At night, a cavalry of about 30 people rushed to the city of Zhongdu. The leader Liu Lancheng raised a gold medal high and shouted: "In an emergency, open the city gate quickly!"

Once the city gate is closed, it is not allowed to open again. But everything will not be absolute. In two special circumstances, the city gate will still open, such as the 800-mile express report, and the sender can ask the city gate to be opened.

There is also the world-wide gold medal in Liu Lancheng's hand. There are only three gold medals in total, one on Zhang Xuan, one on the Qi Palace, and one on the Ziwei Pavilion.

Liu Lancheng's gold medal is the gold medal of the Qi Palace, which is kept by Du Ruhui. It is generally required to sign and agree with the military advisor and the Record Office to join the army. Fang Xuanling is not in Zhongdu, and can be used as long as Du Ruhui agrees.

The same is true for the world-wide gold medal in Ziwei Pavilion. It is kept by the ruling ministers and ministers who rotate every month. It must be signed by the Secretary of the Central Secretariat, the Secretary of the Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the Minister of the Political Affairs Bureau of the Political Affairs Bureau of the Month. It can only be used after the joint signature of the Secretary of the Communist Party of China.

This gold medal can not only pass the world, but also urgently mobilize the newly formed inner guard army, which is the former Fenglei Army, with a huge effect.

The defenders on the city were already alarmed, and the on-duty captain on the East City Gate shot a whistle. After a moment, the patrol cavalry hiding outside the city rushed over and tested the gold medal for the cavalry, shouting to the top of the city: "The gold medal is verified correctly, you can open the city!"

The suspension bridge was lowered and the city gate slowly opened. Liu Lancheng and his subordinates urged their horses to run into Zhongdu City.

The new military camp of the Neiwei was located in Zhongdu City, close to the Imperial Academy. It was originally an abandoned temple. After the renovation was re-leveled, a military camp could accommodate 5,000 soldiers. Zhang Xuan issued an edict before going to the expedition to formally allocate the military camp to the Neiwei.

Shortly after Liu Lancheng returned to the military camp, hundreds of soldiers rushed out of the military camp and disappeared into the darkness soon after.

Near the south gate of Zhongdu, there is a wine shop covering an area of ​​about three acres, called Fenyang wine shop. The wine shop is of medium size, but the location is good. Every day, guests from all over the world come in and out, and there are many fixed old customers. The various dishes served in the wine shop are also tasted from the southern part of Bingzhou, and the taste is sour and spicy. From the name of the store to the cuisine, everyone naturally thinks that this wine shop is owned by Bingzhou people, and many people even suspect that it is the Pei family's industry.

Not only the name and taste of the store, but even its shopkeeper is from Hedong County, Bingzhou. The shopkeeper is surnamed Zheng. He is a middle-aged man in his forties. He smiles all day long and is very kind. When others ask him about the owner of the restaurant, he always laughs and teases the topic.

But old drinkers never thought that the real background of this winery was extraordinary. It was the intelligence station set up by Wang Shichong in Zhongdu. Just as Zhongdu had an intelligence network in Luoyang and Chang'an, Wang Shichong also set up intelligence points in Chang'an, Taiyuan and Zhongdu. However, Chang'an's intelligence points were removed because of the assassination of the Sui envoy. Zhongdu's intelligence points have always remained low-key, and dressing up the winery in Bingzhou style is also a means of concealment.

Wang Shichong has a total of five intelligence points in Zhongdu, basically all of which are wine shops, inns, shops, and so on. The main reason is that people come and go in these places are the norm and will not attract attention, and it is very convenient to collect intelligence.

During this period, Wang Shichong was also very concerned about the battle situation between the Northern Sui and the Turkic army, but he hoped that the Turkic army could defeat the Northern Sui army and cause severe damage to the Northern Sui army. Once the Sui army weakened and could not control the Central Plains, then his chance would come.

Of course, this possibility is not great, but whenever there is a glimmer of hope, Wang Shichong will work actively in this direction. This surge in grain prices in Zhongdu is Wang Shichong's proud work at Zhongdu Intelligence Station.

They took advantage of the opportunity of the palace assassination and secretly spread the news of the defeat of the Sui army in the rice shop, prompting dozens of stores in the rice shop to raise prices collectively, triggering a wave of rice grabbing in Zhongdu. If it weren't for Chang's position closing and timely taking action to calm the grain prices, it would have probably caused a serious social turmoil in Zhongdu.

The restaurant has closed, but the lights are still on in a room on the third floor. However, the heavy curtains are lowered, and the lights inside the house cannot be seen outside.

There were four or five people sitting in the room. Except for the shopkeeper Zheng, the rest were also shopkeepers of each store. They were also small leaders of branch information points, but Chen Chun, the shopkeeper of Heluomi Shop, did not come, and shopkeeper Zheng would contact him alone.

"I will tell you the latest information first. The Turkic army has indeed gone south. It seems that our judgment is completely correct. If the Turkic attack on Shanyang County for a long time, they will inevitably turn south."

Manager Zheng glanced at everyone and said, "The latest instructions given to us by Luoyang is to spread the news of the Turkic army going south in Zhongdu City, and do his best to trigger panic and turmoil in Zhongdu. This is the order issued by the Lord himself. The Lord is watching us, and this is also everyone's opportunity."

Like the Zhongdu Intelligence Agency, the Luoyang intelligence station also belongs to the military system, led by Wang Shichong's brother Wang Shiyun. The real name of this shopkeeper Zheng is Zheng Ting. It is said that he is a distant tribe of the Zheng family, but his real identity is a military officer, Wang Shiyun's confidant, and was sent by Wang Shiyun to take charge of the Zhongdu intelligence station.

Zheng Ting looked kind on the surface, and his smile never disappeared, but his nickname in the army was called Xiaomenghu. He was cruel and ruthless. He secretly executed Emperor Tai Yang Tong.

His men also knew his viciousness, so no one dared to object to his opinion.

Seeing that everyone was not saying a word, Zheng Ting nodded with satisfaction and continued: "It is estimated that the news of the Turkic army going south will reach Zhongdu the day after tomorrow. I hope you will work harder tonight. Each of them will write a detailed plan and hand it over to me before noon tomorrow. Once I approved it, I will implement it immediately. How much money is needed, how much expenses, and how to arrange it. Be sure to write a clear detail in the report, don't let me catch anyone's handle, do you understand?"

Everyone stood up and saluted, "I understand!"

"Go! Go and prepare the plan immediately."

Everyone turned around and walked outside the house. At this moment, a bartender rushed in and shouted in horror: "The big thing is not good, and the outside is surrounded by the army!"

Zheng Ting was shocked. He suddenly realized that something must have happened to Chen Chun and confessed him. He didn't care about other subordinates and rushed out. There was a secret tunnel in the backyard of the restaurant, leading to a house a hundred steps away. This was their only chance to escape.

The other branches also knew that he wanted to escape from the tunnel, and they all followed him to run to the backyard.

At this time, the bartender screamed from the outside. Some bartender wanted to break out and was shot down by arrows.

Zheng Ting rushed to the backyard in one breath and ran towards a firewood in the corner. The entrance to the tunnel was inside the firewood. Unexpectedly, the firewood collapsed with a dozen steps away. Dozens of soldiers appeared from behind the firewood, all of whom were half squatting on the ground, holding a horn crossbow and aimed at them. Looking around, there were more than a hundred Sui troops holding a crossbow in their hands, surrounding them in the backyard.

Zheng Ting shouted and swung his sword. Dozens of Sui soldiers on the opposite side shot crossbow arrows at the same time, and dozens of arrows shot on Zheng Ting at the same time, shooting him like a hedgehog, and died on the spot.

The other subordinates were so scared that they knelt down and begged for mercy, throwing away the sword in their hands. At this time, Liu Lancheng appeared in the yard and waved his hand and said, "Take all the criminals away!"

At this time, a soldier rushed over and handed a scroll to Liu Lancheng. "You reported to the general and found their list, with a total of 128 people."

Liu Lancheng looked at the roster, which contained the name and residence address, which were very detailed. Liu Lancheng handed over the roster to Zhang Li and Li Keshi and said: "Catch people according to the roster immediately. Be sure to catch Luoyang's intelligence point tonight!"

The inner guards immediately took action. One thousand inner guards were divided into twenty teams, searching for Wang Shichong's intelligence scouts in Zhongdu City, Xin'anyang County and Xi City. At dawn, the search operation began to end, and a total of 122 intelligence scouts were arrested. Except for the leader Zheng Ting and two subordinates who were shot and killed, and the other three intelligence scouts were not in Zhongdu, all the registered personnel were arrested, and none of them missed the net.

In the morning, seven complete reports were placed on the desks of each prime minister in Ziwei Pavilion. The Qi Palace took only one day to find out the reasons for the increase in grain prices, and completely eliminated Wang Shichong's intelligence point in Zhongdu.

In the official room, Su Wei put the report on the table and sighed to Wei Yunqi and Xiao Yu: "The military has great talents! The civil and military cooperation is tacit, and His Highness King Qi is well-trained, which is also a blessing for me, the Great Sui Dynasty."

Wei Yunqi smiled and said, "It should be that His Highness King Qi can employ people. One is Fang Xuanling and the other is Du Ruhui. Although he is young, he is all the talents of the prime minister. They should be the new prime minister who will take over our future."

Su Wei nodded and asked Xiao Yu again: "Is the grain shop storm over?"

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Only Yanshan Grain Store is over. I heard that Shuangcheng Grain Store was robbed yesterday and lost more than 10,000 stagnant of money and several thousand stones of grain. Although Zhangxi Grain Store transported the money and grain in time without any loss, the shop was smashed and five or six small grain shops were smashed. Fortunately, there was no fire. Today the army went to control the situation, and the storm should end there."

Su Wei snorted, "Disregarding the overall situation, forgetting justice when seeing profits, and not giving them a painful lesson, they will not remember their mistakes."

Xiao Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, I was wondering why the government did not open a grain shop directly. We could open the largest grain shop in the city, and we could control the price so that we would not have to regularly close the warehouse and then interfere."

Wei Yunqi nodded repeatedly, "Xiao Xiangguo said that I was in my heart. I have been considering this issue. Not only food, but also materials such as pig iron, oil, and salt that are related to the stability of the world and people's livelihood. The official should directly participate in the operation and control the price. It should not only open stores in Zhongdu, but also open official stores in all parts of the world, and there are also exchanges of new and old money, etc. The official should take action, do what he does not do, rely on private business in everything, and it is easy to be manipulated. We are too passive."
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