0214 Wake Up
The water in spring is warm, and there are more and more pedestrians on the streets of Hankou.
An eight-carrying sedan passed through it, stopped next to a teahouse not far away, and a middle-aged man got out of it and walked straight into the teahouse.
"This is not in person with Lord Li, you haven't been here for a long time!"
The teahouse clerk exclaimed, and saw that it was Li Yuandu, the chief clerk of the Chu Palace, and hurried forward to hit Qian.
"I've just returned from business, but I have a seat?"
"Look at what you said, it is a blessing for our teahouse that Lord Li can come to our teahouse. This time Lord Li is still sitting in the southeast window private room where you often sit?"
Li Yuandu smiled slightly and nodded.
The guy stepped out after serving tea. Li Yuandu was drinking tea while looking out the window.
I have seen the street scene outside the window countless times, but it seems that there is a certain obsession, which makes Li Yuandu look in the southeast direction all the time.
At this moment, the door opened and a man with a good appearance came in.
Li Yuandu was quite alert. He felt that the footsteps of the people behind him were not as loud as those of the previous guy. He immediately reached out to his waist, turned around suddenly, and fired out the musket.
"Who?"
The visitor was slightly stunned, but he was calm and he could not see any tension in his eyes, but instead smiled.
"Mr. Li doesn't have to be nervous. I just come here to see my name, without any malice!"
Li Yuandu snorted coldly and said, "No malice? He broke in without his master's consent, and said he had no malice? He said, are you a remnant of the Taiping Army or were you sent by Li Hongzhang?"
The man explained: "Mr. Li misunderstood and knocked on the door. But for some reason, Lord Li seemed to be distracted when he looked out the window and did not respond."
Li Yuandu was stunned and then recalled that he was indeed distracted just now. If the other party had malice, he would definitely succeed in attacking just now. But the other party didn't do that, indicating that he was not hostile.
"Who are you? What are you doing for me?"
The man smiled slightly and asked, "Don't you ask me to sit down and talk?"
Li Yuandu frowned immediately, but nodded and asked the other party to sit down.
Then the man sat down but did not report his name. Instead, he poured the tea and tasted it himself, and then drank it for a while, saying, "Good tea, it's better to have a tea from Jiangnan."
Li Yuandu suppressed his displeasure and asked again: "You have drunk tea, why don't you report your name?"
The man seemed to have not heard it, just looked out the window and asked, "Mr. Li chooses this room every time he comes here. Could it be that he is waiting for someone?"
Li Yuandu's eyes suddenly tightened, and a murderous intent flashed by, and he said coldly: "What does this matter to you? Are you monitoring me?"
"I dare not, but it just happened that I like this position too!" the man replied plausibly.
"Why?" Li Yuandu was very curious.
The man smiled, suddenly stared into Li Yuandu's eyes, and said, "Because this teahouse is the only one facing Jiangnan!"
Li Yuandu's heart trembled, and when he mentioned Jiangnan, he seemed to touch his sensitive nerves in an instant. He was silent for a while and suddenly asked, "This is your hobby, it is indeed an alternative."
The man asked back, "Why? Didn't the lord sit here for this reason? Unfortunately, Jiangnan is too far away and can't see it at all."
Li Yuandu must have suddenly become nervous and stared at the other party. Who would ask questions like this, and it seemed to be a point.
"I don't understand what you mean?"
The man smiled slightly, looked into the distance through the window, and said, "The south of the Yangtze River is beautiful, and the scenery has been known for the past; the flowers in the river are redder than fire, and the river water is green like blue when it comes to spring."
This is a poem about remembering Jiangnan. The other party did not finish reading it, so Li Yuandu quickly continued: "Can you not remember Jiangnan?"
But the man said again: "I remember Jiangnan, and I remember most in Hangzhou; I found the osmanthus in the moonlight in the mountain temple. I looked at the tide on the pillow of the county pavilion."
I still haven't finished reading it, it seems that it was intentional.
But Li Yuandu's expression was very strange. His voice suddenly became excited and he added: "When will you go back to the next trip!"
The man smiled slightly and continued, "Jiangnan remembers, followed by Wu Palace; Wu wine with a cup of spring bamboo leaves, Wu Wa dances with two drunken lotus."
Li Yuandu added: "Meet again sooner or later!"
Next, Li Yuandu suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked impatiently: "But someone from my mother's family?"
The man immediately stood up and stood attentively and saluted: "Agent No. 9813 of China SHIELD, but No. 17 in front of him?"
Li Yuandu was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly returned to the army and said, "I finally waited for you, I am No. 17!"
It turned out that these two people were actually agents of SHIELD, and they were just talking about the code.
However, it is obviously different from the previous code. It is actually because of the memories of Jiangnan, which is too poetic and picturesque, and too artistic.
"But No. 0 asked you to come to me?" Li Yuandu asked.
No. 9813 nodded and said, "Yes, No. 0 asked me to come and wake you up. From now on, you have been officially awakened. Are there any problems?"
Li Yuandu nodded and said, "No problem, I have been waiting for this day for twelve years."
Twelve years, lurking for twelve years, No. 9813 suddenly felt awe-inspiring and said respectfully: "Very good, from now on, senior, you need to fully cooperate with our actions."
Li Yuandu asked, "Is the King of Wu going to attack Zeng Guofan?"
No. 9813 nodded and said, "That's right, the King of Wu has issued an order to destroy Zeng Guofan. Please cooperate with our army's actions."
"This is natural!" Li Yuandu asked, "Tell me, what do you want me to do?"
No. 9813 then said: "You are the chief clerk of the Chu Prince's Mansion. Can you forge Zeng Guofan's letters and orders to mobilize troops?"
Li Yuandu replied: "I have been lurking by Zeng Guofan for ten years. He trusts me very much. I can forge Zeng Guofan's letters and orders to mobilize troops."
No. 9813 was overjoyed and said, "Senior, your task is to forge a few letters as soon as possible, one for Li Hongzhang and the other for His Highness the King of Wu. The contents on it are similar, so write Zeng Guofan persuades the King of Wu and Li Hongzhang to rebel with him and overthrow the Qing court. In addition, you will write another letter of report to the court to report Zeng Guofan's plan to rebel. Then forge two orders to dispatch troops to Hunan General Wang Jinxi and Hubei General Zhao Changsan, ordering them to attack the Qing army in Henan and Sichuan respectively. The time will be set on the third day of next month."
Li Yuandu said: "There is no problem with these, what about next?"
No. 9813 smiled and said, "You only need to do these things well. Next, you just need to find a way to get out. Our army will launch a sudden attack on the Chu army at that time, destroy Zeng Guofan with lightning speed, so that Zeng Guofan will not have the opportunity to explain and confirm his crime of rebellion."
Li Yuandu knew the discipline, so he didn't ask too much. He could feel that the plan was too exquisite. Once it was implemented, Zeng Guofan had almost no room for a turnaround.
Next, the two discussed the contact location and plan and took action.
As a staff member who joined when Zeng Guofan first founded the Hunan Army, Li Yuandu was deeply trusted and respected by Zeng Guofan. After ten years of lurking, he has now become the chief clerk of the Chu Palace. He can easily forge Zeng Guofan's correspondence letters and even get a command to transfer troops.
There are hundreds of spies like Li Yuandu in Zeng Guofan's camp. They come from various major forces, and they have everything from black and white, but only Li Weiguo's SHIELD is lurking the deepest. As early as twelve years ago, Li Weiguo had already begun to plot against Zeng Guofan and sent 100 SHIELD agents to various major forces in the country to lurk. Zeng Guofan was just one of the targets.
Of course, not only Li Yuandu lurked within Zeng Guofan's group, but more than a dozen agents from China's S.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.E.H.I.H.I.E.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.I.H.H.I.H.H.H.H.H.H.H.H.H.H.H.H.H
It can be seen that Li Weiguo was so far-sighted back then that he could have sent people to lurking to Zeng Guofan more than ten years ago. Once exposed by the outside world, Li Weiguo would definitely become the greatest strategist in the world in an instant, and even Mao Taizu had to be convinced.
With the cooperation of agents of SHIELD, Li Yuandu soon completed the forgery of letters and orders for dispatching troops, and quickly delivered them to Li Weiguo.
"Are the troops ready?" Li Weiguo asked seriously.
"If you go back to the king, all the troops have entered the combat attack position as expected in the name of military exercises and can launch a thunderous attack on the enemy at any time."
Li Weiguo took a deep breath and closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes, he had already made a decision.
Chapter completed!