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Chapter 729 The Power of Women

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In order to facilitate management, Wang Datou also classified these intelligence agents into different categories. Category five was the lowest level. The other party was completely unaware of the situation and only inadvertently provided some information because of business or personal relationships.

There is no need to pay these people a fixed amount of compensation. Just give them small favors from time to time and maintain a good relationship with each other.

After a period of investigation, once it is confirmed that someone is capable of providing higher quality intelligence, they will be promoted to level 4, which means they need to deliberately maintain the relationship. However, they will still not reveal their identities, and all intelligence work will be carried out unconsciously.

The first category is the highest level, these intelligence officers will partially know the nature of the work, and get compensation in various forms. After working for a period of time, if the performance is satisfactory, Wang Datou will submit a petition to the emperor to fight for his official membership in the Statistics Department.

Lin Liang is a type of intelligence agent. He has a clean history and his resume over the years is also clean. Most importantly, he is persistent and not blinded by money.

Wang Datou planned to use his advantage of being a frequent sailor in Manila and well-known by most maritime merchants to become a regular courier for the Statistics Department. This would save him from having to use naval communication ships too frequently and reduce the possibility of exposing his identity.

Uncle Fang was one of the first class of intelligence agents he developed, and Lin Liang was also recommended by Uncle Fang. However, Wang Datou personally ran from Manila to Zhangzhou, not because he valued Lin Liang so much, but to protect Sun Moon Bank.

After receiving the emperor's secret order, Wang Datou didn't know how to provide help. He could only mobilize the broken intelligence network he had just built, which was full of loopholes, to collect as much information as possible about the Sun and Moon Bank from within the maritime and Chinese business communities.

The main purpose is to determine whether there is any external force involved in the conspiracy against Sun Moon Bank, and by the way, to promote the interest-bearing bonds for Sun Moon Bank. If we can sell more, it will mean more deposits, which is better than nothing.

But the appearance of a woman forced him to become one of the protagonists again. Oyani came to his door and asked him to repay the favor. She played a key role in the last negotiation with the Dutch, and also made Wang Datou win the emperor's commendation.

It is not easy to ask for help, especially from a woman. You have to pay it back sooner or later. Now the creditor has come to collect the debt in person, and he is asking for a huge sum of money, 300 million taels of silver.

Wang Datou couldn't even come up with 300 taels, let alone 30 million taels. The Statistics Department had no fixed funds at all, and the money needed to carry out the work was raised by each team on its own.

In the emperor's words, if you are given the corresponding power, you must know how to use it. If you can't even earn a salary, you'd better find a new teacher as soon as possible. It would be a waste of the glorious title of the emperor's eyes and ears.

However, Oyani said that even if there was no silver, she could exchange people for her. She asked Wang Datou to find a way to introduce her to the Dutch high-level officials, and to serve as an attendant, translator, and guard during the journey to Batavia, and to go with her to borrow silver from the Dutch, a full 300 million taels!

Although Oyani did not mention the emperor, Wang Datou knew that the emperor must have known about it and did not stop it. There was nothing to say. The Statistics Department served the emperor alone, and they had to do whatever the emperor wanted.

So he took Oyani back on board the Alfonso, loaded with fine wine, cocoa powder, Tianjin fine cloth and Changping sweaters, and set foot on the port of Batavia as Portuguese merchants.

Wang Datou was originally very satisfied with his social skills, even a little complacent, but after seeing Oyani's social skills in the Governor's Palace in Batavia, he immediately suffered a heavy blow, and fell from self-confidence to inferiority. This married Western woman, who was ugly and weird in the eyes of most Ming people, tore the virtues of women to pieces, trampled on them a few times, and finally burned them to ashes.

According to her own rough calculations, she hugged and embraced at least six Dutch officials and their officers within an hour and a half, calling it dancing. She was dressed very inappropriately, with not only her arms and shoulders exposed, but also most of her chest.

Although there were several Dutch women attending the dinner who were dressed similarly, Wang Datou still wrote these details carefully in the work report and submitted it to His Majesty the Emperor.

No matter how capable she is, she cannot be immoral. Especially if she frequently enters and leaves the inner palace, if she bewitches the emperor, then the Ming Dynasty and the New Deal will be doomed.

"I know about the development of five types of informants. It is a great achievement and worth promoting. It is a little inappropriate to be called an informant, so I gave it a name, "business". I have also approved it to be transferred to the list of official statisticians of the Statistics Department.

But there is one thing you did very badly. If you want to develop and expand the Statistics Department so that it can become my eyes and ears and have knowledge throughout the world, you must adapt to the local customs and stop measuring things based on the standards of the Ming Dynasty.

In the future, consult with Oyani more often, and be familiar with the food, drink, housing, transportation, culture and beliefs of the Western countries. If you have a chance, you might as well try the brothel. If you want to get the truth from a man, there are only two most effective and most covert ways: money and beauty. "

As a result, just as Oyani and I returned to the port of Manila and unloaded the borrowed Dutch guilders to suppress the victory silver coins, the secret order from His Majesty the Emperor came.

There was a lot of content this time, both good and bad. The good thing was that the emperor affirmed his development method and gave him a name. The bad thing was that reporting was not only useless but also got him scolded, and a new topic was proposed.

Wang Datou had been to Hualou before, of course for work. But he had never thought of actively operating it and using it as an important source of intelligence. Now that the emperor had proposed it, he not only had to think about it, but also had to realize it as soon as possible.

From a 240-householder in the Department of Statistics, Wang Datou suddenly became a brothel madam. Even if he was loyal to the emperor, he couldn't understand why. What made him even more confused was that Oyani really borrowed silver from the Dutch, a total of million taels.

However, putting the two puzzles together is like a math problem in which two negatives equal a positive. It goes from being puzzled to having to figure it out. Your Majesty is truly a wise man in the world. He knows everything about astronomy and geography, and even has studied brothels so thoroughly.

If Oyani could use her beauty... even if she had beauty, she could seduce the Dutch and borrow a large sum of money. Think about it from another angle. If there is a brothel in Manila, which is full of beauties from Annan, Luzon, Chenla, Cambodia, Siam and other places, and there must be an ugly Western girl like Oyani, it is indeed easy to hear the truth from many men!
"I am the economic advisor to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the Prime Minister of the Sun Moon Bank, not a human trafficker! General Wang, you have greatly offended me. If you don't want the Emperor to know, you owe me another favor, a big one!"

Just because you understand it in theory doesn't mean you can actually do it. In order to avoid detours, Wang Datou planned to ask Oyani for advice on where he could easily get an ugly Western girl like her. However, he got hit by the golden hoop before he could get the advice.

(End of this chapter)