Chapter 2018
Chapter 2018
Chapter 2018
Although the Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau are both intelligence agencies, there are still obvious differences in institutional attributes. The Ministry of Security is a special department directly managed by the Executive Committee. Its scope of intelligence covers almost all aspects of domestic and international affairs. Not included.The Military Intelligence Bureau is an intelligence agency under the Ministry of National Defense. Its main function is to collect military intelligence from other countries, and its capabilities in the military field are more specialized than those of the Ministry of Security.
Because the functions of these two departments overlap to a certain extent, most of the time they are in a competitive relationship, and even in the process of recruiting new people, the two departments will secretly compete.As for the training content for newcomers, both departments have their own areas of expertise, so generally speaking, they will not disclose it to the other party.
However, Manila is an exception, because the heads of the two departments have a very close personal relationship, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are life-and-death friends, and they do not take the competition between the departments too seriously.Even when recruiting and training new recruits, they didn't take much secrecy about it.Now, they have temporarily taken on such a difficult task and asked them to send intelligence personnel to Cebu as soon as possible. The two departments could not pick out a few suitable candidates. In order to save time and resources, the short training before departure is only We were able to merge.
Ran Tianlu and Fang Peng attached great importance to this, and both of them personally went to battle as lecturers to conduct surprise training for these selected people.However, the training this time is different from the previous ones, because the people they train probably know more about the goals of the action than they do, so they did not assign specific measures to these subordinates on how to carry out the action after they arrived in the local area. Just give a certain range and let them decide for themselves according to the situation.The main content of the explanation is still focused on how to organize and transmit information.
Due to language barriers, they have to go through translation to communicate with these subordinates, so the training efficiency is really low.If you are a veteran, maybe it is enough to tell you the details that you need to pay attention to, but the longest time these people have joined the Haihan intelligence department is only half a year, and none of them have any experience in performing missions overseas. Now we have to let go of these people directly Sending to the opponent's ruled area, whether it's loyalty or professional skills, can't help but make people very worried.
During the training period, Ran Tianlu specially asked Francis to come twice to explain to these newcomers some official rules of the colonial authorities and the personal situation of some high-ranking Spanish officials.As for how much this information will play in the future, in fact, no one can predict at the moment.
When Francis was teaching these people, he also noticed the South China Sea chart hanging here. The East Indies area, including the Philippine Islands, was depicted on it, and its level of detail was much higher than the charts held by the Spanish authorities before. .Many places that Francis has only heard of but never been to are marked in detail on this chart.
He carefully identified it. If the scale and size of the islands on Haihan's chart are correct, then the Spanish authorities' chart is not up to standard. Francis thought to himself that these Haihan people obviously don't know much about the situation in the southern waters , Why can they have such a detailed chart.It is not a job that can be completed in a year and a half to draw such a detailed sea chart, and if Haihan has the ability to do this level, then why send people to Cebu to inquire about the news, and directly dispatch It will be faster for the fleet to attack the port of Cebu.
But since Haihan has such high-quality sea charts in his hands, it is not surprising that they were able to cross the sea to attack Manila.It is conceivable that other areas that Haihan set foot in must have similar charts, which is a very scary thing.This means that any country that wants to compete with Haihan at sea will have to overcome the disadvantage of geographical data in addition to the performance gap of ship weapons.
"It's too difficult, it's really too difficult!" Francis couldn't help sighing in his heart after re-evaluating the strength of Haihan's armed forces at sea.
In history, Spain entered this region, but it took several generations, invested countless financial resources and energy, and paid a considerable price, before finally establishing a foothold and establishing several colonies.If such a detailed chart could have been available at that time, the Spaniards could have saved at least decades in the process.
But fortunately, the Haihan people appeared relatively late. If they arrived in this area at the same time as the Spaniards, Francis estimated that the fate of the Spaniards would probably be similar to that of the Portuguese and Dutch today. It depends on Haihan's face.Of course, the situation of the Spaniards is not much better now. After losing the city of Manila at the beginning of the year, Spain’s strength in this area has regressed to at least the last century. It is really difficult to turn around in the short term.
If the quality of the nautical charts used to formulate the battle plan is far inferior to that of the opponent, then there is no talk of confrontation. At this moment, Francis really wants to write a letter and send it to Cebu, so that the colonial authorities will stop wasting resources and continue to fight with Haihan. , it is better to try to start negotiations with Haihan, maybe it can alleviate the current passive situation.Back then, the Netherlands and Portugal fought against Haihan, but they chose to seek peace to protect their own interests. Why did the colonial authorities go to the edge of the horns and learn from their Western counterparts to do business with Haihan?
Of course, these thoughts are just the feelings of Francis after he has served Haihan for nearly a year. If it was placed before the Battle of Manila, he would definitely scoff at such "weak" ideas and resolutely choose to use force to resolve the dispute with Haihan.But the situation is different now. Since we know that there is an insurmountable gap in strength between the two sides, why bother to do thankless things.
A total of 12 people were selected by the Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau, including three Hispanic youths, and the rest were all Filipino natives.The plan of the two ministries is to arrange a boat for the group and send them to Cebu as refugees.However, if you just go in such a reckless manner, it is very likely that your identity will be dismantled as soon as you arrive. No women or children.So in addition to the ship, they have to be given a reasonable background story, which makes sense.
Of course, this kind of trivial matter will definitely not trouble the experienced intelligence department, not to mention that this time the two departments have joined forces, basically they can get any resources, and they quickly arranged a credible background story for them.
Among this group of people, Ran Tianlu appointed a young Hispanic man named Jose as the commander of the operation. This man is a native Hispanic immigrant born and raised in Manila. His parents are ordinary farmers. He has never committed a crime or worked as a job , there is no special record in the colonial authorities, it can be said that the family background is clean, and it is suitable for intelligence work.
The Jose family lives in an immigrant village on the north bank of the Pasig River, forty or fifty miles away from Manila.After the Battle of Manila, some officials and wealthy businessmen who fled from Manila did not have the opportunity to go to sea, so they chose to cross the Pasig River to escape to the northern inland, and the immigrant villages along the way became the source of supplies for these people.
During the war, these upper-class figures did not intend to treat the people in the village as compatriots. All they needed were the money and food in the hands of these people and the horses at home.If they do not comply, they will directly expropriate the private property of farmers in the name of the government. If they do not comply, they will simply wipe their faces and use force.
Jose's family did not have any background, so they were regarded as toolmen by the fleeing dignitaries. They were not only asked to donate their food and pack horses, but also acted as porters and left the village with the fleeing team.
Although Manila was invaded by foreign enemies, the Jose family was unwilling to leave their hometown. They believed that the Haihan people were targeting Manila and would not send troops to wipe out rural farmers. As soon as the master's upper lip touched his lower lip, he took his property away in the name of "official confiscation".
But these gentlemen have completely different ideas. They think that only by keeping themselves can they keep Spain's rule in Luzon Island. As for the value of these tool people, how can they compare with themselves.Besides, if the money, food and horses are not taken away, when the Haihan people drive them over, they will be confiscated by the enemy. At that time, these will become knives on their necks.Thinking about it this way, wouldn’t farmers who are unwilling to cooperate be capitalizing on the enemy in disguise?
As a result, conflicts inevitably broke out between the gentlemen who were anxious to obtain supplies and continue to flee, and the peasants who were unwilling to abandon their homes and properties.And how could an honest farmer like the Jose family be able to defeat the armed attendants of these gentlemen, so they not only suffered a severe beating and robbed most of their property, but also when these people left They burned down their houses, barns, and cowsheds, and it was said that this was to fortify the wall and clear the country so as not to leave supplies for the enemy.
As the saying goes, the clay bodhisattva is also angry. Although Jose was born in a peasant family, an honest person will explode when he is cornered.Later, when the Haihan army pursued here, Jose didn't know where the courage came from, so he took the initiative to find the Haihan officer who led the team, and led them to chase the dignitary who escaped from here just a day ago.
Finally, with the help of Jose, the Haihan army found more than 200 Spaniards and their attendants hiding here in a nearby valley, and then, according to the prior agreement, captured the part of Jose that was taken away. The property was returned to him.Before escorting the prisoners back to Manila, the officer who led the team suggested that Jose simply join the army so that he and his family could get permanent asylum from Haihan officials.
For Jose, it is very easy to tell who is strong and who is weak. Manila city has been captured by the Haihan army. The once mighty gentlemen in the city are now fleeing and escaping. In the future, Manila will never again Belongs to the Kingdom of Spain.Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the Spanish army fights back one day, he and his family will definitely be sent to the gallows for "collaborating with the enemy"-in fact, if it weren't for those gentlemen who were in a hurry to escape and had no time to build The gallows, the family was probably hanged for any crime before the arrival of the Haihan army.
From this point of view, taking refuge in Haihan is undoubtedly a way out for self-protection. Jose only considered for a moment before making a decision, and then returned to Manila with the Haihan army, becoming the first group of Hispanics to join the army after the local change of ownership.
However, although Jose joined the army, he was not assigned to the combat unit.The main reason is that there are so few local Hispanic youths who volunteered to join the army, so few that the military felt that it would be too wasteful to arrange these people to fight in the army, wasting their ethnic advantages in vain, so the Military Intelligence Bureau took the lead. These people were screened, and those who had the potential to do civilian work such as translation and those who were suitable for espionage work were selected.
Jose doesn't have much culture, but he has a clean foundation, and he chose to break with the Spanish upper class in order to protect his family, and he took the initiative to join Haihan and join the army, which means that he has almost no way to turn back, and it is more likely In the future, I will pledge my allegiance to Haihan.With conditions like this, it would be a waste if they were not recruited into the Military Intelligence Bureau as spies.
So two months after Jose joined the army, he was transferred from the boot camp and reported to the Military Intelligence Bureau.However, the training content of the Military Intelligence Bureau is far more complicated than that of ordinary combat troops. Therefore, although Jose has been in the Military Intelligence Bureau for more than half a year, the progress of his training has not yet reached the point where he can independently go overseas to perform missions. Degree.
But the current situation is that Sanya wants to drive the ducks to the shelves and requires the intelligence department in Manila to take measures. In desperation, they can only use newcomers like Jose.
Among the dozen or so people jointly selected by the two intelligence agencies, Jose was the first to be recruited by the intelligence agency and had the longest training time. His family members also moved to Manila and settled down, and his loyalty was relatively high.Jose's qualifications are more than superior than inferior. Appointing him as the commander of this operation is actually a helpless move for a short man to pick a tall one.
However, Jose himself was very excited, because Fang Peng had promised when he was recruited to participate in this mission that as long as the mission can achieve certain results, Jose's family can be naturalized in Haihan and get farm rewards. There will also be rewards and opportunities for promotion after completion.
"You have the opportunity to become the first Hispanic intelligence officer in Haihan's history!" Fang Peng's encouragement has always been in Jose's heart, which made him not care about the potential risks and difficulties of this trip. The mission, I will become an official in the future, this is a great opportunity that can't be exchanged for a lifetime of farmers.
(End of this chapter)
Although the Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau are both intelligence agencies, there are still obvious differences in institutional attributes. The Ministry of Security is a special department directly managed by the Executive Committee. Its scope of intelligence covers almost all aspects of domestic and international affairs. Not included.The Military Intelligence Bureau is an intelligence agency under the Ministry of National Defense. Its main function is to collect military intelligence from other countries, and its capabilities in the military field are more specialized than those of the Ministry of Security.
Because the functions of these two departments overlap to a certain extent, most of the time they are in a competitive relationship, and even in the process of recruiting new people, the two departments will secretly compete.As for the training content for newcomers, both departments have their own areas of expertise, so generally speaking, they will not disclose it to the other party.
However, Manila is an exception, because the heads of the two departments have a very close personal relationship, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are life-and-death friends, and they do not take the competition between the departments too seriously.Even when recruiting and training new recruits, they didn't take much secrecy about it.Now, they have temporarily taken on such a difficult task and asked them to send intelligence personnel to Cebu as soon as possible. The two departments could not pick out a few suitable candidates. In order to save time and resources, the short training before departure is only We were able to merge.
Ran Tianlu and Fang Peng attached great importance to this, and both of them personally went to battle as lecturers to conduct surprise training for these selected people.However, the training this time is different from the previous ones, because the people they train probably know more about the goals of the action than they do, so they did not assign specific measures to these subordinates on how to carry out the action after they arrived in the local area. Just give a certain range and let them decide for themselves according to the situation.The main content of the explanation is still focused on how to organize and transmit information.
Due to language barriers, they have to go through translation to communicate with these subordinates, so the training efficiency is really low.If you are a veteran, maybe it is enough to tell you the details that you need to pay attention to, but the longest time these people have joined the Haihan intelligence department is only half a year, and none of them have any experience in performing missions overseas. Now we have to let go of these people directly Sending to the opponent's ruled area, whether it's loyalty or professional skills, can't help but make people very worried.
During the training period, Ran Tianlu specially asked Francis to come twice to explain to these newcomers some official rules of the colonial authorities and the personal situation of some high-ranking Spanish officials.As for how much this information will play in the future, in fact, no one can predict at the moment.
When Francis was teaching these people, he also noticed the South China Sea chart hanging here. The East Indies area, including the Philippine Islands, was depicted on it, and its level of detail was much higher than the charts held by the Spanish authorities before. .Many places that Francis has only heard of but never been to are marked in detail on this chart.
He carefully identified it. If the scale and size of the islands on Haihan's chart are correct, then the Spanish authorities' chart is not up to standard. Francis thought to himself that these Haihan people obviously don't know much about the situation in the southern waters , Why can they have such a detailed chart.It is not a job that can be completed in a year and a half to draw such a detailed sea chart, and if Haihan has the ability to do this level, then why send people to Cebu to inquire about the news, and directly dispatch It will be faster for the fleet to attack the port of Cebu.
But since Haihan has such high-quality sea charts in his hands, it is not surprising that they were able to cross the sea to attack Manila.It is conceivable that other areas that Haihan set foot in must have similar charts, which is a very scary thing.This means that any country that wants to compete with Haihan at sea will have to overcome the disadvantage of geographical data in addition to the performance gap of ship weapons.
"It's too difficult, it's really too difficult!" Francis couldn't help sighing in his heart after re-evaluating the strength of Haihan's armed forces at sea.
In history, Spain entered this region, but it took several generations, invested countless financial resources and energy, and paid a considerable price, before finally establishing a foothold and establishing several colonies.If such a detailed chart could have been available at that time, the Spaniards could have saved at least decades in the process.
But fortunately, the Haihan people appeared relatively late. If they arrived in this area at the same time as the Spaniards, Francis estimated that the fate of the Spaniards would probably be similar to that of the Portuguese and Dutch today. It depends on Haihan's face.Of course, the situation of the Spaniards is not much better now. After losing the city of Manila at the beginning of the year, Spain’s strength in this area has regressed to at least the last century. It is really difficult to turn around in the short term.
If the quality of the nautical charts used to formulate the battle plan is far inferior to that of the opponent, then there is no talk of confrontation. At this moment, Francis really wants to write a letter and send it to Cebu, so that the colonial authorities will stop wasting resources and continue to fight with Haihan. , it is better to try to start negotiations with Haihan, maybe it can alleviate the current passive situation.Back then, the Netherlands and Portugal fought against Haihan, but they chose to seek peace to protect their own interests. Why did the colonial authorities go to the edge of the horns and learn from their Western counterparts to do business with Haihan?
Of course, these thoughts are just the feelings of Francis after he has served Haihan for nearly a year. If it was placed before the Battle of Manila, he would definitely scoff at such "weak" ideas and resolutely choose to use force to resolve the dispute with Haihan.But the situation is different now. Since we know that there is an insurmountable gap in strength between the two sides, why bother to do thankless things.
A total of 12 people were selected by the Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau, including three Hispanic youths, and the rest were all Filipino natives.The plan of the two ministries is to arrange a boat for the group and send them to Cebu as refugees.However, if you just go in such a reckless manner, it is very likely that your identity will be dismantled as soon as you arrive. No women or children.So in addition to the ship, they have to be given a reasonable background story, which makes sense.
Of course, this kind of trivial matter will definitely not trouble the experienced intelligence department, not to mention that this time the two departments have joined forces, basically they can get any resources, and they quickly arranged a credible background story for them.
Among this group of people, Ran Tianlu appointed a young Hispanic man named Jose as the commander of the operation. This man is a native Hispanic immigrant born and raised in Manila. His parents are ordinary farmers. He has never committed a crime or worked as a job , there is no special record in the colonial authorities, it can be said that the family background is clean, and it is suitable for intelligence work.
The Jose family lives in an immigrant village on the north bank of the Pasig River, forty or fifty miles away from Manila.After the Battle of Manila, some officials and wealthy businessmen who fled from Manila did not have the opportunity to go to sea, so they chose to cross the Pasig River to escape to the northern inland, and the immigrant villages along the way became the source of supplies for these people.
During the war, these upper-class figures did not intend to treat the people in the village as compatriots. All they needed were the money and food in the hands of these people and the horses at home.If they do not comply, they will directly expropriate the private property of farmers in the name of the government. If they do not comply, they will simply wipe their faces and use force.
Jose's family did not have any background, so they were regarded as toolmen by the fleeing dignitaries. They were not only asked to donate their food and pack horses, but also acted as porters and left the village with the fleeing team.
Although Manila was invaded by foreign enemies, the Jose family was unwilling to leave their hometown. They believed that the Haihan people were targeting Manila and would not send troops to wipe out rural farmers. As soon as the master's upper lip touched his lower lip, he took his property away in the name of "official confiscation".
But these gentlemen have completely different ideas. They think that only by keeping themselves can they keep Spain's rule in Luzon Island. As for the value of these tool people, how can they compare with themselves.Besides, if the money, food and horses are not taken away, when the Haihan people drive them over, they will be confiscated by the enemy. At that time, these will become knives on their necks.Thinking about it this way, wouldn’t farmers who are unwilling to cooperate be capitalizing on the enemy in disguise?
As a result, conflicts inevitably broke out between the gentlemen who were anxious to obtain supplies and continue to flee, and the peasants who were unwilling to abandon their homes and properties.And how could an honest farmer like the Jose family be able to defeat the armed attendants of these gentlemen, so they not only suffered a severe beating and robbed most of their property, but also when these people left They burned down their houses, barns, and cowsheds, and it was said that this was to fortify the wall and clear the country so as not to leave supplies for the enemy.
As the saying goes, the clay bodhisattva is also angry. Although Jose was born in a peasant family, an honest person will explode when he is cornered.Later, when the Haihan army pursued here, Jose didn't know where the courage came from, so he took the initiative to find the Haihan officer who led the team, and led them to chase the dignitary who escaped from here just a day ago.
Finally, with the help of Jose, the Haihan army found more than 200 Spaniards and their attendants hiding here in a nearby valley, and then, according to the prior agreement, captured the part of Jose that was taken away. The property was returned to him.Before escorting the prisoners back to Manila, the officer who led the team suggested that Jose simply join the army so that he and his family could get permanent asylum from Haihan officials.
For Jose, it is very easy to tell who is strong and who is weak. Manila city has been captured by the Haihan army. The once mighty gentlemen in the city are now fleeing and escaping. In the future, Manila will never again Belongs to the Kingdom of Spain.Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the Spanish army fights back one day, he and his family will definitely be sent to the gallows for "collaborating with the enemy"-in fact, if it weren't for those gentlemen who were in a hurry to escape and had no time to build The gallows, the family was probably hanged for any crime before the arrival of the Haihan army.
From this point of view, taking refuge in Haihan is undoubtedly a way out for self-protection. Jose only considered for a moment before making a decision, and then returned to Manila with the Haihan army, becoming the first group of Hispanics to join the army after the local change of ownership.
However, although Jose joined the army, he was not assigned to the combat unit.The main reason is that there are so few local Hispanic youths who volunteered to join the army, so few that the military felt that it would be too wasteful to arrange these people to fight in the army, wasting their ethnic advantages in vain, so the Military Intelligence Bureau took the lead. These people were screened, and those who had the potential to do civilian work such as translation and those who were suitable for espionage work were selected.
Jose doesn't have much culture, but he has a clean foundation, and he chose to break with the Spanish upper class in order to protect his family, and he took the initiative to join Haihan and join the army, which means that he has almost no way to turn back, and it is more likely In the future, I will pledge my allegiance to Haihan.With conditions like this, it would be a waste if they were not recruited into the Military Intelligence Bureau as spies.
So two months after Jose joined the army, he was transferred from the boot camp and reported to the Military Intelligence Bureau.However, the training content of the Military Intelligence Bureau is far more complicated than that of ordinary combat troops. Therefore, although Jose has been in the Military Intelligence Bureau for more than half a year, the progress of his training has not yet reached the point where he can independently go overseas to perform missions. Degree.
But the current situation is that Sanya wants to drive the ducks to the shelves and requires the intelligence department in Manila to take measures. In desperation, they can only use newcomers like Jose.
Among the dozen or so people jointly selected by the two intelligence agencies, Jose was the first to be recruited by the intelligence agency and had the longest training time. His family members also moved to Manila and settled down, and his loyalty was relatively high.Jose's qualifications are more than superior than inferior. Appointing him as the commander of this operation is actually a helpless move for a short man to pick a tall one.
However, Jose himself was very excited, because Fang Peng had promised when he was recruited to participate in this mission that as long as the mission can achieve certain results, Jose's family can be naturalized in Haihan and get farm rewards. There will also be rewards and opportunities for promotion after completion.
"You have the opportunity to become the first Hispanic intelligence officer in Haihan's history!" Fang Peng's encouragement has always been in Jose's heart, which made him not care about the potential risks and difficulties of this trip. The mission, I will become an official in the future, this is a great opportunity that can't be exchanged for a lifetime of farmers.
(End of this chapter)