Chapter 2784: Intelligence war behind enemy lines, Guo Jia’s worries
The waiter glanced at Fei Bin and said calmly: "Wei's counter-espionage efforts have been very strong recently. People from the Imperial City Division and Dongchang have also entered Mount Tai. You should be careful. I won't protect you if something happens." .”
"My subordinate understands."
Fei Bin said with great respect, not only because the other party was his superior, but also because the other party's strength was far above his own.
No one would have thought that the waiter in an ordinary inn at the foot of Mount Tai would be the once world-famous Xiaoyao Sword Immortal, a half-step master in the realm of Grand Master, Li Xiaoyao.
Great Qin's intelligence network in the Central Plains had been established as early as the war between the princes. During the period of good relations between Qin and Wei, it was expanded through caravans, and it reached its peak during the three-year training period.
Nowadays, every county in the Central Plains has at least one Black Ice Platform base, with intelligence personnel ranging from one hundred to five hundred.
On the surface, the number of people is not large, but it is spread across the entire Central Plains region, and the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains have a total of twenty-four counties.
If the Black Ice Platform were to be unified, there would be nearly 30,000 people, but most of them are intelligence personnel, so they do not have much combat effectiveness. But in terms of intelligence collection capabilities, they are even among Wei Songming's own intelligence organizations. superior.
It is precisely because of such a huge intelligence network that Daqin Heibingtai was able to kidnap King Zhu Tianpeng of Qi in a fair and just manner within the territory of Qi.
Among the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming, Wei was the most severely penetrated by the Black Ice Platform due to its previous reliance on Qin, followed by Song and Ming.
Cao Cao also knew how serious Qin's infiltration into Wei was, so he didn't care. He instead used his relatives and cronies to seize military power, and then used the army to control Wei.
It's not that Cao Cao never thought about cleaning up the spies within, but firstly, there was not enough time. Secondly, there was collusion between officials and businessmen to cover up each other. Thirdly, the involvement was too wide and it was difficult to distinguish the true from the false.
If there is no absolute evidence and all those suspected are imprisoned, then riots will immediately break out within the Wei State, and it may even collapse on its own. How can it still resist the menacing Qin army?
Therefore, the mighty counter-espionage operation led by Cao Cao, ordered by Xun You, ended in failure. He didn't even touch the tiger's butt, and only swatted some useless flies to death.
Since then, the State of Wei has become the back garden of Heibingtai. The agents of Heibingtai can basically come and go as they please. The power of Wei State's school affairs office alone cannot fight against Heibingtai, and even You have to worry about being betrayed by your own people.
On the frontal battlefield, the Wei State, which was on the defensive side, could barely compete with Da Qin.
But in the intelligence war, Wei Guo lost miserably. The school affairs office was no match for Hei Bingtai.
The black ice platform on the battlefield behind the enemy, combined with the Qin army on the front battlefield, made the Qin army invincible. In just one month after the war started, the three lines of defense of Cao and Wei were about to collapse, and the Wei state was on the verge of annihilation.
The existence of the Black Ice Platform has affected the war ahead, and Cao Cao really has no choice but to take advantage of the Black Ice Platform. As a last resort, he can only ask the Imperial City Secretary of the Song Dynasty and the East Factory of the Ming Dynasty to help Wei fight against the arrogant Black Ice. tower.
The School Affairs Office of the State of Wei, the Imperial City Department of the State of Song, and the East Factory of the Ming State are known as the three major intelligence organizations in the Central Plains. Although their comprehensive strength is far inferior to that of Heibingtai, they are only larger than those of Shu Han and Li Tang. Difference.
In the past, there were many various organizations in the Central Plains, but before they had time to develop and grow, they were either destroyed in the flames of war or annexed by the three major organizations in the merger wars and the Central Plains War.
The three major intelligence organizations, the School Affairs Bureau, the Imperial City Division, and the East Factory, have grown up on the corpses of countless organizations. Their combat power and resilience have been tested by war, so they will not be weak.
No single organization can compete with Black Ice Platform, but now that the three major organizations have joined forces and have local advantages, even Black Ice Platform needs to stay away from the edge for a while.
This is also the main reason why Li Xiaoyao asked Fei Bin to be careful.
After Fei Bin left, Li Xiaoyao looked at the top of Mount Tai and sighed: "Master, you are wrong, and you are very wrong. This world is too turbid, and only Great Qin can clean up the world."
Before his death, Shushan Sword Master Dugu Yuyun took Li Xiaoyao as his disciple and passed on his lifelong skills to Li Xiaoyao.
At first, Li Xiaoyao felt that he had taken advantage of it. After all, the great master taught him the skills, which saved him more than ten years of hard training.
It only took Li Xiaoyao five or six years to absorb all Dugu Yuyun's skills, and his skills also broke through from second-rate to half-step master.
Li Xiaoyao's cultivation speed is simply faster than riding a rocket. Even Sun Lingming is far behind, but he can pass on successes as well as failures.
After breaking through to the Half-Step Grandmaster, no matter how hard Li Xiaoyao practiced, his skill did not improve at all, and he has been stuck at the Half-Step Grandmaster until now.
After years of stagnation, Li Xiaoyao realized that there are no shortcuts in martial arts, and the consequence of taking shortcuts is that it takes more time and energy to make up for it.
With Li Xiaoyao's qualifications, even if he practices normally, he can break through the Grand Master on his own, but he took a shortcut and relied on absorbing Dugu Yuyun's skills to break through the Grand Master half a step ahead of schedule.
This also makes his Grand Master bottleneck extra strong, making it more than ten times more difficult to break through than before.
Li Xiaoyao also regretted this in his heart. After all, he could break through to the Grand Master with normal practice, but now he may be stuck at the Half-Step Grand Master for a lifetime. Even if it is the fastest, it will take more than ten years to break through. bottleneck.
Li Xiaoyao is still very young and wants to pursue a higher realm. Naturally, he doesn't want to waste more than ten years or even decades in one realm.
It is precisely because of this that Li Xiaoyao, who yearns for freedom and hates feuds in the world, took the initiative to join Da Qin. He wanted to temper himself through his experience in Da Qin and shorten his Grand Master bottleneck through constant fighting.
Li Xiaoyao first joined the Six Sects, because the Six Sects were responsible for the various sects in the world, and he also had the opportunity to compete with the various sects.
But the strongest person in each sect is only at the master level, and he is a half-step grandmaster who is simply bullying people and has no tempering effect at all, so Li Xiaoyao joined Heibingtai again. , because only on the Black Ice Platform can he get real training.
During his years as a Black Ice Terrace spy, Li Xiaoyao was not only hunted by the Wei, Song, and Ming dynasties, but also had conflicts with the Demon Sect, the Righteous Sect, and even various schools of thought. He killed countless people, including bad guys. , and also killed many good and innocent people.
Li Xiaoyao's original character was somewhat naive, but after years of experience in Heibingtai and witnessing most of the darkness in the world, his character has inevitably changed.
To put it simply, Li Xiaoyao has turned dark, but not completely. He is considered semi-black. Although he still has justice in his heart and yearns for the light, he is no longer naive and has a sinister heart.
If he had just joined Black Ice Platform, Li Xiaoyao would have tried his best to save the lives of every subordinate, but now even if Fei Bin was killed in front of him, he would not blink an eye.
It's not that Li Xiaoyao has become bad, but that after seeing life and death, he already knows how to choose and what true justice is.
In this way, Li Xiaoyao became a sharp blade in the hands of Jia Xu and Guo Jia, and step by step became one of the top leaders of Heibingtai in the Central Plains.
As the general person in charge of Taishan Black Ice Platform, Li Xiaoyao has very high authority. Among the entire Taishan Black Ice Platform secret agents, only he and his deputy can directly contact Guo Jia.
After Li Xiaoyao wrote a handwritten letter, he released the carrier pigeon and said to himself: "Master Guo, there is an undercurrent in Wei State now. Our lives are in your hands. You must hold on."
Li Xiaoyao actually only met Guo Jia once, when Guo Jia took over the Black Ice Platform and Li Xiaoyao returned to Beijing to report on his work, but his sense of Guo Jia was much better than that of Jia Xu.
Jia Xu is a dark and vicious person who uses all possible means, so when he was in charge of Black Ice Platform, Black Ice Platform basically acted in this way, and he often did cruel things like exterminating clans and sects without leaving humans and animals behind.
Li Xiaoyao had met Jia Xu many times, and every time he met, he was nervous and frightened. He was afraid that if he showed dissatisfaction, Jia Xu would doubt him.
Li Xiaoyao actually thinks too much, and there are many people who are dissatisfied with Jia Xu. If he doubts this or that because of this, then he will not be able to take charge of Heibingtai.
As for Guo Jia, Li Xiaoyao's senses are much better. Although Guo Jia looks lazy and undisciplined, his acting style is very vigorous, ruthless but not sinister, and poisonous but has a bottom line. He is much brighter than Jia Xu.
It is precisely for this reason that Li Xiaoyao likes Guo Jia more. After all, working under Guo Jia is much more comfortable than working under Jia Xu.
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Yingchuan, Yangdi.
At this time, there were only 5,000 defenders in Yangdi, and the rest of the troops were taken away by Ying Hao to attack Xuchang. However, Guo Jia did not leave Yangdi because he still had some affairs to deal with.
Yangzhai is more than 500 kilometers away from Mount Tai, a distance of more than a thousand miles. If the message is sent by flying pigeons, the information from Mount Tai can be sent back in just two days.
At this time, Duan Lang, the person in charge of Yingchuan Black Ice Platform, Ren Qianxing, the person in charge of Chenliu, and Linghu Chong, the person in charge of Chenjun, were reporting to Guo Jia, the commander of Black Ice Platform.
As for Duan Lang, Ren Qianxing and Linghu Chong, these three completely unrelated people, and why they joined Heibingtai, these are three other stories.
"Sir, there are thirteen powerful families and three demon sects in Yingchuan. This is their information." Duan Lang said respectfully.
After the Yellow Turbans, the war between princes, and the baptism of the Wei and Ming Dynasties in the Central Plains area, now, except for the Song Kingdom, there are basically no aristocratic families in the Ming Kingdom, and there are only a few in the Wei Kingdom.
Although the Wei and Ming Dynasties lost their powerful families, they still had powerful locals.
Being a powerful person and being a noble family are not the same concepts. Although they are considered one, they are very different.
A powerful person has land, money, and people, and has strong control over the local area.
There are some powerful families, and they also hold the top power. At least three consecutive generations of officials in the family must be at least the level of prefect to be qualified to be rated as a family.
Of course, under the land reform policies of the Wei and Ming Dynasties, the powerful were no longer landlords, but they still had money and people, and they still had strong control over the local area.
Powerful people can help the country control local areas, so Cao Cao and Zhu Dicai both tacitly agreed not to touch them.
The Qin army had just captured Yangdi, and Guo Jia also sent people to appease these powerful people and the Demon Sect to prevent the army from fighting in the front and these people holding them back.
The Qin army was in great power, so these powerful men and sects naturally did not dare to take the lead and promised to abide by the law. However, Guo Jia knew that this was just perfunctory, otherwise they would not dare to let the Qin army advance.
Guo Jia took it from Duan Lang, browsed it at a glance, and then left it alone.
Seeing this, Duan Lang said excitedly: "Sir, the Demon Sect cannot be moved for the time being, but we can attack the powerful ones first."
Hearing this, Guo Jia glanced at Duan Lang with interest, thinking that there really were everyone in the Black Ice Platform, and the Duan Lang in front of him was one of the more ambitious people.
Although Duanlang has great ambitions, he is very capable and very aware of current affairs. He is one of Guo Jia's favorite subordinates.
Guo Jia didn't care whether Duan Lang was ambitious or not, because no matter how big his ambition was, he could only hide it in his heart and serve Da Qin obediently. There was no soil for people like him to display their ambitions in the world today.
Duan Lang persuaded Guo Jia to attack Yingchuan Haoqiang. Naturally, it was for meritorious service. He was the person in charge of Yingchuan. Now that Yingchuan was about to be captured by Qu Jin's army, there were not many opportunities for him to make meritorious service. How could he be promoted if he did not make meritorious service? ? And eliminating the powerful is naturally a great achievement.
"Let's give up this idea. The Demon Sect cannot be moved for the time being, and neither can the powerful." Guo Jia said calmly.
"Can……"
As soon as Duanlang's words came out of his mouth, he saw Guo Jia's cold gaze, so he could only hold back his words and return to his original position with a smile.
After much hesitation, Linghu Chong said: "Sir, after all, our army has not yet occupied the Central Plains. Is it too much to monitor the Demon Sect now? Once dissatisfaction is caused within the Demon Sect, the brothers responsible for surveillance will suffer. .”
Although Linghu Chong was a decent man, loyal, and liked drinking as much as Guo Jia, and even had similar personalities, Guo Jia didn't like him.
Although Guo Jia didn't like Linghu Chong, he wouldn't show it. He smiled lightly and asked, "Who said you were allowed to monitor the Demon Sect?"
"But...this..."
Linghu Chong was completely confused. He was obviously monitoring the Demon Sect, so why didn't Guo Jia say he was monitoring the Demon Sect?
Guo Jiaze explained: "We, Da Qin, have reached a consensus with the Demon Sect. On the surface, the Demon Sect will not become a threat, but who knows if Cao Wei will use some conspiracy to pull the Demon Sect into trouble?"
Ren Qianxing showed a look of surprise and exclaimed: "So that's it. We are monitoring the Demon Sect on the surface, but in fact we are guarding against Cao Wei in case of emergencies."
Guo Jia smiled lightly and nodded. This was what he was most worried about. After all, even if the Demon Sect did not want to be the enemy of Da Qin, once they were tricked by Cao Wei and the situation was completely out of control, it would not be theirs to say. That’s the last word.
