There is a drugstore in Linfufang in the south of Taiyuan City, called Huichuntang. It has been open for nearly fifty years and has changed several generations. It is also a famous time-honored drugstore in Taiyuan. There are long lines at the door every day. Many people bring their patients to the store.
He was brought directly there and waited for the elderly doctor sitting in the hall to diagnose his pulse.
Huichuntang is not the only one in Taiyuan. It is actually a national chain similar to that of later generations. It has branches in Chang'an, Luoyang, Chengdu, Jiangdu and Taiyuan. The main store is in Chang'an.
The proprietor of the Huichun Hall is Zhang Qianqiu. Three generations of his ancestors have been imperial doctors in the palace. The proprietor of the Huichun Hall in Taiyuan is Zhang Qianqiu’s third son, Zhang Jinshui, a middle-aged man in his forties who is also a famous doctor.
At noon, Zhang Jinshui came out of the side door of the medicine shop, rode a horse, and wandered toward the West Market.
Not long after, Zhang Jinshui arrived at the gate of the West Market, got off his horse, and led the horse to the Zui Taibai Restaurant opposite the gate. There were at least thousands of restaurants named Taibai in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, including more than a dozen in Taiyuan alone.
There are Taibai Ju, Taibai Tower, Taibai Thatched Cottage, Yunzhong Taibai, etc., this Zui Taibai is just one of them.
Zhang Jinshui came to the door and was immediately greeted by a bartender, "Master Zhang, long time no see!"
"Why haven't we seen you for a long time? I was here just the day before yesterday. You little brat are itchy?"
"Oh! I really don't know, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Master Zhang, please give the horse to the villain."
Zhang Jinshui threw the horse to the waiter and walked straight into the restaurant. Another bartender standing at the door came up to him and asked, "Master Zhang, do you have a reservation today?"
"I have friends on the second floor."
"I understand, Mr. Zhang, please come upstairs."
The bartender craned his neck and shouted: "Here's a regular customer!"
Zhang Jinshui walked up to the second floor, which was almost full. He glanced around and landed on a seat by the window. He slowly walked over and sat down.
Opposite him was a man in his thirties, with a slender face and a seemingly tall figure.
The man filled a glass of wine for Zhang Jinshui and lowered his voice: "I heard some news."
"How do you say that?" Zhang Jinshui asked calmly.
"They call that thing an iron fire thunder. Its shell is made of pig iron. We don't know what's inside. We only know that it is ignited by fire and then explodes. It is divided into four types: micro, small, medium and large. It is said that this is the top secret of the Hexi Army. By
The firearms battalion directly under Guo Song is in charge."
"If you say that, how can I remember it?" Zhang Jinshui said with some dissatisfaction.
The man took out a folded note from his arms and handed it to Zhang Jinshui, "Everything I know is in it."
Zhang Jinshui put away the note, picked up the wine glass and drank it in one gulp.
There were many spies like this in Taiyuan, coming from various vassal towns as well as Chengdu and Chang'an. This Zhang Jinshui was Zhu Si's spy. His father was highly regarded by Zhu Si, so Zhu Si used their family's Huichuntang drug store to turn it into Chang'an's drugstore in various places.
Information Center.
This thin man with a long face is called Manwu, a civil servant in Jinyang County Government, and one of the spies. There are more than twenty spies like him, distributed in all walks of life, and all under the jurisdiction of Huichun Hall.
Zhu Si's intelligence agency is called Zhu Lou, and it is run by Liu Sigu. It has nearly a thousand spies and assassins. They not only have to monitor the interior of Chang'an, but also monitor the main opponents. Before Guo Song captured Taiyuan, Zhu Lou focused on Chengdu and Jiangnan.
Hebei and Taiyuan do not attach much importance to Taiyuan, so the intelligence agency is relatively simple, just one intelligence point and twenty-three spies.
Zhang Jinshui drank a few glasses of wine and then got up and left. He didn't really come to eat. He wanted to send the information back to Chang'an by pigeon mail as soon as possible. Tomorrow was the last time to submit information, so there could be no further delay.
Zhang Jinshui went downstairs, and someone walked out of the elegant room. He was riding a donkey and followed Zhang Jinshui from a distance until he saw him entering the side door of Huichuntang Pharmacy, and then turned around and returned...
The Hexi Army's Internal Affairs Battalion currently has 3,000 people. They officially moved to Taiyuan from Zhangye three months ago. The Internal Affairs Army is not a security patrol force in the city. There can only be two of them. One is to protect the peripheral security of Jinyang Palace.
The internal security of Jinyang Palace is handled by Guo Song's personal barracks, the internal affairs camp, the personal barracks and the firearms camp. These troops are all directly commanded by Guo Song.
Another task of the internal affairs battalion is to detect traitors, and is responsible for finding enemy spies lurking in Taiyuan City and eradicating them.
The camp of the Internal Affairs Army is to the west of Jinyang Palace. It is a small military camp covering an area of 100 acres, while the Internal Affairs Military Office is in Jinyang Palace, next to the Suzhengtai Hedong Inspection Office.
Wang Yue stood in front of the window and listened to the report from his subordinates. They had discovered the spy Manwu ten days ago. Manwu was actually inquiring about Tie Huolei. This was too sensitive and he was immediately targeted by the Internal Affairs Army.
"Bizhi personally followed the person who contacted Manwu and followed the Huichun Hall in Linfufang. After asking about it, I found that the person who contacted Manwu turned out to be the proprietor of Huichun Hall, named Zhang Jinshui."
"What is Zhang Jinshui's background? Have you found out?" Wang Yue asked.
"Bizhi is investigating. I just heard that their family has been a royal doctor for generations. In addition, Huichun Tang only has a branch in Taiyuan, and the main store is in Chang'an."
Wang Yue snorted coldly, "It's really an ideal intelligence point."
"Commander, do you want to take action?"
Wang Yue pondered for a moment and said: "Don't touch the Huichun Hall for the time being. You can control Manwu first."
.........
Man Wu was a native of Taiyuan. The main reason why he became Zhu Si's spy was because his brother Man Wen worked under Liu Sigu and recommended him to Liu Sigu to become one of Zhu Lou's spies in Taiyuan.
Manwu worked as a civil servant in Jinyang County and received a monthly salary of three guans, but for working for Zhu Si, he could get ten guans per month. If the information was valuable, he would receive additional rewards.
Of course, Man Wu couldn't refuse such a generous income. Previously, the target of his surveillance was the Yuan family, but now it was the Hexi Army. Zhang Jinshui gave him a heavy task, and he was really restless during this period.
Manwu's home is near the West Market. It is a small courtyard covering an area of half an acre. He lives with his wife and two sons.
Manwu went to the county government again in the afternoon. He rode a donkey home at dusk and came to the entrance of an alley. His house was deep in the alley. Just as he was about to enter the alley, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and his vision went black.
Don't know anything anymore.
When Manwu woke up, he felt a splitting headache. He pressed his temples and slowly opened his eyes. He felt that the light was very dazzling. When he was about to stand up, he realized that he could not stand up and his hands and feet were tied.
Manwu was horrified, and quickly looked around. It was a very spacious room, and it was empty. There were four burly men standing on each side of him, with their upper bodies bare and their hands clasped in front of their chests. They all had sinister faces and fierce expressions.
"Is it weird?" Someone asked him from the opposite side.
Only then did Manwu notice a general standing opposite him. He was in his thirties, of medium build, and his eyes were as sharp as a knife.
"Who are you?" Manwu asked nervously.
This general was none other than Wang Yue. He said coldly: "You don't need to know who I am. I'm just telling you that this is the Internal Guard's office. You should know why you were arrested."
There was a 'buzz!' sound in Manwu's head, and he was actually exposed. He was suddenly extremely frightened and stammered: "I...I don't know what you are talking about?"
"I don't have time to talk to you. It seems that you won't shed tears until you see the coffin."
Wang Yue waved his hand, "Bring them here!"
After a while, the cry of two children came from the door, "We want to go home, we want to find daddy!"
These were the voices of Manwu's two sons. Manwu suddenly collapsed completely, fell to his knees and cried: "Spare my children, I will say everything and explain everything!"
Wang Yue then ordered: "Send their mother and son home!"
Wang Yue sat down and said slowly: "We know that you are inquiring about Tie Huolei, and we also know that you met with the master of Huichun Hall, Zhang Jinshui, at noon today and gave him a piece of information, which should be related to Tie Huolei.
, We first want to know how many intelligence points Zhu Si has installed in Taiyuan?"
Manwu lowered his head for a while and said: "There is only Huichun Hall, the others are intelligence spies like me. If we get valuable information, we will send it to Huichun Hall."
"How many spies are there like you?" Wang Yue asked again.
"I'm not sure. One time when Zhang Jinshui reprimanded me, he revealed that he said that the twenty or so of you spend hundreds of dollars a month, but you are unwilling to work hard."
"You mean you don't understand each other and are in single-line contact with Zhang Jinshui. Is that what you mean?"
"That's what it means!"
Wang Yue took a few steps with his hands behind his back and asked again: "How much do you know about Iron Fire Thunder?"
Manwu shook his head, "Aside from knowing that its shell is made of pig iron, that it is used for ignition, and that it has four models, I know almost nothing else!"