1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3188
Yue Shizong hastily flipped through the detailed report on the case on the second page of the newspaper. Sure enough, the case described in the newspaper and all the witnesses and evidence point to Daming as the mastermind behind the scenes.

As for the origin of the mastermind Zhu Zhongyun, the newspaper even more clearly described him as an "official of the Imperial Guard of the Ming Dynasty".In the past two days, a large number of Zhu Zhongyun's arrest warrants were posted inside and outside Hangzhou, which also made such descriptions seem extraordinarily authentic and credible.

In fact, Yue Shizong didn't know whether Zhu Zhongyun was from Jinyiwei, but Haihan spread such information, and soon the general public would be convinced that this was the truth.

Even if he can finally prove that Zhu Zhongyun is not Jin Yiwei, by that time, it may be meaningless to try to clear up the matter.

Yue Shizong couldn't help thinking of the harsh words spoken by the other party when he negotiated with Yang Yun yesterday.

Yang Yun said that this incident has seriously shaken the mutual trust between the two countries. Haihan believes that this is a hostile and clearly provocative act, and has undermined the "armistice agreement" signed by the two countries several years ago.

Haihan has every reason to fight back by all means, including war.

Yang Yun asked Yue Shizong to go to the court to take down all the officials related to this matter and hand them over to Haihan for disposal.At the same time, it is necessary to compensate Haihan for the manpower, material and financial resources consumed during the investigation and handling of the case. The amount is astonishingly large, even exceeding the annual income of the Ming treasury.

This kind of case that has not been thoroughly investigated clearly requires Daming to take responsibility. Yue Shizong believes that the court will obviously not give in to such an unreasonable request.And as the person in charge of the Hangzhou embassy, ​​of course he couldn't just write a memorial and submit it according to Yang Yun's statement, otherwise he would be charged with "distinguishing right from wrong" and "ineffective in handling affairs".

Therefore, in the face of Yang Yun's request, Yue Shizong refused, and insisted on discussing the follow-up disposal after the case was thoroughly investigated.

But after seeing today's newspaper, Yue Shizong hesitated a little. Haihan publicized the case in the newspaper impatiently, obviously not planning to settle the matter.If this momentum continues, if Daming doesn't respond in time, the situation in Hangzhou is in danger of getting out of control within a few days.

However, the situation took a turn for the worse faster than Yue Shizong expected. This afternoon, people gathered around Yongjin Gate one after another, and soon some people raised slogans, denouncing the assassination of senior officials of the Executive Committee by Daming.

These people were obviously educated scholars, and their gathering place gradually concentrated on the street outside the Daming Embassy, ​​displaying various slogans, while constantly telling the surrounding people about the case published in the Donghai Times.

Not long after, thousands of people gathered outside the embassy, ​​and some began to shout slogans, demanding that the embassy "hand over the real murderer" and "repent and apologize."

Then some people threw a lot of rotten eggs, rotten vegetables and other garbage on the wall of the embassy to vent their dissatisfaction.

If it weren't for the checkpoints deployed by the city defense army outside the embassy, ​​the excited people would have already started storming the embassy gate.

There were only dozens of people in the embassy. Although there were a few military officers among them, they were obviously not enough to cope with the current situation. Naturally, Yue Shizong did not dare to go out at this time to have a face-to-face debate with the excited people outside.

The only thing he can do is to ask the city defense forces outside to step up their guard and report the situation to Shi Diwen, so as not to let the situation outside the embassy get out of control.

At the same time, in a certain meeting room by the West Lake, the members of the executive committee who were meeting also received a report from Yongjinmen.

"A large number of people gathered to demonstrate outside the Daming embassy? Interesting!"

After Tao Donglai listened to the report, he couldn't help looking at Shi Diwen meaningfully.He didn't believe that the awareness of the people in Hangzhou was so high that they could spontaneously organize an action against the Ming embassy in such a short period of time.

Shi Diwen seemed very calm: "I think this is a good thing. Whether the people of Hangzhou choose us or choose Daming, this is the best manifestation."

Ning Qi said: "We still have to be careful, and don't let people take advantage of the loopholes to make trouble. If someone burns down the embassy, ​​then our reason will become unreasonable."

The members of the executive committee are all old foxes who are used to seeing various situations, how can they not see that the current situation is driven by someone behind the scenes.

But in this incident, Da Ming was indeed the instigator, and Hai Han really had a handle on Da Ming.If you lift it high and put it down gently, that's not Haihan's style of doing things. At least you should take this opportunity to teach Daming some profound lessons.

It is not necessarily a bad thing to make a fuss properly. First, it can be used to put pressure on Daming, and second, it can also guide public opinion and unite people's hearts.

Regarding how to carry out publicity among the people, Haihan's level is much better than that of Daming. Not only does he have a mature theoretical system and action plan, but he also has a full-time department responsible for such tasks, as well as the newspaper, which has its own authoritative attributes and A special tool for spreading potency.

One or two days is enough to start a propaganda campaign against Daming in Hangzhou City.

After receiving the report from Yongjinmen, the Seventh Lu Division sent two more companies to the Daming Embassy to maintain order in the surrounding area, which calmed down the excited crowd a little.However, the yelling and cursing against the embassy continued one after another, making Yue Shizong and others in the embassy feel like they were sitting on pins and needles.

It wasn't until the sky was getting dark that the crowd of onlookers saw that there was no progress, and then they began to gradually disperse.

After all, this place doesn't care about the food, if you are hungry, you still have to go back to your own home to eat, and besides, there are fireworks on the banks of the West Lake at night, which is not much more beautiful than this embassy with its gates closed.

After nightfall, senior officials of Haihan entered the West Lake on a painted boat and watched the fireworks set off on the small island in the middle of the lake together.

On the shore of the twenty li long West Lake, tens of thousands of people had already gathered, even more than the people who greeted the executive committee at Qingchun Gate the day before yesterday.

When the time came, two fireworks, one red and one blue, roared from the small island in the middle of the lake, flew into the air, and then exploded into a sky full of fireworks, which aroused the exclamation of the onlookers.

The event of setting off large-scale fireworks has appeared many times in the celebrations held in Sanya, but for the people of Hangzhou, this is definitely a new thing.

These large-scale fireworks are different from the fireworks and firecrackers that are set off by the folks during the Chinese New Year. Their production technology and display effects are far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Of course, the cost of producing this kind of large-scale fireworks is also extremely astonishing, and ordinary people can't play with such a large toy.However, with the sponsorship of a big sponsor like the Salt Merchant Group this time, the East China Sea Region hardly needs to consider the issue of cost. Naturally, it does not hesitate to show its strength in front of the Executive Committee and the local people.

(End of this chapter)