The yamen of the Privy Council is located in the palace city, facing the government hall, so it is known as the East Palace and the West Palace. Wu Haogu was the attendant of the Hanlin Painting Academy, and naturally he was familiar with the outside of the palace city. After checking his identity from the Right Yemen Gate, he entered the palace city. Then he entered from the Right Changqing Gate, and the left was the palace pavilion that stores imperial calligraphy and paintings. It is Baowen Pavilion, Tianzhang Pavilion, Longtu Pavilion and so on. Every emperor of the Song Dynasty had such a palace pavilion to store his own imperial calligraphy and paintings, royal important documents and Baorui, and he would also be equipped with bachelor's, direct scholars, bachelor's, guardians, direct courts and other personnel. However, most of these were a title to show their status and grace, called "guan position" or "post position".

Because Wu Haogu was a waiter in the Hanlin Academy of Painting and a craftsman in charge of palace painting, he could also enter these palaces and pavilions to view or copy imperial paintings.

By the way, Wu Haogu also went to the Dragon Tu Pavilion, which collected Zhao Guangyi's imperial paintings, and checked the list of paintings, and confirmed that he did not find the famous **** picture "Xiling Xiao Zhou Hou"... Regardless of whether this is the case or not, the painting must not exist in the Northern Song Dynasty palace.

However, today Wu Haogu did not go to those halls to read paintings, so after entering the right Changqing Gate, he turned to the right, passed by the Wende Hall where the grand court meeting was held, and then went west to the political and military center of the Song Dynasty, which was called the Zhengshi Hall, and the Privy Council. One of them is in the east and the other is in the west, so they are also called the East and West Palace.

There are twelve houses under the Privy Council, namely the north house, the Hexi house, the branch house, the Beijing house, the teaching house, the Guangxi house, the military registration house, the militia house, the official house, the master house, the horse house and the small official house. There is also an editorial department responsible for compiling military books, battle books, formation maps and maps.

If such a yamen is compared with later institutions, it is probably the General Staff or the Ministry of National Defense. And it is not the General Staff or the Ministry of National Defense of the ordinary country, because the Privy Council is in charge of military and political affairs with the Secretary of the Central Committee. Therefore, the Privy Council of the Northern Song Dynasty is approximately equivalent to a powerful General Staff such as the General Staff of the Second German Empire. In terms of system, it is actually quite advanced.

However, all the officials who served in the "General Staff Department" of the Privy Council were civil servants! Not only were Privy Councilors, Privy Councilors, Privy Councilors, Privy Councilors, Privy Councilors, Privy Councilors and the owners of the houses were civil servants. Most of them were famous officials who were singing names outside Donghuamen...

Who are the literary and Jinshi in the Song Dynasty? Of course, those who come from poetry and essays are all poets, and those who take the classics are just philosophers. Although there is also someone who is both civil and military, it is not as good as the elite of the General Staff!

For example, Zhang Dun's nephew Zhang Yuan, who is good at shooting archery, is at most a poet and athlete, and is not as good as a military strategist.

Later generations of general staff officers generally trained professional officers through the practice of military academies, grassroots troops, and staff academy. Otherwise, even if they are familiar with military books, they can still ride horses and shoot arrows. Without the actual experience of the troops, the combat plan formulated will still be full of mistakes.

The Privy Council of the General Staff of the Song Dynasty was a group of poets who had never been in the army, and philosophers were blindly advisers. It was rare that a deputy Privy Councilor Di Qing, who was a front-line general, came in and was exorcising and panic all day long.

With such a "General Staff", it is normal for the Song Dynasty's army to be unable to fight. Not to mention the Song army, if the United States, which dominated the world in later generations, would have to replace all the military uniforms in the Pentagon with poets and artists, they would definitely make a fool of themselves.

As for the Ministry of War in the Song Dynasty, it is roughly equivalent to the Ministry of National Defense, and the situation is the same. The officials in it are all poets and philosophers, and there are basically no soldiers.

Wu Haogu has now been in charge of the official body. Although he has not obtained the official report, his official uniform has been completed. So today he wore the green robe of a ninth-rank official, with a slapped head on his head, a leather belt around his waist, and a boot on his feet. He swayed and came outside the gate of the Privy Council.

The small official guarding the gate had already received a notice. After checking Wu Haogu's yellow note, he led him into the yamen. However, Wu Haogu was not taken into the main hall, but turned a few times and arrived in a side hall.

There were already three people in the hall, two of whom were Da Diao, Tong Guan and Li Zhong, and the other one was a civil servant, Ji Yi, an editor of the Privy Council.

"Li Daguan, Tong Daguan, Ji Editor."

Wu Haogu saluted the three of them, and the three of them also stood up to return the salute.

"Okay, I'm already an official." Li Zhong, the official at the Hanlin Academy of Painting, said with a smile, "Chongdao, in our Hanlin Academy, there will be no attendance faster than you who have obtained an official position in the past, and there will probably be no more in the future."

"It's not all the Shangguan supporters." Wu Haogu said with a smile on his face.

Tong Guan smiled and waved to Wu Haogu: "Chongdao sit down and talk."

Wu Haogu saw a rose chair next to Tong Guan was empty, so he walked over and sat down. Tong Guan took out an official lawsuit from somewhere and handed it to Wu Haogu.

"Chongdao, this is for you."

Wu Haogu took the official lawsuit and opened it and saw it. It said: Right Ban Palace is straight, and the gate is behind Pan Xiaoyi.

"Chongdao, this is the identity of Liao."

Wu Haogu is a spy! Of course, spies often use pseudonyms and fake identities. And this is the right-hand man, Pan Xiaoyi, who is from the gate of the gate, is the public identity of Wu Haogu when he went to the Liao Kingdom. Of course, he cannot tell the Liao people that he is the attendant of the Hanlin Academy of Painting. Otherwise, they will know immediately that you are here to draw spies, but it will be difficult to move forward.

"You are a family friend of the Pan family," said Tong Guan. "I want to ask the Liao people, you can answer freely, right?"

"Yes," Wu Haogu replied. "This is something that Pan Yian is recognized."

Pan Xiaoyi is indeed a good person. Yian is his name, and Wu Haogu also recognizes him. He is a clan brother of Pan Xiao'an. He is a few years older than Wu Haogu. He married the Zhao family's daughter and the military officer of Yin Bu. He is currently working in the Gumensi.

"Just recognize it." Tong Guan smiled. "Then the next day, we will set out in the name of this Pan Youdian, and we will be a member of the mission."

"OK."

Tong Guan then said, "The date for the delegation to leave Beijing has been set, just on February 18th, that is, the day after day. Before the day after day, you must gather in the Northeast Water Gate."

The Northeast Water Gate is located in the east wing of Kaifeng Prefecture City, and is the passage between Wuzhang River and Kaifeng Prefecture.

Li Zhong added: "According to the practice of on-the-go missions, you can bring a servant's concubine with you, and a maximum of two people with one escort."

The two of them had enough places, and Wu Haogu thought: Zhang Zeduan would be a servant, Ximen Qing, of course he is a concubine...

...

Wu Haogu stayed in the side hall of the Privy Council for less than two hours before leaving. In the end, he did not see any high-ranking officials. Only a deputy Privy Councilor came over and distributed letters from the Privy Council to Li Zhong, Tong Guan, Ji Yi and Wu Haogu.

Letters are a kind of downward official document, which is generally used to pass orders to subordinates. The letters received by Wu Haogu are also a notice of office, which is to inform him that he had obtained a temporary envoy Liao escort. In theory, there will be formal edicts, but with the letters of the Privy Council, you can take office first without the edict.

After receiving the letter and obtaining a fake identity, Wu Haogu officially received the order to go to the Liao Kingdom.

After leaving the Privy Council, Li Zhong and Tong Guan had to go to the Guoxin Institute for work. Because Tong Guan had to bear a secret mission, he also had a pseudonym Envoy Liao, and his identity was also a member of the escort. The deputy envoy of the delegation fell into Li Zhong, who was in the Academy of Art.

Wu Haogu and Ji Yi went out of the palace city to return to their homes. Because Wu Chengzhi and Feng Erniang both went to Luoyang to visit relatives, Wu Haowen studied hard in the Imperial Academy, so the Wu family was relatively "lucky" these two days. After entering the house, he did not immediately talk to Wang Po, the housekeeper, but went straight to the courtyard where he lived.

"Langjun, are you back?"

"teacher."

He was greeted by Jin Ping'er and Zhang Zeduan.

"Is Ximen Xiaoyi here?" Wu Haogu asked while walking in.

"Here." Jin Ping'er replied.

"By the way, Xiaopinger, go and tell Sister Shiba that I will leave Kaifeng Mansion the day after tomorrow." Wu Haogu then said to his apprentice Zhang Zeduan, "You will also go and tell Su Dalang, who is at Christie's, that you will convene a shareholders' meeting tomorrow... Go quickly."

After sending both of them, Wu Haogu went to shoot Ximen Qing's door directly.

"Xiao Yi, it's me."

"Come in, the door is not locked."

As soon as he entered the door, Wu Haogu saw that Ximen Qing was already packing his luggage.

"Sister," Wu Haogu asked with a smile when he closed the door, "Do you know I want to use Liao, so you can pack up and accompany me on the road?"

When Ximen Qing was asked by him, he subconsciously responded, and suddenly felt something was wrong again, and his face suddenly turned red.

Wu Haogu looked at Ximen's shy look and was naturally happy. He teased and said, "The above said that you can bring two servants and concubines. The servants are Zhang Zhengdao. As for the concubines..."

"Da Lang!" Ximen Qing interrupted Wu Haogu with a blushing face, "Why aren't you serious?"

serious?

Wu Haogu quickly said seriously: "Sister, I'll have to go out for a long journey the day after tomorrow. What's the best thing to do?"

"I have to prepare it." Ximen Qing said, and handed a handwritten list to Wu Haogu, "Take everything on it with you."

Wu Haogu took it and saw that there were a lot of things written on it, most of which were needed when going out, and there were 1,000 taels of gold and 100 pictures of Buddha statues.

"Gold and Buddha statue pictures?" Wu Haogu was stunned, "How much does it take?"

Ximen Qing glanced at him and smiled and said, "Of course, I need to, go and prepare quickly... Since you want to go with me, you will spend more money in the future, so don't be reluctant to let it go."
Chapter completed!