“…… My brother's so-called unbearable things, the foolish brother really didn't see the clues...... Fang Jinsheng Tianzi first ascended to the great treasure, captured the traitor and eliminated the evil, and the land of the capital was peaceful...... Tongzhou is a place where hundreds of merchants converge, the north and south are accessible, all the goods are complete, and the world is unsurpassed...... Shetong Prefecture and Linqing, please forgive the foolish brother for being obscure, it is really difficult to see its subtlety! ”

What made Xian Cha frown was Ding Yimo's letter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the son-in-law of the Chu family and the only agent of the East India Company in North China, Ding Yimo exchanged letters frequently with the headquarters of Tamna. The content of the letter is generally two parts, the first half is the current business situation, and the second half is basically the exchange of greetings between relatives.

Needless to say, with more and more new products on Tamna Island, Ding Yimo's business is of course getting smoother and smoother, and now Feng Runxiang's main business has gradually shifted to tobacco and hot sauce. What really makes Xiancha a headache is this homely part.

She really couldn't figure out what her young master was thinking - the Ding family was doing a good job in Tongzhou, why did she have to force them to move to Linqing?

What makes Xian Cha mad the most is that this is not a matter of two letters, but whenever there is a letter to Tongzhou, no matter what the content, the young master will add a few sentences, the content is nothing more than that Tongzhou will have a big change, please Ding Yimo and Chu Qin to move to Linqing. In the past, it was still hinted at in the shadows, but the young master's tone has become more and more tough recently, and he doesn't consider the other party's feelings - how can you say that Ding Yimo is also a brother-in-law, how can there be a brother-in-law who is so rude?

Not to mention the rudeness, the young master's strange request is really difficult for strong people - just as Ding Yimo replied in the letter, most of the goods and merchants in the world have gathered in Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou, where else in the world can do business better than Zhangjiawan? Even Yangzhou Mansion is slightly inferior, let alone Linqing, which is not half a point. As for the "unbearable big thing", Tongzhou is next to Beijing City, which is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, what other big things can there be? Put yourself in her shoes, she doesn't want to leave the feng shui treasure of Zhangjiawan when she changes to idle tea!

Sighing, Xian Cha resealed the letter, threw it into the letter box marked "Tong Dengcheng", and lightly instructed the girl named Zhang Huigu, "This letter is still done according to the old rules, and I pinched my tail when I transcribed it." ”

Zhang Huigu is only thirteen years old this year, and she is also a homeless person in Liaodong, her parents died, and she has only been in the pigeon department for three months. Xu is the tempering of the bitter life, Shengsheng turned this lively and agile little girl into a stuffy gourd, coupled with a good memory, so he was selected by Xiancha as his own commuter, responsible for sending and receiving secret letters from the pigeon. At this moment, listening to Xiancha's instructions, the little girl picked up the letter and looked at it, pursed her lips and nodded--this is her extraordinary ability, although she is illiterate, she can remember which letter it is by looking at the cover!

The pigeon department is the abbreviation of the pigeon department of the special intelligence department, which is the most mysterious and special existence in the special intelligence department, and it is said to be the department of the special intelligence department, but whether it is business or personnel, no one in the special intelligence department dares to meddle - it is no wonder that the head of the pigeon department is the pot-bellied "nangong niangniang" in the water pavilion, chu fan's number one henchman, who dares to break ground on her head, isn't that the old birthday star eating arsenic, and he is afraid of a long life?

The secret letter at the pigeon department is the core confidential information of the Fuliao Army and the East India Company, and naturally it can only be controlled by the person Chu Fan trusts the most. And its structure is also a single line from top to bottom, and other departments are never allowed to interfere.

After Xiancha took over the work of carrier pigeon breeding, domestication, and training from the Japanese women, he quickly understood the key. Therefore, she was very strict in the selection of pigeon workers, and the pigeon players everywhere must be illiterate married women - it is impossible to sort letters without knowledge, and having a family room can make the pigeon owners feel concerned, which minimizes the leakage of information from the pigeon stations to the Tamna headquarters. Of course, taking into account the family life of the fanciers, a rotation once a year is essential.

In addition to the strict control of the personnel, Xian Cha also played a very slippery time compiling the password that Chu Fan taught her - every six months, the secret intelligence department would receive a specific book from the pigeon department, that is, the code book, and all the contents of the secret letter were converted into Arabic numerals according to this book; After MeSign is carried to the headquarters of the pigeon by the carrier pigeon, it will be decoded by a special decoder to reproduce the content of MeSign. In other words, unless the codebook, MeSign and coding rules are known at the same time, no one will get anything even if they intercept MeSign!

Although the pigeon department is very special, it cannot exist separately from the special intelligence department. In the past six months or so, with the rapid expansion of the Special Intelligence Division, pigeon stations have sprung up in various places - as long as it is outside Tamna Island, wherever the Special Intelligence Division has set up a point, the pigeon department must follow up, otherwise how can the information be transmitted back.

Nowadays, there are two pigeon stations in Nagasaki and Kagoshima, and the pigeons of the Edo pigeon station are ready, and they are waiting for the Edo Division of Special Intelligence to open and enter immediately; Needless to say, the Seoul and Busan pigeon stations were built long ago, while the Nampo pigeon station was stationed with the First Regiment and the Qinwang Army, not only collecting information from North Korea, but also serving as the task of transmitting intelligence from North China -- since the Nampo pigeon station was built, the information from the Chengshan pigeon station has rarely been lost.

In the direction of North China, in addition to the earlier construction of the Chengshan pigeon station, Dengzhou pigeon station and Tongzhou pigeon station, Ningyuan pigeon station and Phidao pigeon station are also actively under construction.

The pigeon department or the special intelligence department has also begun to lay out in South China, and the Yangzhou office and Yangzhou pigeon station have been built - Yangzhou Mansion is the most prosperous place in South China, and it is also the distribution center of the East India Company's largest cargo of refined salt in the future, of course, priority should be given. Yangzhou pigeon station is still the best transit station, the next step is Luoyang in the north, Yingtianfu in the west (crab note: Nanjing), and Hangzhou in the south will gradually unfold, forming an intelligence network that includes the most prosperous areas of China.

However, Yangzhou pigeon station at the beginning, there are still many problems to be solved, the most headache is the breeding of carrier pigeons - the original pigeon is basically short and medium-distance, within a thousand miles is also improvised, the distance is more than a thousand miles, the loss rate of the carrier pigeon has risen sharply. To solve this problem, one is to breed long-distance carrier pigeons, and the other is to build a transit station between Yangzhou and Tamna, and a point has been selected at present, that is, Chongming Island in Songjiang Prefecture.

Since the pigeon department is so important, of course Chu Fan can't fake others, so Xiancha gritted his teeth and insisted on collecting the best secret letter even if he was pregnant. Her daily compulsory course is to conduct a preliminary review of the secret letters collected from various pigeon stations, and then classify them - more and more letters, always distinguish where they are from the Japanese country and where they are "Tong Dengcheng"; It also divides out which are military and which are commercial; It is also necessary to prioritize according to the content of the letter.

Xiancha had already been ripe for a long time, and a large stack of letters was quickly sorted, and only a few were left. Seeing that it was about to be dealt with, I didn't know whose letter Xiancha had seen, so I couldn't help but smile.

"Puff~~" (To be continued.) )