Chapter 2062
Chapter 2062
Chapter 2062
Based on the close cooperative relationship over the years, the attitude of the Haihan executive committee will largely affect some important decisions of Xu Xinsu, especially in dealing with the delicate relationship between the Fujian province and the Ming court. Taking Haihan's opinion as an important reference, basically no decision will be made that is contrary to the opinion of the Executive Committee.
Although Xu Xinsu does not fully agree with some of Haihan's actions, considering the common interests of both parties, he will still choose to compromise when most of the disagreements arise, and follow the wishes of Haihan's executive committee.So Tao Donglai is not particularly worried about the sudden situation in Fujian. He knows that even if Xu Xinsu is unwilling, he will carefully weigh the consequences and Haihan's attitude, and will not act impulsively.
Xu Xinsu has implemented military separatism in Fujian for several years, and the Ming court, who has no time to take into account the situation in the south, has already recognized this situation by pinching his nose. It is better for Lingnan to be the local emperor than to have civil strife.
This time Zhangzhou Jinyiwei was caught by Xu Xinsu. He would definitely take this opportunity to make certain demands to the imperial court. As for whether he could achieve his goal, it would depend on Xu Xinsu's operating level.And Tao Donglai's attitude towards this is actually somewhat similar to Ming Ting's - as long as Xu Xinsu doesn't rebel.
For Haihan, Fujian is not only an important source of raw materials, but also one of the main markets for Haihan's commodity exports. Ensuring peace in Fujian is not only the demand of Ming Dynasty, but also has many benefits for Haihan.
Of course, the most important thing right now is not to study whether Xu Xinsu can restrain his ambition, but to decide whether to invest more resources in the next period of time to investigate the truth of the transnational arms smuggling case.
This may be just an order to the executive committee, but when it enters the implementation stage, it will involve the transfer of a large number of personnel across regions, and the operational funds required are by no means small, so everyone has been slow to take it. Make a solid idea.
However, under the insistence of the Ministry of Security and the military, the executive committee finally passed a resolution to continue to invest in the investigation and authorize the military to take combat actions when necessary.
The reason for this arrangement is that the executive committee believes that the investigation of the case is about to enter the stage of making a fuss, and it is impossible to confirm how many weapons provided by the Spaniards are still in the hands of the other party, but if it reaches a certain order of magnitude, the other party will It is fully capable of launching small-scale wars in local areas.When such a situation arises, it is impossible to rely solely on the field team of the Ministry of Security to solve it. It is more secure to dispatch combat troops to deal with it. If the front-line troops still need to go back and forth to ask Sanya for instructions before taking action, it may delay the fighter. So simply let the military decide what means to solve the problem.
Of course, such an arrangement will also bring about some new problems, such as whether the frontline commanders will exaggerate the severity of the situation for the sake of military merit, send troops for the sake of sending troops, or even try to create an excuse to use force, and then fight first and then fight.Since the next investigation work will be carried out simultaneously in various parts of the southeast coast of Daming, if there is an armed conflict between the Haihan army and the local government, it may even affect the relationship between the two countries.
Ning Qi, who is in charge of foreign affairs, is also aware of this, so he suggested that it is best to communicate with Daming first, and inform the other party about the general situation of the investigation work, so that if any problems arise in the follow-up, the two sides can at least seek a resolution. Negotiate and resolve.This suggestion has also been approved by other members of the Executive Committee. The diplomatic relationship between Haihan and Daming is finally on the right track. The Executive Committee does not want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts between the two sides due to the investigation of the gun case.
Naturally, this job was handed over to Ning Qi, and after the meeting of the Executive Committee, Ning Qi went to visit Daming's embassy in Sanya.
It has not been long since Daming and Haihan formally established diplomatic relations. So far, it has only been more than two years. The Sanya embassy is also the only embassy organization sent by Ming to Haihan.The official serving as the ambassador at the Sanya embassy today is still Fei Cexian who came to Sanya in 1636.
As the first ambassador to Haihan, Fei Cexian has actually lived a good life in the past two years. The construction of the embassy alone has added a lot of income to him.He has never presided over an errand that belongs to the Ministry of Industry, such as an infrastructure project, and he has no idea that there is a lot of room for manipulation. This is the initiative of the local foreman in charge of construction, otherwise he probably missed it in ignorance. Opportunity to make a fortune legally.
When planning the embassy project at that time, the Haihan officials generously set aside a large area of land for Daming to use.Of course, Fei Cexian would definitely not accept this kind of favor. After all, the entire Hainan Island was once the territory of Ming Dynasty, but now only the embassy is left for Daming to use.However, the large enough land for the embassy has brought many benefits. For example, the construction of the embassy can be divided into several phases and completed slowly. Up to now, some landscape projects are still under construction.
Of course, the main purpose of these unfinished projects is to continue to apply for construction funds from the Ming court, so it will not affect the daily operation of the embassy.In fact, during the two years in Sanya, Fei Cexian did not just focus on making money. He did a lot of work internally and externally, and achieved considerable results.The peaceful coexistence between Da Ming and Hai Han is also due to him.
The most important task is that the embassy provided the Ming court with a large number of reports on the actual situation of Haihan Kingdom, and the role played by Fei Cexian during this period far exceeded that of Jin Yiwei and others in the past few years. The sum of the two yamen of Dongchang.
The reason is that Fei Cexian has the special status of an ambassador, not only can he communicate directly with high-ranking Haihan officials from time to time, but he can also visit many places that even ordinary Haihan people are not qualified to visit under official arrangements. Come into contact with many new things that are not known to the outside world.
During the more than two years in Haihan, Fei Cexian's vision has been greatly broadened, and he has also come into contact with many advanced ideas beyond this era.There are a lot of them that he doesn't fully understand and agree with, but he has to admit that the Haihan people with these wonderful ideas do have a near-perfect performance on how to make a country grow rapidly.
Fei Cexian hoped that he could write Haihan's advanced concepts and technologies into his report in as much detail as possible. With a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding, the imperial court will have more materials for reference when dealing with diplomatic relations with Haihan in the future.
And the actual situation is exactly the same. With the mailing of documents sent to the distant capital once a month, Haihan's social situation has become more and more the object of research by cabinet scholars and other high-ranking officials, and the name Fei Cexian also Gradually became well-known in the court.
When Fei Cexian traveled south from the capital to the South China Sea, he was still a little-known Deputy Zuo in the Department of Pedestrians of the Ministry of Rites, but a small official with the size of sesame seeds and mung beans.But after staying in Sanya for two years, due to his outstanding contributions, he has been promoted twice, and he is almost on the verge of getting the chair of the Ministry of Rites.
In fact, the value of the information that Fei Cexian provided to the Ming court is not too much to reward him as a servant.According to the report he sent back, the Ming court was convinced that Haihan would not invade the coastal areas on a large scale, and would continue to maintain peaceful coexistence with Ming Dynasty for a period of time in the future, so it mobilized some troops from the southeast to go north and enter Central China. The region participated in the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army.In this way, the civil strife in Ming Dynasty was contained to a certain extent, and the area of activity of the Peasant Army was further compressed.
In the original history, the [-]th year of Chongzhen was a year of frequent peasant army activities. Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army fought back and forth with the Ming army in central and eastern China, and once broke through several cities in a row.But in this time and space, the Ming court transferred tens of thousands of Ming troops who were originally guarding the south to central China to participate in the war. Zhang Xianzhong's life was not so easy. He led his troops out of the buried hill several times, but was stopped by the waiting Ming troops. went back.The [-] peasant armies that Li Zicheng assembled in the Weinan area also failed to set off a storm. Under the attack of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, they could only choose to turn to attack Sichuan.
And the Ming army troops stationed at the northern border gate were also able to focus on the enemies outside the gate, and made the originally sparse fence stronger.However, because the Qing army suffered heavy losses on the Korean battlefield this year, and the Liaodong Peninsula was facing military pressure from Haihan, the troops used to attack Ming Dynasty in the south were far less powerful than in previous years, and even skipped the Ming army's garrison. Several important passes were only briefly plundered near the border and then withdrawn to the north.
The emergence of these situations that are beneficial to Daming, of course, is not entirely due to Haihan, but it has indeed further eased the relationship between the two countries to a certain extent, allowing Daming to concentrate on solving more difficult problems.
What makes Fei Cexian feel very comfortable is that Haihan not only does not object to his various activities in the local area, but also gives him a lot of extra support. funding".You can make money while doing errands. It is really hard to find a second such good errand all over the world.
Fei Cexian remembered that before he left Beijing, many relatives and friends were worried that he would suffer bad treatment after arriving in Haihan. It is estimated that there are many people who will be under house arrest by Haihan as soon as he arrives in Sanya, but no one thinks that he will be under house arrest when he arrives in Haihan. After the Han Dynasty, he was able to live a very comfortable life, and even got the chance to be promoted and make a fortune.It is also because of this that when the Ministry of Rites was selecting ambassadors, many people voluntarily retreated due to various concerns, leaving this opportunity to Fei Cexian, who was originally ranked low on the candidate list.
However, if the colleagues in the Ministry of Rites knew how he was treated in Sanya, they would probably regret their original decision very much. Every time Fei Cexian thought of this festival, he would be very grateful for his good luck.
It must be said that there is something that makes Fei Cexian uncomfortable. It is probably that North Korea, which was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, also set up an embassy in Sanya, and the king of North Korea sent his son to Sanya to study.The two sides meet each other at least three or four times a month in various foreign affairs activities in Sanya, and they will inevitably feel a little awkward.Moreover, judging from North Korea's diplomatic measures, this former vassal state even paid more attention to Haihan than Daming, which inevitably made Fei Cexian feel uncomfortable.
Fortunately, comfortable days still accounted for the majority. Over the past few months, Fei Cexian gradually accepted the fact that North Korea had defected to Haihan. As long as he did not become an enemy of Daming, it seemed that he would not be able to do any actual harm to Daming. .
This kind of relationship between countries cannot be changed by individual officials alone.Fei Cexian also knew that Haihan sent troops to resolve the disaster of destroying the country for North Korea, while Daming did not give North Korea much practical help during this period except for verbal support.After the war, North Korea chose to downplay its diplomatic relations with Daming, but it was reasonable to have a heated fight with Haihan.Although Fei Cexian couldn't accept it, he also understood the choice of the Koreans. Both Ming and North Korea had their own difficulties and considerations, and Hai Han was the only beneficiary.
Of course, Fei Cexian will not show any dissatisfaction in front of the Haihan people. As a diplomat who has been in office for two years, he is very clear about what he should and should not do.If the establishment of diplomatic relations between North Korea and Haihan is publicly opposed, it will not have the slightest effect. Instead, it will expose its shortcomings and make the two countries more united.
As for the incidents that Haihan has been intensively investigating recently, Fei Cexian knows very little, because the gun cases that occurred in Liaodong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places did not appear in the newspapers in Sanya.Even in the case of the attempted assassination of the son of Joseon in Hainan Island, there were very few related reports, and there was no mention of the son of Joseon being involved.The investigation of these cases was outside of Fei Cexian's field of vision, so he had no idea that Haihan's intelligence department was busy with these matters recently.
So when Ning Qi came to visit suddenly and said that some major cases had happened recently, and the relevant departments of Haihan needed to carry out investigations in various places along the southeast coast of Daming in order to investigate the case, Fei Cexian's first reaction was that the people of Haihan were looking for excuses, Some unfriendly military measures should be taken against the southeast coastal area.
"Minister Ning, please forgive me for not being able to understand what you mean. Why did your country send out to investigate what happened in Daming territory? If this is the intention of the imperial court, then I should also come forward to make a request to your country. But so far I haven't received any relevant orders." Fei Cexian shook his head to express his confusion to Ning Qi.
(End of this chapter)
Based on the close cooperative relationship over the years, the attitude of the Haihan executive committee will largely affect some important decisions of Xu Xinsu, especially in dealing with the delicate relationship between the Fujian province and the Ming court. Taking Haihan's opinion as an important reference, basically no decision will be made that is contrary to the opinion of the Executive Committee.
Although Xu Xinsu does not fully agree with some of Haihan's actions, considering the common interests of both parties, he will still choose to compromise when most of the disagreements arise, and follow the wishes of Haihan's executive committee.So Tao Donglai is not particularly worried about the sudden situation in Fujian. He knows that even if Xu Xinsu is unwilling, he will carefully weigh the consequences and Haihan's attitude, and will not act impulsively.
Xu Xinsu has implemented military separatism in Fujian for several years, and the Ming court, who has no time to take into account the situation in the south, has already recognized this situation by pinching his nose. It is better for Lingnan to be the local emperor than to have civil strife.
This time Zhangzhou Jinyiwei was caught by Xu Xinsu. He would definitely take this opportunity to make certain demands to the imperial court. As for whether he could achieve his goal, it would depend on Xu Xinsu's operating level.And Tao Donglai's attitude towards this is actually somewhat similar to Ming Ting's - as long as Xu Xinsu doesn't rebel.
For Haihan, Fujian is not only an important source of raw materials, but also one of the main markets for Haihan's commodity exports. Ensuring peace in Fujian is not only the demand of Ming Dynasty, but also has many benefits for Haihan.
Of course, the most important thing right now is not to study whether Xu Xinsu can restrain his ambition, but to decide whether to invest more resources in the next period of time to investigate the truth of the transnational arms smuggling case.
This may be just an order to the executive committee, but when it enters the implementation stage, it will involve the transfer of a large number of personnel across regions, and the operational funds required are by no means small, so everyone has been slow to take it. Make a solid idea.
However, under the insistence of the Ministry of Security and the military, the executive committee finally passed a resolution to continue to invest in the investigation and authorize the military to take combat actions when necessary.
The reason for this arrangement is that the executive committee believes that the investigation of the case is about to enter the stage of making a fuss, and it is impossible to confirm how many weapons provided by the Spaniards are still in the hands of the other party, but if it reaches a certain order of magnitude, the other party will It is fully capable of launching small-scale wars in local areas.When such a situation arises, it is impossible to rely solely on the field team of the Ministry of Security to solve it. It is more secure to dispatch combat troops to deal with it. If the front-line troops still need to go back and forth to ask Sanya for instructions before taking action, it may delay the fighter. So simply let the military decide what means to solve the problem.
Of course, such an arrangement will also bring about some new problems, such as whether the frontline commanders will exaggerate the severity of the situation for the sake of military merit, send troops for the sake of sending troops, or even try to create an excuse to use force, and then fight first and then fight.Since the next investigation work will be carried out simultaneously in various parts of the southeast coast of Daming, if there is an armed conflict between the Haihan army and the local government, it may even affect the relationship between the two countries.
Ning Qi, who is in charge of foreign affairs, is also aware of this, so he suggested that it is best to communicate with Daming first, and inform the other party about the general situation of the investigation work, so that if any problems arise in the follow-up, the two sides can at least seek a resolution. Negotiate and resolve.This suggestion has also been approved by other members of the Executive Committee. The diplomatic relationship between Haihan and Daming is finally on the right track. The Executive Committee does not want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts between the two sides due to the investigation of the gun case.
Naturally, this job was handed over to Ning Qi, and after the meeting of the Executive Committee, Ning Qi went to visit Daming's embassy in Sanya.
It has not been long since Daming and Haihan formally established diplomatic relations. So far, it has only been more than two years. The Sanya embassy is also the only embassy organization sent by Ming to Haihan.The official serving as the ambassador at the Sanya embassy today is still Fei Cexian who came to Sanya in 1636.
As the first ambassador to Haihan, Fei Cexian has actually lived a good life in the past two years. The construction of the embassy alone has added a lot of income to him.He has never presided over an errand that belongs to the Ministry of Industry, such as an infrastructure project, and he has no idea that there is a lot of room for manipulation. This is the initiative of the local foreman in charge of construction, otherwise he probably missed it in ignorance. Opportunity to make a fortune legally.
When planning the embassy project at that time, the Haihan officials generously set aside a large area of land for Daming to use.Of course, Fei Cexian would definitely not accept this kind of favor. After all, the entire Hainan Island was once the territory of Ming Dynasty, but now only the embassy is left for Daming to use.However, the large enough land for the embassy has brought many benefits. For example, the construction of the embassy can be divided into several phases and completed slowly. Up to now, some landscape projects are still under construction.
Of course, the main purpose of these unfinished projects is to continue to apply for construction funds from the Ming court, so it will not affect the daily operation of the embassy.In fact, during the two years in Sanya, Fei Cexian did not just focus on making money. He did a lot of work internally and externally, and achieved considerable results.The peaceful coexistence between Da Ming and Hai Han is also due to him.
The most important task is that the embassy provided the Ming court with a large number of reports on the actual situation of Haihan Kingdom, and the role played by Fei Cexian during this period far exceeded that of Jin Yiwei and others in the past few years. The sum of the two yamen of Dongchang.
The reason is that Fei Cexian has the special status of an ambassador, not only can he communicate directly with high-ranking Haihan officials from time to time, but he can also visit many places that even ordinary Haihan people are not qualified to visit under official arrangements. Come into contact with many new things that are not known to the outside world.
During the more than two years in Haihan, Fei Cexian's vision has been greatly broadened, and he has also come into contact with many advanced ideas beyond this era.There are a lot of them that he doesn't fully understand and agree with, but he has to admit that the Haihan people with these wonderful ideas do have a near-perfect performance on how to make a country grow rapidly.
Fei Cexian hoped that he could write Haihan's advanced concepts and technologies into his report in as much detail as possible. With a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding, the imperial court will have more materials for reference when dealing with diplomatic relations with Haihan in the future.
And the actual situation is exactly the same. With the mailing of documents sent to the distant capital once a month, Haihan's social situation has become more and more the object of research by cabinet scholars and other high-ranking officials, and the name Fei Cexian also Gradually became well-known in the court.
When Fei Cexian traveled south from the capital to the South China Sea, he was still a little-known Deputy Zuo in the Department of Pedestrians of the Ministry of Rites, but a small official with the size of sesame seeds and mung beans.But after staying in Sanya for two years, due to his outstanding contributions, he has been promoted twice, and he is almost on the verge of getting the chair of the Ministry of Rites.
In fact, the value of the information that Fei Cexian provided to the Ming court is not too much to reward him as a servant.According to the report he sent back, the Ming court was convinced that Haihan would not invade the coastal areas on a large scale, and would continue to maintain peaceful coexistence with Ming Dynasty for a period of time in the future, so it mobilized some troops from the southeast to go north and enter Central China. The region participated in the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army.In this way, the civil strife in Ming Dynasty was contained to a certain extent, and the area of activity of the Peasant Army was further compressed.
In the original history, the [-]th year of Chongzhen was a year of frequent peasant army activities. Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army fought back and forth with the Ming army in central and eastern China, and once broke through several cities in a row.But in this time and space, the Ming court transferred tens of thousands of Ming troops who were originally guarding the south to central China to participate in the war. Zhang Xianzhong's life was not so easy. He led his troops out of the buried hill several times, but was stopped by the waiting Ming troops. went back.The [-] peasant armies that Li Zicheng assembled in the Weinan area also failed to set off a storm. Under the attack of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, they could only choose to turn to attack Sichuan.
And the Ming army troops stationed at the northern border gate were also able to focus on the enemies outside the gate, and made the originally sparse fence stronger.However, because the Qing army suffered heavy losses on the Korean battlefield this year, and the Liaodong Peninsula was facing military pressure from Haihan, the troops used to attack Ming Dynasty in the south were far less powerful than in previous years, and even skipped the Ming army's garrison. Several important passes were only briefly plundered near the border and then withdrawn to the north.
The emergence of these situations that are beneficial to Daming, of course, is not entirely due to Haihan, but it has indeed further eased the relationship between the two countries to a certain extent, allowing Daming to concentrate on solving more difficult problems.
What makes Fei Cexian feel very comfortable is that Haihan not only does not object to his various activities in the local area, but also gives him a lot of extra support. funding".You can make money while doing errands. It is really hard to find a second such good errand all over the world.
Fei Cexian remembered that before he left Beijing, many relatives and friends were worried that he would suffer bad treatment after arriving in Haihan. It is estimated that there are many people who will be under house arrest by Haihan as soon as he arrives in Sanya, but no one thinks that he will be under house arrest when he arrives in Haihan. After the Han Dynasty, he was able to live a very comfortable life, and even got the chance to be promoted and make a fortune.It is also because of this that when the Ministry of Rites was selecting ambassadors, many people voluntarily retreated due to various concerns, leaving this opportunity to Fei Cexian, who was originally ranked low on the candidate list.
However, if the colleagues in the Ministry of Rites knew how he was treated in Sanya, they would probably regret their original decision very much. Every time Fei Cexian thought of this festival, he would be very grateful for his good luck.
It must be said that there is something that makes Fei Cexian uncomfortable. It is probably that North Korea, which was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, also set up an embassy in Sanya, and the king of North Korea sent his son to Sanya to study.The two sides meet each other at least three or four times a month in various foreign affairs activities in Sanya, and they will inevitably feel a little awkward.Moreover, judging from North Korea's diplomatic measures, this former vassal state even paid more attention to Haihan than Daming, which inevitably made Fei Cexian feel uncomfortable.
Fortunately, comfortable days still accounted for the majority. Over the past few months, Fei Cexian gradually accepted the fact that North Korea had defected to Haihan. As long as he did not become an enemy of Daming, it seemed that he would not be able to do any actual harm to Daming. .
This kind of relationship between countries cannot be changed by individual officials alone.Fei Cexian also knew that Haihan sent troops to resolve the disaster of destroying the country for North Korea, while Daming did not give North Korea much practical help during this period except for verbal support.After the war, North Korea chose to downplay its diplomatic relations with Daming, but it was reasonable to have a heated fight with Haihan.Although Fei Cexian couldn't accept it, he also understood the choice of the Koreans. Both Ming and North Korea had their own difficulties and considerations, and Hai Han was the only beneficiary.
Of course, Fei Cexian will not show any dissatisfaction in front of the Haihan people. As a diplomat who has been in office for two years, he is very clear about what he should and should not do.If the establishment of diplomatic relations between North Korea and Haihan is publicly opposed, it will not have the slightest effect. Instead, it will expose its shortcomings and make the two countries more united.
As for the incidents that Haihan has been intensively investigating recently, Fei Cexian knows very little, because the gun cases that occurred in Liaodong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places did not appear in the newspapers in Sanya.Even in the case of the attempted assassination of the son of Joseon in Hainan Island, there were very few related reports, and there was no mention of the son of Joseon being involved.The investigation of these cases was outside of Fei Cexian's field of vision, so he had no idea that Haihan's intelligence department was busy with these matters recently.
So when Ning Qi came to visit suddenly and said that some major cases had happened recently, and the relevant departments of Haihan needed to carry out investigations in various places along the southeast coast of Daming in order to investigate the case, Fei Cexian's first reaction was that the people of Haihan were looking for excuses, Some unfriendly military measures should be taken against the southeast coastal area.
"Minister Ning, please forgive me for not being able to understand what you mean. Why did your country send out to investigate what happened in Daming territory? If this is the intention of the imperial court, then I should also come forward to make a request to your country. But so far I haven't received any relevant orders." Fei Cexian shook his head to express his confusion to Ning Qi.
(End of this chapter)