Upon hearing the news, Guo Shao issued an order to proclaim Huang Binglian, the Kaifeng Prefecture, to send an order to the emperor to the emperor, and to restrain the local people from pursuing the prisoners.
It must have been done by Zhao Kuangyin!Guo Shao thought about it in front of the window for a while.
In the past, he ordered Wang Hong to pay attention to preventing technical leakage, and also took some measures, such as surrounding the workshop area with walls, and transferring troops from Kaifeng Prefecture to garrison for a long time; in terms of management, most people cannot contact the entire process of making a armor, and only a few masters can handle the workshop; if the craftsmen sign and seal the confidential documents, the leaked armor technology will be executed and their families will be exiled for three thousand miles.
But there are still big loopholes in governance and have not received enough attention.
It is mainly because the ancients rarely stolen it for specific technology at any cost. Perhaps because rulers of all races do not attach importance to technology, they may also have poor knowledge. Anyway, there have been almost no such cases in the years.
For example, the legendary Zhuge Liang's Trojan Cartridge, Zhuge crossbow and other technologies did not record the fact that the Wei and Wu Kingdom specially sent people to steal... The Tang Dynasty's various technologies have been ahead of the world for a long time, and there is no secret. Before Princess Wencheng brought the craftsman tools, Tubo did not send people to steal the technology.
Rulers of various countries basically have no concept of the level of technological development.
So Guo Shao just ordered the Afang Office to pay attention to confidentiality, and then he didn't care about it or pay much attention to it.
Guo Shao walked a few steps in front of the window, thinking: If any force is focused on the armor-making technique and steal it at any cost, this armor-making technique cannot be foolproof; it is nothing more than the other party's difficulty of stealing.
First of all, hammering is very simple and easy to learn, not as complex and professional as modern technology; secondly, the workshop is not in the deep mountains and forests, and it is isolated from the world.
As long as you spend enough time and manpower, you will definitely find a breakthrough by being a spy.
However, it is also meaningful to increase the difficulty of the other party and delay the time for leaks.
Guo Shao planned to pay attention to this matter and started writing a record of the idea: First, strengthen internal governance; second, establish a spy agency. If there is any technology leak to a certain country, he can try to attack counter-espionage and use it as a technical personnel to eliminate rebellion in the enemy country.
...Soon after, the envoy of the Guest Provincial People's Republic of China, Zan Jurun, wrote a letter and presented some suggestions.
He suggested building a city in the workshop area, and sending soldiers and officials to patrol the city, prohibiting idle people from approaching the small town; governing craftsmen went out.
Build houses for craftsmen and families in the city, and use high walls to separate them to reduce the noise in the workshop area.
The Jiafang Office set up a procurement office in the city to distribute it to the craftsmen.
Send officials to patrol nearby markets and cities to prevent idle people from hiding into nearby places.
After reading it, Guo Shao felt that Zan Jurun was more talented in this regard, so he asked the officials outside the study to issue an order to change Zan Jurun to the Military Arts Supervisor (a higher-level yamen than Jiafang Office), and also serve as the Privy Council.
There were too many things in the court, and Guo Shao could not only focus on one place, but could only choose some people he thought were talented and smart to take responsibility.
After all, Guo Shao was a military general who had been a military general for many years. His style was not as scrutinized as a scholar. He happened to think of the spy agency and was ready to start working immediately... In his concept, he always thought that intelligence personnel were very useful, so he had asked Jing Niang to secretly organize the intelligence system in the past; however, those things were small-scale. At the beginning, he was just a military general and had no such authority or resources.
But now it’s different. I just ascended the throne and have unlimited power.
He turned around and saw that the eunuch who came to the duty today was Cao Tai, so he called him in.
Guo Shao retreated to the back room of the study, and while looking through the files in his hand and the bureaucratic records summarized by Prime Minister Wang Pu, he asked: Who is the Imperial City Envoy?
This official position appeared at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The Imperial City Department later became an institution controlled by eunuchs, mainly responsible for the opening and closing of the imperial city palace gate, the management of weapons and armor, and the responsibilities of supervising some special officials... The family members left by Zhao Kuangyin and his party were in charge.
In Guo Shao's view, the Imperial City Department is similar to the factory guards (East Factory and Jinyiwei) in the Ming Dynasty, but its power and scale are obviously much smaller, and its role is not very large.
Cao Tai immediately replied: Go back to Your Majesty, it is the eunuch Wang Zhong.
Guo Shao asked again: Is he reliable?
Cao Tai said: When the late emperor (Chai Rong) was still there, Wang Zhong was a favored eunuch around the late emperor.Later, the late emperor was seriously ill. This man secretly wanted to show his goodwill to the empress, and secretly passed the news that the late emperor was seriously ill back to the palace from Hebei. Unexpectedly, the matter was taken by his godson Wang Jien, and later exposed to the late emperor. Wang Zhong was beaten half to death and almost died... Later, His Majesty entered the palace under the imperial order, and Wang Zhong was released and defected to the queen, and Wang Jien... died.
Guo Shao then asked Cao Tai to send someone to summon Wang Zhong.
Not long after, a fat eunuch came.
Guo Shao suddenly remembered that he had seen this person during the Battle of Huainan. He was indeed a confidant eunuch around Chai Rong; however, he, a eunuch, could not be loyal to the late emperor even after he died, otherwise he would not have surrendered to the queen quietly.
Most of the eunuchs with some power in this imperial city defected to Fu Jinzhan.
Guo Shao could only use them. The eunuchs who defected to Fu Jinzhan were the most reliable... The eunuchs also need talents. Those who have not been tempered in the palace for many years will be promoted suddenly and are useless.
When Wang Zhong saw Guo Shao, he was flattered and kept kowtowing on the ground.
Guo Shao asked him to get up and said directly: I have something to let you do.
Wang Zhong hurriedly bowed and said: Your Majesty has ordered me, and I am tragic...
Guo Shao said: You are in charge of the Imperial City Department and have a Bureau of Internal Affairs under it, which is independent of the opening and closing of the Imperial City Palace Gate.What is the Interior Bureau doing?Take care of the families of the traitors such as Zhao Kuangyin and others, and Zhang Yongde, you must have sent someone to monitor them?If the emperor wants to investigate corrupt officials, you will send someone to investigate secretly... all those who do these things are assigned to the Internal Affairs Bureau.
Wang Zhong hurriedly said: I will obey the order.
Guo Shao said again: You have ready-made people to form the Interior Bureau, now I have two things.On the Zaojiafang, some officials and masters, you can set up people nearby to monitor and protect them, and pay attention to monitoring and detecting the idle people near the workshop area.
The second thing is that in Kaifeng Prefecture, the city gates, east-west cities, inns, wineries and teahouses, and city wings are deployed to monitor the suspicious people. If you suspect that it is a detailed work of unknown origin, you can secretly arrest and torture.He pondered for a moment and said, if the matter involves officials or famous scholars, he cannot act rashly, and he must report it first.
Wang Zhong said: Your Majesty, you have to give me the order to the king of my family... The second thing is to have many people and spend a lot of money. I have to save money from the eunuch.
Guo Shao glanced at the eunuch Cao Tai next to him. This guy was one of the largest eunuchs in the Eunuch Province. The Eunuch Provincial Supervisor, but there was another supervisor, Yang Shiliang.
Guo Shao nodded and agreed, thinking that in the past two years, he destroyed the two major powers of Shu and Southern Tang, and robbed tens of millions of treasury of property and sent it to the treasury, but he still couldn't afford a bunch of detailed works?
(In history, the Northern Song Dynasty also robbed countless money, but it was probably a lot of money to release military power when drinking wine. I remember that in a story, Shi Shouxin went home and saw the money piled up in the whole house. He said, "I have done so much money, so I'd better enjoy wealth.")
...Then he rushed to summon the Privy Councilor Wang Pu.
Wang Pu walked into the back room of the study and said immediately after bowing: The old minister was about to ask for his Majesty, but he had just received an urgent report from Judge Huang (Huang Binglian) that two bodies were found one after another on the bank of the Yellow River, including the corpse of Sun Fangtou and a child. After the coronation was conducted, the two men drowned.
Judge Huang speculated that after the ferry was strictly guarded by the government, the spy tried to cross the Yellow River in a panic. When crossing the river, there were incidents such as capsized ships, drowned two people.There were also three people from Seizuo and a workshop handyman named Lu, who were not caught.
After hearing this, Guo Shao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. When Sun Fangtou, who was in charge of the structure of the A-making workshop, died, it might be difficult for Zhao Kuangyin to copy the workshop... But there are still risks. How much does the craftsman named Lu know?
According to reports, Lu Jiangren used to work in the forging room, which was also the key to the Armor Making technique; in contrast, the wheels and waterwheels in the transmission room were not key technologies, and people in this era had long learned to use waterwheels as power.
The extent to which the art creation technique can be leaked depends on how many craftsman Lu, who has not been arrested, has mastered; if a person with high understanding and smart experience has worked in it for a while, he may understand the principles and structures of those mechanical components, after all, it is not complicated... Of course, if a person who is ambitious and only knows how to work and get wages, he will definitely be confused, and most of the low-level craftsmen are illiterate, so it will be difficult to explain the structure clearly.
Judge Huang handled it well, and Wang Envoy sent someone to commend him, asking him to continue to handle the case with care and arrest the rest of the people.Guo Shao said.
Wang Pu said: The old minister received the order.
Guo Shao said again: I have another matter to summon the king.A separate official office in the Privy Council is called...
The first thing that comes to mind about is of course the Intelligence Bureau. Its function is to use foreign spy agencies, but this name is inappropriate and has no confidentiality.
He thought about it and said: It is called "Military and Cao Si", whose main function is to undercover and spy on the military and political affairs of the enemy country, with the focus on the Liao Kingdom and the Northern Han Kingdom.You recommend a reliable person to form this official office and plan long-term undercover plans and short-term spy plans.
Guo Shao stroked his forehead and said: This official office must be confidential. The funding budget does not need to be explained to the Ministry of Revenue or the Censorate. It will be allocated directly from the Escort Provincial, and the expenses will be known by the Escort Provincial.
Wang Pu agreed immediately.This is very easy... Generally speaking, it is a happy thing for everyone to establish a new yamen. On the contrary, there will be resistance to the abolition of the official office and the officials.
There seems to have never been such a specialized institution before, and at most people are temporarily seeking people to carry out counter-espionage strategies. Foreign spies are mainly those who come and go and communicate with envoys and guests.
However, the Privy Council also had some experience, so Wang Pu sent someone to secretly investigate and collect information about some generals and important officials of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and recorded it as a file and kept it in a file.
Guo Shao thought again that it might be beneficial if he could participate when Jing Niang got out.
When Guo Shao and Zhao Kuangyin fought fiercely, Jingniang's organization did a good job of being a spy. Guo Shao also taught her how to treat the store as a stronghold, how to forge her identity, etc.... The officials of the Privy Council may not necessarily know how to contact one-line and how to avoid being broken through, but Jingniang learned it from Guo Shao before.
It must have been done by Zhao Kuangyin!Guo Shao thought about it in front of the window for a while.
In the past, he ordered Wang Hong to pay attention to preventing technical leakage, and also took some measures, such as surrounding the workshop area with walls, and transferring troops from Kaifeng Prefecture to garrison for a long time; in terms of management, most people cannot contact the entire process of making a armor, and only a few masters can handle the workshop; if the craftsmen sign and seal the confidential documents, the leaked armor technology will be executed and their families will be exiled for three thousand miles.
But there are still big loopholes in governance and have not received enough attention.
It is mainly because the ancients rarely stolen it for specific technology at any cost. Perhaps because rulers of all races do not attach importance to technology, they may also have poor knowledge. Anyway, there have been almost no such cases in the years.
For example, the legendary Zhuge Liang's Trojan Cartridge, Zhuge crossbow and other technologies did not record the fact that the Wei and Wu Kingdom specially sent people to steal... The Tang Dynasty's various technologies have been ahead of the world for a long time, and there is no secret. Before Princess Wencheng brought the craftsman tools, Tubo did not send people to steal the technology.
Rulers of various countries basically have no concept of the level of technological development.
So Guo Shao just ordered the Afang Office to pay attention to confidentiality, and then he didn't care about it or pay much attention to it.
Guo Shao walked a few steps in front of the window, thinking: If any force is focused on the armor-making technique and steal it at any cost, this armor-making technique cannot be foolproof; it is nothing more than the other party's difficulty of stealing.
First of all, hammering is very simple and easy to learn, not as complex and professional as modern technology; secondly, the workshop is not in the deep mountains and forests, and it is isolated from the world.
As long as you spend enough time and manpower, you will definitely find a breakthrough by being a spy.
However, it is also meaningful to increase the difficulty of the other party and delay the time for leaks.
Guo Shao planned to pay attention to this matter and started writing a record of the idea: First, strengthen internal governance; second, establish a spy agency. If there is any technology leak to a certain country, he can try to attack counter-espionage and use it as a technical personnel to eliminate rebellion in the enemy country.
...Soon after, the envoy of the Guest Provincial People's Republic of China, Zan Jurun, wrote a letter and presented some suggestions.
He suggested building a city in the workshop area, and sending soldiers and officials to patrol the city, prohibiting idle people from approaching the small town; governing craftsmen went out.
Build houses for craftsmen and families in the city, and use high walls to separate them to reduce the noise in the workshop area.
The Jiafang Office set up a procurement office in the city to distribute it to the craftsmen.
Send officials to patrol nearby markets and cities to prevent idle people from hiding into nearby places.
After reading it, Guo Shao felt that Zan Jurun was more talented in this regard, so he asked the officials outside the study to issue an order to change Zan Jurun to the Military Arts Supervisor (a higher-level yamen than Jiafang Office), and also serve as the Privy Council.
There were too many things in the court, and Guo Shao could not only focus on one place, but could only choose some people he thought were talented and smart to take responsibility.
After all, Guo Shao was a military general who had been a military general for many years. His style was not as scrutinized as a scholar. He happened to think of the spy agency and was ready to start working immediately... In his concept, he always thought that intelligence personnel were very useful, so he had asked Jing Niang to secretly organize the intelligence system in the past; however, those things were small-scale. At the beginning, he was just a military general and had no such authority or resources.
But now it’s different. I just ascended the throne and have unlimited power.
He turned around and saw that the eunuch who came to the duty today was Cao Tai, so he called him in.
Guo Shao retreated to the back room of the study, and while looking through the files in his hand and the bureaucratic records summarized by Prime Minister Wang Pu, he asked: Who is the Imperial City Envoy?
This official position appeared at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The Imperial City Department later became an institution controlled by eunuchs, mainly responsible for the opening and closing of the imperial city palace gate, the management of weapons and armor, and the responsibilities of supervising some special officials... The family members left by Zhao Kuangyin and his party were in charge.
In Guo Shao's view, the Imperial City Department is similar to the factory guards (East Factory and Jinyiwei) in the Ming Dynasty, but its power and scale are obviously much smaller, and its role is not very large.
Cao Tai immediately replied: Go back to Your Majesty, it is the eunuch Wang Zhong.
Guo Shao asked again: Is he reliable?
Cao Tai said: When the late emperor (Chai Rong) was still there, Wang Zhong was a favored eunuch around the late emperor.Later, the late emperor was seriously ill. This man secretly wanted to show his goodwill to the empress, and secretly passed the news that the late emperor was seriously ill back to the palace from Hebei. Unexpectedly, the matter was taken by his godson Wang Jien, and later exposed to the late emperor. Wang Zhong was beaten half to death and almost died... Later, His Majesty entered the palace under the imperial order, and Wang Zhong was released and defected to the queen, and Wang Jien... died.
Guo Shao then asked Cao Tai to send someone to summon Wang Zhong.
Not long after, a fat eunuch came.
Guo Shao suddenly remembered that he had seen this person during the Battle of Huainan. He was indeed a confidant eunuch around Chai Rong; however, he, a eunuch, could not be loyal to the late emperor even after he died, otherwise he would not have surrendered to the queen quietly.
Most of the eunuchs with some power in this imperial city defected to Fu Jinzhan.
Guo Shao could only use them. The eunuchs who defected to Fu Jinzhan were the most reliable... The eunuchs also need talents. Those who have not been tempered in the palace for many years will be promoted suddenly and are useless.
When Wang Zhong saw Guo Shao, he was flattered and kept kowtowing on the ground.
Guo Shao asked him to get up and said directly: I have something to let you do.
Wang Zhong hurriedly bowed and said: Your Majesty has ordered me, and I am tragic...
Guo Shao said: You are in charge of the Imperial City Department and have a Bureau of Internal Affairs under it, which is independent of the opening and closing of the Imperial City Palace Gate.What is the Interior Bureau doing?Take care of the families of the traitors such as Zhao Kuangyin and others, and Zhang Yongde, you must have sent someone to monitor them?If the emperor wants to investigate corrupt officials, you will send someone to investigate secretly... all those who do these things are assigned to the Internal Affairs Bureau.
Wang Zhong hurriedly said: I will obey the order.
Guo Shao said again: You have ready-made people to form the Interior Bureau, now I have two things.On the Zaojiafang, some officials and masters, you can set up people nearby to monitor and protect them, and pay attention to monitoring and detecting the idle people near the workshop area.
The second thing is that in Kaifeng Prefecture, the city gates, east-west cities, inns, wineries and teahouses, and city wings are deployed to monitor the suspicious people. If you suspect that it is a detailed work of unknown origin, you can secretly arrest and torture.He pondered for a moment and said, if the matter involves officials or famous scholars, he cannot act rashly, and he must report it first.
Wang Zhong said: Your Majesty, you have to give me the order to the king of my family... The second thing is to have many people and spend a lot of money. I have to save money from the eunuch.
Guo Shao glanced at the eunuch Cao Tai next to him. This guy was one of the largest eunuchs in the Eunuch Province. The Eunuch Provincial Supervisor, but there was another supervisor, Yang Shiliang.
Guo Shao nodded and agreed, thinking that in the past two years, he destroyed the two major powers of Shu and Southern Tang, and robbed tens of millions of treasury of property and sent it to the treasury, but he still couldn't afford a bunch of detailed works?
(In history, the Northern Song Dynasty also robbed countless money, but it was probably a lot of money to release military power when drinking wine. I remember that in a story, Shi Shouxin went home and saw the money piled up in the whole house. He said, "I have done so much money, so I'd better enjoy wealth.")
...Then he rushed to summon the Privy Councilor Wang Pu.
Wang Pu walked into the back room of the study and said immediately after bowing: The old minister was about to ask for his Majesty, but he had just received an urgent report from Judge Huang (Huang Binglian) that two bodies were found one after another on the bank of the Yellow River, including the corpse of Sun Fangtou and a child. After the coronation was conducted, the two men drowned.
Judge Huang speculated that after the ferry was strictly guarded by the government, the spy tried to cross the Yellow River in a panic. When crossing the river, there were incidents such as capsized ships, drowned two people.There were also three people from Seizuo and a workshop handyman named Lu, who were not caught.
After hearing this, Guo Shao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. When Sun Fangtou, who was in charge of the structure of the A-making workshop, died, it might be difficult for Zhao Kuangyin to copy the workshop... But there are still risks. How much does the craftsman named Lu know?
According to reports, Lu Jiangren used to work in the forging room, which was also the key to the Armor Making technique; in contrast, the wheels and waterwheels in the transmission room were not key technologies, and people in this era had long learned to use waterwheels as power.
The extent to which the art creation technique can be leaked depends on how many craftsman Lu, who has not been arrested, has mastered; if a person with high understanding and smart experience has worked in it for a while, he may understand the principles and structures of those mechanical components, after all, it is not complicated... Of course, if a person who is ambitious and only knows how to work and get wages, he will definitely be confused, and most of the low-level craftsmen are illiterate, so it will be difficult to explain the structure clearly.
Judge Huang handled it well, and Wang Envoy sent someone to commend him, asking him to continue to handle the case with care and arrest the rest of the people.Guo Shao said.
Wang Pu said: The old minister received the order.
Guo Shao said again: I have another matter to summon the king.A separate official office in the Privy Council is called...
The first thing that comes to mind about is of course the Intelligence Bureau. Its function is to use foreign spy agencies, but this name is inappropriate and has no confidentiality.
He thought about it and said: It is called "Military and Cao Si", whose main function is to undercover and spy on the military and political affairs of the enemy country, with the focus on the Liao Kingdom and the Northern Han Kingdom.You recommend a reliable person to form this official office and plan long-term undercover plans and short-term spy plans.
Guo Shao stroked his forehead and said: This official office must be confidential. The funding budget does not need to be explained to the Ministry of Revenue or the Censorate. It will be allocated directly from the Escort Provincial, and the expenses will be known by the Escort Provincial.
Wang Pu agreed immediately.This is very easy... Generally speaking, it is a happy thing for everyone to establish a new yamen. On the contrary, there will be resistance to the abolition of the official office and the officials.
There seems to have never been such a specialized institution before, and at most people are temporarily seeking people to carry out counter-espionage strategies. Foreign spies are mainly those who come and go and communicate with envoys and guests.
However, the Privy Council also had some experience, so Wang Pu sent someone to secretly investigate and collect information about some generals and important officials of the Southern Tang Kingdom, and recorded it as a file and kept it in a file.
Guo Shao thought again that it might be beneficial if he could participate when Jing Niang got out.
When Guo Shao and Zhao Kuangyin fought fiercely, Jingniang's organization did a good job of being a spy. Guo Shao also taught her how to treat the store as a stronghold, how to forge her identity, etc.... The officials of the Privy Council may not necessarily know how to contact one-line and how to avoid being broken through, but Jingniang learned it from Guo Shao before.