Poor Family

  Chapter 727 The Second Front (Part 2)

He Nan walked out of the room quickly, and one of his subordinates handed over a carrier pigeon. There was a reed tube on the carrier pigeon's leg. He tore off the reed tube and took out a thin paper roll from inside. He opened it and looked at it carefully. Yan Xie also urged them to speed up contact with senior officials of the Song Dynasty.

  He Nan suddenly became nervous. There was no military deployment in the pigeon letter, which meant that there was probably a carrier pigeon for military deployment.

  The Kingdom of Jin had two branches, civil and military, in Bianliang, Tokyo. Originally, there was only He Nan, the intelligence department, which was also the original intelligence network of the Liao Kingdom. They were responsible for collecting intelligence and bribing high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty.

Three months ago, the military of the Kingdom of Jin sent more than a hundred people to sneak into Bianliang, Tokyo. These more than a hundred secret agents and He Nan were not in the same system, nor were they under He Nan's jurisdiction. Since they had no fixed place at the beginning, they generally It was He Nan who delivered the news for them.

But the fighting has been fierce these days, and the army must have important information to transmit, but he has not received any news from the army. A kind of professional sensitivity tells him that Jin Guo must have sent two carrier pigeons this time, and now the Song army is fully deployed to control it. It is too dangerous for carrier pigeons to fly into the city.

   "Master He, what should we do now?" A subordinate asked in a low voice.

  He Nan said decisively: "Slaughter this carrier pigeon, throw it into the stove and burn it, and don't leave any hair behind!"

   "Follow the order!" His subordinates hurried to the kitchen with the carrier pigeon.

  He Nan said to the other two: "Put the box back to its original place, and be careful not to be seen!"

   "Isn't Master He going out with the box at night?"

  He Nan was going to visit an important courtier tonight, but a carrier pigeon disrupted his plan, making him dare not act rashly for the past two days.

   "Don't worry so much, put the box back first, go!"

The two subordinates quickly went to carry the box again. He Nan thought for a while, he had to erase all the traces immediately, but he was lucky that the more than one hundred military agents did not know about this inn, it was his At the beginning, he kept a careful eye and only told the contact point of a small grocery store to the other party, and concealed all other information points, just because he was afraid that these guys would ruin his big business.

  At this time, He Nan suddenly remembered that a letter needed to be burned immediately, and he hurried to his room.

The newly established intelligence department belongs to the Ministry of War, and is directly managed by Li Gang, who is also the Minister of the Ministry of War. It became the library of Shangshu Province again, and is now used by Li Gang as a temporary office of the Intelligence Department.

In a room on the second floor of the Intelligence Department, a captain eagerly said to Zhang Hu, who joined the army: "Brother Hu, I can see clearly that they are indeed two pigeons. I don't know if they are carrier pigeons, but they look pretty good." Well, I suspect it's homing pigeons."

  Zhang Hu glared at him angrily, "What's the point of your nonsense now, does the pigeon stop in mid-air and wait for you to go over before flying?"

   "Brother Hu, brother, you don't know how I do things. If you don't leave some behind, I will come here?"

  Zhang Hu suddenly turned his anger into joy, and punched Du on the head and shoulders casually, "Why didn't you say it earlier, go away! Go away!"

  Zhang Hu led more than a hundred of his men out of the Yamen of the Intelligence Department, when the people sent to follow the pigeons came back, the soldiers whispered something to Dutoufu, all of them turned black, and were speechless for a while.

   "Why, did you lose track?" Zhang Hu's eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw Dutou's expression.

   Dutou smiled wryly and said, "I lost one."

   "Where is the other one?" Zhang Hu asked.

   "I am in Taixue!"

  Zhang Hu was stunned. He actually fell into Taixue. Could it be that he was not a spy of the Kingdom of Jin, but a carrier pigeon raised by Taixue himself?

Although the ban on pigeons has been issued five days ago, it is strictly forbidden to fly pigeons and hawks in the capital, but after all, the time of the ban on pigeons is too short, many people may not be willing to obey, but what makes it even more difficult for Zhang Hu is that there are many young students in Taixue , It’s really not good to conduct a large-scale investigation. He thought for a while, and then recruited five capable men to whisper a few words to them. To get to the bottom of it.

  Zhang Hu suddenly recalled that there were basically no pigeons in the five days since the ban on pigeons. Today, two suddenly flew in. It is very likely that they are carrier pigeons.

   "Where did the other pigeon fly?" Zhang Hu asked again.

   "There was another one that flew to the area of ​​Daxiangguo Temple. It was blocked by the temple at that time, and the brothers could no longer see it when they ran over."

   Then it should be near the Daxiangguo Temple. Zhang Hu scratched his head a little. There are at least a few thousand families there. How to check?

   At this moment, Li Gang rushed over with a few followers, "Zhang Canjun, I heard you found the carrier pigeon?" Li Gang asked eagerly.

   This morning, the officials were still asking him about his detailed investigation, which made Li Gang feel great pressure. He hadn't gained anything in the past few days, and he finally heard a clue today.

   "From all aspects of the situation, I also feel that it is more likely to be a carrier pigeon."

   "Has the landing point of the two pigeons been traced?" Li Gang asked anxiously again.

   "One pigeon landed in Taixue. I have sent people to investigate secretly. The other pigeon landed in the area of ​​Daxiangguo Temple. I don't know which family it is."

Li Gang only pondered for a while, and immediately made a decision, "The one from Taixue will continue to investigate, and the one from Daxiangguo Temple will be searched immediately. In addition, a huge reward will be offered. Whoever finds the place where this carrier pigeon landed will be rewarded with a thousand pennies." .”

   "I understand, but the area around the Daxiangguo Temple is too large. We may be a little short of manpower. If we can have another thousand soldiers."

  Li Gang nodded, "I'll figure out how to deal with the manpower, you can arrange it first!"

   Li Gang went directly to Li Yanqing. Zhang Hu was Li Yanqing's personal leader and most trusted subordinate. Wouldn't it be more convenient for Zhang Hu to ask for soldiers?

  There is a rule issue involved here, this is not a small matter of personal friendship, but business to business, Zhang Hu obviously has no qualifications to go to Li Yanqing, but it will make people criticize Li Gang for not knowing the rules, and will anger Li Yanqing.

  Li Yanqing was also happy, and immediately approved two thousand soldiers to assist them in checking the pigeons.

Just an hour after the two pigeons flew into the capital, 2,500 soldiers sealed off the Daxiangguo Temple area and began to search from house to house. Soon, a family with pigeons was discovered by the soldiers. Together they were invited to the intelligence office to await trial, and the family was turned upside down by soldiers.

  In less than half an hour, seven families with pigeons were invited to the intelligence office, but Zhang Hu's intuition told Zhang Hu that these seven families should have nothing to do with today's pigeons.

   "Has anyone claimed the bounty?" Zhang Hu asked.

   "Report to join the army, no one has received the reward for the time being."

  Zhang Hu was a little disappointed in his heart. Did no one really find out where the pigeon landed? Or did the pigeons not land in this area?

At this time, Zhang Hu suddenly found an inn lantern hanging in front of an alley, and his heart moved. Experience told him that the enemy's secret operations often use inns or restaurants as cover. Walk in the alley.

   "Join the army, this is the place!" A soldier pointed at the mottled inn doorway.

   "Knock!"

  Zhang Hu ordered coldly, and immediately a soldier came forward and knocked on the door vigorously. After a while, the dilapidated door creaked! ’ It opened with a sound.

   "You are" He Nan's heart thumped, and he almost turned around and fled. Are you here to catch yourself?

  But he was a servant after all, so he asked after a while, "Are you here to stay at the hotel?"

   "Shut your head!"

  A soldier shouted angrily, "Come in and search, get out of the way!"

  He Nan got out of the way, and a group of soldiers rushed in and went straight to the backyard, where pigeons are usually raised.

  Zhang Hu glanced at He Nan and asked, "Your shopkeeper?"

   "The villain, He Nan, is the shopkeeper of our store."

   "Your accent doesn't look like a local, but it sounds like the accent of Hebei Road."

   "The general is right, the villain is from Zhendingfu."

   "The inn is full?"

   "No, actually there isn't a single guest."

   "Which one is closed?" Zhang Hu looked back at the closed sign on the gate.

  He Nan smiled bitterly and said: "There is no business at all now, and you will lose money if you live in a small shop with one or two customers. It is better to close the business and send the guys home."

   "How many guys are there in your store?"

   "Originally there were six, but three left, and the other three had nowhere to go, so they stayed in the shop."

   There was nothing wrong with the answer, Zhang Hu got off his horse and went into the backyard. He saw that the backyard was very clean, and the three guys stood aside with their hands down. He looked at the roof again, and there was no pigeon coop.

  A captain quickly stepped forward to report: "We have searched and found nothing suspicious."

   Having said that, Zhang Hu always felt that something was wrong with this inn, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

   At this moment, a soldier rushed in and whispered in his ear: "The carrier pigeon from Taixue has been found!"

   Zhang Hu cheered up, and said to Dutou: "I'll go to Taixue, and you search again."

   After finishing speaking, Zhang Hu turned around and strode out of the inn, but the shopkeeper He Nan's face turned pale in an instant. He just heard that something happened to Taixue.

  (end of this chapter)