Chapter 1391
The Truth Is So Simple
Chapter 1391 The Truth Is So Simple
"Take people from the immigration camp to help Brother Liu?" Ma Bo looked at the approval letter that Liu Shang handed over, with obvious doubts on his face.He already understood the content of these batches of documents and Zeng Xiaowen's signature at the end, but he didn't understand why Liu Shang was so active in looking for work when he came to Majiazhuang.It is said that this is an official from the capital of Haihan. It is reasonable to say that when a Beijing official arrives at the local area, he should order others to do things. Why does this man not take the usual way, but he intends to do everything by himself.
"I'm planning to repaint the slogan outside Majiazhuang. It's too slow for one person to do this job, so I plan to recruit some people from the immigration camp to help carry the ladder and tools to do the physical work." Liu Shang explained with a normal expression road.He knew very well that Ma Bo had no reason to refuse his reasonable request. The people in the immigration camp were free labor for Hai Han, not to mention the approval from his superiors.Of course, the reason why he found such an errand was to avoid making Ma Bo wary as much as possible, so he had already thought about how to persuade the other party to accept it.
Although Ma Bo did not refuse, he proposed another plan: "The people in this immigrant camp are all very stupid, and I am afraid that they will not be able to help. If Brother Liu needs manpower, let me send a few clever long-term workers to provide assistance." How are you dispatched?"
Liu Shang smiled and rejected his proposal: "Thank you, Brother Ma, for your kindness, but those long-term workers under your command will also be in charge of the immigration camp, so it's inconvenient to take them away. I think it's better to choose a few from the camp at random." Young and strong young people are good, anyway, this task is simple, and it doesn't need to be very clever and capable."
Seeing that Ma Bo still insisted, Liu Shang quickly seized the opportunity to add another sentence: "This is also what Secretary Zeng meant."
Ma Bo's eyes flickered slightly, and he changed his words: "Since Secretary Zeng has also sent a message, then we should do as Brother Liu wants."
Liu Shangxin said that the confidants around this big man are indeed a little powerful, and they can calm Ma Bo, a local snake, if they move out.He was also not worried that Mabo would go to Zeng Xiaowen to confirm the matter, because he had already noticed that the positions of the two people most likely belonged to different factions.
After convincing Ma Bo, Liu Shang went to the immigrant camp to count a few people, among them were the ones he had specially noted down when Ma Bo called the roll.Although Ma Bo was a little surprised by the list of personnel selected by Liu Shang, he did not stop him from taking these people out of the immigration camp in the end.But after Liu Shang left with his people, Ma Bo also hurriedly left the immigration camp and went home.
Although Liu Shang said that he was looking for an errand as a cover, since everyone is about to get it, this matter must be done, otherwise it will easily make Ma Bo and Zeng Xiaowen suspicious.He took people to the material warehouse converted from a row of abandoned brick kilns outside Majiazhuang, got paint and other tools, and then went to the village to start working.
Regarding how to write propaganda slogans on building walls, Liu Shang also received relevant skill training during his time in the Propaganda Department. His calligraphy level is still far behind that of Zeng Xiaowen, a scholar who has achieved fame. I have never actually done this kind of work of writing slogans.However, he saw that the mottled slogans on the wall seemed to be not much higher than his own level, so he chose such an errand to achieve his goal.Anyway, he is now a full-time publicity official in charge of these affairs in Majiazhuang, and there is no other comparable slogan production level, so there is no pressure to speak of.
Liu Shang selected a total of seven people from the immigration camp, five of whom were targets of his observations.Although these people looked very unfamiliar with each other, Liu Shang quickly realized that this strangeness was just a disguise based on his own experience.Although a few people did not communicate with each other verbally, they were obviously conveying some kind of information through their eyes. Liu Shang believed that this showed that they not only knew each other well, but also had a tacit understanding.Most importantly, he seemed to feel a long-lost but familiar atmosphere from these farmers from an immigrant camp in the countryside of Shandong.
Before entering Haihan, Liu Shang had been engaged in field missions in the Ming intelligence agency for many years, disguised as people of various identities and occupations, and faced all kinds of targets in various environments.Being able to roll in this industry for many years without capsizing, the stunt he relies on for a living is not high-strength personal force, but keen observation and extraordinary memory.
The cunning in the eyes of the few people he selected from the immigration camp in front of him is not the trait that rural farmers should have. Liu Shang can't help but think of the past when he was in a team with his colleagues, and he would often talk when he was inconvenient. Communicate with silent means such as eyes, mouth shapes, gestures, and movements.In order to transmit information smoothly in this way of communication, both parties receiving and sending the information must grasp the meaning represented by the standardized actions.
The intelligence agency of Ming Dynasty has two teams of factory and guard, each of which has a standardized password system, of course Liu Shang has also learned it.Although he hardly used these methods after entering Haihan, he remembered everything that should be remembered clearly, and he did not forget these basic skills with the passage of time.So when he realized that someone was communicating with others through a silent method he knew, a warning sign immediately appeared in his heart.
"I didn't expect to meet my peers after traveling thousands of miles to Shandong!" Liu Shang secretly sighed in his heart, but the expression on his face did not change at all.He has already thought about why Marbo is full of vigilance about his arrival. If he is the director of the immigration camp and there are Daming's spies hidden in the camp, he will probably be as sensitive as him.
However, under the current environment, Liu Shang knew very clearly that it was impossible to stage any drama of peer recognition. If he tried to expose the identity of the other party, the most likely situation would be that he would be immediately caught by these people. Dragging him into a corner and smothering him to death or simply breaking his neck, he would immediately try his best to kill anyone who knew his identity.Nothing to hate, this is just a professional requirement.
Although he also specially selected two other local refugees who are full of ten, but if something happens, he will not pin his hope of survival on such irrelevant people. The purpose of choosing these two outsiders is just to prevent Ma Bo Just too suspicious.So far, there is actually no evidence to prove that Ma Bo is related to these people, but Liu Shang believes that his intuition is not wrong. The person Ma Bo is trying to cover up is probably the Ming spy who was lurking in the immigration camp as a refugee. .
But this truth is not good news for Liu Shang, even though he clearly knows that these observation objects are most likely his colleagues.The real identities of these people have brought new troubles to Liu Shang. If he wants to take the risk to connect with these people, it is very likely that he will be directly silenced by the other party.Taking a [-]-step back, even if you can gain the trust of the other party, so what?Is it possible to provide Haihan's military and political information to these Daming spies?
No, Liu Shang can be sure that it will definitely not have any effect, because when he was training before leaving Daming, he deeply remembered a rule that he must never trust anyone who claims to be his own and provides information on his own initiative.Because the people who will do this are almost all the intelligence personnel who betrayed Daming and took refuge in Haihan. Their job is to act as barbs and trap the latecomers who entered Haihan. I don’t know how many people fell into this method. Such lessons learned.
Moreover, it is not an easy task to be caught between Da Ming and Hai Han as a double agent.Liu Shangke has personally witnessed how powerful the Haihan Security Department is and how terrifying the Daming Yamen is. He is willing to accept the arrangement and come to this distant Shandong. The idea of identity.
Although Liu Shang still maintains the curiosity and adventurous spirit of an intelligence officer in his bones, as he has been lurking in Haihan for longer, his way of thinking about problems has become more rational.As an official of Haihan, it seems to him a very unwise choice to take the risk of revealing his identity for the sake of the past that no one knows about.He is very clear that he just wants to dig out the truth, rather than let himself be buried with the truth. This is enough for the moment, and the next thing to consider is how to stop and get out, rather than continue to be trapped in it.
Of course, Liu Shang will not consider the option of exposing the other party for the time being.He couldn't explain how he discovered the other party's true identity. While reporting on the other party, he might involve himself in it.He naturally had to carefully avoid such unnecessary risks.
While drawing a line draft on the wall with a charcoal pencil, Liu Shang was thinking about what position Zeng Xiaowen gave him when he warned him.He didn't believe that the cronies around Chen Yixin were also Daming's spies. If Daming's intelligence work had progressed to this level, he would have been useless for a long time.
Based on this judgment, Liu Shang can basically be sure that Zeng Xiaowen and the people he confirmed are not in the same camp, but why did he secretly warn himself not to get too involved in the immigration camp?Could it be that Zeng Xiaowen already knew the inside story of the immigration camp, and for some reason wanted to control the situation, so he came forward to greet him?
Liu Shang didn't know that his guess was infinitely close to the truth, but since Zeng Xiaowen had expressed his opinion in front of his face, no matter what his reason was, Liu Shang felt that it was best not to deliberately go against his suggestion .
Liu Shang's mind was not fully focused on the work in front of him, so in half the afternoon, he hadn't even finished the line draft of the first slogan, and the progress was quite slow.When Ma Bo was about to finish work, he turned here to watch for a while, and then pretended to ask Liu Shang if he wanted to go home for dinner.At this time, Liu Shang naturally wanted to keep a distance from Ma Bo as much as possible, so he immediately said that he had to rush to work, and he just went to the cafeteria to settle dinner by himself.
After dismissing Ma Bo, Liu Shang procrastinated for a while, and as soon as he announced the end of work, Zeng Xiaowen also came.Liu Shangxin said that the two people might have deliberately staggered over, so they greeted Zeng Xiaowen very politely.Zeng Xiaowen asked about the personnel arrangement and work progress, but when Liu Shang said that these people were transferred from the immigration camp, his face changed a little and then returned to normal.
Liu Shang specially paid attention to Zeng Xiaowen's expression while talking. Although this change was subtle, it still fell into his eyes.Liu Shang became more and more sure that Zeng Xiaowen knew the situation in the immigration camp, but he would not break the window paper for self-protection.
The people transferred from the immigration camp would naturally have to go back after work. Liu Shang was not worried that these people would take the opportunity to escape. They hid in the immigration camp, of course, just to cover their identities, and they would not reveal their identities unless it was absolutely necessary.Moreover, it is also a rare opportunity for them to observe the operation of Majiazhuang in a legitimate way.
In the next few days, Liu Shang continued to work step by step. Except for the preaching activities every two days, the rest of the working time was basically leading the team to paint slogans outside Majiazhuang.It was almost a year ago that the Haihan army did this job last time, and this time a civilian official led the team, which also attracted some passers-by to watch.
The slogans used by the military here in the past are basically based on military themes, such as "resolutely annihilate all invading enemies", "recognize the situation clearly, stay vigilant, and fulfill our mission", "raise our military power, build Our military soul" type.However, as the situation changed, the Haihan occupied area faced less and less external military pressure, and immigration and trade gradually became the main theme in the occupied area. Slogans with a strong sense of iron and blood like this were no longer so suitable to appear in It's a populated area.
In the propaganda work that Liu Shang is in charge of, the transformation of outdoor slogans in the Shandong occupied area is also one of the contents.So he applied to organize this work in Majiazhuang not on a whim, but actually used it as a cover to achieve the purpose of detecting the insider of the immigration camp.
The first slogan completed by Liu Shang is very characteristic of Haihan - if you want to get rich, build roads first.This is also the first slogan Liu Shang learned after he was recruited into the Haihan Propaganda Department.
What is the significance of road construction? Liu Shang had a deep understanding during his stay in Haihan, especially the kind of railway dedicated to trains. Its high transportation efficiency made Liu Shang always amazed.Although this kind of railway is expensive and has high requirements on the terrain, it cannot be built everywhere, but the Haihan people have invested a lot of money to build a coastal road network extending in all directions on the island, connecting various cities and counties through wide and flat official roads. At the same time, it is extremely convenient to transfer people and goods between sea and land.
After arriving in Shandong, Liu Shang discovered that the transportation-first infrastructure approach was also implemented here, and a lot of manpower and material resources were invested in the construction of roads connecting key nodes such as Fushan Copper Mine, Majiazhuang, Zhifu Island, and Fushan County. , to connect the occupied area into one, and the military uses this to control the situation in this area.
(End of this chapter)
"Take people from the immigration camp to help Brother Liu?" Ma Bo looked at the approval letter that Liu Shang handed over, with obvious doubts on his face.He already understood the content of these batches of documents and Zeng Xiaowen's signature at the end, but he didn't understand why Liu Shang was so active in looking for work when he came to Majiazhuang.It is said that this is an official from the capital of Haihan. It is reasonable to say that when a Beijing official arrives at the local area, he should order others to do things. Why does this man not take the usual way, but he intends to do everything by himself.
"I'm planning to repaint the slogan outside Majiazhuang. It's too slow for one person to do this job, so I plan to recruit some people from the immigration camp to help carry the ladder and tools to do the physical work." Liu Shang explained with a normal expression road.He knew very well that Ma Bo had no reason to refuse his reasonable request. The people in the immigration camp were free labor for Hai Han, not to mention the approval from his superiors.Of course, the reason why he found such an errand was to avoid making Ma Bo wary as much as possible, so he had already thought about how to persuade the other party to accept it.
Although Ma Bo did not refuse, he proposed another plan: "The people in this immigrant camp are all very stupid, and I am afraid that they will not be able to help. If Brother Liu needs manpower, let me send a few clever long-term workers to provide assistance." How are you dispatched?"
Liu Shang smiled and rejected his proposal: "Thank you, Brother Ma, for your kindness, but those long-term workers under your command will also be in charge of the immigration camp, so it's inconvenient to take them away. I think it's better to choose a few from the camp at random." Young and strong young people are good, anyway, this task is simple, and it doesn't need to be very clever and capable."
Seeing that Ma Bo still insisted, Liu Shang quickly seized the opportunity to add another sentence: "This is also what Secretary Zeng meant."
Ma Bo's eyes flickered slightly, and he changed his words: "Since Secretary Zeng has also sent a message, then we should do as Brother Liu wants."
Liu Shangxin said that the confidants around this big man are indeed a little powerful, and they can calm Ma Bo, a local snake, if they move out.He was also not worried that Mabo would go to Zeng Xiaowen to confirm the matter, because he had already noticed that the positions of the two people most likely belonged to different factions.
After convincing Ma Bo, Liu Shang went to the immigrant camp to count a few people, among them were the ones he had specially noted down when Ma Bo called the roll.Although Ma Bo was a little surprised by the list of personnel selected by Liu Shang, he did not stop him from taking these people out of the immigration camp in the end.But after Liu Shang left with his people, Ma Bo also hurriedly left the immigration camp and went home.
Although Liu Shang said that he was looking for an errand as a cover, since everyone is about to get it, this matter must be done, otherwise it will easily make Ma Bo and Zeng Xiaowen suspicious.He took people to the material warehouse converted from a row of abandoned brick kilns outside Majiazhuang, got paint and other tools, and then went to the village to start working.
Regarding how to write propaganda slogans on building walls, Liu Shang also received relevant skill training during his time in the Propaganda Department. His calligraphy level is still far behind that of Zeng Xiaowen, a scholar who has achieved fame. I have never actually done this kind of work of writing slogans.However, he saw that the mottled slogans on the wall seemed to be not much higher than his own level, so he chose such an errand to achieve his goal.Anyway, he is now a full-time publicity official in charge of these affairs in Majiazhuang, and there is no other comparable slogan production level, so there is no pressure to speak of.
Liu Shang selected a total of seven people from the immigration camp, five of whom were targets of his observations.Although these people looked very unfamiliar with each other, Liu Shang quickly realized that this strangeness was just a disguise based on his own experience.Although a few people did not communicate with each other verbally, they were obviously conveying some kind of information through their eyes. Liu Shang believed that this showed that they not only knew each other well, but also had a tacit understanding.Most importantly, he seemed to feel a long-lost but familiar atmosphere from these farmers from an immigrant camp in the countryside of Shandong.
Before entering Haihan, Liu Shang had been engaged in field missions in the Ming intelligence agency for many years, disguised as people of various identities and occupations, and faced all kinds of targets in various environments.Being able to roll in this industry for many years without capsizing, the stunt he relies on for a living is not high-strength personal force, but keen observation and extraordinary memory.
The cunning in the eyes of the few people he selected from the immigration camp in front of him is not the trait that rural farmers should have. Liu Shang can't help but think of the past when he was in a team with his colleagues, and he would often talk when he was inconvenient. Communicate with silent means such as eyes, mouth shapes, gestures, and movements.In order to transmit information smoothly in this way of communication, both parties receiving and sending the information must grasp the meaning represented by the standardized actions.
The intelligence agency of Ming Dynasty has two teams of factory and guard, each of which has a standardized password system, of course Liu Shang has also learned it.Although he hardly used these methods after entering Haihan, he remembered everything that should be remembered clearly, and he did not forget these basic skills with the passage of time.So when he realized that someone was communicating with others through a silent method he knew, a warning sign immediately appeared in his heart.
"I didn't expect to meet my peers after traveling thousands of miles to Shandong!" Liu Shang secretly sighed in his heart, but the expression on his face did not change at all.He has already thought about why Marbo is full of vigilance about his arrival. If he is the director of the immigration camp and there are Daming's spies hidden in the camp, he will probably be as sensitive as him.
However, under the current environment, Liu Shang knew very clearly that it was impossible to stage any drama of peer recognition. If he tried to expose the identity of the other party, the most likely situation would be that he would be immediately caught by these people. Dragging him into a corner and smothering him to death or simply breaking his neck, he would immediately try his best to kill anyone who knew his identity.Nothing to hate, this is just a professional requirement.
Although he also specially selected two other local refugees who are full of ten, but if something happens, he will not pin his hope of survival on such irrelevant people. The purpose of choosing these two outsiders is just to prevent Ma Bo Just too suspicious.So far, there is actually no evidence to prove that Ma Bo is related to these people, but Liu Shang believes that his intuition is not wrong. The person Ma Bo is trying to cover up is probably the Ming spy who was lurking in the immigration camp as a refugee. .
But this truth is not good news for Liu Shang, even though he clearly knows that these observation objects are most likely his colleagues.The real identities of these people have brought new troubles to Liu Shang. If he wants to take the risk to connect with these people, it is very likely that he will be directly silenced by the other party.Taking a [-]-step back, even if you can gain the trust of the other party, so what?Is it possible to provide Haihan's military and political information to these Daming spies?
No, Liu Shang can be sure that it will definitely not have any effect, because when he was training before leaving Daming, he deeply remembered a rule that he must never trust anyone who claims to be his own and provides information on his own initiative.Because the people who will do this are almost all the intelligence personnel who betrayed Daming and took refuge in Haihan. Their job is to act as barbs and trap the latecomers who entered Haihan. I don’t know how many people fell into this method. Such lessons learned.
Moreover, it is not an easy task to be caught between Da Ming and Hai Han as a double agent.Liu Shangke has personally witnessed how powerful the Haihan Security Department is and how terrifying the Daming Yamen is. He is willing to accept the arrangement and come to this distant Shandong. The idea of identity.
Although Liu Shang still maintains the curiosity and adventurous spirit of an intelligence officer in his bones, as he has been lurking in Haihan for longer, his way of thinking about problems has become more rational.As an official of Haihan, it seems to him a very unwise choice to take the risk of revealing his identity for the sake of the past that no one knows about.He is very clear that he just wants to dig out the truth, rather than let himself be buried with the truth. This is enough for the moment, and the next thing to consider is how to stop and get out, rather than continue to be trapped in it.
Of course, Liu Shang will not consider the option of exposing the other party for the time being.He couldn't explain how he discovered the other party's true identity. While reporting on the other party, he might involve himself in it.He naturally had to carefully avoid such unnecessary risks.
While drawing a line draft on the wall with a charcoal pencil, Liu Shang was thinking about what position Zeng Xiaowen gave him when he warned him.He didn't believe that the cronies around Chen Yixin were also Daming's spies. If Daming's intelligence work had progressed to this level, he would have been useless for a long time.
Based on this judgment, Liu Shang can basically be sure that Zeng Xiaowen and the people he confirmed are not in the same camp, but why did he secretly warn himself not to get too involved in the immigration camp?Could it be that Zeng Xiaowen already knew the inside story of the immigration camp, and for some reason wanted to control the situation, so he came forward to greet him?
Liu Shang didn't know that his guess was infinitely close to the truth, but since Zeng Xiaowen had expressed his opinion in front of his face, no matter what his reason was, Liu Shang felt that it was best not to deliberately go against his suggestion .
Liu Shang's mind was not fully focused on the work in front of him, so in half the afternoon, he hadn't even finished the line draft of the first slogan, and the progress was quite slow.When Ma Bo was about to finish work, he turned here to watch for a while, and then pretended to ask Liu Shang if he wanted to go home for dinner.At this time, Liu Shang naturally wanted to keep a distance from Ma Bo as much as possible, so he immediately said that he had to rush to work, and he just went to the cafeteria to settle dinner by himself.
After dismissing Ma Bo, Liu Shang procrastinated for a while, and as soon as he announced the end of work, Zeng Xiaowen also came.Liu Shangxin said that the two people might have deliberately staggered over, so they greeted Zeng Xiaowen very politely.Zeng Xiaowen asked about the personnel arrangement and work progress, but when Liu Shang said that these people were transferred from the immigration camp, his face changed a little and then returned to normal.
Liu Shang specially paid attention to Zeng Xiaowen's expression while talking. Although this change was subtle, it still fell into his eyes.Liu Shang became more and more sure that Zeng Xiaowen knew the situation in the immigration camp, but he would not break the window paper for self-protection.
The people transferred from the immigration camp would naturally have to go back after work. Liu Shang was not worried that these people would take the opportunity to escape. They hid in the immigration camp, of course, just to cover their identities, and they would not reveal their identities unless it was absolutely necessary.Moreover, it is also a rare opportunity for them to observe the operation of Majiazhuang in a legitimate way.
In the next few days, Liu Shang continued to work step by step. Except for the preaching activities every two days, the rest of the working time was basically leading the team to paint slogans outside Majiazhuang.It was almost a year ago that the Haihan army did this job last time, and this time a civilian official led the team, which also attracted some passers-by to watch.
The slogans used by the military here in the past are basically based on military themes, such as "resolutely annihilate all invading enemies", "recognize the situation clearly, stay vigilant, and fulfill our mission", "raise our military power, build Our military soul" type.However, as the situation changed, the Haihan occupied area faced less and less external military pressure, and immigration and trade gradually became the main theme in the occupied area. Slogans with a strong sense of iron and blood like this were no longer so suitable to appear in It's a populated area.
In the propaganda work that Liu Shang is in charge of, the transformation of outdoor slogans in the Shandong occupied area is also one of the contents.So he applied to organize this work in Majiazhuang not on a whim, but actually used it as a cover to achieve the purpose of detecting the insider of the immigration camp.
The first slogan completed by Liu Shang is very characteristic of Haihan - if you want to get rich, build roads first.This is also the first slogan Liu Shang learned after he was recruited into the Haihan Propaganda Department.
What is the significance of road construction? Liu Shang had a deep understanding during his stay in Haihan, especially the kind of railway dedicated to trains. Its high transportation efficiency made Liu Shang always amazed.Although this kind of railway is expensive and has high requirements on the terrain, it cannot be built everywhere, but the Haihan people have invested a lot of money to build a coastal road network extending in all directions on the island, connecting various cities and counties through wide and flat official roads. At the same time, it is extremely convenient to transfer people and goods between sea and land.
After arriving in Shandong, Liu Shang discovered that the transportation-first infrastructure approach was also implemented here, and a lot of manpower and material resources were invested in the construction of roads connecting key nodes such as Fushan Copper Mine, Majiazhuang, Zhifu Island, and Fushan County. , to connect the occupied area into one, and the military uses this to control the situation in this area.
(End of this chapter)