''Get the sword! "The eunuch on duty was shocked when he heard the sound, but he quickly turned around and took out the green blood sword that Xiao Yan usually carried with him. Xiao Yan took the green blood sword and said "canglang", pulled out the sword blade, and then swung the sword. "Kacha" cut off a corner of the dragon case and roared: "From today on, Qi and Zheng are at odds with each other. Anyone who dares to propose peace with Zheng will end up like this table. "
At the same time, the letter from the Flying Pigeon of Risheng Qianzhuang in Jin State was in the hands of the third prince Ji Shang. After reading the contents of the note, he immediately sent someone to find his sister, the eldest princess Ji Jiang. , because Chai Yugui, the big shopkeeper at Zheng Guo's branch, was hired by her, and Lu Jishang didn't know the identity of this person at all. At first, because of his trust in his sister, he didn't ask in detail, but now such a big deal has happened. I don't know how she will explain it.
Soon the eldest princess Ji Jiang and the people sent to look for her came to Prince Kang's mansion of the third prince Ji Shang. When they entered the door, they didn't have time to say hello, so they asked right away: "Third brother, I heard that the people you sent there said that you have an urgent need." You came to me, what happened?"
Without saying a word, Ji Shang handed over the note in his hand. Ji Jiang took it and took a look, with a look of disbelief on his face. He asked in surprise: "Third brother, this letter says that Chai Yugui not only transferred hundreds of dollars from the bank privately, but With ten thousand taels of silver, he also killed the first gentleman and the second gentleman in the bank's accounting room, and took away more than two million taels of large silver notes! I'm afraid this is not something he can do alone, right?"
Ji Shang pondered and said: "Sister Huang, this letter is written by Mr. Zeng Guang, the third accountant of the bank. I don't know the details, but for the sake of safety, I propose to notify you immediately by passing the letter by flying pigeon." Starting from today, all branches of Risheng Money Bank will stop accepting large-value banknotes printed by our bank. What do you think?"
Ji Jiang nodded, "It's exactly what I want."
Ji Shang then said: "Sister Huang, I want to go and see my father and ask him to write me a letter and bring it to Emperor Zheng, asking him to send someone to investigate the case thoroughly and recover the people who were transferred privately by Chai Yugui. Four and a half million taels of silver."
"Third brother, are you going to Zheng State?" Ji Jiang said in surprise.
Ji Shang said worriedly: "I can't worry about leaving such a big thing to Zheng Guo's semicolon to be handled by others."
Ji Jiang was startled and said: "Third brother, I will go with you to see my father and ask my father to allow me to go to Zheng with you."
When Ji Shang heard this, he immediately advised: "Sister Huang, I can handle the affairs of Zheng Guo's branch, and you can stay in the main office to handle the daily affairs of the bank. Don't you still trust me, third brother?"
Ji Jiang shook his head, "No, I must go, because I recruited Chai Yugui to Risheng Money Manor and appointed him to be the chief shopkeeper of Zheng Guo branch. Now that he has done these things, I must go." Deal with the aftermath.”
"Sister Huang, who is this Chai Yugui?" Ji Shang took the opportunity to ask what he had been holding back for a long time.
"This..." Ji Jiang hesitated and said rather embarrassedly: "Third brother, Chai Yugui is actually Sun Lun's cousin. When I come out from my father's place later, I will go find Sun Lun and ask him clearly." . "
"Oh...!" Ji Shang suddenly realized, and thought to himself: "No wonder the imperial sister never mentioned Chai Yugui's identity. It turns out that he is the cousin of the mighty general Sun Lun who is about to become the consort."
When Jin Emperor Ji Chongzhi was in the royal study, he saw the eunuch on duty leading the third prince Ji Shang and Princess Anping Ji Jiang to come to him. He quickly waved to them and said with a smile: "Shang'er, Jiang'er, I'm getting ready. I sent someone to look for you two, but I didn’t expect you two to come first!”
After the siblings bowed to Ji Chongzhi respectively, Ji Shang took the lead and said, "I wonder what my father plans to do with Chen'er and the emperor's sister?"
Ji Chongzhi picked up a piece of paper on the desk, handed it over, and said, "You two should take a look at this first before talking."
Ji Shang quickly stretched out his hand to take it and saw that it was the thin paper used by Fei Ge to pass letters. He saw it written on it. It is reported that Zheng Jun will hold a meeting on the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month in Mangdang Mountain outside Xinjing City, beside the Black Dragon Pond. New artillery live fire drill. If you need any action, please kindly ask for your advice.
After reading it, Ji Shang handed it to the imperial sister Ji Jiang, but he said in confusion: "Father, please forgive me for being ignorant. I only know that the current army is mainly responsible for fighting: infantry, cavalry, chariots, bows, crossbows and other arms. , this is the first time I have heard of the artillery mentioned in this note. I don’t know what role this unit can play in combat! As far as I know, Qi State has gathered heavy troops on the border with Zheng State. There seems to be a plan to attack Zheng in the near future. Could it be a trick devised by the King of Zheng to intimidate the people of Qi?"
Ji Chongzhi stroked his beard and nodded slightly: "My son is right, but as far as my father knows, a few days ago, the Chu State attacked the Zheng State. At the beginning, the Zheng State was defeated by the Chu State. Even Xinjing, the capital of Zheng State, was captured by the Chu army. In the end, only Tianquan County was left in the whole country. Fortunately, during this period, Zheng State's consort made an object called dynamite. It was said that this object produced explosives. The sound is as loud as rolling thunder. After the loud noise, dozens to hundreds of soldiers will fall to the ground and die, which is very powerful. Zheng Jun relied on this thing to counterattack from Tianquan County to the capital of Chu State. Under Yecheng, they forced Chu Emperor Xiong Ze to sign an agreement under the city. My father estimated that the so-called artillery drill of Zheng State must be related to this object, so I came to you this time because I wanted to send you to Zheng State. In the name of inspecting Risheng Qianzhuang, we must try to obtain the formula of this product at any cost, otherwise, once the formula of this product is taken away by other countries, we in Jin State may become meat on someone else's chopping block!"
"Oh, by the way, Father, I am here to see you this time because I am going to the Kingdom of Zheng." With that said, Ji Shang took out the note he had just received from his sleeves and held it to Ji Shang with both hands. Chongzhi.
After reading the content on the note, Ji Chongzhi pondered for a while, and then said quietly: "This matter is probably done by Qi Guo's Xiaoqi Guards!"
Ji Jiang was shocked when he heard this and said hurriedly: "Father, if you say so, wouldn't your consort Sun Lun also become a spy of Qi State?"
"Oh, why is this?" Ji Chengzhi was shocked when he heard this.
Ji Jiang glanced at Ji Shang guiltily, and said, "Father, Chai Yugui, who the third brother just said was secretly transferring millions of taels of silver, is Sun Lun's cousin."
Ji Chongzhi's face suddenly became serious, and he asked in a deep voice: "Did Sun Lun introduce his cousin to you?"
Ji Jiangbeiqi bit her lips and nodded gently.
Ji Chongzhi stood up and walked slowly back and forth in the imperial study room, then ordered: "This matter must not be spread outside, I have my own plan."
"Father!" Ji Jiang summoned up the courage to shout.
''Well, what's wrong? "Although Ji Chongzhi's tone was gentle, his eyes were very sharp as he looked at Ji Jiang.
Ji Jiang hurriedly lowered her head, not daring to look at her father, and muttered: "I beg your father, if you really find out that Sun Lun did something wrong, please spare his life."
Ji Chongzhi flicked his sleeves and said angrily: "If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place? He brought it upon himself."
Ji Jiang trembled slightly and begged: "Father, Sun Lun is most likely deceived by his cousin to make such a big mistake!"
Ji Chongzhi waved his hand and said, "Princess Anping, there is no need to say more. I will investigate this matter and I will find a way to deal with it. Now I am sending you and King Kang as envoys to the State of Zheng, and then transferred to the State of Qi to participate in the civil and military conference. During this period, you are not allowed to Return home privately.”
"Father, I'm begging you!" Ji Jiang knelt down with a plop and threw his whole body at Ji Chongzhi's feet.
Ji Chongzhi glanced at her, let out a soft "hum" from his nose, then walked back to the desk and sat down, rolled up his sleeves, picked up the brush and licked it in the inkstone, and then put it on a stack of white paper that had been placed. I started writing, stopping from time to time to think, and then continue writing. It took about a moment to write it, and then he casually took the jade seal lying next to it and covered it, carefully folded it and put it into an envelope, and then carefully sealed it with fire paint. Then he slowly said to Ji Jiang who was kneeling on the ground. He said slowly: "Get up, my father promises you to save Sun Lun's life."
When Ji Jiang heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He shed tears of gratitude and kowtowed repeatedly: "I would like to express my gratitude to Sun Lun for not killing him."
Ji Chongzhi ignored her, turned around and waved to Ji Shang, handed him the envelope in his hand, and told him: "You must hand this letter to Emperor Zheng personally."
"Yes, I will definitely do it." Ji Shang bowed and took the envelope with both hands. Ji Chongzhi thought for a while and then said: "If Emperor Zheng can agree to share the explosive formula with us, our country will send troops to fight with them against Qi."
''ah! Father, is this price too high? Not to mention anything else, Qi's 20,000 Tengjia Army alone would be difficult to deal with! "When Ji Shang heard this, his hand shook and the envelope in his hand almost fell to the ground in shock.
Ji Chongzhi waved his hand and said calmly: "It doesn't matter. According to my father's speculation, in the future, on the battlefield, the vine armored army, silver armored army, black armored army and so on, including the so-called Tatar soldiers who can't defeat more than ten thousand, can't be defeated by more than ten thousand." All the Tatar cavalry on the grassland will be defeated by this explosive."
Ji Shang shook his head, "Father, please forgive me for speaking frankly. Although I have never seen the so-called power of explosives with my own eyes, I am afraid that most of them are based on rumors. As far as I know, the prince-in-law of Zheng Guo made the explosives." , his true identity is the sixth prince of the Chen State. Father, please imagine that the Chen State is currently being attacked by the allied forces of the Wu State and the Zhou State. Ship it to Chen’s army?”
Ji Chongzhi nodded thoughtfully, "Well, what I said makes sense, but if it weren't for the help of explosives, how could the Prince Consort of Zheng be able to defeat the Chu army? How should we explain this?"
Ji Shang smiled slightly, "Father, in fact, what really helped Zheng Guo win was not this object called explosives, but the water in the Daling River outside Tianquan City. I heard that the Zheng Guo's consort used the Daling River and Tianquan to Due to the height difference between the counties, we sent people to secretly dig the river dam at night, and released water to flood the hundreds of thousands of Chu troops who were besieging the city!"
"Well, well, I know this." Ji Chongzhi nodded and praised: "Speaking of which, this prince-in-law of Zheng is smart enough. He deceived Xiong Ze's hundreds of thousands of troops, including the shocking Tens of thousands of black-armored troops!”
"Father, look, isn't this easy to explain!" Ji Jiang said proudly: "At the place where Chen State and Wu and Zhou allied forces are fighting, there is no more Daling River water available, so this object called explosives, even if it is Once it’s shipped, it probably won’t be of much use.”
"Haha" Ji Chongzhi couldn't help but clasped his hands and laughed when he heard this: "My son's analysis is reasonable. He can actually see the whole thing at a glance. He is really very smart. It seems that I have thought too much about this object called explosives!"
