Chapter 270: National Policy (3)
In recent days, Yunchen has often been in and out of the Wanxiang Building, but he is very smart, and every time he goes to the Wanxiang Building, he brings Chu Cong to cover people's eyes. But he still let King Ning's spies target him, but fortunately, he was prepared and made a bureau to confuse the spies' sight.
"Your Majesty, your subordinates have investigated clearly, and the reason why Yunchen frequently enters and exits the Wanxiang Building is because of a girl named Shenyu. That girl used to be an errand in the palace of the king of Chu, and it seemed that she was the maid next to Chu Cong, and later the state of Chu was destroyed, and she was reduced to the Ning country to perform arts, and mistakenly entered the Qinglou. After Chu Cong came to Ningguo, he had been looking for her whereabouts, and a few days ago he accidentally found her in Wanxianglou. Yunchen was afraid of insulting Chu Cong's reputation, so he came with him every time and carried this black pot for him. The spy reported the news of his investigation truthfully.
"This is in line with Yunchen's style," King Ning pondered for a moment, and then asked, "What about the Spring Palace Diagram?" ”
The spy lowered his head, and seemed to be a little embarrassed: "The picture of the Spring Palace has been circulated from the palace for more than ten years, and it is said to be related to Father-in-law Liu Dewei...... He has been worried all these years, lest this matter be discovered, so he entrusted Yunchen to help find it. Yunchen didn't find it until recently, because Gonggong Liu had passed away, so he gave those pictures of the Spring Palace to the Qinglou he used to frequent. ”
The spies only picked out important things to report, but King Ning still guessed more: more than ten years ago, Liu Dewei, the great eunuch of the East Palace, leaked the Spring Palace map for something, and he has been worried about it, because Yunchen is a foreign race and has nothing to do with the forces in the court, so he asked him to find it.
Thinking about the cause and effect, King Ning still didn't seem to be at ease, so he said to the people around him: "Go to the palace and ask those old people to check if the Spring Palace map is really something and whether it is related to Liu Dewei." ”
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King Ning's reaction was all expected by Yunchen, in fact, he wanted to use King Ning's suspicion to investigate the matter of the Spring Palace Diagram. After all, these pictures are from the palace, and they are old things, and he has limited ability to find out anything, so he can only rely on the power of King Ning.
There are four levels of realm in the clever game: the first layer is "push", digging a trap and pushing the opponent to jump in; The second layer is "baiting", doing a good job of baiting and luring the other party to take the bait; The third layer is "waiting", waiting for the rabbit, and letting the other party jump into the trap without knowing it; The last layer is called "use", not just taking the bait, but also letting the other party unconsciously do things for themselves and for my use.
This is also what Yunchen recently learned from the "National Policy", and he immediately learned and applied it to King Ning.
It didn't take long for King Ning's people to question all the elderly people in the palace, focusing on torturing several of Gonggong Liu's apprentices and grandchildren, and finally unearthed some clues:
Fourteen years ago, Yuan Che entered the palace to cool off, and the prince handed him over to Liu Dewei to take care of, and then it happened that Yuan Che was molested by the concubine, which caused Yuan Che to have a shadow on women. Wei Hou once asked Liu Dewei about the inside story, Liu Dewei did not dare to reveal the scandal of King Ning, and was afraid of offending Wei Hou, knowing that he had been suffering from the disease of Hua Liu and had been ineffective in sexual affairs, so he gave him a box of spring palace pictures hidden by the prince, which was regarded as an apology for his poor care of Yuan Che.
After King Ning heard about this old incident, he didn't suspect anything anymore. After all, two or three years ago, Yunchen and the Wei Hou Mansion were extremely close, perhaps Liu Dewei wanted to ask him to retrieve these Spring Palace pictures. As a result, the Spring Palace Diagram had long been thrown away, and in order to prevent Liu Dewei from losing his evening, Yunchen came forward to find the whereabouts of the Spring Palace Diagram for him, and found someone on the rivers and lakes to do this.
Who knew that Andy Lau died of illness later, Yunchen was belittled again, and the entrusted person didn't want to get into trouble, so he didn't show up after finding the Spring Palace map. It wasn't until Yunchen reappeared that the other party sent the book over to him and asked him for the balance. Yunchen saw that Liu Dewei was dead, so he gave the spring palace map to the familiar Qinglou.
"Since the matter of the Spring Palace Diagram is true, there is no need to investigate this matter further. However, you still have to keep an eye on Yunchen to prevent him from making any changes. "King Ning is so fateful.
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Over there, King Xiang Ning found out the old things about the Spring Palace Map, and here Xiang Yunchen has also found out the news of Bai Juan. Because of King Ning's longevity, the entire king avoided selling white silk silk, and only two cloth houses were still secretly doing this business, and the biggest buyer in recent months came from the Wei Hou Jingdi.
It is said that Wei Hou Shizi Yuan Che was injured in Jiang Guo last year, and the injury was on the buttocks, and from then on, the profane pants must be made of unusually soft materials, and they must be comfortable and clean. For this reason, Wei Houfu found countless kinds of fabrics to make profane pants for Yuan Che, but this kind of silk silk entered his eyes, and it was extremely comfortable to wear. In addition, Yuan Che suffers from cleanliness and is reluctant to wear other colors, so since last year, all his obscene pants have been made of this white silk silk.
As early as last autumn, after Yuan Che brought back the collection, Wei Hou Jingdi had already ordered a large number of new silk for this year. Because the deposit had already been paid, and it was the silk that the prince of Wei Hou wanted, the boss of the cloth village had the courage to buy it back, and it was sent to the Wei Hou Mansion in April this year and the payment was settled.
Just looking at the white silk business, it is not enough to make Yunchen suspect the Weihou Mansion, after all, this is not the only one who has bought white new silk this year. But the flow direction of the Spring Palace Diagram is also the Marquis of Wei's Mansion, which has to attract Yunchen's attention.
"Recently, has Wanxianglou received people from Wei Hou Jingdi?" Yunchen asked the bustard.
The old bustard recalled for a moment, and his eyes lit up: "Yes! In late June, Wei Hou and his son came to congratulate King Ning on his birthday, and a team of guards who escorted the birthday gang once came to drink flower wine! ”
Late June? He got the box of spring palace drawings in late June, June 25 to be exact. Thinking of this, Yunchen said firmly: "Yan Guo's fine work must be by Yuan Che's side, and he is his cronies. ”
The old bustard was puzzled when he heard this: "Although these three clues all point to the Wei Hou Mansion, it is not necessarily Yuan Che, it may be the people around Wei Hou?" ”
"The white silk is made for Yuan Che, how can Wei Hou's people get their hands on it? It can be seen that this person must be a personal servant of Yuan Che. Yunchen gradually showed a smile with an unclear meaning: "Speaking of which, Wang Tuo is the most suspicious. ”
"So what's next? Please also ask Your Highness to show me. ”
"Keep an eye on Wang Tuo, hand him a few fake news, and see if Nie Xingji will be fooled."
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Coming back from Wanxianglou, Yunchen's mood did not have a trace of joy, but was very depressed. He had to use this meticulous work to smash Nie Xingji, and overcome the growing boredom and powerlessness in his heart.
He reviewed Wang Tuo in detail, sorted out all the clues at hand, and became more and more sure that the detailed work was Wang Tuo. It is very obvious that Wang Tuo is very concerned about Weinong, and this attention seems to have caused Yuan Che's dissatisfaction.
Now that I think about it, it is very likely that Wang Tuo was instructed by Nie Xingji.
Yunchen thought of the map of the mountains and rivers again, and since the picture was in hand, his life has been filled with all kinds of things. King Ning kept an eye on him more and more closely, and many trivial things were handed over to him to warn and guard against his small actions. In addition, he has been investigating the details of his work in recent days, and he has to secretly watch out for all kinds of eyeliners, there are too many trivial matters, and he has never calmed down to study the anti-layout of mountains and rivers.
He lit the candle and unfolded the parchment scroll, which was densely covered with incomprehensible lines and symbols. These symbols are all secret scripts of the soldiers, and only those who have practiced the orthodox Guiguzi art of war can understand them. This art of war has always been treacherous, and Yun Chen is not sure how many people have practiced it, but he knows that King Ning and Nie Xingji will definitely understand it.
Thinking of this, he felt a sense of urgency more and more, so he quickly looked at the candle flame. The detailed brushstrokes in the picture, the meandering mountains and rivers are vividly depicted, the peaks and valleys, the turbulence and the buffer, supplemented by the description of the ciphertext, have become the best place for attack and defense in the eyes of the soldiers. In addition to being amazed, Yunchen counted the distribution of several large blocks in the map, and found one thing unsurprisingly:
There are only Ning and Chu on this map, and there is no Yan and Jiang.
The mountains and rivers in the territory of Chu State, Yunchen can recite them with his eyes closed, and it is useless to come. And although Ning Guo is useful, he wants to get Yan Guo's defense map even more!
The other half of the anti-layout, who is in the hands? Is it King Ning? Or Nie Xingji? Or is it someone else? Does that person understand the importance of a parchment roll?
Looking back at the half he got, he was too familiar with Chu State, Ning Guo was not what he wanted, in order to prevent future troubles, he felt that it was better to burn one hundred, so that Nie Xingji would not get it. So, he spread out the parchment scroll and studied it carefully, wanting to memorize a few key places before burning them.
However, when Yunchen really took a closer look at the distribution of the mountains and rivers in Ningguo, he suddenly felt that there was a place that was slightly familiar, and those lines and symbols seemed familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere. He watched for a long time, and a crazy thought suddenly flashed in his mind, so he immediately opened the door and pretended to be fierce: "Call the bamboo wind and tassels over!" ”
After a while, the two of them hurriedly entered the door, and they both saw Yun Chen's eager expression on his face rarely.
"Quick! Take off your top! Yunchen's tone was excited.
As soon as these words came out, Tassel and Zhufeng both understood something, and hurriedly took off their clothes and turned their backs to Yunchen. Yunchen picked up the parchment roll without distraction, first carefully examined the back of the tassel, and poked it with his finger a few times from time to time. And the tassel also looks very calm, and there is a little apprehension in the calmness.
Seeing Yunchen's sometimes frowning, sometimes excited, and sometimes suddenly enlightened expression, Zhu Feng couldn't help but ask, "Master?" ”
The moment the words came out, Yunchen had already said to the tassel: "You put on your clothes!" Then he turned his gaze back to Takekaze's back.
Zhu Feng only felt that there were fingers lightly swiped on his back, as if he was drawing a line, he really couldn't hold it back, so he asked again: "Master, but you have found a place to hide treasures?" ”
After asking for a long time, he heard Yunchen's response, which clearly had the excitement of trying to suppress: "Yes!" The Treasure Hunt has been found! ”
"Where?" Tassels and bamboo wind speak in unison.
"It's in Ningguo!"