Xiang Xiaoqiang understood that a grand jury hearing would be held within three days, and if he was unlucky then, a criminal prosecution would be filed against him. Therefore, if he wanted to investigate, it would be most useful to find out the clues within three days.

He set out to select a team of agents and rushed to Bangkok to find traces of his opponents at the White Elephant Hotel.

The first requirement for this special agent team is that they must be proficient in Thai. Moreover, they must have dark skin, thin body, prominent facial bones, and look like a local Siamese. At least if they are thrown among a bunch of Siamese, they must not be noticed at a glance.

come out.

It is difficult to meet these conditions and be an agent of the People's Guard at the same time. When Xiang Xiaoqiang proposed such conditions, Xiang Xiaoqiang thought it was impossible and thought he was too whimsical. Although the People's Guard has several

Ten thousand people, but the security team currently only has a few thousand people. It would be easy to find a few people who speak English, French, Japanese and Russian, but Thai is a small language, where can you find them?

But I had a stomachache and found eleven of them at once! Xiang Xiaoqiang was completely dumbfounded. But think about it, there are many foreign language talents in the intelligence unit. Although Thai is a minor language, Siam and Ming Dynasty are closely related. Thai

Talent is not as scarce as imagined. I have a stomachache and found six agents who majored in Ryukyu language through the files, which shocked Xiang Xiaoqiang again.

Four people who fully met the conditions were selected from the eleven people. Two of them were Cantonese, one was Guangxi, and one was Fujian. They all had obvious Malay characteristics in appearance and spoke fluently.

He speaks Thai, has a sharp mind and flexible skills.

Stomachache arranged a legal identity for them: Ming Dynasty officers stationed at Laem Chabang Naval Base in Siam, and applied for two sets of documents for them: one was a Ming Dynasty naval officer certificate, and the other was a Siamese army officer certificate.

Because Siam is basically still a feudal monarchy and its domestic legal system is in a mess. In addition, Siam is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, so the citizens of the Ming Dynasty have extraterritorial rights in Siam, and the military personnel have many privileges, so the naval base officer status

It's the most convenient.

Next is the question of how to get there. Generally speaking, there are two ways to get from Nanjing to Bangkok: either by train or by boat. But both are too slow. It takes three days to take a single trip by boat, and it is even slower by train.

It will take nearly a week to go around various railway lines. The problem is that not only do we have to get to Bangkok in three days, but we also have to find out things.

"If you want to fly," Xiang Xiaoqiang frowned, "we can only consider military aircraft. There is no civil aviation in Ming Dynasty yet. But as for military aircraft, our People's Guard does not have them, so we have to secretly discuss them with the army to prevent the investigation team from finding out.

.Otherwise it will be troublesome."

"Sir," he said with a bellyache and a smile, "Isn't Commander Li of the Army Aviation one of us?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled bitterly and said:

"I also know, but the Army Airlines basically doesn't fly to Siam. The ones that fly to the military base there are mainly Hainan Airlines' planes. We are not familiar with Hainan Airlines. Of course we can ask them for help in normal times, but now this happened

, they may not be willing to get involved with me."

At this time, Qiu Qiu just came in from outside carrying four sets of Ming army uniforms and Siamese army uniforms. When he heard Xiang Xiaoqiang talking about Haihang, he immediately put down the military uniforms and ran over and asked:

"What's going on? What's going on?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang shook his head and expressed his concerns. Then he shook his head again and said:

“At first I was only thinking about how to choose people and how to act there, but I didn’t expect that even how to get there was a problem!”

Qiu Qiu smiled and said:

"That's it, then I'll go to our submarine base to find our commander!"

Both Xiang Xiaoqiang and Stomachache looked at her in surprise.

Qiu Qiu said with a smile:

"Commander Xie of our submarine force is very good! How about I go find him? Maybe he can get a plane!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was very pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect Qiu Qiu to have such a way out. He "interrogated" Qiu Qiu again in detail, and then called Xiu Xiu for questioning. He learned about the personality of the submarine commander of the Yangtze River Fleet and was convinced to go there.

Seeing that he would not be betrayed, he sent a car to take Qiu Qiu to the Jiangxinzhou submarine base. He did not let Xiu Xiu follow him. Xiu Xiu had been exposed too much in the newspapers, and it would be too ostentatious to go out. And Qiu Qiu had no chance of being recognized.

It's much smaller.

Having said that, Qiu Qiu is now the "Countess of Jiangxinzhou", and it is only natural for her to patrol her fief.

So, Qiu Qiu took a few sisters from the original "Grasshopper" and ran back to their original unit to play after lunch.

Then I came back around three o'clock in the afternoon.

"It's done!" Qiu Qiu said to Xiang Xiaoqiang with a smile, "Our commander is still so good, he asked me to say hello to you! He doesn't believe that you did it at all, and he even fights for you!"

"Haha... OK, OK..." Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said, "How are the planes arranged?"

Qiu Qiu said with a smile:

"Hainan Airlines will fly a plane to Laem Chabang Base tomorrow to deliver batteries. Our commander will greet the people from Hainan Airlines and say that last time four officers from Laem Chabang Base went to Jiangxinzhou Base to deliver parts, and now they have to take a flight back. Laem Chabang Base

The class is very close to Bangkok, so they can just take a bus to Bangkok when the time comes."

"Okay, very good, Qiu Qiu did a great job!"

…

The next day, at six o'clock in the morning on June 10, a Hainan Airlines Junkers-52 took off from Xianlin Military Airport. In addition to cargo and escorts, four "naval officers" from Laem Chabang Base were also on board.

Carrying their documents, pistols, Siamese officer uniforms, several spy tools and a portable radio in their suitcases, they were heading to Siam for "business."

The plane landed at Changsha Airport for refueling at 8:30 in the morning and took off at 9:00. After a total of six hours of flight, it landed at Laem Chabang Military Airport in Siam at around 12:00 noon.

The four of them had a brief lunch at the airport cafeteria, and then jumped on a shuttle bus to Bangkok. After nearly two hours of bumpy driving on the road in the tropical virgin forest, they arrived in Bangkok city at 2:30 p.m.

The four people first split up and walked around the street to get rid of possible "tails".

In addition to palm trees and warm and humid sea breeze, the streets of Bangkok are mostly dirty and messy.

Ragged, dark-skinned locals crowded through the city streets carrying goods and leading livestock. Monks with bare arms and yellow robes walked in groups. Donkey carts, ox carts and the occasional car crowded

Together, children with bare feet and even bare buttocks were running and screaming happily. The sounds of livestock, vendors, children playing, and car horns were intertwined together, making people's heads almost explode.

On the Chao Phraya River that winds through the city, local people punted boats carrying rice and vegetables across the river. Two rows of ripples slowly swayed behind the boats. The river water swayed to both sides, taking pictures of the floating vegetables. The country of civilization,

Moreover, they had close ties with the Ming Dynasty in history, so the local people were very hardworking and hard-working like the Chinese, forming strong competition with the Chinese. Whatever the Chinese could do, the locals could do it.

The locals in the two places also give people very different feelings. The locals in East India believe in Islam and appear brave and unruly, retaining the legacy of primitive tribal warriors. The locals in Siam believe in Buddhism and appear more peaceful.

He was courteous, shrewd, and somewhat philistine. Therefore, the large-scale bloody events in East India were simply unimaginable in Siam.

…

The four of them walked around in a circle and stayed in the same small hotel one after another. This small hotel was agreed upon by them in advance. It was very inconspicuous, but the surrounding environment was accessible in all directions, making it easy to move.

Now the first thing is:

First, determine how many operators there are in the switchboard room of the White Elephant Hotel and whether any of them understand Chinese. Because Siam has close contacts with Ming Dynasty and there are many Chinese people, there are many locals who are proficient in Chinese. But they analyzed that since it is to frame

For something as important as Xiang Xiaoqiang, the other party will definitely not let someone who is only "roughly proficient" in Chinese do it. He must speak very good Chinese and be sure to understand every word spoken by both parties. Otherwise, the effectiveness of the testimony in court will be

will be very low.

Second, in Siam, it is unlikely that a hotel operator is proficient in a foreign language. Therefore, it is possible that the other party has found a local person who is proficient in Chinese in advance and uses some reason to switch shifts with the operator that day to listen to the call.

.

Third, if it is a temporary shift change, when the other party arranges the shift change in advance, they must consider that the operator will have to testify in court and must withstand a strict background check. In other words, if you get a completely unrelated

It would be too blunt for someone to change shifts. You can tell at a glance that this is a deliberate arrangement. Therefore, the operator the other party finds should have some relationship with the original operator of the hotel, such as a relative or friend. This is OK

Explained: I was not feeling well that day, so I asked a friend to take my place, but my friend didn’t understand the rules and eavesdropped on the customer’s phone call, and heard this content...

This way it feels natural and is very credible when spoken in court.

The four agents discussed it, and then one of them, Fang Guimin, changed into casual clothes and a top hat, pretended to be a local Chinese, went out, called a rickshaw, and went to the White Elephant Hotel.

The White Elephant Hotel is located in a "noble community" in Bangkok. This area is much neater and is a place where foreign institutions, banks, large companies, and large hotels are concentrated in Bangkok. Fang Guimin stopped the rickshaw in front of a hotel and paid

money.

This is not the White Elephant Hotel. It is still two streets away from the White Elephant Hotel. But Fang Guimin wants to make a call to the White Elephant Hotel here.

He walked in gracefully. Two uniformed doormen opened the door respectfully and said in unison:

"Sawadike! ... Sir, good afternoon!"

Fang Guimin swaggered into the hotel, and the female foreman wearing a graceful Thai dress hurriedly came to greet her. She clasped her hands and lowered her head with a smile and said:

"Savati Ka. May I ask your lord what kind of care you have?"

Fang Guimin said "hmm" and asked:

"Is there Fang Guimin, Boss Fang, coming to stay?"

The Siamese female foreman smiled again, clasped her hands together, lowered her head and said:

"My lord, please wait a moment. Let me check your card for you. Sir, please take a seat. Come on, let me check your card for tea."

Siamese girls speak very nice Thai, especially female language. They add a soft "ka" after every sentence, which is very interesting.

Then she walked to the service desk and said a few words to the waitress behind her. The waitress lowered her head to check for a while and shook her head.

The female foreman walked up to Fang Guimin again, leaned over and said:

"I'm sorry, sir, but the store does not have a card for Mr. Fang Guimin to stay."

Fang Guimin nodded, took out his pocket watch, looked at it, pretended to hesitate, then took out a Mingyang tip and gave it to her, saying:

"Well, this old man hasn't arrived yet... but it should be here soon. Where is your phone room? I'll call his home and ask him how long he has been out."

The female foreman was so happy that she got a tip from Mingyang. She bowed with her hands clasped together and hurriedly took Fang Guimin to the phone room. Although Siam has its own currency, Mingyang is also very popular in the Siamese market.

And in Siam, one mingyang is already quite a lot. One or two hundred mingyang is enough to buy a life.

Fang Guimin entered a separate phone room and dialed the switchboard number of the White Elephant Hotel.
To be continued...