After Li Shentong issued the order, Linghu Defen of the Records Room immediately issued a copy order in front of Li Shentong. High-quality update

Linghu Defen was the grandson of Linghu Zheng, a general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. He was a famous family. He was famous for his talent and knowledge at a young age. At the end of Daye, he was awarded the title of the Yaocheng Chief. However, Linghu Defen believed that the Sui Dynasty was about to be destroyed and did not go in person. Later, Li Shentong started an uprising in Nanshan, but he served as a record room in Li Shentong's mansion, and all the Chinese documents were released from him.

After Linghu Defen wrote the letter, Li Shentong read it and was very satisfied. After the seal was covered with hot paint, he immediately called two personal soldiers.

These two personal soldiers were both Li Shentong's original family members. As personal soldiers, Li Shentong ordered the two to set out immediately for Hengzhou at a speed of 400 miles.

From Hanoi to Hengzhou, you have to cross Taiyue and Taihang Mountains. The journey is very hard. Both of them are reluctant to hear it, but the military order is as good as a mountain and has to follow the order.

After the two of them set off for horses, they followed the official road and the post station all the way from Hedong to Hengzhou.

Two confidants, one of whom was carrying a buckle with a secret message, rode a fast horse, while the other supervised and guarded him. He changed people and did not change horses along the way, walked day and night, rested for only two or three hours a day, and ran straight towards Hengzhou.

Hengzhou is Hengshan County. After Li Yuan raised an army in Jinyang, Lingshou thief commander Xi Shiling surrendered to Li Yuan with thousands of people. Therefore, he was named General Zhendong and Duke of Yan County by Li Yuan, and he was allowed to stay in Hengshan County.

The two personal guards came to the outskirts of Lingshou County thirty miles away, and they were already at night. They could enter the city to deliver the documents tomorrow, and they couldn't help feeling comfortable.

They were exhausted all the way, so the two decided to rest in the nearby inn and enter the city again tomorrow.

The two rode their horses. After seeing the post station on the official road, they came close to each other. One of them shouted at the top of his voice: "Where is the post station?"

After shouting for a while, a man who looked like a rich man came out to greet him. After a year of establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the post station implemented a system of capturing posts. The so-called capturing posts means selecting wealthy families in the state and serving as post generals.

This post general in Huotong Post next to Lingshou County is served by Qiu Zhong, a wealthy family in the county. There are more than 30 post horses in the post station. As a post general, he is equivalent to serving among the military personnel. He also enjoys tax-free discounts among the prefecture soldiers. High-quality updates, and Qiu Zhong has a private identity. He is a secret spy installed by Sima Lin Dangfeng of Youzhou in Hengshan County.

When Qiu Zhong saw the two of them riding the horse, he was stunned. He first asked with a smile on his face, "Where are the two officials coming from?"

"So much nonsense, is this what you should ask?" The man showed his seal.

Qiu Zhong took the seal under the lantern and jumped up when he saw it, saying, "Oh, it turns out that he is the old man of the Right Guard Army, and the young general is in a farewell welcome."

Qiu Zhong said very tightly. He couldn't find out anything from his words, but he looked at the two of them secretly, looking at the dirt on their horses, looking like they were dusty. Obviously, if they were walking twice the way, there must be some urgent official documents delivered, and he was careful.

The confidant raised the horse whip and whipped it in vain. He said, "What's the noise? The horse is ready. I'll feed it. I'll add essence and lose weight. I'll ask."

"Yes. Yes." Qiu Zhong personally led the horse and shouted to the postman, "Why don't you hurry up, do you want me to do it? You killers, use soybeans as horse feed, and prepare a table to wait for meals and entertain the two soldiers."

After hearing what Qiu Zhong said, the two of them smiled, and one of them said, "You are still a little bit of a look, but you don't need to wait for the best food. You have to hurry up tomorrow morning, so you can come and cook cakes."

"Yes, yes. I'll give you another pot of hot foot washing water." Qiu Zhong said in a word.

"Hey, you really know how to do things, just do that."

At that moment, Qiu Zhong led the two to the resting place with a smile on his face, glanced at the buckle behind each other, and knew it in his heart.

After the two entered the room, Qiu Zhong immediately ordered his friend to give them warm foot washing water. In addition to the two cages of cooked cakes, there was also a pot of wine.

The confidant looked at it and frowned and said, "What's going on? We have military affairs, how can we drink?"

Qiu Zhongyan said: "It's okay to make a little bit of private brewing and respect the two soldiers. High-quality updates are here."

"What is the best thing to sell? Private brewing is not enough. You need a bowl of rice soup. Remember to wake us up when the day dawn tomorrow. If the matter is delayed, you will have to eat military sticks."

"Yes, Jun Ye, the young general remember."

Qiu Zhong left the room, but did not walk away. Instead, he eavesdropped outside with his ears, listening to the two of them chatting while eating pancakes.

After getting this set, how much money do you think King Huaian will reward us?

Don’t think too much, King Huaian, I can spend more than ten yuan on the brothel last time, but our subordinates will do his job for him, so there is no money to get it. It’s better not to be scolded.

Yes, when did you see him be generous? I really regret it, how did your parents let us be born in the Li family?

What's the use of complaining? If you blame yourself for your bad life, you will blame others as princes and we will be slaves. I will think about some time, ask the prince for his orders, and let him go to the palace army to serve as a lieutenant.

This is a good way out, okay, let alone be careful at night and don’t make any mistakes when you walk on the road in the end.

I knew that I hugged this with my clothes and moved, and I woke up.

Don't sleep like a pig.

"Did you think there would be no mistakes if you don't drink alcohol?" Qiu Zhong sneered. The wine was just a confusion. When the medicine was really applied, it was already evenly added to the cooked cakes and rice soup.

After a moment, when the two of them fell asleep, Qiu Zhong opened the door, swaggered in front of them, and held the button with a secret letter in his hand. Qiu Zhong thought to himself that the King of Huai'an was Li Shentong. Hearing the news from above, this person was granted the ambassador of Shandong Province as Li Yuan, and he controlled the military power of several states, and was responsible for the use of troops in Hebei and Shandong.

This secret letter may have important news that involves my Youzhou.

Qiu Zhong returned to the room and opened the hood, and the letter was sealed intact with fire. Qiu Zhong smiled, and this was not a problem for him at all.

At that moment, Qiu Zhong turned the oil lamp brighter, then placed the letter paper on the oil lamp, and soon the handwriting on the letter paper appeared clearly.

After reading the letter, Qiu Zhong's face changed and he said, "Fortunately, this letter fell into my hands, otherwise the Lord will be in trouble."

At that moment, Qiu Zhong put the letter back to the hood and sent it back to the house. The two messengers were still sleeping as if they had died. Tomorrow they would send the letter to Lingshou County without knowing anything.

Qiu Zhongze sneered, returned to his room, took out a cloth, wrote down the information on it, then sealed it with wax pills, mixed it into a pile of medicinal materials, and put it in the medicine box.

After being busy with these things, Qiu Zhong called a trusted postman and said, "The third owner of the Zhao family is suffering from angina pectoris. I have a life-saving medicinal herb here. You send it overnight. Remember this is a matter of saving people, and you can't delay it for a moment."

After the postman agreed, he immediately rode the post horse and ran towards Zhaojiazhuang overnight.

After a while, at noon the next day, the letter had arrived at the desk of Sima Lin Dangfeng, the governor of Youzhou County.

After seeing the letter, Lin Dangfeng immediately went out of the house without caring his clothes, and headed straight to the main hall.

Wei Zheng, the county magistrate in the main hall, and Zhou Xu, the county magistrate, are discussing the imperial examination for the county magistrates this year with doctoral students from various counties and counties in Youzhou.

After hearing Lin Dangfeng's report, Wei Zheng put down what he had at hand and immediately went to the Youzhou Governor's Office. He convened Wen Yanbo, Chen Xiaoyi, Ji Chuan, Wang Gui, Xue Wanshu, Xue Wanche, Tanzong, Lu Chengqing and other officials from Youzhou together to discuss and hold a meeting.

When Li Chongjiu left Youzhou, he asked Wen Yanbo, Chen Xiaoyi and Wei Zheng to jointly discuss the matter. Chen Xiaoyi and Wei Zheng were not very familiar with military affairs. Therefore, when it came to military affairs, Wen Yanbo decided.

Wen Yanbo was very serious and knew that although Li Chongjiu was not there and he had great power, he could not make any decisions casually. If there was any difference between them, his position in the Youzhou Army would be over. So he decided to ask Ji Chuan, Xue Wanshu and others about the meaning of the generals in the army such as Xue Wanche.

Wen Yanbo first smiled and said, "Don't always look at me. Let's talk about it, so it's better to gather your mind."

Ji Chuan was the first to stand up and said unwillingly: "I have heard of this person in Xi Shiling. This person was a powerful man in Hengshan County. Later, he was a bandit and was quite popular in the local area. When Zhao Wanhai was in great power, there was no way to deal with this person. However, although this person was capable, the 30,000 troops stationed in Hengshan County by Princess Pingyang were transferred back to Jiang County. Xi Shiling was no match for this person, and he was not afraid of it. However, the reinforcements from Princess Pingyang from Shangdang County should be careful."

Xue Wanshu said, "My officials, from the map, Hengshan County is bordered by Yanmen, Shanggu and Taiyuan counties. If we take Hengshan County, Taiyuan, Yanmen and Shanggu, we can connect to one line. In addition, Hengshan County is a big county. At its peak, there were as many as 170,000 households. Although Wang Xuba and Zhao Wanhai and others plundered, there were still 70,000 to 80,000 households in Hejun County. If our army takes it, it will greatly enhance its power."

After hearing what Xue Wanshu said, everyone nodded. The number of households in Zhuo County has just exceeded 100,000 households this year because of absorbing refugees. Taking away Hengshan County and taking money and grain can greatly increase the strength of the Youzhou Army.

Wen Yanbo looked at Xue Wanshu and asked, "What Xue Jishi means is that we want us to rebel against Hengshan County?"

Xue Wanshu bowed and said respectfully: "Reporting to Changshi Wen, the enemy's strategy of sending troops has been known to my secret spies. At present, we have ambition but not intentions and have a great chance of victory. It is too simple to return to Youzhou with a safe and secure return to Youzhou in the valley. Resisting Hengshan County is what we should think about, otherwise we will waste this opportunity."

Wen Yanbo thought about it, but was a little worried, and it was a bit risky to defeat Hengshan County.

Xue Wanche clasped his fists and said, "The last general has made a bold decision. I wonder what Wen Changshi thought?"

"But it's okay!"

Xue Wanche said, "We can take advantage of Xi Shiling's army to ambush Shanggu Duke, send troops from Youzhou, and join General Yuchi who was stationed in Taiyuan, General Tan of Shanggu County, and General Gao of Yanmen County, cooperate with the five armies south of Shanggu Duke and attack Hengshan County, attack forward and backward, annihilate Xi Shiling and Li Xiaoji's troops. In this way, we can not only seize Hengshan County, but also gain the lead in the future competition with Li Tang in Hebei. I wonder what Wen Changshi's idea is?" (To be continued...)
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