On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the first dynasty of the third year of the Changyuan Dynasty, the emperor officially issued an edict, set up his eldest son Li Chenghong as the crown prince, and set up the East Palace Office and the six-rate cavalry guard according to the system. But the prince did not live in the Shaoyang Courtyard of Daming Palace, but gave a luxurious mansion as his residence near the Sanfu Bend of the Yuanfang in the northeast corner of Chang'an. Because although the edict was promulgated in the name of Li Shouli, the person who drafted the specific content was a civil official.

Since Wu Zetian, it is not uncommon for the prince to rebel and seize power, and Li Chongjun, Li Longji and others have all violated the ban by force, and they have grandly driven the army into the palace. Li Shouli didn't care about taking precautions, but the courtiers knew that the past was a lesson for example, so they naturally had to take precautions, and took the opportunity to work on the details of the edict, and arranged the prince in the "Princes' Mansion" in the Yuanfang for easy monitoring. On the one hand, the ministers with real power in the imperial court hoped that the Tang Dynasty regime would run on the right track, but on the other hand, they were afraid that the prince would be too radical and overly endanger their rights and interests.

The princes' mansions in the northeast are magnificently repaired, with small bridges and flowing water pavilions, all kinds of pavilions, which were specially built for Li Shouli's many children two years ago. Because Li Shouli has too many sons and daughters, there are dozens, and some Li Shouli can't name them when they meet. So the imperial court set aside a piece of land to build pavilions and courtyards, so that they could eat, drink and have fun there, and save the power center from causing trouble.

Li Chenghong's residence was settled, and a few days later, the ministers mentioned the separation of powers, and Lu Xiang first wanted the prince to be in charge of the country and control part of the state power. Because of the current situation, the emperor is not in power, in fact, the central power is all in the hands of the ministers and ministers of the political hall, and when they encounter problems, they can only ask the queen; Lu Xiangxian was under a lot of pressure, not only worried that he would fall into the reputation of Cao Cao's dictatorship, but also realized that in the long run, the queen and the Jin king's gang would be too big, and the king's ministers were not the way to long-term peace and stability. And he did not have the ambition to be authoritarian, so he repeatedly insisted on the separation of powers.

At this time, Xue Chongxun was very low-key, and he never said more about things that he shouldn't ask. Although people often mention him and regard him as the focal point of Chang'an, it is often easy to ignore him when they are really with him on certain occasions.

After the canonization of the crown prince, there was a state banquet in the Lin De Palace, and he also attended. During the banquet, I listened to the eunuch Yu Liben whispering about the contradictions between the queen and the prince's biological mother and the filthy relationship between them. When he looked at Gao, he found that Gao deliberately avoided his gaze and looked very indifferent.

Xue Chongxun is also a big head, and now Chang'an is too complicated, not to mention the hidden dangers on the prince's side, even Princess Taiping is also a plate of scattered sand, and each has a plan. Naturally, he is not as good as his mother, he can subdue people from all walks of life, first of all, he is a relative, and his identity is not comparable to his mother.

He let their gang do it inside, and he didn't mix it himself, but only cared about consolidating his own one-third of an acre of land. The Flying Tiger Regiment has been transferred to Anyifang to be stationed, and it is a great thing to have this elite cavalry Xue Chongxun is much bolder, and it is really remarkable to have hundreds of heavily armed guards in Chang'an City. If someone wants to use illegal means to plot against him, it is not easy, and if he wants to move him, Xue Chongxun has only a legitimate way.

In addition, after he became a prince, he was able to have his own official office "Kinkoko" according to the system, and recently the official residence is being expanded, and the foundations of many surrounding houses have been removed to make room for the pro-kingdom.

There was originally a secret prison in the old mansion, where the minister Cui Riyong and his wife were held, as well as several other prisoners that Xue Chongxun couldn't figure out, were arrested by Yu Wenxiao. Because there are outsiders going to expand, Xue Chongxun ordered Yuwenxiao to secretly execute and destroy the corpse in advance, probably burning and the like, anyway, Xue Chongxun only needs to give an order, and the specific things can be done by Yuwenxiao.

At this time, he found that Yu Wenxiao was really very useful, and if there was no Yu Wenxiao, only he would have to do those dirty things, otherwise let Wang Changling or the staff of the Shi clan around him do it? That's a hassle.

After Xue Chongxun came back from Daming Palace, he hurried to see the progress of the construction of his own kingdom, and happened to meet Yuwenxiao at the scene, so he said to Yuwenxiao in a very appreciative tone: "Now the people and horses around me, except for the Flying Tiger Regiment, are the most powerful of Yuwengong's intelligence bureau, which can be called my left and right arms. ”

Yu Wenxiao reminded with some concern: "Now the courtiers haven't noticed our intelligence bureau, because there are few participants now, and they are afraid that the paper will not be able to hold the fire, and sooner or later it will be detected. ”

Xue Chongxun said with relief: "Yuwen Gong has no worries, I will have a way to deal with it...... However, this name has really been changed, and now there is no need to detect enemy intelligence in Chang'an, and it may not be appropriate to call it the Intelligence Bureau again, so it will continue to operate under the same name. ”

"When the pro-kingdom is completed, there will be official offices such as the Judgment Division, the Captain's Office, and the Professor's Academy, what is the better name of the Intelligence Bureau?" Yu Wenxiao asked.

Xue Chongxun shook his head and said: "Don't be too cautious, I have a lot of use in your department, and if it is confused with those regular official offices, it will be detrimental to development...... It's called the inner factory, and it is clearly written that he is in charge of the chores in the government, but in fact, Yuwen Gong is in charge of everything, and selects trustworthy people to participate in confidential work and do the work of the intelligence bureau before. ”

"Inner factory?" Yu Wenxiao was a little surprised, probably because the name was relatively novel.

Xue Chongxun said with a smile: "It is deep in the core of the official office, so it is called the inner factory." It's not a big deal for us to set up a new name ourselves, if Xue can't make the decision on this matter, it will be too weak...... Haha, it's called the inner factory, it's a good name. Originally, I wanted to call it Dongchang, but unfortunately the location of this pro-kingdom is western, but it is nondescript to call it an east character. ”

After he came up with this idea, he was very satisfied, and called Yu Wenxiao into the palace and secretly issued a task, asking him to organize people to strictly monitor the crown prince Li Chenghong.

"In addition to arranging eyeliner around the Prince's Courtyard in the Garden, we also have to penetrate its interior, but we must be careful not to let people catch our real handle. You can train some people to work on the periphery, but don't let them know who the employer is; You can also use coercion to buy people in their house to find out the news for us. Xue Chongxun said casually, "I just give Yuwen Gong an idea, you will listen to the feasible methods, don't listen to the unreliable, you can watch and do the specific things, I believe in your ability." ”

Yuwen filial piety said: "The Beijing division is not as good as Longyou, and if you arrange secret agents in the Beijing division, you will inevitably be informed of the rumors, and it is impossible to do it without knowing it." Just as the secret agents of the Imperial Historical Observatory were spying on those ministers who were suspected of being corrupt and misbelieving, they were very cautious, and their existence was also known. It's also hard for us to be unaware. ”

Xue Chongxun pondered for a moment and said, "You are right, the prince is too eye-catching now, if we go to monitor him, he will definitely be noticed by the courtiers." But it's okay, everyone knows that I want to guard against the prince, it's normal to do this, what's wrong? You should pay attention to proportions now, try to lower your posture as much as possible, don't cause trouble, it will be more troublesome to provoke those officials in Jingzhao Mansion...... After all, you rely on a prince, not the emperor, understand? ”

Yu Wenxiao nodded and said: "It's not Xue Lang's personal confession, I haven't arrested anyone, let alone hurt anyone." ”

Xue Chongxun asked casually: "How did the other people who settled with 'those two' a few days ago end up in the secret prison of the official office?" ”

Yuwen Xiao was stunned and said, "Aren't they all arrested by Xue Lang?" Those few people molested the woman of Gong Yecheng, the general of the Flying Tiger Regiment, on the street, and beat people, and were bumped into by Xue Lang, and they were arrested and locked up in the mansion until now, and one starved to death a year ago, and now they are all executed. ”

"Oh......" Xue Chongxun said suddenly, "At that time, before the war, I didn't pay much attention to it, and I forgot about that stubble as time went on." Jingzhao Mansion didn't look for you? ”

"I came here once, saying that we don't have the right to detain the people privately, so I said that Xue Lang let me arrest them, and let them talk to you, but the result is over."

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Xue Chongxun has been in charge of the preparation of the pro-kingdom during this time, and the scale of the official office has been greatly expanded, and there were not enough officials in the county palace before, so he arranged for some new people, including Zhou Bin, a Beijing official who was good friends with Yuwenxiao, and was brought over to be the captain of the pro-kingdom.

There was also a group of Hedong literati who followed Xue Chongxun back to Beijing from the eastern capital, these people were originally officials who were arranged by him to manage the accounts in the Yellow River warehouse in Luoyang, and later when the war broke out, they escaped separately, and the officials and soldiers defected to Xue Chongxun after recovering Luoyang. Most of them have bad backgrounds, or they are poor scholars, and even more nonsense is that there are people who have been shopkeepers, and it is already the smoke of the ancestral tomb to be an official who can rely on the powerful, not to mention that Xue Chongxun is from their hometown.

The pro-kingdom team arranged by Xue Chongxun, his staff group is mainly three factions: Yuwenxiao and Zhou Bin and other "relatives"; Wang Changling's former officials of the county king's mansion; Hedong literati. Then use the more upright Wang Changling as a pro-kingdom order to coordinate all parties.

The current situation is still very good, everyone can live together in harmony regardless of their background, such as Wang Changling and Yu Wenxiao's personal relationship is actually very good. Yu Wenxiao is a ruthless person, but he is actually very kind to people on weekdays, very capable, and he doesn't like to argue with others, so he can't see the inside at all.

After Xue Chongxun's series of preparations, the staff group began to see its scale, although the so-called sparrows are small, there are people in the pro-kingdom who are in charge of everything.

Now he has someone in his hands, and what he lacks is a very powerful cattle man who can take charge of himself. The problem is that he can't recover that kind of people, such as Cheng Qianli, Li Xuanyi, etc., they are all capable people in Xue Chongxun's eyes, but they are either talents at the level of the prime minister, or they don't want to come out to do things at all, and they can't take it ...... A "relative" like Cheng Qianli is already the prime minister of Dongpinggong, so it is impossible for someone to be wronged to serve in a pro-kingdom? G