Early the next morning, Mo Yan invited Xie An to his tent according to Qin Ke'er's instructions, and handed over the marching map to him.

For Xie An, as the commander of the First Army, he knows better than anyone the preciousness of the information on this marching map.

You must know that in the past few days, the Great Liang Army is not familiar with the local terrain of Jingzhou, and does not know the secret location of the Taiping Army's troops here and the location of the granary, which makes the 60,000 Great Liang Army like headless flies can only surround Liu Qing's dozens of small-scale corps and turn around, each time one step behind, often when the Zhou Army catches up, the Taiping Army has finished replenishing in the granaries or counties under its control, and continues to play a game of hide and seek with the Great Liang Army.

And now this marching map, which records the location of the Taiping army's troops and grain storage, and even the detailed records of the Great Zhou officials who are attached to the Taiping, has fallen into Xie An's hands, which means that Xie An can turn passive and be active, so as to judge the direction of Liu Qing's withdrawal and completely cut off his way to get supplies.

As Mo Yan said, this thin piece of information is no less than 100,000 elite soldiers for Xie An!

It's no wonder that Xie An held the marching map with an unbelievable look on his face.

"This ...... It's ......"

Looking at Xie An's excited look, Mo Yan smiled slightly and said in a low voice, "As the adults can see, it is the Taiping Army from Wuchang to Jiangxia...... To be precise, it is the location of secret hiding places and granaries including Hanyang, Chuyang and other places! - Although the Taiping soldiers in those hiding places may have already left, because of the secret location, Liu Qing may also use ...... when he withdraws his troops."

"Hmm!" Xie An nodded approvingly, then frowned and glanced at Mo Yan. said with a wry smile, "Mo Yan, are you so familiar with the Taiping Army?" ”

As if seeing through Xie An's thoughts, Mo Yan chuckled and shook his head, and explained in a low voice, "I may have guessed what the adults want to say...... No, my lord misunderstood, if I was really familiar with the Taiping Army, I would have already dedicated this picture. Help adults pacify Jiangnan as soon as possible! ”

"Huh?" Xie An was stunned when he heard this, and asked in shock, "Is this ...... Not what you painted? ”

"To be precise, someone entrusted it to the adult, but there is no talent in the next!" Mo Yan said with a smile.

"Who? -- Tell the government. The government is going to thank this person personally! ”

"I can't say this ......here," Mo Yan smiled and said lightly, "I thought that most of the people were not uncommon in their thanks, and even, this person repeatedly told me not to reveal his identity......

"That's ......," Xie An nodded a little disappointed. Then he looked at the marching map, and looked at the detailed annotations on it, and couldn't help but admire.

Looking at Xie An's expression, Mo Yan hesitated slightly. Suddenly, he smiled and said, "However, I can give a hint to adults below!" ”

"You say." Surprised and surprised, he glanced at Mo Yan.

Winking at Xie An, Mo Yan said with a smile. "In recent days, in order to track down the traces of the Taiping Army. Who did you inadvertently snub out? ”

"......" Xie An was stunned when he heard this, his lips opened slightly, and he stopped talking a few times, and after hesitating for a while, he hesitated and said, "Ke'er? ”

"Huh!" Mo Yan chuckled, although he didn't answer yes or no, his expression was enough to prove that what Xie An said was true.

"Sure enough, does it have anything to do with the Guangling assassins, Ke'er ......" Xie An sighed slightly.

Glancing at Xie An with a little surprise, Mo Yan asked curiously, "Look at what the adults mean, it seems that the adults already know Miss Qin's identity?" ”

"I can't say I know, but I have some doubts...... "Carefully smoothing out the edges and corners of the precious marching map, Xie An sighed and said, "When I first saw her, this government knew that she was not simple, and I didn't hide it from Mr. Don't tell me that this government also suspected that she was a member of the Guangling assassins, so it sent Mo Fei to quietly search her bag, but unfortunately she acted cautiously, but Mo Fei was ...... instead."

"Your Excellency suspects that Miss Qin has a connection with the Taiping Army?"

"I don't doubt it at all, it's naturally false, after all, according to the grapevine, the Guangling Assassins do have some connection with the Taiping Army......"

"Then why did the adults keep Miss Qin by their side?"

"Well...... this" Slowly sitting down at the table, Xie An tapped his fingers on the table and said with a smile, "Does Mr. want to hear the truth or falsehood?" ”

"Haha," Mo Yan smiled and said very cooperatively, "My lord will tell a lie first." ”

"The lie is that if Kerr is really a member of the Guangling Assassins and a key figure in the liaison between the Guangling Assassins and the Taiping Army, then, instead of avoiding her and asking her to secretly help the Taiping Army behind her back, it is better to take her with her. - Dangerous women, it is better to be in sight! ”

"Master Xie deserves to be [Haozi]!" Mo Yan stroked his palm and smiled.

"Huh?" Xie An looked at the scholar in surprise.

"I've heard of it below," Mo Yan said with a smile after blinking his eyes, "The eldest grandson of the second lady of the Lord's Mansion once wrote a poem for the adult after she got married, and inscribed it on the beloved folding fan with her own hands, and the famous sentences were spread all over Jijing. ―― People peep at the feathers and avoid the three things, and the rich son wears the crown and beats the vermilion. ”

Xie An laughed dumbly when he heard this, in fact, he also knew that the poems of the eldest grandson Xiangyu had always been admired by the young scribes of Jijing, and in the early years, when he Xie An had not yet made a career, the poems inscribed by the eldest grandson Xiangyu could be sold for a sky-high price of three thousand taels of silver, and there was no market.

In fact, at first in Jijing, there was the ink treasure of the eldest grandson Xiangyu in her hand, which was indeed a thing worth showing off, until the eldest grandson Xiangyu married Xie An as his wife, and she gradually faded out of the eyes of countless young scribes in Jijing. This is also the reason why Xie An has a bad reputation in Jijing, especially among the younger generation, after all, he married Liang Qiuwu and the eldest grandson Xiangyu at the same time, how could he not be hated?

Even after many years, the eldest grandson Xiangyu has long since ceased to behave as openly and obediently as he did at the beginning, and An An is the daughter-in-law of the Xie family, but at this time, when Mo Yan mentioned this matter, Xie An couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. After all, at that time, when the four sentences of the eldest grandson Xiangyu spread all over Jijing, there was no shortage of people who joked with him in this regard. used the eldest grandson Xiangyu to praise his [Haozi] to tease Xie An, such as Li Shou, the current son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even Xie An's teacher, Ruan Shaozhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

"Sir, don't make fun of this house, this house can be very guilty of this matter at the beginning......"

"Hahaha!" Mo Yan laughed, and then asked, "So...... What about the truth? ”

"Tell the truth......" Xie An paused when he heard this, a somewhat self-deprecating smile appeared on his face, shrugged his shoulders and said, "The truth is." I'm afraid it's hard to get rid of the bad habits that come to mind in this house...... As soon as I saw a certain beauty, I longed to take her into my pocket......"

"Hahaha, wonderful, wonderful!" Mo Yan stroked his palms and laughed. Looking at Xie An, he nodded and praised, "Lust is not lewd, greed is not hidden, and the actions of adults can be called above board!" ”

"Honfu? Aboveboard? Xie An laughed to himself.

Mo Yan shook his head and said, "Sage Yun, there is no banquet without wine. The colorless road is sparsely populated, and the color eating is also! -- Miss Guan Qin entrusted her to offer this thing to the adults and secretly help the adults to crusade against the Taiping Army, so you know that the adults treat her with kindness and sincerity, otherwise. If she is really resentful, why would she secretly help the adult? ”

"Yes......" Xie An said with a wry smile on his face when he heard this, "It's really unexpected." But...... The Japanese government has indeed snubbed her a little in the past few days......" he said, glancing at the march map in his hand. Stand up.

"What do you want to do?" As if seeing through Xie An's intentions, Mo Yan reminded in a low voice, "Your Excellency, please understand Miss Qin's intention to transfer this precious information to your adult in your own name!" ”

"......" Xie An looked at Mo Yan with some confusion.

"It's a lot of things to do, and I reminded the adults, in fact, Miss Qin doesn't want the adults to know! - Miss Qin is a helpless woman who is forced by adults, and adults are villains who bully women from good families, and she doesn't want to change this matter. - These are Miss Qin's exact words! ”

"Evil ...... Villains? Xie An's face stiffened, embarrassed and funny, and shook his head with tears and laughter.

"The government understands, and since this is the case, the government should treat it as if it doesn't know." As he spoke, Xie An turned around and walked towards the outside of the tent, and halfway through, he suddenly turned around, looked Mo Yan up and down with an inexplicable expression, and asked suspiciously, "Why did Mr. want to break this matter to this mansion?" - Didn't the gentleman agree to her? ”

Mo Yan smiled when he heard this, and said with a straight face, "I just think that Master Xie is a good man that Miss Qin can entrust for life!" - I am also a native of Guangling, and I am from the same county as Lord Xie and Miss Qin, so I naturally hope that the two of them can have a good result, so I deliberately pointed out this matter to the adult, so that the adult and Miss Qin will not leave the concubine for some unnecessary petty grievances in the future, and eventually become strangers! ”

"Sir, what a ...... What a weirdo! Xie An shook his head with a smile.

"How dare you ......" Mo Yan chuckled, sent Xie An away, and said with a straight face, "I wish you a victory, pacify the Taiping Army as soon as possible, and end the turmoil in Jiangnan for thirty years!" ”

Thirty years?

Xie An, who was about to walk to the tent, glanced back at Mo Yan suspiciously, and vaguely, he seemed to be able to see something from the look of this Guangling scholar, but he couldn't say it.

Back to the tent, Xie An immediately summoned Liang Cheng, Wang Huai, Feng He, Gou Gong, Ding Qiu and others, and asked Qin Ke'er to ask Mo Yan to make a special trip to his marching map and spread it on the table.

"This ...... It's ......"

Just like Xie An did in the Moyan tent just now, when everyone saw the fully annotated marching map, their faces showed shocked expressions one by one, staring in disbelief at all the information of the Taiping army written on the marching map.

As if noticing the horror in everyone's hearts, Xie An said with a smile, "Don't be surprised, this is the information that this government has just gotten, so I urgently summoned you to come and discuss......

"Is it credible?" Gasping in surprise by the dense annotations on the marching map, Ding Qiu asked with a solemn expression.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Qin Ke'er holding a pot of tea and walking in from outside the tent with his head down, Xie An smiled quietly, nodded and said, "Naturally it is credible!" ”

"Great!" Clenched his fists, Liang Cheng said with joy on his face, "If it is true, then the next place for the Taiping Army must be here!" - Iron Mountain! ”

"Where did the Taiping Army once hide its troops?" Gou Gong and Ding Qiu glanced at each other, recalling the route of the Taiping army in the past few days, and said with some surprise, "It seems that the Taiping army has not completely emptied the grain stored in this vicinity......

"My lord, do you want to intercept Liu Qing's arrival in Jiangxia? -- According to the description on this marching map, Jiangxia. I'm afraid there is still a Taiping army left behind to defend the east of Jingzhou! ”

"Hmm!" Xie An nodded, and guessed, "The Taiping Army's troops and horses are mostly to prevent our army from going to support [Pit Man King] Li Xian, for this reason, Liu Qing did not hesitate to leave a [Six Divine Generals] under his command here, and in addition, if nothing goes wrong, I am afraid that Jiangxia is also his sphere of influence......"

"Jiangxia-gun?" Wang Huai said in surprise.

"It shouldn't be a county." Xie An shook his head and corrected, "It's probably like Pengze County, trying to control the prefect of Jiangxia County...... Zhou Cang, the prefect of Jiangxia County, although it is not clear for what purpose this person defected to the Taiping Army. But I have to guard against it, if you want to go to Nanjun Jiangling, you must first take Jiangxia! ――Before Liu Qing reacted! ”

When all the generals heard this, their faces were straight, and they all raised their eyes to look at Xie An, waiting for him to give orders.

"Wang Huai, Feng He, this government orders you and others to lead 3,000 soldiers each, and destroy all the places where the Taiping army hoards grain here along the way. Be sure to make sure that Liu Qing can't get a grain of rice here! ”

"Yes!"

"Liang Cheng!"

"The last general!"

"From today onwards, there is no need to pay attention to the dozens of small Taiping troops nearby, according to the route on this marching map, you must be ahead of her. Take all the counties and counties along the way! -- As depicted in this marching map, the Taiping army did not completely control all the counties and counties on this side, so it is easy to guess the direction in which she would retreat. But all the Great Zhou officials who are interested in the imperial court will never help the Taiping army. Therefore, the target of our army is these local officials of the Great Zhou who have become the minions of the Taiping Army behind their backs! ”

"Take them one by one?"

"Take them one by one! -- This government has the right to appoint and dismiss the officials of the prefectures, counties, and counties in Jiangnan at any time, Ding Qiu, this matter will be handed over to you Jinling people, you wait to take a step forward, and blend into these cities and counties as soon as possible, and be sure to control the officials in the city when our army arrives, and now our army and Liu Qing are fighting for who can arrive in Jiangxia one day earlier, and we must not be delayed because of these local officials who secretly communicate with the Taiping army! ――If necessary, sacrifice the token of Nanzhen Fusi [Six Gates], if anyone dares to stop and be presumptuous, they will be killed! ”

"Humble duty understands!" Ding Qiu hugged his fists when he heard this.

"Mo Fei...... Hmm, Gou Gong! Glancing at the tent, seeing that Mo Fei was absent from the meeting where such a large number of people was too much for him as always, Xie An secretly shook his head, looked back at Gou Gong and said, "Later, you go and inform Mo Fei and ask him to lead the Dongling people to take the first step, and this government will give him absolute freedom rights, but he must ensure to this government that there will be no more small forces of the Taiping army to harass him during the march of our army!" ”

"What do you mean by ......"

"Eat what you can!" Xie An said in a cold voice.

When Gou Gong heard this, his heart suddenly dawned, and he understood that the meaning was to let Mo Fei let go of his hands and feet, start killing, and ambush and kill all the small-scale troops of the Taiping army around him along the way.

"Humble duty understands!"

Nodding, Xie An looked around at the people in the tent and shouted, "Have you heard clearly?" ”

"Yes, sir!" Everyone in the tent shouted in unison, and the depressed mood that had been suppressed for many days was alleviated and improved.

I remember that a few days ago, because there was no exact goal, Xie An's gang could only passively follow Liu Qing's dozens of small forces, and now after getting this precious information, it means that the Great Liang Army can regain the initiative again.

"Good! Then get here first, wait until you go back and prepare, tomorrow morning, my army will start and rush to Jiangxia! ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Gou Gong stays," raising his hand and pointing at Gou Gong, Xie An Zhengse said, "Gou Gong, you copy a few copies of this marching map and hand it over to everyone in the tent, be sure to make sure that everyone has a copy!" ”

"Yes!" Gou Gong clenched his fists, carefully put away the marching map on the table, and respectfully retreated.

When Xie An was discussing with everyone in the tent, Qin Ke'er stood quietly in the corner and watched, for some reason, seeing that the confidence that Xie An had when he calculated Liu Qing returned to his face again, she felt an inexplicable relief and joy in her heart.

That's fine......

If you don't even have the confidence to command thousands of troops, this guy ...... That's just a greedy and shameless villain......

I don't know what kind of mood she was in, Qin Ke'er also quietly prepared to leave the tent after everyone left the tent, after all, the purpose of her trip was to send Xie An a pot of tea that she had made herself.

"Kerr."

"......" Qin Ke'er, who was interrupted from her thoughts, unexpectedly turned her head to look at Xie An.

I saw Xie An walking up to her on crutches and whispering, "Listen to that girl, you don't seem to have slept well at night these days?" ”

"Huh?" Feeling the inexplicable mood pounding in her heart, Qin Ke'er looked up at Xie An, for some reason, after noticing Xie An's fiery gaze, she instinctively felt that her cheeks were hot, and there was an inexplicable heat all over her body.

"In that case, you will come to the tent tonight...... Master, I haven't slept well in the past few days......" As he spoke, Xie An raised his hand and gently stroked Qin Ke'er's white and tender cheeks, making the latter bow his head red.

"Isn't my lord going to think about a way to deal with the Taiping Army these days?"

"Yes, but thanks to Mo Yan, the biggest headache in this mansion has been solved......" Xie An intentionally or unintentionally accentuated the tone when mentioning Mo Yan.

"yes, that's really...... Congratulations, sir! Lowering her head, Qin Ke'er's expression was a little unpredictable.

What's going on? Isn't she resentful of the fact that she has inadvertently snubbed her these days?

Xie Anxin was secretly surprised, and suddenly, his heart moved, and his ears seemed to sound the words of Mo Yan again.

[Miss Qin is a helpless woman who is forced by adults, and adults are villains who bully women from good families, and she doesn't want to change this matter.] - These are Miss Qin's exact words! ]

Thinking of this, Xie An coughed and added.

"So, come to serve the master and me obediently tonight, Ke'er is the master I bought it for a whole two million silver, and Ke'er's whole person is my master's mine, understand?!"

"......" Qin Ke'er looked at Xie An, who looked like the two of them in shock, and unexpectedly her eyes were a little coquettish, and she glanced at Xie An with affection, and said timidly, "The little slave knows ......."

Saying that, Qin Ke'er walked out with a look of compulsion, but when she reached the tent, she stopped, and couldn't help but glance back at Xie An, in her eyes, there was unexpectedly no disgust and resentment, on the contrary, there was an unpredictable joy.

At this time, Xie An was sitting on the seat drinking tea, and he didn't seem to notice Qin Ke'er's strange appearance, in fact, he saw all this in his eyes, just because Mo Yan deliberately reminded him, so Xie An didn't break it.

Hey, there's really a lot of wonder in the world......

Xie An once thought that he had semi-forcibly occupied Qin Ke'er's body, and she would feel a little resentful, but looking at her performance now, she seemed to be very surprised to adapt to the relationship between the two, the relationship between the master and the slave girl, the master and the forbidden body, this seemingly extremely ridiculous relationship.

Is this the so-called man not bad and woman not loved? Is it true that some women favor men with bad personalities and domineering behavior?

Or is it a long-term relationship?

It's been a long time...... Ahem, no, you have feelings after a long time?

Hey, this is really a deliberate planting of flowers that do not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows......

Phew, in this way, being a villain is indeed a promising thing......

Xie An shook his head with a smile.

Sure enough, the women I fancy have awkward personalities.