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Chapter 737 The predecessor of Jinyiwei in later generations: Imperial City Division

Chapter 737

"The youngest was originally from Huanzhou, and my family had already died at the hands of the Xixia thief army a few years ago. Now the youngest is just a lonely person. When they joined the army, they were able to kill a few more Xixia dogs to avenge my family."

"Now that there is such an opportunity, how can the young one let go? Please ask Wang Jinglei to take in the young one..." The more he said, the more he couldn't suppress the anger in his tone, the more he fell to the ground.

The twelve warriors who stayed behind were all similar, and they all had a deep hatred with the Western Xia.

After hearing what everyone said, Wang Yang finally stepped forward and helped the twelve people one by one, comforting them with warm words. "I have seen your determination, but I have the words first, so you should go back to the camp first and think about it carefully. After two days, if your will is still so firm, then I will naturally accept you into the intelligence hall."

After the twelve men slowly left the camp, Zhe Keshi said to Wang Yang with a little dissatisfaction. "Since brothers are willing, why do you ask them to go back and think about it again? Don't you see their determination?"

"If they do not appear in front of me in two days, it means that their will is not firm enough. Why should I force myself to stay with such a person? It would be better to let them continue to kill the enemy and make achievements in the army." Wang Yang explained with a smile.

"You said that, it's not bad for the past two days anyway, but Brother Yu has thought about what you said before. It seems that the problem is not my Song Dynasty's Seizuo, but..." Speaking of this, Zhe Keshi seemed to have thought of something, and did not continue to say it, but just sighed a little depressedly.

"I know my brother's idea, and the problem is no longer the hard and dangerous works of my Song Dynasty. This is why I asked Your Majesty to set up a separate intelligence museum in these three states." Wang Yangshen nodded in agreement and explained.

The Song Dynasty was not without detailed works, but the information that could be obtained from previous detailed works often failed to attract the attention of the top. After all, the intelligence system of the Song Dynasty was just an inconspicuous small organization under the Ministry of War, while the highest military institution of the Song Dynasty was the Privy Council.

Such an inconspicuous small institution, even if it provided a large amount of valuable information to the Ministry of War in the Song Dynasty, is it useful?

The big guys above are busy fighting for power and profit all day long, and they are not concerned about these intelligence work. Unless they discover large-scale military mobilizations from the enemy country, this is likely to cause adverse effects to the Song Dynasty, such intelligence will be delivered to the Minister of War.

The Minister of War presented it to the Privy Council and handed it over to the Privy Council for research and decision. However, many seemingly ordinary but extremely valuable military and political information are often buried in old paper due to the unprofessionality of those casual bosses.

In view of the destruction of Suide City on Shaanxi Road in the Song Dynasty, Wang Yang complained about the problems existing in the current Song Dynasty intelligence system.

To be honest, after seeing Wang Yang's complaints, Zhao Xu ordered people to go to the Ministry of War to inspect. Sure enough, he really found some news about the abnormal movements of the Xixia army. Unfortunately, it did not attract the attention of the superiors and was buried in those dusty piles of paper.

This is why Zhao Xu agreed to Wang Yang and promised to build an intelligence museum in these three prefectures. He also ordered the officers to send several capable backbones to Yanzhou to help Wang Yang build it. In addition, Zhao Xu also generously stated that if there is another military newspaper from Xixia, the Ministry of War would specifically copy one and hand it over to the information museum in Yanzhou for review.

Before, Zhao Xu had the idea of ​​asking the Imperial City Department to set up a separate intelligence department and be directly responsible for it. After hearing Zhao Xu's idea, Wang was very happy and successfully persuaded Zhao Xu, the young emperor.

However, after Wang Yang inquired, he learned from Su Dongpo what the so-called Imperial City Department was. But this outstanding young talent from the future was so shocked that it was difficult for him.

Only then did I realize that the Imperial City Office was not an ordinary political institution that Wang Yang imagined. It was a spy agency directly belonging to the royal family of the Song Dynasty. The original idea of ​​this spy agency did not come from the Song Dynasty, but first originated in the Three Kingdoms.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao set up a "school affairs", which was a typical spy agency. According to the "Three Kingdoms", in the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao was appointed as Sikong. In the third year of Jian'an, he returned to Xuchang to establish the position of military chief Jiu (Sikong's subordinate). This was also the beginning of Cao Cao's appointment as an official.

Afterwards, Cao Cao began a series of actions by Emperor Han and Han ministers. Among them, the most powerful thing that demonstrated his power was the establishment of the "school affairs" organization. The first school officials were Lu Hong and Zhao Da, although they were not famous in history.

But from the proverbs circulated within Cao Cao's sphere of power at that time, they can see their ferocity: they are not afraid of Cao Gong, but they are afraid of Lu Hong, Lu Hong Shangke, and Zhao Da kill me.

The Imperial City Department is a continuation of the past school institutions and the prototype of the future Jinyiwei.

The predecessor of the Imperial City Department was Wude Department. Wude Department originated from the Five Dynasties, and its name can be traced back to the Later Tang Dynasty: "Wude Shi Yanqiong was lucky because of the actors, and the emperor treated him with his confidant responsibility. In the capital, he was powerful and blessed. He was just right, and he was all bowed and his head was low, and he was busy with trouble...";

At the end of the Later Han Dynasty, Emperor Yin killed powerful ministers. "At the end of Qianyou, Emperor Yin used Wude to envoy Li Ye and others to kill ministers Yang Yan and others..." Wude envoy was the emperor's claws and had great power, restraining the "Generals of the Guards" and the Privy Council.

In the Later Zhou Dynasty, the former Taizu's shogunate Wang Renshan was appointed as the envoy of Wude. After Wang Renzhan, the envoy of Wude was successively appointed by Liu Zhixin and Wang Jien. They were all "respected by relatives, especially those who were personally appointed. They had experienced experiences at home and abroad, and were the oldest." At that time, people said that "Taizu heard Mingyuan, and knew everything about the affairs of every side of the country." Most of them rely on the achievements of Wude's spy.

On November 10, 981 AD, the Wude Department was changed to the Imperial City Department.

However, this Imperial City Department has always only inquired about information within the Song Dynasty and the opposition, and has no intention of expanding its intelligence services outside the Song Dynasty.

The Imperial City Department "according to the laws of the ancestors, they do not obey the Taiwan authorities", and "the old system was in charge of the army of the three yamen, but they did not stay in the house." "Although the Imperial City Department was in charge of the various guards, the Imperial City Department was not related, and it was also the unity of the northern and southern armies of the Han Dynasty." In other words, the Imperial City Department was not under the jurisdiction of the three yamen, and was directly under the emperor's spy agency.

The Imperial City Office had several thousand officials, and then ordered two military officials to be in charge of the two capitals, but the palace was not prepared. In the fifth year of Zhenghe, the Imperial City Office had a total of about three thousand officials (numbers: the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command, the upper command) about five thousand people; the marriage officers had six commands (numbers: the lower command, the lower command, the lower command, the lower command, the lower command, the lower command, the outer command, the Huangyuan and the Zaoyuan) about five thousand people; five hundred people entered the inner courtyard; quickly, one hundred each of them were on the long journey; three people in the command; three people in the command; and thirty people in the Caosi.

There must be nearly 10,000 of such a large-scale spy agency, which is only used to focus on the country, is no less than the Jinyiwei, the East Factory and the West Factory in the Ming Dynasty.

History really gave Wang Yang and Wang Wushan a history lesson. However, Grand Secretary Su expressed a very high praise for Wang Yang's accident.

It is believed that Wang Yang's move was equivalent to diverting the attention of the Imperial City Office from the past, and with the level of the Imperial City Office having worked in a spy agency for more than a hundred years, at least in terms of intelligence level, it is indeed far higher than the inconspicuous intelligence agency under the rear of the Song Dynasty.

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Two days was not long. Wang Yang took advantage of the two days to carefully inspect the busy construction site. Thirty thousand people worked on a construction site. Even in the 21st century when infrastructure construction was being carried out, such a big scene was extremely rare.

Wang Yang had to be glad that he chose the site. It was surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the city was located here, and it was blocked by the mountains by the river, so it was not easy to get attacked from both sides.

Moreover, with living water, a wide moat can be built. In addition, with river water, it can also ensure the daily water for people in the city, as well as the production water in the gentle areas of Xinyanzhou in the north and south.

The red bricks produced every day exceed 120,000, and even so, they still cannot meet the demand. In addition, a large number of ceramic pipes with a diameter of two feet are needed to be produced as a sewer ditch. In addition, the construction of the roads that have been planned in the city is also in full swing.

At this moment, Wang Yang was comparing the floor plan of the new Yanzhou painted by himself, wandering among the wing soldiers full of construction.

The large amount of supplies and tools that were exchanged for selling cotton fields before were extremely useful here. Otherwise, if you just want to collect these tools, you don’t know how much time and energy it will take.

This made Master Wang admire his intelligence and talent more and more. The new Yanzhou that Wang Yang wants to build not only focuses on the present, but also on the future.
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