Zhou An found all the rosters, and then walked into the house with these rosters.

He wants to see.

Of course, it is not necessary to memorize it, or to record some people, that is impossible. These are more than twenty books... He just needs to conduct the most basic accounting, and to record how many branches the secret detectives have set up in the local area, and how many on-the-job spies there are about how many.

He needs this data.

Because he needs to ask the Empress for his appointment!

These days, the Empress has been paying attention to the actions of the Jinyiwei, and Zhou An also reported to the Empress, all about the Secret Scout Guard. The empress's words meant that she had the idea of ​​removing the Secret Scout Guard.

The secret detective was really useless and was washed from top to bottom again. It was completely broken. It might as well remove it directly.

Zhou An cannot let the Secret Scout Guard be removed.

He really needs a secret detective.

Throughout the afternoon, Zhou An was reading the twenty or so books, and he also calculated the approximate numbers. The twenty or so many books contained more than one million words, including the identity information of more than 10,000 secret detective spies, including their names, hometowns, locations, who is Shangguan, etc.

More than 10,000 people are spread across the world forty-eight states, three hundred and ninety counties, and more than one thousand counties! Some spies have only recruited in recent years, but some have been passed down from generation to generation, from father to son to grandson, and from generation to generation to generation.

These hereditary spies have been passed down from generation to generation since the establishment of the Secret Scout Guard. They all have strong business capabilities. After all, they have been doing this for generations and have served Secret Scout Guard for generations. Even fools have to learn something.

Now, this group of people basically have nothing to do. The management of the Secret Scout Guard is already ruined and does not do serious business or even do things. If the superiors don’t give them new task orders, they can only continue to lurk and disguise and live like ordinary people.

It would be a pity if this group of people was really dismissed!

...

At dusk, hundreds of Jinyiwei carried dozens of boxes, big and small, and left the Secret Security Office.

From then on, the Wu Guoyu case can basically be closed.

Early the next morning, the yamen of the Pacification Department posted a notice and informed the Wu Guoyu case.

The Wu Guoyu case can be said to be very involved. The people arrested by the Jinyiwei in recent days have had direct or indirect relationships with Wu Guoyu. Today, more than 800 people in Qianjing City were implicated and sentenced, exiled, and were incarcerated because Wu Guoyu lost his head and was killed by five families. There were as many as 3,000 people in the city of Qianjing.

This case is the largest case since Empress Shen Zhao ascended the throne!

It was also the largest case since the Baiyu case eight years ago!

In addition, the custody department also announced to the public that the total amount of corrupt stolen goods found in the "Wu Guoyu case" was equivalent to a total of 800,000 taels of silver! Among them, only Wu Guoyu, or the Wu family, had nearly 500,000 taels of them!

It is worth mentioning that although this case is big, no one was killed in the nine clans because of this.

The main reason is that Zhou An felt that Wu Guoyu was not worthy of being executed by the nine clans.

It's enough to kill the whole family.

After all, Wu Guoyu is just a third-rank official. Although this is the first case handled by the Jinyiwei, it must be handled into a major case and an iron case. Only in this way can the outside world avoid any rumors about the Jinyiwei or the Pacification Department.

However, it is unnecessary to kill the nine clans and put them on Wu Guoyu.

After all, this is the heaviest punishment. If Wu Guoyu was killed by the nine clans, then he would arrest an officer with a larger official, more corrupt person than his, or even a convicted of treason.

In the following period, the Jinyiwei began a crazy arrest campaign.

On the fifth day of the winter moon, arrest the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple!

On the seventh day of the winter month, the command of the herds and herds supervisor was arrested.

On the ninth day of the winter month, I will arrest the Minister of Works!

On the tenth day of the winter month, I will be the Minister of Works!

On the Thirteenth of Dongyue, he arrested the Right Censor of the Censorate.

On the fifteenth day of the winter moon, I will arrest Duke Jiao.

The Jinyiwei, who has no checks and balances, is extremely terrifying. He has been arresting people in a crazily for half a month. Although there are only a few major officials arrested, there are thousands of people involved by them. Because there are too many people arrested, the Jinyiwei has also streamlined the work procedures. If they can be convicted directly, they will be cut directly!

And in the past half month, Wu Xukuan had no movement and allowed the Jinyiwei to kill the people outside.

This is because the Jinyiwei did not touch his bottom line.

The Jinyiwei did not dare to capture the real powerful officials under Wu Xukuan.

The Shaoqing of Taichang Temple was the first official in charge of the ritual and music yamen. Although he was Wu Xukuan, his importance was even less than that of Wu Guoyu. In the matter of Wu Xukuan's intention to usurp the throne, shaking flags and shouting for Wu Xukuan may be the only role of the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple.

The herds and supervisors' order in the Qunxiu Department is responsible for raising horses.

The Minister of Works and the Minister of Works... The Ministry of Works is responsible for national military farming, water conservancy, civil engineering, engineering, transportation, official industry, etc. It is the yamen in charge of construction projects. The Minister of Works is the head of the Ministry of Works, and the Minister of Works is the deputy.

Speaking of which, the Minister of Works is quite important. After all, he is one of the six Ministers of Works, and he has great power. It is indeed risky to arrest him.

However, the rights of the Ministry of Works cannot help Wu Xukuan much. Moreover, it is a great thing to arrest the Minister of Works, because the Minister of Works is too incompetent, so he should be arrested! Although natural disasters and man-made disasters are not the responsibility of the Minister of Works, in recent years, the Ministry of Works has not taken remedial measures to deal with problems such as river bank breaking in various parts of the Dongqian Dynasty, grain production reduction, etc., and they cannot be blamed for many things.

The Minister of Works is considered a real and powerful official around Wu Xukuan, but he is less important than other important officials who can directly help Wu Xukuan seize power.

So the empress nodded and asked the Jinyiwei to capture him.

This is a very dangerous test.

Fortunately, Wu Xukuan didn't respond.

The Jinyiwei also captured the Right Censor of the Censorate of the Censorate. He was completely a scapegoat because the empress did not dare to touch the Left Censor. The two Censors of the Censorate of the Censorate of the Censorate, who regarded the Left as the Most Respected, and the Left Censor was the boss. He was also one of Wu Xukuan's most important confidant officials.

This really can't be caught, if it happens, something happens.

Therefore, the right censor was arrested, which could only be regarded as a blow to Wu Xukuan's reputation and had no other effect. After all, the left censor was not arrested, and the Censorate was still under Wu Xukuan's control.

After the 15th dynasty of the Winter Moon, the Jinyiwei captured Duke Jiao again.

Duke Jiao retired for many years. Although he had countless disciples and had very many connections, he had no real power. He arrested him because he had a high prestige and had been waving the flag for Wu Xukuan. After arresting him, he did not cause any substantial harm to Wu Xukuan.

...

It is the twilight day of the 15th day of the winter moon.

Deep in the palace, the East Warm Pavilion.

"......In the past half a month, I have been searching for houses, land, gold, and silver, equivalent to about three million taels of silver, and valuable items such as antiques, calligraphy and paintings, equivalent to about six hundred thousand taels of gold..." Zhou An had been here for a while and was reporting to the Empress.

The empress's face looked very ugly.

She knew that she was greedy, but she didn't expect that she was so greedy.

Although the Donggan Dynasty has repeatedly reduced taxes due to natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, the Donggan Dynasty's tax revenue for the whole year was less than half of its prosperous period, but that was more than 30 million taels.

She didn't expect that the Jinyiwei had seized more than three million taels in just half a month of operation, which was as much as 10% of the annual income of the national treasury! Moreover, most of the people who were confiscated were just small officials and were called important officials, and there were only a handful of them.

They are all so greedy. If they go to arrest the Minister of Personnel and the Minister of War, how many would they have?

Not to mention that there is Wu Xukuan above them.

"Duke Jiao, what's wrong?" The empress asked after a long time of silence.

"The whole family of the family was detained in the inner prison. Duke Jiao kept shouting, wanting to see the emperor, General Yuan was still under trial..." Zhou An briefly explained the situation. Duke Jiao was arrested at noon today and the case had not been resolved.

The Empress asked about the situation about Duke Jiao. Duke Jiao was an old minister of three dynasties. He served as Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. He eventually retired from the position of Minister of Personnel. He had many disciples and had a great influence, so the Empress asked a few more questions.

Then, the empress talked to Zhou An about whom the Jinyiwei would arrest him or not.

"By the way..." The empress said, and suddenly she changed her voice, as if she had remembered something, and looked at Zhou An and said, "I have discussed with Gong Kang about the secret detective. This department is decayed and useless, but the expenses are huge. It's better to withdraw it... You tell the Master Yuan Sheng for me and ask the Jinyiwei to speed up the pursuit of the secret detective fugitives, and close the case as soon as possible..."

The secret detective matter has been delayed until today.

This was not deliberately delayed by Zhou An, but it was really troublesome to deal with the matter of the Secret Scout. This is not about Wu Guoyu, mainly because the Secret Scout is a very special spy organization, not the kind of yamen where all the staff work together.

The secret detectives were spread throughout the world. Previously, the Jinyiwei arrested many secret detectives, mostly management, but many of them ran away. This was just a civil servant in the capital, not counting as outside.

If you really want to work on a secret detective, you have to send people to arrest people all over the country.

The empress didn't want to do this, she couldn't make it, and she couldn't afford it, but at least she had to catch those who escaped from the capital.

In order to arrest these people, the matter of secret detectives has been unresolved, and those positions that were vacant because of the arrest of management have not been transferred to make up.

The empress obviously was out of patience.

Although it doesn’t affect the operation of the Secret Scout Guard, it still has to be spent on money! The Secret Scout Guard’s expenses are very huge. If you take out the money to support the Secret Scout Guard and support the army, you can raise 30,000 more soldiers!

"Master, I think this matter is inappropriate, so please think twice!" Zhou An said.

"Hmm?" The empress, who was lying on the warm couch, frowned immediately.

The other little palace maids and eunuchs in the house were so scared that they lowered their heads.
Chapter completed!