Chapter 2065
Chapter 2065
Chapter 2065
Compared with large trading ports such as Sanya and Zhangzhou, which are frequently visited by maritime merchants from various countries, the number of foreign businessmen traveling to and from Magong Port in Penghu is obviously much smaller, and the difficulty of checking against registration data is correspondingly much smaller.The relevant investigation did not take too long, and the information of the target person was found from the registration information of the Port Authority.
About half a year ago, two merchant ships visited Magong Port. At that time, the name of the ship owner registered with the Port Authority was Kenji Tagawa. This name was completely consistent with the confession of Zhangzhou Jinyiwei Baihu Sun Yongjun.However, the two ships only stayed in Magong Port for three days, purchased a small amount of seafood, and then left. They did not set up permanent offices in the local area.
"That's it?" Yu Yao felt a little lucky after listening to his subordinate's report, but he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.Although he didn't want to cause trouble, if he could find out more clues, perhaps Penghu could also take a part in it when the merits were rewarded afterwards.
Yu Yao is a relatively cautious person. Although there is no evidence that Kenji Tagawa came to Penghu for impure purposes, he still ordered to further expand the scope of the investigation to check whether there were any newly established commercial organizations and house sales around this time. , and whether there has been any change in the rental situation of warehouses near the wharf.
This additional investigation is entirely based on Yu Yao's intuition, because since he took office in Penghu, there are very few maritime merchants from Japan visiting Magong Port.As far as he knows, Japanese maritime merchants are more inclined to trade with Daming, and the few trading projects related to Haihan are mostly completed in Zhoushan Dinghai Port, which is closer to Japan, and it is by no means that the products are not rich and Penghu is not on the route between Japan and Ming Dynasty.
And a Japanese sea merchant took two boats to detour to stay for three days, and only purchased some seafood of limited value. This was a waste of time and energy, and it seemed somewhat strange to Yu Yao.
Of course, if it is not for investigation, no one will pay attention to such trivial matters. Magong Port will rarely conduct special investigations on businessmen from a certain country, or create thresholds for foreign businessmen to set up commercial organizations in Penghu.However, Haihan's official registration materials are quite complete, so even though the matter has passed for a long time, it is still possible to find relevant clues.
This investigation turned up new clues. Two days after Kenji Tagawa left Penghu, a local trading post changed hands, and the new owner changed the name of the trading post to Zhengyuanji—the same as Zhengyuanji in Zhangzhou. The difference between Fu Ji is only one word.This commercial warehouse itself is a combination of commercial and residential buildings with storage functions, so if the business scale is not large, there is no need to find another residence or warehouse.
"Immediately send a team of people to investigate this Zhengyuanji. They have searched carefully inside and out. If there is any suspicious person, they will be detained first." Yu Yao, thinking that he would rather kill by mistake than let it go, immediately said Order someone to check the situation of this store.
The adjutant was about to deliver the order, when Yu Yao remembered something and stopped him again: "It is said that the target to be traced this time has a lot of muskets in his hand, Zhangzhou was closed for three days, and the city defense army was dispatched to attack. Next. We should be more careful when we do it, so as not to be plotted by others... Send more soldiers and horses, seal the place first, and if we encounter resistance, we will deal with it according to the first-level situation!"
The so-called first-level situation refers to the fact that troops encounter the enemy and engage in battle, so it is not handled according to the standards of civil security incidents.The adjutant listened to the boss's words carefully, and did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. After responding, he took the order and left.
Since Yu Yao had warned of the seriousness of the situation, the adjutant transferred the infantry company stationed on the island to carry out this task in order to be on the safe side.Of course, he didn't forget to emphasize Yu Yao's warning to the company commander.
The company commander thought, since this action is risky, and the higher-ups have warned him beforehand, if something goes wrong, it is because he is not doing his best.So he also followed the plan for the attack, not only prepared tools for breaking the door and heavy armored infantry, but also pulled out a small-caliber field gun from the arsenal in case of emergency, and then dispatched the only ten horses in the base , as peripheral monitoring, pursuit, and orders.
The two recent incidents in Zhangzhou City have served as a great warning to the latecomers. If there were no Zhangzhou incidents before, then Yu Yao probably just notified the Military Intelligence Bureau and asked them to send someone over to look at the store. Whether the business situation is abnormal.
The prudence of officers at all levels also allowed them to avoid casualties that might occur during operations.Later, when the military tried to check this Zhengyuanji, it was obstructed by the store operator, and the officer leading the team was wrong, and immediately ordered the arrest of the other party's personnel.After receiving the signal, hundreds of Haihan soldiers rushed into the storehouse and controlled the situation before the opponent took further countermeasures.
During the later search, the soldiers found five muskets and nearly a hundred rounds of ammunition from a hidden compartment in the storeroom, as well as a batch of swords, bows and armor.The excuses of using these weapons found in the house or private collection are obviously unjustifiable. There must be ulterior motives for hiding these weapons in the store.
After receiving the report, Yu Yao did not dare to neglect, and immediately rushed to the scene to confirm the search results of his men.Seeing those standard muskets with completely uniform shape and caliber, Yu Yao was also secretly startled. If the opponent seized the opportunity to use these muskets to assassinate him on certain occasions, it would be extremely dangerous.
"Temporarily close Magong Port, only allowed to enter but not to exit, find out all the local people related to Zhengyuanji, and not let anyone go!" Yu Yao issued an order with a gloomy face.Now that Penghu has been infiltrated, it is necessary to expand the scope of the investigation. He dare not confirm that the only hidden danger in the local area is Zhengyuanji.
Yu Yao immediately ordered to suspend the naval fleet's action plan. Compared with the Japanese businessman Tagawa who didn't know where he was hiding, it is obvious that the new clues found at the door of his house are more worthy of further digging.Yu Yaodang even asked people to prepare a place to personally interrogate the criminals captured in Zhengyuanji.
Zhengyuanji has a total of 12 people including the storekeeper and the staff. According to the ledgers and goods in and out records collected in the store, its main business items are the purchase of dried fish, asparagus, seaweed, coral and other seaweed from the local area. The products are sold to Daming territory after simple processing and packaging.This business method of increasing the value of commodities through rough processing is quite similar to Haihan's business model, but in recent years, more and more merchants along the coast of Daming have followed Haihan's business model, so it is not too unusual.
According to the official registration information, Lu Jiu, the shopkeeper of the store, is from the Ming Dynasty, but the sources of his staff are various, including not only Ming people, but also Ryukyu people, Japanese, and natives from Taiwan Island. Several people even I don't even understand Chinese.
But this kind of situation is actually not uncommon in the local area. After the end of the Penghu Battle in 1632, only a few hundred aborigines remained in the local area.In order to supplement the population of the island, the Penghu authorities relaxed the restrictions on immigration, so that the population entering Penghu through various channels gradually increased.Moreover, in order to encourage people to immigrate, those who have settled in Penghu for more than half a year and have no bad records can apply for naturalization to the Penghu authorities. The conditions are much more relaxed than those in Haihan.
And those immigrants who came to Penghu and have not yet obtained the opportunity to be naturalized, most of them will choose to find a livelihood locally, such as working in a business store like Zhengyuanji. business.Therefore, the people living in Penghu are not all Ming people and Haihan people, but also immigrants from other countries and regions.
Of course, Zhengyuan remembers whether there are innocent people among these people, it needs to be identified slowly after the interrogation, in short, they must be treated as suspects right now, even if someone is wronged, they can only bear with it.
Yu Yao personally interrogated Lu Jiu, the shopkeeper of Zhengyuanji. According to the reports of his subordinates, something was wrong when this guy saw the Haihan army coming to the door, and he tried to order his assistants to prevent the Haihan army from searching the storehouse. Obviously an insider.
"Lu Jiu, whether this is your real name or a pseudonym, first of all you need to know one thing..." Yu Yao's opening remarks were simple and cold: "...if you die in Penghu, your name will soon be Forgotten by everyone, no one will remember who you are, where you came from, and who you worked for. If you want to see your family again and want to suffer less, you'd better cooperate with us honestly and share what you know Say everything!"
That Lu Jiu was about forty years old, and he seemed to be a little depressed, but he responded unceremoniously to Yu Yao when he opened his mouth: "Master Yu, this life has been lost many years ago, what is it called?" My name is not important to me either. As for my family members...they can only see them after I die, and if Master Yu wants to threaten me with death, it may not be of much use."
Yu Yao was a little surprised when he heard his response. If what he said was true, it meant that his family members had died long ago, and now he was the only one left. He would have taken life and death lightly, and would not be afraid of Yu Yao's death threat.
"So you came to Penghu with the intention of dying? Then what you did in Penghu must help untie your knot... Let me guess, your purpose is revenge, so Even if there is a very big risk, you still have to stay here and wait for a chance of revenge!"
Since the threat of death doesn't work, it can only be changed.While speaking, Yu Yao paid attention to Lu Jiu's expression, trying to find some subtle emotional reactions on his face, and then he could make real-time adjustments to his interrogation strategy.
However, Lu Jiu was very calm, with his eyes slightly closed, and he did not respond to Yu Yao's words again.But Yu Yao noticed that the man's fists were clenched tightly, and even the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, as if he was stimulated by Yu Yao's words.
Yu Yao immediately hit the snake with the stick, and continued: "It has been more than four years and almost five years since I was transferred to Penghu. Something like a massacre happened. So you said that your family members are dead and you are still alive. Presumably this accident did not happen in recent years, or the location is not in Penghu. Of course, the most likely situation is that you The culprit who killed family members is here, like me, or someone else."
Yu Yao noticed that although the man was trying his best to control his emotions, the subtle body movements revealed that he was reacting to what he had speculated.However, Yu Yao didn't think that the other party's enemy was himself, because he had met the other party's eyes briefly when he came in earlier, and he didn't feel any hatred, but his anger and unwillingness were more obvious.
Although the other party was unwilling to respond to him, Yu Yao thought that his guess should be in the right direction, because when he threatened him with death earlier, this guy immediately responded to this impossible assumption.
But the other party is unwilling to respond now, so Yu Yao can't continue to speculate out of thin air, but judging from the other party's attitude of reticence, it is probably difficult to get him to speak through words, he can only use more direct means to do so. Try to break down the opponent's psychological defenses.
"Although you are not afraid of death, there are actually many more difficult and painful things in this world than death. If you refuse to cooperate well, then I can only give you some pain." Yu Yao waved his hand and signaled The torture experts who had been gearing up for a long time gave Lu Jiu some means.
Yu Yao didn't think that Lu Jiu's will was so strong, people who are not afraid of death may not be able to endure pain.According to Haihan's interrogation experience over the years, many interrogators who claimed to be not afraid of death chose to confess because they couldn't bear the hardship during the torture process.There are also some hardliners and desperadoes among them, but a group of torture experts trained by Haihan over the years have summed up many effective execution methods, which will cause the interrogated subjects to suffer unbearable physical pain for ordinary people in a short period of time.
Of course, there is no need for a special torture expert in a small place like Penghu, where few public security incidents occur within a year, but Lu Jiu's luck is really bad. In the past two days, a ship from the Military Intelligence Bureau happened to stop at Magong Port. For supplies, several detectives who returned to Sanya from Zhoushan were on board, and one of them was an expert in extorting confessions by torture.After arresting the person from Zhengyuanji, Yu Yao felt that the torture expert might be useful, so he specially transferred him to suppress the battle.
After the torture expert got the order, he first gave a military salute to Yu Yao, then walked up to Lu Jiu who was tied to the chair and couldn't move, stretched out his hand to pinch him a few times, and put his fingers on the side of his neck For a moment, it seemed to be measuring his pulse.
Yu Yao saw it strangely, and couldn't help asking him what he meant. The man quickly responded, "First, I will briefly check the suspect's physical condition, so as not to cause him to die too quickly due to improper torture. This person is physically strong and has a strong pulse Powerful, I can execute the execution with my hands."
(End of this chapter)
Compared with large trading ports such as Sanya and Zhangzhou, which are frequently visited by maritime merchants from various countries, the number of foreign businessmen traveling to and from Magong Port in Penghu is obviously much smaller, and the difficulty of checking against registration data is correspondingly much smaller.The relevant investigation did not take too long, and the information of the target person was found from the registration information of the Port Authority.
About half a year ago, two merchant ships visited Magong Port. At that time, the name of the ship owner registered with the Port Authority was Kenji Tagawa. This name was completely consistent with the confession of Zhangzhou Jinyiwei Baihu Sun Yongjun.However, the two ships only stayed in Magong Port for three days, purchased a small amount of seafood, and then left. They did not set up permanent offices in the local area.
"That's it?" Yu Yao felt a little lucky after listening to his subordinate's report, but he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.Although he didn't want to cause trouble, if he could find out more clues, perhaps Penghu could also take a part in it when the merits were rewarded afterwards.
Yu Yao is a relatively cautious person. Although there is no evidence that Kenji Tagawa came to Penghu for impure purposes, he still ordered to further expand the scope of the investigation to check whether there were any newly established commercial organizations and house sales around this time. , and whether there has been any change in the rental situation of warehouses near the wharf.
This additional investigation is entirely based on Yu Yao's intuition, because since he took office in Penghu, there are very few maritime merchants from Japan visiting Magong Port.As far as he knows, Japanese maritime merchants are more inclined to trade with Daming, and the few trading projects related to Haihan are mostly completed in Zhoushan Dinghai Port, which is closer to Japan, and it is by no means that the products are not rich and Penghu is not on the route between Japan and Ming Dynasty.
And a Japanese sea merchant took two boats to detour to stay for three days, and only purchased some seafood of limited value. This was a waste of time and energy, and it seemed somewhat strange to Yu Yao.
Of course, if it is not for investigation, no one will pay attention to such trivial matters. Magong Port will rarely conduct special investigations on businessmen from a certain country, or create thresholds for foreign businessmen to set up commercial organizations in Penghu.However, Haihan's official registration materials are quite complete, so even though the matter has passed for a long time, it is still possible to find relevant clues.
This investigation turned up new clues. Two days after Kenji Tagawa left Penghu, a local trading post changed hands, and the new owner changed the name of the trading post to Zhengyuanji—the same as Zhengyuanji in Zhangzhou. The difference between Fu Ji is only one word.This commercial warehouse itself is a combination of commercial and residential buildings with storage functions, so if the business scale is not large, there is no need to find another residence or warehouse.
"Immediately send a team of people to investigate this Zhengyuanji. They have searched carefully inside and out. If there is any suspicious person, they will be detained first." Yu Yao, thinking that he would rather kill by mistake than let it go, immediately said Order someone to check the situation of this store.
The adjutant was about to deliver the order, when Yu Yao remembered something and stopped him again: "It is said that the target to be traced this time has a lot of muskets in his hand, Zhangzhou was closed for three days, and the city defense army was dispatched to attack. Next. We should be more careful when we do it, so as not to be plotted by others... Send more soldiers and horses, seal the place first, and if we encounter resistance, we will deal with it according to the first-level situation!"
The so-called first-level situation refers to the fact that troops encounter the enemy and engage in battle, so it is not handled according to the standards of civil security incidents.The adjutant listened to the boss's words carefully, and did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. After responding, he took the order and left.
Since Yu Yao had warned of the seriousness of the situation, the adjutant transferred the infantry company stationed on the island to carry out this task in order to be on the safe side.Of course, he didn't forget to emphasize Yu Yao's warning to the company commander.
The company commander thought, since this action is risky, and the higher-ups have warned him beforehand, if something goes wrong, it is because he is not doing his best.So he also followed the plan for the attack, not only prepared tools for breaking the door and heavy armored infantry, but also pulled out a small-caliber field gun from the arsenal in case of emergency, and then dispatched the only ten horses in the base , as peripheral monitoring, pursuit, and orders.
The two recent incidents in Zhangzhou City have served as a great warning to the latecomers. If there were no Zhangzhou incidents before, then Yu Yao probably just notified the Military Intelligence Bureau and asked them to send someone over to look at the store. Whether the business situation is abnormal.
The prudence of officers at all levels also allowed them to avoid casualties that might occur during operations.Later, when the military tried to check this Zhengyuanji, it was obstructed by the store operator, and the officer leading the team was wrong, and immediately ordered the arrest of the other party's personnel.After receiving the signal, hundreds of Haihan soldiers rushed into the storehouse and controlled the situation before the opponent took further countermeasures.
During the later search, the soldiers found five muskets and nearly a hundred rounds of ammunition from a hidden compartment in the storeroom, as well as a batch of swords, bows and armor.The excuses of using these weapons found in the house or private collection are obviously unjustifiable. There must be ulterior motives for hiding these weapons in the store.
After receiving the report, Yu Yao did not dare to neglect, and immediately rushed to the scene to confirm the search results of his men.Seeing those standard muskets with completely uniform shape and caliber, Yu Yao was also secretly startled. If the opponent seized the opportunity to use these muskets to assassinate him on certain occasions, it would be extremely dangerous.
"Temporarily close Magong Port, only allowed to enter but not to exit, find out all the local people related to Zhengyuanji, and not let anyone go!" Yu Yao issued an order with a gloomy face.Now that Penghu has been infiltrated, it is necessary to expand the scope of the investigation. He dare not confirm that the only hidden danger in the local area is Zhengyuanji.
Yu Yao immediately ordered to suspend the naval fleet's action plan. Compared with the Japanese businessman Tagawa who didn't know where he was hiding, it is obvious that the new clues found at the door of his house are more worthy of further digging.Yu Yaodang even asked people to prepare a place to personally interrogate the criminals captured in Zhengyuanji.
Zhengyuanji has a total of 12 people including the storekeeper and the staff. According to the ledgers and goods in and out records collected in the store, its main business items are the purchase of dried fish, asparagus, seaweed, coral and other seaweed from the local area. The products are sold to Daming territory after simple processing and packaging.This business method of increasing the value of commodities through rough processing is quite similar to Haihan's business model, but in recent years, more and more merchants along the coast of Daming have followed Haihan's business model, so it is not too unusual.
According to the official registration information, Lu Jiu, the shopkeeper of the store, is from the Ming Dynasty, but the sources of his staff are various, including not only Ming people, but also Ryukyu people, Japanese, and natives from Taiwan Island. Several people even I don't even understand Chinese.
But this kind of situation is actually not uncommon in the local area. After the end of the Penghu Battle in 1632, only a few hundred aborigines remained in the local area.In order to supplement the population of the island, the Penghu authorities relaxed the restrictions on immigration, so that the population entering Penghu through various channels gradually increased.Moreover, in order to encourage people to immigrate, those who have settled in Penghu for more than half a year and have no bad records can apply for naturalization to the Penghu authorities. The conditions are much more relaxed than those in Haihan.
And those immigrants who came to Penghu and have not yet obtained the opportunity to be naturalized, most of them will choose to find a livelihood locally, such as working in a business store like Zhengyuanji. business.Therefore, the people living in Penghu are not all Ming people and Haihan people, but also immigrants from other countries and regions.
Of course, Zhengyuan remembers whether there are innocent people among these people, it needs to be identified slowly after the interrogation, in short, they must be treated as suspects right now, even if someone is wronged, they can only bear with it.
Yu Yao personally interrogated Lu Jiu, the shopkeeper of Zhengyuanji. According to the reports of his subordinates, something was wrong when this guy saw the Haihan army coming to the door, and he tried to order his assistants to prevent the Haihan army from searching the storehouse. Obviously an insider.
"Lu Jiu, whether this is your real name or a pseudonym, first of all you need to know one thing..." Yu Yao's opening remarks were simple and cold: "...if you die in Penghu, your name will soon be Forgotten by everyone, no one will remember who you are, where you came from, and who you worked for. If you want to see your family again and want to suffer less, you'd better cooperate with us honestly and share what you know Say everything!"
That Lu Jiu was about forty years old, and he seemed to be a little depressed, but he responded unceremoniously to Yu Yao when he opened his mouth: "Master Yu, this life has been lost many years ago, what is it called?" My name is not important to me either. As for my family members...they can only see them after I die, and if Master Yu wants to threaten me with death, it may not be of much use."
Yu Yao was a little surprised when he heard his response. If what he said was true, it meant that his family members had died long ago, and now he was the only one left. He would have taken life and death lightly, and would not be afraid of Yu Yao's death threat.
"So you came to Penghu with the intention of dying? Then what you did in Penghu must help untie your knot... Let me guess, your purpose is revenge, so Even if there is a very big risk, you still have to stay here and wait for a chance of revenge!"
Since the threat of death doesn't work, it can only be changed.While speaking, Yu Yao paid attention to Lu Jiu's expression, trying to find some subtle emotional reactions on his face, and then he could make real-time adjustments to his interrogation strategy.
However, Lu Jiu was very calm, with his eyes slightly closed, and he did not respond to Yu Yao's words again.But Yu Yao noticed that the man's fists were clenched tightly, and even the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, as if he was stimulated by Yu Yao's words.
Yu Yao immediately hit the snake with the stick, and continued: "It has been more than four years and almost five years since I was transferred to Penghu. Something like a massacre happened. So you said that your family members are dead and you are still alive. Presumably this accident did not happen in recent years, or the location is not in Penghu. Of course, the most likely situation is that you The culprit who killed family members is here, like me, or someone else."
Yu Yao noticed that although the man was trying his best to control his emotions, the subtle body movements revealed that he was reacting to what he had speculated.However, Yu Yao didn't think that the other party's enemy was himself, because he had met the other party's eyes briefly when he came in earlier, and he didn't feel any hatred, but his anger and unwillingness were more obvious.
Although the other party was unwilling to respond to him, Yu Yao thought that his guess should be in the right direction, because when he threatened him with death earlier, this guy immediately responded to this impossible assumption.
But the other party is unwilling to respond now, so Yu Yao can't continue to speculate out of thin air, but judging from the other party's attitude of reticence, it is probably difficult to get him to speak through words, he can only use more direct means to do so. Try to break down the opponent's psychological defenses.
"Although you are not afraid of death, there are actually many more difficult and painful things in this world than death. If you refuse to cooperate well, then I can only give you some pain." Yu Yao waved his hand and signaled The torture experts who had been gearing up for a long time gave Lu Jiu some means.
Yu Yao didn't think that Lu Jiu's will was so strong, people who are not afraid of death may not be able to endure pain.According to Haihan's interrogation experience over the years, many interrogators who claimed to be not afraid of death chose to confess because they couldn't bear the hardship during the torture process.There are also some hardliners and desperadoes among them, but a group of torture experts trained by Haihan over the years have summed up many effective execution methods, which will cause the interrogated subjects to suffer unbearable physical pain for ordinary people in a short period of time.
Of course, there is no need for a special torture expert in a small place like Penghu, where few public security incidents occur within a year, but Lu Jiu's luck is really bad. In the past two days, a ship from the Military Intelligence Bureau happened to stop at Magong Port. For supplies, several detectives who returned to Sanya from Zhoushan were on board, and one of them was an expert in extorting confessions by torture.After arresting the person from Zhengyuanji, Yu Yao felt that the torture expert might be useful, so he specially transferred him to suppress the battle.
After the torture expert got the order, he first gave a military salute to Yu Yao, then walked up to Lu Jiu who was tied to the chair and couldn't move, stretched out his hand to pinch him a few times, and put his fingers on the side of his neck For a moment, it seemed to be measuring his pulse.
Yu Yao saw it strangely, and couldn't help asking him what he meant. The man quickly responded, "First, I will briefly check the suspect's physical condition, so as not to cause him to die too quickly due to improper torture. This person is physically strong and has a strong pulse Powerful, I can execute the execution with my hands."
(End of this chapter)