Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 596 Training
"Business travel means going deep into the enemy's territory. Whether it is the Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty or the European colonists, they are all natives of the 17th century. Please don't use the moral principles and codes of conduct of the 20th century to set their actions. Here, on behalf of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Colonial and Trade Directorate, I am announcing a 'notice', which is the risk you may encounter in carrying out your mission. It is better for everyone to understand..."

This notice was made by Jiang Shan's insistence.Yu Eshui objected.But in the end, it was implemented according to Jiangshan's intention.The meaning of Jiangshan is very simple: everyone puts the ugliness first.

His intention is to fully describe the difficulties and dangers of intelligence work, fully arouse everyone's heroism, and avoid complaining in the future.

"Okay, okay, talk like an old woman." A strong man sitting in the back said impatiently, "I'm not afraid of death after I sign up, don't talk so much about it..."

"It's better for everyone to know. Be mentally prepared for the situation you will face in the future." Wang Ding remembered the material of this person. This person is called Huang Hua, who is from Heilongjiang. He used to work in the machinery factory under the Manufacturing Director Department.When he filled out the form, his ambition was to go to Houjin Site to serve as the station master.This person's resume shows that he has done business, has a certain business acumen, understands mechanical technology, is familiar with the geography and scenery outside the customs, and can self-defense; he can speak fluent Korean and Shanxi dialect , is a suitable candidate for post-finance work.

"It's not a question of whether you are afraid of death or not. Sometimes life may be worse than death." Wang Ding began to read the notice as he spoke.

The content of the notice is to the effect that you are participating in a dangerous job.First of all, you will experience the hardships of traveling in bad road conditions; whether you go by land or water, you may encounter bandits.Unless you have the arrogance of a bastard and can make the bandits fall down and worship you, otherwise you will end up lying dead in the street.

Township bravery, yamen servants, and soldiers are no better than bandits, and people in certain places will not hesitate to rob and kill a passerby, even if the passerby has only a few yuan of dry food and a piece of rags.

In terms of sanitation, cities are not necessarily better than rural areas, and may even be worse.Generally speaking, diseases are always prevalent in densely populated places.The water and food that the locals can adapt to may not be able to bear the stomachs of modern people.In addition to bacterial infection, food and water also have the risk of parasites.

Poor sanitary conditions are likely to make you sick, even if there is no sanitary problem, you may get sick. If you are injured while performing a mission, you will not have any health services except for a small amount of medicine and local Chinese medicine.A dog bite or stabbing with a rusty knife can kill you—even if you are sent back to Lingao urgently, the journey is long, and you may die on the way.

You may be dealing with parasites such as fleas, bedbugs and ticks - which are abundant in this time and place, not necessarily among the poor - and these parasites will not only make you feel sick and pimples, It will also bring all kinds of weird diseases, some of which may not be able to be effectively treated in modern time and space.

Finally, once you are arrested in the mainland, the Foreign Intelligence Service cannot immediately launch a rescue: if you are unlucky, there is no radio station nearby or no one notifies you in time, the headquarters may not know that you have been arrested until after the prescribed contact period.Months may have passed by the time someone was sent to the rescue.Getting arrested doesn't have to be because your job went wrong or your identity was exposed.The Spaniards will arrest you because you are Chinese, and the later Jin may be because you are Han Chinese; as for Daming, maybe just because you are in business and have some money, you will be caught by someone who wants to make some extra money People like Dongchang fanzi or county government servants have taken a fancy to it; even pretending to be poor is not necessarily safe, you may be arrested just because there is a murder case in the local government and the government needs to find a foreigner with no roots as a scapegoat To torture.

All levels of governments, dictatorships, and even private organizations in Ming Dynasty, Later Jin Dynasty, or European colonists will torture you, some for confession, and some just to extract money from you. Prisons in this time and space not only have no basic human rights, but even survival. You may not have any power, and you may be killed by various methods by the prison boss.And this is an era of good masculinity, so the white and clean modern people are likely to be brutally murdered by some obscene uncle...

"...Even if you are rescued, you may suffer from mental and physical disabilities and shadows due to torture and um... various other tortures..."

This deliberate description of the terrifying prospect caused a commotion in the people-this is not like the 17th century, but like hell on earth.

"If anyone feels that they are not suitable for this job, they can still withdraw now." Wang Ding said, "The transfer procedures of the organization department have not yet been completed. We will return the application materials and will not leave any records."

The scene became very silent. Of course, no one at the scene said that he was afraid: first of all, he couldn't let go of his face, and secondly, the role model of Leizhou in Guangzhou was there. It seemed that he had never heard of such a terrible situation.At least those expatriates like him are living a good life and are very nourished.

"Hmph, this is just a disclaimer." Huang Hua commented, and then said loudly: "Okay, I understand. If anything happens in the future, it has nothing to do with you, we will ask for it ourselves! I will sign a certificate of life and death to the General Administration. Well."

According to their agreement with the Ministry of Colonial Trade, the expatriate elders belonged to both parties, regardless of each other.As for the training, all the training is contracted by the Foreign Intelligence Service, and the specific courses to be offered will be decided after discussions among various departments.

Li Yan originally wanted Hu Qingbai to allocate the classrooms and dormitories in Fangcaodi for the training of intelligence personnel.But Jiang Shan thinks that this place is too busy with people coming and going.And it's too "modern" and lacks a sense of substitution of Ming life.In the end, only Part A of the intelligence training center was set up in Fangcaodi, which specialized in training indigenous intelligence personnel, including dispatchers, clerical personnel, and intelligence analysts.

As for the intelligence training center for dispatched personnel, the specially trained veterans were set up in the courtyard of the original Gou Er's family in Lingao County—this place has been vacant for a long time. New building.Moreover, Lingao County is finally a well-preserved specimen of Ming society.

The director of the county office, Xiong Buyou, went to Dian Shi Sun Ruiwu, and immediately "sold" the house without officials as cheap.In fact, it was false money and real deeds, that is, a few officials in the county got benefits.

The construction company slightly renovated and rectified this place, mainly adding living and training facilities, and the Intelligence Bureau Training Center was established.For the sake of confidentiality, there is no listing and no gate posts here, and only two reliable aboriginal guards are arranged to guard the gate.The entry and exit of personnel and materials are all at night.

The training plan was formulated by Jiangshan.As for the curriculum, it mainly refers to the suggestions of Wu Mu from the State Administration of Political Science and Security, Chen Tianxiong from Leizhou Station, and Yu Eshui.

Since most of them are going to Ming Dynasty for activities, the training course is mainly to make them "like a person of Ming Dynasty".On the contrary, it is relatively easy for those who are willing to go to the European territory for activities-they don't need to pretend to be people from Ming Dynasty.

How to be like the people of Daming belongs to only one topic.Relying on historical data alone is not enough.Fortunately, they have long-term accumulation in Guangzhou and Leizhou.I have mastered real first-hand information on life details, customs, social conditions and other aspects.

The first level is the shape, which is the easiest to deal with.From the moment everyone enters this training class, they stop cutting their hair and start growing their hair—those who are willing to use the monk as a cover can be exempted from growing their hair.Depending on the shape of the face and the cover each person wishes to choose, some will have a beard.

In order to have a sense of substitution, except for some training uniforms, everyone usually wears Ming Dynasty clothes for daily life and class.There are no modern amenities in the dorms.The dormitories they live in all maintain the appearance they should have in the Ming Dynasty. They sleep on hard boards, covered with sheets made of local homemade cloth, and the pillows are also hard rectangular pillows used by the ancients.The windows were pasted with paper, and at night either candles or oil lamps were lit.

The daily meals are made by the indigenous people with "genuine Ming Cantonese style" or "pure Ming Fujian style". These two flavors are completely different from the familiar Cantonese and Fujian dishes.I also eat "recalling bitter rice" two days a week: mainly sweet potatoes, black noodles and other kinds of miscellaneous grains - not the "miscellaneous grains" sold in small packages in supermarkets that are more expensive than rice, but real farmers Cereals for subsistence.Corn buns have stubble, which will fall off as soon as you bite, and you can’t swallow it after chewing for a long time; sweet potato porridge has skins, and it only tastes like sweet potatoes and skins, and you can’t see a few grains of rice...

This dietary arrangement is to allow the elders to adapt to the meals of this time and space in advance, so that the elders who are accustomed to polished rice and white noodles will not be able to eat or have diarrhea after eating on the mainland-after all, everyone eats brown rice for a long time after D-day. I have gotten used to the whole grains, and I have not experienced too severe reactions in my stomach adaptation.

Then came the question of accent and identity.After discussion, it was decided that it would be best to pretend to be a person from Guangdong.This is mainly because the difference between ancient and modern Cantonese vernacular is relatively small, and many people in the time-traveling group can already speak Cantonese vernacular in this time and space.In addition, with the existence of Guangzhou Station, it is very easy to obtain household registration and identity, and even establish a "home" for expatriates to cover when necessary.

Language learning is mainly focused on Mandarin, and being able to speak Ming Mandarin can get by on many occasions.Of course, it is still a bit difficult to communicate with the local people, but this can be learned slowly in the dispatched place.

As for writing, everyone has to practice brush calligraphy. It doesn’t have to be good, at least you can use it to write letters and keep accounts. As for simplified characters, Yu Eshui thinks it’s not a big problem—this kind of vulgar characters are used in social life. Also very broad.As for classical Chinese, there is even less need for it. As long as you can speak Ming Dynasty official language, you can handle it directly by writing in spoken language-this is the level of most businessmen.

After the appearance and language pass the test, you can roughly mix into the society of Ming Dynasty.Of course, there is still a lot to learn in the future.Especially the living habits and spiritual outlook of people in the Ming Dynasty: things that a modern person feels afraid or angry about may not be taken seriously by the natives.What aboriginals feel afraid or fear, modern people may be indifferent.

"Don't be overwhelmed with sympathy, and don't fight against injustice casually." Yu Eshui emphasized, "Don't think that ancient society is simple and honest. Many deception routines in today's society have been passed down since ancient times. At least you will lose money, and at worst you will lose money. It caused endless trouble! As for fighting injustices in the street, it is even worse, don’t think that you are a superman in the 21st century, even if you can protect yourself, once you offend people in the local area, you will not be able to gain a foothold, and all local business operations will be in vain.”

Yu Eshui took a sip of water: "I advise everyone to forget all the plots in martial arts novels, such as heroes saving beauty, drawing swords to help each other, casino feats... These are all irrelevant to our work, and are very harmful to work! Sometimes even quite deadly!
"Unless the headquarters approves, there is a complete set of action plans and the necessary foreign assistance, don't try to organize underground societies in the local area - Daming also has gangsters, often with deep roots, and the government can't do anything about it. The methods used are no worse than those of the younger generation. You Wanting to be a godfather in the county town of Daming will not be easier than being a godfather in a county town in the old time and space.

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Even in relations between men and women, they are reminded to be strict.

"Of course, it is impossible for you to abstain from sexual intercourse once you go there for a few years. Once you can settle down in the local area, the headquarters will arrange a reliable life secretary to accompany you. Don't go to brothels casually, you will get various venereal diseases—the end of the Ming Dynasty is a legend of syphilis Entering the period of big outbreaks; don’t provoke a married man, the law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that it is not illegal for the husband to kill an adulterer. The headquarters worked hard to train you to go to Daming, not to let you be used as Ximenqing and Wu Song’s head beheaded That's right. Don't provoke the girl with yellow flowers..."

"You can't go to high-end brothels?" Someone questioned, "Last time you said in the lecture that high-end brothels in the Ming Dynasty were a social place, and if we pretended to be big businessmen, we must go to such places. There is also gambling, and sometimes work needs to be unavoidable.”

"Of course, that's another matter." Yu Eshui said, "But the high-level academy is a gold-selling cave, and there are different rules here. People who don't understand will be ridiculed even if they spend money for nothing--I'm not either. I understand very well. One of Lin Baiguang's subordinates is very familiar with this set, so please invite him to explain the way of eating, drinking, whoring and gambling in the future, so that you will not be deceived."

"That's great."

Someone continued to ask about women: "Can we buy women locally?"

"Yes," Yu Eshui nodded, "relatively speaking, buying a woman is the safest. But buying a woman has to go through formal procedures and channels..."

The so-called formal procedures and channels are to buy from the local people's market and people's teeth as much as possible. Although the price is more expensive, there will be no "white pigeons".

"Or it's a local small family. If you fancy a girl, you can use human teeth to stretch it. The price is right and you can still negotiate."

"The local people have taken a fancy to me, what should they do if they want to marry their daughter to me?" Someone asked.

Yu Eshui spread his hands: "This involves policy issues, and I can't answer them."

Li Yan, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said: "As long as you don't have wives or girlfriends, the headquarters doesn't object to you marrying wives or taking concubines locally. As long as their reliability can be guaranteed. But if you marry wives, this' The wife's status must also be guaranteed across the group. In other words, if you change places or return to Lingao in the future, you will no longer be able to marry a wife. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" Everyone responded excitedly.

"Remember, the deeper you go into the mainland, the harder it will be for the headquarters to support you," Li Yan emphasized in class. "In Guangdong and Guangxi, there is the umbrella of holding high, the Qiwei Escort, and our special investigation team. When necessary, the navy can even bombard Guangzhou, but there is nothing in the place where you go, and it may take months for the headquarters to receive your news. Everything depends on yourself. Although the mistakes in the details of life are not like in modern times So deadly in intelligence operations, but the accumulation can be noticeable."

They were then taught various common etiquette and manners.They need to know when to bow hands and kowtow according to their identities, and how to address others according to their relationship... These courses are usually taught by the most reliable aboriginal personnel, and Zhang Xingjiao is one of them.As a scholar, even though he lives in a small southern county, he still knows the advances and retreats of various etiquettes very clearly.

The biggest help in this regard came from Wang Ci.This county school teaching was obtained by Xiong Buyou in the name of "We have always admired Ming Dynasty's etiquette and hope to learn a thing or two".Wang Ci has always been depressed by the advantages of the Australians in all aspects, especially now that he is completely relying on "food from the cheap" to maintain the county school and Molixuan. Much stronger.

Now I suddenly heard that a group of Australians "willed to enlightenment", and seeing that their clothes and hairstyles have changed into Ming Dynasty costumes, I was so excited that I almost shed tears. To teach the knowledge of etiquette advance and retreat.He even resolutely refused any remuneration, and worked for the training class for several years in vain.

Then from the study class, I found the book office and yamen servants who are working hard to "study" and "reform their minds". How to get along with all kinds of people in the county government; which people in the county should be established with what activities to carry out, how to bribe and divide the spoils, and how to avoid disaster and escape if something happens...

(End of this chapter)