1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 438

Li Qingyang's heart sank when he heard the words. There was indeed a secret official document in his luggage, which was written by the commander of Nanzhen Fusi himself. The content was to explain Li Qingyang's identity and the purpose of this operation. Simply put, After Li Qingyang went south, he mobilized the credentials of Jinyiwei's system cooperation.The reason why this official document is important is because it contains a very clear statement of "investigate and punish Haihan's rebellious party".

Sure enough, Chen Yixin asked the visitor to go out first, and then said slowly: "We spent money, time, manpower and material resources on behalf of the court to help the victims, quell the bandit chaos, and develop trade, but in the end we got charged with disorderly party? Can Li Baihu Tell me what is the reason for this?"

Li Qingyang defended: "Of course there is some misunderstanding in the middle, after we investigate the facts, we should clear up your grievances."

"I'm afraid that what you think is different from what you said. All you think about is how to fabricate charges so that we can wipe out these chaotic parties!" Of course, Chen Yixin would not believe Li Qingyang's statement. After all, the other party is a professional spy, and what he said is credible. You have to at least make a [-]% discount first.

Li Qingyang was still about to argue, but Chen Yixin raised his hand to stop her: "You don't need to explain, instead of arguing about this issue, you should show your sincerity and tell us how you arranged this operation, and whether there are others Are you also planning to sneak into Sanya to investigate us like you?"

Li Qingyang didn't know the situation of the other companions, so naturally he couldn't answer Chen Yixin's question, so he fell silent immediately.

Seeing that he didn't cooperate, Chen Yixin didn't get angry because of it, and continued: "If you don't cooperate, you will suffer later. After you have suffered, you will still tell the truth, so why bother? Don't tell me, your companions, can they also grit their teeth like you do?"

Li Qingyang snorted and said: "I am an official of the imperial court, and I should serve the country. How could I succumb to your lewd power!"

Chen Yixin shook his head and said, "You are really stupid and loyal! Think about it carefully, even if you really went to Sanya, you would successfully make up a bunch of charges for us, how will this matter be resolved in the end? My Haihan militia has several thousand Fully armed soldiers, can you Jinyiwei solve the problem?"

Li Qingyang argued: "My Ming Dynasty has a million troops..."

"Yes, you have millions of troops, but how many of you can actually fight on the battlefield?" Chen Yixin interrupted unceremoniously: "In the past few years, the Ming government army has fought against wild boars in the northeast, and pacified luxury in the southwest. An Zhiluan, do you think the imperial court still has spare money to open a new battlefield on Qiongzhou Island? You Jinyiwei want to make meritorious service, but the imperial court may not necessarily want to fight. Do you really think that the governments at all levels in Guangdong and Guangxi don’t know what we are doing? To put it bluntly, only But everyone just wants to make money peacefully, and no one wants to break their faces and cut off their own money. Do you know how big the business between us and Daming is? Do you know how many people's livelihoods are related to these businesses? Do you think you are serving your country, but have you ever wondered how many people you will kill by doing so?"

"Hmph, these are just your one-sided opinions!" Li Qingyang's mouth was still rigid, but his heart had already begun to feel a little uneasy.It seems that although these Haihan people settled on the remote Qiongzhou Island, they have no news at all, and they even know about the war in the far northern Xinjiang.Moreover, the possibility that Chen Yixin mentioned is not completely non-existent. There are many things that the government and local powerful collusion to seek interests together. It happens all over the country. Under the trend of huge interests, the weight of the imperial court is probably not comparable. White silver.

Chen Yixin smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you believe me or not, but you can think about it carefully, why you will be arrested as soon as you come. I'm not afraid to tell you, since you entered Guangzhou City, everything you have done has been in our hands." It's under surveillance, including your application for positions, and coming here by boat are all arrangements we made in advance!"

"Someone betrayed us!" Li Qingyang immediately understood the meaning of Chen Yixin's words.This can also fully explain why they were picked out by the Haihan people when they first arrived in Wanshan Port without showing any obvious flaws.Since the Haihan people had already set up traps in Guangzhou and waited for them, it was natural that someone had informed the Haihan people of their actions before that.

"In Fujian and Guangdong, many people don't want to change the current situation, especially the relationship between our Haihan and Daming. If someone tries to change the status quo, someone will stand up to stop him." Chen Yixin said Looking at Li Qingyang with a look of pity, he said, "So when you received the order to set off in Nanjing, you were already doomed to fail. Even if Nanzhen Fusi sent another ten or a hundred more, they would have the same fate. .Your non-cooperation now will not affect the overall situation at all, do you understand?"

"This... This is impossible..." Li Qingyang was in a trance for a moment.Ever since he was inexplicably arrested by the Haihan people in the morning, he has been thinking about whether there was a loophole in his actions after he set off from Nanjing, and what link went wrong that led to his deeds being exposed.However, Chen Yixin's words forced him to face the cruelest fact—the person who betrayed them was most likely a member of the government, and he had a lot of power, and he had access to the Yamen at the level of Nanzhen Fusi.

If Chen Yixin's words were true, then the five of them were undoubtedly the victims of the game of interests between Daming and Haihan people.The only person who knew their final whereabouts was probably the secret whistle of the wine shop in Guangzhou city. However, in retrospect, it is difficult to determine whether the people in that wine shop are trustworthy or not.

"You are now considered missing in the world, and no one will be able to find you again. The reason for keeping you and your partner's lives is because we think you still have the value of living. If you can't prove your worth ..." Chen Yixin paused, and said word by word: "Then I can guarantee that you will die for the country soon!"

Chen Yixin stood up and said, "I'll give you half an hour to think about it. If you have something to say, just call the guard outside. If you don't want to say anything, that's okay, because you will only stay here for one night, tomorrow morning I will personally send the five of you on the road!"

Chen Yixin and Li Dou conducted cross-examination of the five people, and they were greatly relieved by the news they got. The spies sent by the Fusi of Nanzhen were indeed only five of them, and their mission was only to sneak into the investigation , to collect intelligence, and there is no such thing as sabotage and assassination that the Ministry of Security is worried about.

However, the leader of the five, Li Qingyang who had the most information, did not explain too much, only admitted the matters related to the five of them. As for the issues related to Jin Yiwei, he kept his mouth shut and did not respond.

Early the next morning, Li Qingyang, who had been smoked all night in the salted fish warehouse, was dragged out.He finally saw his other four partners again after a lapse of a day. The others also looked very depressed, but there was no obvious trauma, and it seemed that they had not been severely tortured.

"Untie them first, and give them food." Chen Yixin appeared at the scene, and said to the spies of Jinyiwei who hadn't recovered yet: "Eat well, don't stand up, don't whisper!"

Li Qingyang raised his hand to signal that he had something to say, Chen Yixin nodded and said, "Say it."

"I wonder what your plans are for my brothers?" Li Qingyang asked boldly.

"Eat first, and I'll send you on your way after eating." Chen Yixin responded casually.

Li Qingyang got excited and wanted to stand up from the ground: "Yesterday you said you wanted to save our lives..."

"Sit down!" The militiaman behind him kicked Li Qingyang in the crook of his leg, causing him to fall to the ground.

"You misunderstood, I really just sent you on your way, not to kill you." Chen Yixin responded: "Do you think that in your identities, you can just let things go like this, pat your ass and leave? Since you I have to try my best to sneak into Sanya, so I will send you to have a look! Seeing is believing, I believe that after you get there, you will definitely change your opinion of us!"

The order Chen Yixin received was indeed to send these captives to Shengli Port, but not as tourists, but to be sent there for further interrogation by the Ministry of Security.As for whether these people will die in the execution hut of the Ministry of Security, or be sent to a hard labor camp as coolies, it has nothing to do with Chen Yixin.

For the executive committee located in Shengli Port, the dispatch of spies by Jinyiwei South Town Fusi to Sanya is just one of the many daily affairs that can't be said to be too important.After the Ministry of Security notified the Executive Committee that they had caught all the people in Wanshan Port, the Executive Committee's attention was no longer left on this matter.There are still more important matters at the moment, and all members of the Executive Committee need to do their best. This is the construction of the Changhua-Shilu traffic line that has entered the implementation stage.

In order to ensure that sufficient labor is invested in the construction site, the Executive Committee has approved a labor quota of 5000 for this road construction plan, which is an increase of 2000 from the initial plan. This is because the immigration situation this year is difficult. Fortunately, after the fall of the South Vietnam regime, a large number of young and strong prisoners of war were traded to Haihan by the Annan court in the form of mortgage military expenses, and their destinations were various large-scale project construction sites in Qiongnan and Qiongxi.

It is not an easy task in this era to transport thousands of people and all kinds of materials needed to hundreds of nautical miles away. For this reason, the Ministry of Shipping has mobilized most of the cargo ships under its name to participate in this development operation. , and outsourced part of the shipping tasks to maritime merchants like Zhan Gui.

On June 1629, 6, the tenth day of May in the second year of Chongzhen, Ming Dynasty, Changhua Fishing Port on the west bank of Qiongzhou Island.

Now it is not appropriate to call this place a fishing port. A dozen trestles have been built along the shore of the small harbor for cargo ships to and from this place to dock.The original fishermen's huts on the shore have all been demolished, and now a large number of standard boat-shaped houses have been built, including several Haihan's unique blue-roofed prefabricated houses.According to the plan of the Ministry of Construction, nearly a thousand laborers and armed guards who arrived in the early stage can be accommodated here.

A large storage area is planned on the east side of the port for storing all kinds of production tools, building materials and daily necessities arriving one after another.To the north of the storage area, the laborers have cut down a large piece of woodland, and built a closed residential area here to house the incoming prisoners of war.Naturally, these hard laborers who are regarded as consumables cannot enjoy the same living conditions as naturalized laborers. Their living conditions are relatively much worse. What the Executive Committee wants is to let them do more work. Just keep the sanitation under control and don't break out large-scale infectious diseases.

Qiao Zhiya put his HK416 rifle on his back and jumped directly from the side of the boat onto the trestle.The militia platoon leader who hurried over stood at attention, saluted him and said, "Please give instructions, chief!"

Qiao Zhiya raised his hand and returned a military salute, and then ordered the naturalized officer: "All the luggage that has been packed and piled up on the deck, move them all down, and send them to my residence. Find a few more people to clean the deck. That's right. , where is Liu Shanxia now?"

"Report, Chief Liu is currently on the construction site about two miles to the east, do you need me to send someone to lead the way?" the militia platoon leader asked very attentively.

"No, I have to take a shower first. I haven't been very comfortable these days." Qiao Zhiya patted the shoulder of the platoon leader of the militia, and dragged his tired body towards the station.

Qiao Zhiya was escorting a group of hard labor from the base camp this time, but the voyage this time was not smooth. Not long after leaving Shengli Port and before arriving in Yazhou, he encountered a sudden storm at sea.The two sailboats sailed desperately into the Ming army water village at the mouth of the Ningyuan River in the south of Yazhou, and finally escaped.Of course, Yacheng Shuizhai has now become one of the sub-bases of the Haihan Militia Navy, and almost all of the naval patrol ships docked in the harbor of the Shuizhai—all the original naval warships have become salt dealer Luo Sheng. Dong's tool to make a fortune, he simply vacated the space for Haihan's still angry patrol boat to use as a station.

After resting on the Yacheng side for the night, the two sailboats that escaped the storm continued to head west, but what they didn't expect was that misfortunes never come singly. They encountered another storm six hours later, but fortunately their position It was very close to the Yinggehai Salt Field, so I avoided it again without any danger.But this time, the sail of one of the ships was damaged in the storm, and Qiao Zhiya had to let the team stay in Yinggehai for a day to repair the sail.

By the time the fleet overcame various difficulties and arrived at Changhua Port, it had already taken two full days longer than the normal voyage.Qiao Zhiya, as the head of the fleet, has indeed not had much time to rest in the past few days. What he needs most now is to take a shower and lie down on the bed to sleep. As for other things, he can do it later. Besides.

(End of this chapter)