1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 571

In order to solve this matter as soon as possible, the military also gave enough support, not only ordered the person in charge of the Danzhou garrison to cooperate with the Ministry of Security as much as possible, but also ordered the navy to dispatch the fast sailing ship "Lightning" to transport them directly from Sanya to Danzhou state bay.It was the first time for Li Qingyang to ride this black-tech sailing boat from another time and space. Its speed made him dumbfounded - he set off in the early morning of the same day and arrived at Danzhou Bay at night, which was nearly two times faster than that of ordinary Chinese sailing boats. times.

With such a high speed, it only takes about seven or eight days to complete the long voyage from Nanjing to Sanya. However, if it is an ordinary merchant ship of Ming Dynasty, it will basically take about a month to reach the destination with stops and stops along the way. .Even if the warship travels day and night, it will take at least 20 days.Although Li Qingyang was not a combat force, Jin Yiwei was considered half a soldier, so he naturally understood how helpful this kind of sea marching efficiency would be for combat.The Daming Navy on Qiongzhou Island surrendered and destroyed, and they were completely incapable of fighting the Haihan Navy. Li Qingyang thought that apart from the disadvantage of the ship's artillery fire, the difference in speed was probably also an important reason.

Of course, their group did not come under the banner of the Haihan Security Department, but entered Danzhou in the name of the inspection team of the Haihan Ministry of Commerce. The task was to inspect the local market and trade conditions.This identity can give them a certain amount of cover for their local investigation work and reduce the chance of attracting the attention of interested people.

Wang Baisuo and Lin Nan knew each other, but this was the first time for Li Qingyang to see him. Before, he had only heard that there was a specially hired Jinyiwei officer in the Ministry of Security. Today, he finally saw a living person.Both of them used to work for the Ming court, but now they both switched camps and joined the Haihan Security Department.

Lin Nan took the reactions of the two people into his heart and didn't say anything.He was the first batch of militia veterans who joined the army in 1627, and his background was much more pure than the two former Ming civil servants who joined halfway, so he was promoted faster.Although he has not been assigned to the local government to take charge of work, his authority is far higher than that of Li Qingyang and Wang Baisuo. Even if he is assigned to a local government in the future, the area under his jurisdiction will probably not be limited to a city.

This time Hao Wanqing sent Lin Nan to lead the team with the intention of supporting him in his position. As long as this task is completed well, he will have better capital for promotion in the future.By the way, let Lin Nan supervise the case handling process of Li Qingyang and Wang Baisuo, especially Li Qingyang, who has just officially joined the Haihan camp, and his performance in this case may affect his future.If he shows any nostalgia for Jin Yiwei or an unstable stand during the handling of the case, then what awaits him is likely to return to the past days of house arrest.

These three people have been working in the security department for a period of time, and they also know that the security department attaches the most importance to work efficiency, so before returning to Danzhou City, they drove in a slightly bumpy carriage on the way back to the city. Temporary meeting.

Li Qingyang first spent an incense stick of time, briefing Wang Baisuo on the current situation and the purpose of the special team sent by the headquarters to Danzhou to investigate the case.

Wang Baisuo was also a little shocked after hearing this: "Is it possible that this escaped Jin Yiwei Deputy Qianhu is hiding somewhere in Danzhou City right now?"

Li Qingyang nodded and said: "With Jin Yiwei's way of handling affairs, when in a dangerous situation, the first thing to do is to hide your whereabouts, first ensure your own safety, and then try to escape or fight back. This is Zhao Ye's only subordinate He also died at sea a few days ago, the wise thing for him now is not to act rashly, and wait for his superiors to reply."

Wang Baisuo said: "We don't know where he is, let alone his physical characteristics. If he has already concealed his identity and doesn't take any actions beyond the rules, it will be difficult to hunt him down."

Lin Nan said: "The Ministry of Security has also considered this possibility, so after Mr. Hao discussed with the head of the executive committee, we decided to join forces with multiple departments to hunt down this big fish that slipped through the net. Further promote the household registration system of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Danzhou."

The so-called household registration system has actually been implemented in Sanya for nearly three years.This system is not only able to count the population status of the area under the rule, but also greatly helps the law and order.If you want to be active in the area under the rule of Haihan, you must either have a naturalized citizen's identity certificate, or you must go through temporary entry and exit procedures. The range of activities of non-naturalized floating population will be greatly restricted, which will greatly reduce Probability of fleeing crimes.

A similar household registration system also existed in Ming Dynasty, but compared to the scientific and easy implementation of management, it is naturally far inferior to Haihan who copied mature experience from later generations.As Haihan's rule in Qiongbei became more and more solid, this household registration system was gradually implemented in various states and counties.Of course, the local people will not simply publicize that this is Haihan's means of consolidating the rule, but inform the people that there may be some pirates lurking in the local area, so registering their identities is the best way to prevent the bad guys from hiding their tracks. One of the best ways.

When Haihan's image of "consistently correct" gradually became deeply ingrained in the minds of the public, many policies had to be promoted, and the resistance was correspondingly reduced a lot.This kind of household registration system of the civil affairs department may not be able to do everything in the registration stage, but with the gradual improvement of other measures, those people who have not registered with Haihan will find that their lives will be full of various things. Inconvenient troubles, such as taking a boat to go to other places, going through school enrollment procedures for children at home, and attending weddings and funerals, all of which must be registered with Haihan's approval to do things.To avoid these troubles, all the public can do is to cooperate with the Haihan people in population registration.

The Ministry of Security believes that the Jinyiwei transferred from Nanjing has no roots in Danzhou, so it is difficult to pretend to be a native of Danzhou without any traces. Moreover, there are government household registrations that can be compared and checked. Population registration can narrow the scope of investigation by a certain amount. Times, use limited power to more targeted targets - those floating population from outside Danzhou.

Although this matter sounds troublesome, it is not too difficult to implement. The size of the floating population in this era is really limited. In a big local city like Danzhou, with a population of 5 to [-], more than [-]% of them are local residents. The identities of these residents are also registered in the archives of the Danzhou government. Some decent families have genealogies and can be checked, so the identities of outsiders are not so easy to cover up here.

After Lin Nan explained the direction of the investigation, Wang Baisuo nodded again and again and said: "It's better that the chiefs are thoughtful. As long as a census is conducted on the local population, there are probably only a thousand people left for the population that needs to be investigated. Even if that No matter how well Jin Yiwei hides, once we narrow down the scope of our investigation, it will be very difficult for him not to show his feet."

Jin Yiwei can achieve thousands of households, so there must be some kung fu in his hands, at least the standard Xiuchun knife must be able to use decent routine knife skills.For example, Li Qingyang, a hundred households, has also practiced sword skills for many years. Although he can't be called a master, he is definitely more than enough to deal with ordinary people.As for the difference between Lian Jiazi and ordinary people, there are many ways to distinguish - for example, check whether there are any calluses on the palms of the hands that have been worn out by holding the handle of the knife all year round.

Among the limited foreign population, the proportion of Lianjiazi is probably smaller than that of Danzhou's illiterates. When the time comes, if there is any mistake and never let it go, this time bomb lurking in Danzhou will definitely be uncovered.

On the carriage back to the city, the three roughly agreed on the method and direction of handling the case, and when they returned to the city, Wang Baisuo immediately took them to see Zhang Xin without stopping.

Zhang Xin has also been notified by a telegram from the executive committee. As the local chief executive, although it is not so convenient to directly intervene in the intelligence front, he is interested in further promoting the household registration system in the local area by taking the opportunity of investigating cases. Things are supportive.At that moment, Zhang Xin sent someone to bring Yu Tiezhu, the head of the local garrison, to the management committee, and then the military, civil affairs, and security agencies sat down and negotiated on handling the case.

A day later, several city gates and conspicuous places in the city streets in Danzhou posted notices from the Danzhou Management Committee about the safety of the people. The local resident population of the state is registered in the census.Anyone who is not a local citizen of Danzhou must voluntarily go to the household registration office under the management committee to register their identity within three days. Penalty of hard labor of less than one day.

The census in the city will start today, but many academies outside the city have not been affected yet.For example, Zhongming Academy, where Zhang Qianzhi was staying, was still in a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere at this time.

It has been six days since Zhang Qianzhi successfully lurked in. During this period, in addition to completing the courses of the academy, he is also paying attention to whether there are any unidentified people in and out of the academy.And according to his observations, the answer is yes.

The back door of the academy is a large vegetable field, bordering it is the nearby wilderness forest.Due to the shortage of manpower, the surveillance force deployed by the Ministry of Security did not set up a point in this direction, and Zhang Qianzhi noticed that at least twice in the early morning, Huang Zixing hurriedly left from the back door of the academy, walked through the vegetable field and entered the nearby forest , and came back with a package or two after a while.If there is no treasure buried in that mountain forest, then someone in the forest is waiting for him to hand over the parcels.

Zhang Qianzhi didn't know what was in the package. He tried to go to the study where Huang Zixing received him at the beginning, but found that there was always someone on duty outside the courtyard, and the students of the academy would not be allowed to enter at will.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to buy daily necessities, Zhang Qianzhi entered the city to get in touch with Wang Baisuo, and informed him of his reconnaissance results in the past few days.

Wang Baisuo shook his head and said: "If we go in and search directly, no matter whether we can find something or not, it will have a very bad influence in the Danzhou cultural circle. Without real evidence, this matter cannot be closed so simply."

Zhang Qianzhi said: "Maybe we might as well deploy more people and arrange them to be in the forest behind the academy. If someone comes to connect with Huang Zixing, we can take his stolen goods!"

Wang Baisuo smiled wryly and said, "It's not that we don't transfer people, but that we don't have enough manpower now. The base camp sent a commissioner to investigate another case, which is much more serious than Huang Zixing's case. The monitoring force currently deployed outside the academy may be overwhelming. Some of them will be transferred back to the city to assist in the investigation.”

Zhang Qianzhi frowned and said, "What about me?"

"You lurk for another half a month, if you still have no progress, then find an opportunity to escape without showing any trace!" Wang Baisuo replied helplessly.

Standing in his position, it is indeed difficult to make a decision. Huang Zixing must have a problem, but his problem does not seem to be particularly serious at present. The situation detected can not explain the problem.But this is also the scope of the responsibility of the security department. A lot of work has been done before, and Zhang Qianzhi has also successfully entered the academy. It is a pity to let him go.

If the new case brought by Lin Nan and Li Qingyang was not so urgent, Wang Baisuo would be happy to follow Zhang Qianzhi's suggestion and continue to send more people to control the surroundings of the academy.But the new case was personally supervised by Director Hao of the headquarters, and the head of the Executive Committee Tao also gave relevant instructions. This level of importance is not the same as the Huang Zixing case, and Wang Baisuo can only use limited resources to tilt towards a more important party.

Zhang Qianzhi has nothing to blame for Wang Baisuo's arrangement. He has been with He Xi for such a long time, so he naturally understands the rules of conduct of the Ministry of Security. Angry at being forcibly reduced in the task I am performing.Since Wang Baisuo was willing to let him spend a little more time to continue the investigation, Zhang Qianzhi decided to find out the details of Zhongming Academy as much as possible.At least for Huang Zixing, Zhang Qianzhi had intuitively determined that there was something wrong with him. If he was not found out, Zhang Qianzhi would not leave Zhongming Academy willingly.

It just so happened that Zhang Qianzhi had a meeting with Wang Baisuo in the city, and after returning to the academy, Huang Zixing sent someone to tell him to go to the study.After Zhang Qianzhi came to Huang Zixing's study again, Huang Zixing took the initiative to ask, "Did you go to the city today?"

"Students are going to buy some daily necessities." Zhang Qianzhi responded calmly.

"Have you ever seen the Ann Min Notice posted on the city gate?" Huang Zixing asked again.

Zhang Qianzhi pretended to be disdainful and said: "Is it the notice posted by the so-called Haihan Management Committee? The students read it, but it was full of nonsense, saying that the situation of the local people should be counted. From the students' point of view, This is simply a fake tiger's prestige, the government's affairs, whoever gets them will be troublesome!"

(End of this chapter)