Will Ming

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"There are people in the court who are good at doing things. This sentence is very reasonable."

Ye Huaixiu sat down on a smooth boulder beside the water, looked at the boundless water and said softly: "Secret spies should not be limited to the banks of the Yellow River or the green forest roads, we should deal with matters in the court." It’s not good to know very little. If we can buy one or two high-profile officials in the court, it is best to be an official from the Ministry of War or someone who can see the emperor often. In this way, if the court raises troops, we can Know one step ahead, and know yourself and the enemy before you can win a hundred battles."

"This is not something that can be done in a short while."

Li Xian sighed.

Ye Huaixiu smiled and said: "Bringing officials is really not something that can be done in a short while. It needs to start with the people around the officials bit by bit. It is quite troublesome, but it has to be done. But if it is It might be easier to buy someone who can see the emperor often..."

Ye Huaixiu glanced at Li Xian, but didn't continue.

"A person who often sees the emperor?"

Li Xian frowned slightly, suddenly realized: "Eunuch!"

Ye Huaixiu nodded and said: "That's right, those eunuchs in the palace are all greedy for money. If people like them want to have a stable life for the rest of their lives, they must have money in their hands. Or buy a Children or someone in the family is willing to adopt, so that they can rely on them in old age, but it is absolutely impossible if they have no money. And their salaries are pitifully low, it is much easier to work on them."

Li Xian said: "That being said, it seems that it is not an easy task to enter the palace and deal with those eunuchs."

"It's hard to go anywhere."

Ye Huaixiu smiled and said, "Who told you that eunuchs are not allowed to leave the palace?"

Li Xian was stunned: "Isn't that so?"

Ye Huaixiu gave Li Xian a blank look and said, "Although Emperor Gaozu of the Sui Dynasty strictly ordered eunuchs not to interfere in politics, these people did not participate in government affairs, but they were the ones who knew the most secrets the fastest. They have no power or power. There are people like Wen Jie everywhere? Wen Jie is just a special case, most eunuchs have no status, plus the salary is low, and the background is not good, if someone is willing to spend money to buy their news, they will not let it go Don't want to get rich. Besides, eunuchs can go out of the palace, they have menstruation."

Hearing the word "period holiday", Li Xian's heart was shocked, and he thought how familiar this term is, how could it be used on eunuchs?

"Uh...that is to say, as long as you find out the menstrual holidays of the eunuchs serving the emperor, it's not difficult to get news from them."

After Li Xian summed it up, he found that it was really awkward for him to use this word.

"So it's not difficult to buy news, the difficulty lies in money."

Ye Huaixiu glanced at Li Xian, and asked with a smile: "From today onwards, maybe you will spend a lot of money outside. If a secret spy wants to hear the news, he must have an identity, and this identity also needs money to buy it." .Without money, you can’t support Tiger Secret Spy at all! General Yanyunzhai, are you ready to spend money like water?”

Li Xian's face darkened, and he said embarrassingly, "How much do you need?"

Ye Huaixiu spread his hands and said, "I don't care about that, it's up to you, General."

Now that the topic has come to this point, no matter how much Li Xian loves money, he can't be an iron cock. He knows that Ye Huaixiu is right. If he wants to really understand the trend of the court, he must spend a lot of money to buy news, but he But he is still a person who loves his talent, and he is really reluctant to spend a lot of money in his pocket, except for the expenses needed to equip the army.So his expression is very tangled, and the two tangled eyebrows are almost mixed together.

"No guts!"

Ye Huaixiu looked at Li Xian's face with contempt.

Li Xian wondered: "Money is not the key issue, the key is that I have no money now."

"The 20 guan of silver blackmailed from those wealthy households in Liyang was allotted to Zhu Yishi, but he said that this amount of money was a drop in the bucket for building a naval army. He and Chen Que'er came to me last night. It is said that to build a five-toothed ship, at least 50 guan is needed, where did I get so much money!"

He shrugged his shoulders and said: "It's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice. I made a small fortune when I came back from Liaodong, but the military salary has been paid almost the same in recent years."

"stupid!"

Ye Huaixiu glared at Li Xian: "Do you really think of yourself as an officer now? Even if you are an officer, what you do is like a bandit, or even worse than a bandit. Officers and soldiers can rob money, food, and women. , won't you go grab it?"

Li Xian said solemnly: "There is a bottom line in being a human being, and I can't do anything that harms the people no matter what."

"Who told you to harm the people?"

Ye Huaixiu stared at Li Xian with hatred and said, "You can go and harm those rich households? A while ago, Lu Mingxing attacked Dongjun, and the rich households in Dongjun gathered millions of dollars to give to them in order to buy peace." Lu Mingxing, the one who gave Lu Mingxing this idea is that Pushan Gong Li Mi, who not only made money but also earned a good reputation of robbing the rich and helping the poor, why not do it?"

"As for whether the wealth gained from robbery has been used to help the poor, who knows?"

Li Xian thought for a while and said, "You mean, you can't let the people of the Five Elements camp be so idle?"

Ye Huaixiu nodded vigorously and said, "What did you say last time? Beat local tyrants and divide the land!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, no matter how they looked, they looked like a pair of foxes.

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After returning to his residence, Li Xian drank a teapot of herbal tea in one gulp, and his throat felt better. Before discussing how to get rich with Ye Huaixiu, the two of them talked more and more excitedly, so that their mouths became parched.Only now did Li Xian realize that if a woman plots something or a person, it is far more terrifying than a man.From the point of view of ordinary people, if a man has a grudge against another man, he will usually choose the most direct method to solve it. For a small grudge, find a friend to beat him up together. For a big grudge, you end up with a sharp knife. .If a woman hates a man, I'm afraid it's not that simple.

Li Xian shuddered at the thought of Ye Huaixiu's expression full of ideas.

Never offend women, this is the conclusion Li Xian and Ye Huaixiu came to after a long conversation.

He walked to the table and sat down, staring at the two things on the table in a daze.

These two things mean a lot, at least to Li Xian and another person.

Li Xian had a deep impression on these two things when he was on Mount Yan back then, and after listening to Ye Huaixiu's description of the battle between Ye Huaixiu and Wen Jie by the Yishui River, he also had a further understanding of the role of these two things learn.These are the two sharp weapons around Wen Jie, and they are carried on the bodies of his two most trusted female disciples.In the battle of Yishui, Xiong Kuohai's sneak attack successfully injured Wen Jie seriously, and these two things were left behind before they could be taken away, so they naturally fell into Li Xian's hands.

a big iron gun

a big black umbrella

The iron spear is more than two feet long. When not in use, it can be disassembled and divided into two sections. Each section is about one foot long. long knife.In fact, after all, the knife is the key point.Li Xian is still interested in Wen Jie's long knife, and wants to know what it is made of.

When the two fought against each other, it's not that Li Xian never thought about using the black knife to gain an advantage. He originally wanted to use the black knife's hardness and sharpness to cut off the long knife in Wen Jie's hand, but unfortunately he failed.The knife in Wen Jie's hand can be compared with the black knife, and no one can do anything when the two knives collide.

Under the big tree, how violent and violent is the stick of the majestic Kuo Hai who has been preparing for a long time?

Wen Jie blocked Xiong Kuohai's inevitable blow with his saber, but such violent force failed to break the long saber, and then Wen Jie used the long saber that changed shape to force Li Xian back , Until he couldn't hold on and fell to the ground, he didn't let go of his hand, and the long knife was still in his hand.

Thinking of the situation that day, Li Xian frowned slightly.

He picked up the end of the iron gun, turned it around and looked at the tail.The barrel of the gun is hollow, but very narrow, and has a mechanism at the end, which can hold a long knife.

After looking at it, there was nothing surprising, Li Xian put down the iron gun and picked up the big black umbrella.

It is very heavy to start with. This is not the first time for Li Xian to think about this black umbrella. Every time he looks at it, he can't help but think of Qing Yuan's delicate figure, and he doesn't know that she is such a delicate and frail girl. Don't you feel tired carrying such a heavy black umbrella?

"I lost my black umbrella, my iron gun, and half my life."

Li Xian murmured: "I'm afraid you will be very depressed?"

He looked at the black umbrella and suddenly remembered something.

Picking up the iron gun and the black umbrella, he went out again to look for Ye Huaishu.During this period of time, he was only busy with the navy and flying tiger secret agents, coupled with the daily practice of constant wind and rain, Li Xian had forgotten Ye Huaishu's reputation for making weapons that are unparalleled in the world.Now that she is there, she might be able to see what the big black umbrella is made of and what flaws it has.

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In October of the ninth year of Daye, General Feng Xiaoci of Youhouwei received a transfer order from the imperial court.Banditry was rampant in Juyeze in Dongping County, and His Majesty ordered him to lead the soldiers of Youhouwei to suppress the rebellion.At the same time as receiving His Majesty's order and the dispatch order from the Ministry of War, there was also a personal letter from Pei Ju, the servant of Huangmen. After reading it, Feng Xiaoci sat alone in the study for a long time.He didn't stand up until there was no drop of old wine in the flagon, until the new tea on the table had completely cooled down, and sighed while looking at the waning moon outside the window.

Speaking of which, this is the first time that the imperial court mobilized a group of government soldiers to exterminate a certain group of rebels in Lulin Road.Whether it's Yang Yichen, who is the governor of the six counties to suppress bandits, or Zhang Xutuo, the governor of Qi County, their men and horses are all county soldiers.His Majesty personally decreed to mobilize a guard army to suppress the bandits.