Later, I became the prince of the group

Xing Yi's pen hung for a long time, and finally put it down.

"How did you find me?"

Chu Yan didn't mind explaining to him: "It's just a coincidence."

He didn't lie, he brought Xing Yi with him at the beginning because he really liked his skills.Chu Yan would not suspect that Xing Yi was a spy from the Southern Jin Dynasty just because he saw that Xing Yi was not an ordinary carpenter. He just thought that his craft was very useful in planning affairs, secret agents in agencies, delivering letters, and even making weapons and machine crossbows on the battlefield. Wait... as long as it is well cultivated, its uses are limitless.

But for things involving such confidentiality, it must be ensured that Xing Yizhong will not be exposed, and it is best to control his family and leave him some clues.

After Chu Yan decided to come to the Southern Jin Dynasty, he sent people to investigate and found that there was no such person in the so-called hometown left by Xing Yi before he became suspicious. He was about to leave Beijing at that time, so he took Xing Yi with him first. Observe in the dark again.After he guessed that Xing Yi was actually left-handed, he suddenly had an idea: what does it look like for him to write with his left hand?

He couldn't help but think of the letter that Li Pingrui received. After all, the person who sent the letter to Li Pingrui completed his mission and stayed in Beijing. It would be best to sneak into the house of the rich and powerful. It is really reasonable to observe the direction of the matter. up.

Even Chu Yan himself thought that his palace was the best place to infiltrate. After all, he was still famous in the capital for his stupidity at that time, and everyone thought he was a fool.

Xing also knew that there was no turning back, so he turned around and knelt down, and said decisively: "Please forgive me, Your Highness."

Chu Yan pulled a chair and sat down, calmly said: "Who is behind you?"

Xing Yi said: "It cannot be said."

"If you don't tell me, let me show mercy?"

Xing Yi: "Your Highness...Young Master Yan didn't kill me directly, but instead gave me a reward. Presumably he still needs me."

Chu Yan asked: "What if I just want to get out the true face of the person behind you?"

"Wouldn't that mean that torture would come faster?" Xing Yi said with self-knowledge, "I'm not tough either."

Chu Yan tapped her fingers on the back of the chair a few times, avoiding the topic of the person behind the scenes, and asked, "You sent the note to Li Xiang."

"Yes."

"How did you get the news?"

"From south to north, there is an intelligence envoy every three hundred miles, pretending to be a civilian, traveling in a donkey cart, and word of mouth."

Chu Yan roughly imagined the scene, and "sneered": "They are all loyal, but it seems that your master is in a difficult situation."

Xing also said nothing.

Chu Yan said: "Since you are so loyal, how can I use you, or should I kill you?"

Xing Yi raised his head slightly: "From the moment I put down my pen, I can't afford to be loyal."

He knew that Chu Yan might not be sure that he was the one who delivered the letter to Xiang Li, but he couldn't stand the temptation. When faced with the two of saving himself and breaking his hand, he still chose the safest way to save his life.

But Chu Yan said: "That's not necessarily true. You confessed it generously, or it may be because you know that exposing these things will not affect anything. After all, if you spread this letter, it is tantamount to blatant treason. Let Nanjin's abacus be exposed, it's emotional and reasonable, I should thank you instead of killing you. As for a donkey cart three hundred miles away, it's not easy to search, and word of mouth is no better than letters, so there is no evidence to be found, so I can't be implicated to your companion." He pointed it out plainly, "You have nothing to fear."

Xing Yi's heart was slightly shocked: this person is too powerful, even if it is just a little clue, he can gain insight into other people's hearts.

He collected himself and said, "Young Master Yan, why don't you tell me what you want me to do first? Maybe I can give you a reason why I must."

"It's a pity for life." Chu Yan didn't know whether it was irony or praise, "You are too cautious. Since you entered the Southern Jin Dynasty, you probably haven't contacted your master."

Xing also acquiesced.

Chu Yan: "What I want you to do is to go back to your master."

Xing Yi was taken aback, suspecting that he had heard wrong.

"Only in this way can you continue to know what those powerful people are planning secretly, and then remind me at critical moments—" Chu Yan said, "Your master, rather than saying that he betrayed the Southern Jin Dynasty, it is better It is said that he is betraying those who are against him. At least for now, our goals are the same. As for whether he and I can get what we want, it depends on our own ability. You don’t have to hide this from him, I bet he will agree with me There are the same options."

Xing Yi understood that Chu Yan didn't really ask him to do things for him, but to discuss cooperation with the master behind him, and he was just a middleman.

This Prince of the Northern Qi Dynasty is really brave. Isn't he afraid that if he exposes his existence, he will bring disaster?

Little did he know that Chu Yan was also confident.

As soon as his people were placed in the Southern Jin army, they made frequent meritorious service. Even though Liu Wen deliberately manipulated the defeat, the speed was too fast and too coincidental.

This person is probably the same person as Xing Yi's master, that is to say, the master of Xing Yi originally meant to use Chu Yan's people to act, so it's better to just make this cooperation clear, and it just so happens that he also wants to inquire about the Southern Jin court. trend.

Take ten thousand steps back, if Chu Yan's judgment is really wrong, there is no one to help, or the collaborator suddenly repents, the people he placed in the army can report to him as soon as possible, and then he will rely on Jingzhou , one line away from the border, the Northern Qi Dynasty will directly send troops to occupy Jingzhou.

Today's Northern Qi has no shortage of bargaining chips for war. Chu Yan came to the Southern Jin Dynasty to raise food only to reduce consumption as much as possible. After all, three people pay one soldier. Compared with the food consumed by soldiers, the food consumed on the road is an astonishing amount. Especially when encountering rugged mountain roads, it takes at least ten stones to transport one stone.

Moreover, the Southern Jin Dynasty is not in our country. In the Northern Qi Dynasty, food and grass can be prepared first, but in the Southern Jin Dynasty, the city can only be occupied first, and then the food and grass supply can catch up. This will delay a long time, and it is easy for the Jin army to catch up. Come.Therefore, seizing a city usually requires you to take one turn and I take one turn to fight, which will only consume more and last longer.

Rather than doing this, it would be better to rob the grain storage warehouse in the Southern Jin Dynasty directly. Once the Qi army enters in the future, they will be like bamboo shoots, and there will be no worries. The saved food can also be used to take over the mess of the disaster victims in the Southern Jin Dynasty.

Yes, Chu Yan never planned to rebel in the Southern Jin Dynasty. All he wanted to do was to prepare food in several big states on the border, and at the same time spy on the movements of the Southern Jin Dynasty.

The uprising is so tiring, just recruiting people is very difficult, why don't he use the ready-made soldiers and horses in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Of course, if the people behind Xing Yi can think of this, then their cooperation may not last long. After all, the other party always wants to fight for power.

It's just that Chu Yan gambled that the man would not have thought that he would close the net in just one year, otherwise the man would not support the people in Chu Yan's army.This time difference estimated in my heart is the extra factor that can facilitate this cooperation, and it is also the advantage of Chu Yan.

Naturally, Xing Yi would not refuse such a good thing as regaining his freedom. He packed his bags and set off the next day. Chu Yan separated a small team of only a few dozen people from Liu Wen's people and secretly followed the escort.

The fifth road gradually revealed an outline.

Not long after he left, Liu Qi sent a letter back. This man also learned to hide the end of each sentence on the first page. Although a long article looks like a family letter, what he really wants to convey is only eight characters. To borrow an allusion: "Everything is ready , only owes the east wind."

But Chu Yan read those "nonsense" with relish, and almost didn't even notice such a simple hidden tail, thinking that Liu Qi really missed him before writing to him.

After the "Lu merchants" under Liu Wen entered the Southern Jin Dynasty, they naturally needed a "boss", so Liu Qi volunteered to go.

Excluding those who escorted Xing Yi, they were divided into two groups again. One part first went to Shang County, which was closer to the border, to buy a temporary place where grain could be stored hiddenly, and the other part followed Liu Qi to name the "merchant" To be honest, they set out from Jiangcheng, and they had to go around many places to do business to deceive people, and then they went to Shang County.

Liu Qi stayed with the bandits these days, and learned some accents from the other side of Tanzhou, so he called his hometown Tanzhou, but after traveling to many places, the accent was not so pure. Not only did others not doubt it, but they also enthusiastically accepted it. Made a few grain deals with him.

Liu Qi diverted the coarse grains collected from Jiangcheng to sell in another state, and then secretly bought the grains in the name of others and sold them in the next place. After walking for almost a month, everyone along the road believed that he was A real grain merchant, but because there are not many buyers, he has accumulated a lot of goods.

When Chu Yan read the letter, he leaned back leisurely unconsciously, stretched his body, and felt inexplicably happy.

Mr. Liu of his family was a poor little guy who just ran away when he saw him more than a year ago, but now he is the boss Xiao Yan who can take care of himself.

After thinking about it, there was a faint distress.

If it were the young master of the ordinary family, even if he wakes up and works hard, no one can improve so fast. Only Liu Qi was forced out, because he knew that what he did was related to the whole Northern Qi, so he forced himself to do things he had never done before. For the matter, he put on a look of experience and skill.

He really did it. In such a short period of time, he was able to tell him "everything is ready".

That being the case, I should arrange it quickly...

In June, Yan's army captured Hutou Village, robbed their weapons and horses, and directly expanded their number to 8000.Armed with light weapons, they laid out a relay line on the road from Jingzhou to Shang County.

Most of the Japanese in the Yan family army are villagers, refugees, and bandits who can't get through. They themselves have stockades and villages along this route, so they can directly live in stockades and homes without being obtrusive at all. One would suspect that they were a fledgling army.

And the 1000 people around Liu Qi had also been quietly replaced by Yan's army, and the original 1000 people pretended to be farmers and joined the food delivery team.

After the preparations were ready, a thousand fake farmers, men of meritorious service in the Jin army, and the 20 Northern Qi army joined forces to steal half of the [-] stones of grain and grass that had just been escorted to the border of the Southern Jin Dynasty, and burned the rest. Half of the food was burned at the same time, as well as weeds used to supplement the weight, so that people would not find out that the food and grass had been stolen.

When the news spread to Jinling, the courtiers naturally believed that the Northern Qi army had burned all the food and grass in order to consume as much food and grass as possible in the Southern Jin Dynasty before the official war started.There were also vigilant people who raised the possibility that there might be spies in the army, otherwise, how could the Northern Qi accurately locate the grain and grass? At this moment, a thousand fake farmers pretended to reveal clues, allowing the people of the Southern Jin to find out that there were spies who had infiltrated the Southern Jin. Farmers pretending to be transporting grain secretly spied on the news.

Their eyes were on the farmers, so they no longer suspected that the problem was in the army. Besides, the reason why the grain and grass were stolen was because they were delayed a bit late by the sudden "harassment" from the Northern Qi Dynasty when they went to pick up the grain and grass.

And the [-] stones of grain and grass that were taken away had naturally been taken away by Yan's army, hidden in Shang County, and transferred back to Jingzhou in batches along the relay line.

Since the weight of each shipment is not heavy, and you can find a place to hide at any time along the road, it has not attracted attention at all.

The author has something to say: My outline: 60% emotional line + 40% plot line

My brain: plot line 90% + emotion line 10%

He vomited three liters of blood.

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All five divisions have come out, let’s sort it out for those who don’t understand:

[The first way to frighten the Jin army]

The frontier army led by Liu Wen: feint attack→Southern Jin war preparations required conscripts (my own people mixed in), requisitions (robbing food)→contribute military merits to the second route→internal and external cooperation

This move is tantamount to deploying manpower + allowing the food to be delivered to the door by itself + as a retreat, to save Wang An who is on the verge of death at any time.

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[The second best way to understand]

The elites mixed into the barracks of the Jin Army: Infiltrate the interior + cooperate with the inside and the outside → gain military exploits and climb to a high position

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[a little complicated third way]

A thousand soldiers of Liu Wen who disguised themselves as businessmen and sneaked into the Southern Jin Dynasty: The Northern Qi Dynasty's secret work on the surface was used to cover up the existence of Chu Yan and the others and the hundreds of soldiers in the army.

What this move is currently doing is to prepare a temporary grain storage area for them when the fourth road is not yet fully developed, so that they can take over directly when the fourth road is fully developed, and then take a batch of grain first (Part [-] A formal confrontation), taking advantage of the opportunity to expose a thousand baits, so that the Jin Dynasty would only go after these spies, and did not expect to have anything to do with a group of bandits.

In the same way, if you do other things in the future, you only need to let these thousand people take the blame, and the others can hide behind and continue to plan.

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[The fourth road at the core of the plan]

Yan Jiajun: Expanding camp and strength → building and guarding granaries → aftermath and transfer of stolen grain

In fact, they are engaged in grain storage and guarding, and the ultimate goal of all actions is to get the grain back.

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[Sword walks the slanted fifth road]

Xing Yi: Get through the line of his master.

Negotiate → obtain information

No negotiation → 1. No problem, 2. Being encircled and suppressed by Jin → Liu Wen rescued → start the war in advance.This road is a bit of a risky game, so the sword is slanted——

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In fact, if these few lines are carefully written, it can be very long... But I tried my best to solve it in a few chapters. I said that the plot should be easier, but I didn't make it TT