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The dawn of the New China has dispersed the long-standing gloom over the Chinese Land, yet the scars left by war have become an urgent challenge that demands attention. The cities, once bustling with life, now lie in ruins, and the people yearn to rebuild their homes with fervent and anxious eyes. At this critical moment of reconstruction, Lin Feng, armed with years of intelligence experience and keen insight, turns his focus to the task of urban rebuilding and intelligence support. A battle without gunfire yet vital to the foundation of the people's lives quietly begins.
Venturing into the black market, Lin Feng understands that construction materials are the backbone of urban infrastructure. Without a sufficient and reasonably priced supply of materials, skyscrapers cannot rise, and roads and bridges cannot span across the land. However, in the early post-war period, market order is in chaos; the black market has taken advantage of this disorder, wrapping its greedy tendrils around the branches of the city's economy.
Disguised as a businessman seeking opportunities, Lin Feng dresses in coarse linen clothes and wears a tattered felt hat as he steps into the chaotic streets of the black market. Here, shouts and haggling fill the air, but they cannot mask the underlying murkiness. The eyes of black market merchants are cunning as they warily scrutinize every passerby. Lin Feng pretends to show interest in construction materials and approaches a stall piled high with inferior cement and rusty rebar. The stall owner greets him with a wide smile: "Boss, looking for supplies? These are rare finds; hard to come by outside." Lin Feng casually picks up a piece of rebar, rubbing its rusted surface as he feigns indifference and asks, "What's the price?" The stall owner quickly quotes an outrageous price—several times higher than normal—and insists that supplies are scarce.
As he delves deeper into his investigation, Lin Feng discovers that these black market merchants are entangled in a complex web of relationships. They collude with unscrupulous manufacturers to steal or intercept quality construction materials from factories and then sell them at inflated prices through underground channels. Some hoard supplies intentionally to create artificial shortages and drive up prices for massive profits, completely disregarding the urgent needs of urban reconstruction and the people's ability to bear such costs. Even worse, certain criminal elements hire thugs to protect their black market operations, threatening and harassing legitimate businesses attempting to operate normally, making it exceedingly difficult for quality materials to enter the market.
While investigating black market chaos, Lin Feng keenly observes that hoarding issues extend beyond construction materials. Essential goods like food and coal are also in crisis. People often line up outside grocery stores before dawn just to secure a meager amount of food but return empty-handed as shelves remain bare; with winter approaching, coal supplies dwindle, leaving many families shivering in cold nights without access to heat.
Through intelligence reports, Lin Feng learns that some wealthy individuals and remnants of the Kuomintang are attempting to exploit this scarcity for profit. They use various connections to buy up large quantities of food and coal, filling warehouses to capacity while waiting for prices to soar. These hoarders hide their stockpiles deep within obscure corners of the city—abandoned factories or even underground bunkers—and employ guards to prevent any leaks of information. Following one lead, Lin Feng stealthily infiltrates a suspected hoarding site late at night—a deserted factory surrounded by eerie silence occasionally broken by barking dogs. Carefully avoiding patrol routes, he scales a wall into the yard and sees mountains of grain bags and coal piles illuminated by moonlight. Anger ignites within him: these resources should warm the people during winter and fill hungry bellies but are instead held hostage by greed.
Faced with this intricate web of black market dealings and hoarding chaos, Lin Feng realizes that he cannot tackle this alone; he must leverage his expertise in intelligence work to weave a tight net around these operations. He quickly contacts multiple departments including public security and commerce to gather elite intelligence agents from various sectors and share collected information while establishing a Joint Operation mechanism.
The intelligence agents spread throughout every corner of the city like seeds sown in fertile soil—some infiltrate the black market disguised as buyers or sellers to gather crucial clues from transaction details; others lurk near hoarders' warehouses to observe patterns in goods entering and exiting while mapping out detailed stockpile locations; still others penetrate illegal manufacturers to uncover production and sales secrets while securing first-hand evidence. Lin Feng commands from a central hub, compiling and analyzing information from all fronts. With exceptional insight, he identifies core nodes in black market trading chains, locations where hoarders conceal their stockpiles, and connections between various interests—providing navigational coordinates for precise strikes.
When the time is ripe, a thunderous crackdown operation commences. The Public Security Department launches a nighttime raid on the black market based on Lin Feng's precise intelligence, capturing illegal merchants mid-transaction while seizing large quantities of substandard construction materials; commerce officials follow leads to shut down illegal manufacturers at their source; simultaneously, warehouses belonging to hoarders are inspected as goods are cataloged for fair distribution back into the market.
On that day of action, seeing trucks loaded with affordable building materials and essential supplies heading toward construction sites and communities brings cheers from the people—a voice filled with hope for a New Life realized. Lin Feng stands on the street watching as supplies are distributed orderly; his heart swells with satisfaction. In time, as the black market is dismantled and hoarding issues resolved, urban infrastructure construction strides forward on a stable supply track—factories and residential buildings springing up like mushrooms after rain. Lin Feng and his Intelligence Team wield their knowledge like swords against adversity during this early phase of post-war reconstruction—clearing obstacles for progress while writing an epic tale of unsung heroes striving toward national prosperity.
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