The Kuizhou Army secret agent team has slowly expanded to the scale of thousands of people, imitating a great underground organization in later generations, infiltrating into every corner of this era, with characters from all over the world in various occupations, including street peddlers and pawns, slaughtering dogs and pigs, and people who are called between the tables and have thousands of waists.

The loyalty of the spy is maintained by a considerable amount of money, and at the same time, it is also guaranteed by hostages. Each member of the secret agent team must first go through strict screening and investigation, and those who are not strong in their will and have no family members are absolutely not allowed, and they must have children in their families to enter the secret agent team; The second is to move the whole family into Wanshou City first, thinking that they are hostages, if they defect or join the enemy, the family will suffer first. This is also a system that has to be adopted, after all, in troubled times, people's hearts are not ancient, and only some extraordinary measures can ensure the safety of the entire organization.

The secret agent's salary is very considerable, comparable to a county order, a team of thousands of people, together the monthly salary expenditure of the Kuizhou army is an astronomical amount, just relying on land rent and taxes, it is not enough, not to mention that Wang Huan Lion opened his mouth, and he will be exempted from paying taxes in the newly recovered land for three years with one mouth, and the finance is even more than enough to make ends meet, without strong financial support, the general local government cannot support such a large amount of use.

Although Shizhu silver mine has a lot of reserves and a large output, Ma Chongming, as the financial director, still feels that his head is big, this shrewd businessman can't wait to split a penny in half, at this time his entire net worth has been tied to Wang Huan, one is prosperous, one is lost, the Ma family industry has expanded to many industries, and there is a vague meaning of Kuizhou military and state-owned commercial houses, of course, Wang Huan infiltrated many people into the Ma family business house, and divided some of Ma Chongming's powers, Ma Chongming did not care about this, He has become a human spirit and understands the meaning of Wang Huan's doing this, this is a supervision of himself, reminding him not to want to do anything in the accounts, if he wants to maintain the current status of the Ma family, he must follow Wang Huan's rules.

However, Ma Chongming is still the person in charge of the finance of the Kuizhou Army, what should be said must be said, he cried poor in front of Wang Huan more than once, spread out a book of accounts, and counted the accounts to Wang Huan with his fingers, Wang Huan also felt that he should open up another source of wealth, so Shizhu Gold Mine came into being.

The hinterland of the Three Gorges, the Shizhu Yangtze River Basin, in the upper reaches of Xituo Town, Wang Huan in Wanshou City into the mountains to prospect for the appearance of the Jinsha vein, this is a very famous Jinsha mine in later generations, with modern heavy machinery mining more than ten years after exhaustion, the gold sand is on the riverside shallows, it is easy to mine, just use some simple tools to screen and process, you can wash out the gold sand particles with high purity, and smelt them, it is a piece of gold ingots out of the oven.

The mining of this kind of gold sand ore is much easier than that of silver ore, and the reason why Wang Huan has delayed building the mine is of course not reluctant, but because the silver ore is enough; Second, the riverside open-pit gold mine, safety is more important, after all, everyone can see it, and it is not easy to isolate, if it is not copied by others, the loss can be great.

For this reason, Wang Huan once again asked Qin Liangyu for help, the old lady sent the two nephews Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming over, the two took more than 2,000 recruits who had been trained, got up early and greedy for darkness, and Ma Chongming's Minzhuang together, built a simple embankment with stones on the side of the Yangtze River, and left a hole for water to pass through on the dam, and encircled the entire golden sand beach, and then built a stone wall on the dam, repaired the arrow tower, built a rough defense, and built a water village by the river close to the embankment, sent troops to garrison, and protected the gold placer mine impermeable. Maximum safety.

The output of the gold mine, coupled with the income from the original silver mine, made Ma Chongming finally stop shouting and leave with a smile on his face.

The gold and silver ingots produced by Shizhu, according to the system set by Wang Huan, each piece is marked with the Kuizhou mark, because the fineness is full, basically there is no impurity alloy impurities, it is very popular in the market, much better than the official silver of the Ming Guancang, so that under the same conditions, merchants are willing to give priority to Kuizhou gold and silver when trading, and even there are gold and silver dealers who purchase Shizhu gold and silver ingots at a price higher than the weight of the gold and silver ingots, and then smelt and dope copper and iron to pretend to be the official silver of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the reputation of Kuizhou gold and silver armor in the world slowly spread all over the north and south of the river, and even the northern Qing Dynasty territory had silver ingots marked by Kuizhou official silver in circulation, and its credibility was much higher than that of the Ming court and all kinds of gold and silver currency minted by the Qing court, not to mention some gold and silver ingots privately made by the secession regime.

With the support of huge financial resources, plus the former Jinyiwei system secret agent brought by Jiang Li, the intelligence network of the Kuizhou Army secret agent team is more extensive, take the current Chengdu city as an example, Chen Xiang took away the twenty people to go north to Hanzhong, and there are more than 100 people left in the city, plus the branch of Zhangjiapi Goods Store in Jinguan City, Jiang Li has nearly 200 people available, which is more than enough for internal use.

Jiang Li returned to the cart shop, this is a stronghold for them to settle down, since Chen Xiang as a cart shop buddy in Chongqing to obtain Zeng Ying's information on the army, he fell in love with this profession, this era of the cart shop is like a logistics company in later generations, the north and south goods transportation is inseparable from the cart, the business name and the government can take advantage of the relationship, the amount of information in the daily sea has gone, a lot of valuable information is revealed from the mouths of the merchants intentionally or unintentionally, based on this, plus spies from other industries, Therefore, the intelligence of the Kuizhou army can always keep up with the development of the situation, and it is no weaker than the Jinyi guard of the Ming court and the sticky pole of the Qing court.

This big car shop, is Chen Xiang spent money from a broken family of the owner of the hand, ready to open a branch in Sichuan in the future, in the future can also open to other provinces, where the spear of the Kuizhou army is pointed, the big car shop will be opened in advance, the name of the store is called "Bafang car shop", of course, in order to hide people's eyes, the owner of the store is a person who has nothing to do with Kuizhou, and no matter who checks the contract procedures, it is impossible to find out that this store is actually the liaison office of the Kuizhou army.

There are still a few small leaders of the secret agent team left in the big car shop, and as soon as Chen Xiang left, the person in charge of Chengdu City became Jiang Li, which was the first time he took refuge in Wang Huan and shouldered the task that Wang Huan should have when he besieged the city.

Jiang Li was a little excited, the thriving vigor and invincible military strength of the Kuizhou army, after hearing and seeing it with his own ears, had made him deeply feel that this time he was with the right person, Wang Huan had a strict system of rewarding and punishing for meritorious service, and it also made him see the hope of seeking a higher position with military merits, so this time, he was full of strength to show his hand and complete the important task left by Chen Xiang beautifully.

He is very confident, because during this period of time, he has fully understood the details of the Great Western Army in Chengdu, and he has figured out the list of civil and military officials who stayed in the city, done enough work, and held a hole card in his hand.

This hole card is a person.

Jiang Li instructed a few small leaders to guard the door of the big car shop in the courtyard, and he walked into the store, entered a back room, looked around cautiously, and after feeling that there was no abnormality, he gently closed the door, dropped the latch, opened the curtain in the inner room, and walked in.

The room was dimly lit, there were no windows, and it was dark in the daytime, and it was almost impossible to see if it weren't for a bean-like oil lamp lit on the table.

By this lamplight, it can be seen that this room is very small, only one table and two stools, on the table there are tea, a pot of porcelain cups, and nothing else, and on one of the wooden benches, there is already a man sitting, with a panicked look on his face, fidgeting, hearing the sound of someone coming in, jumping up like a frightened rabbit.

"Don't be surprised, it's me." Jiang Li stood firmly by the door and did not move, and spoke first, because he saw that the person who had arrived early had already drawn a knife from his waist with lightning speed.

The man was obviously familiar with Jiang Li's voice, and when he heard it, he obviously relaxed, took a breath, withdrew the knife in a curt, and said, "General Jiang is not strange, it is very time, it is better to be careful." ”

Jiang Li then slowly walked to the table, patted the ashes on the Mai, sat down on another wooden stool, smiled and poured a cup of tea for the man, pushed it over and said, "It's okay, Zhang Dudu is cautious, it should be, after all, what everyone does is a headless thing." ”

The person he called Zhang Dudu, his face was blue and white, and he wanted to say something, but he didn't seem to be able to say it, so he held it back, grabbed the teacup with hatred, drank the tea in the cup, and then paused the porcelain cup on the table with a "snap".

Jiang Li sat still confidently, taking in Zhang Dudu's movements and ignoring them, blindly smiling and not speaking.

Zhang Dudu couldn't hold his breath for a while, put down the teacup and blurted out: "General Jiang, let's speak first, before I promised you, you didn't hand over those letters to Butcher Zhang, right?" ”

The corners of Jiang Li's mouth grinned, and he smiled a little, and said: "Of course not, the Kuizhou army is true to his word, and Wang Zongbing is honest and unparalleled, and we will naturally do it if we promise you." ”

He pushed the oil lamp in the direction of Zhang Dudu, exposing Zhang Dudu's face more to the light and shadow of the lamp, and asked, "What about Zhang Dudu?" Think about it? ”

The oil lamp illuminated Zhang Dudu's face, showing a face full of flesh, beard, and full of violence, and it can be seen from the face that the owner of this face must be a murderous veteran pawn, although because of anxiety and timidity, his face is a little white and haggard, but people who are familiar with him can still recognize at a glance that this Zhang Dudu is conspiring with Liu Jinzhong to surrender to the Qing court, and Zhang Guangcai, the governor of the Leopard Taoying of the Great Western Army.