In the back house of Jianzhou County Governor's Yamen, there were several little maids serving flowers and plants. Tang Jiu Sheng walked leisurely and walked into the back house with his hands behind his back. The little maids said together: "See you, Your Majesty!"

Tang Jiusheng nodded and motioned for them to lie flat. He walked slowly to the flower garden and looked at the various flowers that were still fragrant in the near winter. He stared at one of the orchids for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "This flower is very precious."

Bar?"

The little maid Lu'er smiled charmingly and said: "Prince Qi, the plant in front of you is called Hanlan, and it is worth hundreds of gold in Jianzhou Flower Market!"

Tang Jiusheng wondered: "It's just a flower. Hanlan is not a famous flower. How can it be worth hundreds of gold? It's not Ganoderma lucidum or thousand-year-old ginseng! Oh, it blooms in early winter, and it's a little prettier than other flowers.

Son, it’s worth money? Why don’t I believe it! The plum blossoms are still proud of the snow, I haven’t heard of them being worth a hundred gold!”

Lu'er snickered and said: "Your Majesty, this cold orchid has several good ones, so it's worth hundreds of gold! Please see, Your Majesty, this orchid has bloomed plum petals, so it's higher than the price of ordinary orchids, and it's fragrant."

It is far superior to other orchids of the same variety, so the price has to be increased. And you see, it is a distinctive red color, so gorgeous in this early winter season, and its leaves are so strange. The top two leaves are three-leaf.

The lower part is like a calla lily, cute and attractive. As the saying goes, rare things are valuable. Where can you find such an orchid? It’s worth a hundred gold or less!”

Tang Jiusheng nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, it's rare that it's worth so much money! There are so many exotic flowers and herbs in the county governor's office, this Ye Tengjiao is really arty!"

When the little maid Lu'er heard Tang Jiusheng mention Ye Tengjiao, she smiled and blushed, "Your Majesty, all the exotic flowers and plants in this garden now belong to you, and even us... slaves also belong to you!

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Tang Jiusheng laughed, touched his nose, and asked awkwardly: "Good girl, your little mouth is really sweet. Oh, by the way, what is your name? I am busy with official duties, so I forgot it again!"

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Lu'er pursed her lips and smiled, "My lord, you have a lot of things to do all day long. It is inevitable that noble people forget things. My name is Lu'er!"

Tang Jiusheng patted his head and said, "Oh, look at my brain. Yes, your name is Lu'er! How long have you been here at the County Sheriff's Yamen?"

Lu'er smiled and said: "Your Majesty, it's been almost a year since I came here!"

Tang Jiusheng nodded and said: "Okay, you have taken good care of these flowers, I like them very much! Okay, you can do your best and raise these flowers well, I cannot treat you badly! Oh, there are flowers that need to be cut off.

, Don’t wait until the flowers are gone and break branches, right?” After saying that, he laughed and looked at Lu’er meaningfully.

Lu'er's face was filled with joy, but she immediately restrained herself. She quickly stepped forward and bowed, saying, "I thank you for your grace. May your Majesty live a thousand years longer!"

Tang Jiusheng laughed and scolded: "Don't talk nonsense. I'm not greedy about thousand years old. I'll be happy if I can live to be one hundred and fifty years old! My grandfather didn't even live to be one hundred years old! That's okay, you guys can get busy.

, I will wander around again!" As he spoke, Tang Jiusheng left with his hands behind his back.

Lu'er and several other maids were behind and Wanfu saluted and said: "I would like to send you off to the prince!"

When Tang Jiusheng walked away, another maid, Zhu'er, glanced sideways at Lu'er, poked Lu'er's forehead with her finger, and laughed and scolded: "Lu'er, you little coquettish hoof, oh, look, you just met the prince."

That energy! The prince is so handsome, but you can’t show that coquettish look on your face! The prince has all the power in the world and he is so handsome. Is there any shortage of women? I heard that several princesses and empresses are good-looking.

The country is beautiful and fragrant, how can I get a little fairy like you!"

Lu'er twisted her waist and walked to the back house. As she walked, she said disdainfully: "So what if the country is beautiful and fragrant? Is it amazing? So what if she is beautiful? Are they with the prince now? The prince misses women now, they

Can you serve me? Humph, I’ve never heard that the first to get the moon is the one near the water or the tower?"

Pearl looked at Lu'er's enchanting figure leaving, spat hard, and murmured some curse words. The other two maids smiled and persuaded Pearl to ignore her.

In the shadow behind the rockery in the garden of the Sheriff's Mansion, Tang Jiusheng asked in a low voice: "Did you find something wrong with her? I just think there is something wrong with her. You want to say that there is something wrong with her? She is very precious about these precious flowers. It's true.

She looks like a flower gardener. But she is a child from a poor family, and she is not from a family of gardeners. Let alone the nobleness of these famous flowers, she may not even be able to recognize their names!"

Only one person was heard replying in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I haven't found anything wrong with her for the time being. Don't worry, I will keep people watching her!" Tang Jiusheng nodded and waved for him to step back, and the person disappeared into the darkness.

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At dusk, Lu'er walked out of the room, opened the door, looked around, and found no one else in the yard. He quickly reached out and took out a blue pigeon with a short beak, big eyes and white wings.

As soon as the son raised his hand, the homing pigeon flapped its wings and flew away, disappearing in the sky in an instant.

Lu'er let out a long breath, but she didn't realize that there was a person sitting on the ridge behind her. That person had a panoramic view of everything about Lu'er, but he didn't make any move, he just hummed softly in his nose.

One sound.

Luo Bingshang and his cows were all half-drunk in the Caoshutang of the back house of the Jinglue Yamen. Luo Bingshang took advantage of his drunkenness and said: "Master Meng thinks highly of you. I have been by your side for ten years. I have almost exhausted all my plans.

There is definitely something behind the scenes in Prince Wei's Mansion this time. Although we still don't know how they are going to move, they will definitely not stay still! There is no news from the scouts sent to Jianzhou, and there is no news from Ning Chenggang and Zhang Shuihuan either.

I’m afraid Jianzhou is in danger!”

Niu Mandi smiled and said: "De Gong, Jianzhou is hundreds of miles away from us. It's hard to say what the scouts encountered on the road, but Ning Chenggang and Zhang Shuihuan are both brave generals, nothing will go wrong, especially Zhang Shuihuan's attitude toward me."

The officers are loyal, so don’t worry! There are eight thousand garrison troops in Jianzhou, including thousands of cavalry. What can we do with just the five or six hundred people from Prince Wei’s Mansion? They’re not even enough to make dumplings!”

Luo Bingshang shook his head and said: "Sir, I'm afraid things are not that simple. We suffered a loss because we did not establish an effective intelligence team early. Now it seems that relying on the scouts in the army is not enough. King Pingxi goes first

He has taken a step forward, and his Blood Shadow Hall has now taken shape. His intelligence system is complete and it also carries out assassination missions. In comparison, we are lagging behind. We should also establish a similar intelligence agency!"

Niu Mandi nodded calmly, "Well, virtue and merit are justified. We should really put this matter on the agenda as soon as possible, otherwise we will be controlled by others!"

Luo Bingshang cupped his hands and said: "Sir, since there is no news from the three groups of scouts we sent out, we should not wait here for news from Jianzhou. We can consider temporarily using the power of Blood Shadow Hall to help us investigate.

Check the situation in Jianzhou! Also, just in case, the students are planning to go to the Southwest Road, contact King Pingxi, and prepare to raise troops. At least they must ask his troops to pretend to be bandits to help.

Let’s give it a try!”

Niu Mandi bit his lip, his expression a little tangled, "De Gong, will using the Blood Shadow Hall make our scouts seem too useless? As for King Pingxi, I'm afraid he won't directly raise troops to help us. With his strength

We are still some distance away from fighting for the world, so we are looking for an alliance among all of us. If you ask him to openly raise an army, he will not do it. If we change the angle with him, we will make the same choice, right?"

Luo Bingshang smiled bitterly and said: "Sir, we don't have time to think about this now. The students are planning to set off overnight to Yuzhou Mansion to persuade Prince Pingxi. We are just grasshoppers on a rope now. If Tang Jiusheng completely destroys Jiannan Road,

With it in his hands, when he pacifies King Xi and raises an army in the future, life will be difficult! I didn’t expect that the little emperor, who has no power at all, can actually make such a shocking move!"

Niu Mandi looked at the roof of the shed, and after a while he smiled helplessly, "I think he is just a blind cat who encountered a dead mouse. He didn't know what to do in Jiannan Road. He was so ill that he sought medical treatment, and that's why he chose Tang Jiusheng as the King of Wei.

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Luo Bingshang thought for a while, then gritted his teeth and said: "Sir, just in case, I suggest you, in the name of the administrative envoy's office, transfer three thousand soldiers and horses from Jiangzhou County, five thousand soldiers and horses from Huzhou County, and five thousand soldiers and horses from Huzhou County.

Lianshan County mobilized five thousand soldiers and horses! In order to avoid alarming the enemy, Songshan County soldiers and horses were not mobilized. To the governors of the three counties, they only said that they were deploying troops to exterminate Zhang Yuanyuan, the gangster of Luye City, and that they were kept without anyone noticing!"

Niu Mandi was startled, "De Gong, what are you doing with so many soldiers and horses? Moreover, according to the Great Shang Law, the strategy can only mobilize up to five thousand soldiers and horses at a time! Unless there is an imperial edict, otherwise it will be regarded as treason!"

Luo Bingshang smiled slyly, "Sir, the maximum number of troops we can mobilize at a time is five thousand, and the number of troops we mobilize from all over the country has not exceeded the upper limit! These soldiers and generals transferred are in our hands, they are ours! We have one more

There are only a thousand men and horses available in Prince Wei's palace. We now have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses on hand, and Jianzhou has 8,000. Together with these transferred troops, the total is more than 30,000, which is not enough to destroy Tang Jiusheng? What's more, Jiannan

The road is three or four thousand miles away from Yong'an. When will we wait for Yong'an to get the news? When the emperor orders all the troops to attack us, Jiannan Road will be settled!"

Niu Mandi looked embarrassed and smacked his lips and said: "De Gong, your plan is vicious enough, but is it too hasty now to be in such a hurry? After all, Prince Wei's palace just wants to investigate Ye Tengjiao. If we take action now, it will be tantamount to

Once the cards are laid out, there is no way out! We have to fight to the end!"

Luo Bingshang gently shook the wine in the wine cup and whispered: "Sir, if it is not as expected by the students, I am afraid that Jianzhou has been lost by now! If we have more than 20,000 people on hand, we are fully capable of taking over.

Retake Jianzhou! Jianzhou has just been lost, Tang Jiu Sheng has just arrived, and people's hearts are unstable. Tens of thousands of our cavalry soldiers are trapped in Jianzhou. There will be three shocks in the city every day, and everyone will resent Tang Jiu Sheng. By then, we should cooperate inside and outside, so why worry about Jianzhou being unstable?"

The two were talking in Caoshutang when someone outside loudly shouted: "Report!" Niu Mandi and Luo Bingshang looked at each other. This sound was made by the pigeon tamer, indicating that a secret message had arrived.

Niu Mandi whispered: "Send it in and let me see!" Immediately from outside, a pigeon trainer bowed and came in. He walked a few steps and came to Niu Mandi. He presented a small bamboo tube with extremely respectful hands. Niu Mandi

Taking the small bamboo tube, the pigeon tamer saluted Niu Mandi and walked out of the Caoshu Hall backwards.

Niu Mandi took out the secret letter from the small bamboo tube, unfolded it and read the beginning of the secret letter, and the smile on his face froze. After reading it, he sighed and threw the secret letter to Luo Bingzhang, "De Gong, I am so impressed.
Chapter completed!