After listening to Dai Zong’s story, Ximen Qing knew that the matter was serious, so he immediately found Wu Yong and explained the situation in detail.

After Wu Yong understood the situation, he slapped the table and snorted: "Shi Xiu's guess is right. Gao Qiu must have been bribed by the Liao Kingdom, not because of Zhao Yunzhen's relationship! Liao Kingdom was beaten to us and was exposed, so he thought of starting from the side to plot against us, so he bribed Gao Qiu and asked Gao Qiu to come here to harm us! However, Gao Qiu and the Liao people never expected that we would frame Gao Qiu with the crime of traitoring the country, so that Shi Xiu would take a clue and be recognized by Gao Qiu as the gift sender sent by Chu Jian. It was really God who helped us Liangshan! If Shi Xiu had taken out a fake secret letter earlier, it would have been noticed by Gao Qiu, which would have hurt Shi Xiu and exposed us!"

Ximen Qing said: "Yes, this is really God helping us Liangshan! Haha... In this case, the national fortune we planned to sell off will need to be changed, and it is not necessary to pretend to be the prince of Liao. Now there is a Grand Master Chu Jian that can be used! Scholars, do you know this Grand Master Chu Jian?"

Wu Yong nodded and narrowed his eyes and said, "Chu Jian is a wise man from the Liao Kingdom. He is deeply trusted by the Lord of the Liao Kingdom. From his bribery of Gao Qiu to deal with us, we can see that this person is not simple."

Ximen Qing said: "If a scholar can be said to be not simple, I think he will be great! By the way, scholar, how do you think the plan will be changed?"

Wu Yong smiled and said, "You already have an idea in your mind!"

Ximen Qing said: "Those who know me are scholars! I do have an idea in my mind! Since we don't have to pretend to be a prince, we should pretend to be Chu Jian's confidant. Anyway, Gao Qiu has seen Shi Xiu now and mistakenly thought he was Chu Jian's man. Since that's the case, we will keep using it. However, from Gao Qiu's words, it can be heard that Chu Jian will also send someone to find Gao Qiu, which should also be a gift. Then we have to catch these people earlier and never let them see Gao Qiu, so that Gao Qiu can be suspicious!"

Wu Yong said: "Don't worry, leave this matter to Yue Fei, let him control the city gate of Tanzhou and detain all the suspects. It is better to arrest one hundred people by mistake than let one go!"

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "Okay, let him do it, I'm relieved! After controlling the true Chu Jian's confidant, this is the evidence that we have defeated Gao Qiu, haha... Then we need to set up a trap and get Gao Qiu's handwriting so that Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian can forge evidence. This is the pedantic. You go to Xiao Rang and ask him to write a letter, write it in Chu Jian's brushwork and tone. There are many letters written by Chu Jian in the library of Jizhou. I will hand it to Xiao Rang, and Xiao Rang will definitely imitate it."

Wu Yong said: "Leave it to me!"

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "Just do it like this!"

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On that day, Wu Yong, Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian, wrote a handwritten letter from Chu Jian, and then handed it to Dai Zong. Then Dai Zong and Yue Fei drove to Tanzhou City with the Divine Skills.

When they arrived in Tanzhou City, Dai Zong and Yue Fei met Shi Xiu and explained the plan formulated by Ximen Qing in detail. Shi Xiu did not doubt it. Then the three of them took action separately.

Three days later, a group of Liao caravans came outside Tanzhou City. They sold wool on both sides of the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom for many years, and have been in this vocation for many years.

Today, they were preparing to go to the city to rest as usual, but were detained by the soldiers guarding the city and imprisoned.

Ten people went to prison and shouted for justice. They looked really innocent businessmen.

But not long after, Yue Fei turned out three boxes of gold, silver and jewelry from their wool carriage!

Then, Yue Fei began to torture the ten people in assembly line, iron branding, tiger bench, and fingernail pulling...

After a while of torture, four out of ten people confessed, claiming that they were sent by Chu Jian, the Grand Tutor of Liao, and the purpose was to bribe Gao Qiu and Taiwei Gao.

Subsequently, the ten people were imprisoned.

Yue Fei passed the news of taking down Chu Jian's confidant to Ximen Qing and Shi Xiu.

Immediately, Shi Xiu took the letter prepared in advance and went to the city lord's mansion.

Ximen Qing, who was far away in Jizhou City, took Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian toward Tanzhou with his horse.

But Shi Xiu asked to meet Gao Qiu.

Gao Qiu met Shi Xiu and asked curiously: "What's wrong with Master Chu?"

Shi Xiu asked: "The Grand Master asked me to ask the Grand Master, when are you going to do it? Those gold and silver are not for free!"

When Gao Qiu heard this, he became angry and shouted: "You must be clear about your identity and dare to question me, do you want to die, right?"

Shi Xiu hurriedly acted and said, "Don't worry, my grand sage is also anxious! The grand sage doesn't know that my grand sage has gathered 140,000 troops to take back the land of Tanzhou, but it is because the grand sage is here that he has not taken action for a long time. My grand sage is afraid that he will be anxious to take action first, and thus hurt the grand sage in the chaos. That would be bad. If the agreement between the two parties is messed up, it will be troublesome!"

Gao Qiu was shocked and asked, "A 140,000 army? Is it true or false to attack Tanzhou?"

Shi Xiu said: "Of course it's true! There are only more than 10,000 defenders in Tanzhou City. We will attack Tanzhou first and then take down Jizhou!"

When Gao Qiu heard this, he nodded, then pondered for a moment, and then said, "Since that's the case, I will lead my troops to Jizhou City now. If you want to take back this Tanzhou, you can take it back! When I arrive in Jizhou, I will make things difficult for Ximen Qing, so that you can give you the chance to take back Jizhou!"

Shi Xiu was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Then I'll be the one who wants to be the Grand Marshal!"

Immediately, Shi Xiu said: "I'm asking the Grand Master to write a letter to tell my grand master! The villain is humble and afraid of being punished by the Grand Master!"

When Gao Qiu heard this, he frowned. Writing a letter? This is evidence. If someone gets it, it will be troublesome. But then he thought, if he doesn’t sign or stamp it, wouldn’t it be fine?

Thinking of this, Gao Qiu picked up his pen and wrote a very concise letter, which he handed to Shi Xiu.

Afterwards, Shi Xiu said goodbye.

Shi Xiu waited for a while, and Ximen Qing arrived with Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian. Then Xiao Rang hurriedly took Gao Qiu's letter, then imitated his handwriting, and began to write secret letters.

After several secret letters were completed and the engraved seal was stamped, Shi Xiu, Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian let go.

The plan for more than ten days is only initially completed at this time.

Afterwards, after a few people rested, Ximen Qing asked Shi Xiu, Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian to return to Jizhou and asked them to notify Wu Yong and lead a 100,000 army to Tanzhou.

On the second day, Dai Zong reported that the army was coming faster and it was estimated that it would arrive early the next morning. At the same time, Yang Zhi, who was guarding Tanzhou City, came to report that Gao Qiu had already begun to assemble 30,000 troops and was preparing to set off for Jizhou.

Then, Ximen Qing's clothes were rectified and walked towards the camp.

At this time, Ximen Qing had to meet Gao Qiu well, so as to buy time for the 100,000 troops to arrive as soon as possible.

At this time, even if Ximen Qing had evidence of Gao Qiu colluding with the enemy, he could not be arrested casually! Because he still had an army of 30,000 in his hands!

Therefore, Ximen Qing had to wait for the 100,000 troops to arrive before he could take action.

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Chapter completed!