Secret Cao Zuosi wanted to formally support him, and Han Qian only had Fan Dahei, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Wuji, Zhao Ting'er and others available to him. When they came out of Wanhonglou, Han Qian directly assigned Lin Haizheng, Fan Dahei, and Zhao Wuji first.
People go out of the city.
There are eighty-five people in the barracks. In addition to the family soldiers and their children who have received strict training, the others are also veterans carefully selected from the hungry people. However, Lin Haizheng must also train with all his heart, and there must be no trace of it.
Only by slacking off can these eighty-five warriors be integrated into one body as soon as possible and controlled by Han Qian.
Han Qian asked Zhao Wuji and Lin Haizheng to jointly take charge of the military building, mainly because he wanted to train more than ten or twenty real elites from the eighty-five people. In the future, they would accept Zhao Yuanji's command and be able to hide in the dark and undertake latent assassinations and independent espionage.
Intelligence and other complex and dangerous tasks.
These people will be the real elite spies controlled by Secret Cao Zuosi in the future.
The Shitanghe Warehouse must also be prepared as quickly as possible, and nearly forty junior spies must be dispersed to the streets and alleys of the city as soon as possible. Fan Dahei must also follow him out of the city overnight and prepare immediately for these matters.
Finally, Han Qian and Zhao Ting'er rode a horse together and returned to the house in Lanting Lane.
Seeing the old steward Han Laoshan standing outside the house, driving away two ragged beggars, Han Qian jumped off the horse, carried Zhao Ting'er off the horse, and said to Han Laoshan: "Go get two sets of clean clothes, and then
Please give them a good meal and give me the clothes they are wearing."
Han Laoshan didn't know why, and thought there was something wrong with the two beggars hiding in the corner. He looked over for a moment, but he couldn't see any flaws in the two beggars who were cowering and eager to get food.
"I want their clothes to be useful." Han Qian urged, and he and Zhao Ting'er went into the house.
Han Daoxun had returned from Hongwen Hall at this time, and the food had just been prepared. Han Qian sat over and drank with his father, and talked about the preparations for Secretary Cao Zuosi in the villa during the past three days.
After a while, Han Laoshan brought over two sets of tattered clothes that exuded a rancid smell. Han Daoxun frowned and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"My child, I have great use for it," Han Qian said with a smile, called Zhao Ting'er over and ordered, "Take these two sets of clothes and use lime powder and sulfur powder to kill insects and lice, and wash them thoroughly without starch."
Hearing what Han Qian said, Han Daoxun knew what he was going to do and asked: "You also want to go to the streets in person to detect all these movements?"
The people recruited this time are all newbies, and they are all outsiders, who are not familiar with the streets and alleys of Jinling City. The first batch will have to arrange thirty or forty people to lurk in the streets and alleys. If they really want to do something,
It would be very difficult for spies to detect this without the help of Junxunpu and other factions' spies hidden in the city.
However, there was no time for Han Qian to conduct intensive training for these people, let alone lay out the plan step by step.
The approach Han Qian envisaged was to arrange these people into the streets and alleys first, and do nothing for the time being. The main thing was to adapt to and integrate into the streets and alleys.
To speed up this process, he also has to lurk in the streets and alleys as an identity that others cannot detect, secretly observe the lurking situation of these spies, and try to find their flaws and make corrections quickly.
More importantly, what is revealed on paper is ultimately shallow. How can Secret Cao Zuosi's intelligence spying be effectively operated? Han Qian is sitting in an official office or a house strategizing. Obviously, it is impossible to consider all the details thoroughly.
These two sets of beggar's clothes were prepared by Han Qian for himself.
Han Qian told Zhao Ting'er to quickly take these two sets of clothes to kill insects and lice, and then he would put them on and go out to try out a new role play.
"The master's name has been included in the memorial of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The young master should stay in the house to celebrate. Why should he go out again?" Fan Xicheng walked in and said.
"Oh, really?" Han Qian didn't expect that Xinchang Hou Li Pu's movements were not slower than his, and all the joints had been opened in just three days.
"There is still one last card that I haven't passed yet. It's still early to celebrate." Han Daoxun said with a smile.
Han Qian also knew that when things got to this point, and the memorial was sent to Emperor Tianyou's case to wait for Zhu's approval, his father's name might still be scratched off the list. After all, his father made a big fuss at the court meeting last year, and the impact was too "bad."
Even if Xuzhou is just a remote and barbaric small state, it is still difficult to say whether Emperor Tianyou will let his father go there.
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At night, a strong wind arose, like ghosts crying and gods howling, blowing down dozens of tiles from the top of Wenying Hall, smashing it into pieces. Shen He didn't know whether His Majesty was disturbed, so he pulled the servant out and beat him with a cane, and then
After clearing away the broken tiles and broken bricks in front of the palace, we asked someone to climb up to the top of the palace with a ladder. We saw that the roof of the palace was in disrepair and the tiles were very loose.
The third prince is getting married tomorrow. Your Majesty, the queen and the concubine will be in Wenying Hall to receive the worship of the third prince and his bride the day after tomorrow. At present, we can only roughly tidy up the roof of the hall, and we need to find craftsmen from the Zuo Campus to repair it.
Wait until these things are finished.
Shen He felt worried after thinking about it, so he hired two slaves to keep an eye on the eaves of the palace, in case any tiles might fall down and injure someone. After busying with these things, he walked into the palace and saw His Majesty sitting in front of the table.
Reviewing the memorial, his expression was solemn, and he seemed not to be disturbed at all by their rush.
"Are all the preparations for Yuan Pu's side?" Yang Mi put Zhu Pi's imperial pen on the table and asked Shen He.
"Everything has been prepared, no matter the details. I was worried that something might go wrong, so I checked with Guo Rong again in the afternoon," Shen He said.
"By the way, has there been any news recently with the official department?" Yang Mi asked again.
Hearing His Majesty's sudden question without a clue, Shen He was shocked. He didn't know where the official department had gone wrong, which attracted His Majesty's attention. Shen He would not speak casually, so as not to offend someone unknowingly.
The power, at this time, didn’t know what was going on, and naturally he wouldn’t talk nonsense. He just turned his body slightly and said:
"During this period, I heard that everyone in the ministry was discussing about the wedding of His Highness the Third Highness. There was something going on in the official department, but I didn't notice it."
"Has Gao Chengyuan come here?" Yang Mi asked again.
"I have been waiting outside for a long time. The wind blew down the tiles just now. The old slave was so busy cleaning up that he forgot to come over and report." Shen He said.
Gao Chengyuan was originally a military attache of the Wenying Palace. After the "assassination incident" occurred years ago, he was assigned by His Majesty to assist Chen De in Linjiang Marquis' Mansion to strengthen the security of Linjiang Marquis' Mansion. However, Shen He also knew in his heart that His Majesty wanted some people to be rejected.
It was too rash to act.
Three days ago, the third prince wrote a letter recommending Gao Chengyuan to succeed Chai Jian and serve as Du Yuhou in Longque Army.
Originally, the appointment and adjustment of military attachés above the sixth rank and below the third rank should be reported to the Privy Council by the Longque Army, and then recommended by the Privy Council, and then approved by His Majesty; of course, it is not unreasonable for the third prince to directly write a recommendation letter. But His Majesty should also appoint the Privy Council to review the case and conduct an investigation.
However, His Majesty did not send the memorial of the third prince to the Privy Council for trial and examination, but directly approved the memorial. In Shen He's view, in addition to Gao Chengyuan being someone close to His Majesty and having won His Majesty's trust, there was another motive. Probably His Majesty doesn't like the Privy Council's excessive interference in the appointment of generals of the Longque Army.
Of course, no one takes the Dragon Bird Army seriously. The Kingdom of Chu was created by His Majesty, and if he occasionally acts willfully, who can say anything about him?
His Majesty specially asked Gao Chengyuan to return to the palace after taking office. Gao Chengyuan came here at dusk today. Shen He was busy discussing with Guo Rong the wedding of the third prince tomorrow and asked others to come over to inform him. He did not know that His Majesty was there at that time. I was busy with something, but I forgot about it later.
Seeing that His Majesty suddenly thought of Gao Chengyuan at this time, Shen He wondered, could there be something going on with the staff, related to the third prince and the Dragon Bird Army?
Shen He quickly sent someone to summon Gao Chengyuan, who had been waiting outside for almost two hours.
Gao Chengyuan was originally an orphan. When Yang Mi was appointed as the governor of Huainan, he was selected as a tooth soldier because of his bravery in battle. In recent years, he has been a military attache in the Wenying Hall of Suwei. He was only in his early thirties, and his wife was also married. The small family had nothing to do with the many factions in the DPRK. They were sent to the Linjiang Marquis Mansion only after the "assassination incident" occurred.
"Give me a seat," Yang Mi sat high on the dragon chair and motioned to Shen He to give Gao Chengyuan a seat and say, "Have you gone to the Longque Army to take up a post in the past two days?"
Gao Chengyuan was initially extremely resistant to serving in the Longque Army.
As a mid-level and low-level military officer, he is not qualified to choose a faction, but everyone knows that the generals and soldiers of the Dragon Bird Army are all infected with the epidemic and starving people. Even if they are not infected with the epidemic, they can barely make up three to five hundred sick people under their command. This is Yuhou. There's nothing good to do, it's better to stay with the third prince and serve him.
However, the third prince asked him to serve in the Longque Army, and His Majesty did not hesitate to approve it. Naturally, Gao Chengyuan did not dare to hesitate at all. He followed Li Zhigao, Chai Jian, and Guo Liang out of the city early yesterday and entered the village. The Yingjun Mansion met with Shen Yang, Zhang Qian and others to check the troops and horses, and officially took office.
Gao Chengyuan originally thought that the camp military mansion would gather 30,000 to 40,000 hungry people who were infected with the epidemic and were waiting for food. When he left home early in the morning, his wife hugged him and cried. He also specially prepared a house to live alone to avoid infecting his wife with the disease. Son, when he entered Taowu Ji, he discovered that the Longque Army's camp was completely different from what everyone imagined.
"Are you saying that the camp where Shen Yang is in charge of the Longque Army has completely controlled the epidemic?" Yang Mi also looked shocked and leaned forward with interest, asking Gao Chengyuan to speak in more detail.
"Whether it is completely under control, Chengyuan dare not say. Yesterday, during the camp day, there were many people with sallow faces and thin muscles, and the symptoms were quite serious. However, most of them had no problems working in the fields and training, and judging from their calm expressions, it seemed that they were okay. I don’t think the water bug epidemic is like a scourge,” Gao Chengyuan reported truthfully. “At this time, the Longque Army normally has more than 7,000 people in training. Chengyuan has three battalions under his command, with 80% of the troops. The soldiers can be considered strong. , I asked the soldiers, and they all said that Sir Shen has a way to cure the epidemic, and I am very grateful to His Majesty, His Highness the Third Highness for his kindness..."
Next, Gao Chengyuan asked Emperor Tianyou about some things he had learned from the soldiers, mainly the strict epidemic control measures taken by Shen Yang when he took charge of the camp military government.
Shen He was shocked when he heard this. Hearing what Gao Chengyuan said, doesn't it mean that the Marquis of Xinchang, Li Pu, had already planned all this when he wrote a letter to collect the hungry people infected with the epidemic in the name of the third prince?
The third prince did it so easily and directly controlled a force of seven to eight thousand troops in the capital. If the Anning Palace knew about it, wouldn't they be so anxious?
After a while, Yang Mi asked Shen He to come up with some rewards and then asked Gao Chengyuan to leave the palace.
Shen He couldn't calm down for a long time because of the information Gao Chengyuan brought. He saw His Majesty sitting in front of the imperial desk, picking up a memorandum that he had put aside before, and contemplating something.
Shen He came over to flatter him and said, "His Majesty originally designated Shen Yang as the third prince's tutor. Shen Yang was still reluctant at all costs. However, seeing that the third prince was still young and elegant, he still tried his best to do things for the third prince."
Shen He thought about it and felt that Shen Yang should be planning this matter for the third prince.
Yang Mi raised his head and glanced at the night outside the main hall, put down his pen and signed the word "accurate" on the memorial letter in front of the case, then put it into a pile of documents and asked Shen He to help him sort it out.
This was a memorial for the appointment of a new group of officials from both the government and the public after being discussed at the Privy Council and proposed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Shen He was shocked to see that the name of Secretary Han Daoxun was included in it.
