For the emperor

"One, two, three, four, five, six." Cang Tiansu casually threw the few pages of tissue paper he had read on the table, read a series of numbers, and leaned back against the soft back of the chair, dazed Going to sleep.

Duan Yu was already sitting on the ground, pillowing his knees, snoring comfortably.

It's a pity that after waiting for three or four nights, it still didn't come.Also, the disciples of the Pirate Sect may not be so easy to be baited.

Cang Tiansu yawned silently.Old General Duan's intelligence network is really easy to use. Less than [-] hours after starting to work on it, things are almost ready.

Ding Yi, Liu Er, Zhang San, Li Si, Wang Wu, Zhao Liu.It took the old man Pirates 50 years to form six disciples—he is the Taoist of Wuwei, so he created a promising Pirates, and made a big banner out of tiger skins.

The old man of the Pirate Sect is called Bai Da, and his famous saying is "the best way to master the art of robbery in the world".

When Cang Tiansu saw Zhao Liu for the first time, he didn't think much about it, thinking he was just an acquainted thief. Later, seeing him use all kinds of means to show off, he suddenly remembered what Li Mi said about going to the palace to steal chickens more than ten years ago. The sloppy old man paid attention to this aspect.

By luck, I took advantage of the robber sect's youngster's wings before they grew hard, so I picked up a treasure and took a huge advantage.

Could it be that the master and apprentice are paying off their debts, or are the ghosts of those chickens that were stolen more than ten years ago?Cang Tiansu rubbed his forehead, feeling that he was a bit abnormal today.

Feeling the cold, Xiaosi had already gone back to sleep in the side tent, and Jing Tian, ​​who was on duty, was standing at the door, suddenly seemed to hear something, turned her head vigilantly and gestured to Cang Tiansu, and silently pulled the thick Thick curtains, tiptoe out.

Cang Tiansu narrowed his eyes slightly.

There was a muffled sound outside, and there was a pause for a few seconds. Zhao Liu walked in with a lustful face, and whispered triumphantly, "Little beauty~ I miss you so much~~"

As he spoke, he took out a wet handkerchief and covered Duan Yu's mouth and nose, who was about to open his eyes in a daze when he heard the voice.General Duan raised his eyelids upwards, lay down on the ground, and rolled over.

"The rules of the Bandit Sect, if you get tricked, you lose once." Zhao Liu seemed to flick his nails carelessly, "I admit it this time, young master. Tell me, what do you want me to do for you?"

In fact, Liu Ye was not as calm and composed as he was.He thought of the unbearable past that his old man had told him.

The patriarch of the dignified Pirates was baffled by a little girl using a weird little trick called "magic". For this reason, he squatted in the palace aggrievedly, and spent 120 or [-] days resignedly teaching the girl to read and write.

——You must know that Zhao Liu's master himself can't read all 100 characters. During the teaching process of more than [-] days, he really gave full play to the human imagination.

As a result, in the next ten years, the old man of Pirates often thought deeply from time to time-how to summarize the central idea of ​​an article with nine out of ten characters that he didn't know?This is a problem.

This directly led to the fact that Emperor Cang Jing couldn't stand a certain woman's weird accent and messy reading and writing skills, so he sent specialized personnel to teach her systematically.As a result, the well-known talented scholars in Kyoto spent four or five years, but they failed to turn people back to the right way.

Qi Guoguo is Shengyang City, and the founding monarch of Cangguo is named Cang Shengyang.The talented man argued with Li Mi with a dark face, and finally spent three hours, but he had no choice but to accept Li's argument that "Shengyang is Cang Shengyang's nickname".

Cang Tiansu hooked his fingers at Zhao Liu, and the upward arc of the corners of his lips widened unconsciously.It was the first time for the latter to see such a bright smile on his face, he couldn't feel his heart skip a beat, he shivered, and leaned over.

"I want a special set of tools." Cang Tiansu listed them one by one, "for unlocking, for cutting ropes, for jumping off cliffs, for diving, for climbing, for wiretapping..."

"Stop! Stop!" Zhao Liu's face was dark, and he waved his arms vigorously in mid-air to express his dissatisfaction, "Brother, the Bandit Sect specializes in stealing things, and it's not about killing them. You're not trying to give me a problem." ?"

Cang Tiansu immediately stopped speaking, and lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

Zhao Liu looked at this person carefully for a while, and saw that the other person had silently put one hand on the only burning candlestick in the tent, and his back broke out in a cold sweat.

His brain turned rapidly for a week, and he was sure that he would not be able to sneak out of the heavily guarded barracks within a stick of incense, and he estimated that the crime of burning the prince's camp was enough to kill him a thousand or eight hundred times, so he could only curse "unlucky" inwardly. , honestly took out a set of hooks from the hem of the trousers, took out a set of back hooks from the midsole of the left shoe, and squeezed out four blades from the sole of the right shoe.

Zhao Liu looked at Cang Tiansu, who smiled harmlessly, with his hand still on the candlestick, and he didn't intend to move away at all.

Zhao Liu was dejected, so he had no choice but to untie his belt, hold one end and dangle it for a while, and a coil of neatly coiled soft wire fell out from it. The corners of his eyes twitched, and he handed it to Cang Tiansu with great reluctance: "My master spent a lot of money on this." It was only made by someone with a lot of strength, the total length is 20 meters, and it can bear the weight of two grown men. That's all I have, so don't break it..."

He paused for a moment, and added without giving up: "You don't know how to use it, why don't you let me..."

Cang Tiansu put away the things one by one, and dragged Zhao Liu to look him up and down. The more he looked at it, the more miraculous he became. In the end, he simply stripped the person clean, walked to the lamp and held up the equipment to observe.

Well, every piece of clothing has interlayers, double-layer insoles, the pants are hemmed with fine hemp silk, and two thin toothpicks are folded into the folds of the left and right collars.There are also two short thumb knives pinned to the inner edge of the panties.

Cang Tiansu compared his attire, and calmly returned the clothes to Zhao Liu, who was standing naked and shaking violently beside him: "Stop pretending."

The fire in the tent was very hot, and Duan Yu was lying on the ground sleeping in a thin coat.

"Do you want me to teach you how to open the lock?" Zhao Liu was not in a hurry to put on his clothes. After taking it, he threw it on the ground and stretched. It's like spring. Why don't I have a good old man?"

Cang Tiansu was stunned for a moment: "Isn't the secret art of the robbery sect not allowed to be passed on?"

Zhao Liu lazily picked up a jujube from the fruit plate, rubbed it casually on his belly, stuffed it into his mouth, and said inarticulately: "It's just unlocking, what kind of secret technique is it—the gecko swims on the wall, stealing the sky and changing the sun, that's how it works." It’s a real stealing technique—my dream is that one day I will be able to move a house like a mouse, and slowly move the treasury of Cang Kingdom!”

What he said was upright, loud and clear, full of confidence, without the slightest awareness that he was facing the future sufferer.

Cang Tiansu couldn't help but look at him a few more times, then lowered his head again, played with the hook in his hand, and gently twitched the corner of his mouth.

In the summer of Emperor Jing's 15th year, the Wuji Continent suffered a severe drought that had not happened in a century. Thousands of miles of land at the border between Cangguo and Qiguo, the land was dry and cracked, there was no harvest, and livestock died on a large scale.

Yulan Town is on the edge of the arid land, and the situation is not as bad as the inner area.

In the past few years, Duan De's Northwest Army has been fighting on a small scale with Qi's town border army, and every few months needs to recruit thousands of new recruits to maintain the standing army.

Because of the drought, both the emperor of the Cang Kingdom and the monarch of the Qi Kingdom are ordering the armies all over the country to reduce the number of soldiers, and to release the soldiers who are about to expire in advance to return to their hometowns to farm.

Compared with the Cang and Qi countries, Chengguo and Yueguo were not greatly affected.Although the land area of ​​Chengguo in the arid area is not small, it has always been dominated by animal husbandry, and most of the fat, tender and juicy pastures grow in the west, so the drought in the southeast did not bring unbearable losses .

General Duan De of Zhenbei entered Cangtiansu's tent, looked at the information in his hand, and couldn't help sighing: "You really hit the mark, most of the people in the disaster-stricken areas of Qi State went to the direction of their capital, but There are still a large number of refugees from the southeast edge pouring into the border town." This was the worst scenario imagined by a group of counselors.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees, three hundred miles away, Yuanli City, where Qi State garrisoned troops, would definitely not be able to accommodate them. The opposing general would definitely find a way to divert the refugees to Cang Kingdom, which was less severely affected by the disaster.

What do you think Cangguo can do?

In terms of taking in, let alone Yulan Town itself is already difficult to maintain. If the other side has soldiers in uniform among the refugees, it doesn’t need to be too many. If one out of ten is mixed, tens of thousands of enemy troops will pour into Cangguo, which is enough for the Northwest Army. one pot.

If you go back, no one will tell you the reason that "the two countries are at odds and have been in dispute for a hundred years, so there is nothing wrong with Cangguo's doing this". The refugees who have nowhere to go will not listen. The sheltered lamb becomes a hungry wolf.

It's not like this hasn't happened before.The general who used to guard the border of Yue State ordered the city gate to be closed to refuse to take in Chengguo refugees. As a result, 10,000+ refugees risked thousands of lives, forcibly broke down the city gate and robbed the army's granary.The general who was stationed had no choice but to leave an order to kill all the fleeing people in Chengguo, and committed suicide that night to apologize.

No matter how bad the relationship between Cang State and Qi State was, Duan De would not be able to issue such an order to use the soldiers he trained so hard to slaughter ordinary people in Qi State.

Not to mention that this time the situation is several times more serious than the precedent.Even if the order to exterminate the refugees is cruel, no one can guarantee that tens of thousands of well-trained soldiers will survive, or hundreds of thousands of hungry refugees will win the final victory.

"I heard that the Emperor Chengguo was seriously ill a few years ago, and now the crown prince has fully supervised the country." Cang Tiansu didn't answer the question, turned over a page of the love newspaper, read the content in a hurry, and said softly, "Use the death penalty in the prison Criminals and serious criminals, formed into a large army, and rationed the most basic food, grass and weapons. If necessary, these people will rush in front of the regular army and become the best barrier to stop the enemy's attack."

Prince Chengguo is really generous to offset the penalty with military merits in killing the enemy.It is said that for this reason, more than a dozen returning veterans crashed to death on the pillars of the Chengguo Palace after admonishing them to no avail.Now the whole country is condemning the prince's first move after taking power.

Cang Tiansu didn't care, his moral bottom line had always been set very low, not to mention that this kind of behavior did not violate human ethics, at most it could only be said to seriously violate the rules set by the ancestors.

Instead of letting such a group of people eat in prison for nothing, and chop them up at the end of the day, it is better to let them out. There is a rule that if you kill a hundred people, you can exchange your own life. This must be a group of wolf and tiger soldiers .

The prince of Chengguo was able to withstand the pressure of the gentry all over the country and set up a prison barracks, not only because he is now fully in charge of the country, but also because Chengguo is mainly nomadic, and it has not been long since the founding of the country. An independent dependent country.

The power of the gentry is far from being entrenched enough to shake the foundation of the country.Whether they support or not will not fundamentally shake the stable position of the prince.Coupled with the fact that more people in Chengguo do not have much aversion to this, and some new and cutting-edge officials fully support it, this enables the new policy to be implemented.

It's a pity that only Chengguo has such a national condition.Just talking about the Cang Kingdom, even if Cang Jinglan's prestige is close to that of the founding monarch of the Cang Kingdom 300 years ago, if he wants to implement an order under the joint resistance of several major gentry, it will only lead to the dismissal of all officials and the turmoil of the whole country.

The battle between the Cang Kingdom and the Qi Kingdom is imminent, and the strength of the Prince of Chengguo should not be underestimated.In a few years, there will be a lot of lords competing for the throne, and the world will be in chaos.

Cang Tiansu picked up the porcelain white teacup with some regret, and took a sip of the clear tea.

If he could have been born ten years earlier, he would have had more time to lay the foundation for the coming millennium.If God is willing to give him 560 more days to move towards a higher direction, when the contest really starts, it will definitely be a different situation.

Time waits for no one, and the world will fall.

The last time Cang Tiansu looked at himself through the mirror was three years ago.Looking back now, he can no longer remember the tone in which he said the life goal of "I want to be a dou" when he was young.

One word at a time, 12 points of sincerity, 12 points of seriousness.Such a vow, without thinking about it.

Thinking about it carefully, every day and night of his childhood was deeply engraved in his mind.

He remembered Li Mi spitting and scolding Fang Qiu at the dining table, remembering the black and bright eyes when the heavens graciously offered Yin Yan Cake, and remembering Cang Jinglan's lazy and inadvertent glance from above.

Only this memory was removed from his mind instinctively.It's like an ugly and hideous scar, I wish I could cover it up with layers of clothes, I don't want others to see it, and I am extremely ashamed to speak of it.The slightest touch will cause the stomach to twitch, and the pain will be overwhelmed.

It took him four years to establish his own intelligence network, recruit talents who obeyed his orders, and complete a complete surveillance system.Layer upon layer, tightly intertwined.

The lessons learned from the past are vivid in his mind. Cang Tiansu did not believe that "do not use doubtful people, but employ people without suspicion". He had imagined the scene of being betrayed by everyone he knew over and over again.

So while giving trust and hoping that the other party will always be loyal to him, he also hopes that no matter who is betrayed by anyone, he can put the initiative on his side.

Fame, profit, money, power, father, mother, wife, son, everyone under his command has a fatal hole in his hands. Once they are torn apart by the light, they will fall into the abyss forever, beyond redemption.

Do you want me to bear the world or let the world bear me?

Before Cang Tiansu had time to think about the answer to this question, he had subconsciously made a choice for himself.