The reason why Xiao Yungui made up his mind to establish a spy force was because when he was in Yiyang, Tong Qiangsheng, who went south to contact Tiandihui Zhu Hongying, Hu Youlu, Wu Lingyun and other uprising troops returned to the army. The news brought back was that Zhu Hongying and Hu Youlu had already raised troops in Nanning, Guangxi. When he heard that the Taiping Army was intending to go south, the two rebels joined forces to develop towards northern Guangxi and southern Hunan. However, due to the blocked news, the Taiping Army was not informed by the rebels. When Zhu Hongying and Hu Youlu fought to Daozhou, they were blocked by the Qing army. Seeing that the Taiping Army had not gone south to respond, the two rebels retreated south.

At the same time, Zhu Hongying and Hu Youlu were also suspicious of the sincerity of the Taiping Army's cooperation, and finally decided to do it alone. Zhu Hongying even claimed to be a descendant of Zhu Ming. In his heart, he wanted to be king and dominate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He kept urging Hu Youlu to go south to do it alone. Tong Qiangsheng tried to persuade him to be useless. The Qing army blocked it tightly, so he had to take his brothers and traveled back to Hunan.

After hearing Tong Qiangsheng's reward, Xiao Yungui found that he lacked an effective way to convey intelligence. When he was in Hengzhou, he did not get news from the south, so he missed the opportunity. At the same time, he needed some shameful means to deal with people like Zhu Hongying, but he lacked a surprise soldier to use. So Xiao Yungui made up his mind to establish his own intelligence network and a spy agency that would sabotage, assassinate, spread rumors and subvert behind enemy lines.

That night, Xiao Yungui found Zuo Zongtang and Hong Yun'er discussed it. Needless to say, Hong Yun'er had read many books and could come up with some good ideas. Zuo Zongtang was even more important to Xiao Yungui.

After listening to Xiao Yungui's words, Hong Yuner pondered: "What kind of spy? I have read very little books in this regard. However, there are many examples in history, such as the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, the East Factory, the West Factory, the current Qing Dynasty's sticks, and the Shangyu spare parts. These are all famous secret spies. However, the Jinyiwei of the East Factory has a strict organization and a complete set of regulations. The people used have been trained for a long time, and it cannot be completed overnight."

Zuo Zongtang nodded and said, "What the King of Xi said is right. The Ming Dynasty attached great importance to supervising all officials, the people, and the Jinyiwei have existed since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Natural laws are rigorous. Now we are creating our own eyes and ears, so it is better to do it first as mentioned in "The Art of War". "The Art of War" has five sayings, because it refers to the villagers of the enemy country; inside, it refers to the officials of the enemy country; counter-split, it refers to the detailed works of the enemy country and secret spies, but it is used by us; during death, it provides false information to the enemy and is executed by the enemy after the incident; during life, it is the person who returns alive after completing the task."

"First talk about the death field. This is an important pass to send dead soldiers to deceive the enemy to achieve the goal of surprise victory, but it is not often used. Shengya is the person we want to use. Zuo Mou thinks that Tong Qiangsheng, the subordinate of the King of the West, has always been a meticulous person for the King of the West. Although this person is not good-looking, he is meticulous and can also be enjoyed in gangs such as the Heaven and Earth. He can be the head of the West Palace's secret agent, select capable people from each army, and serve as wings, and train for a period of time to be competent." Zuo Zongtang said slowly: "Because we use the most in the world now, we can inquire about the news from the people. In the future, we can set up a map department in the West Palace. Every time we arrive, the department will inquire about the news from the local people, collect local customs and customs, and draw local topographic maps. Now we lack suitable candidates for the inner and counter-speechs, but Zuo Mou thinks that merchants can be used as inner and counter-speechs."

Xiao Yungui's eyes turned and smiled, "Mr. I mean to ask Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others to go on the Qing army's territory to go upwards to trade, use business activities to cover up, collect information, and make friends with government officials?"

Zuo Zongtang nodded and said, "Yes, the businessman goes around the world, the bigger the business, the wider the eyewitness. If the King of Westerners can have his own business, he can raise military wages, the second is to inquire about the news, and the third is to make friends with the Qing government. The Qing officials are so unbearable that they can buy, bribe, and win over them through the business. The wider the people, the more beneficial it will be."

Xiao Yungui touched his chin thoughtfully and said, "In other words, we can send people to the territory of the Qing court to establish our own chamber of commerce and business banks. In fact, these chambers of commerce are doing things for our heavenly kingdom." He then said in his heart that Zuo Zongtang is worthy of being Zuo Zongtang. Isn't this practice a common trick used by terrorists in later generations? He appears as a businessman on weekdays, but actually does something to subvert the government.

Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin, He Yuanlun and other merchants were trying their best to win over Xiao Yungui, thinking about how to use their business expertise. Now Zuo Zongtang said that Xiao Yungui no longer hesitated and clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's set up a business, and Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others came forward to do it. This business is called Guiyun Business!" Xiao Yungui casually used his real name backwards, but he didn't expect that Guiyun Business would become a well-known century-old brand in the future.

Then the three agreed that Tong Qiangsheng, He Bin and Zhou Zhaoyao would come forward to establish a special agent agency in the West Hall. Hong Yuner named this agency Bai Zetang. Bai Ze is an ancient divine beast, known as knowing astronomy and geography, and trivial matters; through the past and the future, Hong Yuner hoped that this name would let everyone know that he was the eyes and ears of the West Hall. Because Tong Qiangsheng was a gang member who had been in the world for many years, and had a wide range of people, and could share information with the eyes and ears of the major gangs. Among the three, Tong Qiangsheng was the most suitable leader. Now that He Bin and Zhou Zhaoyao were far away in Sichuan, Tong Qiangsheng became the leader of Bai Zetang. In this way, a shadow force that made the Qing Dynasty and the great powers feel terrified was born. Its tentacles were everywhere, making people shudder.

On that day, Xiao Yungui found Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin, Tong Qiangsheng and others to discuss the details of the constitution, and Zuo Zongtang and Hong Yuner mentioned it.

The establishment of the Guiyun Business Company surprised Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin. They could do their old business again. Moreover, Xiao Yungui promised to pay the capital and earn 30% of the money. Zhu and Wei accounted for 30% and 70% of the money they earned. Xiao Yungui had promised that the two would make them earn back the property confiscated by the Taiping Army one day. Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin were naturally overjoyed. As for how the business company operated, Hong Yuner gave the two matches a recipe and craftsmanship based on memory, which was considered to be an addition of a product. For the subsequent production of some small commodities, Hong Yuner needed to recall and organize them before giving them.

Don’t underestimate the profit margin of this match. When Tsarist Russia traded in northern Xinjiang, it was relying on small commodities to make huge profits. There was an amazing record of a box of matches for a sheep in northern Xinjiang and ten boxes of matches for a cow. Of course, at this stage, the business mainly engaged in daily necessities such as grain, oil, rice, flour, tea shreds, sugar and wine. Xiao Yungui also handed over a batch of precious antiques, jade, calligraphy and paintings and other items collected from government offices and wealthy merchants from various government offices and homes of wealthy merchants to the business for sale. These things are just a burden in their hands, so it is better to use them with cash.

After the business charter was formulated, Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin happily prepared to handle the matter, but their families were left as hostages. At the same time, Xiao Yungui also arranged for Tong Qiangsheng and others to arrange people to be with them for surveillance. As for how Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin returned to the Qing army's territory to do business, their own way was to join the Taiping army. The matter of the two joining the Taiping army is still a secret. Even the people of Changsha thought that the two were killed by the Taiping army like other wealthy merchants in Changsha, so the two had a good excuse to return to the Qing army's territory to move.

Xiao Yungui planned to wait for He Yuanlun, He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao and others to return from Sichuan and expand his business network through He Yuanlun's Baoqing Chamber of Commerce. After all, after the Taiping Army captured Yuezhou, it would attack the three towns in Wuhan, which was the territory of the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce.

Bai Zetang's charter is much more complicated, and it needs to be formulated from selection, training, code words, assassination, etc. Xiao Yungui handed over these things to Zuo Zongtang, Hong Yun'er, Tong Qiangsheng and others to worry about it. He focused on training troops.

Regarding the training of the new army, Xiao Yungui began to pay attention to collecting the essence of the generals of each army's generals in marching and fighting, and at the same time joined some training subjects he had received during military training in later generations, and began to compile a Taiping Army's own "Infantry and Military Practice". This Practice is a systematic project and involves many types of troops. Xiao Yungui does not expect that he can compile it at once. He plans to summarize his experience from actual combat and gradually blend it into the Practice. If possible, if you later get some classic works such as Prussian infantry Practice from foreigners, perhaps this Practice can achieve great success.

The water camp exercise was completely handed over to Luo Dagang. Xiao Yungui was completely amateur in water battles because he could not even swim. But now the Taiping Army was fighting in the south. Since ancient times, there have been saying that northerners rode horses and southerners rode boats. The river networks and lakes in the nine southern provinces were everywhere, so the Taiping Army could not completely avoid water battles. Fortunately, the Qing army's Yangtze River Navy's current Yangtze River Navy is completely a good thing. Hengzhou, the old nest of the Hunan Navy, which gave the Taiping Army a headache in the future, was also captured by the Taiping Army. Xiao Yungui can safely and boldly expand his water camp boat division.

More than ten days later, Bai Zetang's charter was initially formulated. Zuo Zongtang, Hong Yun'er, and Tong Qiangsheng had not slept for several nights before they could get through this charter. Bai Zetang was led by Tong Qiangsheng as the leader, and his subordinates were divided into ears, assassin killers, internal guards, etc., Hong Yun'er and Tong Qiangsheng were in the army and found suitable candidates among the people to join. After loyalty and primary elections, they joined Bai Zetang for training, and then assigned tasks after training. Bai Zetang only obeyed Xiao Yungui, Zuo Zongtang and Hong Yun'er. The treatment of each person in the hall was ten times that of ordinary soldiers, which was generous.

Why did Hong Yuner participate in the selection of Bai Zetang? Because Bai Zetang needs female team members. Compared with men, some tasks require women to complete and be more successful. Hong Yuner is in charge of the female camp, so she naturally needs to participate in it. Later, Bai Ze, the female lead by Hong Yuner, made great achievements on this invisible front.

After ten months of rest in Yiyang, the Qing army in Xiangyin was still reluctant to retreat. After the New Year's Eve, Xiao Yungui decided to advance eastward. The entire army boarded the water camp ships and headed towards Yuezhou in a mighty manner. It seemed that the Qing army in Xiangyin would cry when they saw the coffin. So, after the Taiping Army in the West Palace handed Yiyang to the North Palace's troops to defend, the entire army advanced eastward, and Luo Dagang's troops led the way into the vast Dongting Lake.
Chapter completed!