Hou Tao is Gu Qing's most valued cronie, otherwise he would not have handed over the responsibility of defending King Yan to him.

The core task of the Imperial City Division is to protect the security of the royal family, and those spy functions such as detectives and arrests are derived from this core.

In order to ensure the safety of King Yan, the personnel allocated to Hou Tao were all elites in the division, and later a lot of additional forces were sent one after another.

But Gu Qing didn't expect that King Yan was still assassinated and injured, and he almost died.

When he first received the news, everyone else was frightened, and if Hou Tao was in front of him, he would have been slashed with a knife.

More than half a month has passed, Gu Qing's mood has calmed down a lot, and at this time, looking at Hou Tao kneeling in front of him, he is a little angry.

"Dereliction of duty!? To put it lightly! I don't think you're doing anything at all! If you fail to prevent trouble in advance, you don't take precautions during the incident, and you don't track down the suspect afterwards, what is the use of you if you don't do anything? What's the use of asking me for the Imperial City Division!?"

Hou Tao raised his head slightly, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but when he saw Gu Qing's face full of coldness, he lowered his head deeply again.

Gu Qing looked at him like he wanted to speak and stopped, but he was even more angry, "What!? If you can't do it, don't you even dare to say anything?"

Hou Tao's eyes were bitter, and he didn't dare to pretend to be dead, "I didn't perceive the danger in advance, it was the incompetence of my subordinates, but His Highness traveled in a small way, and he always emphasized that he was not allowed to disturb the people, and his subordinates did not dare to disobey, so he did not set up measures along the way, and His Highness ordered to stop the investigation......

"Stupid!" Gu Qing drank lightly, hating iron and not steel, "We are loyal to His Highness, and we naturally have to listen to His Highness in other matters, but the safety of His Highness alone cannot be left to him, what are we?" It's an eagle dog! It's a shadow! If you want to think about what Your Highness has not thought and what Your Highness has not reached, you should act according to the safety of Your Highness, and you should not stick to the rules, and if necessary, you should preemptively do the dirty work...... Forget it, it seems that you are no longer suitable to be responsible for the safety of Your Highness, and when I show your Highness, I will remove you."

"Huh? That subordinate ......" Hou Tao felt aggrieved.

Gu Qing sighed, now that the Imperial City Division is about to be split, he will leave the Imperial City Division in the future and be in charge of the newly established Investigation Department and the Military Intelligence Department, originally he intended to recommend Hou Tao to take over the Imperial City Division, but judging from Hou Tao's performance, it was not suitable.

Although Hou Tao disappointed Gu Qing very much, he didn't intend to let him be depressed, "You don't have the ability to take charge of yourself now, I think it's better to go to the Military Intelligence Department to get started."

Hou Tao was somewhat prepared, although he was inevitably discouraged when he heard this, he also accepted his fate, "My subordinates thank Xie for mentioning the grace of not sinning, and after arriving at the Military Intelligence Department, they will definitely work hard to atone for their sins."

"Your Highness has not surrendered, how can I blame you, you have to thank Your Highness for your leniency, otherwise where would you wait for me to deal with it, you would have already been in a different place."

Gu Qing shook his head, and at this time he heard footsteps, "Get up, Your Highness is here."

After a while, Zhao Mengqi came in through the side door and greeted him politely, "Sit down..."

Everyone sat down, Zhao Mengqi caught a glimpse of Hou Tao's lonely face, his heart moved, and he looked at Gu Qing and chuckled, "Consultant Gu, did you discipline him?" …… Actually, I can't blame him for this, I'm fine anyway, so you don't have to be too responsible."

"Your Highness, there are no rules, no matter what, Hou Tao's dereliction of duty is true, and he is no longer suitable to bear the heavy responsibility of His Highness's safety, so Weichen suggests a replacement."

"For whom?"

"Weichen belongs to Lu Derun, he is good at detectives, his personality is more cautious, since he joined the Imperial City Division, he has made many achievements, rarely makes mistakes, and must be more able to protect His Highness."

Zhao Mengqi has seen Lu Derun a few times, and he does have a good hand in handling cases, and his impression is not bad, so he is noncommittal, "Oh, what about Hou Tao?"

"Hou Tao's temperament is a little soft, so Weichen plans to put him in the Military Intelligence Department for the time being."

Gu Qing knew that Zhao Mengqi had always been kind to the people around him, and he should be able to accept this arrangement.

Zhao Mengqi nodded as expected, "It's not bad...... Well, it's okay, I was still worried about the person in charge of the East China Sea Company, so I just let Hou Tao take care of it."

Gu Qing was stunned for a moment, still thinking about the trick, Hou Tao himself was surprised first,

"Huh? Your Highness, you don't know how to do business."

"What's so difficult about doing business, it's nothing more than buying low and selling high, and you won't learn, what's more, the business of Donghai Company is a little different, let others come, you also have to learn, don't worry, I'm looking for you today, it's just for the matter of Donghai Company, listen to it first."

Immediately, Zhao Mengqi told the general idea of Donghai Company to the people present, and then said leisurely.

"The Japanese are a very contradictory people, they always combine two extreme personalities, they are extremely aggressive by nature and can often behave very mildly, brave and courageous, but very cowardly, seemingly docile, loyal and generous, but rebellious, full of resentment, strict hierarchy, but do not easily obey their superiors, they commit disorderly things from time to time, they are polite in daily life, but they are arrogant and arrogant, they are conservative and stubborn in their bones, but they sincerely admire our Chinese civilization, and under power, it is very easy to adapt to fierce innovation."

"It seems complicated, but in short, the Japanese are actually the strong and respectful, and they decide which end of their personality to show based on each other's strengths and weaknesses."

"The regime of the Japanese people is also very complicated, there is a royal family and a court, but it is very weak, it is basically just a brand, if you have to compare it, some are like the Zhou royal family in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the real power is the Kamakura Shogunate composed of a samurai group, the nominal head of the shogunate is the general Fujiwara Yoriji, but the actual ruler is the Hojo family hereditary, and the samurai serve as the "guardian" and "land" to control the place."

After listening to King Yan's story, Ai Shijiu was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, "This Wa Kingdom is really messy enough, there are a lot of things in a big place......

"It's quite chaotic, but it's not chaotic enough, and I'm telling you this, I just hope you have a general image, for the time being, it has little to do with us, after all, the current Hojo ruling power still pursues the foreign trade policy of the Heike period, and our dynasty is considered good-neighborly and friendly, normal trade, which is enough to open up the situation in the Japanese country."

The Chinese civilization has always been far ahead of the Wa State, so the Wa State has never been able to resist the products from China, as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there was a phenomenon of trade with the Chinese, in the later period, although the trade policies and methods of the Wa State have changed a lot, but the trade between the two countries has always existed.

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, both sides were mainly official tributary trade, especially in the battle of Baijiangkou, after the ambitious Wa State was beaten all over the ground by the Tang Dynasty to find teeth, it suddenly woke up and began to kneel and lick frantically, sending a large number of Tang envoys to move Chinese culture, systems, commodities, etc. back to the Wa State on a large scale.

However, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the Wa State stopped sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty, and strictly forbade its own people to go to sea to trade, and entered the country that lasted for nearly 400 years, but in order to meet the nobles' pursuit of Chinese goods, Chinese merchant ships were still allowed to enter, that is, to passively accept trade.

In order to establish official relations with the Wa Kingdom, Shinjong wrote a letter to the Emperor of the Wa Kingdom, entrusting a Wa monk to hand it over with the gifts, but because the letter contained the words "give back to the Japanese State", the Japanese government and the opposition were dissatisfied, and the discussion was delayed for five years, and finally it was decided to reply in the name of Dazaifu instead of in the name of the Wa Imperial Court, which itself was a refusal to "establish diplomatic relations". Z.br>

First, the court and nobles at all levels were very xenophobic, and secondly, perhaps the Song Dynasty's force was not enough to make the Japanese "sincere", and trade could continue anyway, and the establishment of diplomatic relations was exempt.

Dazaifu was in charge of diplomacy and overseas trade, almost a hundred years ago, the Heike began to master Dazaifu, actively carried out trade with the Song Dynasty, accumulated a large amount of resources, expanded its power to become the ruler of the Wa Kingdom, lifted the lockdown, and vigorously encouraged the Wa merchants to take the initiative to go to sea, although the attempt to establish diplomatic relations with the Great Song Dynasty was opposed by the nobles and failed, but the trade between the two sides became more and more prosperous.

Even though the Heike regime was replaced by the Kamakura shogunate, the trade situation was maintained, but the Song Dynasty had repeatedly sent notes to the Wa Kingdom due to the outflow of copper coins, so the Wa State issued a new policy last year to limit the number of its own merchants going to the Song Dynasty.

"Let's open the situation?" Gu Qing was a little confused, and pointed at Ai Shijiu and Hou Tao, "What does Your Highness mean, are the ministers and others the Donghai Company?"

Zhao Mengqi knocked lightly on the table, "Yes and no, how can you say it? On the surface, Donghai Company is independent, but I have many arrangements that need to be completed by relying on it, so its composition will be more complicated, and the company is headed by Qian Guozhong of the Qian family, basically

He is only responsible for the commercial part, Hou Tao is the company's overseas deputy manager, responsible for special tasks, and Ai Shijiu is the company's deputy security manager, responsible for military support."

Gu Qing was vaguely aware of Zhao Mengqi's plan, but Hou Tao was still confused, "Special mission?"

"Isn't this military intelligence department just established, there are many businesses that are not familiar with it, so they simply use the Japanese country as a training ground, intelligence, infiltration, control, etc., how to do it specifically, Gu Qing, you know, the initial purpose is to protect the business behavior of the East China Sea Company,......

"As for the Zhejiang Navy Army, it is an open force that is temporarily merged into the East China Sea Company, and in addition to ensuring the safety of trade routes, it is also necessary to take the initiative to eliminate pirates, train combat power to become a real navy, and finally monopolize the control of the East China Sea."

Subsequently, Zhao Mengqi spent another hour assigning specific tasks to them, and finally said, "Within a three-year period, we must control the economy of the Japanese Kingdom to the greatest extent!" At the same time, it will initially take control of Tamna Island and make it the base camp of the East China Sea Company."

Gu Qing said cautiously with concerns, "Your Highness, you have arranged the affairs of the Wa Kingdom in detail, and Weichen will do it, but this Tamna Island is Goryeo, although Goryeo and our dynasty have cut off official exchanges, but the private trade is still active, and the two countries are quite friendly, not to mention that the Goryeo court is still resisting the Mongols, and we have a common enemy, which is barely a friendly army, if we move Tamna Island, will it cause the hatred of the Goryeo court and make it surrender to Mongolia?"

The relationship between Goryeo and Mongolia is a bit long, in short, it has been beaten by Mongolia for 30 years, and the land has long been reduced to the back garden of the Mongols, and the interest will come as soon as possible, but the Goryeo court moved to Ganghwa Island 23 years ago, with the help of the sea moat, so that the Mongols are helpless.

"Huh." Zhao Mengqi chuckled, "A group of sticks, what kind of friendly army, I tried to fight against Jin several times, but they were all rejected, and now what can I expect them to do on a lonely island?" In my opinion, sooner or later, they will have to surrender to the Mongols, and they will be able to hold out for another three or five years at most."

The relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo is also very complicated, and it can be divided into two stages, the Northern Song Dynasty was so good that it was honey and oil, and after the Southern Song Dynasty, it became more and more cold until the severance of diplomatic relations.

"What's more, I didn't let you go openly, now the Tamna royal family is still there, suppose, a group of Japanese pirates go to the island, clear the military and political forces of Goryeo, help Tamna to restore the country, and then we will trade with the restored Tamna and establish diplomatic relations, is there a problem with this?"

"Huh?" Gu Qing was stunned for a moment, "Wokou? Where did the pirates come from?"

Zhao Mengqi looked at the gate of the flower hall, "Na, isn't it outside?"