Zhou An found out all the rosters, and then entered the house with them.

He wanted to see.

Naturally, it's not to memorize, or write down some people, it's impossible, but it's more than 20 copies...... He just had to do the most basic calculations, and make a note of how many branches and spies there were in the local area.

He needs this data.

Because he needs to go and ask the empress for his life!

These days, the empress has been paying attention to the actions of Jinyiwei, and Zhou An has also reported to the empress about this, all about the secret guard, and listening to the meaning of the empress's words, she already has the idea of removing the secret guard.

The secret guard is really useless, and it has been cleaned from top to bottom again, and it has been completely crippled, so it is better to remove it directly.

Zhou An can't let the secret detective be dismissed.

He really needs a secret guard.

All afternoon, Zhou An was looking at the more than 20 booklets, and he also calculated the approximate number, these 20 multi-roster books, with a total of more than one million words, which recorded the identity information of more than 10,000 secret detective agents, including their names, places of origin, locations, who Shangguan was, and so on.

More than 10,000 people, scattered in 48 states, 390 counties, and more than 1,000 counties in the world! Some spies have only been recruited in recent years, but some of them have been passed down from generation to generation, from father to son, from son to grandson, and hereditary to this day.

These hereditary spies have been passed down from generation to generation since the establishment of the secret guards, and they are extremely capable of business, after all, their ancestors have been doing this for generations, and their ancestors have served the secret guards for generations, even if they are fools, they have to learn something.

And now, this group of people basically has nothing to do, and the management of the secret guard is rotten, so they don't do their jobs, or even do nothing, and they don't give them new task orders, so they can only continue to hide and disguise, and live like ordinary people.

It would be a shame if this group of people were really dismissed!

……

At dusk, hundreds of brocade guards carried dozens of boxes, large and small, and left the yamen of the secret security department.

Since then, the Wu Guoyu case can basically be closed.

Early the next morning, the Yamen of the Zhenfu Division posted a notice and informed the public about the Wu Guoyu case.

It can be said that the Wu Guoyu case is very widely implicated, and the people arrested by Jinyiwei in the past few days have a direct or indirect relationship with Wu Guoyu; to this day, more than 800 people in Qianjing City have lost their heads because of Wu Guoyu, and there are as many as five families who have been beheaded by the whole house, and those who have been implicated and sentenced, confiscated into the army, exiled, and confiscated into official status, are as many as 3,000 people!

This case is the first major case since the Empress Shenzhao ascended the throne!

It is the first major case after the Bai Yu case eight years ago!

In addition, the Department of Suppression and Pacification also announced that the total amount of corrupt goods seized in the "Wu Guoyu case" is equivalent to 800,000 taels of silver! And among them, only Wu Guoyu, or the Wu family, seized nearly 500,000 taels!

It is worth mentioning that although this case is big, no one has been sentenced to the Nine Clans for this.

Mainly because Zhou Andu felt that Wu Guoyu was not worthy of being punished by the Nine Clans.

It's enough to copy all the doors.

After all, Wu Guoyu is just a third-grade official, although this is the first case handled by Jin Yiwei, it must be handled as a big case and an iron case, so that the outside world can have less gossip about Jin Yiwei, or the Suppression Division.

However, it is somewhat unnecessary for the Zhu Jiu clan to put on Wu Guoyu.

After all, this is the heaviest punishment, if the Wuguo Yu is punished by the nine clans, then after the arrest of officials who are bigger than other officials, more corrupt officials, and even convicted of rebellion, what should I do?

In the next period of time, Jinyiwei began a frenzied arrest activity.

On the fifth day of the first month of winter, catch Shaoqing of Taichang Temple!

On the seventh day of the first month of winter, the pastoral supervisor of the group of herds was arrested.

On the ninth day of the first month of winter, catch the waiter of the Ministry of Labor!

On the tenth day of the first month of winter, grasp the book of the Ministry of Industry!

On the thirteenth day of the winter month, the right capital of the Imperial Palace was captured.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, catch the Duke of Jiao.

Jin Yiwei, who does not have any checks and balances, is extremely terrifying, and has been crazy about arresting people for half a month, although there are only a few main officials arrested, but the people who have been implicated by them are thousands of dollars, because there are too many people arrested, so Jinyiwei has also streamlined the work process, and those who can be convicted directly will not be sentenced, and will be cut directly!

And in this half month, Wu Xukuan did not move, and let the heads of the Jinyi guards outside roll.

This is because Jin Yiwei did not touch his bottom line.

Jin Yiwei didn't dare to arrest Wu Xukuan's powerful ministers at all.

That Taichang Temple Shaoqing, is the head of the Lile Yamen, although it is Wu Xukuan's person, but the importance is not even as good as Wu Guoyu, in Wu Xukuan's desire to seek the dynasty to usurp the throne, for Wu Xukuan to wave the flag and shout, may be the only role of Taichang Temple Shaoqing.

The pastoral superintendent of the herd husbandry department is responsible for raising horses.

The Ministry of Workers and the Ministry of Works...... The Ministry of Industry is responsible for the nation's tuntian, water conservancy, civil engineering, engineering, transportation, government-run industry, etc., and is in charge of construction projects.

Speaking of which, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu is still quite important, after all, it is one of the six Shangshu, and the power is very great, and it is indeed risky to arrest him.

However, the rights of the Ministry of Industry cannot be of much help to Wu Xukuan, and it is righteous to arrest the Ministry of Industry, because the Ministry of Industry is too incompetent, so he should be arrested! Although natural and man-made disasters are not the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry, in recent years, the Ministry of Industry has not done a good job in remediating problems such as river banks bursting and grain production in various parts of the Dongqian Dynasty, and they cannot escape the blame for many things.

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu is regarded as the real powerful minister around Wu Xukuan, but he is not so important compared to other important ministers who can directly help Wu Xukuan seize power.

So the empress nodded and let Jinyiwei arrest him.

This is a very dangerous temptation.

Fortunately, Wu Xukuan didn't react.

Jin Yiwei also arrested the right capital of the Imperial History, he was completely a ghost for the dead, because the empress did not dare to touch the left imperial history, the two imperial histories of the Imperial Palace, with the left as the respect, the left imperial history is the boss, and he is also one of Wu Xukuan's most important henchmen.

This really can't be caught, and if you do, something will happen.

Therefore, the right capital imperial history was arrested, which can only be regarded as a blow to Wu Xukuan's prestige, and it has no other effect, after all, the left capital imperial history is not arrested, and the metropolitan procuratorate is still under the control of Wu Xukuan.

After the fifteenth dynasty of the winter moon, Jinyiwei arrested Jiao Guogong again.

Jiao Guogong has been a public servant for many years, although he has countless protégés and very good connections, but he has no real power, he arrested him because of his high prestige, and he has been shouting for Wu Xukuan, arresting him, in fact, it has not caused any substantial harm to Wu Xukuan.

……

At dusk on the fifteenth day of the winter month.

Deep in the palace, the East Warm Pavilion.

“…… In the past half a month, a total of houses, fields, gold, silver, etc., equivalent to about three million taels of silver, and antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other valuable objects, equivalent to about 600,000 taels...... "Zhou An has been here for a while, and he is reporting to the empress.

The empress's face was very ugly.

She knew that she was greedy below, but she didn't expect to be greedy to such an extent.

Although in recent years, due to natural and man-made disasters, the imperial court has repeatedly reduced or exempted taxes, and the tax revenue of Dongqian in the previous year was less than half of that of the heyday, but it was also more than 30 million taels.

She didn't expect that Jinyiwei had only been in action for more than half a month, and more than three million taels had been confiscated, which was enough for the annual income of the national treasury! Moreover, most of those who were raided were just petty officials and officials, and there were only a handful of them who could be called important ministers.

They are all so greedy, if they go to arrest the secretary of the ministry and the secretary of the military department, how many should there be?

Not to mention that there is also a Wu Xukuan above them.

"Jiao Guogong, what's wrong?" The empress was silent for a long time before asking.

"His whole family is being detained in the inner prison, Jiao Guogong has been shouting, wanting to ask to see the saint, General Yuan is still interrogating ......" Zhou An briefly said the situation, Jiao Guogong was arrested at noon today, and the case has not been completed.

The empress asked some more about Jiao Guogong, Jiao Guogong was an old minister of the Three Dynasties, successively served as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, a scholar of the cabinet, and finally retired from the position of a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, and his protégés were many and his influence was very great, so the empress asked a few more words.

Then, the empress talked to Zhou An about who to arrest after Jinyiwei and who not to arrest.

"By the way......" The empress said as she spoke, and suddenly her voice changed, as if she remembered something, and looked at Zhou An and said: "I have discussed the matter of secret detection and guard, I have discussed with Kang Gong, this division has been eroded, and it is useless, but the cost is very huge, so let's withdraw...... You tell Yuan Shengshi for me, and let Jinyiwei speed up the pursuit of the fugitives from the secret detectives, and close the case as soon as possible......"

The matter of the secret detective has been delayed until today.

It's not that Zhou An deliberately dragged it out, but that the matter of the secret guard is really troublesome to deal with, and this has nothing to do with Wu Guoyu, mainly because the secret guard is a very special spy organization, not the kind of yamen where all the staff work together.

The officials of the secret guards are scattered all over the world, and the Jinyi guards arrested many people in the secret guards before, most of them are management, but they have also run away a lot, and this is only the officials in the Qianjing City, not the outside.

If you really want to deal with secret guards, you have to send people to all parts of the country to arrest people.

The empress didn't want to do this, she couldn't do it, and she couldn't afford it, but at least those who fled from Qianjing City should be caught.

In order to arrest these people, the matter of the secret detective has been unresolved, and the positions vacated by the arrest of the management have not yet been filled.

The empress was obviously impatient.

Although it doesn't affect anything if the secret guard doesn't work, it still costs money! The cost of the secret guards is very huge, if you take out the money to support more than 10,000 spies of the secret guards to support the army, it is enough to raise 30,000 more soldiers!

"Holy Lord, the slave thinks that this matter is inappropriate, please think twice!" Zhou An said.

"Huh?" The empress lying on the warm couch on her side frowned suddenly.

The other little palace maids and little eunuchs in the room all lowered their heads in fright.

Everyone can hear that the empress just told Zhou An how to do things, not to discuss with Zhou An, Zhou An dared to say something wrong to the empress? Inappropriate?!