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"So that's it, thank you, my father-in-law!" Chen Yi suddenly realized and stopped asking. He untied a decorative Buddhist bead on his wrist and stuffed it into Chen Nian's hand. "Eunuch Chen, thank you for your information. I am very grateful. I fell in love with my father-in-law today and didn't bring any gifts. This string of Buddhist beads is said to bring you good luck. Today I borrow flowers to offer Buddha to my father-in-law! Please help me with some things in the future!"

Just in a moment, Chen Yi thought of a plan. Shangguan Wan'er, a very famous and talented beauty in history, isn't very young now and is still locked in the Yeting Palace. She was punished as a slave with her mother? He now has Wu Zetian's favor, so he can play the card of Wu Zetian and go to the Yeting Palace to find a way to get to know the girl who is only a few years old now, and even find a way to get involved in her growth process. If she watches her grow up slowly and become a beautiful woman with excellent aspects in all aspects, she will have a great sense of accomplishment! If... Chen Yi finally stopped his fantasy, he felt that he was too evil!

But this idea is really tempting. Once you get through it, you can't suppress it!

To achieve this goal, the person in charge of affairs in the Yeting Palace must establish a good relationship, otherwise he will not think about anything.

There were many powerful people in the court, but not many people could enter and exit the Yeting Palace freely. Just now, Prince Li Hong went to the Yeting Palace to visit his two sisters imprisoned by Wu Zetian, and someone immediately reported it to Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian was not happy. Judging from the situation just now, as long as he had a good relationship with Chen Nian, the eunuch who was in charge of the affairs of the Yeting Palace, there should be no big obstacles to entering and leaving the Yeting Palace. Chen Yi also believed that Chen Nian would not make things difficult for him. He just saw that he had favored Wu Zetian, and his eyes were also strange. Therefore, he was eager to use the offensive of sugar-coated cannonballs, preparing to borrow the power of money and material to pull the relationship between the cage and Chen Nian!

Chen Yi's behavior was very abrupt. Seeing the Buddhist beads he handed over, Chen Nian was stunned for a moment, subconsciously reached out to take them, and immediately returned them to Chen Yi, "How can this make me dare not accept such a valuable gift!"

Chen Nian is a consignee and knows that this is not an ordinary jewelry and is valuable. How dare you accept love easily!

Chen Yi smiled and pushed the Buddhist beads back with Chen Nian's hand, and said in a low voice: "Eunuch Chen. We are my family, and we are all descendants of the Chen family. No one knows whether it was a family hundreds of years ago. If the family doesn't speak two families, they should take care of it in the future! This is just my wish. If you have the chance, please take care of Zheng and her daughter. I am very grateful. Eunuch Chen. I am indeed entrusted by someone. I hope I can take care of the Zheng mother and daughter. If I leave in advance, my father-in-law will do it himself. Let's say goodbye!"

As he said that, he turned around and left quickly, leaving only Chen Nian alone in a daze. However, after taking a deep breath, he still put the string of Buddhist beads in his arms at a very fast speed, turned around and walked quickly towards the Tai Chi Palace.

"Ziying, this is a military newspaper sent from the Liaodong front line. You can take a look first and then tell me in detail about the situation stated in the military newspaper!"

In the Xianju Hall, Wu Zetian handed over several military newspapers marked emergency and top-secretly sealed to Chen Yi, who was sitting on the other side of the case and facing her.

Chen Yi took the military newspapers that he was not qualified to read at all, reviewed them carefully, and during the careful reading, he inserted some flags of different colors into the sand table on the desk.

It is not difficult to make sand tables. Although there is no precise surveying and mapping technology now, this does not prevent the craftsmen from working in the Liaodong area from making sand tables. Although this sand table made based on unfine measurements is different from the actual terrain and the scale is not completely standard, it is already a very useful thing in this era. At least the front-line generals have made much more convenient in judging the battlefield situation and commanding operations based on such sand tables. The command centers of the front must have sand tables made by craftsmen. In the rear, the capital of the Tang Empire, as the palace of the Daming Palace, Wu Zetian also bought one, but the scale is not very large, but the entire Liaodong, that is, the Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula in later generations, were included.

Before the army set out, Wu Zetian learned about the sand table from Li Ji and Chen Yi. Although she didn't know much about military affairs, she believed that this thing was very useful, but she just thought it was useful and it was not clear what it had. However, after seeing the real thing, she was indeed shocked. The sand table made by the craftsmen in charge marked the terrain and city of Liaodong, as well as the direction of the army on both sides' marching and garrisoning. Only then did she fully understand why Chen Yi praised this thing so much, and Li Jie would also show fanaticism.

When the sand table was placed in front of her, Wu Zetian further recognized Chen Yi's talent.

Chen Yiyi used the military newspaper in his hand to arrange the troops of both the enemy and us in the sand table. After setting them up and confirming that it was correct, Chen Yi threw the military newspaper and smiled at Wu Zetian and said, "Empress, from the military newspapers coming from the front, my army from Liaodong Road has arrived in the Liaoshui area and can immediately launch an attack on the cities of Goryeo. I believe that my brave and warlike soldiers will surely capture the Goryeo cities in Liaodong soon and open the gap to Pyongyang. I believe that now, the British Duke has ordered the soldiers to start fighting. Empress, in a few days, good news will come!"

Because the army on Pyongyang Road was set off by sea, it was impossible to send back real-time military newspapers, so they could only report their locations every once in a while, so they don’t know where the tens of thousands of troops on Pyongyang Road were heading. They have been traveling for three days from Chengshan, Shandong. According to conventional calculations, they are almost at the sea outside the water. Chen Yi and Wu Zetian hope to get news of the advancement of the Pyongyang Road as soon as possible.

The whereabouts of the army in the Wushuidao cannot be delivered in time, so now the only one who can understand the situation in real time is the military information of the army in the Liaodongdao.

In fact, the whereabouts of the Liaodong Road army cannot be said to be delivered in real time, because Liaodong is thousands of miles away from Chang'an. It takes several days to transmit military information from the front line of Liaodong to Chang'an and pass the post station to fast horses. In other words, the military newspaper sent to Chang'an is also a few days ago. In the era of no radio, there are not many ways to solve this problem. Only the birds can run faster than horses.

When Chen Yi thought of flying birds, he immediately thought of a means of transmitting intelligence faster than a fast horse at the post station, that is, a carrier pigeon. According to Chen Yi's understanding, now, when Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the army did not use carrier pigeons to transmit intelligence. If there is no such communication method in the army, there will definitely be no one among the people. But now there must be pigeons. As long as the pigeons are trained properly, they can be used to transmit intelligence.

Chen Yi was very happy when he thought of a good plan! But today he didn't want to say it, so he waited to find an opportunity to use the echoes of the figures in the army to talk to Wu Zetian!

Wu Zetian looked at Chen Yi with great interest in inserting the small flags marked the strength of both enemies and us into the mountains and rivers on the sand table, but the situation of the sand table was not very beneficial to us, because there were many small white flags marked the strength of the Goryeo defenders, but there were not many small red flags marked the strength of our side, and it seemed that they were surrounded by the Goryeo people.

After Chen Yi planted a small flag, Wu Zetian expressed his worries in a brief silence.

Chen Yi quickly explained: "Empress, don't worry, the situation on the sand table is just a description of the temporary strength of the enemy and our army. Now it seems that the Goryeo people have more places than our army. That's because they live in more cities and their power is scattered. It seems that their troops are all in every place, but their strength is not strong in every place! Our army is still in agglomeration and has no troops to attack. Therefore, our army's current forces are only in Yingzhou to Liaoshui, but these places can concentrate tens of thousands of troops of our Liaodong Road army, and these are tigers and wolves, and many generals who are good at fighting, such as the British Duke, who can conquer and fight, as long as they arrive at their destination and expand their troops, the cities guarded by these Goryeo people will soon fall into the control of our army. At that time, the sand table will be full of red power!"

"Well, it's reasonable," Wu Zetian smiled when she heard it. "I understand a lot after you say it. I hope that as you said, several armies can destroy Goryeo this time!"

"Empress, I will definitely do it. This time, Goryeo will definitely not escape the fate of destroying the country!" Chen Yi said very confidently!

"Ziying, please tell me in detail about the situation in Liaodong!"

"Yes, Empress!"

After Chen Yi agreed, he explained in detail to Wu Zetian the situation on the Liaodong front line according to the content stated in the military newspaper just now, including which teams are marching where, how will each division arrange it next, and which cities to attack. Wu Zetian, who is completely "mother" outside the military and geography, could not find out the specific military situation in the military newspaper, but after listening to Chen Yi's words, he could basically figure out the military situation in front, which surprised her. Even the Wu Tuaner on the side listened with relish, and admired Chen Yi even more!

After talking for more than a day, Chen Yi finally finished the statement. Wu Zetian also figured out the matter, and the two looked at each other and smiled!

Wu Zetian, who was in a good mood, leaned on the soft couch behind him, sighed a little pitifully and said to Chen Yi: "Zi Ying, look at a woman like me, but she has to care about all military and national affairs, but I am tired. Fortunately, you have explained the military situation for me today, otherwise I would be even more confused! Okay, today's matter has been dealt with, why don't you go back first, I want to take a break!"

"Empress, you have to deal with many things every day. You must be very tired and bored. You must have a good rest!" Chen Yi said, his eyes rolling, and he said casually: "Empress, you have been in the palace forever. Otherwise, Weichen will take you out for a walk, play and play, and come back after relaxing. I believe you will not feel bored at that time!"

"Ah?! Go out of the palace to have fun?" Wu Zetian opened his mouth in surprise when he heard this, and Wu Tuaner on the side also looked stunned!
Chapter completed!