Impeachment will make me stronger, and I will be invincible on the road to death.

Chapter 85: Po Zan feels a little sad
Zan Po got to the point so quickly, and Qu Zhenyun was secretly happy.

But in order not to make Po Zan suspicious, Qu Zhenyun used his acting skills again: "The shell was lost? Sir Messenger, what do you mean by this?"

"That's right, we can detonate those artillery shells, or in other words, we can give them to Tubo! If we Tubo get these artillery shells and rent another cannon, we can continue to use troops in the Western Regions in the future, causing trouble for Wu Zetian! In this way, You can avenge General Qiu!"

Qu Zhenyun frowned: "Is that so? It sounds good, but I am a Tang Dynasty after all. I am dissatisfied with Wu Zetian, but I can't let my soldiers of the Tang Dynasty suffer the same fate! They are all innocent!"

"What are you innocent about? They are all followers of Wu Zetian. Without them, Wu Zetian would dare to do this to you? I believe that if General Qiu were alive, he would also be happy to see Wu Zetian vomiting blood!"

Qu Zhenyun pretended to think about it for a while, and her face softened a little: "Even if I have this idea, the risk is too great! Of course I am willing to avenge General Qiu, but I don't want to get into trouble myself! I am just a petty official, if If something goes wrong, even if you run away first, you will starve to death in the wilderness sooner or later because you have no money!!"

"Money?" Po Zan smiled, "You don't have it, I do! To tell you the truth, because I wanted to buy Tang Dynasty artillery shells, I ordered people to transfer a large amount of money from Tubo. I left Chang'an two days ago, probably We will arrive in Luoyang in two days! The money, at least tens of thousands of taels of gold, will be given to you if you want it!"

Qu Zhenyun swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and suddenly she felt greedy in her heart. She thought that with so much money, it would be great if she was really reselling the Tang treasure!

However, he knew that Wu Zetian's every move was now being secretly watched, and he had no chance to make money.

With full regret, Qu Zhenyun continued to act: "I heard that one cannonball was originally worth 1 taels of gold! Wouldn't it be a pity to destroy such a precious cannonball or give it away casually? How about this, you give it For my 1 taels of gold, I will give you a cannonball, take it back to Tibet or burn it, it’s up to you!”

Po Zan's face changed slightly, and she cursed in her heart: What a greedy guy!Just now I was saying how much I admired Qiu Shenji and wanted to avenge him, but just when I said I had money, you just raised the price and started to blackmail me!

Po Zan knew that with Tubo's national strength, the money sent this time was probably not only the balance of the national treasury, but also plundered from people from all over the country!

This is something related to Tubo's national strength. If you can save it, save it!
At this moment, Zan Po wanted to bargain: "General Qu, look at these cannonballs lying around in the mountains. Except for me who is willing to pay for this thing, even if you give it away, no one would dare to ask for it! In this way, you don't have nothing." Money? I will give you ten thousand taels of gold so that you can live comfortably for the rest of your life, and you just need to transport those cannonballs and give them to me!"

Qu Zhenyun immediately shook his head: "If I do this, I will betray the righteousness of my family and country! I will not do such a thing for a mere ten thousand taels of gold!"

"Then do you still want to avenge General Qiu?" Zan Po looked anxious.

"Yes, of course I do! However, I will choose a safe approach instead of taking risks and letting my family follow me and risk beheading!"

Seeing that Qu Zhenyun really didn't want to do this, Po Zan could only grit her teeth and relent: "Okay, okay, how much do you want to give me the cannonballs?"

"One piece costs 1 taels!"

Zanpo gritted her teeth again, feeling a burst of pain in her body, but this was the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so she could only accept it softly: "Okay, just 1 taels per piece! But how many cannonballs are there in the Tang Dynasty? I'm afraid that this time I will bring Not enough money!”

"It's not a lot, just a few dozen."

"Isn't that just a few hundred thousand taels of gold..." Zan Po felt even more distressed and even hesitated. "If you don't want to spend money, forget it. It just so happens that I don't really want to take risks." After Qu Zhenyun finished speaking, he made a move to leave.

"Yes, yes!" Zanpo had no choice but to admit defeat completely, "But I don't know how much money will be sent. Anyway, you must remember to make a direct promise when the time comes. I will give you ten thousand taels of gold, and you will give me a cannonball. !”

"Haha, that's no problem! As long as you give me enough money, then I can take the risk! As long as the money is enough, I don't have to worry about food and drink even if I don't become an official!"

The two then agreed that Qu Zhenyun would send out the cannonballs as soon as the money was received.

……

In the palace, a homing pigeon fluttered down and was picked up by the palace maid and quickly delivered to Wu Zetian.

"Oh? Wan'er wrote again!"

Wu Zetian opened the letter with a smile, opened it and read it, with joy on her face.

"It turned out to be a letter sent from Chang'an! It has only been so long, but there has been such great progress! If you give her another month or two, I'm afraid she will really be able to send information back from the Western Regions!"

Looking at the content at the end, Wu Zetian snorted again: "The Tubo businessman was instructed by Zanpo to secretly smooth the relationship and want to send things out! No need to think about it, this guy must have saved the cannonballs and secretly sent them back to Tubo. His thoughts! Yang Yanzhang said that he would only give him some old shells so that he would not notice that he had been fooled. But the point of this matter is that there are so many scum who dare to collude with foreign enemies! "

Thinking of this, Wu Zetian frowned again: "It's like this outside. During the time that Zan Po was in Luoyang, she may have made friends with other traitors! If these cancers continue to serve as officials, it will not be a good thing for our Tang Dynasty."

Thinking of this, Wu Zetian immediately summoned Yang Yanzhang and told him her thoughts.

"The Queen Mother is very worried! Po Zan has many people trying to win over us these days! However, since Qu Zhenyun has negotiated a deal with him, she doesn't have to worry about digging out these morons!"

"Oh? What are you going to do?"

Yang Yanzhang thought for a while and then slowly said: "With so many cannonballs and so much gold, it is naturally extremely troublesome to transport them! I think Qu Zhenyun can use this as an excuse to ask Po Zan to smoothen the relationship in Luoyang so that He successfully transported the things out of Luoyang and brought the gold back to Chang'an! For such a big movement, Zan Po will have to use a lot of connections! When the time comes, if there is a problem in any link, we will take action on whoever it is, don't worry Catch all those scum in one fell swoop!”

Wu Zetian breathed out a sigh of relief: "Yang Yanzhang, I have found you like a fish in water! Once these traitors are eliminated, the world will be more stable! As long as I benefit from it in the future, I will definitely not forget your contribution!"

Yang Yanzhang smiled bitterly and said in his heart that as long as you don't think about me all the time, nothing else matters.

So Wu Zetian summoned Qu Zhenyun again. After dictating the secret, Qu Zhenyun went back to rehearse in order to ensure a flawless performance.

(End of this chapter)