Looking at Tintin who was completely defeated, the fat man stood up and said amiably: "Comrade, good principles can only be effective in the appropriate environment. Don't apply mechanically. This is a guiding suggestion from the internal affairs department for such reports.
, you can take it back and read it and revise the article. If the daily paper cannot be published, you can still send it to the evening paper. If you have any objections, we will discuss it in detail."
Seeing Ding Ding leaving with the documents, the fat man stood up and returned to his office with that gentle smile still on his face.
The official name of his office is the "Policy Research Office of the House Committee." This name does not mean any specific meaning, but is just to meet his request to not do specific work and only engage in political science research. It is equivalent to a consultant to the House Committee.
The office is clean and tidy, with a Shengchuan brand white wood desk filled with homemade file racks and baskets. There is also a large bookshelf stacked with many books. The only modern products are a laptop computer and several
cd package.
Behind the desk is a gorgeous and exquisite screen that is very incongruous with the environment. Behind it is a simple white wooden bed with a mosquito net hanging, hangers for hanging clothes and a small cabinet. It is a complete old-fashioned bachelor who lives in an institution.
Configuration.
Judging from the layout of the office, this person's status among the departments of the executive committee is not high. There is no crank telephone symbolizing power on his desk - this is a standard equipment for heads of departments.
He sat down on the worn wicker chair and took out a letter from the wicker basket marked "Come". It was folded into a letter and the seam was stamped with a red seal of "Secret". When he opened it, there was a letter inside.
Translation of a telegram sent from Guangzhou.
The content of the telegram was an investigation into Li Huamei's background in Macau. He read it very carefully.
Li Huamei’s background investigation report
confidential,
center:
After receiving the instruction, I immediately set out to investigate Li Huamei's origins and background.
In Guangzhou, it is almost impossible to find out any news about her and her Hangzhou number. In comparison, there is more news about Li Siya. However, the news about Li Siya is basically based on rumors and is the best we can know.
It is no more substantial breakthrough than what we have mastered in the past.
Therefore, I decided to send Zhang Xin to Macau for direct investigation. He played a very important role in the trade between Guangzhou Station and Macau, and established a deep personal relationship with Huang Shunlong. Huang Shunlong had long-term relationships with various maritime forces in Macau.
Dajiao Road has a better understanding of various forces. Before we have established our own intelligence system in Macau, I think it is feasible to use Huang Shunlong as a channel.
Zhang Xin went to Macau in the name of trading liquor. I approved him to carry out the following activities: revealed to Huang Shunlong that he had recently encountered a female pirate at sea and described the ship and flag to him. According to his on-site reaction, Zhang Xin
Xin judged that Huang Shunlong knew something about this. Huang was unwilling to talk more about this matter at first, but under Zhang Xin's further inducement, he disclosed the following information to us:
He had seen ships similar to the Hangzhou docked many times in the port. But he could not tell who the ship belonged to. The only thing he knew was that the captain was a woman, which he was very sure of. We gave him a computer drawing that was changed from a photo of Li Huamei.
He recognized it, and he once again said that he had not seen it carefully and could not recognize it in person. But Zhang Xin believed that what he saw was Li Huamei.
Zhang Xin noticed that Huang Shunlong was very reluctant to mention any ships and captains anchored locally during his conversation. He always said he did not know about such inquiries. We guessed that this was directly related to his pirate business.
He was afraid of inadvertently revealing the secrets of these people in his conversation. However, it is credible that he was not familiar with Li Huamei. Therefore, we infer that Li Huamei cannot be a pirate, at least her piracy area is not near the coast of China.
From this point of view, Li Huamei's self-report that she is engaged in Goa trade has a certain degree of credibility.
The next day, Zhang Xin directly investigated the sailors and related personnel at the pier. From these people, he confirmed the cycle of the Hangzhou's appearance in Macau. It arrived in Macau in June every year, and then would arrive irregularly.
It sailed back and sailed to various regions in Southeast Asia. Each voyage took about a month. The Hangzhou completely left in December. This cycle coincided with the Goa trade cycle in Macau. At the same time, they reconfirmed through map recognition:
Li Huamei is the captain of the Hangzhou. The port personnel don't know much about this person, and they don't even know where she rested after arriving at the port.
Regarding the headquarters’ special request to investigate whether there is a connection between Li Huamei and Li Siya, there are almost no sources of intelligence in this regard. Limited by language and personal connections, Zhang Xin’s investigation can only be conducted in Chinese circles. However, most local Chinese
I have never heard of this person, and I don’t even know much about the fact that a female captain comes here regularly. Some people confuse her with Li Siya. By the way, the local Chinese have a "curiosity" about Li Siya.
"There are many rumors about her psychology, but very little is known about her real life conditions. The rumors mainly focus on her murder and fire prevention. Based on the information we have learned, we infer that in addition to robberies at sea, she has also participated in many
Attack on Moon Harbor.
We believe that we cannot rule out the possibility of acquaintance, cooperation or other deeper relationships between the two Lis. After all, they both have a strong Portuguese background. If Li Siya is related by blood, then Li Huamei, as a purebred Chinese
The large number of Portuguese elements revealed in her body seemed a bit strange. She couldn't have obtained all of this out of thin air.
Regarding Li Huamei's background investigation, only this information has been collected so far. Follow the instructions to collect information about her. As soon as there is new information, I will report the details to the headquarters immediately.
Guangzhou Station Ziyan
The fat man stamped the message as "read" and picked up another letter.
This is a telegram sent from the Hangzhou, using the word "internal secret". The telegram only has a few lines, but the information is very important: Li Huamei climbed into the Zhenhai's cabin late at night and stayed inside for at least ten minutes.
"You are such an original woman." The fat man murmured to himself. After thinking for a moment, he took out a file and put the two messages in it. He wrote the added document summary and number on it. Then he
Put it in the "go" file basket.
Xuwen County, Leizhou.
Two people carrying a sedan were walking on the dusty road, followed by more than a dozen Tsing Yi servants, plus five or six bodyguards on horseback. Each one of them was either holding a whistle stick or carrying a sharp knife at his waist. He was heavily guarded. People along the road were on guard.
Some strong men in the small group had to retreat three feet after seeing this.
Wen Tong closed his eyes and meditated in the sedan chair. He had become somewhat accustomed to the bumpy and undulating sedan chair. He almost vomited when he sat on it for the first time. On TV, it seemed that rich people were enjoying riding in sedan chairs, so he started to sit on it.
I thought it was quite interesting at the time, but after a while I couldn't stand it anymore - the sedan was not a sofa, but a straight backrest, which made my waist and back hurt after a long time.
Since the sugar cane harvest began at the end of last year, Wen Tong has been sent to Leizhou as the sugar industry commissioner of Lingao Cereals and Oils Company. He has only one task, to inspect and supervise local sugar production and find the most suitable sugar manufacturing process for local production.
Process. Build Leizhou into an important town for sugar exports.
Today's Zhanjiang City, where Xuwen County was located in the Ming Dynasty, is still the largest sugar production base in China. It competes with Guangxi and Yunnan. Wen Tong, who comes from a family in the sugar industry, is naturally familiar with it. At the beginning, the Ministry of Agriculture discussed whether to plant sugar cane in Lingao.
At that time, he strongly opposed the idea because although sugar cane could be grown in Lingao, it was not the most ideal producing area. Sugar cane is a cash crop that consumes a lot of water and fertility. Its promotion would seriously affect the local food supply.
Production. Xuwen across the strait is China's traditional sugar production area. If it is not utilized and repeated construction in Lingao is not a waste of resources.
For this reason, starting from the winter of 1628, Guangzhou Station started large-scale acquisition of sugarcane fields and sugar mills while laying out land routes and networks in Leizhou. By the beginning of this crushing season, Lingao Grain and Oil Corporation
Already controlled nine sugarcane farms, 2,600 acres of sugarcane fields, and five pressing mills in Haikang and Xuwen counties.
Lingao Grain and Oil Company's ambitions are not limited to the 2,600 acres of sugar cane land. Wen Tong was instructed to purchase local sugar cane or raw sugar whenever possible, and use the advanced sugar production technology mastered by time travelers to produce large quantities of sugar.
Low-priced sugar quickly captured the market.
"Advanced sugar making technology, this is really a bit of a fantasy." When Wen Tong heard this instruction, he smiled bitterly to himself. He didn't have any special equipment for a sugar factory, so how could he have any advanced technology?
The more advanced thing about sugarcane farmers is that they can manufacture some special processing machinery, which has higher labor productivity, higher comprehensive utilization rate of sugar by-products, and lower total cost.
The first step after Wen Tong landed was to quickly visit the main sugar cane producing areas in the two counties to observe the planting, harvesting and processing of sugar cane. He generally knew what the old-fashioned sugar pressing equipment and techniques were, but these were all relics of the Qing Dynasty.
, he has never seen what the equipment of the Ming Dynasty looked like.
In order to ensure Wen Tong's safety, the executive committee sent police station consultant Zhou Shizhai with an apprentice to protect him. He and Qi Wei's men were both from the same bodyguard bureau, so communication was easy. In addition, there was also a person who traveled through the public.
Shi De is accompanying him. He has nothing to do with sugar production or sugar cane, but he is tall and strong enough. He is also a military enthusiast. After training for several months, he has a good command of weapons and can also wield a ghost-headed sword. Send him
I don't care about his force, it's mainly so that the two time travelers can talk to each other. It's no different from being with the natives, they don't have a common language.
With the help of Qiwei's large-scale establishment of points and lines in Leizhou, Wentong's sugar cane journey was both convenient and safe. After landing at Lantern Point, the shopkeeper of Qiwei's Haikang Branch in Leizhou came to greet him with a sedan chair and bodyguards.