An Xiaosi's eyes widened: "What, you? You, who asked you to send people to monitor Li Dan? Quickly withdraw the people you sent out,"
"Why, I suspect that Li Dan wants to be detrimental to the ship owner, I..."
An Xiaosi stood up and said coldly: "Just because he is Li Dan, he is not an ordinary person. The people you send out will definitely be discovered by him. He and the ship owner are brothers. It is enough for us to monitor his conversations with foreign businessmen." That's too much. If you send someone to follow and monitor and offend him, where will you put the ship owner and Miss Li? Besides, Li Huayu is Li Huayu and Li Dan is Li Dan. You can't treat him as an enemy without evidence. "
Brother Li Mo also stood up and said with anger in his eyes: "So what about Miss Li? The shipowner ordered us to monitor all foreigners in Luzon Island. This Li Dan is a believer in the Western religion, and his naturalization is related to the country of Luzon." ,Of course I have the right to monitor,”
In the minds of the company employees who were born in Yazhou Danmin, their mistress is the docile Mai Waner, the eldest lady Zeng Jing is just a decoration, Miss Li is a third party, and Li Mo is distantly related to the Mai family. He is a loyal supporter of Mai Wan'er, so naturally he doesn't like Miss Li Li Lihua.
An Xiaosi couldn't help but laugh angrily: "I am also a Catholic, do you also want to monitor me?"
Brother Li Mo smiled and said: "Haha, I never said I would monitor you. If the captain orders me to do this, I will definitely monitor you happily." He took a breath and smiled coldly: "According to the captain "I am the special commissioner of the Ministry of Military Supervision, and I am also responsible for internal personnel supervision. I have the right to submit reports to the ship owner and the boss alone, and you have no right to stop me,"
After saying that, Brother Li Mo turned around and went out, completely ignoring An Xiaosi's anger. He held the positions of the Military Intelligence Department and the Military Supervision Department, and he did have the right to monitor Li Dan. Due to the lack of manpower, and Luzon Island was still under guard Under the military control of the army, Luzon's escort military intelligence department is also responsible for the functions of the military supervision department and the company's security department, which does seem a bit confusing.
An Xiaosi slapped his palm on the table and said angrily to Brother Li Mo's back: "I will also exercise my authority and report your behavior to the ship owner."
After calming down for a while, An Xiaosi continued to write his report. He thought of more and more content to write. He suffered from his lack of vocabulary. When he was struggling, Zeng Jingshan came.
"Well done, Mr. Boss," An Xiaosi still respected Zeng Jingshan and quickly saluted.
Zeng Jingshan had no time to be polite and said bluntly: "The Ministry of Security is arresting people on Luzon Island. Do you know this situation?"
An Xiaosi was startled: "What, how is it possible, they..." He suddenly thought of Brother Li Mo's actions, frowned and said, "Could it be Brother Li Mo and the others?"
Zeng Jingshan said impatiently: "You are under the direct jurisdiction of Captain Yin Feng Yin. I don't know what you are doing internally. I just ask you to release my secretary, the director of the cultural and educational department of the town's mansion and others as soon as possible. I can guarantee it." them,"
An Xiaosi scratched his scalp and said irritably: "Big shopkeeper, we are life and death friends who escaped from Balian together. I don't need to hide it from you: those people in the security department are all Lin Xiao's subordinates, and I can't control them." They, anyway, I really don’t know the details of the two arrests you mentioned, and I just heard about it from you.”
Zeng Jingshan looked at An Xiaosi with sharp eyes. Seeing his innocent face, he took a breath, then sighed slowly, and said softly: "Prepare a boat for me. I will go back to Taiwan secretly." , I have a lot of things to talk to Afeng about,"
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In early August in southern Taiwan, when the weather was the hottest, a large group of people gathered outside Yin Feng's house to petition. These people came here at the same time and opened the alley of Yin Feng's house, which is known as "Shipowner Alley". Surrounded by layers of ground, although the black guards of Yin Feng's personal guard stood outside the gate with loaded guns and ammunition, their expressions were not very nervous, because most of the petitioners outside were women, children, old and young. Although there were many people, the atmosphere was still peaceful. They just They knelt there and begged Yin Feng to meet them. They wanted to state their grievances. Among them were company employees, farmers from the farm estates, and some indigenous people from the surrounding areas.
The China Company is developing too fast. Before the capture of Luzon, the company had a unified goal and enemy. But now with the victory of Luzon, the reconciliation with the imperial government, and the reduction of external pressure, the original hidden secrets within the company have emerged. All kinds of contradictions and conflicts of interest suddenly surfaced.
Some time ago, Yin Feng was busy trying the Spaniards, setting up the Taiwan Inspection Department, receiving officials at all levels in Quanzhou, and was busy expanding the Fourth Infantry Regiment. Unknowingly, he suddenly found that a crowd of petitioners had blocked the door of his home.
He walked around the house and kept asking Lin Yue, the captain of his personal guard: "Isn't your brother here yet? Hurry up and send someone to call. Call the Han family and his son, shopkeeper Li and shopkeeper Huang. Hurry up,"
He was pushed awake by Li Lihua next to him early in the morning. He reluctantly let go of Li Lihua's soft and warm body, got up from the bed, and immediately heard the noise of the crowd outside.
It wasn't that Yin Feng didn't want to meet the petitioners, but he didn't understand what had happened yet, so he was anxiously waiting for Lin Xiao and the senior executives of the company's board of directors.
The secret passage from the company headquarters to Yin Feng's home was only known to a few senior members of the company's board of directors, the head of the security department, and the leader of the Guards. Not long after, Han Ping, who was in charge of Taiwan's government affairs and general affairs, was in charge of Taiwan's farming and agriculture, and logistics. Lu Dahai, who was responsible for the armed forces reserve and other matters, and Li Yue, the general manager of all factories and engineering construction affairs on the island, arrived at Yin Feng's home one by one. Only Lin Xiao was late.
When Lin Xiao was woken up from home, he did not rush to Yin Feng's house. He only asked several security personnel to monitor the situation at the scene. At the same time, he sent people to the western suburbs barracks to notify Mai De and Li Xing of the Third Infantry Regiment. People, Yin Feng strictly controls the military power, Lin Xiao has no right to mobilize the army, but he can notify the officers of the escort team; at least, the loyalty of the army to Yin Feng is much higher than that of ordinary company employees.
Although Lin Xiao loves face and sometimes does things carelessly, his perseverance in character is far beyond ordinary people. Otherwise, he would not have plotted revenge for several years just to make a fool of himself. He knew that this time the public was unprecedented in the history of the China Company. The petition turmoil must involve him, but he believed that he had done nothing wrong, so he calmly rushed to his office in the company, sorted out a lot of documents, and then slowly came to Yin Feng's house through a secret passage.
In the living room of Yin Feng's house, a group of major shareholders of the company gathered. Everyone was looking at Lin Xiao. Yin Feng sighed: "Brother Guangze, have you heard the shouts of the folks outside? They all have relatives at home who have been killed by you. The security department arrested him, what is going on and why no one reported it to me,"
Yin Feng has already had a general understanding of the major shareholders and general managers, and he knows more or less the whole story. "Why are so many people arrested? These people are detained without trial and conviction. What exactly are they?" where are you now,"
Han Ping interrupted: "Shipowner, oh, Mr. Yin, Brother Lin acted like this for the benefit of the company..." Yin Feng smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "I know, if he intends to harm the development of China Company, I will I won’t let him talk here anymore,”
Lin Xiao suddenly knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and said, "Sir, the captain, my subordinate is incompetent, please be punished."
Yin Feng was angry and funny, pretending to kick someone: "Looking for death, Guangzhi, you are quite good at acting." He stepped forward and dragged Lin Xiao up, and said seriously: "Hurry up and explain the whole matter. This kind of thing cannot be delayed. , Delaying the resolution will cause more troubles,”
Suddenly, Magalo burst into the lobby and shouted: "Shopkeeper Zeng is back,"
"What, why did he come back suddenly? Did something happen in Luzon? Quick, let him in,"
Zeng Jingshan's sudden return due to problems with the Ministry of Security and the Ministry of Military Intelligence made Yin Feng realize the seriousness of the internal conflicts of Zhonghua Company. The problem had not yet exploded into a crisis and must be resolved as soon as possible. He first walked out of the door in person to meet the petitioners. .
People whose family members were arrested for no reason recommended two old men from Quanzhou to deliver writ papers to Yin Feng. The representative of the company employees was a small businessman from Haicheng who followed Yin Feng to escape from Luzon Island. The representative of the indigenous people was the four major communities of the Siraya people. Jointly recommended, the issues they responded to were relatively complex; some complained about the Ministry of Security arresting people at will, some complained about Lu Dahai's land reclamation manor land grabbers, some asked to share the company's monopoly on selling furs, and some asked to restrict Han people. Immigrants robbed indigenous women. At this time, many Han bachelors came to Taiwan to work. Many of them couldn't hold back their anger and entered into peace and marriage with indigenous women. There were also cases of chaos and abandonment.
Yin Feng promised that he would carefully study and verify their grievances, and if found to be true, he would vindicate Xue and uphold justice. The commotion continued until the afternoon, when the group of people dispersed one after another.
When he returned to the hall, Lin Xiao said loudly: "Captain, these people cannot come together by chance. Someone must be planning behind the scenes and secretly instigating them to make trouble together. I will go and check their leader right away..."
Yin Feng raised his hand to stop him, frowned and said: "We will discuss this later. The most urgent task is to sort out those cases; those people deserve their crimes, and those people were unjustly accused. The Ministry of Security is not the royal guard of the imperial court, and we are not allowed to arrest people casually in the future; military intelligence The functions of the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the Ministry of Military Supervision must be clearly separated. Internal and external investigation and supervision cannot be managed by one person. The Ministry of Security is not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of Military Intelligence and the Ministry of Military Supervision in the future.”
Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. Yin Feng did not blame his head of the security department for taking too much care. He was already very face-saving. Yin Feng knew Lin Xiao relatively well. He was a flexible person, but he was very small-minded and loved face. Although Most of the things outside are caused by Lin Xiao, but Lin Xiao himself is reliable and has no ulterior motives.
Lin Xiao lowered his head and said: "Yes, it is true that I acted inappropriately, but it was also unforeseen." He handed a stack of documents in his hand to Yin Feng: "This is a report from the Ministry of Security in recent months, and there are several suspicious ones in it." The person was just discovered. The assassination at the beginning of the year, the officers and soldiers coming to attack Penghu so quickly, and the recent Tufan troubles in various places were all involving people within our company."
Yin Feng held the document, sat on his seat and looked at it silently.
Yin Feng looked at the report and couldn't help but sigh for the traditional political and cultural spirit that Lin Xiao upheld. Lin Xiao was a child of a military family. He received ten years of traditional education in the school of the health school and worked in the intrigues of the state government for many years. Although the former yamen servant was kind-hearted in nature, he had been deeply influenced by the official culture of the time. In the eyes of this former yamen servant, anyone who disagreed with the company's boss was an enemy, and anyone who disagreed was an enemy. Lin Xiao's logic in doing things was unreasonable. The simple logic of this or that, black or white, is probably also a common problem in traditional political culture. In the Ming Dynasty, politicians such as the Donglin Party, the Fushe Party, and the Eunuch Party basically adhered to this logic when fighting against differences. What followed was the style of "we must agree with what the enemy opposes", and vice versa. In the end, it was extremely difficult to accomplish anything in the court, and various party disputes raged until the eve of the collapse of the Nanming court. , a group of ministers still insisted on engaging in a party dispute between "gentlemen and villains", and finally the quarrel ended with everyone being destroyed.
"Lin Xiao, this sailor just said that I married a few more wives. Let it go..." Yin Feng threw a document to Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao looked at it and said with a bitter smile: "Yes, I will do it tomorrow." Let him go,"
"Guangzhi, what's this? I just discussed the company in the hotel. Let this teacher go as well,"
"Captain, this guy said that we are all traitors and traitors..."
Yin Feng sneered and said: "So what, what he said a few months ago was indeed correct, but now we are all officials of the imperial court, and I have also applied for your title of Hundred Households... Oh, look Look, let’s put this one away, too…”
Lin Xiao took the document, looked at it and said with a bitter smile: "This person is a blacksmith from Fuzhou. He openly opposes your improvement of iron-making furnaces and opening of technical schools to teach iron technology, saying that it will violate the rules of our ancestors..."
"Let him go. Send him back to his hometown. He is willing to earn a few pennies a day from his small shop. That is his own volition."
Yin Feng stood up, threw a pile of documents on the table and said, "Where is the prison of your security department? I haven't even been there yet."
Lin Xiao said rather awkwardly: "Ship owner, there's no need to go here,"
Yin Feng slapped the table and said firmly: "No, I must go,"
The next day, Yin Feng was led by Lin Xiao to a river beach next to Huwei Longshe in the west of Jingang Port. Between the river beach and the forest, there was a garrison camp of the Chinese Company. It was safe. The Ministry's temporary prison is located in this remote military camp.
There are hundreds of people imprisoned here, most of them are imprisoned collectively in a large warehouse, and a small number of female suspects are imprisoned in several huts.
After a night of thinking, Yin Feng felt that he had nothing to do with allowing Lin Xiao and others to attack dissidents wantonly, so the initial irritation was gradually replaced by frustration. He saw that the entire warehouse was sitting on the floor with haggard expressions. People with pale faces, some huddled motionless in corners, the whole warehouse was stuffy and hot, feces and urine were flowing on the damp floor, and the smell was overwhelming.
Yin Feng glanced around sternly, and Lin Xiao retreated uncomfortably behind Zeng Jingshan, Lu Dahai, Han Ping, Han Jing, Li Yue and others.
"Have you already known about the situation here," Yin Feng asked coldly.
Everyone looked at each other in shock, and no one said anything. For a moment, Zeng Jingshan stood up and said: "We used to think that this was to prevent the slightest change, but now it has made all the company personnel panic, and everyone below has complaints... Hey, this……"
Yin Feng shook his head and sighed: "Jingshan, Guangzhi, let all these people go. Except for those who have found evidence and are indeed secretly endangering the company, let them go. There are also those who work hard in the mines and farms. Screen them all again,”
Suddenly, in the hut at the other end, a shrill female voice shouted: "I'm wronged, please help me."
Yin Feng's expression changed, and he walked towards the direction of the sound.