In fact, in the past life, there have been many tricks to deal with cavalry throughout the ages.

But the lesson of the poisonous smoke from the powerful crossbow made him realize that not everything could be taken out.

There are always villains who will covet you and make yourself angry.

Therefore, I still need to make long-term plans and think about this matter.

As for the second thing mentioned in the letter, it is related to him.

The prime minister of the current dynasty, He Zhong, had already written a letter to impeach Song Tianming a few days ago!

The reason is also very simple. The privately built armour, which caused trouble to the court, and the poor protection led to the death of barbarian envoys and damaging relations between the two countries, which was extremely evil!

But everyone knows that many of these crimes have long been proven to be nonsense.

Especially the last charge was refuted by Dingbeihou and others in court.

Your Majesty naturally ignored it.

However, Dingbei Hou also pointed out that He Zhong's approach was not really expected to punish Song Tianming's crimes.

Instead, we must use the reason Song Tianming to put pressure on Your Majesty and the pro-war faction, and at the same time unite the people of the pro-peace faction.

You should know that a group of civil servants led by He Zhong have always been extremely opposed to the war.

They did everything for this, including this visit by barbarian envoys, and they secretly contributed to the fire.

As a result, the main battle faction took the upper hand this time, He Zhong and others were naturally furious, while the group of fans below were a little discouraged and unsteady.

At this time, He Zhong and the others needed to stand up and give them a heart attack.

Therefore, condemning Song Tianming is more for the purpose of showing the "little ones" below.

Let them know that their "leader" has not yet fallen and is still persisting.

Otherwise, if people's hearts disperse, the team will be difficult to lead.

From a certain perspective, He Zhong's ability to win people's hearts is still very powerful.

Although he knew that He Zhong was just a show and could not hurt half of his hair, Song Tianming smelled an unusual smell.

He threw down the letter and called Xiao Tang: "Call Cheng Hu."

Now, like Song Tianming, Cheng Hu is no longer responsible for the restaurant affairs, but is left to the people below to take care of.

Although I still stay in a restaurant every day, what I do is another important thing.

That's intelligence.

In this era when communications were extremely backward and even Feige did not even send letters, the transmission of information was based on letters and word of mouth.

The collection of information is also primitive, and it is more about finding clues from people's narratives.

And there are only two places where there are many people and talk a lot.

One is a brothel and the other is a restaurant.

Song Tianming didn't want to touch the brothel, so he had to start from the restaurant.

The idea of ​​collecting intelligence actually came into being very early.

When he was kidnapped up the mountain by bandits, he felt that he could no longer be so passive and had to take the initiative in everything and seize the initiative.

Then intelligence is an indispensable part.

It was just because of the limitations of conditions, it has been put on hold.

Until now, the restaurant is developing rapidly and the number of people coming and going in Xiahe County is increasing, and intelligence work can be officially launched.

Cheng Hu is the first generation of intelligence organization established by Song Tianming.

Of course, Cheng Hu is not a professional, and he doesn’t have much to do.

In addition to collecting fragmented information in the restaurant every day, his main task is to monitor the Qian family in Xiahe County every move.

Song Tianming never forgot about the Qian family.

On the contrary, he has always been very concerned about the Qian family's every move!

After Cheng Hukong took action, his first task was to build a team that specifically monitors the Qian family.

The entire work has lasted for more than half a month. Now, it is finally time for Cheng Hu to report on his work.

As soon as Cheng Hu entered the door, Song Tianming got straight to the topic: "Have the Qian family made any moves recently?"

Cheng Hu took out the information he had prepared long ago and handed it to Song Tianming: "It's all here."

Song Tianming took it and carefully reviewed it word by word.

The content is relatively fine, and it can be seen that Cheng Hu and his friends are still relatively unfamiliar with their intelligence capabilities. The useful content must be uncovered by Song Tianming himself.

Fortunately, because of the many details, he can piece together a lot of useful things from it.

The information says that the Qian family’s shops and workshops have recently seen many new faces.

These faces are obviously not locals, and their behavior is a bit weird, and many of their habits are very different from those of big-killers.

Cheng Hu's judgment on this is that they are likely from the other two countries in the Central Plains.

"Cheng Hu, do you think these people are possible...barbarians?" Song Tianming didn't know why he thought of this possibility, and he laughed after asking.

Cheng Hu shook his head decisively: "Impossible, I can still distinguish the characteristics of the barbarians. They look very different from the barbarians."

Song Tianming nodded. Since Cheng Hu said no, it must be no.

In addition, intelligence also shows that the Qian family has recently shrunk the scale of their business on a large scale, especially in textile workshops, which has fired two-thirds of the workers, and the acquisition of materials has also been reduced to half of the past.

The reason for this is still unknown, but it is certain that it has nothing to do with the recent rise of Dongpanxiang workshops.

The Qian family's cloth sales area is very wide, and it is involved in almost all Yangzhou. Xiahe County is just one of the workshops.

The cloth and spinning thread produced in Dongpan Township was only sent to Shouchun County City for sale, and its market share and production scale were not as good as Qianjia.

So the Qian family's behavior seems very strange.

Could it be that the Qian family is afraid of itself?

Song Tianming thinks it won't.

Although the Qian family suffered a lot from his own hands in Xiahe County, it was just a county town after all, and it would not have hurt a century-old merchant family.

Besides, although Qian Sihai, the head of the Qian family, has a low title, he is still a viscount, and his subordinates are still a bit tough.

Song Tianming was also ready to deal with the Qian family's business counterattack, but in the end, there was a heavy thunder and little rain, and nothing happened.

At this time, the Qian family looked like they were about to run away, which made Song Tianming very puzzled.

Could it be that the Qian family encountered some life-and-death troubles in the court?

But in that case, Dingbei Hou and the others would not make any reason not to report to themselves!

After thinking about it, he could only think that the Qian family must have other plans to do so.

Some of the following contents are some minor records and have no practical significance.

But at this moment, he was attracted by a piece of information.

This information says that the Qian family's largest shop and the largest pharmacy in the county - Cunhuitang. Recently, a soldier-like person can often be seen coming and going.

This person is not a friend in the store, and he has never seen him work in the store.

He is not a customer in the store, and his hands often leave empty.

This was not shown by the same piece of information, but was discovered from several pieces of information.

These information records the people who have been in contact with Cunhuitang during this period. It can be seen that different brothers are responsible for monitoring, and the recording styles are very different.

But without exception, they all observed the difference between this man!

Song Tianming pointed to these information: "Hu Zi, call me all the brothers who monitor Cunhuitang, and I have something to ask them."

Cheng Hu realized that there might be major clues inside, so he went out to find someone immediately.

Soon, five people, plus Cheng Hu, gathered in Song Tianming's study.

"Do you describe the man you see separately." He distributed the information to everyone, and the information about the man had been circled out by him.

"This man is quite tall, probably seven feet tall, big and round waist..."

"The eyes are not big, the nose is very small, and it is still a collapsed..."

"The neck is thick and there are calluses on the hands. It seems that it is left behind when you hold weapons frequently..."

"The hair is a little gray, and it should be quite old, at least thirty..."

"Oh by the way, there is a scar behind his ear, which extends to the back of his neck, quite thick, as if he was cut by a knife..."

When Song Tianming heard this, he suddenly opened his eyes wide: "Wait, do you think there is a scar behind his ear? Is it the left ear or the right ear?"

"Left ear...ah, it's not right. When I saw it, it was facing me sideways, so it should be the right ear!"
Chapter completed!