Chapter 387: Eradicate the Warlords
The strength of the Huang family has skyrocketed, which will immediately cause too much suspicion, and it is time to lay out the intelligence network, and the intelligence war will begin. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Huang Sheng convened a special meeting to set up a special department to deal with intelligence work -- the Military Intelligence Department.
Huang Dongshan, the chief officer of the musketeers, Zhang Youlu, the chief officer of the 900th Hundredth, He Xiang, the secretary, and Bian Zhiming were part-time deputy directors, and Huang Sheng himself served as the director.
There are a number of military intelligence departments under it, and the responsible persons enjoy the treatment of thousands of households, and the intelligence staff under them are given the treatment of regular soldiers.
At present, the Beizhili Military Intelligence Office was first established in Beijing, which is also a military intelligence department, and the person in charge is Qian Meng. In Nanjing, the second military intelligence department of Nanzhili was established, and the person in charge was Yi Facai.
The leaders of each group under his command received the treatment of officers from the seventh rank to the sixth grade, and Zuo Shouquan, Wu Yi, and Wang Chenggong and Zhu Qin, two quite clever musketeers who carried out the protection of Cao Huachun last time, took 20 wounded veterans to form the first and second military intelligence departments of the south and north of Zhili.
They must constantly recruit intelligence personnel, recruit martial artists with a skill, and bribe undercover agents to try to spread the intelligence net as soon as possible.
The task of the military intelligence offices in various localities is to discover the clues unfavorable to the Huang family in a timely manner, secretly arrest the spies of Jiannu operating in various places, collect evidence of corruption and bribery of court officials, and record their evil and ugly deeds.
The Beizhili Military Intelligence Department also has a special task, which is to immediately set up the Zhangjiakou Military Intelligence Bureau to investigate the business networks of Shanxi merchants and their trade routes as quickly as possible, and the Huang family is ready to let them contribute some property to fight against Jiannu.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Jin merchants betrayed the country, and it was not easy for them to transport grain to Houjin, and there were only three ways, one was to form a huge mule and horse cart transport team by themselves, and send it to Liaodong through the Mongol-controlled area through the border wall of Zhangjiakou.
Either bribe the Shanhaiguan guards to go directly to Liaodong through the West Liaoning Corridor, or take the sea route. With the strength of the Huang family, no matter where the Jin merchants go, they are completely capable of robbing and killing.
The premise is to be able to obtain accurate information, now the western Liaoning corridor has been cut off by the Huang family, there are thousands of sea ships of the Huang family in Liaodong Bay, and the Jin merchants can only go out of Zhangjiakou to take the grassland This trade route.
The cavalry set up an ambush in the vast steppe, and I don't know the specific route of the caravan and the general time elapsed, I am afraid that it will end in vain.
This time, it was the head of the family who personally assigned the task, and personally served as the chief officer, and there were not many people attending the meeting, and Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao were only present, and they had no right to interfere with the work of the intelligence officers, but they had to cooperate.
Yi Facai, Qian Meng, Wu Yi, and Zuo Shouquan have a total of 26 people, and at least they have been given the treatment of the seven-rank chief flag officer, and the chief officer of the military intelligence department has all enjoyed the treatment of the five grades and the five grades, which shows how much the head of the family attaches importance to the work of the military intelligence department.
These intelligence officers are given sufficient funds to allow them to develop their own downline, and ordinary intelligence officers can enjoy the treatment of regular soldiers, and there is no limit to men and women for all work needs.
He Xiang was specifically responsible for their financial expenditures, and Huang Shenghui specially arranged for special funds to be used by the Intelligence Department, with no upper limit.
Qian Meng and Yi Facai, the first batch of soldiers who were injured and retired, have now returned to the military system and have also obtained the official position of Zhengwupin, and they are so excited that they are beyond words.
There are too many men with some martial arts in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and with enough money and food, it is not a problem to accept hundreds of reliable people to carry out secret missions, and these directors of the Military Intelligence Department promise to carefully detect any changes and do their best for the Huang family to flourish.
Huang Sheng and the 26th of the month of the month held a meeting, the participating officers from the seven grades of the actual chief flag officer and above, civil officials from the chief above, the meeting made it clear that the Huang family system of the army and all civil officials by the "Huaxia big money village" on behalf of the military pay and monthly money, grain stores to distribute rice.
The officials of the Huang family did not have the matter of deducting food and drinking the blood of soldiers like the Ming officialdom, and all the officials obeyed unconditionally, they only needed to provide the list and the amount of money distributed to the nearest bank, and the soldiers signed and fingerprints to receive the salary.
Because the Huang family had more and more soldiers and horses, in order to prevent the emergence of new warlords, Huang Sheng firmly controlled the financial power in his own hands. It is also imperceptible that the military and civilians of the system go through the money bank, and they will get interest income by participating in savings.
After the resolution of the meeting was published, it became an internal document and distributed to every officer of the seventh rank and above, and the officers who failed to attend the meeting were to be conveyed by the officers attending the meeting after returning to the meeting, and it was conveyed to the whole army.
The officers of the Huang family do not raise private soldiers, only take their own money, and even if they are rebelled by the emperor in the future, there are only a few people, and they can't take the army away.
The first year of Chongzhen, which was busy, Huang Sheng was dormant, the construction of the new territory "Huaxia Island" was in full swing, and Daishan Island was already fully functional.
On the third day of the first lunar month, Yi Facai and Qian Meng happily took up their posts with the leading group of the Military Intelligence Department, and their first task was to contact officials and wealthy businessmen who were good friends with the Huang family to come to "Huaxia Island" in early February to attend an important gathering.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the tributary ship headed by Ruan Dan, the king of Jiaozhi County, Quang Nam Kingdom, went to the Ming Dynasty again to pay tribute with the rare treasures and southern specialties carefully prepared by the lord of Quang Nam.
Because this time the lord of Guangnan thinks that the tribute is earned, so the capital is larger than last year, the Ming officials know the goods, and the quality of the tribute that comes to the court is enough to prove the attitude of the barbarians, and the lord of Guangnan must be a tributary activist.
It will not be self-defeating, because the last time Ruan Fuyuan was reluctant to pay tribute under the coercion of Huang Sheng, and the relevant documents were also hastily done.
This time was different, he spontaneously paid tribute, and all matters were carefully prepared, and even the letters of state such as the letter of thanks to the Ming Emperor for allowing him to be a minister were written by masters who were proficient in Chinese.
This is to plan and then move, the king of Jiaozhi in Guangnan State continues to appear in the field of vision of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, if suddenly one day this county king really got the fief, presumably the Ming up and down will not feel strange.
Governor Yuan Chonghuan got Huang Sheng's promise and gave up his military exploits, but he did not make it difficult, the money and grain were given to seventy percent, everyone was safe, and the court seemed to have forgotten Huang Sheng, an official.
Huang Sheng was so happy, teaching and educating people every day, and the soldiers of the Huang family were all practicing hard.
At the end of the year, outstanding young men continued to be recruited, 400 of them participated in the training of musketeers, 1,500 became sailors and gunners, and more than 300 military dependents also entered schools to study and later became musketeers.
This year, 120 veterans who could not successfully pass the examination to become chief flag officers were selected to be promoted to the chief flag officers of the guard station, including 60 musketeers, who would be stationed in Lingao, Zhoushan, Fushan, and "Huaxia Island."
At that time, the musketeer Bai Zong, who was temporarily stationed in these places, will be transferred back to Huangjiawan Island, because if nothing else, Chongzhen will have a big battle with Jiannu at the end of the second year, but I don't know if history is still there?
If Houjin still traveled thousands of miles to attack the interior of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Sheng was ready to do his best to give Jiannu a hard blow, and now he was preparing for a big war in about a year.
The production of weapons, gunpowder, and armor is running at full capacity, and it is necessary to enable 8,000 regular soldiers and auxiliaries to be equipped with winding steel armor and all-steel cuirasses in about a year, and to ensure that every musketeer soldier has more than three.
In the blink of an eye, winter has gone and spring has come and it is almost the cold of February, and the 1,600 young men who enlisted in the army last year have already been replenished to serve in the warships of each hundred.
The Army's small-scale expansion has been completed, and many veterans have been transferred to serve as officers in the naval division, and some have been transferred to civilian affairs, and the positions vacated by them have been replaced by new recruits who joined the army last year.