Lin Nan has been in the Ministry of Security for several years, and he naturally knows a lot of various insider information. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoForeign merchants want to operate in Sanya, and the safest way is, of course, to hug Haihan's thighs tightly, so many stores will more or less have shares of Haihan. These shares are not necessarily funded by the traversers themselves, and some of them are completely donated by the operators in the name of dry shares to some high-level Haihan personnel who hold real power or simply a certain competent authority, in order to obtain some protection and preferential treatment in the local business process.

This kind of thing is a private agreement, and there will be no various contract documents on paper, so often both parties follow the tacit understanding and will not bring the relevant things to the table. And the Haihan Executive Committee did not deliberately put an end to this phenomenon, as long as it was not too ugly to make money, it basically turned a blind eye.

On the one hand, foreign businessmen thought that this kind of relationship could bring them more security, and often took the initiative to do so, and on the other hand, Haihan also needed to use some special means to obtain certain strategic materials or important information, and sell their own industrial products. For example, the Ministry of Commerce owns shares in a number of businesses in the name of private individuals, and through these businesses, they go overseas to purchase special commodities such as minerals and population. Through this relationship, the Ministry of Security will use this relationship to place intelligence agents in some trading houses and shipping houses, and use the trade networks of these merchants to send intelligence agents to infiltrate overseas.

In this way, even some countries that were at war with Haihan could continue to trade with each other through the operation of middlemen, and Haihan continued to buy slaves from the Dutch, and the Spaniards could always buy all kinds of industrial products produced in Sanya, all of which depended on these special chains of interests.

Although Lin Nan knew that Haihan's high-level officials had these secret arrangements, the scope of his work was counter-espionage, and there was no direct intersection with this field, and he only occasionally heard colleagues report relevant news to the minister in internal meetings. But he also knows a little bit of relevant information, such as Qiong Lianfa, a large business organization that Haihan is deeply involved, many of its trade behaviors are assigned by Haihan's high-level management, and the Nanyang Pavilion involved is also one of the foreign trade firms under the name of Qiong Lianfa, and its customer groups are almost all powerful people from various countries, so it is difficult to say what is boring in it. If they find something that should not be investigated, their task force is afraid that they will face the risk of disbandment before they can solve the case.

Listening to Lin Nan's explanation, Fu Li was also a little hesitant at the moment. Since he joined the Haihan, he has had close contacts with these big leaders of the Executive Committee, and even privately even uses the titles of master and uncle instead of the "chief" that the naturalized people are accustomed to using, and he also knows a little bit about the affairs of these upper-level figures, what Lin Nan said is not fiction, and there are indeed some things that they need to avoid.

"The task force has been set up, can't we fail to investigate?" The speaker was a cadre who had newly joined the task force, Zhang Qianzhi who belonged to the Ministry of Security.

After Zhang Qianzhi was cracked in the Danzhou assassination case in 1631, he was promoted for his undercover work. He himself studied under He Xi, whose background is hard enough, and his mental ability and experience are not bad, so he quickly ascended to the position, and he is also the best among the young naturalized cadres in the Haihan officialdom. But because of the special nature of his work, not many people outside the system know his name, and he is far less famous than someone like Fu Li who often shows up.

If you want to talk about the relationship with the upper echelons, Zhang Qianzhi is no worse than Fu Li, his old man Zhang Tiangui is now the general consultant of Haihan Shipyard, and six of the existing shipwrights in the shipyard are his apprentices and grandchildren, and even Yue Zhiyun and Sun Changmi, the big leaders of the shipping department, have to greet respectfully when they see it, and their prestige among the naturalized people is also extremely high. In his early years when Zhang Qianzhi worked in the Guangzhou Guangzhou Office, he had a mentor-apprentice friendship with He Xi and Schneider, and even at high-level meetings within the Ministry of Security, he was qualified to attend as observers.

Lin Nan, a cadre who can take charge of himself in the local area, is actually not as senior as Zhang Qianzhi, so he can only continue to explain Zhang Qianzhi's questioning: "It's not that I don't check, but I have to think about how to check, so as not to cause extraneous branches." If you think about it, even Hassan, a foreigner, who went to Nanyang Pavilion has been remembered for so long, if we go to investigate, it is hard to guarantee that we will not be noticed by someone who cares. ”

Zhang Qianzhi pondered for a moment, and then said: "It's not convenient to investigate publicly, so we'll check it privately." That shopkeeper must be living in Victory Harbor, right? Why don't we visit us today? ”

Su Tong was still in a pretty good mood when he closed the shop and went home today, and the few gems that the Persian merchant gave him to consign a few days ago were finally sold to a wealthy merchant at a good price today. However, it was not the sale of the gems that made him happiest, but that all the money would go to him, and he would not only get a commission for the transaction as he had done in the past. Because he already knew that the owner of the goods would not come to collect the money for the consignment of goods again.

Su Tong felt that he had been very lucky recently, he learned that Hassan's death was a complete accident, two days ago when he went to the Haihan Bank in Fort Victory to handle the deposit business, he happened to hear the two people in front of him chatting, and one of them was the person in charge of the on-site autopsy after Hassan's drowning. Listening to the description of the deceased's appearance, Su Tong was sure that it was Hassan, but he did not reveal the real cause of Hassan's death in the chat, otherwise Su Tong might not dare to receive the money into his pocket so comfortably.

However, two days ago, Su Tong saw that there was an official reward notice looking for a missing Persian man, and the appearance described was seven or eight points similar to Hassan's, which also made him muttered a little in his heart -- Could it be that this Persian is not good, as long as he comes to Sanya, he will be killed? But he did not directly link this incident with Hassan's drowning, after all, the police had completed the examination of Hassan's body a few days ago, and it was impossible to issue this investigation notice now, and the object of the reward must be another unlucky Persian.

Hassan died, Su Tong accepted the money with peace of mind, anyway, the consignment matter is known to the two of them, as long as Su Tong himself does not say it, no one else will know where the money goes. This amount of money is not a huge amount of money, but it is almost equivalent to his salary for another two or three years in the shopkeeper's position.

Su Tong's current place of residence is still a rented house near the Shengli Port District, although it is also a separate courtyard, but it is not his own industry after all, so he has been thinking about pooling money to buy a small yard locally. Now that the money is in hand, this wish should be able to come true in advance. However, Su Tong will definitely not buy a house in this place now, this is located at the foot of the mountain, belongs to the edge of Shengli Port, this area is full of port and shipyard staff living area, although the living environment and supporting facilities are not bad, but Su Tong feels that with the nature of his work, it is better to find a way to live in the rich area of Sanya Port.

This is not just a matter of vanity, it can change to a more advanced life circle, which can play a significant role in Sutong's daily business, making friends and maintaining more high-level customers. These rich and noble people often have a lot of idle good goods in their hands, and Su Tong's plan is to let these good things circulate in the market - of course, this circulation channel is the Nanyang Pavilion that he is responsible for running, and the huge commissions he can earn from this position are the gray income he can get from this position.

The more Su Tong thought about it, the more he felt comfortable in his heart, and he couldn't help humming a little song, but unfortunately he couldn't say that he was so happy that he couldn't say that he was known to anyone, there was only one old servant in his family, and his ears were almost deaf, and he basically couldn't communicate.

Su Tong pushed the door and entered the hospital, and saw that the room was dark and there was no light, and he said in his heart that this old guy had slept very early, and he had rested first before the master came back. Su Tong scolded and turned around to close the courtyard door, and suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head, and he lost consciousness in a flash.

"This is the place, don't get the wrong way again!" Zhang Qianzhi grumbled breathlessly.

"You can't blame me, the street signs and door numbers in this place are all messy, and it's naturally troublesome to find!" Fu Li's face was as black as the bottom of the pot, but fortunately, it was already dark at this time, and they all used the lanterns in their hands to light the way, but no one noticed his face.

The area was originally a camp for logging teams, and later the carpentry workshop demolished temporary board houses and scattered a few brick houses as dormitories. Later, the shipyard and the Shengli Port Authority each built a staff residence in several batches, but there was no unified municipal plan. While the resident population is increasing, the corresponding planning and management have not been able to keep up with the pace of development, and the house numbers here are all arranged according to the time of completion rather than geographical location, and the number one next to it may be more than seventy, which has brought a lot of trouble to the task force personnel who came to visit here.

Although Fu Li is working in the police department, he really doesn't know much about the situation in this area, and at first he volunteered to lead the way, but he didn't expect to go around and walk around a few times before he found the right place.

"I found the right one this time. Lin Nan held the lantern high and illuminated the house number at the entrance of this courtyard: "No. 7 Nanmu Village, this is it." ”

Lin Nan stretched out his hand and pushed the courtyard door, and the door actually opened with a creak. The three of them were waiting in, and Lin Nan had already noticed something strange on the ground: "There is a person lying down!"

The village chief and the militia captain, as well as the only medicine doctor in the village who knew a little bit of medicine, rushed to the courtyard almost at the same time after receiving the notice, but their arrival was no longer enough to save Su Tong's life. In fact, when Lin Nan and the others found Su Tong, he was already out of breath.

Zhang Qianzhi and Fu Li quickly searched the courtyard and outside after discovering the body, and they did not find any suspicious people except for an old servant in the house who had slept unconscious. But looking at the deaf and dazzling appearance of this old slave, he couldn't even stand steadily, and it was obviously unlikely that he was the murderer. Although the residual warmth of the corpse informed them that the killer might not have fled far, their severe unfamiliarity with the nearby terrain made it impossible for them to trace the murderer's escape route.

"One step slower!" Lin Nan sighed: "It seems that this shopkeeper Su is really a person who knows the inside story." ”

"If I hadn't led the wrong way, maybe I would have been able to block the murderer!" Fu Li regretted it extremely at this time, he had known that he would make such a low-level mistake, and he should have found the village cadres to lead the way from the beginning, instead of rushing to the village recklessly. Now that this line is broken, the next detection work will be much more difficult.

Zhang Qianzhi kept his calm, first called the village chief and the militia captain to the side, and asked if there were any suspicious unidentified people in the village in the past two days, and Su Tong's usual social connections. But the results were obviously not optimistic, the village chief and the militia captain did not provide any valuable information, and their knowledge of Su Tong was limited to the Nanyang Pavilion where he worked.

Taking advantage of the work of leading people to collect the corpses, the three backbone members of the task force got together for a short meeting.

"It seems that we have put up a reward notice to startle the snake!" Lin Nan analyzed: "Someone came to expose that Hassan met Su Tong before his death, and Su Tong died, so there should be some connection between these two murders." ”

"This time, the killer didn't try to disguise the body as an accident anymore. Zhang Qianzhi said coldly: "If a person falls on his back and falls into the back of his head and dies, I think it is unlikely that he will turn over and let the wound face up so that we can find it." ”

Su Tong's dead posture was very stretched, lying on the ground showing a wild "big" character, and there was a very obvious fatal blow to the back of his head, but the murder weapon has not been found yet, and it is possible that the murderer took him away from the scene of the crime. But compared to Hassan's disguised death scene, Sutong's death appears very violent and direct, and the styles of the two murders are indeed very different.

"It may be different murderers, but it is also possible that the murderers deliberately made two different styles to mislead our thinking. Fu Li had also calmed down at this time and began to use his case-handling experience to make speculations, but he was not optimistic about the direction of the case investigation: "No matter which possibility it is, our next thing is not very easy!"

Zhang Qianzhi said: "Maybe we should think about it first, where did the murderer get the news from, and came to kill Su Tong before us." What Brother Lin said just now is that I don't think so. If Sutong's death is related to Hassan, then it is likely that the reason for his killing was to know who the murderer in Hassan's case was. Of course, it is also possible that this incident has nothing to do with Hassan's case, but if it is an independent incident, then this point in time is too coincidental. ”

"I don't believe in such coincidences. Fu Li shook his head and said, "This is not a coincidence, this is a murder with accurate calculations! The purpose is to kill Su Tong and let him die with all the secrets." (To be continued.) )