Wu Shigong himself has no experience in intelligence work, and he can only use modern film and television works, as well as Wu Shigong's most urgent affairs now, to ask for the work of the Yamakawa Division.

Wu Shigong instructed Xue Zhinong: "Your first business is to find a few reliable, literate people who understand the affairs of the imperial court, and go to Shanchuan Hall to sort out and summarize the news. Their daily routine consisted of reading the newspaper and the messages that Tsukasa Yamakawa had delivered from various places, compiling them and giving them to me in a briefing. Remember! It may be difficult to find this kind of person in a moment, but it can be cultivated slowly, but these people must be reliable. ”

"Also, you have to set up news points in all the prefectures and cities of Henan, and in all the counties of Guide and Runing Mansions. It is possible to arrange people in the business hall. When I came back this time, I was already going to set up business stores in various places in Henan. I will greet Mr. Yuan and Mr. Zheng at that time, and there should be no problem for your people to arrange them in. However, your personnel must not be made public, not even the shopkeeper and other fellows in the merchant house. ”

"Yamakawaji's spies are mainly to find out all the news, but there are two main directions at this stage. The first is to explore in the direction of Henan Province, especially near the Yellow River, whether there are any rebels from Shaanxi and Shanxi who have crossed the Yellow River and entered Henan. ”

"You know, I learned in the Di newspaper that the rioters in Shaanxi and Shanxi are now making a lot of trouble in Shanxi, and they are far away from our Henan, that is, across the river, and will enter our Henan at any time. Therefore, it is very important for us to keep abreast of the dynamics of those rioters in order to prepare for the war against them. ”

"The second is to understand the business conditions of various places. The price of the things that are commonly used in each place should be counted regularly. It's also good for us to do business. This can be done with the help of the guys in the storehouse. ”

"In addition, you have to train about thirty elite soldiers. They are to be proficient in the use of handcuffs and short weapons. It is also necessary to learn combat skills such as stalking and assassination. These people are to be used as a special task force. ”

"Also, you also have to go to Guide Mansion and set up a fighting company, the leaders of this fighting business must be our own people, and those who do specific things can recruit some thugs and green skins. Don't tell those gangsters and green skins about our identity, there are some things that we are inconvenient to do, you can let them do it. ”

"You can go to the army and choose from the team. You can choose from the rest of the people, as well as from the bandits like Thunder Eagle. Be careful to keep their families in your hands to prevent mutiny. ”

"That's all I can remember for the time being. I will add it when I find a problem later. Your official position will be set as the general manager, and I will give you three thousand taels of silver here. Next year, the amount of silver available to your Shanchuan Division is tentatively set at 10,000 taels. That's it for now, and if it's okay you can go down. ”

To be honest, Wu Shigong also knew too little about intelligence organizations, so he turned his Shanchuan Division into a hodgepodge of military spies, commercial spies, special forces and gangs.

And these days, at the gate of Wu Shigong's Qianhusuo fortress, there has always been a guest waiting to see Wu Shigong. This is a king's shopkeeper sent by the Yangzhou salt merchant Qi family.

Among the hundreds of salt merchants in Yangzhou, the Qi family can be called one of the giants. This time, after the Qi family obtained the right to supply salt goods in this area from the Lu family, they sent this Wang shopkeeper to take charge. This can also be seen that the Qi family does not pay attention to the supply of salt in this area. Because generally speaking, the important areas responsible for the supply of salt are the direct and collateral children sent by the Qi family.

The king's treasurer's name was Wang Mi. He is an old man of the Qi family, and he is very familiar with the sale of salt goods. This time, it was not easy to be able to take charge of a region on his own, so this Wang Mi wanted to make some achievements.

When Wang Mi first arrived, he inquired about the sale of salt in the area. When he learned that Lu Yunhuan had been selling salt locally for several generations, and when Lu Yunhuan was banqueting Wang Mi, he invited some local officials and gentry to accompany him, so Wang Mi recognized Lu Yunhuan's strength. So he didn't raise the price when he gave Lu Yunhuan salt.

However, when he learned that the supply of salt in the mountainous areas in the northern part of Runing Province was sold by an acting Qianhu who did not know how long he could do it, he was a little unimpressed with Wu Shigong's identity.

But after that, Wang Mi inquired that when the price of salt sold by Wu Shigong could reach five or six taels of silver per stone, Wang Mi couldn't sit still.

To tell the truth, in the eyes of these salt merchants in the Ming Dynasty, the identity of a military attache like Wu Shigong was basically the same as that of the common people. Needless to say, compared with civil officials, or with the local gentry, Wu Shigong's status as a military attache is a level lower.

In addition, Wu Shigong went to King Qin again, and there were rumors that Wu Shigong had an accident in the battle of King Qin, so Wang Mi resolutely raised the price, the purpose was to drive Wu Shigong out of this business. After that, Wang Mi went to find a salt seller who had a better background than Wu Shigong in Wang Mi's eyes.

But what Wang Mi didn't expect was that Yuan Xingshan, who was in charge of the sales of salt goods in the fortress of Qianhu at that time, actually pinched his nose and recognized the high price of this salt goods. Now Zi Wang Mi was embarrassed to break the contract. However, the extra silver earned from salt goods every month also made Wang Mi add a lot of points to the Qi family.

But what Wang Mi never expected was that Wu Shigong not only came back, but also made military merits and was promoted to the garrison of Runing Mansion. Then after Wu Shigong came back, he showed tough methods, exterminated the bandits, and exterminated several gentry families. And after that, Wu Shigong broke off taking salt goods from the Qi family again. Wang Mi knew that he might have lost his eyes.

However, Wang Mi was not particularly alarmed. Because in his hand, there are still two trump cards. The first is that Wu Shigong can't get salt goods from other regions.

We already know that the supply of salt in Henan is controlled by Yangzhou salt merchants. Each salt merchant has a fixed sales area. They cooperate with each other to maintain the price of salt sales, and they will not sell across regions at will, causing any sales wars and price wars. This is also the reason why Wang Mi originally dared to mention the salt goods supplied to Wu Shigong to two taels of silver per stone.

However, Wang Mi inquired again that Wu Shigong was now going to buy salt from Jining Prefecture. Although Wang Mi also believed that with the influence of the Qi family, Wu Shigong would not be able to get any salt goods from Jining Prefecture in a short period of time. But over time, there will always be some other salt merchants who will fill the gap in this salt sales area.

Wang Mi's second card is that after dealing with Ming Dynasty officialdom for a long time, Yangzhou salt merchants have a set of mature methods to interact with Ming Dynasty officials. Yangzhou salt merchants called those methods "tuning".

Wang Mi thinks that a vulgar and money-greedy martial artist like Wu Shigong just throws a little wealth to Wu Shigong like throwing meat and bones, then Wu Shigong doesn't want to run to them with his tail wagging his tail. At most, the price of salt for Wu Shigong will be reduced a little.

But what Wang Mi didn't know was that Wu Shigong hated the most treacherous person. To be honest, the supply of salt goods was changed from the Lu family to the Qi family, and Wu Shigong didn't care very much. But when Wu Shigong learned that the Qi family had raised the price of salt, Wu Shigong hated the Qi family's fall. Now Wu Shigong, even if he can't do the salt business anymore, he will definitely not take salt goods from the Qi family.

So at the beginning, when Wang Mi confidently asked to see Wu Shigong with some gifts, he was driven back without even seeing Wu Shigong's back.

Wang Mi thought that his gift was too light, so the second time he increased the gift and went to see Wu Shigong, but he still ate a closed door. After doing this several times, Wang Mi was a little anxious. So this time, in order to see Wu Shigong, Wang Mi bought a gift in addition to spending a lot of money, and stuffed Chang Meng with a silver ingot of ten taels, please Chang Meng must report to Wu Shigong.

Wu Shigong looked at Wang Mi's gift list, and sighed in his heart at the generosity of Yangzhou salt merchants. Then Wu Shigong crumpled the gift list into a ball, and then threw the paper ball to Chang Meng and said: "Throw this paper ball on the face of the person outside the door, and give him a word, tell him to get out!" ”

Insulted, Wang Mi left the fortress of Qianhusuo in disgrace. He was very resentful of Wu Shigong in his heart. I thought to myself, "Since you, a martial artist, are so ignorant, then I'll find other merchants to sell salt." From now on, don't even think about getting a grain of salt from our prayer house. ”