Before dawn, Hu Hongsi hurriedly left, for fear of being discovered by his colleagues.

Fang Xuanling smiled and said, "I found that as long as your highness comes forward and says surrender, there is no failure. This time, saying that surrendering Hu Hongsi seems to be a trivial matter, but it is of great significance. I think your highness is planning to use him at a critical moment, right!"

Zhang Xuan nodded, "Hu Hongsi is a very useful fish. If he wants to play a role at a critical moment, he must be raised into a big fish. The Tang Dynasty must believe in his intelligence. Therefore, some valuable information must be given to him one after another, and even he can instigate some officials, just like a person lying. Nine out of ten sentences are true, but the most critical half is false, so that he can play a role at a critical strategic level."

"Did Your Highness think about how to use him?"

Zhang Xuan nodded slowly, "I have thought of it, but it takes time to slowly cultivate Hu Hongsi and wait until the critical moment to use him."

At this time, the sound of the fifth update came faintly from afar. Zhang Xuan remembered that today was New Year's Eve, so he smiled and said, "Today is New Year's Eve. The military advisor will go back to accompany his family! There should be nothing important about this New Year. After the New Year, we will plan the military deployment of the new year."

"Okay! I'll clean up and go back. Thank you for your hard work, so hurry up and go back and rest!"

Zhang Xuan also got on the carriage and left the outside office, but he was not in a hurry to return to the palace, but asked the carriage to walk slowly in Zhongdu City. He was busy every day, working hard on national affairs and military affairs, and had not paid attention to the changes in Zhongdu for a long time.

The road leads directly to Ziwei Palace. It is a moonlit night with fresh air without wind. Only the sound of his carriage is heard on the street. When the carriage stops, there is silence around.

Next to the car window is a tall poplar tree. The bare branches crisscross the sky, clearly casting the shadows on the clean and flat stone slabs. There is also an intertwined branch on the left. The branches are bright and bright in the moonlight. Under the shade of the branches, you can see a dark wall behind it. This should be a wealthy family. Zhang Xuan vaguely remembers that he has been here, as if he was the clan house of the Gao family in Zhongdu of the Bohai Sea.

Zhang Xuan greedily sucked the refreshing air. At this time, the shadow of the tree on the ground in front of him disappeared, and the earth was suddenly shrouded in darkness. Zhang Xuan looked up at the sky. A huge black cloud floated at some point, covering the moon. A light white flower fell on his face. A sudden sensation was snow! Large pieces of snowflakes began to fall in the sky, and the north wind was howling. On the eve of the New Year of Xingning, a sudden heavy snow swept across the entire Hebei land.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Li Yuanji was walking towards Ziyun Pavilion excitedly on the Thousand Steps of the Tai Chi Palace harem. Li Yuanji was also a good martial artist. He was tall and burly, heroic and upright. A 80-pound Fangtian Painted Ridge made him superb. Although he was not as powerful as the third old Xuanba, he was also a brave general who was the best in the three armies. The right-right guard general Shi Huaiyi made the top 20 in the world hero meeting, but it was difficult to distinguish between him and Li Yuanji.

However, Li Yuanji's poor performance against Liu Wuzhou in Taiyuan and his crushing defeat when he was attacking Song Jingang made his father Li Yuan feel worried about him and dared not let him serve as a soldier. Instead, he was in charge of external intelligence and internal surveillance.

Compared to leading troops to fight, Li Yuanji prefers his current position, especially monitoring all officials and assassinating traitors, which makes him feel indescribable excitement.

Today, Li Yuanji received important information from him, which made him happy and hurried to report to his father. He urgently needed political achievements to prove his abilities.

Since Song Jingang reached a compromise with the Tang Dynasty, the war gradually subsided, and Li Yuan began to enjoy the emperor's life, indulging in beauty and dance every day. However, during this period, he became obsessed with divination and astrological signs, and spent most of his time in Ziyun Pavilion, which is the tallest building in Tai Chi Palace. Standing on the roof, you can see the stars in the sky.

Currently, there is a famous sorcerer living in Ziyun Pavilion, named Yuan Shoucheng. His nephew is Yuan Tiangang, a famous in history. Currently, Yuan Tiangang serves as the Shaoshen Supervisory Officer of the Northern Sui Dynasty and presides over the formulation of the new calendar.

Yuan Shoucheng was also a famous sorcerer in Guanzhong, especially good at astronomical phenomena and divination.

In the quiet room on the fourth floor of Ziyun Pavilion, Li Yuan was staring at the locust tree outside the window. Yuan Shoucheng said slowly: "The so-called mind means seeing things with your heart. For example, this big tree, we see leaves and trunks with our eyes. But if we look at it carefully, we can see more abundant trees, see insects wriggling in the bark, see magpies busy on the tops, see mosquitoes buzzing under the leaves, and even see insect eggs sleeping in the roots. Your Majesty, many things are invisible to our eyes, but we can feel them with our heart. In fact, everything in the world is the same. If you look at it carefully, your Majesty will find another side of things with more and richer."

Li Yuan smiled slightly, "Actually, people are the same. They know people and face but not the heart, but I can see through each other with my heart."

"Your Majesty is right!"

This is when a magpie stopped in front of the window and sang twice, then flapped her wings and flew away. Li Yuan asked curiously: "What can I do to solve this?"

Yuan Shoucheng smiled and said, "The magpies are the birds who are fond of, and their singing is crisp and pleasant, and their families will bring good news."

As soon as he finished speaking, a guard outside the door reported, "Report to Your Majesty, Your Highness, Your Highness, is urgent to ask for a meeting!"

Li Yuan and Yuan Shoucheng looked at each other and laughed together.

"Show him in here!"

Li Yuan really admired Yuan Shoucheng's technique of knowing things before he knew. Yuan Shoucheng was even more tactful and stood up and retreated.

Soon, Li Yuanji hurried into the room and knelt down to salute, "Son Master, see your father!"

After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, he had many favored concubines and gave birth to several sons for him. But what Li Yuan really valued was the four sons born to his original wife Dou. The eldest son Jiancheng, the second son Shimin, the third son Xuanba, and the fourth son Yuanji. When he was in Taiyuan, Zhang Qiu Taiyi secretly told him that his four sons were like a tripod and four feet, and none of them were missing.

Therefore, Li Yuan attaches great importance to his four sons. Although the fourth son Yuan Ji caused him a lot of trouble, Li Yuan still trusts him as usual. Although he does not allow him to lead the troops for the time being, Li Yuan still handed over the extremely important intelligence agency and Xuanwu Huofeng, who monitors all officials. He believes that after experiencing setbacks, his son will gradually mature and will eventually live up to his expectations.

Li Yuan stroked his beard and asked with a smile: "Did you bring me good news?"

“That’s right!”

Li Yuanji took out a scroll from his arms and presented it with both hands, "This is the garrison of the Yangtze River Navy of the Sui army. The ports stationed, the types and numbers of warships, and the number of naval soldiers are clearly marked."

Li Yuan was excited and hurriedly took the scroll and unfolded it. He looked carefully and was overjoyed. With this map, they could do a targeted job in fighting the Northern Sui Navy in the future. This was the information he had been waiting for for a long time. It was not possible to get the information he had built, but Yuan Ji actually got it.

Li Yuan looked at the seal on the map again, and was even more surprised. It was actually the original. He hurriedly asked, "How did you get it?"

"I reported to my father and son ministers to use the Zheng family's relationship to buy a disciple of the Zheng family in Northern Sui Dynasty. This person is the Fangshi, the officer of the Ministry of War, the Northern Sui Dynasty. Because there is a lot of rain this summer, many drawings in the War War warehouse were moldy. When he was drying the drawings not long ago, he secretly hid the map out."

Li Yuan frowned, "But this is the original. What should I do if the Ministry of War found out that it was lost during verification?"

"Don't worry, my father, I have made a fake product and put it back in the original place. It is exactly the same as this map. Unless it is specifically used to distinguish its authenticity, it will be just a normal inspection and you will not see that the drawings are fake."

Li Yuan was relieved and nodded and smiled, "The emperor's subordinates are very capable, but the Lang General named Hu?"

"It was this person. The emperor's brother was too tolerant and had no pressure to them before, so they were also living in Zhongdu, eating, drinking and having fun all day, and had not obtained any important information for several years. After taking over, he put pressure on them. Under the pressure, Hu Hongsi made breakthroughs one after another, not only got the garrison map of the Yangtze River Navy, but he also reported to me that he already had hope of getting the drawings of Hengyangzhou."

Li Yuan was surprised and the Hengyang boat was a country's important weapon. He had been jealous of many years. If the Tang Dynasty had such a giant ship, it would have a huge impact on material transportation, national strength, or morale boost.

Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of Tang Feng of the Intelligence Agency, he clearly instructed the prince Jiancheng that if he tried every means to get the drawings of the Hengyang Boat, they would also build the Hengyang Boat of the Tang Dynasty.

I didn't expect that Yuan Ji would realize his long-cherished wish that had not been realized for many years. Today, Yuan Ji was going to realize it for himself.

Li Yuan couldn't help but feel excited and asked, "Why can I get the drawings?"

"Reporting to my father, the drawings of Hengyangzhou are in the Warehouse of the Ministry of War. The officials we placed in the Warehouse also saw them. It was just because there were too many and there were five large boxes. He had to wait for the opportunity to make them. On the Shangyuan Festival, he happened to be on duty. He would take charge of the keys. He first moved the drawings out of the warehouse, and then took them out of Ziwei Palace bit by bit. At the latest, he could get the drawings before the end of January."

Li Yuan sighed in a long sigh. Yuan Shoucheng was right. It was indeed his son who brought him good news.
Chapter completed!