Kou Ji looked at Cao Yan and said indifferently: "Rebellion? They didn't dare for the time being, but they wanted to make the official family feel pain, so they naturally had to pick a word to make a hand. ”

Cao Tong asked: "What do they want to do with Yizizipu?" ”

Kou Ji shook his head and said, "Don't ask, I won't say." Anyway, you just have to watch, and when it happens, you will know. ”

Cao Tong was anxious, "But as the person in charge of the Yizi Jiaozi Shop, how can I be indifferent when I see that the Yizi Jiaozi Shop is about to be turbulent." ”

Kou Ji glanced at Cao Yan, and said nonchalantly: "As the owner of the official shop, he can watch others toss the shop, you are just a shopkeeper, what are you anxious about." ”

Cao Yan opened his mouth a little unwillingly.

But he didn't say anything.

As Kou Ji said, the word Jiaozi shop is Zhao Zhen's industry, Zhao Zhen is not in a hurry, he is in a hurry.

Zhao Zhen watched others toss a word Jiaozi shop, even if he broke his head in a hurry, it was useless.

Seeing Cao Yan's preoccupied look, Kou Ji reminded: "You don't have to worry too much, since the official family and I received the news in advance, we will naturally make some preparations."

There will be no big loss in the shop. ”

Cao Tong let out a sigh and said with a wry smile: "I've just been bored in the one-word shop for a few months, why do I feel like I've been a few years outside, I can't understand it." ”

Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "If you don't understand, just read it slowly, there is always a time to understand." ”

Cao Tong nodded helplessly, and it can only be like this now.

Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen were reluctant to tell him the truth, obviously unwilling to let him interfere, and it was useless for him to ask again.

Cao Tong accompanied Kou Ji and chatted for a long time in Koufu, until before nightfall, he quietly left the Koufu courtyard and went back to Caofu.

After Cao Tong returned to the house, he found Cao Wei and his father, and handed over the family affairs of Cao's house on the grounds of taking up a job in Yizizipu.

Cao Wei and his father knew the weight of Yizizipu, so they naturally agreed to Cao Tong's request.

Cao Tong said goodbye to Cao Wei and his father, and after returning to his room, he cut off his sleeve robe and sent someone to Pan Shu overnight.

Pan House.

Pan Shu, Shi Yuansun and the others sat down separately, plotting something, just as they were talking about the critical moment.

A servant hurriedly appeared beside Pan Shu with a broken sleeve, whispered a few words, and sent the broken sleeve to Pan Shu.

After Pan Shu got the broken sleeve, his heart was mixed.

Under the gaze of Shi Yuansun and others, Pan Shu threw the broken sleeve in his hand on the table in front of several people, and said with a long sigh: "Cao Tong sent someone to send it over." ”

Shi Yuansun gritted his teeth and said, "Cao Yan, is this cutting your robe and breaking off your righteousness?" ”

Pan Shu sighed and said: "We shouldn't calculate Cao Tong, if we tell Cao Tong He, Cao Tong will probably help us." Now that Cao Tong knows that we are calculating him, he has completely cut off from us.

We want to ask Cao Tong for help in the future, but it will be difficult. ”

"Humph!"

Shi Yuansun snorted coldly and said, "Cao Tong has a nest with Kou Ji snakes and rats. The official family dealt with us ruthlessly this time, and the two of them must have had bad ideas behind their backs.

If we can have today, it is very likely that Cao Tong will have the credit in it.

We are calculating Cao Tong, and Cao Tong is also calculating us.

Cao Tong had been in Yizizipu for several months, collecting so much evidence of our crimes, but he didn't show any news.

Now the official family wants to dispose of Wuxun, but he has come out again.

He must have been sent out by the officials to hear the news from us.

We didn't give him any news, but we had to calculate him.

He knew he wasn't our opponent, so he retreated.

The Cao family, as the head of our martial arts, refused to stand up to help when our martial arts were in trouble, which is ironclad evidence.

The Cao family must have secretly taken refuge in the official family and got the official family's promise, so they refused to help us, but wanted to harm us. ”

Pan Shu frowned and said, "This matter is just your speculation, and there is no empirical evidence. Cao Tong's decision does not represent the Cao family, the Cao family is a big help to us, so we can't give up the Cao family. ”

Shi Yuansun said coldly: "Then you go to visit the person who is really in charge of the Cao family tomorrow and see if he will see you." If he sees you and agrees to help us, it means that the Cao family is still with us.

If he refuses to help us, then my guess is correct. ”

Pan Shu stared at Shi Yuansun and said, "If you say that, will it be too extreme?" ”

Shi Yuansun said angrily: "The Gao family has fallen. Although the imperial court re-granted the Gao family the title afterwards, the Gao family in the court and in the army have been eliminated.

Today's Gao family has nothing but a bunch of empty names and a bunch of useless money.

Those names, those money, he can give them to the Gao family casually, and he can take them back casually.

The Gao family is now a fish on the pallet, and he can do whatever he wants.

Isn't the fate of the Gao family enough to wake you up?

He has made many excuses and played many tricks, just to eradicate our martial artists.

He just wants to put on that hypocritical face and drive us all to death.

If we don't resist, if we don't resist fiercely, we will only be dead. ”

Pan Shu frowned and said, "We didn't say we wouldn't resist, aren't we thinking about countermeasures?" It's just that it's not the worst yet, and we shouldn't get too excited.

What we are plotting now involves the lives of all of us, and we must be cautious and cautious. ”

Shi Yuansun sneered: "Thinking? Careful? Did it work? Gao Ji Gong was also like you at that time, and finally ended up with a dead end. ”

When Pan Shu heard this, his brows furrowed even tighter.

Shi Yuansun said coldly: "I have already sent a letter to the people of my Shi family who are hiding in various places, and it will not be long before they will make a move." He will dig up our flesh, and we will drink his blood first. ”

Pan Shu stared at Shi Yuansun, "Wait a little longer......"

Shi Yuansun gritted his teeth and said, "I can't wait anymore." ”

Pan Shu said in a deep voice: "Once this matter is done, we will have no way out. When the time comes, I can only fight against him to the end. You have been using the Gao family to remind us, so have you ever thought about the Fu family?

The Fu family did not resist the pressure given by Emperor Taizong, so they rebelled, and finally the family was wiped out.

Are we going to follow in the footsteps of the Fu family?

Although the power of the Gao family is gone, and Gao Chu Gong is also dead, the rest of the Gao family is still alive. ”

As soon as Pan Shu's words came out, others spoke out one after another, expressing their agreement with Pan Shu's idea.

As a last resort, you must not take the initiative to jump out and go against the court.

Under the persuasion of Pan Shu and others, Shi Yuansun said unwillingly: "Three days, I will wait for three more days at most." We, the people of Shifu, can only wait for three days. ”

Pan Shu sighed and didn't say more.

In fact.

They can't wait three days.

Because on the night of the same day, Zhang Zhibai, who was responsible for investigating and dealing with the military salaries in previous years, handed over a batch of lists to Zhao Zhen.

After Zhao Zhen copied some of these names to another document, ticked off their names, and then gave the document handed over by Zhang Zhibai to Chen Lin, asking Chen Lin to send it to Kou Ji, and asking Kou Ji to arrest people according to the list.

Chen Lin left the palace overnight and sent the list to Kou Ji.

Kou Ji crossed his horse into Bianjing City early in the morning and arrived at the Privy Council.

He took a pen and wrote down several documents, which were sent to the military camp outside the city, Kaifeng Mansion, and the Criminal Department.

Subsequently.

The Japanese soldiers, the officials of the Kaifeng Prefecture, and the officials of the Criminal Department cooperated and began to arrest people.

They rushed into the mansions of some Wuxun and took all the families of those Wuxun to the prison of the Criminal Department.

It's night.

Pan Shu and several people got together again.

Pan Shu said in a deep voice: "Wu Xun, who is attached to my Pan Mansion, has been arrested three. ”

Shi Yuansun gritted his teeth and said: "There are six of them under my Shifu, and one of them is still a member of my Shi family. ”

"I have three ...... under my door"

"Five ......"

"A ......"

“……”

After they were all finished, Shi Yuansun stared at Pan Shu angrily and said, "Did you see it?" His captors didn't care about our face at all, and he didn't even summon us into the palace to appease us or two.

If you say that you will catch it, you will catch it, and if you catch it, you will still catch it.

I sent someone to the Criminal Department to ask for someone.

Do you know what the Criminal Department told me?

The Criminal Department told me that Zhang Zhibai, who was old and immortal, had investigated and dealt with the evidence of their embezzlement of military salaries from the account books of previous years.

They have one calculation and one of them, and all of them are conclusively incriminated.

They will be beheaded by the Queen of the Autumn, and their families will be exiled by the whole family. ”

Pan Shu and the others frowned one by one and did not speak.

Shi Yuansun continued to roar: "How much are they greedy? They are less than one percent or one thousandth of us. They will be beheaded, and their families will be exiled. If we are caught, it will be the Yi Three Clans.

Chai Zongqing was only greedy for 2.4 million yuan.

We took more than Chai Zongqing. ”

Pan Shu and the others still didn't speak.

Shi Yuansun said angrily: "If we don't resist again, he will catch us." ”

Pan Shu closed his eyes, sighed, and said, "Then let the people below move." ”

Shi Yuansun put away his anger and snorted coldly: "This should have been done a long time ago. If we had done it earlier, our men would not have been caught. Now they are not only being arrested, but also beheaded.

Now there are people in Bianjing City who have begun to talk about it, saying that we can't keep our people. ”

Pan Shu opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "The courtiers have been impeaching us recently, and I am afraid that they have also been instructed by him. We should each be careful not to capsize in the gutter. ”

“……”

Nothing was said all night.

Following.

In the early morning, a few horsemen quietly left Bianjing City.

Straddle on horseback are all soldiers, one by one superb riding skills, out of Bianjing City, a ride to the dust, quickly disappeared in front of people's eyes.

On the tower of the outer city gate.

Kou Ji looked at the ride and walked away, put down the tea bowl in his hand, and said softly: "The official family invited me to see the scenery, is it this ride that is in the dust?" ”

Zhao Zhen sat opposite Kou Ji, nodded with a smile, and said, "What do you think of the scenery I invited you to see?" ”

Kou Ji smiled: "It's wonderful......"

Zhao Zhen laughed.

Kou Ji smiled and asked, "Are they going to do it?" ”

Zhao Zhen restrained the smile on his face and said, "Yes, they are going to do it." They are really powerful, and if they don't do it, they will stick to my heart as soon as they do it. ”

Kou Ji smiled: "No matter how ruthless they are, they can't compare to the official methods." ”

Zhao Zhen shook his head and said, "What means do I have...... I just spent a lot of money to train a group of people to help me find out the news. ”

Kou Ji continued to smile and said: "It has only been a long time since the establishment of the Martial Arts Division, and it has cultivated so many secret agents, and it can accurately help the official family to hear any news that the official family wants, and the official family may have spent a lot of money on it. ”

Zhao Zhen said with a smile: "I gave some money, and the people were picked by Chen Lin and Wu Desi together, and they also trained them single-handedly. The instrument supervisor has now been merged into the Martial Virtue Division, and many people in the Imperial City Division have been transferred to the Martial Virtue Division. ”

Kou Ji nodded slowly, but didn't say anything more.

Zhao Zhen's words were simple, but Kou Ji heard many unknown secrets from them.

Zhao Zhen re-established the Wude Division, and dispatched all the elites in the Instrument Supervisor and the Imperial City Division to the Wude Division, and secretly cultivated some people, the number of secret agents in the Wude Division may have already exceeded the previous Imperial City Division, and the news they can hear is probably more accurate than the previous Imperial City Division. Wu Desi seems to have become the first secret agent yamen of the Great Song Dynasty.

The current Wu Desi is only helping Zhao Zhen to listen to some useful news.

In the future, Wu Desi may be able to help Zhao Zhen do a lot of things.

Kou Ji didn't want to talk to Zhao Zhen about the issue of Wu Desi, so he smiled at Zhao Zhen and said, "Since they have already made a move, then we monarchs and ministers must also be prepared to deal with it." ”

Zhao Zhen nodded slowly.

The two monarchs and ministers did not stay long in the city gate building, and each left the city gate building with their own whereabouts.

After Kou Ji returned home, he immediately went into the study and wrote a few long letters.

After sealing the letter, he was going to send someone to send it out quickly, but after thinking about it, he burned the letter anyway, and then sent someone to summon his personal guard.

When the personal guards arrived, Kou Ji summoned each of them individually and whispered a few words.

A few people then left Kou Ji's study, but did not leave the Kou Mansion Courtyard.

After giving orders to his personal guards, Kou Ji sat alone in the study and let out a long breath.

Zhao Zhen's speed of developing secret agents is a bit outrageously fast.

Since the establishment of Wu Desi, it has only been a short year and a half.

Bianjing City no longer has any secrets to Zhao Zhen.

After a few more years of development, I am afraid that there are few things in the world that can be hidden from Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen has now passed the secret agent and has repeatedly obtained some important information, and now he has tasted the sweetness of espionage intelligence.

Kou Ji was sure that Zhao Zhen would definitely not stop expanding the pace of secret agents.

Because few people who have tasted the sweetness of espionage can stop it.

Koji wasn't about to stop that.

Because before the restoration of Wu Desi, the Great Song Intelligence Network can be said to have been in a state of paralysis at the beginning.

The Imperial City Division is called a secret agent agency, but it doesn't do much of what a secret agent should do.

Most of the time, the Imperial City Division is helping the emperor do some chores, dirty work, and spy on intelligence, but it has become a less important errand.

This also led to the fact that after many things happened, the imperial court realized it later.

For example, the Liao people appeared in the northwest before.

If the Great Song Dynasty had a perfect intelligence network, it would never have been possible for the Liao people to touch Linzhou City before they realized it.

If the Great Song Dynasty had a complete intelligence network, I am afraid that when the Liao people appeared in the territory of Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty would already know all the news.

Because of the imperfect relationship of the intelligence network, the Great Song Dynasty did not suffer less.

For example, during the reign of the first emperor, Li Lizun, a monk of Zongge, led 30,000 Tubo coalition troops to invade.

At that time, Cao Wei, who was stationed on the border of Tibet, had only a few thousand people.

Cao Wei sent a letter to the imperial court asking for help.

The first emperor didn't believe Cao Wei's words, thinking that Cao Wei was afraid, so he passed on a few words to ridicule Cao Wei.

The first emperor not only did not send reinforcements, but also changed Cao Wei's posture.

In the end, he was persuaded to do so.

Cao Wei did not ask for reinforcements, so in the end he could only use a few thousand men and horses to fight against the 30,000 allied troops of Tubo.

Fortunately, Cao Wei won the war, not only defeating the strong with the weak, but also chasing the enemy for thousands of miles and capturing a large number of cattle and sheep.

This battle is one of Cao Wei's famous battles, the Battle of Sandu Valley.

See the big in the small.

From Cao Wei's small experience, it is not difficult to see how bad the intelligence network of the Great Song Dynasty is.

If the Great Song Dynasty had a complete intelligence network, I am afraid that before the Zongge monk Li Lizun led the soldiers and horses to Sandu Valley, the Great Song Dynasty Imperial Court would have received the news that the Zongge monk Li Lizun had dispatched troops and intended to commit crimes.

Without waiting for Cao Wei to ask for help, I am afraid that the soldiers and horses who went to support were already on the way.

Cao Wei won in Sandu Valley, so he couldn't see the horror of the lack of intelligence.

What if Cao Wei loses?

The enemy is not going to go straight ahead?

I am afraid that after seizing the land of Sanliang Prefecture, the imperial court will be able to react effectively.

Therefore, it is very necessary for the Great Song Dynasty to have a complete intelligence network.

Kou Ji did not object to Zhao Zhen setting up a secret agent agency.

It's just that Zhao Zhen is currently using most of the secret agents on the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, and Kou Ji feels that it shouldn't be.

But considering that he and Zhao Zhen wanted to innovate in the future, mainly aimed at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and needed to use the intelligence of the spies to spy on them, Kou Ji did not point out Zhao Zhen's mistakes.

Secret agents can do it, but they can't rely too much on it and rely on it too much.

It is easy for the imperial court to develop in a pathological way.

What Kou Ji has to do now is to completely erase some inappropriate things that he still left in the Great Song Dynasty while Zhao Zhen's spies are not all over the world.

If Zhao Zhen's secret agent developed to Leizhou, he knew what he did in Leizhou, and knew that Cao Zhen was still alive.

The two gentlemen and ministers, when they met again, became extremely embarrassing.

At that time, it is difficult to say whether the two monarchs and ministers will be able to get along happily.

Kou Ji wanted to write a letter to explain the matter, but considering that writing a letter might leave evidence, he chose to let the personal guards personally make a trip and pass the order on his behalf.

Kou Ji's personal guards, those are all people who have followed Kou Ji through life and death, and they are also the subordinates of Kou Mansion.

If they can't believe it, there will be no one under the earth who can believe it.

A few personal guards ordered by Kou Ji stayed in the mansion for a few days.

On the pretext of protecting the caravan of Koufu, he rushed in all directions and left Bianjing.

The place they are going may not be the same as the direction they took when they left the city, but they will eventually take different roads to get to where they are going.

This matter was done very secretly, and no one found out.

Because Kou Fu controlled the production of most of the cloth in the world, every day the caravan left, and every day there was also a caravan back, and three or two people were incognito in it, and it was difficult to find out what was wrong with them without being caught and interrogated one by one.

And so far, no one in the caravan of Kou Mansion has dared to stop it.

Just after Kou Ji's personal guards left Bianjing City.

Several horses entered Bianjing City one after another, sending one bad news after another into Bianjing City.

Bad news has just been sent to the palace.

Zhao Zhen sent someone to summon Kou Ji, Lu Yijian, and Wang Zeng into the palace.

Zhang Zhibai was still checking the whereabouts of the military salaries in previous years, so he was not disturbed.

Kou Ji and the three of them entered the palace, and when they arrived at the Shishitang, they saw Zhao Zhen's gloomy face.

After the three of them gave the salute, Zhao Zhen instructed Chen Lin: "Hand the few documents that were sent in just now to the three Aiqing to see." ”

Chen Lin took the document and sent it to Lu Yijian and the others.

The three of them took the paperwork and looked at it carefully, with different expressions on their faces.

Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng looked solemn, revealing expressions that were really like this.

Kou Ji was furious.

Seeing Kou Ji's angry face, Lu Yijian said nonchalantly: "Kou Shumi seems to be surprised? ”

Kou Ji said angrily: "Damn thief, it's just madness. ”

Wang Zeng pursed his lips and said, "You shouldn't be surprised......"

The implication is to tell Kou Ji to stop acting.

It is you and the official family who are the ones who started the trouble, and you two will not be unaware.

The official family is acting, and we can't debunk it.

But you kid is acting here, who are you going to play?

Kou Ji was still angry as if he hadn't heard Wang Zeng's words.

After Zhao Zhen read the documents with Lu Yijian and the others, he said angrily: "South of Jiangning Mansion, including Jiangning Mansion, eight one-word Jiaozi shops were looted, and the shops were burned, which is really heartbreaking."

A word Jiaozi shop, that is my industry, is the industry of the imperial court.

Jiangning Mansion and other places are rich places, the local people have little wealth, and the annual savings of the eight Jiaozi shops can almost be compared with the two Jiaozi shops in Bianjing.

Now that it has been burned by thieves and robbed of money, the local people must be panicked.

If this leads to a popular uprising, I am afraid it will be difficult to end.

These thieves are robbing money, and they are clearly causing trouble to our Song Dynasty.

Messing with my big Song Dynasty and the mountains should be cut with a thousand knives. ”

Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng hesitated for a while after Zhao Zhen roared.

Wang Zeng muttered: "I'm afraid there is another hidden story behind this matter, and the official family needs to send someone to investigate it carefully." ”

The implication is that the robbery of the Jiaozi shop is not a simple robbery of the Jiaozi shop, but more of a demonstration.

The one-word Jiaozi shop, all guarded by soldiers and horses, robbed eight one-word Jiaozi shops in one go, but it is not something that ordinary people can do.