Chapter 242: Plan Ahead

The middle-aged man is Zheng Bin, the head of the Divine Guard Army who has met Xiao Han. The Pen&Fun&Ge www.biquge.info Shenwei Army was a regular unit of the Southern Tang Dynasty stationed in Jinling, and was mainly responsible for the security of the Beijing Division.

Although Zheng Bin has a low position, he controls a special unit of the Divine Guard, and his 100-man team is mainly responsible for detecting lawlessness and enemy details, and participates in the Jinling patrol. This is the reason why Xiao Han came to him, since he wants to achieve his goal, he has to take precautions and get rid of all the factors that threaten his safety.

Zheng Bin was very vigilant, he had only heard that Xiao Han was familiar with the princess, and he didn't know how much King Zheng had contact with him.

Xiao Han saw that the back hall was not big, and there were no lights in the surrounding black holes, so it was obvious that Zheng Bin was cautious. Xiao Han found a chair and sat down, and said softly: "How many countries are in Jinling?" Zheng Bin was stunned for a moment, glanced at Jiangdong Pavilion, Jiangdong Pavilion was silent, and slowly walked to the door to guard.

Xiao Han didn't speak, just looked at him. Zheng Bin finally picked a chair to sit opposite him, moved an oil lamp between the two and said, "This is not my responsibility, it is the Tianxing Army and the Crane Control Army who are responsible for guarding the palace and detecting it." Xiao Han shook his head lightly and said: "As far as I know, the Tianxing Army and the Crane Control Army are the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and most of them have moved south with the lord of the country, but the one you lead is very special. ”

Zheng Bin smiled bitterly: "I really don't know how many people there are, you also know that there are disputes in the world, all countries have sent careful work to the enemy country, and there are many people who have been lurking for several years or more than ten years, as long as it is not a palace secret, the military aircraft is a major event, even if it is caught, it is useless." Xiao Han was impatient to listen to his nagging, and interjected: "How many people are in the Great Song Dynasty in Jinling?"

Zheng Bin was stunned for a moment and hesitated: "As far as I know, there are at least a hundred people." Xiao Han said again: "Are you sure to dig these people out?" Zheng Bin changed his face and said: "The Great Song Dynasty is strong, if you arrest people and work carefully, it will be a big trouble to send it back to Jiangbei." At that time, I won't be able to get out of it, and now it's the crown prince who is in charge of the country, and the servant shoots Lord Yan and doesn't want my life?"

Xiao Han sneered: "I didn't come here today to listen to your complaints, you just need to tell me the spies sent by the countries to Jinling, and then let your people find out their contact information and the path of transmitting information, and I will do the rest of the things, and I have nothing to do with you, even if something happens, Li Cunjia can't blame you." ”

Zheng Bin exhaled a breath of turbidity, looked at Xiao Han a few times, and thought that he could no longer act cowering, if King Zheng learned that he had lost his trust in himself, it would be difficult for him to explain in the future. Zheng Bin lightly tapped the table with one finger and said, "Now there are more than forty Great Song Dynasty agents in Jinling City, and there are more than sixty people from all over the country. There are more than ten secret agents in Dashu, more than 10 people in the Southern Han Dynasty, 6 or 7 people in the Qian family, 56 people in the Northern Han Kingdom, and more than 10 detectives in Daliao. In fact, now the countries are relatively calm, there are no major wars, and these spies have nothing to do, usually under the cover of doing business, and we are hindered by the relations between countries, so it is inconvenient to do it. ”

Xiao Han frowned and said: "So many people, now you don't have to do anything else, just figure out the detailed list and address of the Great Song Dynasty and Wu Yue, and I will do the rest." Zheng Bin was puzzled: "Now that the lord of the country has just left, what if King Zheng moves others to do it, what if the Great Song Dynasty is to blame?"

Xiao Han smiled: "If you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government." It's not a question for you and me, and we'd better keep it quiet. If something happens, there will be Prince Wu and King Zheng to take responsibility, and you and I have nothing to do. Zheng Bin was completely relieved, he was most afraid that Xiao Han would accidentally implicate himself with a move, hearing him say this, since the sky is falling, there is a big man to resist, as long as he quietly finishes what King Zheng explains, the rest will be tossed with this young man.

Thinking of this, Zheng Bin nodded solemnly and said: "Master Xiao, this matter is not easy to do, it takes a lot of time, I don't know when you will ask for the list?" Xiao Han pondered: "I still have some private matters to do, and it will take more than a month to go back and forth, this time is enough time for you to handle this matter, right?"

Zheng Bin nodded and said, "That's easy to do, and then I will definitely hand over the detailed list to Master Xiao." Xiao Han asked about the detailed work of the countries in Jinling, and Zheng Bin told him some examples, which made Xiao Han sigh that it was definitely a realistic version of "Latent".

The most classic story is that when the battle of Huainan was at its most intense, Li Jing sent his imperial brother Li Jingda to lead a large army to support. Hidden in Jinling, the original Hou Zhou Xi Zuo Wei Daming successfully rebelled against more than ten officers in front of the formation, resulting in the defeat of the Southern Tang Army, after the war to collect the defeated soldiers, Wei Daming came forward again, coaxed tens of thousands of people to defect to Hou Zhou, and sent his subordinates to try to persuade Zhang Quanyue to surrender, in the end, although unsuccessful, he himself triumphantly escaped north, fled to Tokyo and became the Kaifeng Prefecture Governor.

There is also a Great Zhou fine work Tian Chengyu, this person is a carpenter, skillful, very popular with the dignitaries, collected a lot of high-ranking officials intelligence sent to the Great Zhou, the Great Zhou mastered the secrets of these high-ranking officials and secretly threatened them to serve the Great Zhou, after the battle of Huainan, the Southern Tang lord Li Jingben had the intention to pack up the army and fight again, but the high-ranking officials in the court unanimously opposed, Li Jing was weak, so he had to choose to surrender and cede the fourteen states to the Great Zhou.

Li Jing later learned of this, so angry that he almost vomited blood, and sent someone to arrest Tian Chengyu, but he had already fled to the north, and Li Jing was helpless against those high-ranking officials who were bought by the Great Zhou. At the beginning, it was just a small Ministry of Works, from the left and right servants to the ordinary officials, all of whom did not want to raise a big case, saying that this would shake the national system and endanger the society. In the end, even King Wu and King Zheng wrote to oppose the investigation, saying that this would anger the Great Zhou and bring accidents.

Xiao Han sighed repeatedly, he didn't expect that there would be such a thing, the dignified monarch of a country punishes officials to see the face of Da Zhou, and the country's situation is also considered to be decayed to the extreme.

The two talked for another half an hour, and seeing that the moon was in the middle of the sky, Xiao Han quietly left with Jiangdong Pavilion.

When he got up early the next morning, Xiao Han and everyone went downstairs to have breakfast together, and when he saw a lot of guests coming in and out, he curiously asked Xiao Er what happened, how could there be so many people. Xiao Er told him that every year on February 2, a dragon boat race will be held in the Qinhuai River, and these are the merchants and people from all over the world who come to watch.

Xiao Han didn't care about these things, and instructed Sima An to sneak back to the Great Song Dynasty, find Qiu Ning, the head of the Chiyang Palace, and hand him a letter written by himself. He also asked Chu Tianshu to quietly leave Jinling with the seven sons of Wudang to live in Chizhou, and asked him to hand over a letter to Zhang Quanyue.

After all the arrangements were made, Xiao Han took Jiangdong Pavilion around the city for two days, and found that the atmosphere of the festival was still very strong, and the city was not affected by the westward movement of the lord, especially the Qinhuai River was brightly lit at night, and all the large and small flower boats appeared.

Xiao Han actually wanted to go up to the flower boat to take a look, thinking that Jiangdong Pavilion would follow him, if Li Yueying knew that something would happen, it would be just.

The city was full of soldiers patrolling the streets, and Xiao Han thought that Zhang Cheng and Zhao An were still in the army, so he immediately rushed to the barracks to see the two. Xiao Han discussed with the two for a long time, and then returned satisfied.

The son Zhao Xu, who was originally going to visit him, didn't come to him again for some reason, Xiao Han met him in Pingshui, although he had a sense of bosom friend, but he didn't care. When he returned to the inn, the shopkeeper told him that a son came to look for him today, and when he was not there, he went back. Xiao Han thanked Xiao Er, because he had something to do, he naturally didn't take this matter to heart.

Jinling had everything arranged, and then took Jiangdong Pavilion out of the city and headed for Chizhou. Out of the city gate, walking out of dozens of miles, pedestrians gradually thinned, Jiangdong Pavilion suddenly said: "Senior Brother Xiao, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?" Xiao Han said strangely: "You and my brother still have something to say, if you have something to say, I don't like wordy." ”

Jiang Dongge said with a solemn face: "The little junior sister is a princess, but we are a Jianghu sect, and we have a heavy responsibility, and we can't use it for two purposes, I feel that our major affairs are still important." He said this tactfully, and Xiao Han naturally understood what he meant.

Jiangdong Pavilion didn't want him to get too involved in politics, the people in the rivers and lakes didn't like the government, and Xiao Han was busy dealing with the Great Song Dynasty in the past few days. Xiao Han knew that others were simple, so he naturally thought about himself when he said this, and couldn't help but be grateful: "Senior Brother Jiang, you are reasonable. But you also know that people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves, and I do these things for the princess, and you will understand in the future. ”

Jiang Dongge stopped talking, but just followed him and galloped wildly. Seeing that it was getting late, and there were still one or twenty miles away from the market town ahead, fortunately the moonlight was bright and the breeze was blowing, so the two slowed down and walked together. Xiao Han suddenly asked, "If one day, Dashu is destroyed, where do you say Miss Meng will go?"

Jiang Dongge didn't expect him to ask this question, and besides, he didn't have a deep friendship with Meng Wanxi, so he thought for a while and said: "When Dashu is destroyed, Miss Meng will naturally become a common person, which is not a bad thing." Xiao Han shook his head and said: "The phoenix that falls to the ground is not as good as a chicken, under the nest, how can there be eggs? ”

Jiang Dongge looked at him strangely and said, "Why do you think like this? Dashu has a sword pavilion that is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, who will easily destroy it?" Xiao Han smiled bitterly, knowing that he couldn't tell him clearly, thinking that in September of the next year, the Great Song Dynasty would use troops against Xishu, and for the sake of Meng Wanxi's sake, he had to help her for the sake of Meng Wanxi's previous fight against the enemy with him.

While thinking wildly, Jiang Dongge suddenly pointed ahead and said softly, "There is someone in front." Xiao Han was taken aback and looked forward.

Under the moonlight, I saw a petite figure running desperately towards them in front of them, and four or five others were closely following behind.

Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, the chasing person saw Xiao Han and Jiangdong Pavilion in a hurry, his eyes showed a hint of joy, and he said loudly: "Son, help." Then he fell headlong to the ground.