Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 264 White Sugar in Leizhou

Looking at Tintin who was completely defeated, the fat man stood up and said kindly: "Comrade, good principles can only be effective in an appropriate environment. Don't copy them mechanically. This is a guiding suggestion from the internal affairs department for such reports. , you take it back to read and revise the article, if you can’t publish the daily newspaper, you can still publish the evening paper. If you have any comments, we will discuss it in detail.”

Seeing Ding Ding leave with the documents, the fat man stood up, still with that gentle smile, and returned to his office.

The official name of his office is "Policy Research Office of the Internal Affairs Committee".Equivalent to an advisor to the House Committee.

The office is clean and tidy, with a white wood desk of the Holy Ship brand filled with homemade file racks and file baskets.There is also a large bookshelf full of books.The only modern artifacts are a laptop and several CD cases.

Behind the desk is a gorgeous and exquisite screen that is extremely incompatible with the environment. Behind it is a simple white wooden bed with mosquito nets, clothes hangers and small cabinets.It's the configuration of an old-fashioned bachelor living in an institution.

Judging from the layout of the office, this person does not have a high status in the various departments of the Executive Committee, and there is no rocker phone on the desk that symbolizes power-this is the standard equipment for the heads of various departments.

He sat down on the worn rattan chair, and took out a letter from the rattan basket marked "Come". It was folded into a letter, and the red seal of "Secret" was stamped on the seam.Open it, and inside is a translation of a telegram sent from Guangzhou.

The content of the telegram was to investigate Li Huamei's background in Macau.He read very carefully.

Li Huamei's Background Investigation Report

confidential,

center:

After receiving the instructions, I immediately started to investigate Li Huamei's origin and background.

In Guangzhou, it is almost impossible to find any news about her and her Hangzhou number, compared to Li Siya's news is more.But the news about Li Siya is basically based on the nature of rumors, and what we can grasp is no more substantive breakthrough than what we have grasped in the past.

Therefore, I decided to send Zhang Xin to Macau to investigate directly.He played a very important role in the trade between Guangzhou Station and Macau, and established a relatively deep personal friendship with Huang Shunlong. Huang Shunlong had dealt with various maritime forces in Macau for a long time, and knew a lot about various forces.Before we have established our own intelligence system in Macau, I think it is feasible to use Huang Shunlong's channel.

Zhang Xin went to Macau in the name of trading wine.I approved him to carry out the following activities: revealed to Huang Shunlong that he recently met a female pirate at sea, and described the ship and flag to him.According to his on-site reaction, Zhang Xin judged that Huang Shunlong knew something about it.At first Huang was reluctant to talk about this matter, but under Zhang Xin's further guidance, he revealed the following news to us:

He has seen ships like the Hangzhou moored in the port many times.But he could not tell whose ship it was, the only thing he knew was that the captain was a woman, of which he was quite sure.We took Li Huamei's photo and repainted a computer drawing to identify him. He again said that he couldn't recognize it without looking at it carefully.But Zhang Xin thought: what he saw was Li Huamei.

Zhang Xin noticed: Huang Shunlong was very reluctant to mention any ships and captains anchored locally in his speech.Regarding such inquiries, he always said that he did not know.We speculate: this is directly related to his business of pirates, and he is afraid that he will accidentally reveal the secrets of these people in his speech.But it should be credible that he is not familiar with Li Huamei.Therefore, we infer: Li Huamei is not a pirate, at least her pirate activity area is not near the coast of China.From this point of view, Li Huamei's self-report that she is doing business in Goa has certain credibility.

The next day, Zhang Xin directly investigated the sailors and related personnel on the pier again.From these populations, he confirmed the cycle of Hangzhou's appearance in Macau. It arrives in Macau in June every year, and then sails and returns irregularly, heading for various regions in Southeast Asia.Each voyage takes about a month or so.Hangzhou left completely in December.This cycle coincides with Macau's Goan trade cycle.At the same time, they reconfirmed by recognizing the picture: Li Huamei is the captain of the Hangzhou.Port personnel didn't know much about this person, not even where she stopped when she arrived in port.

Regarding the headquarters specifically requesting to investigate whether there is a connection between Li Huamei and Li Siya, but there are almost no sources of intelligence in this regard.Limited by language and personal connections, Zhang Xin's investigation can only be conducted in Chinese circles.But most of the local Chinese have never heard of this person, and even know little about a female captain who comes here regularly.Some people confuse her with Li Siya.By the way: the local Chinese have a "curiosity" mentality towards Li Siya. There are many rumors, but little is known about her real living conditions.The rumors mainly focus on her murder and fire prevention. Based on the information we have inquired, we infer that in addition to robbery at sea, she has also participated in many attacks on Moon Harbor.

We believe that the possibility of acquaintance, cooperation, or other deeper relationships between the two cannot be ruled out, after all, they both have a strong Portuguese background.If it is said that Li Siya is related by blood, then Li Huamei, as a pure-bred Chinese, has a lot of Portuguese elements, which seems a bit strange.She can't get it all out of thin air.

Regarding Li Huamei's background investigation, only this information has been collected so far.Follow the instructions and collect information on her. As soon as there is any new news, I will immediately report the details to the headquarters.

Guangzhou Station Ziyan

The fat man stamped the message as read and picked up another letter.

This is a telegram sent from the Hangzhou, and it uses "internal secrets".There were only a few lines in the telegram, but the information was very important: Li Huamei climbed into the cabin of Zhenhai in the middle of the night.Stay in there for at least 10 minutes.

"You are such an ingenious woman." The fat man muttered to himself, after thinking for a moment, he still took out a file and put both telegrams in it.Write the added document summary and number on it.Then put it in the "go" file basket.

Xuwen County, Leizhou.

Two people carrying sedan chairs were walking on the dusty avenue, surrounded by more than a dozen servants in Tsing Yi, and five or six bodyguards on horseback.Each of them was either holding a whistle stick or a sharp knife on his waist, and was heavily guarded. Some small groups of strong men along the road had to retreat three feet when they saw it.

Wen Tong closed his eyes and meditated in the sedan chair. He was already a little used to the bumpy sedan chair, and he almost vomited when he sat on it for the first time.It seems like a kind of enjoyment for a rich man to sit in a sedan chair on TV, and he also thought it was quite interesting at the beginning, but after a long time, he couldn’t bear it—the sedan chair is not a sofa, but a straight and hard back, after a long time Back pain.

Since the harvest of sugar cane at the end of last year, Wen Tong has been sent to Leizhou as the sugar commissioner of Lingao Grain and Oil Company.He has only one task, to inspect and supervise the local white sugar production, and to find the most suitable white sugar manufacturing process for local production.Build Leizhou into an important town for the export of white sugar.

Today's Zhanjiang City, where Xuwen County was located in the Ming Dynasty, is still the largest sugar production base in China. It is a tripartite rivalry with Guangxi and Yunnan. Wen Tong, who was born in a sugar family, is no stranger to it.When the Ministry of Agriculture was discussing whether to plant sugarcane in Lingao, he strongly opposed it. The reason is that although Lingao can grow sugarcane, it is not the most ideal production area. Sugarcane is a kind of water and fertility. The popularization of economic crops will seriously affect the local food production.Xuwen across the strait is a traditional sugar producing area in China. Wouldn't it be a waste of resources not to use it to make redundant construction in Lingao?

For this reason, from the beginning of winter in 1628, Guangzhou Station started a large-scale acquisition of sugarcane fields and sugar mills while laying out land access and networks in Leizhou.By the beginning of this cropping season, Lingao Grain and Oil Corporation has controlled nine sugarcane farms in Haikang and Xuwen counties, with 2600 mu of sugarcane fields and five mills.

The ambition of Lingao Grain and Oil Company is not limited to the 2600 mu of sugarcane land. Wentong was instructed to buy local sugarcane or raw sugar as much as possible, and use the advanced sugar-making technology mastered by the traversers to produce in large quantities. Low-priced white sugar quickly occupied the market.

"Advanced sugar making technology, this is really a bit of a dream." Wen Tong secretly smiled bitterly when he heard this instruction. The more advanced place for sugarcane farmers is nothing more than being able to manufacture some special processing machinery, which has higher labor productivity, a higher comprehensive utilization rate of sugar by-products, and a lower total cost.

The first step after Wentong landed was to quickly visit the main sugarcane producing areas in the two counties to observe the conditions of sugarcane planting, harvesting and processing.He generally knows what the old-fashioned sugar extraction equipment and techniques are, but these are relics of the Qing Dynasty. He has not seen what the equipment of the Ming Dynasty looked like.

In order to ensure Wen Tong's safety, the executive committee sent Zhou Shizhai, a consultant from the police station, to bring an apprentice to guard him. He and Qiwei's men were from the same bodyguard agency, so it was easy to communicate.In addition, there is also a teacher who travels through the world to accompany him. He has nothing to do with sugar or sugarcane, but he is tall and strong enough. He is also a military enthusiast. He has a good grasp of weapons after training for several months. Can wield a ghost knife or something.I don't care about his force when he is sent here, mainly to allow the two traversers to talk to each other.It's not like being with the indigenous people, there is no common language.

With the help of Qiwei's large-scale set-up and line laying in Leizhou, Wentong's sugarcane trip is convenient and safe.After landing from Lantern Corner, the treasurer of the Haikang branch in Weilei Prefecture greeted him with a sedan chair and bodyguards.

(End of this chapter)