Chao Nei North Street, Prince Xuan's Mansion.

On the desk in front of Guan Zhuofan, there was a secret letter sent by the Military Coordination Office, and in the upper right corner of the secret letter, a small red seal was stamped, marking the secret level of this secret letter - a standard equilateral triangle, and inside was a Greek letter "III."

The intelligence level of the Xuan Army is divided into six grades, from low to high, which are blue one, blue two, blue three, red one, red two, and red three. Blue 1 to Blue 3, the logo is a blue equilateral triangle with the corresponding Greek letters; Red 1 to 3, the logo is a red equilateral triangle with the corresponding Greek letters.

"Red Three", this is the highest level of secrecy in the Xuan Army's intelligence system.

Of course, the logo of red one to red three, the classification mark of a certain composition of a certain work of art somewhere in the original time and space, as for why Prince Xuan chose this kind of symbol that may cause misunderstanding among the readers of this book as the symbol of the secret level of Xuanjun's intelligence, well, the lion does not know.

Let's take a look at the contents of the BCC.

At first glance, it seems to belong to the kind of "every word is recognized, but you don't know what it means when put together", but after comparing the codebook and "translating" it according to a special law, it becomes the following:

"Operation Yellow Sparrow, Phase III, Plan B. Smoothly. Yellow finch in the cage. The blue finch, the white finch, and the purple finch each have their place. Start feeding. ”

The word "feeding" made Guan Zhuofan's right eyelid jump slightly.

He struck a match, lit the cipher, and when the flames sprang up, he threw it into a shallow celadon basin, which twisted and flipped in the light of the fire, and quickly turned to ashes.

Look at the curling green smoke. Guan Zhuofan sighed silently.

The arrow is off the string. There can be no going back.

"Operation Yellow Sparrow". It was the most important, secret, and complex operation carried out by the Military Coordination Department since its establishment, and Guan Zhuofan personally led it and Chen Yicheng presided over the implementation. "Operation Yellow Sparrow" poured all the effort into mobilizing the whole department, but the ultimate purpose of the operation was only known to Zhuo Fan and Chen Yicheng, and even Martinez did not know much.

"Operation Yellow Sparrow" consists of multiple links, which are divided into different phases. At each stage, two or three sets of plans were prepared, and within the Military Coordination Department, they were referred to as "Plan A," "Plan B," and "Plan C." Now, in the third phase, the implementation of "Plan B" - after evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of "Plan A", Chen Yicheng and Martinez both believe that there are too many uncontrollable factors in "Plan A", which will make it more difficult to succeed and may even lead to the leakage of key information. Customs declaration Zhuo Fan approved, changed to "Plan B".

In a sense. It can be said that before the "Yellow Sparrow Operation" was officially named and completed, this operation began to be implemented, especially the selection and determination of several key players -- the green finch, the white finch, and the purple finch. It's just that, at that time, it was not called "Operation Yellow Sparrow".

The candidate for "Green Sparrow" was prepared early in the morning, but the right time was needed to turn him into "Green Sparrow". A year ago, after a small "accident" in the palace, the opportunity came.

The "White Sparrow" was personally selected by Guan Zhuofan, and before that, he had not even gone through the "background check" of the Military Investigation Department. However, the "supplementary investigation" of the Military Adjustment Office, as well as the performance of the "White Sparrow" afterwards, all proved that the prince's eyes were like torches, and if the Military Investigation Office was asked to find it by himself, I was afraid that he would not be able to find such a suitable candidate.

The prince has always been insightful, Xiao Chen and Xiao Ma, except for admiration in their hearts, they didn't think about anything else. They don't know that the determination of the "White Sparrow" is not too difficult for the traverser Guan Zhuofan, and there is enough historical information to show that so-and-so is the best choice for the "White Sparrow", and what Prince Xuan has to do here is just to take advantage of the situation.

What is really difficult to do is the candidate of "Purple Sparrow".

In the end, the solution to this problem was another covert operation, the "mortise and tenon plan".

The "mortise and tenon plan" is closely related to the "Yellow Sparrow Operation", but it is not subordinate to the "Yellow Sparrow Operation", and it was implemented long before the "Yellow Sparrow Operation" was named and completed.

The purpose of the "mortise and tenon plan" was to infiltrate the guards and guards of the Forbidden City into the Xuan army's own forces.

The guards are easy to do, but the difficult ones are the guards.

The guards of the Forbidden City are under the control of the "Minister of the Guard". This seat, before, Su Shun was sitting, King Gong also sat in, later, King Gong roared in front of the emperor and fell down, after the comeback, the military aircraft department, the prime minister's national affairs yamen, and the envoy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were restored, but the title of "King of Parliament" was gone, and at the same time, there was also the "Minister of the Guard".

The one who received King Gong's "Minister of Guard" was the King of Alcohol.

Later, another Boyan Nemo was added.

Guan Zhuofan entered the jade, Beizi, Baylor, the prince of the county, and the prince, all the way to the top, the foreman of the military machine, and the sole control of the country, and finally reached the point where the little emperor said "monopolizing the country and coercing the inside and outside". But what is a little strange is that among his titles, related to the Forbidden City, or more precisely, related to the inner court, there is only one "Imperial Minister".

From beginning to end, the queen mother of the two palaces did not express the intention of asking him to sign as "the minister of the guard".

Not many people noticed this situation, and even if they did, they didn't care: Prince Xuan had too many errands on him, too heavy, and now he couldn't even take out the Chenguang that entered the Naohongde Palace, where would he have the extra energy to take care of the guards in the palace?

But Guan Zhuofan is himself, but he can't "disagree".

"Imperial Minister" is also a very important title, and wearing this hat means becoming the most trusted and close minister of the "top". When foreign ministers enter the Hajj, they must be "led by the imperial minister"; The former minister himself came to see him, but he didn't have to "hand over the sign", he directly asked to see Keye.

In addition, the former ministers of the imperial court can also represent the "superiors" and manage the "inner court guards" such as the "Qianqing Palace Guards" and the "Imperial Front Guards".

Among the guards in the Forbidden City, the two "inner court guards", "Qianqing Palace Guards" and "Imperial Front Guards", have the highest status. Starting from the Qianqing Palace, even if he enters the inner court, he can guard the inner court and serve as the most trusted envoy for the children of the nobles. Among them, the "Imperial Guard", as the name suggests, "walks" in front of the Imperial Palace, and the distance between the "Upper Head" is the closest, and it is further than the "Qianqing Palace Guard".

However, south of the Qianqing Gate, it belongs to the outer courts, and the guards of the outer dynasties are not under the control of the former ministers, and the one who commands the overall situation of the Forbidden City is still the "minister of the guard".

There is not only one "Minister of the Guard", when it is full, there are two people in each of the three banners, a total of six people - of course, there are very few people when it is full, and even if it is full, there are only one or two people who play a central role, such as Su Shun in the time of Wenzong.

The current pattern is similar: among the ministers of the guards, only King Alcohol really holds the real power.

Guan Zhuofan really doesn't have the time to arrange, arrange, and manage the guards of the Forbidden City one by one, but sometimes, asking someone to sign as the "Minister of the Guard" does not necessarily mean that he is responsible for any specific work, but more of an expression of his credibility by the "superiors" - the Minister of the Guards is responsible for the security of the palace, and only the most trusted ministers can be entrusted with this important task.

After the coup d'état in Qixiang, King Gong also led the "Minister of the Guard", which belonged to this nature.

Now, the "credit" of the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces to Guan Zhuofan should have been above King Gong back then, but she did not concurrently lead the "Minister of the Guard", what does this mean?

Perhaps, there is no explanation of any problems, it's just that the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces didn't think of the special meaning of "leading the guard and the minister of the interior", and felt that Guan Zhuofan was too busy.

It is not surprising that Ci'an could not think of this, but with Cixi's carefulness and shrewdness-

Perhaps, back then, the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces didn't want King Gong to lead this envoy at all, but due to the situation, she had to make this arrangement.

At the beginning of listening to the government, King Gong's forces, covering the government and the opposition, were really above the queen mother of the two palaces.

Pai Gong Wang and the "Minister of the Guard" is not a real "credit", but a hypocrisy and a snake that has to be done.

King Gong fell, and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces no longer needed to be with King Gong, and his "Minister of the Guard" was taken away together with the "King of Parliament".

The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces didn't ask Guan Zhuofan to concurrently lead the "Minister of the Guard", is it-

If it seems unreasonable to say that the two sisters' "credit" to Guan Zhuofan is not to the extent that he is also the "Minister of the Guard", or even inferior to King Alcohol, then there is only one explanation left:

No matter how "believed" and "used", even if they already had skin to skin, in their eyes, Guan Zhuofan was still a courtier. Since he is a courtier, there is a need for moderate "suppression", and the foreign court has been "entrusted" to Guan Zhuofan; The inner court can't be called mastered, otherwise, it will really be called "coercion inside and outside".

No matter what the reason, Guan Zhuofan's power on the table is not as good as that of the palace guards, but he also has the need to meddle in the palace guards - not only for "traffic news", but also for "when there is something, it is easy to worry".

Then, I had to infiltrate secretly.

If this "infiltration" is limited to "traffic news", it will not be difficult to go anywhere, and there are more guards who are willing to befriend Prince Xuan, but it will be difficult to "deal with emergencies when there is something" -- this means that it is necessary to find people in the guards who are really willing to sell their lives.

At the beginning of the country, the guards of the Forbidden City were all from the upper three banners, and later, the scope slowly expanded to the lower five banners, but all of them were filled by the sons of the Manchurian and Mongolian nobles, and there were almost no ordinary banner people. In the Kangxi Dynasty, middle and lower-level bannermen began to appear among the guards, and the Han army banners also joined in. After the Yongzheng Dynasty, from the martial arts, he opened a small opening for the Han people. However, as mentioned above, the number of Han guards is very small, and no one has ever been able to achieve a high position in the guard system, and on the whole, it is insignificant.

These measures basically ensured the loyalty of the Ouchi guards to the objects they defended, and also greatly increased the difficulty for Guan Zhuofan to infiltrate the guard system.

However, no matter how small it is, there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, and the Military Adjustment Office has finally achieved its goal.

How this goal is achieved will be explained later.

As for the "yellow sparrow", well, that's right, it's the little emperor.

*(To be continued.) )