Chapter 2061
Although the masterminds behind the scenes have been trying every means to conceal their identities and hide their whereabouts, how can it be possible for a huge plan that involves such a large area and involves so many people to be flawless? Moreover, the opponent Haihan is really difficult to deal with. As long as he leaves a little bit of clues, he will follow them to find out more clues. In addition, Haihan has the most advanced communication methods of this era, which can connect multiple cases spanning thousands of miles and coordinate investigation work. Even if the mastermind behind the scenes makes careful arrangements, it will be difficult to organize Haihan. No trace was revealed under the tracking investigation.
Judging from the confessions of Sun Yongjun, a member of the Jinyiwei family, Zhengfu Ji is undoubtedly the middleman that the Haihan Intelligence Department has been tracking for a long time. However, it is very likely that this is just a branch deployed by the mastermind behind the scenes in Zhangzhou. The captured personnel There is also still a lack of key figures.
"Have you caught the person in charge of Zhengfu Ji?" Dong Yanyun asked.
Xu Yuxing shook his head with regret and replied: "We failed to capture anyone alive. When we broke in from the front, the shopkeeper of Zhengfuji was killed by a stray bullet. The other captured criminals are still under interrogation, but they may Some key information is only known to the dead man, so we can only change direction and continue to work on Sun Yongjun.”
"Then who is the so-called big shopkeeper that Sun Yongjun met when he went to sea?" Xu Xinsu asked a detail very keenly.
"This person...according to what Sun Yongjun said, it seems that he is not a Han, but a Japanese." Xu Yuxing said: "Sun Yongjun said that this person's surname is Tianchuan, and the people in Zhengfuji call him the shopkeeper Tianchuan."
"Japanese? How come there are Japanese ginseng and Japanese ginseng in this!" Xu Xinsu also frowned when he heard this. The more countries involved in this matter, the more troublesome it will be to investigate, and he doesn't have as many overseas contacts as Haihan. According to the news channel, Japan is more than three thousand miles away from Zhangzhou. Investigating the relevant situation is not as simple as arresting people at home.
"However, according to Sun Yongjun, the shopkeeper of Tianchuan can speak fluent Chinese. There are also many Chinese sailors on the ship. They seem to be familiar with the situation in the Ming Dynasty. They are probably maritime traders who have been traveling between the Ming Dynasty and Japan for a long time. ." Xu Yuxing added.
Xu Xinsu suddenly remembered something and asked: "How old is this shopkeeper Tagawa?"
Xu Yuxing responded: "Sun Yongjun said this man is about forty years old. Does the father have any clues?"
"In his forties, that's probably not the person I thought he was." Xu Xinsu waved her hands slightly, indicating that she had made a mistake in judgment, but did not explain who the person he guessed was.
Xu Yuxing didn't know what he meant, but Dong Yanyun seemed to understand what Xu Xinsu was referring to, and immediately responded: "Even that person doesn't need to worry, he is just an overseas thief at best. He doesn't dare to confront the adults head-on, so he can only play small games." It’s just a trick.”
Dong Yanyun's words made Xu Xinsu feel a little more relieved, but he still did not discuss it. Instead, he said to Xu Yuxing: "Go on."
Xu Yuxing sorted out his thoughts for a while and continued: "If what this shopkeeper Tian Chuan said to Jin Yiwei is true, that is, their purpose is to defeat our Xu family through assassination and drive away the Haihan people in the Fujian Hai Case, then is it okay? It is inferred that the purpose of this group's actions in other places is similar, especially the condition of expelling the Haihan forces, which is probably not as crazy as others, and we can continue to investigate in this direction."
Xu Yuxing's guess was based on the external investigation information provided to him by Jin Ming. These operators hiding behind the scenes did not only operate in Zhangzhou, Fujian, but also flourished in many places along the long coastline of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time trained armed personnel in many places to use muskets. This step actually doesn't matter. It's not uncommon for local wealthy businessmen to organize small-scale private troops on their own for security reasons. At best, it's the style of an arms dealer.
But the mastermind behind the scenes wanted these armed organizations to target Haihan, which would pose far greater risks than smuggling weapons. The motive of leaving good money without making money and risking having his family confiscated and exterminated by Haihan is obviously a direction worthy of investigation.
Xu Xinsu said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to directly participate in the investigation work outside Fujian. However, you can discuss it with Jin Ming again and see how the two sides coordinate the subsequent investigation work. Maybe the Haihan people will have better arrangements."< br>
As Xu Xinsu said, regarding the series of cases currently under investigation, almost all intelligence outside Fujian comes from Haihan. However, the intelligence agency under Xu Yuxing is limited in scale and means, making it difficult to conduct detailed investigations outside Fujian. Just as he now knew that there was a suspected Japanese shopkeeper behind Zhengfu Ji, it was difficult for Xu Yuxing to follow the follow-up clues.
Xu Yuxing said: "Master Jin has rushed back to the station to draft a telegram, requesting Sanya for more support. Presumably, after the Haihan Executive Committee learns of the investigation results here, they will mobilize their troops to track this Tagawa on a larger scale. The whereabouts of the shopkeeper”
In recent years, Zhangzhou has not closed its city gates for three consecutive days. However, when the investigation entered the third day, in order to ensure that no other fish in the city would escape capture, the city closure ban continued. implement.
The mood of the people in the city has actually begun to feel a little unsettled, but fortunately, there will be no problems with the supply of materials in Zhangzhou City in the short term, so the people do not have to worry about going hungry due to the closure of the city. However, many foreign businessmen still delayed their trips and were trapped in the city, unable to leave. They were quite dissatisfied with the efficiency of the Zhangzhou government. The trade market on the banks of the Jiulong River outside the city has also been affected by this, and has seemed relatively depressed in the past two days.
The busiest ones are probably the land and sea troops stationed inside and outside Zhangzhou City. In addition to the city defense troops enforcing martial law and arresting people in the city, troops also set up checkpoints at various traffic arteries outside the city to control people coming and going. Check. Warships of the Fujian Navy are constantly patrolling back and forth on the Jiulong River. At the same time, there are dedicated personnel at various docks along the river to inspect the docked ships one by one. The Zhangzhou government announced that this operation was to arrest a group of thieves who were lurking in the local area and waiting for opportunities to commit crimes. However, the large-scale investigation work really made many young people become frightened. Only the thieves and thieves arrested in the past two days , swindlers, and fugitives, there are more than forty people, and they can be considered unintentional.
However, these people are just small fish and shrimps under the current situation. Zhangzhou's intelligence personnel and military have focused their attention on the city. The interrogation work organized and arranged by Xu Yuxing himself is peeling away the complicated case bit by bit, revealing the truth inside.
After Sun Yongjun spoke, his confession was cross-referenced with the confessions of the Jinyiwei arrested the day before to confirm the credibility of his confession. What surprised both Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming was that Sun Yongjun didn't play any tricks. His confession was basically consistent with other people's confessions and had a relatively high degree of credibility.
Among the contents explained by Sun Yongjun, there are two points that Jin Ming pays most attention to. One is the Japanese behind the Zhengfu Ji, Tagawa, and the other is the special actions taken by this group of people in Zhangzhou.
In several places where shooting cases have occurred before, no trace of Jin Yiwei's involvement has been found. Moreover, with Jin Yiwei's ability, it is difficult to directly contact the Spanish authorities hiding deep in the Philippine Islands in the South China Sea. Therefore, the Ministry of Security and Military Intelligence The Bureau has actually excluded Jin Yiwei from the list of suspected masterminds.
But I didn't expect that Jin Yiwei in Fujian would be instigated by a mysterious middleman to try to launch an incident in Zhangzhou to overthrow Xu Xinsu's local dominance. Although this plan seems very crazy at first glance, and it is difficult to achieve the effect that Jin Yiwei wants, if Haihan hadn't discovered clues related to Zhangzhou by chance and traced it all the way to Zhangzhou City, Jin Yiwei might have been able to succeed in the future. launch their plan at some point.
Using trade means to establish a relationship with Jin Yiwei, conveying benefits to him, and also using his special status to complete money laundering and intelligence collection, and finally even used it as a weapon to attack Xu Xinsu and Haihan. Such an operation is undoubtedly extremely clever and sufficient. This shows how powerful the mastermind behind the scenes is.
But according to what Sun Yongjun said, the person in charge of the other party's follow-up on Zhangzhou affairs was actually a Japanese. This news really surprised Jin Ming. If Sun Yongjun had not lied about this matter, would Haihan's next investigation direction be in Japan?
Why would a Japanese insist on expelling Haihan's organization in Fujian, even planning such a complicated operation for this purpose? This also puzzled Jin Ming. According to the information he had, Haihan and Japan did not have any major disputes in the past. At most, they had eliminated some Japanese pirates who came to the coast of Ming Dynasty in previous anti-piracy operations. This is obviously unlikely to be the result of the other party's long distances. The real reason to come to Fujian to do these things.
As for the whereabouts of the Japanese Tagawa, Sun Yongjun could no longer provide any more information, which made Jin Ming, who was eager to seize this clue and pursue it, feel a little uncomfortable. At the moment, he could only find a painter to draw a rough appearance of Tagawa according to Sun Yongjun's description, and then distribute it to various places under Haihan's control as soon as possible to see if he could find this person through luck.
With this method, the probability of success is of course very slim, but now he can only treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor. He believes that since the other party can operate a place like Zhengfu Ji in Zhangzhou, it can certainly be replicated elsewhere. This practice may have led to the Jin Yiwei somewhere becoming obsessed with it and forming a dangerous cooperative relationship with it. Therefore, the investigation of Jin Yiwei still needs to be carried out again.
After receiving the report from Zhangzhou, the Executive Committee also believed that it had seen the dawn of solving a series of mysteries, but the prerequisite was to find out who Tagawa was and why he planned these events.
He Xi thought that since this Tian Chuan seemed to have a good understanding of the situation in the Ming Dynasty and could speak Chinese, it was very likely that his scope of activities was not limited to Zhangzhou. The ports on the entire southeast coast might be the targets of his visits. Therefore, he applied to the Executive Committee. After the portrait of the suspect in Zhangzhou comes out, a comprehensive search will be launched on the coastline from the Yangtze River Estuary to the Pearl River Estuary, and traces of this person will be searched in major ports. Especially the two areas of Yangzhou and Zhangzhou where Spanish weapons have been found to have flowed in,
The manpower and resources required for this scale of investigation are not small. It may be the largest cross-regional investigation operation in the history of Haihan. It is obviously difficult to complete such a large operation by relying solely on the Ministry of Security. It must be supported by the Executive Committee. This is only possible with the support of the Association.
"With such a big battle, will it alert the enemy?" At a special discussion meeting convened by the executive committee, Gu Kai questioned the investigation plan proposed by the Ministry of Security.
He Xi responded: "In fact, there is no possibility of alerting the snake. We have cracked Spanish gun smuggling cases in many areas in the past month or so. It is impossible for the other party to not receive any news. Especially in Yangzhou and Zhangzhou. Actions everywhere have caused a lot of noise. Anyone who is not deaf-mute should know that we are investigating related incidents. Moreover, the purpose of our investigation is not to directly arrest him. As long as his identity and origin can be confirmed, If there is accurate information, we can continue to investigate.”
"I would like to add that many of the clues we currently have are limited by timeliness. If we delay for a long time, the opponent will have time to cut off these clues one by one, and our investigation may reach a deadlock again. "Yan Chujie is on the same side as He Xi on this issue. After all, the military's intelligence agency, the Military Intelligence Bureau, is also involved in the relevant investigation. He is also eager to find out the truth as soon as possible - if subsequent arrests are to be carried out overseas. , then the military must be the main force.
Ning Qi raised his hand and said: "Before voting on this issue, let me interrupt and ask, how should the Zhangzhou matter be handled? Xu Xinsu has not expressed his position yet, and is probably waiting for us to express our opinions, but if we have not He may have some misunderstandings, such as thinking that we have given him permission to take further revenge.”
Tao Donglai said: "You don't have to worry too much about this matter. Xu Xinsu will not choose to go to war with the Ming court unless we ask him to do so and provide corresponding support. According to the report sent back by Zhangzhou, Xu Xinsu has already reported to the court, giving Jin Yiwei has been accused of a lot of crimes and asked the court to deal with them. He is a smart man and knows how to get more benefits for himself. If the Ming Dynasty does not want the southeast coast to lose control, he must be given an explanation. , or to meet some of his demands, perhaps there is no need to launch a war at all."
(End of chapter)