Hua Zhi raised her eyebrows, but she didn't stab Wu Yong in the heart at this time. She just said, "It is said that General Wu is 26 years old. Although he is not married, he has been married for a long time. Given the situation of the Wu family, they would not forbid concubines to give birth to children like other noble families. I just don't know why General Wu has no sons and daughters in all these years?"
Wu Yong's eyebrows jumped, "The doctor checked it out and said that the fate of having children has not yet arrived."
"No, you had some problems with your body before, but they were solved when I detoxified you last time."
Looking at Shaoyao who remained calm despite her shocking words, Wu Yong suppressed the emotions boiling in his heart and asked, "What's the problem?"
Shaoyao realized something was wrong. She didn't say anything, but walked up to him and grabbed his wrist. After finding out the situation, she immediately connected the dots and said, "It's my fault. I didn't investigate it carefully at the time. You have the poison in your body now."
After a pause, Shaoyao continued, "It can't be called a poison. It's just a kind of medicine that makes women unable to have children. However, this kind of medicine is not common. The secret methods used in the inner house are mostly used on women, and rarely on men."
"That's interesting." Hua Zhi chuckled. "I wonder how long this concubine in question has been with General Wu? Who is the doctor who told General Wu that she is not destined to have children yet? If this concubine is a newcomer, General Wu may have to investigate his inner courtyard carefully."
"Good, really good, this is a deliberate attempt to cut off the incense of my Wu family." Wu Yong laughed in anger, "Sir, I will take my leave!"
"Keep quiet, it's not time to close the net yet."
"yes."
As soon as Wu Yong left, Gu Yanxi looked at Ah Zhi, "What did you think of?"
"Don't you think the Chaoli tribe has been a little too active at Yinshan Pass?" Hua Zhi felt like she had missed something, but couldn't remember it for the moment. She felt something was not right. "Logically, even if they did take action, it should be at the Shouai Pass in the east. The Chaoli tribe's territory is not close to Yinshan Pass."
"Are you worried that Yinshan Pass is their real target?"
"Not necessarily. They use the tactics of feinting to the east and attacking in the west very well. I can't figure out their situation." Hua Zhi was not trying to be brave. She really didn't understand the purpose of the Chaoli tribe's many actions in Yinshan Pass. They couldn't be trying to gain advantage of the other party and deliberately let the Daqing Dynasty focus here... Wait!
Hua Zhi suddenly stood up.
"Azhi?" Gu Yanxi stood up and walked towards her, pushing Shaoyao aside. Shaoyao did not dare to resist and walked to the other side of Huahua with hatred.
"I suddenly thought of something." Hua Zhi swallowed her saliva and spoke in a difficult tone, "Is it possible that the Chaoli tribe and the grassland tribe have reached some consensus?"
Gu Yanxi wanted to say that the spies had not found out anything in this regard, and that the Chaoli tribe had always been a solitary people and often had conflicts with the grassland tribes. But the Chaoli tribe had begun to use their brains, and they had planted countless thorns in the Daqing Dynasty. Compared with this, it was not surprising that they turned enemies into friends with the grassland tribes with common interests!
Gu Yanxi turned and walked out, then stopped at the door. "I'm going to be away for a few days. I'll pass on the matters at Yinshan Pass. If they can't make a decision, let them come find you. You'll be in charge for a few days."
"I'm not qualified..." Hua Zhi took a deep breath and changed her tone, "I understand. You better be careful."
Gu Yanxi glanced at Shaoyao, who nodded repeatedly, "I won't leave Huahua for even a moment."
Gu Yanxi was frightened by Azhi's occasional injuries. He was still not reassured after receiving the promise, so he went out of the house and called Jia Yang over to give him a few instructions before leaving quickly. He had to go and confirm this matter in person.
Inside the house, Hua Zhi hesitated for a moment, then pulled Shaoyao in front of her and said, "Go find Wu Yong and tell him my suspicions. He knows what to do."
"I'm not going." She would not leave Huahua even for a moment, "I'll ask someone to go."
Hua Zhi did not force it. Only when she was alone in the room did she reveal some of her anxiety. If the Chaoli tribe colluded with the grassland tribe outside the pass, then Yinshan Pass would not be empty. It could become a real attack point for them at any time. Once a war broke out...
Yinshan Pass and the grassland tribes are capable of fighting, but if some people from the Chaoli tribe are mixed up among them, Yinshan Pass will not have any chance of winning.
How to solve it? Send more troops? The elite troops of Daqing Dynasty are all in the east, used to strictly guard against the Chaoli tribe. The soldiers there will not move no matter what. No matter how many soldiers from other camps come, they will only sacrifice their lives. The combat power is not at the same level at all.
How to solve it? What can she do
Hua Zhi's mind was in a mess. She bit her tongue hard. The severe pain made her eyes red. She could earn money, do her best to make things that could be sent to the battlefield, and stand on the shoulders of giants to give advice, but she could not make the army of Daqing Dynasty become powerful and invincible. She did not have the ability to strategize like Hua Jingyan to influence a country's war. If the enemy really came to the city, even if she owned a mountain of gold, the enemy would take her life before she could kill him with the gold mountain.
She could do nothing. In the face of absolute strength, any means were just paper tigers. Hua Zhi had never understood this sentence so deeply before.
To deal with the Chaoli tribe alone requires the entire country's strength. If we add the equally powerful grassland tribes... Hua Zhi felt sad. She couldn't stop herself from thinking about the worst.
No, think about it again, think about it again, since the Chaoli tribe has been holding back, they must have some concerns, or they are not prepared enough. If they were really prepared, they would have been at the gates of the city long ago. Yes, the time must not be ripe yet, they still have time.
Hua Zhi got up and walked towards the study. There was no one in the study at this time. She pushed open the door and turned on the lamp. She spread the map she got from Wu Yong's house on the ground, and moved the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone to the ground. She casually put her hair together and knelt down on the map to look at it carefully.
Shaoyao didn't disturb her and just sat on the ground to keep her company.
Hua Zhi tried desperately to think of everything she knew, the famous strategies in the Three Kingdoms, the military tactics she knew, she even drew a similar terrain on the sand table and asked Shaoyao to deduce, but it was no use. Even if she sacrificed the lives of her soldiers, there was no chance of winning.
In the end, she only wrote two lines on the paper, Bright Moon and Black Gunpowder.
If her suspicion of Haoyue was true, then she must know the future direction of Daqing Dynasty. If Daqing Dynasty really lost in the end, she would not have chosen to contact Qisusi in the first place.
As for black gunpowder, although its lethality is far less than that of later generations, with its assistance, the Daqing Dynasty will at least not be without any ability to fight back.
After thinking for a while, Hua Zhi wrote the third line on the paper: It is better to strike first than to gain the upper hand.
If they could catch the enemy off guard and get rid of the grassland tribe first, the only enemy left for Daqing Dynasty would be the Chaoli tribe. Although they were terrible, at least Daqing Dynasty would not have to be attacked from both sides. However, to succeed, the right time, place and people were all essential. The grassland tribe was not easy to deal with.