Chapter 1107
Cause and Effect
Chapter 1107 Cause and Effect
Shangguan wildly went downstairs, but he did not leave Shenxianju, but walked through the lobby to the backyard. There are three side rooms in the yard here, which are private rooms specially prepared for dignitaries. Compared with the dining environment in the building More private and hidden.Upstairs, Zhang Pucheng rarely had the opportunity to come to this place, and he didn't know that there was such a place in Shenxianju, and he didn't expect that Shangguanye was not planning this matter alone.
Shangguanye walked to the door of one of the wing rooms, pushed the door open and went in.Seeing him coming in, the two people who were talking in the room stopped talking immediately, and one of them asked him, "How is the matter going? Is Zhang Pucheng willing to cooperate?"
Shangguanye opened the chair and sat down, poured a cup of tea into his mouth in one gulp, raised his hand and wiped the corner of his mouth, and then said bitterly: "I'm so saliva dry, this Zhang is still obsessed with it." , refused to let go!"
The man continued to ask: "Could it be that his attitude is so firm that after listening to your persuasion, he didn't even relax in the slightest?"
Shangguanye thought for a while and said: "It's not that he hasn't loosened up. He heard that this Haihan has established a country on his own in the south, and he is also a little scared. It's just that this guy believes that I want to kill him, and he will not cooperate with me no matter what. But there is no way to take him!"
Another person also said at this time: "Look, you didn't get much benefit when you led troops to collect food in Fushan County, but now the consequences of offending people are revealed!"
Shangguanye said: "Did I leave this pot alone? It's not my idea alone. Don't forget that both of you got a share when you came back from collecting food!"
"Don't bring up the matter of Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds. It's better to think about how to proceed with this matter now!" The person who spoke before saw that Shangguanye was a little angry, so he quickly persuaded him and turned the topic back to the business: "The three of you and I want to seek wealth and honor, the opportunity is right in front of us, don't worry about those old things anymore!"
The two accomplices of Shangguanye are also not of ordinary status. One is a military general also from Yanzhou Prefecture, named Guo Xingning, who has known Shangguanye for many years and can be regarded as an old friend in the army.The other person is from Jinan Prefecture and works in the Commanding Division of the Shandong Capital. His name is Liao Jie. Jurisdiction troops.The three of them have been partners for a long time, and they all went to the battlefield during the attack on the rebels, which can be regarded as a fateful friendship.
But this time it was not Shangguanye's idea to focus on the Haihan people who had just arrived in Shandong.Although he did have an elder brother serving in the Zhejiang Linshan Guard, his elder brother was just a temporary job tester with no real power, and the level of contact was limited, and the value of the intelligence information he could provide was not much higher.The real source of information about the Haihan people actually came from Liao Jie.
Liao Jie is not from Shandong, but from Zhejiang. He also has an elder brother who happens to be working in Zhejiang, but the nature of the organization he works in is rather special.Although there are only a hundred households with official positions, they have a lot of power in their hands. Officials can be investigated and civilians can be arrested. There is almost nothing they can't do.The most important thing is that his elder brother has been investigating and collecting information about Haihan since he entered Zhejiang, and he knows the situation of Haihan very well.
That's right, Liao Jie's elder brother was Liao Xun, a member of Jinyiwei who had fought against Haihan many times in Zhejiang, and finally disappeared from the officialdom in the form of "disappearing".
The grievances between Liao Xun and Haihan have long been irresolvable, so the content and angle of his research are also full of strong hostility. Apart from his accomplices in Zhejiang official circles, these "research results" also have Some of them told their younger brother Liao Jie in Dengzhou, Shandong through letters.
According to the information provided by Liao Xun, the three of them already had a certain degree of understanding of Haihan, whom they had never met before. They believed that the most terrifying thing about Haihan was not his mighty force, but his terrifying financial resources and resources. It is precisely because of this basic condition that the Haihan people were able to build up an armed force like an army, build a large-scale fleet, and use a lot of gold and silver treasures to buy and win over Ming officials.
For Daming, the existence of Haihan people is like vines parasitic on the trunk of a big tree, absorbing nutrients from Daming bit by bit to strengthen themselves, and to get rid of them, you must first cut off the various personnel between Haihan and Daming , trade and cultural exchange channels.However, the scale of Haihan's operation in the southeast coast is too large, involving the interests of countless people, even if Emperor Chongzhen personally decreed it would be difficult to completely change the status quo.At present, the people in the government who still insist on confronting Haihan in various places are very few in order to maintain the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are just like Liao Xun. They just want to restore or reduce their own damaged interests as much as possible through confrontation. The starting point can be It is not a noble sentiment such as patriotism and loyalty to the emperor.
But Liao Jie and others have a slightly different idea from Liao Xun. Liao Xun had a conflict with the Haihan people because of the loss of his personal interests. He wanted to drive the Haihan people out of Zhejiang and regain the sea trade market that he originally controlled.But what Liao Jie and the others thought was that since the Haihan people were as rich as a country, they should find a way to earn a fortune from these wealthy southerners.
Originally, this was just a matter of chatting nonsense between them after dinner, and no one really planned to implement this plan. After all, the Haihan people's activity area is far away in Zhejiang, and they are beyond reach in Dengzhou.
But a month ago, Liao Jie received the news from Zhejiang that his brother Liao Xun and his family disappeared from Hangzhou. Two of his official allies.Although Liao Jie didn't know what happened to his brother in Zhejiang, but judging from the list of missing persons, he thought it was very likely that it was related to the Haihan people.What happened to Liao Xun's family was no different from the extermination of the family, which also made Liao Jie feel great hatred for Haihan, but because of his limited duties, he couldn't go to Zhejiang to investigate the truth of the matter, so he could only write down the account first. Come down, and slowly look for opportunities to avenge Haihan.
In Liao Xun's last letter to Shandong, it was mentioned that the Haihan people were collecting various supplies for the winter in Zhejiang, and they seemed to have the intention of heading north.Based on Haihan's leap-frog development trajectory in the past, Liao Xun deduced that the opponent might skip Jiangsu and go directly to Shandong, where they had already recruited a large number of refugees, probably before the next winter.
Because of Liao Xun's incident, Liao Jie naturally no longer kept some plans against Hai Han at the verbal stage as before, but contacted the two most trusted partners, and began to plan revenge together—— Or it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a plan to make a fortune.
If you want to get money out of the hands of Haihan people, the easiest and no-brainer way is to wait for the other party to offer bribes and gifts.According to the news sent from Zhejiang, after the Haihan people arrived in the local area, the first batch of people in the government to buy and win over were the commanders of hundreds of households and thousands of households in the coastal guards, and many of them were given by Haihan. the benefits of.This is good news for Liao Jie, Shangguanye, and Guo Xingning. After all, they are now considered to be powerful figures in charge of the military in Dengzhou. If the Haihan people come here one day, they will definitely not be able to avoid dealing with them. when.
Of course, considering the current situation of the garrison in Dengzhou, even if the Haihan people are willing to deal with the government in a similar way to Zhejiang after they come here, they must take the initiative.This is because in addition to the thousands of households and commanders stationed in various coastal guards in the Dengzhou area, there are also many generals from other places like Shangguanye who were transferred during the war. There are seven or eight generals stationed inside and outside the city of Dengzhou alone. The generals, more than a dozen guards, with so many people, it is obviously impossible to share the benefits given by the Haihan people equally by eating a big pot of rice.
However, Liao Jie and Hai Han had a family feud first, and basically eliminated the possibility of accepting Hai Han's wooing, and would not live in peace with the Hai Han people who might come to Shandong. The content of his plan with Shangguanye and Guo Xingning , naturally there is no peaceful solution.
The three of them are all active officers in the frontline army, they have soldiers under them, and they don't lack combat experience. Their strength is far beyond the combination of Liao Xun, Yu Pingfeng and Guo Zheng in Zhejiang, but they didn't put all their treasures in their hands. By force.According to the information provided by Liao Xun, the strength of the Haihan Armed Forces is already higher than that of the Zhejiang Ming Army. It not only has a huge maritime fleet, but also has well-trained Musketeers. Shibazhi and Zhoushan Ship Gang in Zhejiang are the best examples.
Although the three of Liao Jie believe that seeing is believing when it comes to force, and they don't fully believe that Haihan is as powerful as Liao Xun boasted, but considering that a frontal confrontation may cause great damage to their troops, they still want to find A more tricky way to overwhelm Haihan.
Liao Jie believes that there is a very obvious weakness in the Haihan system, that is, the Haihan people who are boasted to be omnipotent in the south are actually only a small number of Han descendants from overseas, and these talents are the core of this group.The army, business groups, and many people who work for them are actually recruited from Daming, Annan and other countries. They are peripheral personnel called "naturalized people" and have little individual value.For example, in the situation where Haihan operated in Zhejiang, it occupied the Zhoushan Islands and controlled most of the waters south of Hangzhou Bay, but there were actually only a handful of Haihan people who really belonged to the core of power.
These people are the center of commanding Haihan's operations. Liao Jie believes that their individual value is at least a thousand times that of the naturalized people. As long as they can capture a few important figures in Haihan, the command system can be out of control, and even further. Blackmail the other party to pay a sky-high ransom.But this plan also has a big problem, that is, the Haihan people attach great importance to personal safety, they almost never go out alone, and there will be a group of armed guards embracing them wherever they go, especially when they are active in areas not controlled by Haihan. With a well-organized army accompanying him, it is difficult to have a chance to attack him.
At this stage, in fact, it is difficult for the three of them to continue to plan the details of the operation, because all they know about the situation comes from second-hand news from Zhejiang, and they have never really contacted the Haihan people.In this case, purely talking on paper does not have much practical effect, and we can only wait until the Haihan people actually appear before making further plans.
But what they didn't expect was that the Haihan people came to Shandong faster than expected, and they received warnings from the guards in the eastern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula one after another a few days ago.Before Feng Fei of the Qishan Qianhu Office reached an agreement with Haihan, Liao Jie had guessed that what appeared near the coastline of Dengzhou was most likely the Haihan fleet going north.The news that came later soon verified his guess. The Haihan people chose Zhifu Bay as their settlement, and began to contact the local garrison and government.
Liao Jie knew that the opportunity had come, so he summoned Shangguanye and Guo Xingning to continue discussing the previous plan.Zhifu Bay is under the jurisdiction of Fushan County, and the military is within the defense area of Qishan Qianhusuo. According to the past practices of the Haihan people, they generally would not directly conflict with the local government or the garrison, but would try to buy and win them over to gain a foothold Opportunity.The county magistrate of Fukuyama County and the thousand households in Qishan County are obviously local officials that they will inevitably come into contact with.
Liao Jie did not have any hope for the integrity of the local officials. Fushan County is a poor place, and now it has to rely on Dengzhou to distribute relief every year to make ends meet. The population of the county is less than half of what it was before the war. The bandits plundered, and it can be said that the magistrates basically had nothing to do.Under such circumstances, the wealthy Haihan people are undoubtedly the God of Wealth to them. Liao Xun believes that the Haihan people will soon be able to deal with local officials, and will drive them to send news about Haihan businessmen to Dengzhou. The group donated documents such as bridge construction and road relief, and relief to the people, in exchange for legal permission to settle in the local area and build a port.
But the measures taken by the Haihan people were far beyond their expectations. Not only did they use the methods they used in the south, but they also quickly defeated the bandit armed Wanjia army and captured the bandit leader Wanmeng alive.When Zhang Pucheng escorted Wan Meng into the magistrate's yamen, Liao Jie had already received the news. Although he did not meet Zhang Pucheng with the prefect Chen Zhongsheng, when the two entered the study for a detailed discussion, Liao Jie had brought Shangguanye and Guo Xingning rushed over to check Wan Meng's identity.
With the military strength of Fushan County, Liao Jie can confirm that this is definitely not Zhang Pucheng's credit, but that the Haihan people who have just arrived made the deal and handed him over to Zhang Pucheng to Dengzhou to show his merits.And this can basically confirm that Zhang Pucheng and the Haihan people have already had contact and even reached some agreements.Liao Jie naturally set his mind on Zhang Pucheng, and followed him all the way to Shenxianju, asking Shangguanye to come forward to contact him, trying to persuade him to join his camp.
(End of this chapter)
Shangguan wildly went downstairs, but he did not leave Shenxianju, but walked through the lobby to the backyard. There are three side rooms in the yard here, which are private rooms specially prepared for dignitaries. Compared with the dining environment in the building More private and hidden.Upstairs, Zhang Pucheng rarely had the opportunity to come to this place, and he didn't know that there was such a place in Shenxianju, and he didn't expect that Shangguanye was not planning this matter alone.
Shangguanye walked to the door of one of the wing rooms, pushed the door open and went in.Seeing him coming in, the two people who were talking in the room stopped talking immediately, and one of them asked him, "How is the matter going? Is Zhang Pucheng willing to cooperate?"
Shangguanye opened the chair and sat down, poured a cup of tea into his mouth in one gulp, raised his hand and wiped the corner of his mouth, and then said bitterly: "I'm so saliva dry, this Zhang is still obsessed with it." , refused to let go!"
The man continued to ask: "Could it be that his attitude is so firm that after listening to your persuasion, he didn't even relax in the slightest?"
Shangguanye thought for a while and said: "It's not that he hasn't loosened up. He heard that this Haihan has established a country on his own in the south, and he is also a little scared. It's just that this guy believes that I want to kill him, and he will not cooperate with me no matter what. But there is no way to take him!"
Another person also said at this time: "Look, you didn't get much benefit when you led troops to collect food in Fushan County, but now the consequences of offending people are revealed!"
Shangguanye said: "Did I leave this pot alone? It's not my idea alone. Don't forget that both of you got a share when you came back from collecting food!"
"Don't bring up the matter of Chen Guzi's rotten sesame seeds. It's better to think about how to proceed with this matter now!" The person who spoke before saw that Shangguanye was a little angry, so he quickly persuaded him and turned the topic back to the business: "The three of you and I want to seek wealth and honor, the opportunity is right in front of us, don't worry about those old things anymore!"
The two accomplices of Shangguanye are also not of ordinary status. One is a military general also from Yanzhou Prefecture, named Guo Xingning, who has known Shangguanye for many years and can be regarded as an old friend in the army.The other person is from Jinan Prefecture and works in the Commanding Division of the Shandong Capital. His name is Liao Jie. Jurisdiction troops.The three of them have been partners for a long time, and they all went to the battlefield during the attack on the rebels, which can be regarded as a fateful friendship.
But this time it was not Shangguanye's idea to focus on the Haihan people who had just arrived in Shandong.Although he did have an elder brother serving in the Zhejiang Linshan Guard, his elder brother was just a temporary job tester with no real power, and the level of contact was limited, and the value of the intelligence information he could provide was not much higher.The real source of information about the Haihan people actually came from Liao Jie.
Liao Jie is not from Shandong, but from Zhejiang. He also has an elder brother who happens to be working in Zhejiang, but the nature of the organization he works in is rather special.Although there are only a hundred households with official positions, they have a lot of power in their hands. Officials can be investigated and civilians can be arrested. There is almost nothing they can't do.The most important thing is that his elder brother has been investigating and collecting information about Haihan since he entered Zhejiang, and he knows the situation of Haihan very well.
That's right, Liao Jie's elder brother was Liao Xun, a member of Jinyiwei who had fought against Haihan many times in Zhejiang, and finally disappeared from the officialdom in the form of "disappearing".
The grievances between Liao Xun and Haihan have long been irresolvable, so the content and angle of his research are also full of strong hostility. Apart from his accomplices in Zhejiang official circles, these "research results" also have Some of them told their younger brother Liao Jie in Dengzhou, Shandong through letters.
According to the information provided by Liao Xun, the three of them already had a certain degree of understanding of Haihan, whom they had never met before. They believed that the most terrifying thing about Haihan was not his mighty force, but his terrifying financial resources and resources. It is precisely because of this basic condition that the Haihan people were able to build up an armed force like an army, build a large-scale fleet, and use a lot of gold and silver treasures to buy and win over Ming officials.
For Daming, the existence of Haihan people is like vines parasitic on the trunk of a big tree, absorbing nutrients from Daming bit by bit to strengthen themselves, and to get rid of them, you must first cut off the various personnel between Haihan and Daming , trade and cultural exchange channels.However, the scale of Haihan's operation in the southeast coast is too large, involving the interests of countless people, even if Emperor Chongzhen personally decreed it would be difficult to completely change the status quo.At present, the people in the government who still insist on confronting Haihan in various places are very few in order to maintain the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are just like Liao Xun. They just want to restore or reduce their own damaged interests as much as possible through confrontation. The starting point can be It is not a noble sentiment such as patriotism and loyalty to the emperor.
But Liao Jie and others have a slightly different idea from Liao Xun. Liao Xun had a conflict with the Haihan people because of the loss of his personal interests. He wanted to drive the Haihan people out of Zhejiang and regain the sea trade market that he originally controlled.But what Liao Jie and the others thought was that since the Haihan people were as rich as a country, they should find a way to earn a fortune from these wealthy southerners.
Originally, this was just a matter of chatting nonsense between them after dinner, and no one really planned to implement this plan. After all, the Haihan people's activity area is far away in Zhejiang, and they are beyond reach in Dengzhou.
But a month ago, Liao Jie received the news from Zhejiang that his brother Liao Xun and his family disappeared from Hangzhou. Two of his official allies.Although Liao Jie didn't know what happened to his brother in Zhejiang, but judging from the list of missing persons, he thought it was very likely that it was related to the Haihan people.What happened to Liao Xun's family was no different from the extermination of the family, which also made Liao Jie feel great hatred for Haihan, but because of his limited duties, he couldn't go to Zhejiang to investigate the truth of the matter, so he could only write down the account first. Come down, and slowly look for opportunities to avenge Haihan.
In Liao Xun's last letter to Shandong, it was mentioned that the Haihan people were collecting various supplies for the winter in Zhejiang, and they seemed to have the intention of heading north.Based on Haihan's leap-frog development trajectory in the past, Liao Xun deduced that the opponent might skip Jiangsu and go directly to Shandong, where they had already recruited a large number of refugees, probably before the next winter.
Because of Liao Xun's incident, Liao Jie naturally no longer kept some plans against Hai Han at the verbal stage as before, but contacted the two most trusted partners, and began to plan revenge together—— Or it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a plan to make a fortune.
If you want to get money out of the hands of Haihan people, the easiest and no-brainer way is to wait for the other party to offer bribes and gifts.According to the news sent from Zhejiang, after the Haihan people arrived in the local area, the first batch of people in the government to buy and win over were the commanders of hundreds of households and thousands of households in the coastal guards, and many of them were given by Haihan. the benefits of.This is good news for Liao Jie, Shangguanye, and Guo Xingning. After all, they are now considered to be powerful figures in charge of the military in Dengzhou. If the Haihan people come here one day, they will definitely not be able to avoid dealing with them. when.
Of course, considering the current situation of the garrison in Dengzhou, even if the Haihan people are willing to deal with the government in a similar way to Zhejiang after they come here, they must take the initiative.This is because in addition to the thousands of households and commanders stationed in various coastal guards in the Dengzhou area, there are also many generals from other places like Shangguanye who were transferred during the war. There are seven or eight generals stationed inside and outside the city of Dengzhou alone. The generals, more than a dozen guards, with so many people, it is obviously impossible to share the benefits given by the Haihan people equally by eating a big pot of rice.
However, Liao Jie and Hai Han had a family feud first, and basically eliminated the possibility of accepting Hai Han's wooing, and would not live in peace with the Hai Han people who might come to Shandong. The content of his plan with Shangguanye and Guo Xingning , naturally there is no peaceful solution.
The three of them are all active officers in the frontline army, they have soldiers under them, and they don't lack combat experience. Their strength is far beyond the combination of Liao Xun, Yu Pingfeng and Guo Zheng in Zhejiang, but they didn't put all their treasures in their hands. By force.According to the information provided by Liao Xun, the strength of the Haihan Armed Forces is already higher than that of the Zhejiang Ming Army. It not only has a huge maritime fleet, but also has well-trained Musketeers. Shibazhi and Zhoushan Ship Gang in Zhejiang are the best examples.
Although the three of Liao Jie believe that seeing is believing when it comes to force, and they don't fully believe that Haihan is as powerful as Liao Xun boasted, but considering that a frontal confrontation may cause great damage to their troops, they still want to find A more tricky way to overwhelm Haihan.
Liao Jie believes that there is a very obvious weakness in the Haihan system, that is, the Haihan people who are boasted to be omnipotent in the south are actually only a small number of Han descendants from overseas, and these talents are the core of this group.The army, business groups, and many people who work for them are actually recruited from Daming, Annan and other countries. They are peripheral personnel called "naturalized people" and have little individual value.For example, in the situation where Haihan operated in Zhejiang, it occupied the Zhoushan Islands and controlled most of the waters south of Hangzhou Bay, but there were actually only a handful of Haihan people who really belonged to the core of power.
These people are the center of commanding Haihan's operations. Liao Jie believes that their individual value is at least a thousand times that of the naturalized people. As long as they can capture a few important figures in Haihan, the command system can be out of control, and even further. Blackmail the other party to pay a sky-high ransom.But this plan also has a big problem, that is, the Haihan people attach great importance to personal safety, they almost never go out alone, and there will be a group of armed guards embracing them wherever they go, especially when they are active in areas not controlled by Haihan. With a well-organized army accompanying him, it is difficult to have a chance to attack him.
At this stage, in fact, it is difficult for the three of them to continue to plan the details of the operation, because all they know about the situation comes from second-hand news from Zhejiang, and they have never really contacted the Haihan people.In this case, purely talking on paper does not have much practical effect, and we can only wait until the Haihan people actually appear before making further plans.
But what they didn't expect was that the Haihan people came to Shandong faster than expected, and they received warnings from the guards in the eastern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula one after another a few days ago.Before Feng Fei of the Qishan Qianhu Office reached an agreement with Haihan, Liao Jie had guessed that what appeared near the coastline of Dengzhou was most likely the Haihan fleet going north.The news that came later soon verified his guess. The Haihan people chose Zhifu Bay as their settlement, and began to contact the local garrison and government.
Liao Jie knew that the opportunity had come, so he summoned Shangguanye and Guo Xingning to continue discussing the previous plan.Zhifu Bay is under the jurisdiction of Fushan County, and the military is within the defense area of Qishan Qianhusuo. According to the past practices of the Haihan people, they generally would not directly conflict with the local government or the garrison, but would try to buy and win them over to gain a foothold Opportunity.The county magistrate of Fukuyama County and the thousand households in Qishan County are obviously local officials that they will inevitably come into contact with.
Liao Jie did not have any hope for the integrity of the local officials. Fushan County is a poor place, and now it has to rely on Dengzhou to distribute relief every year to make ends meet. The population of the county is less than half of what it was before the war. The bandits plundered, and it can be said that the magistrates basically had nothing to do.Under such circumstances, the wealthy Haihan people are undoubtedly the God of Wealth to them. Liao Xun believes that the Haihan people will soon be able to deal with local officials, and will drive them to send news about Haihan businessmen to Dengzhou. The group donated documents such as bridge construction and road relief, and relief to the people, in exchange for legal permission to settle in the local area and build a port.
But the measures taken by the Haihan people were far beyond their expectations. Not only did they use the methods they used in the south, but they also quickly defeated the bandit armed Wanjia army and captured the bandit leader Wanmeng alive.When Zhang Pucheng escorted Wan Meng into the magistrate's yamen, Liao Jie had already received the news. Although he did not meet Zhang Pucheng with the prefect Chen Zhongsheng, when the two entered the study for a detailed discussion, Liao Jie had brought Shangguanye and Guo Xingning rushed over to check Wan Meng's identity.
With the military strength of Fushan County, Liao Jie can confirm that this is definitely not Zhang Pucheng's credit, but that the Haihan people who have just arrived made the deal and handed him over to Zhang Pucheng to Dengzhou to show his merits.And this can basically confirm that Zhang Pucheng and the Haihan people have already had contact and even reached some agreements.Liao Jie naturally set his mind on Zhang Pucheng, and followed him all the way to Shenxianju, asking Shangguanye to come forward to contact him, trying to persuade him to join his camp.
(End of this chapter)