8. Intelligence

Li Qi returned to Jinyang, but got the news that due to Wei Bo's army rebellious, Li Siyuan had to order Shi Jingtang to lead the army to suppress it, and the previous plan to send soldiers and horses from the three towns to attack Zhenzhou was also temporarily shelved.

This Wei Bojun, since the Tang Dynasty, has been a system of its own, father and son in the army one after another, with soldiers as a profession, just like the army compound of later generations, or in the family compound of the Iron * Bureau in Yuci, his children have been brave and ruthless since childhood, and fights and brawls are commonplace. Such a force, its combat effectiveness is far beyond the ordinary troops, if it is not properly controlled, it will raise tigers for trouble, there will often be some civil strife, and even kill the generals, and choose their own knots to use them.

After nearly 200 years, Wei Bojun has become a martial artist, and the soldiers have been soldiers for generations, most of them are strong in martial arts, and they are not afraid of death when they fight. After Li Cunqiao obtained Wei Bo, he formed his own pro-army "Silver Spear Effectiveness Army" with Wei Bojun as the main force, which became a major help in his destruction of Liang.

For example, when Li Cunmiao was in distress on the embankment of the Zhanghe River and was surrounded, most of the people who protected him were the Wei Bo pro-army who had just been subdued, but as a result, Li Cunmiao, the king of Jin, only led more than 100 Wei Bo cavalry troops, and actually successfully broke through in the encirclement of more than 2,000 Liang troops, and he only lost less than ten people, which shows his strong combat effectiveness.

It's just that after Li Cunqiao became the emperor, he relieved Li Jianji, the commander of the silver spear army, and changed the position of the forbidden army to his confidant Zhu Shouyin. Zhu Shouyin was very incompetent, he couldn't control them at all, and the military discipline of this pro-army was particularly corrupt.

After Zhu Shouyin's death, the remaining Xiaojie army in the forbidden army fled to Weizhou, which became a factor of instability.

Zhao Zaili was a native of Zhuozhou, and only after the Jin army pacified Liu Shouguang did he defect to the Jin army, and he was the commander of the Xiaojie army. In the fourth year of Tongguang, Wei Bo mutinied, and was forced to the position of the envoy by those tooth troops. He was terrified at this time, for fear that one day he would be rebelled by this unruly Weizhou army.

So Zhao Zaili kept writing to beg Li Siyuan to transfer him out of Weizhou, and then made the goods, up and down, and finally Li Siyuan agreed to move to Cangzhou, and Fang Zhiwen replaced him as the queen of Yedu, and the Tianxiong army was the envoy.

As a result, this time Li Siyuan ordered Shi Jingtang to be the envoy to the north, and Fang Zhiwen to be the deputy envoy, and led Wei Bojun to attack Zhenzhou. As a result, on the day of the army, there were many rumors in the city, and Wei Bo's army mutinied and refused to obey the order. Fang Zhiwen had no choice but to soothe each other with kind words, and reported to Li Siyuan.

After receiving the news of Wei Bo's mutiny, Li Siyuan ordered Shi Jingtang to lead his army to Wei Bo to help suppress it, and this conquest of Zhenzhou could only be postponed temporarily.

Although he was relieved, Li Qi felt that his ears and eyes were closed, and the problem of the government decree not being implemented came.

In his previous life, he hated the government's superficial and procrastinating style, but now, he is very envious of the huge civil servants in his previous life. The vast majority of those who eat public meals are there, and people's hearts are still towards the public.

Now it's good, the official documents and decrees issued by the court have basically become a dead letter out of Taiyuan Mansion, and there is basically no possibility of implementation. Only in his own manor or in the military cantonment area that he built himself, his orders will be carried out, and they will be discounted.

In his previous life, as a person who messed around all day long, Li Qi had not received any official training in any agency, but he knew a truth, this person's energy is limited after all, and if he wants to do big things, he needs a lot of subordinates to help him do things, and he must trust his subordinates.

A leader who likes to do everything by himself and meddles in what his subordinates are doing is not necessarily a good leader.

A leader should be a person who chats in the office but can grasp the overall situation.

And good leaders must be those who have the courage to take responsibility, those who like to pass the buck to their subordinates, like to blame their subordinates, are never good leaders, or they themselves are not the material for leadership. There are various reasons for a bad thing, such as the lack of ability of subordinates, the wrong direction, problems in the intermediate links, and the interference of some unexpected factors.

And most of the things in the world are done well, and you will be able to do it successfully.

The refusal to take on this responsibility only means that he is not qualified for this position.

The biggest problem of being an emperor is that things have gone bad, but no one has come out to accuse him, make him take responsibility, and correct the mistakes he has made in time. When these mistakes and punishments accumulate day by day, and when they reach a sufficient number, they all erupt, if they are not done, it will be the end of the destruction of the country, the death of the family, and the destruction of the family.

This is indeed one of the most dangerous professions in the world.

In order to obtain information in a more timely manner, Li Qi has been trying to restore the spy agency that had been completely corrupted by the end of the Tang Dynasty. This is our secret service, the Han Dynasty called it the embroidered messenger, the Tang Dynasty belonged to the Hundred Cavalry Division, and the Song Dynasty called it the Secret Spy Division. In the Ming Dynasty, the internal guards under the Jinyi Guard and the Si Ritual Supervisor were even rampant in the world, and they could even control the court.

Such institutions were the guarantors of national security and were directly accountable to the emperor, but if their power was not strictly checked, they would inevitably overflow. For example, the factory guards of the Ming Dynasty were rampant and corrupt, and they became a cancer on the empire in just a few decades.

Although it stabilized the imperial power, it also imprisoned the development of the whole society.

There was originally an espionage agency in the Jin army, which was located in the Jinyang Palace, and it has always been in charge of Zhang Chengye, the Hedong Supervisor. It was developed by the spy service agency left behind by the inner court of the Tang Dynasty in Hedong. It's just that Zhang Chengye has always regarded himself as a former Tang relict, taking the restoration of Tang rule as his own responsibility, and he was remorseful about Emperor Zhuang's accession to the throne as emperor, and when he died, he also brought the secret spy agency he mastered into the coffin.

As soon as Zhang Chengye died, the original intelligence agency of the Jin army also disappeared. This also caused Li Cunmiao to be closed to his ears and eyes later, and he did not know about his subordinates, and began to trust eunuchs and flatterers.

The method adopted by Li Qi was to infiltrate his intelligence network to various places through the Chamber of Commerce.

This is also the reason why Zhang Gan, the internal supervisor, has always been one of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce.

Later, Li Qi felt that if there was only one spy agency, it would be easy for a specific interest group to get out of control in the end, so he ordered Li Huan, the internal supervisor, to be responsible for opening a second "chamber of commerce."

After returning from his inspection in the north, Li Qi felt the importance of military intelligence and planned to establish a military espionage agency in the forbidden army, but there was still no clue about the selection and training of personnel.

He is no longer prepared to be placed under the management of the internal supervision of this military espionage agency.

Although the group of eunuchs can only rely on the royal family to exist by nature, the psychological and personality defects formed due to physical defects can only be said to be usable, but they cannot and cannot be used. Although there are some eunuchs with good reputations in Chinese history, such as Zhang Chengye, the former Hedong Supervisor, they are still notorious and cause trouble to the world.

It's just that many of the people Li Qi trusts at present are from the original Jin Palace's palace and the inner servants of the Jinyang Palace, which is also a matter of no choice......