Chapter 1560: Busy work in vain

Under the auspices of Xu Shiqi, the secret investigation process of the Ministry of Security was quickly launched. All personnel from various departments who had access to the "Diego"'s voyage arrangements were included in Xu Shiqi's investigation list.

Of course, this kind of investigation does not necessarily involve individual interrogation of the subjects of the investigation. The main work content is to conduct peripheral investigations first, especially those who have had recent contact with Su Keyi or other Dutch diplomats. They are the focus of the investigation.

The most important thing. However, because the investigation is conducted secretly at this stage, it will not make these departments become turbulent and panic.

The special service team spent a whole day reviewing the visitor registration information of these departments to first find out the parts related to the Dutch. Even if Su Keyi did not come in person, the special service team would first list the departments they came into contact with.

, to determine whether these contacts overlapped with the names on Xu Qiqi’s investigation list. But to their disappointment, at least in the past half month, the number of times the Dutch went to these departments to handle matters was very small, and

Basically, these are simple matters that are done at the service window, and there is no chance to contact senior officials.

Su Keyi himself visited the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Commerce once each, but these two visits were personally received by Sun Changmi and Schneider respectively. There was basically no possibility of leaking secrets in the process. Therefore, the investigation of preliminary clues was quickly completed.

Well, the special service team didn't find anything suspicious about it.

Now that the possibility of intelligence leakage in official contacts has been basically ruled out, the next step to investigate is the private social relationships and personal financial status of those personnel in various departments who have access to confidential information. Compared with the previous investigation link, these contents need to be investigated

The workload required was much greater. Xu Shiqi had to apply to He Xi to temporarily transfer several civilian personnel from the intelligence analysis department of the Ministry of Security to sort out the various information at hand.

At the same time, the Ministry of Security also arranged for personnel to monitor Su Keyi's movements 24 hours a day, especially those he came into contact with, to investigate without missing a beat. After the Spanish espionage case in 1634, the Ministry of Security

In fact, investigations of this scale are rarely carried out in Sanya.

But these actions seemed to have no effect at all. After the investigation continued for three or four days, no doubts were still found. At this time, Xu Shiqi had already begun to consider some seemingly ridiculous possibilities, such as the news.

Is the source of the leak from the Portuguese side? If the Portuguese intentionally or unintentionally leaked the information about the "Diego" to Su Keyi, then even if the special service team turns Sanya upside down, there will be no real gains.

Xu Shiqi decided to launch a new investigation direction, that is, in the past half month, whether people from the Portuguese Embassy had appeared on the same occasion as people from the East India Company. The focus of the investigation was restaurants, hotels and

Other places of sensual entertainment. Because Xu Shiqi felt that it was impossible for the Portuguese to betray this secret to the Dutch, maybe Su Keyi accidentally learned the news under some abnormal circumstances.

However, this investigation requires a wider scope. One of the most developed industries in Sanya is the service industry throughout the city. There are hundreds of restaurants and entertainment venues. It takes more than half a month to go back.

What happened before was not that easy. Almost none of the stores visited by the special team could remember what happened so long ago. What's more, Su Keyi was a Chinese with Han appearance and his Chinese was no worse than that of the locals. He was very good at it.

It is difficult to attract too much attention from others.

At this stage of the investigation, if we want to obtain practical clues from the public, we must use more manpower and make the investigation of the case public. Xu Shiqi is well aware of the heavy responsibility and does not dare to take it lightly.

idea, so he reported the case to He Xi and asked him to make a decision on whether the investigation needed to continue.

When He Xi decided to open a case to investigate this matter, he only guessed based on experience that this might be a case of insiders selling information for money. He did not expect that this matter would be so troublesome. If the scope of the investigation continues to be expanded, it will probably be soon.

The entire Sanya market will know that the authorities are investigating leaks related to Portugal and the Netherlands, and the Dutch will naturally get wind of it. This will either alert the snakes and make them take precautions, or let the people who have already completed the finishing work

The Dutch are watching the excitement. Either way will make subsequent investigations more difficult.

But if the investigation is not carried out at this point, not only will the previous investigation work be abandoned halfway, but a security risk will still be left, and secrets related to Portugal may be leaked in the future.

Whether to investigate or not immediately became a difficult problem before He Xi. However, He Xi had been wallowing in Haihan officialdom for so many years, and it was certainly not in vain. He soon came up with an idea - above

Isn’t there an executive committee?

If you want to report this matter to the Executive Committee, you must use some skills. You cannot simply report it as an intelligence case. Otherwise, some people will definitely think that He Xi is evading responsibility. After all, the Security Department is in charge of intelligence work.

If the Executive Committee has to make the decision, what's the use of He Xi? So He Xi plans to highlight the political flavor of this case and make the Executive Committee think that the investigation of this case must be considered from a political perspective.

The report to the Security Department for instructions will appear to be a matter of course.

He Xi has already made plans on how to highlight the political significance of this case. Among the two countries involved in the case, Haihan's attitude must be different between closeness and distance. He has no intention of supporting Portugal and being wary of the Netherlands.

What a secret. What He Xi wants to emphasize to the Executive Committee is that Portugal may not be a simple victim in this incident. If this matter is not investigated clearly, it may affect Haihan's long-term layout in the north.

After receiving the report from the Ministry of Security, the Executive Committee paid great attention to it. It immediately held a temporary meeting and asked He Xi to come to the scene to answer questions. He Xi specially brought Xu Shiqi, who was responsible for handling the case, with him at the scene.

He gave a detailed account of the progress of the case to the Executive Committee, as well as the source of the so-called intelligence leakage that the Executive Committee is most concerned about.

In fact, the Ministry of Security is still not sure that the information was leaked from the Portuguese side, but the current investigation work has almost eliminated all other possibilities, and it seems that only this seemingly most unlikely one is left.

The situation exists. The final investigation work is just to determine whether the leakage of the news was intentional or unintentional.

If it was unintentional, that's fine. It should be the Dutch who took advantage. But if it was intentional, this may affect Haihan's attitude towards the Portuguese in the future. Otherwise, instead of agreeing on any plan, he would just turn around and

Being sold is not a situation that Haihan can accept. If the Ministry of Security continues to investigate, it is still difficult to make a conclusion as to whose interests the final findings will harm.

"Let's find out clearly!" Tao Donglai was the first to express his position: "No matter what the outcome is, the situation should be controllable. If there is really a problem with the Portuguese, it will be better for us to find out than to have trouble in the future."

Schneider immediately agreed with Tao Donglai's point of view: "There is only one truth. The mission of the Ministry of Security is to find out this truth, and the subsequent impact and aftermath should be the task of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant departments. I suggest

Minister He will continue to perform his duties and investigate the case as soon as possible."

"But the results we found may be the purpose of Su Keyi deliberately throwing out this information. If the Portuguese really leaked the news, then our relationship with the Portuguese will be affected to a certain extent, and this is exactly what the Dutch want

The situation we saw." Ning Qi reminded everyone of the possible outcome, that is, the Dutch deliberately used this to disrupt the relationship between Haihan and Portugal.

"No matter what Su Keyi's purpose is, we have to face reality after all! Check!" Tao Donglai's opinion finally gave the final say to this temporary hearing. The Executive Committee will authorize the Ministry of Security to investigate the case currently held by the Special Service Group Two.

The cases under investigation are given the highest investigative authority and the facts of the case are investigated to the end.

With the authorization from the Executive Committee, He Xi naturally had enough confidence to do things. He also assigned some capable manpower to Xu Shiqi and asked him to find out the truth of this case as soon as possible. And because this matter was in the Executive Committee

After discussion at the meeting, the Ministry of Justice has also given certain support and asked the Police Department to try its best to cooperate with the investigation work of the Ministry of Security. In some places where it is not suitable for the special service investigation team to come forward, the Police Department can send personnel to assist.

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Xu Shiqi took Shang Fang's sword, which strengthened his men's strength. Now with the cooperation of the police department, the investigation would be more effective. Three days later, the investigation team finally confirmed that Su Keyi and the Portuguese Minister Thomas had been together on the same night.

Appeared in a certain restaurant.

Of course, it is impossible for these two people to meet up to eat and drink alone in public. Even if they appear in the same restaurant on the same night, this should be just some kind of coincidence. After conducting interviews with everyone from the waiters to the boss of the restaurant,

After careful interrogation, the investigation team can confirm that it is just a coincidence that these two people appear here at the same time.

According to the boss's recollection, Su Keyi hosted a banquet for several Ming Dynasty maritime merchants in the name of the East India Company that day, and they should have discussed business at the dinner table. The reason why he was particularly impressed by Su Keyi was because several Portuguese people also happened to come that night.

After eating here, I met Su Keyi in the corridor on the second floor. They exchanged a few words and the boss realized that this man who looked almost the same as a local Han was actually a Dutchman.

The Portuguese are frequent visitors here, because this restaurant is only a hundred meters away from the Portuguese Embassy in Sanya, and it can be regarded as the nearest high-end restaurant. There are even some products produced in Portugal on the menu of this restaurant.

barrels of red wine for sale - of course this wine was also sold to the local market by the Portuguese.

The two parties are eating and drinking on the same floor. Although they are not sitting at the same table, there may indeed be ears between the walls and the possibility that the other party may overhear some key information. And according to the days recorded in the restaurant’s account book, "

The news that the "Diego" left Zhejiang waters and headed north has been sent back to Sanya via telegram from Zhejiang, and Haihan officials also notified Thomas of the news in a timely manner. In other words, if Thomas talked about the information about the "Diego" during the banquet that day

, which is also within a reasonable range.

But at this stage of the investigation, it is still impossible to conclusively prove that Su Keyi's information came from this encounter in the restaurant. Unless there is a way to interrogate Su Keyi and let him confess the truth, this obviously does not comply with diplomatic rules. Although Xu

Seventeen tried many ways to find some circumstantial evidence to prove that this situation was the truth, but in the end the missing part in the evidence chain was still too large, and there were still obvious loopholes in deducing this result.

Nearly ten days have passed since Schneider reported the case to the investigation. The special service investigation team, which has more than 40 people, has not found any new clues. All investigations have pointed to the accidental encounter in the restaurant.

A situation that seems impossible but is the only one.

He Xi had to report this investigation result to the executive committee again. Although it sounded a bit ridiculous, it was already the final conclusion. Tao Donglai was relatively tolerant about this, and he believed that there was enough circumstantial evidence.

, this is enough to explain to the Portuguese. If the Portuguese are still dissatisfied, they can go to Su Keyi to confront him.

It is unknown whether Su Keyi's purpose was to create conflicts between Haihan and Portugal, but at least it made Haihan waste people and money. In order to investigate this case, the Haihan Security Department and the Police Department dispatched thousands of people in ten days.

More than 400 people were interviewed, and the number far exceeded the list of survey targets listed when Xu Qiqi took over. The final result of the investigation was a guess that may never be confirmed.

In the end, it was Schneider who came forward and informed the Portuguese Thomas of Haihan's investigation results. According to this conclusion, Thomas himself was at least half responsible for leaking the news. It was really difficult for Thomas to be satisfied with this result, but he also took it.

There is no evidence to prove that Haihan's investigation results are incorrect.

Also disappointed were He Xi and Xu Qiqi. They thought they would catch some insiders from this case, and maybe even lead to an intelligence network lurking in Sanya, but in the end

But there was nothing, and all the evidence pointed to this being just a ridiculous coincidence. The temporary establishment of the Special Service Group Two was disbanded, and the transferred case investigators returned to their original posts.

During the investigation of the case, a large-scale investigation was carried out on local restaurants, restaurants and entertainment venues. There are rumors in the market that this may be the early arrival of this year's security crackdown. Therefore, the security situation in Sanya has been improved to a certain extent, which can be regarded as a relief.

This is a small consolation for the Haihan official who has been busy in vain.
Chapter completed!