The castle of the castle, the inner city garden mansion.

Today is the scheduled intelligence exchange day, and Taza sits in the soft chair in the living room, waiting for the arrival of the members of the "pigeons and top hats" acrobatic troupe.After the autumn, the inner gate was closed in the evening, and the secret party had to be changed to the afternoon.

The first to arrive at the mansion was always Hill Fox.

He wore a blue velvet collar coat, light gray leggings and deer boots, and a white bow tie around his neck, and took off a pair of nobles.After the ceremony, he handed back to Tassa, the History of Kingdom Customs, which was caught under his arm.

"Yes," said Hill, noding, and then hesitating, "won't you teach me some sword fighting... or assassination techniques?"

“Why?”

"When the disease broke out, you said you were going to train me to be a qualified intelligence officer," he scratched his head, "but so far you have given me only some strange books to read."

“You mean the history of custom?”Tsusa poured himself a glass of wine and threw two ice cubes, "this is not a strange book, it records the origin of the nobles, traditions, coats of arms, and the specialties of the attractions and attractions throughout the kingdom."As an intelligence collector, you must first be well-informed in order to roughly determine whether there is any value in the news from all over the world.“Swords and assassinations?”He smiled, "I do not intend you to lurk in an organization or go deep into the enemy to explore the news, that is, dangerous and time-consuming and laborious, with this effort, it is better to spend a little more Jinlong directly to buy insiders."

“But not everyone can be bought,” Hill insisted.

“And those dripping tissues are also difficult to insert into the eyes, and without more than a decade or two, it is unlikely to sneak into it.”Taza swung his glass and drank ice wine, saying, “Qualified intelligence officers can only do two things: discerning news and hiding themselves.”These books I’ve given you are the basis for the resolution of the news, and as for the second point... As a member of the acrobatic troupe, you should be more experienced than I am.For example, you're very well dressed today."

“...” Just as Hill Fox pondered the meaning of this remark, the Joker and others rushed to this remote residence.

“Adults, everyone is here.”

"If that's the case, let's start," Taza put down his glass and opened the notepad, "who comes first?"

"Let me tell you first, my lord," said the first of the most burgeoned Iwa, "and the camp on the outskirts of the eastern part of Wangdu has settled a new group of people."

This news made the guard's eyebrows a little jump, did not expect to hear the first information is not good news.Since the royal knights lost more than half, this barracks in the countryside have become the seat of the militia.But the rats, fugitives, and criminals recruited by Tifeko were crammed into the camp before they went out.And more than a month ago, a team of more than a thousand militia members had just been sent to the west, and now there are new personnel to supplement.

“How much?”

"There are only two or three hundred people at present, most of whom seem to be from the north... and besides, there are some mice with blood sails, but there are not many more willing to go than the first two."

“Watch their movements closely, and report to me every time there are more than 200 new people in the camp.”Tassa ordered.

“Yes, my lord.”

These people have only one use, and that is to take the pill and use it as a consumable.Now the Queen of Bishui is north, the south border has no resistance, Tiffico will undoubtedly continue to attack the territory of His Royal Highness Roland, he must send this news back to the border town as soon as possible.

"The next secret information brought you by the clown, or drunken gossip," said the Joker in an exaggerated tone, "I can't verify the truth and the truth of this news, but if you listen to the group of businessmen who have a nose and a face, it is true."They said that the black sailing team of Garcia Wimbledon appeared in the Kingdom of Yongdong and attacked the church, and the siege of Wolf Heart City was thus disintegrated.They are also prepared to take advantage of the winter period to bring some scarce goods to the past to sell.”

Did the Queen of the Queen go to winter?Tsusa was a little surprised, but it didn't matter whether the news was true or false, and she chose to leave the castle north, which is equivalent to having given up the right to fight for the throne.

"Well, I know it's a little far from Fort Grey," he spat out, "and next time I'll find out more useful news."

"Cough," Hill coughed twice, "you have a new clue to the task you entrusted to me, and Tifeko has built a new workshop in the inner city, and recruited a lot of mud craftsmen, and a large number of nitrites recently acquired have been shipped there."But the workshop is heavily guarded, and my people are not able to learn further about the uses of the nitrites.”

“Oh?”The spirit of Tsa is refreshed, “They really brought nitros into the workshop?”

"Indeed," said Hill, "I have personally followed a carriage carrying goods."

This is an extremely valuable information, and he has been with His Highness Roland for a long time, and he naturally knows that the indestructible gunpowder is a kind of alchemy, and its main component is nitrite.Ever since the nitrites around the royal capital had been aggressively bought, he had noticed this and had arranged for Hill Fox to explore the whereabouts and use of the goods.

Now that the other side has transferred the nitrite from the alchemy association to the workshop, the intention is already very obvious - from the alchemy test to the workshop production, it shows that they have mastered the formula of gunpowder.The priority of this information is even higher than that of the new soldiers in the eastern suburbs.

"Well done."Tassa applauded.

...

After the conversation, people left the house in batches.

Before he left, Hill suddenly asked, “Your excellency, can we really push Tifeko down the throne when we do this?”

"Certainly," said the guard, smiling, "have you not seen the letter brought by His Royal Highness Roland through the rout?"His throne is crumbling.”

In the evening, returning to the underground tavern, Tassa meets an unexpected acquaintance: Sean.

Like himself, he was also a personal guard beside His Royal Highnesses of the Four Princes.

Entering the room on the second floor, the two of them were cold for a moment, and Tassa drew the curtains and asked in a low voice, “How do you know I’m here?”

"Your Highness has given me a letter to go to Ms. Marguerite, who knows where you are."Sean pulled out a crystal clear red gemstone.

“Does he have a new mission?”

“Not a task, it’s a gift,” Sean smiled and walked to the window, unrolled a slit and blew the whistle.I saw three gray-brown birds flying into the room and fell on the table and grunted at him.After feeding each bird some wheat grains, they stop.

It was the first time Tassa had seen such a spiritual bird, “This is...”

"The Witch Trained the Messenger."Sean stroked the neck of the gray bird and explained, "Unlike the pigeons, they can travel to and from the two places independently, without having to be taken away by people and flown back to the nest.You only give a specific password to the birds, and they will send the message to your Highness.If all goes well, you will only have to wait a day for you to receive a reply from your Highness.”

(Unfinished.)