After Liu Jun returned from the palace, he returned to the Governor's Mansion outside the Xuande Gate. As soon as he entered the official hall, Liu Jun immediately sent someone to summon Luo Ping'an to come. When his former intelligence adjutant came, Liu Jun put down the official document in his hand and beckoned him to sit down.

"Are you still used to staying in Jinyiwei?"

Luo Ping'an was wearing a flying fish suit and carrying an embroidered spring knife, a standard brocade guard lieutenant attire. He gave a military salute to Liu Jun, then sat down and replied, "I didn't expect that one day I would wear a flying fish suit and an embroidered spring knife on my waist and be a brocade guard." ”

"It's true that Jin Yiwei had a bad reputation in the past, but that was in the past. Jinyiwei is very important, and we need it. Transfer you to Jinyiwei, I hope you can understand my intentions. ”

"My subordinates understand."

Jinyiwei was a transcendent existence in the Ming Dynasty, and it was once notorious. However, since the Chongzhen Dynasty, it has been relatively low-key. Since Liu Qiao became the commander of Jinyiwei, Liu Jun gradually controlled Jinyiwei.

Jinyi Wei is a rather special institution, his name is Wei, but it is different from ordinary Weisuo. His predecessor was the Gongwei Division established by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning of the founding of the country, which was equivalent to the emperor's personal guard. Later, it was subordinated to the Yiluan Division, which was responsible for the emperor's reliance. By fifteen years, the Jinyi Guard was officially established. The Jinyi guard not only has the responsibility of guarding the driver, but also has the responsibility of being responsible for the honor guard of the Son of Heaven when the court meeting ceremony and the emperor go on patrol.

The Han general in the Jinyi Guard is the honor guard and personal guard of the Ming Dynasty, with more than 1,000 people.

Because the Jinyi Guard was the emperor's personal guard, it was responsible for protecting the emperor, and also undertook the task of secret investigation and espionage intelligence. Later, Jinyiwei successively set up two towns in the north and south, and the south town was in charge of the law and military discipline of Jinyiwei's own guard, and at the same time controlled the military craftsmen who made weapons.

The Beizhen Fuji is responsible for secretly spying on the civil and military officials, and is also responsible for monitoring the feudal kings and counter-espionage. In the Chenghua period, the seal of the Fusi of Beizhen was added, and all prisons did not have to be closed to Bai Benwei.

Beizhen Fusi had its own edict and could arrest, torture, and execute on its own without going through ordinary judicial institutions. Become a discolored-changing existence that makes people talk about it.

The establishment of Jinyi Wei is also extremely large, there are three divisions of the North and South Zhenfu Division and the Experience Division, as well as 14 institutes, and even 17 institutes at the most, with tens of thousands of people.

However, when the Beijing army was rectified before Chongzhen's death, the duty of Jinyiwei's direct guard had been canceled, and only the duty of inspection and arrest remained, and it became a special intelligence agency.

By the time Liu Jun entered Beijing, Jinyiwei had also undergone several adjustments again, until now. Jinyiwei has completely ceased to have the responsibility of guarding and guarding, and has become a pure intelligence investigation agency. It has three subordinate divisions, and the Experience Division is responsible for sending and receiving official documents and intelligence analysis. The Nanzhen Fusi was in charge of intelligence gathering outside the Ming Dynasty and carrying out special operations such as assassinations. The Beizhen Fu Division was responsible for the surveillance of the clan vassal kings, civil and military officials, and military and civilians within the Ming Dynasty, as well as the anti-intermediary, and the investigation of criminal cases with bad influence.

The north and south towns each have five health centers.

The responsibilities of Jinyiwei have been greatly adjusted, and at the same time, a round of internal layoffs has also been carried out, and many children of meritorious national relatives have been cleaned up. And cleaned up those idle officials who were named. The most important thing is that its responsibilities have changed from the first heavy prison trial to the first internal and external intelligence investigation.

Jinyi Wei is also the only guard retained after the imperial court abolished the guard. Although the guards were retained, they were reduced from 14 to 10. And those hereditary guards. All of them were removed, and all the idle officials were abolished.

In this process of rectification, Liu Jun transferred many people from the Chu army, and recruited a lot of others. Arguably. Now Liu Jun is no longer just controlling Jinyiwei through Liu Qiao, but really intervening in the affairs of Jinyiwei.

The Division of Experience and the Division of the North and South Towns, as well as the following institutes. There are people from the Chu army in all aspects.

Although the Chu army also has its own intelligence system, the signboard of Jinyiwei is still good, and sometimes doing things, playing this brand, gets twice the result with half the effort.

In particular, Jinyiwei originally had the right to engage in reconnaissance, arrest, and interrogation, and any officials, soldiers, and civilians who threatened the imperial power were within the scope of their investigation and punishment, and even when arresting people, they did not need to go through the procedures of the three legal divisions of the outer court, and they could directly arrest people and enter Jinyiwei Prison.

It's an excellent tool, and it's a power that Liu Jun's own intelligence agency doesn't have.

Liu Jun's intelligence adjutant Luo Ping'an is now one of the five thousand households under the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town.

"I'm sure you've heard that the imperial court has decided to abolish the two towns of Jinzhou and Guangning, and to transfer Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou to Beijing. I don't think these two will be so obedient, they will definitely have something to do, and even rebel. I need you to send someone to Liaoxi to find out the movements of the Liao army in advance, and if they do go that far, I hope to know in advance. ”

Luo Ping'an nodded, "Or I will personally lead a team and secretly infiltrate Guangning to get rid of these two." ”

Liu Jun waved his hand, "If I need to assassinate them, I won't call you here, I'll just ask the people of Nanzhen Fusi to act." I told you to go, just so that you can investigate the movements. Against these two people, you can't assassinate. Don't worry, even if they really do the opposite, it's not a big deal, since I dare to evacuate the two towns, I have already considered this possibility. ”

"Do you want to send someone to keep an eye on Wu Xiang?"

"Not necessarily." Liu Jun has a very clear grasp of Wu Xiang's recent actions, knows that Wu Xiang has been persuading Wu Sangui, and understands that this guy is still very smart. "I have another task to give you, which is also the task of the entire Jinyi Guard, and you will go all out to investigate the officials related to the salt business, especially those big salt merchants. I need you to know about their wrongdoings, preferably more threatening. ”

Although the emperor, Wu Fu, and Liu Zongzhou all agreed to Liu Jun's plan to contract salt affairs, this was to grab meat from the rice bowls of those salt merchants and many powerful officials, so Liu Jun did not expect these people to obediently cooperate and hand over this piece of fat meat.

"Understood." Luo Ping'an took the order and left.

After he retreated, Liu Jun picked up the official document on the case again, looked at it, and looked at it, Liu Jun's brows were furrowed.

This is an excerpt from the Privy Council, which was transferred by Fu Shan. The content is the battle situation in Henan, Li Zicheng besieged Luoyang last year, and Liu Jun sent Zhang Shan to be the commander-in-chief of Henan's suppression of bandits, but now, a few months have passed in the blink of an eye, Luoyang is still surrounded, and the situation has not eased at all.

Zhang Shan reported to the Privy Council that the local civil and military forces in Henan refused to cooperate at all, and did not provide either food and wages, nor people's husbands. Even after Zhang Shan led his troops into Henan, they kept the city closed.

And none of the local officials and soldiers in Henan were willing to obey the dispatch.

In particular, Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Henan, not only refused to obey Zhang Shan's dispatch, but even retreated to the junction of Henan and Hubei, and even robbed a village and town in Huangzhou Prefecture. Therefore, Zhang Shan had to guard against Zuo Liangyu, not only to send troops to guard against Zhang Shan, but also to bring his own people to transport artillery and food.

Zhang Shan had always been worried that Zuo Liangyu would take advantage of the fact that he would lead his troops to Luoyang to relieve the siege and lead his troops to Hubei to plunder.

Zuo Liangyu's troops were mostly bandits who surrendered, and they were seriously overstaffed, with a total of 30,000 troops, but they actually supported more than 80,000 people. In particular, this army has no military discipline at all, and it is even more undisciplined than bandits, and it has always relied on robbery to supply the army.

Zhang Shan is not afraid of Li Zicheng, and Zuo Liangyu, who is most worried, stabs him in the back at a critical time. He was not interested in rescuing Luoyang, and only took care of Hubei, and he was unable to reach Luoyang for a long time.

Fu Shan's suggestion to Liu Jun was to transfer Zuo Liangyu out of Henan, but Liu Jun did not agree with this proposal. Zuo Liangyu is no stranger to Liu Jun, and he was Liu Jun's top boss at the beginning.

This person is an experienced general in the Ming army, and he was also a fierce general who dared to fight with the Qing army, especially with the bandits. And Zuo Liangyu has a characteristic, other generals like to eat empty salaries, but Zuo Liangyu likes to expand the number the most. He likes to surrender defeated bandits, and his army is always overnumbered.

His army is also the worst disciplined, but his soldiers are also the most convinced. Even if he was defeated every time, he would soon be able to pull the team up again, although the court had repeatedly condemned him, but each time he was demoted at most, and he was originally allowed to continue to wear the crime and make meritorious contributions.

Such a guy is completely a piece of hob meat. He knew very well what was the foundation of his life in this kind of world. The army is the foundation of his life, and he knows it very well. If you want to transfer him away, it's difficult.

Liu Jun picked up the pen and began to write a letter to Zhang Shan.

Spreading out the letterhead, Liu Jun dipped the wolf in ink, pondered for a moment, and finally put down the pen and wrote only one word on the letterhead.

"Kill!"

Since he can't listen to orders, there is no need to keep him anymore.

Henan, Yuncheng.

On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.

This was supposed to be a festive day, the second dragon raised its head in February, the spring ploughing began, and the people went on an outing to step into the spring.

But outside the city, there was a withered scene. A few days ago, Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Henan, led the army into Yuncheng, and these officers and soldiers under the banner of the official army, after entering the city, soon began to plunder, and finally turned into a big riot.

The people of Yuncheng were like encountering bandits, many wives and daughters were insulted, money and grain were robbed, houses were occupied, and the people were driven out of their homes, and they did not even dare to cry out loud.

A group of knights galloped by, startling a flock of crows.

Under the gate of Yuncheng, the head knight stopped the horse.

"Who's coming?"

"The people in the city listened, and immediately went to inform Zuo Zhen, and said that the general, the general of Huguang, and the commander-in-chief of the Central Plains bandits, Zhang Shuai, had arrived, and asked him to go out of the city immediately to greet him!"

In Yuncheng, Zuo Liangyu was surprised when he heard the report, "What? Zhang Huchen has arrived? ”

"Zhang Laohu won't come because of the incident in Huangzhou, where is he and how many soldiers did he bring?" A general next to him asked in a loud voice, with some uneasiness on his face. "Damn, didn't we already send someone to tell him, the matter in Huangzhou was completely just the work of a group of rebellious soldiers, and it was not our intention to Zuozhen at all, and he didn't let it go."

"Report to the general, he only brought fifty horsemen."

"What, only fifty horsemen? How is this possible, where does his army stop? ”

"Within thirty miles, no trace of the Chu army was found!"

When Zuo Liangyu heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, frowning and brushing his beard, "Could it be that he Zhang Huchen came with fifty horsemen?" ”

"Boss, do you want to let him in?"

Zuo Liangyu waved his hand, "Since he dares to come with fifty horsemen, is this town still afraid that he will not succeed, go, and go with this town to meet Commander Zhang in person!" (To be continued.) )