Zhang Cheng came to the old shop of Majia in Nancheng Caochang Hutong, and the hotel guy heard that the incision was right, and nodded to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper, who was in his thirties, came over and asked, "Lao He, what do you call it?" ”

Zhang Cheng said: "There are hundreds of brothers who are experts, and they are all errands!" Because Zhang Cheng is one of the hundred households of the Jinyi Wei pro-military office, and the pro-military office is the emperor's personal guard, he naturally ranks first among the six inner institutes, so it is called a word errand, and the insider refers to the inner six institutes, and the hundred people are one hundred households, this sentence is Zhang Cheng's identity certificate.

The shopkeeper looked at Zhang Cheng and said in a low voice, "This brother is please?" After speaking, he said to the guy: "The third child, look forward to the shop!" ”

Zhang Cheng stood up and followed the shopkeeper through the kitchen to the back, there was a firewood room in the backyard, the shopkeeper opened the backyard door and looked, and took Zhang Cheng out of the old store of the Ma family after no one.

Outside the backyard wall is a small alley, Caochang Hutong is full of poor people, and naturally there are no drainage facilities, and sewage and feces and urine are direct. However, Zhang Cheng was also born in the market, so he didn't react, but felt a little nostalgic.

The shopkeeper turned around a few alleys, came to a small courtyard with a single door, opened the door and led Zhang Cheng in. This small courtyard is just one house, with adobe walls, and it is no different from the surrounding houses.

The shopkeeper took Zhang Cheng into the house, and there were already four big men sitting there in the house, looking at Zhang Cheng who had just entered the house with fierce eyes.

The shopkeeper asked in a low voice, "Why did the hundreds of households from the pro-military institute come here?" Didn't Lord Zhao come in person? While the shopkeeper was talking, the four big men stood in the four corners of the room, ready to kill Zhang Cheng immediately if he answered a little wrong.

Zhang Cheng knew that this was an enemy-occupied area, and the spies of Jinyiwei were very careful, and arched his hand and said, "I am here entrusted by Lord Zhao!" Here's the credential! After speaking, Zhang Cheng took out half a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to the shopkeeper!

The shopkeeper took out a book of Analects from behind him, took Zhang Cheng's half of the paper, and compared it with the Analects, which was really the page on the Analects.

Seeing that the vouchers were all right, the shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand to let the four big men sit down again, and said to Zhang Cheng: "Don't see this brother, the eagle claws of the Manchu Qing Dynasty are very powerful, and more than ten of our brothers have been arrested!" ”

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Beijing, it completely took over the power of the Ming Dynasty, and Jinyiwei naturally took over, and even Jinyiwei commanded Luo Yangxing to surrender to the Manchus.

When Zhu Hongsan first began to reorganize the Jinyiwei, he used a large number of old people from the original Jinyiwei, after all, they were all familiar hands, but how could he have thought that the hidden piles of the Jinyiwei in various parts of the north were smashed by the Manchu intelligence agencies, and there was no way for Zhu Hongsan to spend a lot of effort to reorganize the Jinyiwei system in the north, and it took the past two years to reopen the situation in several major cities in the north.

Zhang Cheng is a halfway monk, so he naturally doesn't know the inside story of Jinyiwei. Hearing what the shopkeeper said, he also asked, "I don't know which department this brother belongs to?" ”

The shopkeeper's face was a little unsightly, and the rule of the brocade guard was not to inquire about the official name of the person who connected it, and just say what you need. But the shopkeeper knew that this guy was from a pro-military institute, and they were all people around the emperor, so in order to make friends with Zhang Cheng, the shopkeeper said: "This brother, I am a hundred households in the elephant training institute, and those four people are my subordinates!" ”

As the name suggests, mahout elephants are responsible for the breeding of animals in the palace, but the Ming Dynasty has been broken into this, so what elephants are there. Zhu Hongsan did not change the name of the 14th Institute when he reorganized the Jinyi Guard, and the Elephant Training Institute is now mainly responsible for the transmission of information. And all the Jinyi Wei agents in a city are single-line contacts, and only the mahout knows the specific location of each dark pile, so this mahout is very important.

Take Beijing as an example, in addition to the elephant training station, there are thousands of households under the jurisdiction of the standard-bearer, who are mainly responsible for intelligence investigation, and there is also an action team in Shangzhong, who is responsible for doing dirty work.

If an order came from Nanjing to assassinate the Manchu general, the order was to go to the elephant training center first, and then the standard-bearer office would be responsible for finding out the specific location, and then the action team from Shangzhong would complete the final step. Except for the elephant training center, the flag bearer's office and the upper center do not meet.

In addition to these, there is another organization that the Outer Eight Institute does not know, in addition to them, there is also a Jinyi Housho hoe team in the city, which is one of the six inner institutes, they are mainly responsible for monitoring the actions of the Outer Eight Institutes, and if there are traitors, clean them up immediately, this team is directly under the control of the Nanjing Jinyi Wei Headquarters, and does not participate in daily operations.

But Zhang Cheng didn't know this, he was just a hundred households patrolling the streets in Nanjing. Originally, the personnel sent by Jinyiwei had to be trained, but Zhang Cheng took the emperor's path, so naturally he didn't need training, so Zhao Mengguan thought that Zhang Cheng knew this, and he didn't explain it to him and sent it out.

Zhang Cheng heard what the shopkeeper said before he knew that he had committed a big taboo, so he quickly stood up and thanked: "Thank you brother for reminding me, the little brother served the holy decree, the travel is tight, no one said this to me, it was the little brother Meng Lang just now!" ”

The shopkeeper listened to Zhang Cheng's order, and thought in his heart that this person was very favorable, and he could talk to the emperor.

Zhang Cheng scolded in his heart: Damn, this must be someone in Nanjing Jinyi Wei who is bad for grandpa, knowing that grandpa is going north but not telling me the way at all, it must be a joke from those Huguang barbarians who want to see grandpa!

The shopkeeper and Yan said: "Zhang Baihu, I don't know what Lord Zhao sent you to do?" ”

"That's the case, after we arrived in Beijing, we were locked up in the post house of the Ministry of Rites, and it has been half a month since the Manchu Qing Dynasty returned the news, Lord Zhao ordered the younger brother to come out and contact the brothers in the city, I want to ask you to find out what is going on?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "This is no problem, please go back and tell Lord Zhao, there will be a reply in ten days!" "When Zhao Mengguan left Nanjing, he took the holy decree with him, and all the Jinyi guards in Nanzhili had to be dispatched by Zhao Mengguan. This is also a Chinese tradition, and it is not easy for the various departments at the same level in the government to do anything, and only a messenger sent down from above can operate normally. The shopkeeper also received an order from Nanjing, so he was so polite to Zhang Chengcai.

After Zhang Cheng and the shopkeeper discussed the location of the next meeting, he went out of the alley under the leadership of a big man and returned to the post house safely to tell Zhao Mengguan.

Jin Yiwei is the most successful intelligence organization in this plane, and there is no such intelligence organization until World War I. Jin Yiwei's success lies in the fact that many of his methods are very advanced, unlike the spy organizations under the Chinese emperor in the past, Jin Yiwei attaches great importance to the collection of daily information from the people, such as how the price of vegetables in the market is, and what fluctuations are there this year and the same period last year.

The Jinyi guards in Beijing did not have the ability to infiltrate the Manchu court, but they still obtained a lot of useful information from the collection of daily civilian intelligence. For example, if you monitor the daily shopping in Dolgon's mansion, you will know that there are a lot of people in Dolgon's mansion these days, and the number of people who eat has increased, and they are all Manchurian bigwigs, because meat accounts for a large proportion of the purchase. There was also through the slaves and maids in Dolgon's house who came out to buy medicine, and knew that Dolgon was sick, and through what medicine he bought, he also knew that Dolgon should have tuberculosis and was very sick.

Tuberculosis is tuberculosis, which is not a terminal disease in the future, and it can be cured by taking antibiotics for half a month. But now there are no antibiotics, and tuberculosis is basically equivalent to a terminal illness.

Ten days later, the information collected by Jinyiwei was transmitted to Zhao Mengguan, in addition to the fact that Dolgon was seriously ill and the information in the palace, the number of Manchurian ministers entering the palace to ask for peace increased in the past month or so, and Zhao Mengguan frowned when he saw this. Looking at this situation, it is very bad for him to come, tuberculosis This disease Zhao Mengguan knows that a terminal illness is a terminal disease, but he can't die for a while, so he doesn't know when it will be the head.

However, Zhao Mengguan is just a deputy, and if there is trouble, it is good to leave it to Tong Tuchang.

Tong Tuchang also frowned after knowing the information, now that the Manchu court is in an extraordinary situation, it seems that peace talks will be impossible for a while.

Tong Tuchang looked at Fang Fengnian and Zhao Mengguan, the two deputies, they didn't have much to do, Tong Tuchang waved his hand and let them out.

Tong Tuchang sat on the chair and was worried, he has been away from Nanjing for three months now, and there is no shadow of the peace talks, whether he talks or not, it is not a way to rely on it like this, can he only go to Tong Tulai?

Tong Tulai is Tong Yangzhen's son, Tong Yangzhen is Tong Yang's brother, their family belongs to the Tieling Tong family, Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang belong to the Shenyang Tong family, although Tong Yangjia and Tong Yangzhen are brothers who have not come out of the five suits, but now they are their masters and don't know if they can work!

Tong Tuchang thought of this and made up his mind, no matter what, it is better to go and see it than to wait here.

After thinking about it, Tong Tuchang dressed up, he and Zhang Cheng made a fake braid, directly shaved a money rattail with a knife, and then changed into a servant's clothes in a secluded place, and there was no danger to get out of the station.

Everything is easy to do out of the post station, although Tong Tuchang has never been to Beijing, but everything is easy to say when the silver opens the way, so it is easy to find the Tong Mansion located in Beicheng.

Back then, Tong Yangxing exchanged the people of Tieling City for a Nurhachi's son-in-law, but Tong Yangxing's descendants were far from his brother Tong Yangzhen's descendants.

After the death of Tong Yangxing, his son Tong Puhan attacked the lord, and died within a few years, and the second son continued to attack the lord, who thought that he was also a short-lived ghost, and died before entering the customs, and in the fourth year of Shunzhi, Tong Puhan's son Tong Guoyao was mixed with the second-class Jingqi Nihafan, that is, the second-class viscount. Tong Guoyao is not very capable, the most brilliant time in this life was when he was the governor of Yunyang during the rebellion of the three feudatories, and in Yunyang and Wu Sangui's subordinate general Hongfu battle, beheaded more than 200 people, and other descendants are slowly submerged in history.

But Tong Yangzhen's branch is different, Tong Yangzhen's son Tong Tulai gave birth to a good daughter and two good sons, the good daughter is the mother of Emperor Kangxi, one of the good sons is Wei Xiaobao's good brother Tong Guogang, and the other is Tong Guowei, who was later called Tong Banchao. After Kangxi ascended the throne, he was born to Empress Xiaokangzhang Tui'en, gave his grandfather Tong Tulai a first-class duke, and ordered to change his subordination to Manchuria with a yellow flag. Yongzheng ascended the throne, posthumously crowned Tong Yangzhen as a first-class duke, loyal to the martyrs, and Tong Tulai and added a master.