Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1166
Two days later, the confidential communication room sent her a small wooden box that still smelled like sea water.The box is the smallest of the standard boxes manufactured in accordance with the packaging container standards issued by the Joint Logistics Headquarters, and it is specially used for shipping official documents and small items.It is made of Southeast Asian teak, with four corners covered with iron and lined with animal skin for waterproofing.

The box is coded with black and white vertical lines and a row of Arabic numerals, indicating that it is a box containing important official documents.There is a lead seal on the buckle.

Ke Yun opened the lead seal, took out the dossier materials from the box, glanced roughly at the cover, and checked the packing list sent by telegram in advance.

There are three materials.The first is the record written by the female bodyguard about Li Mo's going out, and the second is the dictation of the staff of Ziminglou.The third is a report on the wiretapping records of Ziming Building.

The latter two were obtained by Ke Yun based on the materials provided by the informer—after all, she stayed in the Ziming Building for the longest time during her entire trip.She first opened the first surveillance report, the report was very detailed, starting from Li Mo's departure that day, everything was detailed, even the snacks she ate in Guangzhou were recorded.However, in Ke Yun's view, the only valuable thing in this report is to prove that the informer's information that she had been to Ziming Building was correct.

Then she opened the second report, which was the dictation report of the staff of the Ziming Building, which proved that the female bodyguard's records were correct: Li Mo had indeed arrived at the Ziming Building, and indeed opened a private room.

This report staggeredly proved Li Mo's whereabouts in Ziming Building, but she still didn't know anything about what she did there.

Ke Yun placed her hope on the third report: she knew how many private rooms on the third floor of Ziming Building were equipped with bugging devices.But when she opened it, she was disappointed.The third report stated clearly: there is no wiretapping record about Li Mo in the "Liuxiang" box.

Lin Baiguang's attention was drawn to Ke Yun's telegram for reviewing the materials as soon as he arrived in Guangzhou. He immediately ordered the wiretapping records of Ziming Building to be retrieved that day, but there was no report of the Liuxiang room in the wiretapping records of Ziming Building.However, there is a survey material about all the guests in the private room on the third floor that day.

Since electronic eavesdropping equipment is the first-level control material, there are only three sets of equipment in the entire Guangzhou station.In order to save the service life, each eavesdropping must be approved by Lin Baiguang himself before using the equipment.

In order to make up for the lack of modern equipment, copper wiretapping tubes were installed in all private rooms when the Ziming Building was rebuilt.Moreover, it is impossible for the Ministry of Security to send monitors to monitor the situation 24 hours a day.

Li Mo is not an important person and is not on the key monitoring list, and she entered the private room alone, so the security guards on duty did not arrange monitors to monitor her private room.

Lin Baiguang knew that the General Administration would not take Li Mo's surveillance materials for no reason. Obviously, this person had certain "problems" that aroused the "interest" of the General Administration, so he immediately arranged for a comprehensive inspection of the staff on duty in Ziming Building that day. investigation.

The focus of the investigation was, of course, the man on duty on the third floor.Because the guys who went upstairs that day were only the two of them.

Because the incident happened during the daytime, when the business was at its weakest - there were not many customers in Ziming Building during the daytime, especially the private rooms on the third floor.So there are only two guys on duty on the third floor of the day shift.

According to the memories of these two guys, there were two groups of guests who were in the private room on the third floor at the same time as Li Mo.Lin Baiguang repeatedly asked Li Mo if he had any contact with these two groups of guests, but the staff couldn't remember it, because the other two groups of guests were all rich and big families, and they had a lot of ostentation, and they would greet each other from time to time, so the staff couldn't keep paying attention to the people in the private room flow.

Lin Baiguang asked someone to retrieve the visitor registration book and checkout records during this period.Among the two groups of guests, one group was old customers of Ziming Building, and the other group was new customers who came for the first time: a young son, a middle-aged servant, a young servant, a maid and an old lady.According to the buddy, young servants and maidservants accompanied the son into the private room, and everyone else was resting in the lounge on the first floor.

Lin Baiguang's attention was drawn to the inscription of the address of the new guest. The address was written as "Risheng Apartment"—this is a big inn, which specializes in the business of officials and wealthy businessmen from other places.

This shows that the guests are outsiders - there is nothing suspicious in itself. There are many outsiders who come to Ziminglou to open "Australian Meat", but they usually choose to come on the night when the atmosphere is the strongest and the most lively, and there are very few people. It will come during the day.

He immediately ordered someone to go to Risheng Apartment to investigate the identities of these new guests.The person sent to report reported that this group of guests had indeed lived in Risheng Apartment, but they left on the second day after they came to Ziming Building.

The "where you come" written by visitors in Risheng Apartment is Jiangxi Fenyi, and the "where you are going" is also Jiangxi Fenyi.No matter how he looked at it, Lin Baiguang felt that this group of people was suspicious.At present, people from the Weiwei Bureau were sent to the waterway wharf to investigate whether such a group of people had gone to Jiangxi in the past few days.The result is that there is no such group of people.

But this result can't explain anything, investigation is not omnipotent, and the absence of witnesses does not mean that there is no such thing.But it is impossible to trace down this line.

Because these two groups of people are not important people and are no longer on the monitoring list, the Ministry of Natural Security has not arranged for anyone to eavesdrop on their conversations—otherwise, the expansion of the Ministry of Security by a hundred times would not be enough.

Ke Yun finished reading the subsidiary report of the Guangzhou Security Department: Obviously, Li Mo's going to Ziming Building is very suspicious, and this unknown foreign guest is even more suspicious.It's a pity that the buddy was not able to monitor the whole process, and there was no wiretapping record in Ziming Building—of course, she didn't have much hope for the wiretapping record.

But this leaves a possibility: Li Mo may have had contact with this rich man and his subordinates in Ziminglou.In all likelihood, they are young servants or maids under Brother Gongzi.

Although he didn't get conclusive information from Guangzhou, Ke Yun thought he had figured out one thing: Li Mo had a problem.It was a case worth pursuing.

A large wave shipping transport ship is moored in Weitou Bay, the anchor is lowered, and sailors in white uniforms on the deck are scrubbing the deck.

This is a ship for transporting salt. According to the commercial agreement signed by the two parties, every month, [-] ships of Dabo Shipping full of salt will bring in salt and sell it to the Zheng family. Wood, porcelain and tea, half of the price is paid in silver

This kind of trade has lasted for more than half a year. So far, the trade cooperation between the two parties has been very smooth.There was no trade friction,
Xu Xu and Qian Shuixie stood in front of the screened windows of the stern building, observing the entire Weitou Bay and the islands in the bay including Kinmen Island, Xiamen Island, and Gulangyu Island with large-caliber binoculars.

These islands are now under the control of Zheng Zhilong, and each island has defenders.In particular, Kinmen Island opposite Anping is even more heavily guarded.He and Anping formed a tendency to fight.

The main force of the Zheng family fleet, including several European-style two-masted and three-masted sailing ships, is mooring at various anchorages in Weitou Bay.However, there is no grand scene where there are thousands of sails gathered, at most there are more than 100 ships.And most of them are small and medium-sized Guangzhou Shipyards and Fuchuan Ships.

As for the condition of the ship—no wonder the Dutch have always looked down on Zheng Zhilong's sea combat power.Zheng Zhilong basically did not lose his true qualities as a pirate. Not only was the shape of the ship messy, but it was also poorly prepared, giving it a dilapidated look.

It is difficult for this kind of fleet to gain an advantage against the Dutch in the open sea. No wonder they all like to use fireboat tactics.

Although Zheng Zhilong has many ships, he does not maintain a navy but a trade fleet.It is impossible to maintain too many armed warships that only consume but do not produce.Therefore, most of his ships are sailing for trade. If Liu Xiang, the last opponent, hadn't been eradicated, he probably wouldn't even have all these more than 100 ships here: it costs a lot of money to support people and ships.

Qian Shuixie said: "Although there are few ships, these ships should be their main force—after all, they are always ready to defend the old nest."

"Not necessarily," Xu Xu said while marking the anchorage positions, forts, and barracks of the observed ships on the drawing board, "Zheng Zhilong's largest and best ships are all on the Japan and Manila routes—after all, these two routes are his footholds." The Japanese said that the Anhai ships in Nagasaki are very large. What Zheng Zhilong wants is trade, not war.”

"So it's hard for us to make a surprise attack on him?"

"That's right. It's very difficult to wipe out his main force in one battle - because he is unlikely to gather all his ships." Xu Xu said, "But Anping is his lair. If we can take Anping, In addition, the forces of the Zheng family on Gulangyu Island, Xiamen Island, and Kinmen Island have been uprooted."

"So what we're actually going to do is not the Battle of Manila Bay but a massive amphibious assault?"

"At least that's my suggestion." Xu said, "I don't know what strategy the Military Order and the Executive Committee will adopt."

Qian Shuixie thought: This is indeed very possible.If it was just an impressive sea bombardment for Zheng Zhilong, there would be no need to mobilize two special reconnaissance teams to Kaohsiung to prepare for the battle, let alone come here to conduct reconnaissance in front of the enemy—it was clear that they were required to carry out amphibious assaults. Forward armed reconnaissance and leading operations.

"It is said that both Jinmen Island and Xiamen Island are the places where the Zheng family's wealth gathers. When the Qing army captured Jinmen Island in a surprise raid, the gold and silver seized amounted to several million taels. It was a windfall from top to bottom." Xu said, "But this is decades later, and the Zheng family probably hasn't accumulated so much wealth yet."

(End of this chapter)