1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1941
In Haihan’s official original plan, this inspection trip prepared for the son of North Korea will become the content of news reports, so as to publicize the friendly relationship between the two countries to the outside world, and at the same time show the people of the country what they have done in the diplomatic field. new achievements.The Propaganda Department sent Hong Jingwen to accompany him all the way, in order to let him collect materials and write a manuscript as soon as possible, and then arrange it to be published in the nearest official newspaper as soon as possible, so as to ensure the timeliness of the news.

According to Hong Jingwen's plan, there will be a corresponding report for each stop Li Wei visited on this trip, but the current incident in Changhua is obviously not suitable to be disclosed in the newspapers, which will damage the positive image of Haihan's good law and order, and It will make outsiders question whether Haihan's security measures for foreign dignitaries are really reliable.Even if the propaganda department is to report the relevant situation, it will have to wait until the case is solved and the person is arrested, depending on the situation.

Hong Jingwen was very kind, and after learning about the case later, he also obeyed Zhang Qianzhi's request.The propaganda department only played a supporting role in this inspection trip, and Hong Jingwen didn't intend to make any publicity. Press releases with this kind of subject matter are easy to capsize if they are not careful. As a press officer, he needs to be careful to deal with it. .

Zhang Qianzhi thinks that there is no need to make major adjustments to the already arranged itinerary, but he is not the only one who has the final say on this matter. Both Bai Kesi and Qiao Zhiya are currently in Changhua, so the decision must be made by these two big men.But no matter whether the itinerary is revised or not, he will probably have to be busy in the next time. On the one hand, he and Gai Liangcai must strengthen security measures, and on the other hand, they must try to detect the attempted attack in Changhua.

After listening to Zhang Qianzhi's analysis, Bai Kesi and Qiao Zhiya praised Zhang Qianzhi's professional ability. Even if Qiao Zhiya gave Zhang Qianzhi the authority to mobilize and command the local military and police forces, he was temporarily in charge of commanding the relevant investigation work.

Zhang Qianzhi's search idea is very clear, that is to try to trace the whereabouts of these dozen people first, where they came from, where they hid before the action, and where they fled afterward, it is impossible to leave no traces behind.Moreover, Zhang Qianzhi had already drawn Xue Zheng's general appearance based on the cavalryman's description, and had confirmed it with the freight foreman of the coke plant. Next, he would copy the portrait and launch a larger-scale investigation locally.

Since these people are porters pretending to be new immigrants, their supervisory units and local civil affairs management agencies have also joined in the investigation work, and went to the shantytowns where the new immigrants live to ask the public whether such a group of people have arrived recently. .At the same time, Zhang Qianzhi did not let go of another possibility. These people only pretended to be porters during the operation, and at other times they may appear as businessmen and sailors who came to Changhua for a temporary stay.Therefore, large and small hotels, restaurants, taverns, tea shops, etc. inside and outside the county have also become the objects of investigation to find his whereabouts.

To complete this kind of large-scale investigation, the required manpower is not small. Fortunately, Zhang Qianzhi was authorized to mobilize local military and police forces, so starting in the afternoon, people from all walks of life launched a detailed investigation inside and outside Changhua County.But Zhang Qianzhi has not been able to go to the front line for the time being, so he has to hurry up and draw a few more portraits of the suspect with the two painters he found temporarily, so that the frontline investigators can confirm his whereabouts more quickly.

Li Lu didn't know that the Haihan people reacted so strongly to the suspected attack that was not carried out in the morning. He really thought that Qiao Zhiya's lunch in the industrial area was changed to return to Daling Manor because of Bai Kesi. arrival.However, after lunch, the two high-ranking officials of Haihan said that they had business to deal with, so they resigned first, and they did not say whether the visit arrangement in the afternoon would be carried out as planned.Haihan's accompanying officials also kept coming in and out, as if there were many things that needed to be dealt with by them.Li Lu asked Tian Zheng about the arrangements for the afternoon, but did not get a clear response.

"My lord, there seems to be something wrong with Hai Han, which may be related to the news I heard in the workshop this morning." Li Xi was quite vigilant, and reported his discovery to Li Wei when no one was around: "Then Captain Wei Gai didn't rest at noon, and he was always lecturing his subordinates, and I went to listen closely for a while, all emphasizing how to strengthen security measures."

Li Lu said: "Perhaps someone really wants to harm the senior officials of Haihan. I really want to see how the people of Haihan deal with this kind of incident, but I guess they will not give this opportunity."

Li Lu was very relaxed about this, but if he knew that the protagonist of the incident was actually himself, then maybe he would have a different feeling.He had never encountered such a situation when he was in China before, and he never thought that someone in Haihan would make an attack plan against him. On the contrary, he was quite excited about the current situation and wanted to learn more about the Haihan people. processing method.

Li Xi persuaded: "You don't need to ask, since they are unwilling to take the initiative to explain, it should be inconvenient for me to know."

Li Min nodded and said, "You're right. The Haihan people are very happy. If they are sure that they can do something beautiful, they will definitely show us their strength. They are so secretive, and most of them have something to do." Strange, if you ask them about it, I'm afraid it will make them lose face."

Li Min has been dealing with Haihan people for a long time, and he has also noticed that this group is very particular about face to the outside world, and especially likes to show foreigners the glamorous side of their country—for example, what Li Min saw and heard after coming to Haihan is In this way, the environment he comes into contact with most of the time is the official arrangement of Haihan.It's like there is a stage around him, trying to present the perfect scene in front of his eyes at any time.

Of course, the more places he travels, the more he understands Haihan, and Li Lu gradually realizes that this country is not as beautiful as it appears on the surface.On the edge of the prosperous city, there are also dilapidated shanty towns where the inferior people live together; it is said that it is the largest iron mine mined in the entire South China Sea, and it is unknown how many lives of hard labor prisoners were buried in that mine; The Changhua Industrial Zone, which is known as the country's most important weapon and an "industrial base", is shrouded in dense smoke and dust all the year round. The environment of this place is not even suitable for human long-term habitation.

There is no doubt about Haihan's strength, but this kind of strength is not entirely supported by the various advanced technologies that Haihan people boast about, and this is probably hard to imagine if you don't come to Haihan country in person. There is also a savage and even primitive side to a country.

Of course, Li Luo is very clear that the purpose of his trip is not to pick on Haihan's faults, but to find the part suitable for his own country among the projects he visited, and to consider how to introduce Haihan's advantages in operating these industries to North Korea. .In the several places he has visited, Li Wei believes that there are still many parts that can be successfully emulated in his country, and those production links that require steam engines can also be supplemented by manpower.However, these Haihan industries have invested heavily in the development stage, which is not a small problem for North Korea, which is currently in the post-war reconstruction period.

After a long lunch break, Qiao Zhiya still carried out the previous itinerary and asked Li Lu and his party to continue to visit the local metal processing industry in the industrial zone.However, because of what happened in the morning, the deployment of security was deliberately strengthened.

In the past few hours, the main area of ​​the Changhua Industrial Zone has been almost sifted through. Of course, nothing has been found, but in order to ensure that similar situations do not happen to North Koreans during their visits, the checkpoints for entering and exiting the industrial zone have also been increased. The intensity of investigation has been reduced, and non-Han nationality workers are temporarily prohibited from entering this area.For those workers who make a living as porters in industrial areas, the work they can receive today is greatly reduced.

As for the workshop to be visited in the afternoon, the inside and outside of the workshop were cleaned up before that, and a large isolation area was deployed around it. There were as many as forty cavalrymen on duty at the periphery alone. ——This is almost the entire cavalry establishment of the local garrison in Changhua.The garrison even specially transported the iron network roadblocks and set up temporary checkpoints in the nearby streets to prohibit unrelated people from passing during the visit of the North Koreans.

Qiao Zhiya's private guards took on the task of deploying defenses inside and outside the workshop. They also set up lookout posts on the walls of several surrounding workshops to ensure that there were no blind spots around the workshop.

The troops led by Gai Liangcai were responsible for the close defense of Li Lu and others in the workshop, and at the same time cooperated with Qiao Zhiya's guards to make an action plan for evacuating the workshop in case of emergency.

In terms of security, the deployment of three floors inside and three floors outside can be regarded as the level of a big fight. Even if Tao Donglai came to Changhua in person, the security measures would not necessarily be more than this.In this way, if anyone else hides in the dark and tries to attack the North Koreans, they will be directly dissuaded by such a large force.

Of course, these deployments have actually become useless. At this time, the boat Xue Zheng and others were on was already more than 20 miles away from Changhua Port, and they had no intention of killing their carbine.Xue Zheng has made up his mind, he wants to rush to Danzhou to make arrangements in advance, and strive to succeed in one blow there.

The investigation made some progress in the afternoon. The restaurant where Qiao Zhiya hosted a banquet for Li Mo on the day he arrived in Changhua received more than a dozen foreigners on the second day. Over the situation of Daling Manor and Changhua Industrial Zone.However, the shopkeeper could not confirm that the person in the portrait of the suspect was one of the group that day, but the figure and accent of one of them were consistent with the suspect information Zhang Qianzhi got from the cavalry.Zhang Qianzhi's intuition thinks that this should be caused by the person's disguise, but there is insufficient evidence, and it is still difficult to confirm that this is the suspect who tried to launch an attack in the industrial area.

But with this clue, Zhang Qianzhi has a way to follow the clues to follow up the next step.Judging from what these people have inquired about, they are not familiar with the local area, and it is very likely that they have just arrived in Changhua. The target was Qiao Zhiya, theoretically it would not be possible to act so hastily.And the son of Joseon will not stay in the local area for too long, obviously he will not leave too much time for the other party to plan, so he can only do it when he has the opportunity.

Zhang Qianzhi judged that if the other party came to Changhua to hunt down and kill Li Mo, it was unlikely that he came from Danzhou, because although the time of Li Mo's departure from Sanya was made public, only a few high-level officials from Danzhou received him. When they arrived at Shengli Fort, the telegram notified them that they had mastered the itinerary of Li Lu and his party. Ordinary people still don't even know about it.He thinks that the most likely situation is that this group of people chased them all the way from Sanya.From the point of view of time, this group of people should not have come by land by carriage or horse, then there is only one possibility by boat.

In fact, there is no real evidence for many of these links, and Zhang Qianzhi is making inferences based on experience and intuition. If it is to be used in a court judgment, there must be insufficient evidence.But Zhang Qianzhi is a member of the Ministry of Security. Most of the time, he doesn't need to have evidence at all when doing things. As long as it makes sense in theory, he can take measures first.

Once it was confirmed that the other party might have come from the sea, the scope of the investigation was greatly narrowed again.Although Changhua is a place near the sea, the only serious seaport is the estuary of the Changhua River. You only need to check the ships entering and leaving the port in the past few days, and then limit them to special time points, such as Li Before and after arriving in Changhua, Luo and his party entered the port and carried a batch of ships with foreign tourists.

Of course, this kind of investigation is not comprehensive, and Zhang Qianzhi is also ready to check the entry and exit of boats and personnel in several fishing villages and wharves on the local coastline in recent days.But the survey results of Changhua Port gave him an unexpected surprise - a ship entered the port the next morning after their fleet arrived in Changhua, and this ship arrived at Changhua Port at midnight the night before. Just because there is no berth at the port, we can only wait for one night.And the departure time of this ship happened to be shortly after the incident in the industrial zone this morning, and before Qiao Zhiya's order prohibiting all ships from leaving the port without authorization began to be implemented.

According to the recollections of the port staff on duty that night, although the ship failed to enter the port that night, more than a dozen people on board went ashore in small boats and found other accommodation.Soon the investigators found the hotel where they were accommodated that night, and confirmed from the waiter again that these people had inquired about the best local reception organization and about Daling Manor.

Two suspicious points in one place may be a coincidence, but if everything fits together, the probability of coincidence will be doubled.Zhang Qianzhi didn't believe that there would be so many coincidences, he believed in his intuition even more.

"So what kind of ship is that? A merchant ship? A cargo ship? A passenger ship?" Zhang Qianzhi asked the subordinate who came to report the progress of the investigation for details.

"The specific purpose is unknown. At present, we can only confirm that it is a lucky boat of about [-] materials." The subordinate quickly responded.

"Fu Chuan?" Zhang Qianzhi seemed to remember something when he heard this answer.

(End of this chapter)