Chapter 46: The King of Shang
In less than half an hour, the beast carriage traveled nearly two hundred miles and entered Minzhou City with Zhao Di and a group of people.
After getting out of the car, they asked for the road, and Zhao Di and his gang found a nearby inn to stay, and then Zhao Di directly summoned Shi Qian and asked him to come to the inn to see him.
This Minzhou City is bigger than Qiongxing's Qiongzhou City, covering an area of thousands of miles, so Zhao Di didn't bother to look for Shi Qian, and directly asked him to find himself, after all, Shi Qian They have been here for several days, if they are not even familiar with the roads in the city, then there is no need to expect them to be able to find out any useful news.
Zhao Di waited for less than half an hour, Shi Qian found his residence, the speed was not too slow, Zhao Di beckoned him into the room, the two talked for most of the day, Shi Qian left alone.
Zhao Di didn't hide Shi Qian's existence, and he also knew that it was impossible for him to hide from Li Gang's eyes and ears, so he asked Shi Qian to come directly to the door.
After a detailed discussion with Shi Qian, Zhao Di roughly had a clear understanding of the political structure of the entire Minzhou City, the highest ruler in Minzhou City was Shang, a prince of the Great Shang Dynasty, and the entire Minxing Star Domain was the fief of the Shang Dynasty, because the Great Shang Dynasty adopted a sub-feudal system.
It is said that this Shang Emperor is the younger brother of the Shang Emperor's mother, Shang Huang Shangyi heard that his temperament is relatively soft, but this Shang Emperor's temperament is extremely unruly, and the martial arts are superior to the leadership of the army to fight invincible battles, and he is the famous god of war of the Great Shang Dynasty, it is precisely because of the countless military achievements, plus it is the younger brother of the Shang Emperor, so he got a fief of the star field.
However, the Shang Emperor and the Shang Emperor were not in harmony, I heard that the Shang Emperor often scolded his eldest brother for being incompetent, if he was in that position, the territory of the Great Shang Dynasty at this time had at least doubled.
Of course, all of this is just rumors, and everything is uncertain, but since this kind of rumor has been circulated, Zhao Di believes that groundless wind may not be without cause, so this is an important news, at least for Zhao Di.
In addition to the political structure of Minzhou City, Shi Qian also found out a lot of transactions of Taixing stones, it is said that every six months Taixing will transport a batch of Taixing stones to Minxing, and in half a month is the delivery date of the next batch of Taixing stones.
In other words, Zhao Di only had less than half a month to plan this raid, otherwise he might have to wait another half a year.
Comparing this situation with the information obtained by Zhao Di from Li Gang, it can be confirmed that the date of delivery between the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Merchants is indeed semi-annual, and there will be about two or three shipments of Taixing Stone a year, all depending on the output of Taixing Stone.
In addition to the delivery of Taixing Stone, Shi Qian also inquired about the strength of Minzhou Mansion, it is said that there are six armies in the entire Minzhou Mansion, two of which are subordinate to the personal guards of the King of Shang, which is the elite of the entire Great Shang Dynasty, and is generally sent by the King of Shang to the most desolate place in the Minxing Domain to sharpen, and it will not appear at all under normal circumstances, but even the four conventional armies stationed in the Minxing Domain are also extraordinary, and they are often pulled out by the King of Shang for training, and the combat power is far from being comparable to the three armies of the Qiongzhou Thorn Mansion under the jurisdiction of Li Gang, let alone the Liangshan Army。
The delivery of Taixingshi is the rotation of the four armies, and now Shi Qian has not yet found out which army is responsible for the delivery in half a month, but Shi Qian was able to find out so much news in such a short period of time, which has made Zhao Di very satisfied.
Zhao Di didn't expect Shi Qian to be able to do things so well, and his evaluation of Shi Qian in his heart was one point higher. It seems that this guy is indeed a material for intelligence, Zhao Di this time is also a test of Shi Qian, after all, Zhao Di is very broad this time, and he did not specify the purpose at all, but he just clicked on Shi Qian to pay more attention to the business route of Taixing Stone, and as a result, Shi Qian basically revealed the situation of Taixing Shi, and even more targeted to find out the political structure of Min Xing.
Zhao Di did not ask Shi Qian how he inquired about the news, nor did he ask Shi Qian about the source and reliability of these news, the authenticity of the information needs to be judged by the analyst himself, and the intelligence collector is only responsible for probing the information.
Zhao Di was satisfied that Shi Qian was able to collect so much information, and he would do the rest.
After talking with Shi Qian, Zhao Di knew why he didn't communicate with him these days, firstly, because Shi Qian felt that he had collected too little information, and secondly, he was verifying the authenticity of the information in many ways, until there was more information, Shi Qian did not interrogate Zhao Di, but at that time, he found that the amount of information that could be transmitted by the communication sunglasses between him and Zhao Di was too small, and he could only pass it on after simplifying it in general, and as a result, the information received by Zhao Di became a little too brief, so that Zhao Di could not analyze it at all, so he was in a hurry to come to Minxing。
However, it was fortunate that Zhao Di came in person, otherwise Zhao Di felt that he was likely to miss the opportunity to loot. After all, the time is too tight, and he only has less than half a month to plan and act.
After Zhao Di left, he began to sort out the information that Shi Qian told him one by one, wrote these messages in detail one by one, and then nailed them to the wall in his room, which is a habit of Zhao Di to analyze intelligence, he will arrange all the information, and then sort out the logical relationship through this piece of information, and use limited information to deduce and corroborate each other, only the information that can be corroborated by each other can be counted as the most true. The rest of the contradictions, or uncorroborated, need to be further verified, and this information can be used as a direction to investigate.
All the information on the wall quickly became extremely clear under Zhao Di's gaze, and a network was quickly formed in his mind, and this network was the network of the entire Min Star Domain.
Now this net is still very sparse, but as long as Zhao Di wants, he will soon be able to remotely control the time and quickly weave this net densely.
Zhao Di scanned all the messages on the wall, then closed his eyes and pondered for more than a dozen breaths, and when he opened his eyes again, he stared at all the messages on the wall, with a confident smile on his face, and finally fixed his eyes on the paper with two big characters written on it in the middle.
Obviously, Zhao Di has already made a decision.