Without money, what is the point of being a traitor?

Chapter 171 Huainan Gongjin
Pei Yuan said, "That's right. The Bazhou rebels are hesitant now because they still have some options. But as long as we destroy their other options, they will have no choice but to go south.

Han Qianhu was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then asked, "What are you going to do?"

Then he looked at Pei Yuan and asked, "Now the troops in the north are all besieging the rebels in Bazhou. If the White Lotus sect's chaos gets bigger, how can we put it down?"

Pei Yuan couldn't answer this question.

Han Qianhu thought about it and didn't ask any further questions. Instead, he talked about some details.

"It shouldn't be difficult to force the White Lotus to rebel. As long as we spread the word that we are going to take action against Zhao Jinglong of the White Lotus, he will definitely not sit still and wait for death."

"With the example of the civil unrest in Bazhou, Hebei, and the lack of military forces in Henan, he will directly rebel and involve other White Lotus leaders."

After Han Qianhu finished speaking, he asked Pei Yuan for his opinion.

"What do you think? If we are going to do it, who would be more suitable to go?"

Pei Yuan replied, "What the captain said is correct. As long as we put some pressure on him, Zhao Jinglong will have no choice but to rebel. However, it is not appropriate for our people to do this."

Han Qianhu was a little surprised and asked, "So, you have a better candidate?"

Pei Yuan did not hide it from Han Qianhu, "Yes, I do have a better candidate. We are not the most anxious about letting the Bazhou rebels go south."

Han Qianhu was reminded by Pei Yuan and came to his senses. "Are you talking about Gu Dayong and Lu Wan who were in the army to suppress the rebellion?"

Pei Yuan said, "Yes, these two are at a loss as to how to deal with the Bazhou rebels. They want to attack, but they are afraid that the Bazhou rebels will abandon their auxiliary troops under pressure and become bandits again. If they do not attack, and wait for the Bazhou rebels to hold on, they are afraid that by the time spring comes and they have recovered, the court will have to pay a huge price."

"If we tell Gu Dayong and Lu Wan about this, they will definitely be interested in this plan. No matter how things develop later, we won't be involved."

"Gu Dayong might even take care of Zhao Jinglong in order to gain credit, and then there will be no more troubles."

Captain Han's brows relaxed, and he was very satisfied with Pei Yuan's plan.

Then, as if remembering something, he looked at Pei Yuan indifferently and said, "I remember that your backer in the court is Gu Dayong, right?"

???

Pei Yuan immediately said righteously, "I only have one supporter in the Ming Dynasty, and that is the Lord Qianhu!"

Seeing that Han Qianhu's expression did not change, he quickly explained, "In order to fill the vacancy as quickly as possible, I had to borrow a large sum of money from Gu Dayong. Apart from this, there is no other connection."

Han Qianhu said "Oh" and asked, "Then how do you plan to reveal this plan to Gu Dayong and the others?"

Pei Yuan confessed honestly, "The former Jingjiang County Magistrate Sun Keding got his position through Liu Jin's connections. After Liu Jin's fall, such a minor figure was naturally dismissed with a wave of the hand."

"I saw that he was somewhat useful, so I used the bait of introducing him to Gu Dayong to keep him hanging for the time being."

Han Qianhu felt a little strange when he heard this, "The magistrate of Jingjiang should be a Jinshi, right?"

"Yes." Pei Yuan said.

Han Qianhu found it more and more strange. "Why did you provoke a civil servant for no reason?"

Pei Yuan wanted to show her his titles of "Second Rank Minister of War" and "Fourth Rank Prefect of Suzhou".

But I also feel that showing off one’s penis in front of girls is a bit childish.

Pei Yuan then said, "Isn't this idle chess piece useful now?"

"Gu Dayong is currently in a dilemma because of the Bazhou rebels. If Sun Keding goes to offer advice now, he will definitely be put to good use. It will also be good for us."

Han Qianhu thought for a while and said, "Okay, we can try it first. But the longer the court's mission is delayed, the more likely it is that something will go wrong. If we can't wait for the opportunity, we can only give up the original plan and focus on completing the mission."

Pei Yuan said, "It's not the time to give up yet."

The rebels in Bazhou have been demoralized by the earthquake and now seem to be at the end of their rope.

But being at the end of a road does not mean being dead.

Han Qianhu was also a man of firm confidence. Seeing that Pei Yuan was unwilling to give up, he did not say anything.

"I have had someone cast a fake silver ingot of 80,000 taels according to the pattern you brought. It just so happens that the silver box here is damaged, and I will take the opportunity to replace the silver box in the next few days."

"After that, you try not to let anyone touch the money anymore."

"I need to melt the real silver before going to Huai'an. It's not a bad thing to delay it for a while now."

Pei Yuan was a little surprised. "So, how many days will Qian Hu stay here?"

Han Qianhu asked calmly, "What's the matter? Did it delay Pei Qianhu's command of the troops?"

Pei Yuan was startled, "Where, where?"

The main reason is that since entering the Qianhu Office, Qianhu Han has been like a dragon that is hard to find. Except for occasionally seeing him when issuing missions, we have never had any contact like this in other days.

Pei Yuan felt that with Han Qianhu in charge, it was actually a great opportunity.

He could also take this opportunity to go to Huai'an Prefecture to explore some options.

The former prefect of Huai'an was named Liu Xiang. Although he was also a Jinshi, he was very powerful.

At the end of last year, the bandits led by Yang Hu appeared in the northern border of Huai'an Prefecture and successively captured big cities such as Pizhou and Suqian.

Therefore, Huai'an prefect Liu Xiang immediately reported to the emperor, and in the name of temporarily acting as the Censor-in-Chief, he led the armies of Huai'an Guard and Dahe Guard to the north to curb the ferocity of the bandits.

Although Magistrate Liu was a scholar, he was well versed in military tactics and had a generous and righteous heart, and was known as the "Duke of Huainan".

People in the world call him "Little Zhou Yu".

When he arrived at the northern border, he happened to meet Yang Hu's army crossing the river at Xiaohekou.

So Liu Xiang immediately ordered Huai'an Wei and Dahe Wei to launch a decisive attack and use superior forces to strike at the bandits of Yang Hu's army when they were halfway across the river.

The fight lasted less than a cup of tea before the officers and soldiers of Huai'an Wei and Dahe Wei turned around and ran.

Huai'an prefect Liu Xiang ran slowly and was captured alive by Yang Hu.

Fortunately, Yang Hu was a man of integrity. He asked someone about this and learned that Liu Xiang had a good reputation among officials, so he released him directly.

But this incident was a complete collapse of Liu Xiang's faith. After returning to Huai'an, he stayed indoors and refused to leave.

Afterwards, the imperial court sent a new prefect to Huai'an, whose name was Luo Xun.

Luo Xun was not on good terms with the eunuch party, and when he was in the Ministry of War, his relationship with Wang Chang was not very friendly either.

Therefore, it was difficult for Pei Yuan, a Jinyiwei who started out as a eunuch, to get official support from the Huai'an Prefecture.

If Luo Xun had not been from Shaanxi, Pei Yuan would have almost classified him as a hostile force.

Now Huai'an has become the top priority for the next step. Even if Pei Yuan just wants to be safe, he should contact Huai'an first. What's more, Huai'an also has the unique status of the Governor's Office of the Canal Transport.

If Pei Yuan wanted to make the scholars and officials in the south of the Yangtze River afraid to act rashly, he had to rely on the grain transport governor's grain transport ships to take the blame.

Pei Yuan said casually, "Since the captain is here, I can spare some time to go to Huai'an to make some preliminary arrangements, so that the follow-up will be more secure."

Han Qianhu nodded and said indifferently, "It seems that I came at the wrong time and really hindered Pei Qianhu's work."

Pei Yuan was stunned.

No, how do you understand it?
You came at the right time.

If you hadn't come, how could I feel comfortable handing over the money to others?
Han Qianhu sighed softly, "It is said that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. I never thought that my small evil-suppressing Qianhu would encounter such a dilemma."

Pei Yuan felt the familiar CPU and suddenly felt that it tasted very good.

Okay, okay.

Pei Yuan just pretended to be dead and pretended not to hear anything.

When Han Qianhu ran out of words for a while, Pei Yuan came back to his senses and said, "Oh, I have something else to say."

Han Qianhu: "..."

Seeing that Han Qianhu seemed to be looking at him very seriously, Pei Yuan told him about the dream he had had.

"On the night when the silver was lost, I suddenly had a dream. I dreamed that the silver seemed to have legs and was running out. That's why I suddenly became alert and went to check the silver boxes."

"When I went there, I just happened to find that the tax silver was being stolen by those rats, which led to the subsequent incident with the greedy monk."

Pei Yuan asked Han Qianhu with some confusion, "I don't practice much, why would I have such a dream at the critical moment?"

After hearing about Pei Yuan's bizarre experience, Han Qianhu also found it a little strange.

With her experience, she didn't know what was going on, so she could only say in general terms, "Maybe your intuition kicked in."

When Pei Yuan heard Han Qianhu attribute the answer to intuition, he couldn't help but complain secretly.

What the hell is this answer?

Seeing Pei Yuan like this, Han Qianhu could only give a few words of advice, "Things like intuition may sound a bit mysterious, but in fact, it's not that complicated."

"When we think about something, we often have our own unique thinking patterns. For example, when faced with the same thing, your thoughts and my thoughts will be very different."

"So where does this mindset come from? It comes from our own experiences and wisdom."

“The experiences and wisdom we have gained in our lives dominate our thinking and construct our thinking patterns.”

“That’s why we can have different views on the same thing.”

Pei Yuan thought about it and began to understand what Han Qianhu meant.

"That is to say, the same thing can be divided into countless elements. Each of us thinks differently, so the elements we extract from this thing are different, which leads to different results."

Han Qianhu praised, "That's right. Only information that can fit into our thinking mode can be effectively obtained by us."

“But human thinking is a very complex and mysterious thing.”

"Those information that you are not aware of and cannot fit into your thinking patterns, although they have no effect on you, are read by your eyes, heard by your ears, and recorded by your subconscious mind."

"Most of that information will slowly fade away as memory becomes blurred."

"But when your subconscious mind uses the information that is discarded outside your thinking mode in a disorderly manner, under extremely accidental circumstances, a result that is consistent with your logical thinking may appear and then suddenly be received by your mind."

"This kind of subconscious thinking is intuition. The most common intuition we have is the occasional sudden inspiration."

"For example, when we are thinking hard about something and can't find a solution, an idea will pop into your mind by chance. That is the result of your subconscious self-thinking."

After listening to it, Pei Yuan felt that he had gained a lot.

He asked Han Qianhu for confirmation, "That is to say, I must have seen or heard something that might affect the tax silver. Then my subconscious mind formed the conclusion that the tax silver was being stolen, and this conclusion was consistent with a certain logic of my thinking, so it entered my mind and reminded me of this matter."

Han Qianhu replied, "Uh, about the same. I was just guessing."

Pei Yuan felt that it made some sense.

Is it the same principle that what you think about during the day you dream about at night?

Pei Yuan suddenly had an idea and said, "This subconsciousness seems to be very useful. I wonder if there is any way to train this ability in the world?"

This is basically equivalent to a super powerful plug-in.

If when you are thinking about something, your brain is thinking and your subconscious mind is also running on dual cores, wouldn’t you be invincible?
Han Qianhu thought for a moment and said, "Yes, it is. I heard that the Taoists have this kind of practice. When they reach a high level, they can predict good and bad luck on a whim. My guess is that they should use some method to actively stimulate the subconscious mind to make calculations."

Pei Yuan was cheered up after hearing this, this was really amazing.

Moreover, although this method sounds very spiritual, it also has some scientific aspects, so there is a good possibility that it can be successfully practiced.

Pei Yuan immediately asked shamelessly, "Then I wonder if Captain Han can help me get a copy of the exercises. Maybe it can help me."

Han Qianhu glanced at Pei Yuan and said nothing.

Pei Yuan quickly shut up.

Well, Han Qianhu is not a wishing well after all.

This time, Han Qianhu took the initiative to ask, "When do you plan to go to Huai'an?"

Well, fortunately, I finally don’t care about the fact that there can’t be two tigers in one mountain.

Pei Yuan answered honestly, "I will go see Sun Keding first, and after I tell him about the White Lotus Sect, I will go north. When I arrive at Huai'an Prefecture, I plan to wait and see if there are any unusual movements in Huai'an Prefecture, and then go to the Governor's Office to say hello and see what their attitude is."

When Captain Han heard the words "Grain Transport Governor's Office", he frowned slightly.

After Pei Yuan finished speaking, he reminded him, "The current governor of the Grand Canal, Zhang Jin, is very greedy and has caused dissatisfaction among many people. I heard that many censors want to impeach him. You should be careful when dealing with him."

Pei Yuan knew that the Jinyiwei had some inside information, so he said he would keep it in mind.

Then, Pei Yuan thought about Qin Lingbo again.

This time when going north, Pei Yuan definitely cannot bring Qin Lingbo with him, and Qin Lingbo is involved with Mei Qinnan who has turned into a ghost cultivator.

If I don't let Han Qianhu take a look, I will feel uneasy.

(End of this chapter)