Chapter 621 News
Zhang Cheng came to the old Majia store in Nancheng Caochang Hutong. When the hotel guy heard the incision, he nodded to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper came over to ask, "Lao He, what's the name?"
Zhang Cheng said: "Brothers have hundreds of experts, and they are the one-word-to-one servants!" Because Zhang Cheng is the hundred households of the Jinyiwei's personal military office, and the personal military office is the emperor's personal bodyguard, so it is called the one-word-to-one servant. The one-word-to-one servant refers to the six offices, and a hundred people are the ones. This sentence is Zhang Cheng's identity proof.
The shopkeeper looked at Zhang Cheng and whispered, "Please, please?" After that, he said to the clerk, "Third brother, look at the shop!"
Zhang Cheng stood up and followed the shopkeeper through the kitchen to the back. There was a wood-room in the backyard. The shopkeeper opened the door of the backyard and took Zhang Cheng out of the old Ma family store after no one.
Outside the backyard wall is a small alley, and Caochang Hutong is full of poor people, so naturally there are no drainage facilities, sewage, feces and urine flow. However, Zhang Cheng was also from the market and had no reaction, but he felt a little nostalgic.
The shopkeeper turned several alleys and came to a single courtyard. He opened the door and took Zhang Cheng in. The courtyard was just a house, with a wall built by adobe, which was no different from the surrounding houses.
The shopkeeper took Zhang Cheng into the house. There were already four big men sitting there in the house, looking fiercely at Zhang Cheng who had just entered the house.
The shopkeeper asked in a low voice: "Why are the hundreds of families in the personal military office coming here? Didn't Lord Zhao come in person?" While the shopkeeper was talking, the four big men stood in the corner of the house, preparing to kill Zhang Cheng if he had any answer incorrectly.
Zhang Cheng knew that this was an enemy-occupied area, and the spies of the Jinyiwei were very careful. He bowed and said, "I came here on entrusted by Lord Zhao! This is a certificate!" After that, Zhang Cheng took out half a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to the shopkeeper!
The shopkeeper took out an Analects from behind, took half of the paper from Zhang Cheng and compared it with the Analects. It was really the page on the Analects.
Seeing that the certificates were correct, the shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand to let the four big men sit down again, bowed and said to Zhang Cheng: "Don't be surprised by this brother. The eagle claws of the Qing Dynasty are very powerful. We have more than a dozen brothers arrested!"
After the Qing Dynasty entered Beijing, the entire Ming Dynasty took over the regime, and the Jinyiwei naturally took over. Even the commander of the Jinyiwei Luo Yangxing surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, so they naturally treated the Jinyiwei and other Qing dynasties.
When Zhu Hongsan first started to reorganize the Jinyiwei, he used a large number of old men who used the original Jinyiwei. After all, they were all familiar with each other. However, he did not expect that the secret stakes of Jinyiwei in various parts of the north were destroyed by the intelligence agencies of the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Hongsan spent a lot of effort to reorganize the Northern Jinyiwei system. It has only been reopened in several major cities in the north in the past two years.
Zhang Cheng became a monk halfway through, so he naturally didn't know the inside story of the Jinyiwei. He heard the shopkeeper say this and asked: "I don't know which department this brother belongs to?"
The shopkeeper had a bad face. The rule of the Jinyiwei was to not find out the official name of the person who was in charge and just say whatever you need. But the shopkeeper knew that this guy was from a personal military office, and they were all around the emperor. In order to make friends with Zhang Cheng, the shopkeeper said: "Brother, I am a hundred households in the Elephant Tempering Institute, and those four people are my subordinates!"
As the name suggests, the Elephant Taming Institute is responsible for the breeding of animals in the palace. However, the Ming Dynasty had already been destroyed like this, so what kind of elephant is there? Zhu Hongsan did not change the names of the Fourteen Institutes when reorganizing the Jinyiwei. The Elephant Taming Institute is now mainly responsible for intelligence transmission. Moreover, all the Elephant Taming spies in a city are single-line contacts. Only the Elephant Taming Institute knows the specific locations of each hidden stake, so this Elephant Taming Institute is very important.
Take Beijing as an example. In addition to the Elephant Temperor City, there are also thousands of households stationed under the Flagbearer, who are mainly responsible for inquiring about intelligence and the operation team of the Upper Central Institute, who are responsible for doing dirty work.
If Nanjing sends an order to assassinate the Qing general, the order will first go to the elephant training institute, and then the flagbearer is responsible for inquiring about the specific location, and then the action team of the upper central office will complete the last step. Except for the elephant training institute, the flagbearer and the upper central office will not meet.
In addition to these, there is another institution that the Outer Ba Institute does not know. In addition to their city, there is also a Jinyi Houshou Anti-traitor team, one of the six inner schools. They are mainly responsible for monitoring the actions of the Outer Ba Institute. If there are traitors, they will be cleaned up immediately. The team will be directly controlled by the Nanjing Jinyiwei headquarters and will not participate in daily operations.
However, Zhang Cheng didn't know this. He was just a hundred street patrol households in Nanjing. Originally, the personnel sent by the Jinyiwei had to be trained, but Zhang Cheng followed the emperor's path, so naturally he didn't need training. Then Zhao Mengguan thought Zhang Cheng knew this, so he sent it out without explaining it to him.
After hearing the shopkeeper say this, Zhang Cheng realized that he had committed a big taboo. He quickly stood up and thanked him: "Thank you brother for reminding me that the imperial edict I have given is very tight, and no one told me about this. It was my brother Meng Lang just now!"
The shopkeeper heard Zhang Cheng traveling under the order, and thought in his heart that this favor was so great that he could talk to the emperor.
Zhang Cheng cursed in his heart: Damn, this must be someone in Nanjing Jinyiwei. He knew that his grandfather was going north but he didn't tell me the tricks. It must be the jokes that Huguang barbarians wanted to see his grandfather!
The shopkeeper and Yan said, "Zhang Baihu, I wonder what Lord Zhao sent you to do?"
"That's right. After we arrived in Beijing, we were locked in the inn of the Ministry of Rites. It's been half a month since the Qing Dynasty, and the news came back. Lord Zhao ordered my brother to come out to contact the brothers in the city. I would like to ask you to find out what's going on?"
The shopkeeper nodded and said, "This is fine. Please ask Zhang Baihu to go back and report to Lord Zhao. There will be a reply in ten days!" Zhao Mengguan took the imperial edict when he left Nanjing. All the Jinyiwei in the Southern Zhili had to be dispatched by Zhao Mengguan. This is also a tradition in China. All the equal-level departments in the government do nothing. Only an imperial envoy from above can work normally. The shopkeeper also received the order from Nanjing, so he was so polite to Zhang Chengcai.
After Zhang Cheng and the shopkeeper discussed the location for their next meeting, they left the alley under the leadership of a big man and returned to the inn and reported to Zhao Mengguan safely.
The Jinyiwei is the most successful intelligence organization in this time and space. None of them, similar intelligence organizations will not appear until World War I. The success of the Jinyiwei lies in the fact that many of his methods are very advanced. Unlike the spy organizations under the previous Chinese emperors, the Jinyiwei pays great attention to the collection of daily civil information, such as how the prices of vegetables in the market are like, and what fluctuations this year and the same period last year, we can see many tricks from this.
The Jinyiwei in Beijing did not have that great ability to get into the Qing Dynasty, but he still obtained a lot of useful information from the collection of daily civil information. For example, monitoring the daily purchases of Dorgon’s mansion, you know that there are many people in Dorgon’s mansion in the past few days, and there are more people eating, and they are all big men in Manchuria, because meat accounts for a large proportion of purchases. There are also slaves from Dorgon’s mansion to buy medicine, knowing that Dorgon is sick, through what medicine he bought, and he also knows that Dorgon should have tuberculosis and his condition is very serious.
Tuberculosis is tuberculosis, which is not a terminal illness in later life. It can be cured by taking antibiotics for half a month. But now without antibiotics, tuberculosis is basically equivalent to a terminal illness.
Ten days later, the information collected by the Jinyiwei was transmitted to Zhao Mengguan. In addition to Dorgon's serious illness, there were also information in the palace. In the past month, the number of times the nobles of Manchus entered the palace to pay their respects increased. Zhao Mengguan frowned when he saw these. Seeing this, he was not the time. Zhao Mengguan knew that a terminal illness was a terminal illness, but he could not die for a while. If this continued, he would not know when it would be the first.
However, Zhao Mengguan is just a deputy, so it’s enough to leave the troublesome things to Tong Tuchang.
After Tong Tuchang learned about the information, he also frowned. The Qing court is in an extraordinary moment now, so it seems that peace talks will be impossible for a while.
Tong Tuchang looked at the two deputy Fang Fengnian and Zhao Mengguan, and they had no good idea. Tong Tuchang waved his hand and asked them to go out.
Tong Tuchang sat on the chair and was worried. He has been away from Nanjing for three months now, and there is no sign of peace talks at all. Whether it is a negotiation or not, it is not a solution to rely on this. Can you only go to Tong Tulai?
Tong Tulai is Tong Yangzhen's son, Tong Yangzhen is Tong Yangxing's brother. Their family belongs to the Tong family in Tieling, Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang belong to the Tong family in Shenyang. Although Tong Yangjia and Tong Yang are really brothers who have not had five squads, they are all here for their own masters and don't know if it will work!
Tong Tuchang thought of this and made up his mind. No matter what, he would go and have a look, which would be better than waiting here.
After thinking about it, Tong Tuchang dressed up. He and Zhang Cheng made a fake braid, so he shaved a rat-tail braid with a knife, then changed into a servant's clothes in a secluded place, and got out of the post station without any danger.
Everything is easy to do when leaving the post station. Although Tong Tuchang had never been to Beijing, it was easy to tell if the silver broke the way. In this way, it was easy to find Tong Mansion located in the North City.
Back then, Tong Yangxing used the people of Tieling City to exchange for Nurhaci's son-in-law, but Tong Yangxing's descendants were really far behind his brother Tong Yangzhen's descendants.
After Tong Yangxing's death, his son Tong Puhan died a few years ago. His second son continued to expel the throne. Unexpectedly, he was also a short-lived ghost. He died before he entered the pass. In the fourth year of Shunzhi, Tong Puhan's son Tong Guoyao became the second-class Jingqinihafan, the second-class viscount. Tong Guoyao was not very capable. The most outstanding time in his life was when he was the admiral of Yunyang during the Three Feudal Rebellion. He fought with Wu Sangui's general Hong Fu in Yunyang, beheading more than 200 people, and his other descendants were gradually submerged in history.
Chapter completed!