1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1189
It was too late to report this unexpected situation to Zhoushan Island, so Lin Nan ordered people to go to various places to inform the field team to gather at Mihang and prepare to do it overnight.He has a field team of more than ten people under his command. He usually hides in the city of Hangzhou as various shop assistants and craftsmen, and only calls them to show up before the action.Among them are Gong Shiqi's subordinates who stayed in Zhejiang, and Lin Nan's old department brought over from Hainan. They are all experts, but Lin Si and Pan Yan have never participated in such operations. Where to start, we can only follow Lin Nan's arrangement.

Lin Nan didn't act arbitrarily, and asked the two for their opinions: "Now the clues are all on the woman in Bichun Garden, what can you do to take her out of the garden without leaving a trace?"

Pan Yan looked at Lin Si next to him, and replied ponderously: "Before I left, I specifically asked if I could take them out for the night. The girl serving me said it was not easy to do, and strangers must not do it. The boss will not let people go."

After Lin Nan finished listening, his eyes turned to Lin Si.Seeing that the two of them were staring at him blankly, Lin Si quickly waved his hands and said, "Don't think I'm a regular customer, I've actually only been to that place twice, and I think the environment is pretty good, so I introduced it to Pan Lord. Otherwise, try to offer a high price, maybe the boss will let him go."

"If it can be solved with money, it can save a lot of trouble." Lin Nan nodded and said: "But if you can't bring the person out, then you can only grab it by hand!"

Lin Nan has rich experience in field missions, and will not pin all his hopes on normal means to solve problems. Just in case, the field team must make preparations in advance.In addition, it is necessary to prepare a secluded place in the city in advance to interrogate the informed police officer.For them, the most important thing at present is time. If it is delayed until tomorrow, the government may have a chance to intervene in this matter, and that is definitely not a situation they want to see.

"I'm afraid that none of the three of us should come forward in this matter. We have to find someone else." Pan Yan added.

Pan Yan's words indeed pointed out a major problem at present. His and Lin Si's identities can be said to be semi-public. If they take this woman away, Bichun Garden will definitely report to the authorities if they find that she is missing. It's easy to trace it to Fengsheng Rice Company.And Lin Nan's identity is not visible at all. If he shows up to do this, it will be difficult to lurk in the city of Hangzhou in the future.But the problem lies in finding a new face to go to Bichun Garden. Even if you can afford the price, you may not be able to bring him out smoothly.

The efficiency of Lin Nan's people was good, and within half an hour, they came to Mixing to gather one after another.However, this group of people is probably due to the influence of concealing their identities, and they obviously have the characteristics of the people at the bottom of the society. If you want to choose a member with a decent temperament and appearance, go to Bichunyuan dressed as an upper-class person to fetch Cui'e Bringing it out doesn't look easy.

But if you want to kidnap someone, not to mention whether there will be conflicts in the process, just finding this Cui'e from among the many women in Bichun Garden will be a troublesome task.None of them knew what this person looked like or where he lived in the garden, so they could only try to find out the news after arriving at the scene.

"Let's try the first method first. If it doesn't work, we will do it in the middle of the night!" Lin Nan knew that this matter should not be delayed, and must be settled tonight, so he made a decisive decision immediately.

So a member with a relatively fair complexion was selected from Lin Nan's subordinates, put on a full set of costumes provided by Lin Si, and played the role of a wealthy foreigner who came to Hangzhou for business.Although his speech and demeanor are not very qualified, he couldn't find a better candidate to complete this task in a hurry.

It was getting late at this time, although the preparations were not complete, but there was no longer any time to delay, Lin Nan immediately organized everyone to go out separately, leaving Lin Si to support at Mihang, and Pan Yan volunteered to accompany Lin Nan action.After leaving the rice shop, Lin Nan took Pan Yan into a black-covered carriage by the side of the road. As soon as the two of them sat down in the carriage, the groom urged the horse to start.

Pan Yan couldn't help asking: "Brother Lin, if this matter doesn't go well, will Zhoushan blame it?"

Lin Nan glanced at him sideways, and replied in a deep voice: "Whether the process is smooth or not is not the most important thing, as long as the result can be explained to the chiefs. As long as we can solve this matter satisfactorily, even if there are some outrageous actions , the higher-ups will not blame you."

Pan Yan doesn't know what kind of outrageous actions are considered, but he participated in the previous actions, so he naturally knows what kind of exaggerated measures Hai Han took in the previous actions. If the Zhejiang government finds out the truth, it will definitely be Tear face and start a war.However, no matter how hard these people from the Ministry of Security go about, it should not exceed the level of the previous military actions.If Haihan doesn't want all the previous efforts to come to naught, he must try his best to make the remedial measures watertight.

After the field team arrived near Bichun Garden in batches, the member pretending to be a high-roller went into the garden with two entourages, while Lin Nan and Pan Yan continued to wait in the carriage.If the person can be brought out smoothly, he will be put in this car at that time, and then rushed to the interrogation place that has been prepared.

Although the member had already been told a lot of things to pay attention to, both Lin Nan and Pan Yan were still worried about whether his acting skills could be qualified.If the delay is too long, when the night ban in the lower city begins, even if you get people out, it will not be easy to take them away.

The curfew time in Hangzhou City is to ring the evening drum at three o'clock in the morning, and travel is prohibited, and the ban can only be lifted after the morning bell is struck at three o'clock in the five o'clock.And now one more day has passed, for the field team, there is not much time left for them to act.

However, the group that entered Bichun Garden came out faster than expected, but the three of them went in, and there were still three people when they came out, and they didn't bring out the target person.When the team members went to the carriage and told about the situation inside, Lin Nan and Pan Yan looked at each other in blank dismay, and remained silent for a long time.

It turned out that the Cui'e they were looking for was no longer in the garden, and had just been picked up not long ago. Calculated the time, it should be after Pan Yan left here.But the person who went in was quite clever, and he spent five taels of silver to buy a piece of useful news—the person who picked up Cui'e at night was Han Zhengshan, the head catcher of the Hangzhou government office.

"Brother Lin, is this person difficult to deal with?" Seeing Lin Nan's solemn expression, Pan Yan took the initiative to ask him.

Lin Nan nodded and said, "This is the arrester who was in charge of the fire case in the Hangzhou government office earlier."

Pan Yan pondered: "Could it be that he was the man I heard talking to Cui'e before? Then he went and came back, and he couldn't even wait for this night!"

Lin Nan said: "Regardless of whether the person you heard was him or not, we have to go to his residence."

Whether Han Zhengshan is still investigating the fire case is secondary to Lin Nan. The most important thing now is to quickly find Cui'e, take out useful information from her mouth, find the witness, and cut off this witness clues.Of course, if Cui'e had already informed Han Zhengshan of what he knew, then Lin Nan didn't mind dealing with one more person in order to keep the secret.

Since the fire at Tongsheng Wharf, Han Zhengshan's life has been very difficult.He was the first head-hunter in charge of investigating the case. Almost all the investigation pressure in the early stage was concentrated on him. All the evidence pointed to the Ming army, but he had no authority to investigate the army at all.Moreover, his superior, Hangzhou General Judge Wang Yuan, had direct interests involved in the incident, so he didn't want Han Zhengshan to make any discoveries that would be unfavorable to Haihan, which more or less hindered the investigation work.

Although the deterioration of the situation caused by the case soon attracted the attention of the high-level officials, and Jin Yiwei, who went to the world to check the land, also joined the investigation, but the arrival of Jin Yiwei did not make his investigation work much smoother. On the contrary, the two parties lacked communication. Jin Yiwei only took on the task of investigating the army, so that the follow-up investigation progressed very slowly.At this time, the Haihan Army was approaching the city, and a large number of people flooded into Hangzhou City to seek refuge. All the servants were sent to the streets to maintain law and order, which made it difficult for him to continue his investigation work.

Of course, neither Han Zhengshan nor the defiant Jin Yiwei were able to find out the truth of the fire in the end.Although the government and the Haihan people finally reached a settlement through negotiation, Han Zhengshan, who was in charge of investigating the case, did not feel relieved because of this, but felt very aggrieved.He knew that there were quite a lot of weirdness in this case, but due to the means of detection and the pressure from above, it was difficult to investigate the cause and effect clearly.

Although the case has been closed in name, the two parties have signed an agreement in a dignified manner, and the government has handed over the "murderer" to Haihan, but Han Zhengshan has not completely given up on the investigation of the fire, and intends to slowly find the truth of the case .However, he also knew that not all the high-level officials wanted to reveal the truth of the case. If they realized that he was still investigating, they might try to obstruct his investigation.Moreover, the longer the distance from the fire case, the less and less effective evidence, so Han Zhengshan can only slowly sort out the case, hoping to find something.

Perhaps it was destined that Han Zhengshan actually obtained important news from a seemingly completely irrelevant source. His long-lost friend Cui'e in Bichunyuan turned out to be brought by someone, implying that the news about the fire case could be supply.So Han Zhengshan hurried to Bichun Garden, dragged Cui'e to an unoccupied corner for questioning, and finally priced 150 taels of silver to buy the identity information of the "witness" that Cui'e said.In fact, Han Zhengshan had interviewed most of the people who entered and exited Tongsheng Wharf in person, but he did not receive much valuable information. He could only hope that this witness was a missing part of the investigation work at that time.

Han Zhengshan had already agreed with Cui'e to look for her the next day, but after returning to his residence, he felt restless and always felt that something was going to happen, so he returned to Bichun Garden immediately and brought Cui'e out.Given his status, Bichunyuan would naturally not make things difficult, but Han Zhengshan didn't know that by doing this, he had already caused a disaster.

The place where Han Zhengshan lived was less than half a mile away from the Zhejiang government office, and it was a small courtyard with a single family.He lost his wife in his early years and had no heirs, and he has been a bachelor since then.He was usually the only one living in this small courtyard, so he took Cui'e back here for the convenience of talking.

In front of Cui'e, Han Zhengshan took out a wooden box from the bedroom closet, opened the box and counted eighteen ingots of silver from inside: "Here is 180 taels of silver, the identity of the person who witnessed the fire, hurry up!" Speak up!"

Cui'e saw the white silver, ignored what he said, and reached out to touch the silver.Han Zhengshan sliced ​​her hand away: "Let's talk about the business first, and then get the money!"

Cui'e's face immediately changed into a very professional smile: "My lord picked up the little girl, and he didn't want to go back after a few words. It's a long night, are you afraid that you won't have time to talk about business?"

Seeing her charming expression, Han Zhengshan knew that this woman wanted to drop by and do his overnight business too, and it was worth charging an extra sum.However, when I brought people out from Bichun Garden, I was originally billed according to the overnight stay, no matter what posture I used to spend the night, I would still have to pay the overnight stay after all.

"You little girl, you are really dishonest!" Han Zhengshan also relaxed at this time, thinking that there is no rush to handle the case anyway, at this moment, he will ask about the situation later, leave Cui'e at home, and go by himself overnight Just take someone.

The two had hooked up in the past, and Han Zhengshan could be regarded as Cui'e's regular customer. Both of them were familiar with each other, so they didn't have any scruples.

When the two were hanging out in the dark, the Haihan special service team also hurried over from Bichunyuan.Lin Nan had no other way out, so he could only lead the team to find Han Zhengshan.He couldn't even confirm whether this was a trap deliberately set by the other party, waiting for himself to fall into the trap, but now that the situation was urgent, there was no time for him to slowly implement the situation before acting.Rao Lin Nan has a lot of experience in performing field missions, but at this time he was so nervous that he broke out in a cold sweat in the cold winter night. If he made a mistake in his judgment, all the people in the field team might have to be buried in Hangzhou.

The field team has been lurking in Hangzhou for a long time, and has already investigated the residences of these government officials, so Lin Nan does not need to rush, and now looks for Han Zhengshan's address.It was already one or two o'clock at this time, and Lin Nan calculated the distance. I am afraid that after going to Han Zhengshan's house, there is not enough time to rush back to Fengsheng Rice Store or another alternative location.The plan is not as fast as the change. For the current plan, we can only take one step at a time.

(End of this chapter)