Fang Zhongjin met Ying Wenchang on the edge of the cliff, and even broke his suspicious traces.

The strange thing is that although Ying Wenchang's behavior is strange, he is extremely calm, and even asked Fang Zhongjin to guess what he was doing.

Fang Zhongjin found that the map was drawn on the price of rice and the number of empty houses in the Ming Dynasty.

At first glance, these data seem to be collected by foreign craftsmen.

But Ying Wenchang was extremely frank, obviously not worried that Fang Zhongjin would go to the informant.

Fang Zhongjin also stood farther away, pulling the perspective from a detailed town post station to a large Ming Kanyu map, only to find that there was a problem!

Fang Zhongjin immediately turned his head and asked Ying Wenchang: "When are these numbers coming?"

Ying Wenchang nodded, knowing that this kid Fang Zhongjin had also discovered the problem in the picture.

I saw him fold his arms and say, "Although these numbers are all recent, they cannot be accurate to the same day." Always the numbers in the last month. ”

Fang Zhongjin asked in surprise, "Are these numbers accurate?"

Ying Wenchang sighed and said, "I don't want the numbers to be wrong.

However, the numbers given by the 'Heavenly Master Alliance' have always been accurate and well-known. ”

Fang Zhong Jinqi asked, "Heavenly Master Alliance, what sect is this?"

When Fang Zhongjin was on Mount Hua, Qiu Songhe briefly introduced to him the stories of the various alliances and factions in the rivers and lakes.

But he had never heard of such a sect as the "Heavenly Master Alliance".

Ying Wenchang shook his head and said, "This is not a martial arts sect, it is just an alliance of news exchange spontaneously formed between the world's phase masters. ”

Fang Zhongjin nodded silently.

Ying Wenchang, also known as the divination operator, loves to study the Book of Changes and physiognomy on weekdays.

It would not be a miracle if he could connect with the alliance between the hexagram masters.

It's just that Fang Zhongjin couldn't help but ask, "Forgive the kid for being presumptuous, I just don't know what the Heavenly Master Alliance wants to collect these numbers for?"

Fang Zhongjin has always been a little skeptical about the intentions of this alliance. Whoever still spends a lot of effort to collect all kinds of livelihood figures in the whole Ming Dynasty, the motive is extremely suspicious.

Ying Wenchang smiled and said, "It's really not that you have wronged you."

This Heavenly Master Alliance was not born to collect information on the people's livelihood in the world, but for the convenience of the world's hexagram masters.

You know that the knowledge of fortune-telling and hexagram is mysterious and mysterious. Even if you calculate according to "Liuren" and "Dripping Heavenly Marrow" everywhere, it is difficult to ensure that the results of the deduction are inconsistent with the world.

Therefore, in order to make the results of the calculation more accurate, the hexagram master needs some other information for reference. ”

When Fang Zhongjin heard this, he already understood most of them in his heart.

Among the hexagram masters in the world, I don't know how many people have real skills, but there must be many liars who fool people like a vast ocean.

In order to ensure that the trick can deceive fools and fools, then they need a lot of things that should only be known by the "seekers".

When the seeker suddenly heard these news from the mouth of the diviner master, in addition to being amazed, he must have revered him like a god and a Buddha, and willingly offered a large amount of gold and silver to worship.

At this time, Ying Wenchang continued: "The Heavenly Master Alliance is not specifically collecting figures related to people's livelihood.

It's about exchanging the surrounding news for the news you want.

For example, this time I want to know the price of rice in the world and the situation of the post station, so I will exchange the price of rice at the foot of Wudang Mountain with the situation of the post station. That's all. ”

Fang Zhongjin nodded, this critical time for the Heavenly Master Alliance was really terrifying, and he couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that anyone can exchange a little news for the news of the whole world?"

It was only at this time that Ying Wenchang revealed some self-contained expressions and said, "Naturally, it can't be that anyone can still exchange news with the Heavenly Master Alliance.

It's only because I have a carrier pigeon specially domesticated by the Heavenly Master Alliance that I can exchange for news. ”

Fang Zhongjin looked at him, and he didn't need to ask much, he knew that it was probably not so easy to get a carrier pigeon.

Maybe it's because Ying Wenchang is a master of Wudang, maybe because Ying Wenchang does have some status among the hexagram masters.

Maybe this carrier pigeon was bought at a high price by Ying Wenchang, in short, if ordinary people want to use the information of the Heavenly Master Alliance, it must be difficult to get a glimpse of the door.

Fang Zhongjin has been rolling in the floating world for many years, and at this time, he appropriately complimented him: "It must be Wenchang Zhenren who is respected by the world, so that he can be treated by the Heavenly Master League." ”

This sycophant was actually extremely comfortable, but Ying Wenchang just snorted, and the hostility between his brows faded a little.

But in the blink of an eye, Ying Wenchang became frowning again, and his sadness was irrepressible.

Fang Zhongjin also looked down at the linen cloth on the ground and asked, "Since these news are within fifteen days, then the army of the imperial court should be at the foot of Wudang Mountain in a blink of an eye, right?"

Yin Wenchang sat on the ground dejectedly and said, "It's just a matter of surrounding Wudang Mountain in the next few days." ”

Fang Zhongjin continued to look at the linen cloth on the ground. It turns out that the price of rice on this map is generally stable, and there is no pattern in the post houses in various places.

Only the price of rice from the capital to Xiangyang is higher than elsewhere, and there are no vacant houses near the post stations.

From this route, it can be seen that this should be a team starting from the capital and rushing all the way to Hubei.

If there is a large group of people coming out of the capital, it must only come from the heavenly family.

Other forces, whether underworld or white, don't have the audacity to travel.

Even if it was really necessary to send a large team out of the capital, as long as it was not a royal army, it would have to be dispersed and regrouped.

Otherwise, you will only be suspicious of the court, and no matter how much power you have, you must break your backbone.

And this team is obviously not going to war with foreign countries.

It's not just because it's still peaceful today, and I haven't heard of any news of barbarians violating the border.

It is even more because whenever there is a war, it is always "the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first".

Generally, in order to ensure that the expeditionary force does not starve to death on the battlefield, there must be a grain and grass team accompanying them.

And now this team is moving all the way, followed by a slight increase in the price of grain and grass on the road.

Although this increase is not an exaggeration, it also shows that the team rushing towards Xiangyang is not accompanied by the grain and grass brigade, and relies on the grain and grass supply of the surrounding government to support the team.

Then this team will never go to fight outside the gates.

With many clues added together, Fang Zhongjin had to suspect that the target of the brigade was from Wudang Mountain on the edge of Xiangyang City.

The imperial court is sending a brigade to advance to Wudang Mountain!

If this calculation is good, it means that Zhu Di is going to do something to Wudang Mountain!

This is extremely unusual, because Zhu Di has always been respectful to the Wudang faction, and various rewards have been given.

Now he suddenly sent troops to Wudang. Fang Zhongjin's first thought might be the two coffins that were still parked in the main hall of the Wudang Inner Court.

Resting in this coffin are the bodies of a pair of sons and daughters of the King of Han. It's just that this corpse is now like a deflated skin, and it is extremely terrifying.

If the imperial court sends troops, just for this pair of teenagers, it will be too much of a fight!