The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 388 Eliminate Warlords
The Huang family's strength has grown so rapidly that it will immediately arouse too much suspicion. It is time to deploy an intelligence network, and the intelligence war has begun.

Huang Sheng held a special meeting to set up a department specializing in intelligence work - the Military Intelligence Department.

Huang Dongshan, the chief officer of the Musketeers, Zhang Youlu, the chief officer of the [-]th, He Xiang, the secretary, and Bian Zhiming are part-time deputy directors. The director is personally held by Huang Sheng.

There are several military intelligence departments under it, and the person in charge enjoys the treatment of a five-rank thousand households, and the intelligence staff under him are given the treatment of a regular soldier.

At present, the North Zhili Military Intelligence Department was first established in the capital, which is also the military intelligence department, and the person in charge is Qian Meng.The Second Military Intelligence Office of Nanzhili was established in Nanjing, and the person in charge was Yi Facai.

The leaders of each team under his command received the treatment of officers from the seventh rank to the sixth rank respectively. Zuo Shouquan, Wu Yi, and the two very clever musketeers Wang Chenggong and Fu Qin who took the wounded and retired soldiers last time to protect Cao Huachun formed the South Army. [-], [-] Zhili military intelligence offices in the north and the north.

They have to constantly recruit intelligence personnel, recruit skilled martial artists, and also buy undercover agents, trying to spread the intelligence network as soon as possible.

The task of the military intelligence offices in various places is to promptly discover clues that are not conducive to the Huang family, secretly arrest Jiannu spies who are active in various places, collect evidence of corruption and bribery by court officials, and record their evil and scandalous deeds.

The Northern Zhili Military Intelligence Department also had a special task. Immediately set up the Zhangjiakou Military Intelligence Bureau to investigate the business network of Shanxi merchants and their business routes as quickly as possible.

Shanxi merchants betrayed the country in the late Ming Dynasty. It is well known that it was not easy for them to transport grain to Houjin. There were no more than three ways. One was to form a huge mule and horse cart transport team by themselves, and send it to Liaodong through the Mongolian control area from the Zhangjiakou side wall.

Either bribe the Shanhaiguan guard to go directly to Liaodong through the Liaoxi Corridor, or take the sea route.With the strength of the Huang family, no matter where the Shanxi merchants go from, they can completely rob and kill them.

The premise is to be able to obtain accurate information. Now that the Liaoxi Corridor has been cut off by the Huang family, and there are thousands of Huang’s ships operating in the Liaodong Bay, Shanxi merchants can only go out of Zhangjiakou to take the grassland.

If the cavalry set up an ambush on the vast prairie without knowing the specific route of the caravan and the approximate time it will take, it may end in vain.

This time, the Patriarch personally assigned the task and acted as the chief officer. There were not many people attending the meeting, and Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao were only present. They had no right to interfere with the work of the intelligence personnel, but they had to cooperate.

Yi Facai, Qian Meng, Wu Yi, and Zuo Shouquan have a total of 26 people, at least they are all given the treatment of the seventh-rank chief banner officer, and the chief officers of the Military Intelligence Department are all treated as the fifth-rank and subordinate five-rank. This shows that the patriarch How much attention is paid to the work of the Military Intelligence Department.

Give these intelligence officers sufficient funds to allow them to develop independently, and ordinary intelligence officers can enjoy the treatment of regular soldiers, and there is no limit to men and women, all for work needs.

He Xiang is responsible for their financial expenses, and Huang Shenghui specially arranges special funds for the use of the intelligence department, without setting an upper limit.

Qian Meng and Yi Facai, the two first batch of soldiers who were injured and retired, have now returned to the military system, and have also obtained the official position of the fifth rank. They are so excited beyond words.

Daming has too many men with some martial arts skills. With enough money and food, it is no problem to hire hundreds of reliable people to carry out secret missions. These directors of the Military Intelligence Department promise to carefully detect any changes and do their best for the prosperity of the Huang family. .

Huang Sheng held a meeting with the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. The military officers attending the meeting were from Qipin to the general banner officer and above, and the civil officers were from the village chief to above. At the meeting, it was clarified that the military and all civil officials of the Huang family system would be issued by the "Huaxia Big Bank" on their behalf. Military pay and monthly money, grain stores distribute rice.

The officials of the Huang family did not have such a thing as embezzlement of food and blood in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. All officials obeyed unconditionally. They only need to provide the list and the amount to be distributed to the nearest bank. Salary.

Because there are more and more soldiers in the Huang family, in order to prevent the emergence of new warlords, Huang Sheng firmly controls the financial power in his own hands.The military and civilians who also subtly influence the system walk through the bank, and participating in savings will get interest income.

After the resolution of the meeting was published, it became an internal document and issued to every senior officer above the seventh rank. The officers who failed to attend the meeting were conveyed to the whole army by the officers who participated in the meeting.

The officers of the Huang family don't raise private soldiers and only take their own salaries. Even if the emperor instigates rebellion in the future, there will only be a few individuals, and they will not be able to pull away the army.

The busy first year of Chongzhen has passed, Huang Sheng is dormant, the construction of the new territory "Huaxia Island" is in full swing, and Daishan Island is fully functional.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Yi Facai and Qian Meng took the leadership team of the Military Intelligence Department to their posts happily. Their first task was to contact officials and wealthy businessmen who had made good friends with the Huang family and came to "Huaxia Island" to participate in an important event in early February. reunion.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the tribute ship headed by Ruan Dan, the King of Jiaozhi County of Guangnan Kingdom, brought the rare treasures and special products of the Southern Kingdom carefully prepared by the Lord of Guangnan to pay tribute to the capital of the Ming Dynasty again. The young emperor should be very happy with the posture of paying tribute every year.

Because this time, the Guangnan ruler believed that the tribute would be profitable, so the cost was higher than last year. The officials of the Ming Dynasty knew what to buy.

It will not be self-defeating, because last time Ruan Fuyuan was reluctant to pay tribute under the threat of Huang Sheng, and the relevant documents were also hastily done.

This time it was different, he paid the tribute spontaneously and carefully prepared everything, even the letter of thanks to the Emperor Ming for allowing him to be a minister was written by a master who is proficient in Chinese.

This is planning before acting. The Jiaozhi County King of Guangnan Kingdom keeps appearing in the sight of the officials of the Ming Dynasty. If suddenly one day this county king actually gets a fief, no one in the Ming Dynasty would think it strange.

Governor Yuan Chonghuan received Huang Sheng's promise and the military achievements he gave up did not make things difficult for him. Seventy percent of the money and food were given, and everyone lived in peace. The court seemed to have forgotten Huang Sheng, an official.

Huang Sheng was so happy that he taught and educated people and dispatched troops every day, and the soldiers of the Huang family were practicing hard.

At the end of the year, we continued to recruit outstanding youngsters. 400 of them participated in musketeer training, and 500 became sailor and gunner cadets. More than 300 of those who were replaced by military members also entered the school to study, and later became musketeers.

This year, another 120 veterans who failed to pass the examination to become the chief banner officer were selected and promoted to the chief banner officer of the guard, including 60 musketeers. They will go to Lingao, Zhoushan, Fushan, and "Huaxia Island" to garrison.

At that time, the Musketeers who are temporarily stationed in these places will be transferred back to Huangjiawan Island, because if there is no accident, Chongzhen will fight Jiannu at the end of the second year, but I don’t know if the history is still the same?
If the Hou Jin still traveled thousands of miles to attack the mainland of Ming Dynasty, Huang Sheng was going to do his best to deal a severe blow to Jiannu, and now he is preparing for a big war in about a year.

The production of weapons, gunpowder, and armor is running at full capacity. In about a year, [-] regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers can be equipped with coiled steel armor and all-steel breastplate. People have more than three.

In the blink of an eye, winter has passed and spring has come, and the expected chilly February is approaching. The [-] young people who enlisted in the army last year have been replenished to serve in various warships.

The small-scale expansion of the army has been completed. Many old soldiers have been transferred to become naval officers, and some have been transferred to civil affairs. The positions vacated by them will be replaced by recruits who joined the army last year.

(End of this chapter)