A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 172 Establishment of Intelligence Agency
"Second brother, where is that nanny of yours?" In the countryside of Ningbo Prefecture, two farmers were chatting. One of them seemed to suddenly remember something and said:

"I haven't seen him helping in the fields for several days."

"There wasn't a manager who came down to pick someone before. Well, my servant is smart and picked someone."

Another old farmer had a slightly proud smile on his face.

"It's strange. I remember that your family didn't join the clan soldiers. How could they be summoned?"

"Hum, how do we know about the affairs of the head of the family... Anyway, three taels of silver a month is more than earning money from digging in the fields. In a few years, we can build a new house! If Sansheng is lucky enough to give it to Yue The old man likes the father-in-law, and he will become more prosperous..." The old farmer's face was full of longing.

The farmer who spoke first had a look of envy on his face. Seeing his old friend's proud look, he couldn't help but poke him with his elbow and said sourly:
"Blind, the Duke of Yue is only over 30 years old, what an old man."

"Oh, yes, look at my memory. The old Duke passed away last month, and now he is succeeded by his grandson, Duke Xiao."

"Young Master Xiaoguo's father is really pitiful. If he had stayed put for a few more months, maybe this position would have gone to him. What's the result? The old Duke left before him, and he never sat in this position until his death. …”

"It's a pity, it's a pity..."

Just after the turmoil in Chen Guogong's Mansion came to an end, Nanjing received news from the north, asking the Yue State Duke's Mansion to select hundreds of young people from his hometown in Ningbo as backup.

At this time, Yan Ya and his son had passed away successively, and the current Duke of Yue was Yan Ling's great-grandson.

Naturally, he knew about Yan Ling's existence. After all, he was the head of the main family in the south.

However, compared to Yan Yundeng in the north, he is not so unruly. After all, Nanjing is a place for "retirement", and he is not so competitive.

He unconditionally implemented the requirements of Chen Guogong's government in Beijing.

As a result, about 400 young men in Ningbo Mansion were selected and summoned to a secret place in the family.

After a year-long training, they were sent to various provinces and cities in the Ming Dynasty to serve as eyes and ears. Of course, due to the limitation of the number of people, they are now mainly limited to Beizhili.

Yan Ling personally named them "Hidden Dragon". He asked his maid Qian'er to be the leader of this hidden dragon. She would sort out all the news and send the important ones to him.

He is the most at ease with Qian'er, because she has nothing and can only rely on him. Moreover, after spending so many years together, she has long been convinced of Yan Ling's immortal status. This is something not many around Yan Ling have. Someone who can gain his unconditional trust.

In recent years, he was bored in the yard and often chatted with his maid, which made her no stranger to some affairs. Although she had no relevant experience, she could barely get started. At the beginning, he could also Get involved and develop her relevant abilities.

Regarding this appointment, Qian'er was even moved to tears and vowed to shed her last drop of blood for him.

This intelligence agency is very immature, which is inevitable, but it still takes a long time, and Yan Ling can afford to wait.He knew that in less than ten years, when the older generation of young people matured, the "Hidden Dragon" airs would be completely put up. When the time comes, the old people would bring in new people, and everything would go much smoother.

As for how to unfold it, it's too simple.The Yan family has been sending out storytellers and opening bookstores over the years, not just to make money.

Now, it's time to use them.

Every teahouse and every bookstore can be used to hide intelligence personnel.

A prefecture is a "domain", and the county under the prefecture is a "point".

A huge intelligence network, relying on teahouses and bookstores, slowly unfolded in Beizhili during the Ming Dynasty.Not only that, Yan Ling also made full use of the effect of dream entrustment. He used the annual dream entrustment to start haunting the dreams of Yan's senior executives.

Dreams about being punished by ancestors and constructing a cruel future as a warning are all leftover from his play.

This also made him even more mysterious in the hearts of everyone in the Yan family. They felt awe towards this ancestor from the bottom of their hearts.

In addition, he also began to educate himself.

Each generation of Yue Duke's young sons will be sent to Chen Guogong's mansion to receive his instruction until they reach adulthood, and then return to the south, not to mention Chen Guogong's heirs. Yan Ling plans to take each generation with him and train them personally. .

This also has another advantage, that is, it brings the two distinguished nobles from the north and the south together again and strengthens their relationship.

Things were turned upside down in the Yan family, but in the eyes of outsiders, nothing actually happened.

At most, Chen Guogong, who was originally very arrogant, became low-key inexplicably, but everyone felt relieved after thinking that he had been sternly reprimanded by the emperor.

Above the court, if one person goes down, someone must come up.

Chen Guogong fell silent, but the political resources and connections Yan Keng severely accumulated did not disappear.

They were transferred to another Yan clan member in the court - Yan Jingxiu.

As an ordinary farmer's son from the Yan family in Ningbo Prefecture, his ability to step into the cabinet has proven his talent.

Originally there was no such person in history, probably because the Yan family did not have a clan school at that time. It was not until Yan Ling vigorously established a clan school that he had a chance to stand out.

This also made him extremely grateful to his family.

Yan Ling inspected it, nodded, and confirmed that this was a trustworthy person.

He ordered people to take Yan Jingxiu to Chen Guogong's mansion.

When Yan Jingxiu learned of his existence, he was naturally shocked. He never dreamed that the legends about immortals were true, let alone that there would be such a great god in his family.

Naturally, he recognized this ancestor.

When he came out of the mansion, he felt that his waist was much straighter. After all, there was such a cool person standing behind him!

This time the storm came to an end just like that.

As for Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen, he was unaware of the series of secret actions of the Yan family. Now is not the era of Hongwu years when intelligence agents were pervasive, so the power of Dongchang and Jinyiwei was greatly restricted.

He only knew that Chen Guogong had become much calmer after being reprimanded by him. He no longer swaggered on the streets and bullied men and women as before. Instead, he married more than a dozen concubines according to legal means.

It’s good to have a wife, it’s good to have a wife.As an emperor, I really wish that those influential officials and nobles would indulge in these things.

So soon, Yan Yundeng's name disappeared from Emperor Chenghua's sight.

(End of this chapter)