The gang Hu Xiaoyan was referring to was the group of forty or fifty rogue ruffians he had brought back from England. These people are now enrolled in English and German courses at the "German School" to learn English and German. These people do not have a high level of education, and the best is only the level of junior high school graduation, and most of them only graduated from primary school or even some are illiterate.

Hu Xiaoyan had no choice but to let these people go to school to study. As for the teacher, of course, it was Angel with a couple of journalists and bankrupts recruited in London. The main thing these people learn is how to be a fake journalist and a fake businessman. In the future, they will become China's intelligence agents deployed abroad.

Many people arrange in the book for Chinese to go abroad to be spies, and they can actually be impressive, and they can get some very confidential information, which is actually bullshit.

Even in future generations, the Chinese! Yellow-skinned people rarely have access to those classified things, except for scientists. For example, in an research institute, unless you are a senior researcher, the yellow race cannot get close to the core area of the research institute at all, and some even stipulate that the yellow race is not allowed to enter the research institute at all.

The same is true of this era, including the United States, Britain and France, many of their research institutions do not accept yellow people at all. It is harder to get information from them than to ascend to the sky.

Therefore, intelligence personnel abroad still have to use the method of mainly white skins, supplemented by yellow people.

Hu Xiaoyan planned to do just that, but he was a little worried about loyalty.

So he consulted all the textbooks in those language schools. Teach these people with money and the righteousness of the country. Make these whiteskins realize that what they are doing is beneficial to their nation and country, and at the same time, they can exchange each piece of information for enough money.

In this two-pronged way, educate those hooligans and ruffians. Of course, those people are not good birds in themselves, and money is what they are most passionate about.

"Their language proficiency should be about the same, and the last time I went, they were able to read and write without barriers. You take them to Ma On Shan. There are now only Germans there. ”

"Be careful, I've arranged for people to build a base there, and you will train them when you go there. I want them to graduate by June. ”

Zheng Jun nodded in agreement.

"Is there any change in Lawrence?"

"Not yet. I have people in the vicinity of Lawrence's house. As long as he moves, he will never be able to escape. Zheng Jun replied quickly.

"But what's a little strange is that Li Xiaogongzi seems to be a little wrong." Zheng Jun hesitated for a moment and took out a letter from his sleeve.

Hu Xiaoyan took it with a frown and looked slowly.

The content of the letter is quite ordinary, just a detailed description of everything that has happened recently, and then his own opinion.

"There's nothing wrong with this letter." Hu Xiaoyan doesn't think that there is really no problem, Zheng Jun's ability is still good, since he took it out, then there must be a reason.

"It's not a matter of faith. In the past, Li Gongzi would write a letter to Lord Zhongtang every week. Now he writes every two days. Zheng Jun knew the importance of Li Jingmai, the little son, to Hu Xiaoyan. If it weren't for Li Jingmai sitting in Lieshan, where would those little tyrants and scholars in Lieshan be so quiet? Just simply go to the book without any violent moves?

Don't look at those people as noble and noble, these people don't do it because Li Jingmai is here, and once things don't go well, Li Jingmai will be killed. Then they really die and have no place to bury. He is the son of Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang, who has been in China for decades! Li Zhongtang killed the long-haired party that year. The number of people killed was in the hundredth thousand. If it weren't for Zeng Guofan's face, even the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would have been captured by Li Hongzhang. At that time, the imperial court asked Li Hongzhang to send troops several times, but Li Hongzhang delayed again and again before giving the Zeng Guofan brothers enough time to conquer Tianjing. Even Zeng Guofan said afterwards that Li Hongzhang fulfilled the Zeng brothers.

Such a big man is not something that the scholars in a small place like Anhui can afford to provoke. They were bullied by Hu Xiaoyan, so they could only knock out their teeth and swallow blood. When the Li family began to open industries and shops in Lieshan, they did not dare to move even more. Slowly, he accepted Hu Xiaoyan's rule and joined the tide of commerce.

However, once Li Jingmai has a different heart, these people will definitely stand on Li Jingmai's side and oppose Hu Xiaoyan.

Li Jingmai often writes letters home, which can be big or small. The key still depends on Li Hongzhang's attitude. But Li Hongzhang's attitude? Hu Xiaoyan smiled bitterly. Li Hongzhang, the pastemaker, was of course a loyal lackey of the Manchu Qing Dynasty! The temporary cooperation between Hu Xiaoyan and Li Hongzhang is only because Hu Xiaoyan once told him: "Please Li Hefei leave a glimmer of life for the people of Anhui." ”

It was this sentence that moved Li Hongzhang and made Li Hongzhang support him.

Li Hongzhang is a native of Hefei, Anhui Province, and the Huai Army he started from Anhui was a soldier recruited from Anhui, and all the generals under him were from Anhui. But Li Hongzhang did not bring much benefit to Anhui. Countless Anhui Zhuang men followed Li Hongzhang to fight in the east and west, died on the battlefield, and finally couldn't even get a pension. Li Hongzhang's Li family and generals have purchased many industries in Anhui. In general, Li Hongzhang himself owes a debt to Anhui.

And this feeling of indebtedness is the reason why Li Hongzhang finally decided to support Hu Xiaoyan. Hu Xiaoyan's mining and construction of new towns in Anhui and the construction of large farms have indeed brought certain good changes to Anhui.

At least the wages of the peasant and working classes under Hu Xiaoyan are much higher than before.

"Leave him alone." Hu Xiaoyan thought about it, but still felt that he should calm down. He still needs Li Jingmai now. But he also decided to recall Zhang Binglin and Tang Shaoyi as soon as possible.

Then Hu Xiaoyan took Zheng Jun into the cave, and the four of them sat down.

His fingers began to tap slowly on the table.

Hu Xiaoyan is thinking about how to build an intelligence agency. An independent and strong intelligence agency is a must. But this requires a leader who can be trusted and capable. Originally, Hu Xiaoyan wanted Zheng Jun to go up. But what Zheng Jun just said made Hu Xiaoyan realize a problem.

Zheng Jun is in his forties after all! Not only is he not knowledgeable enough, but he also doesn't know English and German. We have limited knowledge of the international situation. Such a person is definitely unqualified to be the boss of the intelligence agency. Hu Xiaoyan felt that he had taken it for granted.

Speaking of intelligence agencies, since ancient times, Jinyiwei has been the first to be promoted, and who is the first boss of Jinyiwei? Ji Gang! Ji Gang himself was a very talented literati, and at the same time, the history books said that he was brave and skillful. And almost all of the successors of Jinyiwei have the same advantages. At the very least, it is also very talented, and the martial arts are not weak.

And what about Zheng Jun! Don't talk about it when you're old, and you don't have to mention Wencai. In the current situation of great changes in China that have not been seen in 3,000 years, it is hard to understand English and the international situation! How can an intelligence department who is an old Dalian unable to grasp the international situation and does not even understand the latest technologies of various countries?

Intelligence is not something that casual people can do well, even Dai Li, who later studied at Normal University, and later entered the Whampoa Military Academy for further study. Neither knowledge nor vision can be compared to a dumpling like Zheng Jun.

Zheng Jun and the others looked at Hu Xiaoyan blankly. They knew that Hu Xiaoyan must have a mission when he came over this time. But Zheng Jun's resignation just now made Hu Si and Mao Liu embarrassed. They are also older.

Zheng Jun saw that Hu Xiaoyan hadn't made up his mind after thinking for half an hour, so he had to stand up with a heart.

"My lord, the lower official is ashamed!"

"Huh?" Hu Xiaoyan was a little strange.

"Xia Guan was originally from Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi." Zheng Jun grimaced.

"Jin Yiwei?" Hu Xiaoyan burst out laughing. It has been more than a hundred years since the Ming Dynasty perished!

Zheng Jun touched it from his waist and pulled out a token.

Hu Xiaoyan took it and saw that it was indeed the token of Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi. But he had never seen Jinyiwei's token, so he didn't know whether it was true or fake. However, I believe that Zheng Jun does not need to lie about this matter, because there is no point.

Generally speaking, when it comes to Jinyiwei, everyone will think that it is evil, indiscriminately killing innocents, and so on. But in fact, ordinary people can't enter the Jinyiwei prison at all.

Jinyi Wei is divided into south and north town Fu Division. The South Town Department is the Intelligence Department and the Operations Department, while the North Town Department is mainly responsible for torture and detention. They were directly subordinate to the emperor.

Jin Yiwei has a lot of power, and at first he could even supervise hundreds of officials, once Jin Yiwei grabbed the handle, then he could directly take people and pronounce sentences without going through the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. But there is a premise here, and that is the emperor's decree! Jinyi Wei must have the emperor's dictation or handwriting to take people.

Therefore, the Jinyi Wei grabbers generally offended the emperor or offended the eunuch Bingbi.

Speaking of this, everyone should be clear that ordinary people and ordinary magistrates Jinyiwei won't even look at it. Because they have no benefit in arresting these people, and they cannot alarm the emperor and the eunuchs of Bingbi. Neither can they take without a warrant. Otherwise, even if it is a rebellion, it will be attacked by the ministers.

Later, many of the infamy and accusations against Jinyiwei were actually for Dongchang and local officials and tyrants. Dongchang does not need the emperor to give an order, as long as the governor of Dongchang gives an order, and report it to the emperor afterwards, and if the eunuch Bingbi thinks that the matter is small and does not need to be reported, then the emperor does not know about it at all. And if the local officials take people, they don't need evidence or even orders from their superiors, they just need to convict them, and if they want to pull tiger skins, it's simple, just stuff some money into the local Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi. The local Jinyi guards turned a blind eye when they received the money and did not report back to the top.

Especially the nobles and the big families, there is a famous figure named Dong Qichang. To what extent did he pervert the law? All the local people and landlords of the Dong family collectively went out to besiege the Dong family's mansion, and then burned the Dong family with a fire.

The Dong family was so hateful that the local people and scholars all turned against it, and as a result, there was no Jinyi Wei to report to the emperor!

The first is because Jin Yiwei did not dare to report, after Zhu Di, Jin Yiwei was attacked by all literati because he had a lot of illegal evidence of the family. No one wants their secrets to be known to anyone else. Jin Yiwei has had almost no great power since then. So they didn't dare to offend Dong Qichang.

The second is because Dong Qichang has a very good reputation, and a modern authentic handwriting of Dong Qichang (not ghostwritten by others, but the kind that prints Dong Qichang's chapter), at least one million RMB. His protégés and officials are all over the world, and they are a hundred times more powerful than Jinyiwei, so everyone in the world, including literati, knows that Dong Qichang has a very poor character, but his calligraphy and painting are very good.

Under the rendering of generations of literati, the bloodiness of Jinyiwei far exceeds that of Dong Qichang. But in fact, all the people killed by Jinyiwei from Zhu Di to his demise are less than one-tenth of those killed by the clans, or even one percent.

When the Manchu Dynasty rose, countless Jinyi Guards were born and died and stole information from the Manchu Dynasty and handed it over to the military aircraft, only to exchange it for one sentence: "I know." ”

From here, you can see how sad Jin Yiwei is, and all his efforts and achievements are not recognized by anyone at all. But you also have to admire Jin Yiwei.

Because:

"Xiaguan is indeed Jinyiwei, for more than 100 years, passed down from generation to generation, only one person per generation, as far as Xiaguan knows, there were at least a few thousand Jinyiwei in Anhui in the past, but now there may only be one person left." As he spoke, Zheng Jun burst into tears.

"The case of the third prince Zhu was planned by Jin Yiwei back then." Zheng Jun saw that Hu Xiaoyan didn't believe it, so he elaborated.

At that time, the third prince of Zhu wandered in various places, and Jinyiwei was responsible for protection and hiding, and he himself did not dare to appear in public after escaping death from Beijing. After more than ten years and the death of countless people with lofty ideals, the third prince of Zhu asked Jinyiwei, who protected him: he was no longer willing to live this precarious life, and he asked Jinyiwei to send him out of the Central Plains.

Jin Yiwei suffered heavy losses in order to protect the third prince of Zhu in various places, and he no longer had the ability to protect him. Therefore, the Jinyi guard agreed and sent the third prince of Zhu to Europe, accompanied by several Jinyi guards in addition to some loyal maids and guards.

Just in case, Jin Yiwei found a person who looked a little like the third prince of Zhu and hid everywhere. In the end, the fake third prince Zhu was killed before he was arrested, and he was accompanied by some Jinyi guards who had a will to die. Jin Yiwei replied in unison that this fake prince was the real prince.

Eventually, the Manchus decided that the third prince of Zhu was dead, and thus relaxed their arrest of the third prince.

Then Jin Yiwei went into hibernation. Although Zheng Jun's elders still train their children, they have never operated in the name of Jinyiwei again. The loyalty of an intelligence organization like Jinyiwei, which is mainly based on the army, can be guaranteed, but more than a hundred years later, how many people still remember that they were once a member of the secret service of the Ming Dynasty? Since then, most of the Jinyi Guards have given up their duties and become good citizens, and some have hidden themselves and joined the White Lotus Sect, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and so on. Otherwise, where can there be any discipline and organization with mud legs like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom? Not to mention buying guns and guns from foreigners?

In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the use of firearms was much higher than that of the Manchu Green Camp. If no one points out this, can Hong Xiuquan, the pervert, think of this?

Hu Xiaoyan nodded secretly when he listened. Military is not something you can become a general by fighting two wars. Ordinary soldiers can only be called veterans after several battles, not non-commissioned officers. All non-commissioned officers must be trained the day after tomorrow. Even non-commissioned officers on the battlefield of chaotic warfare such as Iraq and Afghanistan are specially trained. Modern warfare is completely different from cold weapons, and the history of one person being able to rule an army with superior force is simply not feasible in the age of firearms.

Zheng Jun's ancestor was a brocade guard Xiaoqi, and his brothers also participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and finally died on the battlefield. Before his death, his father reluctantly passed the token to him.

The Zheng family had some prestige in the original village, and after taking over the token, he had to take over the responsibility of the family. Although he didn't think that what he had learned was still useful. Until the arrival of Hu Xiaoyan.

Hu Xiaoyan's series of land enclosure movements directly led to his loss of land, although there is some compensation, but how can a lifelong farmer have no land to feed his family? In the end, Zheng Jun was forced to join the army, and as a descendant of Jinyiwei, at least the martial arts were practiced.

After joining the army, Zheng Jun's cold heart couldn't help beating again. He has long had no good impression of the Manchu Dynasty, otherwise his family would not have run to participate in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! So when he first discovered that his espionage abilities could still play a role here, he decided to participate in Hu Xiaoyan's great cause.

"Although the lower officials are old, they can't control those foreigners. But there is still no problem with the domestic intelligence officer. Zheng Jun concluded.

Hu Xiaoyan listened to the history of Jinyiwei and suddenly felt that this was not bad. Isn't there a small anti-corruption department in Tao Chengzhang?

"Internal Investigation Division! Zheng Jun, you are in charge of taking over the department left by Master Tao. The Internal Investigation Section was reconstituted. This department is only internal, not external. Specifically targeting any official or businessman who bends the law for bribes and betrays the interests of his country. ”

"Including Manchu officials?"

Manchu? Hu Xiaoyan glanced at Zheng Jun strangely, but still nodded.

Zheng Jun smiled and took the order.