The results of several sorcerers asking separately were almost the same. No one dared to tell lies when asked separately. Before, Chen Xiaoru's slow killing method of splitting people into pieces made them feel lingering fears. Everyone was afraid that they would betray themselves if they told a lie. A normal person can't bear the bloodiness of staring at a pig being chopped up, let alone a person? So the answer is basically the same.
Chen Xiaoru ordered the five paralyzed mages to be taken down, and then went to see Fang Jie.
"General, it seems that these people don't know much."
Chen Xiaoru said: "I have asked them separately, and the answers are almost the same. They answered that less than a year ago, the Grand Duke of the Ross Principality found them all, and then prevented all six of them from leaving the Ross Principality, waiting for an important mission. Half a year A few days ago, the Grand Duke found the six of them again and sent them to Eastern Chu. But later, because the Grand Duke of the Principality of Ross was assassinated, this matter was delayed again."
"Three months ago, they arrived in Eastern Chu, and were received by the Emperor of Eastern Chu. Together with an army of 500 people from the Principality of Ross, they sailed around the coast of Great Sui on a sea boat from Eastern Chu and went directly to Nanyan."
He paused and said: "It's a little unreasonable. Don't say that a year ago, even three months ago, we just defeated the Nanyan army. It is impossible for the people of Eastern Chu to know the news on the same day and send them here immediately. So , even if Murong Shame did not form an alliance with Eastern Chu later, these people would have come to the Sui Dynasty. My subordinates speculated that their purpose was not here at first, but somewhere else.”
Knowing that Chen Xiaoru's analysis was reasonable, Fang Jie nodded, "Don't relax, continue to interrogate. Besides, did the assassin leader of Eastern Chu say anything else?"
"I said something, but he is just the little leader of an assassination team secretly carried out by the Eastern Chu Emperor. He only leads orders and does not dare to ask why."
"He said… "
Chen Xiaoru flipped through the confession: "From a long time ago, the Grand Duke of the Principality of Ross had close contacts with the Emperor of Eastern Chu, which can be traced back to the beginning of civil strife in the Sui Dynasty. He guessed that it was the Emperor of Eastern Chu who planned to launch a war against the Sui Dynasty. , but Eastern Chu’s strength is limited and he dare not go to war easily. He is going to ask the Principality of Ross to send troops to assist, and then distribute some benefits to the Principality of Ross. However, the Grand Duke of the Principality of Ross has not been very interested in this matter. After all, the Principality of Ross is just a small country. The troops that can be mobilized are also limited, and there are threats from neighboring countries.”
"This incident turned around later. After the Grand Duke of the Principality of Ross was assassinated, the powerful Opru Empire on the other side of the ocean directly sent troops to take over the Principality of Ross and appointed a general to manage it. This general began to have a new relationship with the Emperor of Eastern Chu. Get in touch, and send someone to Dongchu not long after."
Chen Xiaoru handed the confession to Fang Jie: "This person knows so much, and he guessed it based on what he heard."
Fang Jie nodded, took over the confession and looked at it: "Let him try his best to think about all the exchanges between Eastern Chu and Ross Principality in the past two years, he must tell what he knows, as much as he can remember."
"The general..."
Chen Xiaoru hesitated for a moment and asked: "It seems that this matter has nothing to do with us. My subordinates guessed that the Emperor of Eastern Chu didn't trust those people from the Principality of Ross. In order to test the abilities of these Ross people, the emperor simply let them come to Nanyan?"
"very good."
Fang Jie praised: "What you think is not contrary to reason..."
He turned his head to San Jinhou and asked, "Huo Tong Tian Xing is the biggest partner of Eastern Chu merchants, and all the goods sent to Sui Dynasty are basically contacted by Eastern Chu merchants and Huo Tong Tian Xing. Lord Hou, How much do you know about the Principality of Ross, and how much do you know about the Opru Empire?"
San Jinhou pondered for a while and said: "Jiu Secai knows more about foreigners, but he is not here...I will give Jiu Secai more care of the business with foreigners and Eastern Chu people. If the general needs it, I immediately sent people to Chang'an to bring the wine, sex and wealth back."
"It's not necessary, I just want to know something."
Fang Jie waved his hands.
"I don't know much..."
San Jinhou thought for a while and said: "On the other side of the ocean, the closest to Eastern Chu should be a powerful country called the Aegean Empire. This empire is similar to the Sui Dynasty in many ways. Most members of the imperial family will be banned. As a prince, and then a large area in the empire was entrusted as a fief. It is called a kingdom, a principality. This Grand Duke of Ross is the nephew of the emperor of the Aegean Empire? It seems that the fief is in the west."
"Most of the foreigners that Eastern Chu merchants came into contact with were from the Principality of Ross. But later, further to the east, an empire called Opulu gradually rose, and it kept attacking the Aegean Empire. It only persisted for less than a year before being destroyed by the Opru Empire. After the imperial capital was breached, the emperor of the Love Empire was hanged. After that, all the affiliated kingdoms of the Aegean Empire declared their allegiance to the Opru Empire, so they were able to preservation."
"This Principality of Ross is the farthest away from the Opru Empire. No matter how powerful the Opru Empire is, it does not have enough military power to clean up all the kingdoms and principalities of the Aegean Empire. Therefore, after they surrendered, they still maintained the original state. Status. The Grand Duke of Ross was assassinated, and the Opulu Empire sent troops to the Principality of Ross, which obviously has something to do with the Eastern Chu people."
Fang Jie nodded. He always felt that the stories of foreigners were very familiar. After thinking about it, there were too many versions of historical stories that he had read in his previous life.
"Send someone to the eastern border."
Fang Jie was silent for a while and said: "I always feel that the ambition of the Opuru Empire is not small. Either the Eastern Chu is using the Opuru Empire, or the Opuru Empire is using the Eastern Chu. If it is the latter, then the Opuru Empire The goal of the Pulu Empire is obviously not just Eastern Chu... If nothing else happens, the Grand Duke of Ross should have been assassinated by the people of the Opru Empire, and then Opru's army directly took over the Principality of Ross."
"I wrote two personal letters, one to General Yang Shunhui, and one to the Mu Mansion."
Fang Jie rubbed the corners of his frowning brows: "Now the Sui Navy is in civil strife, and the most powerful Yangtze River Navy is divided into four... one part is in the hands of Wang Yiqu, the other part is in the hands of Luo Tu, and the other part is in the hands of Luo Tu. Some of them returned to the court, and the smallest part is in our hands."
Fang Jie was a little worried and said: "At this time, if there are foreign enemies invading the eastern border again, the Sui Dynasty will really be in chaos."
At this moment, a Xiaoqi School suddenly ran over in a hurry, and behind him, several Xiaoqi Schools supported a messenger who seemed to be exhausted and almost fainted. He should also be a member of the Xiaoqi School.
"General, there is a letter from the capital!"
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Fang Jie picked up the wax and took out a secret letter from the iron box. Fang Jie thought it would be written by Mu San or Jiu Se Cai, but when he unfolded it, he found that the font was wrong. The self on the letter paper is very beautiful, and it can be seen at a glance that it is from the hands of a woman. Moreover, the characters are neat and neat, and there is a sense of solemnity in the gracefulness. Look at the words and sentences, the status is noble. The weirdest thing is that this letter was written with a brush dipped in blood.
He frowned slightly, and then read the secret letter from beginning to end.
"Mu San made a great contribution this time..."
Fang Jie raised his eyebrows involuntarily, with surprise in his eyes, he sighed slightly, and handed the letter to Marquis San Jin: "The little emperor committed suicide, and all descendants of the Yang family were imprisoned in Chang In the Spring Garden. Xu Xiaogong and Liu Enjing, who led the army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, have also been stripped of their titles. The Iron Armored General has left Chang’an, and it seems that he is going to seize military power. The identity of the Iron Armored General has also been found out... It’s really unexpected!"
Wu Yiyi, Marquis of Sanjin, took the letter paper over and looked at it carefully, and after reading a few words, his expression changed drastically: "It turns out...it's the Taizu Emperor who founded the Sui Dynasty?!"
He stood up in surprise, his hands holding the letter were trembling slightly. Seeing his ugly face, it was obvious that he was seriously frightened by the things in the letter. But this is also a normal reaction, no one would have thought that the Iron Armored General would be Yang Jian, Emperor Taizu of the Great Sui Dynasty.
"Is this what Luo Yao is worried about?"
Fang Jie murmured.
"I'm afraid it is..."
Wu Yiyi sat down again, but his emotions still hadn't recovered: "Wan Xingchen's good method... He actually used half of his cultivation to extend the life of the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, although the princess' letter said that Wan Xingchen This is done out of revenge, but is this not a means against the sky? I have been in Chang'an for so many years, but I have never heard of such an unbelievable thing... But if Yang Jian is resurrected, then who is the tiger?"
"The letter said that Yang Jian had absorbed half of Wan Xingchen's cultivation base, coupled with Yang Jian's self-cultivation for so long, no wonder he was able to defeat Luo Yao. A master like Luo Yao must have sensed something, And those old monsters in Jiangnan Tonggu Academy must have heard about it, so they revealed the news to Luo Yao, the purpose is to make Luo Yao and Yang Jian lose both sides. Those people in Jiangnan are very calculating, they want to make a profit .”
Fang Jie hummed: "This secret letter was brought out of Changchun Garden by Mu San desperately. If he hadn't been familiar with the garden, he would never have sneaked in. Now the eldest princess Yang Qinyan is trapped in Changchun Garden. In the garden, wrote this letter in blood..."
"Let the general lead you to lead the troops north?"
Wu Yiyi shook his head: "Absolutely not!"
He said eagerly: "The 20,000 Iron Armored Army is not expected to be alive. It should be Yang Jian and Wan Xingchen used some means to preserve the 20,000 most elite soldiers. Although our current military strength is not weak, but this will Nine times out of ten, you won’t be able to win the north! The general thinks twice, this matter needs to be discussed in the long run!”
"I know."
Fang Jie took the bloody letter and read it again, the last sentence in the letter was particularly eye-catching.
"When the Sui Dynasty was in trouble, there was no one else I could ask for except the general. I only hope that the general still feels a little bit of the difficulty of the Yang family, the country is not easy, and the people are not easy. It is not easy to save the Sui Dynasty..."
"Yang Jian is her ancestor...but she said she wanted me to save Da Sui, why?"
Fang Xie knew that there were too many things in this letter that were not clearly written. And what kind of helpless and helpless Her Royal Highness the Princess who was trapped in Changchun Garden would be
"In any case, now is not the time to march north!"
Wu Yiyi shook his head and said: "Right now our Black Banner Army has yet to gain a firm foothold in the southwest, Yongbei Road, Nanhui Road, and Beihui Road, these three roads are not in our hands yet, although Zhuqueshan Camp and Yongzhou have one south and one north Clamp down on these three ways, but it is not easy to get those people to compromise? In addition, Murong Shame is still going south, so how can I have the energy to go north? General, if you are not careful for a while, the Black Banner Army has worked hard to build up Yes, it’s all in vain!”
Fang Jie took a look at Wu Yidao, then clasped his fists together: "Everything that Hou Ye said is for the Black Banner Army, thank you!"
Wu Yidao was slightly taken aback, and then said: "I have handed everything over to the Black Banner Army to the General. For the future, the General should ignore this letter."
Fang Jie nodded: "I know, I won't do stupid things."
He looked at Wu Yiyi's eager face, and felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart.