Sihua, there is an internal ghost in the Mint, the responsibility lies with me, and I am mainly responsible. Wang Pengyuan said gloomily.

Wang Yue smiled and said, "You are responsible, but you can't be responsible for all the responsibilities." The stall you have to manage is too big, and the so-called house thieves are difficult to prevent, which is a loophole in the prevention measures of our starting point city. Our main task now is to strictly investigate the counterfeiting dens and catch these internal ghosts. ”

Wang Yue has complete trust in Wang Pengyuan, and has been keeping secrets for him all these years, and he has a tacit understanding.

Li Yunhai said: "Commander, through your analysis, the humble position can already delineate the outside connector of these inner ghosts, that is, Zheng Chongzhi, the shopkeeper of the Fan family stationed in my starting point city, and Fan Yongdou's cousin Fan Yongwen. As long as you keep an eye on these two people, those inner ghosts will surface.

It is customary for the military and police system to refer to Wang Yue as the commander, and the civil affairs department is accustomed to calling Wang Yue an adult.

"We have to grasp both hands, one is to keep an eye on the people of the Fan family, and the other is to keep an eye on the logistics supply of the starting point city." Wang Yue commanded.

"Yes, I understand!" Li Yunhai said.

Wang Yue said to everyone: "The bureau that the Jin merchants have laid out for us is different from any hostile forces in the past, and it cannot completely solve the problem by simply fighting and killing.

First of all, we have to be famous, find out who is behind the scenes, and ensure that one hit will be hit. ”

"Director Gu!" Wang Yue said: "Your investigation bureau dispatched all the agents who had no task, and immediately took action to go deep into Shanxi to understand the movements of the Jin merchants and investigate the counterfeiting dens. ”

"Yes!" Gu Xiuquan responded.

"Captain Zhang!" Wang Yue said to Zhang Tiezhu, the captain of the special brigade: "Your special brigade also went to Shanxi to cooperate with the action team of the Investigation Bureau.

At the same time, we will give the necessary protection to those merchants who have cooperated well with our starting point city trading company, and if anyone threatens their lives, I will kill them. ”

"Obedience!" Zhang Tiezhu said loudly.

"Huang Bo." Wang Yue said.

"Humble duty!"

Wang Yue said to Huang Bo: "Your Political Propaganda Department will also follow up and send personnel to Taiyuan, Datong, Zhangjiakou and other places with the Investigation Bureau and the Special Operations Brigade to publicize the anti-counterfeiting knowledge of silver yuan coupons, especially the policies of our starting city, and expose the faces of profiteers." ”

"Yes, I understand." Huang Bodao.

"Pengyuan!" Wang Yue said to Wang Pengyuan: "You are ready to transfer enough cash and escort it to Shanxi by the special brigade to prevent a large-scale run." ”

Wang Pengyuan nodded and said, "I'll arrange it when I go down!" The silver and gold sent back by the Tiance Army after many years of fighting abroad, plus the income of the trading company in the past few years, as well as the over-issuance of silver yuan bills from our Imperial Bank and the savings of residents, my starting point city already has more than 10,000 taels of silver reserves, and I am not afraid of the run of those Jin merchants at all. ”

The Imperial Bank's silver reserves are indeed huge, and the salaries of the workers in the starting point city and the military salaries of the soldiers of the Tiance Army are all issued to personal passbooks, so there is not much silver in circulation in the starting point city.

Wang Yue said to Li Maochang: "Minister Li, you immediately raise grain, salt and other materials and prepare to transport them to Shanxi." Didn't those Jin merchants play hoarding and manipulating prices? I'll see how much money they throw into it. ”

"Happy, happy!" Li Maochang laughed and said: "To deal with these unscrupulous profiteers, we must use such means. They thought that my starting city would have to support so many people, and that they would have to support so many soldiers, and that the salary and military pay would be so high, that the expenses would be huge, but they didn't know that the wealth of my starting city was unimaginable to them, and this time they made their family bankrupt. ”

"Is it enough to go bankrupt?" Wang Yue sneered, and then said to Wang Zhuo: "Brother, order the Second Brigade in Shandong, the Fourth Brigade in Luzhou, and the Fifth Brigade in Taiwan to assemble in the starting point city in ten days. At the same time, the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Brigades of the Public Security Army were ordered to return to the starting point city from Shandong. ”

The 1st to 10th Brigades of the Public Security Army are the A-shaped Brigades, and these 10 brigades were adapted from the original Shuntianfu regimental training troops. Two years ago, Shandong disaster relief, Shuntianfu security forces went to reinforcements, and after being reorganized into brigades, the source of troops was replenished on the spot in Shandong.

The rest of the 11th to 20th brigades of the security army are B brigades. The main force of the Tiance Army and the A-shaped Brigade of the Public Security Army mainly undertook the tasks of foreign wars, and the B-shaped Brigade undertook local defense, which was the military framework set up by Wang Yue according to the dispersion of the control area of the starting point city.

The total strength of the combat unit reached 21,000 men, plus the three brigades of the Tiance Army and the three A-shaped brigades of the Security Army equipped with submachine guns, which was the largest troop build-up of the Tiance Army since its establishment. The war between Shuntianfu and Lu Xiangsheng's Ming army is not counted, and the actual strength of the Tiance army with automatic weapons at that time was only four regiments and 6,000 people.

Wang Zhuo said in surprise: "Do you need so many troops to go to Shanxi?" ”

Wang Yue said: "Yes, we have to deal with the Jin merchants, and we don't have to destroy all the Ming troops in Shanxi, which may exist in the situation that it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, so the strength is preferred." In addition, once our army enters Shanxi, we have to consider Lu Xiangsheng's new army, and now that the 20,000 new army has been redressed and has a certain combat effectiveness, these people must also be taken into account. ”

Wang Zhuo thought for a while and said, "Okay, then in the name of the Tiance Army Headquarters, I will order all the departments to assemble on the appointed date." ”

"Oh, yes." After arranging a lot of affairs, Wang Yue remembered something again, and said to Gu Xiuquan: "Xiuquan, inform the intelligence officers of Datong, and let Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, come to the starting point city to see me." ”

"Okay, Commander!" Gu Xiuquan nodded.

In February last year, the imperial court ordered Wang Zhong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, to aid Henan with troops, but Wang Zhong said that he was ill for several months and did not advance, and the army returned with a clamour. The Ministry of War impeached Ling Yiqu in the matter, and Chongzhen ordered the Ministry of War to arrest Wang Zhong and enter Beijing, so the current Shanxi General Soldier is Zhou Yuji.

The fortresses were all breached from within, and Wang Yue thought so.

It is very convenient to inform Wang Pu that the starting point city has an office in Datong, and there is a telegram about it.

Wang Pu received Wang Yue's notice and was uneasy.

It's been two years, since he was released back to Datong by Wang Yue, Wang Pu is still grateful for Wang Yue's favor, but today he suddenly received the news that Wang Yue was going to meet him, and he knew that there was a reason for it.

The Wang family, where Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, was located, was itself one of the eight Jin merchants.

Wang Pu and his father Wang Wei were almost hereditary Datong commanders, and they were the local emperors of Datong. Although his father and son are not in business, the rest of his family are all businessmen, and they are headed by Wang Dengku, who has three rooms, and is known as the Taiyuan Wang family, and the scale of business is second only to the Jiexiu Fan family.

The Wang family did a lot of business with Tartars a few years ago. However, the Wang family had a greater political sense than the other seven families, and saw that the Manchus were gradually declining under the blows of the Tiance army, and had reduced their smuggling business with the Manchus.

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