The emperor obviously had no ability to resist the pie offered by Shen Yi.
After all, for Emperor Hongde, his greatest wish in this life was probably the Northern Expedition.
Therefore, he will be willing to do anything that is conducive to the Northern Expedition.
If someone else comes to draw this kind of pie with him, even if the emperor agrees with the plan, he will probably let the inner guards do it instead of leaving the job to the "adviser". However, Mr. Shen has been able to handle the errands in the southeast in recent years. It's so beautiful. Even if the job in Guangdong is not perfect, it will not affect Shen Yi's overall achievements in the past few years.
If Shen Yi can successfully "spread" the Di News Division, it will naturally be of great benefit to the Northern Expedition.
Therefore, the emperor only thought about it for two or three days. On the morning of the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month in the tenth year of Hongde, the palace secretly handed over a document to Shen Yi and officially handed over the intelligence department of the Di News Department to Shen Yi.
This isn't anything unexpected.
Because although Mr. Shen has stopped working as the director of the Di Newspaper Division for a long time, during the past few years in Southeast, Shen Yi has never lost contact with the Di Newspaper Division. It can even be said that he has always been the de facto boss of the Di Newspaper Division. Controller.
It's just that this kind of control is not so direct.
Now, Mr. Shen has once again taken control of Di Newspaper Division, or half of Di Newspaper Division.
On the afternoon of the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, Mr. Shen had just returned home after borrowing two books from Liquan Tower. As he walked to the front yard, the maid Qing'er ran all the way and came to Shen Yi. She lowered her head slightly and said, "Master, there is a man named Lin Sheng's people say they are your subordinates and want to see you..."
Shen Yi stretched and said with a smile: "Where is it?"
Qing'er whispered: "I'm waiting for you in the living room."
Mr. Shen nodded and said, "Go and tell him to wait for me in the study."
Qing'er nodded and retreated.
Shen Yi, on the other hand, wandered around the front yard, waited for a while, and then came to the door of his study with the two books in his hands.
Mr. Shen opened the door and walked in.
In the study room, there sat a young man who looked a little thin. The young man was about twenty-four or five years old, and his face was slightly pale. After seeing Shen Yi, he stood up in a hurry and bowed his hands respectfully to Mr. Shen: "Have you met Si?" just."
Lin Sheng was one of the eight team leaders of the Di Di newspaper department appointed by Shen Yi.
When Shen Yi set up the intelligence agency of the Di News Division, it started from scratch. Seven people were seconded from the internal guards. This was the prototype of the seven teams of the Di News Division.
Later, when Shen Yi organized the Di Newspaper Division, he sent six groups from Group 2 to Group 7, but he left two groups in Jiankang to maintain Jiankang's Di Newspaper Division and Responsible for investigating the intelligence in Jiankang City.
These two groups are one group and eight groups.
(This paragraph was mentioned earlier.)
And this group is a little different from the eighth group. The leader of the first group is still a person seconded from the inner guard. In essence, he is not purely a member of the Di Di News Department. In addition to the seventh group of the Di Di News Department, there are additional The eighth group formed was personally selected by Shen Yi. All of them were recruited by the Di News Department and had basically nothing to do with the internal guards.
Of course, the people in this eighth group also grew up among the other seven groups in the first few months.
Shen Yi originally planned to train this eighth group as his direct descendants in the Di News Division, but fate is not as good as fate. Not long after Shen Yi laid out the Di News Division, he was sent by the emperor to follow Li Mu south to patrol the sea. went.
Later, most of the Di newspaper companies that Shen Yi came into contact with were Zheng Hu from the second group and Duan Chong from the fourth group.
I don’t have much contact with other groups.
The young man in front of him, who looked like a weak scholar, was the eighth group leader appointed by Shen Yi when he was in the Di newspaper department.
Lin Sheng.
What is different from everyone else in the Di News Department is that this young man named Lin Sheng... is a scholar.
He was selected as a scholar when he was very young, but later he failed the provincial examination twice, and his livelihood became a problem again. He happened to be recruiting people for the Di newspaper office, and by some strange combination of circumstances, he was admitted to the Di newspaper office.
The academic qualifications of Team Leader Lin are quite outstanding in the entire Di Newspaper Department, even among those who work as writers and editors in the Di Newspaper Department.
This was also the reason why Shen Yi made an exception and promoted him to the leader of the eighth group.
After all, scholars have many eyes, and it is easy to use it. Especially for scholars who have failed the rankings and have no other way out, it is even easier to use.
Seeing Lin Sheng, Shen Yi's thoughts were in a trance, and he came back to his senses after a moment. He first sat on his seat, then looked up and down at the scholar in front of him, and said with a smile: "Almost three years have passed. , why are you still so thin? Isn’t the salary from the Di newspaper department not enough for you to eat well? "
"Si Zheng made fun of..."
Lin Sheng smiled bitterly and said: "I was born with this physique. No matter how much food I eat, it won't work."
Shen Yi smiled slightly, pointed to the chair in his study, and said, "Sit down and talk."
Lin Sheng sat down carefully, and then put on a smile on his face: "After Si Zheng left the Di Bao Department, my subordinates have been missing Si Zheng deeply. Now that I finally see Si Zheng again, my subordinates feel in their hearts I’m really happy.”
Mr. Shen looked at him with a half-smile.
"Is it?"
Lin Sheng nodded hurriedly and said: "Of course, if you don't believe Si Zheng, go to the Di Di Reporting Department and ask, brothers..."
Shen Yi interrupted him unceremoniously and said with a smile: "Although I have spent most of my time in the southeast in the past few years, I have also spent a lot of time in Jiankang. Why haven't I seen Mr. Lin come to my house to see me?"
Lin Sheng smiled awkwardly, lowered his head and said, "Aren't you worried that contacting Si Zheng in private will cause trouble to Si Zheng..."
"You do know how to talk."
Shen Yi poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and asked: "What happened to the eight groups I gave you back then?"
Hearing this, Lin Sheng patted his chest very proudly and said: "Of course, the subordinates have done a good job in the matters that Si Zheng explained. Our eight groups have been working for three years. Now in the entire Jiankang City, as long as There is nothing that you, Si Zheng, can think of that our eight groups don’t know!”
Master Shen smiled and asked: "Then let me ask you, how is the relationship between Princess Yue and King Yue?"
Upon hearing this question, Lin Sheng immediately became hesitant.
Emperor Hongde's younger brother, King Li Yu of Yue, married General Zhao's young daughter as his concubine. No matter who these two people were, in the Hongde Dynasty, they could be described as having sensitive status.
But now that Princess Yue has given birth to a son, the palace of Prince Yue is even more sensitive in Jiankang.
Not to mention whether Lin Sheng knew about this kind of thing, even if he knew it, he probably wouldn't dare to say anything about it.
Lin Sheng wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead, lowered his head to Shen Yi and smiled bitterly: "Sizheng, my subordinates don't know..."
The smile on Shen Yi's face faded.
"Then it seems like you haven't done anything famous in the past few years."
Lin Sheng smiled awkwardly and said, "That is, without you, Sizheng, in charge, the subordinates would naturally be in a different state..."
Mr. Shen stood up and put the two books borrowed from Liquan Tower on the bookshelf. He did not look back, but said lightly: "You are well-informed in Jiankang. Your Majesty reported to Di about the promotion. I guess you already know that by the beginning of next year, you will be the eighth-grade clerk of the Di News Department."
Shen Yi turned back, glanced at Lin Sheng, and said, "Do you want to have a higher status and a higher grade?"
Lin Sheng quickly bowed his head deeply and said: "Sizheng, my subordinates have neither fame nor talents. It is all thanks to your support, Sizheng. It is a blessing to be born in the eighth grade. Other than that, I don't have any other talents." Don’t you dare to think otherwise!”
"Just listening to your words, someone who didn't know it would have thought that Siwu Lin is an honest man who works hard."
Lin Sheng smiled bitterly and cupped his hands and said: "Sizheng Mingjian, my subordinate is indeed an honest man!"
Mr. Shen raised his eyebrows and asked, "Then why did I hear that someone in the Jiankang Residence Newspaper Department accepted money from scholars and promised to help others publish their poems and manuscripts in the Residence Newspaper?"
He looked at Lin Sheng and asked calmly: "Did I mistakenly hear the rumors?"
Lin Sheng stood up in a hurry, raised his hands to Shen Yi and said, "Sizheng, this subordinate is wronged!"
Mr. Shen looked calm: "Where does the injustice come from!"
"Subordinate..."
He lowered his head and said: "My subordinate did receive the money, but I have read those poems in advance. Only after they are sure to be of high quality will they be handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for review..."
He complained: "Moreover, my subordinates refunded the money for those items that could not be published again!"
"I guarantee with my head that I have never interfered with the printing of the Di newspaper..."
Lin Siwu made a sad face and was about to cry.
"Not a word!"
Seeing the young man with a grimace in front of him, Mr. Shen only felt a little funny. He said dumbly: "So, you are a man who is dedicated to his duties?"
"It's natural!"
Lin Sheng almost patted his chest and said, "Sizheng, you can go and ask. In the past few years, the Jiankang Di Reporting Department has been very impressive under the leadership of my subordinates... um... thanks to the efforts of my subordinates!"
"It's quite lively."
The smile on Shen Yi's face faded and he said lightly: "Otherwise, you, Secretary Lin, wouldn't be able to have two outer rooms in the Qinhuai River."
Lin Sheng's face turned pale, and he knelt down in front of Shen Yi with a plop, lowered his head and said: "Sizheng...my...subordinate..."
Shen Yi glanced at him lightly, with a smile on his face again.
"I have an errand now that I can ask Secretary Lin to make up for."