I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

With the vast network of relationships and pervasive means of these aristocratic families, if the imperial palace has started planting and they don't know that the Zhuangzi outside the city plans to grow immortal food with amazing yields, then they can basically die.

But after knowing this kind of fairy food, they all face a problem, that is, it is obvious that this kind of fairy food with extremely high yield can only be planted in Zhuangzi and the palace outside the city this year, and it will be widely promoted next year. Don't just get a batch this year.

For this point, different families choose differently.After all, although this thing is obviously kept secret this year, it will definitely have to be promoted on a large scale next year. At that time, whether it is spent money or exchanged for other grains, it can be obtained safely and securely.

It just takes a year to see how the yield of this thing is, and at the same time secretly observe the planting technology, so you don't have to worry about being tricked when you plant next year.

This is certainly a good choice, but there are other aristocratic families, such as the Taiyuan Wang family, whose choices are somewhat different.

In their view, instead of competing for shares with other giants and ordinary people next year, it is better to secretly get some from this year.

Most importantly, they don't want others to know exactly how many acres they have prepared to grow these things.

One of the most important reasons why they have been able to accumulate family business through land over the years is that they have concealed the amount of land.

After concealing the amount of land, whether it is taxation or output, it is very easy to manipulate, which is why they can accumulate tens of thousands of people's food at every turn.

Isn't it because everything is hidden?

Now as long as a batch of potatoes is obtained in advance this year, the Taiyuan Wang family can arrange planting in remote areas, so that next year they can plant an additional batch on the basis of the original.

Moreover, I have to say that the Wang family is worthy of being an old family. Not only did they find out the real name of Xianliang, but they also got a general idea of ​​the planting techniques and some characteristics.

Among them, the most important point of the Wang family is that the requirements for soil fertility are not particularly high, even some wasteland can be planted!

This is big news. If it can be done like this, wouldn't it be invisible to many people?

For the Wang family, occupying high-quality land is a trivial matter, let alone some wasteland, as long as they want it, there is no situation that they cannot get it.

Therefore, after confirming the accuracy of the information, the Wang family finally finished the discussion. The elders who were in charge of the highest decision-making of the entire Wang family cooperated with the head of the family, Wang Jishan, and finally unanimously decided to send elite people and dead men from the clan to steal the seed bank of Zhuangzi outside the city. .

It's funny to say that although the Wang family has always said that he is a farming and studying heir, in fact, when it comes to private armed forces and the degree of ruthlessness in attacking, he is indeed the most powerful of the five surnames.

No, just after the big bosses of the Wang family made a decision, the people who received the task below had already arranged for them to scout the road and inquire about the information. Yes, there are templates for a whole set of plans.

As long as those capable spies find the defensive loopholes of Zhuangzi outside the city and find the seed warehouse, the follow-up staff will immediately be able to quickly attack according to the routine that has been practiced thousands of times on weekdays.

At that time, with the horses and carriages that the family has hidden long ago, it will take almost a few hours, and these seeds will definitely disappear without a trace.

In this regard, the Wang family knew that everyone in this operation was very confident, even if there were [-] soldiers in the village.

If it comes to a direct confrontation, they may not be opponents, but no one is an opponent of this group of professionals in the Wang family.

This is a move that all the aristocratic families have learned since the three thousand disciples of Meng Changjun became famous, that is, they must prepare all kinds of talents at home, maybe one day the cockroaches and dogs can save their lives.

In fact, this is exactly the case. Although this group of people enshrined by the Wang family may seem insignificant on weekdays, in fact, whether it is investigating intelligence or seizing important materials, this group of people has made outstanding contributions.

Now, with this group of people taking action, as well as the dead soldiers and private soldiers raised by the Wang family to support them, the Wang family thinks they are safe.

But just when the Wang family was proud, an inconspicuous man from the farmer walked past Xingben, neither of them spoke or even made eye contact, but the man from the farmer accidentally touched Xingben After a moment, he turned his head and glanced at Xingben, turned around and left without a word of apology.

Xingben didn't seem to care at all, curled his lips and changed from standing lazily to crossing his arms.

It's just that no one noticed that a small note was so inadvertently changed from his palm to the secret pocket on his chest.

After Xingben continued to watch the sergeant's drill for a while, he greeted people as usual and then walked back to Zhang's mansion.

Only those who are most familiar with Xingben can see a little difference from the footsteps that are slightly stiffer and faster than before.

After Xingben came to Zhang's mansion, he walked straight into his room without stopping.

He looked left and right first, and after making sure that the doors and windows were closed, he took a deep breath, fumbled out the note from his chest, and read it seriously.

But the more he looked at Xingben's frown, the tighter his frown became. This damn thing is a bit big, it's not something he can handle!

The information on the note is very simple. The people in Zhuangzi arranged by the Dushui Supervisor reported that the colleagues in the city sent an early warning that the Taiyuan royal family was going to attack Heifengzhai, and the time was two days. The specific plan is unknown, but Guessing is the routine of investigating first and then attacking and killing.

Xingben sighed, Grandma's, it has been quiet for half a year, and I have to do dirty work again!

Chapter 324

As a chief guard who was in charge of protecting Li Shimin personally, he would not believe it if he said that he had never done dirty work at all.

But compared to fighting on the battlefield, Xingben is particularly disgusted with this kind of intrigue behind the scenes, not because he is so noble.

It's just that this kind of guy is either waiting in fear for others to attack, or trying to compete with others with all kinds of brains and means. If he is not careful, he will be wiped out.

Where there is the excitement of bloodbath on the battlefield, just slash directly with a big blade. If you have a strong soldier and excellent martial arts, you win, otherwise you can only have your head cut off in exchange for meritorious deeds.

Everything is so real, so simple, it is most suitable for people like Xingben.

But as the head of the emperor's bodyguard, he couldn't just be responsible for killing people. After all, he had to mobilize the guards to protect Li Shimin's existence at a critical moment. How could he not have access to information?

Then he came and went again and again, he did a lot of dirty work for Li Shimin!

Now it's hard for him not to be that Lao Shizi's head of guards anymore, and Du Teniang's married head, but he never thought about doing this again, and it's a headache to think about it.

However, Xingben's complaints are nothing but complaints, and things still have to be done. As an outsider, he can see very clearly how much His Majesty attaches importance to this shopkeeper Xiao Zhang, how amazing this Zhuangzi is, and how big the future development will be. He saw it all.

Therefore, even if it was aimed at Zhuangzi who was also waiting for him, he couldn't let the matter develop.

However, this matter is no longer something he can handle alone. Although he still has the right to mobilize the five city soldiers, Ma Si and the imperial army, if he does that, the commotion will be too big.

The most important thing is that long-term transfer is impossible, and the courtiers will criticize it if it is a short-term transfer. I am afraid that the person has not arrived yet, and the affairs here have already been done.

After much deliberation, Xingben still decided to discuss with the generals who are on duty today, and just transfer the soldiers and horses of the headquarters directly. Although these sergeants are not specialized intelligence personnel, daily patrols are definitely no problem, and with some veterans, as long as Those spies are not the fierce generals like Xiao Zhang's shopkeeper, so there will be no return.

Thinking of this, Xingben tidied himself up, put the note just now into his chest pocket again, turned and walked out of the room.

Qin Qiong is on duty at the school grounds today. For him, although he is now recovering physically, he is the one who killed Li Jiancheng after all. Now that the court has just stabilized, if he frequently appears in the court, it will be a bit of a demonstration against Li Jiancheng mean.

In that case, it is also convenient for Li Shimin to slowly win over or suppress this group of people.So, before, it was because Qin Qiong was in poor health, so she took sick leave to recuperate, but now, to avoid suspicion, Qin Qiong's whole family simply moved to the village.

Qin Qiong is no better than Cheng Yaojin, Cheng Yaojin's wife is from the Wenxi Pei family, and the Cheng family can be considered a moderate family, so the old Cheng's family has a big business, and many people follow the old Cheng Just eat.

But Qin Qiong is different, he is a real grassroots, the most typical student of literary and martial arts, goods and emperors' family, he really forcibly made this credit and family fortune with his bravery and loyalty.

But even if he and Cheng Yaojin are both Dukes, the difference between them is really hard to measure.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about two aspects, one is the family members, Cheng Yaojin now has three direct relatives running around the yard at home, while Qin Qiong's family only has one Qin Huaiyu.

And if it comes to family property, the difference is even bigger. To use the most realistic example, Qin Qiong wanted to make a pair of copper maces for his son, but he didn't have the money.

For Qin Qiong, whether it's Shihu or the land in Zhuangzi, it is enough to meet the expenses of the family, and the surplus should support the disabled veterans who followed him to fight the world.

So the Qin family was not rich all the time, until Zhang Nuo appeared, Qin Qiong felt that he was alive again.

Not only is his body completely recovered, not to mention completely the same as when he was at his peak, but at least [-]% to [-]% of the level is there, and more importantly, after arriving here, eating, drinking, and drinking are all free.

He didn't need to worry about the house. As the commander of the army, Zhang Nuo had already arranged it for him. Qin Huaiyu didn't have to worry about tuition fees.

You don’t even have to worry about eating, all you have to do is go to the cafeteria to eat, and it’s more delicious than home food without spending money.

Even when he got his salary in the first month, he almost couldn't laugh or cry. It turned out that he actually got a salary of five pennies a month, and every month thereafter.

This made Qin Qiong, who had been in the army for most of his life, very happy. He practiced those men with excess energy every day, and then occasionally went back to the last court. , Occasionally, I can go to Zhang Nuo's house to eat and drink, eat and drink delicious food and wine, don't be too happy.

After this period of time, Qin Qiong felt that if he hadn't been practicing diligently every day, he might have lost his ability and his whole body would be rusted.

Then, when Qin Qiong was about to die of boredom, or when he was too happy to think about leaving, Xingben sneaked over and handed over the information to him.

Qin Qiong was overjoyed when he saw the information, laughed a few times, and then slapped Xingben heavily on the shoulder,

"Xingben, thanks to you for sending this thing, the general is almost rusted now, I hope these gang of sneaky thieves are tough enough, otherwise it would be really boring!"

Seeing that Qin Qiong was excited, Xingben also understood that he also fought with Li Shimin. Although his military exploits were not as many as these generals, he also fought with the head of a knife.

Therefore, he understands Qin Qiong's current state very well. This is so idle, unlike him who has to be responsible for some intelligence and dirty work. In recent years, Qin Qiong has been idle for a long time because one is in poor health and the other is because there are not many wars. up.

Not to mention that now that his body has recovered, he has trained a strong army. He is looking for a place to fight all over the world, and this group of aristocratic families will come to his door.

Sometimes Xingben feels that there is a big hand playing with all these things.

Otherwise, why didn't those people from the aristocratic family come sooner or later, but why did they come here during this time?

If you come early, the task of training is heavy, and the task of the workshop is also heavy, and you can't spare too many people to patrol. If you come a few days later, all the people who are on vacation for spring plowing will have to go to the fields to work.

So, I can only say that it was a coincidence to come here!

Chapter 325 Did You Change the Channel?

When the first batch of spies from the Wang family wore night clothes and came to the magical village of Heifengzhai in the dark, they almost thought they had misread it. This damn is a farm outside the city?

This neat house, the cobblestone road paved on the ground, is said to be believed by people in Chang'an City, and all the houses have exactly the same appearance, how do you find this?

They are all intelligent spies, so it is naturally impossible to go to Zhang Nuo's house to check. After all, in their minds, such a strange house is not a place where tens of thousands of acres of seeds can be placed.

The place they are most suspicious of is the workshop area, but now they have run around the workshop area three times, their tongues are almost sticking out, but in the cold weather, it is like three flowers gathering on the top, and the five qi are in full swing. There was steam above the head.

It's really that the workshop area is too big, much larger than the average square city, and ordinary people are too tired to go around it once, let alone they ran three times.

But after running for three laps, they became more and more convinced that the warehouse was in this workshop area, and they also knew that there was a papermaking and printing workshop in this workshop area, even if they couldn't find the seed warehouse, as long as they found this workshop , take away the technology inside, or tie up a few workers inside, they can all return to the Wang family to get a large bounty.

But the bounty is not so easy to get. After a few spies met and communicated in a low voice, they suddenly became as big as a bucket. The security settings in this workshop area were obviously set up by an experienced person.

Not to mention three steps, one post, five steps and one post. The key is the constantly patrolling mobile posts and hidden secret posts. These spies are usually very proud of their skills, but they can't help scratching their heads after seeing such a scene what.

I'm afraid this shit can catch up with the imperial palace. Although they have never been to the imperial palace, they really can't imagine what it would be like if the blockade was stricter than this.

But people make money and birds die for food. Since they want to get the bounty from the Wang family, and their daily offerings are not less than theirs, they must get accurate information if they want to live a good life.

So this group of people discussed separately for a while and went to observe separately. They had to record the positions of all the sentries and try to understand the rules of the dark sentries and mobile sentries as much as possible, so as to facilitate subsequent manual attacks.

While they were sneaking around, Xingben and Qin Qiong stood in a dark room opposite the workshop area, discussing today's situation while warming up the fire.

"Old Qin, are you really going to put this group of people back today? Then tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, a large army will come to kill you. Are you sure you can go to the battlefield with those gangsters in our village?"

Xingben was discussing the issue with Qin Qiong with a serious face at the moment. What Qin Qiong meant was not to startle the snake today. These spies were obviously looking for the way. Only after these people were released, the large force would appear.

And it just so happened that the sergeants had been practicing for a while, and it was time to come out and see the blood.At the same time, according to his thinking, instead of killing a few mouse-catchers today, it would be better to wait for them to get together and kill them all at once, saving trouble, effort and worry.

But Xingben put forward a different opinion. He felt that it is reasonable to wipe out today's gang first. Who knows how many people and how many soldiers there will be when the big army comes out tomorrow or tomorrow. Can the new recruit be able to withstand it?

Qin Qiong looked at Xingben, frowned, and after thinking about it, he explained,

"Xingben, you have to understand that a sergeant who doesn't see blood, no matter how well he practiced it, is a fake. Only a sergeant who has licked blood from the knife head and actually stabbed someone with a knife can be regarded as a serious sergeant!"

"Whether it's His Majesty or us, the head of the family, it is impossible to find other opportunities for us to lead the soldiers out to see the blood. This is the only chance!"

"I don't want the general to take them to see blood for the first time in the future. It's already on the Korean battlefield. Now that there is a master in the village, these gangsters are at best ashamed, but the medical skills of the master can definitely save their lives!"

"But if it's on the battlefield, I'm afraid they will lose face and their lives. So, this general still plans to let them try. It's better to lose face than die!"

Xingben nodded helplessly after hearing what Qin Qiong had said. He understood the truth. He himself was also in the army before, so why didn't he know the truth.

Moreover, he is just a leader of the family soldiers now, it is moral for Qin Qiong to explain to him, if he doesn't say anything, he has no choice but to go to Zhang Nuo or Li Shimin to complain.

At the same time, Xingben actually secretly hopes to have a quick kill. Instead of catching spies in a sneaky way like today, it is better to wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow when the men and horses are all together, and then do a fight with white knives in and red knives out.

However, he stopped talking, it doesn't mean Qin Qiong stopped talking,

"Xingben, when do you think we will tell the head of the family about this? After all, these soldiers are actually private troops under the name of the head of the family, and they must be transferred with a military order from the head of the family!"

This shows Qin Qiong's maturity and prudence. Obviously, he is already a general and a prince, but Li Shimin confuses his identity and puts him under Zhang Nuo, so he will honestly treat himself as a subordinate.

It is not at all the domineering spirit that Lao Tzu had led an army of tens of thousands to fight on the battlefield ten years ago. On the contrary, he put Zhang Nuo in front of everything. This is why Li Shimin felt particularly at ease with him.

Xingben thought about it, and then said seriously,

"Either don't say it, or say it today, or if you don't say it until tomorrow, I'm afraid the head of the family will blame us for letting the spies go without permission. His brains are better than the eldest grandson Fox. God knows what kind of tricks he will have at that time!"

Regarding Xingben's unceremonious placement of Zhang Nuo above Changsun Wuji, Qin Qiong didn't feel wronged at all. He was very familiar with these two people. It's his current boss.

Both of them are wise and scheming characters, but in Qin Qiong's eyes, Zhang Nuo is already so wise that he is almost a monster, and he is not comparable to ordinary people like Changsun Wuji.

Therefore, he nodded in approval of Xingben's proposal,

"You go and report, I'm here to watch, I can't let a few little mice run away, don't let the master tell me to close the net, if I can't catch anyone, it will be a big embarrassment!"

Xingben nodded, turned around and blended into the night neatly.

And when Zhang Nuo heard the news, he was stunned. Did this shit change the channel? How did it become a spy war drama?

Chapter 326 Zhang Nuo and Li Shimin's Scheme

Zhang Nuo looked at Xingben in front of him, then at the note in his hand, and suddenly a playful smile appeared on his face.

"These aristocratic families are really not afraid of death. There are tens of thousands of soldiers here, not to mention dragons and tigers, but at least they are not just a few thieves who come and go whenever they want!"

After hearing Zhang Nuo's words, Xingben nodded proudly, jokingly, even if the ten thousand sergeants in Zhuangzi were not veterans on the battlefield, they were well-trained and skilled sergeants. If tens or hundreds of people besieged one person, these little thieves would really have to die.

Zhang Nuo didn't care what Xingben was thinking about right now, he was still thinking about the incident just now.