Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1167 Jinjiang County

Qian Shuixie swallowed a mouthful of saliva, millions of gold and silver - even more awesome than the "Flying Henan People" plan they have been advocating.He greedily looked at Jinmen Island not far away, as if looking at a small island made of gold.

"This piece of fat is swallowed by Lao Zheng alone. I can't swallow it even if I think about it." Qian Shuixie touched the pistol under his arm. He had already mixed the special detective team under his command with the sailors, and was transporting goods in a small boat. Taking advantage of the opportunity, I conducted a beachhead survey on the passing Kinmen Island and Anping Beach, and also took advantage of the berthing in the past few days to check the tide table.

"Soon, soon. Soon it will be ours."

While talking, a sailor came in and reported: Someone came from Jinjiang.

Xu's spirit was lifted: as soon as the ship arrived at the port, he sent people to go ashore to Jinjiang County to check on Lin Shimao's condition. According to his plan, he planned to tie Lin Shimao back first.

As long as he is tied up, he will not be able to keep his mouth shut. When the time comes, he and Li Shun will be together, plus the confession and physical evidence will be sent to the Dutchman, and the truth of the Westley case will be revealed.

"Let him report right away."

Come over for a while and bring in a local fisherman to dress up from the deck.This person is a sailor who was allowed to bring from the service company, and he is a native of Jinjiang. This time he went ashore in makeup to "step on the plate" in Jinjiang to serve as a front stand for the special investigation team.

The investigators reported that everything in Jinjiang County was normal, and Lin Shimao's casino was still open.Nothing special.Zheng's

Xu was originally worried that Lin Shimao had been silenced, but he was relieved when he heard that everything was normal.In the next step, he plans to personally lead the team into Jinjiang County and direct the operation on the spot.

In addition to thoroughly investigating the case, he also planned to conduct a parade-style staff trip to the county seat and Anping Town to fully grasp the local situation-after all, this is his job as a naval intelligence officer.

"Are the players ready?" he asked.

"Everything is ready, even me - just wait for your order, and we will go ashore to fight him."

"Good. Order!"

With Xu's greeting, a sailor walked in immediately.

"Tell the commander of the fleet to return early tomorrow morning!"

That night, a secret door was quietly opened from the shadow at the stern of the salt ship of the Big Wave Shipping, and a rope was let down from the secret door, and ten shadows slipped into the sea through the secret door at the stern one by one.

The last thing that slipped into the sea was a small floating raft made of bamboo and inflatable leather bags.There are boxes and leather bags fixed on it.

Xu Xu and Qian Shuiting led eight team members, swimming to push the floating raft, and took advantage of the tide to swim to the shore.On the beach where they were scheduled to go ashore, a faint green light could be seen-like a will-o'-the-wisp.

The scheduled landing site is at a beach seven or eight miles away from Anping City, 4000 meters away from the salt ship.This is nothing to the special investigation team members who have to go through the [-]-meter armed swimming course-not to mention the equipment they carry are all on the raft.

But for Xu Xu, the 4000 meters was a bit tiring, and Qian Shuiting specially sent two team members to push him.Even so, they were expected to be 10 minutes late on the beach.

There were already two men in black waiting on the beach, Xu Xu knew that they were the local intelligence officers deployed by the Foreign Intelligence Agency.This time it was to assist them in their actions.

"Heavenly Punishment Bachi!" said the visitor.

"Return my public map!" Qian Shuixie answered the password.

"Go this way." The responder greeted hurriedly, Xu was startled—this person not only spoke standard Mandarin, but also had a very familiar voice.

This man should be a veteran!But before he could think about it, he was surrounded by special detectives and trotted all the way.

Along the way, the moon was dark and the stars were sparse, and the road could hardly be seen clearly. There was a lot of insects chirping all around, but the guides seemed to be familiar with the road and led them along the way.Going around, it seems that after walking for 10 minutes, I suddenly stopped.

"Here it is," he whispered.

Xu Xu took a closer look, and saw a courtyard in front of him, standing alone in a vegetable field, it looked like a small temple.

The person leading the way knocked on the door lightly and rhythmically, and the door opened immediately.A group of people flashed in immediately.

The yard was pitch black, with no lights, and the group of people was still led by them, entering the house and descending the stairs.In the dark and unable to tell the direction, a small flame was lit up in the room, and then the whole room was brightly lit.Lian couldn't open his eyes for a while, and he blinked for a long time before finally seeing clearly, it was Chen Tianxiong who was standing opposite to meet them.

Since Chen Tianxiong became famous in Leizhou, he became an intelligence officer at Leizhou Station, pretending to be a Taoist priest and presiding over Monk Zou Temple.In the past two years, Leizhou has been gradually becoming "Lingao". Chen Tianxiong couldn't do anything well in Leizhou, so he applied to return to Lingao, and handed over Monk Zou Temple to the New Taoism.While helping with the work at Jikou, he was taking classes in the training class of the Intelligence Bureau—Xuan also took his class on social life in the Ming Dynasty in Lingao—and was preparing for a second assignment.

Soon after the engine operation started, Chen Tianxiong was sent to Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province by the Foreign Intelligence Bureau.Specially presided over the work of Zheng Zhilong.

The place they were in was an abandoned side hall in the backyard, the windows on all sides were blocked, and the ceiling was densely packed with wooden fences.The walls are full of cabinets and shelves, stacked with boxes and objects.

"How about it, isn't my place nice?" Chen Tianxiong said with a smile, "I asked someone to prepare hot water, you guys take a shower first and change your clothes!" Someone had already brought a bag of clothes.

After a group of people took a shower and changed into local casual clothes, Qian Shuiting told the team members to go to rest. He and Xu Xu were eager to get first-hand information, so they had a private conversation with Chen Tianxiong under the lantern.

Chen Tianxiong stayed in the local area for a few months. He was not a native of Quanzhou, so it was difficult for him to integrate into the society quickly. However, he could speak Cantonese, so he appeared as a sugar businessman. At that time, there were many Cantonese sugar businessmen.Fujian was also an important sugar producing area in the late Ming Dynasty.Since Yuegang was destroyed by Zheng Zhilong, Anping has become a major trading port in Fujian, and a large number of Fujian specialties: sugar, indigo, tea and export porcelain are distributed here.It is not at all conspicuous for Chen Tianxiong to come here to do business.

As for this temple, he just got it recently and made it a secret stronghold.

According to Chen Tianxiong, here in Jinjiang is basically Zheng Zhilong's world-although all the officials in the county are appointed by the imperial court, most of the officials in the county are under the orders of Zheng's family.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong is not interested in participating in local political affairs, and his meddling in the government is nothing more than to let the Zheng family get more benefits.

"...The Zheng family is now buying land in the whole of Quanzhou, and the momentum is very strong. Jinjiang is especially powerful here." Chen Tianxiong said, "The brothers of the Zheng family keep buying land. As long as there is land for sale, they must buy it. It's a bit of a stealing trick."

Historically, the Zheng family has acquired land in Fujian on a large scale since Zheng Zhilong was recruited, and once became the largest landlord in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.

Of course, these lands, which cost a lot of sea trade funds to purchase, ended up being cheaper for the Qing Dynasty.

"There is a lot of public grievance?"

"It's not that big among the common people. The Zheng family is engaged in maritime trade here, and many landless people rely on it for food—especially in Fujian where there are many mountains and little land. The land is originally concentrated and there are few self-employed farmers. Their family Stealing and plundering has little to do with the common people. Instead, the local landlords, big and small, have a lot of resentment."

"Does the Zheng family have an agent here?"

"It's only a few miles away from Anping? The Zheng family is already a role in Quanzhou. How many officials are trying to curry favor with them. If there is anything to do, sending a piece of film from Anping Town can make the county Order around. There is no need to send a special person."

"I mean the city fox and social mouse here..."

"Old Zheng doesn't care about them right now." Chen Tianxiong said, "He has a lot of things to do now, and Liu Laoxiang alone is enough for him."

Xu Xu knows that in the past month, Liu Laoxiang has frequently launched harassing activities against the coast of Fujian, and even went north to the waters of Zhejiang. Although he failed to block Zheng Zhilong's two main trade routes going north and south, it still formed a great deal of pressure on Zheng Zhilong. pressure.

"It's only us..."

"That's right, we are the only ones who know the usefulness of mastering the grassroots." Chen Tianxiong said, "Zheng Zhilong doesn't have this insight—he is a great businessman after all. But when he rises to the political level, his knowledge is much worse."

Although the Zheng family once made a splash in the southeast coast, but in the chaos of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, except for the bright spots in the mainland trade/intelligence network they established, they did not perform well in terms of administration and military management.Overall, it did not exceed the level of local tyrants.

Hearing that there are no activities of Zheng Zhilong's forces in Jinjiang City, Xu Xu has a little more confidence in entering the county tomorrow to carry out reconnaissance and kidnapping operations.Now I decided to go to Jinjiang County for a walk tomorrow.

"You guys rest here first, I'll make arrangements first, and I'll send someone to take you into the city tomorrow." Chen Tianxiong instructed.

"Is it difficult for the special investigation team to carry weapons and equipment into the city?"

"No problem. Just pretend."

Early the next morning, Chen Tianxiong had already sent two people to prepare the second sedan chair to pick up Qian Shuiting and Xu Xu.The sedan chair is not only for show off, but also has a mezzanine on the bottom of the sedan chair, which can carry weapons and other equipment.Therefore, those who carry the sedan chair are all specially selected strong men.

The eight team members all wore green clothes and hats, some carried luggage on their shoulders, and some held packages. They pretended to be servants of rich merchants and entered the city from the gate of the city.Although there are yamen servants and soldiers at the gate of the city, they only check the poor people and travelers and merchants, and don't ask questions about such rich and powerful ranks.

According to Chen Tianxiong's prior arrangements, Xu found a big inn in the city, put the goods in place, left a few team members to guard the goods, changed into decent clothes, and went for a walk on the street led by a guide.Pretend to be businessmen from other places to visit.

(End of this chapter)