Qian Song

Chapter 63 Secret Letter from Alumni (Please follow up!)
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Yuwen Huang Zhong glanced at the total number of troops at the end of the army plan.

"12 four people?!"

Yuwen Huangzhong looked normal on the surface, but he couldn't help but gasped in his heart!
"How could there be so many followers?!"

Yuwen Huangzhong was one of the personnel sent by Tong Guan to investigate the rebellion in the Liangzhe area.

Although Zhao Ji didn't send Tong Guan south at the first time, the old and hot Tong Guan, relying on the information collected from various sources, felt that the rebellion in the southeast should not be that simple, and he might have to take action in the end. Row.

Therefore, before Zhao Ji decided to send Tan Zhen to the southeast first, Tong Guan had already sent several people to check the extent of the rebellion in the southeast.

And Yuwen Huangzhong is one of them.

After Yuwen Huangzhong was ordered to Zhenjiang, he heard a lot of news:

It is said that Li Cun and Fang La belong to the same family, and that Li Cun was a general under Fang La's command, and was ordered by Fang La to take down Hangzhou.

It is said that Li Cun and Fang La are not a family at all, and Li Cun is also the leader of the rebel army.

It is also said that Li Cun and Fang La are in conflict, and the two have been fighting for territory.

In short, there were all kinds of news, and news was flying all over the sky. Yuwen Huangzhong couldn't judge which of these news was true and which was false, so he couldn't report to Tong Guan.

Yuwen Huangzhong felt that this was not possible. If such news was reported to Tong Guan, it would affect Tong Guan's judgment on the situation in the southeast.

So Yuwen Huangzhong walked down the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal until he came to Hangzhou.

As soon as he approached Hangzhou, Yuwen Huangzhong heard that the Huben Army was conducting imperial examinations. As long as you are a literati, you can refer to it and you will be able to pass, and then you can become an official in Hangzhou.

Yuwen Huang Zhong was extremely surprised: "The rebels want to conduct the imperial examination, so why are a group of villagers gathered together to rebel?!"

After Yuwen Huangzhong entered Hangzhou, he turned around and listened again, and found that most of the common people in Hangzhou supported the rebellion of the Huben Army, and many of them actively participated in the rebellion of the Huben Army. .

Yuwen Huangzhong felt that this was terrible, and it was beyond the scope of ordinary rebellion.

After thinking about it, Yuwen Huangzhong went straight to Hangzhou City.

When they arrived in Hangzhou City, some guards questioned Yuwen Huangzhong what he was doing in Hangzhou City, and Yuwen Huangzhong said that he was here to take the imperial examination.

As a result, the person who interrogated Yuwen Huangzhong immediately enthusiastically invited Yuwen Huangzhong to the post house, and served Yuwen Huangzhong with delicious food and drink.

Yuwen Huangzhong felt more and more that the behavior of the Huben army was abnormal, and it was likely to become a serious problem for the imperial court.

Yuwen Huangzhong felt that only by entering the Huben Army can he understand the Huben Army, and then report the situation of the Huben Army to the court, and then help the court to destroy the Huben Army.

Therefore, Yuwen Huangzhong participated in the imperial examination held by the Huben Army.

After passing the imperial examination, Yuwen Huangzhong finally met Li Cun, the founder of the Huben Army.

Li Cun's first impression of Yuwen Huangzhong was that he was too young, not even as old as his son.

But in the following contacts, Yuwen Huangzhong was astonished to discover that Li Cun's conversation, knowledge, and thinking were far from those of his outstanding sons.

"No wonder this person can gather so many people to rebel!"

Yuwen Huangzhong even had a heart of cherishing talents, thinking that if Li Cun did not embark on the road of rebellion, he would definitely be a pillar of the Song Dynasty.

When Li Cun asked about his family background, Yuwen Huangzhong didn't hide it, because he felt that his family background would help him gain a higher status, and thus be able to better collect information and then eliminate the Huben army.

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When Yuwen Huangzhong revealed his family name, Li Cun, who had always been approachable before, suddenly became stunned, and then Li Cun appointed him the No. [-] scholar.

Now, as soon as Yuwen Huangzhong joined the Huben Army, Li Cun let Yuwen Huangzhong participate in the reorganization of the Huben Army, which seems to prove that Yuwen Huangzhong's previous actions were correct. Do you know the reality of the Huben Army?
It's just that Yuwen Huangzhong never expected that the Huben Army had more than 12 combatable soldiers!

Moreover, Yuwen Huangzhong had heard before that some reserve supervisors and political cadres of the Huben Army were mobilizing [-] civilians to go north with the Huben Army.

Yuwen Huangzhong also heard that Fang Wuji and Baozheng, newly elected from various villages, villages and forts who came to participate in some mobilization meeting, said that the Huben Army would pay the peasants wages and distribute land to the peasants. Nothing over fifty.

If the Huben army can really produce such a group of civilians, then after a little training and weapons, they will be another [-] bandit army.

Yuwen Huangzhong felt terrible even thinking about it.

What worries Yuwen Huangzhong even more is that this is just a rebel bandit from the Huben Army. The number of rebels led by Fang La that has been restructured in Jianyuan should not be less than that of the Huben Army. Yuan reform?
——Yuwen Huangzhong has found out that the real relationship between Li Cun and Fang La is that although the two are not a rebel bandit, they are relatives. One is responsible for fighting east and the other is responsible for fighting west. Yuwen Huangzhong was very worried, because the court never thought that the rebels would flee to the west, so they were not prepared for this at all.

In addition, it is said that there were riots by rebels in Taizhou, Wuzhou, Quzhou, Chuzhou, and Yuezhou.

In this way, there may be millions of rebels here in Liangzhe!

Yuwen Huangzhong has already realized that the rebellion situation here in the southeast is infinitely more serious than those in the DPRK and China. Tan Zhen, who only knows how to talk about war on paper, can't suppress the chaos at all. Only by personally leading the western army that was going to recover the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, would it be possible to suppress this chaos.

Soon, Yuwen Huangzhong followed behind Li Cun and saw the more than 12 Huben army, and no one stood up to complain even if the whole army was in the middle of the night.

This time, Yuwen Huangzhong was so frightened that his back was covered in cold sweat!

——Yuwen Huangzhong thinks that if all the rebels here in the southeast are like the Huben Army, I am afraid that all the Western Army must be dispatched. No, no, a large part of the Hebei Forbidden Army and the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army must be mobilized to be possible. Put an end to this chaos!

Li Cun, who helped Li Cun before and after the run, kept reorganizing until late at night before Yuwen Huang Zhong dragged his exhausted body back to the residence.

Before entering the room, Yuwen Huang Zhong checked the surroundings carefully, and then asked the servant he brought to guard the door.

Afterwards, Yuwen Huangzhong entered the room alone, wrote a secret letter in the shortest time, and sealed it into the wax pill.

Early the next morning, Yuwen Huangzhong found an excuse to send the boy out of the city himself, and then hid the wax pills in the boy's hair with his own hands.

After finishing all this, Yuwen Huang Zhongqian reminded Wan Wan that the boy must hand over this wax pill to Tong Guan himself, and then let the boy leave by the path.

Seeing the boy go away, Yuwen Huangzhong returned to Hangzhou city alone.

——Yuwen Huangzhong feels that he can't leave yet, and he should stay to collect more intelligence for the court, and help the court to eliminate Li Cun, a serious trouble, when necessary.

About half an hour later, the wax pill appeared in Li Cun's hands, and the servants in Yuwen Huangzhong were naturally controlled by Wu Desi.

Li Cun squeezed the wax pill and unfolded the secret letter inside.

As a result, the secret letter was covered in a vast expanse of whiteness, without even a single word.

Seeing this, Hu Tu on the side immediately reminded Li Cun: "My minister saw with his own eyes that fellow took a piece of alum while eating. This must be a secret letter of alum. Put it in the water, and the words will be immediately obvious."

Hu Tu has been living in the world since he was a child, and he can learn all kinds of musical instruments and ditties. As for literacy, he can't tell who he learned it from, anyway, he learned it in a daze.

As for classics and history, Hu Tu had never read any of them.

However, Hu Tu liked to listen to Mr. Shu's storytelling and listening to operas since he was a child.

Therefore, Hutu actually knew a lot.

However, what Hu Tu knew was definitely not enough for him to embark on an official career.

Until Hu Tu inadvertently heard about the imperial examination being held by General Huben and General Huben.

Hutu was keenly aware that this might be his chance.

But Hu Tu was too aware of how much he had, so Hu Tu tricked a few market literati he knew to take the imperial examination with him, thinking that he had brought so many people to General Huben, and General Huben just didn’t like it. Rewarding him with an official position can also make him an errand servant.

What Hu Tu never expected was that although he was No. 1 from the bottom, General Huben still admitted him as a fellow Jinshi in a serious way.

Hutu can wake up from a dream with a smile.

What made Hu Tu even more happy was that just after high school, General Huben personally entrusted him with a very important task in his opinion, that is to monitor Yuwen Huangzhong, the top student in the undergraduate program.

Hu Tu attaches great importance to this task. Not only does he monitor Yuwen Huangzhong all the time, but he also tries his best not to reveal any flaws.

Hutu was lucky. He only monitored Yuwen Huangzhong for two days before he discovered the abnormality in Yuwen Huangzhong.

Hu Tu hurriedly reported the situation to Wu Desi's secret agent who was monitoring Yuwen Huangzhong with him.

Soon, Wu Desi secretly arrested Yuwen Huangzhong's servant, and Hu Tu made great contributions.

Hu Tu absolutely couldn't let this duck that had reached its beak fly away, so seeing that there was no word on the secret letter, he hurriedly reminded General Huben that it might be a secret letter from an alumnus.

Li Cun smiled and said to Hu Tu: "Do you still know the secret letter of alumni?"

Hu Tu hurriedly said: "I have heard that the scholar talked about steganography, so when that guy stole the alum, I guessed that he was going to write the alum's secret letter."

Seeing that Hutu knew even secret writing skills, Li Cun suddenly felt that although this Hutu was not knowledgeable, he might be a talent, and he might be able to cultivate it well.

Li Cun asked Liang Hongyu to fetch a basin of water and put the secret letter into it.

Soon, more than a hundred densely packed small characters appeared on the secret letter.

After reading these more than a hundred words, Li Cun smiled:
"This Yuwen Huangzhong really deserves to be the number one spy in the Southern Song Dynasty. In such a short period of time, he actually found out the details of me and the Huben army."

Li Cun fished the secret letter out of the water and handed it to Liang Hongyu for safekeeping.

At this time, Zhang Chaocai asked for instructions: "Dare to ask the general, what should we do with Yuwen Huangzhong? Can we send someone from our company to control him?"

Li Cun shook his head with a smile: "No, I still have use for this person, so let him go."

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(End of this chapter)