Jin Longquan still had something to discuss with Liu Fujin and others, so he asked a steward to lead his son-in-law and the three of them to familiarize themselves with the situation in the yard.
Jin Yinghuai, Jin Yingyu, and Huang Xiyan walked around the courtyard and roughly understood that this place was connected by several courtyards. It was the most important stronghold of the Jingxiang Military Intelligence Department in the construction of Ye City.
In the early stage, a small number of spies and logistics personnel from the Military Intelligence Department were stationed here. As the struggle situation became more complicated, not only did the Military Intelligence Department send additional personnel here, but Liu Fujin, as the commander of the Selected Front Army, was also ordered to lead a team of elite soldiers.
They are stationed here secretly to prevent any unexpected events.
Returning to the Linhe wing, everyone else had left. Jin Yinghuai, Jin Yingyu, and Huang Xiyan were still unable to calm down the waves in their hearts. They looked at their father (father-in-law) standing in front of the window, looking out under the dim moonlight.
The sparkling waves on the Qinhuai River asked: "When Uncle Tiande ran to Chu Mountain at night, my father was working for the envoy, right?"
When Jin Longquan was the general of the Huaiyuan Inspection Department, his eldest son Jin Yinghuai was already an adult, but joining the army at that time was by no means a good job or a good way out. Jin Longquan did not arrange for his eldest son to inspect Huaiyuan Town or Huaiyuan????
Instead, he found a way to send him to the state government office to study official affairs.
Although Jin Yinghuai had no direct connection with everyone in Tongbai Mountain from beginning to end, he was still quite familiar with the past events.
He still remembered that after the banditry in Tongbai Mountain subsided, his father, Tang Tiande and others were transferred to the Biyang County government as officials, and they seemed to have no connection with the people in Tongbai Mountain.
When the Chihu people invaded the south for the first time, Xu Huai led his troops to withdraw from Shuozhou to Tongbai Mountain. Under the order of Hu Kai, the defense envoy of Caizhou at that time, he served as the magistrate of the newly established Chushan County and organized defense troops. At that time
Most of the gentry clans in Huaiyuan and other places were afraid of being persecuted and moved out of Tongbai Mountain one after another. However, Tang Tiande and his family moved out of Biyang County overnight and went to Chushan. He even married his daughter to Xu Xin, a descendant of the Xu family.
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In his early years, Tang Tiande was a lazy figure in Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyuan Town. With the support of the Tang family, he joined the Inspection Department as deputy general and became prosperous. However, after the decline of the Tang family, he was transferred to the army through his achievements in suppressing bandits.
Although he is an official in the county government, he is quite suppressed. Unlike Jin Longquan, who has the support of the Jin family, he is still a prominent figure in Biyang County government——
However, after defecting to Jingxiang (Chushan), Tang Tiande suddenly became famous. He first served in the newly established Yaxiang Division of Chushan County, and then successively served as the magistrate of Xinyang County, the general magistrate of Xiangyang Prefecture, and the magistrate of Biyang County and Nanyang County.
He held the positions of military commander, military commander, and supervisor of the government, and was transferred to Yunyang camp commander and Yunyang county magistrate just a few years ago.
Of course, there is nothing special about Tang Tiande’s resume in Tongbai Mountain, like Xu Wujiang, Tang Pan, Xu Xinan, Tang Qing, Yin Peng, Han Qi, Pan Chenghu, Guo Junpan, Zheng Tu, Xu Sheng, Zhou Jing and others
Now he holds a large army or is in charge of one side, but who didn't come from a humble background back then?
The main reason why Jin Yinghuai never forgets Tang Tiande is that Tang Tiande had the deepest relationship with his family and had close contacts. Comparing the life trajectories of his father and Tang Tiande, Jin Yinghuai felt particularly deeply. He even couldn't help but think to himself, if his father had been
Like Tang Tiande, his family fled to Chushan back then. What will be the situation of his family?
"When your uncle Tiande moved his family back to Tongbai Mountain, my father was already working for the envoy. I didn't expect that all these years have passed in the blink of an eye."
Jin Longquan could see his son-in-law's mood swings
, he didn’t want to reveal the secret at this time, because he was worried that if they suddenly knew the secret, their unstable minds would reveal flaws, but now that the secret has been revealed, he could only patiently warn and said,
"The emperor served as a guard against the barbarians and implemented new policies to strengthen the army, but the gentry and ministers of Jin did not tolerate it. In order to prevent someone from secretly sabotaging it, my father was ordered to lurk around the ministers of Jin and Zhuang. He used the Jin family to make friends with the gentry and get to know the enemies of Beijing and Xiangzhou.
The trends of forces in the country. My mission as a father is very special, and no clues should be exposed, so I have to hide everything from you all these years. There has been a lot of turmoil in Beijing recently, and you should all feel it. Part of it is the Military Intelligence Department who is behind the scenes, adding fuel to the fire.
But part of it is indeed that the situation has become extremely complicated and critical. Your Majesty is also worried that I will keep an eye on Jin Zhuangcheng and will not be able to take care of you when the situation becomes strange, so I directly ordered you to know what happened and temporarily subordinated you all.
The Military Intelligence Department is in charge. If there are any areas that require attention, the Military Intelligence Department will arrange for special personnel to give you urgent instruction. You must be careful not to be impatient and keep many of the instructions in mind..."
At this time, someone knocked on the door from outside and walked in: "Jin Zhuangcheng is here to see the third master!"
Jin? Ying Huai used the candlelight to see clearly the face of the visitor. It turned out that he had fled to Jianye a few years ago and was arranged by his father to marry his cousin Yanniang.
As a wife, at this time they are considered to be their cousin-in-law.
"Ying Huai, you should be calmer. Come with us to see Jin Zhuangcheng," Jin Longquan said. "Ying Yu, Xiyan, you all should go back to the house calmly at this time, and sort out your emotions at night..."
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Carrying a lantern and walking through the corridor to Jinzhuang to summon guests at night, Jin Longquan whispered to his eldest son Jin Yinghuai:
"Jinzhuangcheng relies on his high position and wants to establish special skills in front of His Majesty. A few years ago, he secretly asked his father to arrange spies and eyes in Zhufeng Hall to find out the news. You pretended to have just known about this. There was something strange in your expression, alarmed.
It’s not really a flaw, just go to the study and listen to what Cheng Qi and I have to say about everything.”
"Why have you been gone for so long?" Seeing Jin Longquan, Jin Yinghuai, and Cheng Qi walking in, Jin Yuzhu frowned slightly and asked dissatisfied.
"Zhufengtang's shop in the east of the city has stepped up security, and there are several more sentries overtly and covertly."
Jin Longquan said,
"I wandered outside for a long time before I contacted the person we arranged. Only then did I know that in addition to the Wu Benjia soldiers from the palace of Wang Xiang and Xiang Gu, Jingxiang also secretly mobilized many soldiers into the city. I don't know what Jianye Mansion is doing.
Food, no news has been leaked before. In addition to the dozen armed guards on the surface of Zhufengtang's east shop, there were more than a hundred armored soldiers secretly hiding in the shop in the past two days. In addition to soldiers, these armored soldiers
In addition to armor, in addition to strong bows and large shields, there are even two iron shield carts and a bed crossbow. Zhufengtang has eight pavilions and warehouses on the outside of the city. If each place has more than a hundred hidden
Soldier, this is a bit surprising. How many guards are there in the palace?"
Although Zhufengtang is listed as a government agency directly under the jurisdiction of the government in Jingxiang, the shops and warehouses set up outside Jingxiang do not enjoy many privileges. Even these shops and warehouses are equipped with armed guards, except for the number of people.
In addition, the weapons and armors that can be equipped are strictly restricted.
Generally speaking, the equipment of armed guards is limited to ordinary swords, leather armor, and sticks.
Etc., such as Zhajia, scale armor, Haozijia, Modao, Saber, large shield, walking bow, divine arm crossbow, etc. are all prohibited items, not to mention bed crossbow, shield chariot and other weapons used for charging into battle.
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Jin Longquan added: "The situation is a bit tight. I was worried that my husband would be short of manpower, so I brought Ying Huai with me to help him."
Jin Longquan wanted to take his son with him to do things, and Jin Zhuang was successful. Jin Yuzhu naturally didn't ask anything more, he was just worried about the news Jin Longquan brought back.
"Father, what do you think Jingxiang is going to do? If you just want to bring someone down, there is no need to secretly send so many soldiers into the capital!" Jin Yuzhu said with a breath of cold air.
"Don't disturb me. It's possible that Jingxiang and Xiang are worried that someone in the capital will be ready to make a move during the Northern Expedition across the Huaihe River. They sent some soldiers into the city just as a precaution." Jin Zhuangcheng said with a frown.
"It's impossible to just take precautions before it happens. Father, think about it, if there is really going to be some trouble in Jianye City when the Beijing-Xiang army is crossing the Huaihe River, they only mobilize one or two thousand elites into the city, which may not be enough to deter them.
With the situation under control, who knows if there will be any follow-up actions from Huaidong?"
Jin Yuzhu speculated,
"It's just that editor Zhou heard the news before that Jingxiang was going to make some noise to scare the monkeys before crossing the Huaihe River. Now it seems that this move is too big..."
"Or is it not just killing a chicken to scare the monkey?" Jin Zhuangcheng frowned and asked Jin Longquan, unable to conceal his inner worry, "Has Zheng Tu completely ignored you now?"
"What kind of role am I now? How can I catch the eye of the butcher?" Jin Longquan said with a bitter smile, "Mr. Wang Fan still needs to make a decision early. Mr. Wang Fan may still miss his old relationship. As long as Mr. Wang Fan is easy to talk to.
, there is still a chance to turn around..."
Jin Longquan said this, but Jin Zhuangcheng's brows furrowed even more tightly.
Beijing and Xiang are not monk temples, so not everyone is qualified to put down the butcher's knife and enter the temple to become a Buddha.
Gu Fan could become the core figure of the Jingxiang faction at this time. That was when Jingxiang decided to attack the prison camp at the mouth of the Feishui River. As the pacifier of the establishment of the Huainan East Road, Gu Fan not only publicly expressed his views on the relationship with Ge Boyi and others.
The Qiandi clique broke up and supported the Beijing-Xiangxiang assault. They also ordered Huaidong soldiers and horses to directly participate in the battle, playing a vital role in the complete annihilation of the Pikou rebels.
Kong Changyu, as the pacifier of the establishment of Jinghu North Road, suppressed the forces within Jinghu North Road that opposed Jingxiang and Xiangxiang before this time, and actually supported the Qinwang move led by Jingxiang in terms of money, food, soldiers and horses.
At this time, it was the key for Jingxiang to directly expand its sphere of influence to the entire Jinghu North Road, so it had the opportunity to become a Buddha immediately.
Although his Jinzhuangcheng was a minister of the Ministry of Rites, with a third-rank official position, what benefits could he bring to Jingxiang if he turned to Jingxiang? Jingxiang ignored his Jinzhuangcheng, which made the world feel that no matter how he targeted Jingxiang and boycotted Jingxiang in the past,
, in the end, as long as you put down the butcher's knife, you can become a Buddha immediately, or will it play a greater role by catching him in Zhuangcheng and killing chickens and monkeys?
Even if you spend thousands of dollars to buy horse bones, it is not enough to have a pair of horse bones like Zhou He in Beijing and Xiangzhou. Do you need to become a professional horse bone collector?
Jin Zhuangcheng sighed worriedly and said to Jin Longquan: "Currently, the only thing that can be confirmed is that there are armored soldiers hidden in one of the courtyards of Zhufeng Hall. This doesn't mean anything. You need to find out more about the situation as soon as possible...
