Chapter 571 Priorities
In order to resolve the matter as soon as possible, the military also gave sufficient support. It not only ordered the person in charge of the Danzhou garrison to cooperate with the Ministry of Security as much as possible, but also asked the navy to dispatch the "Lightning" fast sailing ship to transport them directly from Sanya to Danzhou. State Bay. This was the first time for Li Qingyang to ride on this high-tech sailing ship from another time and space. He was simply stunned by its speed. It set off early that morning and arrived in Danzhou Bay at night. It was nearly two times faster than an ordinary Chinese sailing ship. times.
With such a high speed, it only takes about seven or eight days to complete the long voyage from Nanjing to Sanya. If it is an ordinary merchant ship from the Ming Dynasty, it will basically take about a month to reach the destination with stops and starts along the way. . Even if the warship travels day and night, it will take at least twenty days. Although Li Qingyang is not a combat unit, Jin Yiwei is also half a soldier, so he naturally understands how helpful this kind of maritime marching efficiency will be in combat. The Ming Dynasty Navy on Qiongzhou Island dropped and destroyed them, and was completely unable to fight against the Haihan Navy. Li Qingyang believed that in addition to the disadvantage of ship-borne artillery fire, the speed difference was probably also an important reason.
Of course, their group did not come openly under the banner of the Haihan Security Department, but stationed in Danzhou in the name of the inspection team of the Haihan Commerce Department, with the task of inspecting the local market and trade conditions. This identity can give them some cover for their local investigation work and reduce the chance of attracting the attention of interested parties.
Wang Baisuo and Lin Nan knew each other, but this was the first time he met Li Qingyang. He had only heard that there was a specially appointed Jinyiwei officer in the Ministry of Security, but today he finally saw him alive. Both of them used to work for the Ming Dynasty, but now they have switched sides and joined the Haihan Security Department. They couldn't help but feel a little sad when they met.
Lin Nan took the reactions of these two people into consideration and did not say anything. He was one of the first batch of veterans of the militia to join the army in 1627. His background was much more pure than the two former Ming civil servants who joined halfway, so he was promoted faster. Although he has not been assigned to a local government to take charge of work, his authority is much higher than that of Li Qingyang and Wang Baisuo. Even if he is assigned to a local government in the future, the area under his jurisdiction will probably not be limited to one city.
Hao Wanqing sent Lin Nan to lead the team this time with the intention of supporting him to rise to the top. As long as this task is completed well, he will have better capital for future promotions. By the way, Lin Nan was also asked to supervise the case handling process of Li Qingyang and Wang Baisuo. Especially for Li Qingyang, who had just officially joined the Haihan camp, his performance in handling this case is likely to affect his future future. If he shows any signs of being nostalgic for Jin Yiwei or having an unstable position during the handling of the case, then what awaits him is likely to be a return to the days of house arrest.
These three people have been working in the Security Department for varying lengths of time. They also know that the most important thing in the Security Department is work efficiency. Therefore, before returning to Danzhou City, they started driving on a slightly bumpy carriage on the way back to the city. Impromptu meeting.
Li Qingyang first spent a stick of incense briefly and comprehensively introducing the current situation to Wang Baisuoyan, as well as the purpose of the special service team sent by the base camp to Danzhou to investigate the case.
Wang Baisuo was also a little shocked after hearing this: "Is it possible that the escaped Jinyiwei Deputy Qianhu is hiding somewhere in Danzhou City right now?"
Li Qingyang nodded and said: "With Jin Yiwei's way of doing things, when you are in danger, the first thing you have to do is to hide your whereabouts and ensure your own safety first, and then try to escape or fight back. This is Zhao Ye's only subordinate. He also died at sea a few days ago. The wise thing for him now is not to act rashly and wait for a reply from his superiors.”
Wang Baisuo said: "We don't know where he lives, let alone his physical characteristics. If he has already concealed his identity and doesn't take any actions that exceed the rules, it will be difficult to find him."
Lin Nan said: "The Ministry of Security has also considered this possibility, so after Mr. Hao discussed with the heads of the executive committee, we decided to unite multiple departments to act together. While searching for this big fish that slipped through the net, we also Further promote the household registration system of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Danzhou. ”
The so-called household registration system has actually been implemented in Sanya for nearly three years. In addition to being able to count the population status of the areas under its control, this system is also of great help to public security. If you want to move around in the area under the rule of Haihan, you must either have the identity certificate of a naturalized citizen or go through temporary entry and exit procedures. The range of activities of the non-naturalized floating population will be greatly restricted, which also greatly reduces the risk. The probability of roving crime.
A similar household registration system also existed in the Ming Dynasty, but compared with the scientific nature and ease of implementation of management, it was naturally far inferior to Haihan who copied mature experience from later generations. As Haihan's rule in Qiongbei became increasingly firm, this household registration system began to be gradually implemented in various states and counties. Of course, the local people will not simply publicize this as a means for Haihan to consolidate his rule, but inform the people that since there may be some pirates lurking in the local area, identity registration is the best way to prevent the bad guys from hiding their whereabouts. One of the best means.
After Haihan's "always correct" image gradually became ingrained in the minds of the people, many policies had to be promoted, and the resistance was reduced accordingly. This household registration system of the civil affairs department may not be able to omit everything at the registration stage, but as other measures are gradually improved, those people who have not registered in Haihan will find that their lives will be full of all kinds of things. Inconvenient troubles, such as having to take a boat to other places, having children at home to go through enrollment procedures, and having to attend weddings and funerals, all require identity registration procedures approved by Haihan to be able to be done. To avoid these troubles, all the people can do is cooperate with the Haihan people in population registration.
The Ministry of Security believes that the Jinyiwei who were transferred from Nanjing have no roots in Danzhou, and it is difficult to impersonate Danzhou locals without any trace. Moreover, they also have government household registrations that can be checked. Population registration can narrow the scope of the investigation. times, and use the limited power on more targeted targets—the floating population from outside Danzhou.
Although this matter sounds troublesome, it is not very difficult to implement. The size of the floating population in this era is really limited. A large local city like Danzhou has a population of 40,000 to 50,000, of which more than 90% are local residents. The identities of these residents are also registered in the Danzhou government archives. Some decent families have genealogies that can be checked, so the identities of outsiders are not so easy to conceal here.
After Lin Nan explained the direction of the investigation, Wang Baisuo nodded repeatedly and said: "The leaders have thought carefully. As long as a census of the local population is conducted, there will probably only be a thousand people left who need to be investigated. Even then No matter how well Jin Yiwei hides himself, it will be difficult for him not to reveal his lies after we narrow down the scope of the investigation.”
Jinyiwei can manage thousands of households, so he must have some skill in his hands. At least the standard Xiuchun knife must be capable of decent routine knife skills. For example, Li Qingyang, a member of the Baihu family, has also practiced swordsmanship for many years. Although he is not a master, he is definitely more than enough to deal with ordinary people. There are many ways to tell the difference between Lianjiazi and ordinary people - for example, look at the palms of your hands to see if there are calluses from holding the handle of a knife all year round.
Among this limited migrant population, the proportion of Lianjiazi is probably smaller than that of the illiterate people in Danzhou. When the time comes, we will definitely uncover this time bomb lurking in Danzhou.
The three of them roughly agreed on the means and direction of handling the case on the carriage back to the city. When they returned to the city, Wang Baisuo immediately took them to see Zhang Xin non-stop. Zhang Xin has also been notified by telegram from the Executive Committee. As the highest local official, although it is not convenient for him to directly intervene in the intelligence front, he is interested in further promoting the household registration system in the local area by taking the opportunity of investigating the case. Things are supportive. At that moment, Zhang Xin asked Yu Tiezhu, the local garrison chief, to come to the management committee, and then the military, civil affairs, and security agencies sat down to discuss the case.
One day later, notices from the Danzhou Administrative Committee were posted at prominent places at the city gates and streets in the city. The content was roughly that in order to eliminate the remnants of pirates still lurking in the local area, the Administrative Committee would launch a crackdown on Danzhou in the near future. The local resident population of the state is registered in the census. All non-Danzhou residents must take the initiative to register their identity at the household registration office under the administrative committee within three days. Those who fail to register within the time limit will be treated as suspects. Once caught, they will be fined for more than three days and thirty years. The punishment of hard labor under the Japanese.
The census in the city will begin today, but many academies outside the city have not been affected yet. For example, the Zhongming Academy where Zhang Qianzhi stayed was still in a quiet and peaceful atmosphere at this time.
It has been six days since Zhang Qianzhi successfully lurked in. During this period, in addition to completing the academy's courses, he was also paying attention to whether there were any unidentified people entering and exiting the academy. And according to his observations, the answer is yes.
The back door of the academy is a large vegetable field, and adjacent to it is the nearby wilderness forest. Due to manpower constraints, the surveillance force deployed by the Ministry of Security did not set up a point in this direction, and Zhang Qianzhi noticed that at least twice in the early morning, Huang Zixing left the back door of the academy in a hurry, walked through the vegetable field and entered the nearby forest. , and came back a moment later carrying one or two packages. If there wasn't some treasure buried in that forest, then there was someone in the forest waiting for him to hand over these packages.
Zhang Qianzhi didn't know what was in the package. He once tried to go to the study room where Huang Zixing received him, but found that there was always someone on duty outside the courtyard, and students from the academy were not allowed to enter at will.
Zhang Qianzhi took advantage of the opportunity to buy daily necessities, went into the city to contact Wang Baisuo, and informed him of his reconnaissance results in the past few days.
Wang Baisuo shook his head and said: "If we directly go in and conduct a forced search, no matter whether we can find something or not, it will have a very bad impact on the Danzhou cultural circle. Without real evidence, this matter cannot be closed so simply."
Zhang Qianzhi said: "We might as well deploy more manpower and arrange for control in the forest behind the academy. If anyone comes to contact Huang Zixing again, we can capture their stolen goods!"
Wang Baisuo smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that we don't transfer people, it's that we simply don't have enough manpower now. The base camp sent a commissioner to investigate another case, which is much more serious than Huang Zixing's case. The surveillance force currently deployed outside the academy is probably too large. All of them will be transferred back to the city to assist in the investigation work.”
Zhang Qianzhi frowned and said: "What about me?"
"If you lurk for another half month and still make no progress, then look for an opportunity and escape without leaving a trace!" Wang Baisuo responded helplessly.
It is indeed difficult to make a decision from his position. Huang Zixing must have a problem, but his problem currently does not seem to be particularly serious in nature. At best, it is just a reactionary thought, and there is no substantive action. Zhang Qianzhi The detected situation cannot explain anything. But this is also the scope of the Security Department's responsibilities. A lot of work has been done before, and Zhang Qianzhi has successfully penetrated into the academy. It is a pity to let it go.
If the new case brought by Lin Nan and Li Qingyang were not so urgent, Wang Baisuo would be happy to follow Zhang Qianzhi's suggestion and continue to send more manpower to control the surrounding areas of the academy. However, the new case was personally supervised by General Manager Hao of the headquarters, and Chief Tao of the Executive Committee also gave relevant instructions. Its importance was not the same as that of the Huang Zixing case, and Wang Baisuo could only divert limited resources to the more important party.
Zhang Qianzhi has nothing to blame for Wang Baisuo's arrangement. He has been with He Xi for such a long time, so he naturally understands the rules of conduct of the Ministry of Security. He can also prioritize what is important and what is important. I am angry that my investment in the task I am performing is being forcibly reduced. Since Wang Baisuo was willing to let him spend a little more time to continue the investigation, Zhang Qianzhi decided to get to the bottom of Zhongming Academy as much as possible. At least for Huang Zixing, Zhang Qianzhi has intuitively determined that there is something wrong with him. Zhang Qianzhi will not be willing to leave Zhongming Academy unless he is found out.
It just so happened that after Zhang Qianzhi returned to the academy from a meeting with Wang Baisuo in the city, Huang Zixing sent someone to ask him to go to the study. After Zhang Qianzhi came to Huang Zixing's study again, before he could start to think about the other party's intentions, Huang Zixing took the initiative to ask: "Going to the city today?"
"Students are going to buy some daily necessities." Zhang Qianzhi responded calmly.
"Have you ever seen the notice of peace of mind posted on the city gate?" Huang Zixing asked again.
Zhang Qianzhi pretended to be disdainful and said: "Is this the notice posted by the so-called Haihan Management Committee? The students did read it, but it was all nonsense, saying that they wanted to collect statistics on the situation of the local people. In the students' opinion, This is simply a case of pretending to be powerful. It is not their turn to cause trouble in government affairs!”
(End of chapter)