1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 961
Lin Nan has worked in the Ministry of Security for several years, so he naturally knows a lot of inside stories.The safest way for foreign merchants to operate in Sanya is of course to cling to Haihan's thigh, so many shops will have more or less Haihan's shares.These shares may not all be funded by the traversers themselves, and some of them are completely donated by the operators in the name of dry shares to some high-level Haihan personnel with real power or simply to a certain competent authority, in order to obtain them in the local business process. Some asylum and preferential treatment.

This kind of thing is an agreement reached in private, and there will be no various contract documents on paper, so often both parties follow a tacit agreement and will not bring relevant matters to the table.And the Haihan executive committee didn't deliberately put an end to this phenomenon, as long as they didn't make too much money, they basically turned a blind eye.

This is not entirely because the executive committee allowed corruption to grow. On the one hand, foreign businessmen think that this kind of relationship can bring them more sense of security, so they often do it on their own initiative. On the other hand, Haihan also needs to use some special means Obtain some strategic materials or important information, and sell the industrial products produced by yourself.For example, the Ministry of Commerce owns shares in several merchants in the name of private individuals, and uses these merchants to purchase minerals, population and other special commodities overseas.The Ministry of Security will use this relationship to place intelligence personnel in some commercial firms and shipping companies, and use the trade network of these merchants to send intelligence personnel overseas to lurk.

In this way, even some countries that are at war with Haihan can keep the business activities between the two parties through the operation of middlemen. Haihan can continuously buy slave populations from the Dutch, and the Spaniards have been All kinds of industrial products produced in Sanya can be purchased, all relying on these special interest chains.

Although Lin Nan knew that Haihan's top management had these secret arrangements, his scope of work was counter-espionage, and he had no direct contact with this field. He only occasionally heard his colleagues report related news to the minister in internal meetings.But he also knows a little bit of relevant information, such as Qiong Lianfa, a large-scale business organization that Haihan is deeply involved in, and many of its trade activities are assigned by the senior management of Haihan. The Nanyang Pavilion involved is also Qionglian One of the foreign trade companies under the name of Fa, its customer base is almost all dignitaries from all over the world, it is hard to say what is tricky in it.If they found something that shouldn't be investigated, their task force might face the risk of being disbanded before the case was solved.

Hearing Lin Nan's explanation, Fu Li hesitated at the moment.Since he joined Haihan, he has been in close contact with the big bosses of the executive committee. In private, he even uses titles like master and uncle instead of the "chief" that the naturalized people usually use. He also knows more or less about the affairs of these upper-level figures. One point, what Lin Nan said is not fictitious, and there are some things that they need to avoid.

"The special case team has been set up, so we can't stop investigating, right?" The person who spoke was Zhang Qianzhi, a new member of the special case team, who belongs to the Ministry of Security.

After the Danzhou assassination case was uncovered in 1631, Zhang Qianzhi was promoted for his undercover service.He himself had a strong enough background under He Xi, and he was not bad in mental ability and experience, so he quickly rose to the top position, and he is currently the best among young naturalized cadres in Haihan official circles.But because of the special nature of his work, not many people outside the system know his name, far less famous than someone like Fu Li who often shows up in public.

In terms of relationship with the upper class, Zhang Qianzhi is no worse than Fu Li. His old man Zhang Tiangui is now the general consultant of Haihan Shipyard. Six of the existing shipbuilders in the shipyard are his disciples and grandchildren, even Yue Zhiyun and Sun The head of the shipping department like Nagami greeted him respectfully when he saw him, and his prestige among the naturalized people was also extremely high.And when Zhang Qianzhi worked in the Guangzhou Office in the early years, he had mentorship with He Xi and Schneider, and he was even qualified to attend high-level meetings within the Ministry of Security.

Lin Nan, who is able to play his own role in the local area, is actually not as experienced as Zhang Qianzhi, so he can only continue to explain Zhang Qianzhi's doubts: "It's not that we don't want to investigate, but we have to think about how to investigate. So as not to cause extra problems. If you think about it, Hassan, a foreigner, has been remembered for so long when he went to Nanyang Pavilion. If we go to the door to investigate, there is no guarantee that we will not be noticed by interested people."

Zhang Qianzhi pondered for a moment, and then said: "It's not convenient to conduct a public investigation, so we'll check it privately. The shopkeeper should live in Shengli Harbor, right? Why don't we go and visit today."

Su Tong was still in a good mood when he closed the shop and returned home today. The few gemstones that the Persian businessman gave him for consignment a few days ago were finally sold to a wealthy businessman of Ming Dynasty at a good price today.But what made him most happy was not the sale of the gems, but that all the money would belong to him, and he would not only get the commission of this transaction like in the past.Because he already knew that the owner of the goods would not come to collect the money for the consignment goods.

Su Tong felt that his recent luck was very good. He learned that Hassan's death was completely accidental. When he went to Haihan Bank in Victory Fort to handle deposit business two days ago, he happened to hear the two people in front of him chatting, and one of them It was the job of the on-site autopsy after Hassan drowned.Hearing Wu Zuo's description of the deceased's appearance, Su Tong was sure that it was Hassan, but Wu Zuo did not disclose the real cause of Hassan's death in the chat, otherwise Su Tong might not have dared to take the money into his pocket with peace of mind. inside.

However, two days ago, Su Tong saw an official reward notice to find a missing Persian man. The appearance and appearance of the description were seven or eight points similar to Hassan, which made him feel a little bit guilty—could this be the Persian man? His horoscope is not good, as long as he comes to Sanya, he will be restrained?But he didn't directly connect this matter with Hassan's drowning. After all, the police had finished examining Hassan's body a few days ago. Persian.

After Hassan died, Su Tong accepted the money with peace of mind. Anyway, the two of them knew about the consignment. As long as Su Tong didn't tell him, no one else would know where the money went. .This amount of money is not considered a huge sum, but it is almost equivalent to his salary of working as a shopkeeper for two or three years.

Su Tong currently lives in a rented house near the Shengli Port area. Although it is a detached house, it is not his own property after all, so he has been thinking about raising money to buy a small yard locally.Now that the money is in hand, this wish should be realized in advance.But Su Tong will definitely not buy a house in this place now. It is located at the foot of the mountain and belongs to the edge of Shengli Port. This area is full of residential areas for port and shipyard staff. Although the living environment and supporting facilities are not bad, However, Su Tong felt that due to the nature of his work, it would be better to find a way to live in the wealthy area on the other side of Sanya Port.

This is not just a matter of vanity. Being able to change to a more advanced life circle can play a significant role in Sutong's daily business development, making and maintaining more high-level customers.These rich and noble people often have a lot of idle good things in their hands. Su Tong's plan is to let these good things circulate in the market-of course, this circulation channel is the Nanyang Pavilion he is in charge of, and he can get what he can from it. The lucrative commission he earned was the gray income he could get from this position.

The more Su Tong thought about it, the more he felt refreshed, and couldn't help humming a ditty. It's a pity that he couldn't tell others about the joy. There was only one old servant in his family, who was almost deaf, and he basically couldn't communicate.

Su Tong opened the door and entered the hospital, seeing that the room was pitch black and the lights were not on, he thought to himself that the old guy slept quite early, and he had a rest before the master came back.Su Tong cursed and turned to close the courtyard door, suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head, and lost consciousness all at once.

"This is the place? Don't get the wrong way again!" Zhang Qianzhi complained out of breath.

"You can't blame me, the street signs in this place are all messed up, so it's really troublesome to find them!" Fu Li's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, but fortunately it was already dark at this time, and they all borrowed the lanterns in their hands. According to the road, no one noticed his face.

This area was originally the camp of the logging team. Later, the wood workshop demolished the temporary board houses and scattered a few brick houses as dormitories.Later, the shipyard and the Shengli Port Authority each divided several batches to build employee living quarters here, but lacked a unified municipal planning.While the resident population is increasing, the corresponding planning and management have not been able to keep up with the pace of development. The house numbers here are all arranged according to the construction time rather than the geographical location. The one next to No. [-] may be in the seventies No. This has brought a lot of trouble to the task force who came here to visit.

Although Fu Li was working in the police department, he really didn't know much about the situation in this area. At first, he volunteered to lead the way, but he didn't expect to find the right place after wandering around a few times.

"I found the right one this time." Lin Nan raised the lantern high, illuminating the house number at the gate of the courtyard: "Nanmu Village No. [-], here it is."

Lin Nan stretched out his hand and pushed the courtyard door, and the door opened with a creak.The three of them were waiting to enter, and Lin Nan had already noticed something strange on the ground: "There's someone lying there!"

The village head, militia captain, and the only barefoot doctor in the village who knew a little about medical skills rushed to the yard almost at the same time after receiving the notice, but their arrival could not save Su Tong's life.In fact, when Lin Nan and others found Su Tong, he was already out of breath.

After discovering the body, Zhang Qianzhi and Fu Li searched the yard quickly, but they didn't find anyone suspicious except for an old servant who fell asleep in the house and passed out.But seeing how deaf and dazzled this old slave was in his seventies and eighties, he couldn't even stand still, so it was obviously unlikely that he was the murderer.Although the residual temperature of the body told them that the murderer might not have fled far away, but due to their serious unfamiliarity with the surrounding terrain, it was impossible for them to trace the escape route of the murderer.

"It's a step too slow!" Lin Nan sighed, "It seems that shopkeeper Su really knows the inside story."

"If I hadn't led the wrong way, maybe I could have blocked the murderer!" Fu Li was extremely regretful at this moment. He knew that he would make such a low-level mistake. He should have asked the village cadres to lead the way from the beginning instead of He rushed into the village recklessly.Now that this line is broken, the difficulty of the next detection work will be much more difficult.

Zhang Qianzhi remained calm, first called the village head and militia captain to the side, and asked if there were any suspicious unidentified people in the village in the past two days, and Su Tong usually had social connections.But the result was obviously not optimistic. The village head and the militia captain did not provide any valuable information, and the understanding of Su Tong was limited to the Nanyang Pavilion where he worked.

Taking advantage of the time when Wu Zuo led people to collect the corpse, the three backbones of the special case team got together and had a short meeting.

"It seems that we posted a reward notice to scare the snake!" Lin Nan analyzed: "Someone came to expose Hassan's meeting with Su Tong before his death, and Su Tong died in the end. There should be some connection between the two murders. connect."

"The murderer didn't try to disguise the body as an accident this time." Zhang Qianzhi said coldly: "If a person fell on his back and died with a hole in the back of his head, I think it is unlikely that he turned over on purpose. Stand so the wound faces up so we can spot it."

Su Tong's dead posture was very stretched, lying on the ground showing a wild "big" character, and there was a very obvious fatal blow on the back of the head, but the murder weapon has not been found yet, and it is possible that he was taken away from the crime scene by the murderer.But compared with Hassan's disguised death scene, Su Tong's death seemed very violent and direct, and the styles of the two murders were indeed very different.

"It may be different murderers, but it is also possible that the murderer deliberately made two different styles to mislead our thinking." Fu Li had also calmed down at this time, and began to use his own experience in handling cases to make speculations. But he is not optimistic about the direction of the investigation of the case: "No matter what the possibility is, the next thing we do will not be easy!"

Zhang Qianzhi said: "Perhaps we should think about it first. Where did the murderer get the news and come to kill Su Tong before us. I don't think that's the case with what brother Lin said just now. If Su Tong's death has nothing to do with If it is related to Hassan, then the reason why he was killed is probably knowing who the murderer of Hassan's case is. Of course, it is also possible that this incident has nothing to do with Hassan's case, but if it is an independent incident, then this timing is too coincidental a little."

"I don't believe in such a coincidence." Fu Li shook his head and said, "It's not a coincidence, it's a well-calculated murder! The purpose is to silence Su Tong and let him die with all his secrets."

(End of this chapter)