Qi State, Chang'an.

Cao Hui put down a report he had just received, his face changed slightly, "Nothing!" he whispered.

Jia Fangzhou, who was sitting aside, saw Cao Hui frowning and asked, "Commander, what happened?"

"Qin Li is preparing to go deep into the Ming Dynasty to investigate."

Jia Fangzhou was shocked: "It's too risky. He is a thorn in the eyes of the Mingren Eagle Nest and a thorn in the flesh. Even in the Great Qi Realm Feng, he has been plotted several times. Why did he go deep into the tiger's den?"

"He said in the letter that he saw some situations in Taoyuan County, which made him quite uneasy. If he didn't go to Ming to investigate, he would be unable to eat or sleep well." Cao Hui shook his head and said.

"What's the situation?" Jia Fangzhou was a little curious.

"About the commercial trade that the Ming Kingdom is engaged in with our Daqi." Cao Huiyang gave the report in his hand.

"The trade with the Ming Dynasty is indeed very prosperous now, and the commercial tax of the Ministry of Revenue has increased sharply. The commercial tax collected by a county in Changning is almost worth the commercial tax collected by the whole country in the past. His Majesty the Emperor was extremely happy. A few days ago, he specially commended the Ministry of Revenue. What did Qin Li find?" Jia Fangzhou asked in surprise.

"He didn't say it in the letter." Cao Hui said: "But between the lines, it can be seen that he was indeed very frightened. Maybe there were some important clues or intelligence, but he needed to confirm it. If it was not a big deal, I'm afraid he wouldn't take the risk of going deep into the mainland of Ming Dynasty."

"Commander, do you have to report this situation to Your Majesty?" Jia Fangzhou asked.

"The report will not be submitted for the time being. Now the court has made a lot of money in trade with Ming. You also know that the reform of our Daqi is gradually deepening, and there are too many places to spend money. Now that we report Qin Li's affairs, it will probably cause dissatisfaction from the Ministry of Revenue and even the Emperor." Cao Hui thought for a while, shook his head and said, "We are not like before now, and we must be more subconscious in everything."

Jia Fangzhou sighed. In the Chang'an Incident in Luoyang more than a year ago, the ghost shadow was on the side of the late emperor. Cao Hui can be said to have participated in the entire process of plotting Cao Yun. The ghost shadow is not as trusted by the emperor as before. It can be said that Cao Hui and their senior ghost shadow officials are still in charge of power safely, which is already an extremely generous expression of the emperor. But there is no doubt that the emperor trusts the most now the group of people in the military, because in this incident, the army supported Cao Yun without hesitation.

The military is now completing the reorganization, dismissing redundant troops, increasing soldiers' salaries, and improving military equipment. Most of the money obtained through trade with the Ming Dynasty was allocated to the military for military reform and dress-up. At this time, if anyone said that there was a problem with trade with the Ming Dynasty, it would be equivalent to stabbing the military directly and cutting off their financial path. It would be strange if those people didn't jump up.

"I hope Qin Li is just a false alarm, but in fact there is nothing." Jia Fangzhou said with a lucky mentality.

"I'm not as optimistic as you." Cao Hui said: "The fish Qin Li raised in Taoyuan County is very good, beyond my expectations. This time Qin Li was going to see him, hoping that he could further reach the top leaders of the Ming Dynasty. The clues to this matter were provided to him by this fish, and it obviously attracted Qin Li's extreme attention. Let's wait and see what Qin Li can bring back to us."

"That's all."

Cao Hui picked up a scroll on the table and threw it to Jia Fangzhou: "You go and do this and find this woman."

Jia Fangzhou opened the scroll strangely and looked at the portrait of the girl on the scroll: "Who is this?"

"The sister of a general in Ming Dynasty, I heard that he was wandering in Chang'an City, was needed by the fish, and was ready to use this girl to get in touch with the general. Find her and arrange how to hand the girl over to the fish. I couldn't help but care about other things." Cao Hui said: "Is it difficult to find someone?"

"It should not be difficult." Jia Fangzhou said: "After all, there are still some clues. If such a girl arrives in Chang'an, her final destination is mostly in brothels, which can be dug up people in half a month at most."

"Okay, hurry up and handle it. Now every moment is Baoshou for us. This girl's brother is a general of the Ming army stationed in Changzhu. If he can be launched, it will be of great help to us in the future. Our penetration of the Ming army's senior management is really bad." Cao Hui said a little annoyed. "On the other hand, we are penetrated by them like a sieve."

"This is also impossible. In fact, we have seriously damaged our vitality. Too many officials have been implicated. Many newly promoted people have not even had time to conduct a clear and complete investigation of them. We can only dig slowly. However, as long as there is a problem, we will leave a tail and will always pull them out."

"I'm worried that when we pulled them out, we had already poked a big leak. The guy who dug out from the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of War two days ago was enough to arouse our alert. At such a critical position, a spy from the enemy country almost sat on it. If they really succeeded, it would be a joke."

"Isn't it done?" Jia Fangzhou smiled and said, "Whenever those extremely sensitive seats and those with ulterior motives want to sit in, they have to be prepared to be dug out by us. We don't have time to check them one by one, but there is still no problem in some focus. The commander, we still have insufficient staff."

"Now is not the time to expand our strength greatly. Don't forget that His Majesty has just taken away the action team we formed, which has already shown some problems."

"How can we do things well when we do things?" Jia Fangzhou said dejectedly: "Commander, our domestic surveillance is not as good as before. The Censorate often submits a memorandum to participate in us. They want to swallow us completely!"

"Swallow it? That's impossible. Even if Your Majesty is a soldier and doesn't like an institution like us, he knows that we can't be short of us. Didn't you see that the Ming Kingdom has taken the Eagle Nest out of the Censorate and independently established the Ministry of State Security? They have greatly improved our position in our industry. Your Majesty follows the Ming Kingdom in everything. Maybe our environment will be improved in the future. The key is that we have to make achievements. The group of people in the Censorate have opened their mouths. Today, they will talk about this, tomorrow, and let them do real things. Can they succeed? They are just a group of dogs raised by Your Majesty, who will not bark from time to time. They are the best at scrutinizing their intentions. Now if they don't vent their anger with us?" Cao Hui sneered.

"Yes, they also participated in a book by the Prime Minister a few days ago!"

"The emperor is just knocking us with their hands." Cao Hui sighed, "If you don't talk about these things, you go and do things, I'm going to go to the palace, too."

After the new emperor ascended the throne, he no longer had to go to the court discussion every day like the previous emperor. The court discussion was changed to once every ten days. Most of the time, the emperor summoned officials to hold some small-scale meetings. One of the most direct consequences of this was that it indirectly cut off a lot of the power of the chief minister. The chief minister of the Daqi became a decoration more often. If it were in the previous dynasty, the chief minister Tian Fen would definitely argue with reason, and it was possible that he would even resign in anger. But now, he did not dare to. He had a dark history, so it would be better to follow the emperor honestly and be a counselor.

Tian Fen now plays a role in the government affairs of Qi State, indeed the role of an aide and consultant to Emperor Cao Yun. Although Cao Yun is powerful, he has been in the army for a long time. Although he is very smart, when it comes to governing the country, people like Tian Fen are not missing.

But in fact, he was worried about Tian Fen, but he had to admit Tian Fen's ability to govern the country. After the chaos in Qi, Tian Fen quickly restored peace, and Tian Fen made an indelible contribution.

He was unable to leave, but he did not dare to actually appoint real power to him, which caused the current situation. Compared with Qin Feng of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Yun lived too tiring and almost did everything himself.

The Ming Dynasty is now committed to flat management. The number of staff in the political affairs hall is increasing, and the power of various departments is refined. Although the chief minister ranks first, he still cannot make a decision in the political affairs hall. Most of the time, everyone discusses the matter. The chief minister has a greater say, not a matter of principle, and everyone can quickly reach an agreement. Otherwise, it is just a quarrel. After a few fights, the matter will be put in front of Qin Feng and he will make the final decision.

In fact, there are very few problems that can be put in front of Qin Feng. In the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Qin Feng looked like a rubber stamp, and his biggest function seemed to be to stamp his own poke on the issues decided by the Political Affairs Hall. However, everyone knew that under this structure, the final decisive role was the emperor. The more the power was refined, the more the emperor's power would be revealed.

In Daqi, the Ministry of Revenue grasped financial power, tax calculations, and business, while in Daming, this area was divided into several parts. There was a separate Taiping Bank holding the right to mint coins, and the Ministry of Commerce controlled the business. They were on par with the Ministry of Revenue. Although the Ministry of Revenue could impose some policy restrictions on them, they could not restrict their actions. The Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty has now taken away too much power. The Railway Administration, which was originally under the Ministry of Works, became the Railway Corporation, and recently established the Canal Corporation. These new yamen are directly responsible for the Political Affairs Hall.

In Cao Hui's view, the Ming Dynasty was always changing constantly, making people completely confused. Now the emperor imitated the Ming Dynasty on many policies. If he wanted to learn from the successful experience of the Ming Dynasty, if he could get the physical but not the spirit, he would be afraid that the final result would be that he would not become a dog. This is the most worrying thing.

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