Zhu Nao

These two agents were not the first wave of agents captured by the Yanzhou Army, nor would they be the last wave.I don’t know these details, long before Zhu Nao figured out how to deal with Xuantian Sect and the Black Horse Army, he had carefully thought about how Henry Zhang would deal with them with Xie Wuji and others.

Zhu Nao will use this method of sowing dissension, and Zhang Xuan will also use it; it is useful for Xuantian Sect and the Black Horse Army, but it may not be useless for the Shu Army and the Yanzhou Army.

Therefore, Zhu Nao has already thought about where Xuantian Church will attack and what rhetoric it will come up with to provoke.And Xie Wuji also made corresponding arrangements.All soldiers who need to contact outsiders have received strict training.Before Xi Zuo spoke, these soldiers knew what Xi Zuo was going to say; after Xi Zuo spoke, these soldiers could tell who Xi Zuo was.

The two secret workers who sneaked into the porters picked up the dung for a long time, and they smelt all over their bodies. They couldn't do anything, so they were caught by the Yanzhou army.

Not long after, the news reached Xie Wuji's ears.

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"Oh? Two spies caught again?" Xie Wuji was not surprised when he heard the news.

There was already an established procedure for interrogation, so he waved his hand and told his subordinates to follow the rules.

After his men went out, Xie Wuji took out a letter from the drawer.There are many names written on the letter.He looked at it for a while, thought for a while, added and corrected a few more strokes, got up and went to Zhu Nao's tent.

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Walking into Zhu Nao's tent, Xie Wuji went straight to the point and said: "I just caught two spies, mixed with the porters who pick up dung, and they have already been detained for interrogation."

"...the manure picker?" Junao laughed.

Xie Wuji shrugged slightly.

It is really unlucky to say that the secret work of the Xuantian Sect is really unlucky, because it is too difficult to mix into the Yanzhou army, they can only do some hard work, not like the people Zhu Nao sent to Fenyang.In fact, Henry Zhang has already martial-lawed Fenyang City, just to avoid the intrusion of spies.But Xuantian Sect itself is a very chaotic place, before accepting people, they never rejected people, but now it is not easy to identify their identities?Zhu Nao asked people to pretend to be believers from a certain state who went to the city to send offerings to the master, and dozens of people were sent in all at once.This is called Fenyang City, how can it not be chaotic?

Xie Wuji took out the letter from his sleeve, pushed it in front of Zhu Nao, and said: "I ordered people to select some capable people from each battalion. If you are interested, you can choose a few to go."

Zhu Nao was startled slightly, a smile appeared in his eyes, and he stared straight at Xie Wuji.

Xie Wuji was uncomfortable seeing him, so he looked back at each other: "You don't look at these names, but you look at what I do?"

Zhu Nao let out a "huh" and said confidently: "You are prettier than these names."

Xie Wuji didn't know how to answer the words for a while, so he had to look back with his eyes.

Zhu Nao's smile deepened, and then he reached out to take the list and read it.Those listed on the list were indeed capable generals in the Yanzhou Army, some of whom he had even heard of, and some of whom could even be called Xie Wuji's right-hand man.

Zhu Nao said: "I picked these people away, wouldn't you be reluctant?"

Xie Wuji originally wanted to say that since he gave it to you, he would not be reluctant, but before he could say it, he realized that he was really uncomfortable—these few were all extraordinary talents, and they had solved a lot of troubles for him over the years things, set a lot of credit.How could he not be reluctant?

After a while, he said truthfully: "There are indeed some."

Zhu Nao was slightly taken aback, even Wu Cong who followed in was also taken aback.

Xie Wuji was silent for a moment, then said lightly: "If you have people under your command who can give full play to their talents, it is their good fortune."

The reason why he wanted to recommend his subordinates to Zhu Nao had something to do with Xuantian Sect's instigation.Of course, they can take strict precautions so that the secret operations of Xuantian Sect cannot be mixed into the army, but only relying on chasing and intercepting them is not a long-term solution.If you can stop a Xuantian sect today, can you stop others in the future?

If we want to make the two armies fit together for a long time, we have to solve the problem from the root.

The soldiers are willing to fight with the generals everywhere, some to repay the kindness of knowledge, some for the sake of friendship, but we can't expect everyone to do so.Most of these ordinary people still do it for fame and fortune.If Xie Wuji voluntarily relinquishes power, but blocks the promotion of his subordinates, then sooner or later the Yanzhou Army will refuse to accept Zhu Nao, or even Xie Wuji.

And Xie Wuji recommended his subordinates to Zhu Nao, and these capable and talented people jumped out of Xie Wuji's shadow.If Zhu Nao entrusts them to reuse again, after all, Zhu Nao's plate is bigger than Xie Wuji's, and those people will have a new way to be promoted. If they are lucky in the future, they may even have the opportunity to be equal to Xie Wuji!

The talents in the Yanzhou army saw that the way forward they said was not hindered by this, so they would not be too opposed to Xie Wuji's handing over power to Zhu Nao.

Zhu Nao looked at the list carefully again, and said: "In recent years, many cities and countryside have been conquered in the South and North Wars; and the army has been expanded again and again, and tens of thousands of new troops have been formed. I am worried about where to find talents. You can look at this list again. Look, if there is something you really don't want to part with, it's still too late to cross it out. If not, I'll take it all."

When Xie Wuji heard that he wanted to accept all the orders, his eyelids twitched: "...you are welcome."

Zhu Nao blinked, taking it as a matter of course: "Can I be polite with you?"

After all, this list was given by myself, and it is hard to get it back.Xie Wuji could only grit his teeth and respond: "Okay. But if I regret it in the future, you have to pay me back with something else."

Zhu Nao pushed the list onto the desk, and said strangely: "What do you want, tell me first. But General Xie knows that I don't trade at a loss. If I lose money today, it's for making money tomorrow." return."

Xie Wuji didn't say a word, tapped his fingers on the table lightly and rhythmically, and the corner of his mouth hooked slightly: "You don't want to pay, and I don't want to lose, so I don't know when the debt will be settled. "

Before Zhu Nao could say anything else, he got up and said, "Look again. It's time for me to inspect the position."

Zhu Nao didn't see him off, Xie Wuji took Wu Cong out of the tent.

In fact, Xie Wuji recommended talents to Zhu Nao, if Zhu Nao was really willing to entrust them with reuse, these people were born under Xie Wuji's account after all, it is hard to say whether they will still love Xie Wuji in the future.It is Xie Wuji's sincerity to recommend talents who can be really useful; it is Zhu Nao's sincerity to recommend them.As long as there is more suspicion and fear between the two, and less tacit understanding and trust between the two, this matter cannot be accomplished.

But if this matter is accomplished, it will be extremely difficult for anyone who wants to separate the two of them in the future.

Wu Cong followed Xie Wuji out of the tent, and kept sneaking eyes on Xie Wuji.

Xie Wuji noticed something and glanced at him.

Wu Cong hurriedly stopped, and touched his nose shyly.

Xie Wuji didn't speak, just stared at him with squinted eyes.Wu Cong felt guilty when he was looked at, and finally said: "I, I just feel that in the past two years, the general has become more... more like a human being."

Xie Wuji frowned, not knowing what to say.Could it be that he was not like a human before, but like a log?

Wu Cong also felt that what he said was inappropriate, so he hurriedly added, "I mean, the general has become more and more humane. A few years ago, I suspected that the general does not know emotions, lacks emotions and six desires."

That's still not the right way to say it.How many ordinary people can cut off the seven emotions and six desires?Even monks who have practiced for many years cannot do it.It's just that Xie Wuji's nature was like a knife in the past, his joy was weaker than ordinary people, but his hostility was deeper than ordinary people.Over the past two years, things have gradually changed.

Wu Cong was very apprehensive, afraid that he would make Xie Wuji unhappy if he said something wrong.But Xie Wuji didn't seem to be happy, nor was he unhappy about it, he just stood there and didn't know what to think.

After a while, Xie Wuji asked Wu Cong a very unexpected question: "Then, do you think it is good or not?"

Wu Cong couldn't help being stunned.Is Xie Wuji's change good or bad?

As the saying goes, kindness does not command soldiers.If the person who is a general is not enough, if he has compassion, it will be difficult for him to be a general.Xie Wuji hadn't reached that level, but his hostility was less than before.He doesn't know whether it is good or bad for the Yanzhou Army, but for Xie Wuji himself...

Wu Cong whispered: "The general smiles more than before, and seems to be happy more often. At least for the general, it's a good thing."

Xie Wuji didn't answer for a while, and after a while, he gave a soft "hmm".

Wu Cong thought he would say something, or ask something, but he didn't say anything.

"Let's go." Xie Wuji stepped forward and walked towards the place where the horse was tied.

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In the Heavenly King Hall of Daxuantian Temple, chickens are flying like dogs and chickens are flying around, and chicken feathers are all over the floor.

Because Xuantianjiao was facing the dilemma of lack of money, some time ago, Henry Zhang convened all the ministers and discussed some ways to raise money as soon as possible.So just a few days ago, Henry Zhang held a blessing ceremony in the city.

The so-called blessing ceremony is that Henry Zhang chooses an auspicious day to open the altar, claiming that he will do it that day, and all believers who come to participate in the ceremony will be blessed.Naturally, believers who come to participate need to pay money and jewels to express their respect and gratitude to Master.

This is not the first time Henry Zhang has held such a ceremony. After he just occupied Yanzhou last year, the momentum of Xuantian Sect reached its peak. He held a similar ceremony at that time.Believers from all over the world flocked after hearing the news, almost breaking the city of Fenyang.Opening the altar for seven consecutive days, Henry Zhang raised nearly [-] yuan of money and a large amount of jewelry and playthings in one fell swoop.

However, less than a year later, Henry Zhang opened the altar this time, and for five consecutive days, he didn’t even raise a thousand coins!

There are actually many reasons. This time the ceremony was held in a hurry, and there was no publicity in advance, and Fenyang City was under martial law, and the believers from all over the place could not catch up, so they could only target the believers in Fenyang City.But even with all these reasons, the ministers of Xuantian Sect must admit that Xuantian Sect is already on the decline, and they are gradually losing popular support.

The ceremony was originally scheduled to be held for seven days, but it ended early after only five days, because from the third day onwards, very few people still came to participate.If it goes on, it will lose the face of Xuantian Sect.

The expected money was not raised, and the ministries in Xuantian Sect were in a hurry. They gathered in the Hall of Heavenly Kings, surrounded Henry Zhang, and gave various ideas in a hurry.

"How about this, let's start selling immortal tablets. As long as believers pay enough money, we will give them a tablet, saying that this tablet is cast with immortality, as long as they are buried with this tablet after death, they will be Can ascend to immortality after Qiqi."

"It's all like this, why don't we simply arrange the ranks of immortals. First divide the nine heavens, and then divide each heaven into nine ranks, a total of ninety-nine and eighty-one ranks. The first rank is the Xuantian Daluo Golden Immortal, and you have to pay 81 yuan to get it." Get the fairy position; the last one is Yaotian fairy boy, you can buy it for a hundred coins. So that the rich and the poor will pay for it..."

"This may not be enough. We have not been in touch with Cizhou, Xiangzhou, and Xingzhou. In case something happens there... There are still a few states that have not sent money and food until now. We are all waiting to see the situation! We can only get money from Taiyuan right now. If you want me to say, simply let the believers hand over all their property to us, and say that we will take it for them and buy them immortal positions for them. After they ascend to immortality Before, we were in charge of their food and clothing, and we sent them away with some chaffy vegetables before we left."

All kinds of weird ideas from the officers came out in an endless stream, Henry Zhang refuted a few at the beginning, and laughed at the end.Since ancient times, there have been emperors who sold officials, and he, a fake fairy, is also selling immortal positions today!

"Anyway, the city of Fenyang can't stay here for a long time. Regardless of whether the black horse army can repel the Yanzhou army, we can't stay in Fenyang for a long time. Before we leave, we should catch everything we can."

At the beginning, these officials were all ambitious and thought that the Yanzhou Army was not difficult to deal with at all, so they didn't plan to leave Taiyuan at all.But now, few people insisted on staying.

It's just that even if he wanted to leave, he didn't leave empty-handed like this.Back then they still had mountains of gold and silver, but now they have almost spent all their money, but they have two thousand more soldiers.Soldiers cannot be recruited in vain, they have to be taken away, and the money spent has to be recouped.Otherwise, they went to other places, even without money!

"Master, what do you think of this?"

"Master, it's better to be like that."

"Master..."

Everyone was chattering around Henry Zhang, and Henry Zhang waved his big hand: “Okay, just do as you said!”

Anyway, they don't want Fenyang anymore, if they don't search hard, will they still leave it to Zhu Nao and Xie Wuji?Break the jar and smash it!