Chapter 396: A new official takes office
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The next day, Chen Yuan came to the staff department, looking at the more than twenty guys standing in front of him with an average age of forty-five years old, he didn't know if these people could help him trample Li Yuanhao under his feet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Prime Minister Wang, are all the people in this department here?" Chen Yuan was a little reluctant to give up and asked again.
Wang Yanling said: "Shimei, there are a total of twenty-three people in this department, except for Lord Liu Xin, who is no longer able to come because of old age and illness, the rest of the people are here. ā
Chen Yuan smiled bitterly on his face: "Thank you, Prime Minister Wang." ā
He didn't hide the look of disappointment on his face. Chen Yuan has long known that this department is not valued in the Song Dynasty, and other divisions are what divisions are. Generally, they are directly responsible to the "ministry". Only this department is responsible to the Municipal Department of Trade.
It is equivalent to a secondary organization of the Municipal Exchange Division, whose role is mainly to collect some intelligence from the hands of those businessmen, and the means are mostly to require the Municipal Exchange Division to exert pressure on those businessmen. Looking at the current situation, Chen Yuan knew that if he wanted them to help him do some business, it might take some effort.
Chen Yuan's expression did not hide from the officials of these departments, but none of them stood up to speak.
This makes Chen Yuan even more dissatisfied, no matter what, when a person despises you for no reason, if you still remain silent, it means that you are scorned by others. When you are contemptuous of you, if you don't stand up and speak, it means that you have no confidence in the future.
None of the more than 20 people in the entire staff department stood up to say a word, which shows that they themselves regard the staff division as a place of confusion in their own hearts.
Instead, Wang Yanling said: "Shimei, don't underestimate these people, they have all worked in the City Yi Division for many years, if you want to find any information, let them come forward to find those caravans, they will definitely succeed immediately." ā
This is not something to be proud of, as an intelligence agency, relying on others to provide intelligence for itself is inherently a failure, and the system of the Song Dynasty determined that such a failure could be tolerated.
When Li Yuanhao sneaked up on Sanguan, in fact, some caravans of the Song Dynasty had already obtained information, but the rules of the Song Dynasty were too dead! After the caravan received the information, it had to wait for the staff to ask before they spoke. Because even if they took the initiative to tell the soldiers of Sanguan, without the emperor's approval, the troops would not dare to move casually to meet the enemy.
Often, where there is danger, the first thing the local defenders have to do is to report to the emperor first, and then wait for the department to verify from those caravans, and then the emperor approves it, and then the military department studies how to fight. Then feed back to the border gate and inform the border generals to get ready.
No need to ask, let me tell you, this is the rule set by Zhao Guangyi! Wise Emperor Taizong!
This is one of the reasons why the Song Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly! Even in a battle of a sneak attack by the Liao State, by the time the information from the Ministry Division arrived, the entire city had already been occupied by the Liao people.
To some extent, the intelligence agencies of the Song Dynasty carried out "intelligence probing", not "espionage intelligence".
When intelligence is "one step late" again and again, the staff division is more and more questioned by others, and the people who work in the staff department have been polished out of their surnames for a long time.
Chen Yuan can't tolerate such a staff division!
In his opinion, an excellent intelligence officer is not looking for someone to ask something, but can hear something from the other party's words! Then after analysis, a relatively reasonable conclusion is drawn!
Wang Yanling saw that Chen Yuan didn't speak, and he didn't say more, in his opinion, the staff division was originally like this, of course, if you Chen Shimei has the ability to do a good job in the period of the staff division, and do it like the period of Emperor Taizu, then everyone admires you.
After the handover of more than 20 people, even if all the work of the staff division has been handed over. Wang Yanling left, walking in such a hurry, as if there was nothing here that made him nostalgic.
Chen Yuanzai slowly walked up to an old man, and suddenly said in a loud voice: "Uncle! This year, you are expensive? ā
Although the man was old, his ears were very good, and he was startled by his roar, and then his face was filled with anger, but then he was suppressed, and he hugged his fists very regularly and said: "Back to my lord, the little old man is fifty and seven this year!" ā
Chen Yuan smiled and came to a fat man in his thirties: "You should be counted as a young man here, right?" ā
The fat man nodded: "Lord Hui, Xia Guan is the youngest here, Chinese New Year's Eve four years old today." ā
Chen Yuan patted the man on the shoulder, and then said, "Yes, can you tell me what you usually do?" Or, if you don't have a good case, take two of them and show them to me. ā
The fat man didn't speak, but the old man stepped forward and said: "My lord, our usual work is mainly to collect what happened in the surrounding states for the emperor, and the copywriting is kept, as for what we are doing now, it is to find out what big military action Li Yuanhao is preparing for this time, and where is the target." ā
Chen Yuan glanced at him: "Did you find out?" ā
The old man shook his head: "No." Recently, Lord Fan Zhongyan has blocked the border pass, and the caravan cannot enter or exit, and the way we can obtain information is also limited."
Chen Yuan waved his hand when he heard this: "Okay, then I'll tell you." Li Yuanhao is not preparing for any big war at all now. He just shrank at the border, waiting for my Great Song army to show its flaws on its own, and then pounced on us and bit us! ā
The old man was stunned for a moment, and said very unconvinced: "The lord said that the lower officials dare not agree, thinking that those barbarians in Fanbang are all surnamed jackals, and this time they lost their princess, how can it be reasonable to give up?" ā
Chen Yuan didn't pay attention to him anymore, but looked at everyone: "You all think like this? ā
After waiting for a while, no one spoke, Chen Yuan smiled: "Good, very good!" From now on, no one is allowed to leave here! I want you to write me two things, first, what is the current situation of the party, who are the ministers under Li Yuanhao, and what are the generals, you write it clearly for me! Second, what is Li Yuanhao's surname, also write it clearly for me! ā
The old man was stunned for a moment: "My lord, I haven't been to the party, and I haven't seen that Li Yuanhao, isn't it difficult for you to be a strong man?" ā
Chen Yuan glared at him fiercely: "You don't even know this, what kind of information are you still sitting here!" If the soldiers on the battlefield wait for your intelligence, they will probably die without knowing how! Write! Everyone wrote to me, but if they can't write it, they're all here at noon today, and they're not allowed to go home! ā
After speaking, Chen Yuan dragged a chair: "I'm here to accompany you." ā
This is the kind of staff you've always wanted? Chen Yuan was a little disappointed. If the staff department continues like this, he estimates that he is stepping on the wrong place!
Now, he had to prepare for a reinvention of the Division, and a reinvention of the Division.
In contrast, Chen Yuan prefers the latter. Because these people have already set their surnames, they are all old, and they are used to living and working as they are now.
When these people were reluctantly writing the questions that Chen Yuan asked them to write, Chen Yuan's head was also thinking about what he was doing best.
Building a new staff division is also very difficult for Chen Yuan. He was a layman in intelligence work, and if he had been more professional in this area, he would not have expected this department to help him.
After a delay of more than an hour, both sides ended the first meeting with a very unhappy mood. Chen Yuan walked out of the staff and said very dejectedly after getting into his BMW: "Go back to the villa." ā
Han Qi saw Chen Yuan's face and smiled: "Shopkeeper, didn't do a good job?" ā
Chen Yuan snorted coldly: "It's unlucky, I was expecting these people to be able to help somewhat, but it turned out that they weren't even as well-informed as me!" I'm going to swap these people out and find the right one to help. ā
Han Qi didn't say anything, and drove the carriage to the villa, but when he walked to the gate of the city, Chen Yuan suddenly remembered that today seemed to be the first time that his "Yizhuang" was giving porridge, and he seemed to have to show his face.
I changed my mind at the moment and decided to go to Yizhuang first.
The famine was really serious, and although Chen Yuan's bowl of porridge contained only a few grains of rice, there were thousands of people in line.
What surprised Chen Yuan even more was that the eldest princess was also here, helping him with porridge.
Chen Yuan almost forgot about this sister-in-law. At this time, seeing the eldest princess dressed in plain clothes, with a very friendly smile on her face, and personally making porridge for everyone who came to beg for food, Chen Yuan's intuition told him that the eldest princess seemed to be in a better mood.
No matter what happens to people, the key is whether you can think about it or not. The eldest princess's mood was indeed better, because she had at least let go of her hatred for Li Wei in her heart.
Li Wei really brought that Liang Huaiji from Luoyang.
At this time, even if the eldest princess is unreasonable, she can't blame Li Wei for anything. A man can do this, you can look down on him and say that he is not promising, but you can no longer find a reason to hate him.
He's out of your way, isn't that okay? The hatred was put down, Liang Huaiji also came, and the eldest princess was really in a much better mood at this time.
"I've seen the eldest princess." Chen Yuan greeted him, and then said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, this place is too messy, you better not stay here for too long, if something happens, I really can't afford it." ā
The eldest princess smiled slightly, she was very beautiful, the kind of beauty that was completely different from Zhao Yi's brutality.
"It's okay, I'm idle with you, I don't know how to do business, I want to help do some work in the villa, Linghua won't let me, it just so happens that you opened this Yizhuang, I also have something to do."
Chen Yuan finished the basket of steamed buns from the side, porridge for one night, and a piece of steamed bread for each person. The eldest princess was scooping porridge for people, and Chen Yuan was handing out steamed buns and chatting while working, and she was also in a happy mood.
"Shopkeeper, it's good, give one more steamed bun!"
A woman with two children pleaded in front of Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan was a little hesitant, because for these people, a steamed bun may mean that a person can survive. If this woman takes two, first of all, someone behind will definitely not be able to take them. Secondly, if you open this head, the people behind you will also follow suit.
However, this woman really stabbed Chen Yuan's heart, she was with two children, which made him suddenly think, would Qin Xianglian also fall into this situation at this time?
The woman continued to plead, "The shopkeeper is in good condition, the child has not eaten for three days, so be merciful!" ā
Chen Yuan sighed, and the princess on the side also said with pity: "Give me one more piece, you see that the two children are hungry." ā
Chen Yuan smiled: "Yes, according to the princess's order." ā
The eldest princess glanced at him with a look of thin anger. The woman had long known that this Yizhuang was opened by the master of the horse, and when she saw the looks of the two people, she immediately knelt down after taking the steamed bun and kowtowed desperately: "Thank you princess, thank you master of the horse!" May the princess and the concubine live a long life and give birth to a noble son early! ā
The eldest princess's face turned red all of a sudden, and she was holding the scoop in her hand, and she didn't know what to do, she was very embarrassed.
(To be continued)