Looking at Tintin, who was completely defeated, the fat man stood up and said amiably: "Comrade, the haode principle can only work in the right environment. Don't be rigid. This is a guiding suggestion of the internal affairs department for this kind of report, you take it back and see how to revise the article, the daily newspaper can still publish the evening newspaper if it can't be published. If we have any opinions, we will discuss them in detail. ”

Seeing Tintin leave with the papers, the fat man stood up, still with that gentle smile, and returned to his office.

The official name of his office is the "Policy Research Office of the Internal Affairs Committee", which does not mean any specific meaning, but only to meet his request that he do not do specific work and only engage in political science research. Equivalent to an advisor to the House Committee.

The office is clean and tidy, and a white wooden desk with a Holy Ship brand is stacked with homemade file racks and file baskets. There is also a large bookshelf with lots of books. The only modern items are a laptop and several CD cases.

Behind the desk is a gorgeous and elaborate screen that is very out of harmony with the environment, and behind it is a simple white wooden bed with mosquito nets, hangers for hanging clothes, and small cabinets. Full of the arrangement of the bachelor of the old-fashioned living institution.

Judging by the layout of the office, this person does not have a high status in the various departments of the Executive Committee, and there is no rock-handled telephone on the desk that symbolizes power, which is standard for the heads of departments.

He sat down on the worn rattan chair and took out a letter from the rattan basket marked "come", which was folded into a letter and stamped with the word "secret" on the seam. Inside, there was a translation of a telegram from Guangzhou.

The content of the telegram was an investigation into Li Huamei's background in Macau. He read it very carefully.

Li Huamei's background check report

secret

Centre:

After receiving the instructions, I immediately set about investigating Li Huamei's origin and background.

In Guangzhou, it is almost impossible to hear anything about her and her Hangzhou, and Li Siya has more information than that. But the news about Li Siya is basically based on the nature of hearsay, and what we can know is no more substantial than what we have in the past.

Therefore, I decided to send Zhang Xin to Macao to conduct a direct investigation. He played a very important role in the trade between Guangzhou Station and Macao, and established a deep personal friendship with Huang Shunlong, who had long been dealing with various maritime shili in Macau and knew more about all aspects of shili. Until we have established our own intelligence system in Macau, I think it is feasible to use Huang Shunlong as a channel.

Zhang Xin went to Macau in the name of trading liquor. I gave him permission to do the following: Tell Huang Shunlong Toulou that he had recently encountered a female pirate at sea and describe the ship and flag to him. Based on his on-site reaction, Zhang Xin judged that Huang Shunlong knew a little about this. Huang was reluctant to talk about this matter at first, but under Zhang Xin's further inducement, he revealed the following news to us:

He had seen ships similar to the Hangzhou anchored in the harbor many times. But he couldn't tell who the ship was, the only thing he knew was that the captain was a woman, and he was sure of that. We took Li Huamei's photo and redrawn it to the computer for him to identify, and he again deduced that he couldn't recognize the real person if he hadn't looked at it carefully. But Zhang Xin thinks: What he sees is Li Huamei.

Zhang Xin noted that Huang Shunlong was very reluctant to mention any ships and captains anchored in the local area. He presumed that he did not know anything about such inquiries. We suspect that this is directly related to his pirate business, and he is afraid that he will inadvertently reveal the secrets of these people in his words. But he is not familiar with Li Huamei, which should be credible. Therefore, we infer that Li Huamei could not be a pirate, at least not in the vicinity of China's coastal areas. From this point of view, Li Huamei's self-statement that she is engaged in Goan trade has a certain credibility.

The next day, Zhang Xin directly investigated the sailors and related personnel on the dock. From these people, he confirmed the cycle of the Hangzhou in Macao, which arrived in Macao in June every year, and then sailed back from time to time to various parts of Southeast Asia. Each voyage is about a month or so. The Hangzhou left completely in December. This cycle coincides with Macau's Goa trade cycle. At the same time, they reconfirmed through the map: Li Huamei is the captain of the Hangzhou. The port staff didn't know much about the person, not even where she would stop when she arrived.

With regard to the fact that the headquarters specifically pointed out that it was requested to investigate whether there was a connection between Li Huamei and Li Siya, there was almost no source of information in this regard. Limited to language and connections, Zhang Xin's investigation could only be conducted in Chinese circles. But most of the local Chinese had never heard of him, and little was known about a female captain who came here on a regular basis. Some people confused her with Li Siya. By the way: the local Chinese have a "curiosity" mentality towards Li Siya, and there are many rumors, but little is known about her real living situation. The rumors mainly focused on her murder and fire prevention, and based on the information we heard, we deduced that in addition to robbing at sea, she also participated in many attacks on Moon Harbor.

We believe that the possibility of acquaintance, cooperation or other deeper relationships between the two cannot be ruled out, after all, they both have deep Portuguese backgrounds. If Li Siya is related by blood, then Li Huamei's large number of Portuguese elements flowing out of her as a purebred Chinese seem a little strange. There's no way she's going to get it all out of thin air.

As for Li Huamei's background check, only these materials have been collected so far. As instructed, her intelligence will be gathered, and I will report the details to Headquarters as soon as there is any new information.

Guangzhou Station Ziyan

The fat man stamped the message with a read stamp, and picked up another letter.

This is a telegram from the Hangzhou, and it is used as "internal secret". The message was only a few lines, but the message was important: Li Huamei climbed into the cabin of the Zhenhai in the middle of the night. Stay in it for at least ten minutes.

"You're such an ingenious woman." The fat man muttered to himself, and after thinking for a moment, he still took out a file and put both telegrams in it. Write the summary and number of the added file on it. Then put it in the "go" file basket.

Xuwen County, Leizhou.

Two by two people carrying a sedan chair were walking on the dusty avenue, followed on all sides by a dozen Tsing Yi domestic servants, plus five or six horseback dart masters. One by one, they were either holding whistle sticks or carrying fast knives on their waists, and they were heavily guarded, and some small groups of strongmen along the road had to retreat when they saw it.

Wen Tong closed his eyes in the sedan chair to recuperate, he was already a little used to the bumpy and undulating sedan chair, and he almost didn't vomit it when he sat for the first time. The rich man sitting in a sedan chair on TV looks like a kind of enjoyment, and he still thinks it is quite interesting when he starts to sit, but he can't stand it for a long time - the sedan chair is not a sofa, but a straight and stiff back, and his back hurts after a long time.

Since the sugarcane harvest began at the end of last year, Wen Tong has been sent to Leizhou as a sugar commissioner of the Lingao Grain and Oil Company. He has only one mission, to inspect and supervise local sugar production and find the most suitable sugar manufacturing process for local production. Build Leizhou into an important town that crosses the export of white sugar.

Today's Zhanjiang City, where Xuwen County is located in the Ming Dynasty, is still the largest sugar production base in China, and Guangxi and Yunnan are three-legged. When the Ministry of Agriculture discussed whether to plant sugarcane in Lingao, he strongly opposed it, because although Lingao could grow sugarcane, it was not the most ideal production area, and sugarcane was a cash crop that consumed a lot of water and fertility, and its promotion would seriously affect local food production. Xuwen on the other side of the strait is China's traditional sugar-producing area, and it would be a waste of resources not to use it to carry out duplicate construction in Lingao.

For this reason, starting in the winter of 1628, the Guangzhou Station began to purchase large-scale sugar cane fields and sugar mills at the same time as Leizhou arranged a connection with the land access and network. By the beginning of this crushing season, Lingao Grain and Oil Corporation had controlled nine sugarcane farms, 2,600 acres of sugarcane fields, and five mills in Haikang and Xuwen counties.

The ambition of Lingao Grain and Oil Company is not only on this 2,600 acres of sugarcane land, Wen Tong was instructed to buy local sugarcane or raw sugar as much as possible, and use the advanced sugar production jishu mastered by the traverser to produce low-cost white sugar in large quantities and quickly occupy the market.

"Advanced sugar making jishu, this is really a bit of a dream." Wen Tong secretly smiled bitterly when he heard this instruction, he did not have any special equipment for the sugar factory, how could there be any advanced jishu, the place where the traverser was more advanced than the average sugar planter was nothing more than the ability to manufacture some special processing machinery, the labor productivity was higher, the comprehensive utilization rate of sugar by-products was high, and the total cost was lower.

The first step after Wen Tong's landing was to quickly visit the main sugarcane-producing areas in the two counties to observe the cultivation, harvesting and processing of sugarcane. He generally knows what the old-fashioned sugar extraction equipment and technology are, but these are the relics of the Qing Dynasty, and he has not seen what the equipment of the Ming Dynasty looks like.

In order to ensure the safety of Wentong, the executive committee brought Zhou Shizhai, an adviser to the police station, with an apprentice to guard him. In addition, there is also a crossing of the common master with him, he has nothing to do with sugar or sugar cane, but he is tall and sturdy enough, and he is a military enthusiast, and he has trained for a few months to master weapons well, and he can also dance with a ghost head knife or something. He was sent without caring about his force, mainly so that the two traversers could talk to each other. It's not like being with the natives, not having a common language.

With the help of Qiwei's large-scale line laying in Leizhou, Wentong's sugarcane journey is convenient and safe. After landing from Lantern Point, the shopkeeper of the Haikang branch of Weilei Prefecture greeted him with a sedan chair and a dart master.