I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 201 When the Japanese invasion is quelled one day, you will become a great hero in the secret war against the Japanese.

Zhang Bo said that Lin Shisan wanted to "hide his true self".

Lin Shisan corrected him, "Master, you are wrong. It is not to hide one's own strength, but to hide one's own protection."

Jinyiwei handled almost all the cases related to officials. Which official didn't have a brother who was his student, old friend, or close friend?

Therefore, in the Jinyiwei, as long as you do something, you will offend people.

Although Lin Shisan is very good at dealing with people, he cannot please everyone on every assignment.

It is what a qualified Jinyiwei captain should do to have the evidence of an important figure in hand to be prepared for any eventuality.

Lin Shisan has just said that most of the things in the iron box are just written records, but no actual evidence.

Even if it is handed over to the higher-ups, they will not be able to prove the guilt of those people.

It's a different story if you hold it in your own hands. For example, one day a core member of Xu's party wants to impeach Lin Shisan.

Lin Shisan only needs to find him and say: I heard that in a certain year and month, your family traded a certain amount of goods with Japanese pirates in a certain place?

The other party didn't know how much evidence Lin Shisan had, so they didn't dare to take any risks. The impeachment had to be abandoned to prevent Lin Shisan from getting involved in a desperate situation.

Zhang Bo said, "You're hiding something to protect yourself? Well, you're right to do so. You're becoming more and more sophisticated."

Lin Shisan then told Zhang Bo about his idea of selling false information to the Japanese pirates through Hojo Koji.

Zhang Bo said: "If this is done well, the Japanese pirates of all sizes along the southeast coast will be led by the nose by the Ming army! When the Japanese invasion is quelled one day, you will become a great hero in the secret war against the Japanese."

"Everyone says you are a lucky man. You are indeed lucky!"

Lin Shisan said: "That's all for later. For now, the plan is to arrest the undercover agent named Hata Ye Yi. Let's set up a net and wait for him."

The next day in the evening.

The Japanese pirate spy Hata Ye O who had been active in Hangzhou City entered Nanjing City as promised and came to Wenyuan Xiu Ju.

Hojo Koji took him to the mandarin duck room on the third floor.

The so-called mandarin duck room is where the girls show off their skills to their patrons.

King Xue and his two men have been following Hojo Koji.

Lin Shisan did not follow, as he had no martial arts skills. If Hata Ye Yi sensed something was wrong and suddenly resorted to violence, Lin Shisan would not only be unable to help at the scene, but would need protection.

In the mandarin duck room, Hojo Koji sat on the bed. Beside the bed was a pot of sesame oil and a bottle of "Da Li Hui Chun Bu Dao Jin Qiang Dong Shan Zai Qi Mei Hua San Nong Wan".

Xue Yanwang brought a chair to Hata Ye Oto. After Hata Ye Oto sat down, he looked at Hojo Koji's three new "followers" suspiciously.

Hata Ye Yi said: "The three of them are unfamiliar. I have been to your place five times and have never seen them before."

Hojo Koji quickly explained: "They are my newly recruited men."

Xue Yanwang bowed to Hata Ye Oto and said in the simple Japanese language taught to him by Hojo Koji: "Kou Ni Xi Wa, Kou Kou La Sa Ma (Hello, thank you for your hard work)."

Hatanoba frowned. "What a strange accent. Aren't they from the Nihongi tribe?"

Hojo Koji nodded: "Yes, they are Han pirates from Fujian."

Let me digress. There is a saying in history books that is rarely mentioned in later generations, as it would be embarrassing to mention it: "Three out of ten are genuine Japanese, and seven out of ten are followers."

In other words, only 30% of the so-called "Japanese pirates" were Japanese, and 70% were Han pirates who followed the Japanese to plunder.

Since the death of Wang Zhi, it is no longer a new thing for the Han pirates in Fujian to regard the Japanese as their father and obey their orders.

Hata Ye nodded: "Slut Dai ripped off the milk! Hojo-kun, the information I brought this time may be the most valuable since you have been involved in the intelligence business!"

"I offer fifteen thousand taels of silver!"

Hojo Koji waved his hands repeatedly: "Too expensive! Too expensive!"

Hata Ye O said: "If I tell you what the information is, you won't think it's expensive."

"Qi Jiguang's new army of Zhejiang soldiers in the Ming Dynasty is very mysterious. In the last battle of Yangjingbang, Kobayakawa Kamatsugu's army of 1,000 people encountered Qi's new army of 1,000 people and was completely wiped out."

"Since there were no survivors from Kobayakawa Kamashiro's army, no one knew what kind of army Qi's new army was."

"My intelligence records in detail the number of Zhejiang soldiers, their organization, firearms configuration, formations, training methods, and even the backgrounds and personalities of their commanders and deputy commanders."

"There is an old saying in the Ming Dynasty: Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle."

"I can guarantee that if you spend 15,000 taels to buy my detailed information, you can sell it for 30,000 or 40,000 taels, or even more than 50,000 taels."

"The leaders of the various tribes along the coast of Ming Dynasty will definitely fight over this."

Hatanoba Oto looked very confident.

Hojo Koji said with a smile: "Yoshi! Slutty Dai tearing her breasts! Can I inspect the goods?"

Hata Ye Oto took out a booklet from his bag and handed it to Hojo Koji.

After looking through it carefully, Hojo Koji said, "Okay, Hata-kun, let's take your price, 15,000 taels of silver. Do you want a silver note or cash?"

Hata Ye Yi replied: "I will return to Nihong after I finish this job. The Ming Dynasty silver notes cannot be exchanged in Nihong. Fifteen thousand taels of cash is too much to bring back."

"How about you convert the silver into nine hundred ounces of gold for me?"

Two years ago, at the instruction of Emperor Jiajing, Cabinet Chief Minister Yan Song implemented a policy of trial opening of trading ports.

The opening of only three ports led to a large influx of silver. Coupled with the rampant smuggling trade in the past few decades, it also led to a serious influx of silver.

The gold-silver exchange rate has increased from 1:10 in the early Jiajing period to 1:16 today.

If the Ministry of Revenue had not seen the increasingly serious trend of gold being more expensive and silver being cheaper and increased the output of the Jiaojia Gold Mine in Ye County, Laizhou Prefecture and the Linglong Gold Mine in Zhaoyuan County, the gold-silver exchange rate would probably have reached 1:20.

Hojo Koji nodded: "Absolutely no problem. I will go down to the cabin to get the gold."

Hata Ye O noticed something was wrong: "What? Why do you have so much gold in your flower boat?"

As soon as he said this, two hidden arrows were pointed at Hatano's forehead, and a short knife was also placed across Hatano's neck.

Xue Yanwang burst into laughter: "Screw it. I am a Jinyiwei."

Hatano's eyes widened: "What? Are you the Jinyiwei of Ming Dynasty? Hojo Koji, you betrayed me!"

Xue Yanwang said: "I advise you to be honest. The sleeve arrows and the short knife are smeared with poison that kills instantly. If you don't want to die, surrender."

Obviously, Hata Ye Oto was also a lifer. He tried so hard to get intelligence about the Ming Dynasty just for money.

On the age-old philosophical question of whether to choose money or life, Bodosan decisively chose the latter.

Hata Ye O said: "Don't kill me! I will behave myself."

Xue Yanwang ordered his men: "Tie him up."

Soon, Hatanoye Oto was tied up like a dumpling.

King Xue Yan pointed to the mandarin duck room next door and shouted, "Captain Lin, the prisoner has been captured. You can come over now."

Lin Shisan, Zhang Bo, Sun Yue, Li Gao and Shen Weijing entered the mandarin duck room.

Shen Weijing was surprised: "It's you? The mute servant in the Dusi Yamen? Are you the secret agent of the Japanese pirates?"

Hata Ye Yi was also very surprised: "Shen Shangmu, are you from the Ming government?" Lin Shisan smiled and said: "Why, are you old acquaintances?"

Shen Weijing nodded: "This guy pretended to be dumb and has been sweeping the floor in the Dusi Yamen. I once went to the Dusi Yamen and saw him."

Hata Ye Yi shouted: "Shen Shangmu, save me!"

Lin Shisan said, "You should call him Captain Shen! He is a captain of the Southern Pacification Division of our Jinyiwei."

Hatayoto muttered a Japanese curse: "Baga."

Shen Weijing said, "Captain Lin, you hand this man over to me. I want to interrogate him and find out which other officials in the Dusi Yamen are leaking information in exchange for dishonest money."

Lin Shisan still trusted Shen Weijing. However, according to the rules of the Jinyiwei, whether it was interrogating an official who had committed a crime or an enemy country's secret agent, there had to be two people to interrogate the case.

Lin Shisan turned around and told Sun Yue, "You and Captain Shen interrogate this guy together."

Shen Weijing and Sun Yue took Hatanoba away.

Hojo Koji handed the intelligence booklet brought by Hatano Ye O to Lin Shisan.

Lin Shisan felt his scalp tingling as he flipped through the booklet. He said to himself, "If this booklet falls into the hands of the Japanese pirates, the Zhejiang New Army will have no secrets at all!"

"Those damned Japanese pirates really need to know themselves and their enemies before they can win every battle!"

Zhang Bo said, "Now that the booklet is in your hands, you can make up a piece of false information and have Hojo Koji send someone to sell it to the Japanese pirate leaders along the coast."

"For example, you can lie that the Zhejiang New Army is no different from the garrison troops. They are good at bullying men and women, killing people and setting fires, and torturing the people. But once they go to the battlefield, they become a group of cowards who are afraid of death."

"For example, you could lie that the Zhejiang New Army lacks firearms. They are still using fire-breathing tubes from the Song-Mongol War. As for the artillery, they are all outdated pine tree cannons that explode after a few shots."

Lin Shisan said, "No. If we provide the Japanese pirates with false information right from the start, will they trust Wenyuan Xiuju again after being fooled once? Will they buy the information sold by Hojo Koji again?"

"Wouldn't that be like throwing away the watermelon to pick up the sesame seeds? In my opinion, this information needs to be revised, but it should not be completely false, but half true and half false."

"We can give the pirates the real information that is not important. We can change the most critical information into fake information or blur it out directly."

After listening to Lin Shisan's words, Zhang Bo sighed and said, "I am really old. My brain is not as fast as yours."

Zhang Bo was an old drunkard and a playboy. He aged quickly and was old. In terms of quick wit, he could not catch up with the young man Lin Shisan.

Lin Shisan said: "This matter is too big. We can't make the decision on our own. In my opinion, we should send someone to Hangzhou to ask Hu Zongxian and Hu Butang for their opinions."

"The intelligence nest of Wenyuanxiuju is like a dagger. If used properly, it can pierce the throat of the Japanese pirates. We must be cautious."

Zhang Bo said, "Send Li Gao to Hangzhou. He has been talking about going to Hangzhou West Lake to meet the boat girl named Yu Niang."

Lin Shisan nodded: "Okay, Li Gao, I'll leave this matter to you. You leave for Hangzhou early tomorrow morning."

Li Gao smiled and said, "Okay, Master."

Lin Shisan turned to look at Hojo Koji again: "Brother Hojo, let's talk about business, shall we?"

Hojo Koji was surprised: "I am now at your service. Just tell me what you want to do. The relationship between us is that of master and servant, not business partners."

Lin Shisan waved his hand and said, "No. We have an old saying in the Ming Dynasty: brothers should settle accounts clearly."

"From now on, I will give you true intelligence, false intelligence, and half-true and half-false intelligence. You will sell it to the Japanese pirates along the coast. We will split the money we get 20% and 80%."

"You two, Jinyiwei eight. How about it?"

Since ancient times, you can't gather troops without money. This is especially true for intelligence warfare. Whether it is intelligence or counterintelligence, it requires a huge amount of money.

As an aside, in later generations, a certain Eagle Sauce leader drastically cut CIA funding, and the desperate CIA even resorted to remotely selling cheap goods to obtain intelligence funding.

When Lin Shisan came to Nanjing, the Jinyiwei of the capital only allocated the expenses for his comrades to settle down, but did not allocate the huge amount of money needed for the secret mission.

Lin Shisan could only think of ways to make money.

Through Hojo Koji, a double agent, he sold false information to the Japanese pirates. He could not only lead the Japanese pirates by the nose, but also earn money from them. Haha, the Japanese pirates were doing a business with no capital, and they were very rich.

This really kills two birds with one stone.

Hojo Koji has now become Lin Shisan's chopping block, and it is extremely rare for him to get 20% of the profits.

He immediately agreed: "I still say the same old thing - it's all up to Captain Lin to order."

Lin Shisan said, "If you work hard for me, I will never treat you unfairly. If you do a good job, I can even report to the Jinyiwei of the capital and give you a position in the Jinyiwei."

"If you become a member of the Imperial Guard, all the wealth you have accumulated over the years will be safe."

"By then, you will have become a wealthy official of the Ming Dynasty."

"Your descendants don't need to go back to Japan and suffer from civil unrest."

Lin Shisan painted a huge pie for Hojo Koji.

Hojo Koji's eyes revealed his longing for a better life in the future.

He thinks too much.

Since ancient times, double agents have never had a good ending. People who like to betray will eventually be betrayed by everyone.

Lin Shisan's thoughts were: How many bloody incidents have been caused by the intelligence you, Hojo Koji, provided to the Japanese pirates over the years? How many Ming soldiers and civilians have died at the hands of the Japanese pirates?

You are useful now. I can keep you.

When the day comes that you are no longer of use, I will kill you and make you pay for what you have done.

Li Gao rushed to Hangzhou and told Hu Zongxian the whole story.

Hu Zongxian attached great importance to this matter and specially sent his trusted aide Xu Wei to Nanjing to discuss the matter with Lin Shisan.

The main hall of the Lin residence on Dachanggan Street.

Xu Wei walked in, exhausted.

Lin Shisan bowed respectfully and said, "I have been waiting for Mr. Xu for a long time."

Although Xu Wei had no official position, he was the most talented scholar in Jiangnan and the chief staff member of the Governor-General's Office of Zhejiang Province. Lin Shisan was very respectful to him.

Xu Wei smiled and said, "I heard that you found a treasure in Nanjing!"

Lin Shisan said: "I am ashamed. If it weren't for Master Shao's guidance, I would still be completely in the dark."

Xu Wei restrained his smile and said, "Li Gao told Hu Bu Tang about your idea. I agree with you."

"That Wenyuan Xiuju is a good card, just like playing Mahjong, the good cards should be saved for the Thirteen Yao self-drawn as the general."

"We can't let Wenyuan Xiuju give the Japanese pirates false information right away."

"I have thought about it. From the intelligence about the Zhejiang New Army that you seized, delete all the top secrets."

"Add some true but irrelevant information. For example, the commander Qi Jiguang is henpecked; the captain Wu Weizhong likes to gamble; the captain Chen Dacheng likes to drink, etc."

"Use this insignificant true information to gain the Japanese pirates' trust in Wenyuan Xiuju."

Lin Shisan nodded: "Yes. This is what they call when the false is made to be true, the true becomes false, and when the true is made to be false, the false becomes true."

(End of this chapter)