On the small building of this Han Yuan business in Fengyang City, Lai Jingjie, dressed in a cyan embroidered collar robe, suddenly appeared in front of the window on the third floor.

He stared at the three men until they disappeared around the corner, and then he spoke:

"Remember to tell the people below that they can only do it when it comes to it, and let's just help."

Behind Lai Jingjie, there were four young men and middle-aged people dressed as scribes or businessmen, and when they heard this, they all hurriedly nodded: "The subordinates obey the order." ”

Among the four, a young man with a round face and no beard seemed to have a good relationship with Lai Jingjie, and then asked:

"Tenth brother, what do you mean by the second brother, since we were sent, why don't we be allowed to do it, these princes of the Zhu family are greedy and blasphemous, I can point to practicing hands."

Hearing this, Lai Jingjie turned around and looked at the young man's eyes full of doting.

"Jingmao, what did I say, the second brother also specifically told me to take care of you, it seems that your kid has itchy skin."

This young man is Wu Jingmao, who is in a group with Lai Jingjie, no wonder he is so casual.

He was younger than Feng Jingyi, who was now training in Luzon, and Liu Ximing always wanted to strengthen his control over the Military Intelligence Bureau, so he also sent him to study.

"The second brother said, our military intelligence bureau is different from Jinyiwei, it is our bottom line to only engage in intelligence, not assassination, it is easy to kill a person, but it is difficult to say whether we can stop after killing."

Lai Jingjie patted Wu Jingmao's shoulder as he spoke, "The Ming Dynasty used factory guards to control his subordinates, this is a treacherous technique, since the second brother wants to clarify the universe, he naturally can't tolerate these pickling methods." ”

"The status of our military intelligence bureau at this time is even better than that of Jinyiwei, if this precedent is opened, assassination, surveillance and other spy methods will emerge in an endless stream in the future, so the second brother specially advised, we must wait to guard the bottom line."

Lai Jingjie looked at the four people with different expressions, and smiled again at a few people:

"Don't think too much about it, it's also for your own good, everyone knows the fate of the factory guard, which one will live a long time, the second brother does this, it just shows that we all have good arrangements."

Everyone including Wu Jingmao looked relieved.

"All in all, everyone is doing things well, the second brother said before that the military intelligence bureau is getting bigger and bigger now, and there are more messy things, in order to facilitate management, in a few months, a part of the newly formed security bureau will be separated from the military intelligence bureau, and there will be more vacant positions at that time, you should behave well."

"Cultivated by Deputy Director Xie Lai." Except for Wu Jingmao, the other three laughed excitedly.

Liu Ximing himself is extremely disgusted with spy politics, and strictly speaking, the wanton use of spy politics basically appeared in a period of extreme political instability.

For example, at the end of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the period of Wu Zetian, and the marquis system pioneered by the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Around this time, although the Han Dynasty had similar supervisory bodies, it had not yet formed an atmosphere of spy politics in society.

It was not until the Zhu Yuanzhang period that this system was "carried forward", which in turn influenced the later Taqing and Chang Shenkai and others.

However, when it came to specifically telling the Military Intelligence Bureau to guard the bottom line, Liu Ximing was not only influenced by the politics of opposing spies.

More importantly, under the influence of the great Prime Minister, the Prime Minister has set three bottom lines for Teko in the decades he has been in charge of Tekko:

It is forbidden to beat traitors, open spies, or kidnapping.

It's all about avoiding falling into the trap of spy politics.

On the fourth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Fengyang high wall.

The high wall was built by Zhu Yuanzhang and was specially used to imprison the children of the clan, which was next to Fengyang.

The walls are high and the city is deep, and there is a special army stationed.

In the Ariake generation, the high wall was almost a hellish existence for the children of the clan, and it can be said that everyone heard of it.

During the reign of Wuzong, Zhu Yang, the king of Lu, cast nine sons and returned to the good king Zhu Dangqi because of his vain words, and was assigned to a high wall by the general Zhu Houzhao.

As a result, as soon as he heard the name Gao Wall, Zhu Dangkai cried in fear and died directly by hitting his head against the wall, which shows that the prestige of Gao Wall is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Taking advantage of this New Year's effort, the guards and eunuchs in the high wall also gathered to drink and have fun together, as long as they did not invite prostitutes to the inner city of the high wall, no one would generally say anything.

As for the guards and soldiers, of course, they are all absent-minded.

"Eh, stop, what are you doing?"

At the high-walled city gate, the doorman Yang Feng saw a group of more than a dozen men in plain shirts under the command of a middle-aged man dressed outside, either carrying or holding a dozen boxes straight towards the city gate, Yang Feng immediately stood up and called them back.

The man dressed as an outsider immediately stood up and nodded at Yang Feng and said with a smile: "This military master, the little one is from Fenglailou in the city, and Gonggong Gao said that he wanted to eat and drink, and we made a special trip to arrange someone to send it over." ”

Yang Feng looked at the box carried by the group, opened one and looked at it, and found that it was indeed filled with wine and food, and while swallowing his saliva, he waved it impatiently, "Okay, let's go." ”

"Thank you, Master Jun", the officer beckoned to his subordinates with a smile, and the group entered the city with a big grin.

However, what Yang Feng and the other guards didn't know was that it was true that the guarding eunuch Gao Shicheng sent someone to Fenglai Lou to order food, and the wine and food brought by these people were also true, but this person was not all people in the restaurant.

The diet of the Ming Dynasty showed two polarized developments, such as Jiangnan and other places because of the large inflow of silver, so the rich families paid attention to not getting tired of eating.

But for ordinary people, it is miserable, the lack of salt in meals is light, and it is even more normal to stir-fry without oil stars, which is not a good thing for friends who want to cross.

Even if it is a wealthy family, the current food culture is far from developing to the peak, and any Huaiyang cuisine and the like in later generations will be slowly perfected in the Tatar Qing Dynasty.

Liu Ximing naturally would not let go of such an opportunity, and as the living conditions of everyone in Liujia Village changed from famine to well-off, the requirements for food also followed.

The food culture of the Liu family immediately advanced by leaps and bounds under the guidance of Liu Ximing, as the old saying goes, I haven't eaten pork and haven't seen a pig run, the tip of the tongue, Bei Ye, these Liu Ximing are not less.

This Fenglai Building is one of the strongholds of the Liu family in Fengyang, and it has been welcomed by wealthy families from all over the world as soon as it was opened, and it has become the main place for the Liu family to carry out espionage activities together with the Han Yuan firm.

The group of people who swaggered in from the city gate naturally included the group of people sent by the Yin Yang Sect a few days ago.

After some investigation, even the assassination masters of the Yin-Yang Sect had to admit that it was quite difficult to enter the high wall to assassinate.

In addition, Liu Ximing considered that the assassination of the clan, even if it was a deposed clan, would cause an uproar, so he specially instructed them to do this quietly.

This makes it even more difficult.

There was no way, these people had to find Lai Jingjie again and think of such a way to sneak in.

They dialed the time to near dusk in the afternoon, and there were not people staring at the walls everywhere.

After turning a corridor, the whole team quietly disappeared two men with food boxes.

The Military Intelligence Bureau has been in Fengyang for so many years, and it has long since obtained the location map in the high wall.

The two disappeared Yin Yang Sect killers relied on the map to move around the various buildings, and it didn't take long to reach the small courtyard where Zhu Yujian was imprisoned.

It is also miserable, the courtyard where Zhu Yujian is being held is very dilapidated from the outside, and even the grass at the head of the wall has begun to grow, and it is obviously unattended.

After being imprisoned here, Zhu Yujian was abused by these eunuchs in every way because he was unable to ask for bribes by the guarding eunuch Shi Yingzhao and others, and even used the pier lock method to torture.

How to do it exactly, is to put the person in a bucket, only the head and hands are exposed, and the body can only be curled up and fixed, which is very cruel.

Of course, Shi Yingzhao and others didn't dare to kill Zhu Yujian directly, so they only used it occasionally, but this was enough to make Zhu Yujian suffer.

This situation lasted until the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, when Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Fengyang, came to inspect and rescued him.

Coupled with Zhu Yujian's experience of being imprisoned by his grandfather in his early years, Liu Ximing estimated that this was the reason why he was able to develop a resolute and unyielding character.

It's a pity that it was born at the wrong time.