Hong Taoping and Jin Feng have similar personalities. They both like to be hands-off shopkeepers. They usually only care about shipbuilding related matters at the dock. As for the rest, most of them are handled by the housekeeper.
It was the same this time. After explaining Jin Feng's request to the housekeeper, he handed the cold kelp shreds to the housekeeper and went to work in the workshop again.
The housekeeper first sent someone to notify the local squire family to come to his place for a meeting, then brought the kelp ribbon back, took out a small plate, tasted it carefully, divided the remaining into a dozen small portions, and served it with exquisite rice.
Boxed up.
After preparing these things, the squires and clan elders also arrived one after another.
The housekeeper knew that they were all here, but he deliberately waited behind for more than ten minutes before going to the reception room.
As soon as he entered the door, he held up his hands and said: "I'm sorry everyone, the young master just had something to do with me, and I was delayed. I kept you waiting for a long time!"
"It's okay!"
"We just got here too!"
"Master's matters are important!"
The clan elders quickly stood up and returned the gift.
The Hong family was originally a big family in Yuxi Town, and now the housekeeper is publicizing everywhere how much Jin Feng relies on Hong Taoping and the Hong family's dock, which has led to the Hong family's status in Yuxi getting higher and higher, and the gentry family dare not offend them easily.
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When the housekeeper sat down, the oldest and most respected clan elder asked: "I wonder what the second master ordered us to do?"
Although the housekeeper is young, because Hong Taoping respects him and calls him Second Uncle, many local people call him Second Master.
The housekeeper did not speak directly, but winked at the servants of the Hong family.
The servant quickly closed the door and walked out.
I don’t know what the housekeeper said to the clan elders. When the clan elders left, each of them held a lunch box, their faces were full of excitement, and some of their hands and feet were shaking with excitement.
The housekeeper was the last one to come out, and when he saw the elders leaving, the corner of his mouth could not help but curl up.
On the other side, Tang Xiaobei, Runniang and others also finished their kelp feast, and they all leaned lazily on the stools.
"Oh, I'm so exhausted, I'm so exhausted!"
Tang Xiaobei said while rubbing his belly.
"Sister Xiaobei, you refused to listen when I asked you to eat less. Are you feeling uncomfortable now?"
Runniang poured Tang Xiaobei a cup of tea: "Drink some tea and wash it down."
"I can't drink any more. I'm afraid I'll spit it out if I drink more."
Tang Xiaobei waved his hands repeatedly.
"It's better to have a good time following your husband!"
Qing Mulan exclaimed: "Seaweed, which seems so inconspicuous, can be made into delicious food. It's amazing!"
"My husband is not only good at cooking, but also good at other things!" Tang Xiaobei said with a wicked smile.
"What else is so great?" Qing Mulan asked curiously.
Tang Xiaobei did not answer, but raised his eyebrows at Zuo Feifei and Runniang: "Ask them."
Runniang spat at Tang Xiaobei, and Zuo Feifei also blushed.
Although Qing Mulan was not married yet, she was a twenty-year-old girl after all, so she understood immediately.
"Xiao Bei, look for a fight!"
Qing Mulan blushed and stretched out her hand to scratch Tang Xiaobei's armpit.
Tang Xiaobei naturally did not show weakness and immediately fought back.
Later, for some unknown reason, Zuo Feifei and Run Niang also joined the battle group.
The four of them fussed for a while before sitting back down again.
Qing Mulan was afraid that Tang Xiaobei would drive randomly again, so she took the initiative to ask: "Xiaobei, what are you doing next?"
"What else can we do? Let's go fishing." Tang Xiaobei asked, "Are you two together?"
"I'm not going, I want to study how to make kelp." Run Niang shook her head.
"I can't go either. Mr. may have to go to the dock in the afternoon. I have to bring someone to protect him." Zuo Feifei also shook her head.
"I'll go with you, I'm fine anyway." Qing Mulan said helplessly.
Runniang and Zuo Feifei both had things to do, and Tang Xiaobei also had to deal with the account books sent from Sichuan and Shu, and issue various orders, so he would be busy every few days.
Instead, she became the most leisurely one.
"Let's go then, it just so happens that you can use Runniang's fishing rod."
Tang Xiaobei took Qing Mulan and left.
The two came to the beach where they usually fish, and found that a woman had already occupied that place in advance.
"Madam, please wait a moment, I'll ask her to move."
Tang Xiaobei's personal guard captain said.
"Forget it, I got here first," Tang Xiaobei waved his hand: "Let's find another place."
So a group of people found an open space not far away to set up poles.
But as soon as the two of them sat down, they saw the woman from before walking over.
"stop!"
Tang Xiaobei's personal guard captain immediately led people to block her way.
Amei also stood silently beside Qing Mulan and Tang Xiaobei.
"Two officers...two strong women, don't get me wrong. I am a member of the Bell Team under Mr. Han. I am now affiliated with the Secret Intelligence Department. If you have any questions, please report to Mrs. Xiaobei!"
The woman looked around and found that there were no people around. She took out an iron token from her arms and handed it to the captain of the guard.
Zhong Ming's Group 1 and Zhong Ming's Group 2 can be regarded as the intelligence organizations under Jin Feng. One is responsible for the internal affairs of Sichuan and Sichuan, and the other is responsible for the external affairs.
However, the Zhongming Group has too many businesses and its members are too active. They often have to deal with the people, and many secret information can no longer be explored.
So after the Ninth Princess ascended the throne, she established a separate intelligence organization called the Secret Intelligence Department. Their confidentiality level was higher than that of Zhong Ming Group 1 and Zhong Ming Group 2, and they had greater power. They could not only monitor the people of the world, but also monitor various places.
officials.
If a special incident occurs locally, they will report it to Jinchuan as soon as possible to prevent local officials from deceiving the court and suppressing the incident privately.
When the Secret Intelligence Department was established, the Ninth Princess and Jin Feng had a bad relationship. Jin Feng was initially a little repelled because the so-called Secret Intelligence Department was essentially the same as the Jin Yiwei in his previous life.
When Jin Yiwei was first established, it did play a very good supervisory role. However, as its power grew, Jin Yiwei became more and more aggressive, turning from a supervisor into a scourge.
But after several days of consideration, Jin Feng finally agreed to establish the Secret Service.
Because transportation and communications were backward in the feudal era, many local officials felt that the mountains were high and the emperor was far away, and they acted recklessly below, causing complaints among the people and eventually having to rebel.
When things develop to the point of rebellion, they are actually very serious.
Many of the officials appointed by the Ninth Princess were promoted from the grassroots level. They may enforce the law impartially at the beginning, but when faced with more temptations, it is easy to become irresistible.
There are also escorts from various places who basically come from poor families, and their ability to resist temptation is worse than that of civil servants.
At times like this, someone really needs to supervise them to prevent them from doing something outrageous.
However, in order to prevent the Secret Service from following the same path as the Jinyiwei, Jin Feng only gave them the right to monitor and report, but did not give them arrest or other rights.