Qian Shuixie swallowed a sip of saliva, millions of gold and silver - even more awesome than the "Flying Henan Man" plan they had been advocating. He looked greedily at Kinmen Island not far away, as if looking at a golden
small islands
"Old Zheng has to swallow this piece of fat by himself. I can't even take a breath just thinking about it." Qian Shuixie touched the pistol under his arm. He had already mixed his special reconnaissance team among the sailors and took a small boat to transport goods.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, we conducted beachhead surveys on Kinmen Island and Anping Beach that we passed by. We also took advantage of the berth in the past few days to proofread the tide gauge "", which is the fastest updated and fully text typed by hand.
"Hurry, hurry, it will be ours soon"
While we were talking, a sailor came in and reported: Someone is coming from Jinjiang
Xu Xu was refreshed: as soon as the ship arrived at the port, he sent people to go ashore and go to Jinjiang County to check on Lin Shimao's condition. According to his plan, he planned to kidnap Lin Shimao back first.
As long as the person is tied up, he will not be able to speak. Once he and Li Shun are sent to the Dutch, along with the confession and physical evidence, the truth about the Vestri case will be revealed.
"Let him report immediately"
After coming over for a while, a local fisherman was brought in from the deck. This man was a sailor brought from the service company by permission, and he was a local from Jinjiang. This time he came ashore in makeup to go ashore specifically to "step on the plate" in Jinjiang and serve as a front line for the special reconnaissance team.
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The investigators reported that everything was normal in Jinjiang County. Lin Shimao's casino was still open and there was nothing special about the Zheng family.
The original Lin Shimao had been silenced. He was relieved when he heard that everything was normal. Next, he planned to personally lead the team into Jinjiang County and command the operations on the spot.
In addition to thoroughly investigating this case, he also plans to conduct a tour-style staff trip to the county and Anping Town to fully understand the local situation - after all, this is his job as a naval intelligence officer.
He asked: "Are the team members ready?"
"Everything is ready, even I am ready - just waiting for your order, we will go ashore and kill him."
"Good messenger!"
With the permission greeting, a sailor immediately walked in
"Tell the fleet commander to return early tomorrow morning!"
That night, a secret door was quietly opened from the shadow of the stern of the large-scale salt ship. A rope was lowered from the secret door, and ten black figures slid into the sea one after another from the secret door in the stern of the ship.
The last thing that slipped into the sea was a small raft made of bamboo and inflatable leather bags, with boxes and leather bags fixed on it.
Xu Xu and Qian Shuiting led eight team members and swam to the shore, pushing the raft to take advantage of the tide. On the beach where they planned to land, they could see a faint green light - like a will-o'-the-wisp.
The planned disembarkation place is on a beach seven or eight miles away from Anping City and four thousand meters away from the salt ship. This is not a big deal for the special reconnaissance team members who have to swim 10,000 meters in an armed swimming course - not to mention
All the equipment they carried was still on the raft.
But for Xu, these four kilometers were a bit tiring. Qian Shuiting specially sent two team members to push him. Even so, they expected to arrive on the beach ten minutes late.
There were already two men in black waiting on the beach. Xu Xu knew that they were local intelligence officers deployed by the Foreign Intelligence Service and were here to assist them in their operation.
"Heaven will punish you eight feet!" the visitor said
"Give me back the public figure!" Qian Shuixie answered the command.
"Let's go this way." The person who responded hurriedly greeted him. Xu was startled - not only did this person speak standard Mandarin, but his voice was very familiar.
This man should be a veteran! But before he could change his mind, he was surrounded by special detectives and started running all the way.
Along the way, Yuebei Xingrong could barely see the road, with the sound of insects all around. However, the person who led the way seemed to be familiar with the road. He led them around and around for what seemed like twenty minutes when they suddenly stopped.
"This is it," he whispered.
Xu Xu took a closer look and saw a courtyard in front of him, which was isolated in a vegetable field. It looked like a small temple.
The person leading the way gently knocked on the door a few times in a rhythmic manner. The door opened immediately and a group of people immediately stepped in.
The yard was pitch dark with no lights, so the group of people still led the way. When they entered the house and got off the stairs, they couldn't tell their direction in the dark. A small flame lit up the room, and then the whole room was brightly lit for a moment.
I couldn't even open my eyes. It took me a long time to blink before I could see clearly. The person standing opposite to meet them was Chen Tianxiong.
Since Chen Tianxiong became famous in Leizhou, he has become an intelligence officer of Leizhou Station, pretending to be a Taoist priest and presiding over the Zou Monk Temple. In the past two years, Leizhou has gradually become "Lingao". Chen Tianxiong has not been able to do anything famous in Leizhou.
So he applied to return to Lingao, and transferred Monk Zou's temple to the New Taoist Church. While helping to work at the machine port, he attended the intelligence bureau training class - Xu also took his Ming Dynasty social life class in Lingao - to prepare.
Second assignment
Shortly after the start of Operation Engine, Chen Tianxiong was sent by the Foreign Intelligence Service to Quanzhou Prefecture in Fujian Province to take charge of Zheng Zhilong's work.
The place they were in was an abandoned side hall in the backyard. The windows on all sides were blocked, and the ceiling was densely covered with wooden bars. The walls were filled with cabinets and shelves, and boxes and objects were piled up.
"How about it? My place is pretty good, isn't it?" Chen Tianxiong said with a smile, "I asked people to prepare hot water. You guys take a shower first and change clothes!" As he said this, someone had already sent a bag of clothes.
The group took a shower and changed into local casual clothes. Qian Shuiting asked the team members to go to rest. He and Xu Xu were eager to get first-hand information, so they had a secret conversation with Chen Tianxiong under the lantern.
Chen Tianxiong stayed here for several months. He was not a native of Quanzhou and had difficulty integrating into society quickly. However, he could speak Cantonese, so he appeared as a sugar businessman. At that time, many sugar businessmen were from Guangdong and Fujian.
It was also an important sugar producing area in the late Ming Dynasty. Since Yuegang was destroyed by Zheng Zhilong, Anping has become a major trading port in Fujian. A large number of Fujian specialties: sugar, indigo tea and exported porcelain are distributed here. Chen Tianxiong came here to do business.
Not eye-catching either
As for this temple, he just recently acquired it and made it a secret base.
According to Chen Tianxiong, the world here in Jinjiang is basically Zheng Zhilong's. Although all the officials in the county are appointed by the imperial court, most of the officials and officials in the county take orders from the Zheng family.
Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong was not interested in participating in local political affairs. He only intervened in the government to enable the Zheng family to obtain more benefits.
"...The Zheng family is now acquiring land all over Quanzhou, and the momentum is very strong here in Jinjiang," Chen Tianxiong said. "The brothers of the Zheng family are constantly buying land. As long as there is land for sale, they have to buy it. It's a bit of a plunder."
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Historically, the Zheng family has been acquiring large-scale land in Fujian since Zheng Zhilong was recruited, and once became the largest landowners in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.
Of course, these lands, which cost a lot of maritime trade funds to purchase, ended up being cheaper for the Manchus.
"There's a lot of public dissatisfaction?"
"It's hard to say how big it is among ordinary people. The Zheng family engages in maritime trade here, and how many landless people rely on it to make a living - especially here in Fujian, where there are many mountains and little land, the land is already concentrated, and there are very few self-cultivators. Their family takes advantage of it.
It has little to do with the common people, but the local landowners are quite resentful.”
"Does the Zheng family have an agent here?"
"How many miles away from Anping is this place? The Zheng family is just a stomping ground in Quanzhou Prefecture. How many officials are trying to fawn over you? If you really have something to do, just send a picture from Anping Town to get the county magistrate around.
No need to send special personnel.”
"I'm talking about the city fox and the mouse here..."
"Lao Zhouxia doesn't care about them," Chen Tianxiong said. "He has many things to do now, and Liu Laoxiang alone is enough for him."
Xu knew that in the past month, Liu Laoxiang had frequently launched intrusions on the coast of Fujian, and even went north to the waters of Zhejiang. Although he failed to block Zheng Zhilong's two main trade routes from north to south, he still put a lot of pressure on Zheng Zhilong.
"It's only us..."
"That's right, only we know the usefulness of controlling the grassroots," Chen Tianxiong said. "Zheng Zhilong doesn't have this knowledge - he sounds like a great businessman, but his knowledge is much worse when he rises to the political level."
Although the Zheng family was once famous on the southeastern coast, in the chaos of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, in addition to the mainland trade it established,
In addition to the bright spots of the intelligence network, its performance in administration and military management is not excellent, and overall it does not exceed the level of local powerful people.
I heard that there were no activities of Zheng Zhilong's forces in Jinjiang City. He was a little more confident about entering the county tomorrow to carry out reconnaissance and kidnapping operations. He decided to go to Jinjiang County tomorrow.
"You guys rest here first, I'll make arrangements first, and I'll send someone to take you into the city tomorrow," Chen Tianxiong instructed.
"Is it difficult for the special reconnaissance team to bring weapons and equipment into the city?"
“There’s no problem, just pretend”
Early the next morning, Chen Tianxiong had already sent two people to prepare a second sedan. The sedan was not only for show of luxury, but also had a mezzanine at the bottom, which could carry weapons and other equipment. Therefore, the people who carried the sedan were all specialized
Selected strong man
The eight team members, all dressed in blue robes and caps, some carrying luggage on their shoulders, some carrying parcels, pretended to be servants of wealthy businessmen, and entered the city through the city gate in a grand manner. Although there were government officials and soldiers at the city gate, they only interrogated poor people and traveling merchants.
I don't care about such a wealthy and elegant procession.
According to Chen Tianxiong's prior arrangements, Xu Xu found a big inn in the city, placed the goods, left a few team members to guard the goods, changed into decent clothes, and was led by a guide to walk around on the streets, pretending to be out of town.