Although poor is poor, but people are not short of ambition, not to mention that now is a great opportunity for themselves to usher in a turning point in fate, how can they ruin their future because of this two melons and dates, as soon as they enter the door, they shouted at their wives: "Go get a few side dishes, and then scald a pot of wine, there are distinguished guests." ”

The old master's wife still thinks she heard it wrong, what kind of distinguished guest? It's been so many years, and I haven't seen any distinguished guests. It's also strange to say, a few years ago, when he followed his old man, his life was called a nourishment, he could get a lot of money to the family every month, saying that his craftsmanship was good, and things sold quickly, and he didn't ask much at that time, what does a woman do so much, as long as his man works hard, he can get money from home.

But I don't know why, two years ago, the days suddenly didn't work, and this year is even more tense, after the New Year, he almost didn't take any money for the family, just relied on the previous savings to live, the savings have been almost spent, their family of four has not eaten meat for a long time, what happened to this old guy today, he actually brought a stranger who said what kind of distinguished guest, and he had to break the fee for him.

Obviously, this Jinyi Wei Qianhu concealed his true identity very well, and even his family didn't know about it, judging from this point alone, he was a competent spy.

The blacksmith master saw his wife's suspicious eyes, knowing what this woman was muttering, women, their eyes are always staring at so many pots and jars, there is no long-term goal, listening to their words, it is easy to spoil their own big things, immediately angry in his heart, sink his face and shout: "Do you hear!" Block go! ”

Che Gang was quite unbearable when he saw this scene, your family is so poor, how can you be embarrassed to eat your banquet, and seeing that this woman is pitiful, and has followed him for so long, he immediately waved his hand, played a round, and said, "Brother, no need." Let's say a few words and leave. ”

"How's that going to work? You came to my house in person, and you had to eat a meal before you left. Although we are down-and-out now, the heroic spirit on our bodies is not diminished back then, and we don't even have the courage to invite someone to dinner, so how will we replace it in the future... The proprietor is on an errand. The blacksmith waved his hand and said proudly. His face, which was already wrinkled and polished by life, suddenly became radiant, and a pair of bright little eyes began to shine again, as if he had returned to that era of dominance.

"This ....." Che Gang was stunned for a moment, looked around the house, and saw that there were only two people in the house, he and his wife, seeing that their age should be with children, the children were not at home, most of them went to school, his mind turned, and he thought about it a little, guessing that this Jinyi Wei Qianhu should not have told his family his identity, and he also did this because of his wife, so that the two of them had the motive to talk about things, his face was embarrassed, but he nodded, and said: "So, then thank you brother for your hospitality." ”

Although the woman was a little reluctant, but since her husband said so, she didn't dare to refute his face in public, not to mention that he knew his husband, and he was still more meticulous and reliable. I stepped on the basket and went out grocery shopping.

After seeing his wife go away, this brocade-clothed guard Qianhu immediately knelt down to the car post and saluted: "The villain participates in the adult, and the adult is blessed with Jin'an." ”

Che Gang pretended to be surprised and helped up the blacksmith-dressed brocade Wei Qianhu, and said kindly: "What are you doing, brother?" Where am I an adult, I'm just here to find my brother to fight a soft sword. ”

Jinyi Wei Qianhu glanced at Che Gang with a little disdain, what are you pretending to be at this time, although you didn't say it explicitly, but the words you just said are clearly saying that I am here to recruit you, with the help of Che Gang, he slowly stood up, and said with a wry smile: "Ming people don't say dark words, why do adults tease villains." ”

"Hahaha!" Che Gang looked up to the sky and smiled, to be honest, although he was out of work needs, some things, some words can only be hidden, but he still likes people with a good temper in his bones, this brocade Wei Qianhu is very interested in his appetite, patted him on the shoulder, and said with an appreciative smile: "Brother is really fast, Che Gang likes it very much." ”

"Che Gang?" The brocade guard Qianhu's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe his ears, because of the long-term lurking in the Su country to carry out tasks, he knew the big and small officials of the Su country, and the name of Che Gang was even more thunderous, he was the head of the Su country's spies, and they were also enemies, he had already thought that the king of Su would send a big official to fight for him, what he never expected was that the king of Su actually sent his spy leader over, which was enough to see the importance attached to him, and his heart couldn't help but be hot, and his face immediately hung a very moved expression, Said: "It turned out that Lord Chegang came in person, forgive the villain's clumsy eyes, and he didn't know Mount Tai with his eyes." ”

"Those who don't know are not guilty, to be honest, this official has also been friends with Your Excellency for a long time, and has the heart to make friends, but you and I are our own masters, in order to avoid suspicion, we can't talk face-to-face like today." Che Gang said with a sigh on his face, and then sat on the seat of his house, not treating himself as an outsider at all, as if the two had been old friends for many years.

That Jinyi Wei Qianhu is also an old and sophisticated person, and has been engaged in spy work for a long time, and has long practiced a very sharp ability to observe words and feelings, and it can be seen from the tone and expression of Che Gang that what he said is not a scene, but a real and sincere word.

Jinyi Wei Qianhu suddenly felt sorry for each other, life has a confidant, and he will die without regrets, not to mention that these people who are engaged in spy work, it is difficult to make real friends, today can get the affirmation of the biggest spy leader in Su State, he feels that his life is worth it, immediately knelt on the ground, and said gratefully: "Thank you for lifting up, if the adult has a place to get the villain, please just ask, the villain goes to the soup and fire, and he will not hesitate!" ”

"Hahaha, brother, hurry up, it's not good for my sister-in-law to come back and see this scene in a while." Che Gang laughed, helped up the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "It's not that I want to use you, it's His Royal Highness King Su who wants to reuse you!" Since the emperor disbanded the Jinyi Guard, I don't need to say more about what your life has been like. To put it in my heart, I feel sorry for you, how many things did you Jinyiwei do for the emperor back then, not to mention anything else, the two hard bones of Hu Weiyong's case and the Lanyu case were gnawed down by you, and the hardships needless to say. However, after the matter is done, when no one can threaten the emperor's throne, he will kick you away for the sake of his reputation as a virtuous king, and let you fend for yourself. What is this for you? When the night pot is used, you hold it in your hand when you can use it, and if you don't need it, you will be disgusted. ”

Jinyi Wei Qianhu who said these words cried loudly, who said that it was not, how much effort did we exert and how much scolding did we suffer in order to prevent traitors from usurping the Zhu family? But after the matter is over, there is nothing to do with us, the emperor for his reputation as a virtuous monarch, in order to ease relations with the ministers, not only burned all the torture instruments of the Jinyiwei, ordered that the Jinyiwei should not be set up again, but also killed the two commanders. This is not only a bird hiding in the bow, it is simply a rabbit dead dog cooking! Che Gang is right, this is completely using them as a night pot.

To be honest, he also complained at the beginning, but after a long time, he thought about it, and now the saint is such a person, how many of the brothers and brothers who followed him to fight the world back then had a good death? It's like this to their old brothers, let alone their group of disgraceful spies! He is just a brocade cloth and a thousand households, what can the little five-grade official influence? It's better to live your life well.

I didn't expect to meet the bosom friend of Lord Che Gangche today, and what I didn't expect was that King Su actually wanted to reuse him, and this news ignited his heroic heart that had been annihilated a long time ago, who wants to be at the bottom of the society all the time, and live by others, and even his wife and children can't support him? Once there is an opportunity, I believe that every man is willing to sacrifice his life.

Anyway, they are all working for his Zhu family, what is the difference between giving Lao Zhu and Xiao Zhu, and seeing that Xiao Zhu's personality seems to be very different from his Lao Tzu, it is still quite humane, and it should not be regarded as a night pot, and immediately snorted and said to Che Gang: "The words of the adult have come to the heart of the villain, my brothers and I have not had a good time these years, thanks to the eyes of the sky, let us meet the king, meet the adult, this makes us have a chance to turn over." Please return to the king, Zhao Guosheng, the former Jinyi Wei Qianhu, is willing to drive for His Royal Highness King Su, saddle before and after the horse, and do not give up. ”

Che Gang helped him up, and said very movingly: "Brother Zhao, hurry up, the king has appointed you as the commander of the fourth rank of the Honor Guard Division, and I hope you will gather your old troops to do things for the king together." ”

Zhao Guosheng swept a trace of surprise, when he followed the emperor before, he was a five-grade thousand-household, and now he has been promoted to another level by Mingjun, although the four-grade officials of this vassal country are different from the four-grade officials of the imperial court, but the king is already interesting enough, after all, the head of the spy Che Gang is only a third-grade official.

Zhu Ao set the level of the secret service organization of the Honor and Guard Division very low, in fact, he was afraid of causing panic among the people, after all, it was not a good thing to make the people feel that their king attached great importance to the secret service, and it was easy to create a scene where the road was for the purpose, so the gains outweighed the losses. In this regard, Che Gang and others also understand it, never ask for an increase in rank, and can be said to have grasped the psychology of the leader to the extreme.

After Che Gang and Zhao Guosheng had a polite exchange, he directly took out Zhu Ao's sincerity - ten taels of gold, slapped it on the table, and said with a smile: "This is the money that the king gave you for this month's activities, you can use it to convene the old department, re-establish the intelligence network, and make it clear to the brothers, as long as you sincerely follow the king in the future, money and the like will not be missing from you, but if anyone is playing with his mind and getting tired, you should also know our methods." ”

Zhao Guosheng saw the golden eyes on the table straightened, he hadn't seen this kind of thing for a long time, he thought that when the Jinyi Wei was beautiful, the shot was more generous than this, but now the scenery is not there, and it is already very good to have this treatment, when he kicked the gold into his arms, he arched his hand at the car gang and said: "Don't worry, Your Royal Highness King Su pulled us when we were in the most difficult time, if anyone dares to get along with His Royal Highness King Su, it is that his conscience has been eaten by a dog, and he doesn't need to be an adult, and his brother is the first to spare him." This is also Zhu Ao's abacus, the cost of sending charcoal in the snow is always much lower than the icing on the cake, and the effect is much higher.

"Okay, we like people like Lord Zhao! In the future, we will be colleagues, and we will help each other in the future and serve His Royal Highness King Su more. Che Gang said with a spring breeze on his face.

"That's nature, that's nature." Both sides of this operation achieved their goals, Zhu Ao mastered all the brocade guards that were originally lurking in the territory of Su State, not only strengthened his eyes and ears, completely mastered every grass and tree in Su State, but also learned a lot of information about the imperial court, but the price spent was very low, and he definitely made a lot of money.

And the Jinyi guards led by Zhao Guosheng have got a new master and a new source of income, and they no longer have to eat the last meal and the next meal like before, they are hungry and cold, and they are also doing things for the Zhu family, no one will say that they are disloyal.

During the meal, Che Gang and Zhao Guosheng both drank a lot of wine, which can be described as a joy for the guests and hosts, so as to celebrate this win-win situation.

With the return of the original Jinyiwei, Dongchang was also initially established, and Zhu Ao's intelligence network can be said to be all over the country, but he was not satisfied, and strongly advocated extending the intelligence network outward to obtain information outside the Su State, and the main objects were naturally the Ming Dynasty, Warat, Uighurs and the Timurid Empire in the west. For this reason, Zhu Ao spent a lot of money, but he believes that it is worth the price, because not only ancient but also modern, information is always crucial, and a valuable piece of information is simply hard to find, sometimes more effective than thousands of troops.

Zhu Di was able to succeed, to a large extent, wasn't it because the eunuchs in Nanjing sent him information about Nanjing's emptiness? Otherwise, I don't know how many years it will take to fight the Battle of Jingjing.

Later generations of American industry were so powerful, but they still attached great importance to the field of information, not only took the lead in researching the Internet, but also established the information superhighway, and the developed information system not only played a huge role in promoting their military, but also their economy.

When fighting Iraq, the U.S. military directly entered all the military targets in Iraq into the computer, and the planes and missiles that wanted to hit them with a mouse would pass, which was really the same as playing a game. Is bin Laden such an arrogant person also discovered by the CIA? Iran's nuclear facilities were also paralyzed by a U.S. USB drive with a virus, which is enough to illustrate the importance of information to human society.

After the establishment of the East Factory, how to develop, how to obtain national and even foreign intelligence, Zhu Ao does not care, these details are left to Li Peisheng and Che Gang to be responsible, after all, they are professional, and they are laymen. What's more, he is a dignified king, and if he takes care of everything, he will not be tired to death, and he will not be able to do it well, because people's energy is limited. As a king, as long as you control the balance of the court and grasp the general direction of development, you don't need to worry about other details.

Anyway, the ministers who oppose it have been suppressed by the widows, and the road has been paved for you, how to go is your business, and the widows have to worry about everything, what is the use of raising you?

The work of establishing an intelligence system has come to an end for the time being, and then Zhu Ao will strike while the iron is hot and establish a new system -- the examination method.

The examination method is one of the two main measures of Zhang Juzheng's reform of the law in later generations, and compared with the other measure and the whip method, its fame can be said to be so small that there is almost nothing, and people who have not studied history can be said to have never heard of this thing at all.

In fact, in Zhu Ao's view, the very famous whip law was not the main factor that contributed to the success of Zhang Juzheng's reform and the revival of Wanli Zhongxing. Because in the final analysis, a whip law is only a reform in the field of taxation, and the level involved is relatively limited. Moreover, the most important thing about a whip law is to provide convenience for merchants. Because of a whip law, from now on, the taxes of the Ming Dynasty will not be collected in kind, and all will be changed to collect silver taels.

Whoever has silver taels, of course, are the merchants. In this way, the ordinary rural people would be exploited by the merchants, because the imperial court stipulated that they could no longer pay in kind, and the wheat and rice that could be used to pay taxes were now unworkable, and had to be exchanged for silver first.

At this time, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty who were so shrewd that their heads were smoky would take the opportunity to increase the price, so as to exploit the people who continued to pay taxes with silver.

For example, usually a stone of rice can be sold for one or two pieces of silver, but because you are in a hurry to pay taxes, I can only give you nine coins of silver, if you like to sell or not, if you don't sell, you will have no money to pay taxes, and if you can't pay taxes, you will have to go to court, and maybe you will have to go to jail in the future. Therefore, those merchants took advantage of this whip to make a ruthless fortune.

However, in general, a whip law is still beneficial to the people, first of all, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are not only you, you pay nine dollars of silver, and there are nine dollars and five of them, there is competition between the merchants, so there is no way to brutally exploit the people, only one person to come less, to win by quantity.

Second, it is easier to account for the two in silver than in kind. When I handed over the physical goods before, the official said that the quality of your stone rice was not good, and it was not good to pay only one stone, but you had to pay two stones, and you had nothing to say, if it didn't matter, you could only suffer a dumb loss, after all, there was no unified standard for this matter, and it was all in the official's words.

And now it's different, all the taxes are converted into silver, one tael is one tael, two taels is two taels, and the officials can't get rid of it, do you dare to say that the money made by the emperor is fake? Although they will think of other ways to write a word, but it is only a sudden that they can find a post-account, so they have a lot less money, and the lives of the common people are much better.

In the end, the cost of handing over silver was much less than the cost of handing over kind, and the manpower and material resources required to escort 100 stone of grain from a remote mountainous area to the provincial capital were far greater than the manpower and material resources required to escort 100 taels of silver.

Therefore, after the implementation of the whip law, it still improved people's lives, saved the cost of tax collection, and increased the country's revenue.

However, compared with the test method, which is much less famous than him, the role of a whip method is still secondary. Because the examination method affects the officialdom of the entire Ming Dynasty, and then affects the entire Ming Dynasty. This assessment method is probably equivalent to the current performance appraisal, and the specific assessment method is bookkeeping.

For example, if you are a political envoy, before you take office, Master Zhang Juzheng will ask the officials to keep an account for you, and the content of the account is what you need to do in the next year, such as: collecting 50,000 taels of taxes, reclaiming 20,000 acres of wasteland, repairing 20 miles of river embankments, all quantified.

At the end of the year, the assessment will be conducted, and if you have done it, you will be rated as qualified, so that you can continue to work as a political envoy, and if you do a good job, you can also give a reward. If you don't complete the glorious task assigned to you by the organization, then Elder Zhang Ge will deal with you very unkindly, and the way to deal with it is to demote. If you become a prefect or still have the same personality, and still don't take the work of the organization to heart, then you will continue to become a prefect and know that you are covered and fucked out.

As a result, under the supervision of this examination method, the officials at all levels in the Ming Dynasty all changed their previous style of being lazy and decadent, going to work until almost noon, and going home after lunch, and became more model workers than Zhu Yuanzhang, just hoping to complete this year's tasks and ensure that the level will not fall. As a result, the state apparatus of the entire Ming Dynasty instantly became an efficient state apparatus that "followed by orders from day to night".

It is said that once Shandong was hit by a disaster, and the local officials thought that Zhang Ge would give them a reduction or exemption task, so they didn't work hard at first, but in the end they found that the task was not reduced at all, and they worked overtime to do it.

Seeing this, many book lovers may not be able to stand the question, under the persecution of such a strict examination method, officials at all levels will definitely vigorously exploit the local people, and collect taxes in the event of a disaster, which may cause those people who have suffered a disaster to be unable to survive, and their families will be ruined, is it really good to go on like this?

If you can think so, it proves that you are kind. But in these days, good people are often deceived. We must first figure out who Zhang Juzheng is? A full of poor children, relying on their own intelligence and hard work, they were first admitted to the Jinshi, and when they were selected as Shu Jishi, they were only edited by the Hanlin Academy, and they were appreciated by Xu Jie, the biggest old slippery head in the Ming Dynasty at that time. Then he stood firm in the political struggle between Xu Jie and Yan Song, and finally got rid of the big slippery head and high arch that squeezed Xu Jie and became the first assistant, reaching the peak of power.