Chapter 725 Blood Book
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The results of several mages asking each other were similar. When asked each other, no one dared to tell lies. Chen Xiaoru's killing method, which was very slow to split people into pieces, made them feel scared. Everyone was afraid that they would betray themselves if they told lies. Normal people could not stand the bloodiness even if they were chopped up, let alone one person? So the answers they got were basically the same.
Chen Xiaoru asked someone to take these five scared mages down and then go to see Fang Jie.
"General, it seems that these people don't know much."
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Chen Xiaorudao: "I asked separately, and the answers were almost the same. They answered less than a year ago, the grand duke of the Duchy of Ross looked for them all, and then they could not leave the Duchy of Ross and wait for an important mission. Half a year ago, the grand duke found them again and asked them to go to Eastern Chu. But later, because the grand duke of the Duchy of Ross was assassinated, the matter was dragged down again."
"Three months ago, they arrived in Dongchu, and were then received by the Emperor of Dongchu. Together with a five hundred army of the Duchy of Ross, they took a sea boat from Dongchu around the coast of the Great Sui Dynasty and went directly to Nanyan."
He paused and said, "It's a bit unreasonable. Not to mention a year ago, even three months ago, we had just defeated the Nanyan army. The people of Dongchu could not have known the news on the same day and sent people there immediately. Therefore, even if there was no Murong Moe's later alliance with Dongchu, these people were going to come to the Great Sui Dynasty. The subordinates guessed that their purpose was not here at the beginning, but somewhere else."
Fang Jie knew that Chen Xiaoru's analysis was reasonable and nodded: "Don't relax, continue to interrogate. In addition, the assassin leader of Dong Chu said nothing."
"I said something, but he was just a small leader of an assassination team in secret in Emperor Dongchu. He just took orders and did not dare to ask why."
"He said..."
Chen Xiaoru looked through the confession: "From a long time ago, the Grand Duke of the Duke of Ross had close contacts with the Emperor of Dongchu, which can be traced back to the time when the Great Sui Dynasty just started civil strife. He guessed that the Emperor of Dongchu should have planned to launch troops against the Great Sui Dynasty, but the Dongchu Dynasty had limited strength and did not dare to go to war easily. He was preparing to ask the Principal of Ross to send troops to assist and then give some benefits to the Principal of Ross. But the Grand Duke of the Principal of Ross has never had much interest in this matter. After all, the Principal of Ross is just a small country, with limited troops to call, and he has to face the threat from neighboring countries."
"The incident turned around later. After the grand duke of the Duke of Ross was assassinated, the powerful Oplu Empire across the ocean sent troops to take over the Duke of Ross and appointed a general to manage it. The general began to reconnect with the Emperor of Dongchu, and soon sent people to Dongchu."
Chen Xiaoru handed the confession to Fang Jie: "This person knows so much, but he inferred based on what he heard."
Fang Jie nodded, took the confession and looked at it: "Let him think about it as much as possible. He must say all the interactions between Dongchu and the Principality of Ross over the past two years, and he must say what he knows, and what he can remember."
"General..."
Chen Xiaoru hesitated and asked, "This matter seems to have nothing to do with us. I guess whether the Emperor of Dong Chu doesn't trust those people from the Duchy of Ross. It happened that Murong Moe sent an envoy to Dong Chu for help. In order to test the abilities of these Ross people, the Emperor of Dong Chu simply asked them to come to Nanyan?"
"very good."
Fang Jie praised: "What you think is not contrary to the truth..."
He turned to look at Sanjin Hou and asked, "Huotongtianxiaxing is the largest partner of Dongchu merchants. All the goods sent to the Great Sui Dynasty are basically contacted by Dongchu merchants and Huotongtianxiaxing. Marquis, how much do you know about the Duchy of Ross, and how much do you know about the Oplu Empire?"
Sanjin Hou pondered for a while and said, "I know more about foreigners, but he is not here... I will give more business to foreigners and Dongchu people. If the general needs it, I will send someone to Chang'an immediately to let the wine, sex and money come back."
"No need, I just want to know something."
Fang Jie waved his hand.
"I don't know much..."
Sanjin Hou thought for a while and said, "On the other side of the ocean, the closest thing to the Eastern Chu should be a powerful country called the Aegean Empire. This empire is similar to the Great Sui Dynasty. Members of the imperial royal family will most likely be named princes and then enfeoffed a large area as fiefdoms in the empire. It is called the kingdom and the principality. This Grand Duke Ross is the nephew of the Emperor of the Aegean Empire? It seems that the fief is in the westernmost direction."
"The foreigners that the merchants of the East Chu met were mostly from the Duchy of Ross. But later, an empire called Oplu gradually rose to the east and continued to attack the Aegean Empire. The army of the Aegean Empire was defeated in a row and was destroyed by the Oplu Empire for less than a year. After the imperial capital was broken, the emperor of the Love Empire was hanged. After that, all the principalities of the Aegean Empire's subordinate kingdoms declared their allegiance to the Oplu Empire, so they were preserved."
"This Duchy of Ross is the farthest from the Oplu Empire. No matter how powerful the Oplu Empire is, it does not have enough military strength to clean up all the kingly priests of the Aegean Empire, so after they surrendered, they still maintained their original status. Grand Duke Ross was assassinated, and the Oplu Empire sent troops to the Duchy of Ross, which was obviously related to the people of Dong Chu."
Fang Jie nodded. He always felt that the stories of foreigners were very familiar. Later, he thought about it. There were too many historical stories I had seen in my previous life.
"Send someone to Dongjiang again."
Fang Jie was silent for a while and said, "I always feel that the Oplu Empire has a great ambition. Either Dong Chu is using the Oplu Empire or the Oplu Empire is using the Eastern Chu. If it is the latter, then the Oplu Empire's target is obviously not just Dong Chu... If nothing unexpected happens, that Grand Duke Ross should have been assassinated by the Oplu Empire, and then Oplu's army directly took over the Principality of Ross."
"I will write two handwritten letters, one to General Yang Shunhui and the other to Mu Mansion."
Fang Jie rubbed his frowning corners: "Now the Sui Navy is in the midst of civil strife, the most powerful Yangtze River Navy is divided into four... part of it is in the hands of Wang Yiqu, part of it is Luo Tu, part of it is back to the court, and the smallest part is in our hands."
Fang Jie was a little worried and said, "At this time, if there is another foreign enemy invasion in the East Xinjiang, the Great Sui Dynasty will be really in chaos."
At this moment, a cavalry school suddenly rushed over. Several cavalry schools behind him were holding a messenger who looked dusty and tired and almost fainted. They should also be from the cavalry school.
"General, letters have been sent from the capital!"
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Fang Jie picked up the fire lacquer and took out a secret letter from the iron box. Fang Jie thought it would be written by Mu San or wine, but when he opened it, he found that the font was wrong. He was very beautiful on the letter paper, and he could tell at a glance that it was from a woman's hand. Moreover, the words were neat, and there was a solemn smell in the beauty. Looking at the words and sentences, he had a noble identity. The strangest 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 great contributions this time..."
Fang Jie couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, with surprise in his eyes. He sighed slightly and handed the letter to Sanjinhou: "The little emperor committed suicide, and all descendants of the Yang family were confined to Changchun Garden. Xu Xiaogong and Liu Enjing, who were leading troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River, have also been stripped of their official titles. The iron-armored general has left Chang'an, and it seems that they are going to seize military power. The face of the iron-armored general has also been found out... It's really unexpected!"
Wu Yidao, the waiter of the golden scattered gold, took the letter paper and looked carefully. After reading a few words, his face changed drastically: "It turned out to be the Emperor Taizu of the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty?"
He stood up in surprise, and his hands holding the letter paper were shaking slightly. Seeing his face so ugly, he was obviously scared by the matter in the letter. But this was also a normal reaction. No one would have thought that the iron-armored general would be Yang Jian, the Emperor Taizu of the Great Sui Dynasty.
"Is this what Luo Yao is worried about?"
Fang Jie murmured.
"I'm afraid it's..."
Wu Yidao sat down again, but his emotions had not recovered: "Wan Xingchen's good method... He actually used half of his cultivation to prolong his life for the founding emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty. Although the princess's letter said that Wan Xingchen did this out of revenge, isn't this a means of defiance? I have been in Chang'an for so many years, but I have never heard of such an incredible thing... But if Yang Jian is resurrected, then who is the tiger?"
"The letter said that Yang Jian actually absorbed half of Wan Xingchen's cultivation. In addition, Yang Jian has cultivated his energy for so long, no wonder he could defeat Luo Yao. A master like Luo Yao must have sensed something, and the old monsters in the ancient academy of Jiangnantong must have heard of it, so he revealed the news to Luo Yao, with the purpose of letting Luo Yao and Yang Jian fight to lose both sides. The people in Jiangnan are very good at calculating, and they want the fisherman to benefit."
Fang Jie nodded: "This secret letter was brought out from Changchun Garden by Mu San's desperate attempt. 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 and wrote this letter with blood..."
"Let General, you lead your troops north?"
Wu Yidao shook his head: "It's absolutely not possible!"
He said anxiously: "Those 20,000 iron armored troops are not necessarily living people. It should be the means Yang Jian and Wan Xingchen used to preserve such 20,000 most elite soldiers. Although our military strength is not weak now, it is almost impossible to win if we go north! The general thinks twice, and this matter needs to be discussed for a long time!"
"I know"
Fang Jie took the blood letter and read it again. The last sentence in the letter was particularly eye-catching.
"When the Great Sui Dynasty was in a dilemma, I have no one to ask for anything except the general. I only hope that the general will still be grateful to the fact that the Yang family is not easy, the country is not easy, and the people are not easy, so I will save the Great Sui Dynasty from the general..."
"Yang Jian is her ancestor... But she said she wanted me to save Da Sui, why is that?"
Fang Jie knew that there were too many things in this letter that were not clearly written. And what kind of loneliness and helplessness would the princess who was trapped in Changchun Garden be?
"Anyway, it's not the time to advance north!"
Wu Yidao shook his head and said, "Now our Black Flag Army has not yet established a foothold in the southwest. Yongbei Road, Nanhui Road, and Beihui Road, these three are not in our hands. Although Zhuqueshan Camp and Yongzhou are tightly pinching these three, it is not easy to make those people compromise? In addition, they have to fight Murong Moe in the south, so how can they have the energy to go north? General, if you are not careful for a moment, the Black Flag Army has worked hard to establish them, they will be wasted!"
Fang Jie looked at Wu Yidao, then hugged his fists: "Mr. Marquis' words are all for the Black Flag Army, thank you!"
Wu Yidao was slightly stunned, and then said, "I have handed over everything to the Black Flag Army to the General. For the sake of the future, it is better for the General to ignore this letter."
Fang Jie nodded: "I know, I won't do stupid things."
Chapter completed!