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Chapter 747 Two Possibilities, The First Attack on Xia and the Second Conspiracy to Song (Second More)

Chapter 756

What kind of place is the Imperial City Division, but almost no one who is an official is unclear. Even Wang Yang, a buddy who doesn't listen to things outside the window, now knows it clearly.

The reason why Wang Yang raised his hands in approval of the emperor's transfer of intelligence work from the Ministry of War to the hands of the Huangcheng Division is because the Huangcheng Division is a secret service agency directly under the Song Emperor.

It is not like the original intelligence agency, it is just an inconspicuous small department under the Ministry of War, and the intelligence collected must be screened by them.Choose what they think is useful and submit it to the Ministry of War.

Then it was transferred by the Ministry of War to its superior department, the most important military institution of the Song Dynasty: the Privy Council.

In this political system where officialism and formalism are rampant, the habitual thinking is all ruled by the above.How much attention can a small lower-level department submit a document to the higher-level department?
Therefore, even if the intelligence department of the Ministry of War has gone through untold hardships and obtained a share of intelligence stained with the blood and sweat of the outstanding intelligence personnel of Song Dynasty, it is very likely that it will only be stuck in the Ministry of War and will not be able to cause more damage. The attention of higher-level institutions.

As a result, Da Song missed one good opportunity after another, and lost a lot of political and military initiative.

However, when the young emperor Zhao Xu decided to assign the function of foreign intelligence collection to the Imperial City Division, it was different.

First of all, the Imperial City Division is a secret service agency completely independent of all political agencies of the Song Dynasty. It is only responsible to His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, and any political agency and department has almost no binding force.

All they need to pay is absolute loyalty to His Majesty the Great Song Emperor.And when the intelligence collection work is assigned to the Imperial City Division, with the rich experience of these organizations that have been engaged in intelligence work for more than 100 years, naturally there will be no delay.

Another very important issue is when the Secretary of the Imperial City sends information about the outside of the Great Song Dynasty to the Privy Council.

The Privy Council did not dare to be as perfunctory and arrogant as it used to deal with the intelligence agencies under the Ministry of War.Because they are no longer connected with subordinate institutions, but a special department directly under His Majesty the Emperor.

If there are any important clues in the information, but the Privy Council still adopts the attitude of the past to deal with it, which leads to bad consequences and situations.

Hehe...Dingdong, please don't forget, what does the Imperial City Secretary do? He is also responsible for supervising and reviewing all kinds of illegal and dereliction of duty behaviors of the officials and armies in the Song Dynasty.

Once serious consequences and situations are caused by the negligence of the Privy Council, the Imperial City Secretary will definitely jump out and tell the emperor immediately that the relevant information has been submitted to the Privy Council, but the members of the Privy Council have done nothing. lead to serious consequences.

In that case, with the pissing nature of the young emperor Zhao Xu who is becoming more and more powerful, he will definitely be furious, and then those guys in the Privy Council who are too idle to occupy the latrine and don't shit will be waiting for bad luck.

Therefore, it is precisely because the information was submitted to the Privy Council by the Secretary of the Imperial City, so in order to show that it attaches importance to intelligence work, the Privy Council specially brought this matter up during the court meeting.

However, the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom have been in peace for a long time. It is indeed difficult for a group of people who have experienced decades of peace in the Liao and Song Dynasties to believe that the other party dares to provoke border disputes.

Moreover, the army didn't even take a step forward on the Nanjing Road. If the Song Dynasty looked nervous at this time, it would lose the prestige of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, this matter can only be put on hold for the time being, and the Privy Council is also relieved. Anyway, the intelligence court has already expressed our importance and discussed it at the court meeting. Since everyone has such an attitude, it is also Just can't blame us.

What's more, among the many officials of the Privy Council, most of them also think that this should only be the internal affairs of the Liao Kingdom, and it really has nothing to do with the Song Dynasty. However, since the Imperial City Secretary sent it, we naturally have to make a decision. It is an attitude of serious concern.

All of this, of course, also went through the channel, that is, the pen end of Zhao Ji, the young His Royal Highness Duan Wang, was sent to Wang Yang.

After all, Wang Yang was very concerned about the military mobilization of the Liao Kingdom, but out of prudent considerations, he couldn't say much, and it was even more impossible for him to shoot empty cannons at the emperor Zhao Xu, so he could only inquire about it from Zhao Ji.

It's just that I didn't expect that although the court discussed this matter, there was such an attitude, which really made Wang Yang feel quite regretful in his heart. He had to admit that the truth is often only in the hands of a few people, and he is one of those people. A minority.

The more so, Wang Yang became more and more certain that Liao's military movements were at least [-]% likely to be aimed at the Song Dynasty.

Wang Yang's way of thinking is different from that of ordinary people, mainly because of his brain circuit structure and his unique brain hole that is different from ordinary people.

In his mind, whenever the public thinks it is correct, he should first stand on the opposite side and think deeply.

Because the public is more of a blind obedience and herd mentality, not all of them have undergone deep introspection or thinking.

This may also be the biggest reason why Wang Yang can achieve one success after another.

"My lord, I don't know what the court thinks about this information and the actions of the Liao Kingdom?" Zhong Shihe stroked his long beard under his chin and asked Wang Yang.

"I don't know..." Wang Yang spread his hands, with a very helpless expression on his face. "The northern tribal army has not yet entered the Nanjing Road of the Liao Kingdom. For the important officials in the court, none of them thought this was a threat to our Great Song Dynasty."

"There are even some officials who think that there is no need for me, the Song Dynasty, to be troublesome about the internal behavior of the Liao Kingdom. They even think that His Majesty should be ordered to inform the boss of Han Zhongyan Dynasty, so that Hedong Road will not make provocative gestures, so as not to provoke anger Liao Kingdom, cause trouble."

Speaking of this, Wang Yang rolled his big eyes with resentment, and then pointed to his forehead with his finger.

"However, I would like to ask you to use your own brains and think about it carefully. The Liao Kingdom mobilized tens of thousands of troops from the northern tribes, and also mobilized tens of thousands of elite cavalry from Shangjing to the south. Could it really have nothing to do with my Great Song Dynasty? Nothing, but just playing long-distance marching when you are too idle?"

"If something goes wrong, there must be a demon..." As expected of the old partner who has cooperated with Wang Yang and Wang Wushan for the longest time, Zhe Keshi finally completely agreed with Wang Yang's guess in his heart.

"Two possibilities, the first is to attack Xia, and the second is to seek Song." Zhong Shihe stroked his long beard for a long time, staring at the army's marching route on the map of Liao Kingdom, and then followed the target point, landed It is at the junction of the three kingdoms of Song, Xixia and Liao.

"Although this is only a possibility with only half the probability. But Wang, he is unwilling to risk the life of any commoner in Song Dynasty..." Wang Yang's eyes fell on Youzhou.

(End of this chapter)