In the twelfth lunar month of that year, the Western Chu Alliance troops stationed in the country of E one after another. The king of E was very happy and sent people to reward a lot of annual goods. He sent his soldiers out during the Chinese New Year. The king of E got a reward, and the princes of this country also rarely got a reward. All countries gave the garrison to the garrison.
The first batch of supplies for the Hubei army set off on the road in great force.
The country of E was originally close to the country of Hunan, and the baggage was not much, and the officers and soldiers escorting it did not take it seriously. On this day, seeing that the reward from the King of Xiang was still half an hour away from the Hunan Army's garrison, I suddenly saw a rush of people in front of me.
A troop of soldiers and horses came over, carrying baggage as well, under the banner of Cai Gui.
The leader, General Cai, raised his hand to General Xiang and said with a smile: "Are the troops coming from the opposite side the soldiers and horses of Xiang?"
General Xiang was slightly startled. When he was traveling, his superior told him that the people in Hubei were poor and there were many bandits. As the Chinese New Year was approaching, some extremely vicious people might take risks. In order not to cause trouble, they were told not to use their flags. He did not know that General Cai was on the opposite side.
How did he know that he was from the Hunan Army? However, he didn't show it on his face and said: "Exactly."
General Cai looked at Xiang's baggage and said with envy: "Your Hunan is still rich. That's why we have such an idea."
The Xiang general said proudly: "Seeing that the New Year was about to come, we suddenly sent our brothers out. Our prince felt compassion, so he rewarded us with some more things." Looking up, Cai Guo's New Year's goods were really pitiful, with only a dozen small cars and a carport.
It was also broken, revealing two dry pig heads. He waved his hand and said, "When we meet on a narrow road, your army should go through first. You have few cars, so go faster."
General Cai cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much."
General Xiang then ordered his soldiers to move aside and let Cai's army go first. General Cai stood on horseback beside General Xiang and urged his men to hurry up.
When the two armies were intersecting, they suddenly heard a whistle. The officers and soldiers of Cai State suddenly took out their muskets from behind. Before General Xiang had time to shout, the muskets in General Cai's hand were already aimed at his throat. General Xiang said with a cold face: "This is
General, what's going on?"
General Cai said proudly: "I'm sorry. Our little king in Cai is so poor that we don't even have any ideas for the New Year. My brothers were so hungry that they went out to prepare some wild food. Your Xiang country is big and rich, so the king of Xiang must also
I don’t care about such a small thing. I can just trouble him to send him some more.”
The Xiang general escorting the baggage was a son of the Xiang general. Although he was young, he did not panic. Seeing that his family was caught off guard and the situation was over, he said with a fake smile: "It turns out it was just for some ideas. It's easy to say. Why use swords and guns?"
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General Cai said with a smile: "You people from the rich country are still generous. Last time, it was like dying to get Luo country's ideas."
General Xiang said: "Speaking of which, we didn't raise any banners. How did the general know that we were from Xiang?"
General Cai said: "Isn't your station just ahead of you in Taihe Town? The military and defense maps are clearly marked. To send New Year's goods from the state of Hunan to the station of the Hunan Army, you must take this road. We have surveyed it several times."
General Xiang cursed secretly. The allied defense map was a secret. Even he had not seen it. Only the garrison general knew about it. Cai Guo, who co-authored the top secret of Xiang State, used it to set up an ambush for the allies. Now that the matter has come to this, we can only leave it temporarily.
Surrender. Fortunately, General Cai did not want to kill them all. He did not surrender the Hunan army's muskets, but only collected all the bullets. Then he happily took away the new year's goods from Xiang and ran away. General Xiang ordered his scouts to follow them to see where they were going.
He led the people to the station empty-handed.
The general stationed in Xiang, surnamed Li, was shocked and furious when he heard this. He immediately sent troops to snatch the things back. One of his staff quickly stopped him and said: "General, please calm down for now and wait until the matter is clear."
The scout didn't come back until dusk. He said that he had followed Cai Jun through many mountain roads to let them notice, but fortunately there was no danger. Seeing that they were approaching a small town, Cai Jun relaxed and chatted happily, and the scout guessed
The station was about to arrive. But at this moment, he was stared at and questioned by two Cai soldiers, and he managed to hide it. The scouts did not dare to follow any more, so they walked back. Not long after, they met two old farmers carrying a load and coming towards him.
, he then asked what the name of the town ahead was. The old farmer told him that it was called Miaoling Town.
General Li hurriedly took out the military defense map and checked. As expected, Cai Jun was stationed in Miaoling Town. This matter was considered confirmed. General Li immediately led his troops to Miaoling Town to seek Cai Jun's theory. Unexpectedly, Cai Guoshou did not recognize a word of the word.
, life and death said that there was absolutely no such thing. He also allowed General Li to enter the camp to search. General Li searched for half a day and found no flaws, so he had to return in frustration. After returning to Taihe Town, the staff thought: "Maybe it was the scout just now.
The brother's appearance alerted Cai Jun, who hid the baggage elsewhere." General Li was furious and immediately sent his trusted soldiers back to Changsha to report back to the King of Hunan.
When the King of Xiang heard the report, he sneered and said: "Pauper." So he wrote a letter to King Cai, ridiculing him. He also wrote a letter to Meng Changfu and had someone send it to Chao Xun.
When the eunuch who delivered the letter arrived, Chao Xun was doing experiments alone and had to keep his hands free, so he ordered the eunuch to put the letter on the desk. The eunuch left and when he walked to the door, he heard him calling "Agui Agui, come in." Kou Agui immediately entered the study.
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The eunuch heard Chao Xun say: "Here, take that letter to Sang Ye."
Kou Agui said: "What a coincidence, Miss Sang was just called away by Aunt Lin."
"Then you keep it first and give it to her when she comes back."
"Yes. What is the third master doing?"
"I told you, you don't know. Get out of here and don't get in the way."
"yes."
When the eunuch heard this, he immediately strode away.
After about an hour of burning incense, Sang Ye came back, and Kou Agui hurriedly handed the letter to her. Sang Ye thanked her and took it back to her room, and then went out soon. She came to Guan Mao Street to look for the fortune teller.
After whispering what happened, the fortune teller took a handkerchief from her, closed the stall and left.
The fortune teller was walking a few streets when two large groups of idle men were fighting, and he was immediately surrounded. The people fighting couldn't tell who was on which side, so they just punched randomly. The fortune teller couldn't dodge, and was hit on the back of the head.
After one punch, he fainted immediately. When he woke up, he had been kicked on the side of the road, and the fight was still going on. He felt that all the important things on his body were there, and hurriedly got up and wanted to escape, but there were people around him and he couldn't escape.
Fortunately, the government officials arrived at this time and dispersed the idle people. The fortune teller picked up the box and cage he dropped on the ground and found that it was rarely damaged. After a little tidying up, he could still go to the street to tell fortunes tomorrow.
Not long after, two letters were listed in one place. One was copied by Kou Agui, a letter written by King Xiang to Meng Changfu, and the other was copied by Xian Han from a fortune teller, and was a coded letter written by Mulberry. Coded letter
The number of words is several times more than that of the King of Xiang's letter. The first few words of the letter from the King of Xiang are "A letter of respect from the Lord of Xiang", and the first line of the password letter is a lot of unknown things, but it is on a single line. The idle man thought about it.
I was stunned for a long time but didn't figure it out, so I sent it to my superiors.
Meng Changfu was in the country of E at this time, and he also had a headache. It turned out that Luo Jun also claimed to have been robbed by Cai Jun, and Cai Jun refused to admit it without any evidence. After Luo Jun was robbed, he had nothing to celebrate the New Year, so he robbed Chu Jun again. Chen
The army did not know where they got the news, so they followed the gourd's plan and robbed the Lu army. Now the garrison troops from various countries are robbing each other and they are in a mess. General Pian Cai claimed that he did not show the general's defense plan to his subordinates, Luo, Chen
The same is true for others. The robbed baggage from various countries were all ambushed. Some pretended to be ordinary people, and some simply pretended to be the caravans of the country being robbed. The robbers obviously had military defense plans in their hands.
An aide next to Meng Changfu thought: "My lord, that's not right. If it was just Cai Jun who robbed, it would be enough to hide the stolen goods. With so many robbers, none of the stolen goods could be found, which Wan Sheng found strange. Could it be a special gangster from the Federation?
Come in and frame me, and muddy the waters."
Meng Changfu thought: "If this is the case, they must have a military defense map in their hands. Could it be that the secret of this map has been leaked? Theoretically, only eighteen princes, seventeen generals from other countries, and three important ministers of the State of E know it.
, there is no more thirty-nine.”
The staff member said: "Thirty-nine people, with different personalities and a lot of involvement. The federal government is so meticulous that there are loopholes everywhere. Sir, there are too many. It would be better if only three or four big countries knew about this matter. The rest of the small countries like Cai
Luo, Chen, Xu, etc., why do you need to be so understanding?"
Meng Changfu thought for a while, waved his hand and said: "No. The reason why these eighteen countries can form an alliance is that all big and small countries are fair. If it is unfair, small countries can easily be won over by the federation." Before his staff could persuade him again, Meng Changfu had already made up his mind.
Had to give up.
On the other end, Jia Xu has arrived in Changsha in person. As a cryptography expert, he has been analyzing for a long time, but still can't find the pattern. He just guessed a few words with a relatively high repetition rate in the letter, such as "Zhi", "Ye", "Xiang", etc.
came out. So I simply copied several copies and sent them to the capital for everyone to guess together.
The New Year is approaching, and the political hall is so busy that everyone is busy, but the regent Jia Cong is the most leisurely. With a stroke of Lin Daiyu's pen, two letters were sent directly to the regent's palace. How could Jia Cong have such talent? He stared at the letter in a daze.
Chen Ruijin took his two daughters to his sister's house for a visit and came back. He saw Prince Jia with his chin in his hands and was about to fall asleep. It was funny, so he asked his daughters to push them forward and wake them up. Jia Cong rubbed his eyes and lifted his daughters to him one by one.
"Come here, Miao Miao Ya Ya, help your father guess what these things are." Then he pointed to the line of code book. "These symbols represent Hunan, these symbols represent Hunan, and these symbols in the middle represent
Country. The bunch at the back represents the three words Lord, Respect, and Book. Can you two guess which symbols represent which three words?"
The two children discussed it for a while, and Jia Dingbang asked: "Are there any other clues?"
"Yes." Jia Cong pointed to the few words that Jia Xu had deciphered and said, "These." He pointed to the complete coded letter and said, "These are the ones we haven't guessed yet."
Jia Xingguo frowned and said: "It's such a big project. Dad, we don't have enough manpower. Can we ask Brother Lin and others to work together?"
"Okay." Jia Cong said, "Find both of your children."
The two sisters discussed it for a while, and Jia Dingbang began to post messages to each family. He also took out his own jade unicorn daughter seal and stamped it. Chen Ruijin looked at Jia Cong for a long time: "And you are a father like this."
Jia Cong said: "Children have rich imaginations, maybe better than us adults." Then he yawned and said, "It's too much for my brain. Wife, I'm sleepy, let's take a nap."
"Go to sleep! I have to watch these little brats."
"Oh, children and grandchildren will have their own children and grandchildren, who cares about them." Jia Cong pulled Chen Ruijin's shoulders and said to his daughter, "There is another clue, that is, the person who translated the text version into the code version quickly translated it. I personally think
, this shows that there is no need to look up reference books such as Shuowen Jiezi, as long as the translator is familiar with the code, he can write the code letter by looking at the original text."
Jia Dingbang thought: "Could it be a minority language?"
"No." Jia Cong said, "This possibility has been ruled out. Judging from the number and position of repeated words, each set of passwords corresponds to the text one-to-one."
"knew."
Jia Cong then openly left the work to his daughter, and half dragged his wife back to the house to take a nap. It was cold and lazy at the moment, and when the couple woke up, it was dark outside the window, and they were shocked to feel hungry. Jia Cong pulled up the bed.
He turned on the electric light on his head, took out the pocket watch next to the pillow and looked at it. It was already past the second watch, so he said: "Let's just eat some snacks and go to sleep."
Chen Ruijin thought for a while: "That's fine."
Jia Cong then put on his clothes and poured some hot water from the hot water cauldron. The couple ate snacks with plain water, and then went to bed again.
It was not until the morning of the next day that I found out that Jia Dingbang had summoned children from more than a dozen families yesterday afternoon, and they had been studying until the middle of the night before they were picked up by each family one after another. After breakfast, the two boys from the Lin family were the first to arrive.
All the deciphering teams were present, but three or four of them clearly didn't sleep well last night.
Jia Cong looked at his two daughters. They all had enough sleep and were full of energy. He reassured them and said, "Both of these children will follow me. I'm open-minded."
Chen Ruijin glanced at the dark circles under those people's eyes and nodded: "It's a good thing if you let me do this."
The oldest of these children was less than twelve years old, and the youngest was only four years old. They came to join in the fun. They gathered in the inner study of the Regent's Palace and held meetings for seven or eight days. On the 21st of the twelfth lunar month, the eldest daughter Jia Dingbang
Announcement: The password has been deciphered successfully.
It turns out that these codes are just taking apart all the radicals of the characters and replacing them with irrelevant symbols. Jia Xu's code is a pronunciation code, with many prompts to match one by one; Meng Changfu's is completely a glyph code, and
It is not comprehensive. After each word is taken apart, it is connected together like words in a foreign language. It has to be pieced together and guessed, and it can be decoded by contacting the context. The children are young and are not as detailed as Jia Xu and other meticulous leaders. On the contrary,
Guessed it.
The password table was taken to Lin Daiyu, Zhan Kun, Feng Ziying and others for review, and everyone was convinced. Immediately, someone was sent to deliver it to Jia Xu in Changsha. Jia Xu was impressed when he saw it.
On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household was busy preparing to celebrate the New Year and worship their ancestors. The seventeen allied troops stationed in Hubei suddenly received orders to change their defenses and immediately uprooted their camps and transferred them to other places. Although the generals were confused and the military orders were inviolable, they all
He left in obedience to the military orders. The King of E, together with the officers and soldiers of the State of E, had no idea about this.
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was only one day left before the New Year's Eve. Chao Xun and King Xiang asked for leave to go home to celebrate the New Year. King Xiang thought that there would be nothing to do during the New Year, so he agreed. Chao Xun led the Kou family back home
In Yueyang, Sangye stayed in Changsha to guard the courtyard. Hundreds of miles away, all the coalition troops stationed in Hubei had completed their defense changes, and they had all moved from the towns to the deserted villages and wild mountains. The Hubei army had already handed over important areas to the allies.
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In a small farm outside Ezhou City, Li Langtou, who had worked with Kou Agui on farming and burning charcoal kilns, and many farmers gathered around Pan Xigui.