readx; When Hu Peiyun and his entourage arrived in Chang'an, the city gate had been closed, but Hu Peiyun, with his special identity, still entered Chang'an City and returned directly to the headquarters of the Intelligence Hall in the Imperial City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as he entered the gate, an internal service officer on duty stepped forward to report: "General Hu, the princess sent someone to find the general in the afternoon." ”

Hu Peiyun was stunned and hurriedly said, "What's the matter with the princess?" ”

"The person who came didn't say anything, but just asked the general to take a time to go to the palace tomorrow."

Hu Peiyun knew it in his heart, he sighed secretly, and said, "I know!" ”

The officer was just about to leave, but Hu Peiyun said again: "You immediately find someone to find the old stele maker surnamed Ding." ”

After a pause, he ordered again: "Go to the internal guard again, if General Qin is in the internal guard, please invite him." ”

Although it is now a watch, the incident is so important that the princess is alarmed, Hu Peiyun is not sleepy, he wants to investigate the case overnight.

In the lobby, Hu Peiyun was holding a pot of herbal tea, drinking tea slowly, while looking at the giant turtle in the water tank, but thinking about the strange things that had happened these days.

The giant tortoise seemed to be asleep, lying motionless in the water tank, the ancient seal characters on the turtle shell flashed with a strange light in the light, Hu Peiyun first thought of the intention of the mastermind behind the scenes, judging from the discovery of Ruizhao in Xinfeng County and Lantian County at the same time, it was already obvious that the people behind the scenes were to create a momentum, a kind of momentum that the general was eager to ascend the throne.

The ancients said that the ascendant must be humble again and again, and have to ascend to it, which has become a habitual idea of people, modest, low-key, and follow the trend, which is especially important for the general, if the general is impatient to ascend the throne, what should the little emperor do now? Whether it is killed or abolished, it will give people a feeling of usurpation, so this behind-the-scenes person created a large number of Ruizhao at this time, which is obviously a means of framing, and the sinister intentions and careful arrangement can be seen that this is a great conspiracy.

At this moment, there were footsteps outside, and a soldier reported: "General Qiyu, the stele master has brought it." ”

Hu Peiyun perked up and immediately said, "Please let him in!" ”

Soon, several soldiers brought in the tall and thin old stele maker from yesterday, and he had searched through the materials for a whole day today, and finally found a clue.

The old stele maker was about to kneel, but the soldier held him up, Hu Peiyun stepped forward and smiled: "Old craftsman Ding has worked hard, please sit down quickly!" ”

Where did the old stele maker dare to sit, he took out a stack of manuscripts full of words, handed it to Hu Peiyun and said, "General, please look at this." ”

Hu Peiyun took the manuscript, walked quickly to the lamp, and looked at it carefully.

There are more than a dozen pages in the manuscript, it is a Buddhist scripture, the font is not big, and it is all ancient seal characters, he saw a 'Tang' character at a glance, which is indeed very similar to the 'Tang' character on the turtle's back.

He hurriedly ordered the soldiers: "Bring the giant tortoise under the lamp." ”

The two soldiers hurriedly moved the giant tortoise to the lamp, facing the light, he carefully identified, the six words were found from the Buddhist scriptures, and they were exactly the same, especially the word 'Qing' in Qing'an, the top point is very distinctive, in a semicircle, it is really completely consistent.

Hu Peiyun hurriedly flipped through the back, and there was no writer to leave his name, so he asked the old stele maker: "Who wrote this?" ”

"General Hui, this is three years ago a scribe surnamed Zhao asked me to engrave a tablet, saying that it was for his mother's seventieth birthday, and he paid a deposit at that time, saying that he would take it after half a year, but he has not come until now."

Hu Peiyun's heart tightened, if the intelligence only had this, it would be meaningless, a scribe surnamed Zhao, the world is big, where to find it?

"Do you know what his name is and where he lives?"

The old stele smith shook his head, "He only said that he would come to me to get the goods after half a year, and he didn't say anything else." ”

Just when Hu Peiyun felt disappointed, the old stele maker suddenly said: "I remember, he seems to have said that if he can't come to get it, he will let an official surnamed Qi take it, and it's the same." ”

The old stele maker dipped his finger in some water and wrote the word 'Qi' on the table, "I only remember what kind of temple supervisor it seems to be, which department it is, and the time is too long, I have forgotten a little." ”

This is also a clue, with this clue, you can also find a little clue, after all, there are not many people with the surname Qi.

Hu Peiyun's heart ignited hope again, and he ordered someone to reward the old stele maker with 200 silver dollars, so that he could report it at any time when he had new news, and the old stele maker left with a thousand thanks.

As soon as the old stele craftsman left, Hu Peiyun immediately walked into the library of the intelligence hall, which is actually a file for all kinds of information, and the library is extremely huge, divided into seven large libraries according to different categories, such as the central, local, financial, military, households, officials, criminal laws, etc., there are millions of pieces of information at various levels, and there are a total of 21 clerks and a library for regular management.

Hu Peiyun was looking for official information, he walked into the room of the personnel library, a warehouse is composed of two rooms, one is the outer office room, the other is the inner library, the office room is not large, there are four desks, two bookshelves against the wall, on which are dense cards, these are the index cards used to find information.

There are a total of three clerks in the personnel pool, and the reason why there are three people is mainly to ensure that someone must be on duty day and night, so each of the three people is on duty for four hours a day.

For example, it is now a shift at night, and there is a person in the personnel pool who has not gone home and sleeps directly in the outer office room, and can be woken up at any time if there is a situation.

The soldier woke up the clerk on duty, and when he saw that it was Hu Peiyun who came to check on him personally, he was so frightened that he hurriedly bowed and saluted, "See the general!" ”

Hu Peiyun waved his hand, "I want to check the information of the officials." ”

"Yes! Yes! General, please come with me."

The clerk lit an oil lamp and took Hu Peiyun into the warehouse, the clerk first lit the thirty-six lamps on the wall, and suddenly the library became as bright as day, and I saw that the warehouse was very wide, just like a small palace, neatly arranged with nearly two hundred one-zhang high bookshelves, and the bookshelves were densely filled with all kinds of files, which were divided into volumes according to the name of each official, and one file for each official, and the whole library was filled with a fragrance of ink.

Hu Peiyun couldn't help but exclaim, he had been to the document library of the Ministry of Officials, and it was only half the size of this, of course, the Ministry of Officials had accumulated many documents and files over the past hundred years, but in terms of the scale of the files on the shelves, the Ministry of Officials could not compare to the Intelligence Hall.

The documents and materials of the information hall are directly inherited from the materials of the Han and Tang Dynasties, which span a hundred years, piled up, and the shelves are only placed on the officials in their posts, which is also the result of the Anxi Army attaching great importance to intelligence.

In fact, this is the inheritance of the classification of the Ministry of Officials and the Han and Tang Dynasties, if it is indexed by surname, it is much easier to find, which is also one of the shortcomings, and the Intelligence Hall is also preparing to establish a new surname index.

The clerk Lang introduced to Hu Peiyun: "The document library is divided into five parts, the northwest corner is Anxi personnel, the southwest corner is the Southern Tang Dynasty personnel, the northeast corner is Hebei personnel, the southeast corner was originally Jiangnan personnel, but now it has been changed to local state personnel, and a large piece in the middle is Gyeonggi and Dugi personnel, I don't know where the general is looking for?" ”

"I'm looking for an official with the imperial court's surname Qi."

The clerk nodded, and he led Hu Peiyun and a few of his men to the middle, which was a circle surrounded by bookshelves, and inside the circle was a large pillar, and a large low table was placed where you could sit and consult information.

Wen Lang walked to the pillar of the house, lit an oil lamp on the big pillar, he pointed to a large wooden board hanging on the pillar and smiled: "General, please look! ”

Although Hu Peiyun is the head of the intelligence hall, he is still here for the first time, he walked to the big wooden board and took a closer look, it turned out to be a roster of court officials, only to see that the big wooden board was painted with ink lines all over the various departments of the imperial court, and the official name of each department has it, and under each official name hangs a small wooden plaque, about the size of two fingernails, with the name of the official written on it.

Hu Peiyun couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praised: "This is very good, is there one in the locality?" ”

The clerk nodded and replied: "Yes, almost every piece of the Dao, but only the official officer, the loose official and the prince have another roster." ”

Hu Peiyun pointed to the small wooden signs and searched them one by one, trying to find an official surnamed Qi, but he searched several times, and he had any surname, but he didn't find the surname Qi, his brows couldn't help frowning, what was going on, could it be that the stele maker was old and faint, and he remembered it wrong?

He looked for officials surnamed Zhao again, but found more than a dozen, but this was meaningless, the old stele master only said that it was a middle-aged scribe, and did not say that it was an official.

Hu Peiyun was a little disappointed in his heart, and at this time, one of his entourages reminded: "General, what the stele maker said was three years ago, and in three years, there will be many changes. ”

Hu Peiyun suddenly woke up, yes, there are indeed many changes in three years, such as going to the Southern Tang Dynasty, devolving places, retiring from old age, etc., it is possible.

He hurriedly asked the clerk, "Is there a chart of the official's name plate from three years ago?" ”

Clerk Lang Wenlang thought for a moment and asked, "Is the general definitely a court official?" ”

Hu Peiyun was a little drumming in his heart, and the old stele maker himself said that he couldn't remember clearly, but he still nodded, "It should be!" ”

The clerk found a ladder and took down two thick rosters from the top of a bookshelf, and he said with a smile: "For example, if an official surnamed Qi goes to Nantang, we will hang his name tag directly to Nantang, but this is just a change in the brand, and we can't see the process, such as what position he used to be and what position he is now, so we will also register it, one of these two rosters is to register the changes in the positions of officials in the past three years, and the other is the list of loose officials and titles, the general may wish to check from here." ”

Hu Peiyun was about to take over the roster, when a soldier came in and reported: "General, General Qin is here, waiting in the lobby." ”

Hu Peiyun hurriedly smiled at the clerk: "Please come and look for it, if you find it, report it to me immediately!" ”

With that, he turned and went out.

In the lobby, Qin Haiyang, the general of the internal guard, was holding a teacup and bowing his head and was silent, only to see Hu Peiyun walking in like a gust of wind, before anyone arrived, the voice arrived first, "Old Qin, I thought you went home to sleep, but I didn't expect you to really be in the courtroom." ”

"Even if you General Hu don't go back to the house, I won't dare even more."

Qin Haiyang made a joke, then put down the teacup, stood up and said, "Do you know that Lantian and Xinfeng also have an omen? ”

Qin Haiyang couldn't help but be stunned when he saw that Hu Peiyun didn't have a look of surprise on his face, "You already know?" ”

"Hmm!"

Hu Peiyun waved his hand, "Sit down and talk!" ”

Qin Haiyang sat down, and when he saw Hu Peiyun's face full of worry, he asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Hu Peiyun nodded and sighed slightly, "Gao Ling had another white jade stele yesterday, Lao Qin, the situation is a little bad!" ”

"I also think it's not good, this afternoon the reports from Xinfeng County and Lantian County came, and many officials were talking about it, saying that the general wanted to ascend the throne and wanted to go crazy, where are there so many Ruizhao?"

"Yes, you are right, since the appearance of ancient Ruizhao, there are some auspicious things, such as this thousand-year-old tortoise, if there is no word on the shell, it is a good thing, and then for example, the white jade tablet, if there is no wordless tablet, it is also a good thing, but like this blatant lettering, the content is shallow, it is a bit abnormal, I heard my father say, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, and there was a 'Great Chu Xing, Chen Shengwang's fish-belly brocade book, that is also because most of the laborers who follow him are ignorant and coarse, so it is better to be direct and superficial, but this time this kind of continuous appearance, three-year-old children know that we are faking, which will greatly damage the reputation of the general, I think this is a premeditated incident, the purpose is to discredit the general. ”

Hu Peiyun is under a lot of pressure in his heart, he is most afraid of another heresy now, but the actual situation is that it is very likely that it will appear again tomorrow, and now there are four cases, if you want to completely discredit the general, then at least five or six more cases will come out, then the situation will be difficult to control, if the incident really deteriorates to that point, it will be a serious dereliction of duty in his intelligence hall.

Hu Peiyun knew in his heart that in fact, they had already neglected their duties, this matter must have been planned very early, and there were a large number of participants, just waiting for the opportunity for the general to win a big victory in Hedong, but their intelligence hall did not know about it, and he Hu Peiyun could not escape the blame.

Now he urgently needed the assistance of the internal guards to control the situation, but he was afraid that Qin Haiyang would not do his best, so he muttered for a while: "General Qin, this matter has already alarmed the princess. ”

Qin Haiyang was stunned, and he asked a little nervously, "Did the princess say anything?" ”

Hu Peiyun shook his head, "The princess sent someone in the afternoon, and I happened to be away, so let me explain tomorrow, the matter is really serious." ”

Qin Haiyang also knew that Princess Zhao had never asked about military and political matters, but this time she made an exception and sent someone to ask, which showed that the matter was so serious that the princess could not sit idly by, and Hu Peiyun must have asked for something to invite herself to come so late.

He nodded, "I wonder what General Hu's plans are now?" ”

"I want to do it in two steps at the same time!"

"General Hu, please don't hesitate to say it, I have heard about it."

Hu Peiyun organized his thoughts, and he said slowly: "First of all, I have got a little clue, it is related to an official surnamed Qi in the DPRK, I found this person, and then I will find out the main messenger behind the scenes, and secondly, I want to prevent another omen from happening, I am short of manpower for the latter thing, I hope General Qin can help." ”

Qin Haiyang's face showed embarrassment.

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(To be continued)