Chapter 3091
Shao Tianhu led his men and began to implement counterattacks intensively. At the same time, the Portuguese side who took action first fell into a state of confusion.
Under the command of Thomas, the surveillance and tracking operation against Xingdao's institutions and personnel in Sanya has been carried out for three days, but the results seem to be far from what was expected beforehand.
At this time, Thomas was reporting the progress of the past few days to Xi Mang: "Tan Tianming went to the Xingdao Office after the last event, and then returned to the Administrative College. He has not been out for the past few days. ”
"There is no movement here at the Xingdao office. Our people have been keeping an eye on it for a few days. Except for the cook who comes out to buy food every day, almost no one in the office goes out."
"There is also the matter of writing articles for newspapers. Recently, Sing Tao's publicity activities have become a hot topic in local public opinion. Those literati are afraid of ruining their reputation and are unwilling to write articles against Sing Tao at this time..."
Ximang became furious when he heard this: "The three tasks I gave you have all failed. Do you think this is a coincidence, or is it because someone is not doing the job well?"
The three tasks that Simang assigned to Thomas a few days ago were to track Tan Tianming, monitor the Sing Tao office, and find someone to write an article criticizing Sing Tao's propaganda activities. But judging from Thomas’s feedback, it is clear that these directions have failed to achieve the progress Simang expected.
Thomas was also helpless about this: "Our people cannot enter the administrative college, nor can they forcefully break into the Xingdao office, and the attitude of the newspaper is beyond our control."
Ximang took a deep breath and tried to calm down the anger in his heart: "Maybe we should increase the number of targets and include those who work for Tan Tianming under surveillance."
Thomas responded: "Sir Simang, we don't have that many manpower to mobilize... In fact, we have mobilized almost all available local personnel, and even the people from Puji Trading Company are working on this."
Thomas must remind Simon that the embassy's staffing is limited, and only a minority of them have field agent capabilities. It is already very difficult to continue to perform surveillance tasks with this manpower, let alone continue to increase the number of surveillance objects.
Ximang was silent for a long time, then suddenly asked: "You just said that before Tan Tianming returned to the School of Administration, he went to the Xingdao Office, but there has been no movement in the office these days, and no one inside was seen walking around. Is it reasonable? ”
Thomas said: "Tan Tianming may want to hand over the follow-up work of the publicity activities to the office, but for some reasons unknown to us, the office does not seem to have really taken over the work, otherwise it would be impossible not to go out for activities in the past few days. Tomorrow, It’s time for the second round of that damn lottery. Do we still have to keep an eye on them?”
Simon was silent. In his opinion, even though Tan Tianming has a special background, he is too young and does not have an official position, so he cannot truly represent the Sing Tao official in major events.
According to Haihan's system, such activities should be carried out by the Sing Tao Office. This organization will definitely participate in this series of publicity activities in some way.
It's just that the current situation is a bit strange, and he doesn't understand why the Xingdao Office has always stayed away, as if these recent publicity activities have nothing to do with it.
The Portuguese have a blind spot in their understanding of the current situation, that is, they do not know that their surveillance operations have been discovered. If their opponents are prepared, they will naturally be unable to obtain much valuable information through surveillance.
In order to cooperate with Shao Tianhu's countermeasures, the Singdao Office gave up preparations for participating in the second round of the lottery and misled the Portuguese by standing still.
As for the originally planned promotional activities such as lottery draws, Huo Dechuan and the dental shops will continue to implement them as planned. Anyway, the Portuguese now have no time to interfere with publicity activities, and it is not so urgent for the Sing Tao Office to intervene for the time being.
The mantis stalks the cicada, followed by the oriole. Compared with the Portuguese's situation, Shao Tianhu's countermeasures were much simpler. It only took him two days to basically confirm the opponent's deployment. The Portuguese did not use many men, only about ten people in total, and their actions were very regular.
Two to three people take turns guarding outside the gate of the Administration College every day, and the target should be Tan Tianming. These people come and go from Puji Trading Company every day, and they don't seem to be from the Portuguese Embassy.
There were obviously more people watching the Xingdao office, and they were both overt and covert. The monitors Shao Tianhu found when he came out of the office that day were just one of the groups.
But now that we know the origin of the other party, it is very simple to conduct a counter-investigation. Shao Tianhu only had to keep an eye on the Portuguese Embassy to spot these guys among the people entering and exiting, thus confirming that the main messenger behind it was the Portuguese.
The only thing that left Shao Tianhu a little unsure was whether the other party's surveillance and tracking would only stay at the current level, or whether they would wait for an opportunity to attack the people of Xingdao in order to sabotage the current publicity activities.
But no matter what the Portuguese's true purpose was, Shao Tianhu did not intend to leave room for the other party to take action. The safest way was to eliminate this hidden danger first.
The second round of the lottery was about to begin. Although Shao Tianhu missed the lively scene of the first round, he had learned about the situation through the descriptions of Tan Tianming and others. According to their speculation, as the prizes increase, the new round of lottery activities may be more lively than the previous round.
In Shao Tianhu's opinion, this was a good time to take action.
When everyone is focused on the raffle, what happens on the sidelines is less noticeable.
Early the next morning, the monitors who were still yawning noticed that a carriage suddenly arrived at the door of the Xingdao office. Then the door of the office opened and someone came out and got on the carriage.
Finally, when there was movement in this place, the monitor did not dare to neglect and immediately sent out manpower to follow. To ensure that they would not get lost, they all traveled in groups of three.
After a while, another carriage came outside the office and did the same thing, picking up the second person from the office.
After doing this three times, most of the monitors waiting near the office had followed him out, leaving only two people standing guard.
The people who were squatting outside the School of Administration finally waited until Tan Tianming left school, and quickly put down their breakfast and followed him.
Although it was a bit sudden, they were not surprised. Thomas specifically told them last night that today was the day for the second round of lottery. The surveillance target was likely to be out and about, so they must not be lost due to the dense crowds on the street. .
But what made them feel a little strange was that the destination of these people after they came out was not the Victory Square where the event was held, but left the city and headed west, not knowing where they were going.
(End of chapter)