My Daming New Empire

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"Bachelor Xie insists on refusing to live in another courtyard, and I'm afraid it's because he came here with bad intentions."

"You don't need to remind me, I know, but I don't know how shameless my uncle is going to be this time."

Han Cong said: "Do you want the old minister to send someone to the Jin Palace..."

"No need, Zhu Zhongxuan is as cowardly as a mouse and cannot be accomplices. However, it is also necessary to send him a telegram. Apart from him, there are other twelve collateral princes' houses on the Nanzhou side. Send a telegram to say that the king is anxious and wants to close the house himself, and the slave trade should also stop from now on."

After thinking about it, Zhu Jianzhu felt it was inappropriate, and said: "Don't say that first, just say that my Han Palace is short of manpower, and I want to ask the various palaces to send some collaterals and personal guards to Xizhou to plan the mining."

He was afraid that if he asked himself to close the mansion, if the court went directly down the donkey, he would be sitting on wax.

Now please send people from all the princes' houses to mine in Xizhou. He can attack and retreat or defend. He doesn't believe that grandpa has no face and doesn't want to deal with his grandson.

A backyard of the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has already been tidied up.

Xie Yun lived in with other entourages, without even washing his face, he was busy receiving officials at all levels from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Department of General Administration, the Department of Internal Affairs, the Department of Counseling and Information, the Chief Department, and the Department of Justice.

This busy, at noon, presided over by Sun Jingwei, chief secretary of Hanzhou, and officials at all levels gathered together to meet the wind for the solution.

Because it was noon, and Xie Yun was invited to attend the reception dinner of King Han's Mansion in the evening, so no one drank, and the banquet was inevitably dull.

After returning to the courtyard from the restaurant, Xie Yun breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little tired.

When he came to Xizhou this time, he couldn't believe anyone in Xizhou until the matter was revealed.

Many officials have served in Xizhou for many years, and no one knows whether they have colluded with the King of Han, so it is not appropriate to startle them.

The only ones who can make him feel at ease are the people he brought along, and those who were arranged by him in advance.

"Bachelor Xie, don't you meet officials at all levels in the afternoon?"

"I don't see you for a while, just say that I am tired from the journey and I need to rest for a day."

Having said that, Xie Yun didn't feel tired at all, but felt energetic instead. "Let Cai Kang, the Secretary of the General Administration, and Liu Shancai of the Telegraph Bureau come here, and let him bring the records of the telegrams for the past six months."

The wireless telegraph office in Xizhou was only opened before the Chinese New Year. Once the wireless telegraph was opened, although it was expensive, no matter if it was an official, a businessman, or an ordinary person, they would always send a telegram when something happened.

In the past six months, there have been quite a few telegram records left.

However, Xie Yun was not worried that Liu Shancai and Cai Kang would not have screened them. The ordinary telegram records between businessmen and ordinary people would basically be screened out as long as they were not of special concern.

And through a comprehensive analysis of the remaining telegrams, it is possible to get a good understanding of Xizhou's interpersonal network, including the positions of some important people.

After a while, Cai Kang and Liu Shancai entered the house with several large boxes of telegram receipts.

The General Administration Department is a professional intelligence agency, and most of the officials working in the General Administration Department, except for professional scientific and technological talents like Hu Yuansheng, are graduates of professional intelligence schools.

They cannot be said to be proficient in intelligence analysis, collection, camouflage, assassination, explosion and other subjects, but at least everyone is familiar with it.

With people like them around, Xie Yun doesn't need to worry about anything at all, he just needs to give a clear direction of investigation.

The intelligence personnel in the outer room were working nervously and orderly. In the inner room, Xie Yun and Cai Kang sat at the window and communicated in low voices.

Cai Kang is Zhu Zhanji's intelligence assistant specially arranged for Xie Yun. He set off from Daming with Xie Yun more than half a year ago, but instead of going to Europe with Xie Yun, he separated on the Indian Ocean and came to Xizhou.

In the past six months, while conducting self-inspection on the Department of General Administration, he arranged for the construction of signal base stations, and established more than a dozen telegraph offices in Xizhou.

In addition to these telegraph bureaus on the surface, he also brought more than a thousand high-frequency wireless telegraphs for communication and investigation between major armies.

That is to say, in the future of Xizhou, the orders of the imperial court can be directly sent to the hands of each commander, bypassing the governor, admiral, and commander-in-chief.

Of course, this is only an extreme situation. Under normal circumstances, the imperial court will not bypass the senior generals and directly communicate with the commanders below.

But at least, every army can directly receive orders from the imperial court.

In addition, he also brought a lot of radios.At this stage, the manufacture of radios is high-tech, and the manufacture of electronic tubes is very difficult, so the output is not high and the price is high.

Zhu Zhanji required each military guard to have at least one radio. The imperial court would broadcast different programs on different frequency channels every day, so that officials at the command and envoy level of each army could clearly know the court's decision-making.

In the vassal system of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang clearly stipulated that in terms of economy, the vassal king could not interfere with the taxation of his fiefdom, let alone handle civil affairs.

Although these vassals have military power, they can only have a guard army of 3000 people.

Moreover, these vassal kings have no right to command the army of the court, unless the emperor orders these vassal kings to command the army of the court, otherwise they will be punished for treason.

When it came to Zhu Zhanji, because it was a feudal overseas country, Zhu Zhanji released some economic power, such as taxation, the vassal prince's mansion had part of the tax power, and if the vassal prince developed his own economy, he had a certain amount of tax exemption.

In terms of military affairs, the princes of Nanzhou had no foreign enemies, although they had three thousand guards, they did not have the right to lead the army.

Only the two princely palaces in Africa each have a guard army of 6000 people. This army is paid by the imperial court, and the right to lead the army is also given to the two vassal princes.

This is mainly because they have to deal with the Kunlun slaves and the Arabs running around all over the world.

But in Africa, the most important force is not the two guards, but the personal guards of the prince and the county king, like the Hanwang Palace, because there is a prince, nine county kings, and a lot of town generals, they allow the formation of The share of the personal guards is over [-].

But in fact, the number of personal guards formed by the Han Palace itself is even more than this number, which is almost [-].

In addition to these troops, the Golden City has 1000 elites from the imperial court, and the local government also has about [-] local troops.

More importantly, the imperial court arranged a naval governor's mansion at the mouth of the Qingjiang River, and arranged four war zones along the coast of Xizhou, so that the navy could attack the Kunlun slaves at any time.

All these troops must be able to directly contact the imperial court, so that no matter where anything happens, the imperial court will know immediately.

For more than half a year, Cai Kang traveled almost all over southern Africa because of these things, but he also successfully completed the task assigned to him by Zhu Zhanji.

Now every military guard has two wireless telegraphs, and can contact the imperial court at any time.

The task assigned to him by Xie Yun was to screen out trustworthy targets and establish a reliable intelligence system outside of the original intelligence network.

Xie Yun wanted to solve the hidden dangers of the two palaces without fighting.

This can show his ability.

Chapter 44 Pressure

For Zhu Zhanji, from the moment the telephone and wireless telegraph were developed, the unification trend of Ming Dynasty was already unstoppable.

Anyone who goes against the trend will be swept into the dustbin of history, and even if Qin Huang Tang Zong is revived, it will not be reversed.

In the original history, the low productivity in ancient times and the weak jurisdiction of the central government over local areas were problems that could not be solved in all dynasties.

But when the telephone and telegraph connect the upper and lower classes of the entire country, no one person can exert a subversive influence in a mature management system.

Unless this system has been completely corrupted from top to bottom, from the inside out.

Zhu Zhanji spent decades re-establishing a new education system, a new official system, a new military system, and a new ideological system for Ming Dynasty.

When these systems are all under his careful arrangement and start benign self-operation, at this time, even for him, it is difficult to correct it, at most it can only correct the direction.