Chapter 280: Intelligence
After the New Year, in 207 B.C., almost a month later, the formation of the Fan Yong Army was basically on the right track, and the establishment of the scout army was also very smooth, the number of troops had been fully recruited, and the professional training of the scouts was underway.
Only the progress of Jinyiwei is not great, and at this time, the framework of Jinyiwei has only been built, and the departments below the north and south towns, as well as the departments below the division, have been established, but there is a shortage of manpower, and more than half of the departments only have one or two people, which can only be regarded as a model, and it is not possible to officially start the intelligence gathering work. The reason for the slow establishment of Jinyiwei is that there is a lack of talents in this area.
Originally, the level of intelligence in this era was not high, and the intelligence personnel were very low, and the plateau's requirements for intelligence work were far above those of other countries, so of course it was difficult to find people. In addition, in this era, people who are really capable are reluctant to do intelligence work, because they are engaged in long-term latent intelligence work, and long-term latent personnel are precisely the most important link in intelligence work.
However, Gao Yuan also knew that the matter of intelligence work could not be rushed, so he could only take his time, so Jinyiwei first recruited more than 200 people, trained them, and told them 60 the key points of their intelligence work, how to hide themselves for a long time, and how to collect intelligence; And how do the left-behind personnel clearly sort out the information, including the control of intelligence personnel and agencies, the transmission of information, and so on.
Because Gao Yuan was born as an agent, and he is good at this aspect, the training of intelligence personnel, the establishment of institutions, and the mode of management are all handled by Gao Yuan, and they are all completely hand-in-hand. However, any of the methods he proposed were absolutely advanced in this era, unthinkable, unheard of, and no one could find a flaw, so they could only follow the plateau.
On the other hand, now Daijun also lacks the opportunity to send hidden intelligence personnel to other countries, establish their own intelligence points, and collect information about various countries, after all, only Yan State has diplomatic relations with Daijun, and Qi State has only just established commercial contacts, and has basically no relationship with other countries, and is basically in a hostile relationship with Qin State, which is indeed difficult to lay out in other countries.
However, since there is no way to lay out in other countries, then first do their own internal affairs well, during this time, Gao Yuan established five intelligence stations in the city of Daijun, and collected intelligence within the Daijun area, mainly to investigate the people's situation, grasp the trend of public opinion among the people, prevent things like the rebellion of Haoqiang, and also check and distinguish the spies sent by other countries to Daijun. On the one hand, this is to first strengthen the internal control of their own territory, and on the other hand, it is also to pilot the operation of intelligence affairs, and to allow intelligence personnel on all lines to increase their experience in intelligence work.
According to the intelligence principles formulated by Gao Yuan, the five intelligence stations assigned to work independently, and there was no contact with each other, let alone the existence of other people, but they directly made one-line contact with the headquarters, and according to Gao Yuan's teachings, they hid themselves as farmers, merchants, craftsmen, and other civilian identities. But after they were all hidden, Gao Yuan personally went on a micro-service visit to see if there were any flaws and loopholes in their lurking, and as a result, four of the five intelligence stations were found by Gao Yuan, and then rectified according to the flaws found by Gao Yuan, which is also a very rare experience for the hidden personnel.
Of course, after the various intelligence points were established, they immediately began to collect information from all sides. As a result, Gao Yuan and Zhao Xuan didn't think that this collection really found a lot of problems, and they actually found an intelligence point suspected to be established by the Qin State, and it had been stored for more than half a year.
The owner of the shop is called Wu Qian, a native of Zhao, who has just entered Daijun on the plateau, and infiltrated Daijun in the name of fleeing, obtained the qualification to live here, and opened a shop in the most lively area of Daijun to make a living.
There is no doubt about the origin of the shops, because similar situations are not uncommon in Daijun, and now Daijun needs a population, so the Zhao people who have fled are basically accommodating.
However, it was found at the intelligence point that the operation of this shop was very unreasonable, first of all, when buying the lot, the price was five times that of the original lot, so that the former shopkeeper moved, and never counter-bargained when purchasing, and gave as much as he wanted, and when he shipped, the price was not set high, and it was completely a loss-making operation, but the owner of the shop did not care anymore and did not make any changes, and the owner of the shop seemed to be intending to deal with some officials of Daijun, and in the dealings with the officials, he was generous. Of course, there are still some middle- and lower-level officials who are in contact with them, but these phenomena show that this shop has considerable suspicions.
Gao Yuan couldn't help but be taken aback, he didn't expect that Qin Guo's actions were so fast, Ju Jing had already established an intelligence point in Daijun, and began to make friends with his own officials. In fact, this intelligence point of the Qin State is not secretive, at least from the perspective of the plateau, there are at least five or six flaws, and for a latent intelligence point, one flaw is enough to be fatal. It was only in the former Daijun that they did not have the energy to conduct a formal inventory, so they were allowed to save zĂ i until now.
However, these are only suspicious points, and they do not prove that this shop is the intelligence point of the Qin State, so Gao Yuan also immediately ordered further investigation of Wu Qian and this shop. As a result, the investigation found that the problem was even greater, and it turned out that the store had been open for nearly eight months, and according to this business situation, the loss of money was as much as five or six times that of the operation. But Wu Qian, the owner of the shop, was never short of money, and in the middle of each month, Wu Qian would quietly go out of the city for two or three days, and would not return all night, and every time Wu Qian came back, he would order someone to exchange gold for copper coins. And the shopkeeper didn't know where Wu Qian had gone, and where the gold came from.
According to the intelligence department, in the past few days, Wu Qian must have gone out of the city to meet someone secretly, get gold from him, and transfer the information he had collected to him. It's just that this inference has not been confirmed, because Wu Qian has not gone out from the time he discovered that there was a problem with this shop to the time he started the investigation.
However, after grasping these circumstances, Gao Yuan did not rush to pull out this intelligence point of the Qin State, but ordered the personnel of the Jinyi Guard to closely monitor this intelligence point, and at the same time sent people to track Wu Qian's whereabouts to see who he saw when he went out of the city, of course, all the surveillance was carried out in secret, and did not alarm Wu Qian.
On the one hand, Gao Yuan wants to take advantage of this intelligence point to see how far Qin's intelligence system in Daijun has been built, and it is best to wipe out Qin's intelligence system. On the other hand, Gao Yuan also felt that he could keep this intelligence point for the time being, and pass on some fake news to the Qin State, which was actually not bad, and see if he could buy Wu Qian for his own use and play Infernal Affairs. Or arrange a few intelligence officers to sneak into the shop to be a buddy, so as to further control this intelligence point. Anyway, if you want to pull out this intelligence point, you can do it at any time, it's not a difficult thing, so keeping it will have a greater effect, so it's better to use it to practice your hands.
Of course, in addition to the personnel of Jinyiwei, Gao Yuan only told Li Yinghong, and even Ning Qi, Shen Shen, Geng Zhong and others did not say anything, after all, there is no final result yet, so the fewer people who know, the better.
As soon as the Jinyi Guard was formed, he gained a lot and discovered the intelligence points of the Qin State, not only Gao Yuan was happy, but even Li Yinghong and Zhao Xuan fully realized the importance of Gao Yuan to establish an intelligence agency, if it was a little later, the activities of the Qin State in Dai County would not have developed to that point.
However, while Gao Yuan was happy, he also reflected on his own ideas, whether he had set the standards too high, because the intelligence level of this era was still very low, and Qin Guo had done the best in this regard, but in the eyes of such an excellent agent as Gao Yuan, it was still almost full of loopholes, and it was completely at the level of an amateur. And being able to identify the intelligence point set up by the Qin State in Daijun shows that after his own short-term training, Jinyiwei is completely sufficient in this era, and there is no need for a higher level of training, and the work of intelligence distribution should be officially carried out immediately. In the future, the level will be gradually and gradually raised. The sooner Bi Jing does the information distribution, the better.
Therefore, Gao Yuan, Li Yinghong, and Zhao Xuan made a decision after careful deliberation. First of all, it is necessary to immediately establish intelligence points in the three counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Shanggu, and each county has no less than three intelligence points, so as to fully grasp the dynamics of the Daijun area.
The second is to use the discovered intelligence point of the Qin State to find out all the information about this intelligence point, and after the intelligence points of each county are established, conduct a comprehensive investigation in the Daijun area, and strive to find out all the intelligence points and intelligence personnel set up by the Qin State or other countries in the Daijun, of course, after the detection is detected, whether to arrest or not, and then depending on the situation.
As for intelligence points in other countries and regions, the first thing is to establish them in the Zhao region, after all, they still have a lot of connections in the Zhao country, so it is also the easiest to establish an intelligence point in the Zhao country. In addition, now that Zhao Di has actually been incorporated into the Qin State, and the establishment of an intelligence point in Zhao Di can also take advantage of the situation to extend the intelligence network to the Qin State, after all, the main direction of the intelligence work of Daijun is still in the Qin State, and the next step is to consider the development of the Yan State and the Qi State. As for Wei and Chu, they can only wait for the right time.