Chapter 204: Capture the Throne (3)
Mrs. Zhang and Zhen Mi were stunned, but they didn't expect Guo Jia to give the answer they wanted but didn't dare to get without even thinking about it, Mrs. Zhang glanced at Guo Jia hesitantly, and then said: "Please forgive the slave family for daring to ask, why is Mr. sure that Master Pony will do what the general said?" The slave family is not doubting Mr.'s credit, in fact, Mr. is a person who does what he says, and he will definitely do what he promises, but Mr. is not a master of the horse after all, how can he know that the conditions of the army of the master of the horse that day promised me the Zhen family were just an expedient measure? The so-called 'this time, that time', the day of the horse is facing internal and external troubles, in that case the agreed conditions are really difficult to trust, the slave family dared to say bluntly, but this matter is related to the interests of my Zhen family, please forgive me. β
Guo Jiaha smiled and said: "Madame really thinks too much, but this matter is not to blame Madame, because Madame does not understand the ideals of my father-in-law, but this matter will not be understood for a while, if Mrs. has the opportunity to meet my father-in-law in the future, or see how my father-in-law will govern Jizhou in the future, then Mrs. will understand, but now Guo Jia can make a guarantee: If my father-in-law coerces Mrs. in the future, then what about my Guo Jia's death to thank Zhen's family?" As soon as Guo Jia's words came out, Mrs. Zhang let out a big sigh of relief, it is enough to have Guo Jia's words, after all, Guo Jia is the first military division under Xu Ji, if he doesn't talk anymore, how can he still see the world? Even if Xu Ji has the heart to marry the Zhen family, under the threat of Guo Jia's death, Xu Ji will give up, right? After all, Guo Jia's role is unparalleled in the army under Xu Ji. In Xu Ji's eyes, Guo Jia weighs more than a Jizhou, because Guo Jia can seek to win countless states and counties for Xu Ji.
"But ......" Zhen Mi, who had been silent on the side, like a good baby, frowned at this time: "I don't understand." Why doesn't your lord want to marry me? Don't forget that I'm the one who has the queen's order. Could it be that I, Zhen Mi, have made the famous horse master so disdainful? It's hard to say that your colt wouldn't want to marry me as a side house. No, you have to make it clear to others. After that, he was angry with Guo Jia for a while.
Guo Jia was very troubled by Zhen Mi's coquettishness. At the same time, I was stunned in my heart, I had long known that this seemingly naΓ―ve Zhen Mi was scheming. Even adults are ashamed of themselves, Zhen Mi's words just now seem to be resentful that Xu Ji will not marry her, but in fact, he is testing Guo Jia from another angle how likely it is that Xu Ji will not marry him, after all, it is really an unbelievable thing for Xu Ji not to marry the Zhen family after occupying Jizhou, and I am afraid that no one will believe this matter, so Zhen Mi does not believe that there will be such a good thing in the world at all.
Thinking of this, Guo Jia smiled and said to Mrs. Zhang and Zhen Mi: "Miss Zhen Mi is too careful, is my father-in-law a person who covets beauty?" My father-in-law values the skills of Mrs. and Miss, so I will cooperate with Mrs. For my father-in-law, if I don't marry the Zhen family, it will be more powerful for my father-in-law's great cause. Madame, don't you know that what my lord is most tired of is marriage? β
Mrs. Zhang nodded her head in understanding, and said to Guo Jia with a smile: "The slave family has heard a little, so I believe that what Mr. said today can be done." Especially looking at the identity and status of the concubine, the slave family believes it even more. This is still vague, Guo Jia secretly praised, it seems that this Mrs. Zhang has put a lot of effort into studying Xu Ji's actions against the family in Yuxian and Xiangyi, and has vaguely seen Xu Ji's rejection of the family. It can be seen that Xu Ji's essence is actually suppressing the family, which is a bad thing for other families, but for the Zhen family, it is the opposite. Because marriage means annexation for a wealthy family such as the Zhen family, which has no academic prestige, and the Zhen family itself is very different from other wealthy families. Most of the Zhen family's industry is dominated by commercial activities, and although the Zhen family is the controller of Jizhou's grain, the Zhen family is not very dependent on the fields. So there is room for cooperation with Xu Ji, who is anxious to have more fields in the hands of the family, as Xu Ji wrote in his letter to Guo Jia. When necessary, he could have promised the Zhen family commercial benefits as compensation for depriving the Zhen family of their land. Guo Jia couldn't stop shouting in his heart after seeing it. At the same time, he knew in his heart that although this idea was wonderful, I was afraid that Xu Ji had to do it as a last resort, and now Xu Ji's troubles have been very big, and these Xu interests will be abandoned, Guo Jia only vaguely perceived from Xu Ji's countermeasures at this time that if you want to fight for the world, you don't have to rely on force and strategy, you can also use the economy.
Thinking of this, Guo Jia smiled and said to Mrs. Zhang: "Madam Mingjian." Then he turned his head and smiled at Zhen Mi and said, "I understand Miss Zhen Mi's intentions, but Miss is still relieved." β
When Guo Jia said this, Zhen Mi naturally couldn't say anything. Guo Jia said with a whole face: "In this case, I Guo Jia don't have to deal with any young lady to have any concealment, Jizhou, the land of four contentions, my lord is determined to win, and it is not far away, but my lord does not want to use force, so Guo Jia will make this decision today, the purpose is to make the people of Jizhou scattered, so that they can get the benefits of the fisherman." Mrs. Zhang nodded and said, "If I am not mistaken, the inner ghost Koji Yi who was escorted back to Jizhou from Jinxiang today is also part of this plan, right?" β
Guo Jia smiled bitterly: "I can't hide anything from Mrs., but Guo Jia pretended to be dead today for another reason." He immediately said the possibility of analyzing himself and Chen Zhi, and finally concluded: "In Guo's opinion, only Yuan Shao's people can do this thing, and once the relationship between Xu Ji and Jizhou is tense, Yuan Shao will have an opportunity." Guo Jia is now trying to create a false impression, that is, I, Guo Jia, are dead, and the relationship between my lord and Lord Han Fu has broken down, and then wait for the opportunity to lure out Yuan Shao's people in Jizhou, so that my lord will have an excuse to crusade against Yuan Shao, Guo Jia said so, is Madam satisfied? β
Mrs. Zhang smiled and said: "Of course the slave family is satisfied, but I am afraid that Lord Pony will be more satisfied, once Yuan Shao's people in Jizhou are caught, then Lord Pony is afraid that he will send troops to Jizhou and Yanzhou, isn't it beautiful?" Guo Jia smiled awkwardly when he heard this, knowing that his intentions were fully known to the other party. However, Guo Jia was not afraid at all, because now the Zhen family has no way out.
After this conversation. The relationship between the two became even more intimate, and Guo Jia smiled at Mrs. Zhang: "That's right." Madam, from tomorrow onwards, it is best for Mrs. to set up a mourning hall for Guo in Zhen's mansion, invite some mages, and pray for Guo's 'big day', hey, lest you can't see this excitement when Guo enters the earth in the future. He kept shaking his head and sighing.
The two girls couldn't help but laugh when they looked at Guo Jia's appearance, of course they knew that Guo Jia wanted them to do this to hide people's eyes. If Guo Jia dies, and the Zhen family does not react and express at all, it is strange, after all, the commercial cooperation between the Zhen family and Xu Ji is already obvious to all, if the Zhen family has no reaction, it can only prove one thing: Guo Jia pretended to be dead.
On the streets of Yecheng, it was already evening at this time, but the streets were still full of people, obviously the scale of a metropolis. But at this time, the people on the street are talking about it, of course, the content is related to Guo Jia's assassination, it seems that everyone is worried about the fate of themselves and Yecheng, after all, the master of the horse who doesn't know where is now is really a bad character to mess with.
And Chen had already put on makeup by this time. Due to the appearance, Chen Zhi changed into a scribe's long dress at this time, which was also very elegant. It looks like it's presentable.
The man in front of him had obviously been instructed by a superior to him, and had been constantly changing his orientation as he walked. is obviously guarding against other people's tracking, which makes Chen Zhi feel quite angry. There is no choice but to deal with it, but this person is obviously not a professional in anti-investigation, and many methods are plausible to be used in him, but there is a lot of strength left.
At last, the man came to an alley, looked left and right, and then pushed open the door that seemed to have been prepared for him, and went in in a flash.
Chen Zhi sneered, first went to the front of this mansion, and when he looked up, he saw two big characters written on it: Fufu.
Sure enough, as Guo Jia expected, it turned out to be really frustrated and making trouble!
And Chen Zhi found a corner and climbed up to the eaves, the mansion is not big, from the size and decoration of the courtyard, it can be seen that the mansion is not like luxury life, so it was too late and climbed over the wall Chen Zhi easily found the traffic artery leading to all sides in the mansion, and hid in a bouquet of flowers, according to the direction of the person who entered the mansion just now and the speed of the person's footsteps, Chen Zhi knew that he must be able to meet him here.
Sure enough, after a short time, the man he was following followed hurriedly passed from the west with a man who looked like a housekeeper, and he seemed to be in a hurry. Chen Zhi saw that the two of them were heading straight to a simple and elegant looking hut to the east, with candles already lit in the window, so he tiptoed to follow. At this time, it was already dark, and Chen Zhi, who had taken off his white coat and revealed his tight night clothes, was naturally not afraid to be discovered.
The hut was not very tall, and one side of the hut was next to a huge rock, and part of the roof of the hut was built along the bottom of the rock, so that when Chen Zhi climbed over the roof and lay down on the roof, no one could notice that there was another person on the roof. Chen Zhi casually took out the necessary earpiece for the shadow spy from Zhang Gu from his arms, and found a relatively thin place from the junction of the mountain stone and the roof as the direction of eavesdropping.
It was the person Chen Zhi was following him who was talking, and he only heard him say: "I have been observing for a long time outside the small garden where Guo Jia lives according to Mr. Fu's instructions, but it seems that Guo Jia is really dead. Because that Chen Zhi's whole person had completely changed, he was almost about to draw his sword and cut people, he didn't let others get close to the hut at all, and the blood-red eyes scared Han Fu's old man away. β
There was silence for a while, and for a while, a sharp male voice below came up very uncomfortably: "It's still difficult to say whether Guo Jia is dead or not, after all, Guo Jia was known as a 'prodigy' in his early years, and later he was the first military division under Xu Ji, so he must be scheming, who knows if he faked his death?" The person sent to assassinate Guo Jia just saw blood on Guo Jia's chest from a distance, so he fled in a hurry, who knows if this Guo Jia was killed on the spot? Maybe it's because he is suspicious. β
"What the public said is reasonable, but I thought Guo Jia must not be dead." As soon as this voice came out, Chen Zhi was immediately startled and immediately uncovered the roof tiles. I saw that the person who spoke was a middle-aged scribe, and Chen had seen the portrait of this person in Yu Zhanggu. This person is Tian Feng, the military advisor under Yuan Shao, and the "public rule" is to indicate that the harsh male voice just now is Yuan Shao's other military advisor Guo Tu. When the princes met the alliance, this Tian Feng repeatedly collided with Yuan Shao, which made Yuan Shao very annoyed, but because of this, Chen Zhi would have a deep memory of this Tian Feng, and Tian Feng was heard by Chen Zhi as soon as he spoke, on the contrary, Guo Tu had been silent when the princes met the alliance, so Chen Zhi was very unfamiliar with Guo Tu's voice, if he didn't often listen to Guo Jia comment on Yuan Shao, Xu Ji's main enemy and subordinates now. He also didn't know that the Gong Dao rule was Guo Tu's character.
When Guo Tu heard Tian Feng's words, he snorted coldly and said, "Why is Yuan Hao so sure? I heard Chen Zhi sigh secretly on the roof, when is it, this Guo Tu is still facing Mai Mang with Tian Feng, although he has long heard from Guo Jia about the disagreement between Tian Feng and Guo Tu, but now Yuan Shao has been greatly injured because of Xu Ji's calculations, and it should be the time to be in the same boat, who knows that this Guo Tu is still so narrow-minded and can't accommodate things. Jealousy and jealousy. How could such a detached cooperative group be an opponent of its own master? Chen Zhi's heart couldn't help but be filled with contempt.
At this time, a voice came up, and when he heard it, he was frustrated: "The public is a little restless, this matter Yuan Hao said makes sense." Because until Zezhu leaves the Zhen Mansion now, the Zhen family has not had any reaction, don't forget what the relationship between the Zhen family and Xu Jina kid is. There is no reason why the First Army Division of Qingzhou is dead, and the Zhen family has not reacted at all. This is absolutely abnormal, so Yuan Hao said that Guo Jia is very likely not dead, which is very reasonable. Chen Zhi couldn't help but admire these reasonable words when he heard them. Sure enough, the hero sees the same thing, and the analysis of Tian Feng and Fu Zhu is exactly the same as Guo Jia's conjecture. At the same time, Chen Zhi knew that the word of the person he was following was a note, but he didn't know where this person came from, and he didn't know which family in Jizhou this person belonged to. And through what he saw in front of him and what he heard in his ears, Chen Zhi judged one thing, that is, when Mrs. Zhang's mother and daughter came to Guo Jia's room, this person did not see it, obviously the two sides entered and exited the garden before and after, so it was said that the Zhen family did not react.
Guo Tu stopped talking, obviously there was no reason to refute, not to mention that Guo Tu was already suspicious of Guo Jia's death. You must know that Guo Jia is wise and calculating, and he is really not a person who will die so easily, but the person who was followed couldn't help but ask: "Is it possible that the Zhen family hasn't figured out how to deal with this matter?" After all, Guo Jia's death is a big deal, how can the Zhen family wait to ignore it? As soon as Guo Jia died, it was not certain whether the cooperation between Zhen and Xu Jina could be maintained, so he had to think about future countermeasures. And this Guo Jia fell to the ground and died with an arrow, many people witnessed it, it shouldn't be fake, right? β
Tian Feng shook his head and said: "You underestimate Guo Jia too much, don't forget how Xu Ji, this kid, was able to avoid the inspection and escape from Luoyang back then." It's hard to say whether Guo Jia will follow Xu Ji's example and act in a play, maybe this thing is an illusion deliberately set up by Guo Jia. β
Frustratedly said: "Yuan Hao's words are reasonable, this Guo Jia's intelligence is especially superior to Su Qin and Wu Qi in the Warring States Period, Su Qin and Wu Qi can still calculate the enemy before he dies, life and revenge, how do you know that Guo Jia can't come up with a plan to paralyze us at the moment when he is injured by an arrow?" When Chen Zhi heard this, he was shocked into a cold sweat in his heart, fortunately Guo Jia had already prepared and was ready to ask how to pretend to be dead, otherwise if he really met these old foxes, he would probably be exposed immediately.
Guo Tu agreed with the opinions of the two this time: "In fact, anyone who despises Guo Jia will be unlucky, I have always suspected that the robber you encountered when your brother Xin Ming escorted the grain and grass last year was the Chen Dao next to Guo Jia, and that batch of grain later proved to be all transported into the Zhen Mansion, Guo Jia lived in the Zhen Mansion and the robbers robbed the grain clearly appeared in the same period of time, this is too much of a coincidence, right?" Although the fierce general under the original Gong, Yuan Jin, has now recovered from his injuries, but he will not be able to go to the battlefield for the rest of his life, as long as he sees weapons and war horses, he will immediately cry out like crazy, and he will be completely beaten by people. Now in Jizhou, the masters of this level are only Chen Zhi, Zhang He, Han Meng and General Gao Lan, I really can't think of any reason to explain that Zhang He will help the Zhen family to grab food, just a sentence Zhang He and Zhen's Mrs. Zhang are people of the same clan is inexplicable, after all, in Jizhou, the surname Zhang is a big surname, and the branches are scattered all over Jizhou, not necessarily Zhang He will help Mrs. Zhang to make a move, and Zhang He has clearly shown his intention to take refuge in Ben Chu Gong when the princes are allied, how can Zhang He do something unfavorable to Ben Chu Gong? What the robber said to Xin Ming when he left was even more intended to sow discord. β
Hearing this, Chen Zhi faintly smiled, even if he saw through this now, what does it matter? Zhang He has already joined Xu Ji, everything is a foregone conclusion, as for the trouble in the future, Guo Jia will naturally have arrangements, but Chen Zhi is not in a hurry to leave, maybe there will be something more interesting next. (To be continued......)