Only two days later, Lu Xuanbo came to report to Zhao Junsheng with the results of the investigation.

Zhao Junsheng, who had finished his morning exercise, was having dinner with Mulan and a few children, and Lu Xuanbo's arrival surprised him: "Why did you come so early?" ”

"The minister is here to report the results of the investigation to His Majesty!"

"Have you had breakfast?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has eaten!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Okay, tell me, what are the results of the investigation?" ”

Lu Xuanbo handed over the note and said: "After the minister's investigation, the people who drew the circle above have frequently visited Cui Hao, and almost all of these people are from families, respectively from Hebei, Ding, Xiang, Youzhou, and Bingzhou. They entered the army and took the path of Cui Hao! ”

In other words, Cui Hao is just a civilian official, what can Cui Hao help if these people want to enter the army? Cui Hao wants to help too much, he is the right servant of Shangshutai, according to Zhao Junsheng's division of labor for the left and right servants of Shangshutai, the left servant is in charge of government affairs, and the right servant is in charge of military affairs.

Cui Hao is directly in charge of the military department, and has a great say in the promotion and transfer of officers below the rank of general.

Zhao Junsheng took the song and looked at it, and saw that the names of four people were circled on it, and he asked, "Are the military exploits of these people true?" ”

"The minister has sent someone to verify, but due to time constraints, the relevant recovery has not yet been received!"

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a while, "Okay, you go down!" ”

After Lu Xuanbo left, Mulan couldn't help but ask; "You don't suspect that Cui Hao is lying about these people's exploits, right? The performance of this meritorious service was sent by the captain's family, even if Cui Hao wanted to falsely report the military exploits for these people, he couldn't do it, could it be that he could still greet the captain's family and add the names of these people? ”

Zhao Junsheng asked rhetorically: "Do you think the captain will write the recital himself?" What if he had Cui Hao's people by his side, and this person had a lot of say in the lieutenant's army? It's not difficult to do something that pretends to claim war exploits and falsely report war exploits, right? ”

Hua Mulan only remembered when she heard Zhao Junsheng say this, although Wei Juan's family is a famous general, but he is illiterate at all, how can an illiterate person write a note in person? Even many military generals and marshals who could read and hyphenate could not write every letter in person, and most of them were written by staff members or adjutants.

"Alright, I'm full!" Zhao Junsheng put down the dishes and chopsticks, "I still have something to do, let's go first!" ”

"Why don't you eat so little?"

Zhao Junsheng wiped his mouth, waved his hand and walked towards the Qinzheng Palace, and the eunuch on duty immediately followed with a few little eunuchs and palace maids.

Zhao Junsheng came out of the inner palace, and he instructed the eunuch on duty as he walked: "Go and find me all the official documents that have been promoted and transferred by Cui Hao in the past few years!" ”

"These official documents should have stubs of transcription records in the palace, and the slave maid will personally take someone to find them!" The eunuch on duty agreed, and immediately left with a few little eunuchs.

After Zhao Junsheng came to the Qinzheng Hall to deal with the recital for an hour, he got up and moved his muscles and bones, and then the eunuch on duty walked into the main hall with a few small eunuchs with a few baskets of scrolls.

"Your Majesty, all the records of the promotion and appointment of military generals that have been handled over the years since Cui Hao became the right servant of Shangshu are here!"

Zhao Junsheng put down the pen, got up, walked over, picked up a scroll and opened it to see, this is a list of promotion and appointment after the battle against Du Chao, a total of twelve generals, which records the original military position and number of each general, what credit he made in a certain battle, and what military position he was promoted and appointed is clearly recorded.

Although this is not the original cantata, it is no different from the original cantata, because it was copied as a copy stub after Zhao Junsheng's imperial approval, and the purpose was to be able to have a document for the future, and the original cantata should be sealed in the file treasury of Shangshutai.

There is no problem in this dossier alone, and the reason for each person's promotion is clear, and he has sufficient military exploits and qualifications, unless he sends someone to investigate his military colleagues, superiors, or subordinates around these people in those years to see if their military exploits are falsely reported or whether they are fraudulently claimed, but the process of such an investigation is very time-consuming and laborious.

Zhao Junsheng looked at several scrolls in succession, and found no obvious problems, but when he checked the fifth scroll, he noticed something different.

There is a person named Zhang Huanzhi and a person named Wang Chenyu on this record, and the description of the military exploits of these two people as an important basis for promotion is somewhat vague, and the military exploits of others are clearly described, for example, the military exploits of a general named Liu Min are described as follows: On the seventh day of the ninth month of the eighth year of the Qianguo Dynasty, Liu Min, the third general of the 5,000th cavalry of the Flying Bear Army, led 300 cavalry under his command to defeat 500 Wei troops in the Woniu Valley, killed 326 enemies, captured 84 people, captured 200 horses, 382 sets of weapons and armor, Two hundred and twenty-eight pairs of bows and arrows, and was promoted to the deputy commander of the 5,000th cavalry for his merits.

The description of Zhang Huanzhi and Wang Chenyu on the record is not so clear, only to see that it reads: "On the tenth day of the ninth month of the eighth year of the Qianguo, His Majesty led the army to defeat Daqian thirty miles west of Yangyuan, and Zhang Huanzhi, the twenty-third building of the Shenwu Army (deputy Wang Chenyu of the thirty-second building of the Huwei Army), fought bravely, assisted the main general to break the enemy, made great contributions, and was promoted to the deputy and sixth general respectively!" ”

There are times, places, and events, but there is no specific description, only to assist the main general to break the enemy, how to assist? How many kills? How many enemy forces were routed? What did you do to help the Lord defeat the enemy? Nothing!

Zhao Junsheng took out a brush and drew a horizontal line under the records of Zhang Huanzhi and Wang Chenyu, and beckoned to the eunuch on duty: "Come, look at the location where I made the mark, you all take a look." After reading it, you should go through all the files, pay attention to any vague descriptions of military exploits like this, record their names one by one, and then go to the Yamen of the Ministry of War with my instructions to check the files of these personnel. By the way, there should be relevant archives of all court officials and generals in the palace, right? You don't have to go to the military department, just go to the personnel archives to access the files of these people! ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Junsheng emphasized: "Remember, this matter must be kept secret, not a word is allowed to be leaked to anyone, as long as there is a rumor outside, everyone will be executed!" You people supervise each other, and it is merit to report it! ”

The eunuchs were so frightened that they knelt on the ground one after another: "The slaves and maids don't dare, don't dare!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, and then ordered: "Come here, wait for the lawsuit to be summoned to the king frankly!" ”

The Waiting for Officials Department is a yamen established in the past two years to secretly serve hundreds of officials, and claims to be a yamen that collects price information from all parts of the country and neighboring countries, and its role is to provide a reference basis for the king's administration; in fact, this is indeed one of its functions, but its real role is to secretly serve hundreds of officials, including military generals, and prevent the occurrence of vicious incidents such as collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, rebellion, rebellion, and assassination of the king.

Before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were no real spy organizations, only some official organizations with similar functions of espionage organizations appeared, and the search for information was still mainly based on military scouts and waiting horses.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was an unofficial official name called Xiuyi, which indicated that he was favored by the monarch and was called Xiuyi Envoy, but it was only for the purpose of investigating information for the suppression of peasant uprisings. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao set up a spy agency called "School Affairs" to reconnoiter the words and deeds of his subordinates, mainly for counter-espionage; During this period, there was also a corresponding institution called "Dianxiao" in Soochow, but it was canceled in a voice of condemnation because it destroyed the ministers and trapped the innocent, but a counter-espionage organization called "Assassin Tun" had appeared on the border, with five soldiers per tun and one tun chief, responsible for border counter-espionage and police tasks.

In the Northern Wei Dynasty, real spy agencies were formed, and they were of a very professional standard, such as the Egret Division mentioned above, but the main function of this Egret Division was to serve and investigate hundreds of officials internally.

The name of the chief official of the waiting lawsuit is the commander, and the current commanding envoy Wang frankly admitted that he was a high-ranking official of the black-clothed guard before, and was transferred by Zhao Junsheng to form the waiting lawsuit.

The king, who was summoned, said frankly that it would come soon, "The king of the court said frankly to meet Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Get up!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to the other eunuchs in the hall, and the eunuchs withdrew from the main hall.

Zhao Junsheng said frankly to Wang: "What are the unusual behaviors of the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee and the officials of various places, the garrison and the border army generals and colonies these days? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, for the time being, no one has been found to have endangered the safety of Your Majesty, the royal family and the imperial court!"

Zhao Junsheng asked: "If I want to know how many people in the imperial court, local governments, Chinese armies, local garrisons, and local border armies have frequent contacts and close relations with Cui Hao, how long will it take to get the news?" ”

Wang said frankly: "There is news from all over the country every day to wait for the lawsuit, if Your Majesty wants to know about Cui Hao, the subordinates will order the subordinates to summarize the news, it only takes one day!" ”

In the waiting office, the ministers of the imperial court, the military generals, and the officials and generals of the garrison each have a separate file, who they come into contact with every day, what sensitive words they say, who they have correspondence with, and what noteworthy words are said in the letters, all of which are secretly recorded and reported to the headquarters of the waiting office in writing, and the officials of the waiting office will screen and evaluate according to the news sent from all over the country, and report it immediately once they find that there is a very harmful situation. If it's inconsequential, just seal the thing that records the message for later viewing.

Zhao Junsheng ordered: "Before it gets dark today, I want to know the list of all the people who are close to Cui Hao!" ”

"Yes!"

Wang Tanyan's actions were very fast, and after he returned to the lawsuit, he immediately ordered someone to check Cui Hao's file, summarize all the news related to him, and find out the officials and generals who were close to him.