Mu Fengqie also looked at the note on the table. Neither of them said a word because they knew this note was no longer just a simple piece of paper.
"What should we do?" Mu Fengqie broke the silence between them. Just staring at it wouldn't lead to any solutions. They still had to discuss it.
"I've already sent someone to follow that pigeon. It won't be long before we find out who the recipient is." However, Jing Xinche had been thinking for a long time but couldn't figure out which country still had so many troops that could casually mobilize 100,000 soldiers.
"I feel that this person might be from the Qin Dynasty and holds great power." Mu Fengqie voiced her thoughts. After all, judging from the current situation, only the Qin Dynasty and the Tianlin Kingdom had the ability to do so. Although the grassland had many territories, it was impossible to mobilize 100,000 troops in a short period of time.
Mu Fengqie's words made Jing Xinche fall into silence. He wanted to refute but couldn't say a word because he also thought what she said made a lot of sense.
Looking around, only the Qin Dynasty and the Tianlin Kingdom could achieve this. If it was the Tianlin Kingdom, the emperor of Tianlin couldn't have been unaware of the mobilization of 100,000 troops.
But if it was the Qin Dynasty, it was a different story. There were many troops stationed on the eastern border of the Qin Dynasty because there were frequent uprisings there. 100,000 troops could definitely be deployed.
"I'm just speculating. Let's wait until your man comes back." Mu Fengqie also knew that if things were really as she guessed, it would be terrible.
The two of them sat in the room all night without sleeping.
The next day, they both showed up with dark circles under their eyes.
"Damn it, what did you two do last night behind my back?" Yuan Yuhan looked at the dark circles under Jing Xinche and Mu Fengqie's eyes and laughed unkindly.
"The note last night meant to send 100,000 troops to the eastern border of the Qin Dynasty." Jing Xinche calmly told the story and then waited for Yuan Yuhan's reaction.
"What did you say?!" Yuan Yuhan looked at Jing Xinche in shock. Why did they only tell him such a big thing now?
"And we suspect there's a traitor in the Qin Dynasty." Mu Fengqie added another bombshell.
Yuan Yuhan was even more shocked. "This... This can't be true. There's no evidence..."
"This is the result of our analysis last night." No matter which way they looked at it, the evidence pointed to the Qin Dynasty. So there was no doubt that there was a traitor in the Qin Dynasty. They just didn't know who it was yet.
"The man I sent should be back soon." All the generals were in the capital city and were about to set off for the border, so the traitor was in the capital.
As they were talking, the secret guard Jing Xinche sent came back. "My lord, the pigeon circled the capital all night and finally landed in Prime Minister Feng's mansion." The secret guard didn't expect to follow the pigeon around the capital for a whole night.
"Prime Minister Feng?" This surprised Jing Xinche and the others. After all, Prime Minister Feng was a civil official. How could he mobilize 100,000 troops? And it seemed that Prime Minister Feng had already defected to the King of the Grassland.
Then it was very likely that Prime Minister Feng had tried to stop the King of the Grassland from meeting the Queen of the Xueling Kingdom last night. But why?
"Does Prime Minister Feng have such great power?" Mu Fengqie voiced everyone's doubts. Yes, could a civil official have such great power?
"Prime Minister Feng may want to be the next Lou Mingkou." Jing Xinche squinted his eyes and said.
Mu Fengqie and Yuan Yuhan fell silent. It was not impossible. As the head of all the officials, second only to the emperor, it was normal for him to have ambitions.
"Qie'er, can you write that kind of script?" Jing Xinche thought for a while and decided it was better to take the initiative.
"Of course I can. What do you want to do?" Mu Fengqie knew as soon as she heard it that Jing Xinche had a plan.
"Qie'er, you do this..." Jing Xinche whispered a few words in Mu Fengqie's ear. She nodded.
"Yuan Yuhan, find a trustworthy person who can imitate handwriting. The sooner the better." According to the secret guard, the pigeon had circled the capital all night before flying to Prime Minister Feng's mansion. It seemed to be a specially trained pigeon.
It was too obvious during the day. So Prime Minister Feng would only reply tonight after receiving the message. They had to write the letter before tonight.
Jing Xinche sent someone to secretly take a few pieces of paper that Prime Minister Feng had written from his mansion. The person Yuan Yuhan found imitated it again and again. Finally, he finished writing it in the evening.
Then he wrote the small - language script written by Mu Fengqie according to Prime Minister Feng's writing habits. He tried more than ten times before he succeeded. After Jing Xinche checked and confirmed there was no problem, he waited for it to get dark.
At the same time when the King of the Grassland had sent the message yesterday, they released the carrier pigeon and sent a secret guard to follow it.
"By the way, Jing Xinche, what did you ask Mu Fengqie to write?" Yuan Yuhan looked at Jing Xinche curiously.
"Nothing." Then he sent another letter, imitating the handwriting of the King of the Grassland.
The content was: The general leading the 100,000 troops will meet at the dilapidated temple outside the capital city at midnight tomorrow. There are important matters to discuss.
This way, they could not only block the King of the Grassland's sight but also find out who the traitors were. It was a win - win situation.
"Get ready. We'll go fishing for the big fish tomorrow night." Jing Xinche said as he watched the pigeon fly away.
Yuan Yuhan nodded. Although he didn't know who the "big fish" Jing Xinche was talking about was, there had only been this big event recently. It was not hard to guess.
"By the way, prepare more people. What if there are too many of them and too few of us?" Yuan Yuhan looked at Jing Xinche helplessly. At this time, this guy still had the mood to joke.
When Prime Minister Feng received the letter, he was a bit puzzled. Why did his master make such a request? But when he saw that there were important matters to discuss, he understood. He had recently heard that his master was going to attack the Qin Dynasty. Presumably, some strategic deployments were not convenient to be written on paper and could only be discussed in person.
Prime Minister Feng didn't delay. He directly left through the secret passage in his study. No one knew where he had gone.
This secret passage had been there since they moved in. Presumably, it had been dug by Lou Mingkou back then. Now it was just convenient for him. Prime Minister Feng followed the secret passage and came to the outside of a mansion outside the city.
He made a lot of noise when he climbed out, and it was still night, which amplified his sounds several times. But he wasn't worried at all because all the mansions around were his.
There was no one around. When he first discovered this place, he had bought all the houses around it for the convenience of his actions.