Feng Abao ran to the door of the leather goods shop in one breath. He shouted to everyone around him: "I know you are here. Please come out quickly. I know where Pi Xiangyang is?"
In the darkness, five black figures appeared, surrounded Feng Abao, and asked the capital leader: "Who are you?"
Feng Abao cupped his fists and said, "My name is Feng Abao, and I am Wang Jinniu's brother. Your general knows me."
"You just said that you know the whereabouts of Pi Xiangyang?" the head of the capital asked again.
"He is in my dormitory. He was injured. I came out to buy him medicine!"
Everyone looked at each other and asked anxiously: "Where is your dormitory?"
"It's five hundred steps ahead, I'll show you the way!"
Everyone nodded, and Feng Abao led five inner guards to the small courtyard where he lived, and entered the courtyard. "Proprietor! Proprietor!" He shouted twice, but no one answered.
He opened the window and looked inside the house, only to see Pi Xiangyang lying face down on the ground. He nodded to everyone and kicked open the door for the capital. Five internal guards rushed in, holding five sabers at the same time.
Pi Xiangyang's back, but Pi Xiangyang made no movement.
"He just drank water, and there was some drug in the water that I gave him. He might have been drugged." Feng Abao said at the door.
The capital felt that Pi Xiangyang's nose was still breathing, and the five of them worked together to tie Pi Xiangyang's hands and feet behind his back with ropes. The severe pain in the wound made Pi Xiangyang wake up.
He was shocked, "You guys."
Before he finished speaking, his mouth was blocked with a ball of rags, and his head was covered with a black cloth bag. Everyone applied medicine to his wounds, lifted him and walked out.
At this moment, Pi Xiangyang finally understood that Feng Abao had betrayed him. He sighed and closed his eyes in despair.
When Zhong Huan heard that Pi Xiangyang had been caught, he was overjoyed and ran straight to the gate, where he saw the guardsmen carrying a man out of the carriage.
He pulled off his hood, and Wang Jinniu, who had lost his hand, gritted his teeth and roared, and was about to charge forward, but the internal guards stopped him.
"Is it him?" Zhong Huan asked.
Wang Jinniu gritted his teeth and nodded, "I can recognize him even if he is burned to ashes!"
Pi Xiangyang glanced at Wang Jinniu coldly, then turned back and stared at Feng Abao with great hatred. Feng Abao snorted, "I am from Dai County, do you think I will really be loyal to the Jurchens?"
Seeing that his injury was serious, Zhong Huan waved his hand and said, "Take him in and treat his injury!"
The inner guard soldiers carried Pi Xiangyang into the government office. Zhong Huan patted Feng Abao on the shoulder and praised him: "You performed very well this time, and I will reward you heavily."
"Thank you, General!"
"You and Taurus are both heroes. Each of you will be rewarded with five hundred coins. Taurus, don't worry. Even if you break your hand, the internal guards will take care of you and your family and won't let you be wronged."
Wang Jinniu's nose felt sore and he quickly lowered his head.
The next day, the crackdown on the intelligence spies continued. At noon, the last spies were caught. At the same time, Jingzhao was also arresting spies based on the confession given by Liu Kai. He was an internal guard, and every day
He paid for each spy's salary and activity expenses, so Liu Kai knew the details of each person's hiding place.
Two days later, Zhong Huan ended his Taiyuan operation and began to return to Jingzhao. Before leaving, he made two decisions. The first was to reward Feng Abao with the courtyard where he currently lived as an additional reward for reporting the news to him.
Wang Ji Leather Goods Store was given to Wang Jinniu as a settlement for him and his family.
There were also two internal guard soldiers who died in the line of duty. Zhong Huan also wanted to report to King Yong and give them generous pensions.
As for Wu Taigu, he found clues about two firearms craftsmen and found out that these two people are currently working in the Firearms Bureau of the Western Army. It was their unremitting efforts that developed the Iron Fire Thunder of the Western Army.
Zhong Huan did not pursue Wu Taigu's crimes, but suggested that he be dismissed from his post. At the same time, he confiscated his two hundred taels of silver and rewarded them to Wang Jinniu and Feng Abao respectively.
The inner guard team left Taiyuan City, escorted the intelligence spies of the Jin Kingdom, and returned to Jingzhao City in a mighty manner. These spies will face the most severe trial. According to the military law of the Western Army, they will all be beheaded.
In Jingzhao, in the staff hall of King Yong's official office, Chen Qing summoned the governors of various departments and Sima and other important officials to discuss the plan to attack Hebei.
Guan Shigu no longer serves as the Military Superintendent and the Counselor of the Internal Affairs Hall. He has one year left to retire. In the last year, he replaced Chen Qing in charge of Jiangnan West Road to consolidate the Western Army's control of Jiangnan West Road.
Zhang Xiao, who returned from Bianliang, took over as the Military Superintendent and at the same time served as the Counselor of the Internal Affairs Hall.
Chen Qing stood in front of the sand table and said to everyone: "The attack on Hebei Road is the same as the attack on Henan Road. I also plan to take it in two steps. The first step is to capture Hebei Road, and the second step is to seize Yanshan Mansion. Yanshan Mansion can be slightly relaxed.
First, because attacking Yanshan Mansion will arouse strong resistance from the Jin Kingdom, I will take it step by step. First, take the Hebei Road and restore all the river land occupied by the Jin Kingdom. Then I will continue the attack and completely destroy the Jin Kingdom.
"
"When Your Highness attacked Hebei Road, did you consider the invasion of Datong and Lingzhou by the grassland nomadic cavalry?"
The person asking was Zhe Yanzhi. He had retired from Datong last year and handed over the military power to the successor governor Yan Jun. He was appointed as acting Duke by Chen Qing and was allowed to walk in the internal affairs hall. The so-called internal affairs hall tour meant that he could observe the proceedings of the internal affairs hall.
, of course, refers to major military affairs. You can express your opinions, but you have no voting rights or decision-making rights.
Chen Qing said slowly: "The news I got is that there was internal strife among three nomadic tribes. Of course it was also because of the instigation of the Jin Kingdom. Although they occupied Fengzhou, at least there will be no coalition troops going south this year. Maybe one of their tribes
They will take advantage of my army's attack on Hebei to invade south, but both the garrison in Lingzhou and Datong Prefecture are well prepared and will give the invaders a severe blow. I won't worry too much, and please don't worry, Mr. Zhe!"
Zhe Yanzhi nodded, "Your Highness is so confident, I won't worry anymore!"
Chen Qing smiled and continued: "I have been preparing for this attack on Hebei Road since last year. Yang Zaixing trained troops on Henan Road, established the Yellow River Navy, established a sea route base, etc. These are all preparations for our attack on Hebei Road.
, even including Hebei intelligence collection, etc., we have been doing it.
The first is our enemy. Wan Yanchang is stationed on Hebei Road. He currently has an army of 200,000 people, including 80,000 Jurchens or Donghu people, and 120,000 sign troops. In addition, Yanshan Prefecture has 100,000 troops, all of whom are
Jin soldiers, among the 100,000 troops, there are 50,000 troops directly under the command of Governor Wan Yanheli Sa, and there are 50,000 Jin soldiers to support the army. These 50,000 Jin soldiers will definitely go south to support Wanyan Chang, so we are facing
The enemy army numbered 250,000.
In view of this, the number of troops I plan to send is between 300,000 and 500,000, and the war expenditure to be prepared is between 2 million and 5 million."
This is the focus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. How much military expenditure will be spent? Zhou Kuan frowned and said: "Five million guan is too much!"
Everyone laughed. After being in charge of finance and taxation, Zhou Kuan looked like the second Zhao Kai, extremely stingy. It seemed that this was an occupational disease, and it would be the same for anyone else.
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "I just said the upper limit is five million guan. If there is a protracted war, the expenditure will be really large, but if the war can be ended within two months as planned, then the maximum will be 3 million guan.
I mean, prepare for the worst."
"That's no problem!"
Zhou Kuan also relaxed, "Anyway, according to the old rules, each of the temple treasury and the treasury will bear half, and each of the war profits will also get half. However, Hebei Road is probably a loss-making business. All the wealth is in Yanshan Mansion, and there is no oil and water on Hebei Road."
Chen Qing laughed and said: "In the battle to annihilate Zhang Jun, the Internal Affairs Bureau did not spend a penny, but it also gained a lot of money. It doesn't matter if we lose a little this time."
Lu Qingshan said to everyone: "The battle of Hebei Road is a battle of righteousness. Recovering Hebei Road, what we win is righteousness. It doesn't matter if we lose a little or win a little."
Zhou Kuan sighed and said: "Qingshan, I was just joking. If you say this, I will become a miser who doesn't care about justice."
Lu Qingshan smiled slightly and said: "Councilor Zhou didn't strongly oppose it, it's already a matter of justice."
Everyone laughed again, and Jiang Yanxian asked again: "When will Your Highness go to war?"
"Let's make war preparations for the allocation of materials first. I'm not in Jingzhao. The old rules are still the same. General affairs are decided by the internal affairs hall, and major events are decided by the princess."