Chapter 195 Feinuke

There is a small town called Yezhu Town thirty miles east of Wuwei County. There is a 100 households. Next to the official road at the west entrance of the town, there is a small tea shop. It is a pair of military households who moved west from Longyou. The shopkeeper's surname is Hu. He is about forty years old. He is taciturn and does not care about the business of the tea shop. He only makes a pot of tea every day, sitting in a corner of the tea shop and listening to the guests who eat and drink tea chat.

The tea shop was managed by his wife. Aunt Hu was kind and generous and thoughtful, and hired a chef and two friends. In addition, this official road was the only way east of Wuwei County, and the small tea shop was also well-managed and the business was very prosperous.

That afternoon, Manager Hu, a corner of the tea shop, was a little restless. He kept leaning forward and looking to the west of the official road, as if waiting for someone. Suddenly, he saw several knights coming from the city of Wuwei County. Manager Hu immediately stood up and walked out of the tea shop. This scared Aunt Hu, who was greeting guests. When did his shopkeeper become so enthusiastic?

The person who came was Wei Deqing and his party who came to Wuwei to deliver letters to Zhang Huan. As soon as they arrived at the tea shop, they saw a kind-looking man bowing to them, "This military man is Wei Bingcao of Kaiyang County."

Wadeqing was stunned, and he stopped the horse and asked, "Do you know me?"

"I am Hu Sanlang, the shopkeeper of Hu Ji Teahouse in Kaiyang County. Wei Bingcao came to drink tea in time, why did he forget me?"

Wei Deqing thought intently that Hu Ji Teahouse often went to Hu Ji's teahouse, but he didn't remember any shopkeeper. He only remembered that there was a warm-hearted guest. When he glanced at him, he happened to see Aunt Hu walking out of the tea shop. Wei Deqing immediately laughed, he turned over and dismounted, and laughed: "I didn't expect to meet an old person in a foreign land. We didn't happen to have lunch. What food is there in the shop?"

"Yes! Yes!" Aunt Hu welcomed him enthusiastically and said with a smile: "There are all kinds of wine and dishes. Wei Bingcao is in a hurry to get on the way. We still have hot buns and noodles and meat stuffed with pork. You can take them on the way."

"Give two pots of wine, and then five or six hot dishes." Wei Deqing ordered his men to take out a few big wine gourds and hand them to Aunt Hu, "Put these pots all over the wine."

"Please wait for a moment, guest." Aunt Hu turned around quickly and went into the inner room. At this time, Storekeeper Hu walked over slowly and bowed and smiled: "I saw Wei Bingcao flying over in the morning. I couldn't even call him, so I thought that Wei Bingcao might come back, but I didn't expect to come back in the afternoon."

Wei Deqing has now been promoted to Wei Er's brave captain in front of the tent. He still heard that Wei Bing Cao was the leader of Wei Bing Cao, but he didn't say it out loud. He smiled and asked, "How could Manager Hu come to Wuwei? I remember the commander of the Grand Marshal, who has industries are not allowed to move westward?"

Seeing that there was no one around, Manager Hu quickly took out a small bronze medal from his arms, shook it in front of Wadeqing, and squinted his eyes and smiled meaningfully.

The bronze medal is engraved with a picture of plum blossoms, pine and cranes. There is a number in the middle. "June 4th". Wei Deqing was surprised. He was too familiar to this bronze medal. With this bronze medal, he could meet the coach directly. It is said that there were more than 100 pieces in total, and he had one of them himself, but the number was "97".

"Who are you?" Wei Deqing suddenly realized that the chubby shopkeeper Hu in front of him was probably not an ordinary person.

"Wei Bingcao, please follow me." Manager Hu pointed to the inner room and took a step forward.

"You guys have dinner first, I'll come soon." Wei Deqing ordered his men and stood up and walked into the inner room quickly.

Manager Hu took him to the backyard, which was filled with all kinds of debris, but he raised a cage of pigeons in a corner, and screamed in the cage. When Wei Deqing saw the cage of pigeons, he immediately realized, "Are you the Hexi Feinuke that the Grand Marshal often mentioned?"

Manager Hu smiled and nodded slowly.

Feinu is a pigeon, and Feinuke refers to the person who uses pigeons to convey messages. After the Middle Tang Dynasty, using pigeons to convey messages has been widely used, especially in military spies, so Feinuke gradually became the synonym for spies. Wei Er also had such a group of Feinukes, distributed in Taiyuan, Chang'an, and other places, and was controlled by him personally. Since Wuwei County and Lingwu County were extremely important, he also arranged manpower here.

Manager Hu moved westward to Wuwei through military households. He opened a tea shop and sent all kinds of information to Wei Er continuously with pigeons. For example, Zhang Huan built Huixi Fort, mined Liushahe gold mine, rectified the officialdom, established a military household farmland system, recruited Xidangxiang, etc. These major matters were sent to Wei Er as soon as possible.

Manager Hu took two stools and asked Wei Deqing to sit down. He took out a pigeon from the pigeon cage and stroked their heads caressed and said, "I, these flying slaves, have not been in good condition recently. I have not come back after flying out. I am worried that the situation is not intimate and dare not let it fly. I have not sent a message to the Grand Marshal for five days."

He looked up at Wei Deqing and smiled and said, "I'm worried about how to go to Kaiyang County. Wei Bingcao is here to solve my urgent needs."

Wei Deqing pondered silently. He knew that Wei Yan was very strict in controlling the spy and never let outsiders know. Even the brave captain in front of the tent was already considered Wei Yan's personal guard, and this spy seemed a little too careless.

Manager Hu understood his thoughts and smiled slightly and said, "If it were someone else, I would not have come forward. Wei Bingcao is a child of the Wei family and came to send him 800 miles to the expedition, which shows the General's trust. Moreover, it is of great importance. The General must know as soon as possible."

Wadeqing nodded, "I am now the brave captain in front of the Grand Marshal's tent. Do you have any important news for me to pass on?"

Manager Hu took out a wax ball and handed it to Wei Deqing, whispering: "Please tell Marshal Wei that the Tubo people may be secretly trying to win over the Dangxiang people in Wuwei County. Now the conflict between the Dangxiang people and the Han people is very serious, and there may be signs of rebellion.

Zhang Huan has stepped up his guard and anyone who has transited will be subject to strict inspections, especially the exchanges with Zhangye have stopped."

Wei Deqing suddenly realized that no wonder the West Fort Pier was heavily guarded. It turned out that this was the case. He carefully put the wax balls away, stood up and bowed, and said, "Thank you, Shopkeeper Hu, I'll go to Kaiyang County now."

He returned to the teahouse and ate something randomly, flew onto a horse, and led him to drive eastward. Manager Hu walked to the official road and watched his back disappear, and then he showed an undetectable sneer in his eyes.

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The next morning, a team of personal soldiers guarded Zhang Huanchi out of Wuwei County. At this time, a red sun was squirting out of the thick fog that spreads the earth. Tens of golden light reflected the sky red. On a low hill, a cavalry of three thousand people was ready to go.

Zhang Huan rode his horse and his personal troops joined the cavalry, galloping eastward like a torrent.

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In Kaiyang County, Wei Yan, the Minister of War, was accepting Wei Deqing's report. Wei Deqing not only brought Zhang Huan's reply, but also brought him a secret letter from Hu Sanlang. Hu Sanlang was a secret spy who was stationed in Wuwei County by taking advantage of the opportunity of military households to move west. Over the past six months, he has brought him a lot of news about Wuwei. Although it is not a secret, it also makes him very familiar with what Zhang Huan did.

According to the agreement, Hu Sanlang should send a pigeon letter every two days, but it has not been delivered for five days. Just when he was worried that something would happen to Hu Sanlang, Wei Deqing brought Hu Sanlang's secret letter back.

Wei Yan was not worried that Zhang Huan would come to Kaiyang County. If Pei Jun summoned him, he would definitely come. However, he was very interested in the news sent by Hu Sanlang. Zhang Huan encountered trouble with Dangxiang people.

Wei Yan put Hu Sanlang's secret letter on the desk and came to the window with his hands behind his back. A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. This result should be said to be something he had expected long ago. When Hu Sanlang wrote to him that Zhang Huan had recruited tens of thousands of Xidangxiang people who fled to Hexi, he knew that Zhang Huan had made a big mistake.

Yes! Hexi is sparsely populated, but if it were to recruit Qiang people, the Turks and even the Uighur people were not a big problem. Only these Dangxiang people were famously treacherous. At that time, they were oppressed by the Tubo people and asked for help from the court. The court specially placed them near Shuofang. But these people were not grateful, but instead took advantage of the weak Tang Dynasty to plunder the city and the population, and did evil in the Longyou area. They had been dealing with the Tuoba family for more than ten years, but they still didn't understand them?

It would be fine if they were placed in the mainland, but in Hexi, where there were sparsely populated Hexi, tens of thousands of Dangxiang people were already similar to those of Hexi. In this way, how could they not have any other intentions? Once the Tuoba family was attracted by the Tubo people, Zhang Huan's headache would come. This would be the best, but it would make Zhang Huan's backyard restless.

Thinking of this, Wei Er turned around and said to Wadeqing with approval: "The news you brought is very timely. I will reward you very much, go down!"

Wadeqing bowed and slowly retreated.

Half a month ago, Cui Yuan was preparing to attack Zhu Li in Shu and specially visited Wei Yan, hoping that he could send 60,000 troops to enter Shu from the west.

Wei Yan was also deeply wary of Zhu Li's rebellion. If Zhu Li took over Bashu and could not attack Chang'an for the time being, his next target would inevitably be Longyou, especially when he condemned Cui Yuan's resignation and proposed to be the right prime minister. This was obviously provoking his relationship with Cui Yuan. Both Cui Pei's families had decided to send troops. If he stood by, it would seem that he and Zhu Li really had any collusion.

He had to send troops to attack Zhu Li in both public and private affairs.

However, the only thing he was worried about was that Zhang Huan would take advantage of the situation and seize his Longyou. After thinking about it, he proposed to sign a mutual understanding agreement with Zhang Huan, and Pei Jun and Cui Yuan were the guarantors.

Due to the serious situation in Shu, Cui Yuan discussed with Pei Jun again and agreed to Wei Yan's request, and Pei Jun and Cui Xian went to Kaiyang County to negotiate with Zhang Huan. At the same time, Cui Xiaofu sent Li Fanyun as the special envoy and also went to Kaiyang County to persuade Duan Xiushi to put the overall situation first.

On October 16, the second year of Xuanren, Zhang Huan arrived in Kaiyang County.
Chapter completed!