Chapter 668: The Deputy Envoy Leaks Secrets
Most of the palaces in the harem of Jinyang Palace are empty, but the prayer hall was used by Guo Song, mainly at night or on holidays to meet officials, the reason why this palace is enabled, on the one hand, it is relatively small, covering an area of only two acres, divided into five rooms, the small hall does not appear so empty, the second reason is that it is close to the government affairs area, and it is more convenient for officials to come.
The lights in the prayer hall were bright, Pan Liao was pacing back and forth in the small hall with his hands, he brought Guo Song the answer, but he himself didn't know whether the answer was true or false?
At this time, there were soldiers at the gate of the palace shouting: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin has arrived!" ”
Pan Liao turned around, only to see Guo Song walking into the main hall quickly, Pan Liao hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "I'm sorry to disturb His Highness's rest at night!" ”
Guo Song waved his hand, "Go inside and sit down!" ”
The two walked into the meeting room, and a palace maid served them tea.
After the palace maid retreated, Guo Song asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"The deputy envoy sent by Zhu Jun, Yang Kui, sent a confidant to send a secret letter to the humble post, which solved the doubts of the envoy this afternoon, why does Zhu Jun want us not to accept the fugitives from Guanzhong?"
After speaking, Pan Liao put a letter on the table and pushed it to Guo Song.
"Who is this Milky?"
"It's the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, who was originally an official of Honglu Temple, who can speak fluent Turkic language, and has been sent to Hui and Sijie, and he wants to serve the envoy."
Guo Song opened the letter and read it, and was slightly stunned, Zhu Jun actually decided to move the capital to Luoyang.
"Is this news for sure?" Guo Song asked.
"I don't know if it's true, but I think it can be checked."
"How to check?"
Pan Liao said slowly: "Guangtong Cang! ”
Guo Song nodded, Pan Liao did make sense, Guangtong Warehouse is the most important material important place for Zhu Zhu, if Zhu Zhu wants to move the capital, then the grain and grass materials from Guangtong Warehouse must first be transported to Luoyang.
Guo Song thought for a while, and said to the soldiers standing guard at the door: "Go and find Li Shusleeve quickly!" ”
Li Shusleeve is the head of the Suzaku Hall of the intelligence agency Tiance Building, and she is also the deputy commander, she is responsible for the internal service of the Tiance Building, and the Suzaku Hall has more than 100 female guards with high martial arts, distributed in the mansions of various high-ranking officials, responsible for protecting the personal safety of high-ranking officials above Langzhong, and in the Yuqiong Pavilion of Jinyang Palace, there are more than 30 female warriors of the Suzaku Hall, responsible for protecting the safety of Guo Song's family.
Li Shusleeve lives in the Kunlun Pavilion of Jinyang Palace, Kunlun Pavilion is also a group of buildings covering an area of five acres, located in the easternmost part of Jinyang Palace, through the upper east gate out of the palace, here is the dormitory of the female warriors of the Suzaku Hall, the status is a bit like the Tibetan Sword Tower of the Daming Palace.
Not long after, Li Shusleeve quickly came to the New Year's Palace, Li Shusleeve is about thirty-four or five years old, beautiful face, wearing a white dress, she is the grandson of Gongsun Auntie, practicing sword weapons nine styles for nearly 20 years, swordsmanship is strong, is the third generation of leaders.
Li Shusleeve is also extremely proficient in music and rhythm, and is the chief pipa girl of the Tian Lai Music Workshop, so she has another identity in Jinyang Palace, responsible for teaching Guo Song's daughter Guo Weiwei and Zhang Lei's daughter Zhang Yu'er to learn music.
Li Shusleeve entered the house and gave a blessing salute, "See Your Highness!" ”
Guo Song smiled and asked, "When will Yu Niang come back?" ”
Guo Yuniang went to Licheng County to establish the Ziqing intelligence point, and she has been there for more than a month, but there is no news.
"Yu Niang plans to come back before the end of the year, but she can't stay for two days, and she has to go to Chang'an."
Guo Song nodded and said: "I just got a news that Zhu Jun may move the capital to Luoyang, I hope that the intelligence point in Chang'an will verify the authenticity of this news for me, you can explore Guangtong Cang, you can also check Taicang and Zuozang, and the precursor of moving the capital is that a large number of materials are transported away first." ”
"I understand the humble position, send a pigeon letter to Chang'an early tomorrow morning, and verify it as soon as possible!"
"That's it, Hall Master Li should go back and rest!"
Li Shu bowed, nodded to Pan Liao, and then retreated.
At this time, Guo Song said to Pan Liao: "If this deputy envoy Yang Kui is willing to serve us, we can accept it, you tell him that if he can always pass on important information to us, I will allow him to serve as the secretary of Honglu Temple in the future." ”
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Guangtong warehouse is located in the territory of Huazhou, close to the Guangtong canal and named is the most famous granary in Guanzhong, after Zhu Zhu launched the Jingyuan mutiny, took over the Guangtong warehouse and stored in it nearly 600 stone grain, but also by virtue of the rich grain reserves, Zhu Zhu's army was able to expand rapidly, the strength once expanded to more than 300,000.
Although the grain theft case that broke out two years ago sharply reduced the grain reserves of Guangtong Warehouse to less than 3 million stones, after all, the grain reserves of Guangtong Warehouse were still maintained at about 2.5 million stones.
These days, there are suddenly more ships on the Guangtong Canal, in fact, this is also normal, every year after the autumn harvest, there will be a large number of grain ships to transport grain to Guangtong Warehouse, to the spring of the following year, the climax of the second wave of grain transportation will come again, from the Central Plains and Jianghuai, Jiangnan Cao ships will transport a large amount of grain into the Guanzhong.
However, the direction of these grain ships is not uniform, some ships are transporting grain to Guangtong Warehouse, and some ships are carrying grain out of Guangtong Warehouse, and their whereabouts are unknown.
But it can't be judged from this, it must be to transport the grain to Luoyang, Zhu Jun is preparing to move the capital, such a decision is relatively hasty, there is another possibility, that is, to transport the old grain back to Chang'an for sale, or to the barracks, in order to vacate the warehouse, so it is normal for grain to come in and out.
In the afternoon of this day, a man riding a donkey hurriedly walked in outside the North City Gate of Huayin County, and he came directly to an inn. ”
"I'm looking for a friend, the shopkeeper Zheng Da from Chang'an lives here!"
"In! Shopkeeper Zheng lives in the backyard and invites the guest officer to come with me. ”
This man's name is Zhang Tong, his public identity is a clerk of the Fengxian County Government, temporarily seconded to Guangtong Cang, responsible for sorting out the warehousing data, and registering it in the book, but his other identity is Tiancelou's intelligence spy in Guanzhong, Chang'an Tiancelou got Guo Song's instructions, and then tried to send Zhang Tong into Guangtong Cang.
Zhang Tong met his boss in the backyard, Zheng Hongyuan, the intelligence leader of Tiance Lou in Chang'an, Zheng Hongyuan is the big shopkeeper of the Baili cloth store in the West City, about forty years old, white and fat, always smiling, giving people an amiable feeling.
Zheng Hongyuan closed the door, the smile on his face disappeared, and he asked solemnly, "How is the situation?" ”
Zhang Tong took out a piece of paper and handed it to Zheng Hongyuan, "This is the data copied by the lowly position, and it shows the specific flow of the grain ship this month." ”
Zheng Hongyuan took the paper and looked at it, the statistics on it were very clear, the grain shipped out mainly flowed to Chang'an and Luoyang, of which thirty percent went to Chang'an, seventy percent went to Luoyang, and 500,000 stone grain will be delivered to Luoyang within this month.
"Only 500,000 stones?" Zheng Hongyuan felt that this amount was really too small, and when would all the grain be transported to Luoyang?
"Ships are not only transporting food, but also other supplies, and the river will freeze next month, and it will be re-delivered after the beginning of spring, and I estimate that it will be delivered at least until next summer, and even if the capital is moved, it will not be until next summer."
Zheng Hongyuan collected information from all over the place, all show that the delivery of materials will not be until May or June next year, and the repair of the palace in Luoyang will take more than half a year, and the time point refers to next summer, but one thing is basically certain, Zhu Jun is indeed going to move the capital, Zhu Jun and the important ministers of the court have reached a consensus, Zhu Jun has even sent people to Luoyang to repair the palace, gather official residences, many houses in Chang'an began to sell at low prices, and the proprietors Li An and Zhang Lei took over more than 300 houses.
Now it is only necessary to determine the specific time for the relocation of the capital, which is estimated to be in May and June next year.
Zheng Hongyuan nodded and said, "You continue to collect the data of Guangtong Warehouse, report it every ten days, and I will send someone to contact you." ”
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During this time, the government and private individuals in Chang'an City were frantically selling their houses, and the housing prices plummeted, and the price per mu of houses in good areas was originally 3,000 yuan, but now they all fell to 5 or 600 yuan per mu, or even lower.
The 12 squares close to Zhuque Street are the largest concentration of official residences in Chang'an, mainly small and medium-sized official residences, which are different from the mansions of Wubenfang and Chongrenfang, which cover an area of more than 20 acres, and are the private residences of the royal magnates, and the nearly 100 garden houses on the banks of the Qujiang River are the same.
These mansions are also being sold, but no one dares to buy them, like the big mansion of the Guan Long family, basically no one has lived in it, who dares to live in it, maybe the assassin will touch in the middle of the night and kill the whole family.
On the one hand, the background of the original owners of these houses is not deep, on the other hand, these houses were originally official mansions, and the imperial court wanted to raise funds to repair the palace in Luoyang, and also to repair the official mansions in Luoyang, Jingzhao Mansion could only sell the official mansions for cash, but there were still very few people who dared to buy them, and everyone was afraid that they would be liquidated in the future, and the houses would be confiscated by the government again.
There was no way, Jingzhao Mansion had no choice but to issue an exemption order, regardless of the source of money, as long as the purchase of official residences, no matter what the source of the money was, it would not be investigated.
Stimulated by the exemption from orders, there were finally big businessmen or foreign families who started to buy houses, Li An and Zhang Lei became big buyers, and the total number of houses bought by the two has exceeded 300 sets, all of which are small and medium-sized houses under ten acres, and no one dares to buy big houses.