Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 255 Information Station

"With so many people, it must be quite a big expense! Will the sect pay all the expenses?" Tangning asked

Du Yuankai laughed and said, "Expenses? These people are not disciples of our sect, so how can they be like paying disciples' salaries? Although our work sounds very mysterious, it is actually not that complicated. Brother Tang might as well change his status and get rid of disciples of the sect. Xuanmen, Demon Sect, Aristocratic Family, Chamber of Commerce and other forms of things regard themselves as businessmen.

"Businessman? How does this say, please enlighten Senior Brother Du."

Du Yuankai said: "We treat intelligence work as a business. You are the shopkeeper, the sect is the owner, and these casual practitioners recruited are your shop assistants. And those insiders who provide you with information are your business partners. The intelligence information in their hands is a commodity."

"They give you the goods, and you pay the money. Pay a relatively reasonable reward based on the value of the goods, it's that simple. As long as you sort out the subtle relationship, many things will naturally become transparent."

After what he said, Tangning suddenly realized something.Although he is in charge of intelligence and liaison work, he is only sending and receiving messages. He has no experience in governing, and he is not very clear about the details.

"What about the financial situation?"

"The Zongmen pays [-] spirit stones every year, which is allocated to the department, and will be issued every five years. At that time, it will be collected from the finance department of the department. This fund includes the salaries, rewards, wear and tear, subsidies, etc. of all personnel in the entire organization. It belongs to Xu Daoyou in charge."

"Including Lingshi? Also hand it over to her for management?"

Du Yuankai smiled and said, "How can this be done? Brother Tang, there is one thing you must keep in mind. You are the master, and the core things must be in your own hands, whether it is information or financial internal affairs."

"You can give them certain rights to share your work, such as asking Zheng Wei to collect information, giving him a list of not-so-important personnel, asking Xu Wanqing to manage finances, and giving her part of the Lingshi, [-] or [-] Anything goes."

"But you can't entrust them all. After all, this is not a sect, and they are not disciples of the sect. We must not only rely on them, but also guard against them, and we must not let them monopolize power."

"I have arranged a sect disciple next to the two of them. On the one hand, they will assist them in handling affairs, and on the other hand, they will supervise them."

"In terms of finances, you only need to master the spirit stones, and leave the rest of the trivial matters to Xu Daoyou. She will report in detail how much spirit stones you pay every year and every month."

"[-] spirit stones per year, say more or less, if there are special circumstances, you can apply for a subsidy from the sect. I won't go into details about the specific matters in this regard. Fellow Daoist Xu will assist you."

Tangning nodded, "I heard Senior Brother Lu say that you don't have a fixed location and change places frequently. Why is that?"

Du Yuankai said: "Naturally for the sake of safety, although this place is under the sphere of influence of the sect, it is not within the sect after all, and the mission we are performing is a very confidential matter, there is no guarantee that there will be no retaliation by the monks of the demon sect. Therefore, if there is any change , I noticed something was wrong, so I quickly moved the place.”

Tangning frowned and said, "There are so many people here? How can we ensure that the news won't leak out?"

Du Yuankai said: "Therefore, we must be cautious in selecting personnel to prevent the evil sect from hiding. There are [-] people in the headquarters, including me. There are nine disciples of the sect, and the remaining [-] are carefully selected by me. Yes, we can be sure that they have a deep hatred with the Demon Sect before recruiting them."

"There is no way, such a large stall must be handled by manpower, otherwise the task cannot be completed with just a few people from the department. In addition, we have also taken some corresponding measures in terms of confidentiality."

"There are only a few people who know our exact location. These people send news on a regular basis. People in this station are not allowed to go out at will. Those who can go out are disciples of the sect. Others can only stay here and minimize opportunities for them to engage with the outside world.”

"It was better in the past few years. In recent years, the Demon Sect has risen, and we have moved more frequently."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in."

A man opened the door and saluted, and handed the note in his hand to Du Yuankai: "Master Uncle, this is the news from Senior Zheng just now."

"Yeah." Du Yuankai nodded slightly, accepted the terms, and the disciple consciously retreated.

Du Yuankai glanced at it and handed it to Tangning. Tangning took a look and saw that one of the sheets was full of numbers, such as [-], [-], and so on. She didn't know what was written.

The other one has a clear handwriting, and it says: "The cod is sending a message, and the Corpse Puppet Sect is organizing disciples to communicate with other sects to learn from each other."

Codfish is a code name, formerly known as Zhang Zong, a Qi Refining Disciple under the South China Branch of the Corpse Puppet Sect.Tangning had just seen the identities of all the people on the list, so she recognized them immediately.

After the Mozong occupied the original territory of Xuanmen, it can be said that it has made great efforts to govern, lowered taxes, encouraged the cultivation families to grow medicinal herbs, and helped them start the industry of breeding spirit beasts.After those low-level spirit beasts matured, Mozong helped them sell them and sold them in large quantities to the practice families and chambers of commerce on the big island.

These are low-level spirit beasts, not worth mentioning in terms of combat power, but they are essential raw materials for making spirit food.

As far as Tang Ning knows, tens of thousands of low-level spirit beasts have been bred only under the jurisdiction of the Corpse Puppet Sect in the western part of the Chu Kingdom. Basically, all the big and small cultivation families have bred them. There are thousands of spirit beasts in large families, and hundreds in small families. .The income effect is not bad, this spirit beast can be sold after a few years of breeding.

The price of each spirit beast reaches ten spirit stones. Excluding the cost, the profit of a spirit beast is about six or seven spirit stones. The Mozong only charges [-]% of the profit. So far, the Corpse Puppet Sect has sold two batches of spirit beasts , the total amount is about [-], that is to say, the Demon Sect has collected hundreds of thousands of spirit stone taxes in recent years by relying on spirit beasts.

Although there are not many spirit stones, it can be seen that this is a promising industry. If it can be invested on a large scale, the effect should be good.

Xingang is already short of resources, and now it is considered pretty good to be able to find a new industry. During this process, the Demon Sect has contributed a lot, and has been busy before and after.

Not only do they provide those spiritual beast cubs for free at their own risk, but they also provide them with trained breeding disciples, and help them find sales channels, and collect two tenths of the tax before and after they are done.

To put it bluntly, this is all hard-earned money!
If you change to the Taoist sect, you won’t do this. Honestly collecting [-]% of the tax is nothing better than nothing. This is why more and more cultivating families are interested in the Demon Sect and want to leave the Taoist sect.

If it weren't for the long-standing reputation of Xuanmen, those cultivating families would be afraid of the power of Xuanmen, and the current situation would be unimaginable.

Each sect of the Xingang Demon Sect breeds different spirit beasts. The Corpse Puppet Sect breeds black-toothed fish, the Blood Bone Sect breeds porcupines, the Ghost Sect breeds moon rabbits, and the New Moon Sect breeds fire rats.

Now they are mixing together again, and the breeding disciples communicate with each other. It is estimated that they feel that the breeding industry has great prospects and intend to expand the scale.

"The Demon Sect's industry of raising spirit beasts is getting bigger and bigger. Judging from this posture, it is ready to do a big job!" Du Yuankai said

"What's written on this piece of paper? It's messy and has no clue." Tangning asked while holding the document full of digital codes in her left hand.

"This is the original text sent by Zheng Daoyou. The one you hold in your right hand is the text deciphered and analyzed by the disciple."

"Deciphering?" Tangning was slightly taken aback. He has been in charge of intelligence liaison in the intelligence department for so many years, and he has never heard of deciphering and analysis. The information in the intelligence files submitted by the intelligence stations has always been clear and clear.

Du Yuankai explained: "The nature of our work is special, and the people we contact are hidden insiders of various forces. It is inevitable that the intelligence information will be intercepted by others, so the information is encrypted and transmitted in ciphertext."

"How to decipher these ciphertexts?"

"It's very simple." Du Yuankai turned his left hand, took out a thick book, and handed it to Tangning, "The encrypted text is in this book."

Tangning took the book and saw four large characters written on it, Xunyang Travel Notes. He had never heard of this book before, so he asked, "What book is this?"

"A travel note written by a down-and-out scholar. The content is not worth mentioning. It is mainly used to set the ciphertext."

Tangning flipped through the pages, but couldn't figure out what it had to do with the cipher text, and couldn't find any clues.

"To compare with the ciphertext, you see, the ciphertext above, one, three, six, and four, refers to the fourth word on page [-], line six, of this book."

Tang Ning flipped through the book and looked for it as he said, but she found it was a word for cod.

"Twenty-nine, seven, and eight are twenty-nine pages, the seventh line, and the eighth word."

Tangning turned it over, and it turned out to be a fish character, she couldn't help but suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."

"All texts are converted into digital codes according to this rule. If there are words that are not in the book, it doesn't matter if you write the text directly. It doesn't matter if the information is transmitted in cipher text, even if it is intercepted, it is impossible for people who don't know the details to decipher. Yes. If the disciple leaks it, just replace the booklet. This method is very convenient and has good confidentiality, and it is very popular in our intelligence circle."

"It's really convenient." Tangning nodded. With the ability of a monk, it's easy to memorize the words in the book: "Is the information encryption method of the entire intelligence station using the ciphertext of this book?"

"Only the news from Zheng Wei's side uses this encryption method. What we submit to the sect is another encryption method." Du Yuankai flipped his hand, and took out a book called "Fengxue Returning to People". Booklet: "Refer to this booklet for the ciphertext submitted to the sect."

Tangning took the booklet and flipped through a few pages.

Du Yuankai said: "Leave this kind of trivial matter to the disciples below. You only need to know the cipher text and refer to the book. Insignificant information like this is reported to the sect at the end of each month. Only important information needs to be submitted immediately. .”

Tangning asked, "Is there a certain standard? How do you count as important information?"

"If it is more urgent, or if the incident has a major impact, it needs to be submitted immediately with an urgent file. If there is a standard to be divided, generally speaking, the information that involves the level of Jindan cultivator is considered important information."

(End of this chapter)