Chapter 1692: Getting to the bottom of things

Francis has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he has done a lot of things for the Ding family as a protective umbrella. Naturally, he knows how much power businessmen with official backgrounds have. Although he still retains his status as an official after the change of dynasties,

But nowadays, I can only live with my tail between my legs, and I don’t dare to do whatever I want like before. It’s hard to say that the backer behind Chaosheng Commercial Store is much more important than myself. If Ding Feng provokes him to find trouble for others,

If you don't do it right, you might get kicked off the iron plate and fall over.

At least, we must first find out which giant Buddha is behind Ran Tianlu of Chaosheng Merchant Store. If it is the kind that cannot be offended, then it is better to keep a distance as soon as possible and do not take the initiative to cause trouble.

Ding Feng was not a person who couldn't listen to what he said. Since Francis said so cautiously, and the rumors mentioned by Qin Huacheng also confirmed from the side that this person was not easy to mess with, he couldn't force Francis to take this risk. But

He was definitely not willing to give up, so he turned to Qin Huacheng and asked, "Is there any way you can find out the details of that person?"

Compared with Francis, who only deals with Hispanics in the Western Management Bureau all day long, Qin Huacheng, as a security policeman, is obviously more suitable to inquire about information about the Han people. Once he has accurate information, he may be able to find a way to deal with this difficult target.

Qin Huacheng saw that the two men were staring at him, so he nodded and said: "I can try, but I can't guarantee the result. You also know that with the authority of the security police, there won't be much information that can be obtained."

"If the resistance is too great, we don't need too precise information. In fact, we just need to know whether the person can move." Ding Feng added.

If he wanted to compete fairly with the other party, Ding Feng would not have to invite these two people out. His intention was to use the power of the government to suppress the competitor's operations in the Hispanic area. Of course, if he could directly ask the other party to withdraw

Competition is the best thing.

Qin Huacheng deliberately acted unsure in front of the two people, just in case he failed to catch the matter and failed to get it done, at least to make them mentally prepared in advance. But to find out the details of a Ming businessman, for him

I really didn’t find it difficult.

Although the public security police is only a temporary establishment, the special nature of the violent agency determines that it has far more authority than ordinary government agencies. In the name of maintaining public order, investigating people's information is one of the normal functions of the public security police, and Qin Huacheng became this

Although the detachment leader's official position is not high, it is enough to independently check people's household registration information. As long as he goes to the Manila Police Headquarters in the city, he should be able to find out the detailed personal information of the shop owner of Chaosheng Store.

It was much easier than him going to the south of the city to figure out the situation in person.

But Qin Huacheng knows that even if it is easy to do something, it cannot be easily revealed in front of these two old foxes. Otherwise, not only will they not be grateful for their efforts, but they will underestimate themselves even more. They have to let them

Only by keeping their minds in suspense can they truly value their existence and role. However, there seems to be some deviation between reality and Qin Huacheng's imagination. This job does not seem to be as easy as he imagined.

The next day, Qin Huacheng found an excuse and entered the city with some documents that needed to be reported to the Police Headquarters. The Manila Police Headquarters was also located in the castle area in the north of the city where there were many official agencies. This house was the

The weapons warehouse of the city defense army. After the war, all the Western-style weapons stored here were moved, part of it was destroyed, and part of it was sold to the Portuguese at a discount. The house was used to establish the Manila Police Department.

Although the security police on duty in various places inside and outside the city are almost all young men recruited from the local area like Qin Huacheng, the vast majority of police officers serving in the Police Headquarters are from Haihan. Police Commissioner Yu Zhen has served Haihan for many years.

An old naturalized citizen, he joined the Haihan police force as a Yacheng policeman and became the head of the Shilu hard labor camp. In 1635, he was transferred back to Sanya and received a period of promotion training, and then sat in the police department.

He stayed in the office for about a year to get familiar with the affairs of the agency. When the Executive Committee was planning the expedition to the West, Yuzhen became a candidate on the list of expatriate officials. At the end of the war, he came to Manila with Qiu Yuan, and then took on the responsibility

established the task of establishing local security agencies.

If you break down Yushui's work experience in the past few years, you can find that he has visited almost every department under the Police Department. He has rich experience in the police system and local public security management. He was assigned to Manila to be in charge of the Police Headquarters.

The leadership work can be regarded as giving full play to the talents of the people.

The biggest problem that Yushui faced after taking office was not the resistance and riots from local people, but the serious shortage of police manpower. After the war, there were only thirty or forty police officers transferred from China, and most of them were from the grassroots, so local police were established

Almost all the work of directing the daily operations of the police agency fell on Yushui. In order to solve the problem of insufficient manpower, Yushui recruited a large number of young people, mainly Han Chinese, from the local area and established a public security police department composed of these temporary police officers.

These security police are used to manage and monitor local social security.

The effect of this is obvious. These security police who are familiar with local people's conditions are undoubtedly much more timely in handling security incidents than the Haihan police officers who have just arrived. It is difficult to play tricks in front of them. Especially when they have ridden on the heads of Han people in the past.

The domineering Hispanic officers are closely watched by the security police, who are mainly Han Chinese. If they are not careful, they may be arrested for some crime. They can only be careful with their words and deeds to avoid getting into trouble.

.In this way, it also virtually reduces the chance of local Hispanic people resisting the new rulers, allowing the security situation in Manila to quickly improve.

But there are also disadvantages. These security police who are familiar with local conditions have too many opportunities to abuse their power for personal gain. There are many people who use their black uniforms to make profits for themselves, but it is difficult for a management team with only a few dozen people to take care of both.

Regarding the situation at the grassroots level of the police force, what they control is only the general situation of each detachment. More sources of information must rely on the work reports of each detachment captain, and then senior police officers will issue new instructions to them. Similar to Qin Huacheng

The captain of the public security police detachment, although his official position is not large, his authority is not small, and he acts extremely freely. As long as he uses his mind a little, it is effortless to use his status to gain some benefits for himself.

At this stage, whether it is the Interim Management Committee or Aftershock, there is no particularly good solution to these shortcomings. Haihan must manage local public security through these people, so these problems, both big and small, cannot be avoided.

As long as it does not affect Haihan's rule, officials will generally turn a blind eye and not care too much about the small actions of their subordinates. People like Qin Huacheng, who took the benefits of businessmen, leaked some innocuous information

Information, no one will go to the bottom of it to investigate him.

When Qin Huacheng arrived at the Police Headquarters, he first went to the archives office to hand over the documents he had brought. After getting the receipt, he went straight to the household registration office next door. After taking over Manila, Haihan began to compile and organize the local household registration.

The archives are partly based on the archives left by the Spanish rulers, but most of the registration work still needs to be done from scratch. One of the main tasks of the Western Bureau where Francis works is to register the information of local Hispanic people.

Qin Huacheng knew that the shopkeeper Ran of the Chaosheng Merchant Inn was from the Ming Dynasty, and such a foreign businessman resident in Manila should also have a detailed household registration information at the Police Headquarters. After Qin Huacheng showed his ID to the clerk here

, and requested to inquire about this person’s information.

The clerk asked Qin Huacheng to write down the name, location and other known personal information of the person being inquired about, and then got up and went to the reference room. Ran Tianlu had a name and a surname. He must have been filed with a foreign businessman. It should not take too long to search.

Long.

Sure enough, the clerk came back not long after, but he did not bring Ran Tianlu's information. He just returned the query information written by Qin Huacheng to him, shaking his head and saying that he could not query it.

Qin Huacheng asked curiously: "Is it possible that this person has not yet registered his household registration? No, as far as I know, the south side of the city was the first to start registration. How could he have missed Chaosheng Commercial Store? Could it be that you didn't see clearly, brother? Please make another trip.

How is it?"

The clerk waved his hand and said: "It's not that it's not registered, it's that you can't check."

Qin Huacheng was even more puzzled now: "As the captain of the Hong Kong Public Security Police Detachment, why can't I investigate?"

The clerk said: "There are confidentiality restrictions on this person's file. You are not high enough to check it. Go back."

"Confidentiality restrictions?" Qin Huacheng frowned, and it took him a long time to recall that the police officer mentioned during the induction training that not everyone can access the files in the Police Headquarters, and some of the confidential content must be reviewed.

Only those with certain job authority are qualified to inquire. My position as detachment leader is not small, but if I say it is big, it may not even be considered a big one. There is a superintendent above me, and there is a police inspector above the superintendent.

Above the police inspector, there is also the temporary management committee, and the real big shots are in the temporary management committee.

There are some things in the police headquarters that can only be seen by the big shots, which is naturally a normal thing. However, this is the first time Qin Huacheng has encountered such a thing. He can't help but feel a little strange. He also asked the clerk what authority he needs to inquire about this.

Person profile.

The clerk responded impatiently: "Have you never learned the confidentiality regulations? Don't ask if you shouldn't ask! I've said you don't have enough authority. If you insist on checking, just report it to the superiors! If the director approves it,

, you can come and check."

Qin Huacheng was secretly surprised, but he pretended nothing happened. He thanked the clerk and left. He knew that he was of low status and could not even see the director, so how could he get any approval. It was just a businessman from Ming Dynasty.

He really didn't understand that his identity information had such a high level of confidentiality. He had previously come here to check the information of another Ming businessman at Ding Feng's request, and it went very smoothly at that time, without any permission requirements.

, it is obvious that Ran Tianlu's identity is somewhat special, so much so that the authorities have provided him with some special protection.

But this not only did not make Qin Huacheng give up the idea of ​​​​finding out, but it aroused his curiosity. He had heard a lot of rumors about Chaosheng Commercial Inn and the shopkeeper Ran Tianlu before, and what he had experienced today made him curious.

I am very curious about who this businessman is and how powerful he is.

With nothing to do, Qin Huacheng decided to go to the Immigration Department again to see if there was any other way to find out the news. His brother Qin Huaming worked at the Immigration Department. According to its functions, the Immigration Department also had to deal with foreigners who had been living in the local area all year round.

People are registered, and it is said that Chaosheng Commercial Store is doing the intermediary business of immigrants from Daming to Manila. It is a good time to go to my brother to inquire and see if there is anything special about it.

After hearing his explanation of his intention, Qin Huaming shook his head and said, "Brother, I don't know much about the Chaosheng Commercial Store, but the handling of immigration matters was an order personally issued by the Temporary Management Committee. There is no doubt about it. But if you want to find

It's best to save yourself the trouble of Chaosheng Merchant Store. This store must have a very deep background, otherwise it would be impossible to monopolize this business."

Qin Huacheng smiled and said: "I'm not looking for trouble with this store. I'm just curious to find out what's so special about this store that it allows the Temporary Management Committee to arrange a sale for it."

Qin Hua Ming said: "Hearing is better than seeing. If you are really interested, then just go to the south of the city. It's not far anyway. Go and see the situation of the store, maybe it will solve your doubts.

"

Qin Huacheng thought it was reasonable, so he bid farewell to Qin Huaming and went straight to the south of the city, intending to see what kind of land this business inn was.

It has been more than a month since the war ended, and the ruins of the city walls and gates that were blown down in the south of the city have been basically cleaned up. The originally continuous city wall defense line now has a gap about ten meters wide, and only the broken walls and ruins remain.

It reached about one-third of the height of the original city wall, and the city gate was completely demolished, turning it into an open intersection. However, the city defense army still set up checkpoints for entering and exiting the city as usual, but the rigor of the inspections was no longer as good as in war.

Those days have just ended.

Qin Huacheng was wearing the uniform of a security policeman, so the city defense army would not embarrass him and left the city smoothly. After walking about a mile along the south road of the city, he saw a flagpole on a roof in front of him.

The white characters on a black background were the two characters "Tide Rising" in big letters. Still far away, Qin Huacheng saw carriages and sedans coming in and out of that place, which looked quite busy.

When you get closer, you can see that the side of this place facing the South Avenue of the City is completely paved, and the branch road for carriages and sedans to enter and exit leads to a large courtyard behind these street-facing shops. This place is conveniently located.

Now it operates the largest Chaosheng Store in the south of Manila.
Chapter completed!