As the territory of the Condor Empire continues to expand, the domestic population is also increasing.

Although Ningyuan can prevent rebellions in a certain area in advance with the Forbidden City, he cannot grasp the changes in the loyalty of some important generals in advance.

After all, there are so many generals in the Condor Empire, it is impossible for him to check his loyalty one by one every day, so it is very necessary to establish an institution that can monitor the daily actions of these generals.

The Condor Empire now has only one external intelligence agency. These intelligence personnel are mainly responsible for spying on enemy situations and assassinating senior generals of hostile forces. Ning Yuan plans to use this intelligence agency as the basis to directly establish an east factory and a west factory, one for the outside and the other for the inside.

In addition to the owner of the East Factory, he is mainly responsible for spying on the enemy's situation, drawing maps and collecting various intelligences.

The owner of the West Factory is mainly responsible for monitoring the civil and military officials in China and understanding the people's sentiments.

The East-West Factory was signed by officials in the Ming Dynasty and was the privileged supervisory agency, secret police and secret police agency at that time.

The Ming Dynasty was a very strange dynasty in ancient China, because not many people could explain the emperors of this dynasty, but if we mention the East and West Factory and the Jinyiwei, it is basically known to all women and children, and it is well-known to them.

Influenced by the film and television works, Ning Yuan was also influenced by these two spy agencies, so when he thought about forming his own spy agencies, he was too lazy to think about the names, so he directly took the names of the East and West factories to use them, and then modified the specific functions.

Of course, if you take it, he would not dare to copy and accept all of the bad habits, because the reason why the two factories in the Ming Dynasty were so famous was that most of them were notorious, after all, they were infamous for thousands of years.

In order to prevent the two factories from being too powerful, Ning Yuan clarified their respective responsibilities and obligations at the beginning of its establishment, and did not allow them to have any acts of abuse of power.

The admiral of the East Factory was Wang Qi. Wang Qi's mission was to summarize the information sent back by the factory guards from various places, and then sort out the useful parts and hand them over to the military headquarters. He and the East Factory were directly under the jurisdiction of the military headquarters.

The admiral of the West Factory was Ji Xiaofeng, and he was directly under Ningyuan's jurisdiction. The main task of the West Factory was to supervise civil and military officials and inspect the people's sentiments in various places.

In order to limit their rights, Ningyuan stipulated that the West Factory only had the power of supervision and no right to dispose of the rights, which means that they only needed to sort out the information and hand it over to Ningyuan. As for how Ningyuan would deal with it, it had nothing to do with them.

Ning Yuan did not hide from anyone about the establishment of the East and West Factory. He directly completed the appointment of Wang Qi and Ji Xiaofeng in front of all civil and military officials.

Ning Yuan’s meaning is very obvious, that is, to tell everyone not to rely on hard work and great achievements to do whatever they want. Everyone is equal before the law, so it is best to restrain him.

No one is perfect, and the generals under Ning Yuan will have some minor problems.

As the lord, Ning Yuan could not mention them all day because of trivial matters, so many people didn't take it seriously, which led to more and more minor problems.

Although those who achieve great things do not care about small matters, details determine success or failure. Although the problems are small, if you are not careful, you may become the last straw that will overwhelm the camel at critical moments, so Ning Yuan needs to help them correct it.

Now, the factory guards of Xichang are equivalent to Ning Yuan's eyes. They are likely to appear anywhere. In other words, in theory, Ning Yuan will see their every move, so when they want to do something, they will definitely think twice before doing it.

Of course, surveillance is surveillance, Ning Yuan will definitely not let the factory guards interfere with their normal life, so they still have absolute private space in their own homes.

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The East-West and West Factory were officially established, and the Marine Corps framework has been successfully built. Logically, Ningyuan should have no worries now and can be a hand-off manager with peace of mind.

But the facts are just the opposite. Ning Yuan is extremely worried these days.

Although the formation of the Marine Corps was very smooth, there was a problem with the weapons used by the mermaid warriors, and this problem successfully stumped Ning Yuan.

Although the weapons and equipment that Ning Yuan had prepared for the mermaid warriors before were very good and suitable for them to use, a very serious problem soon arose, that is, all the weapons began to rust.

Mermaid warriors often dive underwater. The weapons quickly became rusty due to long-term contact with sea water. No matter how they were maintained, they completely stumped Ning Yuan.

In modern times, stainless steel technology can perfectly solve this problem, but in ancient times, this was a very difficult problem.

Ning Yuan wanted to introduce modern stainless steel technology, but unfortunately, he was completely a layman in this regard.

After the game ended, he began to read his own information, but the professional terms made him feel a splitting headache. In the end, he had no choice but to give up.

On this day, Ning Yuan came to Changxing Island to relax in his boredom.

On the beach, a group of mermaid children were playing with children from other races [Bayi Chinese website www.x81zw.info]. They built houses with various stones and played house games.

Ning Yuan really had nothing to do, so he started to watch with relish.

As for children, once they get crazy, it is normal for them to play.

Just after Ning Yuan watched for a while, two children started arguing over who was the son.

Neither of the two little guys was willing to give in. In the end, one of the kids was so angry that they kicked the little house they built.

After kicking the house down, he felt that he had not yet calmed down, so he simply threw out the stones that built the house, and a few stones were thrown on the beach in front of Ningyuan.

Looking at these naughty little guys, Ning Yuan stood up with a smile and walked straight over.

He bent down and picked up the stone from the beach, wanting to go over and return it to the children.

Just as he picked up a blue stone, his movements suddenly paused, his eyes staring at the stone in his hand. After seeing the properties of the blue stone, he suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahahahahaha, I'm really searching for everything, it's not a waste of time to get it. God helps me, hahahahaha."

Blue iron ore: A special iron ore formed in the ocean, which can be melted out blue iron. Blue iron has the characteristics of corrosion resistance and wear resistance.

Ning Yuan is now worried about the weapons of the mermaid warriors. The discovery of this blue iron ore is simply a timely help.

After seeing the blue iron ore, Ning Yuan swept away his past depression and immediately became energetic.

In order to find out the source of these blue iron ore, he called over all the children who were playing house.

After careful inquiry, Ning Yuan learned that these blue iron ore were found by children from the mermaid clan from the sea. They saw that the stones were brightly colored, so they fished them up.

"Come here, please immediately send someone to the Condor Heroes City to transfer a batch of ancient tree fruits to reward these children and their families."

In a good mood, Ning Yuan generously gave these children a gift.

When he asked someone to give gifts to the children, he also sent someone to the military camp to transfer a group of mermaid soldiers.

When the mermaid warrior arrived, he immediately asked the children of the mermaid tribe to take the mermaid warriors to the sea to find blue iron ore.

Under the leadership of the mermaid children, the mermaid soldiers quickly found several small open-air blue iron ore veins.

After learning that the blue iron ore veins were found, Ning Yuan transferred all the mermaid soldiers over, each with a mine hoe, and everyone went to sea to mine.

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When the first long sword made of blue iron was freshly released, Ning Yuan couldn't wait to throw it into the sea.

The blue iron sword was soaked in the sea for a day and a night before it was taken out, and then it was thrown onto the stone by Ning Yuan, allowing it to withstand the sun and wind every day.

After torturing the blue iron sword for a week, Ning Yuan felt relieved and laughed so happily when he saw the sword body that was still as bright as a mirror.

Immediately afterwards, the blue iron ore veins were set up by Ningyuan as a first-level strategic resource of the Condor Heroes Empire. Once discovered, they must be reported immediately and are not allowed to be privately stored. Those who discover blue iron ore veins will be rewarded heavily, and those who collect privately will be severely punished.
Chapter completed!