Chapter 1062: Going with the flow

Takahashi Minami's field of expertise is on the battlefield. Whether it is investigation or combat, his methods are quite different from the requirements of secret operations such as the Ministry of Security. Gong Shiqi leads the field team to perform tasks all year round, and many

It is operating in a populated area such as a town, and its observation and utilization of the environment is much more flexible than that of the military. In the current situation, its experience advantage is even more evident.

Just as Gong Shiqi said, as long as we find the businessman who provides Liao Zhai with rice, grains, meat and vegetables, the rest of the matter will be easy to handle. And this is obviously not a problem for Gong Shiqi's men. At noon that day, the relevant information was

Feedback came to Gong Shiqi one after another from different investigation teams.

According to the situation described by the rice merchant and vegetable vendor, there were not many people living in Liao's house, because their deliveries were delivered directly to the house's kitchen. You can tell how many people eat in the house by looking at the condition of the kitchen. According to

Their guess was that the entire resident population of Liao Zhai should only be about ten people. But one thing that was strange was that the amount of food purchased by Liao Zhai each time was at least several times that, far exceeding their estimate.

"According to the person involved, the people in Liao's house are either big eaters, or they feed the food to the pigs, because according to normal people's appetites, they simply cannot consume so much food," Gong Shiqi told Gao.

Qiao Nan relayed the contents of his subordinate's report.

Gao Qiaonan said: "I guess Brother Gong's men also asked about the condition of the house in the north?"

Gong Shiqi smiled and said: "Brother Qiao is really a prophet. Yes, after they asked, they found that the neighboring house to the north had never purchased ingredients from the surrounding rice merchants. It seemed that no one came in or out during the day, and even

I don’t know if anyone lives in that house.”

Takahashi South Road: "The more reasonable speculation is that Liao Xun hid some people in the house in the north, and the food and clothing of these people were sent through Liao's house. For some reason

, Liao Xun didn’t want these people to be exposed, so he minimized the opportunities for contact with the outside world.”

"If we go by what we know, Liao Xun has hidden dozens of people in the house. I think Jinwu Cangjiao doesn't have such a hiding method. I'm afraid there is something wrong with these people." Gong Qimanan

Slowly put away the smile on his face: "Fortunately, we didn't attack Liao Xun rashly, otherwise we might have been ambushed by him!"

Although it is still unclear what the identity of the personnel Liao Xun hid in the house is, such a sneaky approach is obviously not serious. Gong Shiqi is a little doubtful whether Liao Xun, who is a Jin Yiwei, has obtained the information recently.

I smelled something, so I moved to the north of the city and bought two adjacent houses to set up a suspicious situation, waiting for someone to fall into the trap. However, there was no basis for this suspicion, so although Gong Shiqi had doubts in his heart, he still did not

Say it to Minami Takahashi.

Gao Qiaonan said: "Since we have to try to trick Liao Xun out of Hangzhou City before attacking, it will be useless even if there are heavenly soldiers and generals hidden in his house. In my opinion, it is enough to continue to monitor for now, and there is no need to take risks to investigate for the time being.

The condition inside.”

Gong Shiqi disagreed with Gao Qiaonan's view: "Even if we don't care about the house in the north, the situation of Liao House still needs to be understood clearly. If we want Liao Xun to surrender, we will probably have to fall on his family."

When Takahashi Nan heard Gong Shiqi's tone, he naturally knew that he was not joking. Professionals like Liao Xun who are engaged in security intelligence work will not succumb to force as easily as ordinary people, and he

He has a huge conflict of interest with Haihan. He can be regarded as a die-hard member of the anti-Haihan group in the Ming Dynasty officialdom. Even if he can be captured alive, it is estimated that it will be difficult to force him to submit. And Gong Shiqi obviously does not want to waste time through ordinary people.

Instead of using coercion and inducement to persuade him to surrender, he should seize his weak points that are difficult to resist and strive to hit him with one blow.

According to an investigation by the Ministry of Security, Liao Xun’s family has a wife and a concubine, as well as one child and one daughter. Both children are only five or six years old. Recently, Liao Xun moved to the north of the city, and his family also moved here. A vendor who delivered rice grains once

I have seen traces of two children in Liao's house, which can basically confirm this. Although Gao Qiaonan does not like this less than fair method, he also knows that the mission is the most important thing. Gong Shiqi made such a decision and

It was not out of selfishness, so he would not speak out against this arrangement.

"Then when do you plan to start?" Takahashi Minami asked.

"Let's get to know the situation of the house in the past few days first." Gong Shiqi responded: "I plan to capture Liao Xun alive first, and then try to take down his family. Then let them meet and interrogate.

Liao Xun should be able to get twice the result with half the effort."

Takahashi Nan asked: "To capture Liao Xun alive, where is the most convenient place to do it? Do you have any arrangements?"

"Chengfengxing." Gong Shiqi had already made plans for this: "The last time he went to Chengfengxing, he had already revealed his identity. This means at least two things. One is that he ended up personally as a Jinyiwei Baihu.

, it can be seen that he attaches great importance to this matter; secondly, he only brought a few men with him last time and identified themselves, which shows that he thinks that the vicinity of Hangzhou City is a safe area for him, and for Chengfeng

I don’t feel too wary about working in this environment.”

"But most of the people in the action team have withdrawn from Chengfenghang. Now that Jinyiwei has spies near Chengfenghang, it will be difficult to set up an ambush again, right? Besides, the few guys in Chengfenghang are not ours.

People, if we have to set up a plan in the store, there is also the danger of leaks." Gao Qiaonan was a little worried about Gong Shiqi's arrangement.

"Those guys have tried to gradually replace them in the past two days." Gong Shiqi didn't have any worries about this: "There are corresponding plans for handling this situation, and Wanfa also knows what to do. As for how

Send people to Chengfengxing... Hehe, Brother Qiao, have you forgotten how we gathered people in the city?"

Takahashi Nan also laughed when he thought about it. Even if Jin Yiwei deployed manpower to monitor Cheng Fengxing, its main surveillance target was Wan Fa. As for his several clerks and the people who came and went in and out of the store,

If Jin Yiwei wants to monitor everything, the situation they have to operate is too big. Judging from Jin Yiwei's attitude in handling this matter, they don't want to be too public. This should also be to avoid the plan to add sand to the immigrants.

Attention of Haihan people.

Chengfenghang was originally a place where people came and went. After Gong Shiqi and his party quietly moved out, Chengfenghang has resumed normal business and started accepting merchants to move in. The action team had to disguise themselves as a caravan and dispersed to move in again.

What kind of loopholes will appear? Instead, we can use this to pretend that Fengxing is operating normally, further reducing Jin Yiwei's vigilance. During this period, the people who need to test their acting skills and character most are not the people in the action team, but those who are currently under Jin Yiwei's surveillance.

Wan Fa, the shopkeeper of Cheng Feng Hang.

Thinking of this, Gao Qiaonan took the initiative to ask: "Wan Fa... won't there be any problems?"

Gong Shiqi said: "This is also the first time for me to cooperate with him. Although this person is a bit overjoyed, he can still distinguish the importance of things. There was no sign of disloyalty to Haihan before. Another point is that although he has not

He has a family, but both parents live in Sanya, which can guarantee his loyalty to a certain extent."

This last piece of evidence is obviously more convincing than the previous points. When Gao Qiaonan heard that Wan Fa’s family had settled in Sanya, he felt relieved. He was mainly worried that merchants like Wan Fa would not be able to withstand the pressure exerted by Jin Yiwei.

, if there is any omission or even betrayal, the risk of the action team will be difficult to avoid. Of course, at least so far, Wanfa's performance is basically impeccable, and he was also very good in the first round of confrontation with Jinyiwei.

It confuses the opponent, and it can be said that there is no way to ask him to do better.

At this time, Wan Fa was not as relaxed as his colleagues. After the excitement of successfully deceiving Jin Yiwei passed, Wan Fa inevitably fell into a nervous mood. In his past life, this was the first time he had interacted with Jin Yiwei.

Although he had received a lot of targeted training from Haihan when dealing with Jin Yiwei, a secret service agency, when he actually faced Jin Yiwei, he still inevitably felt tremendous mental pressure.

After Wanfa joined the small society of Haihan, he realized that the room for improvement of this emerging force was much greater than that of the Ming Dynasty. With his own intelligence, he should be able to make some names in this system, not to mention honoring his ancestors.

But at least he won't always be struggling at the bottom of society. He moved his family to Sanya to settle down because of his confidence in his career prospects.

He was sent to Zhejiang for undercover work mainly because Wan Fa was born near Hangzhou Prefecture, and the Haihan Security Department also gave him an almost perfect identity. But before Gong Shiqi came to Chengfengxing, he

I have always believed that running Chengfengxing well is my main task. I never thought that one day I would actually serve as a part-time employee of the Security Department and participate in a secret operation against Ming Dynasty.

Although according to Gong Shiqi's command and the training he had received before, he withstood Jin Yiwei's interrogation almost perfectly, but in the next five days, he had to recruit a group of immigrants to meet Jin Yiwei's requirements, and at this juncture, Gong Shiqi

Qi quietly left Chengfeng and marched to Hangzhou City with his troops. Now there was no one he could trust around him. Wanfa felt that he was suddenly the only one to face such a chaos, and he had to face it all by himself.

You have to make many important decisions independently, and you can't help but feel a little overwhelmed.

Recruiting a group of immigrants is not too difficult. Since Gong Shiqi once said that no matter the cost, just spend money. You can always get enough people by looking for connections and finding ways to recruit them. But after the immigrants gathered enough, the person named Liao continued to coerce them.

What should I do if I do other things? It is said that Jin Yiwei has already monitored Cheng Fengxing. How will I get in touch with Gong Shiqi and others in the next few days? What if Gong Shiqi and others fail in their operation in the city?

, do you still want to rush to the intelligence ship on the Qiantang River to report the message? Will doing so expose yourself and the personnel on the intelligence ship to the sight of Jin Yiwei?

For Wanfa, there are a lot of problems that are difficult to solve at the moment, and he does not dare to make a decision rashly, because any decision may involve his own life and fortune, as well as his colleagues currently lurking in Hangzhou.

He is not even sure if he can keep the secret if Jin Yiwei discovers the details, and if he is tortured by them, will he betray Gong Shiqi and others who are currently in Hangzhou. On the other hand, if Gong Shiqi and others

If someone is arrested in the city, will that also drag him into the water, which has not yet been fully exposed?

Wan Fa was full of doubts, but he didn't dare to show it too obviously. He didn't even know if in addition to Jin Yiwei, Gong Shiqi also left people near Cheng Fengxing to monitor him, or if he simply abandoned him.

The chess pieces were about to be exposed, so they immediately canceled the operation and evacuated Hangzhou.

Wan Fa wanted to go into the city and go to the house that Gong Shiqi bought to see if his colleagues were still in the city. This would at least give him some peace of mind, but he also knew that he was under the surveillance of Jin Yiwei. Such reckless behavior

It was very likely that he would betray his colleagues, so he could only forcefully endure this idea. Although it had only been a day since Gong Qiqi left Chengfengxing, Wan Fa already felt that he had no backbone and had no idea what to do.

It's good.

That night, when Wan Fa was sighing and pacing back and forth in the room, someone suddenly knocked on the door. Wan Fa thought it was his assistant, so he walked over and opened the door to take a look, only to see Gong Shiqi standing there with a smile.

Looking at himself outside the door, Wan Fa was surprised and happy. He quickly let him into the house, looked around to see if there was no one in the courtyard, and then quickly closed the door again.

"Boss, no one noticed you when you came in, right? There were people from the Imperial Guard watching outside the store!" Wan Fa asked worriedly.

Gong Shiqi smiled and said: "Don't worry, Jinyiwei arranged two groups of people to monitor outside, staring at the front and back doors respectively. They probably didn't expect that anyone would climb over the wall and enter this store in the middle of the night."

Wan Fa then breathed a sigh of relief and said: "That's good...Boss, you suddenly came back in the middle of the night, but what happened?"

"Nothing has changed, it's just that we have made some adjustments to our plan. The focus of the operation in the next few days may return to Chengfengxing." Gong Shiqi did not explain to Wanfa in detail what he had done to Liao Zhai during his stay in the city.

As a result of the investigation, he was given a new order: "Starting early tomorrow morning, you will send a few guys home as soon as possible without leaving a trace, and arrange for our people to take over. In addition, people from the action team will pretend to be a caravan and move in again.

, don’t be surprised either.”

"Re-checking in? Why is that?" Wanfa didn't understand the significance of his boss's move. After all, he just evacuated here not long ago, why would he want to come back again?

Gong Shiqi said with a smile: "Didn't Jin Yiwei want to use Cheng Fengxing's channels to catch up with Haihan? Then let's help them along the way."
Chapter completed!