Chapter 59: Being watched
At this time, Liu Yun didn't know that an operation against Australians had begun, and it was not the Dutch who planned this tracking operation, but a group of unknown Ming people.
However, Zhang Tianwen and others' investigation of Cyberwin has fallen into a bottleneck, this fortune teller seems to have never appeared, and after searching every corner of Batavia City, Zhang Tianwen has basically determined that he has disappeared.
A summary of all the information recovered from the port terminal and the city showed that Cyberwin had indeed disappeared, but what was strange was that Liu Yun did not know where he had gone, and what Yang Jian had told him.
But what is certain is that the final secret of Australia has not fallen into the hands of this group of unknown people, even if Zhao De has been to Australia, the experienced captain who has been adrift at sea for many years has forgotten the route, let alone someone else can find it.
"Minister, the man has just disappeared, and it is certain that he did not leave, and we have inquired from many places that no one has seen a man dressed as a fortune teller leave by boat, and of the three ships that leave the port in Batavia today, one is Portuguese, and the other two are Spanish."
"Can you be sure that there is not a single Oriental on board, all Westerners?" Liu Yun suddenly interrupted Zhang Tianwen's words and asked.
"Minister, is there a difference between this, I have inquired like the porters in the port that none of them have come on board."
"The difference, of course, since the other party is the same as us, he can be more than one identity, and even the next time he appears, he may be a businessman, so you can't just take appearance as the only feature, but also pay attention to the details, even if a person is wearing makeup or disguise, he will be exposed in a certain detail, for example, when you eat, you like to put the chopsticks in your mouth and lick them before getting off the chopsticks, this is the detail."
Liu Yun said Zhang Tianwen's favorite action during dinner, and it was not appropriate to just remind him to pay attention to the details, but hoped that he would change, a person can have habits, but he must be good at hiding, especially a person engaged in intelligence work, he must know how to hide his bad habits.
"Did you notice anything different around you when you came back?"
"By the way, minister, it's a little different, the old man who has been selling wontons at our door for a long time is gone, and has become a young man, when I came back, I went to inquire, and the guy said that he was the son of the old man, which is strange, the old man clearly told us that when he first came to Batavia, his son and wife were killed by pirates, and this person who has been dead for more than 20 years will actually come back to life."
Zhang Tianwen didn't know that the guy who sold chaos at this time was also making a report like a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman, if he was at this time, he might feel that the man was a little familiar, because the man's lower bar obviously had a red mole, and the old man who told the fortune also had a similar red mole, but the age difference between the two was too big, and the middle-aged man was obviously in his prime.
"Shopkeeper, there are not many people coming in and out of the Australian embassy today, and one of them even came to greet me and asked me where the old man who sold wontons had gone." The young man hunched over with a rag in his hand and pretended to wipe the table where Cyberwin was sitting, but he was actually whispering a report.
"Well, he asked something, he didn't expose it." Cyberwin gently slid the chaos in the bowl with a spoon, and blew softly with his head down.
"No, he just asked where the original stall owner had gone, and I said that it was the son of the old man who sold wontons according to what you explained."
Cyberwin nodded in satisfaction, but he didn't know that he hadn't listened to it all when he inquired at the time, so the guy had already revealed his identity.
"I'm afraid we're already within the scope of other people's surveillance," Liu Yun thought about it after listening to Zhang Tianwen's report and said: "It's just that I've always been curious about who would put so much effort into spying on us, arranging undercover agents and surveillance, if it's a pirate, it shouldn't be possible, the force we showed in shelling Batavia has said everything, it's not something they can provoke." ”
"Minister, did you think the Dutch would send them to spy on us, after all, we are currently at odds with the Dutch."
"No, although the Dutch have old grudges with us, it is impossible for him to continue to do such things that are detrimental to his own interests as far as the side that benefits the most is concerned."
As Liu Yun said, the Dutch are now the biggest beneficiaries of the Australian merchandise agency, and they make as much as ten or twenty times the profit by shipping Australian-made mirrors to Europe for sale. It is impossible to continue to monitor and investigate Australia, and now Van Diemen no longer pays so much attention to where Australia is, and they are concerned about when Australian goods can increase production.
That's why Liu Yun is so sure that it is not the Dutch, as for the forces of other European countries, Spain, Portuguese, Australia and they do not have much contact at present, and the most contact is still the British, plus the arms sales negotiated by the two sides recently, so it will not be the British.
What is certain is that this lurking in is definitely not a force in Southeast Asia, since it is from the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty has such a big power and money to support the court, in addition to the imperial court, there is also the Zheng family.
The Zheng family earned millions of taels of silver every year by monopolizing Japan's maritime trade, and had a strong private armed force, so they would definitely have a plan for the mirror, a commodity worth ten thousand gold, and if they could directly find out where the source of the mirror came from, it would be very important for them to get the agency.
After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Yun, who straightened out the relationship between all parties, suddenly felt good, although he had not yet determined whether the Zheng family had sent someone to monitor, but he had finally figured out that there were not many people who could have this kind of power and financial support in the Daming realm, and even fewer at sea.
It's just that what he can't figure out is that if the Zheng family wants to directly take the agency of the mirror, they can send someone to talk to the door directly, why use this method, isn't it superfluous.
"Ah Wen, you go and do something, release the news that you have caught the spy sent by the Zheng family of the Ming Dynasty, and try to let Yang Jian know and see what his reaction is."
"Minister, have you already guessed something, is the Zheng family the Nikolai family?"
"It hasn't been determined yet, but as long as Yang Jian makes a slight move, then it can basically be determined." Liu Yun looked at Zhang Tianwen meaningfully and smiled.