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    "Your Majesty, please have a look." Xu Ying presented the results of the interrogation.

    Zhao Han didn't read it because there were too many contents, so he said: "You pick the most important ones and talk about them."

    Xu Ying summarized: "Five salt merchants were arrested, three sent news to the Tatars, one sent news to Li Zicheng, and one sent news to the Tartars and Li Zicheng. Among the participating merchants in Nanjing and Yangzhou, except for one that sold Korean ginseng  , and all the rest are selling Liao ginseng, and all of them are secretly sending news to the Tartars."

    "There are a lot of careful work." Zhao Han was not angry, but rather amused.

    Xu Ying continued: "Some merchants can't even be called careful operations. They just inquire about all kinds of news, and when they go to other places to sell goods, they pass it along. Sometimes, when the business route is blocked, they only pass it on once a year or two.  .¡±

    This kind of part-time spy is not a professional.

    Zhao Han asked: "Have you grasped the real fine work?"

    "There is no real detailed work." Xu Ying replied.

    "No?" This answer surprised Zhao Han.

    Xu Ying explained: "The puppet Qing Dynasty did not have Jinyiwei, nor did they have East Factory or West Factory.  Only in North Zhili, not even in Shandong."

    Zhao Han thought about it carefully and found it very reasonable.

    ?Manchu Qing, which has not even occupied Liaodong, even if they personally end the spy war, they will only stare at Beizhili, and the rest of the provinces can let merchants pass the news.

    The Ming Dynasty perished too quickly, the Manchus entered the customs too quickly, Huang Taiji died of illness suddenly, Dorgon was busy with internal fighting, and then migrated on a large scale, how could he have the time and energy to expand the intelligence system?

    At that time, Shandong and Henan were plagued by plague again, and the road to the south was blocked by the Datong army.  Even if there is a fish that slipped through the net, the people in the villages and towns will be prevented and controlled by groups, all foreigners will be registered and quarantined, merchants will not be allowed to go south, and people who seek relatives will be resettled and settled on the spot If the Tartars want to send spies, their plans will definitely be completely disrupted.

    ?It is even possible that some spies feel that they are living a good life after being assigned households and fields, so they become farmers with peace of mind.

    With the army in chaos and the plague raging, it is impossible for the Tatars to find trouble with spies, and they can only regard them as missing persons.

    The next thing was that the Manchus retreated to Liaodong, and Dorgon tried to restore the intelligence system, but all he could do was contact merchants.

    Xu Ying said: "The person in charge of the contact went to Zhangjiakou from Mongolia, and then the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou took action. The merchants arrested this time were bewitched by the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou. Because of the passage from Liaodong to Shandong, our Datong Army  Cut off, even merchants from the south have to go to Zhangjiakou to buy Liao ginseng. Yang Yiqin, Cao Fengji¡¯s man, was caught and threatened by his son, and it was the salt merchant Zhang Wanxue who did it.¡±

    Zhao Han asked: "Why did Zhang Wanxue sacrifice his life for the Tartars?"

    Xu Ying replied: "One is to take revenge on the Datong court, and the other is that his family is doing fur business with the Tartars."

    Zhao Han asked again: "Didn't Tartar put any manpower in his business?"

    The spies sent by Xu Ying are mainly placed in various companies.  Or, directly recruit the associates of the firm and become non-staff personnel to collect intelligence.

    Xu Ying said: "The Tatars must have placed spies in the chamber of commerce, but there is no need to place them in the south. I guess that when the Tartars retreated to Liaodong, they left some spies in Beizhili for future raids or sieges.  As for the south, Cao Fengji is already the biggest writer, and the rest of the details are merchants who deliver the news. I tortured those merchants, and they have no connections in the south. They have to go to the north to do business in order to spread the news."

    Zhao Han understood it.

    That's the way ancient intelligence agencies are, and Daming's Jinyiwei is a different kind.

    Moreover, it was limited to the Jinyiwei in the middle and early Ming Dynasty, and they could even go to the grasslands and North Korea as spies.  At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was no longer possible. The Tartars ravaged Beizhili and plundered all the way to Shandong. The two sides fought for two months, and Chongzhen didn't know how many Qing troops had come.

    Zhao Han knows very well how much it costs to maintain an intelligence system.

    Last year's intelligence expenditure has exceeded the royal family's expenditure, and a total of more than 700,000 taels was spent.  In addition to paying salaries to intelligence personnel, they also established a large number of contact points in the north, and even extended their tentacles to Li Zicheng's territory.

    Zhao Han knew exactly what Li Zicheng was doing, and he could instigate some wavering generals at any time.

    There are also Xu Ying's people in the Liaoxi Corridor, otherwise it would not be so easy to surprise and occupy Weiyuantai last year.

    "Where's Cao Fengji?" Zhao Han asked.

    Xu Ying replied: "Run away. I heard that a merchant in Yangzhou was arrested, so he ran away that day, only taking some silver with him. The business name, goods, and silver stored in the ticket number were not taken away."

    &nbsHe knew many important officials of the Datong court.  "

    "Not bad, not bad." Fan Yongdou nodded.

    Cao Fengji also said: "Nanjing promised that as long as the world is unified, we will be issued a salt franchise license. Many businesses of the Nanjing court, such as tea, salt, and ironware, require franchise licenses to operate. This can be passed on to future generations.  family business!"

    Fan Yongdou bowed his hands toward the south: "Your Majesty is really generous. Regardless of what our family has done before, the Fan family will be loyal for generations to come. This matter cannot be neglected, and we must actively make contributions. Although the drought on the grassland has eased this year, we can't find it."  If we buy food locally, more people will starve to death in winter. Many Mongolian tribes are discouraged by the Tartars, we can take this opportunity to provoke, and even persuade several Mongolian tribes to join the court!"

    Cao Fengji said happily: "With such credit, the Fan family will be reused by the imperial court, and all descendants and grandchildren will benefit from it!"
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