Chapter 2068
Chapter 2068
Chapter 2068
For the historical figures in this time and space, Ning Qi, who studied literature and history, is usually the most familiar, but even if he is knowledgeable and memorized, it is difficult to remember some not-so-famous little people.Although Zheng Zhilong is famous, when it comes to his family, Ning Qi, like most people, only remembers his eldest son Zheng Sen who died a few years ago.
However, when Haihan and Shibazhi were fighting back then, Ning Qi also spent a lot of time researching the relevant information of Shibazhi. At this time, when He Xi heard that Zheng Zhilong had married in Hirado, Japan, he faintly remembered Some details about this.
He Xi turned to look at Ning Qi, and said slowly: "It seems that President Ning has also remembered."
"Can you two stop playing riddles, what's the situation?" Tao Donglai was confused, and immediately urged them to tell the answer quickly.
He Xi replied in a deep voice: "The woman Zheng Zhilong married in Japan is the daughter of a retainer of the Hirado Clan, named Tian Chuan Song."
"Tachuan...is the Japanese businessman who was mentioned in the previous report by the Ministry of Security also the same name?" Tao Donglai had a good memory, and Dang even remembered another clue.
He Xi nodded and said: "The Japanese called himself Tagawa Kenji. Of course, this may be just a pseudonym. Even if his real name is not necessarily related to Tagawa Song. But if this is not a coincidence, then maybe we will soon find the real master behind the scenes. Made it."
Just a surname is of course not enough to explain anything, but now that the intelligence agencies have begun to doubt whether this is a coincidence, it is obviously necessary to continue to pursue this clue.
Tao Donglai asked, "What about the whereabouts of this Tian Chuan Song?"
He Xi replied: "We only know that she used to live in the Hirado Domain in Japan, but because she hasn't been following her closely, she doesn't have any more accurate information at hand."
After Tao Donglai heard this, he couldn't help being silent. The lack of intelligence in this area cannot be simply attributed to the negligence of intelligence agencies such as the Ministry of Security. It is hard to say how many valuable goals there are.But He Xi had obviously noticed this clue before today's meeting, and it was finally a kind of compensation for the omissions in the previous intelligence work.
Ning Qi also said at this time: "If it is according to historical records, Zheng Zhilong and Tian Chuanmatsu should have a son, and they have been living in Japan."
"How old is his son? Shouldn't he be an adult?" Tao Donglai asked.
He Xi obviously did his homework on this, and immediately said: "Zheng Zhilong's second son was born the year before we crossed over. If there is no accident, he should be 12 years old this year."
"At the age of 12, even a prodigy, it is impossible to plan and direct such a big operation." Tao Donglai was a little relieved after hearing this answer.In fact, he doesn't want Zheng Zhilong to be involved in the case he is currently investigating, because this only shows that there were serious loopholes in the pursuit and suppression back then, so that after four or five years, he still has to pay for what was not completed at that time. Work ass.
He Xi shook his head and said, "Of course this kid can't be the main messenger, and he can't preside over such a big operation. However, the remnants of Shibazhi's crimes were not wiped out, so it is hard to guarantee that some people will not gather around him in the name of revenge." Do something under the banner. You see, in the commercial organizations we have seized recently, the little bosses in charge are almost all people who are not afraid of death. The identities of these people are unknown, and I suspect that they are all related to Shibazhi back then. "
He Xi clearly stated his opinion now, that is, he suspects that Shibazhi's remnant party is still active, and planned and implemented a series of weapons-related cases in recent months.Of course, this is just a speculation without evidence, so he did not issue an order to investigate it.
"Only relying on the coincidence of one surname as a basis, is this inference not safe enough? Does the Ministry of Security have any more evidence to support your opinion?" Tao Donglai also acted more cautiously about this. As far as Han is concerned, it is still a relatively unfamiliar area. If you want to investigate this, you will have to make a lot of noise.
He Xi responded: "From the information we have so far, although this person named Kenji Tagawa can speak Chinese and understands the situation in Ming Dynasty and our country, he is an authentic Japanese. But we are currently from According to the information collected from various trading ports, there is no more information about this person, and he is not a famous maritime merchant. If it were not for the confession from Jin Yiwei, we would not even know that there is such a person in the world.”
"Then here comes the problem. This person knows so much about Daming and our country's overseas colonial ports. He should be a businessman who often goes to and from various trading ports. He will definitely not be an unknown person. But the actual situation is just the opposite. The business world is not well-known at all. So where does his understanding of Daming and our country come from? I don’t think it comes from his own experience, but the information provided by others, such as those captured by us in various places. Small bosses who run commercial establishments."
"Also, this group of people is able to open so many commercial organizations in the coastal areas of Daming and my country's overseas colonial ports. They have trading partners from the north to the southeast of Liaodong to the Philippines. The required investment is not a small amount. It is definitely not something that ordinary businessmen can do. Affordable. Those with this kind of family background must have long been dominant big merchants, at least at the level of Xu Xinsu. With Japan's limited scale of sea trade, it is impossible to breed such a scale of business. Big business. But if Shibazhi has the family background, it will be much easier to achieve these business projects.”
He Xi explained some of the doubts that came to his mind bit by bit. In his opinion, these doubts all point to the same investigation direction, which is the Eighteen Zhiyu Party hiding in Japan.If this assumption holds true, then most of the unsolved mysteries that arise in the current investigation work can have reasonable answers.
Ning Qi said: "It sounds quite reasonable, so your inference is now short of some key evidence to prove it."
He Xi said in a deep voice: "After capturing so many people alive one after another, I don't believe that even a single mouth can't be pried open!"
Since the incidents of Zhangzhou Jinfa and Zhengfu Ji, in just over ten days, Haihan has successively seized several commercial establishments with Spanish-style weapons in various trading ports, and arrested dozens of suspects.However, among these people, only a few bosses who had the key information in their hands were the shopkeepers, and all of these bosses were diehards who refused to cooperate at all during the interrogation, which delayed the expected progress of the investigation.
Lu Jiu, who was arrested at Zhengyuanji in Penghu, was the first leader to be interrogated. Yu Yao thought that the other party would confess soon after being tortured, but he did not expect that this guy had received anti-interrogation training. Although he opened his mouth after the torture, the content of his confession was incoherent, and his credibility was extremely low.
The subsequent arrests of several leaders from other places were also in similar situations, and it seemed that they would rather die than confess the information they had.Torture experts are not available in every place. If there is no such condition and the interrogation is not well-known, they can only be sent back to Sanya for processing, and the investigation work is delayed for several days.
But at this time, Yu Yao, who had received the secret order from Sanya, was using another method to investigate the relevant situation.
The Batavia War in 1632 dealt a severe blow to the operations of the Dutch East India Company in East Asia, and Haihan also entered Taiwan Island very strongly at this time, further reducing the space for the Dutch to move.The Haihan Fleet approached the city and directly blocked Dayuan Port. In order to preserve the only Dutch colony near Daming, the Dutch had to bow their heads and sign a peace agreement with Haihan, and then watched helplessly as the Haihan people moved away from Dayuan. Kaohsiung Port was built less than a hundred miles away from the port.
When Hans, the governor of Dayuan Port, was still hesitating whether to stumbling the construction of Kaohsiung Port, the Haihan Army attacked the two port strongholds of Danshui and Jicage, which were ruled by Spain at the time, at the beginning of the following year, and then captured Spain. People rushed back to the South China Sea.The Dutch are not much stronger than the Spaniards in terms of strength, and they dare not make mistakes at the moment.
Afterwards, Haihan stationed armed forces in both Penghu and Kaohsiung, and Dayuan Port, which happened to be located in between, was basically exposed to Haihan's surveillance without any cover. Any misdeeds may quickly attract military strikes .Apart from being an honest person, the Dutch have no other choice.
Although the East India Company thus retained the bridgehead for trade with Daming, there were very few commodities they could sell to Daming, and basically all of them were squeezed out of the market by Haihan goods.Moreover, due to the existence of Haihan, almost all the people who are willing to leave Daming to make a living choose Haihan as their destination. It is difficult for the Dutch to recruit immigrants from Daming to expand the operation scale of Dayuan Port. Not many people are willing to travel thousands of miles away to settle in an unprosperous colonial port.So after a few years, Dayuan Port has been left far behind by Kaohsiung Port, which came from behind, and it is still only a small port with a permanent population of less than [-].
However, the income of Dayuan Port can also rely on another livelihood, which is to serve as a transit port for domestic merchant ships on the northern route, so that Dutch merchant ships going to Dinghai Port in Zhejiang, as well as Ryukyu and Japan can complete supplies and repairs here.Although there are not too many merchant ships running these routes, at least it can make Dayuan Port a little more popular, so that it won't look too depressed.
For Hans, being able to keep this port is to keep the only privilege in his hands. Although it is a bit aggrieved under the supervision of the Haihan people, fortunately, the Haihan people still pay attention to credibility. After signing the peace treaty There is also no sign of invading Dayuan Port. In the past few years, it has been much more peaceful than when the Haihan people came to Fujian, when Daming, Shibazhi, and Spaniards fought back and forth.
Although under the stipulations of the peace treaty, Dayuan Port cannot retain too much force deployment, especially the shore defense force and armed ships are subject to extremely strict restrictions, but there have been no disturbances in recent years.After all, the Haihan military base in Penghu and Kaohsiung is close at hand, and no one dares to make trouble in the nearby waters. To a certain extent, it acts as a free umbrella for Dayuan Port.Although Hans was not reconciled, he also knew that this situation could not be changed by his own strength, so he could only accept it calmly.
However, although they are close, the wells and rivers of the two countries do not interfere with each other, and they rarely communicate with each other in normal times.The Batavian authorities do not want Dayuan Port to be gradually assimilated by Haihan, and Hans also understands the importance of keeping a distance from Haihan, so the two sides rarely have official personnel exchanges in normal times.
But today the sun probably came out from the west, and a Haihan warship sailed into Dayuan Port in a grand manner, but judging from the closed gun ports on the side of the ship, there should be no malicious intentions in this visit.
After receiving the report from his subordinates, Hans immediately rushed to the port to check the situation. He did not think that the arrival of the Haihan warship was to invade Dayuan Port. If the Haihan people really planned to do this, they should not expand to send only one Warships come.But he didn't think the Haihan people's initiative to visit had much goodwill. If it was a normal diplomatic exchange, there was no need to send a warship, and an ordinary sailboat would suffice.
But after the warship docked at the port, Hans was surprised by the person who disembarked from the ship. The other party turned out to be Yu Yao, Haihan's highest military officer in the Fujian Strait region.Hans was a little surprised that senior officials of this level didn't even say hello in advance when they visited Dayuan Port.
Surprised to be surprised, Hans did not dare to neglect in the slightest, he knew that this General Haihan had great authority, he could command the Taiwan fleet with more than [-] warships of different sizes, and more than [-] troops stationed on Taiwan Island and Penghu Island. army.Even with just one order from the other party, Dayuan Port can be turned into another piece of territory on Haihan's territory within a day.
After Hans stepped forward to exchange a few simple greetings with Yu Yao, he was a little relieved, because the other party said that this time he had some matters to discuss with him about trade, not the issues he was worried about.Hans hurriedly had his carriage brought over, and invited Yu Yao to his mansion for a detailed talk.
Hans' official residence is Zeelandia, which is located on the banks of the salt water stream. This castle stronghold was built in 1623, but the first phase of the project was not actually completed until 1632.At this time, the Batavia War broke out, and all the resources of the East India Company in East Asia were transferred back to the South China Sea, and there was no fund to support the construction of the castle.After that, the Haihan people quickly entered Taiwan, and in the peace agreement that the Dayuan authorities were forced to sign, there was a request to stop the construction of the Zeelandia fortifications.So in fact, only a rough frame was built for the castle, and then all the fortifications were forced to be demolished, and it was converted into a manor in subsequent projects.
(End of this chapter)
For the historical figures in this time and space, Ning Qi, who studied literature and history, is usually the most familiar, but even if he is knowledgeable and memorized, it is difficult to remember some not-so-famous little people.Although Zheng Zhilong is famous, when it comes to his family, Ning Qi, like most people, only remembers his eldest son Zheng Sen who died a few years ago.
However, when Haihan and Shibazhi were fighting back then, Ning Qi also spent a lot of time researching the relevant information of Shibazhi. At this time, when He Xi heard that Zheng Zhilong had married in Hirado, Japan, he faintly remembered Some details about this.
He Xi turned to look at Ning Qi, and said slowly: "It seems that President Ning has also remembered."
"Can you two stop playing riddles, what's the situation?" Tao Donglai was confused, and immediately urged them to tell the answer quickly.
He Xi replied in a deep voice: "The woman Zheng Zhilong married in Japan is the daughter of a retainer of the Hirado Clan, named Tian Chuan Song."
"Tachuan...is the Japanese businessman who was mentioned in the previous report by the Ministry of Security also the same name?" Tao Donglai had a good memory, and Dang even remembered another clue.
He Xi nodded and said: "The Japanese called himself Tagawa Kenji. Of course, this may be just a pseudonym. Even if his real name is not necessarily related to Tagawa Song. But if this is not a coincidence, then maybe we will soon find the real master behind the scenes. Made it."
Just a surname is of course not enough to explain anything, but now that the intelligence agencies have begun to doubt whether this is a coincidence, it is obviously necessary to continue to pursue this clue.
Tao Donglai asked, "What about the whereabouts of this Tian Chuan Song?"
He Xi replied: "We only know that she used to live in the Hirado Domain in Japan, but because she hasn't been following her closely, she doesn't have any more accurate information at hand."
After Tao Donglai heard this, he couldn't help being silent. The lack of intelligence in this area cannot be simply attributed to the negligence of intelligence agencies such as the Ministry of Security. It is hard to say how many valuable goals there are.But He Xi had obviously noticed this clue before today's meeting, and it was finally a kind of compensation for the omissions in the previous intelligence work.
Ning Qi also said at this time: "If it is according to historical records, Zheng Zhilong and Tian Chuanmatsu should have a son, and they have been living in Japan."
"How old is his son? Shouldn't he be an adult?" Tao Donglai asked.
He Xi obviously did his homework on this, and immediately said: "Zheng Zhilong's second son was born the year before we crossed over. If there is no accident, he should be 12 years old this year."
"At the age of 12, even a prodigy, it is impossible to plan and direct such a big operation." Tao Donglai was a little relieved after hearing this answer.In fact, he doesn't want Zheng Zhilong to be involved in the case he is currently investigating, because this only shows that there were serious loopholes in the pursuit and suppression back then, so that after four or five years, he still has to pay for what was not completed at that time. Work ass.
He Xi shook his head and said, "Of course this kid can't be the main messenger, and he can't preside over such a big operation. However, the remnants of Shibazhi's crimes were not wiped out, so it is hard to guarantee that some people will not gather around him in the name of revenge." Do something under the banner. You see, in the commercial organizations we have seized recently, the little bosses in charge are almost all people who are not afraid of death. The identities of these people are unknown, and I suspect that they are all related to Shibazhi back then. "
He Xi clearly stated his opinion now, that is, he suspects that Shibazhi's remnant party is still active, and planned and implemented a series of weapons-related cases in recent months.Of course, this is just a speculation without evidence, so he did not issue an order to investigate it.
"Only relying on the coincidence of one surname as a basis, is this inference not safe enough? Does the Ministry of Security have any more evidence to support your opinion?" Tao Donglai also acted more cautiously about this. As far as Han is concerned, it is still a relatively unfamiliar area. If you want to investigate this, you will have to make a lot of noise.
He Xi responded: "From the information we have so far, although this person named Kenji Tagawa can speak Chinese and understands the situation in Ming Dynasty and our country, he is an authentic Japanese. But we are currently from According to the information collected from various trading ports, there is no more information about this person, and he is not a famous maritime merchant. If it were not for the confession from Jin Yiwei, we would not even know that there is such a person in the world.”
"Then here comes the problem. This person knows so much about Daming and our country's overseas colonial ports. He should be a businessman who often goes to and from various trading ports. He will definitely not be an unknown person. But the actual situation is just the opposite. The business world is not well-known at all. So where does his understanding of Daming and our country come from? I don’t think it comes from his own experience, but the information provided by others, such as those captured by us in various places. Small bosses who run commercial establishments."
"Also, this group of people is able to open so many commercial organizations in the coastal areas of Daming and my country's overseas colonial ports. They have trading partners from the north to the southeast of Liaodong to the Philippines. The required investment is not a small amount. It is definitely not something that ordinary businessmen can do. Affordable. Those with this kind of family background must have long been dominant big merchants, at least at the level of Xu Xinsu. With Japan's limited scale of sea trade, it is impossible to breed such a scale of business. Big business. But if Shibazhi has the family background, it will be much easier to achieve these business projects.”
He Xi explained some of the doubts that came to his mind bit by bit. In his opinion, these doubts all point to the same investigation direction, which is the Eighteen Zhiyu Party hiding in Japan.If this assumption holds true, then most of the unsolved mysteries that arise in the current investigation work can have reasonable answers.
Ning Qi said: "It sounds quite reasonable, so your inference is now short of some key evidence to prove it."
He Xi said in a deep voice: "After capturing so many people alive one after another, I don't believe that even a single mouth can't be pried open!"
Since the incidents of Zhangzhou Jinfa and Zhengfu Ji, in just over ten days, Haihan has successively seized several commercial establishments with Spanish-style weapons in various trading ports, and arrested dozens of suspects.However, among these people, only a few bosses who had the key information in their hands were the shopkeepers, and all of these bosses were diehards who refused to cooperate at all during the interrogation, which delayed the expected progress of the investigation.
Lu Jiu, who was arrested at Zhengyuanji in Penghu, was the first leader to be interrogated. Yu Yao thought that the other party would confess soon after being tortured, but he did not expect that this guy had received anti-interrogation training. Although he opened his mouth after the torture, the content of his confession was incoherent, and his credibility was extremely low.
The subsequent arrests of several leaders from other places were also in similar situations, and it seemed that they would rather die than confess the information they had.Torture experts are not available in every place. If there is no such condition and the interrogation is not well-known, they can only be sent back to Sanya for processing, and the investigation work is delayed for several days.
But at this time, Yu Yao, who had received the secret order from Sanya, was using another method to investigate the relevant situation.
The Batavia War in 1632 dealt a severe blow to the operations of the Dutch East India Company in East Asia, and Haihan also entered Taiwan Island very strongly at this time, further reducing the space for the Dutch to move.The Haihan Fleet approached the city and directly blocked Dayuan Port. In order to preserve the only Dutch colony near Daming, the Dutch had to bow their heads and sign a peace agreement with Haihan, and then watched helplessly as the Haihan people moved away from Dayuan. Kaohsiung Port was built less than a hundred miles away from the port.
When Hans, the governor of Dayuan Port, was still hesitating whether to stumbling the construction of Kaohsiung Port, the Haihan Army attacked the two port strongholds of Danshui and Jicage, which were ruled by Spain at the time, at the beginning of the following year, and then captured Spain. People rushed back to the South China Sea.The Dutch are not much stronger than the Spaniards in terms of strength, and they dare not make mistakes at the moment.
Afterwards, Haihan stationed armed forces in both Penghu and Kaohsiung, and Dayuan Port, which happened to be located in between, was basically exposed to Haihan's surveillance without any cover. Any misdeeds may quickly attract military strikes .Apart from being an honest person, the Dutch have no other choice.
Although the East India Company thus retained the bridgehead for trade with Daming, there were very few commodities they could sell to Daming, and basically all of them were squeezed out of the market by Haihan goods.Moreover, due to the existence of Haihan, almost all the people who are willing to leave Daming to make a living choose Haihan as their destination. It is difficult for the Dutch to recruit immigrants from Daming to expand the operation scale of Dayuan Port. Not many people are willing to travel thousands of miles away to settle in an unprosperous colonial port.So after a few years, Dayuan Port has been left far behind by Kaohsiung Port, which came from behind, and it is still only a small port with a permanent population of less than [-].
However, the income of Dayuan Port can also rely on another livelihood, which is to serve as a transit port for domestic merchant ships on the northern route, so that Dutch merchant ships going to Dinghai Port in Zhejiang, as well as Ryukyu and Japan can complete supplies and repairs here.Although there are not too many merchant ships running these routes, at least it can make Dayuan Port a little more popular, so that it won't look too depressed.
For Hans, being able to keep this port is to keep the only privilege in his hands. Although it is a bit aggrieved under the supervision of the Haihan people, fortunately, the Haihan people still pay attention to credibility. After signing the peace treaty There is also no sign of invading Dayuan Port. In the past few years, it has been much more peaceful than when the Haihan people came to Fujian, when Daming, Shibazhi, and Spaniards fought back and forth.
Although under the stipulations of the peace treaty, Dayuan Port cannot retain too much force deployment, especially the shore defense force and armed ships are subject to extremely strict restrictions, but there have been no disturbances in recent years.After all, the Haihan military base in Penghu and Kaohsiung is close at hand, and no one dares to make trouble in the nearby waters. To a certain extent, it acts as a free umbrella for Dayuan Port.Although Hans was not reconciled, he also knew that this situation could not be changed by his own strength, so he could only accept it calmly.
However, although they are close, the wells and rivers of the two countries do not interfere with each other, and they rarely communicate with each other in normal times.The Batavian authorities do not want Dayuan Port to be gradually assimilated by Haihan, and Hans also understands the importance of keeping a distance from Haihan, so the two sides rarely have official personnel exchanges in normal times.
But today the sun probably came out from the west, and a Haihan warship sailed into Dayuan Port in a grand manner, but judging from the closed gun ports on the side of the ship, there should be no malicious intentions in this visit.
After receiving the report from his subordinates, Hans immediately rushed to the port to check the situation. He did not think that the arrival of the Haihan warship was to invade Dayuan Port. If the Haihan people really planned to do this, they should not expand to send only one Warships come.But he didn't think the Haihan people's initiative to visit had much goodwill. If it was a normal diplomatic exchange, there was no need to send a warship, and an ordinary sailboat would suffice.
But after the warship docked at the port, Hans was surprised by the person who disembarked from the ship. The other party turned out to be Yu Yao, Haihan's highest military officer in the Fujian Strait region.Hans was a little surprised that senior officials of this level didn't even say hello in advance when they visited Dayuan Port.
Surprised to be surprised, Hans did not dare to neglect in the slightest, he knew that this General Haihan had great authority, he could command the Taiwan fleet with more than [-] warships of different sizes, and more than [-] troops stationed on Taiwan Island and Penghu Island. army.Even with just one order from the other party, Dayuan Port can be turned into another piece of territory on Haihan's territory within a day.
After Hans stepped forward to exchange a few simple greetings with Yu Yao, he was a little relieved, because the other party said that this time he had some matters to discuss with him about trade, not the issues he was worried about.Hans hurriedly had his carriage brought over, and invited Yu Yao to his mansion for a detailed talk.
Hans' official residence is Zeelandia, which is located on the banks of the salt water stream. This castle stronghold was built in 1623, but the first phase of the project was not actually completed until 1632.At this time, the Batavia War broke out, and all the resources of the East India Company in East Asia were transferred back to the South China Sea, and there was no fund to support the construction of the castle.After that, the Haihan people quickly entered Taiwan, and in the peace agreement that the Dayuan authorities were forced to sign, there was a request to stop the construction of the Zeelandia fortifications.So in fact, only a rough frame was built for the castle, and then all the fortifications were forced to be demolished, and it was converted into a manor in subsequent projects.
(End of this chapter)