1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1957
Mr. Huo's acquaintance in the foreign affairs management office is named Guan Anping, and this person sent him a piece of news that it is difficult to judge the pros and cons at the moment.The Foreign Affairs Management Office has received the notice from the above. It is estimated that the son of Joseon and his party will arrive in Danzhou in the next few days, but the specific itinerary is no longer made by the Foreign Affairs Management Office. This time, officials sent from Sanya will be in charge. Guan Anping may not know the specific itinerary until Li Lu arrives in Danzhou—this is most likely because the local hype about his itinerary has been noticed by the authorities in recent days, so he has adopted a different arrangement from the past. Way.

If this is the case, it is obviously not good news for Mr. Huo. He will not get the itinerary until the son of Joseon arrives in Danzhou, and it will be difficult for him to deal with his customers. I will get the itinerary before the son of Joseon arrives in Danzhou,
But according to Guan Anping, the diplomat from Sanya seems to be more interested in having fun. When he convened a meeting with the staff of the Foreign Affairs Management Office, he took the initiative to ask if there were any interesting places in the local area—not for entertaining the son of North Korea, but He wanted to experience it himself.

For Mr. Huo, this is undoubtedly an opportunity that can be used. This person may have the specific itinerary of the North Koreans. If he can directly contact this person, he may be able to buy unique information from him with money.As for arranging a fun place to greet him, that's really a piece of cake. Mr. Huo can get ready within an hour or two with one order.

Of course, if Mr. Huo wants to get acquainted with this diplomat, he must go through Guan Anping who provided him with this information, and this kind of matchmaking operation is definitely not free, and he will definitely have to pay the other party for it. pen reward.And one more link in this kind of thing will increase the risk, but considering that this may be the only way to break the situation at the moment, Mr. Huo refuses to give up this deal, so he can only take the risk and try it out .

Mr. Huo immediately sent someone to send another [-] to Guan Anping, asking him to arrange a meeting with the diplomat from Sanya as soon as possible—he knew that the purpose of Guan Anping's special statement of the diplomat's hobbies was to let him Spend another sum of money on your own to open up the joints.

The information has not been released yet, and Mr. Huo has already spent [-] yuan on the money he gave to Guan Anping. Whether the matter can be done in the end is another matter.If he hadn't received a deposit of [-] yuan from Xue Zheng earlier, he really wouldn't have dared to do this loss-making business.

As soon as the money was delivered, the other party readily accepted it, which proved that Mr. Huo's judgment was correct, and Guan Anping made it clear that he wanted to earn the money with peace of mind.Even if he didn't have the information to sell to Mr. Huo, the money was still not short, and Mr. Huo still had to give it.

Mr. Huo reckoned that since Guan Anping had directly accepted the money, there should be some drama in this matter, so he immediately ordered someone to prepare a high-end place to meet with the other party.In fact, there are many such places inside and outside Danzhou City, but since the other party is an official from Sanya, he must have a higher vision, so he can't just find a similar place to dismiss the other party.

"It's really sad that the child can't catch the wolf!" Although Mr. Huo feels sorry for the money, he also knows that this kind of thing can't be done without paying the cost. If you want to negotiate business with these official figures, if you don't show it right away With his own strength, the other party may not be interested in giving him more opportunities to speak.He can only choose the most upscale and most expensive place in Danzhou as much as possible, so that the other party can feel his strength and sincerity in the shortest time.

Although Danzhou is famous for its cultural and educational industries, it has been a seaport city since ancient times. There are a lot of floating population here. Nowadays, there are not only many literati who come here to study, but also a large area of ​​agricultural development zone, which attracts people. Many foreign businessmen come here to join the cultural and educational industry and plantations.

The development of various industries has also significantly boosted the consumption level of Danzhou. In recent years, the number of restaurants, restaurants, hotels and other stores newly opened near the urban area of ​​Danzhou has even been almost the same as that of Sanya.Naturally, there are also some exquisitely decorated high-end places to cater to high-end consumer groups.

Of course, this kind of business is not something that can be done with money, and one needs to have some local connections first.If you can have a reliable background, then this business is still very pleasant to do.

The place that Mr. Huo asked someone to book is just such a special place. This place is located on the seaside west of Danzhou City. If it looks like a private manor from the outside, it will not be open to the public. It is only open to certain people with special identities, which means that ordinary people may not even have the qualifications to spend money here.

There are different opinions about the big boss behind this manor, but Mr. Huo has never dug out the truth about who it is.But it was also because of this that he felt more at ease about this place. After all, the business here can flourish without revealing the identity of the boss, which shows that its background is strong enough.

In Mr. Huo's opinion, the most commendable thing about this place is the environment, especially for an underground broker like him who doesn't want to show his face in public and needs to maintain a sense of mystery to contact customers. This kind of demand, and will not feel that there is anything wrong with his strange requests.Of course, all of this has a corresponding price. As long as the money is in place, even if Mr. Huo wants to lie in the coffin and be carried in, there will be no problem.

Whether it is simply eating, drinking or wanting to have fun, it can be said that this place has everything that one expects to find. Mr. Huo thinks that since the other party clearly said that he wants to find a fun place, it should be this tune.If the other party wants to talk about business, this place is undoubtedly a very secluded and safe place. If the other party wants to play other things after talking about business, there is no need to change places.

As the saying goes, money can turn ghosts. The money that Mr. Huo gave out quickly received an answer. Guan Anping asked him to arrange a car to pick up people near the Foreign Affairs Management Office in the late afternoon.Mr. Huo didn't dare to take it too seriously, so he specially asked someone to rent a high-end carriage from a carriage and horse shop in the city—the kind with glass windows, cushioned seats and spring shock absorption, instead of the one sent to pick up the carriage before. Xue Zheng's two-purpose carriage.After everything was ready, Mr. Huo went to the manor in Danzhou Bay first, waiting for his subordinates to pick him up.

Guan Anping from the Foreign Affairs Office arrived as scheduled, and a young official appeared with him, who should be the diplomat he mentioned.Seeing the two people entering the private room, Mr. Huo quickly got up to greet them.

"Let me introduce you to the two of you. This is Mr. Tian Zhengtian from the Foreign Affairs Management Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is Mr. Huo Feihuo who runs a calligraphy and painting business in Danzhou. It is rare to have this opportunity to meet each other. The two of you are very close." As the intermediary, Guan Anping immediately introduced the two to each other.

"So it's Master Tian, ​​I've admired him for a long time!" Huo Fei hurriedly bowed and said a few polite words to show his respect.

The young official smiled and answered, "I heard that Mr. Huo was the host to invite Brother Guan today, so I came here uninvited. I'm really bothering you!"

At this time, Tian Zheng was still in Annan accompanying Li Wei to visit the Black Earth Port, so the person who appeared here could not be his clone.The young official who appeared in front of Huo Fei was none other than Zhang Qianzhi who was currently in charge of investigating the attack.

In the previous action plan formulated by the Ministry of Security, while implementing the first step, it has already conducted a comprehensive monitoring of the Danzhou Foreign Affairs Management Office, which has the opportunity to contact the North Koreans.Moreover, there are people in the Ministry of Security who work in this department, so they can know the reaction of the outside world to the intelligence acquisition at the first time.The people from the Foreign Affairs Management Office received quotations from various sources, and the Security Department was in charge of investigating these guys who jumped out, first weeding out those punks who were trying to fish in troubled waters, and then focusing on investigating some big targets.

Of course, during this period, Zhang Qianzhi and Wang Baisuo had gathered these people from the Foreign Affairs Management Office for education, coaxing and intimidating them to provide a list of underground brokers they contacted.And this Guan Anping also failed to withstand the pressure. After Wang Baisuo showed his bank account information, he could only honestly admit that part of his income came from a local big broker in Danzhou.And most importantly, the broker paid him a deposit a few days ago in exchange for the itinerary of the son of Joseon.

The problem is that when the broker paid Guan Anping, it was earlier than the time when the Ministry of Security deliberately released information about the purchase.That is to say, before the market started to hype this matter, someone was already secretly buying information about the son of Joseon.

This is really nowhere to be found, and it takes no effort to get it. Zhang Qianzhi originally wanted to use a complicated action plan to confirm whether the opponent was lurking in Danzhou, but he did not expect that due to a mistake, he took the second step. Before the real launch, the investigation target has been confirmed through internal investigation.

Of course, if Zhang Qianzhi hadn't insisted on implementing this plan, the Ministry of Security might not have gone to great lengths to investigate the staff of the Foreign Affairs Management Office one by one, and it would have been difficult to dig out the clue behind Guan Anping in the first place. , so this is not a windfall, and the results of the investigation are almost the same.

But just like this, it is still impossible to confirm that the people who tried to acquire information were the group of people who organized the attempted attack in Changhua, so the Ministry of Security still needs to make further confirmation.And Zhang Qianzhi's second move was to create a real and reliable source of information to lure people who really wanted to buy information, but after Guan Anping was exposed, it seemed that he could save a lot of trouble in the middle and directly contact the other party. Connected.

So Guan Anping was brought up separately again, and Zhang Qianzhi personally taught him how to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds. As long as he could play a key role in the follow-up investigation of the case, Zhang Qianzhi would personally guarantee him, and he would only lose his official position afterwards. If you resign, you will not be held accountable for other things, let alone serve your sentence in prison.

For Guan Anping, this is already the most ideal result at the moment, otherwise what he committed would not be so easy to end.And he has no choice at all. If he doesn't cooperate with the Ministry of Security, he will add to the crime. Maybe he will be sent to Heitu Port to dig coal until he dies next month.Instead of doing hard labor in a prison, it is better to cooperate with Zhang Qianzhi to get someone, at least to leave a decent way out for himself.

So under Zhang Qianzhi's guidance, Guan Anping and Huo Fei got the bait after a few rounds of news back and forth, and he was actually willing to come out to meet Zhang Qianzhi in a daze.

Zhang Qianzhi first borrowed Tian Zheng's identity, pretended to be a diplomat from Sanya, and came out to meet Huo Fei in person to see where this man came from.After meeting Huo Fei, he could almost confirm that this should not be the person who organized the attack in Changhua, because Huo Fei's left sleeve was empty, and he turned out to be a one-armed man.Among the group of people who planned the attack in Changhua, there seemed to be no one-armed man.

However, this does not mean that Huo Fei has nothing to do with that group of people. Since he found Guan Anping to buy information, he is already extremely suspicious, but Guan Anping said that this person is an underground broker who buys and sells various information. Therefore, Zhang Qianzhi had to consider that Huo Fei was actually playing the role of a middleman in this matter.If Huo Fei is arrested right now, it may scare the snake away and let the real buyer hide it, and it will be difficult to find it when the time comes.

Therefore, Zhang Qianzhi had to use his current false identity to get as much information from Huo Fei as possible before he could make a decision on the next move.And because of the preparations in advance and Guan Anping's assistance, Huo Fei obviously did not have any doubts about Zhang Qianzhi's identity, and really regarded him as a high-ranking official from Sanya.

Zhang Qianzhi has been dealing with various government agencies for a long time during his stay in Sanya, so it is natural for him to play the role of a diplomat.Moreover, after coming out of Sanya this time, there was Tian Zheng, a real diplomat companion, who he used as an example for himself, and it was more than enough to deceive a layman like Huo Fei.

After meeting Zhang Qianzhi, he was not in a hurry to talk to Huo Fei, but patiently continued to improve his personality, commented on the decoration and business items of the villa, and then, at Guan Anping's suggestion, took the menu Ordered for this party of three.

Huo Fei watched from the sidelines, and also felt that this "Master Tian" was very outstanding in his speech and behavior. This kind of temperament is often only seen in officials, and it is definitely not something ordinary people can pretend to be.At the moment, I thought that even if this business could not be done, if I had the opportunity to make friends with such a person, it would be worth today's expenses.But he really didn't expect that the identity of the person opposite was indeed a senior official, but he was not the diplomat he was looking for.And the purpose of the other party coming here is not to eat, drink and have fun, but to regard him as a prey, and he can take him down at any time.

(End of this chapter)