Chapter 2061
Chapter 2061
Chapter 2061
Although the planners behind the scenes have been trying every means to conceal their identities and hide their whereabouts, how can such a huge plan involving such a large area and so many people involved be flawless.Moreover, Haihan is a tough opponent, as long as he leaves a little bit of clues, he will follow the clues to find out more clues.In addition, Haihan has the most advanced means of communication in this era, which can connect multiple cases spanning thousands of miles and coordinate investigation work. Under the follow-up investigation, there is no trace at all.
Judging from what Sun Yongjun, one hundred householders of Jinyiwei, admitted, Zhengfuji is undoubtedly the middleman that the Haihan intelligence department has tracked down for a long time, but it is very likely that this is just a branch of the mastermind behind the scenes deployed in Zhangzhou. The people captured There is also still a lack of key players.
"Did the person in charge of Zhengfuji catch it?" Dong Yanyun asked.
Xu Yuxing shook his head with a little regret and replied: "We failed to catch anyone alive. During the process of breaking in from the front, the shopkeeper of Zhengfuji was killed by a stray bullet. The other prisoners captured are still under interrogation, but it is possible Some key information is only known to the dead man, so we can only turn around and continue working on Sun Yongjun's side."
"Then who is the so-called big shopkeeper that Sun Yongjun went to sea to meet?" Xu Xinsu asked a detail very sharply.
"This person...according to Sun Yongjun, it seems that he is not a Han Chinese, but a Japanese." Xu Yuxing said: "Sun Yongjun said that this person's surname is Tianchuan, and people from Zhengfuji call him the manager of Tianchuan."
"Japanese? Why would there be Japanese ginseng coming in here!" Xu Xinsu also frowned when he heard this. The more countries involved in this matter, the more troublesome the investigation must be, and he doesn't have as many overseas contacts as Haihan. According to the news channel, Japan is more than three thousand miles away from Zhangzhou, and it is not as simple as arresting people at the door of the house if you want to investigate the relevant situation.
"However, according to Sun Yongjun, the shopkeeper Tian Chuan can speak fluent Chinese. There are also many Han Chinese sailors on board. It seems that he is no stranger to the situation of Daming. It is very likely that he is a maritime merchant who has been traveling between Daming and Japan for a long time. .” Xu Yuxing added.
Xu Xinsu suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "How old is this shopkeeper Tian Chuan?"
Xu Yuxing responded: "Sun Yongjun said that this man is about forty years old. Does father have any clues?"
"Forty years old, that's probably not the person I thought." Xu Xinsu waved his hand slightly, indicating that his judgment was wrong, but he didn't explain who he guessed.
Xu Yuxing didn't understand what he meant, but Dong Yanyun seemed to understand what Xu Xinsu meant, and immediately responded: "Even that person doesn't need to worry. It's just tricks."
Dong Yanyun's words made Xu Xinsu feel a little more relieved, but he still didn't discuss it, but said to Xu Yuxing: "Go on."
Xu Yuxing sorted out his thoughts a bit, and continued: "If the statement of the shopkeeper Tian Chuan to Jin Yiwei is true, that is, their purpose is to use assassination to defeat our Xu family and drive away the Haihan people in the Fujian Hai case, is it possible? It can be inferred that the purpose of this group's actions in other places is similar, especially the condition of expulsion of the Haihan forces, probably no other family is as crazy, and we can continue to investigate in this direction."
Xu Yuxing's guess is based on the external investigation information provided to him by Jin Ming.These operators hiding behind the scenes did not only manage Zhangzhou, Fujian, but blossomed in more places along the long coastline of Daming, and at the same time trained armed personnel to use muskets in many places.This step is actually irrelevant. It is not uncommon for local wealthy businessmen to organize small-scale private troops on their own for safety. At best, it is the style of arms dealers.
But the behind-the-scenes mastermind wants these armed groups to target Haihan, and the risk they face is much greater than that of smuggling weapons.Putting away good money and not making money, and risking the risk of being ransacked and exterminated by Haihan, the motive is obviously a direction worthy of investigation.
Xu Xinsu said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to directly participate in the investigation work outside Fujian. But you can discuss it with Jin Ming again to see how the two parties will coordinate the investigation work afterward. Perhaps the Haihan people will have better arrangements."
As Xu Xinsu said, with regard to the series of cases currently under investigation, almost all the information outside of Fujian comes from Haihan. However, the intelligence agency under Xu Yuxing is limited in scale and means, and it is difficult to conduct detailed investigations outside of Fujian.Just like knowing that there is a suspected Japanese shopkeeper behind Zhengfuji, it is also difficult for Xu Yuxing to follow up the follow-up clues.
Xu Yuxing said: "Master Jin has already rushed back to the station to draft a telegram, asking for more support from Sanya. Presumably, after the Haihan Executive Committee learns about the investigation results here, they should mobilize their troops to track this Tian Chuan in a wider range. The whereabouts of the shopkeeper."
Zhangzhou has not closed the city gates for three consecutive days in recent years, but when the investigation enters the third day, in order to ensure that there will be no other escaped fish in the city, the city closure ban is still in place implement.
The mood of the people in the city has actually begun to be a little unstable, but fortunately, the supply of materials in Zhangzhou City will not have any problems in the short term, so the people don't have to worry about starving because of the closure of the city.But there are still many foreign merchants who delayed their trips because of this, and were trapped in the city and couldn't walk, so they were quite dissatisfied with the efficiency of the Zhangzhou government.The trade market on the banks of the Jiulong River outside the city was also affected by this, and it seemed relatively sluggish in the past two days.
The busiest ones are probably the land and water troops stationed inside and outside Zhangzhou City. In addition to the city defense troops who enforce martial law and arrest tasks in the city, there are also troops setting up checkpoints on the major traffic arteries outside the city to monitor the people coming and going. Check.The warships of the Fujian Navy continued to cruise back and forth on the Jiulong River, and at the same time, special personnel inspected the docked ships one by one at various docks along the river.
The Zhangzhou government announced that this action was to arrest a group of thieves who were lurking in the local area waiting for an opportunity to commit crimes. , liars, and fugitives, there are as many as forty people, and they can be regarded as unintentional.
However, under the current situation, these people are just small fish and small shrimps. Zhangzhou's intelligence personnel and military are all focusing on the city.The interrogation work organized and arranged by Xu Yuxing himself is peeling away the complicated case bit by bit, revealing the truth inside.
After Sun Yongjun opened his mouth, his confession was also cross-compared with the confessions of the Jinyiwei arrested the day before to confirm the credibility of his confession.Both Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming were a little surprised that this Sun Yongjun didn't play any tricks, and his confession was basically consistent with other people's confessions, which had a relatively high degree of credibility.
Among Sun Yongjun's explanations, Jin Ming paid the most attention to two points. One is the Japanese Tagawa behind Zhengfuji, and the other is the special actions taken by this group in Zhangzhou.
In the few places where the shootings broke out before, there was no trace of Jinyiwei's involvement, and with Jinyiwei's ability, it was difficult to directly contact the Spanish authorities hiding deep in the Philippine Islands in the South China Sea. Therefore, the Ministry of Security and the military intelligence The bureau has actually excluded Jin Yiwei from the list of suspects for the mastermind.
But it was unexpected that the Jinyiwei in Fujian would be instigated by a mysterious middleman in an attempt to launch an incident in Zhangzhou to overthrow Xu Xinsu's local dominance.Although this plan seems crazy at first glance, and it is difficult to achieve the desired effect of Jinyiwei, but if Haihan hadn't discovered clues related to Zhangzhou by coincidence, and traced all the way to Zhangzhou City, Jinyiwei might really be able to succeed in the future. Sometime launch their plan.
Using trade means to establish a relationship with Jin Yiwei, while delivering benefits to it, it also used its special status to complete money laundering and intelligence collection, and finally even used it as a weapon to attack Xu Xinsu and Hai Han. Such an operation is undoubtedly extremely clever and enough. It can be seen that the mastermind behind the scenes is powerful.
But according to what Sun Yongjun said, the person in charge of the other party's follow-up to Zhangzhou affairs was actually a Japanese. This news really surprised Jin Ming.If Sun Yongjun didn't lie about this matter, then Haihan's next investigation direction should be put in Japan?
Jin Ming was very puzzled why a Japanese insisted on expelling Haihan's organization in Fujian, and even planned such a complicated operation for this purpose.According to the information he has, Haihan and Japan did not have any major grievances in the past. At most, they wiped out some Japanese pirates who came to the coast of Daming in previous operations against pirates. Obviously, it is unlikely that the other party traveled thousands of miles. The real reason to come to Fujian to do these things.
As for the whereabouts of the Japanese Tagawa, Sun Yongjun could no longer provide any more information, which made Jin Ming, who was eager to catch this clue and pursue it, a little uncomfortable.At the moment, he can only find a painter first, draw Tianchuan's general appearance according to Sun Yongjun's description, and then distribute it to various places under Haihan's control as soon as possible, to see if he can find this person by luck.
With this method, the probability of success is of course very small, but at the moment, he can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He believes that since the other party can manage a place like Zhengfuji in Zhangzhou, of course it can be replicated elsewhere. With this approach, maybe the Jinyiwei in a certain place has also become obsessed with ghosts, and has reached a dangerous cooperative relationship with it.Therefore, the investigation of Jin Yiwei still has to be re-arrested.
After receiving the report from Zhangzhou, the executive committee also believed that it had seen the dawn of solving a series of mysteries, but the premise was to find out who this Tian Chuan was and why he planned these events.
He Xi thinks that since this Tian Chuan seems to know the situation of Ming Dynasty quite well and can speak Chinese, it is very likely that his scope of activities is not limited to Zhangzhou, and the ports along the southeast coast may be the objects of his visit.So he submitted an application to the executive committee, and after the portrait of the suspect in Zhangzhou came out, a full-scale manhunt should be launched along the coastline from the Yangtze River Estuary to the Pearl River Estuary, searching for traces of this person in major ports.In particular, the two areas of Yangzhou and Zhangzhou where Spanish weapons have been found to have flowed in,
The amount of manpower and resources required for this kind of investigation is not small. It may be the largest cross-regional investigation in the history of Haihan. It is obviously difficult to complete such a large-scale operation only by the Ministry of Security. It will only be possible with the support of the association.
"If the battle is so big, will it scare the snake?" At the special discussion meeting temporarily held by the Executive Committee, Gu Kai questioned the investigation plan proposed by the Ministry of Security.
He Xi responded: "Actually, there is no possibility of making a surprise attack. We have cracked Spanish gun smuggling cases in many areas in the past month or so. It is impossible for the other party to not receive any news. Especially in Yangzhou and Zhangzhou Actions everywhere have caused a lot of commotion. As long as they are not deaf and dumb, they should know that we are investigating related incidents. Moreover, the purpose of our investigation is not entirely to complete the arrest directly. As long as their identity and origin can be confirmed, As long as we have accurate information, we can follow along and continue to investigate."
"I would like to add that many of the clues we have so far are limited by their timeliness. If we delay for a long time, our opponents will have time to cut off these clues one by one, and our investigation work may come to an impasse again. "Yan Chujie stands on the same position as He Xi on this issue. After all, the Military Intelligence Bureau, the intelligence department of the military, has also participated in the relevant investigations, and he is also eager to find out the truth as soon as possible - if subsequent arrests are to be carried out overseas , then the military must be the main force.
Ning Qi raised his hand and said: "Before voting on this question, let me interject to ask, how should we deal with the Zhangzhou matter? Xu Xinsu has not made a statement yet, and he is probably waiting for our side to express his opinion, but if we don't If he speaks, he may have some misunderstandings, such as thinking that we acquiesced in his further retaliatory actions."
Tao Donglai said: "You don't have to worry too much about this matter. Xu Xinsu will not choose to go to war with the Ming court, unless we ask him to do so and provide corresponding support. According to the report sent back by Zhangzhou, Xu Xinsu has already reported to the court. Jin Yiwei was charged with a lot of crimes and asked the court to deal with him. He is a smart man and knows how to get more benefits for himself. If the Ming court does not want the southeast coast to lose control, it must give him an explanation , or meet some of his demands. What he wants may not require a war at all.”
(End of this chapter)
Although the planners behind the scenes have been trying every means to conceal their identities and hide their whereabouts, how can such a huge plan involving such a large area and so many people involved be flawless.Moreover, Haihan is a tough opponent, as long as he leaves a little bit of clues, he will follow the clues to find out more clues.In addition, Haihan has the most advanced means of communication in this era, which can connect multiple cases spanning thousands of miles and coordinate investigation work. Under the follow-up investigation, there is no trace at all.
Judging from what Sun Yongjun, one hundred householders of Jinyiwei, admitted, Zhengfuji is undoubtedly the middleman that the Haihan intelligence department has tracked down for a long time, but it is very likely that this is just a branch of the mastermind behind the scenes deployed in Zhangzhou. The people captured There is also still a lack of key players.
"Did the person in charge of Zhengfuji catch it?" Dong Yanyun asked.
Xu Yuxing shook his head with a little regret and replied: "We failed to catch anyone alive. During the process of breaking in from the front, the shopkeeper of Zhengfuji was killed by a stray bullet. The other prisoners captured are still under interrogation, but it is possible Some key information is only known to the dead man, so we can only turn around and continue working on Sun Yongjun's side."
"Then who is the so-called big shopkeeper that Sun Yongjun went to sea to meet?" Xu Xinsu asked a detail very sharply.
"This person...according to Sun Yongjun, it seems that he is not a Han Chinese, but a Japanese." Xu Yuxing said: "Sun Yongjun said that this person's surname is Tianchuan, and people from Zhengfuji call him the manager of Tianchuan."
"Japanese? Why would there be Japanese ginseng coming in here!" Xu Xinsu also frowned when he heard this. The more countries involved in this matter, the more troublesome the investigation must be, and he doesn't have as many overseas contacts as Haihan. According to the news channel, Japan is more than three thousand miles away from Zhangzhou, and it is not as simple as arresting people at the door of the house if you want to investigate the relevant situation.
"However, according to Sun Yongjun, the shopkeeper Tian Chuan can speak fluent Chinese. There are also many Han Chinese sailors on board. It seems that he is no stranger to the situation of Daming. It is very likely that he is a maritime merchant who has been traveling between Daming and Japan for a long time. .” Xu Yuxing added.
Xu Xinsu suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "How old is this shopkeeper Tian Chuan?"
Xu Yuxing responded: "Sun Yongjun said that this man is about forty years old. Does father have any clues?"
"Forty years old, that's probably not the person I thought." Xu Xinsu waved his hand slightly, indicating that his judgment was wrong, but he didn't explain who he guessed.
Xu Yuxing didn't understand what he meant, but Dong Yanyun seemed to understand what Xu Xinsu meant, and immediately responded: "Even that person doesn't need to worry. It's just tricks."
Dong Yanyun's words made Xu Xinsu feel a little more relieved, but he still didn't discuss it, but said to Xu Yuxing: "Go on."
Xu Yuxing sorted out his thoughts a bit, and continued: "If the statement of the shopkeeper Tian Chuan to Jin Yiwei is true, that is, their purpose is to use assassination to defeat our Xu family and drive away the Haihan people in the Fujian Hai case, is it possible? It can be inferred that the purpose of this group's actions in other places is similar, especially the condition of expulsion of the Haihan forces, probably no other family is as crazy, and we can continue to investigate in this direction."
Xu Yuxing's guess is based on the external investigation information provided to him by Jin Ming.These operators hiding behind the scenes did not only manage Zhangzhou, Fujian, but blossomed in more places along the long coastline of Daming, and at the same time trained armed personnel to use muskets in many places.This step is actually irrelevant. It is not uncommon for local wealthy businessmen to organize small-scale private troops on their own for safety. At best, it is the style of arms dealers.
But the behind-the-scenes mastermind wants these armed groups to target Haihan, and the risk they face is much greater than that of smuggling weapons.Putting away good money and not making money, and risking the risk of being ransacked and exterminated by Haihan, the motive is obviously a direction worthy of investigation.
Xu Xinsu said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to directly participate in the investigation work outside Fujian. But you can discuss it with Jin Ming again to see how the two parties will coordinate the investigation work afterward. Perhaps the Haihan people will have better arrangements."
As Xu Xinsu said, with regard to the series of cases currently under investigation, almost all the information outside of Fujian comes from Haihan. However, the intelligence agency under Xu Yuxing is limited in scale and means, and it is difficult to conduct detailed investigations outside of Fujian.Just like knowing that there is a suspected Japanese shopkeeper behind Zhengfuji, it is also difficult for Xu Yuxing to follow up the follow-up clues.
Xu Yuxing said: "Master Jin has already rushed back to the station to draft a telegram, asking for more support from Sanya. Presumably, after the Haihan Executive Committee learns about the investigation results here, they should mobilize their troops to track this Tian Chuan in a wider range. The whereabouts of the shopkeeper."
Zhangzhou has not closed the city gates for three consecutive days in recent years, but when the investigation enters the third day, in order to ensure that there will be no other escaped fish in the city, the city closure ban is still in place implement.
The mood of the people in the city has actually begun to be a little unstable, but fortunately, the supply of materials in Zhangzhou City will not have any problems in the short term, so the people don't have to worry about starving because of the closure of the city.But there are still many foreign merchants who delayed their trips because of this, and were trapped in the city and couldn't walk, so they were quite dissatisfied with the efficiency of the Zhangzhou government.The trade market on the banks of the Jiulong River outside the city was also affected by this, and it seemed relatively sluggish in the past two days.
The busiest ones are probably the land and water troops stationed inside and outside Zhangzhou City. In addition to the city defense troops who enforce martial law and arrest tasks in the city, there are also troops setting up checkpoints on the major traffic arteries outside the city to monitor the people coming and going. Check.The warships of the Fujian Navy continued to cruise back and forth on the Jiulong River, and at the same time, special personnel inspected the docked ships one by one at various docks along the river.
The Zhangzhou government announced that this action was to arrest a group of thieves who were lurking in the local area waiting for an opportunity to commit crimes. , liars, and fugitives, there are as many as forty people, and they can be regarded as unintentional.
However, under the current situation, these people are just small fish and small shrimps. Zhangzhou's intelligence personnel and military are all focusing on the city.The interrogation work organized and arranged by Xu Yuxing himself is peeling away the complicated case bit by bit, revealing the truth inside.
After Sun Yongjun opened his mouth, his confession was also cross-compared with the confessions of the Jinyiwei arrested the day before to confirm the credibility of his confession.Both Xu Yuxing and Jin Ming were a little surprised that this Sun Yongjun didn't play any tricks, and his confession was basically consistent with other people's confessions, which had a relatively high degree of credibility.
Among Sun Yongjun's explanations, Jin Ming paid the most attention to two points. One is the Japanese Tagawa behind Zhengfuji, and the other is the special actions taken by this group in Zhangzhou.
In the few places where the shootings broke out before, there was no trace of Jinyiwei's involvement, and with Jinyiwei's ability, it was difficult to directly contact the Spanish authorities hiding deep in the Philippine Islands in the South China Sea. Therefore, the Ministry of Security and the military intelligence The bureau has actually excluded Jin Yiwei from the list of suspects for the mastermind.
But it was unexpected that the Jinyiwei in Fujian would be instigated by a mysterious middleman in an attempt to launch an incident in Zhangzhou to overthrow Xu Xinsu's local dominance.Although this plan seems crazy at first glance, and it is difficult to achieve the desired effect of Jinyiwei, but if Haihan hadn't discovered clues related to Zhangzhou by coincidence, and traced all the way to Zhangzhou City, Jinyiwei might really be able to succeed in the future. Sometime launch their plan.
Using trade means to establish a relationship with Jin Yiwei, while delivering benefits to it, it also used its special status to complete money laundering and intelligence collection, and finally even used it as a weapon to attack Xu Xinsu and Hai Han. Such an operation is undoubtedly extremely clever and enough. It can be seen that the mastermind behind the scenes is powerful.
But according to what Sun Yongjun said, the person in charge of the other party's follow-up to Zhangzhou affairs was actually a Japanese. This news really surprised Jin Ming.If Sun Yongjun didn't lie about this matter, then Haihan's next investigation direction should be put in Japan?
Jin Ming was very puzzled why a Japanese insisted on expelling Haihan's organization in Fujian, and even planned such a complicated operation for this purpose.According to the information he has, Haihan and Japan did not have any major grievances in the past. At most, they wiped out some Japanese pirates who came to the coast of Daming in previous operations against pirates. Obviously, it is unlikely that the other party traveled thousands of miles. The real reason to come to Fujian to do these things.
As for the whereabouts of the Japanese Tagawa, Sun Yongjun could no longer provide any more information, which made Jin Ming, who was eager to catch this clue and pursue it, a little uncomfortable.At the moment, he can only find a painter first, draw Tianchuan's general appearance according to Sun Yongjun's description, and then distribute it to various places under Haihan's control as soon as possible, to see if he can find this person by luck.
With this method, the probability of success is of course very small, but at the moment, he can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He believes that since the other party can manage a place like Zhengfuji in Zhangzhou, of course it can be replicated elsewhere. With this approach, maybe the Jinyiwei in a certain place has also become obsessed with ghosts, and has reached a dangerous cooperative relationship with it.Therefore, the investigation of Jin Yiwei still has to be re-arrested.
After receiving the report from Zhangzhou, the executive committee also believed that it had seen the dawn of solving a series of mysteries, but the premise was to find out who this Tian Chuan was and why he planned these events.
He Xi thinks that since this Tian Chuan seems to know the situation of Ming Dynasty quite well and can speak Chinese, it is very likely that his scope of activities is not limited to Zhangzhou, and the ports along the southeast coast may be the objects of his visit.So he submitted an application to the executive committee, and after the portrait of the suspect in Zhangzhou came out, a full-scale manhunt should be launched along the coastline from the Yangtze River Estuary to the Pearl River Estuary, searching for traces of this person in major ports.In particular, the two areas of Yangzhou and Zhangzhou where Spanish weapons have been found to have flowed in,
The amount of manpower and resources required for this kind of investigation is not small. It may be the largest cross-regional investigation in the history of Haihan. It is obviously difficult to complete such a large-scale operation only by the Ministry of Security. It will only be possible with the support of the association.
"If the battle is so big, will it scare the snake?" At the special discussion meeting temporarily held by the Executive Committee, Gu Kai questioned the investigation plan proposed by the Ministry of Security.
He Xi responded: "Actually, there is no possibility of making a surprise attack. We have cracked Spanish gun smuggling cases in many areas in the past month or so. It is impossible for the other party to not receive any news. Especially in Yangzhou and Zhangzhou Actions everywhere have caused a lot of commotion. As long as they are not deaf and dumb, they should know that we are investigating related incidents. Moreover, the purpose of our investigation is not entirely to complete the arrest directly. As long as their identity and origin can be confirmed, As long as we have accurate information, we can follow along and continue to investigate."
"I would like to add that many of the clues we have so far are limited by their timeliness. If we delay for a long time, our opponents will have time to cut off these clues one by one, and our investigation work may come to an impasse again. "Yan Chujie stands on the same position as He Xi on this issue. After all, the Military Intelligence Bureau, the intelligence department of the military, has also participated in the relevant investigations, and he is also eager to find out the truth as soon as possible - if subsequent arrests are to be carried out overseas , then the military must be the main force.
Ning Qi raised his hand and said: "Before voting on this question, let me interject to ask, how should we deal with the Zhangzhou matter? Xu Xinsu has not made a statement yet, and he is probably waiting for our side to express his opinion, but if we don't If he speaks, he may have some misunderstandings, such as thinking that we acquiesced in his further retaliatory actions."
Tao Donglai said: "You don't have to worry too much about this matter. Xu Xinsu will not choose to go to war with the Ming court, unless we ask him to do so and provide corresponding support. According to the report sent back by Zhangzhou, Xu Xinsu has already reported to the court. Jin Yiwei was charged with a lot of crimes and asked the court to deal with him. He is a smart man and knows how to get more benefits for himself. If the Ming court does not want the southeast coast to lose control, it must give him an explanation , or meet some of his demands. What he wants may not require a war at all.”
(End of this chapter)