Wanli 1592

Chapter 1204 Information
There is no doubt that intelligence collection is a very difficult thing both in ancient times and in modern times.

So whenever there is an intelligence officer with a high success rate, he will be so famous, so that the world will remember his contribution to his own country and the harm he has caused to other countries.

Many well-known figures have shared their views on intelligence agents, and some even said that they alone are enough to be worth an editor.

The fact is also true, the intelligence spies who perfectly complete the mission bring benefits to the country even more than the war benefits brought to the country by an integrated division on the battlefield.

That's why Xiao Ruxun took great pains to set up Blackwater, and let Blackwater spread spies at home and abroad, to deal with those who want to harm the Great Qin, and to explore the surrounding countries' terrain, mineral deposits, wealth, military, political and economic conditions, and to influence the surrounding countries. Do enough to know.

With the development of Blackwater and the development of the relationship between Daqin and Europe, Xiao Ruxun even arranged teams of Blackwater agents on the merchant ships going to Europe, and some caravans were even composed of Blackwater agents. Xiao Ruxun They need to collect information everywhere for their own use.

In order to allow them to carry out better activities, the largest expenditure of Xiao Ruxun's internal funds is Heishui's. Of the Heishui's activity funds, only 30.00% go to the accounts of the national treasury, which is aboveboard, and the remaining 70.00% are Xiao Ruxun's internal funds. Expenditure is the shadow of darkness, specializing in shady things.

Correspondingly, in order to better serve himself, Xiao Ruxun set up Heizhen to supervise and deal with the black water. Heizhen has two responsibilities, one is to supervise and deal with officials, and the other is to supervise and deal with the black water, which is specially aimed at the personnel in the Daqin organization , not responsible for targeting civilians and foreigners.

The Central Investigation Department with Hei Zhen as the source of manpower is the official identity of Hei Zhen, which is known to all Daqin officials, but there are very few people in the Daqin government who really know the existence of Heizhen, only a few people know.

Xiao Ruxun also paid for 70.00% of Hei Zhen's expenditures, so he opened up the mines, nationalized the metal mines, and sent people to go abroad to find mines to enrich his internal funds.

The emperor must maintain a certain degree of economic independence and economic expenditure, otherwise it will not be enough to guarantee his own power.

Even so, with the annual expenditure of hundreds of thousands of silver, the valuable and effective information that Xiao Ruxun can obtain is only about 12.00% of the total amount of information, and the remaining 80.00% are mostly useless information.

But even with this 12.00% valuable information, the real value behind it is far more than 10 taels of silver.

It's like Xiao Ruxun's full support for Heishui, which led Heishui to set up several spy teams to deal with domestic and foreign intelligence personnel in Daqin who targeted Daqin. They often operate in the most crowded places in big cities, collecting all kinds of intelligence .

Xiao Ruxun asked Heishui to vigorously attack these intelligence personnel, and the most captured were the Japanese. In Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Ningbo, Heishui successively destroyed [-] or [-] Japanese intelligence organizations. After interrogation, most of them were It was arranged by the Tokugawa family, and a few came from the Toyotomi family.

After clearing this group of people, Xiao Ruxun ordered his intelligence personnel to be more vigilant, especially to conduct a carpet search in the Tianjin Wei port area where troops were going to be dispatched, to eliminate all hidden dangers, and make the Japanese blind and unable to know in advance Daqin's military operations.

At this time, even if the spy got the information, it would be difficult to send it back to the country, instead of using electronic communication technology to send it back to the country in an instant like modern times. It takes half a month to a month to send the information back.

During this period, the Daqin army had already landed and started fighting. Even if the Tokugawa and Toyotomi knew about it, there was nothing they could do. They had no time.

On April [-]th, Chai Guozhu began to attack Kyushu Island. Under the guidance of the spy guide, he successfully avoided the traps and traps set by the Tokugawa clan, and launched an attack on the city. On the same day, the main force of the Mawei Army on Tsushima Island They also dispatched vanguards in the direction of Ishimi in a timely manner.

And it wasn't until the twelfth, when the main force of Mawei's department set sail, that the Tokugawa's information was delivered to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was in constant battle with the Toyotomi Iwami. At that time, he was commanding a battle with Toyotomi's army for the commanding heights to arrange gunners.

In this battle, both sides dispatched the strongest generals and the strongest troops. Under the respective plans of Ishida Mitsunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu, they confronted each other head-on on the battlefield.

Toyotomi Hideji dispatched powerful daimyos headed by Ukita Hideka and led their respective elites to launch a powerful attack on Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was at a disadvantage in numbers, encountered difficulties and obstacles repeatedly, but was suppressed by him with resolute attacks gone back.

This battle has been fought for three hours and the outcome has not yet been decided. The casualties on both sides have reached thousands. Nearly 8000 people in the Chuan family were killed in battle, and there will only be more injured.

Under such circumstances, there are very few external factors in the actual strength of the two sides. Ishida Mitsunari's plan made Tokugawa Ieyasu feel unable to move forward.

It turned out that Toyotomi Hideji was quite capable, and he was able to reconcile the conflict between the Ishida family and the generals faction, and let them work together to deal with him.

Only then did Tokugawa Ieyasu realize that Toyotomi Hideji was not a simple character.

It's no wonder that Toyotomi Hideyoshi chose Toyotomi Hideyoshi as Guan Bai to take his place.

But the matter has come to this point, and Tokugawa Ieyasu has no possibility of retreating. This battle must be fought to the end, and he cannot retreat. Once he retreats, the result should not be too miserable.

At this moment, when Tokugawa Ieyasu commanded a thousand-man team and the Toyotomi army was desperately fighting for the commanding heights, the artillery of the Toyotomi army and the Tokugawa army were also firing at each other, but at this moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu got The intelligence that the Qin army set sail from North Korea and the target was Japan.

At that moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu felt that his heart was about to stop beating.

No way?Wouldn't it be like this?
How could Qin Guo do such a thing?

How can they do such a thing?

How are they able to do such a thing?

All kinds of questions lingered in Tokugawa Ieyasu's mind, so that Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't react when his subordinates came to ask for reinforcements.

It wasn't until he shouted again and again that Tokugawa Ieyasu came back to his senses and realized that he was on the battlefield.

"My lord, Toyotomi has increased his troops again, we are short of manpower, please ask for reinforcements!"

Tokugawa Ieyasu opened his mouth, Dad, who should have been extremely determined to send reinforcements to continue to fight for the commanding heights, but he couldn't say it anyway.

Judging by the time, it might be too late now.

No, I can't continue fighting. If this continues, it will be finished.

Tokugawa Ieyasu thought so.

(End of this chapter)