Let the North Korean comptoirs buy as much grain as possible."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao spoke, "In addition, let the leader of the caravan and the steward of the Chamber of Commerce enter the palace."

He attaches great importance to power and money, from the era of the information explosion in later generations, under the washing of countless information, he knows very well that the main reason for the loss of control of any party is the combination of power and money, whether it is the economy with military power, or the military power with the economy, the combination of these two will make the force grow rapidly, and then lose control.

This is the case with the feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty, and the same is true for the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials already govern the world, and it can also be said that they control the economy.

And the same is true for military generals, military generals have their own economic resources, which means that they can pay soldiers, gather all the grain and grass, and build military armor, so why do military generals want the emperor? Do you want to find yourself a father?

Therefore, whether it is Tang Xiangjin and their generals in the army, or Liao Qing's black ice platform, he does not plan to let them touch the source of the economy, this is not a serious suspicion, but a precaution, it is better to take precautions than to regret things when they happen.

"Obey!"

Liao Qing replied.

"By the way, what's going on on the prairie?"

At this time, Su Hao suddenly remembered the unlucky child of Lin Dan Khan on the grassland, since he was beaten by Dai Shan, Mang Gurtai and the Mongol tribes of Monan half a year ago, he had not heard the news of this unlucky child for a long time.

To be honest, he didn't expect that the Jurchens had been severely injured in the Guannei before, and they were suppressed by Yuan Chonghuan, and Lin Danhan, an unlucky child, could still be beaten back by Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai.

"Back to Your Majesty, since he was defeated by Daishan and Mang Gurtai in Naiman, Lin Dan Khan has not made much movement, and has also divided a part of his forces to invade the area around Xitao, and it seems that he intends to develop his forces to the west and abandon Monan."

Liao Qing thought for a moment and replied.

To the west?

After listening to Liao Qing's words, Su Hao's brows tightened, to be honest, he was not very satisfied with this result, without Lin Dan Khan's control, the Jurchens could put all their energy on Liaodong.

At that time, not only will the pressure of the Ming army be great, but the pressure on his side will definitely not be small, once the Jurchens can spare their efforts to deal with him, after all, after occupying Phoenix, the Jurchens will no longer be able to get worship from the North Korean side, which is tantamount to adding insult to injury for the Jurchens who are already struggling.

"What is the loss of the Jurchens now?"

After thinking for a while, Su Hao asked again.

Liao Qing arched his hand and said, "Back to Your Majesty, according to the report of the spies, the Jurchens have probably lost more than 6,000 people, and the Han Niulu and Mongolian Niulu also have more than 20,000 battle losses, and the specific number is not clear."

"Keep watching."

Hearing this, Su Hao shook his head slightly, although the Jurchens are not good at defending the city, but there are enough slaves, after capturing Liaodong, many of the hundreds of thousands of Liaodong people in Liaodong were turned into slaves by the Jurchens.

Now the people who defend the city on the side of the Haizhou Acropolis are basically those Liaodong people, and under the threat of the Jurchens' swords, those Liaodong people can only pick up weapons to defend the city, which is also the reason why the Jurchens have suffered little loss.

…

After Liao Qing retreated, Su Hao entered the cultivation again, the previous thousand-year-old demon pill refined five pills, one was given to Fang Haichuan, in the past half a year, he had refined one by himself, and one was refining.

Now that the internal force in his dantian has been filled with nearly eighty percent, one pill has increased his internal force by more than one percent, and it may only take three pills to fill the internal force in his dantian and reach the threshold of impacting the innate one.

………

On the other side, the prison of the Black Ice Terrace.

The prison is extremely gloomy, and the dark corridors are like evil ghosts that want to choose people to devour, but anyone who steps into it seems to be swallowed with the belt bones at any time.

In the torture chamber, the faint green fire was shining in the bear

The bears were burning, crackling from time to time, and various torture instruments hung on the walls around the room.

Gu Santai was tied to a wooden frame, and a cold white bone nail was pierced on his body, Gu Santai's face at this time was hideous and twisted, and his teeth were clenched, as if he was suffering some great pain.

At this time, an old man wearing the official uniform of the Black Ice Platform Hundred Households slowly walked to Gu Santai's side, and then took out a small incense burner from his sleeve and put it on Gu Santai's nose.

"Dog man, kind of kill me!"

Feeling the pain in his body disappear, Gu Santai opened his eyes and roared in a low voice.

"That's not going to work."

Buren said quietly: "I am counting on you to be promoted and rich, the commander has handed you over to me, if you can't ask anything good, the commander will be angry."

"What the hell do you want to know?"

Hearing this, Gu Santai almost collapsed, but he didn't understand, the other party just asked him to explain, and didn't ask specific questions, only let him pick the important ones.

But when he said it, he was not satisfied with it, and then he tortured him, and after the execution, he made him confess, again and again, just to torture him.

"Didn't the official say that?"

Buren said lightly: "As long as you can explain enough valuable things, the official will not be punished, but you always don't cooperate and cause trouble to the official, what can the official do?"

To be honest, Liao Qing didn't let him ask about any specific things, but just asked him to take out all the things that Gu Santai knew, so he didn't know what to ask.

"What the hell do you want to know, just ask, I have nothing to hide."

Gu Santai broke down and shouted, although he had also practiced for decades and his will was strong, but the evil punishment that the evil ghost in front of him had never seen or heard of before, let alone experienced it himself.

"Pick the most important ones."

Buren said quietly, "But if you talk about something inconsequential, then don't blame the official for being ruthless."

"I've already said what I know, and what else do you want me to say!"

As soon as he heard this, Gu Santai's eyes instantly split, and he collapsed and roared.

At this time, Liao Qing suddenly appeared at the door of the torture room.

"How's it going?"

Looking at Gu Santai, who collapsed and roared, Liao Qing frowned and said, Su Hao handed Gu Santai over to him, but until now, he had not asked for any useful information, only some Jurchen cultivation exercises and army information.

But these things are not of great use to Daqi, there is no shortage of exercises, and army intelligence is useless, after all, the Jurchens are all soldiers, and the strong are all on the surface, and there can't be many hidden masters.

"Commander, I can't ask."

Buren smiled bitterly: "Most of the methods used by the lower officials have been used, and the other tortures are all wounded and may kill him."

"Then arrange it."

Hearing Buren's words, Liao Qing said calmly, "If you can't ask anything, it's useless to keep it."

"Xiaguan understands."

Hearing this, Buren nodded and said, "The lower official will let him spit out everything he knows."

After Liao Qing left the torture room, Buren came to Gu Santai's side, a hideous smile appeared on his old face, and then walked to a wooden frame and took down a quaint small wooden box.

"That's a good thing."

Buren took out a small bronze bottle from the wooden box, came to Gu Santai's side, and said in a low voice, "This is the Bone Eater Ant refined by the Miao Gu Master, and its favorite is the bones of the strong."

As he spoke, Buren opened the bottle, and then slammed it on Gu Santai's body: "This bone-eating ant will bite through the flesh, burrow into the bones of the strong, and then lay eggs in the bones, and finally die, while the eggs it lays will grow in the bones, and your bones are the food for them to grow up."

At this time, Gu Santai couldn't take care of it

Buren was saying something, but writhing his body frantically, as if trying to squeeze the boneeater ant to death, he could feel that the boneeater ant had burrowed into his flesh, but unfortunately he was tied to the torture rack, no matter how much he writhed, he could only watch the boneeater ant burrow into his bones.

At this time, Buren's voice came faintly again: "Whether the Bone Eater Ants are strong or not has a great relationship with the host that cultivates them, you are a top-level first-class martial artist, you should be able to cultivate a very powerful Bone Eater Ant."

"You!"

Gu Santai just wanted to speak, but was pointed at by Bu Ren, even though his mouth was wide open, he couldn't make a sound at all.

"Don't worry."

Buren said lightly: "This official will not let you die, when they hatch, I will lead them all out, and I will not let them eat all your bones, after all, it is not easy to find a strong person like you, and this official is not willing to do the matter of killing chickens and taking eggs."

After saying that, Buren turned around and walked out of the torture room, leaving Gu Santai struggling on the torture rack.

Time passed little by little, Buren did not continue to interrogate, but came to the torture room every few days, took out the hatched small bone-eating ants from Gu Santai's body, put in new bone-eating ants to lay eggs again, and finally fed Gu Santai a large amount of tonics, and even treasure medicine to maintain his life.

Gu Santai, on the other hand, fell into endless pain and despair, because every little bone-eating ant hatched out would gnaw at his bones, bringing him the pain of a hundred ants devouring his bones.

…

"I've thought of something, something very important, absolutely important!"

Seeing Buren walk in, Gu Santai hurriedly shouted, "I want to see your Emperor of Great Qi!"

"Just tell me something."

Hearing Gu Santai's words, Buren frowned.

"If I haven't seen your Great Qi Emperor, I will never say it."

Gu Santai resolutely said, "This matter is extremely important, if it is delayed, not only you, but even your commander will not be able to protect himself!"

"You wait!"

Hearing Gu Santai's words, Buren's face was extremely ugly, but he didn't dare to delay, after all, Gu Santai said it so seriously, if there was really a big delay, his life would not be guaranteed, although he was not young, but he didn't want to die yet.

………

It didn't take long for Gu Santai to come to Zichen Hall under the leadership of Liao Qing.

"What do you want to see me?"

Looking at Gu Santai who was kneeling on the ground, Su Hao was a little curious, "I can say it now."

Gu Santai said humbly: "Your Majesty Emperor Qi, if the news I say is valuable, I wonder if His Majesty Emperor Qi can let me live and let me enjoy my old age in peace?"

"Don't worry, as long as what you say is valuable, I can guarantee that you can enjoy your old age in Daqi."

Hearing this, Su Hao said lightly, he didn't have much hatred for Gu Santai, if Gu Santai could provide enough valuable information, he didn't mind leaving Gu Santai alive.

"Your Majesty Emperor Qi, Huang Taiji and they sent six hundred people to Changbai Mountain last year to become disciples of the horse, and now they have probably successfully cultivated and are about to leave the mountain, once these six hundred people come out of the mountain, there will be six hundred more masters in the Eight Banners."

Gu Santai said humbly, he actually didn't want to talk about it, but in the past half a month, the bones in his body have been eaten by most of the bone-eater ants, although the bones can grow again as long as they are not all eaten, but he doesn't want to be the food of the bone-eaters for the rest of his life.

And this matter is still a little valuable, once those disciples come out of the mountain, this news will be worthless, and he will be completely worthless at that time, and he can only become food for bone eaters in the second half of his life.

"Six hundred in-stream masters!"

Hearing Gu Santai's words, Su Hao's face changed suddenly, so many masters are not cabbage, if in a big battle, these people suddenly appear, it can completely decide the situation of the battle, after all, not many armies will leave so many masters as reserves.

"What you say is true?"

After calming down, Su Hao looked at Gu Santai again, his expression condensed

Heavy road.

"There is no lie."

Seeing Su Hao's expression, Gu Santai hurriedly said.

"Go down, I'll let someone find out."

Su Hao said lightly: "If the matter is true, then I will never break my word."

After Gu Santai was taken down, Su Hao looked at Liao Qing and said, "You immediately send someone to tell Tang Xiangjin and ask him to take more precautions."

"Obey."

Liao Qing arched his hand, he also knew what this meant, if this thing was true, then the strength of the Jurchens could not only be restored to the same as before, but even better than before, if not careful, Daqi's layout in Liaodong would be completely burned.

"In addition, tell Sun Chengzong the news and let him grasp it for himself."

After a pause, Su Hao continued, now the main enemy of the Jurchens is the Ming Dynasty, although the Daqi side took the opportunity to occupy a lot of territory of the Jurchens, but it did not threaten the foundation of the Jurchens, so with so many masters, they will definitely deal with the Ming army in Liaodong first, instead of dealing with the Great Qi, and expose their strength in vain.

However, now the Ming Dynasty cannot be defeated, because as soon as the Ming Dynasty is defeated, he will have to bear the pressure of the Jurchens alone, otherwise he can only give up the newly opened up land in Liaodong.

"I see."

Liao Qing bowed, and then retreated.

………

Dongchang Fort.

At this time, Dongchang Fort has been expanded several times, and its size is comparable to an acropolis.

In the lobby, Sun Chengzong, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhao Shujiao, and Guo Qin all had solemn expressions.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you think what Daqi said is true or false?"

Sun Chengzong's fingers tapped on the table, and after taking over Liaodong, he did not change Yuan Chonghuan's tactics, and still relied on the fortress to ensure logistics and attack the Acropolis of Haizhou.

But the information sent by the spies of Daqi today is too amazing, and if you are not careful, the 200,000 troops in Liaodong will repeat the mistakes of Yang Hao and be buried in Liaodong.

"I don't think this thing is necessarily fake, we have to guard against it."

He Kegang said in a deep voice: "After all, even if they deceive us, we have nothing to lose."

Hearing He Kegang's words, Zu Dashou and the others also nodded, this kind of thing had no other effect except to make them more vigilant.

"Then send down the order and let people be more vigilant."

Sun Chengzong nodded and said, "This official will let Jinyiwei investigate it carefully."

………

Time is like water, time is like a shuttle, and the time of four months passes slowly.

Zichen Palace.

In the practice room, Su Hao's expression was solemn, the effect of the pill was a little better than he imagined, the third pill was only half refined, and his dantian was filled, reaching the threshold of impacting the innate realm.

But he is very distressed now, that is, what kind of artistic conception and internal force should be fused to become Gangqi, now he has two artistic conceptions, pure yang artistic conception and paper knife knife intent, the former is good at defending, the latter is good at attacking, if you want both, then the two kinds of Gang Qi will affect each other, and become four different things that are nothing.

After pondering for a while, Su Hao still decided to choose the Pure Yang Artistic Conception, with the secret technique of paper figures, his combat power is not lacking, but his defensive ability is a little weaker, and the Pure Yang Artistic Conception also has the effect of health preservation, which can allow him to recover faster after refining his mana.

After making a decision, Su Hao once again ran the internal force, adjusted his physical state, and made the final preparations.

(End of chapter)