Chapter 294 Longyan Battle (16)
?The biggest advantage of literati like Nanwang is not to kill and set fire, but to their ability to penetrate the Ming society. This ability is unavailable to travel through the mud legs, which account for 99% of the subordinates.
A scholar with huge resources behind him can easily penetrate into the officials and gentry class of Ming Dynasty. Regarding this, a certain juren has achieved great success so far.
Therefore, the Intelligence Bureau also has a focus on Nanwang’s training: fighting, physical fitness, and assassination of the most important subjects of OO7 are not important in Nanwang, just barely passing the exam.
On the contrary, the inconspicuous skills such as intelligence collection and analysis, operating electronic instruments, chemical mastery, and reporting technology are the skills that upper-class people who are mingled in the officialdom and shopping malls should master.
So Nanwang started a formal training course with several other students at the training base.
The scholar, who was used to speaking with a pen, was not used to physical fitness and fighting training at first. Even the shrinking training plan made Nan Wang half-dead.
However, he still persisted - it would be impossible not to persist. This was not in the sunny primary school classroom, but in the training ground surrounded by mountains and forests. With a deer-skin whip, the vicious instructor was not as easy to talk to as Ma Yue.
While training physical fitness and fighting, students also need to intersperse shooting training: Ming Bird Gun, Three-Eyed Gun, European Match Rope, 28 Large Cover, Pistol, and Dagger.
Once shooting training begins, the maintenance and maintenance of firearms becomes a compulsory course.
Unlike later generations, in the 17th century, students had many opportunities to participate in actual combat shooting: note that it is not live ammunition, but actual combat.
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After pacifying the two indigenous communities of Madou and Xiaolong, south of Zeng Wenxi, a certain force temporarily stabilized: it would take time to digest the territory.
However, as the relationship between the Time Travel Group and the Zheng Zhilong Group gradually deteriorated, the occupation plan from the north of Zeng Wenxi to Chiayi region was put on the agenda.
Bengang in Chiayi region is the base camp of Fujian immigrants in Taiwan, inherited by Zheng Zhilong since Yan Siqi's colonial period.
At that time, the indigenous people living near Chiayi were from the He Anya tribe, and their subordinates were Maoluo Society, Dawu County Society, and some village communities.
So the 6th Army began a continuous and small-scale operation to clean up the northern natives: first clean up the blocking roads. After Zheng Zhilong was finished, Fujian immigrants from the Bengang area would be the food on the plate of a certain force.
The students from Nanwang and the others were also temporarily organized into the company by the instructors, and experienced the marching and combat of ordinary soldiers.
This behavior of attacking and resisting indigenous villages is mainly to help students overcome psychological barriers. The requirements are not high: it is best to kill people by following the soldiers to shoot a few shots. If they cannot be killed, they can clean up the corpses with bursting head shells afterwards.
However, students generally said that this level of education was not a big problem. It is now the 17th century, from the poor to the gentry, everyone who can live to adulthood has seen countless tragic scenes without exception - the dead bodies surrounded by flies on the roadside are the most common programs, and beheadings at Caishikou are considered daily, and there are also festival dramas such as live cuts.
This is a barbaric era, and the people are extremely numb to the dead and blood. The soldiers who fired a shot and cried to go home to see their mothers. There is no such era. It is the product of social prosperity and division of labor.
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Unlike physical exercise, Nan Wang has a relatively fast grasp of various eavesdropping instruments... After all, he is not illiterate. Moreover, these things are very simple to operate. The difficulty of the home remote control level is not difficult to master after the initial surprise.
It took him some time to report technology: because he needed to practice fingers and recite some fixed message passwords.
The opponents who travel through the forces do not have radio listening capabilities, so the message does not need to be encrypted or translated and other complex programs. When performing tasks, agents directly report and use some commonly used phrases to code. Just like the codebooks when BP machines were popular, it is much easier than the underground party in those days.
The only thing that Nanwang is interested in is chemistry.
He was wandering around the passing line in almost all subjects, but he was full of interest and exploration in the course of chemicals. He was not only interested in the poisons and wounded medicines that were essential for various agents, but also traced the root of the source and had to figure out the origin and formula of these drugs...
Ma Yue, who rushed over after hearing the news, had to conduct a temporary investigation on him.
The results of the investigation are a bit funny: the technology of "turning stones into gold" is actually Nan Wang's biggest dream in his youth...
Of course, this is not surprising. The ancients' pursuit of two technologies of alchemy, seeking immortality and turning stones into gold have always existed.
Since Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Xianzong of Tang, and Emperor Yongzheng of recent times, all died of eating pills. The "red pill case" of Emperor Guangzong of the Ming Dynasty has been debated so far, and Emperor Jiajing even rolled up his sleeves to go to the stage to refine pills.
With the emperor like this, the gentry class below was not willing to be inferior.
Not to mention the rich households who use various raw materials, even babies, who just talk about the jokes of "turning stones into gold", I don't know how many people have been fooled for thousands of years to invest in projects.
All kinds of alchemists and scammers have almost interpreted the big IP "turning stones into gold" to the extreme, just like the pyramid schemes in later generations, and even various schools of different means appeared.
Nanwang is also one of the victims.
Although he was fooled when he was young and was cheated of money by Taoist You Fang, he still remains infatuated and his dream hidden in his heart has not been shattered.
Well, this time when he saw the bottles, jars, various powders and pots in the laboratory, someone immediately activated his dream - the exiled immortal must have turned stones into gold, otherwise why are they so generous?
...Ma Yue, who learned the reason, was amused and laughed and cried for a moment.
Chemistry is difficult to explain. In the end, he had no choice but to arrange junior high school chemistry classes for Nan Wang. In addition to training, Nan Xiucai could go back to Chikan Primary School to find Teacher Jiang to study his homework.
Seeing Nan Xiucai excitedly running to school to learn "alchemy", Ma Yue immediately designated the code name of this dream-chasing agent as "chemist".
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After being recruited by the Intelligence Bureau, Nan Wang actually started to perform tasks not long after. However, those tasks were originally tested and were not difficult. He didn't even know what role he played in some tasks.
For example, as early as New Year's Day 1628, Nan Wang was ordered to go to the Dayuan Island Wharf and play an ordinary entourage from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At that time, the Sloten, who was captained by Peter Nuiz, had just reached an agreement with the crossing crowd to return to Batavia.
Nanwang’s mission is: when Cai Feiming from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said goodbye to the red-haired people, he was responsible for handing a special glass of red wine on the plate to a Dutch priest named Gandithus.
The task was very simple, and Nanwang did nothing wrong: after Cai Feiming and the pastor got the red wine they handed over to Nanwang, they clinked their glasses and drank them all in one go.
The mission to Nanwang here is over. Although it is very simple, this is his first time to have a mission under the intelligence agency.
In fact, it was not until half a year later that Putmans led the Dutch fleet back to the senior officer, and Nanwang found out from the sailors that the fate of Pastor Gandidos: on the third day after the voyage, Gandidos caught a cold and died on the fifth day.
......Inquiring about this matter itself is also one of the tasks Nan Wang received.
Nanwang has always completed similar small tasks in the senior officials. His first "going out of hedge" in the true sense was when he completed most of the training subjects, and in June 1628, he was a member of the envoy of Zhang Dongdong, a fake Caochuan.
In the envoys at that time, there was Tang Mude, director of the Operations Department of the Intelligence Bureau. Nanwang, as a subordinate of Tang Mude, originally went on public travel: the bureau did not arrange any exclusive tasks for Nanwang, he only needed to help Tang Mude receive telegrams and feel the atmosphere of secret work in "behind enemy forces".
However, things are unpredictable: because the prostitute Shui Xiu'er drew information from Xiong Qi's mouth, a serial assassination operation in Fuzhou that night.
The situation was tense that night. Nan Wang not only received telegrams at the station all night, but also received an order the next day: to pretend to be a prostitute and go to Sanfu Pavilion to kill Shui Xiu'er.
This time, Nanwang completed the task beautifully again: he first used his literati and poet style to meet Shui Xiu'er, then put ricin in the wine, lured Shui Xiu'er to drink it, and then successfully retreated.
In this surprise incident, Nan Wang was very professional in any position. The intelligence director Dai Yun originally believed that he had this qualities, and this time it all came true.
Shortly after returning to the senior official, Nan Wang became a formal agent of the Intelligence Bureau. He received his own code name and gun mate, and truly became a senior indigenous elite under the Time Travelers. Now the Time Travelers who engage in intelligence know that there is an agent in the Bureau who is good at using various poisons.
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After the senior officials were rested until January, Nanwang received an upgrade task: go to Longyan County to settle a nest of bandits, recruit or kill them.
So, Mr. Lan appeared in a bright spot. With the help of the local broker's connections, Nan Wang became a guest minister in Yantou Village and lurked smoothly.
After receiving the order sent by the mountain's feet not long ago, Nan Wang knew that the net was going to close, so he gave the bandits a last chance to choose under the horse. However, the bandits were very tough and they were unwilling to be dogs for the government...
Is it difficult to be a dog or die?
Nanwang could only find an excuse to go down the mountain - at the foot of the mountain, he first secretly met Ding Liqiu, then prepared a 3o jar of poisonous wine, then brought a report machine, an antenna, and a secret writing of the potion and hexagram paper. Finally, the "chemist" comrade went up the mountain with these props.
Now everything is over. The bandits in Yantouzhai have been poisoned to death by the agent "chemist" alone, clean and freehand.
Looking south at this moment, I was sitting alone at the gate of Yantou Village, looking at the team of slowly coming from afar, and couldn't help but smile.
The next moment, he took out a pair of soft leather mask with green face and fangs from his arms and put it on his face.
Chapter completed!