When Gongsun Xiu heard Deng Ai say this, he was stunned for a while before he reacted and blurted out: "The general's meaning is that Sima Yi refused to spread the sky-breaking crossbow. After the Liao Dynasty ended, he did not take it out, but instead hid this section without saying it?"

Deng Ai thought of Sima Yi in the past and felt still in fear. If it weren't for Sima Yi's promotion, he might have spent his whole life in the small square corner.

However, from the perspective of his position, Sima Yi was also one of his mortal enemies. He said in a deep voice: "From my understanding of Sima Yi, this person seems to be generous and kind, and has no dispute with the world, but in fact he has a strong desire for power. I think he had already calculated that the end of the Liaodong War, and Cao Rui was critically ill and was almost unstoppable. The military power in his hand could not be preserved. If the military power was in his hands, he would have ordered craftsmen to rush to make a breaking crossbow and equipped it in the army in large quantities. However, in the past few years, the military power was in the hands of Cao Shuang and other clans. Sima Yi was named the Grand Tutor, promoted and surrendered in secret, and became a tiger skin that was undermined by power, with power but no real power."

Gongsun Xiu thought this was quite reasonable and nodded, "This is in line with Sima Yi's character. If the technology of the Sky-Breaking Crossbow was brought back to the State of Wei, Cao Shuang would have already used it."

After thinking for a while, I felt something was wrong and frowned and said, "But it's not right. Sima Yi had equipped a large number of troops in the army, and many Wei soldiers saw it. Can such a big thing be concealed?"

Before Deng Ai answered, Jia Fan had already taken over the conversation and said with a smile: "When Sima Yi conquered Liao, the generals he brought were all trustworthy, or people like the general who had received his favors, would naturally respond to their requests and would not make them. Although the soldiers had used the Sky-Breaking Crossbow, they did not make them. After careful consideration, Sima Yi should have found an excuse to deal with all the craftsmen involved in the manufacturing..."

Gongsun Xiu took a breath.

Deng Ai also agreed and said, "It should be so."

"If this happens, it will be a good thing."

He suddenly smiled and said quietly: "This Sima Laoer, Gu has liked him a lot for the first time."

Deng Ai saw that the king was always smiling, as if he had an urgent need to solve Cao Shuang's conquest of Liao, and couldn't help but say, "King, have you thought of a solution?"

Gongsun Xiu looked at him and said, "There is a solution, and it is still unknown whether it can work. Gu Yi ordered people to sneak into Wei and do lobbying. Anyone who leaked a word may harm the life of this person, but it is better not to say it. If it works, Wei withdraws its troops and he will come back safely."

Deng Ai didn't expect that the king had such a move in his strategic layout. He didn't dare to ask anymore, and said, "I dare not ask. Qingzhou is close to me. If I guard the island chain for a long time, it will be broken by Tian Yu. I should send troops to plunder the land."

Gongsun Xiudao: "I have told Liu Zhi that once the island chain is captured, he will attack the coast of Qingzhou. When his great-grandfather was in power, he captured several counties in Donglai to establish Yingzhou. Now it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Everyone was excited.

On the streets of Luoyang, the State of Wei.

A group of more than a dozen people walked quickly, some of whom dressed as merchants and some dressed as porters, flashed into a deserted wine house.

When the owner of the wine shop who was cleaning the table saw these people coming in, he immediately closed the door and ordered the waiter to close the doors and windows of various places. The wine shop fell into darkness.

The owner lit a candlestick and placed it on the table, and the wine room immediately lit up.

When a young man dressed as a businessman took off his hat, it was Chen Chao. He loosened his neck and frowned and said, "Luoyang is really a guard against it. If it weren't for the clearance of various relationships and escape, he would have been arrested and interrogated."

The owner of the wine shop joked: "Cao Shuang traveled far away to Liao, and was worried that there would be changes in the city. He sent a large number of imperial guards, and was afraid that there would be rioters and thieves to do evil. I guess it was also a little more important thing to guard against Sima Yi."

Chen Chao drank several glasses of wine, his face turned rosy, and he smiled bitterly: "In this case, the Sima family still has the means to hide three thousand dead soldiers."

The headmaster frowned and said, "Is it possible that the King of Yan just got information randomly? Almost everyone who was searched in Luoyang City was in danger. If you want to hide ten and twenty people, it would be no problem. The servants who were placed in the mansion with more than a hundred people can be reasonable. The words of three thousand dead soldiers are simply an army."

Chen Chao shook his head and said, "The king must have a deep meaning when saying this, and I think he will not deceive people."

He said this, but he was uneasy in his heart and thought that the task assigned to him by the king would be almost a lifetime of death.

Even the long remarks that Gongsun Xiu taught him were confused at this time, thinking to himself: "If Sima Yi did not hide the dead soldiers, once I revealed my identity, I would lose my life on the spot."

The boss sighed: "I have investigated these days. There are many people in Sima's mansion monitoring it. It should be Cao Shuang's people. I guess Sima Yi and his son must have noticed that they were being monitored. On weekdays, they rarely travel alone except for doing things and attending court. If you can also raise dead soldiers in such a situation, the Sima family's ability is too great."

Chen Chao snorted coldly: "Sima Yi is not an ordinary person. How many heroes and strange people in the world are like this? Although he is old, he is not stupid."

The boss has been observing the Sima family for many days. When he heard Chen Chao say this, he couldn't help but say in surprise: "Are you really planning to go in and try it?"

Chen Chao was so bold that he became more courageous. At this time, he raised his head and drank a few glasses of wine, and said seriously: "Of course I have to come forward. This is the will of the king and cannot be disobeyed. If I am unfortunately killed, you can tell He Yan, and say that Sima Yi secretly colluded with Yan Envoy Yan. Although he could also put the blame on us for bribery and was killed, according to the temperament of Cao Shuang and others, even if there is nothing to do, what about the evidence? Even if you can't kill the Sima family, at least you will have avenge you."

The boss couldn't help but feel melancholy and nodded: "I still hope you will come back alive."

Chen Chao laughed and said, "If we return to Dayan alive, we will enjoy all the glory and wealth."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and asked, "Sima Yi and his son should be in the mansion at this time, right?"

The boss said, "I have ordered people to observe. Today, Sima Yi and his son are all in the house."

Chen Chao stood up with a "hmm" sound, and said, "Then I'm going to leave. It's better to have a day than choose a day."

Sima's Mansion.

Sima Yi sat in the hall, and his two sons sat on the left and right.

He said calmly: "The eyes outside are still in a state of ecstasy, you have to be careful. Although Cao Shuang and Xiahou Xuan have not returned from attacking Yan, He Yan and others are real villains. You must be careful not to lose their demographic."

Sima Shi nodded. Since He Yan led his troops to search the mansion last time, he had secretly met his subordinates.

This person is named Ji Bu. He is short and looks so ordinary that it is difficult to recognize when he is in a crowd. Only when he speaks, his hoarse voice is more recognizable.

He is also the only one who knows that he is raising dead soldiers in secret.

Sima Shi secretly asked Ji Bu in a secret place that day, frowned and said, "Cao Shuang already suspected that my family had a dead soldier. What was going on? Did it really leak out?"

Ji Bu's face changed slightly, and he shook his head and said, "This is impossible. Unless his subordinates are captured and told the secret, even if they pick out all the dead soldiers in the city, they will not be able to pursue the lord."

Sima Shi's face was gloomy and he didn't say anything.

Ji Bu immediately understood that the lord was suspicious of him. He immediately pulled out the dagger from his boots and said in a deep voice: "Since the lord suspected that it was leaked by his subordinates, then the subordinates would die to prove their innocence. As long as the subordinates die, there would be no evidence to die, and at most they could only trace their subordinates' bodies."

After saying that, the dagger pierced straight into his heart.

With a "bang", the dagger was tightly held by Sima Shi's left hand, and Li Jibu's chest was still a few inches. He shook his head: "It's not that I can't trust you, there's no need to harm myself. I just doubt how Cao Shuang knew about this. How could I not know about you after you have been with me for so many years?"

In desperation, Sima Shi controlled the dagger with one flesh. In an instant, his palm was bleeding and was fuzzy by the sharp dagger. But he was worried that Ji Bu would be suspicious and refused to let go. He didn't even hum, but just frowned slightly.

Ji Bu was stunned, hurriedly let go of the dagger, tore off his clothes and bandage the wound to Sima Shi's left palm, and smiled bitterly: "The subordinate is guilty and has not yet made contributions to the lord, so he is eager to prove his innocence by his death, and he has also injured his lord."

What Sima Shi wanted was his self-provement of innocence. Although he believed that Ji Bu would never betray him, he could not be careless about the survival of the entire clan.

It is now proved that Ji Bujue had no chance of betraying him. He was stunned for a moment and thought to himself: "Since it is proven that Ji Bu is not leaking the secret, no one in the world knows about this, why can Cao Shuang still know that I secretly raised three thousand dead soldiers? Could it be that Cao Shuang was just suspicious and tentatively scammed?"

But if it was a fraud, Cao Shuang said it was one thousand, two thousand or even five thousand dead soldiers, and Sima Shi would laugh it off. But he opened his mouth and said the number of dead soldiers he raised free of charge among the people, which made him feel unreasonable and did not believe that there was such a coincidence in the world.

"Leave the city immediately and do not stay in Luoyang, so as not to be arrested as a suspicious person." Sima Shi reminded.

Ji Bu slapped him a heavy head and said, "Don't worry, lord, if the Wei army tries to torture me, I will commit suicide to keep the secret."

Sima nodded. He only trained one dead soldier in Ji Bu in his life, and then raised three thousand dead trainers from Ji Buyin.

Before the gathering, the dead soldiers hid in the people like a lonely soul. They lived next to each other and did not know the other's true identity.

But once the time changes, he can only summon it overnight to seek great cause.

Sima Shi looked at his father, looked at Sima Zhao again, and said softly: "Just relying on the prestige accumulated by his father over the years, as long as there is no tangible evidence, Cao Shuang dares not treat our family."

Speaking of this, the father and son's faces were gloomy or fearful, which had achieved the effect in Chen Chao's mind. He continued: "Now the King of Yan has something to exchange with the Taifu, and the Taifu can agree or refuse."

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