The morning sun is lazily falling, and the birds are singing on the branches, heralding the beginning of a new day.

Wang Xu got up early as always, and after washing, he carried the fire dragon gun to practice martial arts, which has been a habit he has maintained for many years, unless there are very special circumstances, rain or shine, even when leading the army to conquer, he will always find some time to practice martial arts alone.

It is precisely because of this diligence, coupled with his excellent talent, and the foundation laid by the teachings of famous teachers, that he can now reach the pinnacle of martial arts.

Today he was particularly interested, and he practiced for more than an hour before he bathed and changed his clothes under Xiao Min's service.

I had just come out of the bathhouse, and the water in my hair had not yet dried, but I saw Xiaoyu wandering outside the door.

Seeing him come out, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Luo An, the spy commander, has been waiting for a long time, and he has an urgent matter to report!" ”

"In a hurry?" Wang Xu wiped the drops of water on his forehead with a towel, and said after a while: "Let him come to see me!" ”

"No!" Xiao Yu carried the hem of her skirt and hurried away with broken steps.

It didn't take long for Xiao Min to comb his hair in the room, Luo An, who was eager, had already walked in, without squinting, and saluted himself: "Your Majesty greets you!" ”

"Get up!" Wang Xu waved his hand and turned around, but when he saw his face, he was suddenly stunned. "Huh! How long has it been since you slept, and why are your eyes bloodshot? ”

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty didn't close his eyes for only one night, and it's fine!"

"Then if you don't have a good rest, what do you need to report?"

"Your Majesty, your subordinates are fortunate not to be dishonored, and last night they uprooted a core stronghold of Jiaozhou in Xiangyang? Get some information. It has been confirmed. ”

Wang Xu instantly came to his senses. It just so happened that the hair was also done at this time. I can't help but pat the folds on my clothes.

"Oh? Do you mean that the person who intended to kidnap Wang Zheng and Wang Zhan was caught? ”

"Your Majesty, after last night's interrogation and verification, the real masterminds have not been caught, they are not!"

"Isn't it?" Wang Xu raised his eyebrows.

"It's not!" Luo An shook his head, he knew Wang Xu's character very well, and hurriedly continued: "The real mastermind is trying to disguise himself as a kidnapping and create the illusion of killing people by mistake. In fact, it is to provoke the king, blame Jiaozhou, and provoke a larger-scale war! Unfortunately, in the end they failed. ”

"Did the Cao family's forces do it?" Wang Xu's face was solemn, and he heard some truths from it.

"How can you be sure?" Luo An was stunned.

"Who wants me to go south with all my might?" Wang Xu grinned and said, after a moment of silence, he shook his head and said: "It seems that Cao Cao attaches great importance to the matter of this southern expedition to Jiaozhou, I am afraid that there is some conspiracy in the middle, you must focus on investigating in this direction in the future, they failed this time." Maybe there will be another way next time, and there will be our soldiers on the battlefield. It's up to you to do things on the battlefield. ”

"Your Excellency can rest assured, your subordinates will do their best!" After Luo An promised loudly, he hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "Your Excellency, in fact, from the multi-party intelligence and detailed work dynamics today, my subordinates have a faint feeling that the Cao family is likely to be laying out an overall situation, but it has not yet been determined that the specifics are still missing, and there seems to be something missing in the intelligence." ”

"Are you saying that blaming Jiaozhou is just one part, and he has bigger plans?" Wang Xu frowned.

"It's just a feeling, and your subordinates are not sure, but with your minister's years of experience, it should be eight or nine and ten!"

"Tell me about it." After Wang Xu paused slightly, he said indifferently: "Also, tell me about those idle information!" ”

"Back to the king, the minister got a secret report from Jiaozhou half a month ago, saying that in the land of Jiaozhou, suddenly there were many detailed forces in the activity, and they speculated that it should be Cao Jun's fine work according to some techniques and styles. Some time ago, Commander Shan received a secret report on military affairs, and the Cao army camp in the north came and went frequently, although it was very deeply hidden, but it still found out that it seemed to be a secret transfer, but it was still unknown where it was going. ”

In addition, not only the two young sons were in distress, it is said that Mrs. Wu of Jiangdong was also in distress on her way to the temple to offer incense, but she still failed. The rumors over there were made by our spy shadows, and it was obvious that someone was also to blame, but fortunately, the Sun family didn't seem to believe it either, and was investigating closely! In addition, what made his subordinates suspect the most was Yingchuan and Huainan, our two important strongholds in Yingchuan were inexplicably and cleverly terminated, but fortunately, they reacted quickly and evacuated in time, only a few people who infiltrated the enemy did not have time to get out and committed suicide.

"It's okay here, but Huainan is even worse, the entire three important strongholds have all been wiped out, including a commander under Commander Shan, all of them have lost news, if there is no accident, I'm afraid they have all died! Even the connection between us and the Huainan Spy Department has been completely severed, and Commander Shan has already gone to Huainan in person to investigate the situation! ”

Speaking of this in one breath, Luo An looked up at Wang Xu's face, and then continued: "Your Excellency, there are more strange little things, these things are very common, and they happen from time to time on weekdays, but now there are accidents one after another, and they are connected to each other, but they make their subordinates very suspicious, I'm afraid this bureau is unusual!" ”

After listening to this, Wang Xu was silent for a long time, he and Luo An looked at these problems from different angles, so their understanding was different, and he soon sighed: "Cao Cao is adding fuel to the fire, making the Jiaozhou war more complicated, deepening the gap between me and Jiangdong, thus provoking me or Sun Jian, leading the two families to start a full-scale war, he can take advantage of the opportunity to make profits, if there is no accident, I am afraid that he has secretly increased his troops in Yingchuan and Huainan, and is always ready to take advantage of the situation, but don't think about it, Yingchuan's soldiers must be more, and he must be fighting for me!" ”

"What the king said is reasonable!" Luo An first echoed his words, paused for a moment, and then said tentatively: "But I don't know if the king has some feelings, this qiē and qiē, as if it was a bit deliberately for us to discover, and it was intentionally exposed one after another?" ”

"Intentionally? Are you saying that all those things that happened were deliberately done by Cao Jun, and then deliberately let us know about them? Wang Xuhu doubted.

"The subordinates of the strategic major affairs dare not speak falsely, but only from the analysis of the action habits of the detailed work, the subordinates feel that it is not very commonsense, and the most taboo in the detailed work is to make big moves one after another, because such a large-scale successive action will expose too many problems, and it is also very eye-catching, which is tantamount to taking the initiative to tear apart the cover-up, and let the various forces carefully observe and fight!"

"This ......" Wang Xu hesitated for a while, then shook his head and said: "Probably not, he has been plotting against me for a long time in Nanyang and Xiangyang, so he is so popular, but he intends to expose his intentions, so why bother?" Maybe it's because your spy department's detective ability is too strong, they have the intention to cover up specific actions, but they can't do it, so it's just like this! ”

"It's also possible!" Luo An actually didn't have a bottom in his heart, because what Wang Xu said was also normal. "Your Majesty, but your subordinates still feel that there is something faintly wrong with this matter, and I always feel that there is something missing, if I can know, then I will definitely be able to connect all of them!"

Wang Xu was not without doubts in his heart, and after thinking about it, he ordered: "Then you continue to investigate, follow your ideas, and report immediately if there are any signs!" ”

"No!" Luo An surrendered.

After Luo An left, Wang Xu thought alone for a long time, but he couldn't guess what Cao Cao's intentions were, so he had no choice but to give up, and made up his mind not to wave the main army to the south, so as to respond to all changes without change, and see what he Cao Cao could do to him.

Because he had something on his mind, when he had breakfast with the women, he didn't speak, and he hastily filled his stomach and buried it in his diligent palace to review the recital.

Of course, today's Qinzheng Hall is still the study room he once had, the only difference is that there is a plaque hanging on the study - Qinzheng Palace!

However, this is already a good condition, the area of Nangong Taiwei's Mansion, that is, the former military advisor Cao, because it was involved in the rectification and construction of the first phase of the project, the whole was moved to a remote small courtyard, and dozens of officials of all sizes were crowded together, which is called a real grievance!

The court meeting of Chu State is once every three days, Wang Xu feels that the daily court meeting is meaningless at all, and even once every three days is too frequent, because it is impossible for so many big things to happen every day, most of them are trivial things, the three princes and the nine secretaries and subordinate officials can handle it by themselves, no matter how bad it is, there is Shang Shutai, just give him a review after the resolution.

Therefore, most of the time it is "nothing to do today, retreat from the dynasty"!

But the ministers got up early in the morning, worked hard, and after a while of sitting together, they retreated, purely tossing, especially the royal clothes he wore during the court meeting, which was very cumbersome to wear alone, and it didn't take long to wear it, and he had to take it off immediately, which made him annoyed!

Therefore, after not holding out for a few days, he decided to change to a court meeting every three days, which was still due to the result of having more contact with the ministers, otherwise he wanted to do it once every seven days.

Two days later, it happened to be another court meeting, Wang Xu was in a good mood and happily went to court.

I thought that today, as most of the time, would be the same as most of the time, and it would become an opportunity for communication.

But as soon as he sat down and the ministers finished saluting, Guo Jia preemptively said before he spoke: "Enlighten the King of Chu, the ministers have something to do!" ”

"Huh?" Wang Xu was slightly stunned for a moment, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and nodded in time: "Accurate!" ”

Guo Jia's expression was not very good, he knelt on the mattress, leaned over and said: "King Qichu, yesterday there was a battle report from Jiaozhou, Jianzhi General Huang Xu, Yamen General Wang Xiong as the vanguard, each commander of the headquarters of the Tie Yingwei and Tiger Warriors, a total of 4,000 people, attacked the front camp of Jiaozhou at night, beheaded several generals, killed more than 3,000 people, captured more than 6,000 people, Shiwu led the remnants of the army to retreat in a panic, converged the main army, Jiaozhou's morale was frustrated, and the soldiers retreated for 30 miles and camped. Zhao Yun then obeyed Zhuge Liang's strategy, divided his troops into three routes, and went south to ......"

"Hahaha...... Good! Before Guo Jia finished speaking, Wang Xu couldn't stop laughing: "The first battle was won, and the military prestige was inspired, Huang Xu and Wang Xiongguo lived up to my expectations!" ”

"Alas!"

Guo Jia saw him so happy, but he sighed heavily, and his expression was a little helpless...... (To be continued......)