The second time Li Qingming saw Shen Jian was already in mid-January, the air had become warmer, the willow trees had also seen green, flocks of ducks were quacking in the river, and the Jiangdu City had a bit of spring breath.

Li Qingming went to Donghai County, and Fang Xuanling personally came to give him a face-to-face lecture, which took time, and he went to Jiangning to pounce, and the people over there told him that Shen Gong had just gone to Jiangdu.

Perhaps because Zhang Xuan placed a large order, several firms in Jiangnan Club in Jiangdu were closed, and they naturally did not do business when they closed the door, and it was deserted in front of the door, Li Qingming knocked on the door for a long time, and was looked at sideways by countless passers-by, and the small door opened a crack after a thousand calls.

"Who are you looking for?"

"I'm coming from Beihai County to find you Shen Gong!"

The door opened, Li Qingming flashed in, and then the door slammed shut again, and the porter had been instructed by Shen Jian in advance, unless it was someone from Beihai County, nothing else would be seen.

In the courtyard, Shen Jian was taking square steps by the pond with his hands in his hands, looking leisurely, but his eyebrows and eyes were frowning, and he seemed worried.

"Shen Gong, Li is here to join the army."

An entourage who knew Li Qingming walked to the door to report, Shen Jian seemed to be in a dream, and it took a long time to react, "Oh, please come to my study, I'll come right away." ”

Shen Jian sighed lowly, a big deal came to the door, I don't know what he sighed, could it be that it was sold too cheaply?

In the study, Shen Jian took a sip of hot tea, gathered his mind back, and said with a wry smile: "Recently, the wind in Jiangdu has been very tight, and outsiders are being strictly investigated in the city, and more than three people who come together will be strictly censored, and they will also be arrested for carrying long knives and bows and arrows, which makes people panic, and they can't do business." ”

"Why is that?" Li Qingming asked with a smile.

"I heard that it was General Yuwen's order, and someone wanted to come to Jiangdu to rebel."

"Yu culture and?"

"It's this person. He has a lot of power now, most of the 100,000 Xiaoguo army is controlled by him, and his boss Yun Dingxing has become an ornament, and if he says anything, the whole city will suffer. ”

"If you don't know what you are up to, it's dark when you go down."

Li Qingming replied lightly. Then he turned the topic back to business, "Seeing that Shen Gong is lucky, my family commander has agreed to this deal, five thousand pairs of Mingguang armor, one thousand war horses, does Shen Gong still have any objections?" ”

Shen Faxing's army had just won a battle on the shore of Taihu Lake, annihilating 3,000 Sui troops, and Chen Ling's army had retreated to Qu'a, and the situation was no longer so urgent. So Shen Jian also has the qualifications to be picky.

"Let's talk about it first, five thousand pairs of Mingguang armor must be brand new, and at the same time wear helmets, and a thousand war horses cannot be old horses or weak horses, they must be young and strong horses, if these three conditions are not met, this transaction cannot be discussed."

Li Qingming thought for a while and said, "We don't have any extra helmets, so it's better to replace them with five thousand pairs of military boots." How is it? ”

"That's fine, but what about the other two conditions?" Shen Jian asked closely.

"New Bright Light Armor. A thousand young and strong horses, these two conditions can be agreed, but we have a small additional condition. ”

"Li joins the army, please speak!"

"We hope that the transaction will be placed in Hu Douzhou, we have received information, the imperial court is already paying attention to us, and Shen Gong also understands. After all, we are still Sui Chen, and my handsome family doesn't want to swagger across the Jiangdu anymore! ”

Li Qingming had a smile on his face, he didn't want to say that the real reason was that he was worried about being stared at by Lin Shihong, in that case, this transaction would also be canceled.

Shen Jian laughed. "Li Senjun is really joking, the ships of the faint monarch never cross the Jiangdu, and there is no naval army in the Jiangdu, what do they use to monitor? I have walked on the Yangtze River for so many years, and I have never seen a military ship, if you don't believe it, Li will join the army with me to see! ”

"I know, but this is the commander's military order, I can command the big ship, if I want to change the conditions, I have to go back and report."

Of course, Shen Jian knew that Li Qingming didn't need to go back to Beihai County to report, just send a pigeon letter back, but he was not too opposed to trading in Hu Zhuzhou, after all, it was a soldier and a war horse, and if something happened, he would even regret his intestines.

Shen Jian pondered for a moment, then stroked his beard and smiled: "Then we will make up our minds!" ”

Hu Douzhou is the area of Nantong, Jiangsu today, but it was still an isolated island in the Sui Dynasty, and it was not connected to the mainland until the sediment continued to accumulate for thousands of years, and it was finally connected with the mainland.

However, Hu Tuzhou also has a name in Jiangdu, called 'Mutu Zhou', which means that some transactions on Hu Tuzhou, the government can be confused, to put it bluntly, it is a place where you can't see the light, selling stolen goods, tax evasion, selling contraband, and other transactions that can't see the light will be carried out in Hu Tuzhou privately.

Therefore, Qingzhou's proposal to put this transaction in Hu Tuzhou is also a little in line with tradition, otherwise the Son of Heaven will become a madman by selling war horse armor under the nose of the Son of Heaven.

The time was also agreed, and the transaction was carried out on the thirtieth day of the first month half a month later, but this was arranged by Shen Jian, in his words, it takes a certain amount of time to prepare the grain cloth, and he is in a hurry, as for Li Qingming! Anyway, Jiangdu is a gentle township, and I am afraid that if I fall into it, it will be too short.

However, Shen Jian didn't expect that Li Qingming already had a new position, and he was promoted to join the army as the secretary of the Qingzhou Army, and at the same time served as the Jiangdu Houzheng.

The so-called Jiangdu Houzheng, in the words of later generations, is the head of the Jiangdu Intelligence Agency, but according to the convention, he must be promoted to one level before being sent abroad, and he will be promoted to a record to join the army, which is also a kind of appeasement for him to be transferred out of the power organization.

After two years of going back, he will be able to be promoted to one level, in fact, half a level, half a shoulder higher than the other six Cao joining the army, and the six Cao documents will be summarized to him, and he will report to Changshi after sorting them out.

Although he was unable to join the army for the time being, Li Qingming was also very happy, and even the commander's brother-in-law Lu Qingyuan was not promoted, but he was promoted.

In terms of the door, everyone is almost the same; In terms of backstage, the Pei family is much tougher; In terms of contribution, their Li family is far inferior to the Huang family; In terms of relationship, the Lu family belongs to relatives.

Regardless of the backstage, relationship, or contribution, he Li Qingming can't compare to anything, but he has been promoted, and it can only be said that his ability is stronger than others, and he has been recognized by coach Zhang Xuan.

In fact, this is also the case, Pei Xingyan can fight the war, but the handling of military affairs is a mess, thanks to Li Qingming, a cavalry Cao to participate in the military, the cavalry military affairs are organized in an orderly manner, and the cavalry has made great contributions to the rapid integration of the cavalry into the Qingzhou army.

Li Qingming also created a set of cavalry military affairs system, even if he didn't ride Cao, others took over, and it could run quickly.

However, Li Qingming didn't know that Zhang Xuan really appreciated one of his points: serious, everything is difficult, only serious can be broken, Zhang Xuan has always been not very satisfied with the operation of Jiangdu intelligence, especially this year is the thirteenth year of the great cause, Zhang Xuan did not dare to be careless at all, so he sent Li Qingming, who was the most serious in his work, to Jiangdu to be in charge of Jiangdu intelligence.

Qingzhou's intelligence bureau in Jiangdu is called the Bohai Commercial Bank, specializing in the sale of seafood, which is a disguise for their identity.

There are about 300 members of the Intelligence Bureau, distributed in Jianghuai and Jiangnan counties, but there are less than 10 people who really know the backbone of the Bohai Commercial Bank, and they are all small leaders of each county.

In the inner hall, Li Qingming was giving a lecture to nine subordinates before taking office.

"My position in the Qingzhou Army should be known to everyone, I was sent to Jiangdu to take charge of the matter, because this year is extraordinary, before I set off, the marshal repeatedly warned that this year will be the year when all the contradictions in the Great Sui will erupt in a concentrated manner, and everyone must have experienced it.

Therefore, this year's intelligence in Jiangdu is very important, and the marshal specially approved 8,000 taels of gold for us as the cost of obtaining intelligence, which shows the importance that the marshal attaches to Jiangdu.

Now I would like to talk about a few major changes, such as transferring all the backbone personnel from Jianghuai and Jiangnan to Jiangdu, so that Jiangdu has no less than 200 intelligence spies, compared to only 30 in the past, which is really too few.

At the same time, we will quadruple the number of intelligence points in Jiangdu to 20, and set up another intelligence sorting post to be held by four people who will report directly to us.

Second, the functions of the intelligence line should be clear, and it should be divided into four lines: officialdom, military, opposition, and civilian, each of which should perform its own duties

Under Li Qingming's drastic reform, the Jiangdu intelligence point has become extremely organized and clear from the chaotic state of the past, with strict rules and regulations, and at the same time, the enthusiasm of everyone has been mobilized, and the intelligence affairs have undergone qualitative changes.

Soon, the first extremely valuable piece of important information quickly spread to Beihai County, Wuchuan Mansion had secretly planned a coup d'état in Jiangdu, and the person in charge of the coup plot was Yuan Min, a member of Zhongshushe. (To be continued.) )