Chapter 1941

In the original plan of Haihan officials, this inspection trip prepared for the Joseon Crown Prince would become the content of news reports, as a way to publicize the friendly relations between the two countries, and at the same time, to show the people of the country what they have learned in the diplomatic field.

New achievements achieved. The Propaganda Department sent Hong Jingwen to accompany him all the way, so that he could collect materials and write a manuscript as soon as possible, and then arrange for it to be published in the nearest official newspaper as soon as possible to ensure the timeliness of the news.

According to Hong Jingwen's plan, there will be a corresponding report on every stop Li Bo visits on this trip. However, the current incident in Changhua is obviously not suitable to be disclosed in newspapers. It will damage Haihan's positive image of good public security, and

It will make outsiders question whether the security measures Haihan prepared for foreign dignitaries are really reliable. Even if the propaganda department is allowed to report the relevant situation, it will have to wait until the case is solved and the person is arrested.

Hong Jingwen was very wise. After learning about the case later, he also obeyed Zhang Qianzhi's request. The propaganda department only played a supporting role in this inspection trip, and Hong Jingwen did not intend to make any limelight. This kind of subject matter

Press releases can easily capsize if not careful, and as a press officer, he needs to be careful in dealing with them.

Zhang Qianzhi believes that there is no need to make major adjustments to the already arranged itinerary, but he does not have the final say on this matter alone. Bai Kesi and Qiao Zhiya are both in Changhua, so the decision must be made by these two big shots. But no matter what

Whether the itinerary is modified or not, he will probably be busy in the coming time. On the one hand, he must strengthen security measures with Gai Liangcai, and on the other hand, he must try to detect the attempted attack in Changhua.

After listening to Zhang Qianzhi's analysis, Bai Kesi and Qiao Zhiya both praised Zhang Qianzhi's professional abilities. Qiao Zhiya even gave Zhang Qianzhi the authority to mobilize and command the local military and police forces, leaving him temporarily responsible for commanding the relevant investigation work.

Zhang Qianzhi's investigation idea is very clear, that is, he must first try to trace the whereabouts of these dozen people, where they came from, where they hid before taking action, and where they fled to afterward. It is impossible to leave no trace at all.

Moreover, Zhang Qianzhi had already drawn a general appearance of Xue Zheng based on the description of the cavalry involved, and had it confirmed by the freight foreman of the coke factory. Next, he would copy the portrait and launch a larger-scale investigation locally.

Since this group of people are porters pretending to be new immigrants, their supervisory unit and the local civil affairs management agency have also joined in the co-investigation work, going to the shantytowns where new immigrants live to find out from the public whether such a group of people has arrived in the near future.

At the same time, Zhang Qianzhi did not let go of another possibility. These people only pretended to be porters during the operation, and at other times they may appear as businessmen, sailors, etc. who came to Changhua for a temporary stay. Therefore, large and small people inside and outside the county

Small hotels, restaurants, pubs, tea shops, etc. have also become the targets of investigations to find his whereabouts.

To complete such a large-scale investigation, the manpower required is not a small amount. Fortunately, Zhang Qianzhi was authorized to mobilize the local military and police forces, so starting from the afternoon, various people launched a detailed investigation inside and outside Changhua County.

Zhang Qianzhi cannot go to the front line yet, so he must seize the time to draw a few more portraits of the suspect with two temporarily found local painters so that front-line investigators can confirm his whereabouts more quickly.

Li Pu didn't know that the Haihan people had such a big reaction to a suspected attack that was not carried out in the morning. He really thought that Qiao Zhiya changed the lunch originally scheduled for the industrial area to return to Daling Manor because of Bai Kesi.

arrived. However, after lunch, Haihan's two senior officials said they had official business to deal with and left first. They did not say whether the afternoon visit arrangement would be carried out as originally planned. Several officials accompanying Haihan also kept coming.

Going in and out, it seemed that there were many things that needed their intervention. Li Bo asked Tian Zheng about the arrangements for the afternoon, but did not get a clear response.

"Your Majesty, there seems to be something going on here in Haihan. It may be related to the news I heard in the workshop this morning." Li Xi was quite alert and reported his findings to Li Bo when no one was around: "Then

Captain Gai didn't take a break at noon and kept lecturing his subordinates. I went to listen nearby for a while, all of which emphasized how to strengthen security measures."

Li Mu said: "Perhaps someone really wants to harm the senior officials of Haihan. I really want to see how the Haihan people handle this kind of incident, but I guess they won't give this chance."

Li Bo acted very relaxed about this, but if he knew that the protagonist of the incident was actually him, he might have a different feeling. He had never encountered a similar situation in China before, and

He never thought that someone in Haihan would make an attack plan against him. On the contrary, he was quite excited about the current situation and wanted to understand how the Haihan people dealt with it.

Li Xi advised: "Your Majesty, there is no need to ask. Since they are unwilling to take the initiative to explain, there must be something inconvenient for us to know."

Li Pu nodded and said: "You are right, the Haihan people are very happy about success. If they are sure that they can do something beautifully, they will definitely take the initiative to show it to us to promote their strength. If they are so secretive, most of the things will happen.

It’s strange, if you go to them to inquire about it, I’m afraid it will make them look bad.”

Li Bo has been dealing with the Haihan people for a long time, and he has also noticed that this group is very concerned about face when dealing with the outside world, and they especially like to show foreigners the glamorous side of their country - for example, what Li Bo saw and heard after coming to Haihan is

In this way, the environment he is exposed to most of the time is arranged by Haihan officials. It is like there is a stage surrounding him, striving to show the perfect scene in front of him at any time.

Of course, the more places he travels, the more he understands Haihan, and Li Bo gradually realizes that this country is not as beautiful as it seems on the surface. On the edge of the prosperous city, there are also shabby places where low-class people live.

Shanty town; it is said to be the largest iron mine in the entire South China Sea, and the lives of many hard labor prisoners were lost in the mine; and Changhua Industry, which is called "the most important weapon of the country" and "industrial base" by Haihan senior officials.

The area is shrouded in dense smoke all year round, and the environment here is not even suitable for long-term human habitation.

There is no doubt about the power of Haihan, but this power is not entirely supported by the various pioneering technologies boasted by the Haihan people. This is probably difficult to imagine if you have not come to Haihan in person.

A country also has a barbaric and even primitive side.

Of course, Li Ming knew very well that the purpose of his trip was not to find fault with Haihan, but to find parts of the projects he visited that were suitable for his country, and to consider how to introduce Haihan's strengths in operating these industries to North Korea.

.In the several places he has visited, Li Bo believes that there are still many parts that his country can successfully imitate. Those production links that require steam engines can also be supplemented by manpower. However, Haihan's industries have invested a lot in the development stage.

This is a big problem for North Korea, which is currently in the post-war reconstruction period.

After a long lunch break, Qiao Zhiya still carried out the previous itinerary and asked Li Bo and his party to continue to the industrial zone to visit the local metal processing industry. However, because of what happened in the morning, the security arrangements were specially strengthened.

In the past few hours, the main area of ​​Changhua Industrial Zone has been screened almost again. Of course, nothing was found. However, in order to ensure that North Koreans will not encounter similar situations during their visit, the barriers in and out of the industrial zone have also been increased.

We have tightened the intensity of inspections and temporarily banned non-Hispanic workers from entering this area. For those workers who make a living as porters in the industrial zone, the jobs they can receive today will be greatly reduced because of this.

The workshop that we were going to visit in the afternoon had also been cleaned inside and outside before that, and a large isolation area had been deployed around it. There were more than 40 cavalrymen on duty outside.

——This is almost the entire cavalry force in the local garrison in Changhua. The garrison even specially brought in railway barricades and set up temporary checkpoints in nearby streets to prohibit unauthorized persons from passing during the visit of North Koreans.

Qiao Zhiya's personal guard took on the task of setting up defenses inside and outside the workshop, and also set up lookout posts high on the walls of several surrounding workshops to ensure that there were no blind spots around the workshop.

The men and horses led by Gai Liangcai were responsible for the close defense of Li Bo and others in the workshop. They also cooperated with Qiao Zhiya's guards to prepare an action plan for evacuating the workshop in case of emergency.

In terms of security intensity, such a deployment of three floors inside and three outside can be regarded as the level of a large-scale war. Even if Tao Donglai came to Changhua in person, the security measures would not necessarily be more than this. Such a

Come on, if there are still people hiding in the dark trying to attack the Koreans, they will be directly dissuaded by such a large formation.

Of course, these arrangements were all in vain. At this time, the ship Xue Zheng and others were traveling on was already more than 20 miles away from Changhua Port, and they had no intention of turning back. Xue Zheng had made up his mind.

, we must rush to Danzhou to make arrangements in advance, and strive to succeed in the local area.

The investigation work made some progress that afternoon. The restaurant where Qiao Zhiya hosted a banquet for Li Bo on the day he arrived in Changhua received more than a dozen foreigners the next day. These people had asked the waiter in the shop separately.

The situation at Daling Manor and Changhua Industrial Zone. However, the shopkeeper could not confirm that the person with the suspect's portrait was one of the people that day, but the figure and accent of one of them were consistent with the suspect information Zhang Qianzhi obtained from the cavalry.

Consistent. Zhang Qianzhi’s intuition is that this should be the result of the person dressing up in disguise, but there is insufficient evidence, and it is still difficult to confirm that this is the suspect who tried to launch an attack in the industrial area.

However, with this clue, Zhang Qianzhi was able to follow the clues for further tracking. Judging from what these people asked about, they were not familiar with the local area and most likely had just arrived in Changhua. This is also consistent with the situation.

Zhang Qianzhi inferred that the target of the attack was North Koreans - if the target to be dealt with was Qiao Zhiya, theoretically there would be no need to take such hasty action. And the Joseon Crown Prince will not stay here for too long, obviously not

Leaving too much planning time for the other party, you can only take action when the opportunity arises.

Zhang Qianzhi judged that if the other party came to Changhua to hunt down Li Bo, it was unlikely that he came from the direction of Danzhou, because although the time of Li Bo's departure from Sanya was public, only a few high-level officials from Danzhou came to pick him up.

After receiving the telegram notification of the arrival of Victory Fort, he learned the itinerary of Li Bo and his party. Ordinary people still don't know about this at all. He believes that the most likely situation is that this group of people chased them all the way from Sanya.

Judging from the time, this group of people should not have arrived by land, carriages and horses, so the only possibility was to take a boat.

In fact, there is no actual evidence in many of these links. Zhang Qianzhi is making inferences based on experience and intuition. If it is to be used in court to judge the case, the evidence will definitely be insufficient. But Zhang Qianzhi is from the Ministry of Security, and many times he does not need to have evidence at all.

, as long as it makes sense in theory, measures can be taken first.

Once it was confirmed that the other party may have come from the sea, the scope of the investigation was greatly reduced again. Although Changhua is a place close to the sea, the only serious seaport is the mouth of the Changhua River. Just check the port

The ships entering and leaving the port in the past few days are restricted to special time points, such as the ships that entered the port before and after Li Bo and his party arrived in Changhua and carried a large number of foreign passengers.

Of course, such an investigation is not comprehensive. Zhang Qianzhi is also prepared to check the entry and exit of ships and personnel in recent days at several fishing village docks on the local coastline. However, the investigation results of Changhua Port have given

He had an unexpected surprise - there was a ship entering the port the morning after their fleet arrived in Changhua, and the ship arrived at Changhua Port at midnight the night before. Just because there was no berth at the port, they had to wait.

One night. And the ship's departure time happened to be shortly after the incident in the industrial zone this morning and before Qiao Zhiya's order prohibiting all ships from leaving the port without authorization was implemented.

According to the recollections of the port staff on duty that day, although the ship failed to enter the port that night, more than ten people on board took a small boat ashore to find another place to stay. Then investigators soon found the hotel where they were accommodated that night.

And once again confirmed from the waiter in the store that these people had inquired about the best local reception agency and the situation of Daling Manor.

One doubt or two may be coincidences, but if everything matches up, the probability of coincidence will be reduced exponentially. Zhang Qianzhi does not believe that there will be so many coincidences, he trusts his own intuition more.

"So what kind of ship is that? A merchant ship? A cargo ship? A passenger ship?" Zhang Qianzhi asked for details from his subordinate who came to report the progress of the investigation.

"The specific purpose is unknown. At present, we can only confirm that it is a lucky ship worth about 200 yuan." The subordinate responded quickly.

"Lucky boat?" Zhang Qianzhi seemed to have remembered something when he heard this answer.
Chapter completed!