Fenghou

Chapter 798
Coming out of Taixue, Chen Qing went back to the city along the official road. At this time, a camel caravan came behind, consisting of more than [-] camels. Judging from the decoration style, it was not like the Sogdians.

Chen Qing asked the team to step aside and let them go first. The caravan passed by Chen Qing. At this moment, a man suddenly jumped off the camel and rushed towards Chen Qing. over him.

The guy was frightened and dumbfounded. Liu Qing searched his body and found that the other party had no weapons. He said angrily, "What do you want to do?"

The man pointed to Chen Qing's waist, "I saw this!"

A jade pendant hung around Chen Qing’s waist, which is white jade produced in Khotan, which is also the seed material of Hetian jade in later generations. The Song Dynasty was dominated by literati. The literati liked jade and strange stones. Almost all men wore jade, but most of them were Xiuyu jade. In Jingzhao, there are mostly Lantian jade, but Khotan jade is too rare and precious, and only the rich and powerful have it.

Chen Qing smiled and said, "Do you have it too?"

"I have that too!"

The clerk took out a piece of jade from his bosom, about the size of an egg. Chen Qing took the jade, and his eyes lit up immediately.

"Do you want to sell this piece of jade?"

The man swallowed and said, "I picked up this piece of jade from the river. I almost drowned. If you want fifty guan, I'll give you another small piece."

Chen Qing immediately said to the soldiers: "Give him ten taels of silver!"

The soldiers gave the clerk ten taels of silver, and the clerk was trembling with excitement, and quickly took out a small piece of Ziyu, the size of a red date, and gave it to Chen Qing. Both of them were very happy.

"Ajie, what are you doing?"

The leader of the caravan came over. He was a short old man with a white beard. The man said timidly, "I sold the jade I picked up to this general."

The leader of the caravan glanced at Chen Qing, suddenly his face turned pale with shock, and he bowed his head, "I don't know that I am the king of the county, I am guilty! I am guilty!"

Chen Qing gave the soldiers a wink, and the soldiers quickly helped him up. The caravan leader glared at the man, "How much money did you take from the county king? Pay it back quickly."

Chen Qing waved his hands and smiled, "This is a fair trade. I like Khotan jade but I can't buy it. He is willing to sell it to me. I am very grateful to him!"

The caravan leader sighed, "Since the king likes it, next time! I'll pick up two sacks for the king."

Chen Qing nodded with a smile, "Okay! If you pick it up, I will reward you with an honorary officer!"

At this time, Chen Qing suddenly remembered something and asked, "Are you merchants from Khotan?"

"Exactly, we came from Khotan County."

Coming from Khotan Kingdom, he had to pass through Dunhuang, Chen Qing wanted to know about Cao Changchun's situation, so he asked him, "Do you know about the situation of the Yellow-headed Uighur?"

"Yellow-headed Uighurs and Xizhou Uighurs have been fighting for Shazhou. When I came this time, I heard that the two armies were preparing to fight again."

"Who has the upper hand?"

"It must be the Xizhou Uighurs, with the upper hand in terms of military strength and population."

In fact, Chen Qing was just asking. Last time he expressed his willingness to send troops to help the Yellow-headed Uighur, but Cao Changchun flatly rejected him, saying that outsiders should not interfere in the fight between the Uighur brothers. This made Chen Qing a little annoyed, so he stopped asking.

"I see, you guys go!"

Chen Qing took a name card and gave it to the businessman, and the business leader left with gratitude.

Chao Qing whispered next to him: "When the two Uyghurs fight and lose both sides, it will be a good opportunity for us to seize the Hexi Corridor."

Chen Qing gave him a hard look, and Chao Qing was too frightened to say anything.

Back in his official room, Chen Qing immediately summoned Hu Yanlei, the commander of the intelligence battalion.

Chen Qing paid more attention to intelligence than any ruler. For this reason, he spared no effort to establish a large and rigorous intelligence system, which consisted of four parts. It is directly under the command of Chen Qing, and each army also has its own scout battalion, which does not conflict with Tang Qian's scout army.

The scout army is responsible for detecting information inside the enemy's territory in the city and outside the city.

Then there is the intelligence battalion led by Hu Yanlei. The intelligence battalion also has thousands of people, men and women, old people and children, mainly lurking in the enemy's major cities.

The third one is Wang Hao's inner guard. The inner guard is in charge of anti-enemy intelligence operations in his own territory, as well as protecting the safety of senior officials.

The fourth is the Intelligence Division, which has now been renamed the Staff Department, which is under Chen Qing's Staff Department. The Staff Department is mainly responsible for sorting out and analyzing intelligence, and it is currently in charge of Yang Jin.

The first three are operational agencies, while the fourth is an intelligence analysis agency.

Not long after, Hu Yanlei hurried to Chen Qing's official room.

"See the county king for a humble position!"

Chen Qing asked: "Did Chitang Town arrange someone to lurk in there?"

Chitang Town is close to Chitang Pass. At the beginning of March next year, the Western Army and Jin Guo will exchange hostages at Chitang Pass. In order to grasp the direction of Jin Guodong, it is the most important to arrange eyeliners in Chitang Town in advance.

"Reporting to the king of the county, the manpower has been arranged. Two groups of people have been arranged. One group is a small grocery store in the town. A pair of old people were transferred from Taiyuan. They pretended to be the parents of the shop owner to watch the shop. The group pretends to be a nearby farmer, he goes to the town to sell vegetables every day, and then uses the letter eagle to contact Taiyuan City."

"Well done, I have an important task for you today, maybe you have to go there yourself."

"Please order from the king of the county!"

Chen Qing handed him a note, "The owner of this engraving agency is Yang Tianfang. He founded the "Beijing News" in the past. I want to invite him back to Jingzhao. He may bring a group of people over. You take a letter from me to invite him, and protect him to come to Jingzhao safely."

Hu Yanlei is from Bianliang, he knows the "Beijing News" very well, and he immediately realized that the king of the county is going to run a newspaper.

He took the note and said, "You can leave at any time!"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "No hurry, I'll write you a letter, you leave early tomorrow morning."

In the afternoon, Chen Qing returned to the mansion. As usual, he went to the study first.

This was also Chen Qing's habit. After resting in the study for a while, he went to have dinner.

During this period of time, as more than one million refugees gradually came to an end, Chen Qing also breathed a sigh of relief.

All aspects are running relatively smoothly, this month is also the most relaxing time for Chen Qing, spending time with his family and children.

The study door opened, and Lu Xiu walked in with a cup of tea. He put the tea on the table and said with a smile, "Drink a sip of tea to moisten your throat, and eat later."

"Hey! Axue didn't follow you?"

"What do you say?"

As soon as Chen Qing turned his head, he saw his daughter Axue crawling into the room through the window. He was startled, and hurriedly stood up and said, "Little guy, you will fall like this!"

"It won't fall, I climbed several times!"

The chubby Axue jumped onto her father's body as soon as she jumped, and hugged her father's neck tightly, "Haha! Mom, I hugged a big tree."

Lu Xiu said unhappily: "Look at your skin, come down quickly, your father's neck will be broken by you."

A Xue pursed her lips and said, "No way!"

Chen Qing loves this baby girl the most. She was underweight when she was born and almost died. Now she is two years old, and she is at her most naughty time.

Chen Qing put his daughter on the desk, smiled and said, "Babe, play here for a while, and Daddy will take you to dinner later."

"Okay!"

Axue clapped her hands happily, and her big black eyes glanced at the small box on the table. It was her favorite treasure box, and she could always find something good.

(End of this chapter)