Chapter 961 Tracking

Lin Nan has been working in the Ministry of Security for several years, and naturally knows a lot of inside information. If foreign merchants want to do business in Sanya, the safest way is of course to hug Haihan tightly, so there is no need to

There are more or less Haihan shares in every store. These shares are not necessarily funded by the time travellers. Some of them are simply given by the operators in the name of dry shares to some senior Haihan personnel who have real power or simply to someone.

competent authorities in order to obtain some protection and preferential treatment in the local business process.

This kind of thing is an agreement reached in private, and there are no various contract documents on paper, so both parties often follow a tacit understanding and do not bring relevant matters to the table. And the Haihan Executive Committee

There is no deliberate attempt to put an end to this phenomenon. As long as the profit is not too ugly, they basically turn a blind eye.

This is not entirely because the Executive Committee has allowed corruption to flourish. On the one hand, foreign businessmen believe that this relationship can bring them more security, and they often do so on their own initiative. On the other hand, Haihan also needs to use some special means to

Obtain certain strategic materials or important information, and sell self-produced industrial products. For example, the Ministry of Commerce holds shares in multiple businesses in a private name, and uses these businesses to purchase minerals, populations and other special commodities overseas.

The Ministry of Security will use this relationship to place intelligence personnel in some trading houses and shipping companies, and use the trade networks of these merchants to send intelligence personnel overseas to lurk.

In this way, even some countries that are at war with Haihan can still keep the commercial activities between the two sides going through the operation of middlemen. Haihan can continue to buy slave populations from the Dutch, and the Spaniards have also been

Being able to buy various industrial products produced in Sanya depends on these special interest chains.

Although Lin Nan knew that Haihan's senior officials had these secret arrangements, his work scope was counterintelligence and had no direct intersection with this field. He only occasionally heard colleagues reporting relevant news to the minister in internal meetings. But he

I also know some relevant information. For example, like Qiong Lianfa, a large business organization with deep involvement in Haihan, many of its trading activities are assigned by Haihan senior officials. The Nanyang Pavilion involved is also named after Qiong Lianfa.

One of the foreign trade companies under the company, its customer base is almost all dignitaries from various countries. It is hard to say that there is anything fishy in it. If they find something that should not be investigated, their task force may face the risk of disbanding before they can solve the case.

Hearing Lin Nan's explanation, Fu Li hesitated a little. Since he joined Haihan, he has been closely associated with the big bosses of the Executive Committee. In private, he even calls him master and uncle instead of the ones commonly used by naturalized people.

"Chief", he also knows a little bit about the affairs of these upper-level figures. What Lin Nan said is not fiction. There are indeed some things that they need to avoid.

"The task force has been set up, so we can't stop investigating, right?" The person who spoke was Zhang Qianzhi, a new general who joined the task force and was affiliated with the Ministry of Security.

After Zhang Qianzhi solved the Danzhou Assassination Case in 1631, he was promoted because of his meritorious service as an undercover agent. He studied under He Xi and had a strong background, and his mental ability and experience were good, so he quickly rose to the position.

He is a leader among the young naturalized cadres in the Han official circles. However, due to the special nature of his work, not many people outside the system know his name, and he is far less famous than someone like Fu Li who often appears in public.

When it comes to his relationship with the upper class, Zhang Qianzhi is no worse than Fu Li. His old man Zhang Tiangui is now the general consultant of Haihan Shipyard. Six of the existing shipwrights in the shipyard are his disciples and disciples. Even Yue Zhiyun and Sun

The big boss of the Maritime Department like Chang Mi would greet him respectfully when he saw him, and his prestige among the naturalized people was also very high. When Zhang Qianzhi worked in the Guangzhou Office in Guangzhou in his early years, he worked with He Xi and Schneider.

He is a disciple, and even at high-level meetings within the Ministry of Security, he is qualified to sit in and observe.

Lin Nan, a local leader who can take charge of his own business, actually has less experience than Zhang Qianzhi. Therefore, he could only continue to explain Zhang Qianzhi's doubts: "It's not that we don't want to investigate, but we have to think about how to investigate.

To avoid causing trouble. Think about it, even Hassan, a foreigner, has been remembered for so long when he went to Nanyang Pavilion. If we go to investigate, there is no guarantee that no one will notice it."

Zhang Qianzhi pondered for a moment, and then said: "It is not convenient to conduct a public inspection, so we will conduct a private inspection. The shopkeeper should live in Shengli Port, right? Why don't we go and visit today."

Su Tong was in a pretty good mood when he closed his shop and went home today. The few gems that the Persian businessman gave him on consignment a few days ago were finally sold to a wealthy Ming Dynasty merchant at a good price. But what made him the most happy

The important thing is not that he sold the gems, but that all the money will belong to him, and he will not only get the commission for this transaction like in the past. Because he already knows that the owner will not come to collect the consignment goods again.

The payment was made.

Su Tong felt that he had been very lucky recently. He learned that Hassan's death was a complete accident. When he went to Haihan Bank in Fort Victory to handle deposit business two days ago, he happened to hear the two people in front of him chatting, and one of them

It was Zuo Zuo who was in charge of the on-site autopsy after Hassan drowned. After Wu Zuo described the appearance of the deceased, Su Tong was sure that it was Hassan. However, Wu Zuo did not reveal the real cause of Hassan's death in the chat, otherwise Su Tong might not have known it.

How dare you put this money into your pocket so confidently.

However, two days ago, Su Tong saw an official reward notice looking for a missing Persian man. The appearance described was very similar to Hassan, which made him murmur in his heart - could this Persian man

If his horoscope is not good, he will be punished as soon as he comes to Sanya? But he did not directly connect this matter with Hassan's drowning. After all, the police had examined Hassan's body a few days ago, so it was impossible for him to reveal this now.

The co-investigator announced that the target of the reward must be another unlucky Persian.

After Hassan died, Su Tong accepted the money with peace of mind. Anyway, the two of them knew about the consignment. As long as Su Tong didn't tell anyone, no one else would know where the money was.

.This amount of money is not a huge sum, but it is almost equivalent to his salary if he works as a shopkeeper for another two or three years.

Su Tong currently lives in a rented house near the Shengli Port area. Although it is a detached house, it is not his own property after all, so he has been thinking about collecting money to buy a small house locally. Now this deal

After getting the money, this wish should be realized in advance. However, Su Tong will definitely not buy a house where he lives now. It is located at the foot of the mountain and is on the edge of Victory Port. This area is full of port and shipyard staff.

Although the living environment and supporting facilities are not bad, Su Tong feels that given the nature of his job, it would be better to find a way to live in the wealthy area near Sanya Port.

This is not just a matter of vanity. Being able to change to a higher-level living circle will play a significant role in Su Tong's daily business, making and maintaining more high-level customers. These rich and noble people often have There are a lot of idle good things, and Su Tong's plan is to circulate these good things in the market - of course, this circulation channel is the Nanyang Pavilion he is responsible for running, and the generous commissions he can earn from it, This is the gray income he can get from this position.

The more Su Tong thought about it, the more comfortable he felt in his heart. He couldn't help but hum a little tune. Unfortunately, he couldn't tell others about the joy. He only had an old servant in his family, who was almost deaf and could hardly communicate.

Su Tong opened the door and entered the room. Seeing that the room was dark with no lights on, he thought that this old guy had gone to bed very early. He had rested before the master came back. Su Tong cursed and turned around to close the courtyard door. , suddenly felt a pain in the back of my head, and suddenly lost consciousness.

"Is this the place? Don't take the wrong route again!" Zhang Qianzhi complained breathlessly.

"You can't blame me. The street signs and house numbers here are all messed up, so it's troublesome to find them!" Fu Li's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, but fortunately it was already dark, so they all used the lanterns in their hands. Zhao Lu, but no one noticed his face.

This area was originally a camp for logging teams. Later, the carpentry workshop demolished the temporary wooden houses and scattered a few brick houses as dormitories. Later, the shipyard and the Victory Port Authority each divided several batches here. There is a lack of unified municipal planning for the construction of employee residential areas. As the permanent population increases, the corresponding planning management has not kept up with the pace of development. The house numbers here are all arranged according to the time of construction rather than geographical location. Yes, the one next to No. 1 may be No. 70 or so, which caused a lot of trouble for the members of the task force who came here to visit.

Although Fu Li worked in the Police Department, he really didn't know much about the situation in this area. He volunteered to lead the way at first, but he didn't expect that he had gone through many wrong turns and still couldn't find the right place.

"We found the right one this time." Lin Nan raised the lantern high and illuminated the house number at the entrance of the courtyard: "No. 7, Nanmu Village, is right here."

Lin Nan stretched out his hand and pushed the courtyard door, and the door opened with a creak. The three of them were about to go in, and Lin Nan had already noticed something strange on the ground: "There's a guy lying down!"

The village chief and militia captain, as well as the only barefoot doctor in the village who knew something about medical skills, rushed to the yard almost at the same time after receiving the notice, but their arrival could not save Su Tong's life. In fact, in Lin Nan When others found Su Tong, he was already dead.

After discovering the body, Zhang Qianzhi and Fu Li quickly searched inside and outside the yard. Except for an old servant who had passed out from sleep in the house, they did not find any other suspicious people. But looking at the old servant's deafness and eyesight, He couldn't even stand still, so it was obviously unlikely to be the murderer. Although the residual warmth of the body told them that the murderer might not have escaped yet, due to their serious unfamiliarity with the nearby terrain, they had no way of tracking the murderer's escape route.

"What a step too late!" Lin Nan sighed: "It seems that Shopkeeper Su really knows the inside story."

"If I hadn't led the wrong way, maybe I could have blocked the murderer!" Fu Li regretted extremely at this moment. If he had known that he would make such a low-level mistake, he should have asked the village cadres to lead the way from the beginning, instead of

He rushed into the village recklessly. Now that the line is broken, the subsequent detection work will be much more difficult.

Zhang Qianzhi kept calm. He first called the village chief and militia captain to the side and asked whether any suspicious unidentified persons had appeared in the village in the past two days and whether Su Tong had any social connections. But the result was obviously not optimistic.

Captain Changhe did not provide any valuable information, and his knowledge of Su Tong was limited to the Nanyang Pavilion where he was employed.

While the boss was leading people to collect the bodies, three key members of the task force got together and held a short meeting.

"It seems that we put up the reward notice to scare the snake!" Lin Nan analyzed: "Someone came to reveal that Hassan met Su Tong before his death, and Su Tong died. There should be some connection between the two murder cases.

connect."

"This time the murderer did not try to disguise the body as an accident." Zhang Qianzhi said coldly: "If a person falls on his back and makes a hole in the back of his head and dies, I think it is unlikely that he would go out of his way to turn over.

Please keep the wound facing up so we can find it easier."

Su Tong's dead posture was very stretched, lying on the ground with a wild "big" character, and there was a very obvious fatal blow to the back of his head. However, the murder weapon has not been found yet, and it is possible that the murderer took him away from the crime scene. However,

Compared with Hassan's faked death scene, Sutong's death seemed very violent and direct. The styles of the two murders were indeed very different.

"It may be different murderers, but it is also possible that the murderer deliberately used two different styles to mislead us." Fu Li had calmed down again at this time and began to use his own experience in handling cases to make speculations.

But he is not optimistic about the direction of the investigation of the case: "No matter what the possibility is, what we will do next will not be easy to handle!"

Zhang Qianzhi said: "Perhaps we should think carefully about where the murderer got the news from and rush to kill Su Tong before us. What Brother Lin just said was to scare the snake. I don't think that is necessarily the case. If Su Tong's death is related to

Hasan was related to him, so the reason why he was killed was probably because he knew who the murderer was in the Hassan case. Of course, it is possible that this incident had nothing to do with the Hassan case, but if it was an independent incident, then this timing would be too coincidental.

a little."

"I don't believe there is such a coincidence." Fu Li shook his head and said: "This is not a coincidence, this is a well-calculated murder! The purpose is to silence Su Tong and let him die with all the secrets."
Chapter completed!