When Gao Jianli personally untied the iron ring on the homing pigeon's foot, took out the note inside, and read the content on the note, his hands couldn't help but began to tremble, and he couldn't help but muttered, "It's probably this Chen Xiaomu who did it again!"
The first time Gao Jianli knew Chen Xiaomu's name was when Su Xingran went to Chen State to rescue soldiers in the name of getting married more than a month ago. According to a senior official of Chen State who was bribed by their intelligence personnel, Chen Emperor Chen Ruchang wanted to get rid of Zheng Guo's This burden actually hid the sixth prince Chen Hong, who was engaged to the Princess of Zheng, and then got an uncle who did not love his grandma, who was said to be Chen Ruchang's illegitimate son Chen Xiaomu, to be the scapegoat.
At that time, Gao Jianli lamented the harshness of human relationships in the world and the difficulty of survival in these small countries. Later, on his way back, according to an insider report from Zheng Guo's army, Su Xingran seemed to have discovered that the person he was marrying was not the real six of Chen Guo. The prince Chen Hong even forced Chen Xiaomu to write a letter of termination of the engagement!
At first, when Qin's intelligence officers brought these tidbits to him in front of him, Gao Jianli severely reprimanded him. He thought that Qin's spies actually used Qin's manpower and material resources. To waste time on a person who is almost a fool and show him these jokes that only ordinary people can watch after dinner is simply a disguised dereliction of duty!
Since then, no one dared to mention Chen Xiaomu's name in any information about the Chu-Zheng war reported by Qin's spies, until he heard that his junior brother Meng Da was killed outside Tianquan County. His eyes widened in shock. He had once been extremely confident that with his junior brother Meng Da's unparalleled martial arts and a Qingyun sword in his hand, the only person in the world who could defeat his junior brother Meng Da was Gao Jianli. But the reality is that his junior brother was killed by one move and his body was completely gone. When he asked who could kill his junior brother so tragically with just one move, no one among his subordinates dared to say anything!
Finally, under his stern questioning, one of his subordinates had the courage to say the name Chen Xiaomu, which he felt was a waste of time!
Gao Jianli immediately thought that his subordinates had made a mistake, and scolded his subordinates again, asking him to verify and report back to him.
Until Chen Xiaomu bombed the Chu army Guo Huai's camp with explosives and killed Guo Huai directly in the camp. Then he used more than a thousand troops to attack Guo Huai's camp with 200,000 Chu troops. Finally, he joined the city The defenders in the camp killed two hundred thousand Chu troops in the camp.
The impact of this battle in which more than a thousand people dared to attack 200,000 people was really too great. The difference in strength between the two sides was two hundred times, and no one dared to fight like this. It was really unheard of, and it caused great shock to the courts of various countries. However, there are no high-ranking officials in various countries who attach such great importance to the role of intelligence as Gao Jianli. They do not have enough manpower and material support behind the spies they send out, let alone bribes and assassinations of senior officials from various countries. As for the deeper things they can collect, Most of the information is from the public affairs of various countries, and even some hearsay and folklore can be used as information and reported!
When the various scouts and spies sent out by his men all pointed to the same person, Chen Xiaomu, Gao Jianli woke up from a dream and secretly slapped himself twice, hating that he had been fooled by Chen Xiaomu's false appearance from beginning to end. Confused, it turns out that this guy has been pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. Then he ordered the Yushitai (the agency in charge of the two intelligence assassination departments of Eagle Eye and Talon) Yu Zhen to collect all the information about Chen Xiaomu and directly It is put into his hands and cannot be passed on to a third person in the process.
Holding the note untied from the homing pigeon's foot, Gao Jianli walked back and forth in the room like a trapped animal for more than two hours with a sullen expression. When he took his junior brother Meng Da to defect to Qin, he planned with the Qin Emperor Martial Arts He set a twenty-year goal, which is to strive to unify the sixteen countries in the world within twenty years. After he easily destroyed the three medium and large countries around Qin, Qi Chu also followed suit and destroyed the State of E and the State of Lu. After three countries, there will be only ten countries in the world, so he is even more complacent, and even thinks that it will not take twenty years at all, but only fifteen years to almost complete the great cause of unification.
Now that Chen Xiaomu suddenly appeared out of the sky, he felt unprecedented pressure and threat, especially since he also held a powerful weapon called dynamite in his hand. After much consideration, Gao Jianli decided to go to the palace to face the saint and report it. Let the emperor know about martial arts so that he can be mentally prepared.
Martial Arts had long been accustomed to Prime Minister Gao Jianli's sudden visit, and Queen Lu Yan, who was dining with him, did not shy away. Instead, she smiled and asked the deacon and eunuch to bring another pair of bowls and chopsticks for Gao Jianli to eat with them.
Gao Jianli quickly declined, "Thank you, Queen, I have already had lunch."
Wu Dao looked at him and smiled: "What? The Queen is not proud enough? Do I have to speak?"
"Your Majesty, I have really finished lunch!" Gao Jianli made another comment to Martial Arts.
"Looking at how anxious you are and you haven't even had lunch, do you still want to commit the crime of deceiving the emperor?" Wu Dao said jokingly.
"In this case, I would be disrespectful to you." Gao Jianli stopped being polite and sat down on the stool brought by the deacon and eunuch in the palace.
"We agreed, let's eat first, it's a big deal! We'll talk about it after we finish eating." Wu Dao said while using chopsticks to take a large piece of snack from the plate on the table and put it into the bowl in front of Gao Jianli, "Try this, This is a new trick created by the imperial dining room, and I thought it was good after eating it."
The monarch and his subjects finished their lunch quickly, and the deacon and eunuch brought some silk handkerchiefs soaked in warm water and several bowls of mouthwash.
After rinsing and wiping his mouth, Gao Jianli followed Wu Dao to the imperial study. As soon as Wu Dao entered, he reclined on the dragon chair, turned his back to the sky, stretched out his limbs, and looked very comfortable and enjoying himself.
"Your Majesty, look at this." Gao Jianli handed over the note that was untied from the carrier pigeon's leg. Wu Dao reached out and took it, but when he read the content on the note, he jumped out of the dragon chair with a "pop" sound. He sat up and looked at Gao Jianli in shock! ''My dear, I think this note brought back by the carrier pigeon is very suspicious. Was it switched by someone on the road? "
Gao Jianli shook his head gently, "Your Majesty, at first I thought this note was caught and exchanged by a carrier pigeon on its way back, but now I don't think so, because there is a person involved here? He has the ability to put it This time, we will completely turn around the battle that Zheng Guo has no chance of winning."
"Oh" Wu Dao stared at Gao Jianli intently, "Can this person be more powerful than you?"
Gao Jianli shook his head, "I've never seen this man, but at least he dares to fight, and I wouldn't dare to fight him!"
"Who is this person?" Wu Dao suddenly stood up from the dragon chair.
"Your Majesty, before I talk about this person, I would like to ask Your Majesty to forgive me for my crime of dereliction of duty!" Gao Jianli knelt down in front of Martial Arts with a "pass".
Wu Dao stretched out his hand to hold Gao Jianli, "My dear, everyone makes unintentional mistakes. What's your fault?"
"No, Your Majesty, I have really neglected my duty this time!" Gao Jianli looked very stubborn.
"Then tell me first who this person is?" Wu Dao looked at Gao Jianli with gentle eyes.
"This man is the illegitimate son of Emperor Chen Ruchang who still refuses to acknowledge him. His name is Chen Xiaomu!"
"What, Chen Ruchang has an illegitimate child?" Wu Dao asked in surprise.
"Yes, this Chen Xiaomu is indeed Chen Ruchang's illegitimate son." Gao Jianli began to tell the martial arts about the information about Chen Xiaomu that Yu Shitai Yu Zhen had collected for him, including the fact that Chen Ruchang had a sudden asthma attack while hunting and ate After taking Lin Zhenren's elixir, although the disease was cured, it also caused the yang energy to flourish, so he found a village girl nearby to vent his anger. This village girl was Chen Xiaomu's current biological mother Mei Yunniang. Later, Chen Ruchang I really didn't like this village girl, but I was afraid of being left among the people and causing gossip for me, so I reluctantly took her back to the palace and ignored her, leaving her to fend for herself. However, this village girl's vitality was too strong, not only for Chen Ruchang gave birth to a son, who is still living well in the home of Zhao Gang, the Prime Minister of the State of Chen. "
"But what's strange is that Chen Ruchang hid the village girl who was about to give birth in Zhao Gang's house in order to hide her from others. Even the name of the child born by the village girl was given by Zhao Gang. It is said that the child has been named "Zhao Gang" since he was born. Like a fool, Zhao Gang named him Mei Xiaomu accordingly. A few days ago, Chen Ruchang changed his name to Chen Xiaomu in order to make him a scapegoat. After exchanging marriage certificates with Princess Su Xingran of Zheng State, on the way to Zheng State He was forced by Su Xingran to break off an engagement once, but in the days that followed, Chen Xiaomu became incomprehensible. First, he killed my junior brother Meng Da with just one move, and then he invented a weapon called dynamite. Gewu was used to attack the Chu army's camp and kill the Chu army general Guo Huai on the spot. He then used only a thousand men and horses to attack the camp with 200,000 Chu troops stationed there. In the end, he was allowed to win. This time it is estimated that another Did you use explosives to blow up the Daling River embankment and drown more than 300,000 Chu officers and soldiers?"
"How can this kind of object called dynamite have so much energy? Can such a hard Daling River Embankment blow up a big gap in one go?" Martial Dao was a little doubtful.
"There should be this kind of energy. According to the people they met, it's only such a small packet!" Gao Jianli said, gesturing with his hands in front of the martial arts, "I lit it with a fire stick and threw it out, and then I saw a bright light. With a huge sound like thunder, everyone within a hundred feet was either dead or injured!"
Martial Arts was listening to Gao Jianli's explanation in the imperial study and pacing slowly. Chen Xiaomu and the object of explosives were deeply imprinted in his mind. He walked to a hand-drawn map hanging on the wall of the study and turned around. Waving to Gao Jianli, Gao Jianli quickly followed. Wu Dao pointed to the map on the wall and said to Gao Jianli: "Ai Qing, this is the map of Zheng State in the current ten kingdoms map that I asked people to draw. Do you think that based on this? Can the Zheng Kingdom's remaining troops and horses be able to restore the country?"
"Yes, as long as Chen Xiaomu stays in the Zheng army, it will definitely be possible." Gao Jianli nodded with certainty.
"If you were Chen Xiaomu, where would you attack next?" Wu Dao stopped looking at the map and turned to look at Gao Jianli.
Gao Jianli pondered for a moment, walked to the map, and just stretched out his hand, ready to point to a certain place on the map, when Wu Dao picked up a piece of white paper on the desk and handed it to him, smiling: "Why don't we, the emperor and the ministers, write on the paper separately? Let’s see if our assumptions are the same.”
Gao Jianli took the white paper handed over by Wu Dao, and he and Wu Dao lay at both ends of the desk and started writing with brushes. After a while, the two of them folded the white paper with the words written on it and held it in their hands. With Wu Dao's "open" two words The people unfolded the white paper in their hands at the same time, and the three big black characters "Xinyangguan" suddenly appeared on the two white papers at the same time!
