Chapter 476 Compared with ordinary imperial court institutions, the spy agency of the East Investigation Factory has a more secretive and free organizational form.In addition, Wang Ge is the founder and sole person in charge of the East Factory, the personnel is not controlled by the Ministry of Officials, the finances are not controlled by the Ministry of Households, and only obeys the direct edict of the emperor, except for the emperor, basically no one has the right to investigate the personnel and structure of the East Factory, and no one knows how many supernumerals there are in the East Factory in addition to those who are registered.Nominally, the funds of the East Factory are from the inner treasury, that is, the emperor's own private money, but in fact, it is only a symbolic allocation, and most of the funds of the East Factory are solved by themselves.Of course, the way Dongchang collects money will not be like Jinyiwei, which is now in full swing, directly implicating people in the case, and then forcing people to go bankrupt to operate and rescue.This method is too straightforward, too public, well-known, and too famous.Don't look at the majesty of Jinyiwei now, no one dares to come to find trouble, but these things are seen by others, and they will be the source of backlash in the future.Comparatively speaking, Dongchang's actions are much more secretive.Many times, when some wealthy businessmen and big families are persecuted by the government or oppressed by the forces of the rivers and lakes, they secretly come forward to mediate and mediate.And the request is not to force people to go bankrupt and give up their wealth, but to send people to participate in their business.While making money, it is also spreading the manpower unconsciously.As for those wealthy businessmen and big families, many of them don't even know the origin of these people.When dealing with the Mengyuan Tatars or tracking down the thieves, it is often possible to find officials, gentry, and tycoons who were coerced or rebelled by the Mengyuan secret agents, and they are also one of the cash cows of Dongchang.With money and personnel power, the East Factory under Wang Ge's control has a much larger scale than others seem.In fact, Zhu Di also vaguely knows about this situation, but he adheres to the policy of employing people without suspicion and suspicion on the one hand, and it is not good to contain too much, on the other hand, the East Factory controlled by Wang Ge has indeed made a lot of contributions, and it is not as angry as Jinyiwei.During the period when Wang Ge was seriously injured and unconscious, the West Factory was born, with a posture of grabbing power with the East Factory, and did not interfere in the personnel of the East Factory, but because of the particularity of the structure of the East Factory, in addition to those registered members of the East Factory, it is not known how many supernumerary agents there are and what industries they control.However, after Wang Ge "woke up", especially after going to the capital, he took the initiative to report the list of some supernumerary personnel of the East Factory to the emperor in the form of secret music.To a certain extent, this list is in the hands of the emperor, and it is only a matter of time before Xichang gets it, and this is also a statement made by Wang Ge that he is willing to let Xichang supervise it.Of course, the actual number of secret agents that Wang Ge has in his hands is far more than that list.It's just that those secret agents are not controlled in the name of Dongchang, and they will only work for Wang Ge.For a long time after leaving the capital, Wang Ge did not continue to return to Beiping to preside over the spy work of Meng Yuan, and completely delegated power to Yin Shaoting, while he stayed in Qingzhou in the name of "recuperation".…… Mengyuan Royal Court.The current Tatar leader, Ghost Lichi, looked at the information in his hand, and his dark face was full of anxiety.The news that Emperor Yongle wanted to move the capital to Beiping meant that the Ming Dynasty's strategy against Mongolia would be even more fierce and ferocious than during the Hongwu period.At the beginning, when Yongle Emperor Zhu Di was still the king of Yan, he sealed Beiping, although he had many northern expeditions, Zhu Di led a large army, was the main force of the battle, and played an important role.However, during the long ten or twenty years that King Yan was stationed in the north, in fact, between the border vassal kings such as the Yan Domain and the Ning Domain, and the Mengyuan and Tatars, in addition to confrontation and fighting, there were also various kinds of cooperation and bribery.Like Zhu Di's command, in fact, there are many cavalry and tribal warriors who have taken refuge in the past of Meng Yuan, and many nobles of Meng Yuan will also trade privately with merchants controlled by the border vassal kings.Originally, in their opinion, Zhu Di's ascension to the throne should be much better than the murderous Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and perhaps it would give the tribes of the grassland a chance to recuperate.But what I didn't expect was that Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor, was preparing to move the capital to Beiping after ascending the throne, and was obviously preparing for a new large-scale northern expedition, mobilizing troops, horses, grain, grass, and equipment to the north.In particular, the death of the prince Zhu Gaoxu is rumored to be instigated by Mengyuan Tatar behind the scenes, which makes Emperor Yongle and Tatar become an endless situation.At first, during the Battle of Jingjing, Ghost Lichi did have the intention of betting on both sides and doing things in the north.If King Yan is destroyed, maybe he will take advantage of the emptiness within the Ming Dynasty and the lack of troops in the north to move south, and maybe he will be able to take the former Yuan Dadu and the current Beiping.But after Zhu Di entered Jinling City, Ghost Lichi's mind had changed, and he was ready to make a gesture of submission to the Ming Dynasty.So even if the Ming Dynasty has been purging the Mengyuan Tatar agents in the capital and the northern peace, and even the Mr.
Ning, who has a very high status, has been killed, and Ghost Lichi has never given up the idea of making peace with the Ming court, after all, now after Meng Yuan was driven to the grassland, he has experienced several civil strife, and now Tatar and Warat have been divided, even with the support of Arutai, many tribal leaders are not subject to the leadership of Ghost Lichi.At this time, if the Ming Dynasty marched north, they would not have much ability to resist.However, after Zhu Gaoxu was assassinated, and it was revealed that Meng Yuan's secret agent was behind the instructions, the way to make peace with Ming Tingyan was completely blocked.Naturally, Ghost Lichi did not give such an order, but after some internal investigation, he found that the assassination seemed to be really promoted by a Mengyuan secret agent in Beiping......
The spy was dead, but his one-line contact and boss at the royal court made it clear that he didn't give the order.This made Ghost Lichi cry and laugh a little, but at this time, he was helpless, he couldn't tie up his spies and send them to the Ming Court to ask for guilt, saying that they were making their own decisions, and this matter had nothing to do with his Ghost Lichi and Tatar, right?
Will Zhu Di believe him?
So Gui Lichi took this opportunity to carry out a large number of purges of the Han people in the royal court, that is, those who were once the remnants of the Demon Sect in the Central Plains, and the masters of the left envoy line.Anyway, these people, who took refuge in the beginning, were the descendants of the Golden Family who were abolished by Ghost Lichi.But what I didn't expect was that those remnants of the Demon Sect actually knew about it in advance, and most of them escaped in advance, and only a small number of people were purged and killed.Ghost Li Chi asked Ji Taishi Arutai, and the latter gave him a suggestion to use the opposite strategy."
We can say that the secret agent in Beiping at the beginning made a proposal to contact Qi Zuoliang beside the King of Gaoyang County in order to dedicate the 'secret method of immortality' to the Ming Emperor."
Arutai said.