Zhu Nao

Zhu Nao slept until the sun was up, and after washing in the tent, Jing Zhe came in: "Young Master, General Xie has been waiting for you outside for half an hour."

Zhu Nao was startled, and while walking outside, he asked, "He was looking for me? Why didn't he wake me up?"

Jing Zhe said: "General Xie didn't let me call."

Zhu Nao opened the curtain, and sure enough, Xie Wuji was outside the tent.He wasn't just waiting around, he was practicing spearing in the open space.

Now it's early autumn, Xie Wuji only wore a thin robe and hakama, stepped on a pair of brown short boots, and held a seven-foot spear in his hand.The spear swam in his hand like a snake, and the poisonous snake went straight to the prey; suddenly, it turned into a long fish, stirring and rolling in the water; On the ground, the dust flew up in an instant, splitting a piece of earth and stone.

Xie Wuji took the move, there was already a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.He leaned his spear on the ground and looked in Zhu Nao's direction: "You got up."

Zhu Nao stepped forward: "Why don't you let someone wake me up?"

Xie Wuji wiped the sweat off his face casually: "You rested late last night, so it's okay to sleep a little longer. It's not an urgent matter."

In order to be able to respond in time, Zhu Nao followed Xie Wuji's army and came to the vicinity of Fenyang.But he still had a lot of official documents to approve, and the official documents from all over the country were sent to Yanzhou, and they were sent here together with the official documents from Yanzhou. He was still busy with his affairs every day.

Zhu Nao asked, "Then why are you looking for me?"

Xie Wuji walked towards the weapon rack, Zhu Nao followed beside him.

"In the morning, a group of people and horses transported a large amount of luggage and walked in the direction of Fenyang City. They were stopped by my people. I questioned them a few times and found out that they were from the Cizhou Branch to pay Fengyin to Henry Zhang. 160 Two All the people have been arrested, and more than [-] vehicles of money and food have been handed back. I am still counting the details, so I will come to tell you."

Junao laughed.

The news of the Xuantian believers in Cizhou may not be too closed. They came to deliver offerings to Henry Zhang, but they didn't even hear that Xie Wuji was leading troops to station here.This is great, people and money are all in their hands.

It's also thanks to the lack of news about those people, otherwise fifty cartloads of luggage would have been transported into the city, and the Xuantian Sect would have survived for a while longer.

Xie Wuji put the spear back on the shelf and asked, "What do you plan to do with it?"

Zhu Nao thought for a while, and said: "I'll question them if I can find anything. If I can bribe them to defect and do things for us, that would be the best. As for the money and food, you seized them and you keep them." That’s right, don’t ask me.”

Xie Wuji said concisely: "Okay."

He originally thought that those Zhu Nao might have some special purpose, since they didn't, he arranged it himself.

Zhu Nao had just woken up, but Xie Wuji had already patrolled the barracks and practiced for half an hour.Zhu Nao still had a lot of official documents sent from various places for him to review, Xie Wuji was about to go back and change his clothes, so he said a few words, and each paid the bill.

Not long after, the officials of the Yanzhou Army had finished counting the seized baggage, and brought the list to Xie Wuji for review.

Among the fifty carts of luggage, there are three thousand guan of money, some jewelry and jade, and about ten carts of grain.

Xie Wuji looked at it and said: "Put the grain into the warehouse. The money and jewels will be distributed by the branch officials and distributed to all the soldiers - he said that the money should have been used as military expenses, and it was because the governor of Zhu Fu thought about the hard work of the soldiers in recent days that he deliberately sent it down."

The official who delivered the list hurriedly said, "Yes, General."

Xie Wuji's rule has always been strict, and the soldiers are not allowed to invade the people's land, money and food at will.But he is by no means a stingy person, he doesn't love money himself, and if he gets something, he distributes it to his soldiers.So Yanzhou soldiers treated him with more and more respect.

In fact, whether Xie Wuji wanted to keep the money seized today, distribute it to the soldiers, or use it for other purposes, it had nothing to do with Zhu Nao.However, since Xie Wuji made up his mind to hand over the government affairs to Jun Nao, he also handled most of these favors in Jun Nao's name.

When distributing military salaries to the soldiers on time, and when giving extra rewards after the victory, he would always mention that this is the meaning of Zhu Fu Yin, and it is the money and food sponsored by the Shu government.

In fact, Zhu Nao did give Xie Wuji a lot of support in terms of money and food, but if Xie Wuji didn't want to mention these things, or he didn't care about them, then his soldiers would not care about them either.The soldiers naturally recognize the leader, such as the black horse army. Their current food and drink expenses are obviously given by Henry Zhang, but they will not be loyal to Henry Zhang, or even grateful to Henry Zhang, but will only be loyal to Wei Bian.Because it was Wei Bian who asked for money and food from Henry Zhang, and it was Wei Bian who led them to find a way to survive.Without Henry Zhang, there will still be Li Xuan and Wang Xuan.

If Xie Wuji wanted to be like Wei Bian, he could do the same. Even if Zhu Nao gave him gold and silver, he could only let his subordinates remember his kindness.But he didn't.

It is good for the soldiers to be loyal only to him, so that no one can take away the power in his hands.But since he has decided to fight the world with Zhu Nao, if the soldiers only know him in their hearts, it is not good.

In fact, in many cases, it is not that the soldiers act according to the general's wishes, on the contrary, it is the general who must act according to the soldiers' wishes.If the soldiers have no intention of fighting, but the general insists on persecuting, he will only invite disaster for himself.If Xie Wuji's soldiers resented the Shu government and the Shu people, even if Xie Wuji wanted to join forces with Zhu Nao again, it would be difficult for him to do so.

Therefore, in the past two years, Xie Wuji gave up everywhere, and only gave Zhu Nao all the favorable favors.If one day he and Jun Nao are at odds with each other, this move will certainly cut off his way out.But he, Xie Wuji, was never a person who would leave enough room for himself.

——If he achieves success and fame in this life, may the great cause be peaceful and the country will last forever;

After distributing the money, Xie Wuji took a fast horse, brought a small group of soldiers, and went to the front line to inspect the enemy's situation.

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On the main road, a group of men dressed as porters walked on the road.

"Already almost to their camp?"

"Come on, there are still three miles at most."

"call……"

There is a porter in this team who is in charge of the whole team.He walked with the two men and talked to them in a low voice.

"When you get there in a while, you must be careful and don't show your feet. Do you remember what I reminded you? The Yanzhou soldiers searched closely. Although I took your money, it's not worth it for this little money. Take everyone's life. If you have something wrong, I will return the money to you, and you leave as soon as possible."

"I know, I know. We are not afraid, what are you afraid of?"

Most of the porters in this team were real porters, and only the two who walked beside the head porter were actually agents sent by Henry Zhang. state military relations.

It has been a month since the two of them received this task, but there has been no progress.Can worry them badly.It’s not that they are incompetent, they have done similar things for Henry Zhang before, and they have quite a bit of experience.In fact, the most convenient way is for them to find a way to infiltrate into the enemy's ranks. After a period of time, they get acquainted, and it is easy for them to deceive people or spread rumors.

You must know that an army with thousands or even tens of thousands of people, if the management is loose, they can get in as long as they can get a set of clothes, but the army of Xie Wuji and Zhu Nao is obviously not that loose.The army has its own set of strict procedures.It is almost impossible for outsiders to get in.They spent a lot of time outside, but they still couldn't think of a way, so they had to give up.

Since you can't mix in as a soldier, you can only find a way to contact the army openly, and then talk to the people inside.

So they bribed the captain of the porters, gave some money to each porter in the team, sneaked into the team, and went to the Yanzhou Army to collect military fertilizer—the so-called military fertilizer is the daily excrement of the army.After the porters harvested it, they went back to fertilize it, and there would be a lot of fertilizer to use in the spring of next year.

When they approached the trailer with the excrement barrels, the two secret workers were almost fainted by the soaring stench, and one of them couldn't hold back, and went straight to the side of the road to vomit.Fortunately, after half a day, both of them have gotten used to it, and feel that they have become one with the stench, and they can't smell anything anymore.

For the errand entrusted to them by Henry Zhang, they also fought hard.The two looked at each other silently, and prayed tacitly in their hearts: I hope they can finish the errand...

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Sure enough, after walking another two miles, they could vaguely see the barracks.The two secret agents wanted to take a closer look, but they couldn't - the Yanzhou Army had strict rules, and even dung pickers were not allowed to enter the barracks.The soldiers in charge had already pushed out all the dung buckets with a cart. Hundreds of dung buckets were neatly lined up on the gravel ground. The porters themselves poured the gold soup inside into the giant buckets they brought. After pouring, the soldiers took the small buckets back, and the porters pushed the big buckets away.

They found that there was nothing useful to be seen at the place where the excrement was collected, and the two secret agents were very disappointed.They were about to get close to the handover soldier, but the handover soldier noticed them first.

"Why are there new faces?" The soldier asked, pointing to the two secret workers, "Which village and household are you two from? What's your name?"

The two master porters had already been told by the porter, and he hurriedly said: "Li Er, the villain, he is Huang San. This job was originally done by Niu Ma and Zhang Cao from the same village, but one of them fell ill and the other fell down. , we will replace them both."

The soldiers of the Yanzhou Army inspected them and saw nothing unusual, so they took out their notebooks and recorded their names and village households, waved their hands and said, "Okay, go get busy."

The porters went to dump the manure themselves, and the two spies endured their nausea and started doing it in order not to show their feet.

After being busy for a while, the two secret agents began to look for opportunities to get close to the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army.

"Brother, why do you have to work so hard to transport the dung bucket out in the future, and you have to transport it back. How about letting us go in and clean it up, wouldn't it save your energy?"

The soldier immediately stared at him: "The important place of the military camp, you can come in and out at will? What's your intention in saying that!"

The spy was taken aback, and hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Brother misunderstood. You are here to deal with evil cults and eliminate harm for the people. You are all great heroes! Such a hard job, we should be allowed to do it."

As the saying goes, reach out and don't hit a smiling face.These two elaborators spoke nicely, and the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army couldn't help calming down their anger, and said: "The military camp has its own rules. You should talk less and do more."

The fine work broke out in a cold sweat.This has to be put aside in the past, and it is replaced by the officers and soldiers of other teams. They flatter and rush to work for others. Is there any reason for those officers and soldiers not to agree?Once they say yes, they have a chance.But when they got to the Yanzhou army, they encountered a big problem.

The two had no choice but to work hard for a while, and then looked for opportunities to join the Yanzhou soldiers.

"Brother, we heard in the village that the two great heroes Zhufu Yin and General Xie led troops to deal with the cult. I wonder if you are from Shu or Yanzhou?"

The soldier said: "Yanzhou people."

Xi Zuo asked, "What about the brothers in the Shu army?"

The soldier frowned and resisted a little: "Why are you asking so many questions?"

Xi Zuo was busy and flattered again: "I'm just curious. My father was coaxed by the cult to take away all his property, leaving our family empty and hungry. I hate the cult. I heard that you are here to deal with the cult. I want to see the hero with my own eyes." style."

The soldier looked him up and said, "Shu soldiers are not here, only our Yanzhou soldiers are here."

When the two secret agents heard that he was gradually taking the bait, they were secretly delighted.

If they want to provoke the relationship between the Shu army and the Yanzhou army, they must first find out the contradictions between the two armies.The easiest thing to think of must be that the treatment of the two teams is different, so you can use this to make a fuss.However, after their investigation, it was found that when the two armies were in different places, the cost of food and clothing was of course different, but the salaries they could receive were the same.After the two armies met, they even had the same food and clothing expenses, and there was no obvious unfair point at all.

But there is one thing that can be done: that is, whether it was against Jiao Bie and Shi An in Yanzhou before, or against the Dark Horse Army now, the Yanzhou Army has contributed more and the Shu Army has contributed less.Like now, all those brought out by Xie Wuji to fight were the Yanzhou army, while the Shu army stayed in Yanzhou and didn't come out at all.

In fact, the reason for doing this is very simple: Xie Wuji is the main general, so of course he will use his own soldiers smoothly.Moreover, he didn't need a lot of troops for this battle. It would make management more difficult if the two armies fought together.The Yanzhou Army also understood the terrain and environment in this area better than the Shu Army.

But no matter what Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji think about, this is undoubtedly a starting point for the detailed work sent by Henry Zhang.

"The Shu army didn't come? Could it be that you, the Yanzhou army, are the only ones here to deal with the cult?" The two spies pretended to be surprised, and sang together, "I've always heard that the Shu army and the Yanzhou army are as close as brothers, how can we deal with such a dangerous war against the cult? But only you are allowed to come? Where have all the heroes of the Shu army gone?"

"However, I heard that General Xie has already paid homage to Yin Zhu. It's no wonder that the hard work came before the Yanzhou Army brothers."

"General Xie worships Zhu Fu Yin as his master? Is this the case? Why? I have always heard that General Xie is the greatest hero in the world, so why is Zhu Fu Yin better than him?"

"Who knows? It's such a pity for General Xie. I heard that Zhu Fu Yin still has several generals under his command, but I don't know where General Xie ranks among them."

The more they talked, the more complicated the expressions on the faces of the Yanzhou Army soldiers became.They saw it in their eyes, and they were happy in their hearts: they took the bait, they took the bait!

You must know that Xie Wuji's future is actually the future of the Yanzhou Army.If Xie Wuji took the top spot, the characters in the Yanzhou Army would also be able to rush to the front row in that row; but if Xie Wuji himself only took the tenth spot, the people under him Can people still go there in the front row?

Since these spies couldn't sneak into the army, and they couldn't find anyone in the army who could bribe them, they couldn't start stirring up people's hearts from the inside.That's all they can do, pretending to be a manure picker today, and a water delivery man tomorrow, and then use the nearby people and use all means to stuff this idea into the minds of the soldiers in Yanzhou.Let them feel dissatisfied for their own treatment and their own future, and oppose Junao.

In doing so, the effect will definitely be slower than directly instigating from within, but after a period of time, it will still be effective.

Thinking that the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army had already taken the bait, a spy went on to say: "Actually, I also heard that Mr. Zhu Fuyin..." After a pause, he pretended to suddenly realize that he had slipped his tongue, and hurriedly shut his mouth and remained silent. up.This was to whet the appetite of the Yanzhou soldiers. When the Yanzhou soldiers came to ask him, he shied away a few times, pretending to be evasive, and then what he said would be more convincing.

These are all their usual methods, and they have worked many times before.It's a pity that with Yanzhou soldiers, they are doomed to run into trouble.

The leader of the Yanzhou soldiers looked at him coldly for a moment, then sneered, "Say it? Why don't you continue? I'd like to hear what you can say."

Xi Zuo heard that his tone was wrong, and before he could speak, he heard the man suddenly shouted: "Take these two minions down for me! And all these porters will also be detained. Immediately send someone to their village to check. The identities of these two people!"

The two secret workers were dumbfounded for a moment, and the porters also panicked. Some timid ones fell to their knees with a plop: "Forgive me! This has nothing to do with us! We only took a few pennies, and we don't know anything!"

This is good, there is no need to go to the village to check his identity, and he will be completely exposed on the spot.

Seeing that the general situation was not good, the porter secretly scolded the two secret workers, while turning his head and trying to run away.But before he could take two steps, he was pinned to the ground.

Until this time, the two secret agents were still at a loss: What did they say wrong?Or are they bad actors?Where did it go wrong...