Chapter 1560
Chapter 1560
Chapter 1560
Under the auspices of Xu Shiqi, the secret investigation procedure of the Ministry of Security was quickly launched, and all personnel from various departments who had access to the "Diego" voyage arrangement were included in Xu Shiqi's investigation list. .Of course, this kind of investigation does not necessarily conduct separate interrogations on the subject of the investigation. The main content of the work is to conduct peripheral investigations first, especially those who have recently had contact with Su Keyi or other Dutch diplomats are the focus of the investigation. heavy.However, because investigations are being conducted secretly at this stage, it will not make these departments panic and panic.
The secret service team spent a whole day checking the visitor registration information of these departments, and first found out the part related to the Dutch. Even if Su Keyi did not come forward in person, the special service team would first list the departments they came into contact with , to determine whether these contacts overlap with the names on Xu Shiqi's investigation list.But to their disappointment, at least in the last half a month, the number of times the Dutch went to these departments to handle affairs was very small, and they were basically simple affairs done at the office window, and they had no chance to contact them at all. to senior officials.
Su Keyi himself visited the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Commerce once respectively, but these two visits were received by Sun Changmi and Schneider in person, and there was basically no possibility of leaking secrets during the process.So the investigation of the preliminary clues was quickly completed, and the secret service team did not find any suspicious points.
Since the possibility of information leakage during official contacts has been basically ruled out, the next thing to investigate is the private social relations and personal financial status of those people who have access to confidential information in various departments.Compared with the previous investigation link, the workload required to investigate these contents is much greater.Xu Shiqi had no choice but to apply to He Xi, and temporarily transferred several civilian staff from the intelligence analysis department of the Ministry of Security to sort out the various information at hand.
At the same time, the Ministry of Security also arranged personnel to monitor Su Keyi's movements 24 hours a day, especially to check every person he came into contact with.After the Spanish espionage case in 1634, the Ministry of Security actually rarely carried out investigations of this scale in Sanya.
But these actions seemed to have no effect at all, and after the investigation lasted for three or four days, no doubts were still found.At this time, Xu Shiqi had already started to think about some seemingly absurd possibilities, such as whether the source of the leak was the Portuguese?If the Portuguese leaked the news of the "Diego" to Su Keyi intentionally or unintentionally, even if the special service team turned Sanya upside down, they would not gain any real gains.
Xu Shiqi decided to start a new investigation direction, that is, whether the people from the Portuguese embassy had appeared on the same occasion as the people from the East India Company in the past half a month.The focus of the investigation is restaurants, hotels and other sensual places of entertainment.Because Xu Shiqi felt that it was impossible for the Portuguese to betray this secret to the Dutch, maybe Su Keyi accidentally learned the news under some abnormal circumstances.
However, the scope of this investigation needs to be cast even wider. One of the most developed industries in Sanya is the service industry throughout the urban area. There are hundreds of restaurants and entertainment venues. It takes more than half a month to go back. What happened before was not so easy.The shops visited by the special service team can hardly remember such a long time, not to mention that Su Keyi is also a Chinese with a Han appearance, and his Chinese is no worse than that of the locals, so it is difficult to attract too much attention from others.
At this point in the investigation, if we want to obtain real clues from the people, we must use more manpower and make the investigation of the case public.Xu Shiqi knew that the responsibility was heavy, and he didn't dare to make up his mind lightly, so he reported the case to He Xi and asked him to make a decision whether to continue the investigation.
When He Xi decided to open a case to investigate this matter, he only guessed based on experience that this might be a case of insiders selling information for money, but he never thought that this matter would be so troublesome.If we continue to expand the scope of the investigation, the entire Sanya market will probably soon know that the authorities are investigating leaks related to Portugal and the Netherlands, and the Dutch will naturally get wind of it. Well, let the Dutch who have finished the finishing work watch the fun, either way will make the subsequent investigation more difficult.
But if the investigation is not done at this point, not only the previous investigation work will be abandoned halfway, but it will still leave a security risk, and there may be another leak of Portuguese-related secrets.
To check or not to check, immediately became a difficult problem for He Xi.However, He Xi had spent so many years in Haihan's official circles, and of course it wasn't for nothing, so he soon came up with an idea - isn't there an executive committee at the top?
If you want to report this matter to the executive committee, you have to talk about some skills, and you can't simply report it as an intelligence case, otherwise some people will definitely think that He Xi is evading responsibility. After all, the security department is in charge of intelligence work. If the executive committee has to make a decision, then what's the use of you, He Xi?Therefore, He Xi intends to highlight the political flavor of this case, so that the Executive Committee believes that the investigation of this case should be considered from a political point of view, so that the Ministry of Security's report and request for instructions will appear logical.
How to highlight the political significance of this case, He Xi already has a plan.Among the two countries involved in the case, Haihan's attitude is definitely different. It is no secret that he intends to support Portugal and be wary of the Netherlands.What He Xi wants to emphasize to the executive committee is that Portugal may not be a simple victim in this incident. If this matter is not investigated clearly, it may affect Haihan's long-term layout in the north.
After the executive committee received the report from the Ministry of Security, it really aroused great attention, and immediately held a temporary meeting, and asked He Xi to answer questions.He Xi specially brought Xu Shiqi, who was in charge of handling the case, with him, and told the executive committee members on the spot about the progress of the case and the source of the so-called intelligence leak that the executive committee was most concerned about.
In fact, the Ministry of Security is still not sure that the information leaked from the Portuguese side, but the current investigation work has almost ruled out all other possibilities, and it seems that only the most unlikely one remains. The situation exists.The final investigative work is only to determine whether the leak of the news was intentional or unintentional.
If it was unintentional, that's all right, it's the Dutch who picked a cheap one.But if it is intentional, this may affect Haihan's attitude towards the Portuguese in the future.Otherwise, instead of agreeing on a plan, he would be sold as soon as he turned around. This is not a situation that Hai Han can accept.If the Ministry of Security continues to investigate, whose interests will be harmed by the final investigation results, it is still difficult to draw a conclusion.
"Let's find out!" Tao Donglai took the lead in expressing his opinion: "No matter what the result is, the situation should be controllable. If there is a real problem with the Portuguese, it is better for us to find out than to have another accident in the future."
Schneider also immediately agreed with Tao Donglai's point of view: "There is only one truth. The mission of the Ministry of Security is to find out the truth. The subsequent impact and aftermath should be the task of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant departments. I suggest Minister He will continue to perform his duties and investigate the case as soon as possible."
"But the results we found out may be the purpose of Su Keyi's deliberate disclosure of this information. If the Portuguese really leaked the news, then our relationship with the Portuguese will definitely be affected to a certain extent, and this is exactly what the Dutch want. The situation I saw." Ning Qi reminded everyone of the possible results, that is, the Dutch deliberately used this to disrupt the relationship between Haihan and Portugal.
"No matter what Su Keyi's purpose is, we have to face the reality after all! Check!" Tao Donglai's opinion finally made the decision for this temporary hearing. The cases investigated and handled are given the highest investigation authority, and the facts of the case are investigated to the end.
With the authorization from the executive committee, He Xi naturally had enough confidence to do things, and he transferred some more capable staff to Xu Shiqi, asking him to find out the truth of the case as soon as possible.And because this matter was discussed at the Executive Committee meeting, the Ministry of Justice also gave a certain amount of support, and asked the Police Department to cooperate with the investigation work of the Ministry of Security as much as possible.In some places where it is not suitable for the special investigation team to come forward, the police department can send personnel to assist.
Xu Shiqi took Shangfang's sword, and the strength of his hands was strengthened. Now that he has the cooperation of the police department, further investigation will be more effective with half the effort.Three days later, the investigation team finally confirmed that Su Keyi and Portuguese Minister Tomas had appeared in a certain restaurant on the same night.
Of course, it is impossible for these two people to have dinner and drink alone in public. Even if they show up at the same restaurant on the same night, this should be just some kind of coincidence.After careful interrogation of everyone in this restaurant, from the staff to the owner, the investigation team can confirm that it is only a coincidence that these two people appear here at the same time.
According to the boss's recollection, Su Keyi hosted a banquet for several Ming maritime merchants in the name of the East India Company that day, and they should have discussed business at the dinner table.And the reason why he has a special impression of Su Keyi is precisely because several Portuguese people also happened to come here for dinner that night. They met Su Keyi in the corridor on the second floor, and the two sides exchanged a few words. The almost identical men were actually Dutch.
But the Portuguese are frequent customers here, because this restaurant is only a hundred meters away from the Portuguese embassy in Sanya, so it can be regarded as the nearest high-end restaurant.On the menu of this restaurant, there is even barrel-aged red wine produced in Portugal for sale-of course, this wine is also sold by the Portuguese to the local market.
The two parties eat and drink on the same floor. Although they are not sitting at the same table, there may indeed be a possibility that the other party may overhear some key information.And according to the date recorded in the restaurant's account book, the news that the "Diego" left the Zhejiang waters and headed north has been sent back to Sanya by telegram from Zhejiang, and the Haihan officials also notified Thomas of the news in time.In other words, if Thomas talked about the information about the "Diego" during the meeting that day, it would be within a reasonable range.
But at this point in the investigation, it is still impossible to prove that Su Keyi's information came from this encounter in the restaurant.Unless there is a way to interrogate Su Keyi and let him confess the truth, but this obviously does not conform to diplomatic rules.Although Xu Shiqi thought of many ways to try to find some circumstantial evidence to prove that this situation is the truth, but in the end the missing part in the evidence chain is still too large, and there are still obvious loopholes in deriving this result.
It has been nearly ten days since Schneider reported the case to the time of investigation, and the special investigation team with more than 40 people has not found any new clues. This seemingly impossible but unique situation.
He Xi had to report this investigation result to the executive committee again. Although it may sound absurd, this is already the final conclusion.Tao Donglai was more tolerant about this, he thought that there were enough circumstantial evidence, which was enough to explain to the Portuguese, if the Portuguese were still dissatisfied, they should go to Su Keyi to confront him.
Whether Su Keyi's purpose was to create conflicts between Haihan and Portugal is unknown, but at least he managed to make Haihan waste his time and money.In order to investigate this case, the Haihan Security Department and the Police Department dispatched thousands of people in ten days and interviewed more than 400 people, which far exceeded the list of investigation targets that Xu Shiqi had made when he took over.The final result of the investigation is a guess that may never be confirmed.
In the end, it was Schneider who came forward and notified the Portuguese Thomas of Haihan's investigation results.According to this conclusion, Thomas himself was at least half responsible for the leak. It was really difficult for Thomas to be satisfied with this result, but he couldn't produce any evidence to prove that Haihan's investigation results were wrong.
Also disappointed by this were He Xi and Xu Shiqi. They thought they would follow the case to catch some insiders, and they might even lead to an intelligence network lurking in Sanya, but in the end But there is nothing, and all evidence points to this being just a ridiculous coincidence.The temporary establishment of the second special service group was announced to be disbanded, and the transferred case-handling personnel also returned to their original posts.
During the investigation of the case, a large-scale investigation of local restaurants, restaurants and entertainment venues was carried out. There are rumors in the market that this may be the early arrival of this year's crackdown on public security. Therefore, the public security situation in Sanya has been improved to a certain extent, which can be regarded as a blessing. A little consolation for the busy Haihan officials.
(End of this chapter)
Under the auspices of Xu Shiqi, the secret investigation procedure of the Ministry of Security was quickly launched, and all personnel from various departments who had access to the "Diego" voyage arrangement were included in Xu Shiqi's investigation list. .Of course, this kind of investigation does not necessarily conduct separate interrogations on the subject of the investigation. The main content of the work is to conduct peripheral investigations first, especially those who have recently had contact with Su Keyi or other Dutch diplomats are the focus of the investigation. heavy.However, because investigations are being conducted secretly at this stage, it will not make these departments panic and panic.
The secret service team spent a whole day checking the visitor registration information of these departments, and first found out the part related to the Dutch. Even if Su Keyi did not come forward in person, the special service team would first list the departments they came into contact with , to determine whether these contacts overlap with the names on Xu Shiqi's investigation list.But to their disappointment, at least in the last half a month, the number of times the Dutch went to these departments to handle affairs was very small, and they were basically simple affairs done at the office window, and they had no chance to contact them at all. to senior officials.
Su Keyi himself visited the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Commerce once respectively, but these two visits were received by Sun Changmi and Schneider in person, and there was basically no possibility of leaking secrets during the process.So the investigation of the preliminary clues was quickly completed, and the secret service team did not find any suspicious points.
Since the possibility of information leakage during official contacts has been basically ruled out, the next thing to investigate is the private social relations and personal financial status of those people who have access to confidential information in various departments.Compared with the previous investigation link, the workload required to investigate these contents is much greater.Xu Shiqi had no choice but to apply to He Xi, and temporarily transferred several civilian staff from the intelligence analysis department of the Ministry of Security to sort out the various information at hand.
At the same time, the Ministry of Security also arranged personnel to monitor Su Keyi's movements 24 hours a day, especially to check every person he came into contact with.After the Spanish espionage case in 1634, the Ministry of Security actually rarely carried out investigations of this scale in Sanya.
But these actions seemed to have no effect at all, and after the investigation lasted for three or four days, no doubts were still found.At this time, Xu Shiqi had already started to think about some seemingly absurd possibilities, such as whether the source of the leak was the Portuguese?If the Portuguese leaked the news of the "Diego" to Su Keyi intentionally or unintentionally, even if the special service team turned Sanya upside down, they would not gain any real gains.
Xu Shiqi decided to start a new investigation direction, that is, whether the people from the Portuguese embassy had appeared on the same occasion as the people from the East India Company in the past half a month.The focus of the investigation is restaurants, hotels and other sensual places of entertainment.Because Xu Shiqi felt that it was impossible for the Portuguese to betray this secret to the Dutch, maybe Su Keyi accidentally learned the news under some abnormal circumstances.
However, the scope of this investigation needs to be cast even wider. One of the most developed industries in Sanya is the service industry throughout the urban area. There are hundreds of restaurants and entertainment venues. It takes more than half a month to go back. What happened before was not so easy.The shops visited by the special service team can hardly remember such a long time, not to mention that Su Keyi is also a Chinese with a Han appearance, and his Chinese is no worse than that of the locals, so it is difficult to attract too much attention from others.
At this point in the investigation, if we want to obtain real clues from the people, we must use more manpower and make the investigation of the case public.Xu Shiqi knew that the responsibility was heavy, and he didn't dare to make up his mind lightly, so he reported the case to He Xi and asked him to make a decision whether to continue the investigation.
When He Xi decided to open a case to investigate this matter, he only guessed based on experience that this might be a case of insiders selling information for money, but he never thought that this matter would be so troublesome.If we continue to expand the scope of the investigation, the entire Sanya market will probably soon know that the authorities are investigating leaks related to Portugal and the Netherlands, and the Dutch will naturally get wind of it. Well, let the Dutch who have finished the finishing work watch the fun, either way will make the subsequent investigation more difficult.
But if the investigation is not done at this point, not only the previous investigation work will be abandoned halfway, but it will still leave a security risk, and there may be another leak of Portuguese-related secrets.
To check or not to check, immediately became a difficult problem for He Xi.However, He Xi had spent so many years in Haihan's official circles, and of course it wasn't for nothing, so he soon came up with an idea - isn't there an executive committee at the top?
If you want to report this matter to the executive committee, you have to talk about some skills, and you can't simply report it as an intelligence case, otherwise some people will definitely think that He Xi is evading responsibility. After all, the security department is in charge of intelligence work. If the executive committee has to make a decision, then what's the use of you, He Xi?Therefore, He Xi intends to highlight the political flavor of this case, so that the Executive Committee believes that the investigation of this case should be considered from a political point of view, so that the Ministry of Security's report and request for instructions will appear logical.
How to highlight the political significance of this case, He Xi already has a plan.Among the two countries involved in the case, Haihan's attitude is definitely different. It is no secret that he intends to support Portugal and be wary of the Netherlands.What He Xi wants to emphasize to the executive committee is that Portugal may not be a simple victim in this incident. If this matter is not investigated clearly, it may affect Haihan's long-term layout in the north.
After the executive committee received the report from the Ministry of Security, it really aroused great attention, and immediately held a temporary meeting, and asked He Xi to answer questions.He Xi specially brought Xu Shiqi, who was in charge of handling the case, with him, and told the executive committee members on the spot about the progress of the case and the source of the so-called intelligence leak that the executive committee was most concerned about.
In fact, the Ministry of Security is still not sure that the information leaked from the Portuguese side, but the current investigation work has almost ruled out all other possibilities, and it seems that only the most unlikely one remains. The situation exists.The final investigative work is only to determine whether the leak of the news was intentional or unintentional.
If it was unintentional, that's all right, it's the Dutch who picked a cheap one.But if it is intentional, this may affect Haihan's attitude towards the Portuguese in the future.Otherwise, instead of agreeing on a plan, he would be sold as soon as he turned around. This is not a situation that Hai Han can accept.If the Ministry of Security continues to investigate, whose interests will be harmed by the final investigation results, it is still difficult to draw a conclusion.
"Let's find out!" Tao Donglai took the lead in expressing his opinion: "No matter what the result is, the situation should be controllable. If there is a real problem with the Portuguese, it is better for us to find out than to have another accident in the future."
Schneider also immediately agreed with Tao Donglai's point of view: "There is only one truth. The mission of the Ministry of Security is to find out the truth. The subsequent impact and aftermath should be the task of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other relevant departments. I suggest Minister He will continue to perform his duties and investigate the case as soon as possible."
"But the results we found out may be the purpose of Su Keyi's deliberate disclosure of this information. If the Portuguese really leaked the news, then our relationship with the Portuguese will definitely be affected to a certain extent, and this is exactly what the Dutch want. The situation I saw." Ning Qi reminded everyone of the possible results, that is, the Dutch deliberately used this to disrupt the relationship between Haihan and Portugal.
"No matter what Su Keyi's purpose is, we have to face the reality after all! Check!" Tao Donglai's opinion finally made the decision for this temporary hearing. The cases investigated and handled are given the highest investigation authority, and the facts of the case are investigated to the end.
With the authorization from the executive committee, He Xi naturally had enough confidence to do things, and he transferred some more capable staff to Xu Shiqi, asking him to find out the truth of the case as soon as possible.And because this matter was discussed at the Executive Committee meeting, the Ministry of Justice also gave a certain amount of support, and asked the Police Department to cooperate with the investigation work of the Ministry of Security as much as possible.In some places where it is not suitable for the special investigation team to come forward, the police department can send personnel to assist.
Xu Shiqi took Shangfang's sword, and the strength of his hands was strengthened. Now that he has the cooperation of the police department, further investigation will be more effective with half the effort.Three days later, the investigation team finally confirmed that Su Keyi and Portuguese Minister Tomas had appeared in a certain restaurant on the same night.
Of course, it is impossible for these two people to have dinner and drink alone in public. Even if they show up at the same restaurant on the same night, this should be just some kind of coincidence.After careful interrogation of everyone in this restaurant, from the staff to the owner, the investigation team can confirm that it is only a coincidence that these two people appear here at the same time.
According to the boss's recollection, Su Keyi hosted a banquet for several Ming maritime merchants in the name of the East India Company that day, and they should have discussed business at the dinner table.And the reason why he has a special impression of Su Keyi is precisely because several Portuguese people also happened to come here for dinner that night. They met Su Keyi in the corridor on the second floor, and the two sides exchanged a few words. The almost identical men were actually Dutch.
But the Portuguese are frequent customers here, because this restaurant is only a hundred meters away from the Portuguese embassy in Sanya, so it can be regarded as the nearest high-end restaurant.On the menu of this restaurant, there is even barrel-aged red wine produced in Portugal for sale-of course, this wine is also sold by the Portuguese to the local market.
The two parties eat and drink on the same floor. Although they are not sitting at the same table, there may indeed be a possibility that the other party may overhear some key information.And according to the date recorded in the restaurant's account book, the news that the "Diego" left the Zhejiang waters and headed north has been sent back to Sanya by telegram from Zhejiang, and the Haihan officials also notified Thomas of the news in time.In other words, if Thomas talked about the information about the "Diego" during the meeting that day, it would be within a reasonable range.
But at this point in the investigation, it is still impossible to prove that Su Keyi's information came from this encounter in the restaurant.Unless there is a way to interrogate Su Keyi and let him confess the truth, but this obviously does not conform to diplomatic rules.Although Xu Shiqi thought of many ways to try to find some circumstantial evidence to prove that this situation is the truth, but in the end the missing part in the evidence chain is still too large, and there are still obvious loopholes in deriving this result.
It has been nearly ten days since Schneider reported the case to the time of investigation, and the special investigation team with more than 40 people has not found any new clues. This seemingly impossible but unique situation.
He Xi had to report this investigation result to the executive committee again. Although it may sound absurd, this is already the final conclusion.Tao Donglai was more tolerant about this, he thought that there were enough circumstantial evidence, which was enough to explain to the Portuguese, if the Portuguese were still dissatisfied, they should go to Su Keyi to confront him.
Whether Su Keyi's purpose was to create conflicts between Haihan and Portugal is unknown, but at least he managed to make Haihan waste his time and money.In order to investigate this case, the Haihan Security Department and the Police Department dispatched thousands of people in ten days and interviewed more than 400 people, which far exceeded the list of investigation targets that Xu Shiqi had made when he took over.The final result of the investigation is a guess that may never be confirmed.
In the end, it was Schneider who came forward and notified the Portuguese Thomas of Haihan's investigation results.According to this conclusion, Thomas himself was at least half responsible for the leak. It was really difficult for Thomas to be satisfied with this result, but he couldn't produce any evidence to prove that Haihan's investigation results were wrong.
Also disappointed by this were He Xi and Xu Shiqi. They thought they would follow the case to catch some insiders, and they might even lead to an intelligence network lurking in Sanya, but in the end But there is nothing, and all evidence points to this being just a ridiculous coincidence.The temporary establishment of the second special service group was announced to be disbanded, and the transferred case-handling personnel also returned to their original posts.
During the investigation of the case, a large-scale investigation of local restaurants, restaurants and entertainment venues was carried out. There are rumors in the market that this may be the early arrival of this year's crackdown on public security. Therefore, the public security situation in Sanya has been improved to a certain extent, which can be regarded as a blessing. A little consolation for the busy Haihan officials.
(End of this chapter)