The morning light coated the charred grass stubble with a layer of light. Qiu Dongming shrank his hands in his sleeves, holding a bamboo tube in his right hand. He had just walked around the remains of a war horse with arrows stuck in his body. After the mound suddenly burst out and shouted: "Stop!"

Five black shadows rose from the scorched earth, and the ashes on the leather armor fell. The three crossbow machines were cold and shining with cold light like wolf teeth under the setting sun. Qiu Dongming's body stiffened instantly. He opened his mouth, but his throat felt as if he was stabbed by the murderous aura like an ice cone. The man in front licked his lips full of blood scabbed: "Who?"

Crystal beads of sweat immediately appeared on Qiu Dongming's forehead, "Are they the subordinate of Duke Pei?"

"Ask you, I didn't ask you to ask us first!" The leader said in a cold voice.

Three crossbow-holding soldiers raised the crossbow machine in their hands, and their finger joints were slightly white.

"I'm here to send a message to Duke Pei Guo." Qiu Dongming no longer dared to talk nonsense and said immediately.

"Where is the letter, and who will send it for?" The leader continued to ask.

"My brother received the favor of Miss Pei Er and received important military information to repay Duke Pei Guoguo. The letter is in my hands and must be handed over to Duke Pei Guoguo," Qiu Dongming said quickly.

The soldiers in the lead smiled a little hideously.

Originally, according to their group of scouts, he saw that the letter was in Qiu Dongming's hands, so he was knocked out with a stick and took the letter back.

However, when I hear the four words of Miss Pei Er, I have to sell my face. It will be a little more troublesome.

"Take him to see General Lu and see if he wants to take this man to see Duke Pei."

...

Duke Pei was still talking to Gu Liubai, but he heard a message saying that someone said it was related to Miss Pei Er and urgently reported military orders.

"oh?"

Duke Pei Guoyu brought him over without saying a word.

Qiu Dongming naturally didn't know who the young man was around Duke Pei, but looking at Duke Pei's demeanor, he knew that when he saw the master, he gave him a bow and handed the bamboo tube in his hand to Duke Pei, "Duke Pei, it was An Zhilu who ordered me to bring it."

"An Zhide?"

When Duke Pei saw a general following Qiu Dongming nodding, he knew that the bamboo tube had been checked. There was nothing wrong with it. He opened the wax seal directly, pulled out the small scroll inside and spread it out. After reading it carefully, he immediately smiled and turned to Gu Liubai and said, "No wonder An Zhilu was doing well in Youzhou. This man is really capable. Not only has brains, but also has courage."

After saying that, he handed the small volume directly to Gu Liubai.

Gu Liubai frowned slightly when he heard the three words An Zhilu. Looking at the contents in the small scroll, his brows frowned even deeper.

"You ask this brother to have a good rest, give some rewards, and then find a way to transfer An Zhilu directly."

Duke Pei asked him to take Qiu Dongming away, then glanced at Gu Liubai and said meaningfully, "Don't you like this person very much?"

"I couldn't say I liked him or not before, but Yun Qi didn't like him very much. I felt that this person was too smart and a little scheming." Gu Liubai said, "I'm because of Xu Tuibei. No matter how stupid Xu Tuibei is, he will not collude with the rebels. As far as I know, Xu Tuibei treats him as a brother, but later Xu Tuibei suddenly escapes. I feel that Xu Tuibei seems to be uneasy about An Zhilu. I only know that if I were in Youzhou, I would not be as strong as my current cultivation level, and Xu Tuibei would not be uneasy. But I see all the signs, Xu Tuibei seems to be guarding against everyone in Youzhou, including him."

"You and Xu Tuibei are friends of life and death, so it's normal for him to suspect this person." Pei Guogong smiled slightly and said, "But this person does not have the ability to cover the sky with one hand in Youzhou. Xu Tuibei is definitely not afraid of him. He is difficult to remove. Now he has the opportunity to bring him to see. If this person can be used, he is really a talented person. The prince asked him to do things, and he dared to do this. He can directly clarify a way of thinking for me. Tsk tsk, we two want to deal with Li's confidentiality and the prince, and he happened to give us a generous gift. However, the prince and the Li's confidentiality are not stupid. If they receive the news, the evidence will be wiped out completely. Maybe they will start to erase the evidence now. This time we must seize the time to fight them."

...

"The workshops that make these firearms are not anywhere else, but in Chang'an? Instead, these firearms are transported from Chang'an?"

Shangguan Zhaoyi looked at the content on An Zhilu’s secret note and was immediately shocked, “These people are so brave?”

"The transfer points in the middle have been carefully arranged. If the seal is not forced to be unveiled during transportation and the goods inside are not looked at, even if the firearms are found in a workshop in Fufeng County in the future, it is absolutely impossible to find out that they were sent from Chang'an."

Gu Liubai looked at Shangguan Zhaoyi and Shen Ruoruo and said calmly, "But after the puzzle was revealed, I looked back and thought about it. Indeed, I should have suspected that the most powerful workshops in the world are in Chang'an and Luoyang. Not to mention the many special materials brought by Tongmao, the various refining materials left by the Sui Dynasty should also be in Chang'an and Luoyang. These firearms were secretly manufactured in Chang'an workshops and then transported out, which is reasonable."

"An Zhilu is so brave. Only by acting and robbing the goods on the way to transport the goods, and then the robbed goods will be made public to the world, can it be used as evidence." Shen Ruoruo frowned, "But the various documents in his hand, especially the documents for receiving goods and transport, are also evidence. These things correspond to those goods, so that they can prove that the transport point is actually doing something secretly and people can verify it. In fact, the transport point that allows him to transport the goods is still the batch of goods in Chang'an."

"Yes, Duke Pei figured it out from the beginning, so he had arranged for his confidant to pick up An Zhilu. An Zhilu would be a bait. As long as someone from the Li family's confidentiality and the prince's side wanted to destroy the evidence, and someone went to deal with An Zhilu, these people would become new evidence." Gu Liubai said, "When An Zhilu did such a thing, he also thought it out clearly. He did not need to thoroughly figure out the tricks of the transfer of fortunes, nor did he need to figure out how those people forged the evidence. As long as he could prove that there was something wrong with this transfer point and prove that this batch of firearms was made by this transfer point. Then anything related to this transfer point will be thoroughly investigated and some clues will be found."

"As long as the firearms are proved to have other sources, even if these people really built a workshop in Fufeng County that made firearms in fake manners, even if the evidence proves that the workshop was made by Duke Pei, there are other huge doubts, and you cannot kill the blame on Duke Pei." Shangguan Zhaoyi nodded and said, "Gu Shiwu, I will send a letter immediately."

She knew very well that soldiers are very fast, and the most important thing at the moment is speed.

Now either the crown prince is over or the duke of Pei is over.

Duke Pei had the witness An Zhilu and some evidence at hand, so he had already taken the initiative.

As long as they are fast enough and find enough evidence in Chang'an, they can nail the prince to death in one fell swoop.

A rare feeling of worry appeared between Shen Ruoruo's eyebrows.

Gu Liubai knew what she was thinking, so he glanced at her and said, "If someone in Li's confidentiality has decided to cross that boundary, then it would be useless for me and the emperor to give in even a little."

"I'm not worried about you and Duke Pei." Chen Ruoruo said softly, "I'm worried about Miss Pei Er. Everyone knows that she is your treasure. Of course, I also know that if Li is confidential and determined to start a war, the other side cannot escape. Only by hitting the head-on will you not suffer any loss. But you are not in Chang'an, she is in Chang'an. You have to protect Duke Pei and Miss Pei Er, which is difficult to deal with."

"What I worry most about now is Master Xuanqing."

Gu Liubai looked at Chen Ruoruo and said solemnly, "The emperor's greatest reliance is not Gao Dalian and Duke Pei, but my mother and Master Xuanqing. So I think that if Li decides to cross that boundary at a certain point, then solving Gao Dalian and Duke Pei and breaking his two arms will not play a decisive role."

"The trees are as beautiful as the forest and wind will destroy them."
Chapter completed!