"Oh, Director Zheng should have found out who leaked the new weapon, right?" Zhao Hao did not prove his answer, nor was he very surprised, but asked rhetorically.

"Your Majesty, after the discovery of Meng Yuan's spies, his subordinates knew that the matter was very important, so they personally interrogated him, and his confession was told by a guy from Songyue Tower, and the news must be accurate, it came from the mouth of a big man." Zheng Huchen didn't see anything from the calm face of the little emperor, and replied cautiously, "The subordinates followed this clue and found that Songyue Tower was close to the Sixth Ministry, and the officials of the court and China often went in and out of it, and there was no shortage of senior members of the ministry, and after checking them one by one, they found that the most suspicious person was actually ......."

"Hehe, it's actually Zhou Xiang's goods, right?" Zhao Hao smiled and made his debut for him.

"Your Majesty already knows about this?" Zheng Huchen was shocked, he didn't expect that the little emperor had already learned in advance, so he, the intelligence officer, would be derelict in his duties.

"Well, look over there, it's all the courtiers impeaching him!" Zhao Yu pointed to a thick pile of music on the table next to him.

"Zhou Xiang is also not angry, His Majesty resisted the criticism of the courtiers, and promoted him to the Ministry of Works, but he behaved disorderly, and went in and out of the restaurant every day with the flattering people of the class, and after a few glasses of wine, he had no mouth to cover, and he spoke wildly, causing disaster in vain, and also embarrassed His Majesty!" Zheng Huchen sighed.

"Zhou Xiang is in the court this time, Yinzi is naturally happy to be his wife, his popularity is good in the court, and it is normal for colleagues to congratulate each other, drinking too much wine and bragging a few words is not a big deal. Instead, those civil servants looked at a general official who was about to be born, and suddenly rose to a high position, and they were jealous in their hearts, so they had nothing to do but play the impeachment, and I rejected them all! Zhao Yu said disapprerovingly.

"Your Majesty also thinks that Zhou Xiang just drank too much wine and was just talking nonsense?" Zheng Huchen listened to the little emperor's understatement, and didn't seem to take it to heart, and even felt that the officials who played it were jealous in their hearts and bit indiscriminately. He hesitated, then saluted again.

"Did he say something rebellious?" Zhao Yu chuckled.

"Not really." Zheng Huchen waved his hand and said, "After his subordinates learned the news, they sent people to follow and monitor him, and he praised His Majesty from time to time during the banquet, but he did not forget to pull the banner to make a tiger skin, claiming that His Majesty's life was saved by him, and His Majesty favored him and so on. However, there are also many gaffes, many times mentioning the secrets of the ordnance prison and the general prison, and in order to show his intimacy with His Majesty, he also leaked some private words to everyone. ”

"Hehe, this product has drunk too much and has not forgotten Jun'en, and it can be regarded as having a conscience!" Zhao Yu said with a smile when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, your subordinates also know that Your Majesty is the most benevolent and righteous, and they can't bear to blame the old ministers in the palace. But this matter is extraordinary, Zhou Xiang is in charge of ordnance production and research and development, and has many secrets, and there are many hidden Meng Yuan spies in the teahouse and restaurant, and there are provincial spies sent by the tabloids. Zheng Huchen saw that the little emperor did not take what he reported seriously, and he still had a lot of intentions to defend it, so he gave a deep salute and persuaded him in a hurry.

"Don't be in a hurry, eat some chilled fruits to quench the anger first!" Zhao Yu said and opened the 'refrigerator' beside him and took out a plate of melons and fruits. In fact, there was a refrigerator in ancient times, but to be precise, it should be called a warming cabinet, the structure is similar to the wooden box used by the vendors who sold popsicles in the streets, but it is much more refined, and the bottom is placed on the ice to store ice cubes in winter, and then put food on the ice to cool down.

"Your Majesty......" Zheng Huchen hesitated, but still took a peach handed by His Majesty, frowned and lowered his head to take a bite, and swallowed the words in his mouth again.

"Chief Zheng, since you and I, as well as Zhou Xiang and Zhuang Shilin met on the epidemic ship, and spent a difficult time together, it can be regarded as a friend of life and death." Zhao Yu also took a plum and said while peeling it, "So far, we have spent more than ten years together, in your opinion, what bad things has Zhou Xiang done in the past?" ”

"Your Majesty, although Zhou Xiang is a sleek person, likes to make friends, and is a little flattering, he is cautious, and he has never done anything illegal, and he has ever acted deservedly!" Speaking from the heart, Zheng Huchen didn't have a good impression of Zhou Xiang, and even looked down on him for flattering Shangguan, but the relationship between the two was still good. After thinking about it, he really didn't do anything evil, and he was loyal to the little emperor, and he was very safe in doing things, he muttered for a moment.

"Didn't you think about why it suddenly became so flamboyant and open-mouthed?" The frozen plum skin is not easy to peel clean, Zhao Yu gnawed on a piece of skin that still had the flesh without any image and asked with a smile.

The subordinates wondered if they had suddenly attained their will, so they were unrestrained and did not do anything debauched. Listening to His Majesty's words, there are some strange things in it. Could it be ......" Zheng Huchen chewed the peach and thought for a moment, looked at the little emperor and said suddenly.

"That's what I ordered!" Zhao Yu nodded and said softly.

"Oh, Your Majesty asked Zhou Xiang to deliberately reveal the secret of the new type of weapon developed by the Ordnance Supervisor, so if the enemy knows about it, wouldn't he be on guard!" Although he had already guessed it, the little emperor admitted it himself, which also surprised Zheng Huchen.

"Hehe, where is there any city-breaking artifact, if you can destroy the city in one fell swoop, unless a thunderbolt falls from the sky, it is just that I deceived Meng Yuan." Zhao Hao said with a smile. Not to mention the present, even in the modern era eight hundred years later, it is difficult to destroy an ancient city at once without using nuclear weapons, not to mention that at the moment he only has much less powerful black powder.

"Alas, I see." Zheng Huchen glanced at the little emperor sadly, sighed and said, "Your Majesty deliberately spread false news, is it aimed at Mengyuan to build additional fortresses along the river and rebuild the county siege of Zhouxian County?" ”

Zheng Huchen, as the intelligence officer, naturally knew that after the continuous raids in Jiangbei, Meng Yuan's personnel and property suffered heavy losses, and the complete defeat of the naval division also made them lose the conditions for the southern invasion, at least for a period of time. Faced with such a dilemma, Boyan had to turn from attack to defense, preparing to rely on the city walls and fortresses to deal with his own attacks, which would also cause difficulties for his own actions in the future. And the little emperor suddenly released the news that he had a city-breaking artifact in his hand at this time, and his meaning was self-evident.

"Yes and not quite." Zhao Yu got goosebumps when Zheng Huchen's eyes looked at him, and threw the plum into his mouth and said vaguely.

"Whatever it is, Your Majesty should also hand it over to our bureau for implementation. Although Zhou Xiang is shrewd, the slightest mistake will be wasted. Zhou Xiang said without blame.

"It's not like I haven't thought of you, after all, you're more professional. But I thought about it again and again, and felt that it was more appropriate for Zhou Xiang to do it, and his promotion to the rank of squire was when he was complacent, and it was easy to make people believe that he had inadvertently said something too much, which was easier to believe than using fake defections and deliberately leaking some rumors to Meng Yuan's spies, after all, he had been in charge of the military industry for many years and had many secrets, so it was logical to brag about it occasionally! Zhao Yu explained.

"Your Majesty's arrangement is naturally safe, but letting Zhou Xiang do this, his subordinates still feel a little risky!" Zheng Huchen nodded, shook his head again, and said.

"Don't forget that our opponents are not stupid, their spies are not inferior to us, if you want to deceive them, it will not be easy to blind Boyan!" Zhao Yu looked at Zheng Huchen and said.

"My subordinates know that there are many masters in Meng Yuan who are good at collecting and probing intelligence, and the generals who lead the army also attach great importance to this, and our side is indeed deficient in comparison, as Your Majesty said, they are formidable opponents!" Zheng Huchen's face changed and he said solemnly......

There is a famous quote in "The Art of War: Attacking": "Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles; Knowing oneself without knowing the other, one wins and one loses; I don't know who I am, I don't know myself, I will die in every battle. "His presentation of the intelligence was concise and to the point. For a long time, in people's impressions. The forces around the Central Plains Dynasty, especially the nomadic forces in the north, were extremely barbaric and backward. Although this is true to some extent, it is not true, and after a long period of development, the Mongols have not only achieved great achievements in military affairs, but also in intelligence work.

The establishment of the Mengyuan intelligence system originated from Genghis Khan, initially before the troops set off to fight, he would often send reconnaissance teams to directly investigate, generally sending four teams of cavalry, each team of about 200 people, the front team set off two days in advance, to reconnoiter the number of enemy troops, equipment, stationing positions, marching directions, etc. The other two groups patrolled the left and right of the main force to prevent a sneak attack on the enemy's flanks, and the last group swam back and forth behind the main force to prevent the enemy from raiding the rear base and to keep the route open for the safe transportation of military rations.

In the absence of any modern means of communication at that time, Temujin naturally instinctively believed that in such a vast area, smooth and timely information transmission was particularly important. Therefore, in the early stage, it paid special attention to the transmission of information, the construction of channels, and gave the heralds a higher privilege in order to transmit the discoveries on the battlefield back as quickly as possible.

The so-called 'arrow-like herald' is the most basic communication and command system created by Genghis Khan. When setting out on the expedition, post stations were set up along the way, and post men were trained to serve as communication services, and the horses were extremely fast. In order to be quick, a brass bell was hung under the horse's neck, and as soon as the post station heard the bell, it immediately prepared a new horse. And during the teleportation, if the herald finds that the war horse is exhausted, he can also forcibly requisition the war horse along the way, even the princes and nobles cannot refuse.

With the increase of strength, the Mongols' intelligence collection also shifted from the initial battlefield intelligence collection to the collection of strategic intelligence, and before the start of the war, they would collect detailed information on the geography, resources, political and economic conditions of the opponent. Mongolia's main generals are masters of this field, and they are also very forward-looking in intelligence gathering. Intelligence systems have become an important part of the country's military apparatus, with the intelligence networks they have built and the spies that businessmen act as spies spread across Eurasia.

Every large-scale war or campaign must be preceded by espionage first, and combat plans must be formulated on the basis of analyzing intelligence. The Mongol Empire, on the other hand, needed a lot of money and military supplies for years of war, so it attached great importance to commercial trade in order to obtain a large amount of tax revenue. But the merchants, having traveled from south to north, were familiar with the path they had traveled and the political and economic conditions of the countries they had passed; Coupled with their economic power and more or less contact with government officials, they were able to get what they wanted, through their close relationships with long-distance traders and the large number of local people they bought.

Therefore, the merchants were respected by the bureaucrats at all levels, and the officials sent troops to patrol the main roads to protect the safety of the merchants, and sometimes supported certain commercial organizations, which not only attracted a large number of merchants to the Mongol Empire to trade, but also the merchants had good relations with officials at all levels, which facilitated the officials' access to information, so that the Mongol Empire obtained a lot of useful information about the enemy through its dealings with the merchants. At the same time, the morale and will to fight of the enemy are lowered by preaching their strength and invincibility and brutal slaughter against any resistance.

Any wise military commander will inevitably attach great importance to the role of intelligence in war, learn how to expand intelligence channels, make full use of intelligence, and then make use of superb strategic thinking, so that he can strive for the greatest victory in war at the lowest possible cost. The Mongols had a large number of outstanding generals - from Genghis Khan to Muhuali, Subutai, Jebe, Batu and many more. These generals not only had the tactical skills to make the most of the Mongols' advantages, but also knew how to use intelligence strategically to achieve victory.

During the war, the Mongols not only used their own intelligence system, but also coerced and induced people from conquered countries or those who were preparing to attack them. After the conquest of the Ruth Empire and the Bolgar State, he hired local soldiers to infiltrate European countries to collect diplomatic relations between European countries, the losses of troops after the Crusades, and the struggle between Pope Gregory IX and the German Emperor Frederick II. When the Mongols learned from them that the Europeans did not yet know that the Mongols had conquered the Rus' Empire and the military strength of the Mongols, they immediately sent troops to capture Poland and Hungary.

In the Mongol Empire's western expedition, he first sent Subutai and Jebe to lead 20,000 cavalry to carry out the largest two-year reconnaissance activities in the European steppes, opening the way for the Mongol Empire to conquer Europe and collect intelligence. And in order to obtain more information about the economic, geographical, and political affairs of the European continent, he knew that he had also bought off the entire Venetian state, on the condition that the Mongols would give the Venetians a monopoly on trade wherever they went.

At the same time, the Mongols will also arrange various eyelines in the conquered countries, establish a strong and complete intelligence network, and keep abreast of the dynamics of the locals, after the Mongol Empire conquered the Central Asian country of Armenia, in order to raise military expenses began to levy heavy taxes, the local nobles were overwhelmed and decided to riot, but the Mongols got the information in advance to know the location and time of the rioters, and suppressed the nobles' rebellion without much effort, and the organizers were escorted to Hara and Lin for trial.

Therefore, Zhao Yu thought that the Mongols could establish one of the largest empires in the world across the Eurasian continent, east to the Pacific Ocean, north to the Arctic Ocean, west to the Black Sea, and south to the South China Sea......