Eight Yang Yan recovered

In late March, after more than a month of preparations, Xin Qiji, Yue Lin, Shi Miyuan, and others all went to their respective localities to take up their posts and began to implement the five new laws.

Although it was passed by discussion in the court, after the promulgation of the new law, it still caused a great sensation, and many middle- and lower-level officials, even local officials and even students, spoke out one after another, demanding that the court stop implementing the new law. However, almost all of these people's views are empty words such as the old ancestral system, which should not be lightly abolished, or the sage rules the country with benevolence and cannot seek profit, which has no substantive significance to the imperial court to enrich the country and strengthen the army.

Of course, there are also many people in the people who praise the implementation of the new law, on the one hand, thanks to the propaganda work done by Chen Liang, Xin Qiji and others in advance to advocate the reform of the law. In addition, he is now the emperor's attendant and edict, and his reputation is on a par with Zhu Xi, Lu Zuqian, Zhang Xu, Erlu and others.

Now, almost every day in the restaurants and teahouses in the streets and alleys of Jiankang Mansion, there are people arguing about the quality of the new law. It is not like during the Xining period, when almost all the public opinion in the whole country was overwhelmingly opposed to the new law. However, most of the officials in the DPRK and China have taken a wait-and-see attitude, apparently looking at the implementation of the new law before making a conclusion.

In fact, long before the implementation of the new law, Zhao Chen, Yang Yan and others had long expected that there might be considerable opposition, and the current situation can be achieved, which is much better than they expected. As long as the new law can be implemented smoothly and the Great Song Dynasty will bring visible results, then there will naturally be fewer and fewer voices of opposition. Therefore, what we need to do now is to strengthen supervision over the implementation of the new law, discover and solve problems in a timely manner, and never allow mistakes to occur in the implementation of the new law.

In April, Yang Yan, who had been living at home for half a year, suddenly wrote to the imperial court, asking for a posthumous gift to Yue Fei, because among the generals of Zhongxing, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, Wu Lan and others were all awarded the title of king, and Yue Fei, who had the most significant military exploits, was still only the founding duke, so Yue Fei should be given an additional prince.

And the Emperor Zhao Gou, who lived in Lin'an, also officially issued an edict to punish himself, admitting that it was a mistake he made to execute Yue Fei in the first place. Although before this, Xiaozong took the scriptures as Yue Fei Zhaoxue, but under the principle of blaming the superior, Zhao Gou could not be blamed for his fault. Therefore, although the restoration of Yue Fei's official position affirmed Yue Fei's merits, he could only be vague about Yue Fei's grievances. Although in the edict this time, Zhao Gou said that he was deceived by Qin Hui and made a wrong decision, but after all, he was also trying to admit that he was wrong.

After Zhao Chen saw the table, he immediately approved it, and immediately posthumously appointed Yue Fei as the king of Hubei, and crowned Yue Fei's wife, Li as Mrs. E, and his mother Yao as Mrs. Eguo. and sought the posthumous gift of Qin Hui's official title, changed his name to Miao Chou, and deprived Qin Hui's son Qin Xi of his official title and demoted him to a commoner.

There is nothing wrong with posthumously gifting Yue Fei itself, and it is still very deserved, and it is also a very happy move, anyway, Yue Fei has also been dead for decades, and it will not have any big impact on anyone now. Moreover, since Zhao Chen succeeded to the throne, he set the tone of recovering the lost territory and taking revenge from the beginning, which also catered to the praise of a considerable number of people, so rewarding the heroes who made great contributions in the past in the anti-gold neutrality is also a gesture of determination of the main force.

But when Yang Yan put it forward, it was very different. After the restoration of the Great Song Dynasty, although Yang Yan was transferred to a town and was given the title of the founding duke of Wuchang County, he had been living in Jiankang Mansion. There are even many people who believe that the emperor is deliberately alienating Yang Yan.

It's just that some ministers who have been in officialdom for a long time don't see it that way. Although Yang Yan was temporarily idle, Zhao Ruyu, Xin Qiji, Chen Liang and others, who were being valued by the emperor in the court, were either close to Yang Yan or were originally Yang Yan's subordinates. And Bi Zaiyu and Cao Xun, who went to Dali, Gao Zhen, Zhang Shiyan, Liu Fuwu and others who guarded the border were also Yang Yan's generals, not to mention that Yang Yizhong was still firmly seated in the position of the commander of the front of the palace. All this shows that Yang Yan's idleness is actually a temporary phenomenon.

Not only that, but almost every day the emperor would summon Yang Yan into the palace to talk, although the ministers did not know the content of the discussion, it can be guessed that Yang Yan still had a lot of influence on the emperor. Behind the emperor's resolute change of law this time, there must also be Yang Yan's support. A few ministers were even speculating whether the emperor would make a special exception and appoint Yang Yan as a privy envoy?

Now, Yang Yan asked for the posthumous title of Yue Fei, and the emperor immediately approved it. The politically astute minister immediately realized that this would be a signal that Yang Yan had been reinstated.

Sure enough, five days later, Zhao Chen announced the appointment of Yang Yan as the head of the Ministry of War, in charge of spying on the internal military and political affairs of the Jin State, Western Xia, and other countries, and could directly report to the emperor in case of trouble.

The Department of Posts is only an institution under the Ministry of War, and it is not a very big official position in itself, only the six grades. Nominally, it is a mapping agency, but its main responsibility is to find out the internal situation of the enemy's country. At the same time, there is also the responsibility for internal security and the fight against enemy espionage. But letting Yang Yan take this position, the meaning is very different, because it adds the article "In case of trouble, you can directly report to the emperor", which is very obvious that Yang Yan is endowed with great power.

In fact, Yang Yan is familiar with the art of war and knows the importance of use. Sun Wu was a martial artist who attached great importance to the use of spies, and in the last article of the thirteen chapters of [Sun Tzu's Art of War], he repeatedly described the most important use of the room and the methods of various uses, and said that if the general does not know the use of the room, it is "the most unkind, the general who is not human, the adjudicator who is not the master, and the master who is not victorious."

When he was in Pingnan, Yang Yan set up a similar organization to collect intelligence. During the southern invasion of the Jin army, Yang Yan set up a department in Longxing Mansion and sent a large number of spies to Lin'an, so it played a great role in grasping the movements of the Jin army and exploring the reality of the Jin army's strength. It can be said that without the efforts of the Longxing Prefecture Division, it would have been difficult for the Song army to achieve the final victory.

However, the Great Song Dynasty never attached much importance to intelligence gathering, and although it set up a staff department of the Ministry of War as an organ to investigate the military and political secrets of the enemy country, it did not actually play much role, and more information was sent by the generals of the border defense to inquire about it. Not to mention the single source, and it is not conducive to the full support of the imperial court. Therefore, after the restoration of the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Yan envisioned strengthening the intelligence collection, management and analysis of the Jin State in the center of the imperial court, so as to better support the dynamics of the Jin State and prepare for the Northern Expedition in the future.

Zhao Chen is also very supportive of this, and has the experience of Pingnan and resisting the southern invasion of the Jin army in the past, Yang Yan has considerable experience in collecting intelligence, exploring secrets, and analyzing and researching, and has also cultivated a group of personnel engaged in this work.

This time it caused an uproar in the DPRK and China, and many ministers wrote to oppose it. But Zhao Chen ignored the opposition and still resolutely appointed him, while also removing two officials who opposed fiercely. Seeing Zhao Chen's tough attitude, several ruling ministers also understood that the emperor was probably going to take this opportunity to try to revive Yang Yan. Fortunately, it is only a principal official position of the sixth grade, although it has increased some power, it will not have a greater impact on the existing power structure, and it is better than transferring Yang Yan to the Privy Council, so there is no objection.

And Han Yanzhi and Liu Heng, who are familiar with military affairs, also know that the Northern Expedition is not only a military operation, but also very important to explore the military and political secrets of the enemy, and to a certain extent, it can even determine the success or failure of the Northern Expedition, and at present, only Yang Yan is the most suitable candidate. Therefore, after some repeated considerations, Zhongshu finally passed Zhao Chen's decision.

After Yang Yan took office, he immediately appointed Zhou Xin as his deputy, and he, Lai Wenzheng, and Dong Yuan were fully responsible for the affairs of the body.

During the period of Pingnan and the Anti-Jin Dynasty, Zhou Xin was fully responsible for the intelligence work, Dong Yuan was the deputy, and Lai Wenzheng was also in charge of the intelligence work after Yang Yan surrendered, and all three of them had considerable experience.

After getting Yang Yan's appointment, the two of them based on their previous experience, under the staff department, set up six affairs rooms of wind, forest, fire, mountain, yin, and thunder, and the director of each office is called the steward: the wind office is responsible for spying on and collecting foreign military and political secrets, not only for the Jin State, but also for the surrounding countries such as Western Xia, Tubo, and Zhitoe; The Forestry Office is responsible for internal security and combating enemy spying; The fire department is responsible for sorting out and classifying the information collected, analyzing it, and drawing conclusions; The mountain office is responsible for recruiting and training members, and providing personnel for the other five offices; The underworld is responsible for various plans of action, including planting long-term plots in enemy countries, and planning to buy, threaten, assassinate, and so on; Lei Shifang was responsible for the manufacture of special operations furniture to provide logistical support for the other five offices.

As soon as the institutions were established, recruitment and training began. Of course, at present, the focus of the work of the staff division is still mainly on the country. At the same time, Yang Yan asked Guangyan to come forward, using the monasteries as a cover, and began to set up a network to collect intelligence in the Jin Kingdom, and planted spies. Take advantage of the opportunity to open a workshop and deliver the word.

However, after this toss, the ministers only cared about opposing Yang Yan's appointment, but forgot about the new law, and the discussion about the new law also calmed down a lot for a while. After the dust settled on Yang Yan's appointment, it was recalled that there was still a new law, but at this time, Xin Qiji, Yue Lin, Shi Miyuan and others were fully implemented in their respective places.

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