Chapter 267: Intelligence Support

When the hurricane hit Jiaoyayu, the edge swept a little bit of Yuhang, but it was for Yuhang to be in full swing of the two students' fighting methods, because the meeting of the Seven Seas Trading Company seemed to be longer than expected, and affected by the hurricane, it seemed that the time for those people to return to Yuhang had to be postponed, and finally the troupe started the premiere in the absence of Ye Tao, in Tan Weiying's chagrin and dissatisfaction.

After arriving in Yuhang, Liu Xiangyuan really put a lot of thought into it for the play to be staged. The stage of the theater rebuilt with the grand ballroom is too small, not to mention, the sound effect of the theater is much worse than the Yizhan Building interpretation hall in Danyang that has considered the acoustic effect from the beginning of the design, not to mention the Danyang Grand Theater under construction. During these days, the seating arrangements in the temporary theater were readjusted to allow more people to enjoy better performances, and the original performance plan was adjusted to accommodate the somewhat cramped stage...... Fortunately, Liu Xiangyuan is experienced in this area, his enthusiasm for work is also very high, and there is an almost endless supply of funds and manpower to deploy, and it has been successfully completed.

With curiosity and longing for this kind of performance form that is completely different from the original local operas in various places, perhaps it is also because Concubine Lian Changling is so persistent in bringing this troupe to Chunnan, so eagerly and ceremoniously mentioning the role of this form of performance to many dignitaries and nobles in Chunnan.

In Yuhang, Liu Xiangyuan's troupe has performed the poetry drama "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" in Danyang, and the court struggle drama "The Prince's Revenge", which is very popular with Chang Ling...... Both of these scripts, which were born out of Shakespeare's famous plays, have undergone significant revisions in this time and space, but it is still difficult to hide the brilliance of the story and the play itself.

However, after a grand and successful performance, another argument emerged, and some people said in a rather regretful tone that the scholars of Dongping were indeed very talented, but these talents were always worn out by some meaningless things. This is true of the so-called knowledge of things and accounting. This is true of the methodology of the study of history itself, and the same is true of these theater performances, which seem to have become one of the mainstream cultures of Dongping. Perhaps because the weather was not good, such arguments did not spread. However, Tan Weiying, who has always firmly defended the position of Dongping culture, seems a little helpless and meaningless. She already understands that the cultural atmosphere of Dongping and Chunnan is completely different from the standard of what is useful and what is not. She was completely uninterested in that kind of bull-headed defense.

There are many people who want to go to the theater to watch the play, although many of them are to get close to those dignitaries and nobles who were invited by Concubine Lian Changling, but more of them are trying to be fresh. This performance is made entirely by the Chunnan royal family. Especially Chang Ling's mother's side, the Xia family, sponsored the whole process, and it has also become a rare non-commercial performance of Liu Xiangyuandi Troupe, and all the audiences are invited. In the end, it was only after Tan Weiying and Dai Qiuyan asked for it that two additional performances were finally performed and opened to the public. In fact, the most enthusiastic atmosphere is the two additional performances.

However, Ye Tao is not there. Whether it's talking about Weiying or Dai Qiuyan, I always feel a little bored.

After the second encore, when Tan Weiying and Dai Qiuyan returned to the mission station, they suddenly found that people were coming and going. After asking, I found out that Ye Tao and the others were back. However. The atmosphere at the station was a bit solemn.

When they knew what happened, Tan Weiying and Dai Qiuyan were a little afraid. In just one month, Ye Tao has been actively or passively involved in a lot of things, and this time Ye Tao has really fought. The scene of swords and swords is something that Dai Qiuyan and Tan Weiying can't imagine and don't want to imagine.

Ye Tao returned to Yuhang slightly earlier than the other members of the Seven Seas Trading Company. On the one hand, it turned out that the meeting was basically over, although there were many things to deal with after the hard battle, but there was no need to delay Ye Tao's time, and there was nothing to discuss on the small island that was undergoing the purging operation. On the other hand, Ye Tao wants to return to Yuhang. to do something that only he can do.

Seven Seas Trading Company did not hide the news that they were attacked by the Black Hawk Gang during their meeting and suffered heavy losses. This kind of news can't be hidden, and it's better to explain it generously than to spread it as a rumor. The open-mindedness of the Seven Seas Trading Company has confused the Chunnan merchants who have become more and more unsuccessful in business over the years because of the rise of the Seven Seas Trading Company, or those officials who have secretly communicated with the Black Eagle Gang, or even the officials who have been cultivated by the Black Eagle Gang with a lot of money and connections. What is Nanami Trading going to do?

Several Chunnan officials who came to comfort the "frightened" Di Ye Tao did not get any news from Ye Tao's mouth. Two days later, though. Ye Tao met with the lord of Chunnan. Formal representations were made about the elimination of the Black Hawk Gang. Chunnan has too long a coastline, and it has always been unable to eradicate pirates. This is also one of the reasons why the Black Eagle Gang was able to get along well in Chunnan and received soft hands on collecting "protection fees" from many maritime merchants. And now that Chunnan has made it clear that he wants to focus all his energy on next year's strategy against Xiling, he is even less in the mood to pay attention to the affairs of the Black Eagle Gang.

However, Ye Tao, as an important minister of Dongping, officially raised this matter, but it was not good not to reply. Fortunately, Ye Tao is also very reasonable, and when Chunnan only said in the end that he would provide some convenience in the process of "exterminating" the Black Eagle Gang, he was very tolerant and did not ask for any further requests. But the meeting that took place in the club of the Seven Seas Trading Company in Yuhang was not so good. The Seven Seas Trading Company may still be a little unaligned, and many of its members are still more concerned about their own interests and their own face, but being attacked by the Black Hawk Gang, they are all angry, and everyone has asked for revenge to the end, especially those who have important people in the family who died on the island, or who suffered heavy losses in this battle, and even if they are bankrupt, they will uproot the Black Hawk Gang.

However, the Black Hawks seemed to have vanished. Just as the deacons returned to Yuhang for this meeting and set the tone for dealing with the Black Hawk Gang, a makeshift fleet that was originally going to attack a stronghold further south of the Black Hawk Gang came up empty. The Black Hawks took the lead in emptying the stronghold with all the treasure they had accumulated, burning all the facilities to the ground.

Nanami Trading Company understands very well that in the vast sea, relying on incomplete charts, it is too unreliable to search for the foothold of the Black Hawk Gang on one island after another. Even if it was as extravagant as the Nanami Trading Company, there was no way to maintain such a battle fleet to do such a thing. Especially after the loss of a large number of ships, the fleet used to escort the ships is really stretched. However, Ye Tao felt that he could start from those officials assigned by the Seven Seas Trading Company and the family members arranged by the real power figures of the Black Eagle Gang in various parts of Chunnan to find the whereabouts of the Black Eagle Gang. Whether it is considering the kinship, or considering the efforts of the Black Hawk high-level over the years, it is impossible for these people to be abandoned. However, Seven Seas Trading Company itself was not capable of organizing such an intelligence system.

Just when everyone gathered again at the Yuhang branch of Seven Seas Trading Company for consultation, Ye Tao brought a middle-aged man. This middle-aged man's face looks so ordinary, so ordinary that it seems that if you turn around, you will forget what this person looks like. And this middle-aged man is the person in charge of the Dongping Intelligence Bureau in Yuhang, after Ye Tao returned to Yuhang, he heard about the recent events and began to work closely with Ye Tao.

"Actually, I don't remember my name anymore." The middle-aged man said: "The name I use now is Xing Siming, who was purchased by Yayun Jiliguan." First of all, I'm here to apologize to everyone, the Intelligence Bureau's arrangement in Yuhang is not thorough enough after all, and we didn't know anything about the Black Hawk Gang's big operation in advance. It wasn't until the past few days that we repeatedly deliberated on very small matters, plus the news that you tortured those Black Eagle gang members and small leaders, that we pieced together a clue. Xu Hanchao had been to Yuhang before. However, it's a little late to say that. I have reported the situation to Nie Juzheng, and have been ordered to assist Seven Seas Trading Company in clearing and monitoring the Black Hawk Gang. In the future, I will contact you for all these things, and then arrange them. Because of the different types and levels of information that the Intelligence Bureau has ambushed, and there are quite subtle and crucial points in them, I can't tell you where and by whom every piece of information I have come from. But whether these messages have been verified and how reliable they are can be explained to you. If you don't have any opinions, I'll be here from today to do this for you. If you don't want to do this, but are willing to find people on your own, you can say that. The Yuhang Branch of the Dongping Intelligence Bureau is still looking forward to cooperating with you. ”

Xing Siming's words didn't carry any emotion, but the Dongping Intelligence Bureau's willingness to help already made everyone overjoyed. Intelligence is not a simple job, especially the large number of professionals required for large-scale surveillance and espionage, and it is a big problem that these businessmen cannot solve. Many of these people have played some simple commercial espionage tricks, but it's okay to think of espionage as a ploy, but if you treat this kind of work as a regular operation, you must not be a professional.

Xing Siming was recognized by everyone, although he didn't show anything on his face, he was still very happy in his heart. The deployment of the intelligence bureau in Yuhang and Chunnan was partly inherited from the original internal guard system, and more was built by them with a lot of money, manpower and material resources in the past few years. And it seems that further training is needed to form an effective system. And intelligence work, it is difficult to tolerate even the slightest mistake. The failure to grasp Xu Hanchao's whereabouts in advance, and the lack of discovery of the contact between the Black Eagle Gang and some people in Chunnan, made Xing Siming and his subordinates really a little angry. They felt that they were partly responsible for the huge losses incurred by Seven Seas Trading Company. Now, in cooperation with Nanami Trading Company, we can use the strong financial resources of Nanami Trading Company to provide intelligence support to Nanami Trading Company on the one hand, and expand and deepen the intelligence bureau's network in Chunnan on the other hand, which can be regarded as a remedy that kills two birds with one stone.