The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 358 Su Yiwei

Everyone's every move is under the control of Lao Zhao. Many things that he thought he was doing were very secret, but they were also exposed under Zhao Kuangyin's nose.

Even Zhao Kuangyin, who is very tolerant of officials in the eyes of later generations, is very worried about the ministers.

Why did Zhao Xu give up on all the officials who had to be monitored secretly?This is the emperor's forte.

"Why do you find this surprising? Here are you and my father and son. I am not afraid to tell you that all the officials in the capital are under my surveillance."

"In addition, there are special personnel monitoring them. We have just established the Great Song Dynasty, and I will not allow the country to fall into turmoil again."

"Even your prince's mansion has people from Zhen. Today, we father and son are here, so I will simply explain to you."

On the one hand, Zhao Kuangyin relied on his own prestige to become emperor, and he had the strength and military power in his hands.

But not everyone with military power may become emperor, otherwise even if you become emperor, people will say that you are seeking to usurp the throne.

Is there any way to make people willingly accept their leadership and convince themselves to be emperor?
That is, we must create our own public opinion and spread our own information. Zhao Kuangyin relied on this to become the emperor.

Now that he has become the emperor, he must strictly control this set, and cannot allow this kind of information to spread and circulate, so he increased the supervision of the officials.

As for what the common people and the like know, as long as these scholar-bureaucrats don't publicize these things, they won't know.

At the same time, in Zhao Kuangyin's heart, he was more afraid that many forces would slowly develop in secret.

"Xu'er, you also know how our Great Song Dynasty was established. We took it from the orphans and widows of Hou Zhou."

"To put it bluntly, we use conspiracies and tricks, but we tell the world that we are obedient to others. Just think about how many people like us there are in the world."

It was only to Zhao Xu and Zhao Kuangyin that he could say such heart-to-heart words. If the two other people said these words, they would already be destined to kill the Nine Clans.

"When the Song Dynasty was newly established, people's hearts were unstable. Officials were all holding a wait-and-see attitude to see if our Great Song Dynasty was like the short-lived dynasties of the Five Dynasties."

"Seeing this, I secretly sent a large number of cronies to various places to monitor officials everywhere."

Zhao Kuangyin has never said these words, let alone mentioned them in front of anyone, but he is indeed doing this.

"Father, if you do this, won't those officials be alienated?" Zhao Xu knew the advantages of doing this, and even more understood the disadvantages of doing so.

Zhao Kuangyin let out a long sigh:

"I, why don't I understand this truth, but what can I do? For a stable political situation, I have no choice but to!"

"So later I changed my strategy and only monitored those officials of the fifth rank and above, as well as those generals who held military power."

According to historical records, Zhao Kuangyin sent a large number of trusted military academies to various places in the early days of his ascension to spy on information about officials in various places.

"That's why I didn't make any noise when I found out that you sent Fengying to monitor the officials. If you really did it for your own self-interest, it's probably hard to keep your crown prince now."

If ordinary people heard Zhao Kuangyin's words, they would have knelt on the ground to plead guilty, even the emperor's son was no exception.

But Zhao Xu was different. He knew that since Zhao Kuangyin could say such a thing, it meant that he was no longer wary of him.

Zhao Kuangyin also said just now that there are only two of them, father and son, tonight, but when they meet each other honestly, they can say whatever they want.

What Zhao Xu didn't know was that the officials in the capital were all strictly monitored by Zhao Kuangyin. According to Zhao Kuangyin, no mistakes were allowed here.

Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin is basically full of spies in the streets and alleys, and these spies monitor the Beijing officials at all levels in various places at any time.

Even he himself often visits privately on Weibo to look around, in order to be able to grasp these dynamics

"I appreciate what you have done in the past two years. The students of the Forbidden Army Military Academy have basically become your private army, but this is also good. You are in front of the palace and have good control over the army! "

"Others dare not say that the Forbidden Army basically belongs to the imperial court now. The lower-level officers are all from the Forbidden Army Military Academy. They have been educated to obey the imperial court and the emperor. Don't worry about that, father."

This was one of the things Zhao Xu was most proud of at the moment. He was not in the actual position but became the actual leader.

"That's good, do you know why I don't send people to the army, because the people in the army are all honest men, if they find that we don't trust them, they will definitely lose confidence in our court.

The reason why I let you do things in the army is because the people you put in really understand military affairs. "

"I told you so much tonight to let you remember that as a qualified emperor, you must not show anything on the surface.

It is absolutely impossible for people to see through you easily. Sometimes everything should not be taken too seriously, but some things must be firmly remembered. "

"Just like this time Shi Shouxin could even intervene in the scientific research, and even killed people. It stands to reason that he deserved to die, but we can't punish him. He is too involved, and the court may not be able to deal with it. There will also be unrest."

"You don't need to look, these are all mastered by those spies. Do you think that I will believe you only by relying on Wang An's record? You underestimate me too. Do you think my spies are incompetent? elders?"

Seeing Zhao Xu's doubts, Zhao Kuangyin smiled and waited until he explained:

"By the way, although your Fengying and Jinyiwei have undergone rigorous training, they are still not professional enough, so I decided to merge your Jinyiwei, Fengying and my intelligence agency to form a new one, and let them take full control of our Great Song Dynasty. information and things like that."

I even thought of a name, so I'll call it Su Yiwei!

Su Yiwei, the Su Yiwei of the Song Dynasty, although not as famous as the Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin established a secret service agency in history.

I came here to build a Jinyiwei, but I didn't expect Zhao Kuangyin to be spared in the end. Suyiwei, it seems that the ability to correct historical errors is still good.

But Zhao Xu had a question, why was it called Su Yiwei?
(End of this chapter)