"On the third day of the first month of August, the peerless swordsman from overseas Izumo came in a flat boat, set up a ring at the mouth of the sea in Dongsheng, challenged the heroes of the two states in the east, and won ten battles and ten victories!"

"On the seventh day of the eighth month, there was a top swordsman in the Western Desert, who entered Zhongyuanzhou with a negative flag, and wrote 'Huanghuang Kyushu, no man', breaking nine formations and killing 100 people!"

"On the twelfth day of August, the strongest man of the grassland, Ashulei, entered the Xuanbei ......"

Zhang Chu put down the information in his hand and sighed: "What an eventful season!"

He closed his eyes with a headache, leaned back slowly, and leaned back in his chair to rest.

As the saying goes, those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek one domain.

With the current size of the Beiping League, although it is still in a safe corner, it has been pulled by the situation in Kyushu.

Kyushu is in turmoil, and the Beiping League doesn't want to live in peace.

These are extraordinary times.

Even though Zhang Chu was able to grasp the general context of the treacherous turmoil in front of him, he still felt exhausted in the face of such a complicated situation.

The higher the position of the station.

The more you can't make mistakes.

One wrong step may be the abyss......

Hongyun, who was standing on the side, saw his headache, walked behind him lightly and massaged his temples.

The soft fingertips, combined with the quiet environment, relieved his headache bit by bit.

The woman's unique faint body fragrance, mixed with the sandalwood rising from the incense burner, decomposes the ups and downs in his heart.

After a while.

Zhang Chucai let out a long sigh of relief and asked softly, "On the Tianji Grassland, is there any news coming back?"

The line of the Tianji Grassland began with Li Zheng.

After more than a year of operation, that line has not yet broken into the ruling class of the Northern Barbarians, opening a channel for obtaining top-secret information.

But it has been possible to deduce some of the overall measures of some northern barbarians from various inconspicuous marginal corners.

The snow melts very late in the polar grassland than now, and the rainfall is very little after the summer, and the cattle and sheep are thirsty to death, and they are afraid of a shortage of raw food after the winter.

Another example is that the Northern Barbarian tribes moved to the direction of Yongming Pass, and the troops and horses were frequently mobilized, and they were afraid that the sword soldiers would invade Dali again.

However, it has been less than a year since the end of the last war between the North and the South, and the mutual market between the two sides has not yet been opened, and the transmission of information is extremely difficult.

Therefore, it is not a big deal, the line of Tianji Grassland will not transmit news to the headquarters of Fengyunlou in Taipingguan.

Usually, every two or three months, there will be a piece of intelligence from the Tianji Grassland, and when the intelligence is transmitted to the headquarters of Fengyunlou, it is at least half a month since the intelligence is issued, and it does not have immediate strategic significance, so it can only be used as an intelligence record and collected

Hearing this, Hongyun carefully recalled it for a while before he spoke: "No." ”

She was originally Zhang Chu's personal maid, and she went in and out with Zhang Chu, she was originally one of the twelve secret agents of Fengyun Tower, and she had a team of secret agents in her hands, and she was responsible for helping Zhang Chu access the designated information at the same time, she was also responsible for carrying out the tasks assigned by Zhang Chu, but she did not touch the overall intelligence information of Fengyun Tower.

Since Zhang Chu flew into the sky, she and Da Liu could no longer follow Zhang Chu inch by inseparable.

Thenceforth.

Da Liu transferred to the safflower department and was later promoted to the head of the safflower department.

And Hongyun entered Zhang's Mansion and served as the general manager of Zhang's Mansion, assisting Zhiqiu in taking care of Zhang's Mansion, and also serving as Zhang Chu's eyes and ears in Fengyun Building, handing over his secret agent team and being promoted to the deputy owner of Fengyun Building.

At present, there are only four people in the Fengyun Building who have access to all intelligence materials.

Zhang Chu one.

As the owner of Fengyun Tower, he can naturally decide everything in Fengyun Tower, but his energy is not in Fengyun Building, and he rarely exercises the right to consult the information in the building.

One mule.

As a gatekeeper, the mule takes care of the entire Fengyun Building, and is the brain of the Fengyun Building, and the information of the entire Fengyun Building will eventually be collected into his hands, but as his status rises, he is gradually inclined to control and plan in the Fengyun Building.

Heavenly Wind One.

After Tianfeng returned from the Tianji Grassland, he handed over his secret agent team and was promoted to the deputy owner of Fengyun Building, which is the sharp blade of Fengyun Building, and all large-scale operations in Fengyun Building are commanded by him.

The last one is the red cloud.

She is also the deputy owner of Fengyun Building, but she is Zhang Chu's representative in Fengyun Building, and she can neither interfere in the layout and planning of the building, nor can she interfere in the external tasks in the building, and is only responsible for being ready to provide Zhang Chu with the information he needs at any time, as well as conveying Zhang Chu's orders to Fengyun Building...... The authority may not be as good as that of Tianfeng, but in terms of status, she is still above Tianfeng, and she can almost go neck and neck with a mule.

Hongyun may not care too much about his status in the Fengyun Building.

But the trust behind this status, she has to care.

"Are you worried that these people will enter the Great Separation together to stir up the wind and rain, and only the neighbors will take advantage of the fire to rob?"

Hongyun pondered for a moment and asked softly.

Zhang Chu closed his eyes and replied: "These people came to Dali to do things with great fanfare, it should be a protest against these foreign countries against Dali's policy of closing the country and closing the country. ”

"As for whether it is a precursor to taking advantage of the fire to rob, there is too little information to judge for the time being. ”

"I'm wondering, behind these people, in addition to the support of their own country, is there any support from the Great Departure!"

"Don't be afraid of your neighbors!"

"I'm afraid that there is the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob, not only the neighbors......"

He had read all the information he had come back from the Tianji Grassland.

But he just laughed it off.

The northern barbarians were driven back to the steppe by their own hands.

No one knows better than them what the national strength of the Northern Barbarians is.

It is said that the Northern Barbarians are all soldiers, and those who pick up a whip are herdsmen, and those who pick up a knife are horse bandits.

But the truth is not subject to human will.

The population of the steppe tribes added up to seven million people.

Southern expedition for several years.

The Northern Barbarians have folded a total of more than 400,000 elite iron horsemen in Northern Xinjiang!

Even if there is the idea of going south again.

Soldiers, horses, equipment, and grain are all mountains that they can't bypass!

But if someone is here to work together again, everything should be discussed separately......

Zhang Chu has not forgotten that the Northern Barbarians have the ability to feed their wars with war, and an army of 100,000 becomes 200,000, and an army of 200,000 becomes 300,000!

Hongyun realized, lowered his voice and asked, "You mean...... King Zhenbei?"

Zhang Chu nodded and shook his head: "The catastrophe is about to start, and there is no one with bad intentions, let alone a king of Zhenbei." ”

After a pause, Zhang Chu asked again: "How is the food shortage situation in various places?"

Hongyun's face gradually became solemn: "It's not good, this year's drought, the output of various places is less than fifty percent of previous years, but the government in various places is still ordering farmers to pay grain according to the taxes of previous years, and the grain and straw transfer department is also like crazy, desperately collecting the grain production in various places, and the farmers who grow grain can't live anymore, and the people in the city who take money to sell grain are already relying on the bark of wild vegetables to spend the day, and the people in Taibai Mansion are already overcrowded, as long as they are willing to give a stutter, there are people who are willing to sell their wives ......and children for more than a dozen big money."

Zhang Chu's brows became tighter and tighter.

As a high-ranking person, he can understand the government's practices to a certain extent.

This year's food shortage is a foregone conclusion, and with the mess in Xiliangzhou, the relief of the imperial court may be extremely limited.

The more this is the case, the more food must be in the hands of the government.

Only when the government has grain in its hands can it effectively mediate the food shortage in various places, and it will not break out to the point of sweeping the entire Xuanbei Prefecture.

But for the people below.

The government's approach is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

With Zhang Chu's political wisdom, it is not clear whether the government's approach is right or wrong.

He was only afraid that the people would not want to rebel.

The government forced the people to rebel against ......

After a long time, Zhang Chu sighed heavily, and said softly: "Natural disasters and man-made disasters come together, this God, I really can't see people have a peaceful birthday......"

He's really powerless.

Previously, the Honghua Department was sent to block the waterway transportation in Xuanbei Prefecture and not allow the grain of Xuanbei Prefecture to leave the Xuanbei territory, which was already an encroachment.

The state capital did not trouble him with the Beiping League, which was already beyond his expectations.

and then intervene in the governance of local governments......

It really forced the imperial court to stab him in the Beiping League.

Looking at Zhang Chu's exhausted appearance, Hongyun was so distressed that he couldn't help it, gently hugged his forehead, and said warmly: "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, don't worry about these bad things, the second lady has been busy since last night, and the moon cakes have been steamed one drawer after another, if you don't go back to accompany them to celebrate the solar term earlier, the second lady will be really annoyed." ”

Zhang Chu smiled reluctantly, "You go back to accompany Da Zhuang earlier, you don't have a lot of time to accompany that kid all year round, I will go to Zhongyuanzhou later, there are some things, I still have to ask them for advice on the second victory day." ”

Hongyun tightened his nervous forehead, and said in a sullen voice: "Are you in such a hurry? Can't you go after the Mid-Autumn Festival at home......?

"I'd like to stay at home for a few more days, but I'll have to be given that time. ”

Zhang Chu smiled helplessly, and said softly: "After this year, I should be able to take a good rest after this year." ”

Hongyun sighed, "You said the same thing last year. ”