The secret spy office in Beiping is still as dilapidated as in the past, and at first glance, it has some similar flavor to Jinling's Jinyi Guard Yamen.

The spy hiding in the shadows had already discovered the fluttering green shirt, and whispered that the chief officer who was going to send them back to serve as soldiers and feed horses if they didn't agree with each other... It's back.

Pushing open the chaimen, the spies who were still in the secret spy department were all gathered in the courtyard, there were many fewer faces than when they came last time, but there were also many fresh faces standing behind, Gu Huai thought about it seriously, those who were not there probably died or returned to the guards, and the new ones should be the elites in the army promised by Zhu Di before.

No one spoke, and since the last time this chief officer parachuted into the secret spy department with a vigorous attitude, all the spies have reached a consensus, this is a person who wants to do things.

Probably speaking, those who stand in the way will either roll or die, and the previous life of messing around in the secret spy division is gone.

These days, they have also been more or less exposed to the information sent from Jinling City, and they are surprised that the chief official has really established an intelligence station under the nose of the imperial court, and at the same time, they are also glad that they were not selected to go to that place of crisis.

Gu Huai glanced at the crowd who were standing fairly neatly, and said lightly: "From today onwards, with Beiping City as the center, all officials above the fifth rank in the land of Youyan will have to send people to keep an eye on them. ”

There was some commotion in the crowd, and everyone didn't expect that as soon as the chief official came back after a few months of absence, he even saved the process of greeting and began to arrange the task directly.

But it's also the style of the chief officer... The old spies who have seen Gu Huai's rectification of the secret spy department are spreading false rumors, and the spies who have just joined naturally will not treat the chief official as an ordinary scholar - in fact, Gu Huai's current reputation is simply a mess in the secret spy department.

It's just like folk women like to use figurative things to scare children... When you meet a child who is naughty, when the mother is always mysteriously open her mouth, "If you are disobedient, let the kidnapping gangster sell you to the grassland", whenever this time, when the child is always extra vigilant, left and right to see if there are really villains wandering, and at the same time full of evil feelings towards those barbarians on the grassland.

It is also a reason to change to the secret spy department, the spies who used to be the elite in the army couldn't bear it the most, probably where to go back and forth, but the newly appointed master is really a person who doesn't like the eye and has to let you go back to the army.

So that sentence became "Don't mess with our chief officer, be careful of being thrown out and suffer the white eyes of your former comrades."

Prestige is sometimes inexplicably established in this way, coupled with the fact that the secret spy department with clear division of responsibilities has seen what Gu Huai did all the way south to Jinling, and the attention that Yan Wang Ye revealed to the secret spy department, it is difficult not to take root in the hearts of these spies.

Seeing that no one spoke or even asked questions, Gu Huai was very satisfied, and he continued: "Except for the officials who are keeping an eye on the officials, the rest of the spies are all going south and going to Hejian Mansion, I will only give you ten days to find out the whereabouts of the three sons of King Yan, if you can't find out, don't come back, stay in Hejian Mansion and wait for death." ”

He took out a roster from his arms and looked at it: "After I went south, the people in charge were Xia Zhi and Mangzhong?" Dequeue. ”

Two spies, a man and a woman, stood up, and Gu Huai was a little surprised that there was actually a woman in the secret spy department...

This is even more outrageous than Wei Laosan coming to be a spy.

He put away the booklet: "Xia Zhi led the team to Hejian Mansion, and Mangzhong stayed in Beiping." ”

"By the way, what about Wei Laosan?"

In the midst of snickering, Wei Laosan, who was standing at the back of the crowd, scratched his head and stood up, he just hoped that the chief official would not think of himself...

Gu Huai glanced at him with a smile: "How did you come back?" ”

"Your Excellency, I... I got a horse from the stun and rode it all the way back. ”

"Did you tell them about how you were put down by two maids and locked up for a few days?"

As soon as these words came out, the snickering turned into laughter, and they have made fun of Wei Laosan with this matter these days.

Wei Laosan's face turned red, and his voice lowered: "Drugged... Maid..."

After that, it was all a low mutter, and even the crooked theory of "good men don't fight with women" was pulled out, and the courtyard of the secret spy department was full of happy air.

A smile also appeared on Gu Huai's cold face, such a scene... Probably won't appear in the future, the death rate of secret spies will only be higher than that of scouts on the battlefield, and these secret spies probably won't realize that from today onwards, many of the remaining hundreds of people in this courtyard, as well as those who are now scattered outside on missions, will not come back.

He restrained his smile: "You won't be a member of the Secret Spy Division in the future." ”

The laughter stopped, Wei Laosan looked up in a daze, and the rest of the secret spies were also a little stunned.

Just made a mistake...

Gu Huai walked towards a hut, he still had a lot to do: "You are not suitable to be a secret spy." ”

"Feed me the horses later."

……

Fighting a war is never an easy task, especially when it comes to playing against a behemoth like the imperial court.

If you imagine the war as a weapon fight at the entrance of the village, it is indeed quite simple, Gu Huai's memory also has the people in the town when Qing'an Town released water because of the uneven release of water by the surname Gu and the surname of the foreign surname caused by the fight, the two sides gathered people and horses, and opened a formation at the entrance of the village, the three aunts and eight aunts went into battle to reason and scold, and the natural momentum of winning had the upper hand - of course, it doesn't matter if you lose, at this time, the young people with a general temper can't help it, and they start to copy the guys.

At this time, it is necessary to compare the number of people on both sides and weapons and equipment, the natural momentum of the more people is enough, if there is a dung fork knife in the hand, it is naturally more powerful than the hoe kitchen knife on the opposite side, and usually a few people can't die, the government must be watching the play on the side, and when something big happens, it will come out to stop, and the two sides will discuss it after the fight, and finally come up with a plan that everyone can accept, and that's it.

But if you put the situation of the court and the king of Yan at this time into it, it is too complicated, on the surface it looks like the same as grabbing water, but the identities of both parties are very special - one is the emperor, and the other is the largest vassal king.

In contrast, the emperor represents orthodoxy, the imperial court represents an abundant source of logistics and troops, and what does the Yan Wangfu have? Just like Zhu Di's self-deprecation in the palace today--I didn't expect that one day he would command hundreds of thousands of troops into the grassland to fight the Mengyuan people, and he was left with only this little bit of family background.

Once the army is raised, Zhu Di and Gu Huai will face the desperate situation of hundreds of thousands of troops, as well as the problem of insufficient logistics, food, grass and armaments, and the most important thing is the condemnation of the people of the world - in this era, it has always been important to pay attention to the righteousness of the monarch and the minister, if the monarch wants the minister to die, the minister will die, even if you are the emperor's uncle.

So the preparation still has to start from these aspects... The only thing to be thankful for is that Zhu Di is an experienced general, and his three guards under Yan Wang are also elite generals, so they can be regarded as having the capital to raise troops.

But perhaps only Gu Huai can make this judgment - Zhu Di is not just an excellent general, but the best general in this period of the Ming Dynasty.

Not one of them.

Insight into the movements of the imperial court needs to be solved by the secret spy department, which requires unscrupulous efforts to keep an eye on the officials and generals in the land of Youyan, fortunately, in the past few months, the secret spy department has unswervingly carried out Gu Huai's orders, from the beginning of the elite secret spy route to the market, now the secret spy department can use much more power than at the beginning, it should not be too difficult to keep an eye on the officials.

As for the Hejian side... The third son of King Yan shouldn't have an accident, otherwise where would the story come from? No matter how much history changes slightly with Gu Huai's activities, it will not change to the point where King Yan is the last one.

With so many secret spies going south, they should be able to bring back the third son of King Yan.

Gu Huai's thoughts, sitting in the secret spy department, gradually became clear, and there were a lot of preparations to be made on the eve of the army, but fortunately, every point was traced, so that there was no way to start.

The woman behind her, the secret spy Mangzhong, handed over a document, and Gu Huai signed her name expressionlessly.

Next... It's time to think about the question of public opinion.