The news that Zhang Jue was beheaded by the Jin Kingdom and the imperial court was teased by the Jin Kingdom once again aroused strong anger among hundreds of thousands of people in Yanshan Prefecture. The uprising began suddenly, and dozens of small and medium-sized rebellions occurred in just one month, but they were all bloody suppressed by Guo Yaoshi.

In the capital, news about Yanshan Prefecture and Jin Kingdom has also become a taboo for the court. Any official who dares to talk about this matter in public will inevitably be demoted and exiled once he is reported. This matter has almost become the rebellion of the emperor Zhao Ji. Whoever dares to mention this matter will be furious.

As time goes by, this incident is gradually forgotten.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of the year again. In late November, the first snowfall since the beginning of winter fell on Jingzhao Prefecture.

The snow is not heavy, it can only be considered moderate snow, and the shallow covers the entire Jingzhao City with a layer of white.

The first snow did not affect the prosperity of Jingzhao Prefecture. The streets were full of noisy and lively scenes. People who were purchasing New Year's goods drove various items home in donkey carts. The shops were shouting hard. In addition to locals, there were also groups of young scholars on the street. They had just participated in the trial and were preparing to buy some gifts to return home.

There are also groups of soldiers. The Jingzhao Army has a rest for ten days. On the rest for ten days, the soldiers go out to camp and go shopping. The main purpose is two, either to eat and drink or go to a brothel. The Western Army has no tradition of following the army's prostitutes, so they are tolerant in this regard and do not interfere with the soldiers, but the premise is that they are not allowed to cause trouble outside, especially the Jingzhao Army's military discipline is strict, and once they make trouble outside, they will be severely punished.

However, the most attractive thing is the female soldiers who traveled and walked on the streets with many or five. Although their income is good, most of them are frugal than male soldiers. This is related to the fact that most of them are from poverty. The money earned by the soldiers needs to be used to support their families and help their fathers and brothers, so they like to gather in street stalls and buy some cheap gadgets.

Although it was the holiday, Li Yanqing had no rest time. He and Cao Xing led a team of soldiers to patrol the streets. Every ten days, the commanders would be dispatched to lead the military police on the streets to supervise the soldiers' words and deeds in the city.

"The court did the matter between Zhang Jue in Yanshan Mansion so fucked!"

After pausing, Cao Xing added angrily: "The people in Yanshan Prefecture have lost all their hearts!"

Nearly two months have passed since the Zhang Jue incident. Although the matter has faded, the bad impact has not completely subsided so far. Beijing officials dare not talk about this matter, but local officials in various places have no worries.

Li Yanqing seemed very calm about the case. Since he could no longer change the trajectory of history, he could only accumulate strength and take action at the most critical moment. It was precisely because he figured out this point that he no longer cared about many things that happened in the court.

"Have your condition improved?" Li Yanqing asked with concern.

Mr. Cao fell ill after returning from Hangzhou, which really made everyone deeply worried. Li Yanqing was also very worried. The reason why he was able to hold the position of Jingzhao Tongzhi was largely because the old man was alive. Once the old man had a few shortcomings, not to mention Tong Guan and Wang Fu were exerting their efforts behind the scenes, even Zhao Ji himself would not tolerate handing over such an important position as Jingzhao Mansion to him Li Yanqing.

Gao Qiu can only cooperate with him, and he can't talk about an allies, and will not help him at critical moments. Liang Shicheng is neither cold nor warm to him, and he will burn incense without taking any harm. As for the prince, he has nowhere to make any efforts. Li Yanqing's real backstage is still the Cao family, and only the Cao family will support him with all their might. Therefore, Mr. Cao's condition has a great impact on Li Yanqing's fate. At the critical moment of this and next two years, he will never want Mr. Cao to have an accident in both public and private.

"It's a little better, but Doctor Zhao repeatedly told me to be extra careful this winter and not to get sick anymore, which will affect the old man's heartache attack."

Li Yanqing nodded. He didn't need to ask more about this matter. The Cao family would be more careful than himself. Cao Xing smiled and said, "My uncle may come to Jingzhao in a few days."

Cao Xing's uncle is the son-in-law Cao Sheng. Li Yanqing frowned slightly. What did the son-in-law come to Jingzhao for the current dynasty?

Seeing that the coach misunderstood, Cao Xing hurriedly said, "It's the Emperor Ji who is coming to Zhong Nanshan to see the temple. My brother is just accompanying her and has no official intentions."

So that's it. It seems that I'm still a little sensitive. Li Yanqing smiled and put the matter aside.

At this moment, a soldier rushed over and said a few words to Li Yanqing in a low voice. A bright color suddenly flashed in Li Yanqing's eyes, "I understand, let's go!"

Cao Xing hurriedly asked, "What happened to the rule?"

Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "There is a result on Zhang Hu and Yan Qing."

About three months ago, Qiao Zhongan, the second owner of the Qiao Trading Company, brought Li Yanqing a message that an important military intelligence leader from Xixia had visited Jingzhao Mansion and stayed for a few days before returning to Xixia.

The news seemed trivial, but Zhang Hu, who was in charge of the Intelligence Department, immediately realized that it was very likely that Xixia had strengthened the intelligence points across Shaanxi Road.

The infiltration of information on Shaanxi Road by Xixia has never stopped for a hundred years. When Di Qing and Zhong Shidao were in charge of Shaanxi Road, they both severely cracked down on intelligence points set up in Shaanxi Road in Xixia.

However, since the Song and Xia signed a ceasefire settlement agreement a few years ago, Xixia has basically stopped collecting military intelligence in the Song Dynasty and turned to people's livelihood and economic intelligence collection. This is also the lack of national strength in the Western Xia and its rush to develop trade in the Song Dynasty. It is precisely because of this that the Song Dynasty also slowed down its crackdown on the Xixia intelligence points.

Since Li Yanqing took over the Jingzhao Army, Zhang Hu, the intelligence department, also began to control Xixia intelligence points in various parts of Jingzhao Prefecture. In less than three months, he had completely grasped the details of Xixia intelligence points. However, before Li Yanqing's clear order, Zhang Hu did not attack these intelligence points for the time being.

The Jingzhao Army Intelligence Department has two official offices, one is in the military camp, close to the female barracks. This place mainly deals with military intelligence, and the other is near the Xicheng Gate. From the outside, it looks like a very ordinary house, but in fact it is the Intelligence Department's command center in the Jingzhao Prefecture. All Xixia intelligence points in the Jingzhao Prefecture are under the surveillance of this house.

Li Yanqing asked Cao Xing to continue the inspection, but he led several personal soldiers to the house.

"Control, this is the latest surveillance information!"

Zhang Hu presented a report to Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing took the report and frowned immediately: "Guanglan Restaurant, you are not wrong!"

Guanglan Restaurant is one of the three major restaurants in Jingzhao Mansion, but Li Yanqing knew that its backstage was the prefect Yang Xuzhou. How could the restaurant where Yang Xuzhou was the backstage become the intelligence station of the Xixia people?

"Beizhi has definitely made no mistake. He has been surveillance for three months. Guanglan Restaurant is indeed the intelligence station of Xixia in Jingzhao Prefecture."

"What does that have to do with Yang Xuzhou?"

"The restaurant was originally opened by Yang Xuzhou's brother-in-law, but it was transferred to the current operator at the beginning of the year. Yang Xuzhou should only be related to the rent collection and has nothing to do with the Xixia Intelligence Station."

Li Yanqing nodded. Although he had a bad relationship with Yang Xuzhou, especially Yang Xuzhou was drunk and acted rudely a few months ago. Although he apologized to himself the next day, Li Yanqing still hated this person very much. However, he did not want to have trouble in Jingzhao Prefecture now, which triggered the court's power struggle against Jingzhao Prefecture. Therefore, although Yang Xuzhou was a little rude to him, he did not care for the time being and focused on stabilizing the situation.

Li Yanqing did not mention Yang Xuzhou, but continued to read the report. The report mentioned that the Xixia intelligence personnel began to pay attention to military intelligence, especially the information of Changxun Township soldiers. However, Li Yanqing knew that Zhang Hu invited him to come, not just to report these ordinary situations.

"There should be other important information!" Li Yanqing asked as he stared at Zhang Hu.

Zhang Hu hesitated and said, "Because there is no final confirmation, I don't know if I should report to the commander?"

"You said that, what's the matter?"

"We suspect that Xixia suddenly strengthened its intelligence this time, and there might be a shadow of the Jin Kingdom behind it."

Li Yanqing raised his eyebrows, "Did you find anything?"

Zhang Hu said slowly: "In the records left in the past, there are only six Xixia intelligence points in Jingzhao Prefecture, but now we find that there are nine more intelligence points, three more."

"Can they amplify it themselves?"

"We thought it was an expansion at first, but later as the surveillance deepened, we found that the three new intelligence points were previously the Liao Dynasty's intelligence points, and the personnel did not change, but they were already integrated with the Xixia intelligence points."

The Liao Kingdom has been destroyed, but the main ones were destroyed were the Liao Kingdom royal family. The Liao Kingdom's army and other resources were taken over by the Jin Kingdom, and the Liao Kingdom's intelligence agencies were no exception. Therefore, Zhang Hu said that the intelligence points of Liao and Xia in Jingzhao Prefecture were integrated. Li Yanqing immediately thought of the possibility of Jin Xia joining forces. This should be the Jin Kingdom's preparations for the attack on Song Dynasty.

"Director, should we send troops to capture them all?"

Li Yanqing did not respond. He was still walking in the room with his hands behind his back. He was considering why the Jin Kingdom had to touch the information about Shaanxi Road. He undoubtedly wanted to consider the Shaanxi Road in the big game of attacking Song. Shaanxi Road and the Jin Kingdom did not border the Jin Kingdom, and the Jin Kingdom could not capture Shaanxi Road. However, once the Jin Kingdom attacked Song in a large scale, Shaanxi Road and Jingzhao Prefecture would play a role in reinforcements. The Jin Kingdom would definitely find a way to restrain the troops of Jingzhao Prefecture and Shaanxi Road. The best way would be to use the power of Xixia.

Li Yanqing has seen through the strategic purpose of the Jin Kingdom, but the strategy requires long-term consideration. How to deal with the intelligence agencies of Xixia in front of him is an urgent matter. The Xixia intelligence point in Jingzhao Prefecture is not a big problem. Li Yuan is more concerned about the enemy intelligence points in Taiyuan. Once the Jin soldiers attack Taiyuan in a large scale, the enemy will cooperate internally and externally, Taiyuan may not be able to be saved.

But Yao Pingzhong of Taiyuan may not be able to listen to his advice and completely remove the enemy's intelligence points. I'm afraid there will be a safe way to do this.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing slowly said to Zhang Hu and Yan Qing: "You will start to gather all your strength now and prepare for a thunder strike, but you have to wait for my order. Without my order, you must not take action!"
Chapter completed!