Chen Yi knew that Lou Yuxue had recently been secretly contacting King Landu's people in the Poshushuo Kingdom on General Star's orders.
He simply did not know why the Hidden Guard wanted to contact King Landu.
Moreover, according to that merchant surnamed Lin, King Landu was the bandit king of the Poshushuo Kingdom.
"King Landu..."
Lying in bed, Chen Yi quietly murmured the name.
Although he knew little about King Landu, the fact that the man commanded such attention from a Golden Banner Officer of the Hidden Guard and could buy ironware from Mr. Lingchuan through the merchant surnamed Lin spoke volumes about his capabilities.
"A mounted bandit?"
"Mounted bandits who can achieve that much are few and far between."
Still, Chen Yi had heard a few things about the Poshushuo Kingdom before.
Many of its mounted bandits were soldiers who specialized in plundering merchants from the Wei Dynasty and the Buddhist Kingdom along the Tea Horse Road.
The more capable ones even dared venture into Barbarian Tribe territory to plunder the Barbarians—that was where Shuzhou's Barbarian slaves came from.
Under such circumstances,
rather than mounted bandits, they were more aptly soldiers of the Poshushuo Kingdom dressed in bandits' robes.
As he thought, Chen Yi pulled a sheet of paper from beneath the Five-Fold Spear strapped to his arm and read it by the faint light outside the room.
"A horizontal stroke, a hook, another hook, a left-falling stroke..."
"These Poshushuo Kingdom characters really are hard to make out."
What Chen Yi held was none other than the letter to King Landu he had obtained from the man surnamed Lin.
"I suppose it discusses how to conduct their trade with King Landu?"
"Tomorrow, I should have Wang Ji find someone who can read the Poshushuo Kingdom's script and take a