Under the dim candlelight, Qian Jiang looked at the five secret reports that had only been sent, three of which were evidence of the local clan Shili secretly colluding with the Qing Demon, and the remaining two were evidence that the local clan Shili was still forcibly occupying other people's fields in accordance with the rules of the New Deal.

After reading it, Qian Jiang rubbed his eyes, looked at the dim candle lamp, and muttered: "I didn't expect that there were no kerosene lamps on the market in Ningbo County, so I brought one myself." ”

The kerosene lamp mentioned by Qian Jiang is a new type of kerosene lamp specially introduced by King Xi in large quantities at the beginning of the year, and it is said that the Poles invented it not long ago. Qianjiang didn't really care who invented it, but the beautiful lamps and lanterns of kerosene lamps, advanced fuels, and scientific combustion methods and brightness several times that of old oil lamps and candles made it attract Qianjiang's attention at once. In particular, some foreign foreign companies have used kerosene lamps as a stepping stone to sell their kerosene products to the Chinese people. They provide free kerosene lamps to Chinese, and even supply some fuel for free for people to try. The fuel Qian Jiang also knew that it was actually the fire oil mentioned in the ancient books, and he had seen the people of Northwest China use it on the way to Xinjiang.

"It seems that Xiwang is right to let Guiyun firm build a kerosene lamp factory and kerosene firm in Hangzhou, there is still a lot of market space for this thing." After staying with the King of the West for a long time, Qian Jiang unconsciously used some words that the King of the West often said.

At this time, the guards of the Intelligence Department outside the Qianjiang study said in a low voice: "Director, the person from Bai Zetang's Ningbo helm is here. ”

Qian Jiang hummed and said, "Let him in." "It's not the first time that Qian Jiang has cooperated with Bai Zetang's people, and Qian Jiang began to feel a trace of fear for this team of secret agents in the West Hall who still used the title of Jianghu. The people of Bai Zetang are always elusive, and they always appear in different identities in places you don't expect. Qian Jiang had a feeling that he always felt that there were people from Bai Zetang around him who were watching him, because he was chatting with King Xi once. Xiwang actually knew that he had bought a calligraphy and painting yesterday, and he hadn't even looked at the calligraphy and painting in detail, how did Xiwang know about it?

The door opened, and a young man of more than ten years appeared in front of Qian Jiang's eyes, and Qian Jiang was stunned at a glance, this young man was the coachman he had hired on the road to Ningbo with the personnel of the Intelligence Department.

"Are you the fourth driver of the Li family's car dealership?" Qian Jiang stood up and said.

The young man smiled slightly, bowed and saluted, "Bai Zetang Ningbo Branch Helm No. 404 spy has seen Director Qian. ”

Qian Jiang pointed to the seat next to him, motioned for him to sit down, and sighed lightly: "I know, you Bai Zetang people don't use their real names. Just use the code name, I'll call you Xiaosi. ”

The little four sat down and said, "It doesn't matter what it's called, it's just a code name." ”

Qian Jiang was slightly angry and said, "Why do you want to pretend to be a coachman and follow this official?" ”

The little four said: "Recently, the Qing Demon King Yide and Li Tingyu sent several waves of assassins to the north, and it was not safe on the road, and their subordinates were ordered to protect the director." ”

Qian Jiang was even more angry when he heard this: "Our Intelligence Department doesn't need Bai Zetang's protection!" ”

The little four smiled and didn't speak again. Qian Jiang saw the smile of the little four, and suddenly understood. The foundation of the Ningbo County Intelligence Department is still weaker. This little four was sent by Bai Zetang to help him.

Qian Jiang didn't dwell on this topic anymore, handed a few pieces of information to Xiao Si, and said: "These families should be eliminated, it's still the old way, my intelligence department provides information, how about you Bai Zetang is responsible for assassination?" ”

The little four looked at it and said, "This time it's coming." The subordinate boss said that these families are not ordinary families, and if they are assassinated in an unknown way, I am afraid that the local government will be under pressure. When a person dies, there must be an explanation. ”

Qian Jiang groaned, and the little four took out a letter from his arms and sent it to him: "Director, here are the details of several households. ”

Qian Jiang took it and looked at it, and even said who the enemies of those families were, and after reading it, Qian Jiang said with a yin smile: "What do you Bai Zetang mean to provoke a few clans to fight and take advantage of the chaos to kill them?" ”

The little four nodded and said: "Their enemies are also local tycoons, and they have also helped the Qing Demon to build a group training before, and they are also against the new policy, and they can also be removed." ”

Qian Jiang touched the goatee on his chin and squinted his eyes and smiled: "Besides, they are also on our blacklist, right?" ”

The two laughed together, but the blacklist they said was a list approved by the king of the west, and it was all about some local powerful people who needed to be cleared, this jihua has been operating since the beginning of the year, for the local clan shili, the king of the west never thought that blindly appeasement could work, for a new regime, what the king of the west wants is that the entire interior will only make the same voice.

A few days later, there were several large arms fights between clans in Ningbo County, which was a common thing in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Taiping army raised troops in the early years to a large extent because of the dispute over the land, although the clan disputes in Ningbo were not as fierce as the people in Guangxi, but there were often fights between the two clans because of the fields and mountains. But this time it seems that the contradictions between several major clans have somehow reached such a point, from the initial confrontation with the villagers to the large-scale fighting between the two sides, it seems that both sides are being pushed by a pair of invisible hands.

No one can recall the process, and the confrontation between thousands of villagers was a chaotic scene, and no one could tell why they started to do it. As for the result, the patriarchs and heirs of several major families all died inexplicably in the fight, and no one could say who killed them during the chaotic fight. After several major clans lost their leaders, the government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom quickly mobilized soldiers and horses to suppress them, and it took thousands of people to suppress them.

After a month's trial in the Zuihou government, those who should be killed were killed, those who should be arrested were arrested, and those who should be released were released, and the crime was armed brawl, which caused death. In short, people from several major families have been killed and imprisoned, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

Subsequently, the government appointed new township officials, and the local shili controlled by several major clans was severely weakened.

Unlike the Manchu Dynasty, the Manchus always allowed clan fights, while the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would send troops to suppress them, and although they often appeared after the fight, those who fought would be punished as they deserved.

A few months later, Chen Tian, a caring person, found that it seemed that those local clans in Sufu Province who opposed the new policy or had close contacts with the Qing demon in the past had been hit, and the local shili could be said to have shuffled the cards from the new. Chen Tian only understood at this time, and he was also scared into a cold sweat, those big clans that threatened the people and respected themselves seemed to have been eliminated by the Taiping Army. Because Chen Tian's clan, the Chen family, also has a lot of enemies, but their side is calm, Chen Tian knows that it must be the Xiwangfu who secretly made a move.

Chen Tian chose to be silent very wisely, what does the other clan's affairs have to do with his own clan? What's more, Chen has cooperated very well with the Suzhou Clothing Museum, with which he has cooperated to open a Suzhou embroidery workshop, where thousands of male and female weavers work in it, hand-sewing all kinds of Hanfu that Chen Tian retrieved from family heirlooms.

After the opening of the Su embroidery workshop, Xiwang came once, and also saw the sewn Hanfu, Xiwang was quite excited, and immediately ordered Chen Tian to customize more than ten sets of Hanfu according to his and Xiwangniang's figures, and Xiwang told Chen Tian that the design of Hanfu must start from the customer's body size, and there is no need to stick to the rules, and the style and embellishments of Hanfu can also have personalized design.

What design, what customers, these words seem to make Chen Tian understand where the future of his handicraft workshop is, he cooperated with the clothing hall to desperately collect all kinds of spinning and embroidery jishu, and specially opened classes to teach his male and female weavers, and encourage everyone to innovate. A few years later, Chen's Su embroidery has become a well-known time-honored brand at home and abroad, because they have always been able to provide different types of products according to the customer's individual needs to satisfy customers, and they have always been handmade.

However, it was said that after Qianjiang got rid of those clans in Ningbo, he asked the Intelligence Department to expand the scope of intelligence collection in Ningbo. The Qing army Wang Yide, the assassins and secret agents sent by Li Tingyu were all investigated and exterminated. Qian Jiang never asked Xiao Si why he was secretly protecting himself at that time, and Xiao Si did not leave Qianjiang, he was already a long-term liaison between Bai Zetang and the Intelligence Department.

Qian Jiang didn't ask again because he knew the identity of Xiao Si through the channels of his Intelligence Department, he was a person from Xiwangfu, he had studied in the Shanghai Martial Arts Academy for several months, and he was also one of Bai Zetang's secret agents in the military, a person with such a complicated identity, Qian Jiang knew what he was doing by his side.

It is also because of Xiao Si, the cooperation between Bai Zetang and the Intelligence Department has been very smooth, Qianjiang's boss is Xiwangniang, and Bai Zetang's Tong Qiangsheng, but his boss is Xiwang, it seems that the husband and wife have reached a benign cooperation between the two major intelligence systems of the West Hall through some kind of tacit understanding. There is competition between the two sides, but there is no hostility, and the two sides have joined forces to build the interior of Sufu Province like a tietong, and it has also met the requirements of the King of the West, he only wants to hear one voice within Sufu Province!

Compared with the smooth progress on the invisible battlefield, it seems that the West Temple has not been smooth this year on the visible battlefield. Except for the victory in Yangzhou and the Guangde Campaign in the beginning of the year, Xidian did not use troops on a large scale in northern Jiangsu, Fujian and other places. It was only at the beginning of May that Chen Yucheng led a group of more than 3,000 cadets and recruits from the Shanghai Martial Arts Academy to cooperate with the Yang Fuqing Department of the East Hall to launch an offensive against the Qing army in Jiangxi. In this battle, the King of the West was just for training troops and reviewing new tactics, and the limelight was taken by Yang Fuqing.

The 50,000 soldiers and horses in the east hall were divided into two routes, one along Xuancheng, Huangshan, Jingdezhen, and Poyang Lake to enter Nanchang, and the other road from Jiujiang, De'an, and Yongxiu to Nanchang. Jiang Zhongyuan, the governor of Jiangxi of the Qing army, was very familiar with each other, and his troops were firmly entrenched in Nanchang.

The other two roads of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom went north to the soldiers and horses, the wing king Shi Dakai and the north king Wei Changhui also actively attacked Hubei and Anhui provinces, and for a time the soldiers of the east hall, the north hall and the wing hall were prosperous. However, the West Palace was secretly digesting the territory that had been laid down last year, and after the implementation of the new policy was guaranteed, the eyes of the West King fell on the reorganization of the army. (To be continued......)