Familiar wine cellar...the aroma of wine is fragrant.
Guan Lin was sitting on a huge wine jar, thinking slightly while holding his chin.
While listening to Lu Youjiao's report on the "undercurrent" caused by that batch of "ordnance".
As the forces emerged from the water one by one, Guan Lin's eyes moved and focused on Lu Youjiao's side.
"You mean, three forces came to them tonight alone? In addition to Mi Fang, there is also a woman from Jiangnan? And... a rich man who spends a lot of money and spends a lot of money?"
Guan Lin didn't know that this Jiangnan woman was Sun Ru, who represented Lu Xun and Lu Jiajun.
He only thought that he was from Jiangdong Sun Quan.
Of course, what Guan Lin didn't know was that Jiangdong had not yet reacted...but the "Scholar Family" in Jiaozhou had taken the lead.
"Yes." Lu Youjiao answered cleanly and cheerfully.
Then he shut up. He said what needed to be said and reported what needed to be reported.
What to do next, he and the Beggar Clan all listen to the gang leader!
"Have you sent beggars to follow you?"
"Following!" Lu Youjiao quickly replied: "According to the gang leader's instructions, every suspicious person will be sent three beggars to follow. Anyone he has come into contact with will be sent to follow. Who will he meet? Who will he meet?
Where is the place and how long have we met, these cannot escape the eyes of our beggar."
--beggar…
This identity actually has a natural advantage in gathering information.
For example, when they are close to a target and cannot alert the enemy, the beggars can hear the conversation through the people around the target and begging from those people.
Even the people around the target can be played by another beggar.
You must know that beggars are all over Jiangling City. They cooperate with each other and perform tasks naturally.
"Things were done well." Guan Lin looked at Lu Youjiao with a more approving look. "If there is any news, report it to me as soon as possible..."
Speaking of this, Guan Lin jumped off the wine jar. "Also, Shi Huolong and You Tanzhi, let them not be careless. It's only the first day... many forces haven't had time to surface yet!"
Yes...you have to let the bullet fly for a while!
Lu Youjiao, on the other hand, seemed to have been holding back his words in his heart, but in the end he couldn't help but speak.
"Gang leader...there are some things I shouldn't ask based on my status, but many of the beggars below who are performing tasks have asked me, and I don't know how to answer them!"
Lu Youjiao seemed a little embarrassed.
Guan Lin, however, showed his people-friendly side. "It's okay to say it bluntly, our Beggar Clan doesn't have so many messy rules."
Lu Youjiao said truthfully: "Many beggars are curious and will ask... Hong Qigong, the old man did this? What is it for? This last batch of goods... can only be sold to one person, why do you need to attract so many people? Directly.
Wouldn’t it be great if we offer the price to sell to Guan Gong?”
call…
This question surprised Guan Lin slightly.
Of course, judging from Lu Youjiao's expression, he also realized that this was not just one person's doubts, it must be the doubts of many beggars on missions.
Guan Lin blinked his eyes, thought for a moment, and then said with emotion: "The place where the Fourth Battle of Jingzhou was, the eyes of everyone in the world are focused here!"
"And after the Hefei bet, Jiangling City is now at the forefront again... Who knows how many forces, how many informants, and how many secret operations are hidden here."
"No matter what we, the Beggar Gang, do, our top priority is to keep our eyes open. We must clearly know who is the enemy and who is the friend in Jiangling City."
"Jiangling City can no longer be a shady scene, and brothers can't always be blind!"
It is said that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
Again, Cao Cao owns nine mines, Shuhan and Soochow each have one and a half mines, and... each of them is still eyeing the other's half of the mines.
To defeat Cao Cao...it is absolutely "unparalleled in mowing the grass" and can be pushed back in one wave.
It’s not something that can be accomplished overnight!
This requires a long process, and we need to break this situation step by step...step by step!
And the first step in a journey of a thousand miles is "eyes"...
It’s “information”…
Guan Lin, who came from later generations, knows better than anyone in this era the role and power of intelligence!
Perhaps the battle in Hefei was fought bravely.
The upcoming battlefield in Hanzhong will be fought with great intrigue!
But the battle in Jingzhou must be based on intelligence.
Light up your own intelligence network and understand your opponent's intelligence network. Only in this way can you have the upper hand in all future actions.
Of course, Guan Lin did not tell Lu Youjiao all this.
Just make them aware…
They... no... to be precise, they are the beggar gang and they are not doing useless work!
What they are doing is something that really concerns Jingzhou and Ji Han's survival!
With this in mind, Guan Lin patted the dust on his body, and then patted the dust on Lu Youjiao's body.
This makes each other a little more relaxed.
Suddenly I smell the aroma of wine...
Guan Lin noticed that there was an unopened jar of wine next to him. He fished out a little wine with his hands and brought it to his mouth to taste.
He smiled at Lu Youjiao and changed the heavy topic.
"What kind of wine is Miss Bao San? It's so boring! Tomorrow the enemy's eyes will be gouged out, and our eyes will light up. I'll make some strong wine for the brothers. Then we can make this hard work easier."
Brothers, have a good drink!"
"Okay...ok..." Lu Youjiao nodded.
It was as if he could understand what the gang leader said.
The gang leader's vision is far beyond theirs.
"Remember to bring the message to the brothers, let's go..." Guan Lin waved his hand, smiled at Lu Youjiao again, put on his bamboo hat, and planned to walk out of the wine cellar...
But just as the footsteps sounded, Lu Youjiao suddenly thought of something else.
"I forgot, Gang Leader, there is another matter here in the Beggar Clan."
Guan Lin stopped in his tracks, without the slightest hint of displeasure. He half-turned around and leaned against the wine jar. His eyes flashed slightly, and he stretched out his hand to signal Lu Youjiao to speak.
A slightly melancholy expression passed between Lu Youjiao's eyebrows, but this melancholy passed in an instant.
He was still talking to the gang leader as the only Babao elder in the beggar gang.
"It's from the suburbs of Xicheng... Mr. Huang's place..."
"Previously, according to the instructions of the gang leader, more than 500 powerful beggars were dispatched from the beggar gang to work in the workshop over there... But with more people, the expenses will inevitably be higher, even Mr. Huang..."
Lu Youjiao didn't finish his words.
But this was enough for Guan Lin to understand.
I'm short of money!
Yes, in this villa, workshops, forgings, furnaces, and various equipment are being built...
There is also wood, iron...
Now there are 500 more mouths. After all, Huang Chengyan, a celebrity who has been in Jingzhou for many years, has a lot of financial resources, and is kind and generous, is now... somewhat unable to bear the money!
"This old Huang..." Guan Lin muttered: "I have no money and I still insist on it. I don't know if I will send someone to tell me... I'm still alive... Can I be forced to death by being peed?"
Speaking of this, Guan Lin ordered, "Tomorrow I will call a hundred beggars, change my clothes, and go to Cao Pu's Mansion to help transport food... 50,000 dendrobium, let this place be used first, and we can't stop in the workshop and forging shop."
, tell me what you are missing! Let the brothers eat better and work hard so that they don’t suffer any injustice.”
this…
Lu Youjiao was moved as he listened.
What he actually wanted to say was that they, the beggars, were not aggrieved at all.
Since joining the gang leader, they have food and clothing, and can still work and support themselves. The beggars are grateful for such a good life...
Where can I feel wronged?
However, compared to this... Lu Youjiao was the first to express his worries, "Gang leader, if we transport food like this, then the ordnance produced in large quantities in the villa... I'm afraid it won't be possible to hide it!"
"There's no need to hide it!" Guan Lin waved his hand. "Old Huang is the father-in-law of Zhuge Military Advisor. This is a great deal!"
"Even if my father finds out about this, what can he do? Isn't he just a monkey watching the show - just stare?"
Thinking of this…
Guan Lin grinned and added in his mind.
——"Dad, daddy, you'd better stare at me honestly!"
——"As long as you don't do anything, you will be helping the child a lot!"
…
…
At night, Jiangling City, "Changxin" restaurant.
Thunderous snoring sounded in the corridors on the second and third floors, all coming from the guest rooms.
Step, step...
A pair of clean embroidered shoes stepped on the wooden floor of the corridor. It was the shopkeeper of the wine shop here who was keeping watch at night.
The shopkeeper of Changxin Restaurant is a man about fifty years old.
It is said that the Central Plains came here to avoid disaster. Because they had some financial resources, they opened this restaurant eight years ago...that is, the year when Liu Bei led his people across the river.
Business is neither good nor bad.
On the other hand, this shopkeeper always smiles and looks kind to others. He is very popular around here...
call…
He inspected the corridor on the second floor again, and seemed to have paid special attention to the rooms of Shi Huolong and You Tanzhi before returning to his residence on the first floor.
He carefully closed the window, closed the door... took off the cloak he had worn all day, shook it out, and then... took out a "carving" from a hidden box under the desk!
There are many small holes densely packed on the carving...
If Zhuge Liang, Ma Liang and others saw this engraving, they would definitely be familiar with it.
This is the engraving used by the "spies" in the Cao Wei camp in the north, and the words in the small holes under the engraving are the real information sent to each other.
call…
He exhaled again. This time, the shopkeeper's exhalation was much louder.
He took out a piece of paper and printed the engraving on the paper.
Immediately, he began to write words one by one in the small holes that were not connected.
——"General Wenyuan personally opens the door!"
——"Recently, there are Jiaozhou merchants selling arms in Jiangling City. Among them, sidecars can stop cavalry charges, wooden oxen and flowing horses can walk on rugged and dangerous roads, transport military rations, and repeating crossbows... Ten rounds in a row, within thirty steps,
It can kill a strong ox at once. These three weapons are considered to be sacred weapons. General Wenyuan must beware of them!"
——"Such arms, if they fall into the hands of the Sun-Liu Alliance, will definitely...become a serious problem for Cao Wei. I hope General Wenyuan will tell me how to act in the future! This drawing of a sidecar, a crossbow, a wooden ox and a flowing horse...I have drawn it.
, delivered with this letter!"
A hastily written note…
He actually wrote two long chapters, and then did not forget to add words to the places where there were no words.
In this way, a letter from a spy reporting intelligence becomes an ordinary letter home.
After doing all this, he took the three homing pigeons out of their cages, divided the letter into three parts, and tied them to their legs!
As the pigeons fly towards the sky against the night...
The manager finally let out a breath, as if he was suddenly relieved.
He quickly put the "engraving" away...
Lie back on the bed as if nothing had happened, as if this had never happened!
As a spy for Cao Wei...
He stayed in Jiangling for eight years and reported countless intelligence to Xiangfan.
He has always been careful and cautious, and has never made the slightest flaw or oversight.
…
…
Jiangling City, northern suburbs.
This is the most ordinary farmer working in the fields during the day.
Now at midnight, the family of three has fallen asleep.
The picture is very warm…
Just then...
The man among them slowly stood up. After making sure that his wife and daughter were asleep, he stood up and walked to the stone table outside the door.
This Bai Ding, who has never been illiterate.
At this moment, he actually picked up his pen and started writing vigorously.
——"There are merchants selling arms in Jiangling today... Among the weapons here, there is a repeating crossbow, which is light and easy to carry and easy to conceal. It can kill a strong ox within thirty-five steps. This is an indispensable tool for assassinating Cao Cao's thieves!"
--"……Miss…"
He quickly wrote the letter and then handed it to a ranger outside the door who had been waiting here for a long time.
Watching the ranger quickly ride away...
His eyes narrowed, as if he saw... the hope of revenge!
…
At the same time, far away in Luoyang, on Mangdang Mountain, underground in a cemetery...
——"Huh, ha"...
The sound of martial arts training is endless...
Who would have thought that under this cemetery... there is actually the martial arts performance and school grounds of Nuo University.
There is no sky here, only scattered torches, and countless boys and girls, under the guidance of masks, are constantly waving the weapons and practicing stabbing forward with daggers.
Children were imprisoned in the mausoleum like this, without an innocent childhood, and only trained to kill every day.
Their young hearts seem to have been tortured to pieces...
But this makes them purer and more bloodthirsty!
As for the identities of these boys and girls, they all have a sworn hatred against Cao Cao!
——Cao Cao is their lifelong enemy!
The owner of this cemetery is a fourteen or five-year-old girl.
At this moment, she was gritting her teeth and stabbing forward with the dagger in her hand like those children.
However, unlike those children, she has a stronger sense of mission. In front of her is a painting that has been chopped down to one corner.
The man in the painting is standing in front of thousands of troops and on the edge of the cliff, as if he is singing some poetry.
There is also a line of small words on it: - Facing Jieshi to the east to view the sea!
The man in the painting is none other than the man who recited the song "Viewing the Sea". He is sitting in the land of nine states in the world, the absolute ruler and overlord of the Central Plains and the North - Wei Gong Cao Cao!
"I kill you…"
The woman in red stabbed the dagger at the painting again. In the painting, Cao Cao's body was already riddled with holes.
seem…
Even so, the woman in red is particularly unable to understand her hatred.
Her eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at Cao Cao in the painting with hatred, and she said word by word.