Chapter 472 Arranging Identities
"Li Qingyang, did you understand what I just announced?" Hao Wanqing asked in a deep voice.
Although Li Qingyang only understood three-fourths of the ten words, and more than half of the content was unclear, his strong desire to regain freedom had already firmly controlled his emotions. He immediately nodded automatically after hearing the words: "Clear, clear, subordinates must follow Director Hao's arrangements."
Hao Wanqing was also quite satisfied with Li Qingyang's attitude. He nodded and said, "Come with me. I have some specific things I want to explain to you."
The detention area of the Ministry of Security is located in the deepest part of this small valley. Although there are only less than twenty cells, a two-foot-high wall is still built around it with logs to separate the cells and the interrogation area. The prisoners' interrogation rooms were surrounded inside. Since Li Qingyang was escorted to Sanya, he has been detained in this small space. He can only stay outdoors for a very short time during each interrogation - that is, going back and forth between the cell and the interrogation room. This is only a short distance of twenty or thirty meters.
After finally removing the shackles on his body and walking out of the cell, he once again breathed the free air. At this time, Li Qingyang's mood was undoubtedly the most relaxed moment in recent times. Of course, it would be better if Hao Wanqing, a Haihan native, was not present in front of him. Although Li Qingyang was confident that his force value was better than that of this Haihan native who spoke with a slight Shandong accent, he knew that if he dared to make a mistake here, he would probably not There will never be any chance of escape again. Now that he has regained his freedom, although there are still many restrictions, Li Qingyang knows that he will at least have a chance to leave Sanya alive in the future.
The gate of the detention area is a suspended gate. The guard on duty on the gate tower pushed the winch and slowly raised the heavy iron gate. Li Qingyang followed Hao Wanqing and walked briskly out of the gate surrounded by high walls. 's courtyard. After walking out of this place, Li Qingyang finally believed that his expectations for the past few days had finally become a reality, and that an unknown new life was waiting for him ahead.
When Li Qingyang arrived, his head was covered before disembarking. Since then, he has never left the detention area. At this time, Li Qingyang finally saw that the place he was in was really in a valley, not far ahead. There was a dusty building. Hao Wanqing pointed there and said, "That's the Haihan Security Department."
"Li Qingyang, your original mission was to come to Sanya to lurk. In order to allow you to continue to perform your mission as a Jinyiwei, we arranged a job in a merchant account for you based on what you explained during the interrogation." After entering the office, Hao Wanqing explained to Li Qingyang the next step of his arrangements in a concise and concise manner.
This arrangement was not beyond Li Qingyang's expectations. Ever since Yan Chujie mentioned that he should continue to retain his identity as a Jinyiwei and continue to perform his original lurking mission, Li Qingyang thought that the Haihan people would definitely arrange a less troublesome one for him in advance. The identity is under the control of the Haihan intelligence agency. In this way, Li Qingyang can stay in Sanya reasonably and at the same time be prepared to continue to accept subsequent instructions from the Nanjing Zhenfu Division.
"This is your temporary identity card. Your scope of activities is currently limited to the Victory Port Business District. Without my permission, you are not allowed to leave the designated activity area at will. Do you understand?" As Hao Wanqing spoke, he placed an identity card in front of Li Qingyang.
Although Li Qingyang didn't know how big the so-called scope of activities that the other party had designated for him was, no matter how bad it was, it would definitely be better than being detained in that narrow and dark cell, so he agreed without hesitation.
"We will send someone to tell you to do anything that needs you to do. If you are not asked to do anything, you'd better not do anything. Do you understand what I mean?" Hao Wan asked Li Qingyang.
"My subordinate understands, please rest assured, Director Hao." Li Qingyang also came from the yamen, so he naturally knew what Hao Wanqing was referring to. Even if he still has other small thoughts, he will never take the risk to implement them at this time.
"Starting from today, report back here every seven days. For other things, someone will tell you what to do." At this point, Hao Wanqing shook the bell on the table, and his subordinates outside immediately came in to listen to his instructions.
"Take him to Lin Nan and let Lin Nan take over his affairs." After Hao Wanqing finished his instructions, he said to Li Qingyang: "Okay, you can go out now."
Li Qingyang clasped his fists and bowed, then followed the staff member and left Hao Wanqing's office.
Lin Nan, who was responsible for taking over this matter, was affiliated with the field department of the Ministry of Security. He had previously participated in the task of searching foreign ships and arresting Jinyiwei spies in the Sanya Port area. Of course, since Li Qingyang and his party were targeted by the Ministry of Security in Guangzhou and ensnared, the local arrest work in Sanya was ultimately in vain.
As a member of the Security Department, Lin Nan was naturally very aware of the arrest process of Li Qingyang and others, so when he saw Li Qingyang, he had a strange expression on his face. However, Li Qingyang himself had no grudges. After seeing Lin Nan, he also clasped his fists and bowed, saying, "Brother Lao Lin will take care of you!"
Lin Nan said with a smile: "We are all colleagues from now on, brother Li, don't be polite. Brother Li has just arrived and is not familiar with the local situation. In the past two days, I will introduce the local customs to Brother Li. There are many things that need special attention." The place. Brother Li, please!”
The two of them left the Security Department together, changed to the Security Department's exclusive black carriage at the outer gate, and drove all the way to the outside of Victory Fort. After getting off the bus, Li Qingyang, like all outsiders who saw the true appearance of Fort Victory for the first time, was instantly shocked by this strange and majestic castle.
Lin Nan was already used to this and introduced to Li Qingyang: "This is Victory Fort, Haihan's center of power. All the leaders usually conduct official business here." Li Qingyang's ears were perked, but he was already silently thinking in his heart. Estimate the strength of the castle and the difficulty of attacking it. Although this fort wall is far inferior to the tall Nanjing City Wall, the row of black gun muzzles on the top of the wall is very conspicuous. Li Qingyang slipped over at a glance and found that there were more than ten gun emplacements on this section of the fort wall within sight. This kind of firepower intensity was almost never seen in the Ming Dynasty's capital. I have long heard that Haihan is rich in firearms, and looking at this situation, it turns out that the reputation is not just blown. The fort wall was concave and convex, not as straight as the city wall in Li Qingyang's consciousness, but it was obviously a specially built shape, which made him confused for a while about the purpose of this strange defensive wall.
Lin Nan saw Li Qingyang standing still with his legs rooted to the ground as soon as he got off the car, and immediately said: "You can't come in and out of here casually. If you have the opportunity in the future, Brother Li will naturally be able to go inside and see what's going on."
Li Qingyang really wanted to walk into the Victory Fort to see what was going on inside, and to see under what circumstances these Haihan people planned such a new society that was completely different from the Ming Dynasty. However, he also knew that his current identity was still relatively sensitive. As long as the Haihan people were not crazy, they would not allow him to visit. Therefore, in response to Lin Nan's persuasion, Li Qingyang nodded calmly and said: "I see this fortress, it is indeed worth mentioning." It’s amazing, a little lost.”
Lin Nan responded: "If you stay here for a long time, you will slowly discover that there are many magical things here. Every day, a large number of new immigrants stand on the dock and lose their minds. For newcomers, this kind of The reaction is normal.”
Li Qingyang was a little unconvinced by this. Although Sanya had a good reputation and was probably better than ordinary southern ports, how could there be so many things that made people distracted? Is it possible that even the pier is paved with huge Haihan mirrors?
While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at the main entrance of Fort Victory facing south. Facing this gate was the Victory Square covering an area of nearly 20 acres and the landscape avenue leading directly to the port area. To the left and right of the landscape avenue were The earliest developed Shengli Port Business District in the local area.
The architectural style here really surprised Li Qingyang. First of all, it was the two-foot-wide avenue with neatly planted street trees on both sides, as well as drainage ditches and pedestrian passages. The main road in the middle is used by various vehicles carrying people and goods. They come and go in separate directions, which looks very orderly. Judging from the number of vehicles passing on the road alone, Li Qingyang believed that the prosperity here was no less prosperous than the Pearl River Wharf outside Guangzhou. And in addition to the common horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, Li Qingyang also saw someone riding a small car with two wheels in front and back, speeding past on the road, just like a sideshow.
Li Qingyang noticed that the road surface of this avenue was not paved with loess or gravel, but a black material. The entire avenue looked very smooth, and there was no dust when vehicles passed by. There are some people carrying bamboo baskets on the road, constantly cleaning up all kinds of garbage and dirt on the road.
Most of the buildings on both sides of the road are made of bricks and stones, mostly with three to five floors. Half of the stores facing the street are restaurants and hotels, and only a small proportion of them are commercial shops. This is different from what it was before Li Qingyang came here. There is a certain gap between expectations. He originally thought that since Sanya is known as the number one commercial port in Qiongzhou, the streets must be lined with shops selling all kinds of groceries from the north and south. He never thought that the catering business here would be so prosperous.
In fact, there were not many places to eat in the Shengli Port Business District at the beginning. The Li family invested money to open a restaurant here specifically to serve Haihan and naturalized cadres. However, as the local area became increasingly prosperous, the Haihan people's habit of discussing business and courting favors at the dinner table gradually spread, so that merchants who later entered the area often considered investing in restaurants as their first choice to establish a foothold in the area. As a result, to this day, more than 30 restaurants of various cuisines have gathered on both sides of this landscaped avenue, which is only more than one mile long. Some people in Haihan even jokingly called this landscaped avenue the "Victory Food Street".
The two of them walked along the avenue for a while, and Lin Nan took him into a side road. Most of the local business stores set up by foreign merchants are not located adjacent to the landscape avenue due to cost considerations, but in such branch roads. For example, the "Landscape Avenue J3 Road" that Lin Nan entered with Li Qingyang was full of various shops, warehouses and business inns set up by Lingnan merchants.
Lin Nan walked into a shop with the words "Fuji Pharmacy" hanging on it. Li Qingyang figured that this was probably where he would stay, so he hurriedly followed in.
"Manager He, long time no see. How are you?" After Lin Nan entered, he greeted an old man behind the counter who was sitting on a leisurely chair to relax.
As soon as the old man saw Lin Nan, he immediately stood up and came out: "Master Lin, long time no see! Thanks to all the leaders, my body and bones are in good condition recently!"
This drug store manager, who was familiar with Lin Nan, was actually an old acquaintance of Haihan. When Li Nai, the third young master of "Fu Ruifeng", visited Victory Port for the first time, it was this steward He Qianghe who accompanied him. After the establishment of "Golden Shield", Li Nai was transferred back to Guangzhou by Li Jifeng, and he rarely came to Sanya. However, the interests of the Li family in Sanya must be protected by a weighty manager. Okay, so He Qiang, who was over 60 years old, took the initiative to apply for this job, assuming that he would come to Sanya to retire.
The Li family invested in many business categories in the area under Haihan's rule, and medicinal materials were one of them. Although there were a large number of finished Western medicines among the supplies purchased during the time travel, these medicines all had shelf life issues, and the two doctors with the highest medical level in the group were both Western medicine doctors. It can be said that after the past few years, what they had The medical methods at your disposal will be limited by drugs. Therefore, from the beginning of time travel, the executive committee began to arrange the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, gradually moving towards a medical development direction that is excessive of traditional Chinese medicine, and medicinal materials are naturally an indispensable and important resource.
"Fuji Drug Store" is also one of the many industries invested by "Fu Ruifeng" in Sanya. Since the main suppliers of this store are Haihan people, the business is relatively stable and there is not too busy time, so I congratulate you. Qiang then chose this shop to sit in, so he could have some leisure time.
When the Security Department was considering which store to place Li Qingyang in, they first thought of the Li family's many local industries. As the loyal partner who has the deepest cooperation with Haihan and has always obeyed Haihan's instructions, the Li family's credibility is undoubtedly the highest. By arranging Li Qingyang into the Li family's property, he can keep a close eye on him. Long-term monitoring of behavior can also subtly affect Li Qingyang's thoughts through daily operations. Another factor to consider is that Li Qingyang should not have too much contact with the outside world. A store with a single business like "Fuji Drug Store" is obviously perfect.
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