Hao Wanqing, now 28 years old, a native of Shandong, was a private investigation company before the crossing, which is the so-called private detective. However, before doing this business, he also graduated from the regular police academy and worked in the grassroots police station for several years, which can be regarded as a professional background, and later felt that it was not a way to eat on salary, so he chose to go to the sea and work alone.

Unlike common fiction movies, domestic private detectives do not have many criminal cases to participate in, and more often accept some civil investigations, such as property, marriage, financial status, search for people, and so on. Although these investigations have a lot of oil and water, they will inevitably be a little boring after a long time, Hao Wanqing is a person who can't be idle, otherwise he wouldn't have put down his iron rice bowl and come out on his own. By chance, he learned about the crossing group, so he decisively terminated his career and went to Guangzhou to join the gang.

At the beginning, Hao Wanqing was assigned to the name of the Military Police Department, but he was also a person who had spent a few days in the regular police force, and he was one of the few experienced people in the crossing group. He didn't think about entering a special department at the beginning, he was completely named and pulled in by the Executive Committee and He Xi, of course, the main thing is that He Xi plays a big role.

He Xi, the intelligence chief appointed by the executive committee, has been stationed abroad for a long time, and his main job is the relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and he does not have enough energy to operate the internal structure of the intelligence system, and someone else must shoulder this responsibility. There are not many candidates who can be qualified for this kind of special work through the interior, and Hao Wanqing is undoubtedly the best among them, so He Xi appointed his general and appointed him as the deputy of the intelligence department.

However, at this time, the military and police were not separated, and the external intelligence work was also concentrated in the direction of the mainland, so what Hao Wanqing could basically do was to first straighten out the internal relations, set up the prototype of the intelligence department, and start to select some candidates for training in this time and space according to He Xi's requirements. This kind of work can be described as obscure, so in the first year of the crossing, very few people have heard of Hao Wanqing's name, and even within the crossing group, there are many people who do not know which department this Shandong person surnamed Hao is in.

This situation lasted until the first anniversary, when the various departments began to make large-scale adjustments, and the intelligence and security departments were also separated from the military and police system and officially existed as an independent department, which meant that the authority of this department would no longer be just the level of the subordinate organs of the military police department, but would rise to the level of the executive committee's vertical management unit. The Ministry of Security is only responsible to the Executive Committee, and even the funds for its operation are listed separately and are not included in military expenses or ordinary security expenses.

The first preferential treatment for the Ministry of Security was the independent office location. Considering the special functions of this department, He Xi and Hao Wanqing made a joint report, requesting the construction of office space outside Shengli Fort, and the Executive Committee readily approved this request, and built a two-story tube building as the office space of the Ministry of Security in a mountain col about two kilometers north of Shengli Fort as soon as possible, and also allocated hundreds of acres of nearby mountains and forests to the Ministry of Security to leave room for future expansion.

In terms of personnel needs, the executive committee also gave the green light, as long as the Ministry of Security looks at people, almost all of them can quickly get the work assignment issued. Most of them are selected from the militia groups, after all, these people are relatively loyal, and almost all of them have family members settled in the Sanya area, so it is less likely that there will be a change in political attitudes.

In addition, due to the nature of the work of the intelligence department, a large number of literate personnel are required to engage in the internal intelligence collation related work, so some of the down-and-out literati who have taken refuge in Haihan have also been recruited into this special department. However, for these literati who came to Haihan for a stable life, it was actually a good thing to be able to enter the yamen of the Ministry of Security, not only could they quickly get the nationality of naturalized people, but the salary of this job was also higher than that of their clerical work in other units.

After nearly half a year of preparation and improvement, the Ministry of Security has finally completed the basic structure construction. At present, the Ministry of Security has a number of departments, such as the Technical Department, the Special Service Office, the Training Department, the Internal Affairs Department, the Counterintelligence Department, the Daming Affairs Office, the Annan Affairs Office, and the Nanyang Affairs Office; although Hao Wanqing claims to be the director of the Nanyang Affairs Office, he also holds the positions of the Internal Affairs Department, the Special Service Department, and other departments, which is also a matter of no choice; He Xi is still presiding over the intelligence work facing the mainland in Guangzhou, and many things in the base camp must still be in charge of Hao Wanqing.

Of course, if he personally came forward to invite Zhan Gui back, the matter to be discussed was naturally not a trivial matter. In his self-introduction, he specially explained the title of "Nanyang Office", and he also gave Zhan Gui a preventive shot first.

As soon as Zhan Gui heard that the other party actually used the word "help", he quickly left the chair and bowed down and responded: "Director Hao, if you have any orders, you might as well say it directly, if the villain is within his ability, he will not refuse." ”

Hao Wanqing nodded and said, "Since you have such a positive attitude, then I'll say it directly." According to what we have learned, Boss Zhan, you should be familiar with all the ports in Nanyang, right?"

Zhan Gui hurriedly responded: "I don't know what the scope of Director Hao said?"

"For example, the coastal commercial ports of Manraka, Batavia, Borneo, etc. Hao Wanqing clearly pointed out the scope of the target.

Zhan Gui swallowed a mouthful of saliva and responded honestly: "The villains have indeed been to these places that Director Hao said. However, these places are all ruled by Westerners, and the villain has no influence in the local area. ”

"You don't need to have much influence in the area, as long as you trade with the merchants of that area. Hao Wanqing said in a deep voice: "We plan to send some people to these ports in the South Seas for permanent residence, but we need a reasonable identity that will not attract too much attention from the local rulers." Come to think of it, it should be the most suitable merchant engaged in maritime trade, what do you think, Boss Zhan?"

"Villain...... There is no objection. Zhan Gui naturally didn't dare to say anything like "you guys play, I'll go first" to refuse Hao Wanqing's arrangement, almost half of the goods he was now trafficking to Nanyang were from Sanya, and he didn't want to offend Hao Wanqing and negatively affect his share of trade in this region.

Hao Wanqing looked at Zhan Gui and nodded slowly, as if it was an affirmation of his attitude. I heard Hao Wanqing say again: "I will send about a dozen people to your ship when I go back, their identities are all Ming people, the next time you send a ship to trade in the South Seas, let them be stationed in the local area in the name of opening a merchant inn." As for the follow-up, someone will tell you what to do. ”

Zhan Gui can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, and as soon as he heard it, he already understood that the Haihan people were going to bury nails in the territory of the Western Fanren! As for why the Haihan people did this, Zhan Gui did not need to ask Hao Wanqing at all to think that with the current development momentum of the Haihan people, it would be almost inevitable to expand the Zhan area to the South China Sea in the future. These places in Batavia are important points of the shipping routes, and with the temperament of the Haihan people, I am afraid that these places must be held in their own hands to be assured, just as they have taken those measures at the mouth of the Pearl River.

Zhan Gui knew that if he should come down now, if an armed conflict broke out in these places in the future, most of his ships would bear the brunt of bad luck, and if the Haihan people won the war, it would be fine, if they failed to win the war, then he Zhan Gui would no longer have to worry about trading in these places in the future. However, he also knew very well that Hao Wanqing had specially invited him from Sanya Port to come here for talks, not just to ask for his opinion, but more about the fact that he was just to inform him of the Ministry of Security's arrangement on such an occasion. In other words, this arrangement probably cannot be rejected by him.

Zhan Gui didn't intend to try to refuse the other party, because the consequences of doing so were really unpredictable, and it was better not to try casually at this risk. He thought for a moment before responding: "If Director Hao already has a perfect plan, the villain is willing to cooperate." ”

Hao Wanqing praised: "Very good, then there will be some questions that you need to answer next, cooperate with us to do some investigation work, and it will not delay you for too long." ”

"Well said, well said. Zhan Gui hurriedly replied politely.

Hao Wanqing called his subordinates in, invited Zhan Gui to another room, and began to write down notes while questioning him. The questions are basically based on the situation of various commercial ports in Nanyang, such as the local environment, price level, civil atmosphere, armed forces, etc., and the questions are very detailed, often there are at least twenty or thirty questions under a project that need to be answered by Zhan Gui. Zhan Gui knew that this matter was related to his wealth and safety in the future, and he didn't dare to prevaricate at will, so he could only think clearly one by one before answering.

Zhan Gui didn't know how many questions he answered, but when he felt a little hungry, someone brought him lunch and told him that he had half an hour to eat and rest.

This working meal is very rich, there are chickens and fish, four dishes and one soup, and the taste is good, Zhan Gui has been in Sanya for a long time, and at first sight, he knows that this is a special meal for the head of the collective canteen, and ordinary naturalized people want to eat this kind of set meal, but they have to spend several yuan on circulation coupons. When Zhan Gui was eating, Hao Wanqing also came, but he didn't stay long, just looked through the inquiry records, exchanged a few words with Zhan Gui, and left in a hurry.

After a short break, the questioning continued, and the two staff members took the trouble to ask Zhan Gui about any information he knew about the various commercial ports in Nanyang, and then Zhan Gui spoke a little incoherently.

It wasn't until the sky had begun to get dark that the inquiry finally ended, and Zhan Gui, who had been sitting for most of the day, stood up and found that he was actually sore all over, thinking that it should be caused by being too nervous. At this time, Hao Wanqing appeared again, thanked Zhan Gui for his cooperation, and sent a car to send him back to Sanya New Town the same way.

The efficiency of the Ministry of Security was very high, and more than 10 people really came to Zhan Gui's ship the next day, and the people who led the team showed Zhan Gui the documents of the Ministry of Security, as well as another thing that surprised Zhan Gui, and the deposit payment notice of the shipyard of the Ministry of Shipping, which stated that "the merchant Zhan Gui has applied for the purchase of a ship through Guò, please pay the deposit for the purchase of the ship at the Haihan Bank within three days, and go to the Shengli Port Shipyard with the payment voucher and this notice to go through the purchase procedures."

This unexpected surprise undoubtedly brought great comfort to Zhan Gui, who had been worried since yesterday. He hadn't even had time to go to the authorities required by the other shipyards to issue a certificate, and the notice of purchase was sent, and it was clear that only the people from the Haihan Security Department could do it. Because yesterday Hao Wanqing had already clearly hinted at him, as long as he agreed to give enough assistance to the Ministry of Security, then the matter of purchasing the ship would be easy to say, of course, if he rejected Hao Wanqing's request at that time, then it is really difficult to say in which direction the purchase of the ship will develop.

Although assisting the Haihan Security Department to engage in intelligence activities in the commercial port of Nanyang was a bit risky for Zhan Gui, there was no doubt that the rewards of this adventure were also very high, and without doing anything, the Haihan people had already approved his application for the purchase of ships, and it was not difficult to imagine that if the relevant things went more smoothly, then he would definitely be able to gain more trust from the Haihan people, as well as more practical benefits.

In order to be able to handle this matter properly, Zhan Gui decided that he had to personally lead the fleet on a trip this time. In addition, there are a lot of customs and precautions in the Nanyang region, and he has to communicate well with these people from the Ministry of Security first, otherwise if these people show their feet in a few days after they go, then it will not only be them who will be unlucky, but the business reputation that the Zhan family shipping company has established in various commercial ports in Nanyang will also be greatly damaged, and this kind of thing is not something that can be measured with a little silver.

Zhan Gui spent three days with these people, trying to tell them everything he had seen and heard in Nanyang, if it weren't for the urgency of the Ministry of Security, Zhan Gui felt that he would have to say another three days at least. But fortunately, it will take some time to start from Sanya to various ports in Nanyang, and you can leave it to the road to talk about it slowly.

"Let's go back! I'll be back in two months!" Zhan Gui shouted as he stood at the bow of the boat, waving to his family on the dock.

Although he may have been a little reluctant at first, Zhan Gui finally decided to cooperate with the Haihan intelligence department and start to set up a large intelligence network for them in the Nanyang region to prepare for future expansion.