Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Wu Shigong himself doesn't have any experience in intelligence work, so he can only use modern film and television works and Wu Shigong's most urgent needs to ask for the work of Shanchuan Division.

Wu Shigong told Xue Zhinong: "Your primary task is to find a few reliable, literate people who understand the affairs of the court, and go to the Shanchuan Hall to sort out and summarize the news. Their daily work is to read the Dibao and the Shanchuan Secretary. Summarize the news from various places, make a briefing and hand it over to me. Remember! It may be difficult to find such people at any time, but it can be cultivated slowly, but these people must be reliable."

"Also, you have to set up news points in every prefecture in Henan, every county in Guide Mansion and Runing Mansion. You can arrange the manpower in the store. This time I come back, I have already set up news points in various places in Henan Shop. At that time, I will greet Mr. Yuan and Mr. Zheng. There should be no problem in arranging your people. However, your manpower must not be made public, even the shopkeeper and other staff in the shop cannot be disclosed to them. .”

"The spies of the Shanchuan Division are mainly looking for all the news, but at this stage there are two main directions. One is in the direction of Henan Province, especially in places close to the Yellow River, to find out whether there are rioters from Shaanxi and Shanxi who have crossed the Yellow River and entered Henan. "

"You know, I learned from the Dibao that the rioters in Shanxi and Shanxi are now making a scene in Shanxi, and they are just across the river from our Henan Province, and they will enter our Henan at any time. So keep track of those rioters in time. Dynamics are critical to our readiness to fight the insurgents."

"The second is to understand the business conditions of each place. The prices of commonly used things in each place must be regularly calculated. This is also very beneficial to our business. This matter can be helped by the guys in the store. "

"In addition, you need to train about 30 elite soldiers. They must be proficient in using handguns and short weapons. They must also learn combat skills such as stalking and assassination. These people must be used as a special operations team."

"Also, you have to go to Guide Mansion to set up a gang. The leaders of this gang must be our own people. You can recruit some Jianghu thugs and Qingpi for specific affairs. Don't tell those Jianghu thugs and Qingpi our identities. , some things that we are not convenient to come forward to do, we can let them do it."

"You can choose the personnel of the action team from the army. For other personnel, you can choose from civilians and bandits like Lei Ying. Be careful, you must hold all their families in your hands to prevent mutiny."

"That's all I can think of for the time being. I'll add it later if I find any problems. Your official position will be General Manager, and I'll give you 3000 taels of silver first. Next year, the available silver for your Shanchuan Division is tentatively set at 1 taels. That's it, if it's okay, you go down."

To be honest, Wu Shigong knew too little about intelligence organizations, so he turned his Shanchuan Division into a hodgepodge of military spies, commercial spies, special forces, and gangs.

And these days, at the gate of Wu Shigong's Qianhusuo fortress, there has been a guest waiting to see Wu Shigong.This is a treasurer Wang sent by Yangzhou salt merchant Qijia.

Among the hundreds of salt merchants in Yangzhou, Qijia can be regarded as one of the giants.This time, after the Qi family obtained the right to supply salt goods in this area from the Lu family, they sent the treasurer Wang to take charge.It can also be seen that Qijia does not pay much attention to the supply of salt in this area.Because generally speaking, the important areas responsible for the supply of salt goods are the direct and collateral children sent by the Qi family.

The shopkeeper Wang is called Wang Mi.He is an old man from the Qi family, and he is very familiar with the sale of salt goods.This time, it was not easy for him to be able to be independent in one area, so this Wang Mi wanted to make some achievements.

When Wang Mi first arrived here, he inquired about the sales of salt goods in this area.When he learned that Lu Yunhuan had sold salt for several generations in the local area, and when Lu Yunhuan was entertaining Wang Mi again, he invited some local officials and gentry to accompany him, so Wang Mi recognized Lu Yunhuan's strength .So he didn't raise the price when he gave Lv Yunhuan salt.

But when he learned that the supply of salt goods in the mountainous area in the north of Runing Mansion was sold by an agent Qianhu who didn't know how long he could work for, he didn't take Wu Shigong's identity a little bit seriously.

But after that, when Wang Mi inquired and heard that the price of salt sold by Wu Shigong could reach five or six taels of silver per shi, Wang Mi couldn't sit still.

To be honest, in the eyes of these salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty, the status of a military officer like Wu Shigong was basically the same as that of ordinary people.Needless to say, compared with civil officials, even compared with local gentry, Wu Shigong's status as a military officer is a level lower.

In addition, Wu Shigong went to King Qin again, and there were rumors that Wu Shigong had an accident in the battle of King Qin. Therefore, Wang Mi resolutely raised the price, with the purpose of driving Wu Shigong out of this business.After that, Wang Mi went to look for a salt seller who, in Wang Mi's eyes, had more background than Wu Shigong.

But what Wang Mi didn't expect was that Yuan Xingshan, who was in charge of salt sales in the Qianhu Fortress at that time, would recognize the high price of the salt just like that.Now Wang Mi is embarrassed to break the contract.However, the extra money earned from the salt goods every month also gave Wang Mi a lot of points in Qijia.

But what Wang Mi never expected was that Wu Shigong not only came back, but also made military achievements and was promoted to the defense of Runing Mansion.After Wu Shigong came back, he showed tough measures again, exterminated the bandits, ransacked the family and wiped out several gentry families.And after that, Wu Shigong stopped getting salt from Qi's family.Wang Mi knew that he might have been mistaken.

But Wang Mi was not particularly panicked.Because in his hand, he still held two trump cards.The first one is that Wu Shigong cannot get salt goods from other regions.

We already know that the supply of salt in Henan is controlled by salt merchants in Yangzhou.Each salt merchant has a fixed sales area.They cooperate with each other to maintain the sales price of salt products, and they will not sell across regions at will, causing sales wars, price wars and so on.This is also the reason why Wang Mi dared to mention two taels of silver per stone for the salt goods supplied to Wu Shigong.

However, Wang Mi found out that Wu Shigong was going to buy salt from Jining Prefecture now.Although Wang Mi also believed that with the influence of Qi's family, Wu Shigong would not be able to get any salt goods from Jining Prefecture in a short period of time.But if time goes by, there will always be other salt merchants who will fill the gap in this salt sales area.

Wang Mi's second card is that after dealing with the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, the Yangzhou salt merchants have already developed a set of mature methods to communicate with the officials of the Ming Dynasty.Yangzhou salt merchants called those methods "training".

Wang Mi thought that for a vulgar and money-greedy warrior like Wu Shigong, as long as he threw some rich women or something like meat and bones to Wu Shigong, then Wu Shigong would wag his tail and run to them to pray for their families.At most, the price of Wu Shigong's salt goods will be lowered a little at that time.

But what Wang Mi didn't know was that Wu Shigong hated treachery the most.To be honest, Wu Shigong didn't care much about the change of the salt supplier from the Lu family to the Qi family.But when Wu Shigong learned that Qi's family had raised the price of salt, Wu Shigong hated Qi's family for making things worse.Now Wu Shigong, even if he can no longer do the salt business, he will never take salt from Qi's family.

So when Wang Mi confidently begged to see Wu Shigong with some gifts at the beginning, he was driven back without even seeing Wu Shigong's back.

Wang Mi thought that his gift was too light, so he increased the gift the second time and went to see Wu Shigong again, but he still got rejected.After doing this several times, Wang Mi became a little anxious.So this time, in order to ask to see Wu Shigong, Wang Mi not only spent a lot of money to buy a gift, but also gave Chang Meng an ingot of ten taels of silver, and asked Chang Meng to report it to Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong looked at Wang Mi's gift list and sighed in his heart at the generosity of the salt merchants in Yangzhou.Then Wu Shigong crumpled the gift list into a ball, then threw the paper ball to Chang Meng and said, "Throw this paper ball on the face of the person outside the door, and give him a word to tell him to go!"

The insulted Wang Mi left Qianhusuo Fortress in despair.He felt very resentful towards Wu Shigong in his heart.I thought to myself: "Since you are so ungrateful as a martial artist, then I will find other merchants to sell salt. From now on, you don't even want to get a grain of salt from our Qi family."