The greatest advantage of literati like Nanwang is not in killing people and setting fires, but in their ability to infiltrate Ming society. This ability is not possible to pass through the 99% of the mud legs under his hands.

A talent with huge resources behind him can easily infiltrate the official gentry class of the Ming Kingdom. In this regard, a certain master has been a great success so far.

Therefore, the intelligence bureau's training for Nanwang also has a focus: martial arts, physical fitness, assassination, the most important subjects of 007, are not important here in Nanwang, and you can barely pass.

On the contrary, it is the inconspicuous skills of intelligence gathering and analysis, operating electronic instruments, mastery of chemicals, and reporting technology that should be mastered by an upper-class person who mingles in officialdom and shopping malls.

So Nanwang started a formal training course with several other trainees at the training base.

As expected, Xiucai, who was accustomed to speaking with a pen, was very unsuitable for physical fitness and martial arts training at first. Even a shrunken version of the training plan made Nanwang half dead.

Yet he persevered—not if he didn't, not in a sunny elementary school classroom, but in a training ground surrounded by mountains and forests, and the fierce instructor with a deerskin whip was not as good at talking as Ma Yue.

While training physical fitness and fighting, the trainees also have to intersperse shooting training: Daming bird gun, three-eyed gun, European arquebus, 28 big cover, pistol, dagger, these must be mastered.

And once shooting training begins, the maintenance and maintenance of firearms becomes mandatory.

Unlike later generations, in the 17th century, cadets had many opportunities to participate in actual shooting: note, not live ammunition, but actual combat.

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Previously, after pacifying the two indigenous communities south of Zeng Wenxi, Madou and Xiao Yong, a certain force temporarily stabilized: it takes time to digest the territory.

However, as the relationship between the Crossing Group and the Zheng Zhilong Group gradually deteriorated, the occupation plan from Zeng Wenxi north to Chiayi was also put on the agenda.

Bengang in the Chiayi region is the base camp of Fujian immigrants in Taiwan inherited by Zheng Zhilong since Yan Siqi colonized.

At that time, the aborigines living near Chiayi were the Heanya people under the Pingpu tribe, and there were some village communities such as the Maoluo Society, the Dawu County Society, and the Tali Wu Society.

Therefore, the army began a continuous, small-scale clean-up operation of the northern natives: first clean up the obstacles, and after Zheng Zhilong is finished, the Fujian immigrants in the Bengang area will be the meal of a certain force.

And a few of their students were also temporarily incorporated into the company under the leadership of the instructor, and experienced the march and combat of ordinary soldiers.

This kind of attack on the recalcitrant indigenous villages is mainly to help the trainees overcome the psychological barrier. The requirements are not high: follow the soldiers and fire a few shots, it is best to kill people, if you can't kill them, you can clean up the corpses with bursting skulls afterwards.

However, the students generally said that there was no big problem. It's the 17th century, from the poor to the gentry, everyone who can live to adulthood has seen countless tragic scenes without exception - the dead bodies of flies around the roadside are the most common programs, the beheading at the vegetable market is a daily routine, and there are festival dramas such as chopping alive.

This is a barbaric era, the people are extremely numb to the dead and blood, those soldiers who cry to go home to see their mothers after one shot, there is no such thing in this era, it is the product of social affluence and division of labor.

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Unlike exercising physical fitness, Nanwang is still relatively quick to master various eavesdropping instruments...... After all, he is not illiterate. And the operation of these things is very simple, the difficulty of the home remote control level, as long as the initial surprise is over, it is not difficult to master.

It took him some time to send the message: he had to practice his fingers and memorize some fixed message codes.

The adversary who crosses the force does not have the ability to listen by radio, so the message does not need to go through the complex procedures of encryption and translation. When the agent is on a mission, he sends a report directly and clearly and sends out some commonly used phrases in code. Just like the codebook when the BP machine was popular, it was much easier than the underground party back then.

Nanwang's only interest was chemistry.

He was swaying on the passing line in almost all subjects, but he was full of interest and exploration spirit in the subject of chemicals. Not only was he interested in the poisons and wounds necessary for all kinds of agents, but he also traced the origin and recipes of these agents......

Ma Yue, who rushed to hear the news, had to do an investigation on him temporarily.

The results of the investigation are a bit funny: the technology of "turning stones into gold" is actually the biggest dream of Nanwang when he was a teenager......

Of course, this is not surprising, the ancients' pursuit of the two techniques of alchemy for immortality and turning stones into gold has always existed.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there have been Tang Taizong, Tang Xianzong, and Emperor Yongzheng recently, all of whom died of Dandan. Emperor Guangzong of the Ming Dynasty has been controversial to this day, and Emperor Jiajing even personally rolled up his sleeves to go to the alchemy.

The emperor was like this, and the gentry class below was not willing to be left behind.

Not to mention those rich people who use all kinds of raw materials, even including babies to refine medicine, just talking about the joke of "turning stones into gold", I don't know how many people have been fooled into investing in projects for thousands of years.

All kinds of alchemists and scammers have interpreted the big IP of "turning stones into gold" almost to the extreme, just like the pyramid schemes in later generations, and even various schools with different means have appeared.

Nanwang was also one of the victims.

Although he was deceived by a Taoist priest in Youfang when he was young, he has not changed his mind so far, and the dream hidden in his heart has not been shattered.

Well, this time, when he saw the bottles and cans in the laboratory, all kinds of powders, and all kinds of potions, someone immediately activated the dream - the immortals must have turned stones into gold, otherwise why are they so arrogant?

...... Ma Yue, who learned the reason, couldn't cry or laugh for a while.

Chemistry is difficult to explain, and in the end, he had no choice but to arrange a junior high school chemistry class for Nan Wang - after Nan Xiucai's training, he could go back to Chihkan Primary School to find Teacher Jiang to study his homework.

Seeing Nan Xiucai who rushed to school to learn "alchemy", Ma Yue immediately named the dream-chasing agent "chemist".

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After Nanwang was recruited by the Intelligence Bureau, it didn't take long for him to start his mission. It's just that the initial tasks were all testing in nature, not very difficult, and some of them didn't even know what role he played.

For example, as early as New Year's Day in 1628, Nanwang was ordered to go to the dock of Dayuan Island and play an ordinary entourage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On the docks, ready to set sail was the Slotten, captained by Peternoiz, who had just reached an agreement with the crossers to return to Batavia.

And Nanwang's task is that when Cai Feiming in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says goodbye to the red hairs, he is responsible for handing a special glass of red wine on his plate to a Dutch priest named Gandius.

The task was simple, and there was nothing wrong with Nanwang: Cai Feiming and the pastor clinked glasses after getting the red wine that Nanwang handed over, and then drank it all.

This is the end of the mission of looking south. Despite its simplicity, it was his first time on a mission under the Intelligence Agency.

In fact, it wasn't until half a year later, when Putmans returned to the Captain with the Dutch fleet, that Nanwang learned from the sailors about the fate of the priest Gandius: on the third day after the voyage, Gandius had a severe cold attack, and on the fifth day he died.

...... Inquiring about this matter itself is also one of the tasks that Nanwang receives.

Similar small tasks, Nanwang has been completed in the big man. And his first "business trip" in the real sense was that after he completed most of the training subjects, in June 1628, he went to Fuzhou City as an attaché of the envoy of Zhang Dongdong of the fake Cao Chuan.

In the envoy group at that time, there was Tang Mude, director of the Operations Division of the Intelligence Bureau. As a subordinate of Tang Mude, Nanwang originally went to travel at public expense: the bureau did not arrange any exclusive tasks for Nanwang, he only needed to help Tang Mude receive and receive telegrams and feel the atmosphere of working secretly "behind enemy lines".

However, the world is unpredictable: because the prostitute Shui Xiu'er got information from Xiong Qi's mouth, it led to a series of assassinations in Fuzhou City that night.

The situation was tense that night, and Nanwang not only received telegrams at the station all night, but also received an order the next day: pretending to be a prostitute to go to Sanfu Pavilion to poison Shui Xiu'er.

This time, Nanwang completed the task beautifully: he first used his literati style to meet Shui Xiu'er, and then put ricin in the wine, tricked Shui Xiu'er into drinking it, and successfully retreated.

In this emergency, Nanwang behaved very professionally no matter what position he was in—the intelligence director Dai Yun had determined that he had the qualities in this regard, and this time it all came true.

Soon after returning to the senior officer, Nanwang became an official agent of the Intelligence Bureau, received his own code name, received a gun, and truly became a high-level indigenous elite under the Crossing Crowd - now the Crossing Crowd who is engaged in intelligence knows that there is an extra agent in the Bureau who is good at using all kinds of poisons.

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After the senior staff rested until October, Nanwang received an upgrade task: go to Longyan County to settle a nest of bandits, recruit them or kill them.

So, Mr. Lan Da made a brilliant appearance. With the help of the local broker's connections, Nanwang became a guest in Yantou Village and successfully lurked.

And after receiving the order sent by Yamashita not long ago, Nanwang knew that the net was going to be closed, so he gave Ma Shixia's bandits one last chance to choose. However, the gangsters are very tough, and they are not willing to be dogs for the government......

If you don't want to be a dog, and you don't want to die, it's hard to do?

Nanwang could only find a reason to go down the mountain - at the bottom of the mountain, he first secretly met with Ding Liqiu, and then prepared 30 jars of poisonous wine, and then brought a transmitter and antenna, as well as a hexagram paper written in advance with a secret writing potion. In the end, Comrade "Chemist" went up the mountain with these props.

Now it's all over. More than 200 people from the gangsters in Yantou Village have been poisoned by the agent "chemist" alone, clean and easy.

Looking south at this moment, a person sat at the gate of Yantou Village, looking at the team of people and horses walking slowly in the distance, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

The next moment, he took out a soft leather mask with blue fangs from his arms and put it on his face.