Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 163 Codename 'Song Ci'

Yang Yuan was a little confused for a moment.

I actually have a personnel file in the Privy Council, the highest military institution in the Song Dynasty?
Judging from the degree of age of this cover, it is no worse than Xiao Qianyue's!

In the side room of Chuigong Palace, Miss Yuye was carefully uncovering the secret letter sealed with wax, totally unaware that Yang Yuan outside had given such a high evaluation of her aging skills.

Yang Yuan opened the calendar and looked at it in the light.

Omitting the records of his family background, identity, age, etc., the first thing about his resume is:
"In April of the 14th year of Shaoxing, the court sent Chen Kangbo, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel, as an envoy to express gratitude, and Qian Kai as the deputy envoy to express gratitude, to the Kingdom of Jin."

"Yang Yuan accompanied them as a servant, and then died in Jin due to acclimatization. He faked his death and escaped, hiding in the place, specializing in collecting and transporting intelligence."

"Alias: Song Ci!"

Alias ​​means code name.

The following is a record of his successful collection and transmission of intelligence from the Jin Dynasty back to the Song Dynasty.

What was the content of the intelligence, who was responsible for receiving it on the Song Dynasty side, what role did the intelligence play, and what kind of recognition and promotion did he receive afterwards.

Every stroke and every piece was done perfectly without any flaws.

Yang Yuan thought blankly, according to this resume, I joined the army at the age of thirteen? I have been a veteran for... ten years! I have also been lurking in the enemy camp for nearly ten years and have made many great contributions?
Regardless of whether Yang Yuan believes it or not, anyone who sees his detailed and thorough resume will have to believe it.

This man has been behind enemy lines for ten years and has reaped great rewards on the espionage front!
A year ago, Yang Yuan lied that he had returned from the North and wanted to get a household registration of ordinary citizens of the Song Dynasty. However, his elder brother, the investigator of the Imperial City Department, had to go to the Xianggong Office in person to complete the procedures for him.

The result is now...

Power is truly omnipotent!
While Yang Yuan was sighing, Commander Cao Min had already brought Mu Simu with him and hurried to Nangong Gate.

Cao Min had asked Musi to negotiate here today, pretending to ease the relationship between the Imperial City Bureau and the National Information Institute, but in fact he wanted to bring the National Information Institute in as well.

This muddy water is both an opportunity and a risk.

We have got the opportunity, but the risk... Sorry, we would like to ask all the brothers from the Institute of Information and Communications Technology to help us share the risk!
When they arrived at Nangong Gate, Liu Shangqiu was escorting Li Defu out.

After all, Li Defu only had a few true confidants, and among these confidants, almost none dared to openly follow him in rebellion.

Once the people from the Imperial City Bureau revealed their identities and stated their purpose, few of Li Defu's men dared to fight to the death.

In fact, the same thing also applies to the soldiers behind the Chuigong Palace.

It's just that a massacre is needed there, both as a thorough cleansing and to expand the impact of the matter to a level that the government must face.

Otherwise, given that Zhao Gou was accustomed to escaping from reality, no one could predict how he would react.

When he saw that the people from the Imperial City Bureau had captured the people guarding the Nangong Gate, Mu Yaban immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

What he feared most was a palace coup, because he had no idea who today had the ambition and ability to launch a palace coup.

Therefore, he could not judge whether the coup would succeed or fail, and which outcome would implicate him.

However, seeing that it was the Imperial City Sina people...

Probably not that serious.

When Li Defu saw his good friend Mu Yaban, he immediately shouted, "Mu Yaban, help me, Mu Yaban, help me, quickly kill these traitors, they are going to rebel."

Mu Si glanced at Liu Shangqiu. The uncle of the emperor wanted to rebel? Do you think I believe it?
Cao Min asked in a hypocritical manner, "Deputy Commander Liu, what... happened?"

Liu Shangqiu clasped his fists towards Cao Min and said, "Commander Cao, this man colluded with Ouyang Lun, Qin Chumu and a group of others to smuggle things into the palace, and was caught on the spot by us!"

Li Defu was desperate and tried all kinds of methods, still shouting: "Mu, help me, it's me, I'm Li Defu, you gave me a birthday gift today, have you forgotten? Help me now!"

Mu Si took a step back and said cautiously: "I...I wish you a happy birthday?"

Mu Yaban is such a cunning person that in this situation, he just wants to clear himself and there is no way he would get involved in muddy water.

Yu Jiguang, Chen Lixing and others followed behind Mu Yaban, and were also confused when they saw this scene.

Liu Shangqiu was escorting Li Defu past them when he suddenly stopped and asked seriously, "Are you from the National Security Bureau here to catch a thief as well?"

Cao Min immediately said, "That's right! Mu Yaban led the others here for this very reason!"

When Li Defu heard that Mu Si was also here to arrest him, his face turned pale and he was completely in despair.

Cao Min turned to Mu Si and said with a smile: "Mu Yaban, don't worry. Let's follow our discussion on the city wall. From now on, we will cooperate sincerely and share the happiness! Today, we captured Li Defu and other traitors, and naturally you have contributed a lot!"

Mu Yaban instinctively felt that something was wrong. He subconsciously took a step back and stepped on Yu Jiguang's instep.

The heels of his official boots were extremely hard, and when he stepped on them, Yu Kongmu covered his mouth with his hands in pain.

But even though he felt pain, he didn't dare to cry out.

Mu Si felt that Cao Min and Liu Shangqiu seemed to have dug a hole for him, but he was reluctant to climb out.

What if, by some chance, you can really accomplish something great?

……

Inside the Chuigong Hall, Miss Yuye had successfully opened the cowhide letter and carefully hooked out the secret letter inside with a blunt-tipped crochet hook.

Then, she did not move, and Fei Tianlu quickly turned his back and walked to the door, peeking out through the crack. Pu'an County Prince Zhao Yuan hurriedly took the secret letter and unfolded it to read it under the bright light.

Zhao Yuan's face changed as soon as she saw the name on the letter. "Dear mother, I respectfully report: I wish you all the best. Time flies, and since you returned to Song State..."

Zhao Yuan hurriedly read the letter and confirmed that it was indeed just a family letter from a son who missed his mother and asked someone to send it to the palace to express his love for his mother. The letter did not contain any content related to the military and political affairs of the two countries or other events.

He immediately folded the letter as it was and handed it to Fei Yuye: "Quick, seal it as it is."

Fei Yuye nodded, began to stuff the letter back into the cowhide envelope as it was, and then began to seal the small opening she had cut.

Zhao Yuan stood in front of the "tea table" with a gloomy expression on her face.

It turns out that when Empress Dowager Wei was exiled to the north, she was actually taken into the harem by the Jin King Wanyan Zongxian, and even gave birth to two sons for him!
Zhao Yuan is from the lineage of Emperor Taizu of Song and the adopted son of the current Emperor of Song. He and Empress Dowager Wei are not grandfather and grandson of the same lineage.

Despite this, he felt deeply humiliated.

He did not vent his hatred on Empress Dowager Wei because of this.

He went to the palace to pay his respects every day and knew Empress Dowager Wei very well.

A daughter of a poor family, she worked as a slave when she was young. She was humble, kind and gentle.

She was occasionally favored by the emperor, but even though she gave birth to a prince, she was still not favored.

She had no choice when she was stranded in the north, so how could she make a choice?

Not every woman can be like Empress Zhu Lian of Emperor Qinzong, who refused to surrender and committed suicide by drowning.

Be it a country or a family, when it is defeated, it is mostly the men who die in battle and the women who are at the mercy of others. This has been the case since ancient times.

However, as a man, Zhao Yuan felt deeply ashamed that the man was afraid of fighting and death, and caused the women to be humiliated.

Moreover, it is a great irony that those who are afraid of fighting and death will still not die a good death in the end!
Good men, why not fight to the death and kill it heroically!
Zhao Yuan clenched his fists!
Although he had been trained as a crown prince since childhood and his Qi cultivation skills were far superior to those of others of the same age, he was still a young man after all. At this moment, his eyes were already red.

The emperor has always been ambiguous about the choice of heir, and Zhao Yuan was not sure that he would become the future emperor of the Song Dynasty.

However, if my family has a dispute with your family, my heart is with my family. If my land has a dispute with your land, my heart is with my land. If my country has a dispute with your country, my heart is with my country.

This anger and hatred comes from the most simple dignity and love and hate of a man from the State of Song.

He must avenge this!
He must avenge this humiliation!
The letter was quickly restored under Miss Yuye's skillful hands, and when carefully examined under candlelight, no trace of it could be seen.

At the place where the cowhide was cut, there was no trace of the cut visible to the naked eye.

Fei Tianlu took it and restored the cowhide letter to the same appearance as when Ouyang Lun stuffed it into his mouth.

Zhao Yuan took a deep breath and said to Fei Tianlu, "This secret letter was presented by Mu En. Tonight, neither the little prince nor the Prince of Enping appeared in the palace!"

Fei Tianlu nodded, opened the palace door, and walked out quickly.

……

After the Chuigong Hall, the scene was quickly cleaned up.

Apart from the faint smell of blood, just by looking at the cleanliness of the ground, you couldn't imagine that nearly a hundred lives had just died here and there was a pool of blood.

Those who were left alive, like Di Jiuzhou, have been taken to the Heavenly Prison and are under strict guard.

The imperial envoy, Mu En, was already waiting outside the palace gate with the cowhide letter.

Once the inner court was locked at night, it would never be opened before dawn.

Mu Tijiu will wait outside the palace gate all night.

However, the fact that the palace gates are closed does not mean that information from inside and outside will be cut off.

The man who was shot off the ladder by a flying knife in the inner court could not be hidden by anyone as the inside and outside were isolated.

The inner court has now begun to take action.

Fei Yuye's stepmother was a female official in charge of the Shangshu Neisheng, the Shangshu Zhe Yueluo.

The Song Dynasty had a permanent institution composed of female officials who assisted the emperor in handling documents, and that was the Shangshu Neisheng.

Zhu Xi once briefly described their responsibilities in Zhu Zi Yu Lei: "There is an internal secretary in the palace, who is in charge of writing. All writings are handled by other places. The emperor also treats him with respect, sometimes granting him a seat. He is not a concubine, but he also holds the seal and approves many things on behalf of the emperor. The final documents are only sent to the three provinces."

They were not concubines, but were highly respected by the emperor. All documents submitted to the palace had to go through them first, and they could write "imperial calligraphy" on behalf of the emperor.

They were respectfully called "Nei Furen". Simply put, the Shangshu Neisheng, which was composed of a group of female officials, was the emperor's confidential secretariat.

The "Inner Minister" is the "Director of the Confidential Secretariat".

Madam Zhe is sixty-three years old and is the number one female official in the inner court.

When Zhao Gou and other princes were young, they were taught by him to read and write.

Her power and prestige in the palace were no less than that of the Grand Eunuch Zhang Quwei.

With her taking care of the inner court, the inner court is probably now following the clues of the eunuch who hung lamps and had one eye shot blind, and starting a large-scale purge.

(End of this chapter)