In the back house of the Yamen in Jianzhou County, there were a few little maids who were waiting for flowers and plants, Tang Jiusheng paced leisurely, walked into the back house with his hands behind his back, and several little maids said together: "See the prince!"

Tang Jiusheng nodded, motioned for them to flatten down, and slowly came to the flower garden, looking at the various flowers that were still fragrant in the near winter, staring at one of the orchids for a long time, and suddenly raised his head and asked, "This flower is very precious, right?"

The little maid Lu'er smiled and said: "Lord Qiyu, this plant in front of you is called Hanlan, which is worth 100 gold in the Jianzhou Flower Market!"

Tang Jiusheng said curiously: "It's just a flower, Hanlan is not a famous flower, where is it worth hundreds of gold? It's not a Ganoderma lucidum fairy grass, a thousand-year-old ginseng! Oh, it blooms in early winter, and it blooms a little more beautifully than other flowers, so it's worth a lot of money? Why don't I believe it? That plum blossom is still proud of snow, and I haven't heard that it's worth a hundred gold!"

Lu'er snickered: "Lord, this cold orchid, there are a few good things, so it is worth 100 gold! Lord Wang, please see, this orchid has plum petals, so it is higher than the price of ordinary orchids, it is fragrant, far more than other orchids of the same species, so it has to increase the price, and you see, it is a different red, so gorgeous in this early winter, and its leaves are so strange, the top two leaves are three-leafed, and the bottom is like calla lily, cute and attractive, as the saying goes, rare is expensive, where to find such an orchid?" It's worth 100 gold or a slave to talk about!"

Tang Jiusheng nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, it's rare that it's worth so much money! There are so many exotic flowers and plants in the county guard yamen, this Ye Tengjiao is really a vassal and elegant!"

When the little maid Lu'er heard Tang Jiusheng mention Ye Tengjiao, she smiled, her face flushed, "Lord Wang, now the strange flowers and plants in this garden are all yours, even us...... The slaves and maids are all yours!"

Tang Jiusheng laughed, touched his nose, and asked a little embarrassedly: "Good girl, your little mouth is really sweet, oh, by the way, what's your name?

Lu'er pursed her lips and smiled, "Lord Wang, you are a great resource, it is inevitable that the nobles will forget things, the slave is called Lu'er!"

Tang Jiusheng patted his head and made a sudden realization, "Oh, look at my brain, yes, your name is Lu'er! How long have you been guarding the yamen?"

Lu'er smiled and said, "Lord Wang, it's been almost a year since the slave came here!"

Tang Jiusheng nodded and said: "Okay, you serve these flowers very well, this king likes them very much! Okay, you do a good job, raise these flowers well, this king can't treat you badly! Oh, there are flowers that can be broken straight and must be broken, don't wait for no flowers and empty branches, right?" After speaking, he laughed and glanced at Lu'er meaningfully.

Lu'er's face was happy, but he instantly retracted, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down, "Slave and maid thank the prince for his grace, the prince is a thousand years old!"

Tang Jiusheng scolded with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense, what a thousand years old, this king is not greedy, he is very happy to live to be one hundred and fifty years old! My grandfather didn't even live to be a hundred years old! That's okay, you guys are busy, this king will go around again!" As he spoke, Tang Jiusheng left with his hands behind his back.

Lu'er and a few other maids were behind Wan Fu Shi and said, "The slave and maid send the prince!"

When Tang Jiusheng walked away, another maid, Zhu'er, squinted at Lu'er, poked Lu'er's forehead with her finger, and scolded with a smile: "Lu'er, you little, ouch, look at you just saw the prince."

The prince is handsome, and you can't put that sassy look on your face! The prince is powerful all over the world, and he is handsome, can he lack women? I heard that several princesses and mothers are all beautiful and fragrant, which round will get you this little goblin!"

Lu'er twisted her waist and walked towards the back house, and said disdainfully as she walked: "What about the national color and Tianxiang? Isn't it amazing? How beautiful is it? Are they by the prince's side now? The prince thinks about women now, can they serve? Hmph, haven't you heard of the moon before the water?"

Zhu'er looked at the bewitching back of Lu'er leaving, and spat hard, muttering in her mouth that she didn't know what to scold. The other two maids laughed and persuaded Zhu'er to ignore her.

In the shadow behind the rockery in the garden of the county guard's mansion, Tang Jiusheng asked in a low voice: "Did you find out that there was something wrong with her?" I just think there was something wrong with her, if you want to say that she had a problem, she was a treasure of these precious flowers, but she really looked like a flower raiser. But she is a child of a poor family, and she is not from a family of florists, not to mention the nobility of these famous flowers, I am afraid that she can't even recognize the names of flowers!"

I only heard one person reply in a low voice: "Lord Wang, I haven't found anything wrong with her for the time being, don't worry, my subordinates will let people keep an eye on her!" Tang Jiusheng nodded, waved his hand to signal him to retreat, and the man disappeared into the darkness.

At dusk, Lu'er walked out of the room, opened the door, looked around, didn't find anyone else in the yard, and quickly reached out and took out a blue pigeon with a short beak and big eyes and white wings from his arms.

Lu'er let out a sigh, but she didn't notice that there was a person sitting on the ridge behind her, who had seen everything about Lu'er, but he didn't make any movement, just snorted softly in his nose.

After a little envoy to the grass hall in the back house of the Yamen, Luo Bingshang and the cattle were already half-drunk, Luo Bingshang was drunk and said: "Mengda is serious, the student has been by your side for ten years, and it is almost a last resort, this time the Weiwang Mansion is definitely a small move behind the scenes, although I don't know how they want to move now, but they will definitely not be honest and not move! There is no news from the scouts sent to Jianzhou, and there is no news from Ning Chenggang and Zhang Shuihuan, I'm afraid that Jianzhou is in danger!"

Niu Mandi said with a smile: "Degong, Jianzhou is also hundreds of miles away from us, and it's hard to say what the scouts encountered on the road, but Ning Chenggang and Zhang Shuihuan are both brave generals, and nothing will go wrong, especially Zhang Shuihuan is loyal to his own officials, so don't worry! There are 8,000 garrisons in Jianzhou, including thousands of cavalry, and with the five or six hundred people in the palace, what can they do?"

Luo Bingshang shook his head and said: "My lord, I'm afraid things are not so simple, we suffer because we didn't establish an effective intelligence team as soon as possible, and now it seems that relying on those scouts in the army is far from enough." King Pingxi is one step ahead, his Blood Shadow Hall is now formed, his intelligence system is perfect, and he also has assassination missions, in comparison, we are lagging behind, we should also establish a similar intelligence agency!"

Niu nodded quietly, "Well, virtue is reasonable, we should indeed put this matter on the agenda as soon as possible, otherwise we will be controlled everywhere!"

Luo Bingshang arched his hand and said: "My lord, since there is no news from the three scouts we sent out, then we shouldn't stay here and wait for news from Jianzhou, we can consider temporarily using the power of the Blood Shadow Hall and let them help us check the situation in Jianzhou! Also, just in case, the students are going to go to the Southwest Road, contact the King of Pingxi, and prepare to raise troops, at least let his army pretend to be bandits to help."

Let's give it a hand!"

Niu Mandi bit his lip, his expression was a little tangled, "Degong, with the help of the Blood Shadow Hall, will it seem that our scouts are too useless?" As for King Pingxi, I'm afraid he won't directly raise troops to help us, his strength is still a distance away from fighting for the world, so he is looking for an alliance with us, if you let him openly raise troops, he won't do it, let's change angles with him, it will be the same choice, right?"

Luo Bingshang smiled bitterly: "My lord, there is no time to think about these now, the students are ready to set off for Yuzhou Mansion overnight to persuade the prince of Pingxi, we are now grasshoppers on a rope, if Tang Jiusheng completely controls Jiannan Dao in his hands, when he Pingxi King raises troops in the future, life will not be easy! I didn't expect that the little emperor, who has no power at all, would be able to make such a shocking move!"

Niu looked at the roof of the shed, and smiled helplessly after a while, "I think he is just a blind cat encountering a dead mouse, and he doesn't know what to do with Jiannan Dao, so he went to the doctor in a hurry, so he chose Tang Jiusheng as the king of Wei." ”

Luo Bingshang thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "My lord, just in case, the student suggests that you transfer 3,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangzhou County, 5,000 soldiers and horses from Huzhou County, and 5,000 soldiers and horses from Lianshan County in the name of the Jingluo Yamen!

Niu was stunned all over the ground, "Degong, what are you doing to transfer so many soldiers and horses? Besides, according to the law of Great Commerce, the economic strategy can only mobilize up to 5,000 soldiers and horses at a time! Unless there is a holy decree to allow it, it will be regarded as complicity in rebellion!"

Luo Bingshang smiled treacherously, "My lord, the maximum number of soldiers and horses that can be transferred at a time is 5,000, and the troops we have transferred from all over the country have not exceeded the upper limit! These soldiers and generals transferred are in our hands, and they are ours! If we have 1,000 more troops, the Weiwangfu will have 1,000 fewer men and horses." We now have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses on hand, and Jianzhou has 8,000, plus these transferred soldiers, a total of more than 30,000, which is not enough to destroy Tang Jiusheng? Besides, Jiannan Road is three or four thousand miles away from Yong'an, when will Yong'an get the news? When the emperor orders the men and horses to crusade against us, the major events of Jiannan Road will be decided!"

Niu Mandi looked embarrassed, smacked his lips and said: "Degong, your plan is poisonous enough, but now that you are in such a hurry, is it too hasty? After all, the Wei Wangfu is just going to investigate Ye Tengjiao, if we do it now, it will be tantamount to a showdown, and there will be no way out at all! We must do it to the end!"

Luo Bingshang gently shook the wine in the wine jue, and said in a low voice: "My lord, if it is not expected by the students, I am afraid that Jianzhou will be lost by now! If we have more than 20,000 people on hand, we have the strength to take Jianzhou back! Jianzhou has just been lost, Tang Jiusheng has just arrived, people's hearts are unstable, we tens of thousands of horses and soldiers are trapped in Jianzhou, the city will inevitably be shocked three times a day, everyone resents Tang Jiusheng, at that time, the inside and the outside should be together, why worry about Jianzhou?"

The two were talking in the grass tree hall, and someone outside said loudly: "Report!" Niu Mandi and Luo Bingshang glanced at each other, this sound was sent by the pigeon tamer, indicating that a secret letter had arrived.

Niu Mandi whispered: "Send it in and I'll see!" Immediately outside, a pigeon trainer walked in, walked a few steps, came to Niu Mandi, and presented a small bamboo tube with both hands very respectfully. Niu Mandi took the small bamboo tube, and the pigeon trainer gave Niu Mandi a salute and withdrew from the grass tree hall upside down.

Niu Mandi took out the secret letter from the small bamboo tube, unfolded it and looked at the beginning of the secret letter, and the smile on his face froze. After reading it, he sighed and threw the secret letter to Luo Bingzhang, "Degong, I was really fed by you, Jianzhou, I lost it!"

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