Lester leaned against the shade of a tree and watched from afar at the East Coasters gathered on the docks. There were ragged idlers under the trees here, so Lester didn't look very conspicuous standing here.

To be honest, the tall battleship of the people on the east coast still gave him a great psychological shock. In particular, the thick barrels under the gun window showed a breathtaking power. Unlike the other gruff Scots, Lester had seen the mighty fleets of damned English, and there weren't many ships in them that could match the one in front of him.

The fact that the people on the east coast were able to build such a powerful warship shows that their strength is still very strong. Now that he is going to assassinate a trade representative who is said to be a high-ranking official of the East Coast, it is conceivable that this time the trouble will not be small. Considering that he had just fled from England to Bordeaux because of trouble, he had not been able to stay long and would probably be forced to leave here again.

"Hugo, an old boy, has found himself such a difficult job, and this time he has to knock him a hundred francs." Lester swore secretly. With this money, he and his brethren will be able to live freely and happily for a long time, and then they will be able to flee to Savoy without noticing, and the people of the East will never find themselves again.

The Easterners on the docks gradually dispersed, and Leicester's falcon-like gaze followed his target, the trade representative of the Eastern Shore Republic. The delegate was chatting and walking slowly with a tall, lanky man next to him, both of who, as usual, were dressed in a strange black "East Coast suit"—a well-tailored, simple, tight-fitting garment. With the East Coast outfit on, Lester could clearly see that they didn't have any armor or armor under their clothes, which would greatly reduce the difficulty of his assassination.

There was an entourage standing in front of and behind the tall thin man, and these two people could see that after some systematic training, they had a certain amount of skill, and their level seemed to be similar to that of several of their old brothers. Their hands had been on their waists, consciously or unconsciously, and based on Lester's experience, there must have been a flintlock pistol hidden there. And, judging by the professionalism of these people, that gun must have good ammunition.

In front of the tall and thin man, there were several naval officers from the East Coast, who were all talking and laughing loudly, as if they were talking about something extremely happy.

Behind the trade representative of the East Coast stood two men with small Eastern faces. The two men were silent, holding the scabbard at their waist with their left hand and resting their right hand flat on the pistol holster at their waist, as they followed the trade representative in a footing and turned their heads slightly to take in the situation around them.

"I'm very vigilant." Lester sighed secretly, what the hell are these guys doing? Not only is there a complete range of knives and guns, but even his skills look quite good, is this Nima still a businessman?! Lester spat on the ground, seeing that Xu Xin and the others were walking away, he was just about to straighten up and continue to follow the observation target, but an old fellow behind him suddenly touched himself covertly.

Lester was startled, and with a slight glance out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a man with an eastern face in front of him walking over. Lester remained silent, leaning back on the trunk of the tree, squinting at the river in the distance.

Sun Heiqi walked to a small stall, picked up a pack of tobacco and looked at it. The cigarette that Mo Ming took away from him just now has never been returned, and he doesn't dare to go up and ask for it. Therefore, I can only consider myself unlucky and buy a new pack.

The Barbados tobacco from the New Indies sold by French vendors on the street only costs 2 su 6 deniels a pack (one French pound per pack), but Sun Heiqi is not used to that smell, he still likes the tobacco produced in Virginia, the English Yankee, which has a special aroma.

As the official detective of the General Intelligence Bureau, during the period of expatriation, Sun Heiqi's income was not a lot, basically more than one franc per month. Therefore, for a pack of 3 sous, Virginia tobacco can still be easily affordable.

After paying happily in the surprised eyes of the French vendor, Sun Heiqi turned his head and walked back. Just as he turned around, perhaps out of professional habit, he keenly noticed that there was a crouching guy on the ground next to him who seemed to have seen it somewhere.

"Where have you seen it?" Sun Heiqi didn't pause, and while walking back, he thought in his mind, "That's right! In the tavern! It's that Scotsman! At that time, he was openly flirting with a big-ass dancer, and he was very envious for a while. That's not right, that guy can afford to drink sugarcane shochu in the tavern, which is not cheap, and can also drink dancing girls to fight hotly, obviously he is also the owner of two spare money, why is he squatting on the ground like a beggar in a daze now. ”

Sun Heiqi subconsciously felt that there was something wrong here, so he paid attention. After catching up with Xu Xin, Mo Ming, Lu Ming and others walking in front of him in a few steps, Sun Heiqi leaned over and made a gesture covertly. Several other people understood, but only Xu Xin didn't know, and was still talking about something with Mo Ming.

"Recently, the pace of recruiting refugees has accelerated significantly." Xu Xin said, "It has almost increased to more than 400 people, and according to this trend, by the end of this month, we may be able to collect seven or eight hundred people." ”

"yes. What's even more rare is that these people are skilled workers with certain technical ability, and they are exactly the skilled immigrants needed in China. What's even more rare is that their age structure is still very reasonable, and they are basically in the prime of life. Moreover, the proportion of children among them is not small, and we can form several cadet companies. Mo Ming chatted with Xu Xin with a match, and at the same time gestured to Sun Heiqi that everything was up to him.

"This time, more than 50 children under the age of 12 have been recruited...... Xu Xin said with some joy, "I don't know where the previous batch has gone, and it should not have arrived in Dongfang Port yet." By the way, Mo Ming, I remember that the Executive Committee had a plan drafted by the State Intelligence Administration on the enrollment of these children for study and training, have you read it? ”

"Yes." Mo Ming nodded quietly, in fact, this outline of the plan was drafted by him. However, his mind is not here at the moment, just now Sun Heiqi gestured to him and said that there was a situation, but it was not serious. He guessed that it was likely that someone was watching them, but Sun Heiqi found out.

This made Mo Ming a little curious. After the 26,000 horses of East Coast cloth were successfully sold, the local French factory owners and traders had long since died down after tossing and turning for a while. Now that there are people who are following and stalking their side, what is going on?

"What does the plan outline say?" Xu Xin asked, "How are you going to arrange these children?" ”

"Unified arrangement in Luoqia Port." Mo Ming said, "The government council is going to open up a lot of fields there to grow cotton, and these children will study and train there and work at the same time." ”

Sun Heiqi had quietly fallen behind the most Lu, and he pulled Lu Qi with him. This matter Mo Ming is not ready to let Xu Xin and the group of naval officers who are chatting in front of him know that these people have not received professional training, if they know that there are people watching their team at the moment, these people will inevitably show a little unnatural, then it is likely to arouse the vigilance and awareness of the spies who are watching behind them, so as to give up stalking. In this way, it will be difficult for you to find out who is watching you.

"It's not going to work in a year or two." "It can only be used as a long-term investment. Haluha, who said it last time, the Executive Committee's version of the 'Sultan's pro-soldiers'. ”

"Hehe......" Mo Ming echoed and laughed, and was about to find an opportunity to say a few words to Sun Heiqi, but saw Lu Ming, Guo Zili, Chen Tumu and other naval officers in front of him stop and yelled here: "Why are you two walking so slowly?" Two big men chatting and pressing the road, what about the base? Hurry, hurry! We're going to take a shower, we're going to drink Bordeaux wine, we're going to eat foie gras, don't waste time, hurry up! ”

In desperation, Mo Ming and Xu Xin could only speed up their pace and lead the group of naval officers towards the merchant station.

In addition to a middle-aged Frenchman guarding the gate, there are only a few French children left who studied with Xu Xin in the trading station. Most of these children were too sick to withstand the long sea journeys, so Xu Xin left them at the trading station to help and teach them some arithmetic and language knowledge.

Under Xu Xin's instructions, these children moved quickly. Some people ran to the well to fetch water, some ran to the firewood house to fetch firewood, and some people began to prepare to boil water, and everything seemed to be in order.

The naval officers were taken by Xu Xin to his storage room, where there was a wine cabinet with all kinds of liquor. Xu Xin is good at everything, but he likes to drink two glasses of wine, so almost all the wine here is his private collection, and today it can be regarded as taking it out and supplying it to the navy for free.

Mo Ming sat bored in the hall, sorting out the materials while waiting for Sun Heiqi and the others to come back.

At noon, Sun Heiqi and Lu Qi sneaked into the hall. Mo Ming was suddenly shocked, stood up and asked Sun Heiqi, "What's the situation?" ”

"We're being watched." Sun Heiqi replied succinctly, "According to my observation, there are five people who are watching us, and they are quite sophisticated, so it can be seen that this is not the first time they have done this, they are definitely veterans, but I don't know who sent them." Also, they found a place to stay, in a farm outside the city. There was one man left on the farm, all six of whom were Scottish. ”

"It doesn't matter who sent it. We will know that if they have the courage to come and target us, we must be prepared to bear the price. Hurry up and get ready, and we'll go and serve their nest tonight!" Mo Ming said lightly.

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