"Zudao, this is the latest news."
While eating breakfast, the personal guard handed an envelope that was delivered from the dock before dawn to Bailang's breakfast table. There is no signature on the envelope, but it has a wax seal.
Bailang nodded and did not go to get the envelope. Instead, he continued to have breakfast with his younger brothers and sisters, and then told them to be more serious in class. After this year and early next year, it will be time to make the recommendation to enter the government school. Generally, in addition to letters of recommendation, there are also basic moral and academic assessments. He doesn't want the two kids to be too relaxed and end up capsizing in the gutter.
The two little ones have now basically adapted to their new home, new status, and new life. I even got used to it, being protected by the swordsman from the knife shop wherever I go. They were also used to the awe and caution shown to them by both their masters and classmates in the school.
It's just that Bai Yan and Bai Yuankai have different views on the maids at home.
Bai Yan has a kind heart and is also a child who has endured hardships, so she has great empathy for the maids who also come from miserable backgrounds, and will always use her kindness to treat the maids around her. At the same time, he does not treat the other person as a tool to be manipulated at will, but as a person like himself.
Bai Yuankai is also kind-hearted, but he will not put himself in the same position as the maid. I'll do whatever needs to be done, but I won't deliberately make things difficult for the other party. And Bai Yuankai is always full of curiosity about his first close contact with a girl of the same age other than his sister. There were signs of a boy's transformation into a man slowly emerging in his heart.
Wait until the two younger ones go to school. Bai Lang picked up the envelope on the table and opened it.
“When was it delivered?”
"It was dark in the morning, so I came with the boat."
Sitting on an important road for water and land transportation, Bailang naturally knew how to obtain news from various places. Even if there is not the fastest official reporting network like the Yamen and the City Lord's Mansion, it is still possible to get all the news you want through the routes of boat gangs and carriages, but the timeliness will be slightly delayed.
Bailang quickly read the message in the envelope. The content is not long, but it also gives an overview of the situation south of Changshui in the past half month.
"This situation seems to be getting worse and worse!"
Changshui cannot directly reach the vicinity of Pengshan. Even its tributaries can only disappear hundreds of miles away from Pengshan and merge into various small water systems like plush.
However, as an important waterway that currently supplies supplies and troops to the south from the east and north, the Changshui Line can still relatively conveniently obtain a lot of general information about the situation near Pengshan.
Bailang would receive such a piece of news every half a month these days. This was information he paid for the boat gang to collect, or in other words, bought directly from the boat gang. There are quite a few forces doing the same thing as him.
More than a month ago, the situation in the south was still "turbulent", but now it can be described as "every tree and grass are in danger".
Previously, the Bingfeng line from the south of Pengshan City to Pengshanguan had been designated as a highly alert war zone all year round. But now Bingfeng has clearly surpassed Pengshan City and spread towards the vast Tianfeng Plain behind it.
Small towns that were originally inconspicuous have now become important military towns, with tens of thousands of troops stationed inside, and various fortifications and forts being built around them. Judging from the posture, they are preparing to directly expand the defensive structure of Pengshan City's front line and tear the Tianfeng Plain to pieces. They want to turn the smooth road into a natural chasm.
Of course, no one can draw a conclusion as to what this idea is. It may become a joke, or it may become an important measure to resist Yunyan.
After all, the previous defeats in the national war also gave the Hong Dynasty a lot of failed experiences that could serve as warnings, and they avoided many pitfalls. Therefore, it is natural that the Hong Dynasty's strategy will now start from new aspects that have not been proposed before.
And it is unrealistic to arm the entire Tianfeng Plain. At first there was not so much labor that could be deployed centrally. Secondly, there was no time. Therefore, we can only select important transportation hub towns for targeted arming.
This is the most important news, and it also intuitively reflects Hong Chao's judgment of the situation and the progress of the front-line war at Pengshan Pass. To put it mildly, it has reached a critical point. Even if news suddenly comes tomorrow that Yunyan's barbarians have broken through Pengshan Pass, it won't be too sudden. After all, there are various signs that we have already prepared for this worst possibility.
After breakfast, Bailang had just arrived at the Ma Sheng Alley. At the door of the small courtyard where he had chosen to sit, he saw Yang Xiu who seemed to have been waiting outside for a long time. Waiting outside the courtyard with Yang Xiu were Wang Bing and Zhang Wu.
"Come in and talk."
Ever since Bai Lang became the master swordsman in the swordsmanship hall, he has changed many of the unwritten rules in the swordsmanship hall, and a large part of them are etiquette. Many so-called rules that have more ritual components than actual significance have been removed, making communication between superiors and subordinates simpler and faster. Instead of having to pull yourself back and forth several times every time you meet.
So now, people in the knife shop, whether they have red knives or waist knives, can come directly to Bailang as long as they have legitimate reasons. Bailang doesn't make any pretense and will always take the time to meet him whenever he has time.
After entering the courtyard, Wang Bing and Zhang Wu consciously went to the waiter to continue waiting, giving Yang Xiu the opportunity to talk first, even though they were the first to arrive today.
When you enter the study, it is not spacious, but compact, and there is an informal sense of intimacy.
"Zu Dao, the first plan to muddy the waters has been completed!" As soon as the door of the study room was closed, Yang Xiu couldn't wait to pour out all the results of last night's first real move against external forces in the industrial park. come out.
"According to your instructions, the Liao family has become the first target of suspicion. Coupled with the news that Zhou and Hou are actively selling off elements, the gloomy atmosphere in the industrial park has been disrupted at once. After these four external forces put their hands on I shouldn’t do it again until the threads inside are sorted out.”
Bailang also smiled when he heard this. He nodded and said: "So the good things the Liao family has "done" have been exposed?"
"Yes, Zuodao. He has been questioned face to face. It is not known what the situation was at the scene, but it must have been very unpleasant. The faces of the four families were very bad when they came out. The Liao family was at the front, and the Liao family was at the back. The three families deliberately avoided them. The estrangement has already begun to emerge."
Bailang thought for a while and said decisively: "We can't wait for them to figure things out for themselves before we take action, otherwise the flaws will probably be exposed. We have to fight a quick battle and catch them off guard! Don't they want to sort out the whole story? We We can't let them get what they want. The second step of the plan can start tonight, it's better for you to go there in person. Continue to lift the Liao family up."
"Do you need to leave any survivors or holes this time?"
"No need! Don't leave any flaws or survivors alive. The cleaner the killing, the more the remaining two families will think of the Liao family. Let's see how these four families can respond in the end."
(End of chapter)
