In April, the caravan returning from the north brought back news that Wang Zishun, who had besieged Pingyang, led the rebel army to capture Shilou and Puxian again, while Yonghe was also captured by another rebel army.

The three counties are all under the jurisdiction of Pingyang Prefecture, but at this time, Pingyang City is under the control of Tang Xidong, and Pingyang Wei is even more exhausted.

The three counties fell, and Tang Xidong only wrote a letter in the name of the prefect Cen Huayan, and it had nothing to do with him as for how the Ming court arranged.

The three counties were captured by the rebels, and the soldiers once again pointed directly at the hinterland of Binh Duong Province, and the flames of war could come at any time.

A wave of anxiety hit me.

At the same time, Tang Xidong discovered his own shortcomings, that is, he had no intelligence collection agency, and he became blind and deaf in Pingyang City.

The Ming Dynasty set up Jinyiwei, and later set up the East Factory, as the eyes and ears of the emperor, monitoring the national conditions and public opinion, and the hundred officials of the imperial court.

It's just that in the previous dynasty, Wei Zhongxian held the power of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and his power was monstrous, and he considered himself 9,000 years old, revealing his disobedience.

After Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he not only investigated the eunuch party and killed hundreds of people, but also became jealous, greatly reduced the rights of the two spy agencies, strictly controlled, the imperial court was financially tight, and could not afford to store a huge spy agency.

Even though the number of Ming secret services has been greatly reduced now, it can still provide a lot of information.

And Tang Xidong has no eyes and ears at all.

The formation of an intelligence agency is imminent, Tang Xidong lacks people and skeletons, and it is really wishful thinking to rely on himself to set up an intelligence network covering the entire Pingyang Mansion and its surroundings.

The Jin Merchants and Commercial Banks were ready-made intelligence gathering agencies, and as long as they could borrow a small part of them, it was enough to meet Tang Xidong's intelligence requirements.

But blindly relying on Jin merchants, Tang Xidong still can't rest assured, at this time, the trust between the two sides is extremely unqualified.

Tang Xidong still chose to use the other party's skeleton to install intelligence to collect secret agents, and then pass the information back.

As soon as he thought of it, Tang Xidong directly transferred two platoons of men from the company, selected shrewd and loyal people, and quietly formed an intelligence bureau.

The responsibility of the Intelligence Bureau is to analyse and summarize the information and then forward it to itself.

And the following secret agents, all use codes and secret names, different codes correspond to different secret names, all secret agents up and down a single line contact, at present, there are members of the intelligence bureau secretly contact the entourage of each caravan, do not disclose the details of their identities for the time being, buy intelligence with silver, the intelligence level is divided into five levels, corresponding to financial rewards.

Tang Xidong is not afraid of spending money, what he hopes is to be able to build and operate the intelligence network effectively in a short period of time.

The political reform in Pingyang City, probably it will take a while, but the construction of the school has officially started, according to the standards of later schools, divided into teaching areas, restaurants, accommodation areas, stadiums, hobby areas, the school was built outside the city, the reason why it is adjacent to the training ground outside the city, Tang Xidong has its own plans.

After the construction of the school has been counted by all households in the city, although the city is still in the process of arranging groups for the time being, and the three-level autonomy of the group has not yet been fully implemented, at least the number of households and how many people have been counted.

Tang Xidong once again issued a notice that all households with statistics on the record must be young and strong, and as a requisition, under the premise of half a public and half compensation, they will take a limited salary to carry out school construction.

If there is no young man in the family or a single young man can beckon a woman, who is responsible for cooking and boiling water, and other low-volume work, he can also get a salary.

At the same time as the school was built, there was also a nearby R&D and manufacturing bureau and a business alliance center.

Tang Xidong arranged all his newly planned projects outside Pingyang City, in order to prepare for the construction of a more reasonable and regular new city in the future.

Waiting for everything to be built at present, it will slowly put forward projects such as government office areas, commercial areas, large residential areas, living public areas, industrial parks, etc., and rely on the influence of the project to recast a large city more like the future generations.

In the subtle way, change the people's perception of society.

But Tang Xidong also knows that if he wants to build a new and huge city, it is not just a matter of paper, nor can it be completed in a while, and the time, manpower, and financial resources required are not small, so everything in Pingyang City cannot be abandoned for the time being, and Pingyang City is still the center.

Today, in addition to Deng Dahu, who is in charge of agriculture in Shanzhai, and Xu Sanxing, who is in charge of industry, there is also Jia Hu, who has formed artillery and garrisoned the city defense. Liu Lianqing is still in charge of the finance department, Liu Dagou is still in charge of personnel, Li Shangquan is in charge of the training of the New Army, Zhang Sanshi is in charge of the defense and monitoring of Pingyang City, Cao Ran, the newly reported commander of the New Army Company, is in charge of the intelligence work of Pingyang City, and other stewards are also assigned to manage farmland, breeding farms, and newly repaired buildings on both sides of the Fen River.

The work of recruiting new talents is also slowly progressing, and the newly recruited personnel are temporarily arranged to each manager to follow and learn, which is regarded as further study.

Money, food, and talents were all in great demand in Tangxidong.

The selection of talents is divided into two steps, preliminary examination, review, the preliminary examination needs to be personally checked by Tang Xidong, he wants an open-minded mind and a reader who has a clear understanding of the Ming national conditions, and there is a manager who understands and has practical experience in all walks of life.

The review is divided into two steps.

After the review is decentralized, after a period of training, and after being familiar with the operation mode of Tang Xidong's giant ship, the actual responsible manager will first evaluate and score, and then the personnel department will investigate, review, evaluate and score, and select the outstanding ones to officially enter Tang Xidong's management organization.

It also takes time, so in the initial stage of talent selection, Tang Xidong still lacks strong cadres at hand.

As for the silver money, at present, after the expropriation of all the original bureaucratic class and wealthy merchants and gentry in the city, the silver money in Tang Xidong's hands is temporarily sufficient, and the amount of 10 million taels of silver is enough to cope with the current construction finance, not to mention that the new industries in Luoliangshan are still being shipped in a steady stream, and the caravans in Pingyang City have continuously expanded the scale of the caravans after deeply experiencing the huge profits of soap, soap, perfume, and cement, and a steady stream of profits and funds have been regularly returned.

And grain, is the least worrying place in Tang Xidong, the current grain storage is temporarily enough for the consumption of Pingyang City, just wait for June to come, the greenhouse harvest, can completely solve the food problem, so Tang Xidong only needs to wait patiently.

In May, the entire city of Binh Duong has basically completed the grouping and reorganization of the group Jiali, all residents have been registered, and identity plates made of special fonts have been formulated.

The construction of the school is also almost complete, and the R&D and manufacturing bureau and the business alliance center are also about to be completed.

The selection of talents has achieved initial results, which has greatly improved the operational efficiency of the entire group.

The intelligence network has covered the entire territory of Binh Duong Province, extending to the surrounding prefectures.

Everything seems to be going well.

But suddenly, a large number of famous people in history suddenly broke into Pingyang Mansion, and Pingyang Mansion suddenly seemed to become the center of the Ming stage, and everything caught Tang Xidong off guard.