In a quiet alley in Nanxunfang, the walls on both sides are lined with morning glory vines, like dragon scales, next to each other with green leaves and purple, red, and white morning glory dots in between, making this alley look like a forgotten corner of the city.

However, if you walk two-thirds of the way down the alley, you can see a hidden gate on the right side of the alley, but ordinary people don't want to enter the door. Inside the gate, there is a porter in his forties and fifties who sits behind the door, and no one can enter without a wooden identification card.

This small courtyard, hidden in the middle of the city, is where one of the offices of the Social Investigation Department is located. Of course, the official name of this place should be called the World Cultural and Art Research Center. This small courtyard covers an area of about three or four acres, with nearly 20 new and old buildings, and is divided into five departments: Northeast Asian Cultural Research Center, Southeast Asian Cultural Research Center, South Asian and Central and Western Asian Cultural Research Center, American Cultural Research Center, and European Cultural Research Center.

The largest of these is the Center for Northeast Asian Cultures, which occupies nearly a quarter of the buildings in the small courtyard and forms an independent courtyard. Next door to this small courtyard is the Beijing Library and the East Asia Tongwen Museum, and many of the staff and public information are shared between these units.

Song Xiance and Li Yangeng, who fled from Shenyang, are now working at the Northeast Asian Cultural Research Center, and of course they are also senior officials in the Social Investigation Department. At this moment, the two of them are nervously in the large conference room of the Northeast Asian Cultural Research Center, studying and analyzing the information sent back from all over the Northeast.

Unlike in the past, when Jinyiwei relied on his personal talents to spy on important secret information, the Social Investigation Department, which was born out of Dongchang, has begun to complete the transformation from a spy organization serving the emperor to a national intelligence department. The Department of Social Investigation no longer regards the aimless collection of all kinds of secret information as its primary goal, but attaches more importance to collecting various information on the target country or nation as a whole, and then builds a complete model of the political and economic strength of the country or nation through these information.

Although this model may still have many shortcomings, this kind of intelligence collection and analysis work has greatly improved the efficiency of the social investigation department, and also filtered out a lot of useless and false information. It not only allowed the intelligence officers of the Social Investigation Department to have a larger pattern in collecting and analyzing intelligence, but also provided the emperor, the cabinet, and the General Staff with more intuitive and reliable intelligence information.

To some extent, the Social Survey Department is becoming more and more like a brain of the Ming government, providing a large amount of data for reference when the Ming government handles foreign relations.

Of course, in order to be able to avoid mistakes in front of the emperor and the cabinet, the officials of the Social Investigation Department also put in great efforts. For example, the alley that looks quiet and leisurely outside, but when you get to the small courtyard, you can only see all kinds of employees in a hurry, even those who are holding a large stack of documents in their hands, and they are trotting forward, which is in stark contrast to the officials in the other yamen.

The large conference room of the Northeast Asian Cultural Research Center is actually three open wings. One-third of the space is a conference room for meetings, one-third of the space has a sand table of Northeast Asian topography built on the ground, and one-third of the space is lined with rows of bookshelves containing materials.

Song Xiance and Li Yangeng were sitting on the east side of the conference table, and the conference table in front of them was full of open documents. Several other officials came in with boxes full of documents and read the contents of the documents to the two men in the order in which they had been marked. Then, according to the instructions of the two people, put the new document in the designated place on the conference table.

Song Xiance calculated in his heart for a long time, and suddenly looked up at Li Yangeng and said: "According to the summary of these news, the Manchus in the Later Jin Kingdom plus those Manchurianized Mongols, the total number is about 700,000, and it will not exceed 750,000. The number of naturalized Mongols in the Later Jin Dynasty was about 100,000, the Han Chinese were about 400,000-500,000, and the Koreans were about 600,000. The population of semi-independent Mongolian tribes such as Horqin and other semi-independent Mongolian tribes attached to Houjin is about 250,000-350,000. In other words, the total population of Houjin should be between 2.15-2.25 million. ”

Li Yangeng subconsciously affirmed: "The Manchurian Eight Banners can form a force of 75,000-85,000 people. If it is a battle to conquer the country, the men of the Eight Banners between the ages of 14 and 60 will be recruited, and it can reach about 200,000 people. Therefore, the number of people you have summed up should not be far from the actual situation. ”

Although Li Yangeng answered in the affirmative, he was extremely shocked by the efficiency of the Social Investigation Department in collecting and analyzing intelligence. The population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria has always been regarded as an absolute secret by the Manchurian aristocracy, and it has always been forbidden to talk about these contents in front of people, and only the Eight Banners Baylor and the Later Jin Great Khan can know the exact information.

After all, the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty was not as light as Nurhachi and Huang Taiji said, what was the destiny of heaven, so the Jianzhou Jurchens were able to unify the Jurchen tribes and defeat the Ming army to seize the founding of Liaodong. Nurhachi first relied on Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, to make a fortune and unify the Jurchen tribes, and then took advantage of the fact that there was no general stationed in Liaodong after Li Chengliang's death and rebelled, and then ordered the Jianzhou Jurchens to possess Liaodong by massacring the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, which is really not a destiny.

The Jurchens, who relied on the use of force to suppress the ethnic groups in Liaodong and established their country, naturally knew that once their armed forces declined, they would suffer bloody revenge from the people of all ethnic groups in Liaodong. Therefore, from the day of the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty, the two generations of Later Jin Great Khans, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, always demonstrated the strength of the Jurchen Eight Banners, while concealing any weakness that might lead other ethnic groups to think that they could challenge the Jurchen Eight Banners.

The population of the Jianzhou Jurchens is the biggest shortcoming of the Jurchens. No matter how brave the lion is, he can't withstand the continuous challenges of the wolves. What's more, the enemies of the Jianzhou Jurchens, whether they were Mongols or Ming, were all powerful enemies whose population far outnumbered them. If these two enemies understand the population of the Jurchens, it will undoubtedly let them know the reality of the Houjin, and they will be in a passive position strategically.

But the information that was regarded as top secret by the Jurchens was pieced together little by little in front of him, with countless chaotic and seemingly unworthy information, which made Li Yangeng deeply frightened. If Da Ming can piece together the political and economic conditions of Houjin in this way, then what chance does Houjin have to turn over. Perhaps Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin, is indeed a rare outstanding person among the ethnic minorities, but it is impossible for him to fight against His Majesty the Emperor with such an efficient ability to collect and analyze intelligence, and this is just an intelligence department around the emperor.

Song Xiance didn't care about Li Yangeng, who was a little distracted, he calculated on the paper and said: "According to the summary of the existing information, the agriculture in Jin's territory will be a bumper harvest this year, and it will probably not be less than 16 million stone of grain income. This year, the planting area of potatoes, corn and rice exceeded 40% of the total cultivated area, the cultivated area of soybeans increased by about 5% compared with last year, and the planting area of wheat decreased by half..."

Song Xiance curled his fingers and calculated, before continuing: "If you count the income from animal husbandry, fur, logging, ginseng, etc., the total industrial and agricultural production value of Houjin this year should be about 40 million yuan, about 20 yuan per capita. Now the official price comparison between Daqing Yuan and Daming Yuan is 1:1, that is to say, Daqing Yuan is printed to 00,000 yuan, and there is basically no problem. ”

Li Yangeng immediately sobered up and focused his attention on the work at hand, he immediately looked at the data in front of him and replied: "Now the printing volume of Daqing Yuan is about 9.65 million yuan, of which nearly 800,000 yuan has flowed into the newly established stock market, and the stock market of Houjin now has only 6 stocks, and the funds that can be accommodated are still smaller." However, by the end of the year, about 9 stocks will be added one after another. Can we start pulling up stock prices? ”

Song Xiance was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked the intelligence officer on the side: "How many of the 156 families we selected before, how many have you come into contact with?" How did they react? ”

The intelligence officer immediately replied: "123 of the 156 households have been contacted, mainly the Manchu family members of those who are in the Eight Banners of Loyalty and Righteousness.

Most of the family members, after receiving the letters from their relatives and the money sent back, chose to hand over the letters to Baylor, who was in charge of Benniulu. Only a small number of people handed over their letters and money. Of course, there are also 9 families who choose to hide their letters and money.

As for the rest of the households, they are all children of the Aixin Jueluo family, especially Manggu Jigege, who has a valuable status, so our people don't dare to act rashly, and it will take about a while. ”

Song Xiance pondered for a moment, and then said to the intelligence officer: "The others can let it go, and contact Manggu Zigege first." She is the most greedy for money, so you will go straight to the door to find her for shelter, and in the name of a foreign businessman who intends to do a stock business in Shenyang, as long as she is willing to hang her name, you will give her 30% of the dry shares. Let her eat a few sweeteners first, and she will naturally notice the trick of how to make money in stocks.

With Mang Guji Gege's recommendation, the families of the important ministers of the Eight Banners will naturally follow. The family members of these upper-class people of the Eight Banners have entered the stock market, and the generals of the Eight Banners will naturally follow suit, so that we will not have too much difficulty raising the stock price.

In addition, the Great Qing Yuan that we printed can also be distributed through the families of Manggu Jigege and the Eight Banner Ministers, and after passing through their hands, no one will suspect that these Great Qing Yuan are fakes.

By the first month of next year, the market value of the Shenyang stock market should be guaranteed to reach 4 million yuan, and it should not be less than 10 million yuan in the next year. Then when Fan Yongdou prints the amount of Daqing Yuan to 20 million yuan, we can start to withdraw from the stock market, and that is also the time when we have a showdown with Fan Yongdou..."

Li Yangeng frowned and said, "With such a large sum of money, how should we withdraw it then?" If we are locked up in the Houjin country, won't we be working in vain? ”

Song Xiance looked at him and lowered his voice and said: "Actually, we don't need to invest much, we can directly borrow money from Fan Yongdou, borrow the banknotes he printed and invest them in the stock market, or lend them to those who want to enter the stock market to speculate."

As long as the daily necessities we import can stabilize the prices of goods in Shenyang and create a false prosperity, most of the Daqing yuan flowing into the stock market will not cause prices to skyrocket.

It's just that when we announced that we would no longer accept the Great Qing Yuan, Houjin had to use the materials we had stored to recover the extra Qing Yuan. In the future, the material reserves of Jin, I am afraid, it will be difficult to digest the Great Qing Yuan in the market, which will naturally cause the depreciation of the Great Qing Yuan.

Then when the time comes, they will sell their stocks to cash out, causing the stocks to plummet, and the paper money flowing out of the stock market will further exacerbate the depreciation of the Qing Yuan. Those who borrow money to speculate in stocks will lose all their money, while those who are at the top of the gold will be able to leave a large fortune.

There will be a loss of trust between the upper and lower classes of the Houjin, and Huang Taiji will either purge the upper echelons of the Houjin to appease the discontent of the lower classes. Either it is to protect the upper class and suppress the lower class. If this situation can be formed, even if you can't make any money, your majesty will be happy to come..."

Li Yangeng thought in his heart, this seems to be different from what those bankers think.