Chapter 751: Fate between you and me, an encounter (Part 1)
After having breakfast with my family, it was already bright and sunny, and it was a good morning.
Su Tan'er's working hours are often tight. After a comfortable morning, things that need to be dealt with come one after another. It takes about ten minutes to walk from home to the No. 1 General Staff Hospital, which is the center of Hedeng County. On the way, Hongti is a
Following them, Yunzhu and Jin'er will walk with them for a while, and then go to the school on the other side - they are teachers on campus and sometimes participate in the cultural and entertainment activities of the Political Department.
Among Ning Yi's wives and concubines, Hongti is relatively older, has a good temperament, and may have had the most difficult life in the past. Tan'er respects her and calls her "Sister Hongti". Hongti has already passed away, so he calls her "Sister Hongti" as usual.
Tan'er is the "sister".
This title is a bit confusing, but the relationship between the two has always been good. If there are no other people on the way to the General Staff Yard, they will chat all the way. But there are usually people, and the deputies who have to hurry up to report today's work will often chat during breakfast.
I went to wait at the door of my house to save the next ten minutes. Most of the time, this job was done by the housekeeper Xing'er. There was also another woman who worked as a secretary, named Wen Xianying, who was responsible for delivering the delivered documents.
After summarizing the matter, report it to Su Tan'er.
The one who followed today was Juaner.
The two chatted for a while, and after communicating, Juaner went to the other side of the mountain to deal with other matters.
A few minutes later, Tan'er and Hongti arrived at the courtyard of the General Staff Headquarters and began to handle the day's work.
The three counties of Blai, Hedeng, and Jishan were originally small towns with a combined population of less than 30,000. After the arrival of Black Flag, including military, administrative, technical, and commercial personnel as well as their families, the number of residents increased to 16.
As many as ten thousand. Although the General Staff is the name of the General Staff Department, it is actually mainly composed of the heads of the various Black Flag departments. This determines the operation of the entire Black Flag system. Tan'er is responsible for the overall operation of administration, commerce, and technology. Although the main
Looking after the overall situation, I was really busy in the first two years. Later, Ning Yi presided over the restructuring remotely and trained some students. This made it a little easier, but we couldn't relax.
When the morning routine report and complicated paperwork began, Juaner arrived at the Intelligence Department at the other end. The Intelligence Department of Black Flag was originally a branch of Zhuji. It had inherited the traces of the Secret Investigation Department and later cooperated with Zhuji.
The business and propaganda departments of the Journal were completely independent at this time, but still had close ties with the Political Department and the Commercial Department.
On the one hand, a large amount of information about the outside world is summarized here: the situation of the Jin Kingdom, the situation of Daqi, the situation of Wu Dynasty... After sorting out, some of them will be handed over to the Political Department, and then made public to the army. Through dissemination, deduction, and discussion,
Everyone understands the general trend of the world today, the dire straits everywhere, and what may happen next; the other part is left to the Ministry of Commerce to conduct comprehensive operations and look for possible opportunities and bargaining chips.
In addition, the specific espionage work naturally includes the internal affairs of the Black Flag, the confrontation with the Wu Dynasty, Daqi, and Jin Dynasty spies, the cleanup of the Black Flag Army, etc. Currently, the person in charge of the General Intelligence Department is Zeng Zhu.
After Juaner met with Chen Haiying, one of the three leaders, the action she had already planned was launched.
The person in charge of the operation in Hedeng County was named Chen Xing. He was one of Ning Yi's disciples. He was originally keen on Professor Ning Yi's logic, reasoning, cause and effect and other knowledge. He once founded the "Mohui" in the army to compete with Luo Ye.
Later, he did not follow the path of an inventor, but instead joined the operations department of the Intelligence Ministry. Just after midnight, he received the order and then assigned tasks to his subordinates.
When this team set off from the Intelligence Department like a routine training, they rushed to Jishan. The messengers from Bly and Bly were already speeding on the road. Soon after, Zhuo Xiaofeng, who was in charge of Jishan's intelligence, and the messengers from Bly camp.
Luo Ye, who serves as a military judge, and others will receive the order, and the entire operation will be launched one after another among these three places...
At a quarter past nine, that is, at 9:30 in the morning, Su Tan'er finished her morning meeting with a group of staff and walked to her office room when she looked up and saw a hot air balloon floating overhead.
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The hot air balloon floated in the sky.
On the road at the foot of the mountain in Hedeng County, Chen Laoer, who ran a porridge and cake shop, raised his head and saw two hot air balloons in the sky, one in the east and one in the south, floating in the wind.
Most of the people eating at the porridge and cake shop are members of the nearby Black Flag administrative department. Chen Lao'er's skills are good, so his porridge and cake shop has many regular customers. It's past breakfast time today, and some people are here to have something to eat.
While eating and drinking, they talked and laughed. Chen Laoer took two bowls of porridge out and placed them in front of a table. Then he put his hands on his hips and shook his neck vigorously: "Hey, that Kongming Lantern..."
The Black Flag member who asked for porridge looked back: "Old Chen, that's a hot air balloon. It's not the first time you've seen it, so you still don't understand."
"It's just the Kongming Lantern. I used to make it when I was a kid." Chen Laoer grinned, "But this one is really big. How come it was released today?"
"Maybe the weather is nice today, so I'll let it out to bask in the sun."
The administrator smiled, and Chen Laoer also smiled. People were coming and going in the surrounding market. After a while, another group of people came: "Second brother, is there anything left to eat? Eight bowls of porridge.
, sixteen loaves, wrapped up, there is a task."
The group of people came in black military uniforms and came fully armed. Chen Laoer nodded: "There are not many cakes left. Why are you here at this time? There is still porridge. How can you take it away when you are on a mission?"
"Find something to pack. What else do you have..." Eight people walked into the shop, and the leader came over to check.
"Otherwise, the pot is yours, how far do you have to carry it..."
"Pot...what else do you have..."
"You don't know what I have here..." Chen Laoer said, still testing the other party's mission. The knife was already placed on his neck. Several people walking around him also pulled out their knives.
He took away the sharp weapons around Chen Laoer.
"You...what are you doing...did you catch the wrong one..." The middle-aged porridge and cake shop owner was trembling.
"The net is closed, admit it." The leading Black Flag member pointed to the sky and whispered.
Chen Laoer's body was still trembling, like the most ordinary honest businessman, and then he jumped up with a sound of "Ah-". He wanted to break free from the restraint, but just as he jumped up, three people around him jumped up and pulled him away.
Pinned to the ground, someone suddenly removed his jaw.
Several Black Flag government officials around looked at this scene: "Which side?"
"Brother, secret."
"Oh, anyway, it's either Daqi or Wuchao..."
"It's a pity that a bowl of good porridge..."
Everyone was talking about it, but some people whispered among themselves in private: "There was something about Tian Hu just a few days ago. Two days ago, I heard that a group of Jurchens were defeated outside Xiangyang City. At this time, the secret guards closed the net. What do you think is going on?
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"……It can not be."
After staying in the center of Black Flag for so long, many people have keen insights. Since the end of the bloody battle at Xiaocang River, the Black Flag Army has been suppressed with a sense of sadness and indignation. The main reason is because of Mr. Ning’s
Disappeared. The outside world said that he was dead, but Black Flag internally said that he was not dead. However, internally, it was an indisputable fact that Su Taner and others were regarded as widows.
It is impossible not to discuss this matter internally, but even though they have never seen Mr. Ning again, most people still believe that Mr. Ning is indeed alive. This can be regarded as a tacit understanding actively maintained within Black Flag.
Over the past years, Black Flag has been tremblingly rooted in this lie, and has carried out a series of reforms, transfers of centers, decentralization of power, etc. It seems that after the reforms are completed, everyone will continue without Mr. Ning.
Maintain operations.
Until Tian Hu's power was subverted and Black Flag's external actions inspired the internal affairs, the news about Mr. Ning's coming back also vaguely spread among the Chinese army. This time, knowledgeable people regarded it as a good wish.
But at such a moment, the secret guards' closing of the net obviously revealed intriguing information.
The hot air balloon floated across the sky, and the soldiers in the hanging baskets used binoculars to inspect the county below, holding colorful flags in their hands, ready to send out semaphores at any time.
Outside a courtyard halfway up the mountain, Chen Xing knocked on the door. After a while, someone came and opened the door. It was a middle-aged man with a scar on his face.
A little polite, a child of about seven or eight years old stood not far away: "Dad." The child saw Chen Xing and shouted.
Chen Xing smiled: "Chen Jing, how did you learn from Uncle He?"
"We are practicing boxing." The child named Chen Jing clasped his fists and saluted, looking particularly sensible. Chen Xing and the man named He both laughed: "Brother Chen should be on duty at this time, why are you here."
"I'm passing by to have a look at him. Also, I have something serious to say to Brother He."
The man named He, named He Wen, smiled, frowned, and then spread his hands: "Please come in."
Chen Xing walked in from the courtyard gate and walked straight to Chen Jing who was not far away: "You child..." He said in his mouth. When he walked to the side, he grabbed his child and threw it suddenly. This time it became abrupt.
, Chen Jing said "Ah——" and was thrown out of the wall next to Chen Xing. The child fell outside and was obviously caught by someone. He Wen's figure swayed slightly. He was very skilled in martial arts. At that moment, it seemed that
He wanted to use extremely high lightness skills to swipe away, but in the end he didn't move, but the courtyard door next to him was slammed shut.
Chen Xing turned around, spread his hands, and exhaled: "Look, I didn't bring any weapons."
He Wen still had a smile on his face. He stretched out his right hand and spread it out. On it was a thorny caltrop: "I was able to hit Xiao Jing just now." After a while, he sighed and said, "A few days earlier.
I had doubts, and I had just seen the hot air balloon, and I was even more doubtful... You put Xiaojing here with me, it turned out to be to paralyze me."
Chen Xing cupped his hands: "You and I have a life-long friendship, but our ways are different. I can't treat you lightly. Please understand."
Na He Wen smiled, put his hands behind his back, and walked towards the courtyard: "In the early years, I thought that Ning Liheng's plan was too whimsical and impossible to succeed. I still think so now, even if studying things can really change the productivity, it can make it possible.
Everyone in the world is reading, and it will be difficult to achieve anything in the future. Everyone can speak and wants to speak. There are scholars in the world. Who will farm? Who is willing to do a lowly job? You are too hasty, and you will not achieve anything.
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"If you don't do it, you will have to return to the original world of the Wu Dynasty. Or, if you go to the world of the Jin Kingdom, the Five Husties will destroy China, and the Han Dynasty will fall. Is it okay?"
"For thousands of years, it is not unreasonable that only Confucianism can achieve great things. In the third year of Hedeng, I saw Mr. Ning use the 'four people' to determine 'human rights', use business, contract, and greed to promote the investigation of things, and use the investigation of things to lay the foundation of people's wisdom.
, looks beautiful, but in fact it has only a simple skeleton, without flesh and blood. Moreover, investigating things requires wisdom and a lazy mind. If it develops, it will conflict with the so-called "four peoples". This road is difficult for you to follow.
It's possible." He shook his head, "It's impossible."
Chen Xing was silent for a moment and then cupped his hands: "Brother He had such a thorough idea, why didn't he tell it earlier? It's not that the Politburo cannot accept such discussions. What we did was originally groundbreaking. There are problems.
We can all work together to solve it."
He Wen laughed loudly: "It's not that we can't accept this kind of discussion, it's a joke! It's just that we absorb the dissenters, lock them up, and then let them out after finding a way to argue..." He laughed for a while, and then
Shaking his head, "Frankly speaking, Ning Liheng is so talented that I can't even compare myself to him. Just looking at the investigation of objects, papermaking efficiency is now ten times better than before. It is indeed a ground-breaking feat. The human rights he talks about are inspiring to everyone."
The prospect that everyone is a gentleman is also desirable. If he is a Confucian master, I will follow him as a small pawn to create peace for all ages. However... only if what he does is consistent with Confucianism, it is possible to understand it.
Since he committed regicide, he has achieved nothing..."
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Peace…”
As he spoke, he shook his head and was lost for a moment. Then he looked at Chen Xing and his eyes became solemn again: "When you close the net today, is it possible that Ning Liheng... is really not dead?"
Chen Xing cupped his hands and said, "Brother He, please restrain your hands to avoid unnecessary casualties. If Sir is still alive, and with Brother He's talent and learning, I think I will definitely be able to see Sir and tell him everything that is on my mind."
He Wen put his hands behind his back and looked at him. His eyes were getting colder and he could not see much emotion. However, Chen Xing knew that this man was both civil and military. In terms of martial arts and knowledge, he admired him quite a lot. The two of them were on the battlefield.
Although Chen Xing was quite shocked when he discovered that He Wen was inextricably linked to the Wu Dynasty, at this time, he still hoped that the matter could be resolved relatively peacefully.
He didn't think He Wen could escape, but if such a master of both civil and military skills really risked his life, he and his subordinates might not be able to hold back and would have no choice but to kill him.
Outside the courtyard, a group of people, each armed with weapons and bows and crossbows, silently surrounded...
At the same time, a brief fight broke out on the trail on the other side of the foothills.
The clean-up of Hedeng was still in progress. It was almost noon when Operation Jishan started under the leadership of Zhuo Xiaofeng. The clean-up of Bly started at 2:00 noon. Operations, large and small, some were silent and some were silent.
It aroused a small-scale onlooker, and then disappeared in the crowd.
While Luo Ye led the soldiers to launch an operation against the Bligh Army Camp, Su Tan'er and Lu Hongti had a simple lunch together. Although the weather had turned cooler, there was still a low chirping of cicadas in the yard.
The rhythm is monotonous and slow.
After lunch, representatives of two caravans were brought over to meet with Tan'er and discuss the two business issues. The news that Black Flag subverted Tian Hu's power has caused waves in various places, so that various businesses have recently
The intention is frequent.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, around 4:30 in the afternoon, when Su Tan'er was immersed in reading the account books, Juan'er walked in from outside and placed a piece of information on the corner of the table.
Tan'er raised her head and glanced at her. Juan'er nodded slightly, then turned around and went out. Tan'er looked at the information in the corner, put his hands on his legs, looked at it for a moment, then sat forward, lowered his head and continued to read.
Ledger.
There was a meeting at five o'clock. Officials and secretaries from various ministries came over to make a routine summary of today's affairs - this meant that today's affairs went very smoothly, otherwise this meeting would not have been held until night. After the meeting, it was not time to eat yet.
At that time, Tan'er returned to the room and continued to read the account books, make records and plans, and write some more things. I don't know why, but it was quiet outside, and the sky was getting dark. In the past, Hongti would come in and ask her to eat, but today
No, when it got dark, there was still the sound of cicadas chirping, and someone came in with an oil lamp and put it on the table.
Tan'er lowered her head and continued to write. The light was like a bean, quietly illuminating the square inch of the desk. She was writing and writing. She didn't know when the brush in her hand suddenly paused, and then she put it down.
She went and continued to write a few words. Her hands began to tremble and tears fell on the paper. She raised her hands and put them on her eyes.
Someone was looking at her on a chair not far away.
"Hi, Su... Tan'er..." The man spoke in a low voice. I don't know why. It was like the first time they met in that house many years ago. That time, they were both very polite and strange to each other. This time
, but it was slightly different: "Hello..." He said something unusual in this era.
Tan'er lowered her head and didn't look over there: "Ning Liheng... Mr. Sir..." She said, "Hello..."
At this time, the stars outside have already risen. At night in the small county town, the lights are swaying, and people are still walking outside, talking and greeting each other, just like ordinary people who have never had anything special happen.