Chapter 103: Gathering People and Things in the Tomb [Subscription Request]

When Jia Xu came in, Cao Cao calmly put all the bamboo slips left by the Ten Attendants back into the box.

Then put the box under a low mat close to you so that you can look at it at any time.

The content of this thing is profound, and those who can understand it can easily become bad students.

Cao Cao was prepared to bear the responsibility alone to avoid harming his subordinates.

I'll read it later.

"Regarding Chen Gong and Cheng Yu, the governor wants to contact them now?"

"They don't need to contact each other. We'll talk when the time comes. It's enough to know where the person is."

The topic of their conversation turned to Yuan.

Jia Xu handed Cao Cao a secret document written on Cai Hou's paper.

Cai Hou paper is a kind of plant fiber paper. The raw materials are cheap and the quality is high, so it will gradually become popular.

But at present, it is not widely used, and the cost is still expensive and scarce.

It is used more often for delivering secret letters, because paper is more portable.

Cao Cao took the paper and took a look at it. It turned out to be a secret letter from Yuan Wei.

The content is that Yuan Wei is reminding Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, to be on guard against Cao Cao.

This is somewhat interesting.

Yuan Wei usually likes to plan, and then always plays steadily, but his plans are terrible. The big things he plans, the things he puts a lot of effort into, usually fail. He is a typical bad chess player.

The environment and position he grew up in are suitable for the word "positive".

He insisted on using strange means and plotting conspiracies, but he was totally not good at this and he went astray.

But why did Yuan Wei's letter fall into Jia Xu's hands?
Cao Cao thought for a moment and said, "Have you figured out the Yuan family spy system controlled by Chen Ying and started to intercept information from it for our own use?"

Jia Xu took a seat behind a low seat on the side.

"It's not difficult to track down Yuan's spies. I've been tracking them for some time.

This time, I successfully intercepted Yuan Wei's secret letter and came to inform the governor."

Intercepting Yuan Wei's secret letters was considered top secret in Yuan's secret reporting system.

Only after Jia Xu achieved this did he feel qualified and came to report to Cao Cao.

"How did the secret letter come from?"

“Yuan’s method of delivering secret letters is unremarkable.

Yuan Wei rolled up the things he wanted to deliver into paper rolls, and then disguised them by stuffing them into wooden mortise and tenon joints. In this way, any object that entered or left the palace could bring out the secret letter.

“The next step is to deliver it to the destination through various channels.

Generally, it takes five to six rotations. If there are more steps, it will be too cumbersome, and if there are fewer steps, once discovered, the entire intelligence system will be easily destroyed.

As long as we pay attention to the single-line connection during the process, even if one person has a problem, it will not implicate others."

"The letter I intercepted was delivered by a traveling merchant team. One of the steps was to stuff the secret scroll into the horse's anus and hide it in a dung ball. When the horse excreted it, someone picked up the dung and dug out a bamboo tube from the dung ball, which contained the secret letter."

This secret letter was dug out from horse manure...Cao Cao looked at the letter in his hand.

Jia Xu: "I copied the original bamboo slips and then put them back.

Regarding what happened the night before yesterday, you went to Dongjun, and the contents of the letter are not important, so I told you after I came back."

"The original letter has been sent to Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou."

"We have been able to secretly transfer some of Yuan's spies and use them for our own purposes, so that Yuan Wei loses the ability to pass on information. We can also continue to hide in the dark and see what Yuan Wei passes on."

"First keep an eye on Yuan Wei and see what he wants to do."

"Then Chen Ying is not very valuable to us."

Jia Xu handed Cao Cao another secret document, which was news about Chen Ying.

She was an orphan since she was young and was raised, trained and taught the art of assassination by the Yuan family.

After he grew up, he became a loyal soldier of the Yuan family.

Because of her activities in Luoyang, her outstanding performance and her beautiful appearance, she was taken as a concubine by Yuan Jin and kept by his side.

Until he was ordered by Yuan Wei to follow Cao Cao and leave Luoyang.

"Yuan Ji's concubine, according to her status she should be called sister-in-law..." Cao Cao muttered.

"She was ordered to follow the governor for two purposes. One was to find out whether the deposed emperor was in our hands. If so, where was he?
The second is to gain the trust of the prefect. If necessary, you can pretend to submit to the prefect and flatter him to please him.

If something happens to the governor or Yuan Wei, she will go to other Yuan family members."

Deposing the emperor was a taboo, and only three people under Cao Cao knew about it.

Himself, Jia Xu, and Xun Yu.

But only Cao Cao knew where the person was exactly.

Whether to use the deposed emperor, or whether to use the emperor to command the princes, depends on future changes. Even Cao Cao himself has not decided.

But the deposed emperor must be in hand first.

The emperor's control over the princes is a double-edged sword, with great advantages and considerable disadvantages.

After Jia Xu left, the study became quiet.

Cao Cao closed his eyes, circulated his qi, and began his practice.

The increase in Cao's camp power and his own reputation together turned into a magnificent fortune.

When he closed his eyes and breathed in and out, the Qi energy drawn in through the fontanelle on the top of his head formed a visible purple halo and entered his body.

The cultural core in Cao Cao's consciousness has evolved into an official seal corresponding to the round sky and square earth.

When he began to practice, the official seal appeared on his head and blended with his luck to form a strange phenomenon.

This official seal changed as Cao Cao's luck condensed. The texture of the base echoed the heaven and earth, and became gradually denser.

The martial vein in the dantian, after cultivation by the military strategist, turned into a military talisman.

The two seals blended together, releasing aura that circulated throughout the body.

【Reputation: 140513/150000】

When Cao Cao stopped practicing, check the entry: [Military Talent: 84 (B)]

It is not difficult to increase the skill value of military strategy. However, it is very difficult to improve all the related military strategies together to promote the growth of talent.

Cao Cao first started his work in Luoyang. Now, time has passed quickly and it has been almost a year. His initial rating of 79 has been raised to 84.
After he finished his training, he pondered the situation in the world and what he needed to do.

The next step is to take control of Yanzhou.

Yanzhou and Jizhou are located on the north and south of the Yellow River respectively.

Together with Yuzhou, Jingzhou and Yangzhou, they are relatively important states and counties in terms of geography and population.

Xun Yu's plan for Cao Cao was to control the harmony of the people, gather more famous generals and good strategies, and use "people" to control the world.

This coincides with Cao Cao.

Among the three factors of heaven, earth and man, Yuan Shao paid more attention to the geographical location and chose Jizhou, the first of the nine provinces, north of the Yellow River.

Gongsun Zan, Han Fu and others also grabbed territory in the north and ran their own businesses.

Among heaven, earth, and man, the weather is the most illusory and the most irreversible.

The right time is the people's hope, the general trend, and it is a gathering of luck.

To a certain extent, controlling the emperor and possessing the legitimacy is also a manifestation of the right time.

Cao Cao was thinking about his next move while sitting behind a low mat and occasionally writing.

When the sun set, he picked up a piece of paper with a name written on it. It was the person he asked Jia Xu to investigate.

Bian Mei was born into a family of prostitutes.

The brothels in the late Han Dynasty were not prostitutes, but a general term for singers and dancers.

Bian Mei was a singing and dancing girl, extremely beautiful and talented, and was one of the three most famous girls at the time.

If the person is right, this woman is very important.

According to the information Jia Xu found out, Bian Mei was currently in Changyi, Yanzhou, where the Yanzhou Governor's Mansion was also located.

Changyi is one of the most prosperous cities in the world besides Luoyang.

While Cao Cao was looking at Bian Mei's name and other information, Xu Huan led his men into an ancient tomb in Mangdang Mountain.

Mangdang Mountain, formerly known as Dangshan.

It is famous in the world because Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang started an uprising by beheading a snake.

Confucius took shelter from the rain here and gave lectures, leaving behind such landscapes as Confucius Cliff and Confucius Mountain.

The tombs of King Liang of Han are scattered all over the place.

Like Mangshan Mountain north of Luoyang, there are countless tombs here.

Xu Huan led a team of people and, using the directions given by Cao Cao, finally found this huge tomb hidden deep underground.

There are two tombs above this tomb.

One was buried there by later generations, and the other was a fake tomb built above this tomb. Some valuables were placed in it to confuse tomb robbers and protect the tomb below.

Xu Huan's team included many of the best fighters of the time, recruited by Jia Xu and supported by Cao Cao, and he quickly became the leader in the tomb-robbing world.

The key is that there is no competition. They are just a team of professional tomb robbers, so it would be difficult for them to rank second.

People like Dong Zhuo who relied entirely on violence to destroy things don't count.

A group of people dug a hole through a crack in the mountain wall and were able to enter the mountain.

The tomb was dark and cold.

But the walls were painted with strange textures and emitted a faint dark green glow.

"The patterns on the tomb wall are all sacrificial patterns, like a tomb from the Shang Dynasty."

"After Emperor Gaozu killed the snake, there were more tombs in Mangdang Mountain, but this tomb is much older..."

The people who entered the tomb talked in low voices.

The patterns on the wall use negative and positive lines in an alternating manner. Most of them are animal faces, centered on the nose, symmetrical on both sides, with sharp horns and huge, wide-open eyes.

Things from the Shang Dynasty have distinct characteristics.

The pattern distribution on the wall has a strong sense of hierarchy and order, and is full of fierce and terrifying beauty.

Inside this tomb, there are densely packed animal head sacrificial patterns, as if countless monsters are staring at the people entering the tomb.

"This place is too big. Look to both sides. The beast pattern halo keeps spreading and there is almost no end in sight."

Li Feixiong and Hu Yu, two of Xu Huan's deputies, also followed down and looked around.

The group calmed themselves down and took action.

Xu Huan had in his hand a scroll of the tomb location that Cao Cao had hand-marked after he got the entry, including the general structure of the tomb.

This is the message pushed by the entry. Cao Cao drew a line on the graph according to the entry.

The hint given in the entry is to let Cao Cao come to get the thing.

So he guessed that the thin line might be a safe route in the tomb. Mark it out, let Xu Huan come in, follow the safe route, take the things and leave.

I was reminded in advance not to touch anything else in the tomb.

The entry marks the 91st tomb in the entire Chinese land, among all the tombs of all years and dynasties.

In history, how many saints emerged in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (Spring and Autumn Period) alone? !
Zhoushan in Mangdang Mountain is where Mozi lived in seclusion. Confucius also came here.

There are countless tombs of great men, emperors, and royal families from ancient times to the end of the Han Dynasty, scattered among the world's beautiful mountains and rivers.

There is a tomb that ranks among the top 100. Cao Cao judged that there must be something special in this tomb, which might be a mythical artifact, which improved the ranking of the tomb.

Or the identity of the tomb owner is extraordinary.

No matter which one it is, if Xu Huan and the others are not careful, they will remain in the tomb forever.

After a while, Xu Huan obediently followed Cao Cao's instructions, went deep into the tomb, and successfully took what he wanted, but accidentally triggered an accident in the tomb.

When the group of people escaped from the tomb, their faces were pale and they were terrified.

Everyone came out of the tomb in a panic, with tomb-robbing shovels flying around, and quickly backfilled the tomb and sealed it.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry... This tomb is weird, go back and report to the governor."

"What was that just now? Did anyone see it clearly?"

"If you have seen it clearly, leave it in the tomb. Otherwise, you can go back and take a look." Xu Huan pulled people and left Mangdang Mountain at a lightning speed, ready to go back and report.

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