1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1939
Now there is the body number of the freight car, and the coke factory's delivery records corresponding to each car. As long as the two are compared, it can be confirmed that the three cars of coke were indeed delivered by the foreman.

"Ding Qi, Wu San, Geng Si... That's right, it's these three cars! They were all sent out this morning, and they never came back to write off the account!" The foreman was extremely grateful at this moment for the car he had complained about countless times. The cargo registration system is usually considered too troublesome for delivery procedures, and written records have to be made for each vehicle, but it is only when something happens that we realize that this system is not a decoration, but an effective guarantee.

Judging from the previous and subsequent freight records, most of the carts and porters who left the coke plant this morning have returned from the industrial area to hand in the receipt number plate and receive their wages. In the industrial area, it was inspected by the military.Only these three cars were left with nothing but the goods, and the porters in one of the cars repeatedly made excuses to enter the Wusan Workshop under martial law, but disappeared suddenly after being refused by the guards. One of the biggest doubts in the investigation.

However, according to the records of the coke plant, the porters responsible for transporting the three vehicles of coke were all noted as "casual workers", that is, people who have no fixed labor relationship with the coke plant, and there are too many such odd jobs, most of them Some people have not acquired Haihan nationality, and the coke factory really has no way to verify their registration identities one by one. They can only be noted as casual workers to facilitate settlement of wages-casual workers are paid on a case-by-case basis, and the income level is relatively the lowest the first gear.

"Mr. Jun, please look. Those ticked at the back of this record are those who have already handed in the receipt and received their wages. According to Mr. Jun, the three truckloads of goods have not been delivered to the workshop at all, so they must not get the receipt, and they will not be paid." It’s impossible to come back here to settle wages.” The foreman tremblingly explained the reason to the investigators, expressing his innocence.

"Think about it again, is there anything special about the people responsible for transporting these three coke trucks? Such as accent, clothing, demeanor, whether there is a leader among them, have you heard them talk about a certain person, a certain place or Something?" The officer would not let him go easily, and continued to ask for relevant information.

In fact, Xue Zheng and others negotiated with the cavalry guarding the entrance and exit many times when they were active in front of the Wusan workshop, and their appearance has been recorded. However, if they can get further confirmation from the freight foreman of the coke plant, it will be more interesting. Facilitate the investigation of the incident.And only after having more information about the suspicious object can we deeply analyze its real purpose of approaching the Wusan Workshop.

"Master, let the villain think about it carefully..." Seeing the officer asking such detailed questions, the foreman thought to himself that most of the casual workers who pulled goods in the morning were wanted criminals. Of course, it is impossible to do this business of soliciting goods for the living wages, and there should be other plans.

By noon, the investigation work still hadn't made much progress, but this would not affect the original itinerary of Li Lu and his party.But because of the temporary appearance of Beks, Qiao Zhiya decided to change the location of lunch and arranged for everyone to return to Daling Manor for dinner.

Of course, the reason for this adjustment is not unrelated to the strange situation that occurred outside the workshop in the morning. After all, when they were about to leave the industrial area, hundreds of people who had already dispatched still could not find the ten people who disappeared in the air. Several porters.Out of safety considerations, Qiao Zhiya thought it was better to arrange important people to go to a proper place first, and Daling Manor is undoubtedly one of the safest places in Changhua.

At this time, Zhang Qianzhi did not return to Daling Manor with the convoy, but went to the county town to meet with the local security personnel to understand the progress of the investigation of this strange incident.

In fact, personnel from the Ministry of Security were also included in the previous security measures. However, because the Ministry of Security did not have many personnel stationed locally and did not have a field organization dedicated to special tasks, it did not make a large-scale deployment like the military. It is more appropriate for the two of them to follow Li Lu and his party, not so much to carry out the security mission, but to cooperate with Zhang Qianzhi and accept his dispatch at any time.

After starting to investigate the incident in the morning, Zhang Qianzhi, as an official of the security department, naturally also stepped in to understand the situation.His expertise in intelligence analysis and case investigation came in handy, and he quickly noticed several unreasonable things in this incident.

Zhang Qianzhi took two of his men to check the locations where the three trucks of coke were found, and then rushed to the coke factory to check the shipment records in the morning, and found that the records of the three trucks of coke were together, which means that it is very likely They set off at the same time, and this was confirmed by the freight forwarder.

These people set off together and disappeared together, so it is almost certain that the fifteen or so porters responsible for transporting the three carts of coke are most likely the same group.One of the truckloads of coke was delivered to the Wusan workshop after it was transported to the destination because of the martial law there. After several negotiations with the guards, the truckload of coke was left outside the Wusan workshop.

Zhang Qianzhi found out the problems that need to be solved first. One of the destinations of these goods happened to be the Wusan workshop that the son of the Joseon Dynasty was going to visit. If the goods failed, they quickly left without a sound. Regardless of whether their original purpose was to deliver the goods or have other articles, what caused them to suddenly give up and leave here quickly.

Qiao Zhiya personally made the arrangement for the visit of Wusan Workshop, but Qiao Zhiya would not make low-level mistakes in terms of confidentiality measures. It was not until Li Lu and his party arrived in Changhua and confirmed the local visit itinerary that Qiao Zhiya was notified. The foreman of the workshop knows this arrangement in advance, and the scope of people is very small, so it is easy to conduct investigations.And since Qiao Zhiya set the visit here, it is of course that he knows the whole workshop and can confirm the safety situation here.

The coke plant, on the other hand, was completely unaware that the Wusan workshop had a special arrangement today, otherwise it might not have arranged to transport coke to the workshop in the morning.The time when the workshop ordered coke from the coke plant was earlier than Qiao Zhiya notified the workshop of the visit arrangement, so the possibility of collusion between inside and outside to cause trouble was basically ruled out.

Then the transportation task that this group of people received seems to be a coincidence. It just happened to hit the Wusan Workshop where a large number of people are deployed, so that it is very likely that this ruined some of their original plans, so they suddenly abandoned the car. and go.Zhang Qianzhi met the plainclothes who were performing security tasks nearby at that time, and combined with the location where these cars were abandoned, he had a rough guess in his mind.

Unlike the cart outside the Wusan Workshop, the other two abandoned carts were still quite a distance from their destination. Zhang Qianzhi's intuition thought that this group of people was gathering nearby to take some kind of action. That's why he gave up the cart as an identity cover.And these scooters parked on the side of the road will soon block traffic and attract attention, so there is not much time left for them to act.

However, just before this group of people took action, some unexpected situation occurred here, which forced them to suspend their plan and leave decisively. This seems to be a good explanation for the various doubts about the "disappearance of the porter".

After Zhang Qianzhi found out the context, he went through the timeline carefully, and then found the suspected source of this sudden incident.The cavalry guarding the entrance and exit of the Wusan workshop noticed the porters for the last time. It was Bex who came to the workshop from the pier in a carriage.Zhang Qianzhi didn't think that Beks sitting in the carriage would startle the enemy, but the cavalry guarding him might have such an effect.

"Let me confirm again, before this convoy came, you had four people guarding the entrance and exit. After the convoy arrived, some people were left behind to guard the entrance and exit with you, so there were ten cavalrymen guarding here in the end, yes Right?" Zhang Qianzhi asked the cavalryman who had seen Xue Zheng for the last time for a detail in order to verify his certain speculation.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Zhang Qianzhi thought that he had almost figured out the reason. Although he still didn't know the target of the other party, he could basically conclude that this incident was not a coincidence, but an interrupted premeditated attack.

"Go to the garrison camp immediately, and in the name of the Ministry of Security, ask the garrison to send troops to blockade Changhua Port and suspend the departure of ships; in addition, block the official roads leading from Changhua to the north and south, and confront the young and strong men who left Changhua in groups. There must be strict investigation!"

Zhang Qianzhi immediately issued an order to his subordinates. He didn't know if such a measure would still be able to stop that group of people, but he could only try his best with the mentality of mending a dead sheep.After giving the order, he immediately rushed to Daling Manor to report the matter to Beks and Qiao Zhiya.

"You mean that this group of people pretended to be porters and sneaked into the industrial area, with the purpose of attacking the people who were in the Wusan workshop in the morning?" After hearing Zhang Qianzhi's report, Qiao Zhiya frowned and pointed to himself: "The most dangerous There are only two targets of value, one is me, and the other is the son of the Joseon Dynasty... Oh, I also missed Lao Bai!"

Bai Kesi said to Qiao Zhiya: "According to what Zhang Qianzhi said, it was because my arrival interrupted the group's actions that they chose to evacuate, which means that I should not be their target."

Qiao Zhiya said: "The guards brought by Lao Bai further strengthened the perimeter defense force of the workshop, and there are more than ten people in this group, so they dare not launch a strong attack again, and they don't have more time to readjust. Can you give up the action, Zhang Qianzhi, is this what you speculate?"

Zhang Qianzhi responded: "That's right. I suspect that they were trying to test the cavalry at the door a few times before, lowering their vigilance. plan. But when they found out that the security force was strengthened, it was impossible to do anything, and it was very likely that their tracks would be exposed immediately, so they retreated decisively."

"Even if they were lucky enough to break through the perimeter, so what if they rushed in, a dozen or so people would still die!" Qiao Zhiya was extremely confident in the security measures he had deployed. This attack method is still very disdainful.

Zhang Qianzhi felt that Qiao Zhiya's self-confidence was not too much. At that time, there were not only Qiao Zhiya's personal guards in the workshop, but also an infantry squad of 12 people led by Gai Liangcai. These people were fully armed and had to deal with this kind of opponent. A small scene with only a dozen people is definitely not a problem.What's more, Qiao Zhiya, who was born in the army, led the army to fight overseas in his early years and almost became a senior general in the army, was present, and the chaotic scene could not scare him.

However, although Qiao Zhiya was confident, he was not blind. After complaining, he asked Zhang Qianzhi, "In your opinion, is their target me or the son of Joseon?"

Zhang Qianzhi hesitated for a while before responding: "At present, we have too little information to judge the opponent's target, but I personally prefer the son of Joseon."

"Oh? What's the reason? Let's hear it!" Qiao Zhiya asked with great interest.

Zhang Qianzhi said: "I speculate based on the opponent's behavior of pretending to be a porter. If they want to deal with you, they should have better choices and better plans. However, the situation that occurred this morning, no matter how you look at it. It is an imperfect plan, and it can even be said to be full of loopholes. Regardless of the timing, location, or environment, it is not suitable. To plan the details of the action, otherwise it should not be so low in completion."

Zhang Qianzhi paused for a moment before continuing: "As for why the other party's target is the son of Joseon... To be honest, I don't have any evidence. I just made such a judgment by using the method of elimination."

"But according to your judgment, the other party's hasty action makes sense instead." Qiao Zhiya took up the conversation and began to explain his judgment: "I made the local itinerary for the son of the Joseon Dynasty, and kept it secret. Notify the various departments one day in advance to prepare separately. However, there are not many places to visit in the local area, which are nothing more than Shilu Mine and Changhua Industrial Zone. It is not difficult to predict the itinerary. No matter where the other party learned about Shizi The itinerary is still purely ignorant, and the preparation time given to them is indeed quite limited, and it is impossible to plan a complete action plan in advance, so this kind of chaos will easily occur."

After questioning and answering, the two of them gradually figured out the cause and effect of this incident. Although it was not perfect, it was actually very close to the real situation.

"What a frightening young man!" Beks sighed: "It seems that Lao He trusts you so much, and specially transferred you to carry out the mission, and he really has the foresight!"

(End of this chapter)