Chapter 569 Special Commissioner

Wang Baisuo didn't expect that Zhang Qianzhi, who had just entered Zhongming Academy for a day, could get any inside information. Even if He Xi came to Danzhou in person, he probably wouldn't be able to get valuable information from Zhongming Academy in such a short period of time.

Therefore, the only method Wang Baisuo can use at present is to strengthen external surveillance. As for the surveillance of Yan Mingjun, it is mainly left to He Qi, the leader of the government officials. For this reason, He Qi received another fifty taels of "special operations funds"

——This is roughly the same as his total harvest including gray income in the past year, and it is also the highest single income he has received since working for Haihan.

Zhang Qianzhi did learn a lot of reconnaissance skills while following He Xi, but these things seem to be of little use at the moment. He was arranged to live in a room with three other Confucian scholars, and his daily schedule was to study the Four Books and Five Classics in the morning

, practicing calligraphy or studying poems and songs in the afternoon. For a young man like him who has seen the market, this kind of life is quite boring.

However, Zhang Qianzhi has received special training after all, and has developed a professional habit of being wary of others. He can clearly feel that the other three people in the same room will mention things about Haihan intentionally or unintentionally, and they will never forget it every time.

Ask him what he thinks. It is not too difficult for Zhang Qianzhi to deal with this superficial routine. He knows very well how he should play the role of an orthodox Confucian scholar of the Ming Dynasty who has many dissatisfaction with Haihan.

According to the pre-arrangement, Zhang Qianzhi will leave the academy every two to three days and go into the city to buy some daily necessities. During this period, people from the Security Department will arrange opportunities to contact him and exchange information.

Wang Baisuo's deployment on this matter can only be maintained to this extent for the time being. This kind of monitoring may not be effective in a short time, and he cannot devote all his resources to this matter.

Although Danzhou is not a large place, the Ministry of Security is responsible for more than just a reactionary scholar and a new local official who is ready to make a move. Wang Baisuo needs to deal with much more than this.

For example, this afternoon, he received the latest instructions sent by telegram from Hao Wanqing from the Sanya base camp. In principle, the importance level of the instructions transmitted by telegram is already relatively high, because the staff is limited and the Security Department

It does not have its own wireless communication department and operators. Only instructions that require relatively high timeliness will be sent by the Ministry of Security using the radio stations of the military or the management committee. Ordinary orders are generally sent through land or sea transportation channels.

To pass it on - just like other counterparts of this era.

When this telegram was delivered to Wang Baisuo, he noticed at a glance that the envelope containing the telegram was marked with the eye-catching word "Top Secret". This was the first time in the few months since he took up the post of the Ministry of Security's agency in Danzhou—

—In fact, this was the first time in his career that he received the legendary "top secret" code message.

Wang Baisuo carefully closed the door and window, sat on his seat and calmed down his emotions for a while, then opened the envelope, took out the message, and read the contents.

The content of the message is very brief, and the general idea is that during the "Operation Prairie Fire", there were some omissions in the raids on the officialdom of Qiongbei. This omission does not refer to the only Qiongzhou city that was not captured by the pirate army, but to the Qiongbei city that the pirate army was responsible for occupying.

In the area, there are still big fish that have slipped through the net.

According to the arrangement of the "Plan Fire", after the Annan army disguised as a pirate army occupied various prefectures and counties in Qiongbei, one of its next tasks was to clean up the local Ming government agencies and target those who had been identified in advance.

Officials with obvious hostile stances were arrested on a large scale. Since there was a relatively clear list of arrest targets in advance, the efficiency of this large-scale purge operation was also very high. Similar to the local government in Danzhou, full-time officials of major departments

They are all being arrested and arrested, and the people currently cooperating with the Provisional Management Committee are all deputies or "people who are aware of current affairs" who have been recently promoted from below.

At that time, the military was responsible for checking the arrest list. Due to various reasons, the Ministry of Security was not directly involved on the front line. However, in the list of personnel submitted by the military to the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Security after the war, it seemed that

There are no missing persons whose whereabouts are questionable. But now the top-secret message sent from the base camp says that there is a big fish that has slipped through the net. This must be a loophole in some previous link.

The message did not specify the specific identity of Big Fish, but only informed Wang Baisuo that a commissioner would go to Danzhou to preside over the investigation in the near future, and hoped that he would cooperate. This also reflects the importance that the top management of the Ministry of Security attaches to this matter.

Of course, the base camp will send a commissioner to guide the work. What Wang Baisuo can do to cooperate is probably to prepare manpower and provide it to the commissioner for command.

But Wang Baisuo has already allocated most of his manpower to monitor Zhongming Academy. For the local security department in Danzhou, this order from the base camp comes at a bad time. Wang Baisuo has already borrowed it from the local police force.

As a person like this, I have to be shameless and go find Zhang Xin again.

Of course, this is not a big problem, and Wang Baisuo’s focus is not on this aspect. As an intelligence practitioner with a background as a police agent, Wang Baisuo’s work experience within the system is enough to be considered an expert, and he noticed this matter very keenly.

Opportunities he may have gained during the incident - tracing back to the root cause, it should not be the responsibility of the Ministry of Security for the big fish to slip through the net, but if this big fish can be caught within his jurisdiction, then Wang Baisuo will definitely be rewarded based on his merits afterwards.

One serving.

February 2, 1631, the tenth day after the new governor of Danzhou took office. Zhang Qianzhi, a spy from the Ministry of Security, disguised his identity and sneaked into Zhongming Academy on the fifth day. Wang Baisuo became the head of Danzhou, the Ministry of Security, for three months and seven days. For them,

This day does not seem to be much different from the countless days in the past, but for someone who has just arrived at Baimajing Pier in Danzhou Bay, it feels like a rebirth.

This is the first time that Li Qingyang has had the opportunity to leave Sanya since he arrived in Qiongzhou Island. He has been in Sanya for a year, and many of his ideas have changed a lot from when he first arrived in Qiongzhou Island. If he can do it again

Given a chance to choose, he would probably refuse the order to go south from the beginning, so that he could at least maintain his loyalty to the court.

Through the close contact and gradual understanding of the Haihan people over the past year, Li Qingyang also understood that his strength was simply not enough to fight against the giant beast Haihan. To say that a mantis was like a chariot was putting it mildly. Even the Jin Yiwei behind him, the great power of the Ming Dynasty

It is difficult for the largest yamen to compare with the operational efficiency of Haihan's security department - just Haihan's magical technique of sending messages across thousands of miles, Jin Yiwei is completely unable to crack and deal with it.

During Li Qingyang's stay in Sanya, in addition to his public identity in the medicine shop, the person he dealt with the most was the Haihan Security Department. Every month he had to work under the supervision of the security department personnel, that is, his boss Lin Nan

Next, write a routine report submitted to Jinyiweinan Town Fusi, and based on the feedback received, make certain predictions about Nanzhen Fusi's recent actions.

In fact, this job is not difficult to do. It is much easier than he thought when he was under house arrest. He does not need to think about what to write in this official document, how to write it, and what purpose it needs to achieve. Everything is handled by the security team.

The person responsible for this matter was drafted by the department, and he only played the role of copying and making suggestions.

Of course, when the Ministry of Security included Li Qingyang in the establishment, it did not keep him as a living display. In addition to writing this report and stabilizing the investigation of the Ming Dynasty Jinyi Guards, Li Qingyang's role was to dig out from him

The information that is useful to Haihan is simply the various inside stories and operating rules of Jinyiwei, an intelligence agency.

These things have no value for the Ministry of Security. They are mainly used to understand the opponent's behavior so that they can better control the opponent's tricks in the field of intelligence work. Li Qingyang initially had some concerns about this kind of thing.

He resisted, but the Haihan people immediately showed him some secret things in the Jinyi Guards, such as the replacement process of recent Jinyiwei commanders, from Liu Shouyou and Luo Sigong in the Wanli period, to Tian Ergeng in the Tianqi period, and then to Tian Ergen in the Tianqi period.

When Luo Yangxing took over after Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he was given a clear explanation of how these commanders came to power and how they stepped down.

Jinyiwei actually knows some rumors about these things, but a low-level official like Li Qingyang, who is at the hundred-household level, knows very limited information. It is far less detailed than the inside information told to him by the Haihan people. Moreover, the Haihan people have mastery of it.

The situation was completely consistent with what Li Qingyang knew, which meant that the information they knew was not made up with their eyes closed. Compared with these secrets, Li Qingyang felt that the so-called secrets he was trying to keep were not worth mentioning at all.

, so when the Haihan people later asked him to describe the internal operations of Jinyiwei, he had nothing to worry about.

By the time Li Qingyang had gone over and over what he knew about the situation, his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty was almost gone. Moreover, during this period, the Haihan people also abided by their agreement. Not only did they not treat him badly, but they also paid him back every month.

A certain amount of money was given to him as a reward for his work - the amount was much more than what he received from Jinyiwei.

Lin Nan had told him more than once that as long as he followed the Executive Committee faithfully, he would be fine in the future, let alone glory and wealth, at least being a wealthy family with sufficient food and clothing on Qiongzhou Island.

Six months after Li Qingyang was arrested by Haihan, after many twists and turns, his relatives in Nanjing also traveled thousands of miles through various means, and were finally sent to Sanya. Now for Li Qingyang, there is nothing more

It's such a worry. For him, the identity of the Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei is already a skin that can be shed at any time, and the special commissioner of the Haihan Security Department has become his true identity now. Compared with two years ago when he was

The situation when Nanzhen Fusi sent an undercover agent to Qiongzhou seems to have changed direction. He who was originally going to infiltrate Haihan has now become a pawn used by Haihan's security department to infiltrate the Jinyi Guards of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, before the implementation of the "Prairie Fire Plan", Hao Wanqing had a special interview with him and asked him if he had any plans to return to the Ming Dynasty. This was not to amuse Li Qingyang. If he was willing to cooperate, then the Haihan Security Department

Here, he can provide Jinyiweinan Town Fusi with a large amount of intelligence information about the pirates' upcoming attack on Qiongzhou Island, and this information will be confirmed later. Li Qingyang's credit will definitely be recorded in his account, and he will receive a promotion and a big salary increase.

There is hope - if he really can't get promoted, Haihan will use money to push him up.

However, after repeated weighing, Li Qingyang still did not agree to Hao Wanqing's proposal. After staying here for a while, he no longer wanted to return to the infighting workplace environment of Nanjing Zhenfu Division, even if he could be promoted to Deputy Qianhu

Even thousands of households, so what? After seeing the methods of the Haihan people, he no longer has much interest in returning to work in the Jinyiwei Yamen. He would rather continue his current life and work under the Haihan people, An

Staying peacefully in Sanya, with his salary and work benefits, it won't take long to apply for a staff dormitory here exclusively for security department employees. For him, life in Sanya is far better than living in Sanya.

Daming is more relaxed and comfortable. He really doesn't want to go back there and continue to be an undercover agent who never sees the light of day.

Hao Wanqing did not force him to accept the arrangement. Since Li Qingyang understood that he did not want to return to Ming Dynasty, Hao Wanqing simply changed his establishment from a non-staff special employee to a regular employee of the Security Department.

Ten days before this departure to Danzhou, that is, the same day that Yan Mingjun and Li Jin arrived in Danzhou, Li Qingyang had already obtained the application approval letter for naturalization from the Haihan Civil Affairs Department in Sanya, and officially became a Haihan citizen.

This status means that he has been completely freed from house arrest and surveillance for more than a year, and can freely move around Haihan's ruling area - of course, such activities still have to be dispatched by the Ministry of Security, and

It's not like he can go wherever he wants.

After Li Qingyang was officially naturalized, he quickly received his first field mission, going to Danzhou to investigate the disappearance of a certain Ming official. It was said that he was the first to discover the clues about this case, and it had a certain relationship with him.

That's why Hao Wanqing handed the matter over to him for investigation.

It may sound unbelievable. How did Li Qingyang, who was far away in Sanya, know that Ming officials in Qiongbei had disappeared during the "Operation Prairie Fire"? It doesn't seem to make sense logically, but it just happened to be such a coincidence.

During the implementation of "Operation Prairie Fire", the naval forces of the Haihan Militia blocked the Qiongzhou Strait, and all ports and ships in the Qiongbei area were temporarily blocked. During this period, Li Qingyang's contact with the mainland Jinyiwei organization was also temporarily interrupted.

This was the starting point for him to discover the facts of the case.
Chapter completed!