It was the court meeting again, Xia Hongsheng's most painful moment, he was still leaning on the pillar and napping, and the court did not stop because of Qu Tutong's death, and after a group of ministers went to Qu Tutong's house to worship Qu Tutong, this matter was slowly stopped being mentioned. This article was published by www. lwχｓ520。 The last time Qu Tutong's name appeared in the court, it was only when Li Shimin's posthumous title and gift to him were read out. Everything is still running as usual, and the world never changes its pace because of the appearance and disappearance of a person.

Li Shimin announced in the court that he would send envoys to Lingnan to appease and comfort Feng An, the Duke of Geng Guo. Li Shimin just waved his hand and pressed it down, but he didn't tell them that there were already soldiers and horses in Jiangling and other states that were ready to attack Lingnan, let alone tell them that dozens of people would go deep into the land of South Vietnam and behead Tan Dian, so as to deter Feng Ang and his subordinates, and don't have any crooked thoughts.

After taking a daze to hear Wang De's majestic voice retreating from the court, Xia Hongsheng finally suddenly sobered up, followed the ministers to the outside of the Taiji Palace, and then deliberately slowed down and fell to the rear. When all the ministers were almost gone, Xia Hongsheng turned back again, returned to the outside of the Taiji Palace, and said to the guards outside: "I'm sorry for this guard, please let me know, Xia Hongsheng asks to see Your Majesty." ”

The janissary nodded, then turned around and went in, and after a while, the janissary came out again and brought Xia Hongsheng in.

"What?" Li Shimin held a note in one hand and a red pen in the other. I saw Xia Hongsheng go over to pay a visit. Just asked.

"The minister is here to report to His Majesty." Xia Hongsheng bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty has asked the ministers to be responsible for launching psychological warfare against Liang Shidu. Now the minister has trained the first batch of fine work, but the number is a little small, the minister is ready to send a batch of fine work first, take a detailed look at the situation of Shuo Fang, and then create public opinion according to the specific situation of Shuo Fang. ”

"Why, can't I let you know the situation of Liang Shidu after I handed over the military report to you?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows, and looked at Xia Hongsheng with a pair of eagle-eyed eyes.

Xia Hongsheng was not in a hurry, bowed his hand and replied, "Your Majesty." What the minister wants to know is not how Liang Shidu's military camp is arranged, not how many soldiers Liang Shidu recruited. What the minister needs is those rumors in the neighborhood, those gossip. What the people of Shuofang ate and said in their mouths, and Liang Shidu's subordinates harmed the good family of that family, these are what the ministers need. Moreover, it is not that Weichen is arrogant and disrespectful, although the fine work sent by His Majesty has sent back a lot of military reports, but its role is only limited to this. And this is far from the role that a qualified spy can play. ”

"Spies?" Li Shimin showed an interesting smile on his face, and put down the song and pen in his hand. Raising his eyebrows, he asked Xia Hongsheng, "What is a spy?" How can I limit my meticulous work and be unqualified? If you don't tell me a reason today, I will send you to Shuofang to do detailed work. ”

"Well, Your Majesty, please listen to the minister's explanation." Xia Hongsheng suddenly had a black line on his face, talking about what we are good at, if we really send it, then it is estimated that we will not be able to come back: "Spies are actually meticulous, but the ministers are reluctant to ask them to be meticulous, because the word meticulous has a bad connotation, and what they do is defined as a sneaky and humble thing." In fact, the role that meticulous work, that is, seeing spies, can play is extremely important. Rather than being a spy, he preferred to call them spies, a spy who was a secret detective who spied on secret information or sabotaged the enemy in order to benefit the side he was working for. The physical and psychological risks of spies are extremely high, they must gain the trust of the other party to achieve their goals, spy on secrets, and if necessary, sacrifice their own family and friendships, even the lives of their companions, and even their own lives in order to achieve their goals. They need to go deep into the hostile forces, use illegal or legal means to steal information through secret or open channels, and integrate and analyze the collected information to facilitate the provision of countermeasures to the imperial court. At the same time, it is also responsible for carrying out covert acts such as subversion, assassination, kidnapping, public opinion dissemination, psychological warfare, sabotage, etc. The task of the spy is precisely to enable us to 'know the enemy' and thus grasp the details of the enemy. ”

"This I naturally know, and my meticulous work has also done this." Li Shimin stared at Xia Hongsheng and said, "How are they unqualified?" ”

"Your Majesty, a qualified spy, a competent intelligence officer, he must not only be proficient in the language of the hostile forces, so that the other party will not perceive that he is an outsider - this is only the basics, but also be able to speak well, he must be able to speak eloquently, he must be able to gain the favor and trust of many people with one mouth, he must have superb acting skills to disguise himself, he can be a merchant at times, a farmer at times, a high-ranking official at times, and in a blink of an eye he has become a pawn of a peddler. He can be a Taoist priest who travels all over the world when he puts on a Taoist robe, and he can prescribe medicine to people with a medical box on his back, and he becomes a healer with a hat and a long sword. He must be able to get rid of danger in all kinds of unfavorable situations, and he must have the physical fitness comparable to that of an elite soldier, and his fighting skills and swords, guns and clubs are exquisite. At the same time, he must also have a keen sense of observation, be able to understand and grasp the things around him as quickly as possible, detect abnormal situations in time, and be keenly aware of changes in the enemy. It also requires an extraordinary memory, almost memorable, and the ability to remember the faces and names of all the people it has seen. Xia Hongsheng stood there and said: "And the most important point, as a spy, he must have absolute loyalty to His Majesty, a sense of justice to the country, as well as the quality of perseverance and the determination to persevere to the end and never give up until the goal is achieved!" To do this, you are a qualified spy. A qualified spy can continuously send back all kinds of secrets of the enemy, and in general, he can even mislead the enemy's major decisions, so that we can achieve the greatest victory at the minimum cost. ”

Li Shimin's eyes widened, Xia Hongsheng's definition of fine work exceeded his imagination, and he never thought that a fine work could do this.

"Your Majesty, in the far west, there were once three countries, and their relationship was like that of Wei Shu and Wu of the Three Kingdoms. One of the weakest countries sent a spy to another country, and the spy won the trust of the king and his ministers by himself, and finally succeeded in provoking a war between the king and the other country, while the country that had sent spies was able to take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the fisherman's profits, and finally destroy the other two countries. Your Majesty, this is the role of a spy! ”

Li Laoer's pupils showed signs of dilation, and his eyes were a little stunned, as if he was shocked by Xia Hongsheng's ability to spy.

Seeing Li Laoer's reaction, Xia Hongsheng decided to give Li Laoer another squeeze of fierce medicine to achieve his goal: "Your Majesty, the role that spies can play is more than that, and they can also cooperate with other means to achieve greater results." Your Majesty, haven't you heard of the 'plan to buy a deer' and the 'plan to exhaust Qin'? ”

"Oh?" Li Laoer's eyes flashed and he raised his head.

"Back then, Duke Qi Huan worshiped Guan Zhong as the prime minister, Qi became the overlord, only Chu State did not listen to orders, several generals asked Qi Huan Gong to fight, asked to take command to attack Chu State, but was opposed by Guan Zhong, Guan Zhong thought that military conquest was a waste of labor and money, it was better to find another way. So Guan Zhong sent people to Chu to buy deer pretending to be a businessman, and threatened everywhere in Chu State: Qi Huan is a good deer, and he will buy it with a lot of money. Deer is a relatively common animal, the Chu country is rich in deer, people use deer as a meat animal, two copper coins can buy one. Qi merchants began to sell deer, initially with three copper coins per head, and later increased the price to five copper coins per head. A month later, the price of the deer rose to 40 copper coins per head, which could be exchanged for 1,000 catties of grain at that time. The high profits made the whole state of Chu crazy, and the peasants stopped farming and became hunters; The soldiers stopped training and secretly went up the mountain with bows and arrows on their backs. Over time, deer resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and they have fallen into a vicious circle. A year later, copper coins were piled up in Chu, but the fields were barren and food was cut off. Guan Zhong also issued an order to the vassal states to prohibit trading with the Chu State, and the people of the Chu State could not buy grain with a large number of copper coins. There was a famine throughout the country, people fled in all directions, and the Chu soldiers were thin and completely incapacitated. Guan Zhong saw that the time had come, gathered the princes of the Eighth Route and drove to the border of Chu. King Chu Cheng was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, so he had to ask for peace with Qi and express his submission. Your Majesty, this is a typical example of the success of a spy and public opinion economic warfare in cooperation with each other. The strategy of tired Qin is that after more than 400 years of the strategy of buying deer, the Qin state has become stronger and stronger after several generations of efforts, and when it was passed to Qin Shi Huang, it finally had the strength to annex the six countries to unify China, and the first to be threatened was South Korea, which bordered the Qin state. In order to prevent Qin's eastern expedition to wipe out the countries, the Korean monarch sent a water conservancy officer named Zheng Guo to Qin, lobbying Qin Wangzheng, proposing to dig canals to irrigate the fields, in an attempt to weaken Qin's national strength and make it unable to conquer. Of course, due to some reasons, the Qin State instead calculated and borrowed the Zhengguo Canal to irrigate the fields, and its strength increased greatly. But this also shows the great role that a spy can play. ”

Li Shimin's eyes were constantly shining, and he could see that his brain was thinking rapidly. Then, I saw a smile on Li Shimin's face and said, "Okay, I know." However, what is Xia Qing coming here to say so much? ”

Xia Hongsheng smiled wryly: "Your Majesty is wise, the minister is because there are too few detailed works that can be found, and the trained spies are not enough, so he has the cheekiness to ask His Majesty for some detailed works for training as spies!" (To be continued......)

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