Han Mo heard Han Xince's explanation, and immediately linked the East Flower Hall with the Ming Dynasty's Jinyi Guard, the responsibilities of the two seem to be quite similar, the Ming Dynasty's Jinyi Guard is a well-known spy agency in the world, everyone talks about it and the color changes, but this East Flower Hall seems to be a lot more secret, at least as a child of the family, but he can't understand its appearance, so it is impossible for ordinary people to know too much about the East Flower Hall.

"What is the difference between the East Flower Hall and the West Flower Hall?" Han Mo was puzzled: "Are they the same department?" ”

Han Xince shook his head and said, "Compared with the East Flower Hall, the West Flower Hall today is a heaven and an underground, and the manpower of the West Flower Hall is only a fraction of the East Flower Hall. ”

Han Mo was stunned for a moment, just hearing this, Han Mo felt the bleak scene in the West Flower Hall.

"But the West Flower Hall six years ago, that is beyond the reach of the East Flower Hall." Han Xince sighed lightly: "When Gongyan Lao was alive, the West Flower Hall was in a beautiful place, and the black flag of Wei and the purple guards of Qing were all incomparable to the West Flower Hall. ”

The more Han Mo listened, the more confused he became, and asked, "Then how did the East Flower Hall overshadow the West Flower Hall now?" ”

Han Xince thought for a while, and instead of answering directly, he asked, "Does the Fifth Young Master know when the East Flower Hall was established?" ”

Han Mo shook his head.

"The East Flower Hall was founded in the year of the current Holy Lord's enthronement, but it has only been eight years." Han Xince said softly: "And the West Flower Hall was established when the first emperor was there, and it has been thirty-nine years!" ”

Han Mo was stunned, if you look at the year of establishment, the history of the West Flower Hall is much longer than that of the East Flower Hall, and you can be the grandfather of the East Flower Hall.

"Thirty-nine years ago, when the first emperor ascended the throne, countless enemy spies were hidden in my Yan country, wantonly destroying the order of our Yan country, and repeatedly assassinating officials of our Yan country." After a pause, Han Xince said in a low voice: "At that time, our family was still much more harmonious than now, and the family jointly wanted to set up an agency to deal with the spies of the enemy country, because there were many criminal cases in the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, and there was no manpower to deal with the spies of the enemy country. ”

"Xue Gongyan is not a child of the family, and he can also sit in the position of the squire of the military department?" Han Moqi said.

Han Xince nodded and said, "Yes, he is the only person who is not a child of a family to serve as a squire since the founding of my Yan Kingdom." This Xue Gongyan is also a great figure, he is from Linyang County, that is, the territory of the Hu family. He was not a child of a family, and the Northwest Battalion was recruiting soldiers at that time, so he joined the army. , it is said that when he joined the army, he was only thirteen years old. He made many meritorious contributions in the Northwest Battalion, fought bravely, and his military rank rose step by step. When he was twenty-four years old, he went deep into the hinterland of Qingguo, captured more than ten princes and generals of Qingguo, killed countless enemies, and became famous. At that time, the family wrote against it, but the generals of the Northwest Battalion gave full support, which created this strange thing that the children of the non-family served as the squire! ”

"Xue Gongyan's preparation for the construction of the East Flower Hall must have been approved by everyone!" Han Mo imagined Xue Gongyan's majestic posture, with a hint of admiration in his heart.

"At that time, the enemy country was rampant, although the family had shadow guards, but after all, they were fighting their own battles, and the shadow guards could not always follow the master's side in large numbers, so that there were many opportunities for enemy country spies, and countless officials were buried under the knife, at that time, my Yan country could be regarded as in a panic, even my Han family, there were many officials who were killed by spies, so everyone hoped to set up an agency to deal with enemy spies, Xue Gongyan took the initiative to stand up, everyone couldn't ask for it, so soon, the imperial court issued a decree to set up the West Flower Hall." Han Xince said slowly: "Speaking of the name of this West Flower Hall, it is also a coincidence, when Xue Gongyan asked the first emperor to give him a name, it was in the West Flower Hall of the Imperial Garden, and a concubine who served the first emperor casually said that it could be called the West Flower Hall, and the first emperor immediately agreed, and the name of the West Flower Hall was also set. ”

Han Mowan said: "This is the origin of the West Flower Hall?" ”

Han Xince nodded and said with a smile: "This name is considered a coincidence, it is very arbitrary, at that time, maybe no one could have thought that this random name would make the spies of the enemy country and the officials of his own country tremble in the years to come, like maggots possessing the body." ”

Xue Gongyan has since taken office and become the first director of the West Flower Hall. This Xue Gongyan's military exploits are outstanding, he is very prestigious in Yan Kingdom, and he is a person who values love and righteousness, the West Flower Hall ordered to recruit people, and strange people and righteous people from all over the world have taken refuge in the door of the West Flower Hall, Xue Gongyan strictly deleted the selection, and selected a lot of elite talents, these people later became the main force of the West Flower Hall, and the West Flower Hall became the descendant of the saint, and the trump card in the hands of the saint! Han Xince took a sip of tea from a cup, and seemed to have a dry mouth, and drank a few sips before saying to Han Mo: "The fifth young master uses tea!" ”

Han Mo was immersed in the historical story of the West Flower Hall, how could he have the heart to drink tea, and asked, "What happened?" ”

Although Han Xince's official position is several levels higher than Han Mo's, but in the family, Han Xince's identity is not as good as Han Mo's direct son, so Han Mo urged, Han Xince didn't care, but smiled and said: "Xue Gongyan came out of his own army and was in the military department, so the system of the West Flower Hall is strict, and there are a lot of rules, although all the subordinates of the West Flower Hall are not ordinary people, but under strict control, they don't dare to do anything wrong. 'Twenty-one articles of the West Flower Hall' have also become the most important rules of the West Flower Hall, and they have been continued. ”

"Twenty-one in the West Flower Hall?" Han Mo blinked and looked at Han Xince suspiciously.

Han Xince smiled and said, "Fifth Young Master, don't worry, you are now the director of the West Flower Hall, and when you take office tomorrow and go to the Yamen of the West Flower Hall, you will naturally know what the twenty-one articles of the West Flower Hall are." ”

Han Mo nodded slightly, this is really not in a hurry, I am afraid that when I get to the West Flower Hall, the first thing I have to learn is the so-called "Twenty-one Articles".

It is said that there were more than 200 people in the first batch of selected members of the Xihua Department, but after half a year, after severe training, most of them were eliminated, leaving only more than 70 people. How to train back then, outsiders don't know, but those who know the inside know that the people who came out of the West Flower Hall are not only proficient in tracking skills, but also good at assassination, such a group of people were still in the sun at first, but then the West Flower Hall became more and more secretive, and finally the Yamen of the West Flower Hall was actually set up in the western suburbs of Yanjing on the side of the Wushui Lake, within a radius of ten miles, it was strictly forbidden for anyone to enter, so no one knew the details of the West Flower Hall. Han Xince thought for a while, seemed to be thinking about something, and said slowly: "At the beginning of the establishment of the Xihua Hall, it was not the opponent of the enemy country, and the losses were also very heavy, in the first two years, the strong men who sacrificed their lives for the country in the West Flower Hall were not less than 100 people every year, fortunately, Xue Gongyan has been paying attention to absorbing fresh blood, and the West Flower Hall is always replenishing new people, so although the West Flower Hall has suffered heavy losses, but in this failure, they gradually understand what a real spy is, and after two years, the form gradually improved, In the fifth year, the enemy spies in the territory of my Yan country are not the opponents of the West Flower Hall at all, a large number of enemy spies retreat from the territory of our Yan country, and the West Flower Hall has broken through the strongholds of countless enemy spies, and it is from then on that the fame of the West Flower Hall began to sound...... Of course, what the group of people in the West Flower Hall did was not a fair and honest thing, and ordinary people naturally did not know the existence of the West Flower Hall, let alone the scenery of the West Flower Hall. ”

Han Mo can understand this, only by maintaining independence and secrecy can the West Flower Hall hide their way of action and benefit their plan of action, and from a certain point of view, the more mysterious they are, the more deterrent they will give their opponents, and they will also occupy a certain advantageous position psychologically.

"Although ordinary people don't know the existence of the West Flower Hall, but the strange people on the Jianghu Road still got the news, those Jianghu people who were supposed to take refuge in the family to eat together, suddenly all came to the West Flower Hall, Xue Gongyan carefully selected from it, and got a large number of talents, the power of the West Flower Hall was in full swing at that time, if it weren't for the fact that the cabinet was afraid that the West Flower Hall was too strong, and jointly asked the Holy Lord to limit the number of people in the West Flower Hall, I am afraid that the West Flower Hall will become the most powerful institution in our Yan Kingdom."

"The cabinet limited the number of people in the West Flower Hall to three hundred, so in the following decades, Xue Gongyan has always abided by this rule, strictly controlling the number of people in the West Flower Hall to three hundred, and there are four places." Han Xince said slowly: "Because the West Flower Hall is also a government institution, although it is special, there are also some archives in the Ministry of Officials, and it is precisely because of this that I have some understanding of the mysterious West Flower Hall." The four places in the West Flower Hall back then, how the specific division of labor, is still unknown to today, but the fifth young master went to the West Flower Hall, and it is probably clear. Some of these four places are secretly active in Yan Kingdom, lurking in various counties to monitor the movements of major families, and some are scattered in Yanjing City, monitoring the movements of hundreds of officials, and there are departments that go to other countries to establish intelligence networks and explore intelligence of other countries, in short, in the hands of Xue Gongyan, the West Flower Hall is extremely powerful, and it has not fallen ......for decades! Approaching Han Mo, he whispered in his ear: "This is also an important reason why the major families are afraid of the emperor!" ”

When Han Mo heard this, his thinking was not clear, but he was even more puzzled, if it was like this, the West Flower Hall was a great spy agency, and the director of the West Flower Hall was a position that everyone coveted, how could he be named the director of the West Flower Hall, but he would be ridiculed by many courtiers?

"With the protection of the first emperor, Xue Gongyan's West Flower Hall has stood in Yan Kingdom for thirty years, and Xue Gongyan has been assassinated countless times, but he is still safe and sound, which can not but be said to be a miracle. In the past few decades, the West Flower Hall has indeed made a lot of contributions to our Yan country, countless important members of the enemy country were assassinated by the West Flower Hall, and many important information of the enemy country has been continuously sent to the cabinet, which has made great contributions to our Yan country's grasp of the trends of other countries, and in the country, although many officials have fallen in the hands of the West Flower Hall, but to be fair, the West Flower Hall has made great contributions to the protection of Yan officials. Thirty years have passed in a hurry, the first emperor has died, and now the saint has ascended the throne, Xue Gongyan is also over the age of sixteen, but his prestige has not diminished, and the West Flower Hall is still the most powerful spy agency in the world. Han Xince picked up the teacup and moistened his throat again before continuing: "However, after the Holy Lord ascended the throne, he may feel that the power of the West Flower Hall is too heavy, and it is a little difficult to govern, so he immediately set up a new secret service agency......!" Looking at Han Mo, he said softly: "That's the East Flower Hall!" ”

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