Liu Wei and Wei Yi sat opposite each other, two cups of freshly brewed tea were placed on the rectangular coffee table in the middle, and the aroma of tea came to their noses with the hot steam.

Although Liu Wei repeatedly emphasized that Wei Yi did not need too much courtesy to himself, since he succeeded to the throne, Wei Yi has become more and more cautious in the face of himself, not as casual as when Liu Wei was still a prince.

Liu Wei knew that this was the sorrow of the so-called superiors, and if they had no friends, it was no wonder that the ancient kings were called lonely and widowed.

Fortunately, Wei Yi only became cautious and polite in his attitude, and Liu Wei could still feel the enthusiasm of infinite loyalty from his Wei Yi's gaze.

Thinking of this, Liu Wei suddenly shuddered, and the situation in the dream came to mind.

Why did it become Wei Yi's face? Is it implying that I have the potential to be a "Brokeback Mountain"?

The atmosphere of the Han Dynasty was much more open than the era in which Liu Wei lived in his previous life, and gay love was not something to be fussed about in this society. Even Liu Xin, the mourning emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, was also a man who loved men, and the person named Dong Xian also left a saying of broken sleeves. Even the emperor is engaged in GUY, and natural male style prevails in society.

Liu Wei shook his head violently, squeezing off the thought in his mind. He is still relatively clear about his sexuality. When he was seven years old, he sneaked into the naked swimming hall of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty and peeked at the ** palace maid. He has always been relatively sure that he likes women.

Wei Yi, who was sitting opposite, saw Liu Wei looking at him with a strange expression, his face was entangled, and he shook his head violently from time to time, as if he was denying something. I can't help but feel weird.

But fortunately, Wei Yi has been by Liu Wei's side for a long time, and he knows that this young emperor has always liked to be funny, and at this time, his expression is strange, and he must have some boundless thoughts in his heart. Wei Yi consciously didn't ask questions, coughed lightly, and pulled the topic to the newly established printing house and newspaper office.

The success of printing is attributed to the improvement of ink by Liu Wei, Wei Yi and others, and the ink with resin and animal fat greatly enhances the viscosity, so that the ink can be clearly and firmly printed on the paper. For the selection of templates, Liu Wei and others were guided by foresight at the beginning to embark on the road of movable type printing, but the produced clay board will crack after not being stored for a long time, which affects the use. Therefore, the method of alternating metal engraving and movable type printing is still used to print publications.

The successful development of the printing technique gave Liu Wei a sharp weapon for propaganda in his hands, and the idea of opening a printing house and running a newspaper came into his mind.

If Ren Hongchang's Hongdu Gate School was a propaganda tool for the common people, the target of the newspaper's propaganda was the elite group of the empire, the scholars.

Through the propaganda of the scholars in the newspapers, they were made to identify with their own reform and governance, and to unite the scholars around them.

For this reason, Liu Wei and Wei Yi discussed for a long time, and finally settled on the matters of the printing house and the newspaper office.

The printing house and the newspaper hall were combined and located near the Upper East Gate, in the southeast corner of Yong'an Palace. The printing house was named the Han Imperial Printing House, and the newspaper was named Zhixinshe, and Wei Yi served as the supervisor of the printing house and the president of the newspaper.

(Because the printing house is next to the Upper East Gate, so the people of Luoyang call the printing house the Upper East Factory, Liu Wei thought of Wei Yi's title after knowing it, and sighed in his heart that history really has a sense of humor, and Wei Yi almost became a veritable "Governor of the East Factory")

The original business of the paper mill and the Diaoyutai Restaurant, which Wei Yi was also in charge of, was put aside. The restaurant was handed over to Chen Haonan to take care of, and they only needed to give three dividends to the palace every month, which could be regarded as a reward for their action to arrest Dong Zhuo. The work of the paper mill was handed over to Fan Ling. After the Jiade Hall incident, Fan Ling was disheartened about participating in the political affairs of the imperial court and did not want to enter the court as an official, so he stayed by Wei Yi's side to do things for Liu Wei and handed over the work of the paper workshop to him.

In November of the first year of the reign of Guangxi, the world's first printing house and newspaper office were finally established on the land of the Chinese nation.

At the same time, Liu Wei also decreed that no court official or common people were allowed to print publications privately and establish a newspaper without the emperor's consent. In addition, the printing press was listed as a secret of the empire and strictly protected, and the public opinion propaganda of the society was firmly controlled in his own hands.

Although Liu Wei did not want to control public opinion through the ban on newspapers, he also understood the power of newspaper propaganda, and at this time he was still just starting to develop, and he urgently needed to quickly expand his strength and enhance the cohesion of the people of the empire. For the current Han Empire, which is suffering from internal and external troubles, it is not suitable for any political reform for the time being, and the existing system of the Han Empire is still the imperial ** system in which all the people unite around Liu Wei.

In contrast to the high-profile appearance of the printing house and the newspaper office, another organization that controlled the security of the empire was secretly established in the east of Taicang.

The National Affairs Statistical Survey Agency of the Han Empire, referred to as the Unified Investigation Agency. Also known as the National Security Agency. (Liu Wei claimed to be)

If the Zhixin News Agency is Liu Wei's personal mouthpiece, promoting his political achievements and fighting and scolding others; The Coordination Agency is his eyes and ears, collecting information and obtaining intelligence for him.

This is an emerging imperial official office, with Wei Yi as the president of the bureau, Shi Qianshi. The Unified Investigation Bureau, like the Printing House and the Zhixin Press, provided all the expenses of the Emperor's personal treasury, but it was not subordinate to the Shaofu, but was directly responsible to the Emperor from the first day of his establishment, and the long history of the Unified Investigation Agency in the past dynasties was the emperor's confidant. This situation lasted until 646 AD, the sixth year of Wude of the Han Dynasty, when the then prime minister Li Shimin advocated political reform, so that the unified investigation society was placed under the management of the state, and not to the emperor personally.

On the surface, the Unified Investigation Agency was to observe the people's customs and conditions for Liu Bian, but in fact, Liu Bian integrated the original spy system and used it as a security agency to collect intelligence and maintain the stability of the empire. The chief officer is Changshi, and under him are the directors of various departments, and then there are ordinary members. It consists of seven yamen: the Espionage Department, the Secret Service Department, the Chongde Hall Affairs Department, the Imperial Security Department, the Technical Security Department, the Teaching and Learning Department, and the Archives Department. In addition to this in Beijing, each state also has a "foreign division" and each county has a "foreign government", and its influence covers all corners of the entire empire.

The Espionage Department is the largest department in the Unified Investigation Agency, with a large number of people and cumbersome work, and there are as many as 100 officials working in the yamen alone, not to mention the spy personnel distributed in various places inside and outside the empire. Its function is to be responsible for collecting intelligence, and everything related to national security and the stability of Liu Wei's throne will be reported. It is then screened by professional espionage staff officers, classified into categories, and transmitted to other security services.

On the surface, the Secret Service Department seems to be the smallest department of the Unified Investigation Agency, with only a dozen or so officials in it, but it is the most mysterious organization in the entire Coordination Bureau, and even in the entire empire. The duty assigned by Liu Wei to this yamen was to secretly deal with things and people at home and abroad that endangered the security of the empire, and to implement specific actions was to attack enemy countries and maintain the security of their own country through assassination, kidnapping, sabotage, rebellion, and other means, and to solve some people and things that Liu Wei could not solve through normal means. They are also known as the action group, and to put it more bluntly, they are Liu Wei's killer group.

Chongde Hall is the main hall of the South Palace, and it is the place where Liu Wei and the three princes and Jiuqing have a morning meeting. As the name suggests, the Chongde Hall Affairs Department is responsible for investigating and trying the corruption, bribery, and dereliction of duty of imperial officials. Later, after Liu Wei's grandson Emperor Han Dai ascended the throne, he established the Ministry of Integrity in the thirteenth year of Xiande, specializing in corruption and dereliction of duty of officials, and the Department of Chongde Hall was gradually abolished.

The Imperial Security Department is the Empire's exclusive counterintelligence agency, and is also responsible for investigating and prosecuting major crimes involving national security within the Empire. There is also the secret protection of members of the royal family and the military and political dignitaries of the empire.

The Technical Security Department was an agency set up by Liu Wei himself, whose duty was to protect the various confidential scientific research achievements of the Han Empire.

After Liu Wei succeeded to the throne, he officially incorporated Shi Ziyi's medicine house into a department of the empire, named the Imperial School of Science, which was responsible for the research of various military weapons and various advanced technologies in his past life that Liu Wei could recall in his memory. originally wanted Shi Ziyi to be a doctor, but Shi Ziyi insisted, and recommended another person to Liu Wei - Kaifeng Zheng Hun.

Zheng Hun is good at forging and is good at crafting weapons, and Shi Ziyi had a good relationship with him when he was young, so he recommended it to Liu Wei.

Liu Wei, who is familiar with history, of course knows that this Zheng Hun was a famous politician and craftsman in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and after Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, he also recruited him as a master craftsman. This person is both a technical stream and a qualified administrator, and is indeed a good fit for the School of Management Science.

After Zheng Hun became a PhD in the Faculty of Science, various research projects have developed vigorously. Most of these research results come from the knowledge and ideas of Liu Bian's previous life, and having them makes Liu Biao like a tiger with wings and stands at the forefront of everyone in this era. And once these achievements are leaked, the impact on the empire is very huge, so in order to firmly grasp these advanced knowledge in his own hands, Liu Wei specially set up a technical security department to protect these achievements.

The Department of Education and Training is the training institution of the Coordination Society, which is responsible for the training of relevant professionals in the various divisions of the Coordination Society. Twenty-three years later, Guangxi was changed to the Imperial Government College, which is still affiliated to the Unified Investigation Society, as the reserve talent pool of the Unified Investigation Society.

The Archives Department is a place dedicated to storing all kinds of confidential documents of the empire, which is the yamen that has attracted the most attention and strong interest from the outside world, and it is also the longest-standing department of the Han Empire, from the first year of Guangxi to 2011 AD in modern society, and the 207th year of the constitutional era. It is said that the Archives Department has a huge underground warehouse, which stores all kinds of classified materials, among which the eye-catching is the "Book of Genesis" written by Liu Wei himself, the specific content of which is unknown, but according to legend, the reason why the Han Empire can last for more than 2,000 years is entirely due to this "Book of Genesis".

In the early days, the role of the unified agency was not very strong, and its coverage was only in the Sili area and the surrounding counties. And at this time, the focus of work is also completely on the Xiliang area. After all, in Liu Wei's eyes, the rebels of Qiang Yi, Ma Teng and Han Sui, and Li Dao Guo Yan's Xiliang Army are all the henchmen of the current Han Empire, and for him, these people are the focus of the Unified Investigation Agency.

With the assistance of the Zhixin News Agency and the Unified Investigation Agency, Liu Wei gradually gained a firm foothold in Luoyang.

With a political eye, nose and mouthpiece, the next step should be to have a powerful fist - the army.

Just as Liu Wei was about to concentrate on the army, a piece of news from the imperial court had to make him look elsewhere.

The troops of King Qin of the state of Assassin Shi Ding Yuan had already arrived at Bishan. According to the news from the unified investigation agency, the person who needed attention after Liu Wei's special instructions was also inquired by the spies of the unified investigation agency and found out that he was in the Qinwang army this time.

Liu Wei took a soft breath.

In his previous life, Lu Bu, the first military general of the Three Kingdoms depicted in countless literary and artistic works, is about to appear.