A day and a half later, Sun Wang submitted a preliminary investigation report to Li Yongji.

To tell the truth, this report is not detailed, but only a rough description of the approximate period when the Queen Mother began to resell the royal flag, who were involved, how many people were involved, and when the Prime Minister began to intervene...... In short, everything is an approximate and estimate.

At the same time, Sun Wang said that he would send more manpower, mobilize forces, and investigate the truth in depth and meticulously, while constantly blaming himself, crying bitterly and saying that he was negligent in his work, and that he didn't even find out in time about such a serious matter, and he really deserved to die, and took the initiative to ask the emperor to punish him heavily, no matter what punishment, even if it was death, he was willing to do it.

Obviously, Sun Wang's actions were the result of careful discussion between him and his father-in-law Sun Gui, such as a one-and-a-half-day buffer time, which was proposed by Sun Wang, and giving a rough investigation report first was Sun Wang's own realization.

In other words, Sun Wang had already had the detailed information in his hands, but he kept it secret, and only gave a rough investigation report to Li Yongji a day and a half later, which gave people a lot of credibility.

On the contrary, if the boss asks, you will report everything, which will attract the attention of the boss and think that you have investigated so quickly and whether you know anything in advance.

And now, Sun Wang postponed it for a day and a half, during which he deliberately mobilized the people in the CIA's office, and asked his subordinates to mobilize a force to collect, and the rough information collected was indeed found by these mobilized subordinates, and then Sun Wang quickly reported it to Li Yongji.

It can be said that all the qiē looks very normal, and Sun Wang's angry appearance in front of his subordinates has also been seen by many people, and even if Li Yongji asks someone to ask him afterwards, there will be no problem.

From this point, it can be seen that the benefits of private power have come. For example, the information received in advance, Sun Wang secretly collected it through Guò henchmen, and these henchmen are basically Sun Gui's family members.

Although Sun Gui's family is not large in number and far from being called a clan, there are people after all, as long as Sun Wang arranges some important positions and makes a little arrangement, if he wants to do some private work in private and get some secret information. It's still relatively easy, and the entire Sun family and Sun Wang have become grasshoppers on the same rope, so in terms of unity ability and reliability, they are not much worse than those tried and tested underground workers in later generations.

Even in the era of information explosion, it is impossible for national leaders to figure out all the people and things below, let alone in this era when the means of communication are still quite backward.

By the way, although the Chinese Empire at this time had radio communications in advance, this development model was actually quite deformed. Yan zhòng relied on Li Yongji's imports.

In other words, due to Li Yongji's eagerness, the entire empire did not have universal telegraph lines at all, nor did they popularize telephone lines. Instead, they engaged in radio communications as soon as they came up, but there were very few people who mastered radio communications, so once these people who mastered radio communications organized small gangs on their own, it would be difficult to find out from above.

Plainly. Li Yongji only borrowed modern radio communication equipment to temporarily connect the troops with the main organs of the government, and basically used them for military and political purposes. It has not yet been popularized to the people, so as far as the communication system of the entire empire is concerned, it is still backward, and in some respects it is even inferior to Britain and France.

In addition, Li Yongji's hurried departure abroad was also a big failure, although he had various reasons, but there was no doubt that he was counting on a few radio lines to remotely control the country, although he could continue to save a sense of zài to the country and stabilize the empire as a whole, but it was difficult to ensure that there were no problems in the details.

Therefore, there is a mental calculation or not, and the emperor is far away, so Sun Wang's small actions are silent, especially the deep self-blame of crying and nostalgia for the past on the phone, which makes the listener moved, and the listener is moved, and even Li Yongji is a little embarrassed, feeling that he is not too harsh.

Li Yongji compares his heart to his heart, feeling that he can't fully know the changes in the country, except that Sun Wang is omniscient and omnipotent, it seems that there is something inappropriate, is there negligence in doing things, it is inevitable, you look at yourself, isn't it because of his single-minded intention to intervene in the American civil war, and as a result, he knows less and less about domestic affairs.

Sure enough, after listening to Sun Wang's abbreviated version of the investigation report, coupled with the other party's crying afterwards, Li Yongji, who was in a better mood because Soho had a child, did not blame him too harshly, but just asked him to make meritorious contributions and do his best to find out the details of the matter.

After ending the call, Sun Wang took a deep breath, wiped the tears and sweat on his face, and sat down on the ground with a poof, his heart still beating wildly.

Just kidding, although he worked hard to perform just now, after all, this was deceiving the emperor, and if he was a little wrong, it was not a joke, so although he had done a lot of drills in advance, when he really did it, he was still trembling with fear.

The hysterical crying just now is not exactly acting, there is a lot of Cheng dù is true, but this is true, it is scary, because he is afraid that if he accidentally reveals his flaws, or the emperor does not listen to his set, he insists on dealing with himself, then the result is really difficult to say.

Fortunately, at least for now, the emperor doesn't seem to be too harsh on himself, and of course, it may be that the other party deliberately did so...... In short, Sun Wang's head is a mess now, and he almost can't think of anything, and he doesn't want to think about it anymore.

"Companion is like a tiger, companion is like a tiger!" Sun Wang slowly closed his eyes, lay on his back on the ground, and clenched his slightly trembling fists.

Just when Sun Wang was scared, Li Yongji on the other side frowned and began to listen to the report that Sun Wang had just given him.

Due to the relationship between communication equipment and technology, although wireless interconnection can be achieved between Nanjing, China and Smithland, North America, through the guò relay station, the communication quality is very average, and it can only make calls, but it cannot transmit the number of jù, and even faxes cannot be sent.

The reason why this is so is mainly related to technical problems, because the transmission mode with good signal and full functions requires too advanced equipment, the operation is too complicated, and maintenance is also a big problem, which is not something that people in this era can master lightly.

Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of the call, Li Yongji used the method of medium-wave communication and Hawaii transit station to cross the Pacific Ocean in terms of long-distance communication. It is then transmitted by shortwave relay through a high-tower or temporary helium balloon relay station.

In this way, without satellites and without the need for complex ground base stations, a rudimentary ocean communication network can be established, thanks to the fact that radio has not been used on a large scale in this era, so the quality of communication is still very good, especially at night.

However, if you do so, you won't be able to add much more functionality. In other words, it is not appropriate to add other functions, at least it is difficult for people in this era to master in a short time, so the result of Li Yongji's discussion with Zhang Xinda is to only engage in calls, and no other functions are added.

Because of this, Sun Wang's report just now was all dictated over the phone, and then Li Yongji turned on the megaphone and recording function. Listen and record at the same time, so that you can record the conversation between the two parties, and then listen slowly afterwards to prevent forgetting and negligence. Or make a backup.

However, because these calls with China often involve confidentiality, and Li Yongji has too many things, he is usually responsible for answering the phone. The work of the operator who recorded the backup of the recordings was done by Soho, after all, she was also an insider.

Although now Soho is pregnant. It is not suitable to continue working, but because there is no one to replace it for a while, and because of habit, Soho still follows Li Yongji to accompany him, and only after the newcomer is trained, he will take over the work of Soho's operator.

In fact, with Li Yongji's strong memory now, as long as he wants to memorize, it is enough to listen to it once, but it is just rote memorization and cannot be carefully analyzed, plus there is Soho around him, so he usually has to listen to important call recordings two or three times.

This time is no exception, although there was no clear punishment of Sun Wang in the previous call, just let it go gently, but this does not mean that he will not listen to the recording again, of course, the focus of his listening to the recording is no longer Sun Wang's crying and self-blame, but the content of Sun Wang's report in front.

According to the recording of Sun Wang's report, Li Yongji probably understood that the Queen Mother only began to intervene in the resale of the royal flag about six or seven months ago.

The first to intervene in this line was some Jin merchants who entered Nanjing, these people accidentally got on the line with a foreign disciple of the Shen family, and then by chance, they got on the road with the personal maid of the Yi princess Shen in the Yiwang Mansion, and then through Guò, this maidservant, established contact with the Queen Mother who moved to the Yiwang Mansion to live, and finally came up with the way of reselling the royal flag in a short period of time.

Specifically, the people on the Jin merchant's side paid money, and the palace maid of the Empress Dowager paid a filial piety to the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager was responsible for including the other party's name in the Wang family tree, which was considered a distant relative of the Wang family, so that they could justifiably give them a royal flag, and with this banner, when the merchant family was doing business, they could pass all the way through the empire, without paying any taxes, and enjoy the treatment of the imperial merchants.

In other words, the Queen Mother just turned these people into distant relatives of the Wang family, which avoided the trouble of officially being included in the imperial family, and could bypass the review of the Sectarian Affairs Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

As long as the name of the person is added to the Wang family, and then report to the Zong Zheng Office, and the Zong Zheng Office, in view of the face of the Queen Mother, plus the Wang family itself recognizes the relatives, and the Wang family is originally a large family with a large population, and now it is shaking, it is not strange that there are more poor relatives who come to recognize their relatives, and they only need the Queen Mother to nod and approve.

On the contrary, if you want to pretend to be the royal family, that is, the people of the Li family, it will be much more complicated, to track down the nine clans, but also to repeatedly demonstrate, repeatedly investigate, and carefully screen according to the distance of relatives, too remote branches, such as those who came out of Wufu in Li Zhengxiang's generation, are no longer considered to be the family and are not included in the family tree.

This is naturally done to ensure the purity of the royal family, and it was not Li Yongji who could come up with it at the earliest, but Li Zhengxiang was the first to put it forward, the purpose of which was to avoid people who were too deceitful and famous.

You must know that although Li Zhengxiang was from the Li family in Anhui back then, strictly speaking, it was a branch of the branch, and it was not compatible with the orthodox Li family for a long time, and Li Zhengxiang was not less wronged when he was in his hometown, so later Li Zhengxiang made a career and never returned to his hometown, which originally showed his attitude.

Later, although because his wife's family was too strong, Li Zhengxiang thought about summoning the people of the Li family to come over, but he was afraid that the noise would take over the main and make a big deal, so he simply gave up in the end.

Or rather. At that time, Li Zhengxiang had already vaguely realized that as the emperor, the royal family's family power was too great, and it didn't seem to be a good thing to control its love and privileges, and the people of his wife's family were gathering more and more, and the power was getting bigger and bigger, which seemed to be a little inappropriate, but his wife Li Wang didn't listen to him. He had no choice but to say nothing.

It can be seen from this that some natures are difficult to change lightly, Li Zhengxiang was originally a little afraid of the inside, or a little guilty, after all, he had someone outside, so he didn't listen to it, so he stopped persuading.

The Empress Dowager used guò to expand the way of distant relatives of the Wang family, avoiding the censorship of the royal family genealogy. And because of some historical reasons, the Wang family and the Li family are not closely separated, that is to say, the Wang family of the Queen Mother's family can also play the royal banner. And it's not just limited to the Li family in Huizhou.

As soon as the Queen Mother intervened, the nature changed, and the royal banner was in full swing, and almost everyone refused to come. That is, because the entrance fee, or the standard of filial piety, is too high, it costs 100,000 yuan to start. Ordinary people can't afford to pay at all, so those who can buy this are big merchants.

In addition, this royal flag is not something you spent 100,000 snowflakes of silver, it is just to buy a registration, no, it is a name fee, that is, it is agreed that someone from your family will become a distant relative of the Wang family, and after that, you will regularly pay 50,000 Chinese yuan to the Queen Mother every year, as long as you can't pay it, or the money is not paid in time, you can cancel your imperial name at any time and take back your imperial flag!

Every year, you have to pay 50,000 Chinese yuan, that is, you pay 50,000 taels of silver every year, and the general merchants don't have the strength to take it at all, and once you take it, if you can't earn it back, it's a loss to make money.

Therefore, as long as they can buy the imperial flag, they are desperately squeezing the value of the imperial flag, desperately making money in the name of exempting one qiē tax, and even some illegal and taboo things, such as reselling people, drugs, and even arms, etc., they are all in full swing.

Anyway, there is the talisman of the imperial flag, and no one dares to check it, so as long as it is those pseudo-imperial businessmen who have bought the imperial flag, nine out of ten are involved in smuggling, and only these profiteering industries can support the appetite of the queen mother.

Maybe you want to say, the Queen Mother has everything, why is she so greedy for money? In this regard, Sun Wang's report also mentions, but most of this information is unconfirmed gossip.

It is said that since the emperor had a child with a woman outside, he rarely interacted with the queen mother, and the two sons were not around, and the queen mother was lonely, so she simply moved to live with her daughter-in-law Yin Susu, in the name of seeing her grandson.

However, although one is the queen mother and the other is the queen, the contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is also difficult to avoid, and Yin Susu's personality is not very pleasing to the queen mother and her old man, and there are also many conflicts in children's education and other aspects, so the queen mother is very angry about this.

However, although the queen mother is noble, she does not have much actual power after all, on the contrary, although the queen Yin Susu is the daughter-in-law, she is in charge of the internal affairs office and is the agent of the internal affairs office, so the people up and down the entire palace may respect the queen mother very much, but they are in awe of the queen.

The reason is very simple, the queen mother is angry, and the people in the palace will be reprimanded at most, but once the queen is angry, even if the queen has a good temperament, she doesn't say anything in person, but the people around the queen, such as her cronies and close ministers, Li Niangniang, who is in charge of the regulations in the palace (Lili, one of the four maids at the beginning) is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Therefore, under the advice of Li Niangniang, everyone treated the Queen Mother coldly, that is, she never had a smile in front of the Queen Mother, and she always procrastinated in doing things, and she put the rules on her lips in everything, which over time, the Queen Mother felt more and more aggrieved in the palace, but it was useless for her to quarrel with her daughter-in-law, and in the end she would only make herself uncomfortable, so she simply moved out of the palace and went to live in another son's house, that is, Nanjing Yiwang's Mansion.

Although King Yi was not in the house at this time, but was cruising outside, King Yi's family was there, for example, Princess Shen was in charge of the house, and the Shen family was from everyone's ladies, and she had an appetite for the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother happily lived in the Mansion of King Yi.

Things are bad here, after the Queen Mother lived in the Yiwang Mansion, she may have been hit by a wall before, she was in a bad mood, and she began to pay attention to money and power, and at this time, a foreign child of the Shen family somehow entered the eyes of the Queen Mother, and actually got into the eyes of the foreign family, hooked up with the Jin merchants, and gradually started to resell the royal flag, or the business of the Wang clan.

At the beginning, the Queen Mother just gave it a try, but she soon found that the money was fast and she could get the support of a large number of foreign forces, which increased the strength of the Wang family and made her very satisfied.

You know, the Queen Mother is indeed not short of money, but there was no shortage of small money at that time, if it is really big money, especially the big money that she can dispose of at will, the Queen Mother does not have it in her hands, after all, she is not the emperor like the younger son, nor is she like the eldest son and her husband who control a large number of business names, in essence, she used to be an ordinary businesswoman, or a housewife.

In this way, seeing that it was so easy to get money and such a huge income, the greed of the Queen Mother and others was completely opened, and they also experienced the joy of power, and learned how to realize power. Since then, the Queen Mother and the Shen family have intensified their efforts, opening the royal family tree more and more frequently, unscrupulously adding Dingjia people, and then indiscriminately issuing the royal flag, and guiding more and more imperial merchants with the imperial flag in various places, so that in just a few months, there is a tendency to flood.

To this day, it is not known how much wealth the Queen Mother has collected by this, but the imperial businessmen who bought the imperial flag on the surface are conservatively estimated to be more than 1,000 people, and according to the entrance fee of 100,000 Chinese yuan per person, the Queen Mother received at least 100 million Chinese yuan, and the actual number is only known to those in the know. (To be continued......) R1292