This big-eared young man is called Chu Suiliang, about 20 years old, a native of Yuhang County, Jiangnan, like other scholars, Chu Suiliang is also studying in Luoyang Taixue, Wang Shichong is also quite enveloped by Tai students, 2,000 Tai students have money and food supply every month, and their lives are quite superior. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhu Suiliang is the leader of this group of scholars, and he said to everyone: "I got a news that the second imperial examination will be held in early May this year, and the content of the examination is the same as last year, do you want to try it?" ”

Everyone was silent, and after a while, the scholar surnamed Zhou sighed, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to pass the exam, and I won't be able to enter if I study too much, and I will lose everything at that time." ”

Chu Suiliang can understand everyone's worries, although Luoyang does not have the imperial examination only Taixue, but the treatment of Taixue is very good, there are ten yuan every month, one stone of rice, but Wang Shichong does not allow too many students to go to Chang'an or Zhongdu to participate in the imperial examination, if there are those who go to the immediate removal, this has caused a lot of scholars to hesitate, on the one hand, they want to participate in the imperial examination, on the other hand, they are afraid that they will not be able to pass the imperial examination, and they will not be able to enter the imperial examination, and Luoyang will not have anything but the name.

"But have you ever thought about it, with the current territory of the imperial court, it can't support an army of 100,000 at all, and I heard that Wang Shichong will expand the army to 150,000, all by eating the old capital of Luokoucang, what should I do if the grain in Luokoucang is eaten? Wang Shichong wants to feed the army, and will he care about the life and death of us scholars? ”

Another scholar said: "Brother Chu is from Jiangnan, I heard that there will be preferential treatment for candidates in Jiangnan this year, and there is no problem for Brother Chu to go, but we ..... Let's wait until next year! ”

Chu Suiliang took a sip of wine and said slowly: "I'm not going to take the exam because of Jiangnan talents, I think there is a chance now, and when everything is perfect, the seats are full, even if the Jinshi is in the examination, it is impossible to get the real shortage of the county order, last year's worst Jinshi was also appointed as the county Cheng, and this year the opportunity is better, this year Zhang Xuan is going to launch the Jiangnan Campaign, it is estimated that he will fight all the way to Lingnan, so many counties and counties need to appoint officials, as long as the Jinshi is examined, there will be no problem when the county order is made." ”

Chu Suiliang's words made everyone a little moved, who doesn't want to be a county commander, govern one party, implement the ambitions in his chest, being the emperor is really just a joke, but being a county commander far away from the emperor of the mountain is not the emperor of the soil?

At this time, a scholar asked in a low voice: "Brother Chu thinks that Zhongdu and Chang'an, who will have the last laugh?" ”

Chu Suiliang sighed and said: "It's hard to say, everyone's thoughts are different, but I can conclude that Luoyang will support it for two years at most." ”

At this time, someone knocked on the door, and everyone suddenly realized that this was a guy who came to remind them not to talk nonsense, and it must be the patrol army coming.

"Drink! Drink! ”

Everyone laughed: "Let's talk about Baihualou!" Who went recently, is Oiran or Ye Li'er? ”

.........

In another private room not far from the scholars, there was a middle-aged man sitting in a private room, drinking a little preoccupied, judging by his appearance as a businessman, and his eyes were full of businessman's temperament.

At this time, the door opened, and a tall young man walked in, his name was Yin Hongzhi, an intelligence leader of the Sui army in Chang'an, who was originally a scout captain, because he was shrewd and capable, and he was a native of Luoyang, so he was transferred to Luoyang as an intelligence scout.

Yin Hongzhi came in, and the middle-aged man hurriedly got up, but was pressed down by Yin Hongzhi, "This is not a polite place, sit down!" ”

The man sat down, his hands trembling and holding the wine glass, Yin Hongzhi poured himself a glass of wine, and looked at him sharply, "Did you inquire about what I want?" ”

The man nodded, and said, "This time.... I want fifty gold. ”

"I want your intelligence to be worth this price."

"I don't want to do it, this time I'll tell you the biggest secret of the Bohai Society."

"Why don't you want to do it?" Yin Hongzhi asked.

After a while, the man said in a low voice: "The shopkeeper Li of Wanbao Silk Village died, saying that he fell into the toilet drunk and drowned, but I know that he was killed and killed, he knows too much, and his wife will not allow him, and I will be the same, and it will be my turn next." ”

The man took out a roll of paper from his arms, "Everything you want to know is on it, I will tell you their most important secret, this information is worth at least five hundred taels of gold, but I only need fifty taels, which is cheap for you." ”

Yin Hongzhi opened the paper scroll and looked at it, his eyes suddenly lit up, this is indeed an extremely important piece of information, so he took out fifty taels of gold and put it on the table, the man was about to reach out to take it, but Yin Hongzhi held down the gold, "Let me warn you first, if you provide false news, it will not be as happy as flooding the toilet." ”

"I know, you are more ruthless than Madame, I just sell information to you, and I don't provoke anything else."

As soon as Yin Hongzhi's hand was released, the man snatched the gold, stuffed it into his pocket, grabbed the wine jug on the table and drank it bitterly, and then went out and left in a hurry, without even saying hello.

Yin Hongzhi immediately paid for the wine and turned around and left the wine shop......

Half an hour later, Yin Hongzhi came to Jianghuai Buzhuang in Nanshi, which was the shop bought by Zhang Xuan back then, and now it is the intelligence center of the Sui army in Luoyang, and they opened a cloth village by themselves as a cover.

Yin Hongzhi walked into Buzhuang, walked all the way to the backyard upstairs, pushed open a door and flashed in.

The room was brightly lit, and a person who looked like a shopkeeper was bowing his head to settle accounts, his name was Yang Shan, Yin Hongzhi's top boss, and Hou Zheng of the Luoyang Intelligence Agency, whose cover identity was the shopkeeper of Buzhuang, and there were more than 100 intelligence spies under him.

But not far behind him, a scribe in his thirties was standing in front of the window, he was wearing a white Confucian robe, wearing a gauze hat, a leather belt around his waist, fair skin, bright eyes, three wisps of green beard, looking very elegant, this person was Zhang Xuan's account to join the army Ling Jing, Dou Jiande's adviser in the past, he was sent by Fang Xuanling two days ago to the Central Plains to investigate the situation of the Bohai Society.

"How's that, do you have any information?" Yang Shan asked with concern.

Ling Jing also stared at Yin Hongzhi sharply, and Yin Hongzhi took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that he knew a member of the Bohai Society, and he could get the information they wanted from him.

Yin Hongzhi took out the paper roll and handed it to Yang Shan, "It's even better than I expected before!" ”

Yang Shan looked at the scroll of paper and handed it to Ling Jing, Ling Jing looked at it carefully, and his eyes also showed joy, this information was too important, he had to report it immediately.

"Shopkeeper Yang, where are your carrier pigeons here?"

"The carrier pigeon is in the backyard, just write it to me when you join the army."

Ling Jing hurriedly wrote a simple pigeon letter and handed it to Yang Shan, and he instructed: "I want to rush to Chenliu County immediately, please send this letter away immediately, and in addition, send someone to Zhongdu and hand over the paper scroll to Fang Junshi." ”

Yin Hongzhi saluted: "Let the humble post go to Zhongdu!" ”

Yang Shan nodded, "It's okay, you got the information, it is estimated that Master Fang will ask for some details, you can go immediately!" ”

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Three days later, Ling Jing arrived in Chenliu County, the reason why he came to Chenliu County was because the intelligence suggested that the items they were looking for were currently in Chenliu County, but they were only in transit in Chenliu County, and they would soon be transported to the north.

There were about 20 people accompanying Ling Jing to Chenliu County, all of whom were the most elite scouts of the Sui army, and the leader was an eagle strike general, named Liu Lancheng, a native of Beihai County, born in poverty, was originally a spy under Sun Xuanya of Langya County, and later surrendered to the Sui army and was assigned to the scout army.

In this investigation of Liu Heimin, Fang Xuanling asked Shen Guang for someone, and Shen Guang transferred him to Fang Xuanling and followed Ling Jing south.

Ling Jing was very satisfied with Liu Lancheng, never said a word, never exceeded the rules, and strictly implemented every order he had.

Chenliu County is the most important land and water transit place in the Central Plains, is the intersection of the two main official roads in the north and south and east and west, the imperial court built dozens of large warehouses in Chenliu County, although the warehouse is no longer used, but the status of Chenliu County as a water and land transportation artery has not changed, merchants gather here, thousands of private warehouses of all sizes have been established in various parts of the county, and many private houses have also been rented out as warehouses.

Ling Jing did not go to the county office, but lived in an inn, Ling Jing closed the door, took out a map and spread it on the table, he pointed to the north city gate and said to Liu Lancheng: "Now we are located at the gate of the north city, our goal is here!" ”

Ling Jing pointed not far to the south, "There should be a warehouse here, called the Beidi Cangxing, there are more than a dozen warehouses in it, it is actually the material transfer station of the Bohai Society in Chenliu County, according to the information we got in Luoyang, a batch of important materials have advanced in this warehouse in a few days. ”

Speaking of this, Ling Jing glanced at Liu Lancheng and saw that he didn't mean to ask, so he asked with a smile, "General Liu doesn't want to ask what it is?" ”

"If the lowly has the right to know, joining the army will naturally tell the lowly position."

Ling Jing smiled and nodded, "It's five hundred pairs of Mingguang armor, and Bohai will exchange 100,000 catties of pig iron from Meng Haigong." ”

"Does joining the army require a humble job to destroy this warehouse?"

"It's not!"

Ling Jing shook his head, "Our goal is to find Liu Heimin's lair, these five hundred pairs of Mingguang armor must be given to Liu Heimin, General Liu's task is to track down this batch of Mingguang armor and find the place where Liu Heimin's lair is located." ”

"Humble duty understood."

"So now the first step is to confirm that this batch of Mingguang armor is still not in the warehouse, and the second step is to wait patiently for them to leave, if they are leaving next spring, General Liu must also wait until tomorrow spring, this matter is a major matter that the marshal personally grasps, the stakes are very high, I hope General Liu will not let the marshal down."

Liu Lancheng nodded silently, he felt the pressure on his shoulders, he must not fail....... (To be continued.) )