The next day, Li Mengxi summoned Tian Lei and asked him about the details of his envoy to Changshan.

After completing this mission, Tian Lei was promoted to an official position. He was very satisfied with his ambition. He excitedly talked about it with Li Mengxi.

After leading a thousand blacksmiths out of Julu City, Tian Lei said that for fear of losing time, he also marched at night, so he arrived at Changshan early and did not delay the important event.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but nod, thinking that Tian Lei did a great job.

The real purpose of asking Tian Lei to go to Zhen's house to borrow money and grain was to make a living without jujube, and to defraud as much money and grain as possible to prepare for the war before the imperial court issued the order of conquest.

With this ulterior motive, Tian Lei did not tell Tian Lei his true intention, and because he considered that war might come at any time and the victory would be over in one night, Tian Lei told him before leaving that the sooner the better.

There is no time limit, only four words: the sooner the better, the sooner the better. These four words have no binding force.

If Tian Lei is a person who can't bear hardships, if he can't even bear the bumps and speed of the car, then when Tian Lei slowly arrives at Zhen's house, it will be many nights.

If the imperial court really wanted to conquer Julu, the delay of so many days would probably result in the Zhen family having already received the imperial imperial order for the expedition.

Then, the slowly approaching Tian Lei group not only failed to raise food and grass, but also caused the hundreds of people accompanying them to fall into the tiger's mouth.

Therefore, when he heard that Tian Lei said that he was traveling all night in order to get things done as soon as possible, Li Mengxi felt that he had chosen the right person for this mission.

Later, Tian Lei said that everyone discussed together on the way. Since they did not bring any money and were afraid that they would not be able to come to the door, they had to send cavalry to search for prey along the road. As a result, they found very little.

Li Mengxi's eyes moved. He was thoughtful and wrote the words "diplomatic start-up funds".

The so-called initial capital for diplomacy means that if you want to negotiate with someone, you can't just send some people there. You have to spend some money to make things happen.

As Tian Lei said, some money is enough for servants and servants, but when visiting the real owner, money is no longer available, so it is time to get some more expensive gifts.

Diplomacy at the level of two forces is worthy of valuable gifts at this level. It cannot be bought by the envoys themselves, either by raising them or by the envoys themselves.

Therefore, diplomatic matters must rely on the support and cooperation of other ministries, such as purchasing valuable gifts or appropriating money, or finding skilled craftsmen to rush the production. In short, it requires the support of manpower and material resources.

When Tian Lei mentioned that although the Zhen family is only one clan, the place where their clan gathers is larger than several villages. In the area where their clan resides, there are continuous houses with long walls outside. There is an open horse farm at the entrance of the village, and the Beidi is raised in it.

The horses are strong and handsome, and each of them is one of the best in a thousand.

What's more, there are warehouses all over the Zhen family's residence, and there are countless money, grains and goods stored in them. Their wealth and wealth are astonishing.

Li Mengxi thought that since Mr. Zhen was so rich, he would definitely spend more time with her in the future.

Later, when it came to the key negotiation process, Tian Lei explained every detail of the negotiation process.

The Zhen family is rich, so they naturally treat guests well. Good wine, banquets, and fun with silk and bamboo are all good. However, after attending the banquet, I drank until I was dizzy. Tian Lei felt that this was not very good. When the wine is deep, it is used to describe indulgence.

It's very easy to make mistakes.

When Tian Lei said this, Li Mengxi remembered that in later generations, it was said that when he bought an airplane from Mao Zi, Mao Zi was bad and domineering. Every time he bought something, Mao Zi had to drink the negotiator to the ground, and he would not wait for others to drink.

If you start talking when you are confused and confused, this is a clear sign of bullying.

After suffering several losses, our army searched everywhere for talents who could drink, and finally found a magical figure who could never get drunk after a thousand drinks.

It is said that the man was born with immunity to alcohol, and there was an enzyme in his body that was naturally immune to alcohol. After finding this man, this man of God followed the negotiators to negotiate. Mao Zi followed the same old method and tried to get the delegation drunk. The result was as you can imagine.

The military delegation only sent one person. One person drank with all Maozi's negotiators, and one person drank all of Maozi's more than 20 generals and colonels to the ground.

That battle greatly dampened Maozi's arrogance.

Li Mengxi realized that if there were things for future generations that he could learn from, diplomacy would inevitably involve banquets, banquets would inevitably involve meat and wine, and if there was wine, the other party would inevitably make a fuss about the wine.

Li Mengxi asked Tian Lei if he could drink less on the grounds that he was too drunk to avoid drinking too much and making mistakes during the dinner.

Tian Lei hesitated and said, "I'm afraid it's inappropriate. If someone tries to persuade you to drink, it would be disrespectful if you refuse to drink."

"Oh." Li Mengxi nodded, agreeing with Tian Lei's statement.

The late Han Dynasty was different from later generations. At banquets in later generations, you could skip drinking if you didn’t want to. However, the late Han Dynasty was different. In the age of etiquette and law, flouting etiquette meant breaking the rules.

Li Mengxi thought for a while, looked up at Tian Lei, and said, "What if, use soft paper or day-after-made cloth, sew it on the lining of the sleeve, fold it and drink, and secretly pour the drink into the sleeve. This method

, what do you think?"

Tian Lei looked at Li Mengxi in astonishment. Tian Lei hesitated and hesitated, and said hesitantly, "...I'm afraid it's inappropriate. If it's exposed..."

Li Mengxi raised his head and thought for a moment. If the other party intends to get his envoy drunk, then the other party will definitely keep replacing people to persuade him to drink. Some tricks of hiding wine will not be of much use.

There is no big use, but there are small uses. For example, if four people are going to a banquet, we can make an appointment in advance. The two of them drink first, and the two of them quietly pour the wine into their sleeves. In this way, if the other party wants to poison the messenger, we have

If you take precautions, at most two people will die.

For forces with malicious intentions, the remaining two envoys may not play any role and will be killed after struggling for less than two seconds. But it is also possible that the two surviving envoys will draw their swords and fight hard, kill several soldiers, and die fighting.

Killing several soldiers, the smallest effect is to make the opponent lose a few elite soldiers.

The greater effect is that the envoy was unarmored and cut down several armored soldiers in the siege of the enemy. His bravery was astonishing. The envoy was the face of one force. If the envoy could be so brave and brave, other forces would be shocked when they saw it.

, so he had to hesitate whether to become an enemy of the rebels.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If the messenger is very brave and draws his sword and throws it at the leader of the enemy force during the banquet, it is possible to kill the leader on the spot.

Li Mengxi's eyes flashed, and he thought that when Jing Ke stabbed Qin, Jing Ke chased Ying Zheng several times with a dagger. After Ying Zheng pulled out his sword and hit him and fell, Jing Ke took the dagger and threw it at Ying Zheng.

You know, Jing Ke's dagger was poisoned. If it really hit Ying Zheng and scratched his skin, Ying Zheng would die.

Therefore, the messenger's life may be in danger at any time. If the messenger is close to the opponent's leader, he can turn into an assassin at any time.

Jing Ke's dagger is made very small and thin because it needs to be hidden in the map, so it is not completely suitable for throwing to hurt the enemy.

According to the actual situation, during the banquet, the envoy was at a certain distance from the enemy's leader. If the enemy suddenly attacked, even if the envoy had time to draw his sword, he would be unable to attack the enemy's leader who was more than ten steps away.

Unless, throw a sword.

(Hundred Steps Flying Sword...) Li Mengxi flashed in his mind a unique skill of throwing a flying sword at an enemy.

The structure of the sword is not suitable for use as a throwing weapon, so the sword shape should be modified. A special sword with a slender body, balanced center of gravity, smooth aerodynamic shape, and almost the same label can be made for non-hurling enemies.

Anyway, when the enemy suddenly attacks in the banquet, the messenger has little time to survive, and there is not much point in struggling. The greatest significance is to be able to fly the sword towards the opponent's head as quickly as possible. Therefore,

The messenger sword's sword shape overly enhances the throwing performance and weakens the fighting performance. This is actually not important.

A long and slender javelin-shaped sword, it is best to have only the tip with an edge and no edge in the middle, making it easier to hold and throw. Also, the tip can be coated with poison...

But if you think about it carefully, if you go out with a sword, the other party's guards will definitely test the sword. When testing the sword, they may even use pigs, sheep, and prisoners to test the sword.

If the messenger's sword is smeared with poison, and the guard tests the sword again and discovers the poison, it would be good for the messenger to be beaten with a stick at this point.

Just to retaliate when the other party fell out at the table, resulting in repeated failures in diplomatic affairs. This was obviously a case of big losses and small losses.

Therefore, poison cannot be applied to the sword.

However, if the sword is not coated with poison, its lethality will be weak. In a hurry, the messenger throws the sword to hit the enemy commander. The chance of hitting the enemy commander in a hurry is less than 11. After hitting, the chance of hitting the vital part is not enough.

Eleven, if you hit a vital part and the damage is sufficient, the possibility of killing the opponent on the spot is another one-tenth.

There is no poison on the sword, and the chance of killing someone hastily is one in a thousand.

And if there is poison on the sword that can seal the throat with blood, and you throw the sword hastily, the chance of hitting is one in ten. As long as the one-tenth chance can hit, as long as the skin is broken, the poison that seals the throat with blood can directly kill the person.

Kill the enemy leader.

Whether the sword is poisonous or not, the success rate of killing is a hundred times different.

After thinking for a long time, Li Mengxi came up with a way to make the sword non-poisonous and poisonous at the same time.

First, the poison is hidden in the scabbard, and the bottom of the scabbard is equipped with a mechanism. Usually, the poison is locked in the hidden scabbard, and there is no poison on the sword. The non-poisonous sword is used by the soldiers for inspection, and is used to stab pigs and people.

If there are any traces of poison. After the soldiers have finished checking and the envoys have put away their swords and entered the banquet, during the banquet, they can secretly twist the sword hilt or the scabbard mechanism to make the poison in the scabbard's secret box flow to the tip of the sword.

It would be okay if nothing happened during the banquet, but if something happens, the poisonous sword that has been infected with the poison will be unsheathed in an instant, and the fish will die and the net will be broken.

This is the law of the agency.

There is also a second method, and the second method is the biochemical method.

There are poisons that can cause death. There are poisons that seal the throat with blood. There are also poisons that may not cause death by blood, but as long as the skin is broken and the flesh is injured, the infection will not heal. The injury will get worse and death will occur without treatment.

This fatal and slow-acting poison is tetanus.

Tetanus is said to be hidden in rust. In that case, the swords provided by the envoys can be deliberately stained with rust, or the tetanus virus can be extracted to make a concentrated poison, and the envoys can be used to spray their swords with the concentration.

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The sword contains tetanus poison, but this sword is used to stab pigs and people, just like the five poison swords, there is nothing wrong with it for a while, a day or two.

Also, crossbowmen would drop their arrows in dung, stick some dung on them, and then shoot them out to injure the enemy. These were biochemical arrows, which greatly increased the probability of death for those hit by the arrows.

Swords carried by messengers may be contaminated with urine and feces, increasing the probability of infection.

There are ways to hide poisons, there are ways to destroy poisons biologically and chemically, and the threat of the messenger is enough.

When anyone within a dozen steps between the messenger and the banquet has a 10% chance of perishing together, the messenger is no longer just a piece of meat to be slaughtered.

Presumably, even if the other party wanted to hold a Hongmen Banquet from the beginning, and wanted to chop the envoy during the banquet from the beginning, it can be expected that no matter how rude or cruel the force is, they would at least send someone at the level of a thousand captains to host the banquet.

The lord is not available, and the commander is not available, but if only a centurion is sent, the other party cannot afford to lose this person. Furthermore, for the important matter of ambushing the envoy, a low-level officer at the centurion level has limited abilities and cannot

Reliable. Therefore, at least he will be a commander of thousands, and most likely, he will be an important backbone general of the opponent's force.

Well, no matter which force it is, if they kill several of my envoys, including a captain of thousands, or even a backbone general, they have indeed killed my envoys, and they are indeed angry, but after careful calculation

, did the other party really make money?
To be continued...