He has been lurking in Wuzhou for many years, and his work has always focused on selling food. A steady supply of Lingao.
The content of intelligence collection is complex. The first is to collect and sort out Wuzhou's "business intelligence" over the years, including the number of stores, business contents, price fluctuations, cargo throughput, and the number of ships arriving and leaving the port every month... He has no idea what the use of this information is. He knew nothing about it, but every month he compiled it into a book and sent it back to Guangzhou on a powerful ship.
The second is to collect the social environment of Wuzhou, and the content is very complex. The focus is on collecting information on local "influential" people: from the gentry to the various religions and schools, everything is included.
When it comes to military and political intelligence, it can only be regarded as incidental work. It also does not contain much confidential content: annual reports on changes in local officials and personnel; military mobilization and armament status. These things are easy to come by with a little personal connection.
The most "risky" job he has performed over the years was once taking a mysterious visitor sent by the "center" to walk through the streets of Wuzhou and performing a secret surveying and mapping work, based on which he drew a detailed map. Map of Wuzhou Fucheng.
Luo Yangming's work is very good, he has the shrewdness and carefulness of a businessman. I have great determination to do this job well.
Luo Yangming's father was falsely accused and imprisoned because he offended the wealthy gentry in the county. Although the person came out after a lawsuit, he depleted his family's wealth and incurred a lot of debt. After repeated court appearances and torture in the cell, his father died soon after he was released. In order to pay off debts and mourn, he had to sell his rice shop and his family home.
Because he heard that his enemies wanted to "eliminate the roots", Luo Yangming and his family fled to Guangzhou overnight. Along the way, family members parted ways. When they arrived in Guangzhou, they only gave birth to an old mother. She was infected with the epidemic and her life was in danger. When Luo Yangming was desperate, he was fortunate enough to be taken in by the Guangzhou Station, which was looking for manpower everywhere. His mother's illness was cured, and the mother and son settled in Lingao.
Luo Yangming was literate, had studied for several years, and helped his father manage a rice shop. He was favored by several departments as soon as he came out of the quarantine camp. In the end, Luo Yangming was selected to work in the Foreign Commercial Committee for a year. His business talent was displayed in the Foreign Commercial Committee and was highly praised by Si Kaide, Li Mei and others. But Luo Yangming's ambition was not here. He only wanted revenge. In addition, he was constantly brainwashed by the Time Travel Group, and he was full of hatred for the Ming government. By chance, he learned that the Foreign Intelligence Service was recruiting interns. In order to return to the mainland and avenge the corrupt Ming government, he resolutely gave up his career in the Foreign Commercial Committee and submitted an application to the Foreign Intelligence Service.
In the training class, he studied hard and trained hard, and his grades were always among the best. He was one of the outstanding graduates among the interns of the Intelligence Bureau in his session. After graduation, Jiangshan originally hoped that Luo Yangming would stay and work in the headquarters, but Luo Yangming refused and took the initiative to apply for a front-line job.
Before setting off, Jiang Shan asked him: "The work on the front line is very dangerous. If you are caught, you will definitely be executed as a prostitute - the center will not be able to save you in time. Have you thought clearly?"
"Think clearly, I want to serve the Senate where they need me most." Luo Yangming said.
So Luo Yangming was sent to Wuzhou, using his identity as a Guangzhou businessman as a cover and lurking in Wuzhou City. In order to facilitate the work, with Qiwei's help, the Intelligence Bureau successively helped him find his wife and sister who were sold on the road. It’s just that the son was originally sold to a passing merchant, but now he can no longer be found.
He took his family back to Wuzhou and opened a grain store. Jiangshan did not assign him a special assistant. His instructions to Luo Yangming were simple: "Be self-sufficient like a real businessman." Except for the traffic officer who comes every month, he has no interaction with the "center". In addition to a start-up fund, the "center" will no longer provide financial support and activity funds. He was only allowed to keep the profits from the grain trade for his own use.
During his several years in Wuzhou, Luo Yangming made friends with the government and established good business relationships with many businessmen in Wuzhou City. With these relationships, he collected a lot of information about Wuzhou and even the entire Guangxi Province, and continuously passed it back to Lin through the transportation network. high. Due to his achievements in intelligence work, Luo Yangming received a commendation order from the Foreign Intelligence Service.
More than ten days ago, he had received instructions from the traffic officer: Fubo Army was about to launch an offensive against Wuzhou, and he was asked to pay attention to safety. And the instructions said: If the situation is urgent, you can retreat from Wuzhou and take temporary refuge outside the city. After Wuzhou was recovered, he would return to the city to contact the joint logistics department of Fubo Army and supply the grain stored in the grain warehouse to Fubo Army for use as military rations - this was his last job in Wuzhou.
He has no intention of leaving the city. After all, he has his property and home here. If he leaves the city to escape, there is no chance that gangsters will take the opportunity to rob or plunder during the capture of the city. The losses are too great and he cannot explain to the "center"; secondly, his family Most of them were women and children and had no suitable place to stay outside the city. Instead, they were in danger of being robbed by rural bandits.
Fubo's army rarely laid siege to the city, and it took only half a day to capture the city. All he had to do was wait for them to enter the city with peace of mind.
He took stock of the accounts for a while, calculated the receivables and payables, and checked the amount of money and grain on the cabinet. Although he has been running this grain store for many years, it is the property of the Senate. In more than ten days, he will completely hand it over to the Senate.
My wives, concubines, and sister probably don’t know that this family property is not theirs. Thinking back to the time when I took my wife back, the couple cried and hugged each other, and the surprise on my wife's face when she saw that she had "earned" such a big business - if she had known that this business was not mine, I don't know what she would have looked like. Woolen cloth?
As for what he would do after handing it over, Luo Yangming had never thought about it. Maybe go back to the commercial sector. He is very clear about the employment principles of the intelligence department: an intelligence agent who has been used once will not be used a second time even if his identity is not exposed.
At this time, a female voice whispered at the door of the closet: "Master! Master!"
The voice sounds like his wife. Luo Yangming said: "What's the matter? Come in and talk."
A young woman in her late twenties came in. She wore a bun and a light make-up on her face. She was wearing a
A lotus-colored narrow-sleeved jacket and a plain-colored long skirt with flowers, already half-worn. Her appearance is not outstanding, but she has good features, fair skin, and is somewhat pretty.
His wife’s surname is Ding and her nickname is A Tao. My natal family is a small businessman in Sanshui. Unfortunately, my natal family has long been in decline. When he first fled, Luo Yangming pawned her to a wealthy family as a concubine because he didn't have enough money on the way. Although he later redeemed her, his wife had already given birth to a child in that family.
According to the rules, the children born to such wives and concubines in debt belong to the family of the debtor, and the women cannot be taken away when the debt expires or is redeemed.
She missed the child she gave birth to when she was a concubine and had a "shameful incident" of being possessed by another man, so she always had a melancholy look on her face, as if there was something heavy on her brow.
"What, are all the doors closed?"
"It's all closed." A Tao said. Like a young woman from a "scholarly family", she was gentle and quiet and never spoke loudly. "The guys followed your instructions and added door bars to the doors and piled up straw bags. It was blocked with stones, and now only a side door remains, with door bars added."
Without waiting for him to ask further questions, A Tao added, "I've also looked at the food at home. Of course there is enough rice; there are also a lot of pickles and fish, but there is a little less firewood."
Luo Yangming nodded and asked, "Is Ah Chun back?"
Ah Chun is the boy in his family, an orphan he took in. He is only fifteen years old. Doing errands at his house and warehouse. Early this morning, Luo Yangming sent him out to inquire about the news.
Because of the approaching "Kun thieves", the atmosphere in Wuzhou city was very tense, and places like the grain warehouse were easy targets for the government and the mob during the war. So from a few days ago, Luo Yangming warned that the store would not open anymore - fortunately, the grain store was engaged in bulk sales, not a rice shop facing the common people, so the closure would not easily cause panic among the people.
"just came back."
"Any word on the street?"
A Tao shook his head melancholy and said: "I heard that only the North Gate and South Gate were opened today, and the other city gates were not opened. Some people also said that the bandit's clipper had already set off from Fengchuan..."
She sat down and sighed: "How can we survive in such a world! Our family has finally lived a stable life for a few years, and here comes this damned thief again! Occupying a Qiongzhou Prefecture is not enough, we have to even Guangdong Beat it down!"
She gritted her teeth and cursed the thief. Luo Yangming smiled slightly and comforted him: "Don't be afraid. Everyone says that Australians love their people like their own children. They have strict military discipline and have never burned, killed or looted. Wuzhou is probably not in the way." of."
"Even if Kun is as good as you said, you run a rice shop and all you need in the war is food. What will happen if the government comes to collect food? What if the city is besieged and those mobs come to steal food... Sigh..." The woman frowned. Lock, can’t say any more.
Her worries are naturally justified, but this is not a problem for Luo Yangming. He comforted: "Don't worry, the Australians attack the city very quickly. In less than three or five days, this place will probably become the world of the Song Dynasty." .”
"But, I'm always worried... Ah Chun said: Many wealthy families left the city with their families today."
"Probably hide in a stockade in the countryside."
"But there are also many people leaving the Yamen, and the granary in the city is also transporting food outside. Could it be that Master Xiong wants to abandon the city and escape..."
Luo Yangming trembled and said, "What did you say?"
"Ah Chun said that officers and soldiers were transporting food outside the city, and there were piles of food everywhere on the dock..."
"Call him here and I will ask him personally!"
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