After the two intelligence points were uncovered one after another, the most immediate reaction of the furious Feilong secret agents was to retaliate in kind, poisoning, arson, assassination... and launched a series of terrorist activities in Jinling City to let the court know how powerful they were.
, this trend was immediately stopped severely by Xia Xun.
What they started in Jinling was a special battle. The cat-and-mouse game with Jinyiwei, Yingtianfu, and the Wucheng Army was just superficial. The essence of the mission was to provide useful help on the frontal battlefield, and its main method was intelligence.
spying and personnel instigating rebellion.
Launching a tit-for-tat retaliatory action, killing several subordinate officials in the yamen for inspections, and arresting special agents. Apart from exhausting the latent force that he has painstakingly deployed in Jinling during the confrontation, is there any benefit?
Tricks such as poisoning and arson cannot be used. This is the internal struggle of the Ming Dynasty. It is a struggle between the royal family of the Ming Dynasty. If they do that, they can indeed panic the people of Jinling City under the rule of Zhu Yunwen, but they must also
Completely lost the hearts and minds of the people.
Zhu Di has been able to support him to this day with a disparity in strength, and has even gradually grown, precisely because, except for a small group of vested interests in the court and some orthodox scholars who regard him as a bandit, most of the scholars, peasants, industry, merchants, and even the army are hostile to him.
Zhu Di did not have strong hostility or resistance. How could Feilong Secret Agent do things that were beneficial to the enemy and harmful to himself?
After the Songzhumei Wenfangsibao Shop and Yihongfang Painting Boat were successively uncovered by the Jinyiwei, the Feilong secret agents lurking in Jinling completely ceased their activities. During this period, Xia Xun mainly did two things for the secret agents. One was to correct them.
Thoughts, these subordinates of his are not bad at all. They can become elite Huhui warriors among thousands of troops. How can their quality be poor in all aspects? What they lack is just that they are not able to adapt to this special battle. Once they encounter
When things happen, always use the same thinking and concepts that meet each other on the battlefield to solve problems.
The second thing Xia Xun did was to take "military discipline" seriously, and take seriously the discipline that a secret spy should abide by. In this special battlefield, the discipline on the battlefield does not apply, so Xia Xun carefully concocted a
The disciplines and precautions that secret agents should abide by. Taking advantage of the deaths of Zhang Jun and Xu Shiling, a very strict rectification movement was carried out. Some black sheep who got lost in the world of flowers and lost their minds in drunkenness and wealth after entering Jinling were even punished.
Cleaned with iron blood.
During this period, the only thing he allowed his subordinates to do was to continuously distribute leaflets, scatter them on the streets, and stuff them under doors, constantly criticizing the hypocrisy of the court and exposing the truth on the battlefield. He had only one purpose, which was to
To have a sense of existence, all classes of scholars, peasants, industrialists and merchants in Jinling City should always be aware of the existence of King Yan.
When his internal reorganization came to an end, his actions began to escalate.
His people began to use various occasions to spread all kinds of true and false news to guide and influence public opinion.
The spies Xia Xun placed in the Three Religions and Nine Streams tried their best to advocate that Sheng Yong, the third commander-in-chief of the imperial army's rebellion, was a famous general in the world and invincible. Under their encouragement, Sheng Yong was touted as the first general of the Ming Dynasty.
It seems that the imperial pillars are not as talented as Sheng Yong. The imperial army will be vulnerable to a single blow and be routed thousands of miles away. All the achievements are due to one person, Sheng Yong.
Among the generals of the Northern Expedition, Wu Jie, Ping'an, Zhu Rong, Liu Jiang, Deng Jian, Chen Peng..., the most junior ones were not under Sheng Yong. If Sheng Yong had not become famous in the battle of Jinan, his qualifications would have been even lower than them.
. Among them, the old Marquis Wu Jie is a senior, and his qualifications are far higher than Sheng Yong; Ping An is brave and good at fighting, and his achievements are outstanding, and he is also higher than Sheng Yong. What will happen if this kind of advocacy of Sheng Yong reaches their ears?
Thoughts, I don't know.
Xia Xun's god-making movement is ostensibly beneficial to the imperial court. Therefore, spreading this kind of news among Wazi Goulan and city wine shops will hardly arouse the vigilance and suspicion of government secret agents. Public opinion is easy to blindly follow, and soon
, more and more people joined the ranks of fueling the flames. At the same time, Xia Xun's people did not forget to criticize and ridicule Li Jinglong. The more battles Sheng Yong won, the more incompetent Li Jinglong seemed.
The wisdom of the masses is infinite, and so is the bad taste of the masses. Xia Xun's people just made a start, and they were able to spontaneously add fuel to the fire and mock Li Jinglong as the most incompetent general in the world throughout the ages. They even made up some stories.
There are jokes like when there is a flood in Henan, just throwing Li Jinglong in will block the breach, because Mr. Cao Guogong is the biggest idiot in the world.
The army is unpredictable, and the imperial troops will naturally be defeated sometimes. When the imperial court was defeated, Li Jinglong was reviled by countless people. The glory of victory belongs to the emperor, and to the ministers who serve as assistants to the emperor.
It belonged to the wise and powerful general ***, but what about the failure? The failure belonged to Li Jinglong, because Li Jinglong was defeated twice, which greatly damaged the vitality of the imperial court, so the imperial court failed.
When the imperial court won the battle, Li Jinglong was led out as a clown to prove that he was a waste, and was laughed at and scolded by everyone; when the court lost the battle, Li Jinglong was led out as a scapegoat to prove that he was a waste. If it hadn't been for him
How could the imperial court lose the war due to his mistakes? Therefore, poor handsome guy Li will be severely scolded by everyone again.
Being able to have a punching bag to divert criticism of the imperial court from both the government and the public and enhance the people's confidence in the imperial army is undoubtedly beneficial to the imperial court, and it is also beneficial to Fang Xiaoru, who had to take the blame and resign due to the two defeats of Zhengcunba and Baigouhe.
, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and others were beneficial, so the imperial court adopted an attitude of tacit approval or even condonation towards this folk trend.
Under such a strong public opinion offensive, Li Jinglong pointed out that no matter how thick-skinned or good his psychological quality, he could no longer hold back his energy. Li Jinglong, who used to pretend to be crazy to cover up his inner loss and shame, slowly disappeared.
In public, he rarely appeared in public, and a few days later, he fell ill.
Li Jinglong is not pretending to be ill. He has been depressed for a long time. He is really ill. The illness comes like a mountain...
Except for Xu Zengshou and the forces belonging to Cao Guogong's lineage, who would quietly visit him, no ministers from the court or central government visited his house. The adults cherished their feathers very much, and were afraid of being stained by his bad name and becoming everyone's trend.
object.
Li Jinglong was in a gloomy mood, lingering on the sickbed, but Luo Kedi was in a very good mood.
When Yingtian Mansion and Wucheng Bingma Division were still struggling with their problems, Luo Kedi entered the palace with detailed information on the destruction of the two secret espionage agencies of King Yan. As Luo Kedi expected,
When he put the information on the imperial case, Emperor Jianwen was moved. Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaocheng, and Qitai, who had always been determined not to allow the Jinyi guards to interfere in the government affairs and limited their functions to the Yiluan guards, also made concessions.
Even if it's just a small concession.
They allowed the Jin Yiwei to detect the King of Yan's spies in the capital. In an emergency, personnel from the Yingtian Prefecture Inspection Department and the Wucheng Army and Horse Department could be called upon. However, the Jin Yiwei's powers and scope of investigation were limited to this, because the Jin Yiwei tiger was so terrifying.
They are still subject to various restrictions.
Luo Kedi was very optimistic. Now, with the successive defeats in the frontline war, Ru Chang, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, has been transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of War. Ru Chang is the advocate of peace. He has always opposed the reduction of the vassal and advocated peace talks with the King of Yan. This is
This is a signal that the emperor's trust in Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, Qi Tai and others is obviously not unconditional; also, even Jing Qing, Lian Zining and others who are also members of the vassal-cutting faction, when Li Jinglong returned from defeat last time,
They had also been furious and impeached Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng and others for their series of decision-making mistakes. It was obvious that the vassal-reduction faction was not monolithic either.
He believed that when he achieved more achievements, the emperor would realize the important role of the Jinyiwei. At that time, the emperor would put aside the opinions of Fang Huang and others and re-activate the Jinyiwei. As long as the emperor ordered generals, there would be no more
No one can stop Jin Yiwei's comeback.
If the water is muddy, he will have a chance.
Therefore, when the Dragon Secret Agent ceased operations, the most disappointed person was Luo Kedi. He very much hoped that Xia Xun could do something spectacular, so that his chances of coming out would be greater.
Xia Xun is indeed plotting big things, but his big things are at the strategic level, not the tactical level. He sneaks into the night with the wind and moistens things silently. His big things are destined to be impossible to be grand. Everything he does now is not directly
It is beneficial to the court, even to the court, the emperor, and the ministers in power.
His target is Li Jinglong. Just like a young girl who is always paying attention to her secret lover, Xia Xun is now all eyes on Li Jinglong and knows everything about him, because Li Jinglong has already placed his people beside him.
This person is Xu Jiang.
In order to let Xu Jiang break into Li's house, Xia Xun took a lot of pains.
He first found out that Li Jinglong had a new concubine. This concubine was the Jiangnan red dancer Yi Zhuo who he had used once when he was in Texas.
Last time, Xia Xun took advantage of the situation and placed a few soldiers around Li Jinglong, destroying the commander's flag before the battle, so that Li Jinglong's easy victory turned into a complete defeat. When Li Jinglong was transferred back to the capital for questioning, those soldiers were taken over by Sheng Yong.
He was reassigned to each battalion and became an ordinary soldier. He had lost his important role as a secret agent.
This time, Xia Xun also wanted to use Yi Zhuo as a breakthrough, because judging from the situation between her and Li Jinglong, this woman is undoubtedly the most favored by Li Jinglong at the moment.
Xia Xun first found the brothel where Yi Zhuo was buried before she died, and found information about Yi Zhuo before she sold herself as a prostitute from the old madam. Based on this, she found her family, a poor cousin. Then, Xu Jiang came forward.
, and he became fair-weather friends. Then, Xu Jiang "accidentally" heard that his friend's cousin had become rich and became the concubine of Duke Cao Guo, so he encouraged him to go to see his relatives.
So, Xu Jiang, as Yi Zhuo's cousin's friend in times of need, went to Jinling City with him.
Yi Zhuo's cousin found his cousin, and at her request, Li Jinglong left her cousin in Cao Guogong's mansion as a housekeeper. Naturally, Xu Jiang sneaked into Cao Guogong's mansion.
With such eyes and ears, it is not surprising that Xia Xun understands Li Jinglong's every move. He can even clearly understand how much food Li Jinglong eats every day and how many times he has scolded him. Naturally, he has a clear grasp of the changes in his mentality.
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Xia Xun felt that it was time to contact Li Jinglong.