After receiving the salute from Tang Ge's generals, Fang Xuanzi and the other internal affairs officials wanted to do the same, but they were stopped by Li Bawang.
" I don't care about that. I only care that everyone can use these things to bring Tang Ge to greater glory and power.”Li Bawang said with a pretentious look.
Everyone agreed with him and was infected by his appearance. They all said,"Your Highness is very righteous."
Even Li Er was touched and said, The Overlord is my blessing."
"Other than these weapons, I want to make some changes to Tang Ge's army. Of course, I'm only giving a suggestion now, not immediately changing it.”
Li Bawang spoke again and placed the things that the big shots had thought were treasures on the table.
He pointed at a beautiful glasswork and said,""How much can everyone pay for this item?”
Everyone was puzzled at first. In their opinion, only the royal family could enjoy these things. Other levels, whether Duke or Marquis, could not enjoy such treasures.
Li Er was even more puzzled, but he supported Li Bawang and said,"Since San Lang has said it, then you can name your price.”
The first to speak was the deputy general,"San Lang, I am willing to pay a hundred strings of money."”
100 strings of strings was not a small amount, but someone immediately raised the price again."Three hundred and fifty strings."
This was already a precious treasure. Even Li Er was moved by it. If he didn't sell all the things that Li Bawang brought over, it would be extremely easy to sell them for hundreds of thousands of yuan.
With hundreds of thousands of strings, would Li Er still be worried about a surprise attack from the Turks? With hundreds of thousands of strings, he would even dare to push Tang Ge's army to take the initiative to fight this battle.
One could imagine how valuable these things were.
" Hahaha!" Li Bawang couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Then, he looked at Li Er and said,"Second Brother, are you still worried about the military expenditure?"”
Li Er was stunned for a moment before he smiled.
Although he also liked to enjoy himself and these treasures, how could he care about these treasures in Tang Ge's eyes?
Seeing Li Er smile, Li Bawang could not help but continue,"I plan to sell these things. However, since everyone treats them as treasures, I naturally won't sell them so easily. I've decided to set up a golden house to sell these treasures.”
Fang Xuanzi and the others wanted to say something. After all, if such a thing were to flow out, the first ones to buy it would definitely be the wealthy merchants. This was simply a stain on the treasures. They wanted to persuade them.
However, Li Bawang's next words shut them up.
"If these treasures appear in the Outsiders, will they welcome them? Would they allow merchants to build gold buildings on their territory to sell these treasures?”
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Not only did the nobles of Tang Ge want to get the treasures, but the rich people of other races, high officials, and even the Great Khan also wanted them.
"When we build the Golden Tower to sell treasures, we can also provide a good protection for our spies, which will make the non-humankind relax their vigilance. At that time, it will not only bring us benefits in terms of money, but also in terms of intelligence.”
Then, he told them his idea. While the Golden Tower sold treasures, it was also responsible for receiving and transmitting all kinds of information.
"Second Brother, I believe Senior Medicine Master has told you about my plan for the intelligence department?”
Li Er nodded. He felt that it was very good. It was very useful to Tang Ge, but it was not easy to control.
"We can make use of those heroes. Not only can the Golden Tower bring us a lot of money, but we can also use this money to feed these heroes and let them bring us all kinds of information. At the same time, we can bribe some non-humankind officials to bring us unexpected surprises when necessary.”
Everyone agreed.
Then, Li Bawang looked at Li Er again and said," Since Second Brother has promised to give me some low-level titles, then let the news out. Then, we will gather these people and use them to form an organization. We can call them Jinyiwei.”
"The purpose of the Embroidered Uniform Guards is to spy on the military. They only collect intelligence from the people and monitor local officials.”
Bawang Li told Tang Ge about the Golden Tower and the Jinyiwei. The meaning behind it could definitely change the entire intelligence channel of Tang Ge.
This was also what Li Er was happy to see, such as collecting people's feelings, monitoring the officials, and so on.
However, Li Bawang did not want to turn the Brocade Guard into something that the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty had done.
He made many restrictions to reduce the possibility of the Brocade Guard becoming domineering. Although they could monitor the officials, they did not have the right to directly arrest them.
They could only monitor and collect evidence, then submit it to the Ministry of Justice for investigation. If the case was true, they could then file a case for arrest. The arrest would not be done by the Jinyiwei, but by the Ministry of Justice.
This prevented the Jinyiwei from having too much power.
After he finished speaking, everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
Don't think that the ancient people were all stupid and couldn't see the consequences of this intelligence system. To put it nicely, supervising all officials was just a rope around the necks of officials like them.
This was life-threatening.
Of course, in Tang Ge's early days, whether it was high officials or local officials, they were all very diligent. There was very little corruption, so the big shots present did not feel ashamed. They were not worried about themselves, but they were afraid of bringing shock to the entire officialdom.
However, after Li Bawang's explanation, he naturally nodded in agreement.# Date:08 24 2019 4:30PM
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