Chapter 734: Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy

Jinyiwei was a military and political intelligence collection agency specially set up by Taizu within the imperial court that year. net

In the initial period of expansion of this kind of intelligence agency, not only did it have great authority, but also had many information channels and more wild paths, in the era when Taizu founded the country, as long as it was something that Jinyiwei wanted to investigate, there was no unclear investigation from them.

However, the Jinyi Guards at the beginning were indeed extremely powerful, but as time went by, the balance of the world, and the throne has been passed down to the present, and there are almost no people in the current court who will take the initiative to pay attention to the actions of the Jinyi Guards, and even they don't care much about the huge role of this intelligence agency in their hearts.

Within the imperial court, especially the officials who control the household department, they control the monthly distribution of brocade guards.

As a member of the civil official group within the imperial court, they naturally know in their hearts what dirty things these brocade guards are doing every day, and every time these people live one more day, it is the sword of Damocles that hangs over everyone's heads all the time.

Every court official is not clean, and it is almost difficult for a clean official to survive in the officialdom for a long time.

There are very few real clean officials in history, and the corrupt officials who are not much different from He Shen are like carps crossing the river, which cannot be counted.

In the absence of the court's income and income, it is a problem to support the family, especially in some remote and poor places, and even maintaining the survival of his family has become a big problem.

In the long run, even a person who is loyal to and loves the court will gradually lose his enthusiasm and ideals under the torture of reality, become passive and slack, do not want to make progress, and be indifferent to the corruption of the court.

Basically, unless these people are necessary, they are not very willing to take the initiative to provide all kinds of information about the officials for the imperial court and do things seriously for the imperial court, even to handle all kinds of things, then they can delay as long as they want, and they can refuse immediately.

Therefore, the current Jinyiwei has long been suppressed by the civilian clique and the poor life of the heroes who are stumped by a penny, and he has gradually fallen lonely, and he is no longer as decisive and powerful as in the past.

Jia Yun used to do things locally, whether it was investigating cases or disaster relief, it was because of the secret help of these local brocade guards scattered all over the place, and they called for silver, so that they could handle those things smoothly and smoothly.

Otherwise, even if Jia Yun has the ability and ability to reach the sky, without the help of the locals, it is unlikely that he will immediately open the situation, find the core point of solving the problem, and properly dispose of and solve it.

These things are bound to become secrets that are not known to outsiders.

Fortresses are always breached and crumbling from within.

After any empire is corrupted and corrupted, it is the internal cannibalism that begins to kill each other, and then the outsiders have an opportunity to take advantage of it, and have the opportunity to seize the world.

Throughout the ages, when opening the history books of any ancient dynasty, whether it is the world of the East or the world of the West, it is better to have no deviation.

History is in a cycle, and mankind has never learned any lessons from history.

Jia Yun, who deeply understands the importance of intelligence, has long made arrangements for this.

In addition to Liu Xianglian, who was supported on the surface, Jia Yun also has her own unique channel, another source of intelligence, that is, the current business territory of the Xue family all over the world.

The Xue family today is not the Xue family of the past.

The Xue family's business has long spread all over the world, and even in the Western world, Jia Yun also instructed the merchants of the Xue family to secretly contact and carry out some smuggling and other transactions, and sell the world's spices, porcelain, etc., to Western merchants through these channels in exchange for gunpowder and other Western items.

These things are carried out in secret, in secret, and they are not things that can be said in the open.

But wherever there is a business of the Xue family, do you think that the Xue family will not collude with officials and businessmen when doing business?

Doing business in ancient feudal society, a big chamber of commerce that can run the world's business territory, has no backers in the imperial court, can you do big business?

It's simply impossible.

Hu Xueyan's background is Zuo Zongtang, so Zuo Zongtang can't fight Li Hongzhang in the court, and after gradually finishing up, Li Hongzhang, who has never had a good relationship with Zuo Zongtang, attacked Hu Xueyan.

The reason why Hu Xueyan ended up with a miserable result in his old age was because Li Hongzhang made a lot of effort in it.

Shen Wansan's background is Zhu Yuanzhang, and without Zhu Yuanzhang's support, Shen Wansan would not be able to become the richest man in the Ming Dynasty.

Until Zhu Yuanzhang used a knife against Shen Wansan, Shen Wansan also had to die.

Over the past dynasties, the merchants and rich people on this land have almost all been fat pigs raised in captivity by the imperial court, and even the richest businessmen are no match for a word from the court officials.

The prefect who raided the house, and the prefect who destroyed the door.

Many local officials were veritable local emperors.

In such an ancient feudal society where information was closed and communications were extremely underdeveloped, the authority of the local bureaucracy was beyond your imagination.

Especially in ancient times, the people were not allowed to move around at will unless there were special circumstances, and they were confined to one acre and three points of land all their lives, and what they saw and heard was only such a narrow small place, and they could not go to the state capital and see the wider world in their lifetime.

The impact of this is that these local bureaucrats have directly become local emperors, and they are rampant and domineering in the fish and meat township.

As long as they are ruthless enough, wild enough, and respectful to the bureaucrats above, then they can accumulate a lot of wealth in a very short time.

As the ancients said, "Get promoted and get rich!"

The ancients said: "A year to clear the prefect's mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver."

As long as you become an official, turn over and be the master, and one person will ascend to heaven, do you need to say more?

After Fan Jinzhongju didn't see the past, everyone who was happy went crazy?

Even if it is the scientific and technological world where Jia Yun was in the previous life, under the solidification of class, an ordinary person has no background and backing, can you become bigger and stronger in this land and create brilliance? I'm afraid of the Yamen's knife, and I will kill you with one sword.

Therefore, Jia Yun has two knives in intelligence.

A knife is a brocade guard placed on the bright side, and Liu Xianglian is responsible for helping to control it, and it is related to activities and has authority in this regard.

There is also a knife, which is invisible in the shadows.

The Xue family took advantage of the identity of the imperial merchant and the skin of the imperial merchant to make the business bigger and stronger and create brilliance.

Now the Xue family's business is all over the world, and the eight wildernesses are overseas, helping Jia Yun earn a huge amount of silver profits, and at the same time, he is also responsible for spying on accurate intelligence in various places, even if it is Emperor Yongtai in the palace, Jia Yun does not have a deeper grasp of all kinds of information in the local area.