"Li Qingyang, did you understand what I just read out?" Hao Wanqing asked in a deep voice.

Although Li Qingyang only understood three or four out of ten, and more than half of the content was not very clear, his strong desire to regain his freedom had firmly controlled his feelings at this time, and when he heard this, he immediately nodded automatically: "Clear, clear, subordinates should follow Director Hao's arrangement." ”

Hao Wanqing was also quite satisfied with Li Qingyang's attitude, nodded and said, "You come with me, there are still some specific things to explain to you." ”

The security department's detention area, located in the deepest part of this small valley, has fewer than 20 cells, but it has been painstakingly surrounded by a two-foot high wall of logs around it, enclosing both the cells and the interrogation rooms for the interrogators. Since Li Qingyang was escorted to Sanya, he has been detained in this small space, and only has a very short time to stay outdoors during each arraignment, that is, the short distance of twenty or thirty meters between the cell and the interrogation room.

Finally got rid of the shackles on his body and walked out of the cell, once again breathing the air of freedom, at this time Li Qingyang's mood was undoubtedly the most relaxed moment in recent times. Of course, it would be better if there was no Hao Wanqing in front of him, although Li Qingyang was confident that his force was worth better than this Haihan man who spoke with a little Shandong accent, but he knew that if he dared to make a mistake here, I am afraid that there would be no more chance to get out. Now that he has regained his freedom, Li Qingyang knows that he will at least have a chance to leave Sanya alive in the future, despite many restrictions.

The gate of the detention area was a suspended gate, and the guards on duty on the gatehouse pushed the winch to slowly raise the heavy iron gate, and Li Qingyang followed behind Hao Wanqing and walked briskly out of the courtyard surrounded by high walls. After walking out of this place, Li Qingyang finally believed that his expectations for the past few days had finally become a reality, and an unknown new life was waiting for him ahead.

Li Qingyang was hooded before getting off the ship when he came, and he never left the detention area again, and at this time, Li Qingyang finally saw that the place where he was was was really in a valley, and there was a dusty building not far ahead, Hao Wanqing stretched out his hand and pointed there: "That is the Haihan Security Department." ”

"Li Qingyang, your original mission was to come to Sanya to lurk, in order to allow you to continue to perform the mission as a Jinyi guard, so we still arranged for you to work in a merchant house according to the situation you explained during the interrogation. After entering the office, Hao Wanqing concisely explained to Li Qingyang the next arrangement for him.

This arrangement was not too unexpected by Li Qingyang, since that day when Yan Chujie mentioned that he should continue to keep the identity of Jinyiwei and continue to carry out the original hidden mission, Li Qingyang thought that the Haihan people would definitely arrange an identity for himself in advance that was not so noticeable, but was under the control of the Haihan intelligence agency. In this way, Li Qingyang could stay in Sanya reasonably, and at the same time, he could also be prepared to continue to accept the follow-up instructions of the Nanjing Zhenfu Division.

"This is your temporary identity card, your scope of activities is limited to the Shengli Port Business District at this stage, and you can't leave the activity area designated for you at will without my permission, understand?" Hao Wanqing said as he put an identity card in front of Li Qingyang.

Although Li Qingyang didn't know how big the so-called range of activities that the other party had delineated for him, no matter how bad it was, it would definitely be better than being detained in that cramped and dark cell, so he responded without hesitation.

"What you need to do, we will send someone to inform you to do it, what you are not asked to do, you better not do much, do you understand what I mean?" Hao Wan counted Li Qingyang.

"My subordinates understand, please rest assured Director Hao. Li Qingyang is also a person from the yamen, so he naturally knows what Hao Wanqing refers to. Even if he had other thoughts now, he would never take the risk of doing it at this time.

"From today onwards, come back here every seven days to report for duty, and for other things, someone will tell you what to do. Speaking of this, Hao Wanqing shook the bell on the table, and his subordinates in the outer room immediately came in to listen to his orders.

"Take him to Lin Nan and let Lin Nan take over his affairs. After Hao Wanqing finished speaking, he said to Li Qingyang: "Okay, now you can go out." ”

Li Qingyang clenched his fists, and then followed the staff member out of Hao Wanqing's office.

Lin Nan, who was in charge of taking over this matter, was subordinate to the field department of the Ministry of Security, and had previously participated in the search for foreign ships and the capture of Jinyiwei's secret agents in the Sanya port area. Of course, because Li Qingyang and his entourage were targeted by the Ministry of Security and entrapped, the arrest work in Sanya was ultimately in vain.

As a member of the Ministry of Security, Lin Nan was naturally very clear about the arrest process of Li Qingyang and others, so when he saw Li Qingyang, the expression on his face was inevitably a little strange. Not enough Li Qingyang himself has no trouble, and after seeing Lin Nan, he also clenched his fists, and said: "Brother Laurin takes care of it!"

Lin Nan said with a smile: "In the future, everyone will be colleagues, and Brother Li doesn't have to be polite." Brother Li has just arrived and is not familiar with the local situation, so in the past two days, I will introduce the local customs and customs to Brother Li, and there are many places that need special attention. Brother Li, please!"

The two of them left the security department together, changed into the black carriage exclusive to the security department at the outer gate, and drove all the way to the outside of Victory Castle. After getting out of the car, Li Qingyang, like all outsiders who witnessed the true appearance of Victory Fort for the first time, was instantly shocked by this strange and majestic castle.

Lin Nan was no longer surprised by this, and introduced to Li Qingyang: "This is Shengli Fort, the power center of Haihan, and the chiefs usually handle official business here. ”

Li Qingyang's ears were stiff, but in his heart, he was already silently estimating the fortification of this castle and the difficulty of attacking. Although this fortress wall is far less than the tall Nanjing city wall, the cannon ports of the row of black holes at the head of the wall are very conspicuous. Li Qingyang slipped over at a glance and found that there were more than ten artillery positions on this section of the fort wall as far as his eye could see, and this kind of firepower intensity was almost impossible to see in the state city of Daming. I have long heard that Haihan is rich in firearms, and it is true that this posture is not famous. And this fortress wall is concave and convex, not as straight as the city wall in Li Qingyang's consciousness, but this is obviously a specially built shape, so he can't figure out what the function of this strange defensive wall is for a while.

Lin Nan saw that Li Qingyang stood still as if his legs were rooted as if he got out of the car, and immediately said: "You can't go in and out of this place casually, and if you have the opportunity in the future, Brother Li will naturally be able to go inside to see what is going on." ”

Li Qingyang really wanted to go into this Victory Fort to see the situation inside, and see what kind of environment these Haihan people had planned such a new society that was completely different from the Ming Dynasty. However, he also knew that his current identity was still relatively sensitive, and the Haihan people would not allow him to enter and visit as long as he was not crazy, so for Lin Nan's persuasion, Li Qingyang also nodded indifferently and said: "When I see this fortress below, it is indeed a majestic thing, and I am a little distracted." ”

Lin Nanying said: "If you stay here for a long time, you will slowly find that there are many magical things here. Every day, a large number of new arrivals stand on the docks and lose their minds, and this reaction is normal for newcomers. ”

Li Qingyang didn't believe this, although this Sanya has a good reputation, and it must be better than an ordinary small southern port, how can there be so many things that make people lose their minds? Could it be that even the wharf is paved with huge Haihan mirrors?

While talking, the two have come to the main gate of Shengli Fort facing south, and facing this gate is the Victory Square covering an area of nearly 20 acres and the landscape avenue leading directly to the port area, and the left and right sides of the landscape avenue are the earliest local development of the Shengli Port business district.

The architectural style here is indeed very novel to Li Qingyang, first of all, this two-foot wide avenue, lined with neat street trees, drainage culverts and pedestrian passages. On the middle avenue, there are mainly all kinds of vehicles pulling people and goods, coming and going, and they seem to be very orderly. Judging from the number of vehicles passing on the road alone, Li Qingyang believes that the prosperity here is no less than that of the Pearl River Wharf outside Guangzhou. And in addition to all kinds of commonplace carriages and ox carts, Li Qingyang also saw someone riding a kind of small cart with two wheels parallel to the front and back speeding on the road, just like juggling.

Li Qingyang noticed that the road surface of this avenue was not paved with loess or stones, but a blackened material, and the whole avenue looked very smooth, and there was no dusty scene of vehicles passing by. On the road, there are some people carrying bamboo baskets, constantly cleaning up all kinds of garbage and dirt on the road.

Most of the buildings on both sides of the road are mainly brick and stone, mostly three- to five-storey structure, half of the storefronts are restaurants and hotels, and only a very small proportion of the commercial shops are there, which is a certain gap with Li Qingyang's expectations before he came here. He originally thought that since Sanya was known as the first commercial port in Qiongzhou, the streets must be lined with shops selling and selling all kinds of groceries from the north and south, but he never thought that the catering business here would be so prosperous.

In fact, at the beginning of the Shengli Port Business District, there were indeed few places to eat, so the Li family invested money to open a restaurant here, which was also specially for Haihan people and naturalized cadres. However, with the increasing prosperity of the local area, the habit of Haihan people like to talk about business and solicit favors at the dinner table has gradually spread, so that the merchants who enter here later often take investing in opening restaurants as the first choice to gain a foothold in the local area. So today, there are more than 30 restaurants of various cuisines on both sides of this landscape avenue that is only more than a mile long, and some people in Haihan have even nicknamed this landscape avenue "Victory Food Street" for a long time.

The two walked along the avenue for a while, and Lin Nan took him into a side road. Most of the foreign merchants set up in the local business inn, because of the cost, they are not located in the area adjacent to the scenic avenue, but in such a branch road. For example, Lin Nan took Li Qingyang into this "Landscape Avenue Jiasan Road", which is full of various shops, warehouses and commercial inns set up by Lingnan merchants here.

Lin Nan drove into a shop with the words "Fu Ji Pharmacy" hanging on it, Li Qingyang thought that this was probably the place where he stayed, and hurriedly followed in.

"Steward He, long time no see, has it always been good?" After Lin Nan entered, he shouted to an old man sitting on a leisurely chair behind the counter.

As soon as the old man saw Lin Nan, he immediately got up and greeted him: "Master Lin, I haven't seen you for a long time! Thanks to the blessings of the chiefs, my body has been in good condition recently!"

This pharmacy manager, who is familiar with Lin Nan, is actually an old acquaintance of Haihan. When Li Nai, the third young master of "Fu Ruifeng", visited Shengli Port for the first time, he was accompanied by this He Qianghe steward. After the establishment of the "Golden Shield Escort", Li Nai was transferred back to Guangzhou by Li Jifeng, and there were fewer times when he came to Sanya, but the interests of the Li family in Sanya must be a weighty manager to be stationed as a guarantee, so He Qiang, who was over the age of six, took the initiative to apply for this task, and the right was to come to Sanya for the elderly.

The Li family invested in many types of businesses in the area under the rule of Haihan, and medicinal materials were also one of them. Although there were a large number of finished Western medicines in the materials purchased at the beginning of the crossing, these drugs all had the problem of shelf life, and the two doctors with the highest level of medicine in the group were both Western doctors. Therefore, from the very beginning, the Executive Committee began to lay out the medical development direction of the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and gradually transitioned to traditional Chinese medicine, and medicinal materials are naturally an indispensable and important resource.

"Fu Ji Pharmacy" is also one of the many industries invested by "Fu Ruifeng" in Sanya, because the main supply object of this shop is the Haihan people, relatively speaking, the business is relatively stable, and there is no time when it is too busy, so He Qiang chose this shop to sit down, and he can also enjoy a leisurely time.

When the Ministry of Security was considering what kind of shop to arrange Li Qingyang to, it first thought of the Li family's many local industries. As a loyal partner who has cooperated with Haihan the most and has always obeyed Haihan's various instructions, the Li family's credibility is undoubtedly the highest, and arranging Li Qingyang into the Li family's industry can not only monitor his behavior for a long time without leaving a trace, but also imperceptibly influence Li Qingyang's thoughts through his daily operations. Another factor to consider is that Li Qingyang should not have too much contact with the outside world, and a single business like "Fu Ji Pharmacy" is obviously very suitable.