Looking at Tintin who was completely defeated, the fat man stood up and said amiably: "Comrade, good principles can only work in the appropriate environment. [Read the full text] Don't just copy it mechanically. This is the internal affairs department's response to such reports A guiding suggestion, take it back and revise the article. If you can’t make it daily, you can still publish it in the evening. If you have any comments, 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." The name does not mean any specific meaning, but is just to satisfy his request not to do specific work but only to conduct political science research. Equivalent to advisor 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 filled with many books. The only modern artifacts are a laptop and a few bsp; behind the desk is a gorgeous and exquisite screen that is extremely incongruous with the environment. Behind it is a simple white wooden bed with a mosquito net hanging and a place to hang clothes. Clothes racks and small cabinets. A perfect old-fashioned configuration for a bachelor living in an institution.
Judging from the layout of the office, this person's status in the various departments of the executive committee is not high. There is no crank telephone symbolizing power on the desk - this is the standard equipment of each department head.
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". Open it, and inside is a translation of a telegram from Guangzhou.
The content of the telegram is 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, there is almost no 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 the situation we can grasp is no more substantial than what we have in the past.
Therefore, I decided to send Zhang Xin to Macau to investigate directly. He played a very important role in the trade between Guangzhou Station and Macau, and established a relatively deep personal relationship with Huang Shunlong. Huang Shunlong had been dealing with various maritime forces in Macau for a long time, and he knew a lot about 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: Tell Huang Shunlong that he recently encountered a female pirate at sea and describe the ship and flag to him. Based on his on-site reaction, Zhang Xin judged that Huang Shunlong knew something about this. Huang was reluctant to talk more about the matter at first, but under Zhang Xin's further inducement, he revealed the following information to us:
He has seen ships similar to the Hangzhou docked many times in the port. But he could not tell who owned the ship. The only thing he knew was that the captain was a woman, of which he was quite sure. We gave him a computer drawing modified from Li Huamei's photo to identify it, but he again argued that he had not seen it carefully and could not recognize it in person. But Zhang Xin thought: What he saw was Li Huamei.
Zhang Xin noticed that Huang Shunlong was very reluctant to mention any ships and captains anchored locally in his speech. He always said he didn't know anything about such inquiries. We guess: This is directly related to his business as a pirate, and he is afraid of inadvertently revealing the secrets of these people in his speech. But it should be believable that he is 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 dock. From these people, he confirmed the cycle of the Hangzhou's appearance in Macau. It arrived in Macau in June every year, and then sailed back irregularly to various regions in Southeast Asia. Each voyage lasts about a month. The Hangzhou departed completely in December. This cycle coincides with the Goa trade cycle in Macau. At the same time, they confirmed again by identifying the picture: Li Huamei was the captain of the Hangzhou. Port personnel knew little about the person or even where she rested after arriving in port.
The headquarters specifically requested to investigate whether there was any connection between Li Huamei and Li Siya, but almost no intelligence sources could be found in this regard. Due to language and personal connections, Zhang Xin's investigation can only be conducted within Chinese circles. But most of the local Chinese have never heard of this person, and they don't even know much about the fact that there is a female captain who comes here regularly. Some people confused her with Li Siya. By the way: The local Chinese have a "curious" mentality towards Li Siya. There are many rumors, but they know very little about her real living conditions. The rumors mainly focus on her ability to prevent murder and fire. Based on the information we have learned, we infer that in addition to robberies at sea, she also participated in many attacks 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 strong Portuguese backgrounds. If Li Siya is related by blood, then it seems a bit strange that Li Huamei, as a purebred Chinese, has a lot of Portuguese elements. She couldn't have gotten all 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 Zi Yan
The fat man stamped the message as "read" and picked up another letter.
This is a telegram from the Hangzhou, using the word "internal secret". There were only a few lines in the message, but the information was very important: Li Huamei climbed into the Zhenhai's cabin late at night. Stayed in there 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. Write the summary and number of the added file on it. Then put it into 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 on his waist, and they were heavily guarded. Some small groups of strong men along the road had to retreat three feet after seeing it.
Wen Tong closed his eyes and meditated in the sedan chair. He was somewhat used to the bumpy and undulating sedan chair. He almost vomited when he sat in it for the first time. On TV, it seemed that the rich people were enjoying themselves sitting in a sedan chair. He thought it was quite interesting when he first sat in it, but after a while he couldn't stand it anymore - there was no sand in the sedan chair, but a straight back. Back pain.
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 Grain and Oil Company. He has only one mission, to inspect and supervise local sugar production and to find the most suitable sugar manufacturing process for local production. 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 is three pillars of Guangxi and Yunnan. Wen Tong, who comes from a sugar industry family, is naturally familiar with it. When the Ministry of Agriculture was discussing whether to plant sugar cane in Lingao, he strongly opposed it. The reason was that although Lingao could grow sugar cane, it was not the most ideal producing area. Sugar cane is a plant that consumes a lot of water and fertility. The promotion of commercial crops will seriously affect local food production. Xuwen across the strait is China's traditional sugar-producing area. If it is not used, it would be a waste of resources to carry out repeated construction in Lingao.
For this reason, starting from the winter of 1628, Guangzhou Station started large-scale acquisition of sugarcane fields and sugar mills while laying out the communication routes and networks in Leizhou. As of the beginning of this crushing season, Lingao Grain and Oil Corporation has controlled nine sugarcane farms, 2600 acres of sugarcane fields, and five crushing mills in Haikang and Xuwen counties.
Lingao Grain and Oil Company's ambitions are not limited to the 26,000 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 occupied 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? What is more advanced for sugarcane farmers is that they can manufacture some special processing machinery, with higher labor productivity, higher comprehensive utilization rate of sugar by-products, and lower total costs.
Wen Tong's first step after Deng 6 was to quickly visit the main sugarcane producing areas in the two counties to observe the planting, harvesting and processing of sugarcane. He generally knew what the old-fashioned sugar-pressing equipment and techniques were, but these were relics of the Qing Dynasty. He had 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 Qiwei's men were both from the same bodyguard bureau, so communication was easy. In addition, there is also a time traveler, Chang Shide, who has nothing to do with sugar production or sugar cane, but is tall and strong enough, and is a military enthusiast. After training for several months, he has a good command of weapons, and he is also a military enthusiast. Can dance with the ghost head sword and so on. He was sent here regardless of his force, mainly so that the two time travelers could talk to each other. It's no different than being with the indigenous people, they don't have a common language.
With the help of Qiwei's large-scale network laying in Leizhou, Wentong's sugarcane journey is both convenient and safe. After boarding 6 from Lantern Corner, the shopkeeper of Wei Leizhou Haikang branch came to greet him with a sedan chair and bodyguards. ! ~!
