Chapter 2050
Chapter 2050
Chapter 2050
Although Xu Xinsu's intelligence agency was formed after Haihan's intelligence department, and the key personnel had gone to Haihan to receive special training, but this organization still has a comparison with Haihan's intelligence department in terms of organization, functions and working style. significant difference.
In order to avoid suspicion, the establishment of this organization was placed under the name of Xu Xinsu's guards, and its function was to show allegiance to Xu Xinsu alone and maintain the dominance of the interest group headed by him in Fujian.Since it was not established for a long time, the operation experience of this organization is still relatively small, and the collection and analysis of intelligence is not as professional as that of Haihan's counterparts. When performing special field missions, they have extremely strong mobility, and will not rely on a limited number of field operations teams like the Haihan intelligence department.
Xu Yuxing is not the commander of the guards, but his actual authority is still higher than that of the commander, and he can call people from this unit to perform field missions when necessary.For example, for the three targets to be investigated this time, Xu Yuxing temporarily transferred dozens of people from the guards.
In order to avoid attracting too much attention from the outside world, this group of people participated in the operation in disguise. This detail also won Jin Ming's approval.He didn't want Zhangzhou's operation to scare the snake away, because there may be other suspected targets in Quanzhou two hundred miles away. Once the wind is heard, the clues he just grasped may be cut off by the manipulator behind the scenes again.
Since there was no way to launch actions on the three targets at the same time, in line with the principle of putting the easy ones first and then the difficult ones, Xu Yuxing's first target of action was the Guangli Commercial Bank under the name of Mr. Huang, the prefect of Zhangzhou.
Guangli Commercial Bank is backed by Huang Zhifu as a big backer, so it has a lot of resources and channels, so its operating conditions have always been good, and it is also a big commercial bank in Zhangzhou.In Zhangzhou alone, Guangli Commercial Bank has three branches and a boat company, with two to three hundred people inside and out, and thousands of people rely on this commercial organization for food.
It would be a bit difficult for Xu Yuxing to search all these places of Guangli Commercial Bank, but according to the normal operation method of the commercial bank, the accounts and related records of goods in and out must be kept in the head office, so the head office of Guangli Commercial Bank located in the city The store is the target of this operation.
What Xu Yuxing said about starting the operation early in the morning was not a joke. For this reason, he specially stayed Jin Ming for one night, and assembled his hands before dawn the next day to minimize the impact of the operation.
For today's action, Xu Yuxing summoned nearly a hundred people and dispatched in two groups to block the front and rear doors of Guangli Commercial Bank.Before the Guangli Commercial Bank opened, they arrived at their destination quietly.
Xu Yuxing ordered someone to come forward and knock on the door of the firm. After waiting for a while, someone opened the door from the inside, poked his head out and said, "It's not time to open the door yet! Come back later!"
Before the man could retract his head, the people outside had already pushed the door open and rushed in. The man shouted in fright: "What are you doing!"
"The government handles the case, keep silent!" The leader flashed his badge in front of him.
The man didn't like this, and immediately questioned their background: "My master is the government, who are you!"
"Can't understand? The Xu family is doing business!" The waist card was thrown in front of him immediately, and there was only a black character "Xu" on the blood-red waist card.
The man was shocked immediately, and immediately stopped talking.He knew that although his master had a high position and authority, he couldn't afford to offend the owner of this waist card.In fact, no one dares to offend the power represented by this waist card in Zhangzhou City. Admit bad luck.
"Keep the gate, no one is allowed to enter without my order! If anyone resists, subdue it immediately!" Xu Yuxing gave the order with a serious face when he quickly entered the business.
Although Xu Yuxing still had some hesitation about the strength of the action when planning the action, but when it came time to do it, there would be no wavering anymore.There is no turning back when he opens his bow. Even if there is a conflict with the other party at this time, he must use strong means to calm the situation and complete the search for relevant evidence as soon as possible.The longer this time drags on, the more likely it is that there will be extra problems, and there are still two investigation subjects to deal with later, so he doesn't have time to dawdle here.
The shopkeeper of Guangli Commercial Bank didn't live in the store, only one manager guarded the store, and was soon betrayed by the shop assistant, and was taken out of the bed.After showing Xu's guard's special badge, the steward seemed to want to be tough, saying that the account books and cargo records should not be shown to outsiders, and advised Xu Yuxing not to be too rampant, lest the magistrate intervene afterwards and it would be difficult to explain.
Xu Yuxing sneered and didn't say much, just gave him a look, and a strong man next to him strode forward, grabbed the clothes on the manager's chest with one hand, grabbed him like a chicken, and opened his mouth with the other hand Fan down.
After four heavy slaps of "Papa Papa", the steward was slapped until the corner of his mouth was bleeding, and he was immediately blindsided.Xu Yuxing said: "The situation is serious now, if you refuse to cooperate, it will be a crime of collaborating with the enemy, even the magistrate can't save you!"
The steward obviously had never seen much of the world, so he surrendered immediately after being frightened and deceived, and obediently told the location of the relevant information.Immediately, someone went to fetch the things for Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming to have a look at.
There is a large stack of ledgers and related records, more than a foot thick, and it is obviously not something that can be done immediately to sort out these materials.But Xu Yuxing had his own way of dealing with it, and immediately asked someone to bring the steward back.
At this time, the place on the face of this man was swollen from the beating, and his expression was already sluggish. He probably didn't understand until now why a group of people from the Xu family broke in early in the morning, and beat himself up without saying a word. After a pause, he still said that he was investigating the case.Obviously, this group of people knew that Guangli Commercial Bank was the property of Huang Zhifu, but they were not afraid of it. It seemed that this matter was really serious.
Xu Yuxing didn't have time to let the steward slowly figure out what happened, so he immediately asked him to point out the part about the transaction with the Spaniards in this stack of materials.The steward was about to evade a few words, when someone next to him pulled out a short knife more than a foot long and stared at him intently. It seemed that this time it was not just a slap in the face, and if he didn't agree, he might be stabbed.
This steward was not really tough, otherwise the previous few slaps would not have subdued him. Seeing this posture, he became even more flustered, and quickly responded with a slap in the face.
Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming checked the records provided by the steward together, and found that there were indeed several transactions with the Spaniards.However, the amount involved in the transaction is not too large, and the content does not seem to be suspicious. They are mainly Fujian native products sold by Guangli Commercial Bank, while the purchases are all kinds of edible spices produced in the South China Sea. It is relatively normal. .
From the records, the frequency of trade between the two parties is about once every three to four months, which is almost the time required for a transaction from Fujian to the Philippine Islands.
But these records alone do not prove that Guangli Commercial Bank is the middleman who secretly exported arms for the Spaniards. It only shows that the three shopkeepers in the statistical list did not skip this object because of the background of Guangli Commercial Bank. The three lists received are indeed authentic.
Of course, on the other hand, only paper records can't prove the innocence of Guangli Commercial Bank. For businesses like arms smuggling, probably no one is stupid enough to directly record it in the ledger of a regular business.However, with these records, Xu Yuxing can conduct further investigations on the time of each transaction, which can save a lot of time.
But right now they don't have time to sort out these details slowly, so they can only seal up all the information they have found and take them away, and Guangli Commercial Bank must be temporarily sealed up for this, pending further investigation conclusions.Not to mention anything else, at least the warehouse in the commercial firm must be checked carefully before you can rest assured.
This way of dealing with it is a bit simple and rude, but for Xu Yuxing, it seems that there is no better way.If they wanted to search three targets in one day, they had to act as fast as possible, and if they acted quickly, they couldn't take care of all aspects, so they could only deal with this place that seemed to have no obvious problems on the surface.
After roughly finishing the Guangli Commercial Bank, early risers began to walk around in the streets outside. Xu Yuxing left a dozen people here to deal with the follow-up matters, and the others immediately drove to the next Kowloon boat house in a carriage .
This Jiulong boat company is located on the banks of the Jiulong River outside Zhangzhou City. There is still a distance to drive there from the city. Several horse-drawn carriages were used as means of transportation.
When a group of people hurried out of the city and arrived at the Jiulong Boat Company, the door was just opening for business, and a dozen carriages came all at once, blocking the door tightly.Then dozens of capable men who got off the carriage immediately poured into the Jiulong Shipyard, and then closed the door that had just been opened.
Different from the previous situation in Guangli Commercial Bank, the shopkeeper of Jiulong Shipping Company did not try to resist after seeing the waist card shown by the visitor, and chose to cooperate honestly.
He brought Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming to his room, handed over all the relevant materials, and then pointed out the records of transactions with the Spaniards according to Xu Yuxing's request.
Or because of the exclusive shipping, the frequency of transactions between Jiulong Shipping Company and the Spaniards is obviously much higher than that of Guangli Commercial Bank, and relevant records are recorded almost every month.In addition to the sufficient capacity of the Kowloon shipping line, this also shows that the operators attached great importance to this special trade channel and frequently sent ships to the Spanish ruled area for transactions.
However, judging from the records, the transaction content of Jiulong Shipping Company is roughly similar to that of Guangli Commercial Company, both selling more and buying less.Probably this is also because more than half of the things the Spaniards sell in the Philippines can also be bought in Haihan, and the price is often better, so these merchant ships going to the local area mostly purchase a little bit of symbolic goods after selling the goods. just left.
This kind of trade is actually not uncommon among Fujian maritime merchants. Before the Battle of Manila, the Xu family also maintained similar trade relations with the Spaniards.The Spaniards had enough silver to buy all the goods that were shipped to the local area, and the bids were very generous. Every trip had a considerable profit. It was indeed more cost-effective for the sea merchants than trading with the Haihan people.
"It doesn't look suspicious?" Xu Yuxing said to Jin Ming with a wry smile, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
Jin Ming held his breath, and replied after hearing the words: "Anyone who maintains trade relations with the Spaniards is suspected, and these written records are only superficial evidence, and we will draw conclusions after further investigation."
At this time, Jin Ming also discovered that the investigation of this matter was not as simple as expected. Even if three suspicious targets had been locked in advance, it would be difficult to find out the truth about the trade between these commercial organizations and the Spaniards. It's not that you can find out the truth immediately by copying a house.In addition to sorting out the information on these account books, it may be necessary to interrogate relevant persons to obtain detailed confessions. These tasks cannot be completed within a day or two.
However, the shopkeepers of Jiulong Shipping Co., Ltd. were willing to cooperate, perhaps because they believed that they had not done anything that violated the taboo.Even though Xu Xinsu had announced last year that Fujian maritime merchants were prohibited from trading with the Spaniards, such a ban can only deter ordinary merchants, and may not have much effect on well-established commercial organizations.For example, the Jiulong Shipping Company, whose background is the commander of the Fujian Capital, did not take this ban seriously at all, and the merchant ships sent to the Philippine Islands still maintained a very high frequency.
"The Nine Dragons Shipping Company has made a lot of money from the Spaniards!" Jin Ming couldn't help sighing after looking through the relevant records: "This matter has been repeatedly banned by the people, and it is also driven by interests!"
Xu Yuxing replied: "It's just that my father is soft-hearted and doesn't want to cut off these people's wealth, so he just turned a blind eye. If we really want to ban them, there is no reason why they can't be banned! Just like we searched these two places today In the local area, if the relevant people are treated as collusion with the enemy and severely punished, no one will dare to break the ban easily in the future!"
Jin Ming said: "That's the truth, but it's still not easy to operate. These commercial and shipping companies are backed by officials. If they are too tough, it must be very difficult for Mr. Xu."
"It's good that Mr. Jin can understand my father's difficulties." Xu Yuxing felt a little better when he heard Jin Ming's comment.
(End of this chapter)
Although Xu Xinsu's intelligence agency was formed after Haihan's intelligence department, and the key personnel had gone to Haihan to receive special training, but this organization still has a comparison with Haihan's intelligence department in terms of organization, functions and working style. significant difference.
In order to avoid suspicion, the establishment of this organization was placed under the name of Xu Xinsu's guards, and its function was to show allegiance to Xu Xinsu alone and maintain the dominance of the interest group headed by him in Fujian.Since it was not established for a long time, the operation experience of this organization is still relatively small, and the collection and analysis of intelligence is not as professional as that of Haihan's counterparts. When performing special field missions, they have extremely strong mobility, and will not rely on a limited number of field operations teams like the Haihan intelligence department.
Xu Yuxing is not the commander of the guards, but his actual authority is still higher than that of the commander, and he can call people from this unit to perform field missions when necessary.For example, for the three targets to be investigated this time, Xu Yuxing temporarily transferred dozens of people from the guards.
In order to avoid attracting too much attention from the outside world, this group of people participated in the operation in disguise. This detail also won Jin Ming's approval.He didn't want Zhangzhou's operation to scare the snake away, because there may be other suspected targets in Quanzhou two hundred miles away. Once the wind is heard, the clues he just grasped may be cut off by the manipulator behind the scenes again.
Since there was no way to launch actions on the three targets at the same time, in line with the principle of putting the easy ones first and then the difficult ones, Xu Yuxing's first target of action was the Guangli Commercial Bank under the name of Mr. Huang, the prefect of Zhangzhou.
Guangli Commercial Bank is backed by Huang Zhifu as a big backer, so it has a lot of resources and channels, so its operating conditions have always been good, and it is also a big commercial bank in Zhangzhou.In Zhangzhou alone, Guangli Commercial Bank has three branches and a boat company, with two to three hundred people inside and out, and thousands of people rely on this commercial organization for food.
It would be a bit difficult for Xu Yuxing to search all these places of Guangli Commercial Bank, but according to the normal operation method of the commercial bank, the accounts and related records of goods in and out must be kept in the head office, so the head office of Guangli Commercial Bank located in the city The store is the target of this operation.
What Xu Yuxing said about starting the operation early in the morning was not a joke. For this reason, he specially stayed Jin Ming for one night, and assembled his hands before dawn the next day to minimize the impact of the operation.
For today's action, Xu Yuxing summoned nearly a hundred people and dispatched in two groups to block the front and rear doors of Guangli Commercial Bank.Before the Guangli Commercial Bank opened, they arrived at their destination quietly.
Xu Yuxing ordered someone to come forward and knock on the door of the firm. After waiting for a while, someone opened the door from the inside, poked his head out and said, "It's not time to open the door yet! Come back later!"
Before the man could retract his head, the people outside had already pushed the door open and rushed in. The man shouted in fright: "What are you doing!"
"The government handles the case, keep silent!" The leader flashed his badge in front of him.
The man didn't like this, and immediately questioned their background: "My master is the government, who are you!"
"Can't understand? The Xu family is doing business!" The waist card was thrown in front of him immediately, and there was only a black character "Xu" on the blood-red waist card.
The man was shocked immediately, and immediately stopped talking.He knew that although his master had a high position and authority, he couldn't afford to offend the owner of this waist card.In fact, no one dares to offend the power represented by this waist card in Zhangzhou City. Admit bad luck.
"Keep the gate, no one is allowed to enter without my order! If anyone resists, subdue it immediately!" Xu Yuxing gave the order with a serious face when he quickly entered the business.
Although Xu Yuxing still had some hesitation about the strength of the action when planning the action, but when it came time to do it, there would be no wavering anymore.There is no turning back when he opens his bow. Even if there is a conflict with the other party at this time, he must use strong means to calm the situation and complete the search for relevant evidence as soon as possible.The longer this time drags on, the more likely it is that there will be extra problems, and there are still two investigation subjects to deal with later, so he doesn't have time to dawdle here.
The shopkeeper of Guangli Commercial Bank didn't live in the store, only one manager guarded the store, and was soon betrayed by the shop assistant, and was taken out of the bed.After showing Xu's guard's special badge, the steward seemed to want to be tough, saying that the account books and cargo records should not be shown to outsiders, and advised Xu Yuxing not to be too rampant, lest the magistrate intervene afterwards and it would be difficult to explain.
Xu Yuxing sneered and didn't say much, just gave him a look, and a strong man next to him strode forward, grabbed the clothes on the manager's chest with one hand, grabbed him like a chicken, and opened his mouth with the other hand Fan down.
After four heavy slaps of "Papa Papa", the steward was slapped until the corner of his mouth was bleeding, and he was immediately blindsided.Xu Yuxing said: "The situation is serious now, if you refuse to cooperate, it will be a crime of collaborating with the enemy, even the magistrate can't save you!"
The steward obviously had never seen much of the world, so he surrendered immediately after being frightened and deceived, and obediently told the location of the relevant information.Immediately, someone went to fetch the things for Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming to have a look at.
There is a large stack of ledgers and related records, more than a foot thick, and it is obviously not something that can be done immediately to sort out these materials.But Xu Yuxing had his own way of dealing with it, and immediately asked someone to bring the steward back.
At this time, the place on the face of this man was swollen from the beating, and his expression was already sluggish. He probably didn't understand until now why a group of people from the Xu family broke in early in the morning, and beat himself up without saying a word. After a pause, he still said that he was investigating the case.Obviously, this group of people knew that Guangli Commercial Bank was the property of Huang Zhifu, but they were not afraid of it. It seemed that this matter was really serious.
Xu Yuxing didn't have time to let the steward slowly figure out what happened, so he immediately asked him to point out the part about the transaction with the Spaniards in this stack of materials.The steward was about to evade a few words, when someone next to him pulled out a short knife more than a foot long and stared at him intently. It seemed that this time it was not just a slap in the face, and if he didn't agree, he might be stabbed.
This steward was not really tough, otherwise the previous few slaps would not have subdued him. Seeing this posture, he became even more flustered, and quickly responded with a slap in the face.
Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming checked the records provided by the steward together, and found that there were indeed several transactions with the Spaniards.However, the amount involved in the transaction is not too large, and the content does not seem to be suspicious. They are mainly Fujian native products sold by Guangli Commercial Bank, while the purchases are all kinds of edible spices produced in the South China Sea. It is relatively normal. .
From the records, the frequency of trade between the two parties is about once every three to four months, which is almost the time required for a transaction from Fujian to the Philippine Islands.
But these records alone do not prove that Guangli Commercial Bank is the middleman who secretly exported arms for the Spaniards. It only shows that the three shopkeepers in the statistical list did not skip this object because of the background of Guangli Commercial Bank. The three lists received are indeed authentic.
Of course, on the other hand, only paper records can't prove the innocence of Guangli Commercial Bank. For businesses like arms smuggling, probably no one is stupid enough to directly record it in the ledger of a regular business.However, with these records, Xu Yuxing can conduct further investigations on the time of each transaction, which can save a lot of time.
But right now they don't have time to sort out these details slowly, so they can only seal up all the information they have found and take them away, and Guangli Commercial Bank must be temporarily sealed up for this, pending further investigation conclusions.Not to mention anything else, at least the warehouse in the commercial firm must be checked carefully before you can rest assured.
This way of dealing with it is a bit simple and rude, but for Xu Yuxing, it seems that there is no better way.If they wanted to search three targets in one day, they had to act as fast as possible, and if they acted quickly, they couldn't take care of all aspects, so they could only deal with this place that seemed to have no obvious problems on the surface.
After roughly finishing the Guangli Commercial Bank, early risers began to walk around in the streets outside. Xu Yuxing left a dozen people here to deal with the follow-up matters, and the others immediately drove to the next Kowloon boat house in a carriage .
This Jiulong boat company is located on the banks of the Jiulong River outside Zhangzhou City. There is still a distance to drive there from the city. Several horse-drawn carriages were used as means of transportation.
When a group of people hurried out of the city and arrived at the Jiulong Boat Company, the door was just opening for business, and a dozen carriages came all at once, blocking the door tightly.Then dozens of capable men who got off the carriage immediately poured into the Jiulong Shipyard, and then closed the door that had just been opened.
Different from the previous situation in Guangli Commercial Bank, the shopkeeper of Jiulong Shipping Company did not try to resist after seeing the waist card shown by the visitor, and chose to cooperate honestly.
He brought Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming to his room, handed over all the relevant materials, and then pointed out the records of transactions with the Spaniards according to Xu Yuxing's request.
Or because of the exclusive shipping, the frequency of transactions between Jiulong Shipping Company and the Spaniards is obviously much higher than that of Guangli Commercial Bank, and relevant records are recorded almost every month.In addition to the sufficient capacity of the Kowloon shipping line, this also shows that the operators attached great importance to this special trade channel and frequently sent ships to the Spanish ruled area for transactions.
However, judging from the records, the transaction content of Jiulong Shipping Company is roughly similar to that of Guangli Commercial Company, both selling more and buying less.Probably this is also because more than half of the things the Spaniards sell in the Philippines can also be bought in Haihan, and the price is often better, so these merchant ships going to the local area mostly purchase a little bit of symbolic goods after selling the goods. just left.
This kind of trade is actually not uncommon among Fujian maritime merchants. Before the Battle of Manila, the Xu family also maintained similar trade relations with the Spaniards.The Spaniards had enough silver to buy all the goods that were shipped to the local area, and the bids were very generous. Every trip had a considerable profit. It was indeed more cost-effective for the sea merchants than trading with the Haihan people.
"It doesn't look suspicious?" Xu Yuxing said to Jin Ming with a wry smile, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?"
Jin Ming held his breath, and replied after hearing the words: "Anyone who maintains trade relations with the Spaniards is suspected, and these written records are only superficial evidence, and we will draw conclusions after further investigation."
At this time, Jin Ming also discovered that the investigation of this matter was not as simple as expected. Even if three suspicious targets had been locked in advance, it would be difficult to find out the truth about the trade between these commercial organizations and the Spaniards. It's not that you can find out the truth immediately by copying a house.In addition to sorting out the information on these account books, it may be necessary to interrogate relevant persons to obtain detailed confessions. These tasks cannot be completed within a day or two.
However, the shopkeepers of Jiulong Shipping Co., Ltd. were willing to cooperate, perhaps because they believed that they had not done anything that violated the taboo.Even though Xu Xinsu had announced last year that Fujian maritime merchants were prohibited from trading with the Spaniards, such a ban can only deter ordinary merchants, and may not have much effect on well-established commercial organizations.For example, the Jiulong Shipping Company, whose background is the commander of the Fujian Capital, did not take this ban seriously at all, and the merchant ships sent to the Philippine Islands still maintained a very high frequency.
"The Nine Dragons Shipping Company has made a lot of money from the Spaniards!" Jin Ming couldn't help sighing after looking through the relevant records: "This matter has been repeatedly banned by the people, and it is also driven by interests!"
Xu Yuxing replied: "It's just that my father is soft-hearted and doesn't want to cut off these people's wealth, so he just turned a blind eye. If we really want to ban them, there is no reason why they can't be banned! Just like we searched these two places today In the local area, if the relevant people are treated as collusion with the enemy and severely punished, no one will dare to break the ban easily in the future!"
Jin Ming said: "That's the truth, but it's still not easy to operate. These commercial and shipping companies are backed by officials. If they are too tough, it must be very difficult for Mr. Xu."
"It's good that Mr. Jin can understand my father's difficulties." Xu Yuxing felt a little better when he heard Jin Ming's comment.
(End of this chapter)