My wife has a secret

Chapter 130 Chengxuanfang

Before Xu Qing could think about the deeper meaning of this sentence, Master Jin opened the curtain behind him and motioned Xu Qing to enter.

The middle-aged man next to him had no intention of following. After a simple nod and greeting, he turned and left.

Xu Qing walked into the backyard of the teahouse and walked along a gravel road extending inward for a while, then he saw a jaw-dropping scene.

Because in the suburbs of the capital, there is a continuous complex of buildings built along the water.

Moreover, he could see from a distance the huge waterwheel inside the pavilion turning, and the structure of the building seemed to be changing rhythmically.

"Master of the shop."

When Xu Qing saw the extremely iconic face in front of the door, he was shocked and opened his eyes wide unconsciously.

Because the person who called him was none other than the Zhaowu Captain of the Zhennan Zhongwu Army, Shan Yongpei.

At first he thought he had recognized the wrong person, because Shan Yongpei was not wearing military armor this time, but was wearing a simple and plain plain clothes. However, his strong chest muscles and physique could still be seen from the outline of the clothes.

"Are you Shan Yongpei?"

"It's a subordinate."

Shan Yongpei placed his hands in front of him and saluted him respectfully.

Different from the previous military salute of clasping fists, this is a crossed-arm salute from a subordinate to his superior.

"After the incident at Wangyue Tower, I received the Queen Mother's order and was secretly transferred to Chengxuanfang, where I became familiar with various matters."

Xu Qing's expression changed slightly, and he asked, "It started after Wangyue Tower?"

"Yes, I have been familiar with this place for more than half a month, and I can basically handle all kinds of matters for the abbot... According to the rules of Chengxuanfang, every abbot must have an assistant who can protect him. I am now temporarily taking over this position and serving the abbot."

Xu Qing's head buzzed and he suddenly remembered something.

He secretly calculated the time that had passed since the incident at Wangyue Tower, and discovered that Shan Yongpei's arrival was a move that Chengxuanfang had already prepared.

Doesn't this mean that the Queen Mother has tacitly accepted that he is the future owner of the Fang? She has long wanted to hand over Chengxuan Fang to him?
"Master of the shop."

Xu Qing heard Shan Yongpei's gentle call, coughed lightly, and asked, "Are you used to it here?"

"I just changed my place to serve the court. Everything is normal."

As a standard sergeant, Shan Yongpei did not have much demand for accommodation and food, and the treatment in Chengxuanfang was no worse than that in the military camp, and many conditions were much better.

"Master, let me explain to you the various functions of Chengxuanfang."

After getting Xu Qing's tacit consent, Shan Yongpei pushed the door open and walked in.

The layout here is neat and dignified but not orderly.

The pavilions and towers are intertwined with each other, and the green tiles on the eaves are winding and twisting, which looks extremely ingenious, dazzling and breathtaking.

Xu Qing had never imagined that there really were curved buildings in the world, and when Shan Yongpei led him to a slowly sliding wooden staircase, he was completely dumbfounded.

This magical scene almost made Xu Qing feel like he was living in his previous life, but he immediately realized that the rolling water wheels around him might be the driving force of these "elevators". I don't know who the craftsmen who designed this place are, who can use the power of water flow to drive these mechanisms and design such a sophisticated building.

When Shan Yongpei first entered Chengxuanfang, he was also stunned by the architecture of Chengxuanfang and stood there for a long time.

But quietly observing the expression of the young master of the Xu family, Shan Yongpei discovered that the other party quickly recovered from the shock and showed a look of sudden enlightenment.

As expected, Mr. Xu is definitely not an ordinary person.

"This is the main square of Chengxuanfang. The surrounding bamboo forest and various buildings were all drawn by a formation master and arranged according to the Bagua maze formation. Ordinary people cannot approach this place without a guide and can only take the official road to the capital."

Xu Qing now understood why the middle-aged man who led him stopped several times in the bamboo forest.

It turned out that he was stopping to observe the correct direction of the main workshop.

"The main workshop uses the Luo River as a channel to divert water. There are a total of twelve water wheels, which are used as the power to drive various mechanisms in the workshop. Three of them are visible from the outside, and there are nine more hidden in these buildings or even underground."

Xu Qing thought that Chengxuanfang, as the intelligence agency of Da Qi, must be ingeniously designed and not easily detected by the enemy.

But he never guessed that the main workshop of Chengxuanfang had been built to this extent.

While the two were talking, the wooden ladder slid into the room at a steady speed.

The sunlight suddenly went out, but countless wall lamps lit up all around.

Accompanying the light were countless complex figures, who were running quickly in every corner of the circular room, placing scrolls, notes, or small objects in the drawers of cabinets that were as tall as a mountain.

Xu Qing could see numbers on each drawer, and could hear clinking sounds every time they put things in and closed the drawers.

"This is the outer room of Chengxuanfang, which occupies almost one-fifth of the area of ​​the main square."

Xu Qing had observed this building and knew that it occupied a large area, so he couldn't help but ask, "Why is the area of ​​the Foreign Affairs Room so large? Are there hundreds or thousands of people working here day and night?"

"Yes, above the main building is a place for storing carrier pigeons. News from all over the country, and even from outside the border, will be delivered by these carrier pigeons into containers on the roof. These messengers will then sort out the information and put it in designated drawers."

The water-powered wooden ladder that Xu Qing and Shan Yongpei took slid above everyone's heads, allowing them to see the people below working hard.

At this moment, he finally realized that the level of rigor of a country's intelligence agencies was completely different from what he had imagined.

The crowd below was working quickly and no one noticed that someone had slid past the wooden ladder above their heads.

"Chengxuanfang has more than 3,000 strongholds in Daqi, and a small number of them are also distributed outside the country...so the owner of the square can find the forces of Chengxuanfang in each city and instruct them to provide intelligence or do things for him."

"So, the master of Chengxuanfang is not alone. He has so many people to command."

Shan Yongpei didn't understand what the lone commander meant, and thought Xu Qing felt that he didn't have enough manpower, so he hurriedly said, "Master, you are joking. Chengxuanfang also has a special Yishimen, which recruits talented people from all over the country, and they can all work for the master. Mingzhu beside the former master is a strong man in the Yishimen."

When Xu Qing heard that in addition to so many strongholds, there was actually a "special forces" intelligence, his face froze, and then a feeling of joy rushed to his heart.

With so many resources and trump cards at his disposal, he can really fight against the mysterious White Lotus Sect.

Previously, I had been worried about how to deal with the Beidou Star Gods of the White Lotus Sect. Now it seems that the Chengxuanfang Yishimen is the best way to deal with it.

(End of this chapter)