Section 162 Activities in Guangzhou

Lin Baiguang paid attention to the courtyard outside. The weather is already a little cool, and you can't feel the summer heat even outside. It's completely different from how he felt in the old plane.

You know, this is still the southern country. In the old time and space, he once went to Shenzhen for a meeting in November, and the sun at noon could still make people sweat, and he couldn't wear a coat, so he could only wear a shirt on the street.

However, this time and space are much colder, and after a few rains, the temperature has plummeted below 30 degrees. He stretched. noticed that Chen Tong, who was standing guard at the gate of the courtyard, was standing meticulously, looking very alert.

Lin Baiguang moved from Qiongshan to Guangzhou to prepare for the work in Guangzhou, and brought Chen Tong as an assistant.

On the Qiongshan side, there is no need for too complicated intelligence work - the fall of this place is a matter of time. After the fall, it was the work of the General Directorate of Political Protection.

He asked his brother to stay in the local area, formally managing and manipulating the intelligence network headed by Ma Benyuan until he was handed over to his "neighbors" after the occupation of Qiongshan. As for some of the powerful figures in Ma Benyuan's intelligence network, Lin Baiguang considered transferring them to Guangdong for appointment.

At present, Chen Tong's specific position in the Guangzhou secret service has not been announced, but he generally plays the role of the chief of the general affairs of the Guangzhou secret service. All the income of intelligence information and the assignment of tasks are handled through him. In most cases, Lin Baiguang only has contact with him and his own confidential secretary. Chen Tong has a lot of things, and there are a lot of things. However, Lin Baiguang looked coldly, and it seemed that he was doing it in an orderly manner.

The child's growth is getting bigger and bigger. Lin Baiguang thought to himself that he might be a manufacturable material in the future.

After taking him to Guangzhou, in order to see if he would be chaotic here, Lin Baiguang deliberately gave him several opportunities to work in the field, so that he could fully appreciate the charm of life in the big city, and then suddenly asked him to do internal work. I couldn't go out for many days in a row. Even the most boring and humble jobs were assigned to him to fully observe his performance.

Chen Tong's performance satisfied him. Lin Baiguang thought, this person's heart is like water, not anxious or dry, and he is a dry intelligence material.

This is the temporary office of Guangzhou Railway Station. Strictly speaking, it was the office of the intelligence department of the Guangzhou station. It had been three days since he took over the plate from Zhang Xin. At present, the Guangzhou spy organs led by Lin Baiguang are mainly collecting people's information, political information, and business information, and the other is special propaganda. The intelligence personnel and materials that were originally managed and controlled by Zhang Xin were basically handed over here.

Lin Baiguang naturally took over all the intelligence work and intelligence relations of the Guangzhou station. In the past few days, he has been very busy, and in addition to receiving the intelligence system, he has also met with the staff of the headquarters of the secret service.

According to the intelligence work regulations formulated by Jiang Shan, Li Yan, and others, "guanxi," "inside line," and "sitting on the reconnaissance network" belong to the reconnaissance network, and each reconnaissance network has an instructor to exercise vertical control over the reconnaissance personnel. Liaison between the instructor and the headquarters of the secret services is carried out in sections through traffic stations. If there is a problem in one link, it can be easily cut off.

The instructors are all indigenous intelligence trainees who have returned from rotational training in Lingao or who have been trained by Class A of the Intelligence Bureau. Lin Baiguang also directly commanded the security department of Guangzhou Station. This security department is composed of more than 40 people. Responsible for safety and security. Since this group of people is basically from the dart game, the traditional "martial virtue" thinking is very heavy. Therefore, Lin Baiguang did not want them to work wet and dry, and mainly sent them to carry out agency and personal protection.

Lin Baiguang sat in the organ, like a spider staying in the center of a spider's web, and he could immediately feel the subtle tremors in each link.

He was tasked with doing everything possible to bring about a peace between the Guangdong officialdom and the Lingao side and to restore trade between the two sides. For this. He is actively working to establish contact with the local gentry and lobby. The attitude of every official in Guangdong officialdom and the attitude of the gentlemen are all in his hands.

Now, negotiating peace is already the trend of the times, and the remaining resistance is obviously concentrated on Wang Zunde and Gao Shunqin. Wang Zunde was sick in Zhaoqing, his condition was good and bad, even if he didn't die, the day of going to work was not far away. Gao Shunqin's official road is still very smooth, and it is said that the holy family is also good. Lin Baiguang believes that the biggest obstacle to peace negotiations is not Wang Zunde, but the Guangdong governor.

Wang Zunde's attitude was that there was no war or discord, but his staff and subordinates, including the Ming generals in Guangdong, all hoped to reach a peace with the Australians as soon as possible. Avoid continuing to fight with worse consequences. Although Lu Yizhong's letter last time did not receive a response from Wang Zunde. The negotiating mission, which was supposed to go to Macau, failed to make it. However, it is clear from the "connections" installed in Wang Zunde's shogunate that Li Xijue, including his most trusted aide, hopes to make contact with the Australians -- at least to rescue the remnants of He Rubin and others trapped in Qiongshan, and reduce some of the shock to the government and the opposition.

With such a foundation, Lin Baiguang is full of confidence in Wang Zunde's work.

And Gao Shunqin has always been known for his tough attitude. Not only is his idea of Huayi distinction particularly strong, but he also has no commercial interests in Guangdong's maritime trade, and he is not responsible for specific military and government affairs, and all the success or failure of wars, blockades, and so on have nothing to do with his interests. Although this man is not as clear as water or as clear as a mirror, he will resolutely refuse to accept bribes that are contrary to his beliefs and ideals - otherwise the Portuguese would have bought him long ago. So Gao Shunqin is the most difficult person to deal with.

Lin Baiguang decided to focus his work on Gao Shunqin.

But how to start this, he has not yet thought out a specific way.

"Sir." Chen Tong whispered outside the window in the courtyard.

"What's the matter?"

"A new report has arrived."

"Bring it in," Lin Baiguang ordered.

A thick notebook was brought into his office. He looked at the latest news roundup, and it was all local information in Guangzhou in the last 72 hours -- not very important but probably useful. The time limit for the delivery of information to the organs in the most important city of Guangzhou is generally not more than four hours.

He first opened up some news transmitted by the "connections" of the governor's yamen: Li Fengjie sent a staff member to Macao, and his intention was unknown. The news brought him to the spirits. Weishenme is going to suddenly send someone to Macau? Macau is under the jurisdiction of Xiangshan County. As usual, the official affairs are handled by Xiangshan County, who is specifically responsible for Macao affairs. As the governor of a province, Li Fengjie had absolutely no reason to send his staff to contact official affairs.

Li Fengjie has no business in Macao -- this is something that the Guangzhou secret service has long mastered. It is unlikely that he had come to Macau for business or something.

The Foreign Intelligence Bureau has no permanent personnel in Macao, and only Zhang Xin has some "connections" in the local area, reporting on the general business situation and public sentiment in the locality. Of course, it was impossible to find out what Li Fengjie's secret envoy was doing.

Lin Baiguang thought that at this juncture, Li Fengjie sent people to Macao, which obviously had something to do with them. We have to find out. Thinking of this, he took care of Chen Tong to come in.

"You go and do a few things at once. Li Fengjie sent someone to Macao. You pick a person and keep an eye on Li Fengjie's envoy to Macao, and try to find out what he is going to do when he sends people to Macao. ”

Chen Tong nodded: "I'll go now." ”

"One more thing, is there a relationship between us around Gao Shunqin? Find out and tell me right away. ”

"Understood." Chen Tong immediately walked out.

Lin Baiguang watched Chen Tong leave, and began to look through the latest intelligence summary. He picked the information of some of the most important officials and read them first. He was attracted by a piece of information about Gao Shun Qinbai's decision to ban the Portuguese from trading in Canton and to prohibit the merchants from trading with the Portuguese.

There must be something related to this, and Lin Baiguang ordered to immediately send someone to find out if Li Fengjie had mentioned anything related to the Portuguese in Macao recently.

The intelligence agent didn't have much strength to find out the news from the subordinates of the Li Mansion -- Li Fengjie had taken care of his staff, and he would not admit that any Francophile had inquired about Gao Shunqin's work.

Compared with the general content of Gao Shunqin's confession, Lin Baiguang understood a little: Li Fengjie was probably asking for the Portuguese, so he was afraid that Gao Shunqin's recitation would reach their ears -- probably he also knew that there was no secret to protect in this Guangzhou city, so he took care of people to "die and not admit it".

He rang the bell, and Lin Xuan, a confidential secretary of the secret service, walked in, a girl he had bought with the maid's welfare money - a poor girl who only had a small name. Lin Baiguang let her take her surname. According to Lin Baiguang's work, the General Office sent her to the confidential personnel training course of the State Administration of Political Security, and now she is Lin Baiguang's confidential secretary.

"Look up if there are any copies of all the memoranda on Portuguese or Macao affairs that Gao Shunqin has sent to his present location from mid-August to the present time."

Lin Xuan soon came back to report that there was no information on his needs.

If you don't, you'll have to send someone to do it. Gao Shunqin's recital was easy to get when it arrived in Beijing -- as long as the emperor did not stay in the middle school, he could get a copy of the palace. But in Guangzhou, it's not so easy. You have to buy off the staff who drafted the recitals or the cronies and scholars who manage the recitals.

There is precisely no such powerful relationship in Gao Shunqin's mansion -- this is a great shortcoming. Originally, Pei Lixiu and Gao Shunqin's favorite concubine Su Ai were good sisters in handkerchiefs. With Su Ai's status in the Gao Mansion, it should be possible to get the transcript of the song fold in his hands.

Pei Lixiu is not in Guangzhou now, and this road is tantamount to being broken. Of course, it is possible to transfer her back, and Lingao will not object, but her name is too big, and there are too many people in Guangzhou who know her, so it is dangerous to come back rashly when the situation is ambiguous.