Chapter 614: Foolish Calculations
The writing of the fat party item is quite good, the ins and outs of the matter are clearly described, and the elements that Su Jin cares about are also listed one by one.
The truth is not much different from what Su Jin and others guessed, but the details are more detailed, and the means of acting are slightly deviated, but in general they do not deviate too far.
There are seven members of this group, and the leader is named Tuoba Gong, who is one of the twelve supervising military divisions of the Western Xia, and is the third person under the unified army and the deputy unified army, and the rank is not low.
Among the 12 supervising military divisions, this person was selected to lead the team because this person was proficient in the language of the Great Song Dynasty and had superb martial arts; The other six people are party soldiers selected from the garrison of Gongwei Xingqing Mansion, the person who committed suicide in Su Jin's house is called 'Xi Fengye', the one who was kicked to death by Xiao Temo is called 'Xiang Lizhu', the hard bone who was taken down by Su Jin just now is called 'Tuoba Feng', and the one who wrote the confession is called 'Ye Ci Shi', and the other two have their own names, both of which are the surnames of party members.
More than 20 days ago, Yuan Hao learned that the Liao envoys would negotiate with the Song Dynasty in the future, and the Liao people's military and horse movements in Nanjing Road and Xijing Road were also known to Li Yuanhao by Tanma.
Li Yuanhao was originally in the quagmire of war with the Great Song Dynasty, the Song Army's northwest army adhered to Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi's defensive strategy, built cities and forts, and could not retreat, Yuan Hao's several attacks were repelled by the Song army that held it, and the losses were not small, and the generals and tribal leaders under his subordinates also had a lot of complaints.
At the time of the dilemma, the learning of this information made Li Yuanhao see a glimmer of light in the dark night.
Yuan Hao has always hoped to pull the Liao State into the water, but although he and the Liao State have an in-law relationship, but how can this relationship affect the interests of other countries, several requests for coordinated operations were rejected by the Liao State, Yuan Hao was annoyed and angry, and deliberately created several incidents on the Xia-Liao border; For example, taking in the rebel Heishui tribe of Liao, and conniving at them to retaliate and harass in Liao, etc., added more mustard to the relationship between the two countries.
Although the envoy Guangai came and went, and everything seemed normal, Yuan Hao knew that it was almost impossible for him to want Liao Guo to stand in the same boat as him.
But now, since the Liao State gathered troops and horses on the border of the Song State and sent envoys to the Song State to deliver the letter of state, as soon as these two relatively contradictory things came into his ears, Yuan Hao felt that something was strange.
Li Yuanhao quickly convened the ministers and tribal leaders to discuss, and finally one of the Han aides under his account, Zhang Yuan, offered a plan, he suggested that he immediately send someone to infiltrate Bianliang in disguise as a Song person, wait for the arrival of the Liao envoy in Bianliang, look for an opportunity to assassinate the Liao envoy in Bianliang City, and then leave evidence directly against the Song Dynasty, so as to completely break the relationship between the Song Dynasty and the Liao State.
Zhang Yuan analyzed that with the temper of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, although they knew that the Liao people were here to blackmail this time, they would definitely agree to the other party's unreasonable demands; In Zhang Yuan's view, this time the Liao State was nothing more than wanting to increase the annual coins and silks of the Song Dynasty to make some benefits, but he never expected that this time the Liao people would open their mouths and put forward the four conditions to challenge the bottom line of the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhang Yuanhao's suggestion was praised by Li Yuanhao, so Li Yuanhao immediately organized manpower to form a death squad to infiltrate Bianliang City.
In order to control these death squads and force them to complete the task no matter what, and not to reveal the news, Li Yuanhao ordered all the families of these seven people to be detained, promising that if they could complete the mission, they would be released to the family, and at the same time gave the high-ranking officials Houlu gold and silver treasures, and also warned them that if they failed to complete the task, or were captured and betrayed, their parents, wives, children, brothers and sisters would all be beheaded.
Not only that, the suspicious and murderous Li Yuanhao also ordered the palace pharmacist to take a chronic poison pill and force seven people to take it, promising a period of three months, and death is another matter, if someone escapes regardless of the life of the family, then the antidote to this poison will not be obtained, and he will die of poison after three months.
The seven did not have time to grow their hair to cover their baldness, so Tuoba Gong slaughtered several Han people at the border, cut off their long hair and scalp and dried them into wig sets, and the seven people came to Bianliang under the alias of a businessman.
After several days of adaptation and inquiry, as soon as the Liao envoy Xiao Temo's men entered the city, these seven people already knew; On the night when the Liao envoys stayed at the pavilion, Tuoba Gong originally planned to slaughter several Song miscellaneous servants who went out to buy or serve in the pavilion, and then wore their clothes and costumes to sneak in and assassinate them, but unexpectedly, Xiao Temo drove out all the Song cooks, horsemen and other miscellaneous servants in the pavilion like a divine help; Not even a single post guard was left, which made Tuoba Gong depressed to death.
Fortunately, Tuoba Gong is also a brave and resourceful person, and the method of mixing in does not work, and the large and brave force of the Liao envoy is not suitable for the forcible assassination of their seven dead soldiers who are not strong in martial arts, Tuoba Gong chose another method, that is, poisoning the Liao envoy.
Tuoba Gong ordered his subordinates to walk back and forth in front of the gate of the pavilion in front of the gate of the pavilion in disguise as a seller of cooked food, and the aroma of braised meat and barbecued meat naturally attracted the attention of the Liao soldiers patrolling around the pavilion, and they really stepped forward to leave and rushed to buy, Tuoba Gong hid in the dark and thought he had a plan, but unexpectedly the next scene made him depressed again; The soldiers of the Liao army were not in a hurry to eat the meat, and a Liao soldier who looked like a small leader actually took out a silver needle to test whether it was poisonous piece by piece, and after finding that it was not poisonous, they all shouted and devoured it.
If he hadn't known that this operation was a top secret, Tuoba Gong would have doubted that someone had reported the news, and these Liao people were too careful, which was unprecedented.
Of course Tuoba Gong didn't understand, Xiao Temo himself felt that the conditions proposed by the emperor this time were too harsh, although what he wanted in the end was far from the conditions for these lions to open their mouths, but in such a situation, who could guarantee that the Song people would not use tricks?
Therefore, Xiao Temo adopted Liu Liufu's suggestion, eat and drink more carefully, and the Song people's cooks and grooms are not used, as for if the Song people are angry and send troops to directly cut them down, it is another matter; It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, and you can't prevent that kind of thing.
Xiao Temo is not afraid of death, no matter how stupid the Song people are, they will not kill themselves, what he is most afraid of is that the Song people will make some despicable means to make their lives worse than death, they look good, and after they go back, they will have a rotten stomach, so there is nowhere to call injustice.
Tuoba Gong was depressed and almost slapped his mouth, but fortunately he was careful enough, in order to be safe, this time he was just trying to be safe, and no poison was put into the meat, so although it didn't succeed, it wasn't a failure, as long as it wasn't detected, there was still a chance.
The next day, when the envoys of Song and Liao met, Tuoba Gong took his brothers to witness it at the mouth of the alley across the street, and what made him wonder was that when it was almost noon, several people with blurred flesh and blood came out of the pavilion.
Tuoba Gong was excited, if the Song people directly slaughtered the Liao envoy, wouldn't he and the others be able to retreat and win without a fight? But the next four envoys actually went out to board the car and go to Fanlou to dine with a smile, which made Tuoba Gong completely dizzy.
Fortunately, the news soon spread all over the streets and alleys, saying that the envoy of the Song State actually played a big bet with the envoy of the Liao State in the pavilion for a morning, and the envoy of the Liao State lost so much that he even ran out of pants, and it is said that he lost all the cash and owed more than 10,000 taels of silver.
Tuoba Gong can't find the north, what the hell is going on, aren't the envoys of the two countries going to negotiate? How to meet and gamble first, what is the rule?
Confused and confused, Tuoba Gong hurriedly took his subordinates back to the inn to discuss, or the fine seal was insightful, and the head of his analysis was to say: "Lord Tuoba, do you think, now that the Liao people are penniless and owe a lot of debts, how to solve the problem of eating and drinking for the hundred and tenth people?" Since the envoys of the Song Dynasty had won all their money, they must have wanted to teach them some lessons, and they would not be served food at all these days; Let's just add a fire, even if the Liao envoy still has some life-saving money, he will teach them that they can't buy food, and starve them fiercely for a few days, when the time comes, as long as they pick up hot meat and pretend to be the wine and meat sent by the envoy of the Song State and turn around at the door of the pavilion, will the hungry Liao soldiers like mad dogs still take silver needles one by one? ”
Tuoba Gong patted his thigh and said: "It's a good strategy, but it may not be able to poison the Liao envoy Xiao Temo, and how can you make them hungry for a few days?" Won't they come out and buy some bargains to satisfy their hunger? ”
Xi Fengye said: "It's enough to kill the Liao soldiers, as long as a few Liao soldiers die, we pretend to be the people sent by the envoys of the Song Dynasty to deliver food, and this will be the culprit; The Liao people would think that it was the soldiers who died, but the target was the Liao envoys, which was enough to arouse their anger; As for how to make them hungry for a few days, the villain has thought about it, what these merchants and taverns in the Song Kingdom are most afraid of is the government, let's pretend to be officials to intimidate them first, it doesn't matter if there are one or two violations, let's go and smash them at night, and the next day the guards will all become grandsons. ”
Tuoba Gong laughed and said: "This plan is very good, I didn't expect you to be really a talent, and you also know a lot about the Song people." ”
Xi Fengye said: "The villain's Hun's family is Han, and it was robbed by the villain, so she told the villain everything." ”
Tuoba Gong couldn't stop praising him, and after some careful preparation with everyone, he stole the clothes of the officials, and even forged official documents, so that there were seven or eight people greeting everywhere under the banner of the government.
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After reading the confession, Su Jin couldn't cry or laugh, what kind of trick is this, Li Yuanhao's strategy is quite vicious, but it is just handed over to the hands of such a few people to implement, it is simply a pearl cast into the dark; Where does this kind of assassination need such twists and turns, just two skilled archers can snipe at close range while Xiao Temo and the others are out, and wipe their necks after they are done.
to assassinate, to find the right man to do what must be killed; For fear of exposing the traces, I found these incompetent people who were proficient in the customs of the Song Dynasty but had sparse martial arts to plot.
Speaking of which, they were still frightened by themselves, Bianliang City has never had a rule prohibiting the Xixia people from entering, but the inspection is more severe, as long as the things on their bodies are not eye-catching, a bow and arrow is simply easy to get when they come to Bianliang City; Fortunately, they were stupid, otherwise Xiao Temo would have been killed, and that would have been a big problem.
And now, I'm afraid it's Li Yuanhao who is in trouble.