104 Peel back the cocoon
"What!"
It was not only Tang Ping who made such a sound, but also Lao Cui Lao Du and the old man Pei who usually seemed to be always hanging high about himself.
You must know that the preparation of gunpowder is the top secret of Datang.
The people who can go there are the most loyal people to Datang.
Moreover, the powder magazine prepared and stored is actually not a place where you can directly enter it.
To enter the powder magazine, it is necessary to go through a kilometer-long tunnel.
So even if someone on the powder magazine side is being followed by someone with a heart, they can't find the specific location of the powder magazine.
Around the powder magazine, in addition to the open and secret sentinels set up by dozens of special combat personnel who are proficient in special operations, there are also various monitoring equipment provided by Tang Ping.
It can be said that if the other party can't fly into the sky and can't enter the ground, he won't even be able to find the location of the powder magazine.
And now this Tibetan spy actually said that they would blow up the powder magazine in Chang'an during the New Year.
For the surrounding countries, the greatest threat to them from the Tang Dynasty is the invincible Datang Shenwei Cannon.
Dongyue took advantage of the weather last time.
And more countries to the west of the Tang Dynasty do not have such loopholes to exploit.
They don't see a few rains in those places all year round, and it is definitely impossible to find the kind of long rainy season to attack Datang.
However, if the powder magazine is blown up, even if the border armies in various places still have some stockpiles of gunpowder, it will immediately become a tree without roots and water without a source.
At that time, it will become the only opportunity for the surrounding countries to be able to fight against Datang, and they will definitely attack it in groups to launch a crazy attack on Datang.
Even if Datang can withstand it, it will definitely be greatly damaged.
Tang Ping's eyes were red for the first time, and he didn't even care whether the other party had a weapon hidden, he directly stepped forward and grabbed Alimu's collar and asked, "How do you know the location of the powder magazine?" When exactly do you plan to do it? How are you going to do it? ”
Alimu shook his head: "I'm not in charge of this operation, so I don't know, I only know that I came to Chang'an this time to bring a lot of gums, and on the surface they are merchants disguised as gums, but in fact, these gums are used to carry out this operation." ”
"Gums?" A few people in the carriage racked their brains and couldn't imagine where the gum could be used to blow up the powder magazine in Chang'an.
"What about Coledan? Does Cordan know? Tang Ping asked again.
Cordan is the shopkeeper of the cloth shop.
"He shouldn't know that he has other contacts on him, and he, like me, also provided things for this operation, and he provided silk silk."
"Silk? Gum? What exactly are you going to do? ”
Alimu shook his head and stopped talking.
Tang Ping believed that he really didn't know, he was not a participant in this event in the first place, and this kind of thing would not let too many people know.
Now that the other party has been recruited, there is no need to lie about this kind of thing, so the breakthrough now is the cloth shopkeeper Coldan.
"I'm talking, go back!" Tang Ping picked up a few pairs of ordinary boots and threw them to them: "In the future, you will wear these pairs of boots, and we will find you when you need them." ”
The two didn't know why the other party could find themselves when they wore such boots, but now it was not for them to ask, so they could only nod and accept it honestly.
"After you go back, today's incident should not have happened, and don't think about going to Songtsen Gampo to tell the truth, although he is also a man of great talent, but you know how suspicious he is, with his character of preferring to kill a thousand by mistake than letting go of one, you said, most of them will only die."
"Yes, Ping Guogong, we understand!" Alimu and suddenly nodded in agreement, as Tang Ping said, if they go back and report today's matter to Zampu, there is a high probability that the two of them will be supervised in China, and there is also a possibility that the two of them and their families will disappear inexplicably.
Seeing off the two, Tang Ping said eagerly: "Let's go, go back to Chang'an." ”
The camera hanging from the belt of the cloth shopkeeper Cordan gave them some clues, but it was not enough.
And now there are not a few days left, saying that the powder magazine was blown up during the New Year, it may not be the day of the New Year, and now the powder magazine in Chang'an will be in danger at any time.
Tang Ping had to find out the Tubo spies in Chang'an, and the second was to notify Li Tai to strengthen the security of the powder magazine.
Originally, Tang Ping thought about whether to change places, but after thinking about it, it was still inappropriate.
The time was too short, and it was too difficult to find a secret and safe place to transfer so much gunpowder, raw materials, and equipment.
And since that powder magazine has been discovered by the other party, I am afraid that someone will be staring at that side at any time, and once it starts to transfer, it will inevitably be discovered.
Where are so many things going to go? Is it possible to put it in the palace? It's safe there, but there are countless female guards in the palace from top to bottom, and it's hard to guarantee that there won't be anyone who will be bribed.
If it blows up in the palace, it's over.
The carriage rushed into Chang'an at high speed, Tang Ping didn't get out of the car, who doesn't know his face now? It's too dazzling to be seen by someone with a heart.
Even today this carriage is an ordinary carriage, and the coachman is also a villager from Shanghe Village.
It was Gou Shaoqun who went down, and in Chang'an, few people knew him.
Entering the cloth shop in Nakoldan, Gou Shaoqun directly shouted a little arrogantly: "Shopkeeper!" Big business is coming! ”
On the carriage just now, Tang Ping got him a set of brocade robes, and he brought a lot of gold and jade on his body, and he looked like a proper nouveau riche.
Chang'an City has a lot of opportunities now, and many people suddenly have money, and some of them are like Gou Shaoqun now, so some people won't feel anything wrong when they see it.
Na Coldan carefully accompanied the smiling face and said: "Guest officer, I am the shopkeeper here, I don't know what big business the guest officer has to take care of the small shop?" ”
"I'm going to buy five hundred horses of the best silk!" Gou Shaoqun almost slapped Coldan in the face.
However, five hundred horses of the best silk is indeed not a small amount, this Cordan is a spy in Tibet, but his identity on the surface is the owner of a cloth shop, so it is naturally impossible to push the business outside.
So he still asked with a smile on his face: "What kind of silk does the guest officer want?" The silk of our cloth village is the best quality of Chang'an. ”
"I want 100 horses of silk from Huzhou, of which 50 are cyan and 50 are blue, I want 100 horses from Yizhou, 50 blue horses but the color is darker than Huzhou's, and 50 blue, but the color is lighter than Huzhou's, I also want silk from Chang'an Workshop District, blue only 12 horses, the color is darker than Huzhou's but lighter than Yizhou's......"
"Wait, officer, I'll take a note." Cordan interrupted Gou Shaoqun, such a request was enough just to hear him say.
Gou Shaoqun saw him take the banknote, and said a little unhappily: "I have such a big business, you won't let me stand here and tell you, right?" Or do you think I can't afford that price? ”
As he spoke, he took out a stack of Tang coins from his arms.
At present, many stores do not use Datang coins for trading, but if the amount is large, you can ask someone from the currency exchange office to come over and exchange it for you.
After all, if you really buy so much silk like Gou Shaoqun at once, it is enough to pull a few big carts if you want to use copper coins.
"It's a little confused!" Cordan patted his head: "Please take a seat in the private room of the guest officer, Erdezi, serve tea to the guest officer, serve good tea, just the Ming Qian tea I bought." ”
invited Gou Shaoqun to a small private room and served a cup of tea, and then Cordan sat down with a pen and paper.
"Guest officer, you said, the small ones will be carefully written down for you."
Gou Shaoqun looked at the private room and was the only one left in this private room, and said with a smile: "I came here today, mainly because of a friend's introduction." ”
"Friends? I don't know who the guest officer is talking about? ”
"Two Tibetan friends, one is called Alimu, and the other is called Kuerdu."
That Coldan turned white with a brush, these two people only pulled the goods out of the city this morning, and they still had the information they got for them, how could they ......
"Don't worry, Mr. Coledan, let's take a look at this!"
Gou Shaoqun concocted the same method as he persuaded Alimu and Suddu to surrender, and persuaded Coldan.
Finally got some more news from Coledan.
That is, the Tubo people secretly learned the production method of Datang hot air balloon this time.
Although the cloth used to make hot air balloons is now strictly controlled and will not flow out.
But there are always more ways than difficulties, and people are not all fools, they directly use silk to press on the frame of the hot air balloon first, and then brush the gum over and over again, and the following is to use several coal stoves to put together as a power source to generate hot gas.
Although it is not as good as Datang's hot air balloon, it is no problem if it is only a short flight.
When the time comes, their dead soldiers will take a hot air balloon to launch a surprise attack on the powder magazine from above at night, and the Tang side never thought that Tubo would copy their hot air balloon to fall from the sky, so there is basically no defense against the overhead.
Without knowing it, it is really possible to be won by the other party.
Tang Ping broke out in a cold sweat through the headset outside.
When these things were given at that time, he and Li Shimin naturally tried all kinds of ways to strictly defend them, but they still underestimated that some smart people in this era could find another way.
"But how do you know the location of the Chang'an Powder Depot?" Gou Shaoqun asked puzzled, because the powder magazine was nothing interesting, even he didn't know where the powder magazine was.
"Some time ago, another group of our people found more than 10 kinds of materials for the preparation of gunpowder, and many of them were purchased from outside the gunpowder magazine, so we purchased a large number of them in the same place, and found a reason to push the goods."
Tang Ping was stunned for a moment, isn't this what those people in the courtyard of the bronze tablet incident in the city reported last time did.
At that time, it was reported that they bought a lot of saltpeter, and they were still wondering why they bought so much saltpeter in winter.
But these things have been returned, and there is no one hidden in them.
Gou Shaoqun said Tang Ping's question, and Cordan shrugged his shoulders: "I know about this, at that time, several bird eggs were broken in those materials. ”
"Eggs?"
"Yes, a bird's egg, after it is dried, you can't see anything, but that bird smells. After our people estimated that the materials had been procured to the powder magazine in Chang'an, they let go of all the birds they caught. ”
"We can't smell it, but those birds can smell it, and soon our people will find that they are always hovering over an area, but it is estimated that there are too many people down there, and they dare not go down."
"We also know that the people in the Chang'an gunpowder warehouse all entered through a secret passage, where is the entrance to the secret passage, in fact, our people have known it for a long time, and the location of those birds hovering is not far from there, so we guessed that the gunpowder warehouse must be there!"
Tang Ping and Gou Shaoqun were dumbfounded when they heard these words, it was not surprising that they could find the entrance to the secret passage, after all, Li Tai still had a lot of people working in it who always had to come out, and it was normal for them to follow and find out when they went back.
It just didn't occur to them that they didn't have high-tech equipment, but they could come up with such a way to find the location of the powder magazine.
"What about your dead soldiers? Where is it? ”
Koldan shook his head: "I don't know, only Kurban and Tuniyaz in your video just now know where they are, but the methods you used against me and Alimu are useless, they are Zampu's diehards, and they don't have family in Zampu's hands, they will never take refuge in you." ”
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