Kunxing had a blind admiration for Zhu Cilang. After listening to his father's words, he immediately went to find his brother's writings to read.

King Ding Yongwang did not have such nature. The former was disdainful, while the latter was still an ignorant age.

"King Ding said: The emperor is just blindly biased towards His Highness. If he was not young, he might not have done such a thing." Ding Ao personally ran to Zhending to inform the palace of the information. He was in charge of the East Factory and was mainly responsible for investigating spies. As his home court, the palace must be informed of the crown prince as soon as possible.

Although King Ding is young now, who knows what he will look like when he grows up? It would be fine if he is a mediocre and ordinary vassal king. If he has something wrong in the future, if he does not reach the crown prince today, he will be dereliction of duty at the least, and at the worst, it will be a matter of position.

Zhu Cilang focused on the report provided by the East Factory. Although he did not dig too many valuable big fish, he also checked enough Ming Zhongliang. Whether it was verified or falsified, they all had their value. From this perspective, it also shows that Zhu Cilang's money was not spent in vain.

"I know what King Ding is." Zhu Cixuan turned over this page casually. Who dares to rebel without military power? Besides, King Ding is at a rebellious age, so it is natural that he can't stand the revenge of his brother and then becomes resentful. His eyes fell on several marked business names and said, "It turns out that these merchants are having an affair with the Lu Shangs in Shanxi."

The Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants who defected to the Qing Dynasty had a different name in the Ming court: Lu Shang.

These enfeoffed merchants originally had their current status by betraying the Ming Dynasty and selling stolen goods and transfusions for the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, Dorgon rewarded these people in the name of Shunzhi, granted the imperial merchant status, and captured all the trade in Mongolia and Liaoning.

These surrenders thought that they had achieved the right result and could taste the fruits of victory. But they found that the Ming army had surprisingly blocked the Qing army's attack and grew stronger day by day. It was about to counterattack. This was of course not in their interests, so they took advantage of the appearance of the Han people and the interpersonal context in the Jianghuai area and started their old job of inquiring about information again.

Among scholars, there is a type of scholar who likes to brag about their own hands and eyes. These people often have a lot of connections in the court. With these people, the barbarians can learn many important decisions in the Ming Dynasty without any effort. In addition, the silver bullets open the way, it does not take much effort to figure out the strength of the guards and the troops.

The former Jinyiwei and the East Factory were not real spy agencies. To put it bluntly, they could only be considered spies, and their influence would not leave the capital. The emperor's local eyes and ears were the eunuchs guarding the country, and they would not think of catching spies because there was no such thing as the oil.

It can be said that the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants made great contributions to the Central Plains of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing court only thanked them with Zhangjiakou, but was still much more stingy.

In this world, Zhu Cixuan is the person who attaches the most importance to confidentiality and intelligence. In his previous life, he often used internal or external commercial spies, which was a behavior of wandering on the edge of the law. Now he can use spies and counter-espionage for granted, so where can he let it go? He has few troops under his command, and it depends entirely on sufficient intelligence to ensure that the steel is used on the blade. At the same time, because of the small force, we must pay special attention to the security of military secrets.

After the expansion of the Dongchang, the big-mouthed scholars soon had various eyes and ears around them. They were like delicious bait, waiting for the big fish to come and bite the hook. The spies from Lu Shang did not know that someone was fishing on the shore and swam around without warning. The Dongchang kept his troops and understood their entire information channels, just waiting for the crown prince to order to take action.

"Now it is different from the past, and the military information will not be easily known to the court." Zhu Cixuan said: "Even if they have a keen sense of smell, it will be very difficult to obtain conclusive information. These merchants monitor and don't move first, and I need to use their mouths to spread some information."

The Ming army attacked Baoding with 300,000 yuan, and the news of Tianjin was sent out through such a channel.

Hong Chengchou initially did not believe that the Ming army could gather an army of 300,000, but he looked at the food and grass call certificates sent by the merchants and the number of people recruited by civil servants. After calculating silently, he might have 300,000! This is also because the Ming army took the elite soldiers route, and the individual supply was two or three times that of the Qing Dynasty's armored soldiers, and the lieutenant-level officer had reached the level of Bayala.

It was verified at one point. There would be some confidence in the information sent from other channels. Therefore, the news showed that the army's main attack direction was the Eastern Front, and the strategic goal was to cut off the retreat of Manchu Qing, which had to make Hong Chengchou prepare.

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"As early as my grandson said he wanted to know how to use the room, but my real use of the room started with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Liu Ruoyu sat in the hall and watched Ding Ao stand respectfully beside him. The eunuch's registered relationship was no different from the master-apprentice relationship. He was really in love with his father and son when he got along well.

Although Liu Ruoyu had a nephew, he looked down on his nephew's qualifications. Instead, he favored Ding Ao and was willing to teach more in his spare time. Ding Ao also treated him like his father. When he returned to Jinan from Zhending Chengyuan, he first met Liu Ruoyu.

"You have to remember that we are all the private personalities of His Royal Highness." Liu Ruoyu cleared his throat: "What is private? He is the most private person! He always has to distinguish between inside and outside. He has to do what he should do, and he cannot do what he should not do."

"Yes." Ding Ao didn't say much at first, and he even spoke in front of Liu Ruoyu, and said with mercy.

"Do you know?" Liu Ruoyu narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile: "Then tell me, why should our family stand up for the loss of Liu Siyu's etiquette?"

Ding Ao really didn't know. At that time, he knew that Liu Ruoyu went to the East Palace for this reason, so he was confused, and even felt that Liu Ruoyu was a little confused. On the one hand, he was loyal to the East Palace, and the emperor and the empress could just live a favorable position. Which eunuch in a high position really took the emperor and the empress seriously? On the other hand, the East Palace clearly showed favoritism to Liu Si, and even expressed some attitudes, so why bother to the knife?

Seeing that Ding Ao did not respond, Liu Ruoyu explained: "Your Highness seems to be incredible and unfathomable, but in fact he is a simple boy. There is nothing else in his heart, only one ambition to clarify the world. Below this, it is the path he has to walk step by step. No matter whether it is a mud pit or a stone on the ground, he just crosses it in the most effective way. So he only acts in a 'logical' and no 'human favor'. In this regard, you can see that Your Highness only writes "Logistics" and not "Human favors" and you will understand."

"The child is reading Your Highness's works." Ding Ao said in his heart: You still didn't say why you should do that...

"Since you have read it, you have to know how to use it." Liu Ruoyu said: "There is no right or wrong in the matter, the key is the logical relationship. When we cry like this, it is precisely the relationship. Because we are your highness's personal personalities, we have to cry for your highness, laugh for your highness, be sad for your highness, be happy for your highness, and be humane for your highness... As for whether it offends people, useful or useless, it is irrelevant.

"Can Wang Ping think of other kingly hearts? They only thought about whether this was done correctly, whether it was beautiful or not, but they forgot the identity of 'Crown Prince'."

After hearing this, Ding Ao was enlightened and immediately grasped the key to being a "personal".

"But don't think that as long as you sincerely plan for the Crown Prince, it doesn't matter even if you do something wrong." Liu Ruoyu changed his mouth: "Your Highness's talent is the saint who is born to know it, so he is naturally arrogant. Look at the "A Picture of Hundred Birds and Phoenixes", why can the crane stand in front and the crow doesn't even have a shadow?"

"Yes." Ding Ao's heart tightened. As the saying goes, humans are divided into groups, and it is difficult for geniuses to tolerate fools.

After saying so many things, Liu Ruoyu felt tired and said, "Dongchang was not well-known in Wei Yin's hands. You should be cautious and careful when acting. It is best to learn from the Jinyiwei. Do you think they have any voice? If you can use the power of the police, let the police take action. Whether it is a spy or a spy, it is nothing more than the word "secret."

"Thank you for your teachings, my father-in-law." Ding Ao leaned over and bowed down.

"Although Your Highness has not made clear statements about the king, he cannot be ignored." Liu Ruoyu picked up the teacup: "It's not without precedents in the Ming Dynasty."

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