Hai Liang left the Huangji Gate and stayed overnight in Xila Hutong outside the Imperial City, which was a place for middle-level officials to stay in Beijing.

After a simple bath and change of clothes, he leisurely rode out of the house, like any rich and noble brother in Beijing, looking at the most extravagant and flashy place in Beijing.

Walking to the bank of the Dinglong River on the north side of Jiaolan Lane, I saw an ordinary wooden boat with a red beauty lamp hanging on the canopy.

Hai Liang tied his horse to the table and jumped into the boat, and entered the canopy under the signal of the boat's mother, and saw a moon-white man with a purple copper unicorn mask sitting in it.

The man handed him a bronze tiger head mask that he was rubbing in his hand, and Hai Liang smiled at him and put the mask on.

After a while, he went ashore from the wooden plank road behind the old tour building of the jade belt, and the man in the unicorn mask led sideways in front, and Hai Liang followed him closely to the three-story C-shaped room.

The room is as warm as spring in March, and a man in a green robe is wearing a dragon's head mask and leaning on the warm couch, holding a jade cup in one hand and a sunspot in the other hand and contemplating on the chessboard.

Hearing the two of them enter, he turned his head and smiled:

"The Great Master of the Sea is here!"

Hai Liang knelt down on one knee and respectfully saluted:

"Hai Liang visits the old master and thanks the old master for saving him."

Hai Liang's gratitude is sincere, since this year decided to join the old lord to plot a big thing, their original plan was to conquer the Dongyu country by the Dongshan Mausoleum, and the western front by Feng Sidao to lead people to destroy the Tuxilu and Dachen mutual market peace talks, with the Tuxilu army approaching the west of Dachen, at the same time, the Tulun cavalry from the east through the narrow strait straight to the Dongshan Mausoleum south, so that the little emperor can not take care of each other, the old lord's forces can take advantage of the emptiness of Kyoto to drive straight into the abolition of the emperor to ascend to the pole.

Who knew that the peace talks that had been destroyed by the mutual market turned out to be variable, Feng Sidao sent the news to the time of the Tanglin Guard, and the Tulun army in the Dongshan Tomb immediately retreated, and the original plan in Kyoto has begun, the Tanglin Wei defeated the Tulun defeated Yu Yu has been introduced to the palace, and Hu Da, who is moving around in the capital, has been exposed, and there is a risk of being found out at any time.

Dragon Head Mask Man says:

"Prince Hai must think that he will treat Huda and Tanglin Wei as outcasts in order to protect himself?"

Seeing that Hai Liang did not reply, he continued:

"In Kyoto, at the beginning of the planning, Hu Da was fully responsible for the planning and delivery of the defeated Yuxuan, and did not let the Tanglin Wei really participate, in order to protect the Tanglin Wei and the Hai Dagongzi.

After all, among the three steps of spreading the rumors of Tulun's invasion of Dachen, the rumors of the defeat of the Tanglin Wei and the entry of Yu Yu into Kyoto, and the contact with the forces of the DPRK and China to force the emperor to send reinforcements, the defeat of the Tanglin Wei is a key link.

After this plan failed, the first order of a certain was to ask Huda to bite the defeated Yu Yu to death, which was planned by him alone, and had nothing to do with Tanglin Wei. Then ordered the great prince of Hai to immediately send an 800-mile urgent victory report to the capital, and never admit the defeat of Yu Yu in the previous battle, so that he could completely protect the Tanglin Guard. ”

Hai Liangfang stood up, and bowed down to thank him when he heard the words.

The dragon-headed masked man laughed, pointed to the chessboard in front of him and said:

"Master Hai must not be restrained, would you like to talk to a certain person here with a candle?"

Hai Liang got up and smiled:

"It's just ordinary to cultivate in the way of playing chess, I hope it won't disturb the old master Yaxing."

Hai Liang sat on the opposite side as he spoke, cleaned up the chessboard with the dragon head mask man, and took the white son to re-open the posture to play with him.

Hai Liang put down a chess piece and said apologetically:

"When I was going down to see the emperor, I heard that Lord Hudahu had passed away and lost one of his cadres, so I was smothered by the old master."

He didn't notice that he was leading him into the room, and the Kirin Masked Man, who was sitting alone by the door at the moment, trembled violently with his shoulders after hearing this.

The dragon head masked man chased the layout of the white son, calmly pressed the black piece in his hand step by step, and within a few steps, he had the momentum of trapping the opponent in the game, and dropped a chess piece again, and then he said calmly:

"Huda does these things, once the plan fails, it will inevitably be exposed, and what he has committed is already a capital crime, plus whether he lies about the military situation or not, there is no big difference in sentencing, you don't have to blame yourself."

"I'm very curious about one thing," the Dragon-Headed Mask Man asked with great interest, "At that time, Tulun had withdrawn his troops, and since we had formed an alliance with Tulun, we must not hurt them, how did you make this victory of killing more than 2,000 enemies?" ”

Hai Liang said with a smile:

"Coincidentally, there was heavy snow in those days, and the hungry people in the surrounding villages and towns had nowhere to hide, so they took the old and the young to the Tanglin Guard station for temporary shelter, and they took advantage of the situation to ......."

The Dragon-Head Mask Man asked:

"Does the Duke of the East Sea know about this?"

"My father didn't know, he just thought he was really fighting an ambush - he wanted to know, it couldn't be done."

In fact, Dongshan Mausoleum is sparsely populated, and there are many inconveniences in daily life. Since the third generation of Donghai Gong, the mansion has moved to the state capital hundreds of miles away. Today's Hongmeng of the East China Sea has lived in the East China Sea Mansion for a long time, and all affairs in the army are handed over to Hai Liang to deal with, and he only contacts him by letter in peacetime.

"Over time, your father's old brothers who are still in the army may find some clues."

The dragon head masked man said worriedly.

Hai Liang landed a white piece with difficulty, his chess skills were really far from the opponent's, and he was surrounded to death after a dozen steps.

"If it is too late to find out at that time, there are more secrets in the Tanglin Guard, if something happens to me alone, I will definitely implicate a large area, and everyone will already be grasshoppers on a rope."

The dragon-headed masked man laughed sullenly, got up and took the wine jug and jade cup from the incense table in front of the bed, poured it for Hai Liang, and he hurriedly got up and took it.

The dragon-headed masked man pressed his shoulder lightly with his palm, signaling that he should not be too polite, and then sat down on the couch and continued:

"Your so-called secret is to privately divide military land and occupy civilian land?"

The other party said that it was a felony of killing the head, but Hai Liang didn't care at all, nodded and sighed:

"There's no way around it. Since Taizu and Ming Zongye were there, the army still had salaries and silver, barely enough for food and clothing, and when it came to the first emperor, even the officials' salaries had to be folded with pepper and sumu, not to mention the salaries of the border guards.

Without salary, the soldiers could not even support their wives and children at home, and they could not provide cotton clothes in winter. If we don't think of a way out by ourselves, and don't have to be attacked by foreign enemies, we will finish ourselves first.

Originally, the people in the area of Dongshanling were scarce, and the land and wasteland were all distributed to everyone according to the military rank, and only when they had enough to eat could they hope to kill the enemy and serve the country. ”

The dragon head mask man also bowed his head and said:

"What the prince of the sea said is extremely true. The old general Zhang Huai in the early years, Wei Jinglin and Lin Shifan now, which one is not trying his best to seek benefits, and it is really nothing for Tanglin Wei to do these actions. Do you think these ideas were come up with by the older generation of Donghai Gong? It has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has become a secret that everyone has to keep, and no one will break it down without permission, making everyone unable to eat. ”

"Not bad", Hai Liang continued: "In order to prevent accidents, this time with me to do this group of brothers who have beheaded the enemy more than 2,000 levels, I plan to upgrade the benefits - I have told the emperor about the Wuchuan bandits, and he really ordered me to divide my troops to Wuchuan to suppress the bandits. ”