Chapter 1934

The construction of the Changhua Smelting Zone started almost simultaneously with the local port and populated area, and was put into operation almost simultaneously with the Shilu Mine. With the increasing expansion of production scale over the years, the production facilities located directly north and northeast of the county

The area has gradually expanded, and the area is already much larger than the county itself. In addition to large and small smelting workshops, there are also processing plants that produce various metal products and many other supporting institutions in this area, which have initially taken shape.

A relatively complete industrial chain has been established.

For example, the closest production site to the coal port is a coking plant that specializes in turning coal into coke. The coke it produces is one of the essential raw materials in the steel smelting and casting process, and even accounts for its production costs.

Nearly half of the large amount of coal that arrives locally every month is first made into coke here and then used in the next step.

How to heat coal to a thousand-degree temperature while being isolated from the air, and finally make coke through drying, pyrolysis, melting, bonding, solidification, shrinkage and other stages is naturally a technical activity that requires attention to detail.

Front-line production positions must also be staffed by personnel who have received specialized training. However, the coking plant has a huge amount of production materials coming in and out, so there is also a large number of pure laborers who are responsible for handling work, as long as they are in good health.

Although this job is very labor-intensive, because there is no technical content, the income of the porters is actually very low. Most people who have joined the Haihan nationality can find higher-paying and more stable jobs, so they are willing to

Almost all those doing the dry transportation are new immigrants who have not yet been naturalized or people from the Li-Miao Mountains from the inland areas of the island.

It is precisely because of this relatively special personnel composition that many people are engaged in transportation work here in the form of part-time labor. As a result, the official control of the floating population is relatively rough, far less than that of the military in the smelting workshop.

Control measures are strict.

Based on the current situation, Xue Zheng believes that people can be arranged to sneak into the coking plant through this channel, and then use the identity of the porter to cover up from the coking plant to the smelting workshop. It will be relatively easier. And this is much easier than in the official fleet.

If an ambush is set up along the route of travel, the difficulty of the operation will be much smaller, and there will be a greater chance of getting close to the target person.

"There may be flaws in asking you to pretend to be craftsmen in the workshop, but it won't be difficult for you to pretend to be porters, right?" Xue Zheng lost no time in inciting the mood of his group of people: "North Koreans will never sit down.

Visiting in a carriage, as long as they get off the carriage, they will have a chance to get up close! You are all experts, so there is no need for Xue to teach you how to do it. Let me remind you again, the reward given for assassinating the crown prince of Joseon

, the first contribution is a thousand taels of gold. With this money, I won’t have to do this business of licking blood for the rest of my life!!”

Although the people participating in this operation belong to different camps, to put it bluntly, they are all working for money. Especially the reward for Li Bo has reached a huge amount of one thousand taels of gold. It is difficult for anyone to reward this amount of money.

Stay calm. Although this is not a secret to everyone, everyone's breathing became faster when they heard Xue Zheng mention this tempting number again.

At this time, no one cares whether the Crown Prince of Joseon is under layers of protection or what the chances are of succeeding in launching an attack. In order to get this huge sum of money, each of them has a divine block to kill a divine Buddha block.

The courage to kill the Buddha, even if the Joseon Crown Prince was surrounded by thousands of troops and horses, would be ignored by them at the moment.

Xue Zheng is very satisfied with this atmosphere. Without Lu Weng's mole who questions his decision-making, the internal atmosphere is much better. What he needs is the complete obedience and reckless action of this group of people, even if there are not many people.

, but he knew that his own advantage lay in being able to attack them unprepared. The Haihan people should not have expected that there would be such an assassination team secretly watching the North Koreans. As for the security measures taken by Haihan officials, Xue Zheng believed that they were all

It was a routine routine to scare ordinary people, without any special arrangements for this group of people.

Of course, whether these security measures are just a pretense or a truly effective defense method can only be verified personally after they take action. Neither Xue Zheng nor the group of people he commanded, they did not want to go at the moment

Think deeply about this issue, because apart from making them more scrupulous, it will not have any actual positive effect.

At the same time, in Daling Manor, Gai Liangcai was also confirming the next day's itinerary and security measures with Qiao Zhiya's officers. Although both parties believed that this was just a routine matter and that there were no known threats to security,

They also patiently confirmed various security measures one by one to avoid possible security loopholes.

According to the itinerary, Qiao Zhiya and the Crown Prince of Joseon will set off from Daling Manor at 9 a.m. and go along the official road to Changhua Smelting Industrial Zone. After arriving in the area, they will visit two blast furnaces for smelting steel, two metal processing plants, and

One or two other visit items may be temporarily added. During the period, we will eat in a canteen in the industrial zone specifically for senior technicians and officials. Then in the afternoon, it depends on how early or late the visit ends, and based on the wishes of the Joseon Crown Prince.

Decide whether to add or delete tour items.

Since there are many dignitaries from various countries who come here to visit and study every year, such visit itineraries have long been standardized, and at most they will be adjusted in individual items. The itinerary Li Bo chose in Sanya was only for the big trip.

As for the specific visit items after arriving in Changhua, they are all arranged by the local government. Li Ming can make suggestions on the visit items, but whether to implement them or not is still decided by the local officials in charge.

Li Bo had no objections to Qiao Zhiya's arrangements, so the next step was for the relevant agencies to arrange the travel process and provide security. As the accompanying military attache, Gai Liangcai's main task was to provide personal protection for Li Bo and his party.

As for the escort, the work of clearing the way, guarding, and cutting off the rear of the team are all left to Qiao Zhiya's subordinates who are familiar with the local situation.

In fact, providing protection and security for important people was not Gai Liangcai's past work direction. As an active-duty army captain and infantry company commander, what he is best at is leading troops to perform combat missions. Gai actually does not have much experience in security.

Liangcai knew that he was not professional enough, and he relied on some special connections to get this gold-plated task. He couldn't make a mistake, otherwise he might implicate the people who worked for him behind the scenes. So before setting off from Sanya

After that, Gai Liangcai never dared to relax at all and carefully arranged every detail of the security work.

At Yinggehai and Changhua stations, in addition to working with local garrisons and private guards, Gai Liangcai actually went out of his way to establish a good relationship with Zhang Qianzhi, one of the accompanying officials. He knew Zhang Qianzhi's true identity

, and also understands some of the privileges that the special agency of the Ministry of Security has in his country. He believes that Zhang Qianzhi may be able to give him some support when necessary. For example, in terms of intelligence information, his sources will definitely not be able to communicate with the security department.

Compare.

Moreover, Gai Liangcai had heard that the Ministry of Security had a field department that was responsible for special operations tasks. Although he felt that there might not be a serious situation that required the Ministry of Security to dispatch armed personnel to help, he wanted to establish a good relationship with the officials of the Ministry of Security.

It was always right to leave an extra path for yourself. So after checking the security arrangements with Qiao Zhiya's men, he did not go back to his room to rest immediately, but took the initiative to find Zhang Qianzhi.

Qiao Zhiya's manor is quite large in scale, with more than ten bedrooms for entertaining guests, which is comparable to a hotel. Zhang Qianzhi and other accompanying officials also received preferential treatment in single-room accommodation.

Zhang Qianzhi was not surprised to see Gai Liangcai come to visit him. He came to chat with him almost every day these days. Zhang Qianzhi also knew Gai Liangcai's purpose of actively befriending him. He was very aware of it.

He entered the officialdom when he was only a few years old, and he was engaged in special work in the security field. He had come into contact with all kinds of people in the past ten years, and his experience in dealing with other officials was far richer than Gai Liangcai's. However, he did not resent it.

Gai Liangcai's way of making friends with a certain purpose, in his opinion, the other party is actually doing it for official reasons, not necessarily to gain any personal gain from himself, or to have other evil intentions.

"Brother Gai is really in a good mood. Do you plan to have two drinks at this time?" Zhang Qianzhi couldn't help teasing him when he saw Gai Liangcai holding a wine bottle in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other.

Gai Liangcai smiled and said: "When we were eating earlier, the Prince of Joseon wanted to hear what happened on the battlefield, but in the end he only focused on telling him stories and didn't pay much attention to eating. After talking about work with Mr. Qiao's men just now, I felt

I was hungry, so I went to the kitchen for a walk and grabbed a few cold dishes. Anyway, I don’t have to do errands now, so I can drink some wine to relax. Brother Zhang, if you don’t mind, can we drink some together? "

Zhang Qianzhi stepped aside to let the way into the house and responded: "Brother Gai's proposal is exactly what I want, please!"

Gai Liangcai entered the room and put down the wine pot and basket. He saw a copy of "The Rise of the South China Sea" on the table. He immediately said with a smile: "It turns out that Brother Zhang was reading behind closed doors at night, and he was really disturbing me."

Zhang Qianzhi said: "The Prince of Joseon has been very interested in this book recently. I heard that he takes time to read it every day, so I also came to read it and speculate on his thoughts."

"Oh? I wonder what Brother Zhang has gained?" Gai Liangcai asked Zhang Qianzhi while taking the cold dishes out of the basket.

Zhang Qianzhi did not immediately respond to his question, but instead asked: "Brother Gai has been in contact with this Joseon prince for several days. What do you think of him?"

Gai Liangcai slowed down his hand movements and thought for a while before answering: "It can be seen from his words and deeds that the prince is more cautious in character; he does not like wine and sex, and he is not greedy for enjoyment, which shows that he has strong self-control; during the visit

The Central Committee took the initiative to ask some questions, which shows that it is very attentive to the inspection."

Gai Liangcai paused and added: "In fact, I have read this book "The Rise of the South China Sea", but our feelings when reading this book are definitely different from those of foreigners. We feel proud after reading this book.

That’s it, but I think the crown prince of Joseon will probably think about what successful experiences his country can emulate after reading this book.”

Zhang Qianzhi nodded and praised: "Brother Gai is very observant and thoughtful, and his views are very similar to mine. Especially his ideas about this book really coincide with mine!"

Gai Liangcai smiled, picked up the jug, poured wine into two glasses, handed one to Zhang Qianzhi and said, "Don't just chat lively, drink a glass first to moisten your throat!"

Zhang Qianzhi took the wine glass and said: "The amount of wine I have is limited, brother Gai, please don't drink too much!"

"It doesn't matter, this is fruit wine produced in Danzhou. It's not as intoxicating as liquor. Brother Zhang will know after trying it." After Gai Liangcai said this, he suddenly felt something was wrong, so he took the initiative and said: "I forgot.

Brother Zhang once worked as an errand in Danzhou, so he should be more familiar with this fruit wine than me."

Zhang Qianzhi said: "Brother Gai knows a lot of things. He even knows old things like me working as an errand in Danzhou."

Gai Liangcai said: "Brother Zhang, don't be surprised. You made great achievements in Danzhou back then. Although the outside world did not report this matter, there are still many people who know that you passed by here. I also heard about it by chance, but I have no idea about Brother Zhang.

I admire you so much!”

The Danzhou assassination in 1631 was a serious case that was fully investigated by the Ministry of Security. At that time, Zhang Qianzhi was lurking in a certain academy in Danzhou as an undercover agent and collected a large number of key clues for the subsequent detection and arrest work.

One of the greatest contributors to the Ministry of Security's investigation of the case. Since then, Zhang Qianzhi has truly embarked on a promotion path that can be said to be one of the turning points in his career.

This case caused quite a stir in Haihan at the time, and a large number of people in the Qiongbei area were later implicated. The large-scale prisoner unrest that occurred in the Shilu Mining Area in the same year was also inextricably linked to the Danzhou incident.

At that time, the military also mobilized many troops to participate in quelling the chaos and arresting people, and screened most of Qiongzhong and Qiongbei. Therefore, some inside stories about the cases investigated by the Ministry of Security at that time were in the military

In fact, there are rumors.

Gai Liangcai was only a sergeant at that time. After the Qiongzhong suppression mission was completed, he was promoted to second lieutenant based on his military exploits. However, it was not that he knew the story of Zhang Qianzhi at that time, but after a long time

I just learned about it by chance, and I took advantage of this opportunity to talk it out and try to trick him.

Zhang Qianzhi smiled and said: "Some little things make Brother Gai laugh!"

The two of them looked at each other, smiled, raised glasses, and tacitly agreed not to mention the authenticity of these ancient events.
Chapter completed!