Tianshuijing is located in the southwest of Chang'an City, not far from the Department of Punishment and Prosecution.
Hu Zhiyun originally served in the Inspectorate, so he chose to settle in this area.
"Familiar places make people feel safe."
This sentence came to Lin Zi's mind again.
Finding this place is very simple, just send someone to observe which spies are watching the commander-in-chief.
As a spy, the feeling in his body and behavior could not be hidden from his eyes.
"The path has become shallow."
At this time, Hu Zhiyun was captured. Lin Zi glanced around again and waved.
He didn't believe that there was only one person in charge as young as Hu Zhiyuan.
A line of soldiers with swords quickly rushed into the courtyard and kicked open the doors of each house.
"Commander, two secret passages have been discovered."
"You few go in, and the rest of you surround the alley."
Now Li Xia has officially established the "Military Intelligence Department" and the "Public Opinion Department". The Public Opinion Department is led by Jiang Fan and is responsible for gathering intelligence from the south. Most of his subordinates are people from the market.
The Military Intelligence Department led by Lin Zi is responsible for intelligence in the north, and most of its subordinates are elites in the military.
This time, many of the people who captured Hu Zhiyun were even wearing leather armor, holding long weapons, carrying crossbows and shields.
After all, the northerners were also brave, and among the dead were all Han men from Guanzhong and Uighurs from Gaochang.
The armored soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department did not go down the secret passage, but marched in formation, and soon heard the killing cry.
"Fight with Song Kou!"
"Don't leave them..."
Lin Zi strode through the alley, and when he turned a corner, he saw more than ten big men in another courtyard resisting stubbornly. He glanced around, but he didn't see anyone in charge among them.
"Leave alive... where is the other secret exit?!"
"Secretary, over there!"
"Chase……"
Turning around another alley, I was shocked to see three dead soldiers standing there, raising their crossbows.
"Song Kou suffers death!"
Lin Zi was startled, ducked into the corner, waved his hand, and ordered the shield hand to come forward first.
After a while, he heard only three screams, and he quickly chased through the alley again. No one was seen in front of him. After more than thirty steps, he already saw West Street in front of him.
Lin Zi squinted and wandered around for a while. There were people coming and going on the street, people pushing carts, people pulling carriages, and even business travelers leading camels... There was no suspicious person at all.
He grinned and wiped the blood splattered on his face.
"Don't worry, if you catch one, the rest won't be able to escape..."
~~
Hu Zhiyun slowly woke up, and when he raised his eyes, he knew that he was in the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen.
I didn't see Yelu Youshang, so his naive approach made people quite worried.
Hu Zhiyun, on the other hand, didn't care much about his own safety. He seemed to have anticipated this situation and began to think about many words he was going to say to Li Xia.
With a creak, the door was pushed open.
Hu Zhiyun said: "Song invaders Li Xia, don't even think about it..."
Turning his eyes, he saw a young man with an unimpressive appearance who came in. He held a bench in his hand and sat down in front of Hu Zhiyun with a click.
Hu Zhiyu was slightly embarrassed and his tone became calm.
"Li Xia doesn't dare to come to see me?"
"I'm here to watch you and won't let you sleep."
Strong Sichuan accent.
Hu Zhiyun had no choice but to ask: "Who are you?"
"King Gou'er."
"What's your... position?"
"Ah, I'm carrying sacks and transporting luggage."
Hu Zhiyun was caught off guard. He thought Li Xia would impatiently come over to interrogate him, but he unexpectedly sent a civilian husband over.
Looking up at Wang Gou'er's silly face again, he thought, smiled slightly, and asked, "May I ask where brother Wang's home is?"
"Why are you asking about my house? I'm just here to watch you and not let you sleep."
"I know, I'm not sleepy yet." Hu Zhiyun laughed again, "Isn't it true that Brother Wang can't sleep either?"
"Are you stupid? I'm sleepy. Let's find another person to see you."
"That's it. Brother Wang is so smart. I admire him..."
Outside the door, Lin Zi listened for a while, called for a subordinate, and whispered to him to write down everything Hu Zhiyun said, then turned and walked towards the lobby.
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"Handsome."
Li Xia was calculating with an abacus, without raising his head, and said: "Go ahead."
"Hu Zhiyun is not very panicked. He has already tried to instigate the people I sent to watch him."
"He is a talented person. Have you checked his experience?"
"Checked." Lin Zi took out a piece of information and put it on the desk, "Thirty-three years old, from Cizhou, Hebei Province. He once studied under Xu Heng. After Lian Xixian took office, he was appointed to handle criminal matters."
"Let me look back. Lian Xixian's arrangements in Chang'an City are definitely more than this. He retreated calmly. He could arrange at least a thousand people just to take my life." Li Xia said, "If it were me, I would do the same.
Do this."
"If the commander-in-chief buried gunpowder in this government office, Lian Xixian would be dead."
"Where's the clue?"
"There is another person in charge of Hu Zhiyun's line. A brother saw him from a distance. He is in his twenties, quite tall, and as far as the handsome eyebrows are concerned, he has a bit of a beard but is very elegant..."
After Lin Zi described the other party's appearance, Li Xia thought about it.
"There is someone under Lian Xixian who looks very similar to Yelu Youshang. Go check it out and capture him as soon as possible."
"yes."
"After these snakes, insects, rats and ants are eliminated, Chang'an will be our Chang'an."
"yes."
Lin Zi deeply felt that if the commander-in-chief could not move around safely in Chang'an City, how could he have taken Guanzhong?
…
Li Xia was immersed in calculating the acres of land again.
Until evening, Liu Yuanzhen came in carrying several heads and threw them casually into the hall.
"Satisfied?"
"Um?"
Liu Yuanzhen kicked his foot angrily and lifted a head to Li Xia's case.
"Darhua Chituohe is lost. He is married to the Mongolian clan, and his daughter is married to Tu'erjian, the grandson of Ogedai."
"Lian Xixian didn't take him away?" Li Xia asked casually.
He took out a map and marked it northeast of Chang'an and north of the Wei River. The tens of thousands of hectares of land were uncultivated and turned into a large plain, and Tuoh's lost tent was among them.
"Lian Xixian is not stupid. How can he do things if he has such a person around and bosses him around?"
Liu Yuanzhen was indeed not very happy, knowing that Li Xia deliberately asked him to kill the Mongols to express his position.
Liu Heima hesitated at first, and after much deliberation, he finally decided to appease the people in exchange for some reputation, and asked Liu Yuanzhen to lead his troops to attack Tuohe's lost pasture.
From this point on, it can be seen that Li Xia had a plan and deliberately used Liu Heima to govern Chang'an...
"Are there many casualties? I'm afraid the Mongols are difficult to fight."
"Nothing." Liu Yuanzhen said calmly: "Lian Xixian reported the news. Tuohe lost even knew that Chang'an was lost. He was so drunk that I led two thousand people to surround him and solved it in one round."
Li Xia asked: "It seems that the Mongols are not invincible?"
"Divide people." Liu Yuanzhen said, "These are just bugs."
"Yes, the world has always felt that the Mongols are invincible, but if you count the Golden Family who can still fight, Batu, Kuoduan, and Meng are all dead. Kublai Khan, Ali Buge, Hulagu, there are many who have made great military achievements.
, but apart from these people, there are no one knows how many bugs there are among the hundreds of clans and countless princes and nobles."
Liu Yuanzhen was stunned, but he had never thought about it from this perspective.
Mongolia was so powerful that he had always ignored this issue.
"The commander-in-chief always seems to be able to see what others can't?"
"Isn't it necessary to serve to make the Liu family feel at ease?" Li Xia rubbed his forehead, pulled out the map, and said: "Since you are here, let's talk about the defense of Guanzhong."
"good."
"I plan to mobilize all the troops from the Qinling Mountains to guard the cities in the pass. I will gather your troops and Liu Yuanli's troops, and then we can take Tongguan..."
Neither of them cared about the bloody head on the ground.
Liu Yuanzhen wiped his hands and sat down, thinking that if he could defeat Lian Xixian in one battle, Shang Ting and capture Tongguan, he would become a famous general in the world, and he couldn't help but be excited.
After talking for a long time, the sky became darker and darker.
Liu Yuanzhen saw the information about Hu Zhiyuan in the case and asked with a smile: "Has the commander caught him?"
"Um."
"Tried?"
"No."
"Why not try it?"
"Hu Zhiyun is not difficult to deal with, but Lian Xixian is not easy. I must have thought that Hu Zhiyun might fall into my hands." Li Xia said: "Then we can't rush to trial, as we must wear down Hu Zhiyun's will."
Liu Yuan raised his jaw and asked, "Commander, are you not in a hurry?"
He pointed to the official documents on the table and said with a smile: "The commander-in-chief is busy with these all the time, isn't he worried about missing the beautiful woman?"
Li Xia somewhat disliked Liu Yuanzhen's verbosity.
He was a nice person, generous and enthusiastic, so he was able to persuade Liu Zheng to surrender alone, but he became a bit annoying after being together for a long time.
"I told you, I'm sober."
"Commander should know that this is not your private matter." Liu Yuanzhen said: "If it concerns the Zhang family, it will be related to the future situation in Henan and Hebei, and it will be related to the future strength of the commander..."
"Do you know why Sun Tzu said that the secret of espionage is 'this is the key to the army, and the three armies rely on it to move'?"
"Why?"
"We are like a barrel. Lian Xixian is holding a dagger and is about to pry the barrel open. He needs a gap. If my mind is confused, this is one of them, but he will not just stare at this
A crack. If the people of Guanzhong are confused, he will take advantage of it. If there is a mistake in our deployment of troops, he will take advantage of it. Spies attack everything, so it is difficult to prevent spies. You need to do everything well so that they cannot appear.
Shortcomings.”
"In a nutshell, he only needs to kill you with all his strength, and you have to guard against everything?"
"That's right. As long as Lian Xixian's killer is still in Chang'an City, he will keep attacking me. When will it end? The dagger stabs me, or we tighten the barrel in the pass and break his dagger..."
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A cart was pushed into the small courtyard.
Yelu Youshang climbed out of the hay and saluted the man who was covering his departure.
"Thank you, fellow man."
"My dear benefactor, don't be polite. The Song bandits are so abominable. They have only been in the city for two days and are killing people everywhere."
Yelu Youshang nodded, Wen Yankuan told the other party, and only said that when the imperial court takes action, Guanzhong will be recovered.
"My benefactor, the more than 30 of us who are moving goods in the pasture all want to contribute to our benefactor, kill the Song bandits and welcome Prime Minister Lian back, is that okay?"
"Thank you, fellow man. I'm really ashamed."
"That's right. If it hadn't been for Prime Minister Lian, the villain's whole family would have been beaten to death long ago."
"..."
When Yelu Youshang left the small courtyard again and contacted the dead men left by Lian Xixian again, his eyes became more confident.
He knew that he was right, more right than Hu Zhiyun.
Chang'an City was united in its efforts to drive away the Song invaders. These ordinary people could not resist the soldiers, but they could provide enough help for his assassination.
That's what spies do, the countryside is the way to go...
What's more, one hundred and thirty years after Zhao and Song Dynasty traveled south, for the people of Chang'an, except for the catastrophe caused by "Duanping's entry into Luo" more than twenty years ago, they had no good feelings, only hatred.
Thinking about this, Yelu Youshang actually learned more and more about the "countryside" way.
This is Chang'an, which has been carefully governed by Prime Minister Lian for six years. There are so many things that Zhao and Song could talk about that will make the people of Chang'an even more resentful.
"Kill Li Xia as soon as possible and drive out the Song bandits, so that the disaster of the past won't happen again..."