Only Zeng Xiaoyi and two eunuchs were left in the prison, and the torches were still "crackling", and the wind blowing from the entrance made the light of the torches flicker, illuminating the dark cell even more gloomy.

The little inner supervisor walked over to the table and placed a long strip of wrapping on the table. As the package was opened little by little, dozens of iron knives of different shapes were revealed in front of Zeng Xiaoyi, including steel needles of different lengths and thicknesses, scissors, axes, hammers, iron hooks, knives, etc., and some of them were quite weird shapes, Zeng Xiaoyi couldn't name them, let alone guess what they were for.

Looking at the iron thing like a toy in front of him, Zeng Xiaoyi shuddered, and wisps of cold air inexplicably rose from the soles of his feet little by little, making the cold hairs on his body stand up.

The old eunuch laughed "quack", "You don't recognize all these things, do you?" We call them 'obedient', and they haven't been used for many years. Don't look at it as delicate, no matter how many iron-cast men and meticulous dead soldiers can't carry a few. ”

Zeng Xiaoyi heard the old lady supervising these complicated torture instruments called "obedient", and then looked at his old face, something flashed quickly in his heart, and he exclaimed: "You are 'ghostly'!" You're the 'ghost' in charge of the secret spy department! ”

The old eunuch's smile did not diminish at all: "Listen, you even know the name of our family, and you say that you are just an ordinary soup cake shop owner, coaxing ghosts!" ”

Since he recognized that the old eunuch in front of him was the "ghost in charge" of the secret spy department, Zeng Xiaoyi's honest and honest face became terrified.

"Ghost Sees Sorrow" Fan Zeng Fan's father-in-law, it is said that he has been in charge of the secret spy department in the palace since Huizong, and is one of the most trusted confidants and eunuchs of the Great Song Emperor. At the beginning, the Jin State had the intention of destroying the Great Song Dynasty, and it was also the secret spy department in charge of Fan Zeng who was the first to detect it, and he peeked through the conspiracy and ambition of the Jin Emperor Wanyan Wu begging, put the evidence in front of Huizong, and reminded him to take precautions early.

Emperor Huizong Zhao Zhe grew up in the inner courtyard of the palace, his artistic talent was extremely high, but he did not know much about the greed in people's hearts, and he always refused to believe that the Emperor of Jin, who had just signed an alliance with the Great Song Dynasty and joined forces to destroy the Liao State, would immediately change his face, turn around and attack the Great Song Dynasty again.

Not to mention Emperor Huizong, how many of the important ministers at that time paid attention to the information that Fan Zeng sorted out? They laughed at him and also at the Jin State, believing that the Emperor of the Jin State wanted to annex the Great Song Dynasty because he was beyond his strength, "the grasshopper shakes the tree, and the ant swallows the elephant".

When the Jin army's Tiefutu shattered the dream of the Great Song monarchs, Huizong could only hurriedly throw a mess to his son Qinzong Zhao Huan, which finally caused the "Jingkang Change", adding the most humiliating stroke to the Zhao and Song royal families in the history books.

In the "Jingkang Change", from the two emperors of Huiqin and below, the queens, concubines, princes, and princesses in Beijing were almost wiped out, and only one of the ninth sons of the emperor Zhao Gou, who was originally going to go to the Jin Kingdom to be a proton, was the youngest son of Emperor Huizong and the most unfavored. Because of his humble biological mother's status, he only had a one-night stand with Huizong, and he was lucky enough to conceive a dragon son, so he barely gained a foothold in the palace.

If it weren't for this, Zhao Gou would not have gone to the enemy country to be a proton, such a humiliating and life-threatening errand, who knew that the world was unpredictable, but he escaped because of this and ascended to the position of emperor that he could never dream of.

At that time, there were not a few palace people who were taken captive and went north with the emperors and queens in Bianjing, but this was difficult for Fan Zeng, who was the intelligence leader of the Great Song Dynasty, not only escaped from his own home, but also brought out the secret spy department almost intact, and also made great contributions to Zhao Gou, who later ascended to the throne but had no foundation, to quickly grasp the situation.

After that, Zhao Gou fled all the way south under the bewitchment of Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan, and the reason why he was always able to turn danger into a disaster at a critical moment and jump out of the encirclement of the Jin people was due to Fan Zeng and his secret spy division.

In the third year of Jianyan, Zhao Gou's escape strategy finally aroused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers and the people, especially when crossing the river, Zhao Gou's favored Inner Servant Provincial Escort Ban Kanglu colluded with Wang Yuan to take refuge in him, and dispatched warships to smuggle jewelry, and a large number of people and tens of thousands of soldiers fell into the encirclement of the Jin army because they had no boats to cross the river, and they died without life.

The people complained, and the soldiers hurt them, and they were indignant.

Zhao Gou was unaware of this, and after settling down a little, he actually rewarded Wang Yuan under the encouragement of Kang Lu, Lan Gui, Zeng Ze and other internal servants, and promoted him to the commander of the imperial camp and the privy envoy, which was almost the pinnacle of the military attache of the Great Song Dynasty, and was a head higher than Di Qing, the "human appearance" of the Renzong Dynasty. Who would have thought that such a military general who was quickly promoted at the head of the national disaster would never fight the enemy on the battlefield, and was promoted only because he took refuge in the emperor's chamberlain!

How to convince the public? Who can be convinced?

The most uncontrollable ones are Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan and others who are guarding Zhao Gou's side, and their grievances are too backlogged, and they always have to find an outlet.

Seeing that the mutiny was about to break out, Fan Zeng risked offending the inner servants and reminded the emperor not to be too biased in rewards and punishments, but unfortunately his heartfelt words were not only not adopted by the emperor, but under the instigation of Kang Lu, Lan Gui and others, Fan Zeng became a villain who was jealous and slandered the king.

If it weren't for the "Miao Liu Mutiny" that happened too quickly, Fan Zeng would have almost been taken off from the position of the palm print of the secret spy division.

Although the "Miaoliu Mutiny" quickly subsided, Zhao Gou's only son, the three-year-old prince Zhao Yang, was frightened and soon died of illness, and Zhao Gou also lost his fertility for various reasons, and there was nothing to do after that, laying a hidden danger for the inheritance of the throne of the Great Song Dynasty.

The absurd thing is that after Zhao Gou was reinstated, he posthumously presented Wang Yuan, who was killed in the "Miao Liu Mutiny", "Kaifu Yi Tong Sansi", and posthumously gave the dead Kang Lu the nickname of "Rongjie", what an honor, only to engrave the word "hero" on the stele of the two.

was originally the culprit who caused the "Miao Liu Mutiny", but because of Zhao Gou's posthumous seal, he became a loyal minister and righteous man of the Loyal Monarch's Death Festival, but Fan Zeng and the secret spy department he was in charge of were suppressed, even if Shaoxing made a big move to recruit civil talents to serve as secret spies, Fan Zeng and the secret spy department did not make waves, and some people even rumored that Fan Zeng had died a long time ago, and the secret spy department had also existed in name only.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect that because the villain actually led to you, the big man, the villain died without regrets!"

"Don't be in a hurry, it's still far from death!" Fan Zeng smiled and instructed the little inner supervisor, "Let's give our soup and cake shop owner some hors d'oeuvres first, and then talk about his son and daughter-in-law." I see that the kid is clever, and he has served me in the palace for a few years, and maybe he can take over my mantle......"

Zeng Xiaoyi only felt a "boom" explosion in his mind, and he said in a trembling voice: "What son and daughter-in-law?" What entered the palace to pick up your mantle? You, how do you know? ”