Chapter 1981
This speculation made by He Xi is undoubtedly quite radical. He believes that the connection between the attacks in Danzhou and Zhejiang is not only the weapons, but also the weapons providers hidden behind the scenes. Someone has secretly organized a private armed organization in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and used this as a cover to provide military training to various forces.
The intelligence and evidence collected so far are not enough to prove that He Xi's speculation is true. Although Zhang Qianzhi believes in the professionalism of his boss, he still finds such a conclusion a bit strange.
In the final analysis, Zhang Qianzhi does not believe that this kind of petty tactics can affect Haihan's development momentum overseas. If this kind of civilian armed forces is too much troubled, even without Haihan taking action, the Ming Dynasty officials will definitely not sit back and let them get out of control and do whatever they want, and will be the first to destroy them.
"I know what you are thinking. After all, this is just my personal speculation, and there is still lack of enough evidence to support it."
As soon as He Xi saw Zhang Qianzhi's expression, he had already guessed what he was thinking, and immediately explained: "Although Wan Fa is shrewd, his strength is intelligence collection and analysis, and he is not so good at certain situations that require violence. Good at it. So I transferred Gong Shiqi from Shandong to help him investigate the situation at the salt merchants.”
Gong Qianqi is undoubtedly one of the most powerful people under He Xi. Even Zhang Qianzhi, who is now able to take charge of the outside world, is still far behind Gong Qianqi in terms of mobility and experience. Moreover, in order to give Gong Shiqi full training, He Xi sent him to the north a few years ago. Although there seems to be no news about him recently, Zhang Qianzhi knows that people like Gong Qiyi will never When he was free, there was no news, so he was probably performing some secret mission. However, He Xi sent Gong Qiqi to Zhejiang to participate in the investigation at this time, which shows that he attaches great importance to the case.
He Xi continued: "Since it is difficult to confirm the authenticity of the confessions of the people you arrested in Danzhou, let's change the direction of the investigation first. You sent a telegram back before, requesting that the immigrants be investigated in Sanya. I It’s a good idea to look in this direction. It’s better to ask for help than to ask for yourself. If you check the situation of this group of people before they set off from Sanya, you may be able to find their true identity.”
In fact, before Zhang Qianzhi returned to Sanya, the relevant investigation work was already in progress. However, Sanya could only carry out the investigation based on the limited information sent back by Zhang Qianzhi via telegram, and the effect would definitely not be as good as when he came back to preside over the project himself. Work.
The current situation is no longer as urgent as in Danzhou, and He Xi has not limited the time for Zhang Qianzhi to solve the case, so the time schedule for the investigation work is relatively generous. Zhang Qianzhi originally planned to continue the investigation according to his own ideas, but He Xi's arrangement was considered a fulfillment of his wish.
However, now the population of Sanya has reached tens of thousands, and the number of floating people entering and leaving the area every day is almost four digits. To find out the relevant information of several foreigners staying in Sanya, even the Ministry of Security has a good eye. Nor is it a simple task. But Zhang Qianzhi had a rough plan for the investigation work before he came back, and then he just put his ideas into practice to improve the efficiency of the investigation as much as possible.
While still in Danzhou, Zhang Qianzhi had already made relatively detailed statistics on the body shape, appearance, language and other characteristics of Xue Zheng's group, and roughly determined the origins of some of them.
Several of the people in this group could easily be judged to be South Asian in appearance. In addition, there were several people with obvious accents who should be from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions - this detail was consistent with He Xi's inference.
Although there are many details like this, it is still very difficult to find traces of their past activities in Sanya. Zhang Qianzhi's planned investigation plan is to first conduct investigations in several areas where migrant populations live in Sanya. He believes that at least some of the members of this group have been lurking in Sanya for a while, and will more or less leave some clues. . It's a pity that the lucky ship that Xue Zheng and his group took on the way could not be found. Otherwise, it would be easier to find clues if there was a ship. As long as we trace the dock where the ship docked in Sanya, we can dig out more information. .
In recent years, with the increasing scale of cross-border trade in Sanya, Haihan officials have gradually relaxed restrictions on the activities of foreigners, allowing them to live in Sanya. Of course, if they live continuously for a long time, there will be corresponding registration measures to ensure that these outsiders are under official control.
Moreover, these migrants’ temporary residential areas in Sanya are often divided by region and live together in groups. For example, most people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang choose to settle on the east bank of the Linchun River near Sanya Port. It is close to the main urban area. Not only is life convenient, but it is also close to the official port agencies, making it more convenient to do things. Although the land and housing prices in this area are already quite high, businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang tend to care more about the quality of the environment, so most of them will enclose the land here and build facilities such as business houses as their permanent residence.
Most of the people from South Asia are sailors and ordinary people who have traveled across the ocean to make a living in Haihan, hoping to find opportunities to join Haihan nationality. Naturally, they are financially better off than the businessmen who are not allowed to come from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They can only find Land prices are relatively cheap, and you can live closer to the coast. And they do not have the capital to build houses on their own. Most of them live in small hotels opened by locals specifically for this kind of migrant workers. The living conditions are naturally relatively simple.
In order to take care of each other in life, most of these people will take the initiative to choose areas where fellow villagers live together. If there is any good errand, they can inform each other.
However, this kind of place is a gray area in terms of public security for the government. Since these foreign groups live in groups, the limited police force is often unable to form a sufficient deterrent when dealing with security incidents, and there will also be conflicts among these outsiders. They cover each other for various reasons, making it difficult for the authorities to intervene and manage them. Over time, it often becomes a blind spot for surveillance and breeds some gray industries.
However, the Ministry of Security has never been so disciplined in its work. Zhang Qianzhi had no intention of asking other departments to dispatch a large number of manpower to investigate these places. Returning to Sanya meant returning to the environment he was most familiar with. He Xi said to him, " It is better to ask for help than to ask for yourself." He knew that Zhang Qianzhi had his own methods for investigating crimes in Sanya, and he could safely and boldly leave them to him to operate.
Zhang Qianzhi did not go out with a large team of people, but only took a few people from the field team. They rented an ordinary large carriage on the market and went straight to Sanya Port. He planned to find out the origins of those South Asians first. After all, these people were relatively simple-minded and would not be as fussy as businessmen, making it easier to obtain the information Zhang Qianzhi needed.
When you arrive at Sanya Port, you have to get off the bus and change boats to reach the area where South Asians live. "It's really troublesome to come here!" Zhang Qianzhi looked at the scattered buildings on the banks of the Sanya River and couldn't help feeling a little emotional. It is estimated that many Sanya locals don't know that there are such slum-like buildings on the edge of the city. area exists.
Most of the people living here are from Luzon, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Java and other places. After they learned about Haihan's wealth through various channels, they tried to cross the sea to Sanya, hoping to be here Find opportunities to make a fortune.
Of course, when they arrive in Sanya, they will soon discover that it is not as gold-filled as they imagined. Rich people live in big houses in bustling cities, but ordinary people like them who have no skills and can only sell their labor to earn a living have to first get a chance to join Haihan citizenship, let alone get rich. Due to the schedule, we can only stay in a simple little hotel like this on the beach.
This kind of house with wooden pillars and mud walls may be slightly better than the thatched hut they lived in in their hometown, but the house price is not cheap at all. They have to spend about one-third of their monthly income to pay for living expenses. And there was no choice because it was the cheapest place they could find. Only after naturalization can you apply to go to collective farms or construction sites of certain large-scale projects, where free accommodation will be arranged for workers like them.
That's fine if it's just that, but in addition to the huge expense of accommodation, if they want to live in this place, they also have to pay protection fees to some people who control the area - many issues that the government will not come forward to deal with. It is often these characters who make the decisions. Their food, clothing, housing, transportation, and even whether they can continue to stay in this place often depend on the attitude of these local snakes, so they have to use part of their income in exchange for living a peaceful life.
Of course, the existence of these local snakes is partly due to official acquiescence in their existence. In areas where police coverage is difficult, underground order is better than no order at all. When something does happen, the officials can find the person in charge of this area so that they don't completely lose control. There are even some local snakes who have another identity and will work for the government when necessary to handle some matters that are more difficult for the government to intervene in - such as investigating certain specific objects in the area without alerting the snake.
This is the purpose of Zhang Qianzhi coming here today. He knew that if he surrounded the place with great fanfare and brought everyone out and lined up to question and check their identities one by one, it would certainly be a good deterrent. effect, but it will not be of any help to the situation you want to investigate, and may even have the opposite effect.
So he planned to chat directly with the local snakes here. This would not only avoid errors that may be caused by information exchange in the middle, but also save a lot of time.
Of course, the premise that Zhang Qianzhi chose this investigation method was because he had already dealt with the local snakes here and knew how to get them to cooperate with him.
After Zhang Qianzhi and his party landed ashore, they did not go to the area where the small hotels were most concentrated. Instead, they went straight to an inconspicuous-looking warehouse near the pier. There were several dark-skinned laborers sitting at the door of the warehouse. Judging from their appearance, they should be South Asians. When they saw Zhang Qianzhi and others arriving, someone stood up and stopped them.
"You can't enter here." The man said in broken Haihan Mandarin while pointing to a sign next to him that said "Private warehouses are not allowed to enter without permission."
Zhang Qianzhi responded: "I'm here to see Lanka. If he knew I was coming, he wouldn't let me wait outside the door."
The man was doubtful, but Zhang Qianzhi named his boss's name, and he did not dare to neglect, so he motioned to his companion to notify the boss quickly. He took a slight pause before taking Zhang Qianzhi to the warehouse, and did not follow him. Instead of entering through the main door, he walked around half a circle outside the warehouse, opened an inconspicuous small door, and then motioned for Zhang Qianzhi to enter.
Inside this door is a corridor only three feet wide, lit by a dim oil lamp, and at the other end of the corridor is another door. Zhang Qianzhi walked quickly through the short corridor and opened the door at the other end. Suddenly, there was a loud noise. After Zhang Qianzhi got used to the light here, he saw that the space behind the door was a large hall with about a hundred people inside. There were more than a dozen groups of people gathered around different tables, shouting and screaming. They abound. It turns out that there is something else going on in this humble warehouse, a hidden underground gambling stall.
In fact, private casinos are not allowed in the Sanya area, but there is still room for such establishments on the fringes of the city where the government cannot control them. Of course, the government is not completely unaware of the existence of such underground gambling stalls, but as long as they are not openly operated, they often turn a blind eye. After all, part of the income from these gambling stalls may flow into the pocket of a certain official.
This gambling stall hidden in a warehouse is specially opened for South Asians living nearby. However, because most of the gamblers who come here are poor people with little money, the bets are generally not very big. Gambling stalls only provide venues and take profits from them, and generally do not directly intervene in gambling games.
Of course, in the past, there were not no "smart people" who thought of gambling on their own to avoid being needlessly pumped by the casino, but people who tried to do so were often caught by the government within two or three days, and then sentenced to hard labor. At the same time, at People gambling in the gambling stalls had no trouble. As time went by, the gamblers naturally knew that this gambling stall had official support and was the only place in the area where they could gamble with confidence, and the business gradually stabilized.
This kind of small gambling stall is naturally just a small thing compared to the big casino on Ampurna Island, but for the people living nearby, it is one of the few places of entertainment here. The migrant workers who receive wages often I will come here to try my luck. If I get lucky one day, I can find a place to have extra food in the evening.
(End of chapter)