Su Hui, the confidant of Supervisor Wang Mian, came out of the VIP hotel. He looked left and right in front of the door for a long time to confirm that there was nothing abnormal, and then he got on an ox cart and left.
An old man riding a donkey followed the ox cart calmly.
The ox cart stopped in front of a silk and satin shop. Su Hui got off the ox cart. He looked both ways and quickly walked into the shop.
The old man riding a donkey passed by the bullock cart without stopping at all.
The shop is called Sunji Silk Shop, and it is actually an intelligence point set up by the Sichuan-Shaanxi Jiedu Prefecture in Chengji County.
The shopkeeper is called Sun Miao, who is also an official of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Division.
He has seven or eight subordinates who are responsible for collecting all intelligence on Xihe Road. This is both Lu Huiwen's request and the emperor Zhao Gou's request.
Sun Miao already knew the news that the supervisory army was coming, and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Division also ordered him to cooperate fully.
Su Hui walked into the store lobby and saw several clerks busy.
Then he asked: "I'm looking for your shopkeeper Sun!"
A middle-aged man stood up and said, "I am the shopkeeper, who are you?"
Su Hui showed his military supervisor card. Sun Miao was startled and said quickly: "Please come later!"
The two came to the back hall. Shopkeeper Sun asked Su Hui to sit down and personally served him a cup of hot tea.
Su Hui took a sip of tea and asked with a smile: "When was your intelligence point established?"
"About a year ago, it was also the request of the imperial court, but we are not involved in military intelligence, so the risk is not too big."
Su Hui said calmly: "The risk does not need to be high, but you can at least get important information. You should understand the purpose of setting up this information point!"
Sun Miao nodded, "I know it very well!"
"Then what information can you provide to the supervisors?"
"We have collected a lot of information. I wonder what kind of information the Supervisory Army needs?"
"The Supervisory Army needs all the evidence about Chen Qing, the governor of Jiedu. If you know any serious acts of overstepping his authority or arrogance, tell us everything."
Sun Miao thought for a while and said: "Actually, Chen Qing is not bad at arrogance. He basically has no excuses. He is mainly arbitrary. For example, the appointment of officials is all decided by him and will not consider the opinions of the court.
For example, tax reductions and exemptions and land distribution will not be reported to the court. It is he who has the final say.
Another example is the negotiation with Xixia. He would not inform the imperial court, let alone the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Department."
Su Hui listened and took shorthand notes. He frowned slightly and said, "These are too general and not very convincing. Let's talk about something specific."
"specific?"
Sun Miao scratched her head and asked: "For example, what specific aspect?"
Su Hui thought for a while, suddenly remembered something and said: "We heard a news that 20,000 prisoners of war were mining. The supervisor wanted to know what would happen to the 20,000 prisoners of war? Also, what kind of mine were they digging?"
Sun Miao took out several intelligence reports: "This is our latest intelligence. In fact, one of them is about the disposal of prisoners of war. There are a total of 22,000 Xixia prisoners of war. I heard that Chen Qing initially wanted to exchange supplies with Xixia, but Xixia was too late.
When there was no reply, Chen Qing decided to let them mine for five years before releasing him."
"What kind of mine should we open?"
"I heard that it is an iron ore and a copper mine. The specific location is Hetie Mountain at the junction of Qinzhou and Gongzhou, where iron ore is abundant."
"This information is good. Give me a copy."
Speaking of this, Su Hui pressed further and asked: "We want to know how many minerals Chen Qing mined in total? What exactly did he mine?"
"As far as I know, there are also saltpeter mines in Gongzhou, boiled salt in Qinzhou, and I heard they have acquired several salt lakes in Xi'an Prefecture. There seems to be another rumor that Chen Qing has a salt lake in Lintao Prefecture.
Silver Mine.”
"Is what you said true?"
Wang Mian turned around and asked with surprise and joy: "Are you sure he mined iron, copper and silver mines without authorization?"
Su Hui quickly bowed and said: "Reporting to the supervisor, it is basically certain that the copper and iron mines are mined in Hetie Mountain at the junction of Qinzhou and Gongzhou, but the silver mines are just rumors. The rumors are that they are in Lintao Mansion. Is it true?
I really don’t know.”
"It can't be groundless, there must be a reason! Your most important task now is to find out where the silver mine is?"
"I humbly obey orders!"
Su Hui retreated, while Wang Mian, the military supervisor, was extremely excited and paced back and forth in the room. Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, armies from all over the country have been strictly prohibited from mining iron and copper mines without authorization, let alone mining gold and silver mines.
This is the lesson the imperial court learned from the separatist rule of vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty. It must firmly control the financial resources of each army.
Once the army can forge its own weapons and have its own financial resources, it will definitely move towards the separation of vassal towns.
This is something that the imperial court will never allow. Once this happens, the imperial court will not hesitate to deal with it, either by promoting them to gain air power, or by directly dismissing them, or even by executing them.
These are Chen Qing's handles. By grasping these handles, Chen Qing can be controlled at the same time.
At this moment, the supervisor Wang Mian was even looking forward to Chen Qing's return.
………
Chen Qing led the army and finally returned to Chengji County.
As soon as he entered the county town, Chen Qing showed off his face and ordered the seal on the gate of Jiedu Mansion to be torn off.
He also ordered the officials of Jiedu Mansion to immediately return to Jiedushi to take charge.
Zhang Xiao and other officials were very excited and led the officials back to the government office immediately.
The news soon reached the ears of the supervisory army. Chen Qing dared to tear the seal he had posted? He immediately became furious and immediately led his men to the Jiedu Mansion.
By coincidence, Chen Qing happened to meet Wang Mian, the supervisor of the army, in front of the Jiedu Mansion.
"Excuse me, are you the military governor Chen Qing?"
"That's Mr. Chen! Who are you?"
"I am Wang Mian, the Supervisor of the Army. Please tell me, Jiedushi, why the door seal with the edict should be torn off?"
Chen Qing sneered and said: "First, I didn't see any order!"
Second, I have the right to build a Jiedushi residence, why do you want to put a seal on it?"
Wang Mian also said coldly: "Let me answer your first question first!"
Wang Mian calmly took out the gold medal and said loudly: "This is the emperor's gold medal. With this, I can seal your Jiedu Mansion!"
Secondly, your Jiedu Mansion has not been approved by the imperial court, and its operation is illegal. As a supervisor, I have the right to seal your Jiedu Mansion!"
Chen Qing waved his hand and said, "I think you are mistaken. The full name of my Jiedushi Mansion is Jieduzhi Staff Mansion, or Jiedushi Mansion for short. Is a mere Staff Mansion worthy of such attention from the Supervisory Army?"
"That's complete nonsense! It's clearly the Jiedu Mansion, so why do you say it's the Staff Mansion?"
Chen Qing smiled lightly, "It's very simple. Because all officials are not appointed by the court, but are staff, that's why it's called the Jiedushi Staff Office."
"Chen Qing, do you dare to disobey the emperor's order?" Supervisor Wang Mian raised the gold medal high again.
Chen Qing ignored him at all, turned around and shouted: "All officials should enter the government offices!"
Hundreds of officials poured into the county government office in large numbers!
