Chapter 211 Stone Tower West
In a corner of Chang'an, on the west side of an inconspicuous stone tower, there is a neglected official office. This official office is so inconspicuous that when pedestrians in the neighborhood pass by the street in front of the door, they have to reach the door before they notice that this is not a private place, but an official office.
The plaque hanging high on the main entrance has five big characters "Jijing Police Station" written on it. The font is dark gold and looks equally inconspicuous from a distance.
But the word "investigation" is very dazzling to those who know the inside story.
Because the things done by this police office made many people feel stunning, the name of the official office will not be mentioned directly during the conversation, and it is often referred to by an alias. Because this official office is on the west side of the stone tower, it has the synonym for "Shita West".
The police officers in the police station on the west side of the stone tower are specialized in collecting intelligence, monitoring eavesdropping and other matters, and they are very likely to have complaints from a minor official in the police station when he was drinking to drown his sorrows.
The police officers who arrested the police also have the power to arrest. Of course, according to regulations, such arrests must be accompanied by ordinary police. However, sometimes "in a hurry to follow the power", and the police officers who arrested the people first and then said hello have not happened.
Those who are "invited" to the official office to "visit" by the police, will basically be unlucky, so those who know the inside story will naturally avoid their official office.
However, some people come to the official office from time to time to check it out.
It was noon, and in the canteen in the official office, Yu Wenwen, the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, was checking the food to see if anyone used smelly meat, rotten vegetables and insect-producing old rice to cook and make dishes to fool people.
The checkup cannot be just a formality. Yuwen Wen asked his entourage to go to the window to make food and ordered five meats and three vegetables. He wanted to taste it himself, whether the meat is smelly, whether the vegetables are rotten, and whether the rice is normal.
The police officers and their families of the Anti-Japanese Police Department live in the "family area" not far from the official office, and the public canteen of the Anti-Japanese Police Department is open to the police officers and their families.
The canteen serves three meals a day, and the police who work overtime and have midnight snacks. The food provided by the canteen is not expensive, which is a good benefit.
It's meal time now, and Yuwen Wen was afraid of delaying everyone's meal, so he took the food he called and went to the office to eat.
Fu Youcai, the chief of the police invasion, followed him like a shadow and served Yuwen Wen for a meal.
Not long after he started to use his chopsticks, Yuwen Wen picked up a piece of dark-colored pork and asked, "Where did this pork come from?"
Fu Youcai quickly replied: "Your Majesty, this is a pig raised by the family members. The pigs are all big fat pigs in Huangzhou, and the meat is of good quality."
"Is that so? I always feel that the meat is a little black..." Yu Wen Wen put the meat in his mouth and chewed it. After thinking for a while, he said, "Well... it must be because of the poor skill of killing pigs, and the bloodletting was not completely released?"
Fu Youcai nodded awkwardly: "Yes, those who have killed pigs these days have all been novices, and their skills are indeed a bit rough..."
Seeing that Yuwen Wen was very satisfied with the food, Fu Youcai breathed a sigh of relief, and then picked up the teapot to pour tea for Yuwen Wen.
After Yuwen Wen finished drinking the tea, he said, "You are talented, you can eat it too, and your steamed buns are probably going to cool down."
"Your Majesty, I dare not be rude."
"What kind of gifts are you going to eat? You won't have time to eat them later."
"Yes, I obey the order." Fu Youcai said that, sat aside, picked up a few steamed buns and chewed them.
There is a difference between noble and humble people, and there is a difference between king and minister. Fu Youcai has always put his posture very straight.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed. Fu Youcai, a poor young man in Chang'an, and his partners Lin Youdi, Zhang Yiman, and Hu Sanzi are all adults who are thirty years old. They each have their own families, children, and live a happy life.
Lin Youdi is mostly wandering around Huangzhou, busy with various industrial manufacturing matters. Zhang Yiman and Hu Sanzi have always been in a state of "not leaving home" because they have mastered the secret of glass mirrors, but they have lived happily with their family.
Fu Youcai became the chief of police officers and continued to control the power for the man-master Yuwen Wen.
The intelligence organization founded since the reign of Xiyang County is generally divided into cat teams and dog teams. When the owner "ascends", these cats and dogs naturally follow the "chicken and dogs to ascend to heaven".
A few years ago, some of the cats and dogs became policemen, such as Wu Ming and Jia Niu; while most of the cats and dogs were scattered in the "Six Courtyards" set up by the emperor, and they assumed the responsibilities of secret policemen.
With the expansion of the team and based on actual needs, this nominal non-existent team finally has a high-sounding name, that is, the "Inspection Police" and an open official office.
Since the open sign has been made, the police (formerly secret police) have made much more convenient for action. After several years of development, there has been a qualitative breakthrough based on the original Xiyang Wangfu Intelligence Network.
The police station of the Anti-Japanese Police Department has more than 10,000 police officers (detectives) under it, and the various "insiders" developed by this have accumulated more than 100,000 people.
This is a terrifying number, which shows from one side how much the intelligence network of the Anti-Insurance Police Department is.
A little spider in the Xiyang Palace was like a giant net that woven into a net involving military, government, business, agriculture, and working classes, and was about to firmly trap the whole world.
The previous secret policeman was Yuwen Wen's eyes and ears, and was his intelligence agency, a tool for monitoring officials, military, merchants, scholars, and religious figures for him. At the same time, the police invasion were also responsible for collecting people's livelihood information, allowing Yuwen Wen to understand the more real social and people's livelihood.
People should take care of their eyes and ears. Of course, Yuwen Wen attaches great importance to the police in the quarantine. His secret police named "Jiju Police" is now in a public state, making the government and the country feel as if they are in the back, and the court will share some expenses.
The police arrested were very large, and Yuwen Wen could no longer afford to pay for it. After all, he had to spend a lot of money, so he cut off the secret police's monitoring of officials and made it public and transferred it to the court system, so that the court's finances could support this team.
At the same time, it also made the bureaucrats feel that they could slowly control this terrible power that was theoretically under the jurisdiction of the Censorate.
The police invasion now have no power to monitor all officials or arrest officials, so the threat to bureaucrats has dropped sharply, but even so, bureaucrats will not be happy to have such an official office.
However, this matter was not discussed. Under Yu Wen Wen's promotion, the sign of the police station was hung up. The bureaucrats had to pinch their noses or not. Then they found that the official station had a good effect on dealing with "troubled people", powerful people, demon monks (demonic ways) and crooked clerks, and gradually got used to it.
For bureaucrats, the means that are conducive to stabilizing the rule of the court are always good.
As for actual control, you can't even think about it.
The police invasion are still the intelligence agencies that Yu Wen Wen must rely on. Their responsibilities are to monitor internally (domestic) surveillance. As for monitoring all officials and carrying out intelligence work abroad, other teams will be responsible for it.
As the emperor's eyes and ears, the police officers who were in charge of the incident should have a majestic name, such as "Embroidered Uniform Guard", but he felt that the name of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was not worthy of a professional intelligence agency.
Compared with the intelligence agencies in later generations, the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty was limited by the times and was obviously much more "amateur" in terms of intelligence collection.
The intelligence agency that Yuwen Wen spent twenty years laying the foundation must maintain "professional qualities" at all times. He cannot tolerate the cats and dogs he raises become pet cats, pet dogs, and decorations.
What’s the point of being a cat that can’t catch a mouse or a dog that can’t see it?
Yuwen Wen finished his meal, and because of his busy affairs, he could not leave the palace for too long. So Fu Youcai seized the time to report the progress of a case to Yuwen Wen.
That is the movement caused by the police in Jinyang City not long ago. During that operation, several people were caught.
Before the report began, Yuwen Wen suddenly asked, "You are talented, do you think... the synonym of Shitaxi is suitable for police officers?"
"Uh...Weichen thinks this generation name is a bit mysterious."
"Yes...that's Shitaxi..."
Chapter completed!