1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 581 Aftermath
At the same time as this good show was going on in the Nanhai Restaurant in Danzhou City, more than [-] Haihan militias, police and armed personnel from the Ministry of Security were deployed inside and outside Danzhou, and they were also launching a joint operation to arrest the lurking rebels inside and outside the city. .

The rebellion plan planned by Huang Zixing, Zhao Ye and others this time, besides more than a dozen people who sneaked into Nanhai Restaurant to carry out the assassination mission, there are more than a hundred people lurking in various parts of the city. Once Nanhai Restaurant succeeds, these people Then he will attack all over the city, causing chaos in the city, and at the same time welcome his accomplices from outside the city to enter the city.

Although the plan was made well, it is a pity that when these people entered the city in batches, they were already monitored by the relevant departments of Haihan.Although the professional manpower used to carry out surveillance tasks is relatively tight, fortunately, after entering the city, in order not to expose their whereabouts, these people basically stayed behind closed doors in several major temporary strongholds. Before today, they did not report to the security department Bring too much pressure.Today, when the arrest is carried out, it is relatively easier.

No matter how hard the city was, as long as a few city gates were closed, the rebels could not escape.What is more difficult is the arrest operation outside the city. Due to the relatively limited local forces, there is no way to carry out large-scale roundups in the wild. The scope is narrowed.

After getting the exact news of Zhao Ye's whereabouts from the Ministry of Security, Lin Nan contacted the military and asked them to launch a roundup of the Zhongming Academy area.The military immediately issued an order to the company led by Yu Tiezhu, who was stationed near the east gate and the closest to Zhongming Academy.

In order to avoid alarming the enemy, the troops led by Yu Tiezhu did not station outside the city ahead of time. Fortunately, Zhongming Academy is not too far away, and it takes only a few miles to get there in a short time.After Yu Tiezhu received the order, he immediately set off with his army and rushed to Zhongming Academy to arrest him.

When they reached the gate of Zhongming Academy, several militiamen rushed forward and kicked open the gate of the academy.The management personnel in the academy heard the sound and came out to inquire, and Yu Tiezhu announced loudly: "The Danzhou Management Committee and the Danzhou Prefecture Government have ordered to arrest the remnants of pirates who have sneaked into Zhongming Academy. Inspection, if there is any violation, it will be treated as a pirate accomplice! Anyone who resists the law by force will be killed!"

Hundreds of militiamen swarmed in, then searched the east and west courtyards of the academy, and drove all the people in the academy to the courtyard in the middle.There were not many people left in Zhongming Academy, today Huang Zixing led a team into the city for a banquet, there were seven people missing, and there were only a dozen or so people left in the Academy.Yu Tiezhu didn't know the target's appearance, so he asked the steward to quickly fetch the academy's roster, and roll their names one by one according to the roster.

After sorting it out in this way, no one was found who was not on the roster. According to the records on the roster, except for Zhang Qianzhi, the last student to enroll was half a year ago. Zhao Ye obviously hadn't come here at that time.Yu Tiezhu thought that either Zhao Ye was impersonating other people, or he was not among these people, and if it was the latter possibility, then this guy probably escaped.

Yu Tiezhu didn't dare to be careless, he ordered people to go back to the city to invite Zhang Qianzhi, who was the only one who recognized Zhao Ye's face, to come and recognize him, and at the same time separated two platoons of soldiers, and immediately searched the nearby forest.

It was already an hour after Zhang Qianzhi rushed from the city to Zhongming Academy after receiving the news.After hastily looking at the people under temporary house arrest in the academy, he immediately shook his head and said, "Zhao Ye is not here."

Yu Tiezhu said anxiously: "If this guy escapes, it will be difficult to catch him again!"

"It's okay, first block the main roads nearby and arrest his accomplices." Zhang Qianzhi said: "I'll go to the study to draw his appearance, and then send the cavalry to the nearby counties and counties to post them as pirates' accomplices." A reward is offered for his arrest! Even if he can't be caught for a while, he must not dare to go to Qiongbei's city to resupply, and see how long he can stay in the wilderness."

Although Zhang Qianzhi said it lightly, he also knew that the Ministry of Security had set up such a big scheme this time, and a large part of the reason was to arrest this senior Jinyiwei official who had been lurking in Qiongbei.And this guy's knowledge is obviously not shallow, he didn't choose to wait for the result in Zhongming Academy, but left here in advance and hid.Obviously, this guy probably also considered the possibility of the assassination failure and the possible consequences - as long as Huang Zixing and others recruited him as the main envoy to hide in Zhongming Academy, the person who captured him would probably kill him soon Here, staying here and waiting for news is simply waiting to die.

If this guy fled into the nearby forest, with Haihan's current strength, it is indeed impossible to organize a large-scale wild hunt, and it is almost impossible to catch him in a short time.For the current plan, we can only control the major traffic routes in Qiongbei first, and strengthen the inspection of access to each city.No matter how powerful Jin Yiwei is, without supplies and the cooperation of his accomplices, it will be difficult to make much trouble.

The large-scale arrest operation lasted for five full days in Danzhou. A total of more than 170 rebels were captured. During the operation, more than a dozen people were directly killed for resisting arrest.After the underground network headed by Huang Zixing was uprooted, nearly a thousand people were implicated. These people were gathered and will be sent to the Haihan stronghold in Nanyang for cultivation soon.Fortunately, due to adequate preparations and effective command, Haihan did not lose any personnel during the entire arrest process, only a few people were slightly injured, and the loss was minimal.

At the same time, in Qiongzhou Fucheng, as well as Chengmai and Lingao counties in Qiongbei, a campaign to suppress the rebels was also launched at the same time.After this battle, the anti-Haihan forces in the Qiongbei area were almost wiped out.

On March 3, the Danzhou Management Committee held the first public trial and judgment conference in Danzhou outside the management committee in the north of the city. More than 15 local people attended the meeting.In order to achieve a good enough publicity effect, the management committee also specially used the tweeter sent from Sanya to relax, and almost half of Danzhou City could clearly hear the whole process of the trial.

Huang Zixing, the person in charge of Danzhou Zhongming Academy, and three other former officers of the Daming Guard Army became the main criminals in this trial. They were accused of collusion with pirates, possession of weapons, mob riots, arson, and assassination of officials, etc., and the evidence was very strong. conclusive.Especially during Huang Zixing's trial, hundreds of witnesses were willing to testify against him, and most of them were guests who witnessed the whole incident in Nanhai Restaurant that day.

However, there were also a few tainted witnesses among them. In order to save their lives, the people who were in charge of setting fire to the restaurant together with Zhang Qianzhi that day also turned their backs, accusing Huang Zixing of planning and instigating the operation.This was almost confirming Huang Zixing's charges. Whether he had colluded with pirates was a secondary issue. The assassination of officials alone was enough to make him lose his head.

The final verdict was basically under the control of Haihan. A total of seven "heinous" rebels were sentenced to shooting, more than a hundred people were sentenced to hard labor ranging from half a year to ten years, and more than [-] people Because of the involvement of relatives, teachers and students, etc., he was sentenced to exile overseas for reclamation.Most of these exiled people were innocent disasters, but in order to stabilize the local situation, the management committee decided to clean up all these unstable factors. Anyway, several new strongholds in Nanyang also need to move in a large number of laborers. It happened to transport these people to colonize.

Naturally, there was not much opposition from the public to such a sentence. After all, almost all the stakeholders of these prisoners were sentenced to exile, and the onlookers treated the trial with the mentality of watching the excitement.Moreover, the management committee's approach is indeed to maintain local stability, and this principle is completely in line with the interests of the local people.

In the afternoon of the same day, several prisoners sentenced to death were shot at a cemetery outside Danzhou City.And the people who went to watch the excitement were no less than those who watched the public trial in the morning. Thousands of people witnessed the Haihan-style execution method. After a burst of gunshots, a row of people kneeling on the ground fell straight to the ground .Then after Wu Zuo stepped forward for an autopsy, he announced that the execution was over.

Danzhou Zhizhou Yan Mingjun and General Li Jin also "supervised" the trial and execution process throughout the day. They are now very clear that their position in Danzhou is not the ruler of local military and political affairs, but assisting Haihan to maintain The mascot of peaceful relations with Ming Dynasty.They showed their faces on important occasions, indicating that this place is still owned by Daming, but the actual management of the local area is completely controlled by Haihan.

Yan Mingjun now understands what others said at the time that being an official in Qiongzhou Island will be very easy. In the past ten years since he entered the official career, he has never been so idle during his tenure. Needing him to look over and sign, plant flowers and plants at home, write articles, or go for a stroll in the city, the time is quickly passed away, and with such leisure, he can still get the so-called "office funds" sent by the Haihan people every month. ", the amount is indeed much more than the salary he can get from the court.

Of course, occasionally there are still some things that make Yan Mingjun feel uncomfortable. For example, the work reports that need to be submitted to the Guangdong government and the court on a regular basis must be reviewed and approved by the Haihan people before they can be sent away.And the content and general direction of this kind of report are almost all specified by the Haihan people, Yan Mingjun can at most have a little room to play in the choice of words and sentences.

In addition, Yan Mingjun's range of action was also limited to within five miles around Danzhou City. If he wanted to go out of this range, he had to apply for a report to the management committee, and it was strictly forbidden to go to sea without permission.The reason given by the management committee was to ensure his personal safety, but Yan Mingjun knew very well that the Haihan people just didn't want to let him out of their monitoring range.

In comparison, Li Jin's life is much better and more fulfilling than that of Yan Mingjun.His current schedule is almost all around the Haihan militia. Every morning, he must go to the training of the Mohaihan militia outside the city. At noon, he will have a meal with the officers of the militia, and then continue in the afternoon. People from the militia discussed some military theory issues.

In front of this gang of militia officers who are armed to the teeth, the only thing Li Jin can be proud of is probably the kung fu he has learned. His single-handed swordsmanship has been practiced since childhood, and almost no one in Haihan can compete with him. of.

But Wang Tom's words quickly shattered the little confidence he had accumulated with great difficulty: "General Li's sword skills are indeed very powerful, but if he is fighting against us, it really doesn't have much effect. You It takes more than 20 to [-] years to practice this kind of sword technique, and it takes continuous hard work during this period, but we only need seven days to train a musketeer at the shortest, and the longest is only one month. As long as the gun in his hand is loaded with ammunition, he can It is possible to kill a master like you who has worked hard for many years on the battlefield at a distance of several tens of feet."

Li Jin does not know this truth. After all, the Ming army has been equipped with large-scale firearms for a long time, but the firearms troops of the Ming army are indeed far behind the Haihan militia in terms of equipment level and combat capability. Wang Tom said The reasoning is only applicable to the special case of Haihan militia.

Li Jin is a straightforward person. After he realized the strength gap between the two sides, he tried every means to find out from the Haihan officer, trying to find a way to narrow the gap in strength between the two sides, but he seemed to be unable to get in.It wasn't until one day that Zhang Xin came to the militia to deal with official business, and he asked Zhang Xin casually, that the other party's words opened his heart.

"It looks very complicated, but it's very simple to say, it's nothing more than a word of money." Zhang Xin explained: "For the same armed training of a soldier, our cost is about seven or eight times that of Daming. An army piled up with silver will naturally not lose its combat effectiveness."

Li Jin asked in puzzlement: "The Haihan militia is not equipped with armor, and the cost of weapons is cheaper than that of Ming Dynasty. What does Director Zhang mean by this?"

Zhang Xinying said: "We are different from Daming. We follow the route of elite soldiers and serve as professional soldiers, not farmers and soldiers like Daming who usually farm and fight. We need to invest a lot of resources in peacetime to maintain the strength of the troops. Combat power. These days you have also seen how much we invest in the combat training of the militia. The monthly live ammunition alone is no less than fighting a small-scale battle. You have also tried the food of the militia , should be much better than the Ming army, right?"

Li Jin nodded and said: "The salary of a soldier in the militia is higher than that of Daming, and the treatment is better than that of Daming. This is really nothing to say. But how can you support such a huge investment?"

"The investment is huge, and the profit is huge! Our army is not just for nothing." Zhang Xin patted Li Jin on the shoulder and said, "You probably won't understand it now, but you will understand after a little more time. "

(End of this chapter)