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Chapter 815 Flying Fish (2)

The army marched as scheduled, and 450,000 horses set out, and there was no end in sight. The flag covers the sun, and the dust and smoke cover the sky. Although Qingzhang was only less than 1,000 miles away from Zhaozhou, the movement of the army was far less than that of the light cavalry, especially the men and horses of the baggage battalion were particularly slow.

The people and horses that stretched for dozens of miles couldn't go far from dawn to dark.

It is a good time for spring to warm up, and the weather is suitable for travel. Therefore, this trip was far more comfortable than rushing from Jingxiang, and Li Xian didn't have to do anything to travel thousands of miles, so he simply didn't ride a horse, but handled official business in the carriage. The excerpts in the imperial court are sent every once in a while, but these excerpts on the surface are basically not a big deal.

As Xu Shiji expected, although Zhaozhou has not yet been conquered, the courtiers in Chang'an City, which is far away, seem to have very sensitive noses, and some people have begun to plead with His Royal Highness King Yan to be promoted to the emperor.

The carriage was covered with comfortable cotton cushions and was extremely comfortable to sit on. The official roads built during the Great Sui period were smooth and wide, and there were almost no bumps in the carriages. Especially in the spring, the scenery is just right, and when you are tired of dealing with official business, you will open the curtain and look at the scenery outside the window, which is also pleasant.

Li Xian looked at the faint mountain scenery not far from the window, slowly withdrew his gaze, and couldn't help but smile slightly contemptuously.

"From Chang'an to here, it is the fastest way for the Military Inspectorate to deliver news, and it will take at least a month to go back and forth. No matter how well-informed the courtiers are, even if someone in the army writes back about the matter here, is it faster than flying? ”

Li Xian threw the fold in his hand aside, looking a little disgusted.

Ye Huaisleeve, who was sitting next to him, picked up the fold and put it aside and stacked it: "Or maybe they saw something from the good news they reported back to the court a while ago, so someone figured something out of it." ”

"If only it were that simple."

Li Xian sneered: "I'm afraid that someone can't sit still." ”

"Sir...... Students don't understand what disgusts you. ”

Ashina looked at Li Xian and asked seriously.

"Someone in the court went up to the fold and persuaded me to be promoted to the throne and become the emperor. In your opinion, what does that mean? ”

Li Xian asked.

Ashina said after pondering for a while: "The student thinks that it is nothing more than three o'clock...... First, it is because I know that Hebei has won successive victories, and now it is approaching Zhaozhou. After the matter in Hebei is settled, Mr. returned to Chang'an, and the matter still has to be mentioned. Since it has to be mentioned after all, it is better to mention it as soon as possible. ”

"Second, these courtiers are afraid that the gentleman will forget them, so they are showing their loyalty, so that the gentleman can see their names from time to time. To put it bluntly, they are still worried in their hearts, or maybe they have a fluke in their minds, and they have the idea that if it is in line with your mind, Mr. ”

"Third...... Tempting the gentleman's mind. ”

Ashina said softly: "If it's the first two reasons, you don't have to worry about anything. The first and second are just flattery and pandering, under the guise of thinking about Mr., but in fact it is for their own future. If so...... I'm afraid I'm going to have to figure it out a little bit. ”

Seeing that she was serious and careful, Li Xian couldn't help but smile and asked, "Then you can tell me about it, why is it complicated to test my mind?" ”

"It depends...... What is the intention of the person who tempts you to test your heart? This temptation is divided into two kinds, the first is to flatter and pander, if the temptation is sure of Mr.'s mind, then they will prepare quickly, lest they fall behind others, and support Mr. to be the emperor, which is a great credit. The second ...... There are people who have a weak heart, and they do this just to seal it, and then get ready. ”

"From Chang'an to Jingxiang to Hebei ......"

Li Xian smiled and said: "You have grown a lot, with my words, you can think of so many in one fold, it is not easy." ”

"It's my sister's good teaching on weekdays."

Ashina glanced at Ye Huaisleeve, hung his head and blushed slightly.

"Then you say, if it is to tempt my mind, and because my heart is weak...... So why do they have weak hearts? ”

"If you are faithful, why should you be weak?"

Ashina replied seriously.

"That's a good point."

Li Xian nodded and repeated: "If you are loyal, why bother with a weak heart? Some people are always clever enough to think that they can use this obscure method to guess my mind. If I am really anxious to become emperor, I am afraid that they are even more anxious than I am. As soon as the news is confirmed, they will immediately jump out and will not be able to sit still anymore. Those who should be ugly are ugly, and those who should be evil are evil. ”

Ye Huaisleeve saw a slight smug look on Ashina's face, and couldn't help but shake his head: "This matter is also simple, the first few to play the fold, nine times out of ten, they can't get out of the relationship." ”

Li Xian picked up a copy of the fold and threw it on the ground: "The head of the criminal department of the six products"

Picked up the second copy and threw it on the ground: "From the six-rank soldier Wailang"

The third part: "The biggest is an official from the fourth grade...... These people are not even minions, and it is not distressing to fold them in. Moving these small shrimps, I don't know how many big fish have run. ”

"Then it's not going to happen?"

Ashina said with some regret.

"Yes, naturally, it is to be done...... Song Huai, the director of the Criminal Department, Du Chun, a member of the Military Department, and Lang Minjing, a servant of the Ministry of Officials, were dismissed from their posts and put them in prison first. ”

"What charges?"

Ye Huaisleeve asked.

"I remember you once said, ten officials and nine greedy...... Then do a greedy ink. If you don't find out if you are greedy for ink, then you will be guilty of dereliction of duty. turned around and told Xie Yingdeng that the people from the Military Inspectorate were the best at doing this. Even if it is really a few clean officials, it is also a stupid protein idiot who makes people rob, and they will be locked up for a few months to make them remember more! ”

"If these people are locked up, the people behind them are afraid that they will be confused."

Ye Huaisleeve smiled, his eyes full of admiration.

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Aozhou

Fifteen miles outside the city

This village is not big, there are only 100 households, and it doesn't take more than ten minutes to walk from the head of the village to the end of the village, especially after it was said that Yan Yunjun was about to fight in Zhaozhou a while ago, everyone in the village who had distant relatives left with their families. Those who voted to the west of the river, those who went to the south of the river, and even those who went north to Zhuo County, there were really no relatives to vote for, and the richer ones also moved into the city of Zhaozhou to live.

This place is only fifteen miles away from the city of Zhaozhou, and it will be the place to fight once the war starts in the future. Even if the people know that the current army is no longer as rude and violent as it was in the last years of the Great Cause, no one wants to be on the battlefield. So there are only twenty or thirty poorest families left in the village.

They either don't have the money to take refuge in the city, or they are reluctant to harvest the wheat in two months, or they may be old and stubborn, and they are reluctant to have a few adobe houses at home.

So much so that people who want to stay here when they go out of the city don't have to knock on the door at all, can they spend the night?

The village is not large, but there are many empty courtyards now.

When the white-faced Wu Bushan and the thin man Wang Qinian walked into a small courtyard, Guan Xiaoshu, Zhang Zhongjian, and Zhang Wancheng were already standing in the courtyard waiting. Guan Xiaoshu has been staying outside the city, Zhang Zhongjian came out on the second day after Zhang Wancheng left the city, and Wu Bushan and Wang Qinian left the city one day later.

"This courtyard belongs to the richest family in the village, and I originally left two families to guard it, and I was not allowed to enter the door, and it took me twenty taels of silver to do it...... Even in the Half Moon Building in Chang'an, twenty taels of silver is enough to live for half a month if you don't prostitute or gamble. In this place, hot water is not available for twelve hours. ”

Guan Xiaoshu sighed, and seemed to be still distressed about the twenty taels of silver.

"This silver is considered public, can I go back and report it to you to make up for it?"

Wu Bushan glanced at him and said: "It's also a small stall head of the Fifth Department of the Military Inspectorate, and a month's salary is enough for you to squander for a while, it's shameful to be greedy for money, and it's shameful to be greedy for small wealth!" ”

"I feel sorry for my own silver, why is it shameful?"

Wu Bushan said: "If you are willing to give these twenty taels of silver, prepare a place for us to stay, and don't even mention this matter, then how noble and bright are you?" ”

"Gao Feng Liang Festival, that's Lao Wang's business."

Guan Xiaoshu smiled and said, "I am definitely not at the same level as Lao Wang in terms of consciousness. ”

Wang Qinian nodded and said: "Although I want to be humble, what you say is just the truth, if I am humble, it will seem that I am pretentious, so I ...... If you want to make progress in the future, talk to me more, and within three days, you will ensure that your whole person will be sublimated from body to mind. ”

Wu Bushan glanced at them, looked at the situation in the village and asked, "It's all arranged?" After all, this place is only fifteen miles away from the city of Zhaozhou, and it is still too dangerous once it is detected. ”

"Ming'er left early in the morning, and the horses were hidden in the woods three miles away, guarded. I was going to leave today, but who knew you were going to leave the city today! ”

Guan Xiaoshu said with some dissatisfaction.

"Before leaving, the spy suddenly found out about something, and I stayed for another day to confirm the news."

Wu Bushan said: "The news that Lao Wang inquired about a while ago may be a trap. Because of the urgency of the search in the city, we have not gone out at the Shunpeng Inn. At first, I thought it was really going to attack Boling County, but I sent someone to inquire about the direction of their march, only to find out that this matter was only afraid of something strange...... Not in the direction of Boling at all, but due west ......"

"Oops!"

Guan Xiaoshu frowned and said, "Could it be that Wang Yan's plan from the beginning was to ambush and rescue the soldiers and horses of Boling County?" ”

"We've got to go!"

Guan Xiaoshu said: "Follow the official road, and stop our soldiers and horses when you encounter them." ”

"You go."

Wu Bushan shook his head and said, "I can't go." ”

"Why?"

Guan Xiaoshu said urgently: "It's hard to come out, do you still plan to go back?" ”

"Go back!"

Wu Bushan nodded: "The people of our military inspection department, how can they not leave anyone on the enemy side before the battle?" Even if I just set a fire in the city when the army was attacking the city, it was because the people in our military inspection department did not admit it. We can't afford to do what we need to do, and we can't afford to lose the face of the Military Inspectorate! ”

Guan Xiaoshu and Wang Qinian looked at each other, and both of them were shocked beyond measure. Neither of them thought that in Wu Bushan's heart, the glory of the Military Inspectorate was really heavier than his own life.

"I can't let the fat man know that I will laugh at me in the future, and I am greedy for life and afraid of death."

Wu Bushan smiled: "Being ridiculed by that dead fat man, it's better to die." ”

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"What is this?"

Wu Bushan took a piece of jade pendant handed to him by Guan Xiaoshu, looked at it carefully, and found that the carved pattern on the jade pendant was a little special, it was a fish with wings. Although the workmanship is not very fine, it looks like this flying fish is lifelike.

"When I gave you this jade pendant, I lent you my whole life. If the big stall knows about this in the future, I'm afraid that if I don't kill me, I will be crippled. ”

He took a deep breath, then looked at Wu Bushan and said solemnly: "What I want to tell you next is the biggest secret of the Military Inspectorate. This incident involves the security of the Lord, so I hope you don't hear a word wrong, and don't forget it. This sign is mine, but I'll give it to you now. If the secret agents in the city are not enough, or if there is a life-and-death crisis, you will use it. ”

"It's the Flying Fish"

He said.

"Flying Fish? What is it used for? ”

Wu Bushan asked.

"I was supposed to carve a flying dragon, but I had to avoid it, so I carved a flying fish......"

Guan Xiaoshu glanced at the jade pendant, smiled and said, "From now on, you are also a member of the Flying Dragon Spy." ”