After the dispersal of the court, Wu Yang waited until the courtiers were almost gone, and then slowly walked towards the outside of the palace gate.

As the emperor's eagle dog and minions, although the Imperial City Division of the Song Dynasty was not as majestic and notorious as the Jinyi Guards in later generations, there were really few serious courtiers who were willing to look at each other squarely.

As the tenth son of the Xingzhou Festival Envoy, the Kaifu Yitong Sansi, and Wu Xuan and Wu Shaobao's family, Wu Yang could have been a carefree yain in Xingzhou Mansion. But he ran away from home at the age of seventeen, came to Lin'an City, entered the Imperial City Division, became the emperor's minion, and became an outlier in the eyes of the world.

Sure enough, Wu Yang didn't take a few steps before he found that a few civil officials couldn't stop looking at him and muttering to others. As for the military attachés, they were like avoiding the plague, and they wanted to stay away from him. These people don't look down on him, the Imperial City Division has the responsibility of guarding the Imperial Palace, responsible for the safety of the Imperial City and the emperor, and the military attache is too close to him for fear of being suspicious and speechless.

Wu Yang had long been accustomed to this, he lowered his eyes and walked out silently, but someone stopped him.

"Commander Wu walks slowly, and waits for the old man—"

Wu Yang looked sideways and saw that it was Zhang Tao, the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, he hurriedly stepped to the side of the road, bowed down and said: "The lower official has seen Lord Zhang, I don't know what the lord has to say when he calls the lower official?" ”

Zhang Tao helped him up and said with a smile: "Lord Xiao Wu doesn't need to be polite. In the past, when the old man was an official in Sichuan, thanks to Ling Zunzhao, if the virtuous nephew did not dislike it, it would be good to call the old man a uncle. I've been separated from Ling Zun for many years, I don't know if he is in good health? ”

Wu Yang was surprised in his heart, but his face was not obvious at all, and he said deeply: "Thank you Shibo Jihang, a few days ago, my brother wrote a letter to inform the family that everything was fine, but my mother died last year, and the adults couldn't help but be sad from time to time." It's a pity that my emperor is in my body, and I can't serve by the side of adults, which is really unfilial. ”

Last autumn, Wu Luan's wife, Wang, died of illness and was posthumously named Mrs. Wu Guo. Wu Yang originally wanted to resign and go home to worry about it, but Zhao Gou was reluctant to let Wu Yang leave, so he only gave him a month off to go home for funeral, and then "won the love", and deliberately set up the fifth command of the Imperial City Division, and appointed Wu Yang as the fifth commander of the commander.

The emperor's use of "grabbing affection" for a small minister can be described as unprecedented, and the length of his holy family will not be a second person in the Zhao Dynasty. It is even rumored that Wu Yang is the illegitimate son of Zhao Gou who was left behind in the people when he went south, and he was adopted by Wu Lu by luck, and now he is returning to the dynasty to recognize his relatives.

These rumors have noses and eyes, if it weren't for Wu Yang's age, the government and the opposition would have almost believed it. After all, there was a precedent in the Song Dynasty for the folk story of the emperor's bloodline, and the deductive novel of "Tanuki for the Prince" was still sold in the bookstore, and it also achieved the legend and reputation of a generation of benevolent monarch Zhao Zhen.

"Brother Wu and his wife are in deep love, but unfortunately Mrs. Wu is weak and sickly...... Now that Mrs. Wu is gone, you should comfort Brother Wu a lot and look away. ”

"My nephew is far away in Lin'an, and he can't do his filial piety in front of adults, so he can only rely on his brothers to bother, and it's really ashamed to say it."

"Loyalty and filial piety cannot be both, and it is the same if you are loyal to your father in front of Your Majesty, and your father and brothers will be able to understand your hardships."

The two gossiped for a while, and Zhang Tao finally mentioned the matter, "The official family asked the virtuous nephew to thoroughly investigate Yue Fei's military intelligence spy, I don't know if the virtuous nephew has eyebrows?" ”

Wu Yang frowned slightly, and said with some anxiety and sorrow: "Xie Dacheng, who is in charge of the military intelligence spy system, died before the Lantern Festival, and the successor Tong Sanshun wiped his neck himself, and the old pawn of the Gushan Battalion was like a gourd with a saw-mouthed mouth, and he was interrogated for two days in a row, and he didn't ask anything...... The little nephew inside and outside the old camp in Gushan ordered people to rummage through, and no useful clues were found. ”

Wu Yang stomped his feet, as competitive and vain as a gentleman of the "Second Ancestor", "I don't know how many people are waiting to see the jokes of the little nephew, I'm afraid I will live up to Your Majesty's trust!" ”

Zhang Tao's eyes flashed slightly, and he patted Wu Yang's shoulder, "Don't worry, the official family does not have a time limit, these things of Chen Sesame and Rotten Grain decades ago can be found out for a while, and take your time, don't worry." ”

Zhang Tao said and walked forward, and Wu Yang followed closely behind half a position.

"The little nephew overheard that the marshals of the border armies used to send military intelligence spies to Jin Guo or his uncle proposed to His Majesty, but I didn't expect that Yue Fei's military intelligence spies were still active after twenty or thirty years, but I don't know whose hands these spies are in now?"

Zhang Tao's footsteps paused slightly, and he felt a little emotion in his heart, "This is all an old thing from almost thirty years ago, and the virtuous nephew and nephew almost forgot it, not to mention the old man." ”

Now it is the 30th year of Shaoxing, 28 years ago, that is, the second year of Shaoxing, the Song and Jin countries have just signed the "Shaoxing Peace Conference", and the Great Song Dynasty has sought a corner of peace at the cost of paying tribute to the Jin State every year.

At that time, although the "Jingkang Change" was encountered, the second emperor of Huiqin became a prisoner of the Jin State, and most of the Great Song Dynasty also fell into the hands of the enemy, but the backbone of the Song people was not broken, the blood was still there, and the courtiers and the people were all gearing up, dreaming of expelling the Tartars in the near future, completing the Golden Ou, so that the country and the flesh and blood did not have to be separated.

In the second year of Shaoxing, Zhang Tao, who was a living houser, was in his prime, and he suggested to the emperor that he should use the heavy money to recruit strange people from the people to secretly sneak to the Jin Kingdom to ambush, to explore military intelligence for the imperial court, and to prepare for the great war that the Song and Jin Dynasty must have in the near future, so that the Song Dynasty's counteroffensive was invincible from the beginning, "knowing oneself and knowing the other, and not being defeated in a hundred battles".

Zhao Gou happily adopted his suggestion and ordered the commanders of the border armies to implement it as one.

In the blink of an eye, it has been almost thirty years.

At that time, I don't know how many people were recruited to go to the Jin Kingdom, as secret spies, the identities of these people were top secret in the court and in the army. Zhang Tao had paid attention to the movements of the secret spies, and in his memory he had never heard the news that these secret spies sent to the Jin Kingdom had been rewarded, as if there had never been such a thing, without this group of people, he did not expect that after so many years of silence, Yue Fei's secret spies were still active.

"Back then, the old man just proposed to His Majesty that the identity of the secret spy was top secret, and although the old man was a living houser, he had no right to intervene. If the virtuous nephew can't find clues in the lonely mountain camp, he might as well go to the secret spy cabinet of the Ouchi to look for it, maybe there will be a harvest, or ask the emperor himself directly. ”

"If there really is such a group of people, the virtuous nephew might as well think about how to deal with it." Zhang Tao paused for a moment, and then said, "If the weapon is not used, it can still play a deterrent role there, and once it is used, there must always be a goal, so as not to hurt others but hurt yourself." ”

"Thank you uncle for teaching, nephew has been taught!"

While speaking, the two of them had already left the palace gate, and Zhang Tao needed to go to the public office of the sixth department to deal with affairs, Wu Yang bowed down and waited for him to get on the soft sedan chair waiting on the side, and then straightened up.

"Isn't this Lord Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, these civil officials have eyes on their foreheads, why did they come out with Gongzi today?"

Waiting outside the palace gate, Chang Sui Changji came over to help him rematch the waist knife on his waist, and was a little surprised to see Zhang Tao greeting his son-in-law.

Changji was brought out by Wu Yang from Xingzhou Mansion, and he grew up with him since he was a child.

"Zhang Shangshu has an old relationship with his father, and I only know it today. It's just a few words of gossip, and it doesn't matter. Wu Yang asked while re-buckling the waist knife, "Is there anything you want to investigate?" ”

"It's been two years since Lin'an came to Lin'an, why haven't I heard him mention it before." Changji muttered a few words, put on a big hat for him, and said, "I found out, the only outsider who has been in and out of the Gushan camp these days is Zeng Xiaoyi from the soup cake shop, and now that he has entered the Imperial City Division, I'm not afraid that he won't recruit him!" ”