After a few months, Bianliang City is still prosperous.

Because the court was arguing over whether to send troops to Western Xia, there was no welcome ceremony arranged, but the official family still arranged for the palace attendants to wait outside the city, and when the envoy arrived, Cai Jing, the envoy, and Zhao Ji were directly invited to the palace.

Facing the saint again, the spirit of the official family is much better than at the beginning of the year, talking and laughing, and it seems that they have completely walked out of the shadow of the pain of losing a child and the torture of illness. After the meeting, the official family first praised Zhao Ji and gave him many rewards. Zhao Ji knew that the official family should still have important things to discuss with Cai Jing, and most of these things were not suitable for him to participate in, so he retired after a while.

Stepping back from the imperial front, even if Gong E stepped forward to ask Zhao Ji to go to Xiang Tai**. Zhao Ji was also about to go to see the Queen Mother, so he went with Gong E. Empress Dowager Xiang has been suffering from a cold and sick in bed recently, but when she learned that Zhao Ji had returned to Beijing and entered the palace, she still cheered up and met him. After the meeting, Zhao Ji also told some interesting stories along the road, which made the Queen Mother's spirit gradually improve.

Because I haven't seen him for a long time, and the queen mother listened to Zhao Ji's customs along the road with relish, Zhao Ji stayed in the palace for dinner.

When I entered the city in the morning, I left the palace and the sky was full of stars. Liang Shicheng and others in the palace had already waited outside the palace gate with a car for a long time, and after meeting, Liang Shicheng's eyes became red: "Lord Wang, you have been running around for most of the year, and there are no people around you who know your heart, but the little ones are staying in the house to enjoy Qingfu, which is really a sin." ”

Although this emotion is a little contrived, Zhao Ji still feels some comfort, it is true that there is no Liang Shicheng around to serve him, and many small things in life are not very comfortable. Patting Liang Shicheng on the shoulder, Zhao Ji got into the carriage and motioned for him to get in the carriage too, ready to listen to what happened during the time he left Bianliang on the way home.

After getting in the car and sitting down, Liang Shicheng sighed for a long time before he got down to business: "During the days when you were away, a lot of things happened in the city of Tokyo. Among the important things, first of all, the Jianghu Langzhong who was looking for in King Wu's Mansion almost cured His Royal Highness King Wu, and even the official family was provoked to this matter, and there was a lot of trouble in Kaifeng Mansion for a while, and all those Jianghu Langzhong were arrested and questioned. A few days ago, His Royal Highness King Jian contacted a group of ministers, planning to invite the prince for the two brothers of the Queen Mother, but was strictly reprimanded by the Queen Mother, and the official family seemed to be not very happy......"

Liang Shicheng babbled for a long time, and there was no omission in the details. Hearing what his brothers tossed, Zhao Ji just smiled and didn't say anything. What is the purpose and result of these things, people with a discerning eye can see and guess, but there is no surprise.

When he returned to the palace, Zhao Ji instructed Liang Shicheng to prepare some gifts and give them to the envoys and guards who accompanied him this time. After all, if there is no indication for more than half a year, others will blame Duanwang for being too cold-tempered. As for the guards who were close to protecting him, Zhao Ji planned to take some time to invite them to a banquet, and at the same time to ask if they were willing to be transferred to Duanwangfu to be the guards.

If these things are arranged for Liang Shicheng, he will do it properly. At this time, people had already prepared the hot soup for bathing, and after washing away the dust, Zhao Ji's whole body and spirit relaxed. After traveling thousands of miles, it is still the most comfortable stay at home after all.

Sitting in the study, because Liang Shicheng hadn't returned home for a while, Zhao Ji simply followed his memory to copy the secret book of the Six Veins Divine Sword Heart Method in his mind. A good memory is not as good as a bad pen, and he is also worried that his memory will be deviated after a long time.

After copying the six-vein divine sword and putting away all the secret books of the Northern Shengong obtained in the stone cave, Liang Shicheng also returned to the palace and immediately rushed to the study.

Taking a sip of hot tea, Zhao Jicai asked him about several things he had ordered before leaving Beijing, and Liang Shicheng also reported them carefully one by one.

First of all, it is natural to talk about the achievements of Quan Guanqing's group of people in Bianliang City in the past half a year, and Quan Guanqing naturally knows Zhao Ji's return date, and he came to the palace several times early this morning. However, Liang Shicheng guessed that the prince had been running all the way, and he should have been very mentally sleepy, so he sent him away first, and agreed to come back tomorrow to see him.

In the past six months, Quan Guanqing and his subordinates have infiltrated Bianliang City very quickly. With the momentum of the beggars, not only did almost half of the idle idle prodigal sons in Bianliang City be encompassed, but even the surrounding prefectures and counties also radiated, especially the line from Bianliang to Luoyang, which can almost be said to be full of ears and eyes. Even the bottom of the Jianghu Lang invited by Wu Wangfu was one step ahead of Kaifeng Mansion to dig out the bottom of their heels. Nowadays, in Bianliang City, from the price of vegetables on the market to the content of disputes between the court and the court, the answer can be found in the letters and newspapers gathered like snowflakes.

And the key point is that these idlers are completely unaware that they have become members of a large and well-thought-out intelligence organization, and what they have to do is no different from usual, except that they wander around the city every day with nothing to do, but they have to go to the large and small tea houses in the city every day to eat and drink tea. In the tea house, there is naturally a special person to record all their words and collect them.

As for the transmission and processing system of intelligence, it is many times more difficult than intelligence gathering. Following Zhao Ji's instructions and his own speculation, Quan Guanqing set up more than ten strongholds inside and outside the city, most of which were disguised by dart bureaus, martial arts halls and north and south warehouses. In fact, it can't be regarded as a cover-up, because these people who make a living are indeed seriously operating and making profits. Otherwise, relying solely on the savings and harvests of the Duanwang Mansion would not be enough to support such a huge structure. Rao is like this, before these livelihoods are not on the track, Duanwangfu has to subsidize thousands of expenses every month, just for the consumption of these silver money, Liang Shicheng racked his brains.

These scattered strongholds, according to the geographical location, are divided into fixed areas of responsibility, as the center of information aggregation, mainly handed over to the beggars in charge of the people. In order to ensure the loyalty of these people, Liang Shicheng and Quan Guanqing can be said to be painstaking, the first choice is to have parents, wives and children, preferably from a large family, the more relatives, the better it is to control. The second is to make a vow and swear, and use many means. In the same way, information still does not exist literally in these places, but only by word of mouth. And these people still don't know the connection between this matter and the Duanwang Mansion, and they only regard it as a beggar to help their own affairs.

One level higher, there is the affairs that Quan Guanqing is directly responsible for, where the filtered letters and newspapers will be collected into a book and sent to a manor outside the city under the name of the beggars. In this manor, the information will be sorted out and archived in more detail, and after being streamlined again, it will be sent by Quan Guanqing to a warehouse on the docks.

This warehouse was purchased by Liang Shicheng in his name, and Duanwangfu also intervened in this link to receive the letter. Liang Shicheng personally assigned people to streamline and sort out the letter again and send it to another grain store, which was responsible for delivering grain, rice, vegetables and vegetables to the palace every day.

The whole structure is huge, and even after more than half a year of hard work, there is still a small part that has not yet been completed, but it has been put into operation, and it is indeed fruitful. Liang Shicheng handed a booklet to Zhao Ji, which recorded the daily activities of the Emperor Zhang and Zhang Xianggong for ten days, and even the dishes of each meal were clearly marked!

After Zhao Ji flipped through it, he was also secretly smacked by this, such a careful monitoring effort was really amazing.

Throwing the booklet into the brazier and burning it clean, Zhao Ji thought about it for a long time. Although this intelligence organization has been established and has begun to operate, its shortcomings are quite large.

For example, the structure is too bloated and the scheduling is not flexible enough, so it can only be applied to Bianliang and the surrounding prefectures and counties. If you move to another place and start over, it will take time and effort, not to mention how effective it is. In addition, the means of hunting for intelligence are too simple, relying almost entirely on hearsay, and it is very difficult to collect real confidential news. Moreover, the amount of information obtained is too large, and it is very easy to ignore the truly valuable information.

For this first shortcoming, Zhao Ji has no good way, so he can only improve and streamline in the follow-up operation. As for the means of hunting for intelligence, Zhao Ji also put forward his own opinion, not only the model of casting a wide net, but also focusing on establishing several nodes, such as cultivating some famous prostitutes and the like to be planted in the Bianliang Fengyue Field, and further infiltrating these areas that have not yet penetrated. As for the processing of information, Zhao Ji felt that it should be good to be divided into several groups of people for cross-trial, and the members should cover all fields of Shinong industry and commerce, after all, the same piece of information can be seen in different meanings in the eyes of different people.

In fact, the establishment of a news network covering the entire Bianliang is only Zhao Ji's initial idea, and his real ideal intelligence organization should be streamlined, efficient, able to be flexibly dispatched and assigned, and can radiate the whole world!

With such demands, it is difficult to take shape immediately from scratch. The next step is to gradually withdraw elites from Bianliang's intelligence network and begin to establish the kind of intelligence organization that Zhao Ji idealized. The support of the beggars is indispensable in this process, because the members of the beggars are widely distributed, relying on this characteristic of the beggars, a general outline can be quickly built, and then the details will be added in detail. Of course, although this intelligence organization relies on the beggar gang, it must not let the beggar gang integrate, after all, the beggar gang is mixed, and Zhao Ji can't be trusted.

Some of these thoughts were spoken out to communicate with Liang Shicheng, and some were still left in Zhao Ji's mind for consideration. Seeing that the obedient eunuch in front of him had quietly controlled most of the city's lower-ninth-rate characters, Zhao Ji couldn't help but feel a little pity, but it was a pity that Liang Shicheng hadn't learned the Sunflower Treasure Book, otherwise this match would be too feeling.