Wei Shu

Chapter 13 Spy
Commander Ye put his arms on the table, and took a lazy and casual reclining posture. Seeing Wei Shu's dull expression, he raised his long eyebrows.

Although he was wearing women's clothing, the raised eyebrows had the meaning of being a gentleman, but what he said next was neither gentlemanly nor romantic:

"What are you looking at? Don't just stare blankly, where is the topographic map? Did you get it?"

The somewhat impatient voice was blown into the eardrums by the cool wind, Wei Shu woke up like a dream, suddenly realized that she had lost her composure just now, she hurriedly turned her eyes away, and stopped looking at the face that was both male and female, but thought in her heart road:
This person's attitude is blunt, he pointed directly at the topographical map, he was indifferent to Pojun's life and death, which shows that his heart is hard and cold, but his behavior is a bit moody, so it's not easy to deal with.

Thinking of this episode, Wei Shu had gathered all her energy, lowered her head, and said in a very low voice: "I got the topographic map, but now it's not there...it's not in my hands."

When she said this, the fog in her mind suddenly dissipated again, and she remembered the name of this strange man: Ye Fei.

Immediately afterwards, the origins of Ye Fei and Zhou Shang came to Wei Shu's mind little by little.

The two of them were actually spies who sneaked into Baishuang City from the hinterland of the Central Plains!

This astonishing news almost shocked Wei Shu's jaw again, and her mind was completely messed up. It took a long time to finally sort out the matter.

Let's talk about Baishuang City first.

As Wei Shu guessed before, this Baishuang City is indeed a land of barbarians, and it is an important town under the rule of the "Golden Kingdom" in the north of the Central Plains.

Because it is located at the southernmost tip of the Kingdom of Jin and only a hundred miles away from the border of the Central Plains, Baishuang City has another nickname, "Hundred Mile City".

As for the situation in the Central Plains, Wei Shu also slowly recalled some.

Today's Central Plains country name is Song, the year name is Jingchu, and the country's surname is Li.It has been more than forty years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is now the second year of Jingchu.

As for the "big beam" of Wei Shu's previous life, Aqisi didn't know about it, and Zhou and Ye didn't mention it either.

Let's go back to the Kingdom of Jin.

In the beginning, the Jin tribe was just a small alien tribe who made their living by grazing, and the tribe lived by water and grass.Later, a hero came out of the Jin clan, who annexed many other clans, and the Jin clan grew stronger.When grazing could no longer feed the tribe, the Jin people began to harass the neighboring Song Dynasty, often looting food and food.

20 years ago, the Jin people invaded with all their strength, and the Song Dynasty's defenders were weak.

Since then, there have been frequent wars on the border between the two countries, and it has never stopped for 20 years. Every few years, there will be a big war, or the Jin will attack the Song, or the Song will fight for the Jin. The focus of the stalemate between the two countries lies in The large plain more than a hundred miles away from Baishuang City.

Speaking of which, Baishuang City was originally the territory of the Song Dynasty, and its name was not the current one, but "Silver City", which is famous for its rich silver mines.

The surprise attack 20 years ago not only caused the Song Dynasty to lose a large area of ​​land, but also caused Yincheng to be captured by the Jin army.

The people of Song Dynasty who survived were not treated kindly by the people of Jin Kingdom.

After breaking through Yincheng, the Jin army hated that the city was hard to attack, so they first burned, killed and looted, and then drove the only remaining Song people in the city to the north of the city, set aside a place, and raised them like livestock. .

These Song people can only live in a small piece of land less than [-] miles away, and they cannot leave without permission, and their descendants can only be slaves of the Jin people forever. The Jin people gave them a name, It is called "Muna Heitai", which means "a person who is not as good as a pig or a dog".

In the Song Dynasty, they were called "Li Nu".

Going to the country and leaving the country, poor slavery.

This name, which is homonymous with Linu, may contain a trace of compassion from the motherland for the people living outside.

Although Aqisi is also a slave, she is different from those Li slaves, because she does not have the tattoo of "Mu Na Hei Tai" on her body.

However, in the eyes of Jin people, there is no difference between tattoos or not.

As for Aqisi's slave body, it seems that she also pretended to be her. As for its real origin, Wei Shu still doesn't know.

After taking down the Silver City, the greedy Jinren hoped to get as much silver as frost and snow, so they renamed it Baishuang City.And the rich mineral resources did make the gold people rich.

They quickly established the present state of Jin, and its national strength is growing day by day, with the potential to rival the Great Song Dynasty.

As far as Aqisi knew, Ye Fei and Zhou Shang sneaked into the enemy's rear this time, in addition to spying on the situation of the Jin army, they also shouldered the important task of "doing everything possible to disrupt the rear of the Jin army".

From this point of view, it seems that the Great Song Dynasty did not want to go to war with the Kingdom of Jin, at least not in the short term.

When recalling this, Wei Shu immediately made the above inference, and then listed several possibilities for not wanting to go to war:

The treasury is empty; there are other voices in the court; the emperor is worried and has the intention of fighting; the army does not listen to dispatch.

It has only been two years since Jingchu, and the new emperor has not been on the throne for a long time, presumably everything has not been straightened out.Those courtiers have no other skills, but they are all superb in their methods of pushing each other and denying each other. If the emperor can't find a way to restrain them, they can turn the sky against you.

Wei Shu also experienced the three dynasties personally, and she knew all kinds of difficulties faced by the new emperor's ascension to the throne, just like she had spent a lot of effort back then to straighten out the court.

It's a pity that Akis doesn't know much about the country's affairs, even if Zhou and Ye know, it's unlikely that they will tell her, so Wei Shu can only make wild guesses.

In addition to the above, Akis also remembered one thing, that is, Ye and Zhou Zhou did not fight alone, but had other helpers.

In the hands of this gang are not only slaves of the Song Dynasty who have been persuaded like Aqisi and Po Jun, but also "spies" of the Song Dynasty who are lurking in Baishuang City (Note).

Wei Shu herself has never heard of the so-called "spy", but Akis knows it quite well, so Wei Shu also knows:
A spy is a secret agent who sneaks into the enemy and pretends to be one of them. Some highly skilled spies can even lie in wait for several years without being exposed.

These spies in Baishuang City are the main force of this operation.However, their identities were very concealed, and Akis had never met any of them (except for the dead Po Jun), and neither Ye nor Tuesday had disclosed any information about this.

Finally, it is no longer a blind man guessing wildly like an elephant, and the identity of the Zhongyuan people has been confirmed, and there is also a righteous deed to help the motherland. Wei Shu's pent-up breath is finally relieved.

Thinking back now, when they fought against Gouba yesterday, the two had been talking in the Central Plains dialect, which also prevented Wei Shu from clarifying the situation in the first place, but almost missed a big deal.

Note: The word "spy" existed in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In "Shi Shuo Xin Yu Rong Zhi", there is a paragraph "After finishing, let the spies ask: 'How is the king of Wei'", which shows that the word "spy" and the professionals engaged in spying on the opponent's intelligence appeared at that time. The meaning and usage are consistent with modern times.

Note: The above content is excerpted from "Ancient Chinese Dictionary".

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