1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1981
This kind of speculation made by He Xi is undoubtedly quite radical. He believes that the connection between the attacks in Danzhou and Zhejiang is not only in the weapons, but also in the behind-the-scenes weapons providers.Someone secretly organized a private armed organization in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and used this as a cover to provide military training to various forces.

Based on the information and evidence collected so far, it is not enough to prove that He Xi's conjecture is true. Although Zhang Qianzhi believes in the professionalism of his boss, he still finds such a conclusion a bit unbelievable.

In the final analysis, Zhang Qianzhi does not think that such small-scale tactics can affect Haihan's overseas development momentum.If this kind of civilian armed forces are tossing too hard, Haihan doesn't even need to take action, and the Ming Dynasty officials will definitely not sit back and watch it get out of control and do whatever they want, and they will be the first to destroy it.

"I know what you think. After all, this is just my personal speculation, and there is not enough evidence to support it."

Seeing Zhang Qianzhi's expression, He Xi had already guessed what was going on in his mind, and immediately explained: "Although Wan Fa is shrewd, his strength lies in intelligence collection and analysis, and he is not so good at certain situations that require violence." Good at it. So I transferred Gong Shiqi from Shandong to assist him in investigating the situation of the salt merchants."

Gong Shiqi was without a doubt one of the most powerful men under He Xi's command. Even Zhang Qianzhi, who was able to take charge of the outside world, was still far behind Gong Shiqi in terms of mobility and experience.Moreover, He Xi sent Gong Shiqi to the north a few years ago in order to give him sufficient training. Although there seems to be no news about him recently, Zhang Qianzhi knew that people like Gong Shiqi would never If you are free, if you have no news, you are probably performing some secret mission.However, He Xi sent Gong Shiqi to Zhejiang to participate in the investigation at this time, which shows that he attaches great importance to this case.

He Xi went on to say: "Since it is difficult to confirm the authenticity of the confessions of the people you arrested in Danzhou, let's change the direction of investigation first. You sent a telegram earlier asking for an investigation of the migrant population in Sanya. It’s good to look in this direction, it’s better to ask for help than to ask for yourself, check the situation of this group of people before they set off from Sanya, maybe you can find out their true identities.”

In fact, before Zhang Qianzhi returned to Sanya, the relevant investigation work was already in progress, but Sanya can only conduct investigations based on the limited information Zhang Qianzhi sent back through telegrams, and the effect is definitely not as good as when he came back to host this event. Work.

The current situation is not as urgent as in Danzhou, and He Xi did not set a time limit for Zhang Qianzhi to solve the case, so the timetable for the investigation is relatively generous.Zhang Qianzhi originally planned to continue the investigation according to his own ideas, and He Xi's arrangement can be regarded as fulfilling him.

But now Sanya has a population of tens of thousands, and the number of migrants entering and leaving this area every day is almost in the four digits. To find out the relevant information of a few foreigners during their stay in Sanya, even the Ministry of Security has a lot of hands and eyes. Nor is it an easy task.But before Zhang Qianzhi came back, he had a rough plan for the investigation work, and then he just put his ideas into practice to improve the efficiency of the investigation as much as possible.

When he was still in Danzhou, Zhang Qianzhi had made detailed statistics on Xue Zheng's group's body shape, appearance, language and other characteristics, and roughly determined the origin of some of them.

Several people in this group can easily be judged to be of South Asian race by appearance, and there are also a few people with obvious accents, which should be from Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions-this detail is consistent with He Xi's inference.

Although there are many details like this, it is still very difficult to find traces of their past activities in Sanya.The investigation plan planned by Zhang Qianzhi is to conduct investigations in several local areas where the foreign population lives in Sanya. He believes that at least some of the members of this group have been lurking in Sanya for a period of time, and more or less will leave some clues .It's a pity that the lucky boat that Xue Zheng and his gang took on the way could not be found, otherwise it would be easier to find clues if there was a boat. As long as we track down the wharf where the boat docked in Sanya, we can dig out more information .

In recent years, as the scale of transnational trade in the Sanya area has grown, Haihan officials have gradually relaxed restrictions on the activities of foreigners, allowing them to live and live in the Sanya area.Of course, if the continuous residence time is longer, there will be corresponding registration measures to ensure that these foreigners are under official monitoring.

Moreover, the temporary residential areas of these foreigners in Sanya are often divided into regions and live together in groups.For example, people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions will choose to settle on the east bank of the Linchun River near Sanya Port. It is close to the main urban area, which not only makes life convenient, but is also close to the official port authority, making it more convenient to do business.Although the land and housing prices in the vicinity are already quite high, businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang are often more concerned about the quality of the environment, so most of them will build facilities such as commercial warehouses here as their permanent residence.

Most of the people from South Asia are sailors, and ordinary people who have traveled across the ocean to Haihan to make a living. The price of land is relatively cheap, and you can live closer to the coast.And they don't have the capital to build houses on their own. Most of them live in small hotels specially opened by locals for this kind of migrant workers, and the living conditions are naturally relatively simple.

In order to take care of each other in life, most of these people will take the initiative to choose areas where fellow villagers live together, and they can inform each other if they have any good errands.

But this kind of place is a gray area in terms of public security for the authorities. Because these foreign ethnic groups live together in groups, it is often difficult for the limited police force to form a sufficient deterrent when dealing with public security incidents, and there will also be problems among these foreign personnel. Covering each other for various reasons, making it difficult for officials to intervene and manage it.Over time, it often becomes a blind spot for monitoring and breeds some gray industries.

However, the Ministry of Security has never been so compliant in its work. Zhang Qianzhi did not plan to ask other departments to dispatch a large number of people to investigate these places. Returning to Sanya means returning to the environment he is most familiar with. What He Xi said to him " It is better to ask for help than to ask for yourself", that is to know that Zhang Qianzhi has his own set of methods for investigating cases in Sanya, and he can confidently and boldly entrust him to operate.

Zhang Qianzhi did not bring a large group of people out, but only brought a few people from the field service team, rented an unusually large caravan from the market, and went straight to Sanya Port.He planned to find out the origins of those South Asians first. After all, these people are relatively simple-minded, and they don't spend as much time as businessmen, so it is easier to get the information Zhang Qianzhi needs.

When you arrive at Sanya Port, you have to get off the car and change boats to reach the area where South Asians live.

"It's really troublesome to come here!" Zhang Qianzhi looked at the scattered buildings on the banks of the Sanya River, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional. It is estimated that many locals in Sanya don't know that there are such slum-like buildings on the edge of the city. area exists.

Most of the people living here are from Luzon Island, Kalimantan Island, Sumatra Island, Java Island and other places. After they learned about the wealth of Haihan through various channels, they tried to cross the sea to Sanya, hoping to be here Find opportunities to make money.

Of course, when they arrive in Sanya, they will soon find out that this place is not as full of gold as they imagined.Rich people live in big houses in prosperous cities, and ordinary people like them who have no skills and can only sell their labor to make a living, let alone get rich, even have the opportunity to become a Haihan nationality first. To wait for the schedule, I can only live in a simple small hotel by the sea.

This kind of houses with wooden pillars and mud walls may be slightly better than the thatched huts they lived in their hometown, but the housing prices are not cheap at all. They have to spend about one-third of their monthly income to pay for living expenses. And there was no choice, because it was the cheapest place they could find.Only when you are naturalized in the future can you apply to go to collective farms or some large-scale project construction sites, where there will be free accommodation for workers like them.

It’s fine if it’s just like this, but in addition to the large expense of accommodation, they have to pay protection fees to certain people who control this area to live in this place-many government will not come forward to deal with problems, Often it is these figures who make the verdict.Their food, clothing, housing, transportation, and even whether they can continue to stay in this place often depend on the attitude of these local snakes, so they have to use part of their income in exchange for the treatment of living a peaceful life.

Of course, the existence of these local snakes is, to a certain extent, the official acquiescence to their existence.In areas that are difficult for the police to reach, underground order is better than no order at all.When something really happens, the authorities can also find the person in charge of this area, so as not to completely lose control.There are even some local snakes with another identity, and they will work for the government when necessary, and deal with some difficult and inappropriate matters for the government—such as investigating certain specific objects in this area without disturbing others.

This is also the purpose of Zhang Qianzhi's coming here today. He knows that if he surrounds the place with people and horses with great fanfare, and brings everyone out to line up to question and check their identities one by one, it will certainly be a good deterrent effect, but it will not help the situation you want to investigate, and may even have the opposite effect.

So he planned to chat directly with the land snake here, which would not only avoid errors that might be caused by information exchange in the middle link, but also save a lot of time.

Of course, the premise of Zhang Qianzhi's choice of this method of investigation is because he has dealt with local snakes here before and knows how to get them to cooperate with him.

After Zhang Qianzhi and his party went ashore, they didn't go to the area where the small hotels were most concentrated, but went straight to an inconspicuous warehouse near the pier.There were a few dark-skinned laborers sitting at the door of the warehouse, and they should also be South Asian. When they saw Zhang Qianzhi and others coming, someone stood up and stopped them.

"You can't enter here." The man spoke in crappy Haihan Mandarin while pointing to a sign next to it, which read "No Trespassing in Private Warehouse".

Zhang Qianzhi responded, "I'm here to see Lanka. If he knew I was coming, he probably wouldn't let me wait outside the door."

The man was skeptical, but Zhang Qianzhi pointed out the name of his boss, and he didn't dare to neglect, so he motioned his companions to inform the boss immediately, but he took a moment to take Zhang Qianzhi to the warehouse, and did not leave Instead of going in through the gate, he walked half a circle outside the warehouse, opened an inconspicuous small door, and motioned for Zhang Qianzhi to go in.

Inside this door is a corridor only about three feet wide, lit by a dim oil lamp, and at the other end of the corridor is another door.Zhang Qianzhi walked quickly through this short corridor, pushed open the door at the other end, and suddenly there was a loud noise.After Zhang Qianzhi got used to the light here, he saw that the space behind the door was a rather large hall. There were about a hundred people in it, and they were divided into more than a dozen groups around different tables, yelling. abound.It turns out that there is another universe in this humble warehouse, a hidden underground gambling stall.

In fact, private casinos are not allowed in Sanya, but there is still room for such places in the fringes of the city where the government cannot control them.Of course, the government is not completely unaware of the existence of this kind of underground gambling stall, but as long as the operation is not open, they often turn a blind eye to it.After all, some of the income from these gambling stalls may flow into the pockets of some officials.

This gambling stall hidden in the warehouse is specially opened for these South Asians living nearby, but because most of the gamblers who come here are bitter people with little money, the bets are generally not too big.Gambling stalls only provide venues and draw money from them, and generally do not directly intervene in the gambling game.

Of course, in the past, it was not without "smart people" who thought of gambling on their own to avoid unnecessary pumping by the casino, but those who tried to do so were often arrested by the government within two or three days, and then sentenced to hard labor. The people who gamble in the gambling stall have nothing to do. After a long time, the gamblers will naturally know that this gambling stall is backed by the government, and it is the only place in the vicinity where they can gamble with confidence, and the business has gradually stabilized.

Compared with the big casinos on Ambuna Island, this kind of small gambling stall is naturally just a small business, but for the people living nearby, it is one of the few recreational places here. Migrant workers who receive wages often I will come here to try my luck, and in case the luck is too high one day, I can find a place for extra meals at night.

(End of this chapter)