Chapter 1069 Infiltrating Sichuan!

To have come this far, Song Weijie is neither a fool nor a madman···························

Without being reminded by others, he was very clear about the gap in strength between Sichuan and Fengwu Army, which prompted him to seek peace with Fengwu Army. He wanted to use his servility to Ye Mingsheng in exchange for a chance for Ye Mingsheng to accept him!
But unfortunately, Ye Mingsheng didn't need him. Ye Mingsheng only wanted Sichuan, so his attitude towards him was polite but cold!
Therefore, rather than saying that Ye Mingsheng’s attitude made Song Weijie angry, it was Ye Mingsheng’s attitude that forced Song Weijie to choose the path of confrontation!
Although the Fengwu Army is very strong, neither Song Weijie nor the Song family can give up the power and interests in their hands!

The previous example of Shangguan Hongyuan conquering Sichuan was still vivid in Song Weijie's mind. He knew very well that although he had the geographical advantage, it would be very difficult to stop the attack of Fengwu Army relying solely on the strength of Sichuan. It could even be said to be impossible!
Therefore, after becoming the Governor-General of Sichuan, Song Weijie has always wanted to strengthen the connection between Jiangnan and Jiangnan, hoping to establish a remotely echoing relationship with Lu Jianchao in Jiangnan, so as to face the Fengwu Army and seek warmth together!

However, although Lu Jianchao also hated Ye Mingsheng, he was very clear about his own weight after so many years in the industry. He did not dare to ask Ye Mingsheng for too high conditions during the negotiations.

Therefore, for Lu Jianchao, Song Weijie from Sichuan is just a tool for him to raise his own value and ask for better conditions from Ye Mingsheng!

As long as Ye Mingsheng could agree to his conditions, he could betray Song Weijie in minutes!

After some interactions between the two people with ulterior motives, Song Weijie also figured out Lu Jianchao's thoughts, so when he sent Huang Tao to Lin'an this time!
Song Weijie gave Huang Tao a secret mission, and this mission was that Song Weijie asked Huang Tao to do his utmost to disrupt the negotiations between the Fengwu Army and Jiangnan!
The fuse for the Fengwu Army's attack on Jiangnan was that Huang Tao ordered his men to secretly blow up the Jiangnan Army's gunpowder depot in Guangshou City, and then put the blame on the Fengwu Army!

From the perspective of completing the task alone, Huang Tao did a very good job. He successfully made Lu Yun believe that it was the Fengwu Army that did it, and as a result, he lost his mind and angrily led his troops to settle accounts with the Fengwu Army, thus opening the Pandora's box of the unknown!
Song Weijie, who learned the news a few days ago, highly praised Huang Tao's strong ability to do things, and was looking forward to seeing the Fengwu Army get stuck in the quagmire of war in Jiangnan!

At that time, Song Weijie believed that the Jiangnan Army had nearly 100,000 armored soldiers and was equipped with a lot of firearms. Jiangnan was also very rich and had no shortage of money and food.

At the same time, the unrest in various parts of the Great Zhou in the past few years caused countless common people to flee to the south of the Yangtze River, leaving the latter with millions of young and strong people who could be mobilized...
In terms of geographical advantages, although the Fengwu Army is good at land warfare, the Jiangnan area has a wide network of waterways and has geographical advantages. Therefore, considering these advantages, Song Weijie is very optimistic that Lu Jianchao can hold on.

However, the reality gave Song Weijie a hard slap in the face, making him realize how stupid and hopeless his idea of ​​using the Jiangnan Army to delay the Fengwu Army was!

At this moment, Song Weijie's mind was filled with pain and disappointment, as well as a sense of grief for the loss of a loved one!
He knew that Lu Jianchao was finished, and after taking over the most prosperous Jiangnan region of the Great Zhou, the overall strength would reach a higher level!

And he, Song Weijie and Sichuan Shu, are Ye Mingsheng’s next target!
In as short as one or two months, or as long as half a year, the iron hooves of the Fengwu Army will set foot on the land of Sichuan!
If before receiving this news, Song Weijie still believed that he and Jiangnan Lu Jianchao could join forces to stop Ye Mingsheng, but at this moment he was a little desperate!

Just as Song Weijie was lost in his thoughts, everyone in the conference room was quietly looking at the note in Song Weijie's hand, curious about what was written on it that caused Song Weijie to react so strongly!

Song Weijie could clearly feel everyone's gazes, but at this moment he was no longer in the mood to look at what everyone was thinking!

So Song Weijie waved his hand and signaled everyone to disperse. Seeing this, everyone bowed and left. In this way, this meeting that Song Weijie had carefully planned to unify everyone's thoughts on resistance and strengthen their will to resist ended in failure...
Just three hours after Song Weijie finished the meeting, a distant relative came to the home of Zhang Zhe, the general of Jianmen. However, Zhang Zhe did not pay much attention to this distant relative. He just asked the housekeeper to look after this relative, and then brought this relative's concubine Cheng Sanni into his study.

Looking at the graceful, gentle and affectionate young woman in front of him, Zhang Zhe frowned and said
"Are you Liu Baichuan?"

Although the Fengwu Army has been concentrating on conquering Jiangnan during this period and striving to capture this most prosperous region of the Great Zhou within the year, this does not mean that the Fengwu Army has relaxed its infiltration into Sichuan and Shu!
In fact, ever since Wang Xuecheng made a comeback and became the director of the Coordination Office, he has always wanted to make a great contribution to the Fengwu Army to secure his position as the director of the Coordination Office!
Originally, Wang Xuecheng regarded Jiangnan as his first choice target. After all, looking at the entire Great Zhou, only Jiangnan and Sichuan Fengwu Army had not yet been taken. Compared with Sichuan, Jiangnan was already a half-ripe peach!

However, Wang Xuecheng soon discovered that although Jiangnan was a half-ripe peach, there were many people eyeing the credit, including some he could not afford to offend. So although Wang Xuecheng felt sorry, he had to shift his target to Sichuan...

In order to strengthen the infiltration into Sichuan, Wang Xuecheng specially applied for a special fund of 100,000 taels of silver from Ye Mingsheng, and appointed Liu Baichuan, the chief of the secret service who had made outstanding contributions in the war, to be fully responsible for the infiltration work in Sichuan. For this purpose, Wang Xuecheng also deployed hundreds of backbone members of the Coordination Office to quietly enter Sichuan to assist Liu Baichuan in his work!
After Liu Baichuan came to Sichuan and lay low, he began to understand the local situation in Sichuan and started his work!

First of all, Liu Baichuan set his sights on Zhang Zhe, the general of Jianmen. He believed that he was a very key figure. Jianmen was the most dangerous pass in Sichuan and Shu, and it was also the barrier of Chengdu. If he could successfully instigate Zhang Zhe to rebel, it would be very beneficial for Fengwu Army to enter Sichuan!

At the same time, although Zhang Zhe is Song Weijie's favorite, Liu Baichuan believes that he has no real ability. He only knows how to collect money, play with women, and flatter Song Weijie!

Zhang Zhe got his position as the general of Jianmen by flattering Song Weijie and giving him money and women!
And even though it seems that Zhang Zhe is very loyal to Song Weijie and wants to recognize Song Weijie as his biological father, Liu Baichuan believes that Zhang Zhe is not loyal to Song Weijie but to power!

In Liu Baichuan’s opinion, Zhang Zhe is an out-and-out villain, a typical fence-sitter. If you are in power today, I will lean on you and flatter you to the utmost. But when you lose power or encounter a disaster, that is when he will betray you...
Therefore, based on this view, Liu Baichuan began to work on Zhang Zhe. Although he was very confident in turning Zhang Zhe against the enemy, his many years of experience in infiltrating behind enemy lines prevented him from directly approaching Zhang Zhe. Instead, he began to test Zhang Zhe very cautiously.
Liu Baichuan first asked someone to send a gift to Zhang Zhe. After Zhang Zhe accepted the gift, he asked someone to secretly reveal some flaws to test Zhang Zhe's reaction.

Just as Liu Baichuan thought, Zhang Zhe did not choose to expose the truth, but chose to pretend that he knew nothing!
This also made Liu Baichuan more certain of his opinion of Zhang Zhe, and he began to slowly get in touch with Zhang Zhe. After several implicit communications, the two sides decided to have this face-to-face communication.

Zhang Zhe was originally amazed that Liu Baichuan, a captain of the General Coordination Office, dared to come to his house to meet him in person, but he did not expect that the person who came to see him was a woman!
As if she saw Liu Baichuan's disappointment, Cheng Sanni smiled and said:

"Reporting to General Zhang, I am certainly not Captain Liu!"

Although he was not surprised by this result, Zhang Zhe said with a gloomy face before Cheng Sanni finished speaking:
"I risked my family's destruction and my property being confiscated to wait for you, Captain Liu. I never thought you, Captain Liu, like to play tricks on me so much!"

Feeling the anger in Zhang Zhe's words, Cheng Sanni said calmly: "Although I am not Captain Liu, General Zhang, I am Captain Liu's woman. I can definitely convey your words to Captain Liu..."

"Excuse me, General Zhang, this is our first face-to-face meeting. We are not familiar with each other yet, and we have not established trust!"

"So we must be prepared. This is responsible for the safety of both of us!"

At this point Cheng Sanni has some meaningful sermons;

"If I remember correctly, since Governor Song took office, he has sent a lot of maids and servants to you, his trusted generals!"

Hearing what Cheng Sanni said, Zhang Zhe's expression became even uglier. Of course he understood what Cheng Sanni meant!
Because of the previous experience of Sun Chenggong, in order not to repeat the same mistake, Song Weijie was very careful to monitor his subordinates. Many of the maids and servants under him were Song Weijie's spies!
Zhang Zhe knew everything about the matter but he could only play dumb. Not only that, he also had to pretend to be completely clueless and thank Song Weijie profusely so that Song Weijie would not doubt his loyalty!
Today's meeting with Cheng Sanni was made possible thanks to Zhang Zhe's careful preparation and sending out his spies in advance!
Seeing Zhang Zhe's expression change, Cheng Sanni knew that he understood what she said, and then said somewhat ambiguously:

“Sir Zhang, another very important point is that you have a great reputation, and I am a very beautiful woman…”

"So if you and I continue to meet, other people won't have any other thoughts, they will just think that we are hooking up!"

"Look, isn't this the best protection for both of us?"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly, and out of man's instinct he couldn't help but look Cheng Sanni up and down!

Facing Zhang Zhe's somewhat explicit gaze, Cheng Sanni was not shy at all, but appeared very calm and confident.

Seeing this, Zhang Zhe didn't dare to look down on this woman, but he couldn't help but say:
"You are so beautiful. Does Captain Liu really trust you to come out?"

Cheng Sanni smiled softly and then said with a hint of resentment:

"Captain Liu only wants to be loyal to Marshal Ye, make contributions to the Fengwu Army, and win fame during his lifetime and after his death!"

"In his eyes, even if I am extremely charming, I am nothing more than a skeleton in white. At most, I am just an object for him to vent his lust!"

As she spoke, Cheng Sanni put her arm around Zhang Zhe's arm. Feeling the sweet breath and provocative eyes of the beauty beside him, Zhang Zhe, as a normal man, couldn't help but have the urge to execute Cheng Sanni on the spot!
However, thinking of Cheng Sanni's identity, Zhang Zhe calmed down, calmly pulled his arm out of Cheng Sanni's arms and said lightly:

“I have to say, Captain Liu really found a good lobbyist…”

Feeling Zhang Zhe's actions, Cheng Sanni seemed a little surprised. According to their information, Zhang Zhe was a greedy and lustful villain. Cheng Sanni thought that with her own means, she could make him fall at her feet just by playing around!
But now it seems that she underestimated the general of Jianmen!

At this time, Zhang Zhe said in a deep voice:

"Miss Cheng, has the negotiation between your department and our Governor-General completely broken down?"

Cheng Sanni thought for a moment and said:
"As far as I know, the negotiations are still going on, but the demands of both sides are very different, and the breakdown of the negotiations is completely foreseeable!"

Zhang Zhe's heart sank when he heard this, and then he continued to ask:
"So when do you plan to take action against Sichuan and Shu?"

Cheng Sanni smiled again and said:

"General Zhang, you are so cute. You don't think that a weak woman like me can know such confidential information, do you?"

"Zhang Zongbing, if you really want to know this, why don't you go to Yijing and ask Marshal Ye in person? Maybe he can answer your question!"

Zhang Zhe didn't say much after hearing this. He knew that Cheng Sanni probably didn't know the answer to this question, but she just wanted to give it a try!
After a pause, Zhang Zhe looked at Cheng Sanni and asked again:
“Miss Cheng, do you have anything you want to ask me…”

(End of this chapter)