Chapter 1709: Making meritorious service
Qin Huacheng felt that these Spaniards were really seeking death by planning an armed riot in an environment like Xingdao. According to what he has learned now, nearly one-third of the island's population is composed of regular Haihan troops stationed here, and this unit has just completed its combat mission in Manila and returned to Star Island. It is a real force. A front-line combat force rather than a logistics engineering force. Even though the Spaniards had the right time, place and people in Manila, they were completely defeated. Now they were on Haihan's territory, and they were all unarmed prisoners. They were still trying to escape through armed riots. How could this happen? What are the chances of it happening?
Qin Huacheng even had a new idea. At this stage, he was actually saving their lives by reporting and exposing those who planned the riot. Because the labor force on Star Island is a very precious resource, as long as these people have not committed an unforgivable capital crime, even if they are investigated, the subsequent punishment measures will not endanger their lives. But if they really dare to rebel, the leading group of people will be dead. Presumably the warden Qin Bodu does not want the situation to develop to that extent. If these dangerous elements are found out and reported as soon as possible, the only thing that can be done to everyone is benefit.
Although Qin Huacheng has been a security policeman in Manila for a period of time, he has lived under the rule of the Spanish for more than 20 years after all, and the change of position cannot be achieved overnight. If he wants to be ruthless in punishing the Spanish, he still has some doubts in his heart. There is a bit of grudge. By thinking in this direction, Qin Huacheng had put down most of his ideological burden, and no longer had to feel guilty and uneasy about betraying the Spanish prisoner's secret.
Qin Huacheng did not dare to hide the progress that had been made, and took the initiative to inform Qin Bodu and ask for instructions on the next step. As expected, Qin Bodu did not want things to get out of hand, so he asked Qin Huacheng to get the list of organizers as soon as possible, and then the prison authorities would deal with these dangerous elements.
When things have developed to this point, it is much easier for Qin Huacheng to gain the trust of the prisoner leader than at the beginning. With Qin Bodu's instruction, he can now reveal to the prisoner leader the guard's shift time and loopholes during the period, as well as the place where guns are stored next to the guard's residence. This information is very important to prisoners who want to rebel, and The most important thing is that they cannot verify its authenticity before taking action, so they can only choose to believe Qin Liancheng.
Qin Liancheng's "enthusiastic help" finally gained the Spaniard's trust. The two prisoner leaders later revealed to him the key personnel involved in the matter so that a more detailed action plan could be formulated. What surprised Qin Huacheng was that there were quite a few prisoners involved in planning the riot. There were more than 20 small leaders who were directly responsible to the two prison leaders. And this was not what frightened Qin Huacheng the most. What really frightened him was that some of the guards seemed to have been bribed by the prisoners in some way, and might cooperate with the prisoners when they rioted.
This discovery made Qin Liancheng quite scared. If any of the bribed guards knew his true mission, then he would hang out with these Spaniards every day and be in danger of having his identity exposed at any time. Qin Liancheng did not dare to delay any longer and quickly reported the situation he had to Qin Bodu and explained the risks involved.
If it were someone else, Qin Bodu might have ordered him to continue the investigation and dig out the bribed guards, but Qin Liancheng was the person chosen by his immediate boss Tan Juren, and he didn't know if there was anything special about it. Be careful, but you must not risk Qin Liancheng's life, otherwise if Qin Liancheng is really harmed, Tan Juren will be held accountable afterwards, and he will not be able to explain to his superiors.
"Then prepare to close the Internet cafe!" Qin Bodu weighed the situation and decided to close the network and arrest people early while the situation is still under control, so as to eliminate potential dangers in time, and at the same time, Qin Liancheng can get rid of this semi-circular situation. Get relief from being undercover.
With the list of suspects provided by Qin Liancheng, it is naturally not a problem for the prison authorities to control these prisoners. The only loophole may be the guard's inner ghost who has not been clearly investigated by Qin Liancheng. But this is not a big problem. At most, it just requires more effort and time when extracting information from the Spaniards. So one night, Qin Bodu made a special request to transfer two platoons from the garrison to Xiying District to carry out arrest tasks.
The arrest targets are all locked up in the cell, with nowhere to escape. All they have to do is go from room to room and pick them up according to the list, so the whole arrest process seems uneventful. Several prisoners who tried to resist were suppressed with ruthless force at the first opportunity, but no lives were lost.
After being arrested, these people were immediately shackled and dragged outside. By looking at each other, one could vaguely guess why they were arrested. The prison authorities were able to arrest them simultaneously in this way because they had obviously obtained a detailed list in advance. In other words, they had been betrayed. However, as to who is the culprit, almost no one would associate this matter with the Han translator who was not present at this time. After all, only a few people knew that the information Qin Huacheng had was enough to destroy the network they had worked so hard to build. Most people just thought that Qin Huacheng was just a translator who liked to chat with people.
In just over an hour, the prison authorities completed the arrest of the twenty-three people on the list. However, it was too late to celebrate at this juncture. The prison authorities immediately started interrogating the twenty-three people, trying to catch the mole before dawn.
Although Qin Huacheng did not need to participate in the arrest process, he was unavoidable as a translator in the interrogation of prisoners. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the prison to proceed with the emergency interrogation of these prisoners. Although there are other translators who understand Spanish in the hard labor camp, their understanding of the case is far less than that of Qin Huacheng, the client. Moreover, Qin Bodu personally came to interrogate the prisoner in this case. If Qin Huacheng did not want to waste all his efforts, he could only try his best to cooperate.
Although this arrangement seemed a bit unfriendly to Qin Huacheng, it was also part of his mission, and it was too important for him to refuse, so he could only bite the bullet and do this job.
The first person the prison authorities interrogated was naturally the two prisoner leaders, Gago and Rodriguez. The moment they saw Qin Huacheng appear, they naturally understood why they were suddenly arrested - if there is a person who can have no scruples If the ground betrays them, then this person can only be Qin Liancheng.
For this almost betrayal encounter, the two people had completely different reactions. Gago expressed his anger with spittle without hesitation. Of course, if the shackles hadn't restrained him, the spit that hit Qin Huacheng's face might not have been so light. , but a heavy fist. Rodriguez, on the other hand, behaved extremely indifferently, completely ignoring the questions translated by Qin Huacheng, with an attitude of non-violence and non-cooperation.
Qin Huacheng didn't have any good solution to this problem, but Qin Bodu would not tolerate these prisoners putting on airs in front of him, and he would immediately order them to be punished. Haihan has a relatively in-depth study on the operation of torture to extract confessions, and the attributes of the objects of practice are also quite rich, covering many countries, races, and professions in the East and the West in this era. He has long summarized a set of very practical torture methods. It is difficult for ordinary people to keep secrets under Haihan's methods of forcing confessions, but it is easier to just bite his tongue and commit suicide.
Although Gago and Rodriguez, who were arraigned, were active-duty soldiers before and had far stronger willpower than ordinary people, their personal emotions, whether they were anger or indifference, had no obvious effect on resisting Haihan's torture methods. . Gago only lasted three rounds of torture before he couldn't bear the pain and gave up. Rodriguez was slightly better. Before the start of the fifth round, the masked man who saw the execution had already taken out a hacksaw and was about to cut off his fingers. The toes were sawed off one by one, and finally I couldn't bear it anymore and suffered a mental breakdown.
Although Qin Huacheng had served in both the military and the police force, he had never seen such a bloody scene as an execution, and he almost felt like vomiting. Only then did he realize that the risk he was taking was not small. If he failed to catch these dangerous elements, he might be the one who suffered.
The interrogation continued until midnight, and the two prison leaders were finally pried open one after another, and they told Qin Bodu everything they knew. As a translator, Qin Huacheng did not dare to slack off at all, and worked hard to translate the dialogue between the two parties word for word. After Qin Bodu asked for his confession, he asked his cronies to lead the military to capture the spy the two men had confessed to. The bribed guard had indeed recognized Qin Huacheng, who had been appearing in Xiying District every day recently, but fortunately he did not know that Qin Huacheng's real mission was to investigate the details of the Spanish prisoners. Otherwise, as long as the news was leaked to the Spanish, Qin Huacheng would have been He died in Xiying District in a daze.
"I'm hungry, go get some food!" Qin Bodu touched his stomach and told his subordinates: "Prepare some for him too."
Seeing that he was talking about himself, Qin Huacheng quickly bowed and thanked him.
"You performed well this time, even better than I expected. I will record this credit for you first!" Qin Bodu was in a good mood at this time, and he did not hesitate to praise Qin Huacheng.
Qin Huacheng responded quickly: "Thanks to the master's careful planning, the villain is just following your instructions and does not dare to take credit."
Qin Bodu was very satisfied with his humble attitude, nodded and said: "When this matter is settled, I will recalculate your prison time. Don't worry, all the conditions promised to you in advance can be fulfilled! ”
Qin Huacheng was overjoyed and quickly thanked Qin Bodu again. The reason why he took the risk and took this job was because officials from Haihan claimed that he could get away with the crime and make meritorious service. Now that the task has been basically completed and the effect seems to be pretty good, we are waiting for Qin Bodu to give specific reward content. As for the calculation of the sentence, Qin Huacheng estimated that he had arrested more than 20 prisoners this time, as well as the jailers who were exposed. Even if one person was added to the sentence by one year, his three-year sentence would almost be offset proportionally. . If Qin Bodu's promise can be fulfilled without any compromise, maybe his freedom will be just around the corner.
Taking down so many people at once and uncovering the riot that Spanish prisoners were planning was no small case. Qin Bodu knew very well that after sorting out the facts of this case, he would definitely report it to the Ministry of Justice, and even Alert the executive committee. Of course, he had to ask his superior Tan Juren for instructions on how to operate in order to maximize profits. After all, for such a big matter, the credit had to be calculated afterwards, and it was not something that he, the warden of a small hard labor camp, could monopolize. We must first give the main credit to others and let Tan Juren take the lion's share.
At midnight, the kitchen of the hard labor camp couldn't make any special late-night snacks, so they brought a few bowls of noodles to the investigators. Qin Huacheng was the only prisoner among them. This was an extremely rare special treatment. Qin Huacheng did not dare to neglect such "preferential treatment". He finished the bowl of noodles in three strokes, five by two, and even the soup and water in the bowl were completely wiped out.
It was just getting dark the next morning, and Qin Bodu came to Tan Juren's residence to wait in order to report the investigation status of the case to his superiors as soon as possible.
After hearing the case report, Tan Juren was also quite surprised. Regarding Qin Bodu's arrangement for Qin Liancheng to investigate the case, Tan Juren only heard Qin Bodu mention it once and did not pay much attention to this arrangement. However, he did not expect that it would turn out to be such a big deal later. case. If it were not cracked in time, the consequences would indeed be disastrous.
"Well done, remember to get rid of all the evil and don't leave any sequelae. Also, regarding the case handling process, you should write a detailed report so that you can ask for credit later." Tan Juren was very satisfied with Qin Bodu's performance. Determined to give this capable subordinate some reward.
Qin Bodu responded: "In my humble position, I only act according to the chief's plan. How dare I be greedy for credit! Even if we want to reward based on merit, it is only the chief who takes the most credit."
The high hat given by Qin Bodu made Tan Juren very comfortable. Having such a sensible subordinate was a little psychological comfort on this remote island. Tan Juren said with a smile: "If the Ministry of Justice wants to reward you, it will be rewarded to you. I am directly responsible to the Executive Committee, and the Ministry of Justice will not give me credit."
Qin Bodu said seriously: "If the executive committee knew how this case was handled, they would probably think that it was the chief's careful planning and effective command that could nip this conspiracy in the bud. I thought that maybe I could ask the executive committee The committee reports on the case ”
Tan Juren thought about it and realized that this made sense. Since he was responsible for the Executive Committee, if such a big case happened on the island, he should inform and report to the Executive Committee. As for whether he will be rewarded by the Executive Committee for this, we can wait and see.
(End of chapter)