Chapter Seventy-Eight: Eyes and Ears
Early in the morning, Yu Wenwen fulfilled his promise to his wife Wei Chi Chifan: wake up with you in the morning. Although the two lingered all night, they woke up together in the morning, Yu Wenwen developed a habit because of military life, and Wei Chi Chifan was worried about his son.
The two spent the night in Wuwei Zhai, and the new environment naturally had a good 'interest', but they still had to be busy with things, and they had to come to the door to deal with things just after breakfast.
"Not them?" Yu Wenwen was a little surprised, the leader of the guards, Zhang Dingfa, nodded, he said that the identity of the person who wanted to go to Wuwei Zhai last night to commit misdeeds was unexpected, not the expected 'Ye Xiao'.
Yu Wenwen went to Wuwei Zhai yesterday to talk about things and spend the night by the way, one for official business and the other for private affairs, not only for Mrs. to deepen the relationship, but also to lure the snake out of the hole is also a purpose.
The snake came and caught, but it was not from his cheap father-in-law Yang Jian's side, according to the results of Zhang Dingfa's overnight torture, the two assassins came from Jiangnan, and the purpose was also very direct: to kill Yuwenwen.
The reason is also very simple, Yuwen Wen let the border of Chen Guo Yingzhou in the south of the Yangtze River 'ruined lives', and Chen Guo, who was continuously deflated, couldn't do anything to him without the navy, and the young and vigorous Chen army generals couldn't bear this breath, and spent money to hire people to go to Xiyang to assassinate 'this fang'.
"That being the case, the 'Ye Xiao' thing continues to stare at." Yuwen Wen is very happy, there are more and more enemies in his family, and there will be more and more assassins who want to attack in the future, but what he cares about the most is the 'Ye Xiao' on Yang Jian's side.
Zhang Dingfa nodded, he laid a big net last night and didn't catch the main one, but it was not bad to get rid of a big trouble, and it was with last night's record that it proved that his suspicious protective measures were indeed necessary.
As a former horse bandit boss, Zhang Dingfa has experienced many things, so ordinary people seem to have a peaceful life, but in his opinion, it is full of dangers, sometimes it's not that some people don't want to do it, it's just that you don't have the qualifications to let them do it.
However, a small mechanism used by the assassin last night made Yuwenwen quite interested, and the other party didn't know what method was used to achieve the effect of the flashbang, and that thing was no longer available and could not be studied, but Yuwenwen guessed that it might be the original gunpowder \ add some 'ingredients'.
Similar to those miraculous poisons in history, Yuwenwen judged that it was a common 'highly toxic' reagent in the chemical laboratory of later generations, not to mention anything else, just the 'three acids and two alkalis' oral administration had an amazing effect.
The various reagents and compounds inadvertently produced by ancient alchemy and alchemy should be the prototypes of a variety of miracle drugs and poisons, but there is no systematic doctrine, and it is inevitable that the generations will be broken by relying on the transmission of masters and apprentices from generation to generation, so Yuwenwen does not plan to study this kind of 'flash bomb'.
But from this incident, it can be seen that Zhang Dingfa's old sense is that the assassin's 'flash grenade' dazzled the eyes of the guards, and it is also thanks to Zhang Dingfa's well-informed and used an eyepatch to solve the problem of his eyes being swayed.
In the later Age of Discovery, the classic image of a pirate captain was a one-eyed dragon, but not everyone was blind in one eye, and it is said that wearing an eye patch could ensure vision in both environments.
When the enemy and the enemy are fighting fiercely, they switch to the dim cabin on the bright deck, and the human eye has a brief blindness because of the change of light and dark environment, and when rushing to the dim cabin, the blindfold is lifted, and the covered eye can immediately adapt to the dim environment.
Whether it is a pirate captain or a horse bandit boss, in order to survive in a life of licking blood, all kinds of whimsical ideas emerge one after another.
"Let's get the car ready and go home." Yu Wenwen instructed his subordinates to prepare the carriage, and as for the snake that did not come out of the hole, he asked Zhang Dingfa to continue to 'follow up'.
His cheap father-in-law Yang Jian sent several groups of people to Xiyang, the first few batches have been cleared, and the later ones should be the masters of the masters, there are signs that they are lurking in Xiyang City, but they can't find it.
I thought I wanted to lure the snake out of the hole and catch it all, but I didn't expect to catch a cobra but a bamboo leaf green, last night's movement was not small, it seems that it will startle the snake, and those lurking 'Ye Xiao' are afraid that they will be more cautious.
Or wait for a certain time to be ripe before attacking, Yuwenwen estimates that it should wait for the Sui army to attack the states of Shannan, and when the soldiers are in the city, these people will respond in secret, the primary goal is to kill him, and at the same time to keep Yang Lihua safe.
Yu Wenwen doesn't care about this kind of thing at all, Yang Lihua is already his woman, so no one wants to get rid of it, but what is interesting is that he found a situation: the cheap father-in-law and the cheap mother-in-law seem to be hiding the 'truth' from each other.
These two each knew that Yang Lihua was by his side, but they both acted separately, thinking that they were worried about each other after the other party knew the truth, "tears fell", if they sent troops to attack Shannan because of this, they forced him to be anxious, and the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry and fled south with his family.
Yuwenwen doesn't want to become a princess in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Chen Guanjia of Chen Guo is not a good stubble, in history, when the Sui army was in the city, there was also the wife of the general who thought about the edict to enter the palace to 'stay', and he was really the master who loved beauty and did not love the country.
The three of his wives and concubines are all beautiful and fragrant, as long as he sends people under the fence, he can't keep any of them, whether ancient or modern, Chinese and foreign men are similar, and the pursuit of power and beauty is tireless, so he will never let this happen......
In the Xiyang County Mansion, Yu Wenwen was listening to the report in the study, and as soon as he returned to the mansion just now, Chi Chi Chi Fan left him to find his son, and the stupid Yu Wenwen didn't have anything to do for long.
"Lord Lang, this is a list of price fluctuations last month." The housekeeper Li Sanjiu handed over a roll of paper to Yu Wenwen, and he was also responsible for other tasks in addition to being a 'housekeeper', first of all, supervising the words and deeds of all the people in the inner and outer courtyards of the house, and secondly, managing the eyes and ears of the Xiyang County Mansion.
"Is there anything out of the ordinary?" Yu Wenwen asked, Li Sanjiu shook his head and said no, the rumors about Wuwei Zhai gradually became less and less concerned, at least no one believed the rumors that Wuwei Zhai used babies to cook.
However, rumors such as Yuwen Wen likes to eat human flesh, is extremely lustful, and robbed people to enter the house and commit adultery, etc., are still rampant, according to the analysis, this is the result of Jiangnan Chen Jun's deliberate dissemination.
"How many pieces have you caught?" Yu Wenwen rubbed his temples helplessly, saying that he was lustful, but it was too lazy to use the rumor template of "forcibly robbing a woman to enter the house and commit adultery".
For him, this robbing of people's daughters is slander, and the wives and concubines in the family are all like fairies, where is there any need to rob people's daughters.
"A total of eighteen people, three have been arrested this month." Li Sanjiu replied that he hated this kind of meticulous work to smear the reputation of his master.
"Do you have enough people? I really can't add a few more, but I have to teach them to read, otherwise it will be too tiring for you to write a summary. "Yu Wenwen is still very willing to invest in intelligence, and this thing is as important as people's ears and eyes.
Li Sanjiu said that according to the current situation, it is okay, but if the scope of inquiry increases, it will have to increase the number of people, and the left-behind personnel on Anlu's side are also shouldering the task of 'market research', and the results are not obvious yet, but it is much more convenient for the shopkeeper Wang and the businessmen on Anlu's side to negotiate buying and selling.
After listening to the summary, Yu Wenwen explained some things about Li Sanjiu, and after he retired, he looked at the rolls of paper on the bookcase in a daze, thinking about the establishment of an intelligence agency in the future.
Gathering intelligence is a capability that any group or force must have, and the art of war is cloudy: knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Therefore, intelligence work is indispensable, and both external and internal hands must be firm.
First of all, you must know your own situation well, the most direct example is the problem of the shortage of troops, for example, the army of 10,000 on the books is actually only 3,000 people, and then only 1,000 can fight, if the commander does not notice that this army needs 10,000 troops to carry out the task, then it will collapse sooner or later.
For example, the state government ordered to increase the rent by three liters per mu of land, and first released the rumors, but the officials reported that the people had no opinions, and the real action provoked the people's rebellion.
No matter how difficult it is, the shelf of the intelligence agency must be put up, and the reason why Yu Wenwen organized a few people to listen to all kinds of news is based on this consideration.
Market Research Department, this is the name set by Yuwen Wen, as the name suggests, is to investigate the market, the original intention is of course to grasp the prices of various places, to facilitate the purchase of low and high sales when trading, or to grasp the needs of various places to facilitate the transfer of goods to make the difference.
Asking around will naturally hear all kinds of rumors and gossip, so by the way, it is also important to sort out useful things from these news, as the so-called "if you want people to know, unless you don't do it", all kinds of clues are combined, and all kinds of words and deeds can find the reason.
Therefore, the task of the market research department is slowly expanding, and all the gossip and other gossips in Xiyang City must be recorded and summarized, and Yuwenwen must try to find unfavorable trends from this information.
The complaints of the large and small officials in the state government, the complaints of the shopkeepers and men in various stores, the strange words of the state soldiers and their families, and the inadvertent revelations of the master's movements by the servants of the large households, this information seems to be of little use, but those who are attentive can analyze different information from it.
The speaker has no intention of listening, and many things are leaked out in unintentional conversations, and the typical one is the leakage of secrets by military families: if the mother-in-law who went to the market to buy vegetables one day complains that her husband who is a soldier is leaving home, then the dynamics of the army can be guessed.
The details determine success or failure, but the details are also very cumbersome, and the person in charge is naturally the most suitable 'pseudo-Mai god' Zheng Tong, but Yuwenwen needs this person to suppress the cunning officials, and it is too wasteful to use it to do market research.
The person in charge of this kind of thing should have an active mind, but the person with an active mind may not be something he can grasp, so at least loyalty must be there.
Li Sanjiu was often bullied as a little eunuch in the palace back then, and in order to protect himself, he could only keep observing words and feelings, constantly paying attention to details so as not to be found faulty, and he was calm and calm, so he was suitable for this kind of work.
For example, in the past few months, in Xiyang City, Li Sanjiu and his subordinates have performed well, finding the root cause from various rumors, and then asking Zhang Dingfa to make a plan to arrest him.
The other is to monitor Chen Jun's prisoners, this work has been done, in the past few months, the informers in Chen Jun's prisoners have uncovered several conspiracies, several large-scale riots have been stifled in the tandem stage, and the masterminds of Yu Wenwen's 'evaporation from the world' have accumulated more than 100 people.
So he also observed the people who behaved well when guarding the prisoners, laying the foundation for the future development of the intelligence agency, and he had the name of the agency in mind, which was very high-end and high-end:
The All-Russian Elimination of Counter-Revolution and Sabotage is very non-existent, and the Extraordinary Committee for the Elimination of Anti-Imperial Court and Sabotage in Bazhou is referred to as the Kaiguang Office.
All those who want to deal with him or sabotage must be 'enlightened', and those who are not honest will be sent to the west by the enlightenment office! (To be continued.) )