Fenghou

Chapter 1244 Chess Pieces
The Xiangguo retreated, Zhao Gou left Qin Hui behind, Zhao Gou stared at the sand table and said: "Li Hui's short report has a detail, the captured soldiers are all newly recruited troops, and the armor is rough, I think it's very strange, repeat Thinking about it, I suspect that Zhang Jun's sending troops to Jiangnan West Road is false, and his real goal is to attack Zhenjiang Mansion from Yangzhou across the south of the Yangtze River."

"Your Majesty's suspicion is indeed justified. If Zhang Jun attaches great importance to Jiangnan West Road, how could he use recruits, and how could he hastily withdraw his troops? From this point, we can conclude that Zhang Jun must have used a small amount of newly recruited troops to hold back our main force on Jiangnan West Road. However, his main force is concentrated in the Yangzhou area, if this is the case, Jiangnan West Road must make a quick decision and bring the main force back in time."

Zhao Gou groaned for a while, he was just suspicious, but he had no evidence.

At this moment, the eunuch at the door reported, "His Royal Highness, Xu Xiangguo has something urgent to see you!"

"Announce him in!"

After a while, Xu Xiantu hurried into the imperial study room and said, "Your Majesty, Luo Ji, the prefect of Yangzhou, sent someone across the river to report that Zhang Jun's army is gathering in Yangzhou. I'm afraid there is some conspiracy!"

Zhao Gou's eyes lit up. The news came too timely, and he guessed it right. Jiangnan West Road was false, and Zhang Jun's real goal was Zhenjiang Mansion.

He immediately ordered: "Send an order to Li Hui, requesting his army to attack the enemy with all its strength, and recover Jiangnan West Road within five days, and then the army will return immediately!"

Xu Xiantu said anxiously: "Your Majesty, you are too impatient, and accidents are easy to happen!"

Zhao Gou snorted coldly, "Zhang Jun wished that my army would drag on Jiangnan West Road for ten and a half months. My judgment will not be wrong. Zhang Jun falsely attacked Jiangnan West Road and actually attacked Zhenjiang Mansion. Mr. Xu, don't let us go again!" I was mistaken!"

Zhao Gou's words were very serious, Xu Xiantu had no choice but to sigh secretly, the emperor is always eager, the last time he was eager to attack Haizhou, resulting in the destruction of an army of [-], this time he is eager to attack Zhang Jun's army, I don't know what will happen .

But Xu Xiantu didn't dare to persuade him too much. If he persuaded too much, no matter whether he won or lost, he would be hated by the emperor.

Both Xu Xiantu and Qin Hui retreated, and Zhao Gou stood alone in front of the sand table with his hands behind his back, staring at Jiangnan West Road for a long time without saying a word.

In Xinfeng Teahouse, Hu Yun pointed at the newspaper and smiled at Wang Mu: "How did your Beijing News judge? Look at the headline, 'Zhang Jun is no more than Liu Guangshi's second, and he can be broken'. Zhang Jun is too confident! Jun Ke is much stronger than Liu Guangshi."

Wang Mu took a sip of his tea and said lightly: "We didn't write this, it's the letter submitted by Xiangguo Zhu Shengfei, and the left minister's letter, of course we will put it on the front page, without changing a single word, and the signature below is also his. "

"This Chang Sheng is Mr. Zhu?"

"Of course it's him. Do you think it's someone with the surname Chang?"

Hu Yun laughed loudly, then shook his head and said: "Now the court is full of optimism, probably everyone regards Zhang Jun as Liu Guangshi's second."

"Isn't it? Without the support of the people and the gentry, can they still achieve great things?"

"of course not!"

Hu Yun looked at both sides, and said in a low voice: "Zhang Jun has the secret support of His Highness, but Liu Guangshi does not. Zhang Jun's army has tens of thousands of barrels of kerosene alone, more than [-] horses, more than [-] warships, and two elite soldiers. More than one hundred thousand, how can Liu Guangshi compare?"

"Then there is a problem with this big victory?"

"Zhang Jun was just showing weakness on purpose. If he really withdrew his troops, he would definitely walk along the west bank of the Ganshui River. How could he expose a weak brigade under the eyes of the Song army and let the opponent easily win."

"You make sense, what is Zhang Jun's strategy?"

"A tactic of arrogant soldiers, luring the enemy to go deep, taking advantage of the weakness of the emperor who is greedy for merit, and leading the Song army into a place where there will be no redemption."

Wang Mu frowned slightly, "How could the Son of Heaven be so stupid?"

Hu Yun laughed, "Actually, the Son of Heaven is not stupid, he is just talking on paper, everything is taken for granted, he met Zhang Jun who was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and behind him was His Royal Highness King Yong who was far-sighted, how could he win the battle?" Pass?
For example, Luo Ji, the prefect of Yangzhou, sent someone to deliver a letter urgently, and the emperor would definitely believe it!How could Luo Ji be loyal to Zhang Jun, a traitor?

But he never imagined, what if Luo Ji's allegiance is King Yong? "

Wang Mu nodded, "Speaking of it this way, Zhang Jun and the Son of Heaven are just two pawns."

"That's right, only Your Highness is the chess player, and we are the spectators, so enjoy this big game of chess."

Jingzhao, Lu Tang approached Lu Wei again, this time Lu Wei did not refuse, but invited him to drink tea at Qingfeng Teahouse.

"What's the matter, brother, didn't you go to Lin'an? Why are you back?"

Lu Tang drank a cup of tea, sighed and said, "Don't mention it, my father thought that he would be reused when he went to Lin'an, but he didn't expect to be unpopular at all. All the old friends in the past avoided him, and went to Qin Xiangguo's mansion to vote for his name. It was extremely humiliating to be kicked out by the housekeeper tearing up the famous post, but fortunately the eldest brother gave him a sum of money, he was disheartened and went to the countryside with his mother to retire."

Lu Wei asked with a smile, "Then why don't you go together?"

Lu Yan's eyes widened and he said angrily, "I'm only under [-] years old. Tell me to go to the countryside to retire?"

"That's right! You haven't married a wife yet, and your father didn't think about it?"

"That man is very selfish. He won't spend any more money on me. My mother listens to him, so I have no choice but to venture out on my own. Fortunately, I have a few friends who found a job for me."

Lu Wei suddenly became vigilant, "Could it be your job to come to Jingzhao?"

"Don't think too much about it. It's not an intelligence secret. I'm working for a trading company to collect some commercial information, which has nothing to do with the military."

Lu Wei nodded, "So that's the case, that's a good thing, don't touch military secrets again, King Yong has already forgiven you once, if you do it again, you will lose your head."

"I promise that it has nothing to do with the military, so I just know some information, such as the price of land, the price of food, income, etc., are all normal commercial information, it should be public, and it's not breaking the law!"

Lu Wei smiled slightly: "These are not illegal. Let me give you a trick. You can buy a copy of the "Beijing News" every day. The information you want to know can be found in the "Beijing News."

Lu Tang hesitated for a moment and said: "These news are too common. We all rely on the news to get money. To provide these news, we only get two or three pennies a month. There is not enough food. We must provide a valuable one. We know that there are very few people. That way I can get a little more money."

Lu Wei shook his head, "Don't think about it, the lesson from last time was too profound, what I said was all valuable military information, once leaked out, I can't afford to go around, even if my sister is a princess, it's useless."

"Brother, you can pity my little brother! The only thing I'm worth is this surname, otherwise people wouldn't want me."

Lu Wei asked: "Tell me the truth, are you an official businessman or a private businessman?"

"Hey! It's actually an official businessman, so I want to know some valuable news, but I don't want to embarrass you, brother, just help me!"

Lu Wei was silent for a moment and said: "Okay! Just this one time, don't make another example!"

"ensure!"

Lu Wei said slowly: "Fengzhou on Lingxia Road has been captured by the northern nomadic army. The situation in Lingzhou is critical. We will soon send a large number of troops to the north. There will be a big war in the spring tomorrow, and we need to buy a lot of medicinal materials. This is an opportunity. !"

Lu Yan was overjoyed, this was important information, he hesitated and said, "Brother, I have no money for food, can you lend me some."

Lu Wei took out ten taels of silver and threw it to him, and said coldly: "If I find out, you go fooling around in the brothel again, and never come to me again."

Lu Hang patted his chest, "I've changed my mind and promised not to go again."

Lu Hang was so anxious that he ate two bites of snacks and left. As soon as he left, two inner guard spies flashed out from the next door, and Lu Wei nodded to them.

The two got into the carriage and followed Lu Yan's ox cart from a distance.

(End of this chapter)