Now everyone basically knows: the Chahar Department, which has been against our Ming Dynasty for dozens or hundreds of years, is about to surrender to the Ming Dynasty! What exciting news!

At this time, during the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, and the atmosphere of the end of the world had already shown one or two, although many people were not very clear, but they could also roughly feel it. And even though they didn't know what the significance of the return of the Chahar tribe was to the Ming Dynasty, they could still feel the excitement in their hearts - how many years had there been no such great joy? Is Shamo a precursor to our Ming Dynasty?

On this day, in many restaurants in the capital, you can see several scholars gathering together and cheering and drinking.

Of course, this news also fell into the ears of some people with ulterior motives.

For example, the spies that Jiannu planted in the capital.

In the war between the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the use of space became an extremely common thing.

Both sides have sent quite a few spies in each other's strength.

It stands to reason that the Ming Dynasty should be more professional, after all, the Ming Dynasty has been operating the Jinyi Weidong Factory and the West Factory for hundreds of years, and the original emperor set up these institutions for the purpose of seeing the subjects of the world, and these Jinyi Tiqi, the fans of the East and West Factory, their basic responsibility is to find out the news.

This brings with it the nature of a lot of spy agents.

The spy team of the Ming Dynasty is extremely powerful. At that time, one of the three major expeditions of Wanli, he assisted Korea against the Japanese army led by Toyoda Hideyoshi, and in the whole process of the expedition, the spies of Jinyiwei were in the limelight. The elite of these brocade guards, lying in the ice and snow, traveled thousands of miles, all over the entire Korean Peninsula, and even went deep behind the enemy lines of the Japanese army, and obtained a lot of precious information.

And the Jiannu has only risen for decades, although there is a useful tradition in the Nurhachi era from the beginning, but in any case, it cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty.

Both in terms of experience and the size of the scout team.

But alas, that's not the case at all.

Jiannu planted spies in the capital, which is something that many people know, but it is not easy to find out these spies. The spies are very hidden, and no one will jump out and shout loudly that I am a spy of Jiannu. If you want to find out, you can only investigate and look for clues.

But how easy is that said?

The entire city of Beijing, with a population of more than one million, did not have all kinds of high-tech in later generations at that time, so if a few or dozens of people really wanted to hide deeply and want to find out, it was quite difficult.

Actually, there is a way...... Just strictly inspect the business travelers from Liaodong. There are a lot of merchants in Liaodong who have a relationship with Jiannu, and there are naturally not a few hidden spies in the caravans they come to the capital, some of them are sent by Jiannu, and some are directly under the hands of those merchants.

However, it is extremely difficult to strictly inspect the caravan.

Most of those caravans have a relationship with the DPRK and China, and some of them have a deep relationship with those officers in Liaozhen, and if they are moved, they will be affected by the interests of a large number of people. There may not be many officials in the capital who are related to Jiannu, but for one reason or another, they clearly know that Jiannu has planted spies in those people, but they still ignore them and ignore them.

Besides, banning the caravan from Liaodong can only reduce the number of spies, but it is impossible to completely cut it off.

Because there are a lot of people who take the initiative to ventilate and insure Jiannu, not to mention anything else, just those who were named the Eight Great Imperial Merchants after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, who is not secretly colluding with Jiannu at this time?

If you want to completely ban it, you have to kill a large number of people, the problem is that even Emperor Chongzhen does not have such great determination and courage. Moreover, he didn't keep it in the dark, he didn't know anything about this kind of thing.

On the Ming side, for all kinds of reasons, there is nothing to do with Jiannu's spies.

On the Jiannu side, it was a strict investigation of anyone who entered their area on the side of the Ming Dynasty, and it was difficult for spies to infiltrate them. After all, the territory of Jiannu is small and there are few people, so it is much easier to prevent it. As for those Ming spies who have infiltrated the Jiannu area, Jiannu relies on constantly bribing the ministers of the DPRK and the central government, officials in charge and other means to dig them out.

Once it is found out, it will be killed immediately, without mercy, and every year some Ming spies are dug up.

So now Da Ming and Jiannu use spies for each other, but Da Ming has no way to take other people's spies, but people have a way to take Da Ming.

And to make matters worse, Emperor Chongzhen hated Dongchang and Jinyiwei quite a lot, so after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Dongchang and Jinyiwei were weakened a lot, and they became less active.

If Jinyiwei was still at its peak, no matter what, at least the spies in the capital would not be so rampant now.

Not far from the Five Cities Terracotta Division, on the same street, there is a large-scale restaurant. The chef in the restaurant is also very good, and he can cook anything. The first floor is the lobby, the food is cheap and real, the amount is large and the taste is thick, the second floor is a private room, the food is exquisite, the color and flavor are complete, and it is very elegant.

With a lot of money, you can eat the delicacies of the mountains and seas here, and the cooking is extremely delicious; With only a dozen dollars on him, he can have a round belly here and burp out.

Because of these advantages of this restaurant, and the fact that it is very close to the Five Cities Terracotta Division, it is almost full every day, and the business is excellent. Most of the people who eat here are people from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and the low-level soldiers below also like to come here to eat, and the commanders and deputy commanders above also love to come, of course, people come directly to the second floor.

The Five Cities Terracotta Division is responsible for the security of the capital, and also manages the fire fighting when the water is walked, and they have to repair the ditch when it is blocked. Therefore, the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division are all over the capital, and therefore, the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division are extremely well-informed.

Here, it has become a good place to find out the news.

It was evening, and the lobby was already full of people, and as far as the eye could see, they were all from the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses. They called friends, and a few people with good relationships sat around a table, talking loudly, and the voice was very small. Many people had wine on the table, drinking heartily, and from time to time there was a burst of drunken laughter.

Many people are talking about one thing: the Chahar tribe has returned to us.

This is the most talked-about news in the capital now. And I don't know if everyone guessed it or who came out of it, when they talked about it, the meaning of the Chahar Ministry's return to the Ming Dynasty was actually eight or nine, and it seemed that the people who were saying these words were not ordinary soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, but a few far-sighted pavilion elders.

That's what makes it interesting.