Chapter 2089
Chapter 2089
Chapter 2089
In fact, Schneider does not completely reject the use of military means. Before that, he even mentioned to the Executive Committee the practice of using force to force the Japanese shogunate to agree to trade, just because the objective environmental conditions of this era are not suitable for this method. The committee ultimately did not endorse his proposal.Schneider believes that if military intimidation can be effective, there is no need to mobilize people to carry out military strikes against the Hirado Domain. The Eighteen Zhiyu Party was once defeated by Hai Han. Opportunity, choosing to bow to Haihan through peace talks and compromise is the most sensible response.
But not everyone hopes to resolve the issue between Haihan and the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party through peace talks.For the intelligence agencies and the military, which have invested a lot of resources in the investigation work, the peace talks mean that they have to share some key information they have finally obtained with the foreign affairs department, and hand over the credit for solving the problem to the foreign department .Unless the peace talks finally fail, they will get the chance to come on stage again to clean up the mess. By then, the opponent will have more time to arrange countermeasures, and it will definitely be more difficult to deal with than it is now.
After the meeting, He Xi had just boarded the carriage and was about to give the order to leave Fort Victory. An officer hurried to the carriage, whispered a few words to his bodyguard, and then left quickly.The guard then informed He Xi of the news delivered by the officer. It turned out that Yan Chujie had invited him to meet somewhere.
He Xi was not surprised by this. During the meeting just now, Yan Chujie had a fierce battle with several members of the Zhuhe faction. In the end, he still failed to achieve the goal of getting the Executive Committee to agree to use military strikes. He must not accept such a result. Now To make an appointment to meet with myself is probably also to discuss how to resolve the current dispute.
"Take a walk around the city, and then go to Minister Yan's house." He Xi gave up the idea of returning to the Ministry of Security to continue handling official duties, and decided to meet Yan Chujie again.Although He Xi is not a staunch fighter, he is more willing to stand on the same side as the military on this matter.However, since Yan Chujie met him privately, it meant that he didn't want this meeting to become a public operation known to everyone, so he ordered to walk around the city first, so that no one would notice his whereabouts.
Yan Chujie's mansion is actually not far from Victory Fort, at the foot of the mountain to the north of Victory Fort, a small manor with an area of less than [-] acres.In contrast to his status as the commander-in-chief of the Haihan Army, this manor is not a heavily guarded fortress, but rather like a farm. In addition to pulling carts and a few horses as mounts, there are also many horses here. For other poultry and livestock, there are still four pigs in a pigsty built in the early years.There are seven or eight acres of land in the manor planted with various fruit and vegetable crops, basically all of which are self-produced and sold.
Of course, Yan Chujie didn't have the time and energy to take care of the farm work. Those who worked here were some of his old subordinates. They were discharged from the army due to injuries in the early years and had no family to take care of them. Yan Chujie simply took them by his side and asked them to do what they could. Simple farm work can also give them a livelihood.Later, although the pension and retirement benefits of the army went up, some people still stayed here to continue doing farm work with nostalgia for their old feelings.
Therefore, although Yan Chujie's residence does not have soldiers with live ammunition serving as guards on the surface, in fact, any simple and honest man who grows vegetables and feeds pigs here is likely to be a combat hero who has performed meritorious service on the battlefield in his early years and received awards. Their identities here He is not only a farmer, but also works part-time as Yan Chujie's personal bodyguard.
In the third year Yan Chujie came here, he married a woman from Guangzhou, and later married a concubine. The wife gave birth to a son, and the concubine gave birth to a daughter. So now he is considered to have both children and a happy life. As for the past few years, I haven't taken the initiative to apply for the task of leading troops to fight overseas.
However, life has not completely worn away Yan Chujie's military spirit, decisiveness in killing is still one of the most obvious character traits in him.Haihan's large-scale overseas military operations have continued unabated in the past few years. One of the main reasons is that the hawks headed by Yan Chujie are promoting them.In Yan Chujie's view, military means are the most effective way to resolve external conflicts and disputes at this stage, and negotiations are just an opportunity for the conflicting parties to choose a compromise.
Of course, in actual operation, Haihan as a country must make choices that cannot simply be based on the will of the military. The heads of various departments have their own interests and considerations, and Yan Chujie’s loud voice and hard fists will not make any decisions. Accommodate the military on key issues.What Yan Chujie needs to consider is not only the effect of military means, but also the political interests behind various voices.Some private meetings and communication outside the conference room have become more and more necessary means now that the political arena of Haihan Kingdom is gradually maturing.
After He Xi got out of the car, he found that besides Yan Chujie's carriage, there was another carriage dedicated to high officials parked here. It seemed that he was not the only one invited today.
Soon he met another guest in Yan Chujie's study, Beks who was in charge of military affairs.It is not unusual for Yan Chujie to invite him. After all, the departments most closely related to the military, one is intelligence, and the other is military industry. They can be regarded as stakeholders of the same camp.
After the orderlies served tea and left, Yan Chujie took the initiative to mention the purpose of inviting them to meet privately today: "For the issue of the Hirado Domain in Japan, the foreign affairs department wants to solve the problem through negotiation, and I'm worried that they will only make the problem worse. More and more. The goals we haven’t achieved on the battlefield, they actually want to achieve them through negotiations. Isn’t this a dream? Lao Bai, Lao He, let’s talk about your opinions from your standpoint!”
Bai Kesi responded slowly: "Old Yan, you are outrageous when you say this. Isn't my position just the same as yours? When it's time to fight, when has our military industry been vague?"
"I knew you, Lao Bai, would be reliable, so I have nothing to say!" Yan Chujie was very satisfied with Bai Kesi's statement.
He Xi looked at this posture and thought it would be impossible for him not to express his opinion. He smiled and said, "Our Ministry of Security was responsible for this case at the beginning, and later the Military Intelligence Bureau also got involved, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been playing soy sauce from beginning to end. , when it’s time to collect the net, they jump out to grab credit, how can it work!”
In fact, starting from overseas investigations, the proportion of the military dispatched in the investigation operations has been increasing. After all, the Ministry of Security has a very limited staffing overseas, and it is impossible to mobilize hundreds of people at any time like the military. Thousands of people participated in the operation.By the time I went to Japan to carry out the investigation mission, all the personnel dispatched were already affiliated to the military, and the Ministry of Security was completely acting as a spectator.However, He Xi still had to take the credit of the security department first. After all, it was the security department that discovered the signs at the earliest time.
Yan Chujie nodded and agreed with He Xi's statement: "Old He is right, I think Schneider and his gang objected back and forth, and in the end they were looking for an opportunity to highlight their sense of existence. Shibazhi and his group all They are desperadoes, if negotiations can get them to surrender, why would they spend so much time planning to deal with us along the coast of Daming."
He Xidao: "That being said, I think Mr. Tao's reaction should be a little moved by what they said. After all, according to Schneider and the others, the saved expenses alone are enough for 20.00% of the next year's military budget. .”
Yan Chujie showed quite disdain for this: "This iron cock tries to cut out part of the military budget every year, and he doesn't want to think that without the army expanding overseas and attacking enemy countries, our country's foreign trade can reach what it is today. Today’s level? When we sent troops to North Korea last year, we sang against us. How was the result? Didn’t the military expenses be recovered from the North Koreans after the war? The same is true for Hirado, which is an old trading port after all. Yes, I think there should be more oil and water than North Korea, how could it be possible to lose money!"
With no outsiders present at the moment, Yan Chujie's words were very blatant.In his opinion, the military expenses for attacking the Hirado clan can be fully recovered from the local area during the battle. After all, that place is a genuine trading port, which was looted by the Qing army just like the ones Haihan sent troops to North Korea last year. regions are completely different.If necessary, the Haihan Army could even scrape the ground in Hirado and take away everything that could be transported out of Hirado, including the population.
Hearing the words, Beks interjected and asked, "Will this lead to an all-out war with Japan?"
Yan Chujie shook his head and said, "With the strength of the armed forces in a place like the Hirado Clan, how could the war last so long? At most, the shogunate got the news that the Hirado Clan was invaded by foreign armed forces before they figured out who to declare war on." , the war is already over. If Japan wants to fight with us, then it can try, I am afraid that their fleet will not reach our territory!"
Yan Chujie saw this very clearly. The purpose of Haihan's military action was to eliminate the hidden dangers hidden in the Hirado domain, not to start a full-scale war with Japan. Pointless fights.With Japan's current military strength, it is basically impossible to conquer Ming Dynasty across the sea or go south to directly attack the mainland of Haihan. The only thing that can be seen and felt is probably to bully the neighbors. North Korea.However, attacking North Korea will hurt the interests of local vassal states in Kyushu that have trade relations with North Korea, so it should be difficult to implement it in place.
In Yan Chujie's view, the military risk of attacking Hirado is actually very low and controllable, and he has the opportunity to solve a series of problems caused by the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party once and for all, so he insists on using military means to solve the current situation. situation.
"But in the end, the executive committee still has to vote to determine the final decision. It seems that there are not so many people who are willing to support the military in this battle." He Xi finally expressed the objective reality that worried Yan Chujie.
In addition to Schneider and Gu Kai, Ning Qi and Gao Huan, Minister of Agriculture, are currently entitled to vote on the executive committee, and they should also support a negotiated solution, which means that the peace faction has nine votes in the executive committee It has been confirmed that it has four votes, and it only needs one more vote to win.
On the other side, only Yan Chujie and Bai Kesi clearly demanded the use of military means. Although He Xi can participate in the executive committee meeting, he is not an executive committee member and has no voting rights. A means of decision-making.
There are also three votes with uncertain positions, which come from Tao Donglai, Yue Zhiyun and Zhou Hengxing respectively.Yue Zhiyun was more inclined to choose the military in previous meetings, while Zhou Hengxing, from the director of Li and Miao affairs many years ago to the current mayor of Sanya, has always been good at being friendly, often on two boats, The position is vacillating.
Therefore, for the military, at least two votes were needed, while the peace faction only needed one vote to win, so Yan Chujie anxiously asked them to meet in private to discuss countermeasures.
Yan Chujie said: "The reason why these people still have illusions about negotiating methods is mainly because the situation has not developed to the point where it must be controlled by the military. Just imagine if the time is pushed back a year or two before we realize it." The change of the Hirado domain, at that time, the opponent may already have an armed fleet of more than [-] warships, and has planted a number of hidden stakes in the coastal area of Daming to provide information, so that it can shuttle back and forth between the deployment of our navy. There are Spaniards in the south, the Qing army in the north, and various civilian armed forces from Ming Dynasty in the middle, and maybe there are rebellions from North Korea. When the time comes, we will work together to cause trouble for us, and some people will pin their hopes on negotiating with each other Solve it?"
"But these troubles have already been solved by us in advance, so the difficult situation you assumed will not appear." He Xi reminded.
Yan Chujie nodded and said: "That's right, it's exactly as you said. The opponent doesn't have enough ability to control such a big plan, so they kept showing flaws in various places, and we resolved the hidden dangers one by one. But the executive committee treats The severity of these matters mainly comes from our feedback. The Ministry of Security, the Military Intelligence Bureau, and relevant units in various places. It is the combination of information sent back to Sanya by these departments that makes some people have problems that can be resolved through negotiations. Illusion of the problem."
Yan Chujie paused, and said slowly: "And I think these illusions can be corrected through technical means."
When He Xi heard this, his mind suddenly became chaotic. Although Yan Chujie didn't say it clearly, he understood it and used technical means to correct the illusion. To put it bluntly, he wanted to deceive the Executive Committee with false information and make the use of military forces means become the only option.
(End of this chapter)
In fact, Schneider does not completely reject the use of military means. Before that, he even mentioned to the Executive Committee the practice of using force to force the Japanese shogunate to agree to trade, just because the objective environmental conditions of this era are not suitable for this method. The committee ultimately did not endorse his proposal.Schneider believes that if military intimidation can be effective, there is no need to mobilize people to carry out military strikes against the Hirado Domain. The Eighteen Zhiyu Party was once defeated by Hai Han. Opportunity, choosing to bow to Haihan through peace talks and compromise is the most sensible response.
But not everyone hopes to resolve the issue between Haihan and the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party through peace talks.For the intelligence agencies and the military, which have invested a lot of resources in the investigation work, the peace talks mean that they have to share some key information they have finally obtained with the foreign affairs department, and hand over the credit for solving the problem to the foreign department .Unless the peace talks finally fail, they will get the chance to come on stage again to clean up the mess. By then, the opponent will have more time to arrange countermeasures, and it will definitely be more difficult to deal with than it is now.
After the meeting, He Xi had just boarded the carriage and was about to give the order to leave Fort Victory. An officer hurried to the carriage, whispered a few words to his bodyguard, and then left quickly.The guard then informed He Xi of the news delivered by the officer. It turned out that Yan Chujie had invited him to meet somewhere.
He Xi was not surprised by this. During the meeting just now, Yan Chujie had a fierce battle with several members of the Zhuhe faction. In the end, he still failed to achieve the goal of getting the Executive Committee to agree to use military strikes. He must not accept such a result. Now To make an appointment to meet with myself is probably also to discuss how to resolve the current dispute.
"Take a walk around the city, and then go to Minister Yan's house." He Xi gave up the idea of returning to the Ministry of Security to continue handling official duties, and decided to meet Yan Chujie again.Although He Xi is not a staunch fighter, he is more willing to stand on the same side as the military on this matter.However, since Yan Chujie met him privately, it meant that he didn't want this meeting to become a public operation known to everyone, so he ordered to walk around the city first, so that no one would notice his whereabouts.
Yan Chujie's mansion is actually not far from Victory Fort, at the foot of the mountain to the north of Victory Fort, a small manor with an area of less than [-] acres.In contrast to his status as the commander-in-chief of the Haihan Army, this manor is not a heavily guarded fortress, but rather like a farm. In addition to pulling carts and a few horses as mounts, there are also many horses here. For other poultry and livestock, there are still four pigs in a pigsty built in the early years.There are seven or eight acres of land in the manor planted with various fruit and vegetable crops, basically all of which are self-produced and sold.
Of course, Yan Chujie didn't have the time and energy to take care of the farm work. Those who worked here were some of his old subordinates. They were discharged from the army due to injuries in the early years and had no family to take care of them. Yan Chujie simply took them by his side and asked them to do what they could. Simple farm work can also give them a livelihood.Later, although the pension and retirement benefits of the army went up, some people still stayed here to continue doing farm work with nostalgia for their old feelings.
Therefore, although Yan Chujie's residence does not have soldiers with live ammunition serving as guards on the surface, in fact, any simple and honest man who grows vegetables and feeds pigs here is likely to be a combat hero who has performed meritorious service on the battlefield in his early years and received awards. Their identities here He is not only a farmer, but also works part-time as Yan Chujie's personal bodyguard.
In the third year Yan Chujie came here, he married a woman from Guangzhou, and later married a concubine. The wife gave birth to a son, and the concubine gave birth to a daughter. So now he is considered to have both children and a happy life. As for the past few years, I haven't taken the initiative to apply for the task of leading troops to fight overseas.
However, life has not completely worn away Yan Chujie's military spirit, decisiveness in killing is still one of the most obvious character traits in him.Haihan's large-scale overseas military operations have continued unabated in the past few years. One of the main reasons is that the hawks headed by Yan Chujie are promoting them.In Yan Chujie's view, military means are the most effective way to resolve external conflicts and disputes at this stage, and negotiations are just an opportunity for the conflicting parties to choose a compromise.
Of course, in actual operation, Haihan as a country must make choices that cannot simply be based on the will of the military. The heads of various departments have their own interests and considerations, and Yan Chujie’s loud voice and hard fists will not make any decisions. Accommodate the military on key issues.What Yan Chujie needs to consider is not only the effect of military means, but also the political interests behind various voices.Some private meetings and communication outside the conference room have become more and more necessary means now that the political arena of Haihan Kingdom is gradually maturing.
After He Xi got out of the car, he found that besides Yan Chujie's carriage, there was another carriage dedicated to high officials parked here. It seemed that he was not the only one invited today.
Soon he met another guest in Yan Chujie's study, Beks who was in charge of military affairs.It is not unusual for Yan Chujie to invite him. After all, the departments most closely related to the military, one is intelligence, and the other is military industry. They can be regarded as stakeholders of the same camp.
After the orderlies served tea and left, Yan Chujie took the initiative to mention the purpose of inviting them to meet privately today: "For the issue of the Hirado Domain in Japan, the foreign affairs department wants to solve the problem through negotiation, and I'm worried that they will only make the problem worse. More and more. The goals we haven’t achieved on the battlefield, they actually want to achieve them through negotiations. Isn’t this a dream? Lao Bai, Lao He, let’s talk about your opinions from your standpoint!”
Bai Kesi responded slowly: "Old Yan, you are outrageous when you say this. Isn't my position just the same as yours? When it's time to fight, when has our military industry been vague?"
"I knew you, Lao Bai, would be reliable, so I have nothing to say!" Yan Chujie was very satisfied with Bai Kesi's statement.
He Xi looked at this posture and thought it would be impossible for him not to express his opinion. He smiled and said, "Our Ministry of Security was responsible for this case at the beginning, and later the Military Intelligence Bureau also got involved, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been playing soy sauce from beginning to end. , when it’s time to collect the net, they jump out to grab credit, how can it work!”
In fact, starting from overseas investigations, the proportion of the military dispatched in the investigation operations has been increasing. After all, the Ministry of Security has a very limited staffing overseas, and it is impossible to mobilize hundreds of people at any time like the military. Thousands of people participated in the operation.By the time I went to Japan to carry out the investigation mission, all the personnel dispatched were already affiliated to the military, and the Ministry of Security was completely acting as a spectator.However, He Xi still had to take the credit of the security department first. After all, it was the security department that discovered the signs at the earliest time.
Yan Chujie nodded and agreed with He Xi's statement: "Old He is right, I think Schneider and his gang objected back and forth, and in the end they were looking for an opportunity to highlight their sense of existence. Shibazhi and his group all They are desperadoes, if negotiations can get them to surrender, why would they spend so much time planning to deal with us along the coast of Daming."
He Xidao: "That being said, I think Mr. Tao's reaction should be a little moved by what they said. After all, according to Schneider and the others, the saved expenses alone are enough for 20.00% of the next year's military budget. .”
Yan Chujie showed quite disdain for this: "This iron cock tries to cut out part of the military budget every year, and he doesn't want to think that without the army expanding overseas and attacking enemy countries, our country's foreign trade can reach what it is today. Today’s level? When we sent troops to North Korea last year, we sang against us. How was the result? Didn’t the military expenses be recovered from the North Koreans after the war? The same is true for Hirado, which is an old trading port after all. Yes, I think there should be more oil and water than North Korea, how could it be possible to lose money!"
With no outsiders present at the moment, Yan Chujie's words were very blatant.In his opinion, the military expenses for attacking the Hirado clan can be fully recovered from the local area during the battle. After all, that place is a genuine trading port, which was looted by the Qing army just like the ones Haihan sent troops to North Korea last year. regions are completely different.If necessary, the Haihan Army could even scrape the ground in Hirado and take away everything that could be transported out of Hirado, including the population.
Hearing the words, Beks interjected and asked, "Will this lead to an all-out war with Japan?"
Yan Chujie shook his head and said, "With the strength of the armed forces in a place like the Hirado Clan, how could the war last so long? At most, the shogunate got the news that the Hirado Clan was invaded by foreign armed forces before they figured out who to declare war on." , the war is already over. If Japan wants to fight with us, then it can try, I am afraid that their fleet will not reach our territory!"
Yan Chujie saw this very clearly. The purpose of Haihan's military action was to eliminate the hidden dangers hidden in the Hirado domain, not to start a full-scale war with Japan. Pointless fights.With Japan's current military strength, it is basically impossible to conquer Ming Dynasty across the sea or go south to directly attack the mainland of Haihan. The only thing that can be seen and felt is probably to bully the neighbors. North Korea.However, attacking North Korea will hurt the interests of local vassal states in Kyushu that have trade relations with North Korea, so it should be difficult to implement it in place.
In Yan Chujie's view, the military risk of attacking Hirado is actually very low and controllable, and he has the opportunity to solve a series of problems caused by the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party once and for all, so he insists on using military means to solve the current situation. situation.
"But in the end, the executive committee still has to vote to determine the final decision. It seems that there are not so many people who are willing to support the military in this battle." He Xi finally expressed the objective reality that worried Yan Chujie.
In addition to Schneider and Gu Kai, Ning Qi and Gao Huan, Minister of Agriculture, are currently entitled to vote on the executive committee, and they should also support a negotiated solution, which means that the peace faction has nine votes in the executive committee It has been confirmed that it has four votes, and it only needs one more vote to win.
On the other side, only Yan Chujie and Bai Kesi clearly demanded the use of military means. Although He Xi can participate in the executive committee meeting, he is not an executive committee member and has no voting rights. A means of decision-making.
There are also three votes with uncertain positions, which come from Tao Donglai, Yue Zhiyun and Zhou Hengxing respectively.Yue Zhiyun was more inclined to choose the military in previous meetings, while Zhou Hengxing, from the director of Li and Miao affairs many years ago to the current mayor of Sanya, has always been good at being friendly, often on two boats, The position is vacillating.
Therefore, for the military, at least two votes were needed, while the peace faction only needed one vote to win, so Yan Chujie anxiously asked them to meet in private to discuss countermeasures.
Yan Chujie said: "The reason why these people still have illusions about negotiating methods is mainly because the situation has not developed to the point where it must be controlled by the military. Just imagine if the time is pushed back a year or two before we realize it." The change of the Hirado domain, at that time, the opponent may already have an armed fleet of more than [-] warships, and has planted a number of hidden stakes in the coastal area of Daming to provide information, so that it can shuttle back and forth between the deployment of our navy. There are Spaniards in the south, the Qing army in the north, and various civilian armed forces from Ming Dynasty in the middle, and maybe there are rebellions from North Korea. When the time comes, we will work together to cause trouble for us, and some people will pin their hopes on negotiating with each other Solve it?"
"But these troubles have already been solved by us in advance, so the difficult situation you assumed will not appear." He Xi reminded.
Yan Chujie nodded and said: "That's right, it's exactly as you said. The opponent doesn't have enough ability to control such a big plan, so they kept showing flaws in various places, and we resolved the hidden dangers one by one. But the executive committee treats The severity of these matters mainly comes from our feedback. The Ministry of Security, the Military Intelligence Bureau, and relevant units in various places. It is the combination of information sent back to Sanya by these departments that makes some people have problems that can be resolved through negotiations. Illusion of the problem."
Yan Chujie paused, and said slowly: "And I think these illusions can be corrected through technical means."
When He Xi heard this, his mind suddenly became chaotic. Although Yan Chujie didn't say it clearly, he understood it and used technical means to correct the illusion. To put it bluntly, he wanted to deceive the Executive Committee with false information and make the use of military forces means become the only option.
(End of this chapter)