Moreover, with the continuous improvement of the confidentiality system of Jiangnan Group and the continuous deepening of confidentiality education, especially after the Security Group established a confidentiality bureau dedicated to confidentiality and anti-infiltration, the difficulty of spying on intelligence has increased sharply.

In the first year of Wanli, the Group issued the "Several Resolutions on the Loss of Employment Review in the Early-Establishment Period" stipulates that if anyone who was ordered to join the group during the Longqing period and voluntarily surrendered himself, after review by the previous level of the Secret Service, if no losses or damage to the group are found to be caused to the group, they may not be dismissed, not demoted, and only transferred from confidential positions (controlled and used).

As soon as this regulation was released, undercover agents sent by various gods took the initiative to surrender and report to make meritorious efforts in order to deal with leniency.

Subsequently, the newly established Secret Service carried out a cleaning operation code-named "Tide". With the large number of clues and employee reports, they pulled out the detailed works that were mixed into the group one by one.

Under the continuous high pressure of the Secret Service and the long-term strategy of the masses, espionage operations from all parties will no longer become a climate and will be even more difficult to penetrate the key departments of the group.

On the other hand, it is becoming increasingly difficult to dig the corners of Jiangnan Group. Originally, Lao Xier could dig a junior engineer by offering a few hundred taels of silver a year.

However, with the improvement of the group's employee rank system, the improvement of welfare systems such as pension, medical care, and children's education, as well as the completion of publicity and education, and ideological and political work, employees' sense of belonging, security and dependence on the group have been greatly enhanced.

And these are all things that cannot be measured by money...

‘It’s not money.’

In recent years, when the old Xi'er poached the Jiangnan Group, he heard this sentence more and more frequently.

It’s not a matter of money? What’s that? Is there anything else in this world that cannot be bought by money?

In fact, the old Xi’er also knows that as long as you are willing to add money, you can still dig it up. If you open ten thousand taels a year, do you see if it’s a matter of money?

But the old Xi'er are so smart. I know that no one who can be dug up is worth this money. Even one tenth is worth!

Those who are worth this money have signed a dead contract... Oh, they are called a lifetime contract, and they can't even dig it out.

As a result, more than ten years have passed, and the old Xi'er still can't figure out the complete production process and specific formula of cement; how glass is burned; how black sugar turns into white sugar...

There is also the Zhengtai Railway that the old Xi'ans are thinking about.

Because Zhao Hao has not been in trouble for a long time, and Shanxi is rich in coal and iron, the iron smelting industry has been very prosperous since ancient times, and it is also the iron smelting center of Mongolia and the future Later Jin Dynasty. So the old Ximen decided to do it themselves, and the right to go to me.

In the fifth year of Wanli, they built the rails of the Zhengyang Line. Because they could not afford so many pure rails cast by pig iron, the old Xi'er adopted a cheap method. They used very thin iron sheets and nailed them to the wooden rails, even if they were railways.

However, the load bearing of this kind of rail is very poor, and the cast iron sheets of coal trucks were crushed after a few trips. Moreover, the air in Taihang Mountains was humid, and the unbreakable cast iron sheets gradually became severely rusted and were unbearable to use...

As a result, the first railway that the old Xi'er spent 50,000 taels of silver to build was scrapped that year.

However, the Mentougou Railway of Xishan Group has been running for more than ten years and is still working normally...

This is the gap, the gap beyond imagination!

There are countless examples of this. The old Xi'er gradually understood a truth that Jiangnan Group can learn the advantages of it, but blindly copying it and thinking that if others can do it, they will definitely die!

Even if they poached all the people from Jiangnan Group, they could not copy the second Jiangnan Group.

What did they use to build thousands of schools to literate the people?

What do they give high salaries to millions of employees and establish a welfare system from birth to grave?

What do they use to establish the world's most powerful production, supply and marketing cycle?

What else do they use to defend all this?

If you take a step back, even if you hand it all into their hands, you will inevitably collapse completely within a few years!

The old Xi'er are the most skilled in management. The more you are, the more you know that managing such a complex and detailed system is more complicated and difficult than governing the Ming Dynasty. However, the Jiangnan Group can operate it in an orderly manner and out of one way. This terrifying management ability is beyond the reach of the world and unimaginable.

To describe it in Shanxi’s idiom, it means ‘The old cow will not be able to give up the cubs, the cow will be broken’!

So when it comes to Jiangnan Group, the old Xi'ans were all disgusted.

Zhang Yangmeng disagreed. He smoked Luzon cigars, drank Yilan soda, and passionately pointed out Jiangshan:

"Wake up, this is the Ming Dynasty of the Old Zhu family, not the Song Dynasty of the Old Zhao family! Since the day when Taizu abolished the Prime Minister, the emperor has had the supreme power in the world. Those who obey will prosper, and those who rebel will perish, without exception!"

"Yes, Gao Xin Zheng and Zhang Wenzhong are in power and unstoppable! But that's because the late emperor was negligent and was only temporarily entrusted with authority at a young age. So that's not a law, it just depends on when the emperor wants to regain power. Ge Lao Yan's fall from power is enough to illustrate this!"

Zhang Yangmeng said as he looked at Chu Jing and said:

"I said that the times have changed, and I think that the old man and his son Zhao Ge are invincible. I would like to ask them how they are better than Yang Ge and his son Yang Xindu back then?!"

"This..." Chu Jingqi was speechless when asked.

Yang Xindu and Yang Ge are the father and son of Yang Tinghe and Yang Shen.

When Emperor Zhengde passed away, Yang Tinghe drafted the will and chose the son of King Xingxian to succeed the throne, which led to Emperor Jiajing.

Then, the young emperor who lived in both human and earth had a protracted confrontation with Yang Tinghe, who served in four dynasties and served as the chief minister, had a protracted confrontation with Yang Tinghe, who should recognize who he was his father, on the issue of who he should be his father, which was the so-called "big ceremony"!

Yang Tinghe originally thought that a hairy child who had never seen the world was easy to deal with. As long as he was posing for a few strokes, he could scare him. So he ordered Mao Cheng, the Minister of Rites, and more than 60 civil and military officials to report to the emperor, asking him to refer to Emperor Xiaozong as the emperor, and called his father Xingxian to the emperor's uncle, and claimed that the court officials "whoever has any objections will be evil and should be killed."

The young emperor naturally did not want to do so. At first, he tried to give preferential treatment to Yang Tinghe and gave Mao Chenghou gold, but neither of them was moved. Jiajing issued several edicts to honor the title of Emperor Xingxian, and was also awarded the title of Emperor Sixth Chronicle!

The emperor could not accept this humiliation, so the two sides fell into a stalemate.

In March of the third year of Jiajing, seeing that the emperor's heart was as hard as iron, completely ignoring the ministers' struggle. Yang Tinghe's son, Xiaoge Lao Yang Shen shouted the famous saying:

"The country has raised men for 150 years, and the Day of Death for Righteousness is today!"

Leading more than 200 court ministers to shake the door and kneel down and cry at Zuoshun Gate of the palace!

Those more than two hundred people are not cats and dogs. Eight of the nine ministers of the six ministries went there, and there was no shortage of the assistant minister Shaoqing. Hanlin Kedao was dispatched in full swing, and the six officials under the seventh rank could not show their faces...

What was the result? He was still beaten to himself by Emperor Jiajing, who was beyond his control.

Then, no one asked again who had the final say in the Ming Dynasty...

"Yang Xindu and his son were much better than Zhao Xiuning and his son now! He was appointed by the emperor. He was the old minister of Guru who held the will. With the great righteousness of maintaining the imperial rule, he was supported by the civil and military officials of the court behind him!" Zhang Yangmeng said in a deep voice:

"And Emperor Jiajing, who entered Beijing alone, had only the stubbornness of a young man and the supreme throne. However, the facts proved that as long as the emperor insisted on the green mountains and did not relax, it would be useless to let the ministers unite and fight desperately..."

"If Yang Ge and his son won, or if the dynasty has won two hundred years, any minister who has won the emperor once, I will stand by him, Zhao Ge and his son!" Zhang Yangmeng squatted out the cigar and cut off the railway line:

"Otherwise, if I choose a hundred times, I will choose to stand on the side of the emperor!"

"It makes sense..." Old Xier was convinced by him most of the time.

"I still think that the old man Zhao Ge and his son are better than the old man Yang Ge and his son." Chu Jing insisted on his own opinion.

"Zuo Shunmen shaking the door and crying, it is the limit for civil servants to fight!" Zhang Yangmeng looked like you were clamped by the door and said disdainfully: "Can civil servants still rebel?"

"With that being said..." Chu Jingqing still shook his head and said, "But the Yang family's father and son do not have the Jiangnan Group."

"The Jiangnan Group is of course useful, but its use is limited!" Zhang Yangmeng said arbitrarily: "Even if their control over the southeast coast is stronger than our control over Shanxi and northwest. Even if the government wears a pair of pants with them, it will be useless in front of the factory guards and the imperial army!"

"At least at sea, the court is not their opponent." Chu Jing said.

"Yes, the Jiangnan Group has a coast guard fleet and has defeated several small sea countries, but so what?" As he said that, he sneered: "The owner of the Five Peaks was still king at the sea. Once the court decided to clear it, it would be destroyed."

"And unlike Wang Zhi, the coastal area is the basic foundation of the Jiangnan Group, and they are the ones who are unlucky at sea." Someone echoed.

"Don't forget, they have been immigrating overseas for more than ten years!" Chu Jing raised his tone and said, "It is said that everyone overseas is soldiers!"

"Hiss..." The old Xi'ans took a breath and finally understood what Chu Jing's words "The times have changed" meant.

"It is true that the Zhao family's father and son cannot be regarded as ordinary civil officials." Even Liu Dongxing, who had been silent, nodded slowly and said, "They are more like princes standing in the southeast and backed by overseas."

"Brother Ziming is so serious!" Zhang Yangmeng said anxiously: "That's just the result of Zhang Wenzhong's indulgence. The emperor cannot tolerate the Ming Dynasty such awesome existence. Look, it will take a few years to attack this snow lion! By then, the identity of Zhao Gong, the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty will restrict them, making them unable to take risks, and they can only let the court dismember them!"

"Okay, OK!" At this time, Wang Guoguang finished smoking a bag of cigarettes and stopped the debate and said:

"Why do you want to talk about whether to follow the emperor? Why is it becoming more and more outrageous? It seems that the Zhao family is about to rebel?"

"Don't worry, no. Master Zhao and his disciples would not agree!" He knelt on the stairs and gave the old Xi'ans peace of mind:

"But, the emperor wants to slaughter the Zhao family, but he can't imagine it. Our little master has a hundred ways to make the emperor uncomfortable."

"What will happen in the end?" The old monks looked at Wang Tianguan and said, "You can't share the world with Zhao, right?"

"Who knows what's going on in the future?" Wang Guoguang smiled bitterly and said, "If Duke Yupo is still here, I might know it. But I can't see that far, so I can only call lanterns as usual."

"That's all." The old Xi'ans nodded one after another.
Chapter completed!