Chapter 2061

Although the masterminds behind the scenes have been trying every means to conceal their identities and hide their whereabouts, how can a huge plan that involves such a large area and involve so many people be flawless? Moreover, the opponent Haihan is really difficult to deal with.

As long as a little bit of clues are left behind, more clues will be found. In addition, Haihan has the most advanced communication methods of this era, which can connect multiple cases spanning thousands of miles and coordinate the investigation.

Even if the masterminds behind the scenes make careful arrangements, it will be difficult for them to avoid being traced under the tracking and investigation of the Haihan Organization.

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 behind-the-scenes mastermind 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 maybe

Some key information is known only 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 merchants who have been traveling between the Ming Dynasty and Japan for a long time.

." Xu Yuxing added.

Xu Xinsu suddenly remembered something and asked again: "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 her judgment was wrong, but she 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, he can only play small

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 use assassination to defeat our Xu family and drive away the Haihan people in the Fujian Hai Case, then is it okay?

It is inferred that the purpose of this group of people taking 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 traders hiding behind the scenes did not only operate in Zhangzhou, Fujian, but also bloomed in many places along the long coastline of Ming Dynasty, and in many places at the same time.

Training armed personnel to use muskets. This step is actually irrelevant. It is not uncommon for local wealthy businessmen to organize small-scale private troops on their own for security reasons. At best, this is the style of arms dealers.

But the mastermind behind the scenes wants these armed organizations to target Haihan, and the risks they face are much greater than smuggling weapons. If you don't make good money, you have to risk having Haihan confiscate your home and exterminate your family.

The motivation is clearly 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. But 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."

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 Zhengfuji, it was difficult for Xu Yuxing to follow the subsequent clues.

Xu Yuxing said: "Master Jin has rushed back to the station to draft a telegram, asking 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 escaped 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 problem with the supply of materials in Zhangzhou City in the short term, so the people don't have to worry about going hungry due to the closure of the city. However, there are still many foreign merchants.

As a result, my trip was delayed and I was trapped in the city, unable to leave. I couldn't help but feel dissatisfied with the efficiency of the Zhangzhou government. The trade market on the banks of the Jiulong River outside the city was also affected by this, and it 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 conduct inspections on people coming and going.

Inspection. The warships of the Fujian Navy were constantly patrolling back and forth on the Jiulong River. At the same time, there were 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. Just the thieves arrested in the past two days, the thieves

, there are more than forty liars and fugitives, 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 unraveling the complex case one by one.

Peel it open bit by bit to reveal the truth inside.

After Sun Yongjun spoke, his confession was compared with the confessions of the Jin Yiwei arrested the day before to confirm the credibility of his confession. This surprised both Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming.

However, this Sun Yongjun did not 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 really 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 crazy at first glance, and it is difficult to achieve what Jin Yiwei wants.

However, if Haihan hadn't discovered clues related to Zhangzhou by chance and traced them all the way to Zhangzhou City, Jinyiwei might have actually been able to launch their plan at some point in the future.

Using trade means to establish a relationship with Jinyiwei, 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 the 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?

Put it in Japan?

Why would a Japanese insist on expelling Haihan's organization in Fujian, even planning such a complicated operation? This also puzzled Jin Ming. According to the information he had, Haihan and Japan had no relationship in the past.

What a big festival, at most it means that in previous anti-piracy operations, some Japanese pirates who came to the coast of Ming Dynasty were eliminated. This is obviously unlikely to be the real reason why the other party came all the way to Fujian to do these things.

As for the whereabouts of the Japanese Tagawa, Sun Yongjun could no longer provide any more information. This made Jin Ming, who was eager to seize this clue and pursue it, really uncomfortable. At the moment, he could only find a painter first and take photos of Sun Yongjun.

Use the description to draw a general appearance of Tagawa, and then distribute it to various places under Haihan's control as soon as possible to see if you can 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 in a certain place becoming obsessed with it and forming a dangerous cooperative relationship with it. Therefore, the investigation of the Jin Yiwei still needs to be re-arrested.

After receiving the report sent back 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 Tian Chuan 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 visit. So he asked

The Executive Committee made an application. After the portrait of the suspect in Zhangzhou is released, 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 in Yangzhou, where Spanish weapons have been found to have flowed in.

and Zhangzhou two areas,

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. In the past month or so, we have cracked Spanish gun smuggling cases in many areas. It is impossible for the other party to not receive any news. Especially in Yangzhou and Zhangzhou.

Operations everywhere have caused a lot of noise. Anyone who is not deaf-mute should know that we are investigating related incidents. And the purpose of our investigation is not entirely to directly arrest him. As long as his identity and origin can be confirmed,

As long as we have 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 work 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 related investigations. 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

If we speak, he may have some misunderstanding, such as thinking that we have acquiesced in his taking further retaliatory actions."

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 it. He is a smart man and knows how to get more benefits for himself. If the Ming court does not want the southeast coast to lose control, then he must give him an explanation.

, or satisfy some of his demands. What he wants may not require launching a war at all."
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