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Chris looked up and found that it was almost time to reach the "Zuo Chengtian Gate". There is a building near the red gate www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion, which is where Lan Yuanzhen works - the Imperial City Division.

She has not forgotten her little uncle's idea - to rebuild the spy network.

Gao Zunhui said that Gao Taotao already has the "Imperial City Division" and "Jiyi Division" in his hands, and he must let them play their due role, rather than fully trusting the "Listening to the Rain Pavilion".

She has not heard the rumors in the palace, and they all say that the queen mother loves the second prince. The little emperor has just come to power, and he is on pins and needles on the throne, and in the face of the eccentric queen mother and ambitious imperial brother, he naturally wants to grasp the real power as soon as possible. The emperor targeted Lan Yuanxiao with a killer before, and Chris felt that it was not for no reason. I ran into him that day, but it was just a fuse. There is no doubt that Lan Yuanzhen is the queen mother's person, the little emperor did not dare to provoke the queen mother, nor did he dare to take Lan Yuanzhen under the knife, but he killed me, this is undoubtedly sending a signal, that is his deep-seated psychology, he wants to be on the throne, he is saying: "The queen mother, please stand aside!"

Chris figured it out now, it's not that Lan Yuanxiao doesn't see it enough, but that the emperor thinks that the authority of his mother is not as good as before, so he dares to do it.

Lan Yuanzhen looked down and saw her gritting her teeth, and asked with a smile, "What is the little brother thinking?"

She looked left and right, there was no one around, and said in a low voice: "Ming'er, I want Liang Weijian to open the door of Baoci Palace!"

"Oh? figured it out, stop playing hide and seek?"

Chris pouted and said, "Anyway, it's me now." ”

"Yes," Lan Yuanzhen nodded and replied, "It's just a different 'way' to hide with them, and it's still the master's favorite game!"

I don't know if it's an illusion, after returning to the palace, Chris felt that the smile on Lan Yuanzhen's face has increased in the past few days. She can't help but feel a little sour in her heart, getting along with the people around her, always having to be emotionally invested, and withdrawing completely indifferently, who can do it?

After a while, the two of them came to the Imperial City Division's house, and there were dozens of people waiting for their arrival in the courtyard. Chris deliberately kept a distance of two steps from Lan Yuanzhen and stood still behind him.

The crowd was greeted by officials, officials, and officers in military uniforms.

Squinting at it, this was the first time that the elder brother stood in front of her as an "imperial city envoy". Lan Yuanzhen would be intimidating as long as his face sank, and at this moment, there was a cold feeling on his body that he couldn't see on weekdays, like a vulture hovering in the sky. The officials stood in a row, silent, not like his subordinates, but like a flock of trembling sheep.

Lan Yuanzhen walked up to the lobby and sat down, and said a few opening remarks that are common in officialdom. Next, he looked at Chris, who was standing on the side, and introduced his little brother "Lan Yuanxiao" without ambiguity.

According to Gao Zunhui, the predecessor of the Imperial City Division was the Wude Division in the Five Dynasties. In addition to the imperial city envoys, there are also three members of the Imperial City Division, one of the officials of the Imperial City Division, one of the hook officials, one of the detention officials, four people in the front, six people in the back, and two deed survey officials.

It seems that Lan Yuanzhen deliberately arranged this, and three officials came up to greet Chris, and it was the three who were in charge of affairs who were in charge of the affairs of the Imperial City Division. Each of them was in charge of different tasks: one of them was in charge of the keys to the palace gates and arranged the opening and closing of the palace gates, the other was in charge of checking the tokens and documents of the people entering and exiting, and the last one was in charge of arranging the guards in the imperial city.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Taizu allocated a group of elite troops from the forbidden army and appointed them as "pro-ministers" to join the Imperial City Division, and during the Taizong Dynasty, a group of elites were selected to be named "pro-subordinate officials". These people are muscular, tall and tall, and even have strict height regulations, which need to be 5 feet 9 inches 1 minute 6 centimeters. Chris remembers that the sergeants who followed Wang Shu were these personal officers who were commonly known as "human appearances". In that year, Wang Shu had a meritorious service in catching thieves in the northwest, and Grandpa Ren specially selected twelve personal officials to reward him.

She looked around, and there were more than a dozen officers standing in the hall who were in charge of personal officials and family officials. They are indeed of average height, each of them is more than 1.8 meters, and their figures are also tall and well-proportioned, and they are indeed carefully selected from the forbidden army.

The "guards generals" of the Imperial City Division are the main force to defend the palace ban, and the emperor's personal guards are also carefully selected by the "personal servants" in the palace. Chris thought about it carefully, the "core" of this palace forbidden guard is in the hands of Lan Yuanzhen, no wonder the little emperor is jealous, on the one hand, with the help of the minister's impeachment, he tried his best to suppress the power of the Imperial City Division, and on the other hand, he tried to win over Lan Yuanzhen.

In fact, the functions of the Imperial City Department are far more than "guards", but have the ability to "espionage", and it is the Detective Department that is responsible for the "espionage" function.

Next, an officer wearing a military uniform and black boots walked out of the queue.

The head of the Detective Department is the head of the Detective Department by the personal officer and the commander of the family officer in rotation according to the season, and this person is the director of the Detective Department in this season.

There are thousands of "lawyers" under the Detective Division, and the common people call them "Chazi", but they are actually spies. When Chris was outside the palace, he had heard a lot of rumors about these people and knew that the people did not have a good opinion of them.

He stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "The last general has seen Lord Xiaolan!"

Chris pursed his lips and nodded. I thought: In the harem city, it seems that the name "Little Blue Lord" will be known to everyone.

There were many people in the hall who had already heard the name of Lord Lan's younger brother, but they hadn't looked at it squarely. When I saw it today, I realized that it was such a beautiful young man with skin that is better than snow, a face like a peach blossom, eyebrows and eyes that can speak, and a smile that is fragrant. The people standing at the back of the line also secretly raised their eyes to peek forward. I saw that the little eunuch was slender, slim and elegant, like a floating wave, scorching and smiling.

The officer smiled at her, a little smittenced.

The lobby was already quiet, and the sound of swallowing saliva was very clear.

The two Lan adults didn't speak, but the slightly older "businessman" had a little unbearable on his face, cleared his throat, and reminded him.

Only then did the distracted officer realize that something was wrong, his face turned red, and he quickly lowered his head and reported his work in one go: "A few days ago, there was a small person named Li Ji in Shouchangfang in the capital, and he secretly told the businessman Shen Chenghua and others to be spies of the Liao State. He was arrested yesterday and is now in the prison of this department!"

"Got it!" Lan Yuanzhen not only didn't blame him, but instead said the follow-up arrangements for the case.

Chris said in his heart: Liao spy ...... I didn't expect the word "spy" to come up so early.

In the word spy, the small is called "between", and the big is called "spy". "Zuo Chuan: The First Year of Mourning" is the earliest documented espionage activity. It was as early as about 2,000 BC, the emperor of the Xia Dynasty, Ji Shaokang, sent a female spy "Ai" to his political opponent "Water" to carry out espionage activities, and relied on her work to destroy the Guo and Ge countries, so that Shaokang was able to prosper and restore the rule of the Xia Dynasty. And for more than 2,000 years, this kind of "battle of wit" has been staged in every dynasty.

Lan Yuanzhen sighed: "When I thought of Taizu, my generation was prosperous for a while, and there were tens of thousands of elite soldiers under the Detective Division, and the scale was very huge. Taizu can listen to Yuanming, and all internal and external affairs must be known, all thanks to our espionage work. ”

The officials in the hall all nodded yes.

During the time of Taizu, the Imperial City Division was to contain the Privy Council and prevent the generals from colluding to carry out military changes, and it was directly under the emperor, with great authority, and was often feared by various bureaucrats. Moreover, those "chazi" often have lawless, rebellious, and wanton behavior, which has always been criticized by scholars, and sometimes ministers have written to impeach them.

In the last years of Renzong, Sima Guang published "On the Imperial City Division's Inspection of Family Affairs Officials", which listed many evil deeds of the Imperial City Division's family officials, and later directly criticized the Imperial City Division for framing slander and crimes. Renzong immediately issued an order to conduct a strict review of the Imperial City Division, and dealt with many relatives and officials who violated the law and discipline. At one time, due to the prohibition of drinking and gambling and strict discipline requirements, the number of family officials was insufficient, and no one answered the call.

After Yingzong came to power, Gao Taotao ordered his most powerful henchman to take charge of the Imperial City Division, which shows how much she attaches importance to the role of espionage and supervision. In Lan Yuanzhen's hands, the Imperial City Division has gradually recovered its structure and is full of personnel.

After dealing with the affairs of the Detective Division, Lan Yuanzhen introduced Chris to the last department of the Imperial City Division, Bingjing Affairs. The "Supervisor of the Ice Well" is a chamberlain appointed by him, and he is very reliable.

Chris remembered the large ice cubes placed in the underground palace of Baoci Palace. You must know that in ancient times, ice cubes were an absolute "luxury", and it was not a trivial matter to ask for ice cubes. Everyone in the palace knows that whoever offends can't offend the head of the ice well, otherwise he will have the final say on whether the ice cube is bigger or smaller. The palace concubines in the imperial city have to take care of it every year in order to smoothly receive the ice cubes that belong to their quota.

After introducing all the officials and officers in charge, Lan Yuanzhen spoke again.

He said with a serious expression: "Now that you have seen Lan Yuanxiao, listen to the Queen Mother!"

Hey, Chris was surprised, the Queen Mother?

When everyone heard this, they were about to kneel, and then they heard Lan Yuanzhen say: "Let's all stand and listen to the announcement!"

Although the people below were all standing, they all lowered their heads and replied, "No!"

Although Chris also bowed down, his head was not down, and he looked straight at Lan Yuanzhen.

Lan Yuanzhen made eye contact with her, and said aloud at a very soothing speed: "Feng...... The Queen Mother's dictation, from today, will be sealed ...... Lan Yuanxiao...... For the Imperial City Division...... Special Envoy, Chin ...... This!"

Everyone replied in unison: "Queen Mother Chitose Chitose Chitose!"

After announcing the will, not only Chris was surprised, but many people also asked in their hearts: What kind of position is this "special envoy" and what kind of errand is he responsible for? But they know that it is not their turn to question this matter, and they just need to listen honestly.

sent everyone to retreat, and Lan Yuanzhen personally led Chris to the back hall.

"Do you know what I meant just now?" Lan Yuanzhen asked.

Chris thought for a while and said, "Since the official family asked for directions with the 'Kill Lan Yuanxiao' stone, today is the official answer for him! Not to mention the favor of the Queen Mother, now you have put me under your wing." I want to tell him that if you don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, he must not dare to do it to me easily. Haha, this move of my brother can ensure my safety in the Imperial City!"

"Don't be too happy!" Lan Yuanzhen sneered and said, "The official family announced that they would see me after you returned to the palace. ”

"Oh?" said Chris, curious, "what did he say?"

"Consult with me what kind of reward you will give. He sighed and said, "The official family means that you are able to do things well on official business in Dengzhou, and he wants to promote you and order you to listen to the errand in front of the emperor." ”

When Chris heard this, he became angry, and his eyes widened and he asked, "If you put me by his side, won't you be able to kill me at any time?" Or find another errand that no one can do, and then cut off my head?"

"Now that there is the Queen Mother's decree, the official family still has to think about killing the 'little brother'. There are many eunuchs who have adopted children in this palace, and when my adoptive father adopted me and Brother Yuanyong, we didn't necessarily have a close relationship. And the official family suddenly found that I was by no means ordinary to you, and even thought that I valued you more than the adopted sons I adopted. He now wants you to serve in front of the emperor, saying that he is promoting, but in fact, he is hijacking, using your future, fortune and misfortune to contain me, so as to take the imperial city division for his own use, this is what he thinks in his heart. ”

Chris was silent and continued to listen to him.

"Now I have made you the envoy of the Imperial City Division. And this 'envoy' is just a title, with neither an official position nor a salary. However, it says big or big, small or small. To the big one, you are the empress dowager's special envoy and act according to the decree of the emperor, but to the small one, you have no power or position, and you can't even get a penny of profit. Even if you do something wrong, it's just to do something bad for the Queen Mother, those sanctimonious imperial historians have no reason to impeach you, and the ministers can't find a law to refer to you, and the officials can't cure your crimes on the surface. ”

Chris slapped his thigh, almost jumped up from his chair, and said happily: "Wonderful! I didn't expect this envoy to have such benefits! ”

Lan Yuanzhen secretly said in his heart: The official family is not enough to fear, what I am worried about is the person hiding behind the scenes, that person has too many ghost thoughts. He continued: "I am not afraid to come openly, but I still have to guard against it secretly. To tell the truth, he looks like the emperor ...... the first emperor."

Chris stared at him, waiting for his next words, Lan Yuanzhen shook his head and said, "It's like the first emperor is narrow-minded and very grudgeful!"

In the past, Lan Yuanzhen would never dare to say anything in front of his master, let alone say that Song Yingzong's words were not good. Even though the master knew the fatal shortcomings of Yingzong best, he didn't want anyone to talk about it. Why did Song Yingzong oppose Emperor Cao everywhere as soon as he ascended the throne, but Lan Yuanzhen knew that it was because Empress Dowager Cao had disliked Song Yingzong when she was the queen before, and she had fallen to him in front of Renzong. Song Yingzong was also able to endure it, and it wasn't until he really became the emperor that he openly tore his face with her. (To be continued.) )