I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 350 Embroidered clothes and guards

"Liu She~"

"And Chao wrong?"

Weiyang Palace, Xuanshi Palace.

Sitting on the imperial couch where Emperor Qi used to work for many years, Liu Sheng, who was reviewing the case, only raised his eyebrows when he heard the low voice of Lang Zhongling Zhou Ren from the side of the imperial couch.

"How can these two people get together?"

Subconsciously asked, I didn't expect Zhou Ren to give any definite answer, but when Zhou Ren heard the words, he hurriedly lowered his head, reached out and groped inside his sleeve for a while.

Not long after, a roll of bamboo was 'transformed' out of his sleeve by Zhou Ren as if by magic;

And Zhou Ren's next performance can be said to have completely shocked Liu Sheng...
"Your Majesty."

"Today, the Marquis of Kaifeng hosted a banquet at the Prime Minister's Mansion. The invitees basically included Chao Zhonggong, Qing Erqianshi, and Gonghou who hoped to be among the nine ministers."

"—Teacher Wei Wan is also invited to the banquet."

"During the banquet, the imperial servant Yuan An pointed out that Uncle Tian, ​​Fengchang Dou, Pengzu, and Wei Wei, who were respectively accused by the eunuch, had no doubts."

"After that, Zhao Yu used the name of a toast to talk with Chao Cuo, the official censor, for a long time, but I have no way of knowing what he said in detail."

"I just don't know why: After the banquet, Chao Cuo did not leave with Zhao Yu, but was sent back to the mansion by Liu She, the young mansion."

"On the way to send Chao Cuo back to the mansion, Liu She's carriage and horses drove extremely slowly, and the two of them talked for a long time in the carriage."

"Outside the gate of Chao Cuo's mansion, the two of them were also in the parked car, talking for more than two sticks of incense..."

Listening to Zhou Ren lowering his head without changing his face, and following the bamboo slips in his hand, Liu Sheng was already stunned in place dumbfounded!

After a long time, I subconsciously asked: What did Liu She and Chao Cuo talk about?
Zhou Ren lowered his head again, rolled up the bamboo slip in his hand, put it back into his sleeve, and 'changed' another bamboo slip from the other sleeve.

Liu Sheng could see clearly: Zhou Ren conjured up the second volume of bamboo slips, tied with a dark green cloth...
"During the banquet, there was no conversation between the two."

"Out of the prime minister's mansion, Liu She deliberately waited outside the gate, and Chao Cuo quickly stopped beside Liu She."

"Liu She invited Chao Cuo to ride with him, but he didn't say a word, he just made a gesture of 'please', and Chao Cuo got into the car without asking."

"And after Chao Cuo got into Liu She's carriage, Chao Cuo's servant also drove Chao Cuo's carriage back to Chao Cuo's mansion alone as if he had expected it."

"Furthermore, Chao Cuo's carriage did not follow Liu She's carriage, but went back home quickly..."

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"When I got in the car, Chao Cuo asked first: Marquis Tao, are you going to be prime minister soon?"

"Liu She said: You can't believe the rumors in the market."

"Chao Cuo asked again: Tao Qing is about to step down as prime minister. I wonder if the Shaofu has found a successor?"

"Liu She said: The Shaofu has done a good job, so why rush to find a successor? What's more, I am not very old, and I can still serve in the Shaofu for many years."

"Then Chao Cuo said: Since the Shaofu doesn't trust me, then I won't bother the Shaofu to send him off, and I can just go home on foot in the dark."

"Liu She hurriedly asked to stay and said, "Wait a minute, Doctor Yushi..."

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"Liu She said: I'm about to become a prime minister, and I shouldn't get too close to Dr. Yu Shi."

"Chao Cuo answered: If you really think so, then the Shaofu won't send me home."

"Liu She asked with a smile: Isn't Dr. Chao afraid that in the future, when I become prime minister, I will fight against Dr. Chao?"

"Chao Cuo answered: I'm not afraid of offending the Shaofu. Even Shen Tujia, the old stubborn bull, was helpless at the time. It was just me in the internal history..."

As Zhou Ren's voice became deeper and deeper, Liu Sheng's face was still full of astonishment, but there was only a touch of banter spontaneously;
Realizing that Zhou Ren's voice had disappeared into his ears, he turned sideways subconsciously, just in time to see the second scroll of bamboo slips being rolled up and put back into his sleeve by Zhou Ren.

Sensing Liu Sheng's suspicious gaze, Zhou Ren straightened up without changing his face, and bowed slightly.

"The spies of the Embroidery Guards just heard about this."

"Afterwards, what did Chao Cuo and Liu She talk about, I am afraid that only the two parties in the world know..."

After saying that, Zhou Ren seemed to be relieved, exhaled a breath of foul air, and naturally retreated to the back of the imperial couch;

After a while, he found that Liu Sheng was looking at him with strange eyes, and Zhou Ren's brows were also quietly knit together because of doubt.

"His Majesty?"

"But I'm worried that there is any conversation between Chao Cuo and Liu She that shouldn't be missed, but the minister didn't find out?"

The obviously guilty words made Liu Sheng look even weirder, looking at Zhou Ren more like looking at a monster rather than a mortal person.

"Your..."

After a long silence, and hesitantly saying the word "Qing", Liu Sheng finally got up from the imperial couch.

Walk along the edge of the imperial couch, step by step to the back of the imperial couch, and raise your head slightly;
Staring straight into the depths of Zhou Ren's gaze, Zhou Ren was a little nervous, Liu Shengcai finally squinted the corners of his eyes and asked the doubts in his heart.

"What is this embroidered clothes guard..."

"Official office?"

It took a lot of effort to replace the word "monster" with "official office", and Liu Sheng also held his head high.

In front of Liu Sheng, Zhou Ren, who had just realized that Liu Sheng had come in front of him, was about to bend down, but when he heard Liu Sheng's question, he fell into a long thought.

What kind of government office, or rather, what kind of establishment or department is the Embroidered Clothes Guard?
Zhou Ren flipped through the memories, and his thoughts instantly returned to that noon when the sun was shining brightly more than 20 years ago.

"Zhou Qing, get ready."

"Liu Yi, king of Liang, died after falling off his horse."

"Father said that there is something strange about this matter, and wanted to send someone to investigate, but because the people in the government and the public are watching, he had to give up."

"—Father said: This time, Father endured;"

"But father doesn't want the king of future generations to have to swallow his anger like this when he encounters a similar situation..."

On that day, Prince Qi brought back the news from Weiyang Palace.

Therefore, Zhou Ren, the prince's servant, was quickly promoted to be the prince's central shield guard, and became the commander of the prince's guard team.

That is to say, from the 500-member Prince's Guard, which was composed entirely of orphans of heroes and heroes, under the secret promotion of the then Prince Qi, and later the Emperor Qi, the current Emperor Daxing Xiaojing, it grew step by step into an embroidery that spreads all over the world. Yiwei.

Every embroidered garment guard is called an embroidered garment envoy, who wears embroidered garments and carries a talisman;
Every embroidered emissary is a heroic son who contributed his life to the Han family but failed to leave shelter for future generations;
When necessary, the embroidered clothes messengers all over the world are able to send a secret report with three bird and beast tail feathers inserted directly to the emperor through the post station network with Qin Zhidao as the vein.

However, in this era, a report with silk cloth as the base, sealed in a wooden tube with ink pad, and inserted with three bird feathers only means the following five characters.

——Eight hundred li urgently······

"Your Majesty may not know much about the Embroidered Clothes Guard."

"After all, before Your Majesty, the only people who knew about the existence of the Embroidered Guards, apart from those Embroidered Emissaries who are in the Embroidered Guards Book, are Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Emperor Daxing Xiaojing, and the three ministers."

"Except for these three people, whether it is the old Empress Dowager Bo, or the present Empress Dowager Dou and Empress Dowager Jia, they never knew anything about it."

"I am a little puzzled that when Emperor Daxing Xiaojing was still around, he didn't tell His Majesty about the embroidery guards."

"Since Your Majesty asked about it today, then I will try to talk to Your Majesty..."

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"The Embroidery Guard was first established in the 11th year of the Yuan Dynasty (169 BC) by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen. It was because King Huai of Liang fell off his horse and died. Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was suspicious, so he ordered it to be established in secret."

"In the beginning, it was composed of 500 members of the prince's guard of Emperor Daxing Xiaojing, who were mainly responsible for secretly collecting rumors from the streets and alleys of Chang'an."

"When you discover rumors that may interest Emperor Taizong, you can directly report to the prince at that time, that is, Emperor Daxing Xiaojing."

"Later, when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was seriously ill and dying, Emperor Daxing Xiaojing made an arbitrarily assertive proposal. After mobilizing more than 300 heroes from the Northern Army, they were incorporated into the prince's guard."

"After the death of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, the Daxing Emperor Xiaojing inherited the Great Reign, and the minister followed the order of Emperor Xiaojing to threaten to disband the prince's guard, but in fact secretly established a dark guard."

"Emperor Xiaojing personally nominated this dark guard: Embroidery Guard..."

Following Zhou Ren's obviously deep but incomparably clear voice of narration, Liu Sheng also quietly had a look of thought;

Zhou Renze didn't notice this, and just continued on his own: "After the establishment of the Embroidered Clothes Guard, Emperor Xiaojing sent more than seven embroidered clothes envoys to Liu Bi, King of Wu, and Chu State in the name of dispatching county officials. Wang Liuwu and other clan kings are by his side."

"—On the surface, these people are all officials of the county and state, and they serve the princes and kings on weekdays. They even stand in the position of the princes and kings to question and oppose the decision of the Chang'an court."

"But in secret, these people are like pairs of eyes, watching every move of the clan and princes of the Kanto for Emperor Daxing Xiaojing."

"Once the clan and princes are found to have misbehavior, they will immediately send back a report to let Emperor Xiaojing know as soon as possible..."

"It is also for this reason that the Wu-Chu Rebellion was able to be extinguished so quickly."

"If it weren't for the secret report network woven by the Xiuyiwei, after Liu Bi rebelled, it would have taken at least a month for the court army to complete the preparations before going out."

"—After all, there is a saying in military strategists: Before the soldiers and horses are moved, the food and grass go first."

"It takes one month to prepare, and another month to travel far away;"

"It will take nearly two months to arrive in Suiyang. No matter what, the Wu-Chu Rebellion cannot be calmed down within three months."

"In other words: as early as Liu Bi contacted the Qi family and was planning to raise troops, Emperor Xiaojing had already received the news and ordered the army to prepare secretly..."

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"Before the Wu-Chu Rebellion, the main task of the Embroidered Clothes Guards was to keep an eye on every move of the clan princes in the Guandong."

"After Wu Chuping was annihilated, the Embroidery Guard's surveillance of the clan and princes of the Guandong was stricter than before the Wu Chu Rebellion."

"——Emperor Xiaojing once said: Conquering the world is easy, but defending the world is difficult; it is easy to suppress chaos, but maintaining stability is difficult."

"So in Emperor Xiaojing's view, the end of the Wu-Chu Rebellion does not mean that the clan and princes of the Guandong clan will no longer be the confidants of my Han family from now on."

"Not only is this not the case, but after the end of the Wu-Chu Rebellion, the importance of closely monitoring the clan and princes of the Guandong clan is even more important than before the Wu-Chu Rebellion."

"So now, more than [-]% of the Embroidered Clothes Guards have a manpower, and they are all distributed in the clan and vassal states of the Kanto;"

"Less than 700% and no more than [-] people stayed in Chang'an on standby..."

Hearing this, Liu Sheng has a basic understanding of the composition and meaning of the Embroidered Guards.

But precisely because of this, doubts gradually arose in Liu Sheng's mind.

——Without exception, they are all related to Xiuyiwei, this mysterious 'official underground organization'······

"All clan princes?"

"--all."

"The King of Linjiang, the King of Hejian..."

"--all."

"King Jiangdu and King Zhao also have them?"

"—Without exception, all princes with clan relatives must have embroidered emissaries around them."

"—For the officials and ministers in Chang'an, Emperor Xiaojing only asked his ministers to 'do their best';"

"—But for the clan and princes of the Kanto..."

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"--Ok······"

"—I remember that Emperor Xiaojing's original words were roughly: when to sleep, when to wake up, who he met, and what he said;"

"—Even staying in the concubine's palace, how many times that night..., and when to go to the toilet, all must be mastered by the embroidered clothes envoy."

After a brief conversation, Liu Sheng's pupils only shrank slightly.

"The court officials and officials?"

"Even the court ministers, meritorious marquises, and noble relatives are also spies from the Embroidery Guards?"

I saw Zhou Ren said without hesitation: "All officials in Chang'an have a rank of more than a hundred stones."

"A rank of one hundred stones means at least two neighbors, two hundred stones and three;"

"Four hundred shi plus a merchant, six hundred shi plus a servant."

"Above a thousand stones, it can be roughly guaranteed that as long as he wants, the Xiuyiwei can control the person's food, drink, housing, and transportation."

"Chehou Xungui is even worse."

"Foreign relatives, the worst..."

Liu Sheng nodded.

After thinking for a long time in secret, he slowly turned his eyes to discuss and looked at Zhou Ren's cuff.

"The scroll of bamboo slips just now, there seems to be a green tie on it?"

"What's the meaning?"

Zhou Ren heard the words, but still blurted out without thinking: "Tie green, it's a 'not very important' conversation;"

"In addition to green, there are yellow, red, and black."

"Yellow is 'probably important,' red is 'definitely important.'"

"As for the black belt, if it is sent back to Chang'an from Kanto, it will be expedited by eight hundred miles..."

(End of this chapter)