The Chinese people of the Shogunate also had their own affairs to deal with.

Liu Kezhuang had to deal with a large number of documents distributed by the envoys. Although the enemy had retreated, everyone knew that this was just a few months to breathe for the Song people, and by the next September, a more ferocious and brutal storm of iron cavalry would blow again in Jinghu. Until then, the Legation Division must do its best to coordinate the relations between the generals, replenish their lost armor and equipment, and rebuild the ruined states and counties. In the mature and stable bureaucratic system of the Great Song Dynasty, these heavy tasks meant a large number of formulaic correspondence, and Zheng Yunming, who also had political, military, and economic responsibilities, could not get rid of the entanglement of the mountains and seas, but fortunately, Liu Kezhuang, who was proficient in these official documents, was like a huge flood control embankment, separating Zheng Yunming from the oncoming monstrous waves. You must know that they have been troubled by the shoddy calligraphy and blunt performance of the Zheng family's petty officials for a long time, and with the buffer of Senator Liu in the middle, even the military department has praised the report of Jing Ejun.

Bai Yijie is fully engaged in the daily official business of Nanzhang County and the operation of lifting and closing positions. According to the memories of Nanzhang residents, the talent of this young master, who acted as an agent for the county magistrate to try a short case, was extremely remarkable. In order not to waste time, when he was trying the case in the morning, he put the official text file of the Changping Division Yamen and the document of the Jing'e Metropolitan Department on the public court at the same time, and while reviewing the documents, he listened to the arguments between the bitter master and the defendant in the court, and then explained the truth of the dispute in one word. Writing the sentence without adding points, it was done overnight, and people at the time compared him to Mr. Pang Shiyuan, who read a hundred days of affairs in one day.

However, only a group of people at the top of the Jing'e Capital Department understood the true significance of Bai Yijie's work, and his appearance completely changed the problem of intelligence confusion that had existed since the founding of the Tulong Army. When the Tulong Army was first established, the intelligence gathering work was backward and chaotic, and even some reserve troops in the rear were inferior. Zheng Yunming's method of intelligence work was that Meng Hui wrote many letters, and only passed on them in person, so his habit of collecting intelligence was almost the same as that of Meng Hui, which was to gather a large number of generals, local officials, and shogunate staff after a day's work, casually talk about some interesting things and recent observations, and then classify and sort out the information before going to bed to grasp the useful parts of it. On the other hand, Zheng Yunming attached great importance to field reconnaissance on the battlefield, and set up an infantry reconnaissance team based on the Youyi battalion very early, and also set up a back-to-back voice transmission team specially responsible for liaison. After the war was largely over, it was supplemented by a small number of war horses from the Envoy Division, and it was finally able to establish a Tabai envoy with a number of fifty people.

The so-called white team, because of the white cross cloth belt tied to the body, in order to show courage and fearlessness, before the battle began to fly to the enemy formation, step into the enemy brigade, with superb martial arts to detect the strength of the enemy's true or false situation, the so-called hard detective in the army at the cost of his life, the white is synonymous with the elite armed reconnaissance team of the Song Army, the military horses after the southern crossing of the past dynasties, all to the white team as the first elite of martial arts.

Zheng Yunming's subordinates were originally Ezhou miners and were not good at horseback riding, but since they absorbed many northern soldiers who were good at riding horses and galloping in Xiangyang, the Tabai envoys formed could boast that they were the strongest armed reconnaissance units in the Lianghu region. This also makes the deputy capital of Jinghu have the best battlefield reconnaissance ability in the entire Jinghu area.

But Zheng Yunming's problem lies in this, he attaches too much importance to on-the-spot intelligence on the battlefield, and is not good at planting fine eyeliner in the north, not to mention, he does not know how to establish his own spy network in the north. The information he learned about the north came from three sources, the intelligence transmission of the head control envoy, the confession of the surrendered soldiers in the north, and Yang Luo's daily secret report.

The style of Yang Luo, the commander of the Tulong Army, is completely different from his general. He doesn't gather his subordinates in a big way, and when people see him, he always seems secretive. Moreover, Yang Luo's expenses in the army on weekdays are very amazing, not only did he spend all his richer money than others, but he even made so much trouble that he needed to borrow debts from his colleagues in the army to survive. Zheng Yunming once took out 300 taels of silver from his minister's money and asked him to repay his debts, but he didn't want to go out of the yamen with his front foot and spent all the 300 taels of silver in his back hand. Zheng Yunming asked him how he spent the money, and he only replied vaguely that it was all spent on the flowers in the wine shop and the Qinglou.

Yang Luo's posture was the most unbearable, and even Wang Deng couldn't bear it, and one day he dragged Yang Luo to make sure that he swore in front of the deputy commander that he would no longer waste public funds casually, otherwise he would be dismissed from his command position.

Yang Luo just rolled his lazy eyelids and said casually: "In the past, Liu Ji gave Chen Ping tens of thousands of catties of gold, but he never asked how the gold was spent. What is it worth for three hundred taels of silver? ”

Bai Yijie, who was sitting next to Zheng Yunming, laughed, and said to Zheng Yunming: "I see, so let's do it, I think that three hundred taels of silver is really not enough for the pure father's expenses, and the general can give the pure father another five hundred taels of silver to continue to go to the Qinglou wine shop to make trouble." ”

Zheng Yunming did not hesitate to swipe his pen and spent another five hundred taels of silver. And Yang Luo accepted the silver honestly and unceremoniously without saying a word, and turned around to wander in the restaurant Willow Lane in Xiangyang.

It was precisely because of his work that Zheng Yunming was able to learn many things that were originally very secret, both those of enemies and allies. It has been a great boost to the preparation of the Jing'e army.

This was the case with the espionage system in the Song Dynasty in previous years, the imperial court had the habit of collecting intelligence from the imperial court, and each general had the eyeliner of each general, and even the commanders, commanders, and generals also had their own spy networks.

The eight immortals crossed the sea, each showing its ability. This kind of herding intelligence work is of course simple and straightforward, and it is convenient to establish a network. But it is also inefficient, the goal is not clear, and there will even be leaks of important intelligence.

The appearance of Bai Yijie changed everything, and the first thing he did after taking office as a senator was to appoint a cadre who specialized in intelligence analysis to handle the honor guard, and then gave the name of the Metropolitan Department of Rectification of the honor guard, which was specially responsible for summarizing and processing the information obtained from various channels, and organizing it into a concise but well-organized report, which was handed over to Zheng Yunming for review every day.

After setting up an intelligence agency, Bai Yijie methodically began to establish various short-term and long-term intelligence networks. Unlike Zheng Yunming's efforts to establish the military's field reconnaissance system, he focused his reconnaissance of the enemy's situation on local armor protection and volunteers, and in the past, there were often cases of local volunteers taking the initiative to deliver news to officers and soldiers, but these were all voluntary actions of local people. And in peacetime patrols and battles, they try their best to gather intelligence about the enemy.

In order to enhance the ability of the localities to collect intelligence, he also specially summoned Li Zhengjia and others to Xiangyang, and the personnel of the Jing'e army trained them in basic intelligence knowledge.

The people of the Jinghu area, because they are in the border area of the Great Song Dynasty, have long been accompanied by the arms and have been trained to be strong and courageous, and now they are only a few big households such as Liu Tingmei and Cao Wenqi, each of which can gather tens of thousands of militiamen in the local area, and the armed forces in these places are flexible and mobile, and the methods of collecting intelligence are also varied, which is very powerful compared with the official investigation. Bai Yijie's unified management of these intelligence sources under the account of the Metropolitan Command also marked the establishment of a unique intelligence gathering style that was different from other armies in the Jing and E armies.

In mid-April, a Taoist priest asked to meet Bai Yijie, the senator of the Jing'e Metropolitan Division, and the Taoist priest didn't say anything after seeing Bai Yijie, but just handed Bai Yijie a dust, turned around and left.

Afterwards, Bai Yijie carefully inspected the dust, and the handle of the dust whisk was hollow, and there was a secret letter written by Song Yichang in small block letters.

At the beginning of the letter, it is written: "Yijie and my brother Junjian", and the following text expounds on the strength of the Mongol Empire, the prosperity of the army, and how Kublai Khan was wise and wise, and followed the good as a stream, with only one central meaning, persuading Bai Yijie to secretly communicate with Mongolia, deliver news to the Mongols, and receive the Mongols into Xiangyang at the appropriate time.

Bai Yijie read the contents of the letter carefully, frowning and thinking from time to time, and reciting softly from time to time, until the end of the book, before he smiled with relief.

He carefully burned the letter, thought silently for a while, and made a plan to extend the network to a strange country to the north.

In the months leading up to the Mongol movement south, a steady stream of people of all kinds smuggled across the border under various pretexts into Mongol-governed areas.

Some of them were scholars who came to worship, some were monks and Taoists who traveled all over the world, and some were profiteers who risked their lives to trade with the north. All in all, they are all Southern Dynasty people who have come to ask for something.

The Mongol guards welcomed these figures, as they brought with them the most needed information from the North. From their descriptions, the Mongols first learned that General Zhu was invented by Zheng Yunming of the Tulong Army, and the other armies were not equipped much, and they also knew that the Xiangyang Rebellion would have almost succeeded, if it wasn't for Zheng Yunming who killed it halfway. They also learned that Zhao Kui, a famous general who was no less famous than Zhao Fan, became the envoy and completed the military deployment of Jinghu.

They were generous in rewarding all the Southern Koreans who provided information, and encouraged them to bring more information back in the future.

But what they don't know is that behind these defectors, there can only be one source traced, that is, the deputy capital of Jing'e.

Between the north and the south, an intelligence network is slowly taking shape.