Chapter 2098
Chapter 2098
Chapter 2098
But such a thought flashed through Shi Diwen's mind, and he immediately thought of another possibility, that is, Sun Feizhou's status in the Eighteen Zhiyu Party may be much higher than expected, although this person's public identity in Ningbo is The shopkeeper of the dry goods store, but the actual operation of the store is not necessarily limited to Ningbo.This person had a strong poison for suicide by his side, and he took it decisively before he was arrested, which shows that he should be fully prepared for the risk of being arrested. From a certain point of view, this kind of determination is even more serious. For those leaders who resisted during the capture operation in the south.
However, whether Sun Feizhou's specific function in the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party is as he guessed, probably has to wait for the Military Intelligence Bureau to interrogate the prisoners before it can be confirmed.Shi Diwen is not in a hurry, now that Tom Wang has sent people to Japan for preliminary reconnaissance, and the executive committee has also set the tone to attack the Hirado clan, even if there are still some powerful figures in the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party lurking in Daming Along the coast, no matter how hard they struggle, they will always be in the driver's seat, and it is difficult to reverse the general trend.
Depending on how many times I have come, I will only go all the way.As long as Haihan dispatches troops to Pinghu and eradicates the places where the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party is hiding, then the deployments made by the other party on the coast of Daming will become rootless, and it will be difficult to form a climate again.The sheer strength of absolute power made Shi Diwen not need to worry about whether there would be one or two talented people with outstanding vision in the opponent's camp.
But out of caution, after listening to Duan Tiancheng's report on the arrest operation, Shi Diwen summoned the person in charge of the Military Intelligence Bureau and asked him to carefully check the identities of the captured people, especially the dead Sun Feizhou , we must try to find out its function.
In fact, while Duan Tiancheng was waiting for Shi Diwen to get up early, the military intelligence department stationed in Zhoushan had already started to investigate the captured survivors.However, the two seriously wounded had been tossing all night due to the exhaustion of the boat and the car, and the wounds bled too much, and they died before they could provide any valuable information.
By noon, the preliminary interrogation of the captured survivors had come to an end, and Shi Diwen received an oral report from the Military Intelligence Bureau before lunch.
Sun Feizhou's death has undoubtedly had a great impact on these people under him. In addition, they were captured by the Ming army without any decent resistance during their arrest. Therefore, it is relatively easy to defeat the psychological defense of these people. Under the coercion and temptation, they all opened their mouths one after another.After cross-contrasting and verifying their confessions, it was found that most of the confessions were fairly consistent and should have relatively high credibility.
According to the confessions of these people, among them were indeed the Shiba Zhiyu Party who escaped from Ishigaki Island and other places, and there were also Jiangsu and Zhejiang natives who were later employed by Sun Feizhou.This dry goods store was opened by Sun Feizhou about three years ago. It was a little later that year when the Zhoushan authorities created a fire outside Hangzhou, and then used this to force the Hangzhou government to submit, and obtained the right to trade in Zhejiang. action.
The reason why Feizhou Sun chose Ningbo City to set up this secret intelligence base is not very clear to these people, but apart from daily operations, the dry goods store is indeed responsible for collecting local military and political intelligence.And the objects of this collection are not only aimed at the Zhoushan authorities, but also include Daming.
Of course, in addition to the function of collecting intelligence, the dry goods store also has an important mission to obtain profits through trade. Part of the money and goods will be shipped to Hirado, Japan, and the rest will be kept locally for daily operations. funding.And according to insiders, the value of all kinds of property shipped from here to Hirado every year is at least 10 taels of silver. unusual.
In Shi Diwen's view, this kind of performance is more focused on the outstanding ability of the operator.As far as he knows, the merchant groups in Ningbo who can earn more than 10 taels of silver a year basically have a relatively close trade relationship with Haihan, such as the He brothers who worked as white gloves for Qu Yutong, the prefect, and others. Some big businessmen who also have official backgrounds.And this Sun Feizhou's dry goods store is obviously not included in this list, and it can manage such a level of profit quietly, which shows its strong ability to manage the business.
Most of the strongholds seized in Fuguang and other places before this also have the practice of regularly or irregularly sending property to Hirado, Japan, but the known number is not comparable to the dry goods store just seized.It is still difficult to have a specific statistics on how many such benefits the Hirado Clan can receive from overseas every year, but according to the estimates of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Security, the amount should not be less than 30 taels of silver.
In contrast, the annual profits obtained by the Zhoushan authorities through trade, after deducting the part turned over to the treasury, can be kept in the local area for military and other expenses, which is only about 40 taels of silver.
With relatively sufficient funds, the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party has room to operate if it wants to rebuild an armed fleet, and this has also been verified in the recent operations of the reconnaissance fleet.This method of cross-sea blood transfusion through the operation of many small commercial organizations is also a new thing for Haihan.If these commercial organizations lurking in the Ming Dynasty had not been seized one after another, I am afraid that this kind of profit transmission channel will continue to operate for a long time.
And now has the channel for the Hirado Clan and the Eighteen Zhiyu Party to obtain income from Daming has been completely eliminated?Shi Diwen believes that the answer should be no. He does not think that this dry goods store in Ningbo City is the last secret stronghold deployed by the opponent in Daming. It is very likely that there are still undiscovered organizations still operating in other places. .
This view of Shi Diwen was also confirmed by the confessions of the captives.They said that people from other secret strongholds would visit regularly to exchange some information with Feizhou Sun.And the last liaison person who visited Sun Feizhou left the dry goods store less than two hours before the Ming army came to the door.
The interrogators, of course, took note of this information and asked more questions about it, but the information obtained was still relatively limited.It is said that the liaison officer's surname is Zheng, whose name is unknown. He has been in Ningbo for more than a month, but he did not eat and live with the dry goods shop, but rented a place outside by himself.This man surnamed Zheng was in charge of collecting information on various large-scale transactions in the market during his stay in Ningbo. He would come to the dry goods store to meet with Feizhou every few days, and would pretend to be a merchant to hide his identity every time he came.
It is precisely because of this reason that the relevant personnel did not record it among the arrestees at all in the early stage reconnaissance of the dry goods store, so that after the operation ended, Duan Tiancheng checked the number of arrestees and was correct, so he withdrew his troops and returned. camp.It wasn't until several hours after the Military Intelligence Bureau interrogated that there was another non-staff personnel who escaped the arrest operation by chance.
For the current plan, we can only find a way to make up for it. After confirming the general information of this person, the Military Intelligence Bureau has sent people to Ningbo Mansion to arrange for arrests in Ningbo City.It's just that a day and a night have passed since the time of this back and forth. The arrest operation in the city yesterday is probably already overwhelmed, and there is a high probability that this person will not be found.
Although the catching plan went smoothly, some fish slipped through the net in the end, which is a little regret.But Shi Diwen didn't take this matter too seriously. After all, he didn't let the leader of this stronghold escape, but it was a non-staff who escaped. The completion of this operation can still be at least [-]%.He really felt a bit regretful that he could not capture Feizhou alive, otherwise he could personally interrogate this leader who seemed to have quite good personal ability and vision.
In addition to this, preliminary identification of the captured weapons has also been completed.From some technical details, the Military Intelligence Bureau determined that the muskets hidden in the dry goods store were of the same model as the muskets found so far along the coast of Daming. This is a result that is not surprising to everyone.
However, the more guns are found in various places, the more Haihan worries that the holders did not purchase these weapons through the Spanish colonial authorities far away in the Philippine Islands. Far beyond the capabilities of the Spaniards—unless the Spanish colonial authorities sold all the weapons they used at home, and this extreme situation is obviously unlikely to occur.
Previously, the Haihan reconnaissance fleet had discovered a local artillery workshop in Hirado, which shows that it is very likely that the Spaniards have passed on the skills of making advanced weapons to the Hirado Domain, and mass production has been achieved locally.It would not seem surprising if there were musket-making workshops hidden somewhere in a ravine in Hirado.
If the two firearms teams destroyed in Liaodong and Yangzhou are counted, the number of such standard firearms has exceeded [-], and this is only the sum of the scattered numbers Haihan seized from various places.There is no need to doubt that the number of muskets owned by the Hirado clan must be far above this figure, otherwise the other party would not be so generous in deploying this advanced weapon to overseas secret strongholds that rarely come in handy.
This discovery also greatly increased the urgency of Haihan's attack on the Hirado clan, because once the Hirado clan has mastered the ability to mass-produce muskets, it will be difficult to prevent the possibility of musketeers reappearing in certain areas, and become an institutionalized The trouble that the Musketeers can create for Haihan is not comparable to this kind of secret stronghold that hides a few guns as the treasure of the town house.
The Haihan army is ahead of all opponents of this era in terms of the performance of weapons and equipment, but this does not mean that the Haihan army has no fear of encountering opponents who also use guns and artillery on the battlefield.Even if the opponent's weapon performance is a bit inferior, troops equipped with thermal weapons can already pose a considerable threat to the Haihan army.Especially in the north, there is still the old rival of the Qing army. If such weapons flow into the Qing country in large quantities, Haihan will have to invest more troops in the east of Liaodong to maintain the stability of the situation. The number of casualties of the Haihan Army has risen sharply.
The action against the target in Ningbo City has come to an end, and Shi Diwen's attention has returned to preparations for the war.Thanks to the assistance of the local government and some big businessmen, the procurement of war preparation materials went smoothly, especially the food. Under the operation of the He brothers, half of the quantity has already been shipped to Zhoushan Island today.
However, for the Haihan soldiers stationed in overseas colonies, there is actually another very important thing recently, and that is to celebrate this year's National Day.
The National Day on April [-] every year has become a customary holiday for the people of Haihan. In principle, celebrations will be held on this day everywhere, even in overseas colonies.For the military, National Day actually has another meaning.
Counting from the official founding of Haihan in 1634, almost every year after the founding ceremony, the military will carry out relatively large-scale military operations overseas.After the military parade in Sanya was completed that year, the task force set off for Taiwan to clean up the local indigenous people and establish a Chusulkeng oil exploration base.
After the National Day in 1635, the Haihan army fought against the Johor Allied Forces on Singdao in the Strait of Malacca. After successfully defeating their opponents, they signed the Singdao Treaty with Johor, establishing Haihan's rule in the area.
On the National Day of 1636, the south was peaceful, and the only war took place in the Liaodong Peninsula.The Haihan army launched a spring offensive in March and captured the Jinzhou Isthmus from the Qing army, and the battle lasted until May before entering a stalemate.During the period, although celebrations were held as usual in various places in Haihan, the progress of the Liaodong War made the Executive Committee quite concerned, and the victory of this war also laid a good foundation for signing an alliance with North Korea.
As for last year's National Day, there were even more big moves. The North Korean envoy Li Xi asked Haihan's high-level officials for help at that time.Soon after the celebration ended, the coalition forces led by Haihan marched north to North Korea to help in the war.The blow to the Qing army in this battle was even better than the victory in Jinzhou the previous year. The four-month war caused the Qing army to lose troops and generals on the Korean battlefield, and it was very difficult to recover in a short period of time.
And this year, at this time, a new military operation is in the preparation stage.According to the plan of the Ministry of National Defense, this operation will dispatch troops from Zhoushan, Zhejiang and Datongjiang bases in North Korea at the same time. It is estimated that more than 5000 troops will be used, which is considered a large-scale operation for Haihan Kingdom.
Considering the limited rewards of establishing an occupied zone after the war, it is very likely that this operation will be withdrawn after the battle is over, so the expected combat cycle will not last for several months as it did on the Korean battlefield last year.According to Shi Diwen's estimation, if the action starts in April and May, the war should end before summer arrives.
(End of this chapter)
But such a thought flashed through Shi Diwen's mind, and he immediately thought of another possibility, that is, Sun Feizhou's status in the Eighteen Zhiyu Party may be much higher than expected, although this person's public identity in Ningbo is The shopkeeper of the dry goods store, but the actual operation of the store is not necessarily limited to Ningbo.This person had a strong poison for suicide by his side, and he took it decisively before he was arrested, which shows that he should be fully prepared for the risk of being arrested. From a certain point of view, this kind of determination is even more serious. For those leaders who resisted during the capture operation in the south.
However, whether Sun Feizhou's specific function in the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party is as he guessed, probably has to wait for the Military Intelligence Bureau to interrogate the prisoners before it can be confirmed.Shi Diwen is not in a hurry, now that Tom Wang has sent people to Japan for preliminary reconnaissance, and the executive committee has also set the tone to attack the Hirado clan, even if there are still some powerful figures in the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party lurking in Daming Along the coast, no matter how hard they struggle, they will always be in the driver's seat, and it is difficult to reverse the general trend.
Depending on how many times I have come, I will only go all the way.As long as Haihan dispatches troops to Pinghu and eradicates the places where the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party is hiding, then the deployments made by the other party on the coast of Daming will become rootless, and it will be difficult to form a climate again.The sheer strength of absolute power made Shi Diwen not need to worry about whether there would be one or two talented people with outstanding vision in the opponent's camp.
But out of caution, after listening to Duan Tiancheng's report on the arrest operation, Shi Diwen summoned the person in charge of the Military Intelligence Bureau and asked him to carefully check the identities of the captured people, especially the dead Sun Feizhou , we must try to find out its function.
In fact, while Duan Tiancheng was waiting for Shi Diwen to get up early, the military intelligence department stationed in Zhoushan had already started to investigate the captured survivors.However, the two seriously wounded had been tossing all night due to the exhaustion of the boat and the car, and the wounds bled too much, and they died before they could provide any valuable information.
By noon, the preliminary interrogation of the captured survivors had come to an end, and Shi Diwen received an oral report from the Military Intelligence Bureau before lunch.
Sun Feizhou's death has undoubtedly had a great impact on these people under him. In addition, they were captured by the Ming army without any decent resistance during their arrest. Therefore, it is relatively easy to defeat the psychological defense of these people. Under the coercion and temptation, they all opened their mouths one after another.After cross-contrasting and verifying their confessions, it was found that most of the confessions were fairly consistent and should have relatively high credibility.
According to the confessions of these people, among them were indeed the Shiba Zhiyu Party who escaped from Ishigaki Island and other places, and there were also Jiangsu and Zhejiang natives who were later employed by Sun Feizhou.This dry goods store was opened by Sun Feizhou about three years ago. It was a little later that year when the Zhoushan authorities created a fire outside Hangzhou, and then used this to force the Hangzhou government to submit, and obtained the right to trade in Zhejiang. action.
The reason why Feizhou Sun chose Ningbo City to set up this secret intelligence base is not very clear to these people, but apart from daily operations, the dry goods store is indeed responsible for collecting local military and political intelligence.And the objects of this collection are not only aimed at the Zhoushan authorities, but also include Daming.
Of course, in addition to the function of collecting intelligence, the dry goods store also has an important mission to obtain profits through trade. Part of the money and goods will be shipped to Hirado, Japan, and the rest will be kept locally for daily operations. funding.And according to insiders, the value of all kinds of property shipped from here to Hirado every year is at least 10 taels of silver. unusual.
In Shi Diwen's view, this kind of performance is more focused on the outstanding ability of the operator.As far as he knows, the merchant groups in Ningbo who can earn more than 10 taels of silver a year basically have a relatively close trade relationship with Haihan, such as the He brothers who worked as white gloves for Qu Yutong, the prefect, and others. Some big businessmen who also have official backgrounds.And this Sun Feizhou's dry goods store is obviously not included in this list, and it can manage such a level of profit quietly, which shows its strong ability to manage the business.
Most of the strongholds seized in Fuguang and other places before this also have the practice of regularly or irregularly sending property to Hirado, Japan, but the known number is not comparable to the dry goods store just seized.It is still difficult to have a specific statistics on how many such benefits the Hirado Clan can receive from overseas every year, but according to the estimates of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Security, the amount should not be less than 30 taels of silver.
In contrast, the annual profits obtained by the Zhoushan authorities through trade, after deducting the part turned over to the treasury, can be kept in the local area for military and other expenses, which is only about 40 taels of silver.
With relatively sufficient funds, the Eighteenth Zhiyu Party has room to operate if it wants to rebuild an armed fleet, and this has also been verified in the recent operations of the reconnaissance fleet.This method of cross-sea blood transfusion through the operation of many small commercial organizations is also a new thing for Haihan.If these commercial organizations lurking in the Ming Dynasty had not been seized one after another, I am afraid that this kind of profit transmission channel will continue to operate for a long time.
And now has the channel for the Hirado Clan and the Eighteen Zhiyu Party to obtain income from Daming has been completely eliminated?Shi Diwen believes that the answer should be no. He does not think that this dry goods store in Ningbo City is the last secret stronghold deployed by the opponent in Daming. It is very likely that there are still undiscovered organizations still operating in other places. .
This view of Shi Diwen was also confirmed by the confessions of the captives.They said that people from other secret strongholds would visit regularly to exchange some information with Feizhou Sun.And the last liaison person who visited Sun Feizhou left the dry goods store less than two hours before the Ming army came to the door.
The interrogators, of course, took note of this information and asked more questions about it, but the information obtained was still relatively limited.It is said that the liaison officer's surname is Zheng, whose name is unknown. He has been in Ningbo for more than a month, but he did not eat and live with the dry goods shop, but rented a place outside by himself.This man surnamed Zheng was in charge of collecting information on various large-scale transactions in the market during his stay in Ningbo. He would come to the dry goods store to meet with Feizhou every few days, and would pretend to be a merchant to hide his identity every time he came.
It is precisely because of this reason that the relevant personnel did not record it among the arrestees at all in the early stage reconnaissance of the dry goods store, so that after the operation ended, Duan Tiancheng checked the number of arrestees and was correct, so he withdrew his troops and returned. camp.It wasn't until several hours after the Military Intelligence Bureau interrogated that there was another non-staff personnel who escaped the arrest operation by chance.
For the current plan, we can only find a way to make up for it. After confirming the general information of this person, the Military Intelligence Bureau has sent people to Ningbo Mansion to arrange for arrests in Ningbo City.It's just that a day and a night have passed since the time of this back and forth. The arrest operation in the city yesterday is probably already overwhelmed, and there is a high probability that this person will not be found.
Although the catching plan went smoothly, some fish slipped through the net in the end, which is a little regret.But Shi Diwen didn't take this matter too seriously. After all, he didn't let the leader of this stronghold escape, but it was a non-staff who escaped. The completion of this operation can still be at least [-]%.He really felt a bit regretful that he could not capture Feizhou alive, otherwise he could personally interrogate this leader who seemed to have quite good personal ability and vision.
In addition to this, preliminary identification of the captured weapons has also been completed.From some technical details, the Military Intelligence Bureau determined that the muskets hidden in the dry goods store were of the same model as the muskets found so far along the coast of Daming. This is a result that is not surprising to everyone.
However, the more guns are found in various places, the more Haihan worries that the holders did not purchase these weapons through the Spanish colonial authorities far away in the Philippine Islands. Far beyond the capabilities of the Spaniards—unless the Spanish colonial authorities sold all the weapons they used at home, and this extreme situation is obviously unlikely to occur.
Previously, the Haihan reconnaissance fleet had discovered a local artillery workshop in Hirado, which shows that it is very likely that the Spaniards have passed on the skills of making advanced weapons to the Hirado Domain, and mass production has been achieved locally.It would not seem surprising if there were musket-making workshops hidden somewhere in a ravine in Hirado.
If the two firearms teams destroyed in Liaodong and Yangzhou are counted, the number of such standard firearms has exceeded [-], and this is only the sum of the scattered numbers Haihan seized from various places.There is no need to doubt that the number of muskets owned by the Hirado clan must be far above this figure, otherwise the other party would not be so generous in deploying this advanced weapon to overseas secret strongholds that rarely come in handy.
This discovery also greatly increased the urgency of Haihan's attack on the Hirado clan, because once the Hirado clan has mastered the ability to mass-produce muskets, it will be difficult to prevent the possibility of musketeers reappearing in certain areas, and become an institutionalized The trouble that the Musketeers can create for Haihan is not comparable to this kind of secret stronghold that hides a few guns as the treasure of the town house.
The Haihan army is ahead of all opponents of this era in terms of the performance of weapons and equipment, but this does not mean that the Haihan army has no fear of encountering opponents who also use guns and artillery on the battlefield.Even if the opponent's weapon performance is a bit inferior, troops equipped with thermal weapons can already pose a considerable threat to the Haihan army.Especially in the north, there is still the old rival of the Qing army. If such weapons flow into the Qing country in large quantities, Haihan will have to invest more troops in the east of Liaodong to maintain the stability of the situation. The number of casualties of the Haihan Army has risen sharply.
The action against the target in Ningbo City has come to an end, and Shi Diwen's attention has returned to preparations for the war.Thanks to the assistance of the local government and some big businessmen, the procurement of war preparation materials went smoothly, especially the food. Under the operation of the He brothers, half of the quantity has already been shipped to Zhoushan Island today.
However, for the Haihan soldiers stationed in overseas colonies, there is actually another very important thing recently, and that is to celebrate this year's National Day.
The National Day on April [-] every year has become a customary holiday for the people of Haihan. In principle, celebrations will be held on this day everywhere, even in overseas colonies.For the military, National Day actually has another meaning.
Counting from the official founding of Haihan in 1634, almost every year after the founding ceremony, the military will carry out relatively large-scale military operations overseas.After the military parade in Sanya was completed that year, the task force set off for Taiwan to clean up the local indigenous people and establish a Chusulkeng oil exploration base.
After the National Day in 1635, the Haihan army fought against the Johor Allied Forces on Singdao in the Strait of Malacca. After successfully defeating their opponents, they signed the Singdao Treaty with Johor, establishing Haihan's rule in the area.
On the National Day of 1636, the south was peaceful, and the only war took place in the Liaodong Peninsula.The Haihan army launched a spring offensive in March and captured the Jinzhou Isthmus from the Qing army, and the battle lasted until May before entering a stalemate.During the period, although celebrations were held as usual in various places in Haihan, the progress of the Liaodong War made the Executive Committee quite concerned, and the victory of this war also laid a good foundation for signing an alliance with North Korea.
As for last year's National Day, there were even more big moves. The North Korean envoy Li Xi asked Haihan's high-level officials for help at that time.Soon after the celebration ended, the coalition forces led by Haihan marched north to North Korea to help in the war.The blow to the Qing army in this battle was even better than the victory in Jinzhou the previous year. The four-month war caused the Qing army to lose troops and generals on the Korean battlefield, and it was very difficult to recover in a short period of time.
And this year, at this time, a new military operation is in the preparation stage.According to the plan of the Ministry of National Defense, this operation will dispatch troops from Zhoushan, Zhejiang and Datongjiang bases in North Korea at the same time. It is estimated that more than 5000 troops will be used, which is considered a large-scale operation for Haihan Kingdom.
Considering the limited rewards of establishing an occupied zone after the war, it is very likely that this operation will be withdrawn after the battle is over, so the expected combat cycle will not last for several months as it did on the Korean battlefield last year.According to Shi Diwen's estimation, if the action starts in April and May, the war should end before summer arrives.
(End of this chapter)