Chapter 134: Intelligence Department, Ma Yan's Excellence
Who else in Xiami County could call them "Master" in front of them, naturally it was their good brother Jiang Yang.
Ma Yan didn't dare to slack off, nodded and followed the boy to the inner hall, where Jiang Yang sat in the middle with a dark face.
Anyone can tell that he is in a very bad mood right now.
Ma Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly bent down and said, "Sir, something didn't go well at the Chen family today?"
Jiang Yang did not answer. Instead, he looked up at him and said, "Tell me about your actions these days."
Ma Yan is not as out-of-the-box as before. Thinking about how he could still hold grudges over a piece of cornbread when he was in the mountains and forests, he has indeed grown a lot now.
After hearing what Jiang Yang said, he calmed down for a moment and began to speak.
At first, when Ma Yan told the truth, he turned a blind eye to the so-called intelligence organization. What should he say?
As for asking for money, it was just because some brothers wanted money for anything, so I asked for it. I didn't expect that the money was in my hands, but how to spend it became a problem.
Since we want to gather information, teahouses and brothels are naturally the best places. Is it possible that I can invite people to stay in teahouses and brothels every day?
Ma Yan then went to give it a try, but this good guy, let alone the bastards he recruited, stayed in the brothel one by one, coveted for beauty, and randomly used some information to excuse himself.
This made Ma Yan very angry, and he told them to get lost.
Let's look at the tea house again. Let alone gathering information, within three days everyone has become suspicious of this guy's identity. Your guy just doesn't do his job every day.
Just drinking tea in a teahouse, being so rich, and gossiping about someone else, he is always gossiping about you. You can tell he is not a good person at first glance.
He was soon isolated, and the owner of the teahouse would have kicked him out if he didn't have two stinky copper coins.
Ma Yan was speechless. Look at the old woman sitting at the door in the village before. What kind of gossip and information was there in the whole village?
Why is it so difficult to come to the city?
Could it be that there are many tricks in the city?
Fortunately, Ma Yan was not discouraged but instead took another approach, okay since you don't let me stay overnight in a brothel and don't let me go to a teahouse to drink tea and listen to gossip.
Then I will buy your tea house and your brothel!
Don't say anything, train all these guys and girls, and record what the customers said, did, and worried about every day.
In this way, the efficiency is much higher, but it is too expensive. Fortunately, the brothels and teahouses are not completely loss-making and can still make money. In the end, it is not a huge loss.
It's just that there are people who are looking for news, but the news is too confusing. Today, a cat was lost in the east of the city. Tomorrow, Mr. Wang was chased and beaten by his wife. The day after tomorrow, there was an old man in the Chenghuang Temple who told fortunes.
They were all miscellaneous and useless messages. Hundreds of them were delivered every day, and Ma Yan really couldn't bear to read them.
This made Ma Yan discover a problem. Information must be organized, so he took the money and conducted an experiment in a town, selling most of the teahouses and brothels in the city.
Then he went to the city and bought a dean as a base, and recruited a lot of people. Their job was to sort out all the information that night.
For example, the gossip about flowers and willows is put together, the fortune-telling is put together, and finally the scandals of officials and the secrets of Tang government officials are put together.
It looks pretty good this way.
But soon there was a new problem. News came from the brothel that gold was hidden in a house in the east of the city.
It is ill-gotten wealth.
Since it was ill-gotten wealth, why didn't he keep it in his own hands? When Ma Yan arrived with his people, he discovered that the money was long gone.
The information was verified to be accurate, but someone came and took it away in advance.
This made Ma Yan realize that news is time-sensitive. If you pass last year's important news to yourself this year, isn't it worthless?
So Ma Yan divided some information into categories. The very urgent information was sent back immediately, while the other information was slowed down and sent out together at night, before being sorted and sorted.
After Jiang Yang heard this, he nodded rarely. This kid is indeed very smart.
He poured Ma Yan a cup of tea and wanted to ask, but Ma Yan continued: "Sir, I think we need information about some important people, so my next step is to gather information among various officials and even those families.
They bribed some servants inside to act as spies for us."
Not bad! Very cool, Jiang Yang laughed!
"Very good. I feel relieved to leave the Intelligence Department to you." Jiang Yang nodded and said, "But have you thought about a question?"
"What's the problem?" Ma Yan asked.
"Our people have obtained key intelligence and need to report it in time, but what should we do if it is exposed?" Jiang Yang continued: "What should our intelligence personnel do if they encounter some enemy intelligence personnel?"
"And assuming we're on enemy territory, what are our intelligence people supposed to do?"
"Uh..." Ma Yan shook his head, not knowing at all.
But Jiang Yang had already planned everything for him.
"It requires skill, force, and concealment." Jiang Yang continued: "I don't care about the money your intelligence department makes, but the account books must be returned every month."
"Secondly, the money earned must be handed over to the people in the Intelligence Department in large amounts. If you want the horse to run, you must feed the horse."
"I will design some hidden weapons for you and give them to Wang Ji Blacksmith to make them. You can just pick them up when the time comes. However, you still need to work on your skills and martial arts."
"Understood." Ma Yan nodded and continued to scratch his head: "But sir, I spent a lot of money just to do this in a small town... If it were spread all over Xiami County, it might be a conservative estimate of three hundred.
More than ten thousand taels of silver."
More than three million taels? That’s right!
"Money is not a problem! I'll write you a document and you go find Wang Tongna. But my goal is not just Xiami County! It's the entire Beihai County and even Hebei Province!" Jiang Yang stood up slowly.
There was an awe-inspiring aura about him, which made Ma Yan startled and even trembled.
"But there is one thing I have to leave to you to do right now." Jiang Yang said slowly after sitting down.
"What's the matter? It's just based on your orders." Ma Yan, who was also a smart man, immediately asked with his fists clasped and his waist bent.
Jiang Yang waved his hand and asked Ma Yan to come over and whispered in his ear in a voice that only two people could hear.
"What? Real or fake!" Ma Yan obviously didn't believe it, but after seeing Jiang Yang's eyes, he nodded and said: "Don't worry, sir, this is our first time working in the Intelligence Department, and there will definitely be no mistakes."