Chapter 1392 Liu Shang’s choice
Haihan's development and construction speed in infrastructure projects is beyond the reach of the Ming Dynasty, and Liu Shang has a very deep understanding of this. Driving Haihan to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in building roads naturally has many long-term benefits. In addition to being more efficient in military operations, it also facilitates the circulation of materials and personnel, allowing Haihan to quickly implement his own policies in the occupied areas. a set of social rules. What Ming Dynasty failed to achieve during its two hundred years of rule, Haihan achieved it in just over a year. This speed of development is inseparable from the improvement of local traffic conditions. In the future, the firmness of Haihan's local rule will also be linked to the state of infrastructure, including transportation, to a certain extent.
The people may not have such a far-sighted strategic vision, but the Haihan people have personal feelings about the benefits brought by building bridges and roads here. The trade system established by Haihan quickly promoted local economic development, and the people soon realized the huge benefits brought by social transformation. With the promotion of relevant departments, almost no locals in places like Majiazhuang continued to After they started farming, they began to switch to higher-yield service industries and other supporting institutions.
Regarding such social changes, Liu Shang knew that the local people would definitely be happy to see the results. This has been verified many times in various colonies and occupied areas in the south. Visible and tangible benefits are far more captivating than the unreachable majesty of the Central Dynasty, not to mention that Haihan also provides a bright path for all local followers, as long as those who choose to join Haihan If the people are willing, they can leave the Ming Dynasty at any time and settle in areas truly under the independent rule of Haihan.
The production of eye-catching slogans in occupied areas is a low-cost propaganda measure targeting ordinary people. Regardless of whether the people can fully understand Haihan's intentions, this method will first form some deep-rooted consciousness in their minds, and then subtly affect their values.
"This Liu Shang... is actually a person who does things."
Chen Yixin, who had just returned from the mining area, saw Liu Shang leading a group of people painting slogans outside the village. He stopped and observed for a while, and then made a comment. When he met with Liu Shang a few days ago, he did not give him a specific task. He just asked him to start the propaganda work of the immigration camp. But seeing how energetic Liu Shang was at work, he was quite enterprising and took the initiative to take over the slogans of Majiazhuang, so he naturally had a better impression of him. On Liu Shang's file, the first two units where he worked had given him good reviews, and it seemed that they were not entirely kind words.
"Say hello to him. The courtyard wall to the west of Majiazhuang must be reserved for our troops. Don't take it all." When Chen Yixin left, he gave a faint instruction to his secretary Zeng Xiaowen, but there was nothing in his tone. The element of sullenness.
Zeng Xiaowen pondered what his boss meant before he responded to the order. He personally has no ill feelings toward Liu Shang, but he just feels that his arrival will be a variable for the situation in the immigration camp, especially since this guy quietly went to the immigration camp with his approval document and picked up a group of people to come out to work. This action made him even more upset. Zeng Xiaowen felt that Liu Shang was an uncontrollable factor. However, his boss didn't seem to be very worried about this issue. Zeng Xiaowen felt that he might be a little too worried.
Of course Liu Shang would not think there was anything wrong with the new instructions coming from Zeng Xiaowen. Although the handover of civil affairs work in the occupied areas of Shandong is already underway, everyone understands that the military will still have the final say here for the foreseeable future. The reason is also very simple. Among the cadre teams that went north to assist in construction this time, there were no real senior figures who came to Shandong with the team to take over civil affairs affairs. Even if the work handover is completed, specific civil affairs affairs will only be handed over to professionals, but local management power will still be in the hands of the military for a while.
The special status of the army in the Shandong-controlled area will not change significantly in the future. Chen Yixin's order reflects this status quo. Although Liu Shang's establishment does not belong to the military, he can still only fully obey the instructions of senior military officials here.
"It seems that the army is not willing to withdraw from the public's sight." Liu Shang secretly came to a conclusion in his heart.
As for the difficulty of work that I will encounter when I go north to Shandong, I have actually received warnings from Xiaobao and others when I was in Sanya. However, Liu Shang did not expect that he would meet his colleagues so soon after arriving in Shandong. This accident surprised him as much as when he was preparing to flee from Sanya and saw the swollen bodies of Liao Yuan, Qin An and others on the boat.
Three days have passed since he discovered the true identities of these people in the immigration camp. Liu Shang has repeatedly confirmed through observation many times that the subjects he suspected are indeed well-trained Ming intelligence personnel. Of course, the so-called well-trained is only a relative term. These people were obviously lack of vigilance when facing Liu Shang, and they may not have considered that an ordinary-looking Haihan official would see through them and use them to convey information. Some body movement signals.
Liu Shang finished the last stroke, slowly retreated a few feet away, and squinted his eyes to examine his work. Although the font is a bit untidy, there are no typos at least. A slogan of this quality will definitely not pass the test in Sanya, but in an environment like the countryside of Dengzhou, there is nothing to be picky about. The literacy rate of the people here is only about 10% to less than 20%. In the entire Majiazhuang, Jiang Sheng, the brother-in-law of the patriarch Ma Dongqiang, is a serious Confucian scholar. When the Ma family proposed marriage to Chen Yixin, he sent This is the only intellectual who takes action.
If Jiang Sheng was in Majiazhuang, he could help Liu Shang, but now he is taking care of the many businesses under the Ma family's name. He is usually very busy, and most of the time he is on Zhifu Island so that he can easily communicate with the sea. Han settled accounts. In the past few days since Liu Shang was in Majiazhuang, Jiang Sheng had not come back, so he could only take his people to do the job of painting slogans slowly. Fortunately, this job was taken over by Liu Shang on his own initiative, and no one set a clear time limit for him. He could take his time and work at his own pace.
Liu Shang handed the brush to the helper next to him and said: "Okay, that's it for today, let's call it a day!"
Several helpers responded and then began to pack the tools. From the second day onwards, Liu Shang mainly worked on the line drafts, leaving the doodling to his helpers. Only those characters with more complex fonts would be handled by himself because he was worried that the illiterate people would write in the wrong place.
However, he probably only used less than half of his mind to work, and the rest of his attention was focused on these suspicious characters around him. Among his five observation subjects, it was already certain that one was the leader of these people, because the other four people were obviously looking at this person's face when they were doing things, and sometimes the other people would even take the initiative to take on the heavy lifting. work, minimizing the opportunity for this person to work.
Of course, Liu Shang also considered reporting these people to Chen Yixin or the security department, but he had no evidence to prove the true identities of these people. He couldn't say that he could understand the codes they used, otherwise he would not be able to tell the truth. Gai Yuan is back. However, if the exposure is successful, it will definitely be considered a great achievement. If it were not impossible to clear himself of suspicion, Liu Shang would probably do this. As for his colleagues...Liu Shang doesn't think there is any friendship with people in this business. Everyone ties their heads to their belts. What's more, Liu Shang now considers himself an upright Haihan official. There is no need to talk to Ming Dynasty anymore. Intelligence officers talk about peer friendship.
After several days of observation, Liu Shang suspected that these people may have other accomplices. They now work under Liu Shang during the day and return to the immigration camp at night, with almost no chance to meet Ma Bo. After making this arrangement for several days, Mabo did not seem to be agitated because he had lost contact with these people. Liu Shang guessed that this was because their other accomplices in the immigration camp acted as a channel for spreading news. In addition, Liu Shang did not believe that with Ma Bo's little ability, he could make these Ming spies listen to his orders. However, these people had been staying in the immigration camp and did not understand the situation outside. Logically speaking, they could not give Liu Shang orders. Complex commands. Liu Shang believes that there may be others outside the immigration camp secretly giving instructions to Ma Bo. But he never imagined that the person who gave orders to Ma Bo had been hiding in Ma Bo's house, only a few feet away from his residence.
"In the past few days, that Haihan officer has asked my people to do things, but has he ever had any doubts about their identities?"
"No, no, he didn't mention it at all. He probably didn't think about it at all." Ma Bo bowed and carefully explained the situation to the figure in the darkness.
The black shadow was silent for a while and said: "They have stayed in the immigration camp for long enough. If they stay any longer, they may attract the attention of interested people. Just make arrangements and let them leave here."
Ma Boy responded: "Haihan has been in great demand for immigrants recently. If we send them away, I'm afraid it will be difficult for them to stay in Shandong."
The shadow said: "Didn't you say that immigrants can choose to stay or leave on their own?"
Hearing the anger in the other party's tone, Ma Bo swallowed his saliva and continued to explain: "You can leave, but you have to go through a very complicated identity verification procedure... The Haihan people call this rule 'Enter with ease and strict with exit'" , it is easy to come in, but it is very troublesome to leave the immigration camp..."
As Ma Bo explained, he secretly looked at the black figure's reaction. Unfortunately, the lighting in the room was poor, and he could only vaguely see the outline of the other person, but could not see the expression on his face clearly.
In order to recruit more immigrants, the Haihan Immigration Camp in Shandong has set extremely low admission standards. Anyone with no obvious physical problems, regardless of gender or age, can come in and make a living. But when you enter the immigration camp, you have to register your personal information, undergo layers of screening, and then be assigned to other places. Even if some spies were able to get through the initial stage, they would definitely be cut off from the Ming Dynasty after they were sent to unfamiliar areas, and the harm they would do would be minimal.
Even a lucky guy like Liu Shang who has passed through many tests, after leaving the intelligence network he was originally in, his position has gradually changed greatly, and he will no longer hold the same attitude as when he first sneaked into Haihan. We must be loyal to Ming Dynasty at all costs. Although there are many loopholes in this off-site resettlement method, it can indeed effectively minimize the trouble caused by those with ulterior motives.
Of course, in order to reduce the immigrants' doubts, Haihan will claim freedom of movement and freedom during recruitment, which means that immigrants who do not want to be resettled in other places can also request to leave the immigration camp. However, this situation is generally rare. Most of the ordinary people who take the initiative to defect to Haihan have no choice but to survive. They may not be able to find other livelihoods after leaving the immigration camp. Moreover, the stay in the immigration camp usually lasts only three to five days, and the long Then in ten days and a half, they will be sent to another place for resettlement, and it will be too late to regret it by then.
Moreover, those who request to leave the immigration camp will undergo identity checks, and the procedures cannot be completed in a day or two. After all, it is not that easy to take advantage and leave. Often, before the formalities are completed, they are sent to the next station, and submitting the application is in vain. If such regulations were not introduced, the refugees would probably take advantage of the loopholes and wait for their meal to come in. After a meal, they would pat their butts and leave. If Haihan continued to do this, how could he still recruit people?
Ma Bo trembled and explained the reason. The voice of the black shadow was obviously a little more angry: "Then how did the people who were sent in before escape from here?"
Ma Bo could only continue to explain: "Previously, the control here was very loose. After a while, I only needed to report a reason such as death due to illness, and then I got away with it. No one checked the condition of the body anyway. But this time, General Liu Shang was People are hired to work as helpers. If these people all died suddenly overnight, or died one after another, I am afraid it will arouse suspicion..."
"Since you knew there would be problems, why didn't you arrange it earlier!" Heiying's tone rose a little, making Ma Bo tremble in fright.
"If this person named Liu hadn't come, I originally planned to arrange for them to leave one after another, but now..." Ma Bo didn't know what to do when he said this.
If Liu Shang did not show up, he had indeed made plans, but Liu Shang would ask these people to leave as soon as he came, and in the name of Zeng Xiaowen, so Ma Bo naturally did not dare to refuse, otherwise Zeng Xiaowen would turn around and brag to Chen Yixin Feng, I was afraid that I would be called to the office again for a lecture. He was afraid of the man in front of him, but he was even more afraid of Chen Yixin. After all, that man actually had a gun in his hand. He killed a group of people in Majiazhuang two months ago, and he was not the one who specialized in sneaking around. Brother can compare.
(End of chapter)