It's like investigating a case, when you don't know the murderer, it's hard to find a breakthrough point with so many clues.

But by chance, if you hear the murderer boasting to someone, saying that the case was done by himself, then the next thing is to directly find out those related to this person from the thousands of clues, and the difficulty is reduced by more than an order of magnitude.

First of all, we know that nine times out of ten the gold and silver treasures are carried by the fleet and not by the land convoy;

secondly, it is very likely that the transport of gold and silver treasures is linked to the business name of the Yu family in the three counties of the East China Sea;

In the end, the monitoring of the fleet and the monitoring of the home are two lines that are not very related, and the two lines are paired with each other, and there are suddenly many more clues that fit each other......

It is easy to trace that at the beginning of each month in the past years, a shipload of goods would be sent out of Shangshufu and incorporated into the fleet of the River Gang.

And this river gang is the strongest of the three major river and lake organizations, just like a dart on land, the most famous dart game, and this river gang is walking through the water.

Legend has it that there are even monsters of the water tribe in the River Gang; Legend has it that the Yu family is the most important big financier behind the River Gang; Legend has it that the people of the River Gang are powerful all over the world, and when they are in trouble, a firework shoots out, and naturally there are nearby imperial court sailors rushing to relieve the siege......

Knowing this, I investigated through the spies in the Guò River Gang, and soon found the route of the fleet at the beginning of each month, and which docks they had docked at. Which ones were forced to dock because of the weather or wind and rain, and which ones were transferred, in what name were Gu Shangshu's ships incorporated into the fleet, and what was the situation of incoming and outgoing goods?

There is a record of the River Gang's investigation. Then to the wharves in various places on both sides of the river, and walk through guò in the secret spy eyeline of the people. Compare it with the relevant records.

Where did the goods go, and by whom? It's basically clear......

Just like Xiao Ling thought, this money Gu Shangshu did not swallow it privately, but used it to pay salaries to state and county officials and naval commanders on both sides of the river.

He tried his best to put the money of the court into his own pocket, and then used his own name to distribute the wealth to officials and generals to win over and buy people's hearts...... Using the enemy's salary to dig into the enemy's corner, this trick is really beautiful.

Throughout the ages, there have been rebellions, and there are heroes who have ordered one side to rise up. There are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, corrupting officials, lowering their prestige and disturbing people's hearts, but it is really rare for the two to be so closely linked!

However, due to the rush of time, the specific number and frequency of bribes, how many people only received money to do things and did not participate in the rebellion, and how many people were already desperately working for the enemy, they are still under investigation, and it is difficult to draw conclusions without a few months of investigation......

Xiao Ling just said that he wanted to build a fleet to carry the fat down and bribe the world's aquariums. Unexpectedly, this trick has already been used.

Oh, and that's just the tip of the iceberg of the other side's entire rebellion plan.

This week, due to the general direction of the judgment. Considerable progress has also been made in the investigation of the "water army" at home.

It is very likely that the other side has adopted a model similar to that of the Yellow Turban Uprising -- a cult.

First relied on the nursery rhyme to sing, "Water virtue prospers, fire virtue ends." The red land stretches for 3,000 miles, and it doesn't rain in the East China Sea." In this way, he spread his reputation among the villagers.

And then some of the management in the water army, with the water monsters. In some places near the great rivers, he preached and told the people that as long as they believed in the water army, their fields would be watered and they would not starve.

If someone believes, at night, the leader and the water tribe monster will cooperate and pour some water on the field of the believer's house to temporarily relieve it**.

Of course, just a little bit will not completely relieve the drought.

The rhetoric to the people is that they do not have enough faith, do not contribute enough incense, and do not have enough piety, and they must win over more people to join the religion and firmly believe in the orders of the navy army, so that they can truly get relief from the great drought.

This is what he said to the people on the periphery, and to those who have become completely superstitious, he simply explained the truth -- the reason why there is such a great drought in heaven and earth is because the emperor is unscrupulous and unreasonable, which has caused disasters to fall from heaven. If you want to truly relieve the drought, from now on, the wind and rain will be smooth, and the grains will be abundant, you must rise up and overthrow the dog emperor.

Because the drought is really too fierce, the organization of the navy army has developed quite rapidly, and there will be reports in bits and pieces along the rivers and counties across the country.

Although most of them were forcibly suppressed for some reason, there were still some espionage systems that passed through the guò court. And after Xiao Ling reorganized the espionage system and ruthlessly killed several obvious insiders, he was able to see the light of day.

According to these estimates of scales and claws, the scale of the 36-square-sided mountain at the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising may not be reached, but it is almost the same.

And as the drought continues, this force will expand more rapidly.

The problem that cultivators are facing now is that they must inquire about the news, but they must not probe unscrupulously, because it is very likely that it will surprise the enemy and let the enemy know that they already know, and then take more drastic action.

There is only one reason why we have not yet taken action, and that is that the autumn harvest has not yet arrived, and if it rains, there is still a glimmer of hope for this year's harvest.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, people often do not go to extremes......

But in case the enemy knows that they do, not necessarily.

In order to achieve victory in this battle of sealing gods, the tactic that Xiao Ling and all the cultivators agreed on was to smash the Yellow Dragon before the enemy realized that they had discovered the truth!

The eighteen big ships were prepared for this, and when they figured out the size of the navy, the configuration of their strength, the location of their lair, and the exact whereabouts of that Yu Yang, thousands of cultivators would sail down the river.

"Confidentiality, must be strictly confidential! The exact information is only known to the thirty of us, and the people below only say the order, not the purpose. If I had to say it, I would say only the reasons that had been made! Xiao Ling repeated the rules.

Everyone nodded solemnly, this is indeed a major matter related to success or failure.

"Inquire about the enemy's news at close range, try to take those safer eyeliners, and prefer to delay a little longer than reveal the main intention. Remotely convey orders with your mouth, or you will be burned immediately after reading, and no literal evidence must be left. ”

"In addition, for any targeted order to be issued, it is necessary to create more than two false targets, mixing the real command with the fake order and conveying it."

"It doesn't have to be so tight, right? Are you so strict with your own people? Everyone is in the same realm, no one wants to lose, right? "There was a protest.

The people in the Xianxia world are still too simple, in the same class, there will be no spies and undercover agents? The reason why the twenty-five of them were selected was that in addition to their own influence, there was another point, that is, Xiao Ling had carefully studied their facial micro-expressions, done psychological analysis, and basically confirmed that they had no problems before being promoted. Those that may be problematic are secretly denied.

This is the real situation, but it can't be said that "the methods of our cultivators are ever-changing, maybe there are people who can read minds, maybe there are people who can charm, maybe there are people who can invade the dream realm, and no one can count them all." Xiao Ling said sternly, "So, it's better to be careful." ”

The protesters nodded and did not speak. Xiao Ling squinted, his attitude was quite good, he should have been convinced. That's fine. "Proceed to the next topic ......"

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And so the days passed......

The game between the two sides is in full swing on the bright side and in the dark. The undercurrent is turbulent, but at first glance the water is as calm as ever.

The cultivators on the third night of the first month never came.

More than half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the royal training ground.

"Break it for me!" Peng Shuai shouted, and with the thick Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand, he smashed it down viciously at Xiao Ling. Fang Tian's halberd was howling in the evil wind, and at the same time, the explosion in his mouth also turned into sound waves and swept towards Xiao Ling.

"Second gear!" Xiao Ling stood still, his whole body suddenly reddened and expanded, and there was a steaming hot gas around his body. Peng Shuai's sound waves were like muffled thunder, but he only felt the strong wind blowing on his face, and he didn't realize it. The phoenix-winged Qingming knife with a foot of one and a half meters in his hand suddenly unfolded and met the fat man's painted halberd.

"Poof!" With a muffled sound, the two weapons immediately stuck together, turning into a wind-pulling arc and turning to the side.

"Damn, it's so depressing to fight with this!" The fat man couldn't help but shout.

The weapons intersect, according to the fat man's ability, he can smash it if he wants to, and he can smash it if he wants to.

Relying on the passivity of the tiger and leopard thunder sound and the infusion of immortal qi, as well as the almost endless supply of elixir in this world, as a high-level cultivator of the national uncle and national teacher, his melee three-dimensional battle skyrocketed across the board, and his strength increased from 11.7 to 12.9! The reflection went from 10 to 11! The endurance also broke through from 9.2 to 10.1, and comprehended the blood pool talent [blood pool talent, when the blood qi is sufficient, the blood qi is extra condensed in the body. When you are injured, you can instantly draw strength from the blood pool to heal the injury, and recover in seconds, increasing the blood limit in disguise, which is one of T's best talents.

In less than a month, the attribute has skyrocketed so much!

Although it is relatively unmoved, intelligence, sensibility, and sensitivity are frozen, and they are proud enough.

But even so, it was still not enough to smash Xiao Ling's total intelligence defense of 14.5. Reflections are no match either.

While Peng Shuai was improving, Xiao Ling was of course not idle, the phoenix wing Qingming knife form was fully constructed, the second-level state was mastered, and the attributes were also comprehensively improved.

So Peng Shuai couldn't smash it, he couldn't dodge, and he poured his ability into the halberd to twist off the phoenix wing Qingming knife, right? This is also one of the most commonly used functions of the halberd, but I just met Xiao Ling, a storage that can easily guide the deviation power.

As soon as he stuck and pulled here, he deviated and circled, making it like Tai Chi, and he had no way to pull it.

"I'm coming!" Raised Ran Pu Rou shouted, holding a thousand umbrellas and jumping, jumping high into the air, suddenly turning into three heads and six arms, and smashing down towards Xiao Ling. (To be continued......)