Two days later, the confidential communications room sent her a small wooden box that still smelled of sea water. [Read the latest chapter] The box is the smallest type of standard box manufactured in accordance with the packaging container standards issued by the joint logistics headquarters. It is specially used to ship official documents and scattered small items. Made of Southeast Asian teak, the four corners are wrapped with 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 is 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 parts of the material. The first is the record written by the female escort about Li Mo's outing, and the second is the oral account of the clerk at Ziminglou. The third is a report on the wiretapping records of Ziming Tower.
The latter two copies were specially requested by Ke Yun based on the information 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. The content of the report was very detailed. From the day Li Mo went out that day, everything was recorded in detail. She even recorded the snacks she ate in Guangzhou. However, in Ke Yun's view, the only valuable thing about this report is that it proves that the informant's information that she had been to Ziming Tower is correct.
Then she opened the second report, which was an oral report from the Ziselou clerk, which proved that the female escort's records were correct: Li Mo did arrive at Ziminglou and indeed opened a private room.
This report cross-revealed 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 it. The third report clearly states that there is no eavesdropping record of Li Mo in the "Liu Xiang" box.
As soon as Ke Yun's telegram for accessing materials arrived in Guangzhou, Lin Baiguang paid attention to it. He immediately ordered the eavesdropping records of Ziming Building that day to be retrieved. However, the eavesdropping records of Ziming Building did not contain the report of Liuxiang Private Room. However, there is a survey material at the back 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, every 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, it is impossible for the Security Department to dispatch monitors 24 hours a day to conduct monitoring.
Li Mo was neither an important person nor 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 to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the personnel on duty at Ziming Building that day. investigation.
The focus of the investigation is of course the man on duty on the third floor. Because there were only two of them going upstairs that day.
Because it happened during the day, when business was at its slowest—Ziming Tower didn’t have many customers during the day, especially the private rooms on the third floor. Therefore, there are only two clerks 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 that day at the same time as Li Mo. Lin Baiguang repeatedly asked Li Mo if he had any contact with these two groups of guests, but the waiter couldn't recall it, because the other two groups of guests were from wealthy families, and the ostentation was very grand, with greetings coming from time to time. The waiter could not always pay attention to the people in the private room. flow.
Lin Baiguang asked someone to retrieve the guest registration book and checkout records for this period. One of the two groups of customers were old customers of Ziminglou, and the other group were new customers 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 servants and maids 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 written as "Yue Sheng Apartment" - this is a large inn that specializes in the business of wealthy officials and businessmen from other places.
This shows that the guests are outsiders - there is nothing suspicious 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. It will come during the day.
He immediately ordered someone to go to Yuesheng 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 Yuesheng Apartment, but they left the Ziming Building the next day.
The "come" filled in by the visitor at Yueshengyu is Jiangxi Fenyi, and the "destination" filled in is Jiangxi Fenyi. No matter how he looked at it, Lin Baiguang felt that this group of people was suspicious. Immediately, people from the Wei Escort Bureau were sent to the waterway dock to investigate whether such a group of people had gone to Jiangxi in recent days. The result is that there is 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.
Because these two groups of people are not important figures and are no longer on the monitoring list, the Ministry of Nature Protection 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's a pity that the man couldn't monitor the whole process, and there was no record of eavesdropping in Ziming Building - of course, she didn't have much hope in the matter of eavesdropping records.
But this leaves one possible surname: Li Mo may have had contact with the rich man and his subordinates in Ziminglou. Most likely, they are young servants or maids under the young master.
Although there was no information from Guangzhou to determine the surname, Ke Yun believed that he had already figured out one thing: there was something wrong with Li Mo. 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 were scrubbing the deck.
This is a ship carrying salt. According to the commercial agreement signed by both parties, fifteen large-scale shipping ships filled with salt every month will transport salt and sell it to the Zheng family. The Zheng family uses half of the spot goods: indigo, indigo, medicinal materials, The trade of wood, porcelain and tea, with half of the price paid for in silver, has been going on for more than half a year. So far, the trade cooperation between the two parties has been very smooth. There was no trade friction. Xu Xu and Qian Shuixie stood in front of the screened window on the stern, 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 Zheng Zhilong's control, and each island has defenders. Especially Kinmen Island opposite Anping is even more heavily guarded. He Anping formed a cornering force.
The main force of the Zheng family's fleet, including several European-style two-masted and three-masted sailing ships, is anchored at various anchorages in Weitou Bay. However, there is no grand scene of thousands of sails gathering here. At best, there are only more than a hundred ships. 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 looks like a pirate. Not only is the ship messy, but it is also poorly maintained and looks 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 fire ship tactics.
Although Zheng Zhilong had many ships, he did not maintain a navy but a trading fleet. We cannot maintain too many armed warships that only consume and produce no output. Therefore, most of his ships are sailing for trade. If Liu Xiang, the last opponent, had not been eradicated, he might not even have more than a hundred ships here: 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 his The capital to establish a foothold. The Japanese say that the Anhai ships in Nagasaki are very big. Zheng Zhilong wants 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 he is unlikely to 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 my suggestion," Xu said. "As for what strategy the Military Command and the Executive Committee will adopt, I don't know."
Qian Shui Xiexiang: This is indeed very possible. If it was just an impressive naval 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 specifically to conduct reconnaissance in front of the enemy - this clearly requires them to conduct an amphibious assault. advance armed reconnaissance and lead operations.
"It is said that Kinmen Island and Xiamen Island are both places 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. Everyone from top to bottom made a fortune." Xu Xu said, "But this will happen decades later. The Zheng family should not have accumulated so much wealth now."
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