May 26th? !
As soon as Xu Huizu, Song Sheng and Yang Rong had expressions of astonishment on their faces, they were replaced by shock, and they were unable to speak for a long time.
Zhu Di's hands were trembling a little, and he had a creepy feeling. It seemed that Zhu Yunwen was a god. He just raised his head and his eyes traveled through more than 6,000 miles of mountains and rivers and arrived in the vast Western Region!
"How is this possible?"
Yang Rong couldn't believe it and doubted whether the document was forged, but he knew Zhu Yunwen's handwriting, and the seal couldn't be fake.
Xu Huizu looked at the document carefully. Zhu Yunwen was talking about Timur's vanguard general Harry, rather than saying that it might be Harry. This certainty gave people the feeling that Zhu Yunwen already knew that Timur sent his grandson Harry to serve as the vanguard, but This kind of knowledge is absolutely impossible!
Not to mention Zhu Yunwen, who was far away in the capital, even Zhu Di, who was close to Hami, would not have known that Harry was the vanguard general on May 26, the day Timur launched his army.
In fact, it was already June 8 when the Ming army received the intelligence.
Zhu Di wrote a report. Even if the Security Bureau worked hard, there were only twenty days until June 27th.
In twenty days, they have been running to death and pushing people to the limit. At this time, they can only just arrive in the capital. It is impossible to turn around and travel more than 6,000 miles to deliver the documents today!
What's more, the date of the document is May 26th!
"Where is the emissary from the Security Bureau? Call him over!"
Zhu Di's face was uncertain.
The post envoy came, and so did Xue Xia.
Zhu Di took the document and asked seriously: "Is this document really received on May 26?"
The postman nodded: "On May 26th, Commander Liu Shi fetched the documents from Wuying Palace and ordered Biao to travel day and night to report to Hami as soon as possible. It took me a month to get here. General, I didn't waste any time on the way. ah……"
Zhu Di was depressed, thinking that he was settling accounts for him.
More than six thousand miles a month, which seems to be only two hundred miles a day, is not particularly fast, but considering that he needs to climb mountains, cross deserts, and deliver documents alive, he has fulfilled his duties in one month.
"What's the story of the capital?"
Zhu Di asked.
The messenger looked at Zhu Di in confusion, not knowing what he wanted to ask. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "There is really something."
"oh?"
Zhu Di was curious.
The post envoy began to talk: "When the general was marching, he encountered a fire in the Huazhou munitions depot in Shaanxi, which destroyed 70,000 shi of military supplies."
Zhu Di nodded, this was a deep impression. Because of this incident, the army ran all night and did not feel at ease until they arrived in Xi'an and received new supplies of food and grass.
The messenger continued: "The Shaanxi Huazhou Munitions Depot case was investigated by Shaanxi officials and only gave a result of spontaneous combustion accident. But the court did not believe it and sent Shanxi Governor Ru Yu to investigate full-time. Governor Ru encountered an assassin during the investigation. If it were not safe, The bureau is vigilant, fearing for one's life..."
"What?"
Zhu Di was shocked.
Xu Huizu, Song Sheng and Yang Rong were also a little surprised. Someone dared to assassinate Rujun? This is the governor of Shanxi and a cabinet minister of the imperial court!
The post envoy sighed: "Later investigation revealed that the fire in the Huazhou munitions warehouse was caused by arson. The man behind the scenes was Zhao Qiu, the commander of Shaanxi Dusi. He sold the grain and materials in the munitions warehouse to merchants in exchange for silver. , at the same time, this person also colluded with Sun Cheng, the guard of Shengjin Gate in Ningxia, and sold a batch of fire blunderbuss to the Tatars, the number was six hundred, and the resulting war horses were sold to merchants for a huge profit..."
"That's unreasonable!"
Zhu Di took action!
How important Ningxia is, nearby is the Helan Mountain, and next to it is the Hetao. The Tatars are right there in the Hetao. As an official of the Ming Dynasty, he dared to smuggle firecrackers in order to make money!
How abominable!
Song Sheng was really surprised by Zhao Qiu's courage. He smuggled it himself, which was approved by Zhu Yunwen. It was for the Ming Dynasty Racecourse and to pave the way for the Western Region. You are an official from Shaanxi Dusi
Member, for the sake of selfishness, he actually did such a thing that harmed the country and the people. It is really shameful!
Xu Huizu took a deep breath: "How did the emperor deal with it?"
The faces of Zhu Di and others were very ugly. With such a big thing happening, one can imagine Zhu Yunwen's anger. I'm afraid it will be bloody again this time.
The post envoy sighed and then yawned: "The Emperor has ordered that from the beginning of the history of Shaanxi Dusi's command, all those who have anything to do with the Zhao Qiu and Sun Cheng cases, including the censors, principals, and security bureau personnel who were not under investigation, will be escorted The capital, and dismissed Peng Cheng from his position as commander of the Shaanxi capital, and ordered him to go to the capital to await trial, implicating more than 60 soldiers. The Shaanxi capital took away half of them..."
Zhu Di sighed, Xu Huizu looked sad, and Song Sheng crushed a tea bowl.
Xue Xia saw that the post envoy still wanted to say something, so he stepped in and blocked it: "The matters in the capital have nothing to do with the front line, so there is no need to report. Let the general concentrate on military affairs. You can go down and rest."
Zhu Di didn't know how angry Zhu Yunwen was, but he was certain that Zhao Qiu, Sun Cheng and others would definitely die.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit depressing, Yang Rong coughed and reminded: "General, regarding the date of the document..."
Zhu Di suddenly realized that he almost forgot about this incident. He looked at Xue Xia with bright eyes: "Tell me, when did the Security Bureau reach out to Samarkand, and when did they get the information that Harry was the vanguard? How did you submit the report to the capital?"
Xue Xia was confused by Zhu Di's question. The Security Bureau reached out to Samarkand? When did this happen? When did the Security Bureau become so awesome?
"What did the general say? If people from the Security Bureau can enter Samarkand, why should we be so passive in terms of intelligence?"
Xue Xia didn't understand.
Song Sheng stared at Xue Xia. If this guy dared to hide the truth, knowing clearly the time and plan of Timur's attack, and allowing himself to bear the "crime" of digging Genghis Khan's grave, he would definitely look good!
Zhu Di handed the document to Xue Xia, specifically emphasizing the date.
Xue Xia's eyes almost popped out of his head. He looked at Zhu Di, Song Sheng and others with malicious intentions: "How is this possible?"
Song Sheng stepped forward and grabbed Xue Xia: "There are no outsiders here, so just tell me. Does the Security Bureau have a line in Samarkand? Otherwise, how could the emperor know that Harry was on the same day that Timur set off for the expedition?" General? The Security Bureau must have stolen the information two or three months in advance so that it could be reported to the Emperor and explain the date of this document!"
Xue Xia was speechless. The security bureau could only rely on gold, silver and copper to bury the wire in Yili City. Even so, it could only get some peripheral intelligence. Don't even think about the intelligence inside the palace. How could it be possible? Are you planning to send people to the palace in Samarkand to steal extremely confidential combat plans?
But, how to explain that the emperor knew that Harry was the vanguard? Could it be that the Security Bureau really deployed people?
Xu Huizu gritted his teeth and said, "Could it be that the emperor created some kind of earworm and sent it to the Security Bureau to find out the information?"
Xue Xia looked at Xu Huizu and spread his hands: "Wei Guogong, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? How can things in myths be possible..."
"Then how do you explain clairvoyance?"
Xu Huizu pointed to the wooden box on the table. Inside were new binoculars, the kind that support adjusting the magnification.
Xue Xia opened his mouth. Well, the clairvoyance has come out, so Shunfeng Er will also come out? What is the logic……
"Do you dare to conclude that the Security Service did not send personnel to Samarkand?"
Song Sheng asked.
Xue Xia shook his head and said with certainty: "Zheng Dacheng is in charge of the Northwest Security Bureau. He has never reported anyone from the Security Bureau to Samarkand, and the Security Bureau headquarters has no such plans and arrangements, unless..."
"Unless what?"
Zhu Di asked quickly.
Xue Xia frowned: "Unless it was done by the scouts."
"Scout?"
Zhu Di stared. This team was very strong and capable of being cunning. Zhu Yunwen said that he sent 800 scouts to help him fight, but after traveling thousands of miles, he only saw less than 100 scouts in a few months. Soldiers, where are the other more than 700 scouts? Are they cavalry, infantry or firecrackers?
, don’t know at all...
But the question is, how could the scouts go to Samarkand? This team never leaves Beijing easily.
Facing the doubts of Zhu Di and others, Xue Xia just shook his head: "The scouts do not need to report to the Security Bureau when doing their work. The intelligence they have has their own channels to send to the capital. If the emperor had not foresaw all this, That can only be done by them. If so, Suo Jing should know."
Zhu Di was a little helpless. Suo Jing was not Xue Xia. Nonsense, it's very difficult to trick him.
Seeing that Zhu Di, Xu Huizu and Song Sheng were still holding on to the date of the document, Yang Rong thought for a while and said: "Actually, this matter is not so difficult to explain. Perhaps the emperor has analyzed all this, so he wrote this letter Document, but the time is a bit coincidental, it happens to be the same day as Tamerlane's Eastern Expedition."
"Analysis, can you try to analyze it?"
Song Sheng didn't believe this at all.
Yang Rong looked at Song Sheng and said, "There is a science in the Imperial Military Academy called intelligence analysis. As long as you have enough information, you can analyze the most likely results. Xue Tongzhi should know about it, right?"
Xue Xia nodded. He did have this knowledge, and people from the Security Bureau were also learning it. It was an important means of intelligence analysis and filtering.
Yang Rong said with a smile: "As long as the emperor has information about Timur, his son, grandson, and generals, as well as the military deployment and vanguard candidates of Timur's previous expeditions, it will be enough to analyze who Timur is most likely to choose as the vanguard. .As we know, Timur only valued two grandsons most, one was *** and the other was Harry. *** was steady and had led the Chinese army, and was highly valued by Timur, while Harry was good at fighting and was known as Known for his bravery in surprise attacks..."
Listening to Yang Rong's analysis, Song Sheng couldn't help but shudder: "Damn, now that knowledge has become like this, why didn't you say anything at the beginning?"
Yang Rong said calmly: "This is just a speculation. Who dares to use it as real military intelligence? The Security Bureau can rely on speculation to investigate, but the army cannot rely on speculation to make operational arrangements..."
Xue Xia glanced at Yang Rong warningly.
Yang Rong immediately raised his hand and took a step back: "Look, you can guess from the look in Xue Tongzhi's eyes just now. If he continues, he will definitely guess about me..."
Zhu Di suddenly burst into laughter, looked down at the date on Zhu Yunwen's document, and finally stopped paying attention and said: "The emperor's intention is very clear, let us make a decision on the spur of the moment. If we can eat Harry's striker early, we will eat him first." .Do you think it’s feasible?”
Xue Xia exited the tent, walked to Suo Jing who was standing guard, and asked in a low voice: "In the fourth year of Jianwen, you led 300 scouts to quell the Jiaochin bandits. How many scouts did you bring back? How many people did you leave behind?"
Suo Jing glanced at Xue Xia and repeated the special words: "It's my responsibility, no comment."
Xue Xia looked deeply at Suo Jing and whispered: "Although I don't know the emperor's arrangements, I also know that you didn't really bring back all your brothers when you came back from Jiaozhi. In any case, you all worked hard."
