Dajin royal family

Chapter 589 Discovery of Secret Works
Now that he knew it was not a game set against him, he could turn passive into active next.

At present, it is known that the reason for Chen Guo's mobilization is to take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of Liang Guo, so he can ignore the bad things in the south.

Shen Xing had a good plan, he wanted to use his power to intimidate Liang Guo, in this case, it is better to stabilize the south first.It just so happened that Cen Zhenben came here to seek reconciliation between the two countries.

A few days later, Jiang Chengxiao summoned Cen Zhenben again. This time, the Northern Jin Dynasty lowered the conditions for the two countries to repair a lot. One was to ask Liang Guo to compensate a large amount of money and food, and the other was to ask Liang Guo to publicly sever the alliance with Xu Guo .

Cen Zhenben agreed to the first condition without hesitation, but the latter made him hesitate.He knew very well why the Northern Jin Dynasty wanted Liang and Xu to sever the alliance. Jiang Chengxiao wanted to divide their three kingdoms and break them down one by one.

After a little thought, Cen Zhenbian agreed to the request.

In his opinion, what can be done if the alliance is severed on the surface. After he returns, he can send an envoy to Xu Guo to tell Yu Wenshu that they are still an alliance in private.

Isn't the so-called contract meant to be torn up?

After agreeing to the conditions, the two countries of Jin and Liang were repaired again.In Jiang Chengxiao's view, this unsecured relationship seemed extremely ridiculous, but he didn't care so much now, and let Liang Guo and Chen Guo go dog-eat-dog, so that he could spare his hands and feet to concentrate on dealing with Xu Guo.

Soon after, Cen Zhenben returned to Liang State and told Xiao Tong the whole story.The latter was not happy with the restoration of the Northern Jin Dynasty, on the contrary, he is quite anxious now.

There are two reasons. One is that the Northern Jin army stationed in Zigui, Badong County. In order to guard against the Northern Jin army stationed in Zigui, Xiao Tong had to deploy nearly half of Liang Guo’s troops to guard in Yichang, Yiling and other Linjiang. Ayutthaya.

The second reason is because of Chen Guo's side. To be honest, Xiao Tong really wanted to break Chen Qiujin's head to see if his mind was full of shit.The soldiers of the Northern Jin Dynasty came to the south, and he still had the time to threaten himself with soldiers at the border. Did he think that he could resist the Northern Jin Dynasty with his own country, or had he given up on himself?

Xiao Tong couldn't figure it out.

Even though Chen Guo didn't attack him now, he still dispatched troops and generals to guard against Chen Guo in the east.

As a result, the troops were divided one by one, and the alliance between him and Xu Guo became precarious.

Once the Northern Jin Dynasty used troops against Xu Guo, he would be beyond his reach and difficult to support.

Therefore, he sent an envoy to tell Yu Wenshu the current situation, and said that Liang Guo might support him in terms of materials, but there was nothing he could do in terms of troops.

After hearing the news, Yu Wenshu was extremely depressed. While sending envoys to Chen Guo to persuade Chen Qiujin to fight against the Northern Jin Dynasty, he watched the Northern Jin Dynasty's movements.

Soon after, the envoy to Chen State returned to Xu State, and regretfully told Yu Wenshu that Chen Qiujin didn't care about the alliance and was very dissatisfied with Xiao Liang.

As for where the dissatisfaction lies, the envoy didn't find out clearly, and Yu Wenshu didn't know either.Yu Wenshu was so angry that he scolded Chen Qiujin for being another Chen Empress.

In November, the weather turned cooler, and there was a light rain in Taiyuan.

Jiang Chengxiao stood under the eaves, looking at Xiaoyu.

Beside him, Nan Jiyun was reporting the movements of various places.

"News came from the secret work of Chen Guo. Chen Qiujin ignored the government. Chen Jun did not take any action on the border of Liang Guo. Liang Guo sent a large army to guard against Chen Guo at the border. Xu Guo issued an order to seek talents some time ago. , but there are very few responders, and Yu Wenshu is still expanding his army, and it is conservatively estimated that there will be 40 troops."

"40?" Jiang Chengxiao sneered, "What use is there for the old, the weak, women and children to join the army?"

The elite that Yu Wenshu brought out from the Twelve Guards had already been exhausted after these years of fighting, and most of the new recruits were civilians who had never been on the battlefield.

Nan Jiyun continued: "Your Majesty, there is another piece of news."

"what news?"

"A few days ago, the person who we placed in the dark to sell military horses discovered that someone in the court had colluded with Xu Guo, and secretly helped Xu Guoxi to smuggle military horses."

"Who is it!" Jiang Chengxiao's voice sank in vain.

Because the Northern Jin Dynasty took advantage of the terrain, all the war horses in the world were in the hands of the Northern Jin Dynasty.Jiang Chengxiao knew that there was no absolute infallibility in this world, and the enemy country would definitely do everything possible to smuggle military horses from the Northern Jin Dynasty.

That being the case, he decided to use his tricks and asked his own people to sell military horses below, find out the situation, and cut off the secret sales lines one by one.

This method has been very practical so far, and he has learned of many secret operations of enemy countries and then eliminated them.

However, there are actually people in the DPRK who are colluding with Xu Guo, which he cannot tolerate.

Nan Jiyun said: "The people below didn't startle the enemy, they secretly followed up and found out the identity of the other party. It is Pei Ningwen who is about to go to Wenxi County to take up the post of Hucao."

"Pei Ning knows?"

Jiang Chengxiao was startled, he never expected that this person would be Pei Ningwen, Pei Ju's eldest grandson.

Because Pei Ning'an was also a scholar admitted by the imperial examination this time, Jiang Chengxiao sold Pei Ju's face and transferred Pei Ning'an to Wenxi County.

This is interesting, very interesting.

"Has the identity of Xu Guoxizuo been found out?"

"It's been found out that the other party's name is Ma Zheng, and his external identity is a businessman from the Central Plains. He contacted through Sanglou, the owner of the Sang's restaurant. According to the investigation, this Sanglou is the son-in-law of Pei's concubine who was in charge of the public house."

"It's the Pei family again." Jiang Chengxiao's face gradually became gloomy, "Is Pei Ju involved?"

His tone was not asking, but confirming some fact that he didn't want to see.

"According to the current situation, it is temporarily impossible to confirm whether Pei Ju is involved with Xu Guo." Nan Jiyun said.

Jiang Chengxiao gently rubbed the jade pendant on his waist, "Pass down the order, let the people below keep an eye on Ma Zheng, Sang Lou, and Pei Ning's movements, and don't startle the snake!"

"My subordinate understands."

After Nan Jiyun left, Jiang Chengxiao took a deep breath, looking a little gloomy.This time, if he hadn't buried the pawns in advance, the consequences would have been disastrous.

Pei Ningfan actually colluded with Xu Guo. Given his status in Pei Ju's mind, if he was always in Pei Ju's place to inquire about important government affairs
Thinking of this, Jiang Chengxiao suddenly felt a little palpitated, so he separated the Ziwei Hall from the Wuyuan Hall, otherwise Xu Guo might have known about the last time the soldiers entered Hanzhong.

Jiang Chengxiao frowned and walked slowly.

Now he is very worried about whether Pei Ju has revealed more information to Pei Ningfan, or in other words, he is worried whether Pei Ningfan has learned more things through Pei Ju.

Dark clouds covered the sky and the light rain turned into a torrential downpour.

Half an hour later, the rain and fog rose, and the ground was filled with smoke.

Taiyuan West Market, Hong's tea shop.

Wei Wei and Shen Zhe sat by the window, and in front of them sat a burly man.

"Brother Hong, is there only this one?" Wei Wei looked at the word 'Wu Shi' that was about to disappear on the table, and asked Hong Ba in a soft voice.

"You still think it's too little?" Hong Ba dissatisfied: "You don't know how strict the investigation in Taiyuan has been recently. In the last inspection, many of our people in the court were purged. It is already a lot to get a hundred horses this time It's not easy."

Outside the window, the torrential rain continued, and the sound was like a drumbeat.

Wei Wei said: "Brother Hong, there is an urgent need recently, they are willing to pay three times the price, as long as Brother Hong can produce the goods."

Shen Zhe followed suit and said, "That's right, the buyer over there is the same. How much Brother Hong has, we want as much. The price is negotiable."

Hong Ba tentatively asked, "Why do you two need so many goods? Do you want to rebel?"

Hearing this, Wei Qu and Shen Zhe hurriedly waved their hands.

"Brother Hong is joking, we are just merchants, how dare we do such a rebellious thing!"

"But I only sold you two hundred horses last month, and you want so many this month, if you want to die, don't drag me down!" Hong Ba said angrily.

Wei Wei looked around and found that there was no one there, and explained in a low voice: "Brother Hong, to be honest, the buyer is someone else, we just"

Having said that, he gave Hong Ba a look of 'you understand'.

Hong Bawei said: "You all know the situation in Taiyuan. It is very difficult to transport horses here, so the price."

Shen Zhe said first: "Brother Hong, don't worry, you are satisfied."

Hearing this, Hong Ba was slightly silent.

Seeing this, Wei Wei and Shen Zhe hurriedly raised the price, which finally made Hong Ba relieved.

Hong Ba dipped his finger in the tea, wrote 'two hundred' on the case table, and said, "That's all. This is my limit. Do you want to think about it carefully?"

Wei Wei and Shen Zhe looked at each other, and at the same time cupped their hands and said, "Brother Hong is here."

"Okay, that's it."

Wei Wei tentatively asked: "Brother Hong, are you still a war horse to go to the roots?"

"Otherwise?" Hong Ba's eyes slanted, "You can't get out of the Northern Jin Dynasty if you don't get rid of the horses."

Wei Yu and the two sneered, took their leave and left.

(End of this chapter)