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Everyone has already set foot on the land of Jiangbei, and Ma Kuo and other people who sent the Tiger Ben Army are still a little unbelievable, they are willing to die, and they actually came back without any danger? !

The key is that Ma Kuo and other people who sent the Tiger Ben Army also completed the task assigned to them by Tong Guan, and successfully connected with Yuwen Huangzhong, the inner room who broke into the Tiger Ben Army.

Since Yuwen Huangzhong became the companion to receive Ma Kuo and them, Ma Kuo and Yuwen Huangzhong had a lot of opportunities to get in touch.

This allowed Yuwen Huangzhong to tell Ma Kuo all the words he had been holding back for more than five months, and asked Ma Kuo to bring all these words to Tong Guan.

Regarding Yuwen Huangzhong's words that he asked him to convey to Tong Guan, Ma Kuo brought them all word for word.

For example:

Yuwen Huangzhong's conclusive judgment, Fang La is not to be afraid, it is absolutely impossible to become a big trouble for the imperial court, and Li Cun is different, in Yuwen Huangzhong's original words: "Gai Li Cun is a person, able to write and martial arts, sages, heroes, and thieves, and his people are capable ministers who govern the world and heroes of chaos, and they will use the power of the country to force them to be used by the court, otherwise they will be eliminated early, otherwise they will become a big trouble for the court." ”

After Tong Guan listened to Yuwen Huangzhong's evaluation of Li Cun conveyed by Ma Kuo, he thought it was true.

Judging from the performance of Li Cun and Fang La during the period of rebellion, Li Cun is obviously more comprehensive, more capable, and more troublesome, on the other hand, Fang La, everywhere seems to be petty, and his wisdom and decision-making ability are much worse than Li Cun.

Actually-

In Tong Guan's opinion, if Li Cun and Fang La can work together, then it is really difficult to say whether he can achieve the final victory in this suppression of bandits.

Then, Ma Kuo conveyed the detailed strength of the Tiger Ben Army, the deployment of troops, the training of soldiers, the morale of the soldiers, the combat readiness, the grain and grass situation, the political and economic situation in the Hu Ben Army, and the distribution of other ant thieves in Fangla and other Zhejiang regions, etc., etc., etc......., etc.

It can be said that Yuwen Huang made a detailed report to Tong Guan about everything he could report.

Just looking at these data of many hard work, Tong Guan believed that Yuwen Huangzhong must be loyal to the imperial court and did not rebel.

——Ma Kuo, who had in-depth exchanges with Yuwen Huangzhong, also vouched for Yuwen Huangzhong, believing that Yuwen Huangzhong was a righteous man and could be trusted.

After Tong Guan listened to the report of Yuwen Huangzhong relayed by Ma Kuo, his shock was no less than the moment when Yuwen Huangzhong saw the more than 125,000 orders on the city wall, and even if the whole army was late at night, none of them stood up to say half a word of complaint.

"In just half a year, Li Cun can actually grow and develop?!"

Tong Guan finally understood why Yuwen Huangzhong gave Li Cun such a high evaluation, and finally understood why Yuwen Huangzhong advocated forcing Li Cun to surrender with the power of the whole country or killing Li Cun as soon as possible.

——In Tong Guan's view, if all the reports of Yuwen Huangzhong are true, then Yuwen Huangzhong's ideas are a bit conservative, and Zhao Song should force Li Cun or kill Li Cun by unscrupulous means and desperately.

Not all of the bad news that Ma Kuo brought back was good, but there was also good news.

And the good news is that many people in the Tiger Ben army are willing to accept the imperial court's recruitment, and even secretly help the imperial court to promote the surrender of Li Cun.

This somewhat relieved Tong Guan.

It's a pity that the vast majority of these people who want to accept the court's recruitment are literati.

What made Tong Guan extremely annoyed was that Li Cun did not allow literati to meddle in the affairs of the army, and did not allow martial artists to interfere in politics - in the Huben army, literature is literature, martial arts is martial arts, and civil and military are clearly distinguished.

And Li Cun is a very assertive person, he listens to what others say when he thinks it is useful, and if he thinks it is useless, he ignores it, and even Li Cun's father-in-law is no exception.

As a result, those who want to accept the court's recruitment can only support Tong Guan, and they will not be of any practical use.

Subsequently, Tong Guan called the two students who had cut off the stock and collected the books.

Ma Kuo knew that the matter was big, so he took the initiative to say that before he met Yuwen Huangzhong, no one had touched the wound on the leg of the sheng who carried the word test, and after seeing Yuwen Huangzhong, it was Yuwen Huangzhong who personally took the wax pill that sealed the word test from the leg of the sheng who carried the word test, so except for Yuwen Huangzhong, there must be no second person who had seen the word test, including him Ma Kuo.

The so-called word test, simply put, is the password used by later generations of spies - use this password to find the agreed book, and you can get the information to be transmitted.

And the wax pill secret letter in the leg of the living room that carried the wax pill secret letter in Yuwen Huang was put in by Yuwen Huangzhong himself, and no second person touched it.

Tong Guan first ordered the medical officer to check the wounds on the legs of the two shengjian, and after the medical officer confirmed that there was no problem with the wounds on the legs of the two shengjian, Tong Guan personally took out the wax pill secret letter from Yuwen Huangzhong's legs.

Tong Guan took out the book he had agreed with Yuwen Huangzhong, and according to the password passed by Yuwen Huangzhong, he extracted the information that Yuwen Huangzhong wanted to transmit, and read it together:

"On May 13, Li Cunyin returned to Hangzhou to seek a retreat from Fangla's strategy, the Jiaoshan Temple guard has surrendered, please march on May 15, and win a big victory."

Seeing this information, Tong Guan couldn't help but feel refreshed!

The day before yesterday, Zhao Ji sent Cai You to Yangzhou to work in the army.

After Cai You came, he honestly and unceremoniously stayed in Yangzhou, and he had no intention of returning to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Cai You is the eldest son of Cai Jing and is currently a scholar of Xuanhe Temple.

As early as the Yuanfu period of Song Zhezong, when Zhao Ji was still the king of Duan, every time Zhao Ji went down to the court, he would meet a young man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes on the road, and every time the young man saw Zhao Ji, he would immediately dismount and stand up, respectful, and courteous.

Over time, Zhao Ji asked his entourage: "Who is this person?" ”

The entourage replied: "This is Cai Chengzhi's eldest son, Cai Youye." ”

——At that time, Cai Jing had not yet attained his ambition and only held the position of Chengzhi in the Hanlin Academy.

At that time, Cai You was even worse, just a guard of the tailoring institute - a small steward of a grassroots organization specializing in tailoring clothing and other supplies for the emperor.

It can be seen that Cai You is not capable, but he knows the secret of hugging his thighs if he wants to climb up.

In terms of promotion and wealth, Cai You can be said to have completely inherited the wisdom of his father Cai Jing.

Later, not long after Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, he gave Cai Yu the birth of Jinshi and worshiped as the secretary.

Since then, Cai You's official position has continued to rise, and Zhao Ji has always been fond of Cai You.

Up to now, Zhao Ji and Cai You have become more than just a simple monarch and minister, but friends.

Don't laugh.

Other emperors may not have friends, but Zhao Ji really has friends.

- Wang Hao, Cai You, and Li Bangyan can all be regarded as friends of Zhao Ji.

Among them, Cai You and Zhao Ji have the best relationship, so good that in private, the two of them are not restrained by the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, and even Cai You's wife Song enters and exits the palace as if she is in her own home.

And Cai You's overnight stay in the palace is even more commonplace.

Of course, Wang Hao, Li Bangyan and others have also had such treatment.

However, Zhao Ji's most trusted person is still Cai You.

At this critical moment related to the life and death of Zhao Song, Zhao Ji's purpose of sending Cai You to Yangzhou was like a mirror in Tong Guan's heart:

First, it must be because Zhao Ji was not worried about handing over the country's army to Tong Guan, so he sent Cai You to monitor Tong Guan;

Second, it must be because Zhao Ji was dissatisfied with Tong Guan's five months of sending troops to suppress the bandits and there was no substantial progress, so he sent Cai You to supervise the army.

Tong Guan also knew that Cai You was here, if he couldn't get the results, then he, the Xuanfu envoy of Jiang, Huai, Jing, Zhejiang, and other roads, would probably be about to come to an end.

It was in this context that Tong Guan got the secret report from Yuwen Huangzhong.

Tong Guanru was a treasure, and ordered that all ships under construction must be delivered before May 14, and all the outdated and unfinished warsmiths and shipwrights were assigned to Salmon Island.

The prisoner was sentenced to be assassinated on Salmon Island, although nominally to serve his sentence on Salmon Island, in fact, it was a dead end, which was similar to the exile of the prisoner in Ningguta during the Qing Dynasty, basically there was no return.

It can be seen from this that Tong Guan's order is ruthless.

At the same time, Tong Guan called Liu Yanqing, Xin Xingzong and others and asked them to select soldiers who were good at water warfare as vanguards, and to formulate a battle plan for the whole army to cross the river.

Liu Yanqing, Xin Xingzong and others selected Wang Yuan as the vanguard after screening and selecting among the leading generals.

During this period, Wang Yuan, who was light on wealth and good righteousness, once said: "The court officials are jue, and Lu is full of ploughing, if the thing is a knife, how can I love Jue Lu, if it is rich and evil!" ”

When he was young, Wang Yuan was recruited, and he was appointed by the Zhao and Song Dynasty as the third general of Xihe Lanhuang Road, and he knew Ningyuan Village in Gongzhou.

Zhuqiang entered the Kou, Wang Yuan won the crusade with the envoy of the scriptures, and moved to the general of Huangzhou and the master of the Linzong village.

Today, Wang Yuan is already a well-known general in the Western Army.

What is rare is that Wang Yuan is still one of the few generals in the Western Army who knows a little about water warfare.

Therefore, the burden of the vanguard officer was on Wang Yuan's shoulders.

It is worth mentioning that when Wang Yuan was selecting soldiers, he seconded Han Shizhong, a subordinate of Liu Yanqing.

The reason is that Han Shizhong once jumped on his horse and charged into battle, beheaded the horses of the Western Xia prison army, bravely crowned the three armies, and was one of the few generals in the Western army who could fight water battles......

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