Chapter 2071
Chapter 2071
Chapter 2071
According to the previous investigation results obtained by Haihan's intelligence department, the opponent is very good at deploying and operating small commercial organizations in various trading ports, and using this as a cover to implement various follow-up methods.Although the trade scale of this Dayuan port is far smaller than other trading ports that have already discovered the opponent's movements, considering that the East India Company has maintained trade relations with Japan, if the opponent is really hiding in Japan, it is very likely that Dayuan will not let go In Hong Kong, Yu Yao thinks it is still necessary to investigate the local commercial organizations.
Hans immediately understood Yu Yao's intentions: "Your Excellency, the local people are protected by the East India Company. We cannot allow your country to conduct investigations or arrest people here."
"I don't need to talk about these official rhetoric." Yu Yao shook his head and rejected Hans' statement: "I believe that the East India Company was unaware before this, but if Mr. Hans tries to shelter a suspect who may be hiding in Dayuan Harbor , then it will be difficult for us to deal with the current differences in a peaceful manner."
Hans wants to maintain the dignity of the East India Company with a tough attitude, but Yu Yao is also tit-for-tat, elevating Hans' statement to sheltering suspects and challenging Haihan, and hinting again that the other party may trigger an armed conflict.He was well aware of the shortcomings of the East India Company. The other party could not afford the loss of Dayuan Port. As long as he threatened the Dutch on this condition, he could basically try everything.
Sure enough, after hearing these words, Hans' expression became very ugly again. The feeling of being caught by others was not good. Seeing Yu Yao's confident appearance, it was obviously expected that the Hong Kong authorities would have to give in.After a battle between heaven and man, Hans finally had to choose to compromise again.
Compared with Dayuan Port, it is obviously a better choice for foreign businessmen to set up permanent offices in Magong Port, Kaohsiung Port, or Zhangzhou and Quanzhou across the strait. After all, those places have established special trading In the market, there are more types of commodities to choose from, and a more complete transaction and settlement management system provides guarantee.Therefore, foreign merchants who set up permanent offices in Dayuan Port are actually scarce resources for the East India Company, and they can be counted on the fingers of a wrench.
There are not many foreign commercial organizations in the local area. As a local official, Hans must not be able to justify his ignorance. Therefore, Yu Yao does not need to spend time to collect evidence and investigate on the spot. He can get the information he needs from Hans. up.
Yu Yao wasn't worried about whether someone would get wind of it at this time, or sneak out of Dayuan Harbor immediately after sensing the danger.In addition to the warship currently moored in Dayuan Port, there are actually two warships cruising in the sea not far from the port. This is also to prevent sudden changes in the situation and to have enough armed forces nearby for reinforcements.Yu Yao himself had the idea of knocking mountains and shaking tigers, so he swaggered and visited Dayuan Port on a warship.If anyone tried to escape Dayuan Harbor by boat during his stay, he would undoubtedly be intercepted at sea by the Haihan warship.
"Well, there is a local business whose operator is from Japan..." Hans finally couldn't bear the pressure, and told Yu Yao honestly what he knew.
About half an hour later, a group of heavily armed Dutch soldiers were dispatched from Zeelandia, entered the market and surrounded a certain business.This is the last bit of dignity that Hans won under his strong request. The Dutch side sent troops to check the shop, so as not to affect the sentiment of the local people by the Haihan soldiers blatantly crossing the market.
Although Yu Yao was somewhat disapproving, he finally agreed to the other party's terms. After all, Dayuangang is still under the rule of the Dutch. If the Haihan army is allowed to carry out arrest operations here, it will indeed hurt the Dutch. face.Now that the other party is willing to cooperate, Yu Yao is also happy to save trouble, and the same is true for letting the Dutch arrest him.
However, Yu Yao did not forget to remind Hans that if this firm was the target that Hai Han was investigating, they would probably have weapons such as muskets in their possession, and might use force to resist the arrest.
However, Hans's subordinates probably did not get a clear warning from their superiors before they acted, so during the ensuing arrest operation, these Dutch soldiers underestimated the danger of the target, and when they tried to forcibly close the shop and arrest people When it encountered resistance, the most intense battle in Dayuan Port in recent years took place.
By the time Hans in Zeelandia City received the news of the change in the arrest operation from the front line, the battle on the front line had actually ended.When Hans and Yu Yao arrived at the scene by car, the place was already surrounded by hundreds of Dutch soldiers, and all the people who tried to join in the fun were also driven away. Only official people could enter this place.
The result of this battle made Hans very ashamed. Two of his subordinates who came to carry out the arrest mission were killed and seven were injured. This was the most serious casualty incident after Dayuangang signed a peace agreement with Haihan.It would have been fine if the opponent was the Haihan army, but this time he was fighting the Dutch army only with the owner of a shop, which made Hans want to cry.He originally wanted to send the Haihan people out of the country as soon as he settled the matter, but he didn't expect his subordinates to be so unlucky and fall so hard on his own land.
Later, Hans saw the ashen-faced leading officer and listened to his account of what had happened.
The officer did not encounter obstacles when he led the team into the business, but when he told the shopkeeper that everyone here would be brought back to Zeelandia City to assist in the investigation, and that the inside and outside of the business would be searched, the shopkeeper First he tried to buy him directly with money, but after he failed, he claimed that he needed a little time to tidy up the business, and then summoned the staff to follow him back to Zeelandia.
The officer leading the team, who was not vigilant enough, believed the shopkeeper's words, but he never expected that the shopkeeper immediately summoned a few guys in the store, took out some muskets from nowhere, and followed the shopkeeper directly. The Dutch soldiers did it.Caught off guard, several people were shot and fell to the ground.
However, because there were more than 40 Dutch soldiers to carry out the arrest mission, more than half of them were guarding outside the store, so although the group of people in the store took the lead, they still failed to escape in the end and were blocked in the store for several rounds The muskets fired.In the end, one person was not let go, but none of them were left alive. All six people in the store, including the shopkeeper, were shot dead on the spot.
"That's it? I have to say, this really disappoints me." Yu Yao expressed his dissatisfaction with the results of Hans's men: "The army was dispatched, but no one was caught!"
Hans could only force himself to save his honor: "This is a group of very dangerous guys. My soldiers have tried their best for this, and even sacrificed their lives! Your Excellency, as a soldier, I don't think you should judge him so contemptuously. your companion."
Yu Yao avoided answering Hans' counterattack, and then said, "If I'm not mistaken, this group of people is the same group as the one we were chasing before, that is, you refused to cooperate and tried to get The object of maintenance. Now you should know why we must check their background!"
The investigation in Dayuan Port had come to such a great extent, it was indeed something that Yu Yao did not expect beforehand.When he asked Hans whether there was any suspicious business organization in the local area, he also took the attitude of trying his luck, but he didn't expect that there was only one local business company whose operator was from Japan, let alone that the only one who was investigated was really himself. The target to look for.
It is a pity that the Dutch's handling of this is not ideal, and their performance in the arrest operation is not even as good as that of the Ming army across the strait.Failure to catch a living means that there is no way to obtain more information in the first place.
Several muskets captured after the battle were presented. After Yu Yao looked at them, he quickly confirmed that these guns were exactly the same as the muskets seized in Penghu and Kaohsiung. They were also standard weapons made by the Spaniards. .
"These damn Spaniards are really restless!" Hans had already believed the information that Yu Yao had revealed to him at this time, thinking that the Spaniards had colluded with some Eighteen Zhiyu Party with ulterior motives, and wanted to A special plan to create chaos in places like Dayuan Port and seek opportunities to seize dominion.
"At this point, I don't think you need to hide anything from me anymore, so can you give me a more detailed explanation about the situation of this firm?"
Although he was already dead, Yu Yao believed that Hans would definitely not be ignorant of the origin of this firm, and it would be useful to know some relevant information right now.
Hans also realized that his site had been planted with hidden stakes, and the person who arranged this was one of the East India Company's trading partners.Out of interest considerations, the East India Company probably has no way to delve into this matter, let alone send an armed fleet to Japan to find out the truth, but since the Haihan people are obsessed with thoroughly investigating this matter, they may be able to use the help of the Haihan people The power to retaliate against the mastermind behind the scenes.
"They really shouldn't provoke you Haihan people, they are asking for their own death!" Hans shook his head and said something with emotion, and then told Yu Yao what he knew.
The store opened in Dayuan Port is called Hirado Bank, and its name has already explained the background. This is a commercial organization with the official background of Hirado.However, the staff of this Hirado branch stationed in Dayuangang are all Han Chinese. The shopkeeper claimed to be surnamed Liu, but his real identity cannot be confirmed now.
This local firm was only opened a year and a half ago. Its main business content is to cooperate with the East India Company. The Hirado Bank then transshipped these goods back to the country, where they were sold or paid tribute to senior officials of the shogunate.
The reason for adopting this trade method is mainly that Japanese merchants have limited overseas procurement channels. Even if they go to various trading ports along the coast of Daming, they may not be able to purchase the required commodities at an ideal price, especially those produced by Haihan. It is difficult for Japanese merchants to go to the distant Sanya to complete the trade.The Dutch have always been a trusted trading partner of the Hirado Domain, so this good thing of resale is taken care of by acquaintances.
Of course, looking at it now, this benefit transfer may have other hidden purposes, such as letting the Dayuan Hong Kong authorities relax their vigilance and allowing Hirado Bank to implement various secret methods.Similar to this method, Zhengfuji in Zhangzhou has also used the local Jinyiwei industry to obtain official asylum.
Haihan people have never entered Dayuan Port. The security of deploying a commercial organization here is definitely better than other places, and the Dutch have benefited. In order to protect this source of income, it is unlikely that the existence of the Hirado Bank will be exposed to the outside world. .But the people who planned this matter never imagined that the Haihan people finally found other clues to find Dayuan Ganglai, and the Dutch couldn't resist Haihan's pressure. Going to take someone by hand.
However, it is precisely because Hirado Bank’s transactions with the East India Company have always been stable in the past, there are very few trade disputes, and they have never caused troubles in Dayuan Port, so Hans did not think that this firm would be a dangerous existence.
But the vigilance of these people in the firm is obviously much higher than that of the Dutch. Perhaps the news of the Haihan warship's visit has made them vigilant. Lan Zhe City was imprisoned, and immediately decided to attack.Perhaps the idea of these people was to kill a bloody road and escape here by boat, but they obviously did not expect that the Dutch did not intend to leave them a retreat. Although they seized the initiative, they still failed to escape the roundup.
"So this Hirado line is actually the property of the Matsuura family, the lord of the Hirado clan?" Yu Yao was slightly surprised after hearing the answer, and confirmed the information to Hans again.
After getting Hans' affirmative answer, Yu Yao nodded and said: "Then I suggest that you better think of a better reason to the Matsuura family as soon as possible, why all the people in the Dayuan Gang Hirado branch suddenly disappeared, and convince them Send someone else over to take over."
Hans immediately understood Yu Yao's meaning. The Xindaohai Han people were obviously not reconciled with not getting a living, and hoped to use deception to get the Matsuura family to send someone else to throw themselves into the net.But he doesn't think this is a feasible solution: "Your Excellency, you said earlier that similar firms have been busted in several trading ports in the Fujian Strait region. These firms have been involved in accidents one after another, so it is difficult to completely conceal the news, right? The news of Dayuan Port has been sent to Hirado, and it is estimated that there has been some vigilance there."
Although the speed of news transmission in this era is slow, as Hans said, Hirado will probably receive news of accidents elsewhere first. At that time, even if the Dutch make up a good story, it may be difficult to deceive Hirado. behind the scenes.
(End of this chapter)
According to the previous investigation results obtained by Haihan's intelligence department, the opponent is very good at deploying and operating small commercial organizations in various trading ports, and using this as a cover to implement various follow-up methods.Although the trade scale of this Dayuan port is far smaller than other trading ports that have already discovered the opponent's movements, considering that the East India Company has maintained trade relations with Japan, if the opponent is really hiding in Japan, it is very likely that Dayuan will not let go In Hong Kong, Yu Yao thinks it is still necessary to investigate the local commercial organizations.
Hans immediately understood Yu Yao's intentions: "Your Excellency, the local people are protected by the East India Company. We cannot allow your country to conduct investigations or arrest people here."
"I don't need to talk about these official rhetoric." Yu Yao shook his head and rejected Hans' statement: "I believe that the East India Company was unaware before this, but if Mr. Hans tries to shelter a suspect who may be hiding in Dayuan Harbor , then it will be difficult for us to deal with the current differences in a peaceful manner."
Hans wants to maintain the dignity of the East India Company with a tough attitude, but Yu Yao is also tit-for-tat, elevating Hans' statement to sheltering suspects and challenging Haihan, and hinting again that the other party may trigger an armed conflict.He was well aware of the shortcomings of the East India Company. The other party could not afford the loss of Dayuan Port. As long as he threatened the Dutch on this condition, he could basically try everything.
Sure enough, after hearing these words, Hans' expression became very ugly again. The feeling of being caught by others was not good. Seeing Yu Yao's confident appearance, it was obviously expected that the Hong Kong authorities would have to give in.After a battle between heaven and man, Hans finally had to choose to compromise again.
Compared with Dayuan Port, it is obviously a better choice for foreign businessmen to set up permanent offices in Magong Port, Kaohsiung Port, or Zhangzhou and Quanzhou across the strait. After all, those places have established special trading In the market, there are more types of commodities to choose from, and a more complete transaction and settlement management system provides guarantee.Therefore, foreign merchants who set up permanent offices in Dayuan Port are actually scarce resources for the East India Company, and they can be counted on the fingers of a wrench.
There are not many foreign commercial organizations in the local area. As a local official, Hans must not be able to justify his ignorance. Therefore, Yu Yao does not need to spend time to collect evidence and investigate on the spot. He can get the information he needs from Hans. up.
Yu Yao wasn't worried about whether someone would get wind of it at this time, or sneak out of Dayuan Harbor immediately after sensing the danger.In addition to the warship currently moored in Dayuan Port, there are actually two warships cruising in the sea not far from the port. This is also to prevent sudden changes in the situation and to have enough armed forces nearby for reinforcements.Yu Yao himself had the idea of knocking mountains and shaking tigers, so he swaggered and visited Dayuan Port on a warship.If anyone tried to escape Dayuan Harbor by boat during his stay, he would undoubtedly be intercepted at sea by the Haihan warship.
"Well, there is a local business whose operator is from Japan..." Hans finally couldn't bear the pressure, and told Yu Yao honestly what he knew.
About half an hour later, a group of heavily armed Dutch soldiers were dispatched from Zeelandia, entered the market and surrounded a certain business.This is the last bit of dignity that Hans won under his strong request. The Dutch side sent troops to check the shop, so as not to affect the sentiment of the local people by the Haihan soldiers blatantly crossing the market.
Although Yu Yao was somewhat disapproving, he finally agreed to the other party's terms. After all, Dayuangang is still under the rule of the Dutch. If the Haihan army is allowed to carry out arrest operations here, it will indeed hurt the Dutch. face.Now that the other party is willing to cooperate, Yu Yao is also happy to save trouble, and the same is true for letting the Dutch arrest him.
However, Yu Yao did not forget to remind Hans that if this firm was the target that Hai Han was investigating, they would probably have weapons such as muskets in their possession, and might use force to resist the arrest.
However, Hans's subordinates probably did not get a clear warning from their superiors before they acted, so during the ensuing arrest operation, these Dutch soldiers underestimated the danger of the target, and when they tried to forcibly close the shop and arrest people When it encountered resistance, the most intense battle in Dayuan Port in recent years took place.
By the time Hans in Zeelandia City received the news of the change in the arrest operation from the front line, the battle on the front line had actually ended.When Hans and Yu Yao arrived at the scene by car, the place was already surrounded by hundreds of Dutch soldiers, and all the people who tried to join in the fun were also driven away. Only official people could enter this place.
The result of this battle made Hans very ashamed. Two of his subordinates who came to carry out the arrest mission were killed and seven were injured. This was the most serious casualty incident after Dayuangang signed a peace agreement with Haihan.It would have been fine if the opponent was the Haihan army, but this time he was fighting the Dutch army only with the owner of a shop, which made Hans want to cry.He originally wanted to send the Haihan people out of the country as soon as he settled the matter, but he didn't expect his subordinates to be so unlucky and fall so hard on his own land.
Later, Hans saw the ashen-faced leading officer and listened to his account of what had happened.
The officer did not encounter obstacles when he led the team into the business, but when he told the shopkeeper that everyone here would be brought back to Zeelandia City to assist in the investigation, and that the inside and outside of the business would be searched, the shopkeeper First he tried to buy him directly with money, but after he failed, he claimed that he needed a little time to tidy up the business, and then summoned the staff to follow him back to Zeelandia.
The officer leading the team, who was not vigilant enough, believed the shopkeeper's words, but he never expected that the shopkeeper immediately summoned a few guys in the store, took out some muskets from nowhere, and followed the shopkeeper directly. The Dutch soldiers did it.Caught off guard, several people were shot and fell to the ground.
However, because there were more than 40 Dutch soldiers to carry out the arrest mission, more than half of them were guarding outside the store, so although the group of people in the store took the lead, they still failed to escape in the end and were blocked in the store for several rounds The muskets fired.In the end, one person was not let go, but none of them were left alive. All six people in the store, including the shopkeeper, were shot dead on the spot.
"That's it? I have to say, this really disappoints me." Yu Yao expressed his dissatisfaction with the results of Hans's men: "The army was dispatched, but no one was caught!"
Hans could only force himself to save his honor: "This is a group of very dangerous guys. My soldiers have tried their best for this, and even sacrificed their lives! Your Excellency, as a soldier, I don't think you should judge him so contemptuously. your companion."
Yu Yao avoided answering Hans' counterattack, and then said, "If I'm not mistaken, this group of people is the same group as the one we were chasing before, that is, you refused to cooperate and tried to get The object of maintenance. Now you should know why we must check their background!"
The investigation in Dayuan Port had come to such a great extent, it was indeed something that Yu Yao did not expect beforehand.When he asked Hans whether there was any suspicious business organization in the local area, he also took the attitude of trying his luck, but he didn't expect that there was only one local business company whose operator was from Japan, let alone that the only one who was investigated was really himself. The target to look for.
It is a pity that the Dutch's handling of this is not ideal, and their performance in the arrest operation is not even as good as that of the Ming army across the strait.Failure to catch a living means that there is no way to obtain more information in the first place.
Several muskets captured after the battle were presented. After Yu Yao looked at them, he quickly confirmed that these guns were exactly the same as the muskets seized in Penghu and Kaohsiung. They were also standard weapons made by the Spaniards. .
"These damn Spaniards are really restless!" Hans had already believed the information that Yu Yao had revealed to him at this time, thinking that the Spaniards had colluded with some Eighteen Zhiyu Party with ulterior motives, and wanted to A special plan to create chaos in places like Dayuan Port and seek opportunities to seize dominion.
"At this point, I don't think you need to hide anything from me anymore, so can you give me a more detailed explanation about the situation of this firm?"
Although he was already dead, Yu Yao believed that Hans would definitely not be ignorant of the origin of this firm, and it would be useful to know some relevant information right now.
Hans also realized that his site had been planted with hidden stakes, and the person who arranged this was one of the East India Company's trading partners.Out of interest considerations, the East India Company probably has no way to delve into this matter, let alone send an armed fleet to Japan to find out the truth, but since the Haihan people are obsessed with thoroughly investigating this matter, they may be able to use the help of the Haihan people The power to retaliate against the mastermind behind the scenes.
"They really shouldn't provoke you Haihan people, they are asking for their own death!" Hans shook his head and said something with emotion, and then told Yu Yao what he knew.
The store opened in Dayuan Port is called Hirado Bank, and its name has already explained the background. This is a commercial organization with the official background of Hirado.However, the staff of this Hirado branch stationed in Dayuangang are all Han Chinese. The shopkeeper claimed to be surnamed Liu, but his real identity cannot be confirmed now.
This local firm was only opened a year and a half ago. Its main business content is to cooperate with the East India Company. The Hirado Bank then transshipped these goods back to the country, where they were sold or paid tribute to senior officials of the shogunate.
The reason for adopting this trade method is mainly that Japanese merchants have limited overseas procurement channels. Even if they go to various trading ports along the coast of Daming, they may not be able to purchase the required commodities at an ideal price, especially those produced by Haihan. It is difficult for Japanese merchants to go to the distant Sanya to complete the trade.The Dutch have always been a trusted trading partner of the Hirado Domain, so this good thing of resale is taken care of by acquaintances.
Of course, looking at it now, this benefit transfer may have other hidden purposes, such as letting the Dayuan Hong Kong authorities relax their vigilance and allowing Hirado Bank to implement various secret methods.Similar to this method, Zhengfuji in Zhangzhou has also used the local Jinyiwei industry to obtain official asylum.
Haihan people have never entered Dayuan Port. The security of deploying a commercial organization here is definitely better than other places, and the Dutch have benefited. In order to protect this source of income, it is unlikely that the existence of the Hirado Bank will be exposed to the outside world. .But the people who planned this matter never imagined that the Haihan people finally found other clues to find Dayuan Ganglai, and the Dutch couldn't resist Haihan's pressure. Going to take someone by hand.
However, it is precisely because Hirado Bank’s transactions with the East India Company have always been stable in the past, there are very few trade disputes, and they have never caused troubles in Dayuan Port, so Hans did not think that this firm would be a dangerous existence.
But the vigilance of these people in the firm is obviously much higher than that of the Dutch. Perhaps the news of the Haihan warship's visit has made them vigilant. Lan Zhe City was imprisoned, and immediately decided to attack.Perhaps the idea of these people was to kill a bloody road and escape here by boat, but they obviously did not expect that the Dutch did not intend to leave them a retreat. Although they seized the initiative, they still failed to escape the roundup.
"So this Hirado line is actually the property of the Matsuura family, the lord of the Hirado clan?" Yu Yao was slightly surprised after hearing the answer, and confirmed the information to Hans again.
After getting Hans' affirmative answer, Yu Yao nodded and said: "Then I suggest that you better think of a better reason to the Matsuura family as soon as possible, why all the people in the Dayuan Gang Hirado branch suddenly disappeared, and convince them Send someone else over to take over."
Hans immediately understood Yu Yao's meaning. The Xindaohai Han people were obviously not reconciled with not getting a living, and hoped to use deception to get the Matsuura family to send someone else to throw themselves into the net.But he doesn't think this is a feasible solution: "Your Excellency, you said earlier that similar firms have been busted in several trading ports in the Fujian Strait region. These firms have been involved in accidents one after another, so it is difficult to completely conceal the news, right? The news of Dayuan Port has been sent to Hirado, and it is estimated that there has been some vigilance there."
Although the speed of news transmission in this era is slow, as Hans said, Hirado will probably receive news of accidents elsewhere first. At that time, even if the Dutch make up a good story, it may be difficult to deceive Hirado. behind the scenes.
(End of this chapter)