Before entering the city, Wulong first went to the military post near the north gate to return the horse, and then entered Jilin City after the Eight Banners soldiers guarding the gate checked the documents.
The appointment document forged by the North Naval Intelligence Bureau was scanned and photoshopped based on a real document provided by Na Qitai. Even the paper was specially processed paper provided by Na Qitai, so it was checked at the city gate. No problem at all times.
Since the entry of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, in order to maintain the operation of the huge state machine, the paper for the palace and official documents has generally been tribute paper. This includes not only the carrying papers, Maotou papers and submission papers delivered to Beijing from Shanxi, Fujian and Jiangxi, but also tribute papers from the Li Dynasty and Ryukyu. These special papers are usually stored in the paint library of the Ministry of Household Affairs. If the paper stocked in the paint warehouse cannot meet the demand, you can also buy it in Beijing, such as going to "Baizhifang".
In short, from the edicts and edicts used by the emperor, to the golden lists of the imperial examinations, to the official documents and tax forms between the imperial court and local governments, the paper used for different purposes is completely different, and ordinary people cannot buy it in the market. Therefore, in this era, even if someone knew how to carve a carrot seal, if special processing paper was not available, it would be impossible to forge a document of appointment from the imperial court.
Entering the city, teams of five Eight Banners soldiers can be seen everywhere on the streets carrying tokens, ropes and torture sticks, conducting inspections. These are the "house-building soldiers" under the command of the Jilin Deputy Capital.
Different from other places within the Pass, because there was no concept of "police" before the late Qing Dynasty, the security in the cities outside the Pass was maintained by the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in the city. The place where these Eight Banners soldiers rested for a short period of time is called "dui house". There are many in Jilin city, and their functions are similar to the security posts of later generations.
These "house soldiers" were ordered by Fukang'an to patrol the green camp soldiers in the city. When they saw Oolong's official uniform and his appearance, they instinctively excluded him and slapped him in Manchu. Say hello and pass by.
When he arrived at West Street, Oolong first found an inn, showed his waist card to check in, and followed the waiter to the guest room. After washing up, he changed into casual clothes and asked his clerk about the lively places in the city, saying he wanted to buy something for his family.
The clerk’s flattering introduction said that if you are buying things for the female family members, Cuihua Hutong is your first choice; if you are buying things for male elders, then go to Beida Street.
Cuihua Hutong is famous for selling all kinds of paper flowers, including those worn on women's heads and displayed indoors. It is also a place frequented by many female relatives of dignitaries.
As for North Street, it is just north of General Mansion. It is located at the west entrance of Lao Jinlong Hutong. There is an archway at the entrance. There is a plaque with gold letters on a blue ground and the four characters "Consolidate Jintang" hanging on it. There are many shops on Ludong and Luxi on Beida Street, and businesses under the name "Sheng" occupy almost half of the street. Like Yuanshengqing, Hengshengdian, Yongshengdian, Qingshenghou, etc., these are all properties of the local wealthy Niu family.
Oolong rewarded the guy with a few coins, and then went to Beida Street in a leisurely manner. After entering through the archway gate, we walked past seven or eight shops, and the sign at the door of a drug store called "Ji Shi Tang" suddenly appeared in front of us. A ginseng plant is painted on the banner at the door, indicating that this pharmacy specializes in ginseng. After walking into the shop, a slightly earthy aroma of ginseng floated in the house, mixed with the smell of other medicinal materials.
There were no customers in the store at this time. There was only a shopkeeper-looking guy in his thirties behind the counter who was sorting out bags of medicinal materials. When he saw the customers, he raised his head and said, "Brother, do you want to buy medicine? But are you here to buy ginseng?"
Oolong looked around and said to the man: "No, I have a good ginseng plant and I would like to know the price."
The man stopped his hand, then looked up at Oolong and said, "Oh! Please take a seat, and I'll have someone make tea for you."
"No hurry, let me ask the price first. How do you charge for second-class ginseng?"
The man smiled and said: "The current market situation, if it is really a second-class ginseng, the minimum is three hundred taels, and the more can be as high as a thousand taels. It depends on the quality. Brother, are you from the north? Good ginseng is rare nowadays. Please wait a moment while I pack these things and then look at the goods."
Not long after, a waiter served the tea and then left. The man who looked like a shopkeeper also packed up the things on hand. He washed his hands first, and then came over and said to Oolong: "My surname is Wu, and my name is Ji Shitang." The shopkeeper."
"It turns out to be the shopkeeper Wu, I've admired you for a long time!" Oolong hesitated for a moment after being polite, and suddenly said: "The best time is in Chunshan. It should be the six-leaf ginseng."
Shopkeeper Wu smiled and shook his head: "Brother is wrong, good ginseng only has five leaves at most."
Oolong shook his head and said, "My penis belongs to Liuye!"
"Where did you get it?"
"Hongtong Riverside, in front of the Yongning Monument!"
The two of them had already matched the secret codes. Shopkeeper Wu smiled, and then he cupped his hands at Wulong and said, "Brother, please come in. I have to take a good look at such a good ginseng."
When they arrived in a side room in the inner courtyard, shopkeeper Wu took the newly issued telegraph codebook from Oolong and couldn't help but marveled, wondering why the higher-ups had sent a young man here. When Oolong told him that the traffic officer had an emergency, he was relieved.
Oolong stayed in the backyard of Jishi Hall for half an hour in total, and then left. After he went out, he pretended to go to the tobacco and hemp store next door and bought two kilograms of tobacco leaves. He went to Qingsheng Houjin Store to buy a pair of silver bracelets, and then went to Yuan Shengqing to pull out a few feet of silk and returned with big and small bags. Got to the inn.
Now that everything was done, Oolong didn't want to stay in Jilin City any longer. On the morning of the third day, he found an excuse to settle the bill, then left the city from the west gate and boarded a bus to Mexico at Sandao Wharf. A boat hauling lumber in Urgen City. At this point, his first field mission was successfully completed.
In fact, the work of the North Naval Intelligence Bureau is not only to transmit intelligence and spy on news, but also to conduct counterinsurgency within their jurisdiction. For example, Xu Shounan, who is highly regarded by Zhao Xin, has led people from the Immigration Office and the Public Security Police Department to review newly arrived immigrants since the beginning of last year.
Beginning in 1790, the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign, half a million immigrants from within the customs territory flocked in. Most of these people came from Zhili, Hubei, and Sichuan, and the screening problem was very complicated.
The refugees, men and women, were all depressed when they disembarked; they were hungry, poor, and in rags. When they first arrived at Whale Bay, these hungry and cold people were shocked when they saw many scenes in Beihai Town that were different from those in Guanhai. Sometimes they became frightened and shouted just because of the cars passing by on the road.
Beihai Town, which is in urgent need of a large number of laborers, cannot keep these people locked up until they are released after door-to-door inspections. Therefore, the Immigration Office can only register them first, issue identity cards, and allocate work and accommodation, and then the Public Security Police Department will register them based on the registration. The situation will be verified in batches; if the explanation is unclear or there is doubt, it will be reviewed individually.
The preliminary work of the Beihai Town Immigration Office was very detailed. They videotaped each immigrant and conducted preliminary inquiries based on a fixed questionnaire with thirty questions. By combining the videos and questionnaires with the contents of the registration book, we can basically understand the entire life of each immigrant before arriving.
Now that the refugee wave has long passed, the review work has not stopped. The establishment of the North Naval Intelligence Bureau this year has increased the number of reviewers from fifteen to more than fifty. Among these fifty people, sixteen-year-old Xu Shounan has been engaged in counterinsurgency work under Zhao Xin's orders two years ago, and is considered a "veteran".
On the morning of May 24, Xu Shounan appeared as usual in the yard of the Immigration Office in Khabarovsk, where immigration is reviewed. These days, ordinary people are afraid of seeing officials. If it were arranged at the Public Security Police Station, many people would not dare to come.
The review is usually conducted in the form of a conversation, usually starting at 8 a.m.. Xu Shounan meets with one person every half an hour, and he has to meet with about 15 to 20 people throughout the day.
Contact with new immigrants is more of a systematic preparation than an interrogation. All examiners have been trained in advance, and the trainer is Zhao Xin's personal disciple in practical psychology, Katabei Wei, director of the Beihai Town Public Security Police Department.
Katabei told all examiners that when you first come into contact with the subject of examination, you should be kind and polite. In conversation, there should never be any expression of doubt, surprise, or excitement other than appreciation.
Those statements that are lying or bragging should be encouraged and must not be criticized as soon as they are heard. It is not the examiner's job to argue with the person being reviewed, nor to criticize. If a person's explanation is inconsistent with the content of the video recorded during the previous registration at the Immigration Office, this issue should be questioned carefully. You must know that the less true the explanation, the bigger the loopholes will be. Once you argue with the other party, he will be wary because his explanation will be doubted.
At the end of the first review, if the examiner believes that the other party's account is true and the plot is unremarkable, he should ask various rhetorical questions to make the whole story clearer and more complete. After clarification and confirmation that the suspect is innocent, a second review is unnecessary and the person is considered to have passed the test.
Xu Shounan was "unfortunate" today. The first person he reviewed was a bachelor who was assigned to a pig farm. Whenever this guy mentioned the past events in Beihai Town, his saliva flew everywhere. After listening for a long time, he got really bored, so he changed the subject and asked, "What's going on with the scars on your forehead and eyes?"
"The villain used to be nicknamed 'Three Bangzi'. He was so poor that he couldn't survive anymore, so he gritted his teeth and thought about going to a brothel to 'get a share'. You don't know, according to the rules of the world, if you want to earn this If you want a share of money, you have to let others beat you to death. As long as you can withstand this beating, the shopkeeper will have to carry him into the store to recover from his injuries. After the injury is healed, he will get a share of the money in the store. This is called "taking a share." We used to use axes when we were fighting, but one of my grandsons got in trouble and hit it right here, almost blinding the villain."
"Oh, so your name is Jin San."
"It's up to you!"
"The report from the pig farm says that you work very hard, so you don't plan to get a wife?"
"Li Tou is a man of righteousness and will not be treated badly in terms of food, clothing or wages. Don't forget that we used to work on the street, but we still have to be loyal, courageous, courteous and trustworthy! People treat us as brothers, and we can't let go. As for my daughter-in-law, , Li Tou helped me ask a family, and they said they were from Sichuan."
Jin San started talking again. Fortunately, within a few minutes, the alarm on the table rang, interrupting his description of his future life.
"Okay, you can go." After hearing Xu Shounan's words, Jin San stood up and bowed to Xu Shounan, then put on his felt hat and left the room.
During these days in Beihai Town, Jin San felt that it was great not to have to kneel and kowtow to others. Although the environment in the pig farm is poor, it is always good to rely on your strength to make a living and no longer have to rely on an ax or a knife to live. When I think about the fact that I will propose marriage to that family from Sichuan tomorrow, and that the yellow-flowered eldest daughter will become his wife, I feel so happy that I can't stop talking:
"Silly boy, sitting on the doorstep, crying and clamoring for a wife."
After just humming a few words, Jin San walked into the courtyard and looked back curiously, and saw a man wearing a blue cloth coat and a simple and honest face hunched into the room where he just went.
When Xu Shounan saw the man coming in, he didn't get up. He pointed to the chair opposite and said to the man, "Sit down."
"Hey!" The man was a hunchback. He bowed and sat down with an awkward look on his face.
Xu Shounan smiled and said in a kind tone: "I want to verify some things with you, don't be nervous." After that, he asked the security police in casual clothes to give him a glass of water.
"Why!"
"Your name is Duan Kui? Are you from Zhili?"
"Hey! I'm from Guangping, Zhili."
Ten minutes later, Xu Shounan had asked half of the questions, and Duan Kui also answered them without any nonsense. This person spoke with a calm demeanor, and his narrative was simple, clear, and reasonable, which gave people an inexplicable good impression.
According to file records, this man is forty-five years old. He has a mother-in-law and a son at home. He used to do small business in the streets and had learned boxing for several years. In the 53rd year of Qianlong's reign, there was a flood in Zhili. He really couldn't survive, so he had no choice but to flee with his family to Tianjin. As a result, when he entered the city, he was tied up with a rope by the government and sent to Dagu. After coming to Beihai Town, the Immigration Office arranged for his family to move to Khabarovsk. Now he is working as a foreman on a railway construction site, while his wife is taking care of the children at home.
But the more Duan Kui behaves like this, the less Xu Shounan dares to be careless. He remembered that Zhao Xin once told him that the more sophisticated the spy, the better the impression he would make.
When Zhao Xin read some practical psychology books before, he was deeply impressed by a case in them. A world-renowned criminologist said that the person who left the best impression on him was a woman who poisoned all her children to get an insurance premium; and the person who left the worst impression on him was a woman who poisoned all her children to death in order to get an insurance premium. philanthropist.
Xu Shounan looked through the registration information at the Immigration Office. In the personal belongings category, he keenly noticed that two gold bracelets, a gold ring and a small box similar to a jewelry box were registered on it. How could a person doing small business have such valuable things?
So when Xu Shounan asked about this place, Duan Kui said that it was passed down from his ancestors. Xu Shounan instinctively didn't believe the other party's words. The so-called people are cheap when they leave their hometown. It's not that they can't survive in these years, and no one wants to move. Since you have gold, even if there is a flood in your hometown, you can still buy rice and grain by pawning your bracelets and rings. Why bother to flee to Tianjin? Wouldn't it be better to go to the capital?
"That's not right!" Xu Shounan's expression changed, he slapped his palm on the table and said sternly: "Duan Kui, I'll give you another chance, but you have to think clearly before speaking!"
Faced with Xu Shounan's sudden change of expression, Duan Kui hesitated again and again, and finally confessed: "Okay! I didn't tell the truth. I stole this thing."
Immediately afterwards, Duan Kui began to tell a story about how he met a businessman on the way to Tianjin and how he stole a baggage from the businessman, which contained these things.
If it were another censor at this time, it would be easy to believe Duan Kui's explanation. After all, he had exposed his own shortcomings. Being a thief in these days would be extremely looked down upon and would bring disgrace to the ancestors and family.
However, Xu Shounan was Zhao Xin's direct disciple after all, and he remembered every word Zhao Xin warned him. Zhao Xin once specifically reminded him that when it comes to rebellion, he must carefully guard against "stories within stories."
"Shou Nan, when you think that after great efforts, you have defeated the suspect's resistance, if the other party starts to tell a story that damages his image. Remember, you must not believe this! As long as someone does this If you do, he is definitely a very dangerous person!"
Duan Kui did not return home smoothly like Jin San, and he was taken into custody. Immediately afterwards, his wife and two children were also taken away for questioning by the security police.
Two days later, this honest guy finally revealed his true identity after the interrogator gave him a full stomach of water and even spurted out blood.
This person was Duan Wenjing, the leader of the Zhili Bagua Cult, who had gathered more than fifty people to attack Daming Mansion, plundered prisoners in Daming and Yuancheng counties, and shocked the Qing court. He had been on the run for five years.
Duan Wenjing was a native of Zhangmeng Village, Guangping County, Zhili Province. He once studied with the leader of the Zhen Gua Cult, and also learned boxing and stick. He once served as the soap head of a famous Taoist yamen. This person has been preaching in the Daming area since the 1940s of Qianlong. In order to expand the teaching power, he organized the Li Gua, Zhen Gua and Xun Gua in the Daming and Guangping areas of Zhili and Guanxian and Guantao in Shandong to form the Bagua Society. In order to attract people to join the religion, he called on people to "cure illnesses and seek blessings" and "learn boxing and sticks", and respected Liu Hong of Shanxian County, Shandong Province as the leader of the religion. He used his banner to cheat, teach disciples and make money.
On the night of July 14, the fifty-first year of Qianlong's reign, Duan Wenjing led his men to light incense and kowtow, each wrapping their heads with red and white silk cloth, and pushed through the wall next to the Daotai Yamen of Daming Mansion. Xiong Enfu, a well-known Taoist priest, came out of the hall to shout a ban and called for arrest. Duan Wenjing was the first to cut Xiong Enfu to the ground, and the others came up to add another blow. Xiong Enfu fled back to the central hall, where he fell to the ground and died. His family and government officials started to resist, killing eight people and injuring eight others.
Later, Duan Wenjing led the crowd to open the treasury, but when he saw more and more government officials supporting him, he rushed to Daming and Yuancheng counties to kill officials and rob prisons. Later, the Qing troops stationed there came to support and used muskets. Only then did all the gangsters run for their lives.
After the incident, Qianlong was extremely angry. He issued successive edicts demanding a strict investigation of the case, and urged Liu E, the then governor of Zhili, Bi Yuan, the governor of Henan, and Mingxing, the governor of Shandong, to hunt down the fugitives and spread a wide net in the three provinces.
It took the officials of the three provinces more than half a year to arrest more than 50 principal criminals involved in the case. The pursuit areas expanded to Shanxi, Anhui, and even Jiangnan, Huguang, canal coasts, Shandong coastal areas and other places. In addition to the main criminals, countless relatives and fellow believers were captured.
Although the Manchu and Qing officials spread intelligence and offered rewards for his arrest, the first criminal, Duan Wenjing, was never captured. Qianlong even expanded the scope of tracing to the Shaanxi-Gansu region, the coastal areas of Eastern Province and the Shengjing area. Until this year, Qianlong still repeatedly criticized local officials for their slackness and dereliction of duty in his edicts.
However, no one expected that Duan Wenjing had been hiding in Tianjin City all these years, and took advantage of the opportunity when the Beihai Navy came to Dagukou to beg for refugees, and sneaked into Beihai Town. The most terrible thing is that in more than a year, this person has developed more than a dozen key members among the island laborers and Han workers who built the road, and began to make money.
When the news reached the Public Security Police Headquarters, Katabei broke into a cold sweat. He immediately ordered the Public Security Police Department and the railway police under the "Railway Construction Committee" to act together to arrest more than a dozen Bagua cult members!
By the way, Jilin City's North Street had this name from the beginning of the city's founding, and it has been used until later generations.
(End of chapter)
