Chapter 441 The role of Finus
After careful consideration, Li Chongye summoned the ministers to discuss it and finally decided to enthrone Caesar as the king of Persia. In fact, this is just a name and has no binding force on Caesar at all. Caesar only needs this name, and then trades with the Tang Dynasty under this name.
The Tang Dynasty also needed Persia. After all, the Silk Road had to pass through Persia. With Caesar's assistance, this trade route would be safer in the future, so cooperation between the two sides is still very necessary.
It was also under such circumstances that the edict to enthrone Caesar was issued quickly, and Li Chongye also sent a delegation to Persia. If possible, he also hoped that the delegation could use Persia to reach the Eastern Roman Empire, after all, it was also an important export place for the Tang Dynasty's goods.
However, when the mission set out, many well-informed merchants also organized caravans and planned to follow the mission to Persia. After all, the Silk Road is very dangerous, but the mission is protected by the military, so no one dares to provoke it, and it is safer for the caravans to follow behind.
Zhang Zong also wrote a handwritten letter to Caesar, which explained some missions and also introduced the recent situation of the Tang Dynasty. Finally, he also asked about the funeral of Ni Nii Masa. However, according to Caesar's letter, Ni Nii Masa's last wish before his death was to be buried in the land of Persia, so Zhang Zong could not do it even if he wanted to worship the other party.
The mission was very powerful when it left Luoyang. In fact, there were not many people in the entire mission, and there were only a few hundred guards, but there were too many caravans following behind. After all, everyone wanted to take advantage of this opportunity. Not to mention anything else, following the mission to Persia will definitely receive certain preferential treatment. In addition, if the mission can go to the Eastern Roman Empire, the goods in their hands will be multiplied many times.
It is precisely because there were too many caravans that when the delegation left, the teams who saw each other out were nearly ten miles away. The road was full of people saying goodbye to each other, and the willow trees on both sides of the official road were almost folded into bare poles.
The huge team left, and Luoyang City also returned to its former tranquility. It is not very correct to say that tranquility is not very correct. After all, Luoyang City is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and countless things happen here every day, some are obvious, while others are unknown.
However, no matter how many things happen in Luoyang City, they cannot escape the eyewitness of Feinusi. This intelligence organization directly affiliated with the emperor is in operation all the time. It is through them that the emperor in the deep palace can grasp the external trends.
Zhang Zong once took charge of Feinusi for a while, but later Li Chongye took over the government affairs slowly, and Zhang Zong resigned from his post as the minister of the disciple, so he returned Feinusi to Li Chongye. Although Li Chongye tried to keep him several times and wanted Zhang Zong to take charge of Feinusi for him, Zhang Zong still refused firmly.
In fact, Zhang Zong is still very interested in Feinusi. After all, if you master this organization, you can find out a lot of information that others don’t know, and this information can undoubtedly bring great convenience to people.
However, it is extremely dangerous for the intelligence organizations like Feinusi to be in the hands of private individuals. If someone uses it to satisfy his own desires, it will be a disaster, and the country will never tolerate others to hold this power. Even though Zhang Zong is now trusted by Li Chongye, he still dare not take risks.
However, today Zhang Zong went to the palace and took the initiative to talk to Li Chongye about Feinusi. Because through his previous understanding of Feinusi, he found that Feinusi had actually had some problems and it was time to make some changes.
"Reform Feinusi? But I feel that Feinusi is very easy to use. Why do you want to reform it?" Li Chongye asked with a surprised expression after hearing Zhang Zong's purpose.
"If Your Majesty just uses Feinusi as a private intelligence agency, of course there is no problem, but its function is far more than that. If Your Majesty wants to exert all the capabilities of Feinusi, then Feinusi will have to change!" Zhang Zong replied in a very solemn tone.
"Far more than that?" Li Chongye also showed a surprised expression when he heard this. Feinusi was very important. He knew this more than anyone else, but he always regarded Feinusi as his eyes and ears, and occasionally let it act as his own hands and feet, but that's all.
"Yes, besides collecting intelligence, Feinusi can do many things, such as subversion, assassination, riots, etc...."
As Zhang Zong said that, he explained some of the functions of the intelligence organization in later generations. As a result, Li Chongye was stunned after hearing this. He never thought that Feinusi could do these things. Although these things were all very disgraceful, Feinusi was not an open institution. Its existence was to do something that the court could not do on the surface.
In addition, the methods of Feinusi were too simple and crude in the past, and the infiltration of the enemy country was not strong, because the main force of Feinusi was still concentrated within the Tang Dynasty. However, under Zhang Zong's description, Feinusi can be divided into several parts, some are dedicated to internal, some are dedicated to external, and some are dedicated to military intelligence, etc.
The subdivision of Feinusi also made the various institutions within Feinusi more professional, and at the same time, the power of Feinusi was divided to avoid the dominance of the whole family and threatening the imperial power. These were something Li Chongye did not expect.
After Zhang Zong finished talking about his idea of Feinusi, Li Chongye couldn't help but exclaim: "It's still thoughtful that Mr. I used to underestimate Feinusi's ability!"
"It's not that Your Majesty underestimated Feinusi, but that the national conditions of my Tang Dynasty have been changing, so Feinusi must adapt to the situation of the Tang Dynasty and change. What I have proposed now may be a good thing for Feinusi, but maybe after many years, these will become the reasons that restrict the development of Feinusi, so we must take advantage of the situation and act according to the opportunity!" Zhang Zong also smiled again at this time.
"Students receive teaching!" Li Chongye rarely heard Zhang Zong's teachings anymore, and immediately stood up and said solemnly. Only Zhang Zong would tell him these words. Those ministers would not say so clearly.
Looking at Li Chongye, who was as tall as him, Zhang Zong was also a little moved. His students had grown up, and they became emperors, and they were even about to marry and have children. This made him suddenly feel like an old father, although his children were still very young.
Chapter completed!