1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 3191
Shi Diwen's statement at this time is very interesting.

At first glance, it seems that this is just to provide Dai Chengrong with the support he hoped for, but if you think about it carefully, as long as the Yangzhou salt merchants start the shipping business that goes deep into the hinterland of Ming Dynasty, any accidents in the future may become the reason for Haihan to send troops reason.

The other high-ranking Haihan officials present were all well-informed old foxes, so how could they fail to hear that there was something in Shi Diwen's words.

But Shi Diwen's move was a conspiracy, and no one could object at all.

Yangzhou salt merchants have spared no effort to finance the capital relocation plan, and now they want an access permit for the inland waterway shipping industry. If the executive committee rejects such a "simple" request, it will inevitably chill the hearts of other folks who are willing to serve the country.

It is one of Haihan's traditions to use the military to provide safe haven for civilian businessmen engaged in transnational business, and Shi Diwen's statement is beyond doubt.

With Shi Diwen's status and influence today, what he said basically represented the attitude of the Executive Committee.

Dai Yingda is such a shrewd person, as soon as Shi Diwen finished speaking, he immediately got up and thanked him.Now even if other people have other opinions, it is not easy to raise them at this time.

After the fireworks show ended, the senior officials returned to the station. Gong Shiqi and Ji Yuanqing had been waiting here for a long time.

There have been some new developments in the investigation of Zhu Zhongyun's case, which needs to be reported to the executive committee.

"It has been verified that the prisoner, Zhu Zhongyun, originally belonged to the Fusi Baihu in Jinyiwei North Town, and his accomplices were all selected by him from the Ming army. He was temporarily granted the status of Jinyiwei Tiqi before the operation."

"As confirmed by the interrogation of several prisoners, Zhu Zhongyun was appointed by the Daming Cabinet and the Jinyiwei Yamen to lead a group of people to sneak into Hangzhou with the intention of assassinating the Executive Committee."

"Zhu Zhongyun and his gang have all been arrested and brought to justice. Seven of them died due to their injuries."

"The weapons used by Zhu Zhongyun and others are currently being tracked down by the Military Intelligence Bureau."

The report was basically made by Ji Yuanqing, while Gong Shiqi stood silently.

The information described by Ji Yuanqing was indeed the truth after the investigation, but Gong Shiqi knew that the other party was actually emphasizing something in the report, deliberately emphasizing some information, while understating other information.

Sure enough, after listening to Ji Yuanqing's report, most of the high-ranking officials focused their attention on the mastermind behind the scenes, but they didn't have much interest in delving into the process of committing crimes by Zhu Zhongyun and others, the source of their weapons and other information.

"Gong Shiqi, do you have anything to add?"

When Gong Shiqi heard Shi Diwen asked himself, he quickly bowed and replied: "Master Ji has already described it in detail, and I have nothing to add to my humble position."

At this time, Ji Yuanqing continued: "My lord, Zhu criminals have been well-planned beforehand. If Master Gong hadn't rushed to Hangzhou in time to preside over the investigation, it might be difficult to stop Zhu criminals from committing crimes in the city."

"This case was able to find out the facts of the case so quickly, arrest the culprit, and smash the opponent's conspiracy. I believe that Mr. Gong should be the first to do so."

Of course, Gong Shiqi understood why Ji Yuanqing wanted to flatter him. During the investigation of this case, Ji Yuanqing said more than once that he would let Gong Shiqi and the security department get the first prize.

As for the terms of exchange, it was natural for Gong Shiqi to shut up about the military's role in this case.

Of course, Gong Shiqi can also refuse this condition and tell the executive committee the truth, but the problem is that he doesn't have any evidence to prove that the military is actually one of the participants in this case.

Gong Shiqi was not afraid of fighting with the military, but the problem was that the military had tried a lot of tricks to lure Zhu Zhongyun into the urn, and carefully prepared the assassination case, and the purpose did not seem to be to take credit for it.

Even if he wins the fight, he won't get any real benefits. On the contrary, he may send his own people to a military court, or even bring them death.

At least with this opportunity, the dangerous hidden danger of Zhu Zhongyun was eliminated, and no one on the executive committee was affected, so the result was quite satisfactory.

So Gong Shiqi finally compromised and asked Ji Yuanqing to report the progress of the investigation, and his silence was also a kind of insistence on his professional ethics.

But when Ji Yuanqing stood up to ask for credit for himself at this time, Gong Shiqi still felt that something was wrong, and quickly responded: "The investigation of the case has not yet been completed, so there is no need for Master Ji to ask for credit for you. Besides, there are many yamen who assisted in handling this case. How can one person take over the results of the case.”

Shi Diwen nodded and said: "You don't have to push around, this time you can stop the enemy's assassination at a critical moment, and you can also bring all the criminals to justice. Afterwards, you will definitely be rewarded for your merits. But right now , I think Daming's offensive behavior has seriously crossed the line, and we still need to give some revenge!"

Regarding the assassination incident, what kind of response should be given to Daming, the Executive Committee has actually had several discussions in the past two days.

Shi Diwen naturally advocated upgrading, and wanted to take revenge on Daming at any cost.However, the opinions of the Executive Committee are still not unified regarding the consequences of the war that may be caused by this.

The difference of opinion is not about whether Da Ming can fight or not. Annexing Da Ming and replacing it is the consensus of the executive committee on the future development direction.The truce at this stage is just to accumulate strength for each, and when the time is right, there will naturally be a day when the war will resume.

But before coming to Hangzhou, the opinion of the executive committee was still more inclined to give priority to the implementation of overseas expansion, and then to digest the traditional territory of the East Asian continent.

At that time, the military's opinions were mostly in favor of overseas expansion and seizing territory on a global scale.But if Haihan goes to war with Daming again, he will have to invest a lot of resources, which may inevitably affect the overseas expansion plan.

Gong Shiqi stood by and listened for a while, then realized that Shi Diwen wanted to push Haihan to declare war on Ming Dynasty.And Zhu Zhongyun's case is obviously the most suitable reason.

He was busy investigating the case for the past two days, and he was less likely to stay with the executive committee, otherwise he would have realized that the shipping business proposed by the Yangzhou salt merchant was basically a backup plan for Zhu Zhongyun's case.

If the executive committee does not agree to carry out military retaliation against Daming because of the Zhu Zhongyun case, then it will not be long before the cargo fleet of Yangzhou salt merchants will most likely have an accident in Daming territory, and the Haihan Army will have to send troops at that time.

Regardless of Daming's attitude towards Zhu Zhongyun's case, he probably couldn't escape the big net thrown by Shi Diwen.If he has a good attitude of admitting his mistakes and agrees to various conditions that Haihan will propose, maybe he will be able to overcome this difficulty after being cut off a large piece of meat.

If Daming's attitude is tough and he refuses to admit that he ordered the assassination, then the two countries will go to war again, which is almost a certainty.

(End of this chapter)