On the other hand, not long after Xing'an took Dongchang's men and left the Dongchang Yamen, the news spread to Nanyuan. After receiving the report from his subordinates, Cheng Jing also smiled, drove his subordinates away and walked quietly into the room where Zhou Yu was.

First, he poured a cup of tea to Zhou Yu who was reading the note and put it at his hand. Cheng Jing said, "Your Majesty, Xing'an took the people from the East Factory to Nangong."

Zhou Yu closed the fold in his hand and put it aside, nodding with some satisfaction: "I finally got to know the truth. Dongchang does not need to pay attention to evidence when doing things. The emperor's fate is the only thing Dongchang needs to consider."

The Dongchang is the Dongjishi Factory, which is a privileged supervisory agency, a secret police agency, and a premise, which is an agency that specializes in serving the emperor.

Isn't it a joke to talk about evidence in such a place? The power of the Dongchang Factory is only responsible to the emperor above the Jinyiwei. It can supervise and arrest subjects at will without anyone's permission, and it also has the role of supervising Jinyiwei. In theory, this should be the most reasonable and arrogant spy department in the Ming Dynasty, but it fell into Xing'an's hands for so long and has become a good baby who cares about evidence. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

The Dongchang, which was originally more suitable to do shameful things, now can only help the Jinyiwei. If this continues, it will be better to change the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang.

Now Xing'an has realized that such a direct choice to arrest people is beyond what Cheng Jing thought at first, but now this result is what is right.

This is a bit of a big deal. For someone like Zhou Yu who has been the leader of a large intelligence agency, the methods are still a bit clumsy, but there is still room for improvement in the future.

Cheng Jing said, "Your Majesty, Xing'an is still a little immature. If he had let him taste the sweetness of doing things like this, he would probably become more and more unruly."

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "This requires a lot of reminders from Dalian. After today, he is afraid that he will completely feel the role of power. Let's take a look first."

Cheng Jing nodded: "Old ministers will pay more attention."

Zhou Yu skipped this question directly and pointed to the memorials divided into two piles on the table: "These memorials are handled in a routine manner, I'll go out and take a look."

Cheng Jing looked at the two memorials on the left and right and nodded: "Old minister understands."

Although Zhou Yu didn't take much care of political affairs, he would also watch many memorandums every day to learn about the situation in the court and the Ming Dynasty. The sources of these memorandums were different. Some were sent by the cabinet, some were submitted directly by ministers, and others were sent by external intelligence agencies.

One pile of memorials is enough to be treated without having to be processed, while the other pile is sent to the cabinet for cabinet ministers to handle it at their discretion. Zhou Yu even wrote down his own opinions last year in some memorials.

If you don’t care about anything, how could you really let go completely if you become an emperor? Even if there is an emperor who has not been to court for decades, he will firmly hold the power of the entire state in his own hands.

Basically, except for a few people who are as stupid as pigs, the other emperors are quite capable. Even Zhu Houzhao, who created the Leopard Room, is still a very powerful character.

There is one thing that most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have short lives, so it also affected the stability of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent.

Late at night, Zhou Yu had already gone to bed but was woken up by a gentle knock on the door, which immediately made him frown.

"Your Majesty Xing'an has an urgent report when he comes back."

"I understand, go to the study and wait." Zhou Yu frowned, and the woman lying beside him also quickly stood up: "I'm dressing the emperor."

"Lying down, just have palace maids to serve you."

Zhou Yu shook his head and pressed Tang Yunyan back on the bed, put on his clothes and wrapped himself in a cloak under the service of the palace maid, and went out.

The weather was warm but it was still a little cool at night. However, compared to Zhou Yu, Xing'an, who was waiting in the study, was sweating profusely. It looked very hot, but in fact it was cold on his back.

He didn't expect that he could find a big case that was so great that he could only catch a person. After asking about something, Xing'an was so scared that he rushed over. He couldn't delay it every minute and wanted to tell Zhou Yu about it as soon as possible.

"Your Majesty, I should be damned if I disturb the emperor's rest late at night."

Xing'an's anxiety and panic were visible to the naked eye. As soon as he saw Zhou Yu appear, he quickly knelt on the ground.

"Get up." Zhou Yu looked at Xing'an's panic look and sat on the chair in the study: "First drink some warm tea and warm your body and calm down, don't worry for this moment."

The palace maid and eunuch who was close to Zhou Yu brought warm tea to Zhou Yu and Xing'an's hands. The temperature was just enough to enter the mouth and would not feel hot. After Xing'an took the cup, he sipped the tea and handed it to the palace maid, but he couldn't wait for a moment.

Zhou Yu looked at Xing'an's anxious look and guessed that the situation might not be simple.

However, this did not affect Zhou Yu's mood. He picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said, "Tell me, what happened to make you so panic."

Xing'an took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down, but his voice still trembled: "Your Majesty, when I took someone to Nangong to capture Zhao Yao, I found that Zhao Yao was not alone. When he was arresting him, there were many deadpools around him to protect him."

"After confirming that these deadpools are all guards and eunuchs in the palace, and many of them have been working in the palace for many years."

Zhou Yu paused: "Continue."

Xing'an swallowed: "When I was arresting Zhao Yao, I also found that there was an unrecorded secret passage in the Nangong. After sending people to investigate, I found that the secret passage was well connected to important places in the palace, and even the Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace had entrances."

Zhou Yu put down the cup and was somewhat surprised: "What? There are such secret passages in my palace? Are you sure these are unrecorded?"

Of course, the records in the words are not normal records, but real secret records of the palace. Only a very small number of people are qualified to know. It is normal to have secret passages in places like the palace, but Zhou Yu couldn't figure out how many secret passages there were in the palace, but these secret passages were not completely unknown.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Moreover, it is not easy to use these secret passages, but it is more likely to be used as escape channels. Once there is danger, someone will naturally guide the nobles to escape through secret passages. Zhou Yu didn't know the specific secret passages, but Cheng Jing must have known it. As the eunuch who is the most trusted by the emperor in the palace, someone will definitely tell Cheng Jing about the secret passages on the day he took office.

Cheng Jing received the news later, but at this time he also appeared in the study room. After hearing Xing'an's words, he frowned and sent away the people around him.

"Your Majesty, can you ask the old minister to ask Xing'an for a few words?"

Zhou Yu nodded, and Cheng Jing quickly began to compare with Xing'an. Gradually, Cheng Jing looked surprised and bowed to Zhou Yu, "Your Majesty, these secret passages are indeed not any secret passages that the old minister knows. The old minister will immediately return to the palace and send someone to thoroughly check it, so as to go to the secret library to find the drawings and compare them carefully."

"No hurry."

Zhou Yu was more stable. Any emperor who said these things Xing'an might be furious, but Zhou Yu was very calm now and looked at Xing'an and said, "I've said anything else."

"Yes." Xing'an calmed down, and Zhou Yu's calmness seemed to be contagious, which made Xing'an calmer a lot: "After I took Zhao back to the Dongchang Yamen, even the Dongchang Yamen tried to save this person. Later, the slaves led the people and arrested many people and finally found out some things."

"These people are all in the same group. In and outside the palace, there are special people who have planted them in various places. Many people have been lurking in the palace for many years and some have even reached high positions. These people were told before they were placed in the palace that if they had not received orders in their lifetime, they would live in their current status for the rest of their lives, but once they had to receive orders, they would have to complete what these people would do no matter what."

Zhou Yu nodded slowly, his face slightly darkened: "These people are so brave. Can you find out the person behind the scenes?"

Xing'an knelt on the ground: "I am not good at doing things. Those who are willing to speak are just saying that they are a great nobleman, but no one can tell who it is. I'm asking the emperor to punish him."

Zhou Yu's face was calm and calm, "It's not your fault. If it weren't for the capture of Zhao this time, we might have been kept in the dark. If you could find out these in such a short time, you have made great contributions."

When Xing'an heard Zhou Yu's words, he felt a little calmer: "Your Majesty, what should we do next?"

Zhou Yu tapped the table with his index finger: "Since these people have already exposed their legs, they must catch them all, otherwise there will be never peace in the palace. Everyone behind them must find out, Xing'an, let Ma Shun and you thoroughly investigate this matter and find out all the people in the palace."

Xing'an nodded quickly: "Yes, Your Majesty! I will do it now!"

"The big partner, the big partner will be responsible for the affairs in the palace, and the people in the palace must check it again."

Cheng Jing also nodded: "Old minister accepts the order."

Zhou Yu paused and asked again: "Have you asked something from that Zhao Yao?"

Xing'an hurriedly said, "I was about to talk to the emperor about this. Zhao Yao's teeth were very hard and he didn't want to say anything. He just said that I was not qualified to know this. He was willing to speak only when he saw the emperor."

"Well, bring him, I will try him personally."

"Yes, the emperor."

Cheng Jing and Xing'an hurriedly left. Xing'an found out that the situations they encountered were too serious. The terrible situation made Cheng Jing unable to help sweating on his forehead. Before leaving, Cheng Jing did not forget to ask Jiao Jing to inform the prince consort to take someone outside Zhou Yu's palace gate.

As for the situation mentioned by Xing'an, there was nothing wrong in the past, but once something happened, it would be a huge situation.

I secretly said, lurking eyeliners, those who control all this behind the scenes, all of this was like a huge net shrouded on the imperial city, and even perhaps penetrated into every corner of the court, and no one has noticed the accidental collision in Xing'an for so many years.

If these lurking people suddenly attack one day, the consequences will be unimaginable. The secret passages in the palace may allow dangerous elements to quietly approach any important person, and those lurking eyeliners can even give anyone a fatal blow at critical moments.

Zhou Yu couldn't imagine what kind of chaos would be in if these people suddenly launched the palace, and even without any precautions, it might be difficult for even his life to be preserved.

What's even more terrifying is that the existence of these eyeliners and secret passages may mean that everything in the palace has long been peeked at, and whether it is the decisions in the court or every move in the harem may be controlled by those hiding in the dark.

A force hidden in the palace for many years was not discovered until now. If Zhou Yu had not suddenly risen and went to Nangong for a walk, I am afraid that people like Zhao Yao and others might never have been discovered.

This night must have been a sleepless night. Xing'an led several Dongchang scholars to the Nanyuan Study Room with Zhao Yao.

Although Zhao Yao is still wearing the eunuch uniform she used to be, she has been tortured and covered in bruises. Even so, Zhao Yao's eyes still have a bit of coldness.

Even after seeing Zhou Yu, his eyes did not change at all. Instead, a strange smile appeared slightly on the corner of his mouth.

"Your Majesty, we have met again. I can't help but kneel down for the emperor."

Zhou Yu waved his hand and signaled that Fan Zi let go of Zhao Yao, looking at Zhao Yao and said, "You are calm, and you don't seem to be afraid that the emperor, I, should take it seriously?"

Zhao Yao bowed his head and knelt on the ground, keeping quite calm: "I don't dare."

Perhaps Zhao Yao knew at this moment that only calmness could create opportunities. Arrogant anger at the ruler of the dynasty in front of him would only allow him to die faster, and today's situation was something he had never thought of before.

Zhou Yu said, "Zhao Yao, I can give you a chance. As long as you tell everything you know, I will spare your life."

Zhao wanted to look up: "I don't know what the emperor wants to know, but I will answer whatever the emperor asks."

Zhou Yu glanced at Zhao Yao deeply and said, "Tell me first who you are."

"When I go back to the emperor, I am just a eunuch, and I have no threat to the emperor to the Ming Dynasty. I am even more loyal to the royal family, which can be proved by Sun and Moon."

"Eunuch."

Zhou Yu glanced at Xing'an. The latter didn't say anything but nodded to Zhou Yu. Zhao Yao was indeed a eunuch.

"Healthless? I ask you what happened to those dead soldiers. Do you think you can walk out of here safely if you just say a few words to me today?"

"I dare not." Zhao Yao bowed his head again and said, "I don't know how to explain it, and I don't know how to cause the emperor to misunderstand. I have something that I gave to the emperor by the previous emperor and you will know it at a glance."

Zhou Yu glanced at Zhao Yao: "Last Emperor? Which Latest Emperor?"

"It was given by Emperor Taizong Yongle."

Zhou Yu asked: "Where is the thing?"

Zhao Yao quickly told a place, and Xing'an immediately arranged for the monk to find what Zhao Yao said was the gift of Emperor Yongle.

"Xing'an, go and recruit the imperial physician."

"yes."

When Xing'an left, Zhou Yu sat on the chair and drank tea slowly. Without even looking at Zhao Yao, he suddenly asked, "Zhao Yao, do you know the sweet potatoes?"

Zhao Yao, who was kneeling on the ground, was stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "I know."
Chapter completed!