1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 569 Special Commissioner
Wang Baisuo didn't expect that Zhang Qianzhi, who had just entered Zhongming Academy for a day, would be able to get any inside information. Even if He Xi came to Danzhou in person, he probably wouldn't be able to get valuable information from Zhongming Academy in such a short period of time. Therefore, the only means Wang Baisuo can use at present is to strengthen external surveillance.As for the monitoring of Yan Mingjun, it was mainly handed over to He Qi, the leader of the yamen servants. For this reason, He Qi received 50 taels of "special operation funds"-this is about when he counted gray income in the past year The total amount of harvest included is also the highest single income he has received since working for Haihan.

Zhang Qianzhi did learn a lot of reconnaissance skills while following He Xi, but these things don't seem to be very useful at present.He was arranged to live in the same room with three other Confucian scholars. The daily arrangement was to study the Four Books and Five Classics in the morning, and practice calligraphy or study poetry and songs in the afternoon.For a young man like him who has seen the market, this kind of life content is quite boring.

However, Zhang Qianzhi has received special training after all, and he has developed a professional habit of being wary of others. He can clearly feel that the other three people in the same room will mention things about Hai Han intentionally or unintentionally, and they will never forget them every time. Ask for his opinion.Zhang Qianzhi didn't have too much trouble coping with this shallow routine, he knew very well how he should play the role of an orthodox Confucian scholar of the Ming Dynasty who had many dissatisfaction with Hai Han.

According to the prior arrangement, Zhang Qianzhi would leave the academy every two to three days to go to the city to buy some daily necessities, and during this period, people from the security department would arrange opportunities to meet with him and exchange information.

Wang Baisuo's deployment of this matter can only be maintained at this level for the time being. This kind of monitoring may not be able to achieve results in a short period of time, and he cannot devote all the resources in his hand to this matter. .Although Danzhou is not a big place, the Ministry of Security is not only responsible for a reactionary literati and a new magistrate ready to move. Wang Baisuo needs to deal with far more than this matter.

For example, this afternoon, he received the latest instruction from Hao Wanqing via telegram from the base camp in Sanya.In principle, the content of instructions transmitted by telegrams has a relatively high level of importance, because the establishment is limited, and the Ministry of Security does not have its own wireless communication department and operators, only instructions that require high timeliness. The ministry will use the radio stations of the military or the management committee to send, and ordinary orders are usually transmitted through land or sea channels-just like other counterparts in this era.

When this telegram was delivered to Wang Baisuo, he immediately noticed that the envelope containing the telegram was marked with the word "Top Secret". —In fact, in his professional career, this is also the first time he has received the legendary "top secret" telegram order.

Wang Baisuo closed the doors and windows cautiously, sat on his seat to calm down a bit, then opened the envelope, took out the telegram, and read the contents above.

The content of the telegram was very brief, to the effect that during the "Operation Liaoyuan", there were some omissions in the raid on Qiongbei's officialdom.This omission does not refer to the only capital city of Qiongzhou that has not been captured by the pirate army, but that there are still big fish that slip through the net in the Qiongbei area that the pirate army is responsible for occupying.

According to the arrangement of the "Liaoyuan Project", after Annan's troops disguised as the pirate army occupied various counties and counties in Qiongbei, one of their next tasks was to clean up the local Ming government institutions, targeting those who were identified in advance. Officials with an apparently hostile stance carried out widespread arrests.Since there is a relatively clear list of arrest targets in advance, the efficiency of this large-scale cleaning operation is also very high.Similar to the local government in Danzhou, the full-time officials of the main departments are all sternly arrested. Now the people who work with the temporary management committee are all deputies or newly promoted "current affairs people".

At that time, the military was responsible for checking the list of arrests, and the Ministry of Security did not directly participate in the front line due to various reasons.However, in the list of personnel submitted by the military to the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Security after the war, it seems that there are no missing persons whose whereabouts are suspected.But now the top-secret telegram sent by the base camp says that there is a big fish that slipped through the net. This must be a loophole in a certain link before.

The telegram did not specify the specific identity of Big Fish, but only informed Wang Baisuo that a commissioner would go to Danzhou to preside over the investigation in the near future, and hoped that he would cooperate.Of course, the base camp sent a commissioner to guide the work, and what Wang Baisuo could cooperate with was to prepare manpower and provide it to the commissioner to direct.

However, Wang Baisuo has already allocated most of the manpower to monitor Zhongming Academy. For the local security department in Danzhou, this order from the headquarters came at a really bad time.Wang Baisuo had already borrowed someone from the local police force once before, so he had to have the cheek to find Zhang Xin again.

Of course, this is not a big problem, and Wang Baisuo's focus is not on this aspect.As an intelligence practitioner who was born as a policeman, Wang Baisuo's work experience in the system is enough to be regarded as an expert. It is the responsibility of the Ministry of Security, but if he can catch this big fish in his jurisdiction, he will definitely be rewarded for his merits afterwards, and Wang Baisuo will definitely have his share.

On February 1631, 2, the tenth day when the new magistrate of Danzhou took office, Zhang Qianzhi, a spy from the Ministry of Security, sneaked into Zhongming Academy under the guise of his identity.For them, this day does not seem to be much different from the countless days in the past, but for someone who has just arrived at Baimajing Wharf in Danzhou Bay, it feels like rebirth.

Since Li Qingyang arrived in Qiongzhou Island, this was the first time he had the opportunity to leave Sanya.He has been in Sanya for a year, and many thoughts have changed a lot from when he first arrived in Qiongzhou Island. If he had another chance to choose, he would probably refuse the order to go south from the very beginning. , so that at least the loyalty to the court can be preserved.

Through the close contact and gradual understanding with the Haihan people over the past year, Li Qingyang also understood that his own strength was not enough to fight against this giant Haihan, and it would be considered polite to say that the mantis' arms are used as a cart.Even the Jinyiwei behind him, the most powerful yamen in the Ming Dynasty, can hardly be compared with the operational efficiency of Haihan's security department - just Haihan's magical technique of sending messages across thousands of miles, Jinyiwei is completely unable to crack and deal with it.

During Li Qingyang's stay in Sanya, apart from his public identity in the medicine shop, the person he had the most contact with was the Haihan Security Department.Every month, under the supervision of the staff of the Ministry of Security, his boss Lin Nan, he must write a routine report to be submitted to Jinyiwei Nanzhen Fusi, and based on the feedback he has received, report on Nanzhen Fusi's recent Actions make certain predictions.

This job is actually not difficult to do. It is far easier than what he thought when he was under house arrest. He does not need to think about what to write in this official document, how to write it, and what purpose it needs to achieve. Everything is done by security. It was drafted by the person in charge of this matter at the ministry, and he only played the role of transcribing and making suggestions.

Of course, the Ministry of Security did not take Li Qingyang into the establishment, and did not take him in as a living display.Apart from writing this report and stabilizing Daming Jinyiwei's investigation, Li Qingyang's role is also to dig out useful information from him to Haihan. Simply put, it is about the various inside stories and operating rules of Jinyiwei, an espionage agency. .

These things have no value for the Ministry of Security. They are mainly for the purpose of grasping the opponent's behavioral rules so that they can better control the opponent's tricks in the field of intelligence work.Li Qingyang was somewhat resistant to this kind of thing at the beginning, but the Haihan people showed him some secret things in Jinyiwei, such as the process of changing the Jinyiwei commanders in recent years, from Liu Shouyou and Luo Sigong in the Wanli period. From Tian Ergeng during the Tianqi period to Luo Yangxing who took over after Emperor Chongzhen came to power, how these commanders came to power and how they stepped down were all explained to him clearly.

Jin Yiwei actually knew some rumors about these things, but Li Qingyang, a low-level official with a hundred households, knew very limited information, which was far less detailed than what the Haihan people told him.Moreover, what the Hai Han people knew was completely consistent with what Li Qingyang knew, that is to say, the information they knew was not just made up with their eyes closed.Compared to these anecdotes, Li Qingyang felt that the so-called secrets he was trying to keep were not worth mentioning at all, so when the Haihan people asked him to tell about the inner workings of Jinyiwei, he had nothing to worry about.

By the time Li Qingyang had overturned what he knew about the situation, his loyalty to the Ming court was running out.Moreover, during this period, the Haihan people also abided by their agreement, not only did not treat him badly, but also issued him a certain amount of silver notes every month as a reward for his work-the amount was more than the silver he received from Jinyiwei out a lot.

Lin Nan also told him more than once that as long as he honestly followed the executive committee, he would be a well-to-do rich man on Qiongzhou Island, not to mention the prosperity and wealth in the future.

Half a year after Li Qingyang was arrested by Hai Han, after many twists and turns, his relatives in Nanjing also traveled thousands of miles by various means, and were finally sent to Sanya.Now, for Li Qingyang, there was nothing to worry about anymore.For him, the identity of Daming Jinyiwei is already a skin that can be shed at any time, and the special commissioner of the Haihan Security Department has become his real identity now.Compared with the situation when he was sent to Qiongzhou as an undercover agent by the Fusi of Nanzhen two years ago, it seems that he has just changed his direction now. He who was originally going to break into Haihan's interior is now the one who was sent by the Haihan Security Department to break into Daming Jinyiwei. a chess piece.

Originally, before the implementation of the "Liaoyuan Project", Hao Wanqing specially conducted an interview with him and asked him if he had any plans to return to Daming to take up a post.This is not to amuse Li Qingyang, if he is willing to cooperate, then the Haihan Security Department can use him to provide Jinyiwei South Town Fusi with a lot of intelligence information about the pirates about to attack Qiongzhou Island, and this information will be confirmed later Well, Li Qingyang's credit will definitely be recorded in the account, and there is great hope for a promotion and salary increase—if he can't get promoted, Haihan will use money to force him up.

However, after weighing repeatedly, Li Qingyang still did not agree with Hao Wanqing's proposal.After staying here for a while, he no longer wants to go back to the intriguing workplace environment of Nanjing Fusi. Even if he can be promoted to deputy thousand or even thousand, so what?After seeing the methods of the Haihan people, he no longer had much interest in returning to work in the Jinyiwei yamen.He would rather continue his current life, work under the hands of the Haihan people, and stay in Sanya safely. With his salary and working conditions, he can apply for a set of employees here for the security department employees in a short time. dormitory.For him, life in Sanya was far more relaxed and comfortable than in Daming, and he really didn't want to go back there and continue to be an undercover agent who never saw the light of day.

Hao Wanqing did not force him to accept the arrangement. Since Li Qingyang had figured it out and was unwilling to return to Daming, Hao Wanqing simply changed his staff from non-staff specially hired staff to full-time employees of the Security Department.

Ten days before the departure to Danzhou, that is, the same day when Yan Mingjun and Li Jin arrived in Danzhou, Li Qingyang had already obtained the approval letter for the naturalization application from the Haihan Civil Affairs Department in Sanya, and he was officially naturalized as a Haihan returnee. Huamin.And this identity means that he has completely got rid of the house arrest and surveillance for more than a year, and can freely operate in Haihan's ruled area-of course, this kind of activity still has to be dispatched by the Ministry of Security, not because he wants to Wherever you go, you can go there.

After Li Qingyang was officially naturalized, he quickly received his first field mission, going to Danzhou to investigate the disappearance of a certain Ming official.Speaking of this case, he was the first to discover the clues, and he had a certain relationship with him, so Hao Wanqing entrusted the matter to him for investigation.

It sounds a bit unbelievable, how did Li Qingyang, who was far away in Sanya, know that a Ming official from Qiongbei was missing during the "Operation Liaoyuan", this seems unreasonable logically, but it just happened to be such a coincidence.

During the implementation of "Operation Liaoyuan", the naval forces of the Haihan Militia blocked the Qiongzhou Strait, and all ports and ships in the Qiongbei area were temporarily blocked. During this period, Li Qingyang's contact with the mainland Jinyiwei organization was also temporarily interrupted. This was the starting point of his discovery of the case.

(End of this chapter)