Chapter 56 Acceptance of Appointment
"What! We made peace a few years ago, so how could my dad get hurt? No, my dad would never lie to me, who the hell are you? Xu Gang pointed at the man with a shocked face, his face full of disbelief.
"Yes, peace has been negotiated! However, things are not as simple as you think. The man replied to his words as he turned slowly.
"Ah~~ Uncle Shi? How are you! You were the master of the shot that night! Xu Gang looked at him without blinking, and after exclaiming, he said slowly.
Uncle Shi smiled and said nothing.
"Are you really surnamed Shi?"
"It's like a fake!"
"Is everything you say true?"
Uncle Shi put away his smile, his expression was a little serious: "Of course, the old man didn't lie to you, and besides, you don't have anything to deceive the old man." ”
Indeed, he is a poor boy, what is there to be deceived by others? Xu Gang spread out the token in his hand and said, "What about this token?" ”
"Stinky boy, do you know how many people want to join our detective army? If it weren't for the fact that Xu Chengyi was your father, he also saved the old man's life back then, and it would not be so easy for you to enter the old man's army. Uncle Shi glared at him.
"Okay, now I'll give you a mission, go to the Fierce Ghost Ditch to investigate the plot of rebellion by the Youyue Gate. Also, if you have any tasks in the future, Liu Ziyi will contact you! Uncle Shi said it very plainly, but it set off a monstrous wave in Xu Gang's heart.
"Sister Ziyi, isn't she her, isn't she from the Han Dynasty?" Xu Gang's eyes suddenly lost focus, and he looked like he was talking to himself.
"You think you're reading a novel, the people of the Han Dynasty, during this time, what happened to you was carefully arranged by the old man, in order to test you." Uncle Shi looked at him with satisfaction.
"Then you arranged my work in the egret forest?" A trace of coldness flashed in Xu Gang's eyes, he was unconscious in the forest, and he didn't even see his father's last face, which has always been a thorn in his heart.
"Hey, the old man in the egret forest has heard Daoyuan talk about it, but it was not arranged by the old man, and the old man is also very confused. As for your father's death, the old man is also very sad, and he tried everything to save him, but he still can't do anything. Uncle Shi sighed, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, and he didn't want Xu Chengyi to die.
"Okay, you don't have to ask, the old man will tell you the ins and outs of this matter in detail." Uncle Shi waved his hand to Xu Gang, signaling that he didn't need to ask again, he decided to explain the matter clearly to Xu Gang, so that he could accept his appointment with peace of mind.
Uncle Shi's surname is Yinglong, and he is the commander of the Imperial City Division's family affairs officer, and the detective army is one of the establishments under the Imperial City Division's family officer. The Imperial City Division is a full-time spy work, formerly known as the Wude Division established by Taizu, and was renamed the Imperial City Division when Taizong, and later Taizong issued an order to prohibit the Imperial City Division from going out of the capital to carry out activities, and since then there is generally no special order, and the Imperial City Division is only active in the capital.
The personnel of the Imperial City Division are mainly divided into two parts, one part is called a personal subordinate officer and is in charge of the guards; The other part is called the family officials, also known as the chazi, these people are in charge of all parts of the capital, down to the flower street and willow lane, up to the government ministers, to listen to the big and small news.
Among the family officers, there is also a special army -- the detective army, whose duty is to monitor the army and officials, reconnoiter the people's situation, spy on enemy information and counter-espionage.
The commander of the detective army is directly responsible to the Son of Heaven, and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Imperial City Division's "Charge of Imperial City Affairs" and "Mention of Imperial City Division's official affairs", nor is it under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, let alone under the command of the three yas, and the military master of the detective army also has a right that other armies do not have, that is, he can directly mobilize the three battalions of the detective army when needed.
"Is the Detective Army so powerful? So how many people can I transfer? Shi Yinglong's words completely subverted Xu Gang's understanding of the national military system, and he really couldn't imagine that there was such a special army in his country.
Shi Yinglong held up a finger and smiled.
"Ten thousand?" Xu Gang guessed.
"One hundred!"
"Oh, it's only a hundred!" Xu Gang pursed his lips.
Shi Yinglong snorted coldly and continued the previous topic.
The Imperial City Division belongs to the civilian establishment, although the detective army is not under the jurisdiction of the Imperial City Division, but it is established under the Imperial City Division, and because all members of the detective army are not allowed to easily reveal their true identities, they will be assigned an official position for walking officialdom, and Shi Yinglong's identity on the face is the general, from the third grade.
"Now I'll tell you about your father! Your father inherited your Weng Weng military status since he was a child, and when your father was only five or six years old, I was responsible for training you and him, and when he grew up, the military master put him in charge of monitoring Meizhou officials. Later, Yuan Hao established himself as the emperor, founded the Western Xia, the Son of Heaven was furious, sent troops to crusade, in order to obtain military information, the people of the detective army came one after another, and there were countless casualties, so they began to transfer the Chazi stationed in various places, and your father was one of them. After Shi Yinglong introduced the situation of the detective army to Xu Gang, he began to tell him about his father.
After Yuan Hao rebelled against the Song Dynasty, there were three large-scale battles on both sides, all of which ended in the defeat of the Song army, but the Western Xia was also a miserable victory, and the information they plundered could not compensate for the consumption in the war at all, compared with the materials previously in accordance with the peace treaty and through the Song and Xia civil trade, it was really worth the loss, and Yuan Hao was so happy, he fought everywhere, the treasury was empty, after the interruption of private trade, the prices of the Western Xia rose, the people were very poor, and there were complaints everywhere and the contradictions between the Western Xia and the Liao State and other reasons, made them hit it off with Song, who wanted to negotiate peace, and achieved peace negotiations and ended the war.
Xu Gang listened very carefully, these were things he couldn't hear in the town before.
"When your father was transferred to the front, the war was just over!" Shi Yinglong paused when he said this.
"Now that the war is over, why is my father so badly injured?" Xu Gang couldn't figure it out.
Shi Yinglong smiled bitterly and said slowly: "The war between the armies of the two countries is indeed over, but it also marks the beginning of the war that belongs to us!" ”
"Our war?" Xu Gang looked dazed.
"The Tangut people negotiated peace, but they were forced to do so, and from the day the war ended, their spies disguised themselves as merchants, peddlers, etc., and even infiltrated our army to spy on the military situation." Shi Yinglong frowned as he spoke, in order to get rid of these Xixia spies, Shi Yinglong can be said to have tried his best, and there was an incident that almost cost him his life, although this matter has passed for a long time, but in his heart there is a hatred that time cannot erase.
In that year, Shi Yinglong sent Chazi to the Western Regions found that Li Yuanhao had the ambition to be the emperor, and then through careful arrangement, when there was a shortage of talents in Western Xia, two Chazi in the army betrayed the Song Dynasty and defected to Xia on the grounds that they were tired of trying and not being able to stretch their talents. After these two chasons arrived in Western Xia, they made dangerous moves and staged a drunken inscription that offended Yuan Hao's name.
Later, the patrolman took them down and gave them to Yuan Hao, who asked why they violated his name and why they sneaked into the summer realm, the two shouted: "The surname has not been paid attention to, but the name is ignored?" ”
Yuan Hao's surname is Tuoba, his ancestors were given the surname Li by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and then given the surname Zhao by the emperor of this dynasty, which can be described as a model of one person with multiple surnames.
Later, under Shi Yinglong's careful arrangement, they soon won Yuan Hao's absolute trust, and after Yuan Hao founded the country, one official went to Zhongshu Ling, and later became a military advisor and minister of state, and the other was also a high authority.
After the battle of Shanshui River, it was the two of them who suggested that Yuan Hao send troops to Weizhou and wait for Chang'an, Yuan Hao adopted his opinion, planned the battle of Dingchuan Village, and ordered the Western Xia army to go deep into Weizhou, and was ambushed by our army, and the whole army was annihilated.
Both of them were people whom Shi Yinglong trusted very much, and the Song-Xia war slowly entered a white heat, for their safety, Shi Yinglong ordered them to leave Western Xia under the pretense of dying of illness and return to the detective army.
Who knew that they had long been blinded by fame and fortune, and had been secretly transmitting important military information of our army to Western Xia, resulting in the defeat of our army many times.
After the success of the negotiation, Song and Xixia launched a war of spies, the two actually falsely sent a message, wanting to subvert the detective army, they said that dozens of Western Xia spies were found somewhere, Shi Yinglong believed it was true, and ordered Xu Chengyi to lead the entire capital to follow him to the destination, trying to annihilate the opponent, who knew that he was ambushed in the middle, with heavy casualties, Xu Chengyi in order to help him block a deadly dark sword, and Xu Chengyi was seriously injured.
In the end, less than ten people escaped, all of whom were injured to varying degrees.
Shi Yinglong recalled this, both eyes were red, and the feeling of being betrayed by his own people and watching his brothers die in front of his eyes was really painful.
"Who are those two traitors?" Until this moment, Xu Gang finally knew the enemy who killed his father, his fists were rattling, his eyes were red, and he wanted to rush to the two of them, eat their flesh and drink their blood.
"One is called Zhang Shu and renamed Zhang Yuan, and the other is Hu Feng and renamed Wu Hao. The old man couldn't imagine that they were reluctant to give him the glory and wealth that Yuan Hao gave him, and it was fake to return to the army after dying of illness, and it was true to spy on the military situation for Western Xia. Shi Yinglong gritted his teeth.
"Zhang Yuan, Wu Hao!" Xu Gang silently wrote down the names of these two people in his heart.
"Master Shi, dare to ask if you know where Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao are now?" While listening to Shi Yinglong's narration, Xu Gang kept observing him, and even subtle movements did not escape his eyes. Therefore, Xu Gang already believed that what he said was true, began to admire him as a person, and his address to him changed.
Of course, Shi Yinglong also felt the change in Xu Gang, and felt very relieved in his heart, nodded to him, sighed and said: "Now the old man doesn't know where they are hiding everywhere, the old man has sent a whole battalion of chazi to scatter all over the country, and sneak into Western Xia, but so far I haven't found any information about them. ”
"Master Shijun, I am willing to join the detective army, as long as you can help me find Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, and let me avenge my father, you can let me do anything!" Xu Gang pounced, knelt on one foot, and looked at Shi Yinglong with his fists clenched, his eyes full of determination.
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