At this moment, the scribe of the Assassin's Mansion hurried to announce: "My lord, the capital is eight hundred miles in an emergency, and the messenger is still waiting in the mansion for the lord to sign the charge." "Eight hundred miles of urgency is often an urgent report of the military situation, although Kan Hongning is anxious, he does not dare to delay, leaving his subordinates to assist in the investigation at the scene, and he takes Yin Wenbin back to his house quickly.

As soon as I entered the gate, I saw three messengers who were dusty, and the clothes were not ordinary post messengers, but Yulinwei messengers, who only undertook the transmission of top-secret letters sent from the capital Chang'an Military Department or the imperial palace to various places.

Usually three strong martial arts Yu Linwei walked together, one is to facilitate the escort and prevent someone from intercepting the letter halfway, and the other is to facilitate mutual supervision to prevent the person sending the letter from taking it apart and peeking halfway or stealing the beam to change the pillar. The Yu Lin Wei messenger has a very high salary, but the responsibility is very great, if there is a mistake in the letter transmitted, no matter what the reason, it will be beheaded by the people who are traveling with him.

Therefore, these messengers are extremely vigilant, and they will never hand over the letter without seeing the person sign for it.

Although the three messengers knew Suga Hongning, they still checked the official seal according to the rules, and the messenger led by the messenger opened the cloth bag behind his back, which was a silver box with a yellow fire paint seal on it.

This is what the high-level officialdom of the Tang Dynasty often calls the "silver box and gold seal", the sender of this "silver box and gold seal" can only be the emperor himself, if it is a document or letter of the Ministry of War, it is placed in an iron box and sealed with brown brown paper.

Kan Hongning didn't dare to be careless at the moment, and quickly knelt down to take it. After signing the paperwork, send a messenger to the post house to rest.

Only then did Kan Hongning come to the secret room with the silver box and gold seal, and opened the silver box. Inside is a letter written on rattan paper. Suga took out the letter and read it.

After reading the letter, Suga Hongning sat down in his chair and sighed in his mouth: "How can this be?

Yin Wenbin picked up the secret letter that fell on the table, only to see that there were only a few short sentences on it: "With Zizhou Assassin Shi Kan Hongning, he led a thousand Black Tiger Mansion soldiers to sneak in disguise and rushed to Kongtong Mountain." Along the way, you will not know the local government garrison. Upon sight of the letter, there is no delay. When Qing arrives in Kongtong, someone will pass on my oracle to his face, and he can act according to the edict. ”

The end of the letter was stamped with Li Longji's private seal, indicating that the letter was an order issued by the emperor himself, not a decision drafted by the cabinets of the three provinces and six ministries.

Yin Wenbin said in a low voice: "It's too coincidental. It's too coincidental! Coincidentally, it always makes people feel that there is a connection between the two!" Suga Hongning smiled bitterly: "This letter is written by the Holy Lord today, and it is the Holy Messenger who ordered the official to go to Kongtong Mountain, and this Liu Sha father and daughter are just doctors sitting in the hall for consultation, the two of them are very far apart, how can there be a connection?"

Yin Wenbin said in a low voice: "No, please think, the emperor gave a secret decree to your lord, and this secret decree is a silver box and gold seal, which is extremely difficult to leak." Why did the emperor still refuse to explain the matter? Instead, he sent another person to wait in Kongtong, and then passed on the message after the adults arrived in Kongtong...... Students don't know whether to speak or not. ”

Kan Hongning said: "There are only you and me here. But it doesn't hurt to say that. Yin Wenbin said: "The student thinks that the emperor has another meaning. This matter must be extremely important to the emperor, so that the emperor can't even rest assured that you, so you have to look at your performance before making a decision. ”

"Oh?" Kan Hongning didn't feel a chill behind him, "Then you speculate, what is it that makes the emperor so cautious." "This ......," Yin Wenbin said, "the student can't say it well." But what can make the king value it so much must have something to do with Jiangshan Sheji. ”

Kan Hongning said: "Could it be that there is an emergency military situation?" Yin Wenbin shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be, if there is an enemy invasion at the border pass, there are major feudal towns leading troops to resist, even if the situation is tense." It is necessary for the imperial court to send troops to increase the number of troops,

It should also be a matter of deliberation in the three provinces and six ministries, and then the text will be arranged after the decision is made, but this letter is stamped with the emperor's private seal, not the seal of the Ministry of War.

In addition, there must be a big seal of the household department, and without the big seal of the household department, how can we handle the dispatch and supply of grain and grass and the distribution of military salaries and pensions? This battle cannot be fought at all. ”

Suga Hongning muttered: "Could it be that there are lawless people who have rebelled? Isn't it worth the labor army to go out to quell the rebellion?"

Yin Wenbin said: "There are three kinds of rebellion, one is when the people rise up, the other is when the generals lead the people to mutiny, and the third is the palace civil strife.

This first type is the most common, and the second type is the most difficult to pacify, but the students believe that the most dangerous is the third type, that is, the palace civil strife, this kind of rebellion is often difficult between the elbows and armpits, even if there are millions of male soldiers, it is beyond the reach of the whip, even if the army of King Qin arrives, I am afraid that it has already been completed. ”

Yin Wenbin continued: "The students are thinking, if someone rebels, then whether it is suppressed or appeased by the imperial court, it is all done openly, there is no need to be so sneaky, and no one in this court is stupid enough to speak for the anti-thief."

If the policy of appeasement is adopted, then why should the adults be sent? It is only necessary to send a civil servant who can speak well and promise to be a high-ranking official; if the policy of suppression is adopted, then he will openly mobilize a large army to quell the rebellion; if the emperor wants to mobilize troops to quell the rebellion, why not mobilize the garrisons in the vicinity of Kongtong Mountain?

There is the jurisdiction of the forbidden army, the forbidden army is stationed in Shaanzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Jinzhou, Shuzhou, has always been strong and strong, well-equipped, known as the five tigers guarding Chang'an, this Kongtong Mountain is not too far from Ganzhou, Suzhou, why didn't the emperor mobilize them to act nearby.

Even if the forbidden army is not mobilized, then the feudal army should be mobilized, and it seems that the adults should not be mobilized. You must know that the duty of the government soldiers is to maintain local law and order, not to fight in military formations.

To tell you the truth, only our government soldiers in Zizhou have combat power, and the soldiers of other states and counties are idle and idle every day. Therefore, why should we not use a large army that can fight well and mobilize government soldiers who are not good at field warfare? This matter does not make sense in principle. ”

Kan Hongning was confused when he heard it, and said with a wry smile: "I'm confused, you said that you shouldn't transfer me, but the emperor has already issued a secret decree, can I still go?" Yin Wenbin smiled: "You must go to go, but the students have analyzed and understood the matter, and the adults are so measured when they encounter things in the future." Suga Hongning said: "Then you go on." ”

Yin Wenbin said: "The student speculates that it is certain that someone is unfavorable to the emperor, but this contradiction has not been openly torn up, and it can be inferred that the emperor is also extremely jealous of that person, with the heroism and decisiveness of the saint, if others have a great rebellion, the emperor would have taken the lead a long time ago, where will he wait!" (To be continued......)