"Liu She~"

"And Chao Wrong?"

Weiyang Palace, Xuanshu Palace.

Sitting on the imperial couch where Tianzi Qi had been working for many years, he heard that next to the imperial couch, there was a low sound of Lang Zhongling Zhou Ren's recital, and Liu Sheng, who was looking at the Eucalyptus Sect, only raised the corners of his eyebrows.

"How can these two people get together?"

Subconsciously asked, I didn't expect Zhou Ren to give any exact answer, but when I saw Zhou Ren hear this, I just hurriedly lowered my head, stretched out my hand and groped in my sleeve for a while.

After a while, a roll of bamboo was 'transformed' out of Zhou Ren's sleeve as if by magic;

And Zhou Ren's next report can be said to have made Liu Sheng's jaw drop completely······

"Your Majesty."

"Today, the Marquis of Kaifeng held a banquet in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the invitees basically covered the two thousand stones of the Central Duke and the Emperor, as well as the Marquis who is expected to be ranked in the position of the Nine Emperors."

"-Taifu Weijuan, also invited to the banquet."

"During the banquet, the servant Yuan Ang respectively accused Uncle Neishi Tian, Fengchang Dou Pengzu, and Wei Wei were unsuspicious."

"After that, Zhao Yu talked with the imperial doctor for a long time in the name of toasting, but the minister had no way of knowing what he said."

"I just don't know why: after the banquet was over, Chao Cuo did not leave with Zhao Yu, but was sent back to the house by Shaofu Liu She."

"On the way back to the house, Liu She's carriage and horse drove extremely slowly, and the two talked for a long time in the car."

"Outside the gate of Chao Cuo's mansion, the two of them were also in the stopped car, talking more than two incense sticks······

Listening to Zhou Ren's face did not change and lowered his head, according to the bamboo slip in his hand, and the events of yesterday came in order, Liu Sheng was already stunned in place!

After a long time, I subconsciously asked: What did Liu She and Chao Cuo talk about?

I saw Zhou Ren bow his head again, roll up the bamboo slips in his hand, put them back in his sleeves, and from the sleeves on the other side, he 'transformed' another roll of bamboo slips again.

Liu Sheng saw it clearly: the second volume of bamboo slips conjured up by Zhou Ren was tied with a strip of dark green cloth······

"During the banquet, there was no conversation between the two."

Walking out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Liu She deliberately waited outside the gate, and Chao Cuo quickly stopped beside Liu She.

"Liu She invited Chao Cuo to ride with him, but he didn't say a word, only made a 'please' gesture, and Chao Cuo got into the car without asking."

"And after Chao Cuo got into Liu She's carriage, Chao Cuo's domestic servant, as if he had expected it, drove Chao Cuo's car back to Chao Cuo's mansion alone."

"And Chao Mistake's carriage did not follow Liu She's carriage, but quickly returned home······"

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"When I got in the car, Chao Cuo asked first: Taohou, you are about to become prime minister?"

"Liu She said: The gossip in the market can't be believed."

"Chao Cuo asked again: Tao Qing is about to step down as prime minister, I wonder if Shaofu has found a good successor?"

Liu She said: Shaofu is doing a good job, why rush to find a successor? What's more, I'm not very old, and I can still serve in the Shaofu for many years. ”

"Chao Cuo then said: Since Shaofu can't trust me, then I won't bother Shaofu to send it off, just in time to step on the night and go home on foot."

Liu She hurriedly retained and said: Doctor Yu Shi and slow ······"

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"Liu She said: I am about to become the prime minister, and I shouldn't get too close to the imperial doctor."

"Chao replied: If you really think so, then Shaofu will not send me home."

Liu She smiled and asked: Isn't Doctor Chao afraid that in the future, when I become the prime minister, will I compete with Doctor Chao?"

"Chao wrong answer: I am not afraid of offending Shaofu, even Shen Tu Jia's old stubborn cow back then, I couldn't help it at that time, and I was just my ······ in the internal history"

As Zhou Ren's voice became deeper and lower, Liu Shengben's face was still full of astonishment, and he only had a hint of banter;

Finding that Zhou Ren's voice disappeared in his ears, he subconsciously turned sideways, and just saw that the second roll of bamboo slips was also being rolled up by Zhou Ren and put back into his sleeves.

Feeling Liu Sheng's suspicious gaze, Zhou Ren straightened up without changing his face and bowed slightly.

"The spies of the embroidered guards have heard this."

"After that, what did Chao Cuo and Liu She talk about, I'm afraid that between heaven and earth, only two parties will know······"

After saying that, Zhou Ren seemed to be relieved, exhaled a little turbidity, and naturally retreated to the back of the imperial couch;

And after a while, he found that Liu Sheng's gaze at him became more and more strange, and Zhou Ren's brows were quietly wrinkled together in confusion.

"Your Majesty?"

"But I'm worried that there is any conversation between Chao Cuo and Liu She that shouldn't be missed, but the minister didn't find out?"

There was obviously some weak-hearted words, but it made Liu Sheng's face even more strange, and he looked at Zhou Ren's gaze, as if he was looking at a monster, rather than a mortal person.

"Qing ······"

After being silent for a long time, and hesitantly saying the word 'Qing', Liu Sheng finally got up from the imperial couch.

Walk along the edge of the couch to the back of the couch step by step, and raise your head slightly;

Looking straight at the depths of Zhou Ren's gaze, Zhou Ren was a little hairy in his heart, and Liu Shengcai finally squinted the corners of his eyes and asked the doubts in his heart.

"What kind of ······ is this embroidered guard?"

"Official?"

It took a lot of effort to change the word 'monster' to 'official office', and Liu Sheng also raised his head.

In front of Liu Sheng, Zhou Ren, who had just reacted that Liu Sheng had come to him and was about to bend down, heard Liu Sheng's question, but fell into a long thought.

What kind of official office is embroidered clothes, or what kind of establishment and department is it?

Zhou Ren flipped through his memories, and his thoughts instantly returned to the noon hour when the sun was shining more than 20 years ago.

"Zhou Qing, get ready to prepare."

"Liu Yi, the king of Liang, has fallen from the horse."

"My father said that there was something strange about this matter, and he wanted to send someone to investigate, but because of the eyes of everyone inside and outside the government, he could only give up."

"—The father said: This time, the father endured;"

"But my father doesn't want future generations of kings to be able to swallow their anger like this time when they encounter a similar situation······"

On that day, Prince Qi brought back the news from the Yang Palace.

As a result, Zhou Ren, the crown prince's housekeeper, was quickly promoted to the shield guard of the prince and became the commander of the prince's guard.

That is, from the 500-person establishment of the Prince Guard, which was composed of the orphans of the martyrs, under the secret promotion of the then Prince Qi and later the Son of Heaven - now Emperor Xiaojing of Daxing, it has grown step by step into an embroidered guard with tentacles all over the world.

Every embroidered guard is called an embroidered messenger, dressed in embroidered clothes and carrying a talisman;

Every embroidered messenger is a martyr's son who sacrificed his life for the Han family, but failed to leave protection for future generations;

When necessary, the embroidered messengers all over the world have the ability to send a secret message with three tail feathers of birds and beasts directly to the Son of Heaven through the post station network with Qin Zhidao as the vein.

In this era, a telegram with a silk cloth base, sealed in a wooden cylinder with mud seals, and inserted with three bird feathers, only meant the following five words.

- 800 miles expedited ······

"Your Majesty may not know much about the embroidered guard."

"After all, before Your Majesty, in addition to those embroidered messengers who were in the embroidery guard book, there were only Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Emperor Daxing Xiaojing, and the three ministers."

"Other than these three people, whether it is the late Empress Dowager Bo, or the current Empress Dowager Dou and Empress Dowager Jia, they never know anything about it."

"The minister is a little puzzled: when Emperor Xiaojing of Daxing was still alive, he didn't tell His Majesty about the embroidered clothes."

"Since Your Majesty asked today, the minister, let's try to talk to Your Majesty······"

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"Embroidered clothes, originally established in the eleventh year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen (169 BC), because King Liang Huai fell from a horse and died, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was suspicious, and ordered a secret establishment."

"At the beginning, it was composed of 500 princes' guards of Emperor Xiaojing of Daxing, mainly responsible for secretly collecting the wind in the streets and alleys of Chang'an."

"When you find rumors that may be of interest to Emperor Taizong, you can directly report to the prince at that time, that is, Emperor Daxing Xiaojing."

"Later, when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was seriously ill and dying, Emperor Xiaojing of Daxing made an initiative and incorporated more than 1,300 heroes and martyrs from the Northern Army into the Prince's Guard."

"When Emperor Taizong Xiaowen died, Emperor Xiaojing inherited the unification, and under the order of Emperor Xiaojing, he threatened to dismiss the prince's guard, but in fact, he secretly established a secret guard."

"Emperor Xiaojing personally nominated this secret guard: the embroidered guard ······"

With Zhou Ren's obviously a little low, but extremely clear narration, Liu Sheng's face also quietly swelled with a touch of thought;

Zhou Ren didn't notice this, and only continued to take care of himself: "After the embroidered clothes guard was established, Emperor Xiaojing sent more than seven embroidered messengers to the princes of Wu Liu Bi and Chu Liu Wu in the name of sending county officials. ”

"——On the surface, these people are all county officials, and they all serve the princes and kings on the day of Pingli, and they will even stand in the position of the princes and kings, questioning and opposing the decisions of the Chang'an court."

"But secretly, these people are like a pair of eyes, staring at the every move of the Kwantung clan princes for Emperor Daxing Xiaojing."

"Once it is found that the princes of the clan have misdeeds, they will immediately send back a report, so that Emperor Xiaojing will know about it as soon as possible······"

"It is precisely for this reason that the Wu Chu Rebellion of that year could be quelled so quickly."

"If it weren't for the secret report network woven by the embroidered guards, after Liu Bi rebelled that year, it would take at least a month for the court army to complete the preparations before the expedition."

"-After all, there is a saying among soldiers: before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first."

"It takes a month to prepare, and nearly a month to get there;"

"It will take nearly two months to arrive in Suiyang, and no matter what, the Wuchu Rebellion cannot be successfully quelled within three months."

"In other words: as early as when Liu Bi contacted Qi and was planning to raise troops, Emperor Xiaojing had already received the news and ordered the army to secretly prepare ······"

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"Before the Wu Chu Rebellion, the main task of the embroidered guards was to keep an eye on every move of the Kwantung clan princes."

"After Wu Chu was wiped out, the surveillance of the Kwantung clan princes by the embroidered guards was more strict than before the Wu Chu Rebellion."

- Emperor Xiaojing once said: It is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to defend the world; It is easy to quell chaos, but it is difficult to maintain stability. ”

"So in the eyes of Emperor Xiaojing, the end of the Wuchu Rebellion does not mean that the princes of the Kwantung clan will no longer be a big problem for my Han family."

"Not only is this not the case, but after the end of the Wu-Chu Rebellion, the importance of closely monitoring the Kwantung clan princes is even greater than before the Wu-Chu Rebellion."

"So now, more than ninety percent of the embroidered guards are all over the Kwantung clan vassal states;"

"There are less than 10% and no more than 700 people left on standby in Chang'an······"

Hearing this, Liu Sheng has a basic understanding of the composition of the embroidered clothes and the meaning of existence.

But it is precisely because of this that Liu Sheng's heart gradually gave birth to questions one after another.

- Without exception, it's all about the embroidery guard, the mysterious 'official underground organization'······

"All the princes?"

"—all."

"King of Linjiang, King of the River······"

"—all."

"King Jiangdu and King Zhao also have?"

"—Without exception, as long as there are clan relatives and princes, there must be embroidered messengers by their side."

"——For the hundred officials and ministers of Chang'an, Emperor Xiaojing only asked his ministers to 'do their best';"

"—but for the Kwantung clan princes······"

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"-hmm······"

"—The minister remembered that Emperor Xiaojing's approximate original words were: when to sleep, when to wake up, who he saw, what he said;"

"—Even staying in the concubine's palace, how many ······ that night, and when to go to the toilet, must be mastered by the messenger of embroidered clothes."

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After a brief conversation, Liu Shengtong only shrank slightly.

"A hundred officials of the court?"

"Even the ministers of the court, the princes of the Yuan, and the nobles are also spies who embroider clothes?"

I saw that Zhou Ren said without hesitation: "All officials in Chang'an have a rank of 100 stones or more. ”

"Rank 100 stones, at least two neighbors, 200 stones and three;"

"Four hundred stones plus a merchant, six hundred stones plus a servant."

"If you have more than a thousand stones, you can roughly guarantee that as long as you are willing, you can control the person's eating, drinking, living, and traveling."

"Che Hou Xungui, even more."

"Relatives, the most ······"

Liu Sheng nodded.

After thinking about it for a long time, he slowly looked at Zhou Ren's cuffs.

"That bamboo slip just now, there seems to be a green tie on it?"

"But what does it mean?"

When Zhou Ren heard this, he still blurted out without thinking: "Lacing green is a 'not very important' conversation;"

"In addition to green, there are yellows, reds, and blacks."

"Yellow is 'probably important' and red is 'definitely important.'"

"And the black frenulum is sent back to Chang'an from Kanto, it will be an eight-hundred-mile expedited ······"