xom "Miss Credia, you haven't left yet?" Zhong Lishi asked. 【Read the latest chapter】
Credia put her arms around Zhong Xiaoying's neck and said to them: "You have to thank Xiaoying..." Zhong Xiaoying wiped her eyes that were red from crying, and suddenly burst into laughter.
"I must get to the bottom of the matter about Vestri. I have already told my father, and he promised that I can stay here until he comes back from Japan." Credia said, "Please let me help. .”
"Okay." Zhong Lishi nodded. It doesn't matter if you have this way of thinking. Having the sufferer as a witness is more convincing than your own unilateral investigation.
"Come on, let's go home." Zhong Lishi said. He suddenly realized that he had let something slip - there was another guest here, so he quickly added, "...well, let's go back to the customs." He asked again Cretia: "You should stay in the business hotel. You can still live in the room there. We will bear the expenses."
"No, doctor, I'd better go back to the customs to live - if you don't mind, I want to live with Xiaoying: I hope to learn Mandarin day and night." She said, "I hope to continue Westley's studies , continue to learn from you.”
Dr. Zhong was greatly moved. This girl had never shown any interest in science, but now she suddenly had such a desire, apparently to "carry on the legacy."
Regardless of the era and culture, strong-willed people are always respected. Zhong Lishi couldn't help but be in awe.
"Okay, I will definitely do my best to impart knowledge to you."
"Then what do we do now?"
"Well... let's do something very important to life and science now - have breakfast."
Xue Ziliang on Jeju Island received an order from Bei Weilai: The entire unit immediately moved to Kaohsiung.
Although the order only contained one simple sentence, the elders on Jeju Island all knew that dealing with Zheng Zhilong was on the agenda.
Kaohsiung already had a detachment: the Qianshui Association detachment. The special reconnaissance team is "the sharpest sword of the Senate." Assigning one detachment to one direction is already considered important. Now that there are two detachments, the purpose is obvious.
Feng Zongze breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, this shows that the Senate's attention has been diverted from Jeju Island. Of course, Jeju Island contributed a lot of cattle and horses to the Senate. Cattle, in particular, have been shipped in large quantities to Hainan and Taiwan to support agricultural development. Although the horses are still being "inventoryed and restored," the first combat light cavalry squadron of the Sixth Army has been officially established on Jeju Island. The first all-mules and horses-based artillery company that does not need to replace animals to lose soldiers and the first cavalry artillery company are also being formed.
Feng Zongze knew through his friends in Lingao that the Army was very satisfied with the work on Jeju Island. Especially the rain coming from the east gate. At the meeting of the General Staff, he talked about Jeju Island’s experience in forming a security force as “very good”. The small island of Jeju, with a local population of only more than 30,000, has already contributed 600 soldiers of the White Horse Army. Now two of their companies have been shipped to Kaohsiung, undertaking a large number of simple but important coordination tasks: They serve as sentries, patrol, maintain order, and serve as laborers when necessary... becoming an important local internal security force. This greatly reduced the pressure on the northbound detachment.
In addition to the bonus points for the Army, the active activities of the Guanglei faction, and the research reports that Du Wen continued to publish after he went to Jeju for research. These reports were either in "Morning Star" or "Lingao Times". It also gave him many opportunities to show a positive image of the Jeju Front Committee.
Here in Jeju Island. Li Chao showed no sign of launching a counterattack. Xue Ziliang commanded the detachment to cross the sea and conduct several powerful reconnaissances. The whole process was like taking a leisurely stroll. The longest time, Xue Ziliang took a dozen people to tour most of Jeolla Province. It took more than half a month to conduct some surveying, mapping and reconnaissance work on the roads and docks in the coastal areas of Jeolla Province. During this period, hundreds of Korean soldiers and civilians were killed: from officials and yangban to soldiers and rural warriors. Capture some forts. Martial law was imposed throughout Jeolla Province. In the end, the entire unit returned to Jeju Island safe and sound. Not only were there no casualties, but not even many bullets were used.
This operation completely dispelled Feng Zongze and others' concerns about the Li Dynasty's counterattack: considering the Li Dynasty's grassroots control level and tragic social and financial situation, it is really difficult to imagine that they can gather enough counterattack forces and support this campaign.
There are various signs that Feng Zongze, the chief executive of Jeju Island, has weathered the current crisis. In order to further gain the support of the Senate, he cooperated with Zhu Mingxia and followed the maid scoring standards established by the General Office. Suitable girls are secretly selected from the Korean people on Jeju Island and prepared to be sent to the maid school.
Although there are very few Korean women on Jeju Island who can catch the eyes of the elders, after all, they have a population of tens of thousands, and they are somewhat exotic - it would be nice to have the elders. Even if only a few can be selected in the end, it fully demonstrates that a foreign officer like myself "always thinks about what the elders think."
The Jeju Island Front Committee held a banquet in Jeju to send off Xue Ziliang. After the lively meeting, Xue Ziliang took his troops and equipment and moved to Kaohsiung on a hoo transport ship.
As soon as he disembarked from the ship, before he had even sat down to warm up, he received the second order: "Take a rest for three days. The team will immediately begin island landing and urban assault combat education."
This order is too obvious. Xue Ziliang thought that this was a clear intention to kill Zheng Zhilong.
Although in formal procedures, as a force commander, he has no right to intervene in specific strategic decisions. But at Fengshan Fort - which is the base of the Sixth Army in Kaohsiung, and the special reconnaissance team headquarters is located at the foot of Fengshan - he and Qian Shuixie had a full exchange of views.
"This is no secret among the senators in Kaohsiung." Qian Shuixie said, "The Senate does have this intention."
Xue Ziliang was a little curious: "Why did you suddenly think of attacking Zheng Zhilong? Haven't we passed through the Taiwan Strait harmlessly for a long time?"
Qian Shuixie chuckled: "You don't know about the Sarajevo incident a few days ago, right?"
Xue Ziliang asked curiously: "What's the matter?"
So Qian Shuixie told him the murder of Westley in detail. Xue Ziliang shook his head repeatedly after hearing this: "Are you looking for death?"
"That's right." Qian Shuixie said, "Although the matter has not been thoroughly investigated, it is clear that Lao Zheng sent people to do it. It turns out that this is nothing, just a Dutch boy died, and the Dutch believe it or not It doesn't matter whether we kill them or not - unless they no longer intend to do business with us. It's just the people in the Senate who feel that they have always been wise and powerful, so they can't bear this anger. Even if they don't kill Lao Zheng this time. It’s enough for him to drink a pot.”
He then expressed his opinion: "I think it's time to eat this piece of meat."
Xue Ziliang whistled softly: "Come on, we will be busy soon."
Xu Xu was struggling at this time: if he wanted to investigate further, he would have to go deep into Jinjiang County to find Lin Shimao - this was the only clue they had now.
But to board the mainland, you have to go deep into the mainland, which is not easy. Anping City, Zheng Zhilong's hometown, is located in Jinjiang County. Jinjiang is Zheng Zhilong's innermost territory.
Zheng Zhilong would get the news as soon as he showed up in Jinjiang, an unfamiliar outsider like himself, who spoke with a strange accent - this was called surrendering.
They don't even know where Lin Shimao's casino is. It's just that according to Li Shun's confession, it was outside Beiguanxiang, the county seat. This kind of casino has neither a name nor a good reputation. Without a recommendation from an acquaintance, you may not even be able to find one. Of course, this matter only requires the use of intelligence from the Intelligence Bureau in Quanzhou and other places: points in the Shanhai two-way system can provide necessary intelligence support, and it will not be a problem to find out the specific addresses and people's activities. However, in order to "thoroughly find out the truth", the questions about Lin Shimao must be confessed.
After thinking about this matter, the only option was to let the special investigation team do Feng Fu again and go to Jinjiang County to "take out the quilt" for Boss Lin Shimao Lin and kidnap him directly to Kaohsiung for interrogation.
Xu Xu immediately called Lingao and reported his thoughts to Jiangshan. Soon Jiangshan called back and expressed his agreement with him to use intelligence to collect relevant intelligence. Li Quan immediately issued specific instructions to the Shanhai Road intelligence system in Quanzhou.
A few days later, a traffic officer followed a fishing boat from Quanzhou to Kaohsiung and sent detailed information.
Lin Shimao, who is allowed to investigate, is a local touba in Jinjiang - in modern terms, he is the leader of the underworld, and he mainly runs a casino and a pawn shop. The casino is just outside Beiguanxiang, the county seat. This man not only runs a casino, but also maintains a group of thugs. It provides paid services to people, whether they hurt, maim or kill them, it all depends on how much the employer is willing to spend. In addition, Lin Shimao's other main business is to sell stolen goods for pirates and sell various contraband, so he has always been closely connected with pirate merchants.
After Zheng Zhilong occupied Anping, Lin Shimao was not a formal subordinate of the Zheng family. He was equivalent to the "national people" in Japan's Warring States period: he could maintain a certain degree of independence, but once his services were needed, he could never refuse.
But in recent months, Lin Shimao has not had contact with anyone from the Zheng family. Basically, he is doing his old job: opening casinos and selling stolen goods. He is not only an outsider in the system that the Zheng family is building, but he is not very important.
Xu Xu thought: The Zheng family probably didn't have direct contact with him - there were people coming and going in the casino, so they just had to send someone to deliver a letter to him.
The intelligence agent also sent a detailed map of Jinjiang County, which marked the detailed locations of Lin Shimao's residence, casino and other "business places." In addition, it also provides his daily activity routes and life patterns. Xu Xu felt that this was enough to carry out the kidnapping plan.
But he was also a little worried. Since Lin Shimao and the Zheng family had a long history, would his sudden disappearance at this moment cause the Zheng family to be alert?
Then I thought about it, whether the Zheng family was alert or not, their fate was already doomed. Thinking of this, he shouted: "Prepare the car, I'm going to Fengshan Fort!"
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