Two days later, the confidential communications room sent her a small wooden box that still smelled like sea water. The box was the smallest of the standard boxes manufactured in accordance with the packaging container standards issued by the joint logistics headquarters, and was specially used to ship official documents.
Used for small items and small items. Made of Southeast Asian teak, with four corners wrapped in iron and lined with animal skin for waterproofing.
The box was painted with black and white vertical lines and a row of Arabic numerals, indicating that it was a box containing important official documents. There was a lead seal on the buckle.
Ke Yun opened the lead seal, took out the dossier materials from the box, glanced at the cover, and checked the packing list sent by telegram in advance.
There are three pieces of material. The first is the record written by the female escort about Li Mo's outing, the second is the oral account of Ziminglou's clerk. The third is the report on Ziminglou's eavesdropping records.
The latter two were specially requested by Ke Yun based on the materials provided by the informant - after all, she stayed in Ziming Building for the longest time during the entire trip. She opened the first surveillance report first, and the report content was very detailed.
From the day Li Mo went out that day, every detail was recorded, including the snacks she ate in Guangzhou. However, in Ke Yun's view, the only valuable thing about this report was that it proved that the informant said she had been to Zi
The news from Minglou is correct.
Then she opened the second report, which was an oral report from the clerk at Ziming Tower, which proved that the female escort's records were correct: Li Mo had indeed arrived at Ziming Tower and had indeed opened a private room.
This report cross-corroborated Li Mo's whereabouts in Ziming Tower, but nothing was known about what she did there.
Ke Yun placed her hope on the third report: She knew that several private rooms on the third floor of Ziming Building were equipped with eavesdropping devices. But she was disappointed when she opened them. The third report clearly stated: There was no information about Li
The eavesdropping record of Mo Mo in the "Liuxiang" box.
As soon as Ke Yun's telegram for accessing materials arrived in Guangzhou, Lin Baiguang paid attention to it. He immediately ordered to retrieve the wiretapping records of Ziming Building that day. However, the wiretapping records of Ziming Building did not contain the report of Liuxiang Private Room. However,
At the back, there was a survey document about all the guests in the private room on the third floor that day.
Since electronic eavesdropping equipment is a first-level controlled material, there are only three sets of equipment in the entire Guangzhou station. In order to save service life, each eavesdropping must be approved by Lin Baiguang himself before using the equipment.
In order to make up for the shortcomings of modern equipment, when the Ziming Building was renovated, copper eavesdropping tubes were installed in all private rooms. However, the actual effect of the eavesdropping tubes was very poor, the sound was blurred, and the pickup range was limited. Moreover, the security department also
It is impossible to dispatch monitors 24 hours a day to monitor.
Li Mo was not an important person and was not on the key surveillance list, and she entered the private room alone, so the security personnel on duty did not arrange for monitors to monitor her private room.
Lin Baiguang knew that the General Administration would not obtain Li Mo's surveillance materials for no reason. Obviously this person had some "problems" that aroused the "interest" of the General Administration, so he immediately arranged for a comprehensive investigation of the personnel on duty at Ziming Building that day.
investigation.
The focus of the investigation was, of course, the clerk on duty on the third floor, because they were the only two clerks on the third floor that day.
Because it was during the day when the incident happened, it was the slowest time for business. There were not many customers in Ziming Building during the day, especially in the private rooms on the third floor. Therefore, there were only two waiters on duty on the third floor during the day shift.
According to the recollections of these two waiters, there were two other groups of guests in the private room on the third floor at the same time as Li Mo. Lin Baiguang repeatedly asked Li Mo if he had contact with these two groups of guests, but the waiters could not recall it because the other two groups
The guests were all from wealthy families, and the ostentation was huge. There were greetings from time to time, and the waiters couldn't always pay attention to the flow of people in the private room.
Lin Baiguang asked someone to retrieve the guest registration book and checkout records for this period. One of the two groups of guests was old customers of Ziminglou, and the other group was new customers who came for the first time: a young gentleman, a
Middle-aged servant, a young servant, a maid and an old woman. According to the waiter, the young servant and the maid accompanied the young master into the private room, while the others were resting in the lounge on the first floor.
The address of the new guest caught Lin Baiguang's attention. The address was "Risheng Apartment" - this was a large inn specializing in the business of wealthy officials and businessmen from other places.
This shows that the guests are outsiders - there is nothing suspicious about this in itself. There are many outsiders who come to Ziminglou to open "Australian Meat". But they usually come at night when the atmosphere is the strongest and most lively. There are very few people.
Will come during the day.
He immediately ordered someone to go to Risheng Apartment to investigate the identity of this new group of guests. The person sent to report reported that this group of guests had indeed stayed at Risheng Apartment, but left Ziming Building the next day.
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The "come" filled in by the visitor at Risheng Apartment was Jiangxi Fenyi, and the "destination" also was Jiangxi Fenyi. No matter how he looked at it, Lin Baiguang felt that this group of people was suspicious. Immediately, he sent people from the Wei Escort Bureau to the waterway dock to investigate whether there were any
Such a group of people went to Jiangxi in recent days. It turned out that there was no such group of people.
But this result cannot mean anything. Investigation is not omnipotent. The absence of witnesses does not mean that there is no such thing. But it is impossible to trace this line of investigation.
Because these two groups of people are not important figures and are no longer on the monitoring list, the Ministry of Nature Conservation has not arranged for anyone to eavesdrop on their conversations - otherwise the Ministry of Nature Protection will not be able to expand a hundred times.
Ke Yun finished reading this subsidiary report from the Guangzhou Security Department: Obviously, Li Mo's visit to Ziming Tower is very suspicious, and this unidentified foreign guest is even more suspicious. It is a pity that the clerk failed to monitor the whole process, and Ziming Tower also
There was no record of wiretapping—of course she didn't have much hope in the matter.
But this leaves a possibility: Li Mo may have had contact with the rich young master and his subordinates in Ziminglou. In all likelihood, they were young servants or maids working for the young master.
Although no conclusive information was obtained from Guangzhou, Ke Yun believed that she had already determined one thing: Li Mo had a problem. This case was worthy of her continued investigation.
A large shipping transport ship was moored in Weitou Bay, with the anchor down and sailors in white uniforms on the deck scrubbing the deck.
This is a ship that transports salt. According to the commercial agreement signed by both parties, fifteen large-scale shipping ships filled with salt every month bring salt and sell it to the Zheng family. The Zheng family uses half of the spot goods: indigo, indigo, medicinal materials,
For wood, porcelain and tea, half of the price is paid for in silver.
This kind of trade has been going on for more than half a year. So far, the trade cooperation between the two parties has been very smooth. There has been no trade friction.
Xu Xu and Qian Shuixie stood in front of the screened window on the stern building, using large-diameter telescopes to observe the entire Weitou Bay and the large and small Kinmen Island, Xiamen Island, Gulangyu Island and other islands in the bay.
These islands are now under the control of Zheng Zhilong, and each island has defenders. Especially Kinmen Island, opposite Anping, is even more tightly guarded. It forms a rivalry with Anping.
The main force of the Zheng family's fleet, including several European-style two-masted and three-masted sailing ships, is moored at various anchorages in Weitou Bay. However, there is no grand scene of thousands of sails gathering here, and there are only more than a hundred ships at best. And
Most of them are small and medium-sized Guangzhou ships and Fuzhou ships.
As for the condition of the ship - no wonder the Dutch have always looked down on Zheng Zhilong's maritime combat prowess. Zheng Zhilong basically still behaved like a pirate. Not only was the ship's shape messy, but it was also poorly maintained and looked tattered and abandoned.
It would be difficult for this kind of fleet to gain an advantage against the Dutch in the open sea. No wonder they all like to use fireship tactics.
Although Zheng Zhilong has many ships, he maintains not a navy but a trading fleet. He cannot maintain too many armed warships that only consume and produce no output. Therefore, most of his ships are sailing on trade. If it were not for Liu Xiang,
The last opponent has not been eradicated, and he may not even stay here with more than a hundred ships: it costs a lot of money to maintain people and ships.
Qian Shuixie said: "Although there are few ships, these ships should be their main force - after all, they are ships that are always ready to defend their home base."
"Not necessarily," Quan Quan said while marking the observed ship anchorage locations, forts, and barracks on the drawing board. "Zheng Zhilong's largest and best ships are all on the Japan and Manila routes - after all, these two routes are where he is based.
The capital. The Japanese say that the Anhai ships in Nagasaki are very big. Zheng Zhilong wants to do trade, not war."
"So it will be difficult for us to carry out a sudden attack on him?"
"That's right. It's difficult to annihilate his main force in one battle - because it's unlikely that he will gather all his ships." Xu Xu said, "But Anping is his home base. If we can destroy Anping,
Also, the Zheng family’s influence on Gulangyu Island, Xiamen Island, and Kinmen Island has been uprooted.”
"So what we're actually going to do is not the Battle of Manila Bay but a massive amphibious assault?"
"At least that's what I suggest." Xu Xu said, "As for what strategy the Military Command and the Executive Committee will adopt, I don't know."
Qian Shui Xie thought: This is indeed very possible. If it were just an impressive sea bombardment for Zheng Zhilong, there would be no need to mobilize two special reconnaissance teams to Kaohsiung to prepare for the war, let alone come here to conduct enemy reconnaissance.
——This clearly requires them to conduct armed reconnaissance and lead operations before an amphibious assault.
"It is said that both Kinmen Island and Xiamen Island are where the Zheng family's wealth gathers. When the Qing army captured Kinmen Island in a surprise attack, they seized millions of taels of gold and silver, making a fortune from top to bottom."
Xu Xu said, "But this will happen decades later. The Zheng family should not have accumulated so much wealth now."