The Neiwei Official Office is located in Yongjiafang, directly opposite the Qi Palace. It covers an area of nearly 100 acres. The main gate of the official office stands broken through the wall, only dozens of steps away from the gate of Li Ye's house.
Next door to the Internal Guard Office is the Supervisory Yuan, which is also located in Yongjiafang.
The commander of the inner guard is still Li Chenghua. Now she is also the highest-ranking female general in the Guanlong Army, with 30,000 people under her command.
At this time, the internal guards were no longer limited to arresting enemy spies, but focused more on the detection and arrest of major internal cases, as well as the elimination of bandits and water thieves of all kinds.
In addition, protecting the personal safety of the King of Qi and senior officials is also an important function of the internal guards.
However, Li Chenghua is not relaxed about the intelligence infiltration of external forces. Over the years, she has developed a mature management method, and establishing a security registration system is an effective method.
At this time, an official handed a document to Li Chenghua, "Li Dutong, this is a list of newly opened stores in the last ten days."
"Have you screened it?"
Through years of experience, the Internal Guard has discovered that when external forces establish intelligence points, they often choose to open restaurants and inns as cover, so newly opened restaurants and inns are the focus of the Internal Guard.
The official handed one of the lists to Li Chenghua. Li Chenghua looked at it and found that there were only ten newly opened restaurants and inns in total. Among them, the first three were marked in yellow, indicating that there were some sensitive factors in them, such as ranking first.
Hanlin Restaurant, its previous owner is the focus of attention, he is from Yuancheng County, Weizhou.
After the registration of Hanlin Restaurant this time, it once again became the focus of attention. The proprietor is a Luoyang businessman named Jiang Dingwen. His native place is still Yuancheng, Weizhou. The shopkeeper and several waiters are from Qinghe County, Beizhou. They actually own carrier pigeons, although their reason is
Reporting performance to the proprietor, but homing pigeons have always been the key warning project.
After Hanlin Restaurant was registered, its risk ranked first.
Li Chenghua ticked the first three stores with yellow marks and ordered: "Continue to monitor these three stores, and don't alert others for the time being!"
Li Ye met with Liu Changning, deputy commander of the navy, who had made a special trip from Jiangxia in the official room. Liu Changning was from Suizhou and was about forty years old. He joined the army during the Tianbao period and had been serving in the navy. He was promoted to the rank of commander of the Yangtze River East Road Water Corps due to his merits.
The commander of the army was demoted to the deputy defense envoy of Huaihe River for offending Yu Chaoen.
Liu Changning resigned in anger and defected to Li Ye, who was appointed deputy commander of the Navy. This year, the top ten governors' offices were determined and he was promoted to deputy commander.
"Is it going well all the way from Jiangxia?" Li Ye asked with a smile.
"Reporting to Your Highness, the journey was smooth. According to the agreement we signed with the imperial court, we can sail freely in the Han River. If we need to dock for supplies and rest, they will not interfere as long as there are no more than three ships or no more than one hundred people.
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"In fact, this clause is only limited to the three cities of Xiangyang, Jiangling and Baling." Li Ye emphasized with a smile.
"Your Highness is absolutely right. We can dock in other small counties at any time, and the local governments don't care."
"Is the information at home okay?" Li Ye asked again with concern.
Liu Changning nodded, "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. My wife passed away early and left me a son and a daughter. My daughter got married last year, to the second son of Governor Lei. My son is by my side. Now he is the naval brigade commander and the commander-in-chief."
A thousand-stone warship.”
Li Ye remembered that last year, Lei Wanchun's son got married, and he even went to have a wedding banquet. The bride was Liu Changning's daughter.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Li Ye turned the topic to business, "This time I summoned Governor Liu to Chang'an for two main reasons. First, I want to know about the current situation of the imperial navy, including the situation of the main generals and warships.
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"This is more complicated. I need to recall it. The main reason is that there are too many types of ships."
"It's okay, just talk about it in general. You can talk to Liu Changshi in detail later, and I'll tell you the second thing."
Li Ye said slowly: "We have taken over Quanzhou. I plan to station five thousand navy troops in Quanzhou. Firstly, to maintain the safety of Quanzhou, but more importantly, to escort, mainly overseas trade. I plan to let you serve as the commander of the Quanzhou navy.
Commander of the military capital, you can go if you like!"
Liu Changning knelt down on one knee to receive the order, "In this humble position, I am willing to share your worries for Your Highness!"
Li Ye was overjoyed and immediately made Liu Changning the commander of the navy in Quanzhou. He talked with him in detail for nearly an hour before letting his soldiers take him to see the chief military officer Liu Yan.
In the afternoon, Liu Yan found Li Ye and handed Li Ye a compiled report on the current situation of the imperial navy.
"This is a report compiled by me based on the investigation of intelligence agents and the supplements of Governor Liu. It is quite rich and has everything we want."
Li Ye took the report and saw the first person, and was immediately startled, "Who is Dugu Jing?"
"He is the second-in-command in the Luoyang House of the Dugu family. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Tang Dynasty Navy during the Tianbao period. He was removed because of his loyalty to the Supreme Emperor and was replaced by Huangfu Qian, the current Commander-in-Chief of the Navy."
Li Ye nodded. Dugu Sifang, Chang'anfang, Luoyangfang, Taiyuanfang and Longyoufang were formed by the descendants of Duguxin's seven sons. Now Chang'anfang is the descendant of the eldest son Duguluo and the sixth son Dugutuo.
Although our ancestors are both Duguxin, they have been separated for hundreds of years, and they get together occasionally. But usually they have their own ancestral halls and family heads, and there is not much contact between them.
"Who is this Huangfu Qian?"
"He was originally the interview envoy of Jiangnan West Road. He was dismissed because he failed to stop Yong Wang Li Lin and His Highness. Later, it is said that he took away the relationship between Li Fuguo and Yu Chaoen and was changed to the navy commander. Because of his ineffective escort, Jiangnan taxes were
Li Xilie's kidnapping made the court very dissatisfied with him, and at the same time, the subordinate generals of the navy were also dissatisfied with him."
"Why?"
Liu Yan shook his head and said: "The military equipment is lacking, they don't pay attention to training, and they don't care about the soldiers. Currently, the navy's treatment is the worst among the imperial army. They often owe their salary for several months, which leads to many lower-level navy soldiers going out to take private jobs."
"What private work are you doing?" Li Ye asked with a frown.
"Mainly escorting the fleets of wealthy merchants."
Li Ye laughed and said: "I thought I was going to be a water thief!"
"That's not the case, but I heard that if a merchant has his goods robbed by water thieves, he can ask the soldiers to help contact the water thieves to redeem the goods."
Li Ye nodded, this was what he expected.
He drew a circle on a name with a pen, "How about this Li Chengshi?"
"Your Highness, he was also the one who favored the humble position. He was originally Dugu Jing's confidant general. After Dugu Jing was deposed, Li Chengshi followed Gao Shi. Later, Huangfu Qian became the commander-in-chief of the navy because he was a civil servant.
Not familiar with the navy, the imperial court transferred Li Chengshi to Huangfu Qian as deputy general.
Because Li Chengshi had written to the Generalissimo's Office last year to expose some of Huangfu's shady stories, but Yu Chaoen forwarded the letter of exposure to Huangfu. As a result, Huangfu hated Li Chengshi deeply and kept giving him little shoes. Therefore, he believed that Li Cheng
The formula can be used to win over.”
"How about I write a personal letter?" Li Ye smiled.
"It's absolutely fine. I'll ask Dugu Jing to write a letter to him, and then let Liu Changning go and talk to him. I guess that's about it."
Li Ye walked a few steps with his hands behind his back: "We need to use both soft and hard tactics. The best way to do this is to use both hands. If I am not wrong, Li Xilie is also plotting against the navy. We need to hurry up!"
