168 Intricate espionage warfare
Tanggu City is now run by Xiao Letian like an iron bucket, and there are shadows of Xiao Letian's power in the countless warehouse areas outside the city and in the manors purchased by countless merchants.
Many industries that are nominally cattle shopkeepers or other business names have actually been secretly taken over by Xiao Letian, and the entire Tanggu business district belongs to the complex situation of you and me, and I have you. And this qiē has only one purpose, which is to hide Xiao Letian's true power.
In a cargo hold outside Tanggu City, there are cotton, silk, linen and velvet imported from overseas, tweed fabrics, etc., which is originally the warehouse of a famous cloth merchant in Tanggu, and it is not surprising that it is ordinary and ordinary.
But it was such an ordinary warehouse, and there was a secret door quietly pushed open on the deepest wooden wall, and a cry of fear came from inside.
"Uncle, uncle, I confess, I confess everything...... I'll confess whatever you ask!" It was Huang Liu's butler with a frightened face, and in front of him was a group of black-clothed men with black cloth covering their faces looking at him with a gloomy face.
The housekeeper didn't know how he got here, he only remembered that he was temporarily locked in the prison of the yamen, and he was said to be able to go out on the same day after paying a fine for this little crime, but he didn't know how to get drowsy after drinking a bowl of water.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in complete darkness, with no light around him, not even a trace of moving air. The butler was already timid, and he found that he had been tied to the chair, and the white sweat of the whole person was frightened.
"Who's—who's here?" the butler suddenly noticed a few breathing sounds around him, and his voice changed in fright. Immediately afterwards, a match was polished, and a foreigner-made wind lamp was lit.
Looking at the mysterious people with black gauze faces around him, the butler's crotch was hot at that time, and it turned out to be urine.
Without these people's hands, the housekeeper shouted miserably, "I confess, I confess everything, I will say whatever you ask me, I have never done anything lacking in virtue when I live so much, I burn incense and chant Buddha, I respect the old and love the young, I build bridges and make up roads......"
Several mysterious people didn't expect this butler to be so cowardly, and they all looked at each other with relaxed expressions. "We have touched your details in advance, you have a good reputation, and you still have a little conscience, so we won't be difficult for you, as long as you answer the questions honestly......"
"Don't worry, I'm honest, I'll be honest......" The butler nodded like pounding garlic.
"Let's make it clear to us as it is, why did Huang Liu attack the Special Industrial Zone, who else was behind him, who were the people, and ......where were they hiding in Tanggu?"
The housekeeper obviously had no spy training, and he had no training in anti-torture at all, so that these few people were slightly intimidated, and all the contents of their stomachs were cleaned.
Under the explanation of the housekeeper, a man named Sun Sanhu surfaced. Yes, it is the steward brought by Fan Ru, the eldest brother of Fan Ru, who is nominally the steward of the Guangde, but the real identity is very suspicious.
In the housekeeper's memory, Sun Sanhu hooked up with their young master a month ago, and the self-proclaimed envoy of the Jingshi and the young master had a secret conversation in the study for most of the day, and after Sun Sanhu left, his own young master was like a different person.
"Our young master used to read books for an hour or two every day, but since that day he has never touched books again, and he has said more than once that he must be successful in the examination. It was also from that time that the young master asked us to spread rumors in the four towns of Tanggu, and now ninety percent of the rumors on the street are actually made up by our young master......"
"Uncles, don't kill me, the little old man has never done anything lacking in virtue in his life, they forced me, woo woo woo ......" said the housekeeper actually cried.
There is no need for interrogation now, and the information of the housekeeper and the information of the previous dark lines are summarized, and it can finally be concluded that Sun Sanhu is the current person in charge of the anti-Xiao forces in Tanggu City.
Being able to internalize people shows that this guy has a close relationship with Qingliu, and Long Ye has tried his internal skills, and he is very close to the Red Sect Protector faction, and the Red Sect Protector has always had a close relationship with the royal family.
This is a bit unusual, could it be said that this Sun Sanhu is a big man who can step on two boats and have the support of both the royal family and Qingliu forces? Or maybe Qingliu and the imperial family have reached some kind of secret agreement?
Wang Huaiyuan, who walked out of the secret dungeon, took off his mask, gently tapped the cloth around him with his fist, and whispered to his subordinates, "From now on, the manpower to monitor Sun Sanhu will be doubled, and Jiao Si'er and them will be carefully watched, if Jiao Si'er and they also take orders from Sun Sanhu, it will be very dangerous......"
The spies around Wang Huaiyuan took the order and left, and at this time, Sun Sanhu, the protagonist of the surveillance, was chatting with Fan Ru in the inner house of the Guangde.
"Old shopkeeper, the city of Beijing is urging again, can you convince your younger brother? It's the first time I've seen such a stubborn old man, and I don't know what kind of ecstasy Xiao Letian poured into him......
Fan Ru looked at Sun Sanhu with a gloomy face, and couldn't help but feel a chill from the bottom of his heart. This steward was recommended by the housekeeper of Weng Tongyi's family, and this is not a character that a small business can offend.
Sun Sanhu was very honest with the old shopkeeper, and he made it clear that the old shopkeeper was here to deal with Xiao Letian, but while dealing with him, he couldn't kill the chicken that laid the golden eggs of Lotte Yangxing by mistake. In a word, it is to be a foreign company, not Xiao Lotian, and now the only person who is familiar with the business of Lotte is Fan Yao.
"Xiao Lotian is hated by the big men in the capital, but the adults don't hate the money that Lotte makes from the big guys, what does your brother want, make a bid, as long as he can take refuge and bring back Xiao Letian's method of making money, no matter what the conditions, the big man can agree......"
"Do you want a few archways in your hometown? Do the women in the family want to ask for some orders? Or to be more practical, the descendants of your Fan family will first launch two or three county orders or something, this is a real benefit, my old shopkeeper, you have to work harder......"
Fan Ru's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he slapped the table, "I'm going to find that old stubborn, it's a big deal that I die in front of him, I don't believe that he is really so ruthless, he won't even want his brother's life......" After speaking, the old man put on his fur and went downstairs.
Sun Sanhu didn't follow, he stood by the window on the second floor and watched the guys sweeping the snow all over the street, now the goose feather snow in the sky is much lighter, the northwest wind has weakened, maybe you can see the sun in the evening.
Just as Sun Sanhu was thinking about the next plan, a familiar figure suddenly flashed on the side of the street, it was Jiao Si'er.
"Oh, this old guy is really lazy, Lao Tzu asked you to collect evidence of Xiao Letian's crimes, why did you go to the tea shed?" Damn, who doesn't know that there are three or four half-hidden men in the big tea shed on the corner of the street, and this old pervert must be going to prostitute again.
Sun Sanhu guessed right, like the tea shed that coolies love to go to on the corner of the street, Jiao Si'er was originally disdainful, and the people are also famous gum candy in Sijiu City.
But when he heard that there were three women with half-hidden doors in this tea shed, they were all stunning and coquettish, which made the old pervert Jiao Si'er unable to bear it anymore. Many girls are already a little tired of playing, Xiao Letian's inner house he still doesn't dare to start, the rest of the rough girls are too ugly, Jiao Siye has not opened meat for several days.
The half-closed door found this time is really beautiful, Jiao Si'er has been back and forth three times, and the taste is different every time, and the old thing is gradually addicted, so it doesn't take long to get into it.
When Jiao Si'er walked out of the inner courtyard refreshed, he originally turned around and wanted to leave, but he found that the crowd in the hall was gathered together, and an old man was working in the middle.
"I've lived for more than fifty years and I've eaten more salt than your food, can I be wrong? I said that it was a Yin soldier, that is a Yin soldier, absolutely not wrong......
Jiao Siyi was interested, asked for a pot of tea, and surrounded him, and only after listening to it for a long time did he understand that the wine lees in the pile of people were the old man who played more in Zhuangzi in the south of the city, and what he was talking about now was the hottest news in Tanggu City in the past few days.
"I dare to take on this job, it is precisely because I am more courageous than others, when I was young, I encountered a ghost hitting the wall in the cemetery, Lao Tzu, I sang five levels and cut six generals all the way out, I will not dare to look at the Yin soldiers to borrow the way......?
"That night, after I just finished playing the drum of the third watch, I just lay down and wanted to recuperate when I heard a burst of footsteps on the avenue, very chaotic and light, but it was very real, and when I secretly looked at the courtyard wall, I found out that it was a team of ghost soldiers......
"My mother, my back was soaked with fright, the ghost soldiers were shiny bald, they seemed to be wearing blue clothes, and they were all wearing big leather boots, and the murderous aura on their faces went straight to Xiao Han......"
"Foreign soldiers, hey, what you said is really a bit reliable, it's really a bit like the foreign soldiers who came up from Dagukou five years ago, but my eyes are very poisonous, and at first glance, they are all Chinese faces, not the appearance of foreigners......"
The people around me have been stunned, this ghost story is much better than the previous one, believe it or not, this kind of ghost story has always been people's first entertainment choice after dinner.
At first, the wine lees head said that it was a little reliable, but in the end, the story of the Yin soldiers borrowing the Tao became more and more outrageous, "How do you know, the Yin soldiers walked more than two hundred steps away, only to see the gloomy ghost door on the road wide open, countless white bone chains flew out of it and waved silently in mid-air, and there were many blood-stained ghost hands drilled out of the ground...... This group of ghost soldiers just lined up and disappeared into the ghost gate......"
"At that time, I knew that something big was going to happen in our Tanggu, what was the result? You look at Xiaowangzhuang, there is a plague, this team of ghost soldiers is here to collect people's souls, many people are still panting and talking now, in fact, the souls are long gone, just wait for the disaster star to flash, and then the underworld will open the door to collect people......"
At this time, no one in the crowd questioned the sake lees anymore, and every time they heard something exciting, they would always be exchanged for an exclamation, and finally even the three women who had half-closed doors were attracted out, and they had to listen to the story before going to the skin and meat business.
By the time the sake lees finished telling the story, Jiao Si'er had already drunk two pots of tea, and had eaten a plate of dim sum and mistaken the meal. Jiao Si, who walked out of the tea shed, looked at the white street, and suddenly patted his head, "I'm a pig's brain, didn't Xiao Lotian ask me to send a letter to foreigners......?
Xiao Lotian is going to invite many foreigners to dinner tonight to discuss the construction of the special industrial zone. Jiao Si'er was given the task of inviting Matthew and Mike, both of whom lived in a villa built by foreigners, not far from the tea shed, and only ten minutes away.
When Jiao Si was taken to the lounge on the second floor by the foreign butler in a suit and leather shoes, Matthew and Mike were playing billiards. Jiao Si saw that Lord Yang didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly knelt down and saluted.
"Say hello to the two masters, Mr. Xiao Letian Xiao from our foreign bank asked me to send an invitation......"
"Oh, you first, stand up, wait a while, this game is over, it's almost over......"
Jiao Si'er listened to the foreigners' Chinese without four tones, and wanted to joke in his stomach but didn't dare, so he could only stand on the edge of the round table and wait patiently, but when his eyes inadvertently swept to the things on the table, his old face suddenly turned white with fright, and his back was soaked with sweat all of a sudden. I734