Chapter 216: Letter from the North
Feng Zihai's Second Special Service Bureau, which entered the north to carry out a stealth mission, has lost contact with the consulate for nearly a month, which makes people suspect that something seems to have happened.
At this time, Feng Zihai's team had already taken root in Shenyang City and sprouted, and in the past month or so, he relied on his connections to get various materials from Shanxi and Hebei and other places, especially salt.
After years of conquest, the Jin nobles did not lack money in their hands, but what they lacked was the items they enjoyed, which was what the domestic second-class Houjin research experts said, what they lacked, what they lacked was things like mirrors, table salt, iron pots, weapons and the like.
Don't look at the Houjin War, almost every battle is won, but if there is no financial support from the merchants in the Ming Dynasty, it is almost impossible to win such a big victory every time.
Although this act of selling important materials to hostile forces was a bit of treason with the enemy, it was not very popular in the eyes of the merchants, and the concept of the state was not so strong at that time.
The Second Secret Service Bureau represented by Feng Zihai is nominally to provide effective basis information for Australia to monitor Houjin's latest movements, but everyone knows that in fact, such a nail has been planted here, and it is almost dispensable.
The power of the whole Australia has not completely penetrated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and now it does not have the slightest impact on the entire Ming situation.
Although there were constant doubts about the usefulness of sending such a sleeper team of dozens of people in, Congress and the president nevertheless approved the dispatch notice.
This is very puzzling, if you don't carefully look for the context, it may be really difficult to find that this is a big capitalist for their own interests in exchange with the state.
And Feng Zihai and the others are just a chess piece for others, but as a member of the overall interest group, he can certainly get a lot of benefit distribution.
In addition to developing business, the main task of lurking in Houjin is to sell Australian-produced **.
This notorious thing, I don't know if the people in the Ministry of Chemical Industry think that the research funding is too low, so they came up with such a method, and they shamelessly thought of the Houjin sales, and it was also said that it could invisibly reduce the combat effectiveness of the Houjin soldiers.
Not to mention that such a statement has been agreed by many people, Houjin's combat effectiveness is actually not much horror, but the Ming army's army is too bad, and in addition to various domestic disasters, it will finally lead to the entry of Houjin, plus a few intimidating massacres, so Houjin's army almost surrendered without a fight.
If it is really dead, Jin's army of less than 100,000 will be enough to face the hundreds of millions of people of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and in the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty will not die if he does not die.
There are Donglin, Li Zicheng and other teammates who are doing their best, as well as Wu Sangui, a big traitor, who led the Qing soldiers into the customs in a critical time and space, and it is strange that the Ming Dynasty does not die.
In any case, the death of the Ming Dynasty was at the hands of Donglin and the gentry and big landlords, and if it weren't for their decay, the annexation of land would not have been so fast, and there would have been no large-scale peasant uprising.
The benefits brought by the sale of ** are absolutely unimaginable, don't look at the population of Houjin, but it is so rich, otherwise those businessmen would not be so active in smuggling goods out.
Feng Zihai's task is first to become one of all the smugglers by smuggling various items that are in demand in the Houjin area, attract the attention of the Houjin nobles, and then use his connections to make friends with them.
As for the follow-up questions, it was up to him at all, but what Feng Zihai didn't expect was that he would make friends with Ao Bai, a big man in the future who would be in power and in the opposition, and he also strongly recommended himself to join the Han Army Banner, and even promised that he could get a guerrilla general position for himself.
Of course, Feng Zihai can't accept this position, and he won't accept it, it is his task and duty to befriend the Houjin nobles, but if he falls too deep, I'm afraid it will be difficult to quit. When he kindly refused again, Ao Bai did not embarrass him much, but continued to treat him as usual.
The reason why Ao Bai likes Feng Zihai so much is not only because of his admiration for his strength, but also because he admires the means by which he can get all kinds of scarce materials, and recently he has even obtained some rare goods that are said to be not even available to Ming officials.
This kind of mirror that is said to be imported from overseas Australia, the size of a palm will be sold for tens of thousands of taels, but there are still many people who are willing to spend money to buy, this thing is much better than a copper mirror, and it is very clear, so it is worth the price.
In order to prevent the secret services of Ao Bai and Houjin from discovering their identities, Feng Zihai ordered his subordinates to avoid all unnecessary activities, and now that it has been more than a month, he also feels that he should send a letter of safety to the Guangzhou Office, otherwise the second group of people from the Ministry of Homeland Security will enter Shenyang City and disrupt his deployment.
The messenger traveled day and night, and finally arrived in Guangzhou ten days later, and told Zhang Tianwen, who was stationed in the Guangzhou Office, that Feng Zi's message of peace was safe.
"In this way, Director Feng has successfully lurked without any danger, and has already climbed into a relationship with the Houjin nobles."
"Yes, Ambassador Zhang, the reason why the director is sending the letter now is to avoid arousing suspicion, and in the past month, several big businesses have been done one after another, so the surveillance has gradually decreased, so he dares to send me out to deliver the letter."
"Well, Director Feng's caution is necessary, no matter what, the safety of the hidden personnel must be guaranteed to the greatest extent, and our people from the Department of Homeland Security can't risk their lives to sell their lives to those sub-capitalists."
Zhang Tianwen affirmed Feng Zihai's caution, and at the same time was angry that the domestic capitalists used the people of the Ministry of Homeland Security as guns for their own interests, so he said this without scruples in front of his subordinates, and if it was someone else, he would not dare to say it so directly.
After asking some key questions and the real situation of Houjin, Zhang Tianwen also gave new instructions to Feng Zihai and others, that is, relying on the existing strength, so that the backward aristocrats will become more and more dependent on Australian luxury goods, and at the same time sell to the bottom of the society**.
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