Chapter 881 Zhoushan Investment Promotion Conference (6)

The person responsible for interrogating Wu Huanzhi is Gong Shiqi, a confidant specially transferred from Guangzhou by the Minister of Security He Xi. After Haihan occupied Zhoushan, intelligence collection and internal security matters, as well as the formulation and implementation of some public security measures, were temporarily handled by Gong.

Gong Shiqi is fully responsible. If nothing happens, Gong Shiqi will continue to be responsible for the intelligence and security work in this area after the local operation is on track.

Gong Shiqi was transferred to Guangzhou to work with He Xi since the establishment of the Guangdong Office. He was previously responsible for field tasks, mainly conducting secret operations such as intelligence collection, surveillance, tracking, kidnapping, and assassination. Over the past few years, he has accumulated

He Xi had originally intended to find an opportunity to give him greater authority, but it was the first time in his career to take charge of intelligence and security affairs in a region. Moreover, the Zhoushan area had always been a maritime area in the past.

In an adventurer's paradise, the security situation is also very complicated. This position is a huge challenge for Gong Qiqi.

From a security perspective, Gong Shiqi actually disagrees with hastily convening an investment meeting before Zhoushan Island is fully occupied, because the influx of a large number of outsiders will exponentially increase the pressure on local security work. Although Gong Shiqi also believes that

There is no armed force in Zhoushan that can compete head-on with the Haihan Militia Army, but if the participants in the investment fair are mixed with hostile elements who are deliberately causing trouble, causing trouble during the investment fair, or even resorting to arson, poisoning, or assassinating important figures,

To organize armed rebellion and other actions, it will be difficult for the Ministry of Security to achieve effective monitoring and management of the occupied areas with only the personnel of the Ministry of Security.

However, an investment promotion meeting should be held in the Zhoushan area as soon as possible to attract businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to join the Haihan trade system. This decision was made by the executive committee, and the people below can only implement it unconditionally instead of questioning it. Even if Gong Shiqi knew that this was a big pit,

I just had to bite the bullet.

The Haihan Security Department has not even established a rudimentary intelligence network in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. The so-called intelligence collection basically relies on the information provided by the leading party. The effect that this operating model can achieve is naturally very limited. For those with the largest flow of people during the investment fair,

For the monitoring of docks, conference venues, and food and accommodation places, Gong Qiqi could only rely on the deployment of the military. He only imposed several temporary regulations that required notification to the security department in case of emergencies.

This passive monitoring method really made Gong Shiqi feel uneasy, so he simply set up his headquarters in the port area of ​​Dinghaiwan, Zhoushan, the gateway to the investment fair. This way, he could at least conduct close surveillance.

, in case of any situation, we can respond in the shortest time, and what happened later fully proved that the measures taken by Gong Shiqi still came in handy.

Speaking of which, we must mention the security measures for this investment conference. The military has deployed a large number of militia soldiers in several places with the largest flow of people. At the same time, the scope of activities of people landing on the island has also been classified and restricted. Except for those who come to participate

In addition to the merchants and entourages of the investment association, a large number of sailors and crew members were restricted to the port area and were not allowed to enter the venue area. For this purpose, bamboo fences, wooden fences, barbed wire and buildings were specially set up in the port area.

The isolation line formed by the connection is patrolled day and night, and notices are posted in the port area to warn sailors not to easily try to cross the isolation line to avoid being treated as gangsters.

Although the island has strict restrictions on the supply of alcohol, this is not a problem for sailors who travel on the sea all year round, because every sea ship will stock some alcohol to a greater or lesser extent.

The consequence was that the day before the investment meeting was held, five or six drunken sailors caused trouble and fights in Dinghai Port. Fortunately, the militia soldiers on duty quickly quelled these minor emergencies, and

The follow-up investigation by the Ministry of Security did not find any hidden dangers. After all, the people involved in the fight were all bare-handed, and the few injured guys had minor skin injuries.

The work Gong Shiqi is responsible for is not only the security of the port area. A large number of pirate prisoners captured previously are still being identified and interrogated. There is too much information that he needs to sort and classify and report to the Sanya headquarters. As for the fights between sailors

He didn't have much energy to deal with such trivial matters one by one.

The morning of the first day of the Investment Promotion Fair was still calm, and it was not until noon that something happened. The staff of the Ministry of Commerce who came from the venue asked the port staff to inventory and value the goods on a certain cargo ship. The reason was that the cargo owner used the goods on the ship.

The goods were mortgaged in exchange for the commodity franchise. So the port staff went to the ship to find the owner of the goods to handle the relevant matters. However, there was no news about this person after he boarded the ship, as if everything had disappeared. The staff waiting for news here were impatient.

, I happened to meet an old acquaintance of the officer who was leading the patrol at the port, so I asked him to help me go there to urge him.

So the officer led a group of soldiers over. As soon as he arrived at the dock, still twenty or thirty meters away, he saw that the people on the ship actually used bows and arrows to shoot towards him. Fortunately, everyone on duty at the port area was

They were elite soldiers of the special operations battalion. Although the situation was unexpected, they did not lose their position and immediately launched a counterattack with muskets.

With the sound of gunfire, there was chaos on the pier. Then people on several other ships took out weapons and started fighting with the Haihan troops on the pier. This was obviously not an individual incident, but a premeditated armed sneak attack. But the military had already

Plans were made for various situations that might arise during the investment fair, and they were even prepared for large-scale anti-landing operations. Therefore, two companies of infantry soon rushed to the dock to join the battle.

The rifle fire quickly suppressed the sporadic firepower on the ship. After receiving the alarm, several warships rushed to the periphery of the dock and blocked the departure channel. If the people on the ship tried to cut off the cables and escape, then wait for them

There will be ruthless bombardment. As the Haihan soldiers advance step by step, desperate gangsters continue to jump from the ship into the sea to escape. However, the coastline of the port area blocked by Haihan is several miles long. Anyone who wants to escape from the water will

The area is not easy either.

It is a very unscientific thing for stragglers who use primitive weapons and lack unified command to compete head-on with well-trained and advanced-equipped professional troops, and the result of failure is destined to be irreversible. The people of the special operations battalion did not spend any money

It took a lot of effort to put down the riot, and even the merchants participating in the investment meeting a mile away were not aware of what was happening in the port area.

The soldiers found the bodies of the port staff on the ship where the incident occurred. Apparently they had been poisoned after boarding the ship. In addition, there were seven or eight corpses and a dozen injured people on the ship, as well as dozens of weapons such as knives and bows.

What frightened the security personnel who arrived later was that two nearly brand-new Haihan standard rifles were also found on the ship. Although they were only export-type matchlock guns in the early years, the effective range of these guns still reached 100 meters. Just imagine what would happen if

The assassin has been lurking on the ship, waiting for the important person on Haihan's side to appear at the dock to take a shot. Even if he misses, the responsibility is enough to make the security department drink a lot.

So while taking the captured gangsters back for interrogation, the Haihan military immediately blocked the port, banned all ships from entering and exiting the port, and began a comprehensive search of foreign ships docked at the seaside. After such a big incident, the port area

The ship bosses did not dare to say no to this kind of search, otherwise they would be regarded by Haihan as a gang accomplice and would be arrested immediately.

The first thing Gong Shiqi did after arriving at the scene was to ask where the owner and cargo owner of the accident ship were. The military's answer was that the owner jumped into the sea and escaped, and is still being hunted, while the cargo owner seems to be competing for a franchise on the island.

The Security Department quickly found the Ministry of Commerce staff member who was still in a dazed state on the dock and asked him about the whereabouts of the cargo owner. So he led a team of soldiers and went straight to the dining place to find Wu Huanzhi who was confused. And this

After a brief interrogation by the prisoners on the side, one confessed that he belonged to the Zhoushan Boat Gang.

Wu Huanzhi had no idea that there had been such a big mess at the port in the short period of time when he came out of the place where he went through the formalities. After Gong Qiqi asked a few questions, he could basically judge that this guy was also the target of being deceived.

The several ships that made trouble in the port this time were almost all in similar situations, but the other ships only had sporadic gangsters mixed in. On the ship hired by Wu Huanzhi, except for him and his entourage, all the sailors and crew were from Zhoushan.

Boat gang people.

There was a high possibility that Wu Huanzhi was innocent, but for safety reasons, Gong Shiqi could not let him go at this juncture, and immediately told him that he needed to stay here to cooperate with the investigation.

Although Wu Huanzhi tried to keep calm, he was still a little panicked when he heard that he was going to be detained. He quickly defended: "This military master, I really have nothing to do with the Zhoushan Shipping Gang, and I have no disrespect to Haihan.

It’s useless to buckle here!”

Gong Shiqi responded coldly: "There may still be their accomplices on the island. I can let you go. If the news is leaked and someone slips through the net, can you bear the responsibility? You can stay here honestly."

Wait until the case investigation is clear and your innocence is proven, we will naturally let you go."

Wu Huanzhi said anxiously: "Then I spent thousands of taels of silver to get the franchise, so what do you think?"

Gong Shiqi said: "Don't worry, you won't suffer any loss by doing business with us. As long as you are innocent and the previous agreement is still valid, we will also give you appropriate compensation. What you should do now is to cooperate with us.

Wait for the news here, the sooner we find out the truth, the sooner you can regain your freedom."

Wu Huanzhi had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky. The current situation could no longer be affected by his status as a businessman, and Zhoushan Island was not a place directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. The decision was made by the sea that now occupied this place.

Han people. This group of people are extremely shrewd, and they are not people who can be fooled by just saying a few nice words or throwing in some money. Wu Huanzhi not only secretly regretted why he didn’t ask Zhou Hai, the owner of the ship, when renting the ship, maybe he would

It will give you a chance to see through the other party and avoid the trouble you will encounter during this trip to Zhoushan.

Gong Shiqi had no time to care about Wu Huanzhi's feelings. If he found out that what Wu Huanzhi said was a lie and that he was actually secretly colluding with the Zhoushan Boat Gang, then Wu Huanzhi would never have the chance to leave here safely. But from what has happened so far

Judging from the known situation, it is indeed very likely that Wu Huanzhi is an innocent person who was implicated.

As the interrogation progressed, the general story of the entire incident was revealed to Gong Shiqi. The group of gangsters who took advantage of the business meeting to lurk on the island were indeed members of the Zhoushan Boat Gang, and were personally commanded by their leader Wang Jialin. These people were counted beforehand.

Tianjie had been broken into pieces, and as a sailor, he lurked on several ships that were preparing to come to Zhoushan Island to participate in investment promotion conferences, intending to look for opportunities to cause trouble on the island.

However, this group of people obviously did not expect that Haihan would block the entire port area and restrict the scope of activities of outsiders. Most of the ships docked in this port were foreign ships, and the Haihan warships were all parked on the outside of the harbor.

Island, near Dongba Island. Even if they can burn all the boats here, they can't hurt Haihan's fur.

In desperation, these people could only temporarily lurk in the port and wait for the opportunity. At noon, when the port staff planned to board the ship to inventory the goods, the bandit leader Wang Jialin happened to convene everyone on the ship to distribute weapons and discuss the next move. The gangsters did not dare to refuse to give in.

He boarded the ship, which would easily attract the attention of the Han soldiers at the dock, so they asked him to board the ship and then took him into the cabin to kill him. Later, when the patrol team was about to find the staff member, the people on the ship thought that he

His identity had been exposed, which led to the encirclement and suppression by the Haihan Army, so he temporarily launched an attempt to resist, but this futile action only attracted more opponents.

In a battle that lasted only about ten minutes, the Haihan side only paid the price of one person being seriously injured and five others slightly injured, and defeated the desperate struggle of the Zhoushan Boat Gang. After the war, a total of 23 gangsters were killed on the spot and ten were captured.

One person, and according to the gangsters' confessions, there are seven more people at large, including the bandit leader Wang Jialin.

Knowing that the bandit leader was still on the island, Gong Shiqi personally led the team to the dock again to preside over the search work, while reporting the news to the headquarters and requesting reinforcements. After Qian Tiandun received the news, he also attached great importance to it.

Qiao Nan led the elite reconnaissance platoon to the dock to support Gong Shiqi. At the same time, Shi Diwen also returned to the flagship Enterprise and ordered all naval personnel to cancel their vacations and return to their posts to prepare for war. The reconnaissance ship immediately left the port and targeted the enemy within a radius of five nautical miles.

Conduct a search at sea in case the other party has any backup plans.

However, the venue of the Investment Promotion Fair was still a lively scene, and the businessmen who had no idea what was happening at the port were still immersed in the exciting game of fighting for the franchise. For them, there is nothing better than getting the chance to win within the next two years.

The opportunity to make a fortune is even more important.
Chapter completed!