Wu Yang left the imperial study and did not leave the palace, but was invited by Fan Zeng to the secret spy cabinet located on the west side of the palace.

The secret spy department originally had its own yamen outside the palace, known as the ice well affairs to the outside world, and was responsible for the management of the ice cellars inside and outside the palace and the use of ice cubes, etc., in order to ensure that the sacrifices would not accelerate decay during the sacrifice in the temple when the dog days were difficult to get rid of the heat, as well as the emperor and the concubines and the hundred officials to use ice to cool off the summer and other affairs.

This simple Bingjing Wu secretly covers the secret spy department, which controls the entire external espionage system of the Great Song Dynasty.

Gao Hong is a smiling fat man, seeing people with their own smiles, a harmless appearance of humans and animals, and also respectful to Fan Zeng, everyone before and after him is full of "Lord Siyin". Whether it is a place or a person or a material, as long as the secret spy department proposes to use it, Gao Hong will retreat and never fight!

This situation was broken in the eleventh year of Shaoxing.

In that year, the Song and Jin Dynasty signed the second peace agreement, and the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou, wanted to be an emperor of peace, and he entrusted the government affairs to the prime minister Qin Hui, while he was indulged in leisure, and splashed ink with the concubines in the day, and wrote poems and paintings.

As for the ambitions of the Secret Spy Division and the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, to hell with them, don't bother me!

The emperor has such an attitude, how can others not take the opportunity to step on a few feet? Gao Hong gathered a group of people to squeeze openly and secretly, and Fan sent the emperor several times to send the military intelligence reports of the Jin State, but was reprimanded by the emperor on the spot, making a fuss.

In the end, the secret spy department withdrew from the ice well affairs and retreated in the palace to guard a cabinet and a warehouse.

A few days ago, Fan Zeng personally went to Bingjing to open the dungeon belonging to the secret spy department, and once the dungeon that had not been used for many years was opened, the smell of rancid smell rose to the sky, almost knocking Fan Zeng and Xiao Liuzi and the others up, but it was Kui Zhong, this kid, acted neatly, and took people in to clean it inside and out, before sorting out the dungeon occupied by rats and bats into a barely inhabitable appearance.

This is also the reason why Fan Zeng decided to keep Kui Zhong and personally explained to Wu Yang.

The secret spy department has been silent for so many years, and there is a shortage of people, there is a shortage of people!

Fan Zeng invited Wu Yang to come today, but not to talk about these trivial matters of the secret spy department, but to let Xiao Wu familiarize himself with the spy system of the secret spy department. Since the emperor intends to hand over the secret spy department to Lord Xiao Wu to be in charge, he, the current head seal of the secret spy department, must show an attitude!

The cabinet of the secret spy department is a two-story small building, and there is only a small door on the ground floor that allows people to enter and exit, and an old eunuch sits on the threshold of the small door.

Entering the small door, inside is a hall, the hall is a row of wooden bookshelves, on which are placed a neatly stacked scroll, Fan Zeng introduced: "These are the big and small events that I have experienced since the establishment of the Great Song Secret Spy Division, and many major events in history are driven by inconspicuous small events, if Lord Xiao Wu is interested, you can come and look through it." I'll give you a piece of the waist card of the secret spy division, and Lord Xiao Wu can also check it by himself when I am not there, and the dumb man at the door will let him go when he sees the waist card. It's just that the files in the secret spy shelf cabinet library are not allowed to go out of the cabinet library unless the emperor orders it, this is the rule set by the ancestors, please forgive me Lord Xiao Wu! ”

"Gonggong Fan has been discouraged, and Wu Yang naturally has to abide by the rules of the Secret Spy Division."

The two of them walked until they reached the last row of bookshelves, Fan Zeng twisted a copper candlestick on the bookshelf, and after a slight "rolling" sound, the bookshelf retreated to the left and right, revealing an upward staircase.

The two had just stepped on the stairs, and the bookshelf behind them quietly closed again, and Wu Yang couldn't help but look back.

Fan Zeng smiled: "The closed door is upstairs, let's go, let's go to the second floor with our family to have a look." ”

The wooden staircase goes straight up and down and is only accessible to one person.

There is also a door in the middle of the stairs, and behind the door sits a person wearing a mask, only revealing a pair of eyes, and there is a repeating crossbow on the small table in front of him.

Fan Zeng signaled Wu Yang not to be restless, took off his waist card and held it in front of him, and after the person guarding the crossbow nodded, Fan Zeng continued to move forward, using the key to open the iron gate in front of him, and after Wu Yang also entered, Fan Zeng turned around and locked the door again.

Wu Yang had always known that the secret spy department was mysterious, but he didn't expect the guards to be so strict, he was suddenly very curious, he didn't know what kind of shocking secret was hidden on the second floor?

There was also a door at the top of the stairs, and before the two of them stepped on the last wooden ladder, the door on the top opened by itself, and a middle-aged man with a big mole at the corner of his mouth poked his head out and greeted warmly: "Lord Palm Print, you can come, I haven't seen you for a long time, Sijiu misses you!" Yo, I also brought a newcomer here, this is the class that came to pick up the forty-nine? Forty-nine, this is going to get out of this hellish place? Hahaha, so happy! ”

Wu Yang was stunned for a moment, he never expected that after being heavily guarded, what was hidden in the most mysterious second floor of the secret spy shelf pavilion was actually a chatter!

Fan Zeng said in surprise: "Okay, you Zhang Sijiu, did the two taels of yellow soup get you drunk again?" I'm going to have someone replace you, do you dare to go? ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, once you enter the secret spy department, you can't come out for life, this is the rule!" Zhang Sijiu muttered a few words, and instantly became happy again, "Then who is this little brother?" ”

Fan Zeng was afraid that Zhang Sijiugou would not be able to spit out ivory in his mouth, so he hurriedly said: "This is the commander of Wu Yang Wu with five fingers, and he is also in charge of the affairs of the headquarters of the Imperial City Division, and the official family is extremely important, so let our family take the commander to familiarize the Lord with the affairs of the Secret Spy Division, and you will know if Lord Wu has any needs in the future, and you will do your best to help!" ”

Fan Zeng and Wu Yang entered the second floor one after the other, and the second floor was facing the staircase with a window, and the wind blew in through the fine window screen, making the air not so suffocating. On the right hand side of the door, there is a counter like a restaurant in the market, on which in addition to pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and wine pots and wine cups are placed, and behind the counter there is a large Taishi chair, and on the wall behind the Taishi chair is a wooden Duobao Pavilion, in which scrolls, stones, small weapons, and a few pots of flowers and plants are placed. It seems that it should be Zhang Sijiu's daily duty place.

The second floor is divided into two rooms, light and dark, and the innermost should be the resting place for Zhang Sijiu and the guards at the stairs.

There are also rows of wooden shelves on the second floor, but there are far fewer scrolls on them than on the first floor. There is also a lone wooden shelf on the wall closest to the inner room, on which a solitary scroll rests.

Seeing that Wu Yang's gaze was attracted by the deepest scroll, Fan Zeng was about to open his mouth to explain, when Zhang Sijiu suddenly drilled over and said shyly: "It turned out to be Lord Xiao Wu, the strange way is so handsome, what does the little lady of Lin'an say?" If you cut like a learner, if you grind, what else is 'stranger like jade, the son is unparalleled in the world', Sijiu can have the honor to pay tribute to the 'spring boudoir dream person' of the little lady of Lin'an, and I have to boast in this life! Hey, hey, little Wu, if you want to know anything, just come and ask me, I'm most familiar with the things upstairs! ”

"Go, go, go!" Fan Zeng drove Zhang Sijiu away and explained to Wu Yang, "Don't blame him, he has not seen anyone in this pavilion for many years, but if he sees one, he will definitely go crazy!" There was one thing he was right, no one was more familiar with the file on this upper floor than he was! ”

Fan Zeng took Wu Yang around the second floor, and then returned to the place where Zhang Sijiu was on duty at the door. Wu Yang let Fan Zeng sit down on a chair, and he bent one elbow on the counter, listening to Fan Zeng explain to him the situation of the secret spy department.

"How much does Lord Xiao Wu know about secret spies?"

Naturally, Wu Lu also had a military intelligence dish in the army, and they also had a name called "Night Doesn't Collect," which was specialized in spying on enemy intelligence and movements, and providing staff officers for the commander-in-chief to formulate strategies.

"On the battlefield, it can also help the army avoid the main force, jump out of the encirclement, cut off the grain route, win more with less, surprise attack the enemy camp, etc., all of which are inseparable from intelligence!"

Fan Zeng nodded and said: "Our family has heard of Wu Shaobao's name for governing the army for a long time, and sure enough, there is no vain under the fame, and Lord Xiao Wu is even better than the blue!" ”

Wu Yang smiled and said, "I should tell my third brother this, my third brother is much stronger than me!" ”

Fan Zeng also smiled and continued: "The secret spy of the secret spy department is different from the 'night does not collect' in the army. The secret spies of my Great Song Dynasty are divided into four categories: 'heaven, earth, Xuan, and Huang', among which the 'yellow' secret spies are the most and the lowest, and their status is also relatively low, mainly responsible for collecting folk secrets and listening to secrets. The word 'Xuan' is slightly better, they have the opportunity to get close to the nobles, and can find out some secrets and information that are not known to the public. The secret agent of the word 'ground' is in a higher position, and may also be in a high position himself, and can exert influence on national or local government decrees. The means of secret espionage are not passively spying on intelligence, but can also adopt such means as division, incitement, discord, support and suppression, etc., to achieve the goal of weakening the enemy's national strength, and even cultural export and economic control are one of the means of secret espionage. ”

Seeing that Wu Yang didn't understand very well, Fan Zeng smiled "hehe": "Little Lord Wu, think about it, why does my dynasty pay tribute to the Jin State every year, and the national strength has not weakened, and the Jin State has been worshiped by us for so many years, and the national strength has not increased?" That's because the silver and silk we sent out were multiplied back in the Shibiba trade. There are not many secret spies registered in the secret spy department, but every foreign trade businessman can be regarded as a secret spy who weakens the national strength of the enemy country, which is a conspiracy and a means used by the prime ministers. As for cultural export, wouldn't it be better to weaken their will and combat power by letting the monarchs and nobles of the enemy country learn the culture and etiquette of our Great Song Dynasty, and even imitate our clothing and diet, and live in the way we guided? That's not how the Liao Kingdom perished! ”

Wu Lan had a large number of soldiers, and to support such an army, it was far from enough to rely on the salary and silver of the imperial court, and there were also special caravans in Wu Lan's mansion, which were responsible for border trade. When Wu Yang was sixteen years old, with the support of his third brother Wu Ting, he went to the Jin Kingdom with a caravan, and in the Great Song Dynasty, it was just ordinary silk, porcelain, and even iron pots, etc., which could be sold in the Jin Kingdom for a large price, and the returns were so rich that people were blushing. The silver earned was exchanged for the cattle and sheep of the Jin Kingdom in a blink of an eye, but the price was pressed very low by the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty.

The third brother told him that the shopping mall is like a battlefield, and it is a war completely dominated by the Great Song Dynasty! In the past, he didn't understand the words of the third brother, but today when he heard Fan Zengyi say that Wu Yang only felt suddenly enlightened!

"It's a pity, although this is a high-sounding conspiracy, it is not a trade-off, but a time-consuming and labor-intensive tug-of-war and war of attrition, which is protracted and takes two or three generations to see results!"

God has not always been on the side of the Great Song. Now the emperor of the Jin State is indeed eloquent, he ordered the closure of more than ten vertebral fields such as Tang and Deng, leaving only a trade vertebral field between the two countries in Sizhou, and also stipulated that the transaction was every five days, which weakened the economic exploitation of the Jin State by the Song Dynasty to the greatest extent. At the same time, the border line was closed, which can be said to have completely cut off the cultural export of the Song Dynasty to the Jin State.

"If we do not take more drastic and effective measures to quickly weaken the national strength of the Jin State and divide its military strength in the short term, our dynasty will be defeated on the battlefield of the two countries in the future!"

Wu Yang's previous perception of the palm print of the secret spy department only stayed on his vicious and ruthless methods towards the enemy country, and even his perception of the secret spy department was even worse, thinking that it was a poisonous snake entrenched in the shadows, and it would jump out and bite you if you were not caught off-guard.

Listening to Fan Zeng's words today, he knew that the palm print of this secret spy division is a person with hills and valleys in his chest, and if he uses it properly, the secret spy department is the important weapon of the country, as Fan Zeng said: "If the secret spy department has more strength, Song Erlang will be able to shed a lot less blood!" ”