Chapter 123 Cipher Communication

Imperial power, the struggle for power, which of the ministers of the DPRK and China does not know? Although the level of the subtext friend is not enough, he can only be regarded as a local official, but he is a magistrate at the foot of the Son of Heaven, so he is naturally very aware of these power struggles, not to mention that the subtext friend has a close personal relationship with Liao Yingzhong, and Liao Yingzhong often reveals some news about the DPRK and China intentionally or unintentionally, so that he knows a lot about the court.

The subtext friend lowered his head and muttered in his heart, "Could it be that the emperor has classified me into Jia Rudao's party?" ”

I said softly: "Qian Aiqing, do things well, for the people of the world, and for my Great Song Dynasty." ”

The unspoken friend suddenly remembered all kinds of rumors from the outside world, and the current emperor is the destiny of heaven, the true dragon son of heaven. He is full of poetry and books, full of wealth, and he is half-convinced of the rumors outside, and even the emperor's instructions in the tribute court may be the work of others, but when he listened to the emperor's continuous surname development remarks just now, he couldn't help but secretly respect in his heart.

The unspoken friend who is proud of his talent feels that in this era, in addition to the emperor, he has never heard of a second person who can have such outstanding and long-term knowledge, no wonder some ministers of the DPRK and China have said that His Majesty is a god and a man.

Thinking of these instantly, the unspoken friend hurriedly got up, and then knelt down on the ground with a thud and said: "The emperor's will, the minister said that the friend will keep it in mind, and the minister will live up to the emperor's love and strive for the prosperity of our dynasty." ”

"Aiqing, flat body." I smiled, "I said this is the Imperial Study, so you don't have to be formal. ”

Wen Tianxiang on the side also said: "Lord Qian, when discussing in the emperor's imperial study, don't be too restrained, just get used to it slowly in the future." ”

Wen Tianxiang just said casually, but he didn't expect that in the ears of the subtly friend, it seemed to become a hint, "...... in the future" Doesn't that mean that I will often go to the emperor's imperial study in the future?

The subtext friend who is well versed in the way of officialdom is full of joy and sorrow in his heart, happy that the emperor seems to be recruiting himself, and worrying that Jia seems to be not a kind person, he can't make his future go to the end, his surname is not guaranteed, and he is in the officialdom, once he stands on the wrong team, it is not a joke.

The subtext friend got up and said, "Emperor Xie." ”

"Well, stand down."

As soon as the subtext friend walked on the front foot, Xiao Qi followed up with the back foot: "Official, Lord Lu has arrived." ”

After Lu Xiufu entered the house, he handed me a copy of the notebook and said, "Your Majesty, this is the plan for the reorganization of the sailors handed over to His Majesty by Li Beiyang, the commander of the Naval Division. ”

"Li Beiyang?" I remembered that it had been a month since I inspected the sailors, "Junshi, how can this Li Beiyang's plan be directly transferred by you?" ”

According to the Great Song Dynasty ritual system, under normal circumstances, the officials outside the court need to be handed over to the Zhongshu Province or the Privy Council, and then to the Imperial Palace.

Lu Xiufu said: "Your Majesty, the minister deliberately befriended Li Beiyang, and was recommended by Le Zhishan (Li Beiyang's disciple), a naval general in the Yangzhou border army. Li Beiyang is very dissatisfied with Jia Rudao, and also looks down on the forbidden army of our dynasty, the border army, in addition to the Yangzhou border army, he believes that the current army is not the enemy of the Mongolian iron cavalry triad at all, only my Great Song Dynasty Navy Division is invincible in the world, but the water division is not valued by the imperial court, Jia Rudao and his party because they are unwilling to agree, they also fade with the development of the water division, and then woo Li Zengbo's coastal water division, so that the only funds for the water division have been allocated to the coastal water division over the years, and the equipment of the water army in front of the palace is lagging behind the coastal water division. Of course, this inspired the contradiction between Li Beiyang and Jia Nidao, but Li Beiyang was unable to fight against Jia Nidao at all, and slowly became decadent. ”

Lu Xiufu took a sip of tea and continued: "Since His Majesty inspected the Sailor, Li Beiyang has sprouted a glimmer of hope, hoping to make meritorious contributions in his lifetime, surpassing the exploits made by his ancestor Li Bao. It took Li Beiyang nearly a month to write, but he didn't want the Privy Council to see it, so he entrusted the minister to hand it over, and he made another note with Li Zengbo, which has now been handed over to the Privy Council to deal with the emperor's errand. ”

I smiled, opened the fold, and said: "This Li Beiyang's calligraphy is very good. ”

Lu Xiufu also laughed: "Your Majesty, this is not Li Beiyang's handwriting, his words are really like a dog crawling." ”

"Really?" I was surprised, "Is there such a literati talent under Li Beiyang?" ”

"Your Majesty, this is Ouyang Jianqing's handwriting. After Ouyang Jianqing joined the water army in front of the palace, he was diligent and studious, and he didn't know how to be valued by Li Beiyang and accepted as a closed disciple. ”

"No wonder, Ouyang Jianqing is both civil and military, if he can inherit Li Beiyang's mantle, it will be a happy event, this recital will be put here first, and I will review it carefully at night."

Lu Xiufu continued: "Your Majesty, the minister still has a matter to report. ”

"What's the matter? Let's just say it. ”

"After further contact with Ouyang Jianqing, Chen felt that he could join the Dragon Tooth."

I thought for a while and said, "If Ouyang Jianqing is willing, of course he can, this is also a good thing." Junshi, it's up to you to decide. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Junshi, you have to send someone to familiarize yourself with the carrier pigeon sent by Ling'er as soon as possible, with the carrier pigeon, the transmission speed of the Dragon Tooth Intelligence Department will be greatly accelerated."

Wen Tianxiang said: "Your Majesty, the speed of using carrier pigeons to transmit messages can indeed be accelerated, but it is restricted by the secrecy of the surname, and it is difficult to transmit some important news. ”

"Your Majesty, what Lord Wen said is extremely true, carrier pigeons cannot be used to transmit important information."

"Song Rui, Junshi, you can rest assured of this, I have already thought about it, just use the password to send a message."

"Cipher message?" The two of them said in their hearts, it's a new thing again.

A password is a technique used to obfuscate the desire to transform normal (identifiable) information into non-recognizable information that can be reprocessed back into identifiable information.

As early as 405 B.C., the Athenians used the simplest cipher for communication during the Peloponnesian War with Sparta.

I picked up two identical books on the table at random, handed one of them to Lu Xiufu, and said, "You two, these are two identical Analects, you take one and I will take the other." ”

Then, I took out another piece of paper, wrote three numbers with a hard pen, 358, and said: "Look, this is 358 three Xie numbers, the first number is 3, open the third page, the second number is 5, find the fifth row on this page, the third number is 8, look at the eighth line of the fifth row in this page, what is the word on it?" ”

"Yes, too."

I also looked at the Analects in my hand and said, "By the way, this is the word." I take this word as the first word of intelligence, and so on, can I replace a sentence with a series of numbers, this is the simplest password. For those who don't know, it will only be recognized that it is a few numbers strung together. ”

Both of them are smart people, so they can understand it naturally.

"I see."

Of course, there can be many variations, for example, when contacting A, the first digit represents the number of pages, and when contacting B, the last digit can be changed to 8 to represent the number of pages, or for each different contact point, different books can be used to reduce the impact of an accident in one stronghold to other places. Junshi, according to what I just said, after you go back, you can consult with the core personnel of your Dragon Tooth Intelligence Department and work out the rules. ”

"Obey."

"Well, stand down."