Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 288

Wei Jue asked him to go back to his old job and become a rice merchant in Huyang City, specializing in traveling around several nearby big cities to purchase rice for Huyang City.

In addition to this, his other identity is Wei Jue's spy in the Western Territory. He mainly travels in the big cities in the Western Territory to obtain various information about the Western Territory for Wei Jue.

In this way, the situation in the two northwestern borders close to the neighboring country was under Wei Jue's control.

Wei Jue's ambition is not big, he has no interest in that position, but he cannot give up the power in his hands.

He can be loyal to the country, but not to a so-called "Son of Heaven".

He had to have the ability to resist the emperor's "slaughter knife", so over the years, he had been painstakingly managing the Wei family army.

He got involved in the salt industry and other highly profitable industries in order to make money to support Wei's army and maintain his powerful position.

Liu Cheng reported to Wei Jue a strange incident that happened in Huyang City a few months ago.

“In June, a young lady appeared here with a bodyguard, but she was not here to look for her relatives.

She lived in an inn for a while, and during that time she took her servants to wander around the fields or the streets every day for some unknown reason.

At first I thought he was a spy, but he did not conceal his actions at all, which was not like the style of a spy."

"Later, they rented a house here, hired an old man to look after the yard, and opened a half-living shop.

He left after the work was done. The other party stayed here for more than three months.

Please let me know whether we will investigate this person next."

After Liu Cheng briefly explained the matter, he looked at Wei Jue. Wei Jue thought for a while and asked, "Apart from this, are there any other moves to contact the enemy country?"

“None.”

Liu Cheng didn't know whether the other party really didn't have it or did it so well that he didn't notice it, so he could only answer like this.

"Your people should continue to watch, and if they take any action, report it to Master Yu."

Wei Jue had just arrived here and needed to familiarize himself with the local military affairs as soon as possible to prevent neighboring countries from taking advantage of the situation. It was a turbulent time and he really had no time to care about such trivial matters.

"Yes, sir." Liu Cheng stepped back.

What Wei Jue is worried about now is that the enemy countries have not started a war before because they are wary of the border defense of the Great Zhou.

Now that the emperor has passed away and the crown prince is about to ascend the throne, at this critical juncture of power transition, it is estimated that there will be action in the north soon.

He did not regret taking action against the emperor at this time. After all, even if the emperor was gone, the country was still there. As long as the Wei family was still there, he would not allow the enemy to invade.

Huang Qi is his man, and he believes that he can defend the northern border.

If that doesn't work, he can first deploy defenses in the west and then rush to help the north.

He even thought about letting Huang Qi lose the northern border, causing the capital to panic for a while, and then returning to provide assistance to add credit to himself, but he gave up in the end.

The prince was still wary of his meritorious service in following the emperor, and if this happened, Huang Qi would be in danger.

He spent so many years training Huang Qi not to destroy him. Someone had to do what he couldn't do for him.

In the days that followed, Wei Jue secretly summoned the secret agents he had planted in the Western Border Army and learned from them the current defense situation in the Western Border.

He began to think about the battle plan in the western border and submitted several memorials to the capital, all of which stated the military supplies required for the deployment, hoping that the court would arrange them as soon as possible.

The prince who was about to ascend the throne knew that the situation on the border was not optimistic at the moment.