The empress looked at Zhou An and sat up from the Nuan Collapse. A little eunuch immediately stepped forward and tidied up the cushion behind the empress so that the empress could sit comfortably.

Zhou An lowered his head and did not look at the empress.

The empress was silent for a while before she said, "What's wrong?"

"I think that although the secret detective guards are corrupt, they are not irrescue." Zhou An bowed and said, "The secret detective guards were established at the beginning of their founding. Although they have been reorganized several times, they have never been sacked. Although the secret detective guards are corrupt at all levels and have been effective from the bottom, their grassroots officials often lurk in the people and hide their identities. Like ordinary people, they rarely participate in corruption."

"The secret detective is broken, but it is only broken on top and the manager, and it has little to do with grassroots officials and servants. The secret detective is not destroyed. It is just because of the heavy bureaucracy and the stubborn corruption that the government orders are blocked and managers deceive the superiors and subordinates, making the secret detectives and servants like a mess of scattered sand, and there is no order to do nothing."

"A few days ago, I investigated the situation of the Secret Scout Guards. The Secret Scout Guards were stationed in 48 states, 390 counties and more than 1,200 spies in more than 1,200 counties in the country. It can be said that the slightly larger counties in the world have all installed Secret Scout Guards. Among these more than 1,000 people, the sons inherited their father's business and passed down from generation to generation to this day, about 8,000!"

"There are about two thousand households, and at the beginning of the Secret Scout Guard, their ancestors worked for Secret Scout Guards. Their inheritance has been passed down for more than ten generations, and generations have been secret detectives. They have extremely strong ability to spy and detective, and are all talents... If the Supreme Master cancels the Secret Scout Guards and dismisses all the officials and servants, so that these people who are proficient in disguise, detective, and spy will be born among the people. The slaves think that this is a great waste, please think twice!"

The empress looked at Zhou An in silence, and she also showed a look of contemplation.

What Zhou An said makes sense.

Some of the spies of the secret detective are indeed powerful. After all, their ancestors do this. Detective and spy are all inherited skills. Such talents are rare. They are even more capable than those spies in the army who are responsible for inquiring about information.

It's a pity that they're all dismissed.

However, this is not a reason to keep secret detectives.

The empress was skeptical about the overall ability of the secret detectives. This was not the empress's problem, but in recent decades, the secret detectives have been a useless department, which is related to the overall corruption of the Dongqian court and the suppression of the secret detectives.

Corruption and suppression are causal.

The role of the Secret Scout Guard at the beginning was to monitor the world and spy on the world. However, more than two hundred years ago, the Secret Scout Guard once had the right to monitor the world. Investigating corruption was also the responsibility of the Secret Scout Guard.

But in recent decades, there have been more and more corrupt officials, and the secret detectives have no power during the Qianli Sect period. If they ask them to investigate, they dare not investigate. They cannot investigate, because as long as they check a certain official, they will involve too many relationships, too many connections, and too many things.

The result is that corrupt officials join forces and cannot make the secret detective guards bigger, forming a suppression force, coercion and inducement relationships, and use any means.

This is why Secret Scouts have been useless in recent decades.

Therefore, the empress had no idea how useful the secret detective could be. She had never experienced or heard of it. Although it was recorded in history books that the secret detective had handled many major cases during the Qianlizong period, and the entire court was washed away by the secret detectives from top to bottom... However, the historical books' evaluation of the secret detectives at that time was extremely negative.

In order to seek credit and further expand power, the secret detectives at that time did create many unjust, false and wrong cases, which harmed them for a while.

In other words, the empress's overall impression of Secret Guards is that if this department becomes bigger, it will have great harm, which is uncontrollable and has more harm than good. If this department loses its power and restricts its rights, it will be useless and can also spend money especially, which will cost more money than ordinary judicial organs.

So the empress wants to abolish the Secret Scout Guard.

Because of years of disaster relief, the imperial court has become empty and is almost unable to make ends meet. It has abolished the secret detective, a useless department, and saved a lot of money. Why not do it?

"Secret Scout..." The empress was silent for a moment and finally spoke, "You mean irrevocable, but if you don't withdraw, what should you do? If you don't withdraw, you need to rebuild it. The Jinyiwei only arrested the officer in the Secret Scout Office. If it is rebuilt, it needs to be completely wiped out other snakes and rats in the Secret Scout Guard. It is probably a huge amount of money and will last for a long time."

The biggest reason why the empress wanted to abolish the Secret Scout Guard was actually that the Secret Scout Guard was already ruined as a whole. If it was not abolished, the entire Secret Scout Guard had to be cleaned up so that it could be used and dared to use it.

But the trouble is on how to clear it.

The Jinyiwei has just captured the management of the Secret Detective Office, which is the management of the Secret Detective Office located in Qianjing City headquarters. But he didn't care about the local problems... The Empress didn't want to take care of them anymore, didn't want to pursue them, and wanted to directly dismiss them all.

She and the Secret Scout Guard cannot afford to spend money. If she really sends people to arrest people all over the country and arrests the grassroots management of the Secret Scout Guard who is in charge of local affairs, how many people will have to be sent out? How much money will it cost?

Wu Xukuan was staring at him, maybe he would make trouble at any time, and the empress could not be so serious about being with the Secret Scout Guard.

So it’s better to be dismissed. If you finish it, you will save your worries and effort.

"Master, the servant thinks that rebuilding the Secret Scout Guard is not a big problem. After all, the big fish has been caught, and the rest are only the small fish and shrimps below. As the saying goes, there will be no fish when the water is clear. Now, the Master is willing to forgive the sins of the small fish and shrimps by dismissal and not pursue them. Then, why not give them the opportunity to reform themselves and directly blame them for the past and let them serve the court again and serve the emperor?" Zhou An said that there was nothing he could do about it.

It is really impossible to send people to arrest people all over the country. It takes too much and takes too long.

"Xiao Anzi... Since you said that, then I ask you, what should I do after reconstruction? The secret detective is of great use? If the status quo is maintained, the secret detective is still useless. If the secret detective is given more power, I am afraid that the disaster of the Li Zong period will be restored?"

The empress is still very patient with Zhou An and can say so much.

And now, she skipped the question of how to rebuild the secret detective, asked the final core question, and left the secret detective, what is the use of?!

From the time of the Emperor of God, to the present time of Emperor God Zhao, the secret detective guards have never been useful.

The empress dared not give too much power to the Secret Scout Guard, because there was a lesson in the past. The Secret Scout Guard during the Li Zong period made the heavens angry and resentful, causing trouble for a while.

"Master, I want to report some things to you first. I wonder if you can listen to them?" Zhou An said with a look up.

"Say!" the empress replied.

"It is related to the Jinyiwei. In the past half month, the Jinyiwei has handled many major cases, gradually eroding and weakening the treacherous party. However, there are many twists and turns. When the Jinyiwei arrested many officials, the other party received news in advance, including those who committed suicide in fear of crimes, those who escaped fear of crimes, and those who destroyed evidence, those who resisted stubbornly, etc., which has caused the Jinyiwei to be in dilemma repeatedly."

"I want to arrest someone, but the person has already run away first, or arrested someone, but there is no evidence to convict him. He can only be temporarily detained in the internal prison and retried in the first trial... Although most of the officials who cannot be convicted of the case are small officials, it is because of their preparations in advance that the Jinyiwei has hindered the Jinyiwei from investigating and collecting evidence, which makes the Jinyiwei unable to convict him and is in a dilemma. If this continues, more and more officials who cannot be convicted in the internal prison will be detained, which will definitely affect the reputation of the Jinyiwei and the reputation of the Master."

"Well...so?" the empress asked in a deep thought.

"I think that the problem of Jinyiwei's repeated difficulties is that it is the ability to investigate and collect evidence. This is related to Jinyiwei's new establishment, weak connections, conflicts with the court, and not cooperating with other yamen. When Jinyiwei arrested Wu Guoyu for half a month ago, Jinyiwei arrested Wu Guoyu first without evidence, and then searched for evidence. Fortunately, the evidence was found. If there was no evidence that night, and Wu Xukuan disrupted the situation, Jinyiwei would probably be doomed!"

"What a slave means is that the ability of the Jinyiwei lies in the execution of the capture. With the emperor's order, the Jinyiwei is like a tiger coming out of the gate, and its momentum is like thunder. It is no problem to catch and kill people... But the Jinyiwei lacks abilities in surveillance, spy, investigation and evidence collection, and the secret detective guards just have this kind of ability and can complement the Jinyiwei!"

The empress was shocked and she seemed to understand what Zhou An mean.

"You mean to merge the Jinyiwei and the Secret Scout Guard?"

"It's not so, Master!" Zhou An immediately said again, "Justice, as the Master had been concerned before, if the Jinyiwei and the Secret Scout Guard were merged, their power would be without any checks and balances, and even more powerful than the Secret Scout Guard during the Li Zong period, and this would cause endless disasters."

"Then, what you mean..." The empress frowned at Zhou An.

"The slave thinks that a new yamen can be set up on the basis of secretly detecting the guards. This new yamen is only responsible for surveillance, spy, investigation and evidence collection, and other matters. The right to arrest will be all attributed to the Jinyiwei. The two yamen cooperate with each other. The new yamen is responsible for investigating and collecting evidence, and the Jinyiwei is responsible for arresting and trial. In this way, the two yamen can complement each other and check and balance each other, which can not only prevent one party from losing control, but also solve the situation where the Jinyiwei is repeatedly in a dilemma due to lack of intelligence."

"In addition, the newly established Jinyiwei has not been around for a while, and only a few hundred officials have been in charge of major cases recently. Many cases have been handled at the same time, and they are already short of manpower. If a new yamen is set up based on the secret detectives and cooperate with Jinyiwei, the secret detectives can also help Jinyiwei handle cases and carry out arrest operations. The emperor does not need to draw any more personnel to expand Jinyiwei, which is a big hit."

Zhou An talked about the various benefits of building a new yamen based on secret detectives as the basics.

The empress was a little stunned.

Because Zhou An's idea was something she had never thought about before. She was like Zhou An opened the door to the new world. It sounded like a very good solution, but it felt like something was wrong...

"I dared to ask the emperor for his appointment!" Zhou An suddenly took a step forward, lifted his robe and knelt down and said, "I am willing to take the secret detective guards, and start setting up a matter of the government office in my heart, share the worries of the emperor, and ask the emperor to allow him to allow him."

Zhou An kowtowed after saying that.

This is the most critical step for Zhou An to dominate the world.
Chapter completed!