MTL - Han’s Son is Not a Slave-Chapter 1096 brocade inner guard

Surrounding Mingzhu and his party were dozens of Jinyiwei in flying fish suits. However, unlike the Jinyi pro-military in Nandu City, these Jinyiwei had the word "Neiwei" printed on their arms, but there was nothing on the arms of the pro-military in Nandu. .

Not many people in the Taiping Army knew about the existence of Jinyi Neiwei, and only a few people in the Southern Metropolis Court knew their existence. As an armed force directly under the Ministry of Intelligence, the Jinyi Inner Guards are not under the command of any yamen, nor are they responsible to the emperor. They have nothing to do with the Jinyi pro-army in Nandu. They only obey Zhang An, the ambassador of the Ministry of Intelligence, while Zhang An is the only one. Zhou Shixiang's life is from.

In terms of origin, Jinyi Neiwei has a great relationship with the "special forces" composed of death row prisoners and felons when the Taiping Army was just established a few years ago. After Chen Mo, who was in charge of commanding the special team, burned the Guangdong naval camp and died heroically, the remaining "dead men" were assigned by Zhou Shixiang to the Ministry of Military Intelligence. Originally, I just wanted Zhang An's subordinates to have more people to call, but I didn't want Zhang An, but he was really talented, and he had no teacher to set up an intelligence agency. After several years of development, today's Ministry of Military Intelligence is no longer an empty shell that chased ducks on the shelves, but has become a huge organization with more than 30,000 intelligence and logistical support personnel, and it has become the largest organization in the military commander's house.

Such a huge military intelligence department, the amount of money spent every year is astronomical. From the beginning to the end, Zhou Shixiang listed the funds of the General Intelligence Department as an independent appropriation, which was directly allocated by the original Guangdong Silver Treasury, which was now renamed the Daming Silver Treasury, without going through the Imperial Household Department or the Household Section of the Military Commander's Mansion. If the military budget is used, the annual expenditure of the Ministry of Military Intelligence is enough to cover the expenses of four towns. This is a bottomless pit that drives him crazy from time to time for Zhou Shixiang, who is not very wealthy even if he has acquired such a wealthy land as Jiangnan.

Fortunately, although the Ministry of Military Intelligence has invested a lot, it has also gained a lot. At least, Zhou Shixiang doesn't have to worry about being blind to outside intelligence now. Every day, information from all over the world is gathered to the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and presented to Zhou Shixiang's desk in batches, so that he can clearly know what his opponents and friends are doing besides him.

A detailed map, a detailed information, the combined power of the two is definitely not weaker than a most capable elite soldier.

Sun Tzu said that if you know yourself and your enemy, you will be victorious in a hundred battles.

If Zhou Shixiang wanted to know himself and his enemy, he had to pay attention to intelligence work, so the growth of the Ministry of Military Intelligence was inevitable.

However, in order to control the Department of Military Intelligence, lest this huge intelligence agency will backlash in the future, or become a big trouble for his successor, Zhou Shixiang strictly audited every appropriation of the Department of Military Intelligence, let alone that the Department of Military Intelligence was not allowed to do business through their own channels. They are also not allowed to open up any "financial resources". With all the restrictions and Zhang An's loyalty to Zhou Shixiang, the operation of the Military Intelligence Department is still very satisfactory to Zhou Shixiang for the time being.

But no matter how satisfied, Zhou Shixiang was always worried that Zhang An had dealt with Geng Jingzhong without his consent, which made him always brooding. He had doubts. He was able to control the Ministry of Intelligence, but if one day he was gone, he could not predict what this huge organization would do and whether it would obey the new master.

Zhou Shixiang told Song Xianggong about this concern. Unexpectedly, in his reply, Song Xianggong told him not to worry that the MI Division would backlash.

Song Xianggong told Zhou Shixiang that the East Factory in those days was larger and more powerful than the current Military Intelligence Department. Could there be a Ming generation, have you ever heard of the East Factory's master?

Zhou Shixiang also thought about it. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there were East factories, West factories, and expert factories. There were so many power supervisors, but there has never been a case where the factory's Weiwei was overwhelmed and turned against the court. This proves that even if the intelligence agency is terrifyingly large and its power is so great that people can talk about it, it does not have the ability to control the state, and it is even less likely to influence national policy. In other words, as long as the central government, the government at all levels, and the military do not rot, the intelligence agencies will never be able to independently "change the dynasty," or even launch a palace coup. They will only be assistants to decision makers, sources of intelligence, not leaders in decision-making.

The only thing Zhou Shixiang has to do is to firmly control the appointment and removal of the personnel of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, so that no one person will remain in power for a long time. For example, no matter how loyal Zhang An is, the matter of Geng Jingzhong has a hint of self-assertion, which is absolutely unacceptable. Zhou Shixiang considered the completion of the work in Liaodong, so he transferred Zhang An from the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and regularly replaced the key personnel in the division. In order to appease Zhang An and reward him for his hard work over the years, Zhou Shixiang proposed to make Zhang An an earl. If this matter can be implemented, Zhang An will become the first person in the Ming Dynasty to be promoted as a "fanzi". This is very similar to a certain intelligence officer who was promoted to general in Zhou Shixiang's previous life.

At the beginning, with the acquiescence of Zhou Shixiang, Zhang An established an intelligence armed force directly under the Department of Military Intelligence. At the beginning, it was only responsible for tasks such as co-operation, assassination, and spy. Now with the growth of the Taiping Army, this armed force has also grown, and Get formal. The military intelligence special team, which used to be only a few dozen people in the past, now has more than 3,000 members, and was given the name "Jinyi Inner Guard" by Zhou Shixiang.

From the "dead man" to the "brocade-clothed inner guard" of the Ming Dynasty, in the words of Zhou Shixiang, it is a shotgun for a cannon. If Chen Mo was in the spirit of heaven and knew that the people he had trained by himself had now become high officials of Jinyi's inner guard, he would probably be able to rest his eyes.

The existence of Jinyi's inner guards enables the Ministry of Military Intelligence to directly transfer personnel to arrest them without dealing with local and garrisoned troops. In this way, the Jinyi Neiwei is even more similar to the fanzi of the East Factory, and it can even be said that they have the same origin. However, the objects of Jinyi's inner guard's arrest are limited to the meticulous work of the enemy. For officials and generals, Jinyi's inner guard cannot arrest them without authorization. After verifying the evidence, it must be reported to the military commander's office, approved by Zhou Shixiang, and the "driving sticker" issued by the military commander's office can be arrested. This is exactly the same as the procedure for handling the case in the East Factory. Because the military intelligence agency he leads is too similar to the East Factory of the year, even Zhang An often mocks himself as a "father-in-law", but his father-in-law has a bird in the end.

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The appearance of Jinyi's inner guard made Mingzhu's followers panic, and they didn't understand how their whereabouts could be revealed so quickly.

"Protect adults!"

The entourage of Mingzhu, who was eager to protect the master, jumped out of the carriage one after another. They drew out the swords hidden under the carriage. It seemed that they were going to fight with the Jinyi Neiwei.

"Sir, you go first!"

The third-class guard Tuogu, who was born in the Mongolian army, stood in front of Mingzhu, and he took off the hat on his head, revealing his bald head. The other people also regarded death as their home. They could be selected by Pearl to sneak to Jiangnan, and they had already put their life and death aside. If they are timid, Pearl will not choose them.

"Nalan Pearl, come with us!"

Two years ago, Liu Wenyuan, a tinker who stopped Zhou Shixiang at the city gate of Suzhou, pressed his knife forward. The Nalan Pearl in front of him impressed him deeply because the opponent had already run away from him twice.

"Go with you?"

Mingzhu was still calm, he laughed softly, and he didn't have to hide anything until now. He took off the wig on his head, revealing his bald head as well, with a fresh fine wound clearly visible on it~www.novelbuddy.com~, apparently accidentally cut while shaving his hair recently.

Liu Wenyuan stared coldly at the Pearl in front of him, and he issued a strict order to keep people alive. This time, he couldn't let the Pearl run away no matter what. Otherwise, he would have no face to see Deputy Song, who brought him out of the army.

To Liu Wenyuan's surprise, Nalan Mingzhu did not escape, but asked calmly, "So, Zhao Xiangwei has already been taken by you?"

"There is no Zhao family in the world."

A gloomy look flashed in Liu Wenyuan's eyes. Just late last night, more than a hundred people from the Zhao residence were executed.

"It's a pity, but it's what it should be." Mingzhu nodded, and immediately laughed: "But it's too late for you, I have done what I have to do."

Hearing this, all the guards in brocade clothes were showing anger, because now there are riots all over Jiangnan. When they chased all the way from Songjiang, they saw many villages slaughtered by religious people. If it weren't for the capture of Mingzhu, they would have already invested in the pacification.

"Dog Tartar!" Liu Wenyuan gritted his teeth and shouted, "Take it!"

The guards in Jinyi immediately stepped forward with their knives, and Mingzhu's followers tried their best to protect Mingzhu, but because they were outnumbered, they were chopped to the ground by the guards in Jinyi. Mingzhu knew that there was no reason to escape, so she resisted desperately and was hit with several knives. When he fell to the ground, Mingzhu held a jade pendant tightly in his hand, which was a gift he planned to return to his son Xingde.

Liu Wenyuan walked to Mingzhu's body, opened his tightly clenched fist, and took out the jade pendant. The sunlight reflected on the jade, emitting a blood-colored light.

In Hengli Town, Tang Xiaoxian knelt on the river beach and cried bitterly.