The next morning, Gaoda dragged Li Shouzhong, who was still in a coma, to the Xinqiao Commune headquarters five miles away and surrendered to the security department.

Upon hearing that the two men were coming to surrender, Officer Zhu, who received them, smiled faintly and said, "Captain Wang is right. You have really pulled back from the brink of death!"

"Who, Seventh Master?" the two asked without caring about being embarrassed.

"Who else could it be?" Officer Zhu searched in the filing cabinet for a while and found a document in which Wang Qi guaranteed the two people in his personal name. He said, "If he hadn't supported you, you would have gone to Aozhou to mine long ago."

"Why is Seventh Master so nice to us?" Gaoda and Li Shouzhong choked up.

"Then you must not let him down and you must cooperate with our work." Secretary Zhu distributed Sun Moon Lake cigarettes to the two of them.

In fact, the two of them had been on the security department's monitoring list for a long time, and their correspondence would be checked 100%. So the security department knew that the cousin was coming and reported it to the city security department. The security department decided to do some final ideological work on the two before the cousin arrived in Taiwan, and if it didn't work, they would have to show their cards.

As a result, the two of them tried to save face for Wang Qi by coming to confess before the security department even invited them for tea.

Those who confess voluntarily are good comrades. Naturally, Officer Zhu put away the sullen face of a security cadre, and smiled pleasantly as he changed from drinking tea to smoking with the two men.

Finally the secret that had been buried in their hearts for two years was revealed. The two felt relieved and took over the Sun Moon Lake, which only cadres could afford. They expressed their firm cooperation and said they would definitely cooperate with the Security Department to catch the East Factory spies.

"Well, do we need you to catch a spy?" Officer Zhu picked up a small square box, took out a small red-headed wooden stick from it, and scratched the sandpaper on the side of the square box, and the small wooden stick caught fire.

Yes, the upgraded version of the lamp, the match, has finally been made. Let's spread the flowers...

It is a pity to say that when Zhao Hao was in Caijia Lane in the first year of the Longqing reign, he discovered that the lamps used by the people were very similar to matches... The heads of the small wooden sticks were wrapped in green sulfur and could be ignited with just a string of sparks.

Zhao Hao thought that as long as he made some improvements, he could start a business by making matches. Because as long as it was related to people's livelihood, he would make a lot of money no matter how cheap it was. This is called miracles come from quantity.

As a result, lighters were invented, but matches were still not invented...

In fact, it is not difficult to make a fire. Our ancestors have been using the spontaneous combustion property of phosphorus to play tricks for many years. In the first year of its opening, 04 used strong heat to evaporate human urine to produce yellow phosphorus. Apply it on sandpaper and rub it with a lamp twice to make it ignite.

However, this was unsafe because it could easily self-ignite, and yellow phosphorus was highly toxic, so Zhao Hao never approved the start of production. It was not until several years ago that the 04th Institute successfully produced potassium chlorate and relatively stable and non-toxic red phosphorus, and developed safe matches, that the Group's Work Safety Supervision and Administration Bureau issued a production license.

As Zhao Hao had expected more than 20 years ago, this item became very popular as soon as it was released. Without any promotion, matches became popular in Taiwan in just two or three years, sweeping traditional fire-making tools such as flint and steel into museums.

It's a pity that he can no longer be the little match boy...

~~

"What do you want us to do?" asked the brothers.

"Just pretend you haven't been here." Secretary Zhu lit cigarettes for the two men and one for himself, and said, "When you see your uncle, answer whatever he asks and take him to see whatever he wants to see. If there's a place you can't go, tell me and I'll help you find a way."

"What?" The two brothers were dumbfounded and asked, "Aren't we still traitors?"

"How can that be the same?" Officer Zhu flicked the ashes from his ashtray and said, "Do you understand the counter-espionage strategy?"

"Oh." The two nodded hurriedly. They had learned the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Gundam was still a little puzzled and asked, "But isn't the counter-espionage strategy all about spreading false news?"

"People don't just get their information from you two. It's easy to tell a lie but hard to cover it up." Secretary Zhu said calmly:

"Besides, we are all open and honest, why should we hide it? If they want to see, let them see enough until they collapse on their own!"

"Oh..." Their mouths opened into the size of eggs, duck eggs, and finally goose eggs.

"As for your family's affairs, we will report them to the relevant departments." Officer Zhu reassured the two and said, "Don't worry, the East Factory is nothing but a bunch of hooligans in front of our relevant departments. The group will definitely rescue you and reunite you."

"Yes!" The two were overjoyed when they heard this and thanked him profusely. They finally knew that their choice was right.

The group cadres' naked contempt for the imperial court is so domineering!

~~

Their "cousin" was called Yang Dacai. He was not from a military family like them, but a regular Jinyiwei general flag and served as a chief of the East Factory.

It is true that the East Factory is run by a bunch of eunuchs, but eunuchs who reek of urine cannot be used as spies, so the subordinates under the Da Eunuchs are all assigned by the Jinyiwei.

For example, the positions of Qianhu in charge of criminal justice and Baihu in charge of criminal justice were both held by Qianhu and Baihu of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

The specific person in charge of the detective work is the head of the sergeant and the head of the sergeant. The head of the sergeant is equivalent to the captain of a squad, also known as the "blocker". There are more than 100 people, with twelve elements, namely Chou, Yin, Mao, and they are usually the general flag of the Jinyiwei.

Each captain of the service commanded several guards, who were called "Fanzi" and were also composed of capable members selected from the Jinyiwei.

So even though Yang Dacai was just the chief of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, his status as the head of the Eastern Depot made all the bigwigs in Beijing respect him.

Normally, it was the guards who contacted the "stake drivers". This time, they actually sent him to go all the way to contact two small secret agents. This was because the undercover spy operation initiated by Shen Yingkui did not fall into disuse as time went by. Instead, it became more important because it attracted the emperor's attention.

It was the factory owner's last straw. If it weren't for this action, Zhang Jing would have been kicked out by the ungrateful Wanli to grow vegetables in the Xiaoling Mausoleum.

So now Zhang Jing was in charge of this operation himself. In order to increase the credibility of the spy results, he sent a two-person team of a head guard and a sentry to collect information overseas. Yang Dacai also took on this difficult task.

For Yang Dacai, who usually lived a life of luxury, it was definitely a tough job. In order to be able to travel safely, he had to get rid of the official airs, the arrogance of the people in Beijing, and the sinister airs unique to the factory guards.

Therefore, after receiving the letter from the two brothers at the end of last year, he and his subordinate Malu came to Li Jiqian's home to experience life and immersed themselves in the role wholeheartedly.

I had to do all the hard work, eat coarse food, learn how to speak and act like a child, and I hadn't taken a bath for half a year.

Hard work pays off. After half a year, the two arrogant court lackeys basically turned into real old farmers from northern Shaanxi.

So there is no such thing as inherent nobility or inferiority...

Feeling that it was almost done, Yang Dacai wrote a letter to Li Shouzhong and his brother, and set off with Malu.

Because the two were visiting relatives rather than immigrating, the process of going overseas was much simpler. They only needed a letter from Li Shouzhong to apply for an overseas pass for visiting relatives at the local Jiangnan Group office.

The two of them first left Shaanxi and passed through Shanxi, and came to Luoyang, Henan. At the Jiangnan Navigation Inland Passenger Terminal there, they could buy tickets to Tainan City with their passes.

And the price is very reasonable. The river-sea transport is 4,000 miles long and includes a third-class ticket with two meals a day, and each ticket costs only one or two taels of silver.

It was said that second-class tickets were for six people and provided three meals a day. First-class tickets provided single rooms and much better food. But in order not to reveal their identities, the two bought third-class tickets and lived in the smelly bunk bed at the bottom of the cabin.

However, considering the bitter experience they had in Li Jiqian’s village, the two of them actually felt that the days of eating and sleeping on the boat were quite blissful.

After drifting on the water for more than 20 days in darkness, on the third day of July, the ship arrived in Tainan and docked at the Dayuan Port.

The two men carried their luggage and followed the crowd to climb onto the deck.

While Yang Dacai expanded his chest and breathed in the fresh air, he looked out at the busy Tainan Port.

The appearance of Dayuan Port is somewhat similar to Fengshan Port, both of which are located at the mouth of a trumpet-shaped river. The river water carries a large amount of silt into the sea, which settles in the coastal area and forms a crescent-shaped sandbar. This makes this place an excellent harbor with a natural breakwater.

It is no wonder that in the fifth year of the Tianqi reign, the Dutch East India Company established Chihkan City here as the headquarters for their colonization of Taiwan. The Fort Zeelandia that Koxinga later attacked was built on this sandbar.

But this time, the Dutch have no chance of coming to Taiwan. The people guarding the African routes now are not the Portuguese after the fall of their country. With Zhao Hao's Coast Guard fleet setting up checkpoints, let's see if the Sea Coachman can still fly to Asia with wings.

But there is no need to feel regretful in Tainan, because the Jiangnan Group has built this place a hundred times better than the Dutch.

Moreover, Tainan is closer to Penghu than Fengshan, so naturally it took over the Chaoshan route. Oh, the official statement is that since Fengshan Port is too busy, the Chaoshan route was transferred to Tainan, allowing Fengshan to focus on Southeast Asian trade...

So what caught my cousin's eyes were several wide concrete piers, each as wide as a road, extending vertically from the long, crowded pier into the bay.

Countless cargo ships of all sizes were moored at these docks, densely packed like ants.

However, there were too many ships in Dayuan Bay, and the pier was completely blocked. Many ships could only anchor in the shallow waters of the bay. Yang Dacai was stunned by the sight of so many masts.

Of course he has seen the world, but those famous thoroughfares and docks along the Yangtze River are just like this, right?

Was Dayuan Bay really just a wasteland twenty years ago?

First, water transport is currently the only low-cost mode of transportation. Even the movement of materials between cities on the island of Taiwan relies heavily on sea transport. Second, the weather station predicts that this year's third typhoon has passed through Luzon and is about to arrive in southern Taiwan. So all the ships have entered the port to avoid it...

He didn't understand the reason, so he was naturally more shocked. Especially when he saw the huge steel cranes easily lifting thousands of pounds of goods and placing them on the rail cars at the dock.

When the cart was full, there was no animal pulling it, no one pushing it. Only two workers sat at the front of the cart, and the heavy carriage slowly moved forward, then moved faster and faster.

My cousin was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth. Could it be that these southern barbarians had some magic?

Of course, he was prejudiced, but the other passengers thought it was a trick of the wooden ox and horse moving on their own.

As he was exclaiming in amazement, Malu beside him pulled him and whispered, "Brother, look quickly."