuan's eyes swept to the expression on Sun Dingshi's face, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and then he immediately understood. also feels that he is inevitably biased, but Li Cunhuan's methods are very unclever. After understanding, he immediately said casually: "Dingshi, you can't do anything this time." Go down and receive a reward of thirty thousand dollars, and I will give you another hundred thousand dollars for your men. How to distribute, you decide. All you need to do is give me a copy of the paperwork. ”

Sun Dingshi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, Li Cunhuan not only gave him a reward, but also gave him the opportunity to buy people's hearts. This 100,000 yuan was personally rewarded by Li Cunhuan, even if he got a copper coin, I am afraid the effect would be different.

It is all because the royal government has its own money-minting institutions, and there are also local money-minting institutions in various places. Although the amount of each coin is similar, it also clearly has different characteristics. The money of the palace, on one side is Datang Tongbao, and on the other side is so-and-so casting. Among them, the palace casting is naturally the best quality. What is more important is that it is only a small range of circulation, which is generally rewarded to meritorious officials, and what they get is not only money, but also an honor.

Let's say that Meng Zhixiang and his entourage, because of the special destruction of Jinyiwei, Meng Zhixiang was soon discovered by Li Siyuan. When the two met, the atmosphere was quite awkward. However, Meng Zhixiang was Meng Zhixiang in the end, and soon found an excuse to cover up the past. However, it also made Li Siyuan suspicious of Meng Zhixiang's strange behavior, Meng Zhixiang secretly spied and had no choice but to die.

In order to prevent Li Siyuan from seeing through them, Wu Yanqi had no choice but to set off in advance, and they only stayed in Chitang Pass for a day and a night before leaving Chitang Pass. Wu Yanqi, who was originally going to stay in Chitang Pass for two to three days, was very depressed, but it was not easy to blame Meng Zhixiang. can only clean up his mood, hold his breath, and prepare to put out a handful of information on Li Cunhuan to vent the depression in his heart.

After walking only five or six miles, the group met the capture general of Yuan Congjun. Because Wu Yanqi and his entourage are so special, they are simply eager to attract the whole Lulong army to see them, everyone is freshly dressed and angry, and they don't have the consciousness of being scouts at all. So when he saw Wu Yanqi and his party, he didn't make a move, but just gathered thirty or forty horsemen to surround Wu Yanqi and his party.

Wu Yanqi knows that he is talking nonsense and crepe on the battlefield, but it is easy to cause misunderstanding among these big bosses. If it was somewhere else, it would be fine, but it would be just a meal of punches and kicks. But on the battlefield, it's a matter of swords adding up and blood spattering five steps. didn't talk nonsense, he directly used his identity to tell the head, the head of the catcher, pretended to take the paperwork handed over by Wu Yanqi and read it, and then put it away. Let people escort, part-time monitors and take Wu Yanqi and his party to the camp. And he quickly reported it first, so that the boss could be prepared.

Li Cunhuan saw the rather tough paperwork, so he had the heart to cool Wu Yanqi and his party, and asked people to divide a separate place in a remote place, press the tent, and build a wooden wall on the periphery to let Wu Yanqi and his party rest.

People who don't know still think that Li Cunhuan is kind and gives them the same living treatment as Li Cunhuan. The people who knew it were secretly laughing, Li Cunhuan was treating Wu Yanqi and them well, and Li Cunhuan was letting Wu Yanqi and them be placed under house arrest.

Wu Yanqi came, and for three days, Li Cunhuan ignored it. And Wu Yanqi stayed in the wooden wall for three days, even if he wanted to find out information, it was useless, surrounded by a wall. There is no place to look. In addition, the place is remote, and there is no way to hear the information if you want to hear it.

made Wu Yanqi secretly anxious, and said in his heart: Li Cunhuan wouldn't want to kill them without saying a word and come to the sacrificial banner to strengthen his determination to conquer Hedong in the west, right?

Fortunately, although Meng Zhixiang couldn't see through Li Cunhuan's meaning, he knew that Li Cunhuan would never kill them to sacrifice the flag. is all because since Li Cunhuan raised his army, although he is not a righteous man and a gentleman, he has not killed the envoy. Plus if they want to kill, they have been killed a long time ago, and they have been kept in captivity until now, could it be that Li Cunhuan can't eat them when they are pigs and sheep to fatten up?

If it was Li Hanzhi, Meng Zhixiang would have believed it, but Li Cunhuan had some self-awareness. knows that Li Cunhuan is a rare person who abides by his principles in this troubled world. comforted Wu Yanqi a few times, but let Wu Yanqi calm down a little so that he would not panic.

And on this day, Li Cunhuan ordered Zhu Jilong to bring Wu Yanqi and Meng Zhixiang. However, the two are not together, but separated, and Wu Yanqi will be received by Zhou Yanpet. And Meng Zhixiang was personally received by Li Cunhuan.

Meng Zhixiang was more restrained than in the past, and when he saw Li Cunhuan, he looked sincerely frightened. However, Li Cunhuan did not see the slightest trace of sincerity and fear in his eyes.

Li Cunhuan didn't care about Meng Zhixiang, whether he was really sincere and fearful, or fake sincere and fearful. With a smile and a wave of his hand, he said, "Deputy Envoy Meng is exempt!" You and I are acquaintances, so why be polite! ”

When Meng Zhixiang heard this, he still gave a salute, and then said: "His Royal Highness is the famous His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Zhixiang is just a boy, where can he be so rude!" ”

Li Cunhuan didn't dwell on this topic either, hesitated for a moment, and said as if he had woken up: "Oops! I remember that Zhixiang seems to be from Xingzhou! What a coincidence, Meng Zhaoyi, also surnamed Meng, could it be that the two are still related? ”

When Meng Zhixiang heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. He didn't believe that a smart person like Li Cunhuan would be stupid to ask knowingly and come to politeness. But why did he ask? And what can be done? However, Meng Zhixiang also wanted to open it, no matter what he did, he just saw the move. After thinking about it so much, it was only a momentary thing in his mind, Meng Zhixiang almost immediately followed Li Cunhuan's words, and said with a modest smile: "It's Uncle Zhixiang!" However, because of the disagreement between his father and uncle, Zhixiang didn't know much about his uncle's affairs! ”

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he said with a pity on his face: "Your father is right, if Meng Zhaoyi hadn't insisted on moving to Xingzhou, he would not have been sincere and benevolent. Let the King of Jin get the opportunity, divide the interior, and capture Luzhou, resulting in the later, a mistake and a situation of losing all the games! ”

A look of surprise flashed in Meng Zhixiang's eyes. I don't know what Li Cunhuan means when he says this. However, on the surface, Meng Zhixiang smiled and did not speak, secretly pondering the meaning of Li Cunhuan's words in his heart.

Li Cunhuan groaned slightly, and muttered: "It's a pity that the Zhaoyi Festival Envoy is not the Deputy Envoy Meng, otherwise there would be no today's situation!" ”

Meng Zhixiang's heart couldn't help but beat suddenly, and he didn't know what Li Cunhuan meant by this. Is it an unconscious emotion, or is it an ulterior motive?

Meng Zhixiang was just about to dig deeper, but he didn't want Li Cunhuan to divert the topic, and Meng Zhixiang had no way to force Li Cunhuan to continue talking on this topic. I had no choice but to talk to Li Cunhuan with a smile on the side, but I didn't know how many thoughts I had turned in the conversation just now. I thought about it secretly in my heart, but I felt more and more that Li Cunhuan had a hint about it. It seems that Li Cunhuan wants to give him the position of real position, but Meng Fangli is even more surprised, what is it that makes Li Cunhuan give such a big bargaining chip?

You must know that at the beginning, talents such as Zhou Dewei and Fu Cunxian took refuge, and they did not get the position of the festival, but after working hard for many years, they got the position of the festival. Meng Zhixiang asked himself if there was anything worthy of Li Cunhuan's attention. The more I thought about it, the more curious I became, and a kind of indescribable and unclear ** also welled up in my heart. There is a kind of ** who wants to find out what Li Cunhuan means by this, which also means that Meng Zhixiang is moved.

But to Meng Zhixiang's disappointment, Li Cunhuan seemed to be chatting with Meng Zhixiang and talked for half an hour, except for the beginning. The other words were plain chats, and there were no other hints, which disappointed Meng Zhixiang.

But Meng Zhixiang didn't know that looking at the back of him leaving, Li Cunhuan's eyes showed a triumphant look of successful strategy.

(To be continued)