Careerist in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 181 Chen Ping
The boss of Junjinxuan is named Chen Ping.

A very common name. The surname Chen comes from the descendants of Emperor Shun and is a common surname. The name Ping is not a rare character. In Daliang City alone, there are many duplicates of people with the same name as 'Chen Ping'.

But there is only one Chen Ping who is in the intelligence business.

A lonely and helpless person who openly claims that he can engage in intelligence business can easily attract dangerous attention.

However, when most of the dangerous eyes were on Chen Ping, after a little inspection, they would laugh and turn around and leave.

Because although Chen Ping, the boss of Junjinxuan, advertises that his main business is collecting and selling intelligence, in fact, the source of the intelligence he receives depends on local merchants, and most of the information he sells is resold to these merchants.

The content of the intelligence he collected was just a casual record of what merchants saw on the road, for example: "On the [-]th of this month, refugees passed by outside the west gate of Daliang, numbering more than [-] people." '

'There was a fight between two gangs in Shouchun Yunmeng Market on March [-]th. The fight started over a bottle of anti-epidemic green grass pill. '

'On the third day of this month, fishing boats from the East Pier of Songhai returned to sea with full loads, and the price of fish in the city fell by [-]%. '

The locals are tired of hearing about these and other things from all over the world. It is said that apart from being used as a source of gossip about foreigners in the tavern, it has no additional value at all.

Even if there is a very small amount of valuable content, their local people must have taken advantage of it long ago, and any response from Daliang City will not be timely.

Can this be called intelligence?The so-called intelligence should be precious information that only a few people know about, is full of murder and blood, and may involve the death of people and the whereabouts of huge wealth. Only then can it be called intelligence!

Even if it's not that high-spirited, it should at least be a purposeful and prepared act of lurking to obtain exact information, rather than being so aimless.

This kind of behavior of collecting local clues, and then using the clues to deduce the lack of local goods, so as to sell them to merchants and prepare them in advance, is not a kind of merchant in itself~

Although this Chen Ping does have some ability, and the accuracy of his predictions over the past two years has been [-]%, but the wealth he earns every year is estimated to be the income of a low-level noble.

With such a status, in the bustling city of Daliang City, where people come and go, they are no better than ordinary people.

This is the situation on the surface for Jun Jinxuan and his boss Chen Ping.

Secretly, with Chen Ping's personal abilities, any organization or person whose vision is not limited to Daliang will give him an olive branch.

But it is limited to the olive branch stage.

If he wants to get more attention, Chen Ping needs to show greater abilities.

However, judging from the results over the past two years, there is a high probability that his ability will end here, and may even decline as time goes by.

Coupled with the fact that this person himself seems to have no ambition, the outside world pays less and less attention to him day by day.

There is a record of this person in the Wei Guo Gonggong Hall branch, but the level is too low to report to the Dazeshan headquarters, let alone put it in front of the hall master's desk.

Because of the problems with the merchants in Songhai, Lu Wei ordered a covert investigation of them along the way. After this investigation, the files of Jun Jinxuan and Chen Ping appeared in the hands of Lu Wei in Daliang City.

Some talents need to carefully screen their abilities before deciding whether and how much it will cost to capture them and place them in the right position.

As for other talents, all they need to do is call out their names to Hall Master Lu~

Chen Ping undoubtedly belongs to the latter.

Especially when the words 'Chen Ping' and 'Intelligence' are combined, everything suddenly becomes clear.

"Is this person a Taoist disciple?"

The Gonggongtang branch was on the third floor of the only remaining pavilion in Daliang City. Lu Wei met Lu Ye and Chen Yu who were still in the Wei capital.

After putting down Chen Ping's file, the hall master asked aloud.

"There are no clues to prove whether he is related to Taoism. I will send people to Chen Ping's hometown to investigate."

The boss was very interested in Chen Ping, so Ah Ye did not dare to neglect him and immediately left in a hurry to assign tasks to his disciples.

Glancing at Chen Yu, who was still standing aside waiting for other instructions, the hall master knocked on the table three times with his right hand and made a thumping sound with his right hand: "Chen Yu, you go to Junjinxuan to visit in the evening. Do you want to say anything to Chen Yu?" Express your intention to solicit."

"Should I use the name of the hall master or the farmer?"

After Chen Yu respectfully accepted the order, he hesitated and asked.

"Farmer, you don't need to mention my name." The hall master's eyes wandered, and he chuckled with interest: "If he doesn't agree tonight, then let Aye report my name again tomorrow night."

"Yes!"

In Junjinxuan, Chen Ping walked into the back room holding a piece of new information he just received today.

With the candles lit, the interior environment of the dark, windowless room can be seen at a glance: four rows of bookshelves filled with bamboo slips, and a small bed only for one person to rest on.

As for other places, from the ceiling to the walls and floors, they are covered with large and small cloth maps. The densely packed landscape lines will make the scalp of anyone who comes in for the first time numb. However, these are very familiar to Chen Ping. .

He likes to suppress his thinking in such a narrow environment, so as to concentrate on analyzing the information at hand.

In the center of the floor is an old map of the Seven Kingdoms. On it, the borders of Korea and Zhao have been redrawn with thick black lines, indicating that they now belong to Qin.

The border of Yan State in Jicheng was marked with red ink, and the word "danger" was written in red ink on Dai, Yan and Liaodong, Wei, and Chu in the blank spaces.

The situation map probably does not need to be changed this year. Chen Ping sat cross-legged on the small bed and looked at the separate maps of the seven countries on the inner wall of the bed.

The striking feature of these seven pictures is that on each picture there are many names of people written densely with fine brushes.

However, if you look carefully, you will find that these hundreds of names actually only involve about twenty specific people.

Some of them are already famous, and some are still unknown.

Some names appear on maps of multiple countries, such as 'Lu Wei': this name is found in the five kingdoms of Wei, Zhao, Yan, Qi and Chu.

On the map of the same country, some names will appear several times. Take 'Lu Wei' as an example: these two characters are written on the map of Qi, in the Daze Mountains and Songhai City on the border of Qi and Wei. .

Chen Ping, who made these pictures, was very attentive. There was also a small mark on the year and month after each name.However, the above information is not complete. Taking Lu Wei as an example, his name is not marked on the Jinghu Lake area on the map of Chu State. It is sparsely populated, and the lake is not even marked on the map at the location of Jinghu Lake.

Picking up his pen, Chen Ping wrote the word "Zhu Family" at the small inn a hundred miles north of Shouchun City in Chu State, and marked the date.

After getting out of bed, on the left wall, he found another slightly older map of Chu State covered under the two-layer map, and found the location of Shouchun. There was a short line of small words: The Zhu family met the Ji family.

Chen Ping thought over and over again and did not connect the two things. He just wrote under the five words: "The Zhu family went to Shouchun with their followers."

He drew a circle on the word 'menke' with red ink.

The identity of the hanger-on is unknown.

After taking notes, Chen Ping put down his pen and went to the center of the hut, browsing dozens of maps of the Seven Kingdoms with various uses one by one to deepen the impression in his mind.

It was difficult for him to obtain the maps of the Seven Kingdoms, and it was even more difficult to use merchants, old friends, and certain collaborators to fill these maps with text.

As more and more words are added, Chen Ping is able to reveal the essential power of the world from certain small things.

For example, the dispute over Siyuetang, a farmer's Gonggongtang, in Daliang City.

On the surface, it is part of the infighting among farmers, but Chen Ping read at least three pieces of information from it:
First of all, Gonggongtang was convinced that after Qin defeated Yan, its next target would be Wei instead of taking advantage of the situation to attack Dai and Liao or directly take Chu.

Regardless of how Gonggong Hall arrived at this result, Chen Ping concluded from his own investigation of Hall Master Lu Wei that this information was probably accurate.

Of course, tens of thousands of people in Gonggongtang can find out some key information that he alone cannot find out. And by observing the actions of Gonggongtang to infer and learn this information, it is almost equivalent to quietly using the Gonggongtang intelligence network to provide himself with information. Serve.

Gonggongtang has been withdrawn, and Chen Ping can take the risk to stay without realizing it. He can't stay in Daliang City for too long. He has planned to pack up his belongings and be ready to run away at any time.

Secondly, due to the internal fighting in Daliang City, Chen Ping expanded the scope of the investigation and found that not only Siyuetang was suppressing Gonggongtang, but the Zhu family was also involved. A typical incident was a cooperative dance hall a few days ago. On the issue of human rights, the forces of Shennongtang suppressed the forces of Gonggongtang.

The heads of the three halls of the peasant family are not fools. The reason why they are fighting each other proves that the Tian family is probably in decline, and the reason why the Tian family is weak is mostly related to Gonggong Hall. Therefore, Hall Master Lu of Gonggong Hall is far away from the successor of Xiakui. As he advanced further in his position, he was also feared by several others.

If this news were sold, the value would be very high.

Finally, Gonggongtang must be planning to annex the entire Siyuetang, otherwise it would not suffer such a disadvantage!

Gonggongtang is tempting Siyuetang to make mistakes, and combined with Situ Wanli's identity as a gambler, Lu Wei is tempting Situ Wanli himself to make mistakes!

The next leader of the farm family should be announced soon.

Unfortunately, Chen Ping has never been able to find out who the current peasant hero is and what his position is. He only knows that he should be a member of the Tian family.

If there can be a breakthrough in this area, he believes that even as an outsider, he can have a deep grasp of the farmer's attitude!

"Ding"

Jun Jinxuan's reminder wind chime was rang, and a guest came to the door.

After squeezing the bamboo slips in his hands into the bookshelf, Chen Ping calmly walked out of the back room.

"Boss Chen, are you interested in joining the farm?"

The young visitor's first words shocked Chen Ping, who had just been thinking about farm problems.
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As expected, Chen Yu's visit was rejected. The next day Aye brought Lu Wei for a nominal visit, which made him chat a few more words in Junjinxuan, but in the end he was boldly rejected by the target.

As a result, the hall master believed that Chen Ping had guessed that he was the one behind the visit.

But Lu Wei did not go to Junjinxuan in person on the third day to complete the process of "King Wen asked the Grand Duke three times". Instead, he patiently waited for the disciples sent by Aye to investigate Chen Ping's hometown to come back.

During this period, he also quickly visited the farm town of the new headquarters for a day. The official name of the town there is Spring Valley Town.

Lu Qing discussed with Ayu and Li Shang the follow-up planning of the town. There were many points of discussion. It is estimated that Uncle Qing will not be able to return to Daze Mountain in the short term.

In Daliang City, when the investigating disciples who had gone out came back, Chen Ping's identity was clear at a glance: he was indeed a disciple of the Taoist sect!
Including Xiao He, this is killing two birds with one stone~
With a rough plan in mind for the next meeting, Lu Wei took the initiative to take Xue Nu to visit Daliang Night Market that day. After hearing this, A Xue's eyes lit up, and the joy between her brows almost made a sparrow fly out.

The two took a shower together first, and then went out holding hands a little later than expected.

The hall master has almost no daily warmth, but it doesn't matter if he can complete his plan to meet Chen Ping tonight and take Axue for fun.

The snow girl almost greedily enjoyed every moment of the rising moon.
Chen Ping has been operating Jinxuan until very late these days and he knows that the important guest will definitely come to meet him in person.

The reason why I didn't come here immediately was because I wanted to investigate my true background. On the other hand, I was afraid that I was delaying on purpose to make myself anxious.

This is a very common method, but it is effective.

Even though he was Chen Ping and knew in advance what tactics the other party was using, he was still anxious when he should be.

As a disciple of the Taoist sect, Jun Jinxuan is prospering. In addition to his senior brother Xiao He, Jun Jinxuan also has great abilities.

But these were not enough in front of Lu Wei, the leader of the farmer's Gonggong Hall.

This is not because of their status. Although the master of the hall has a high status in the world, in this world dominated by the rules of the powerful, Lu Wei and Chen Ping are both despicable people in front of the real nobles.

The real reason why Chen Ping is nervous is that his ideal is likely to be realized on the farm 20 years in advance!

Employer Lu Wei always valued his confidants, and the only conditions for becoming Hall Master Lu's confidant were ability and loyalty.

As long as these two conditions can be met, the hall master is really someone who can generously delegate power. Chen Ping is very jealous of this.

Gonggongtang can meet all the needs of the intelligence work that he likes to play with, and at the same time, he will not be restricted due to qualifications and family background.

Gonggongtang is a ready-made platform, a platform that can display all his talents. In this respect, he is different from his senior brother Xiao He. Xiao He still has ideals and is more patient in waiting for changes in the situation.

As for Chen Ping, who is in his twenties, an opportunity to practice his hobby has been presented to him.
(End of this chapter)