Bao Qing called Cao Yun and asked Cao Yun to write a letter. Looking at the beautiful handwriting, Bao Qing couldn't help but admire it, he didn't expect that Cao Yun's hands playing with knives and guns could write such beautiful words.

"Brother Bao, although people play with knives and guns, in the early years, my father often forced me to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting with my sister." Cao Yun smiled shyly.

"Really? Do you know how to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting? Will a do? Bao Qing asked with a wink.

"It's going to be a little bit, it's not as good as my sister!"

The letter that Bao Qing asked Cao Yun to write was for Li Qing to take away. The letter said that the princess was safe and sound with the thirteen princes, and Hong Ba's son had been rescued by the thirteen princes, and the thirteen princes were in Yizhou at this time. In the letter, it was specifically instructed to let Li Qing take over the reinforcements of the two routes, and let Hongba lead the troops to Yizhou to join the thirteen princes.

After Bao Qing read the letter carefully, he pressed the dragon jade pendant, and a small red dragon jumped into view.

"When you see Hong Ba, give him the letter, don't explain anything! He wanted to ask you about the prince, and you said that the prince's hand was injured. Bao Qing couldn't coerce the thirteenth prince to write a letter by hand, so he had to lie that the prince's hand was injured. I hope that Cao Yun's woman's handwriting will make Hong Ba mistakenly think that it was written by the princess.

Bao Qing knew that Li Qing didn't know much about the situation, so he could only deliberately pretend to be deep and not speak, maybe he could be deceived.

"You also take the jade pendant, as a last resort, don't take it out to show others! Your appearance, maybe Hong Ba will be shocked, but I believe it is more awe. "Hong Ba may never have expected that Li Qing, who had been getting rid of him, would actually be a member of the Thirteen Princes. Perhaps Li Qing's appearance brought Hong Ba not suspicion, but more awe.

Of course, Bao Qing didn't continue to talk to Li Qing, because it was very likely that his speculation was completely wrong, and this jade pendant was not a token at all. As soon as Li Qing saw Hong Ba, he could be killed. Therefore, after Li Qing left, all he wanted to do was to quickly gather Li Qing's troops, find a place to hide first, and then wait for news.

"The only place to contact is the contact point we set up at the beginning, it should be safe there, if you have any news, let the people of the dynasty pass the news over." Bao Qing finally admonished.

……

When Li Qing left, Zhang Long was a little reluctant, Bao Qing smiled and patted Zhang Long's shoulder, and said, "Don't be a daughter!" Commander Li is not Jing Ke! Feel relieved. ”

Li Qing smiled bitterly, then half-knelt down and bowed to Bao Qing, and said, "If you go here at the end, you will definitely succeed!" Take care, adults! ”

Cao Yun's eyes couldn't help but be a little moist when she saw this scene, Li Qing took a few personal guards, patted the horseback, and slowly disappeared into the cold grassland. Zhang Long kept staring at his old official leaving, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Who is Jing Ke?" ”

After noon, according to the agreement with Di Ligu, the Liao grain and grass escort officer, Bao Qing needed to take people disguised as business travelers to Yizhou Grain Road to exchange tea for grain.

This transaction surprised Bao Qing again, it was only one day, this Dirigu was actually promoted, and became the head of the Yizhou grain road, and the four times a day the grain transportation was managed by Diligu.

"Brother Qian's general tea is really good, this time I want to increase the trading volume, I don't know if Brother Qian is willing." Dirigu said.

This is the trading time, then Jia Dahu must have followed, and sure enough, Jia Dahu pulled Bao Qing and said: "The Liao people want to increase the trading volume by four times, Brother Qian, this is a good thing!" Lord Dirigu said, "You have to do this every day in the future, Brother Qian, you can go back early to stock up." ”

"The goods are not a problem, Brother Jia, I take the liberty of asking, can you ask Lord Diligu to send us a pass, yesterday we met a Liao army of nearly four or five thousand people, but we were miserable, all the goods were robbed, it seems that today's transaction can not be completed so easily." Bao Qing pretended to be very innocent.

Jia Dahu told Di Rigu about this, but he didn't expect Di Ligu to agree immediately without saying a word. Here he was busy asking the number of caravans, the name of the trading house, etc., and said that Bao Qing would send someone to go with him to the big camp not far away. Bao Qing looked at Zhang Long Nunu, Zhang Long understood, and followed the Liao people.

The deal was a success, but all the tea leaves were used up. Maybe there won't be a trade tomorrow, Bao Qing thought.

Within half an hour, Zhang Long came back with the so-called pass.

"My lord, that camp is not far from here, it is a grain transit point for the Liao people, it should be the transit point of the Yizhou grain road, I secretly took a look, the storage of grain is at least the amount transported by the Liao people in five days. It should be five days of grain storage, and the grain just traded was sent from there. Zhang Long said.

Bao Qing nodded and said: "I really didn't expect that we were afraid that we would get too close to Yizhou and be prone to danger, but I didn't expect that such a large grain transfer station would be not far in front of us." ”

"My lord, as well as the four or five thousand Liao grain protection teams, they should all be camped at the grain transfer station, judging from the number of tents, there are about four or five thousand people." Zhang Long said.

……

At night, Bao Qing couldn't sleep, it had been two days, and the spies he sent to monitor the Liao army had not reported back yet.

Isn't it all hanging? None of them came back?

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!" Zhang Long shouted outside the tent again.

Bao Qing snorted and said, "Come in!" ”

"My lord, the person who monitored the Liao army is back!"

"How many come back?" Bao Qing asked anxiously.

"Just one person!"

"Let him in!" Bao Qing got up and got out of bed and wrapped his body in clothes.

At this time, a dusty soldier entered the camp and saluted. Bao Qing raised his hand and motioned for him to hurry up.

"My lord, the Liao people have not moved for a long time, we went to six people, and two brothers were found by enemy scouts and shot dead. The four of us have been squatting at the Liao people for more than a day, and there has been no movement! ”

Bao Qing asked, shook his head, and said to himself: "No, the Liao people should take action, what are Hongba doing?" I believe that in another day, Li Qing should arrive. And the army of the Nine Princes and Xia Zhu is afraid that it is also coming. ”

At noon on the second day, Li Qing's troops all arrived, and now they were under the command of Zhang Long. There has been no movement on the Liao army's side.

Bao Qing couldn't help but have some doubts about whether the thirteen princes had colluded with the Liao army, but it was impossible to say that they were not colluding. With Hongba and those two route armies alone, can they fight against the imperial court? And if you don't collude, what is Mrs. Yelu that these thirteen princes are going to see? What tunnels to dig and what to go to Yizhou for? Haven't the two sides reached an agreement yet? The thirteenth prince was ready to quietly go to Yizhou to negotiate, but he was attacked by Zhuang Lei first, forcing him to dig a tunnel and go?

In fact, there is another problem that Bao Qing can't figure out, that is, the Plum Blossom Gang. It seems that this Plum Blossom Gang has nothing to do with the Thirteen Princes, and it has been monitored until now, and no clues have been found, and the Plum Blossom Gang seems to have suddenly fallen silent. Of course, such silence does not mean that the Plum Blossom Gang has stopped all kinds of activities since then, but it is just waiting for the opportunity to make bigger moves.

Just when Bao Qing was anxiously waiting, he received a message from the dynasty from Ma Han, Ma Han saw Fan Zhongyan, and Fan Zhongyan wrote the details into a letter, which was also sent to Bao Qing.

Bao Qing hurriedly opened the letter, and the letter told the thirteen princes in detail.

The thirteenth prince, Zhao Dexin, is the youngest son of Emperor Taizong and the most favored son of Emperor Taizong. It is said that the thirteenth prince Zhao Dexin was able to learn martial arts when he was very young, and he was very good, and he was favored by Emperor Taizong, who once said that Zhao Dexin was not too young, and really wanted to pass on the throne to him. Of course, the first emperor succeeded to the throne and took care of this younger brother in every way.

Fan Zhongyan also mentioned one thing, that is, the first emperor once wanted to pass the throne to the thirteen princes, but the thirteen princes refused.

After Bao Qing read the letter, he was very shocked, and a sense of uneasiness suddenly enveloped his heart. No wonder these thirteen princes said that they regretted it, and they didn't regret that they didn't accept the throne back then. If this rebellious person is not the thirteen princes, then the previous suspicions about the thirteen princes and the performance of the Liao and the Plum Blossom Gang make sense.

However, it is still difficult to explain that Hongba and Long Danyu Pei, why did Hongba assassinate himself in the first place, and attracted reinforcements from two directions, if it was not a rebellion, how could he dare to transfer troops without authorization. And what's going on with the dragon birthday jade pendant.

couldn't wait like this, Bao Qing decided to ask the Thirteenth Prince again.