1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 685 Intelligence Gathering
Qiao Zhiya frowned and said, "Changhua will hold the opening ceremony in two days. At this time, the mining of Shilu cannot be stopped."

"It will not be broken." Tian Yeyou responded: "But the production capacity is definitely not as good as before the accident. I think it would be good to keep half of it. If Tiandu Industrial Zone can send maintenance personnel and spare parts as soon as possible, then about half Production can be resumed in about a month. Of course, this must first ensure that there will be no more problems in the hard labor camp."

"If there is another problem... If there is another accident, I will really have to take the blame and resign!" Qiao Zhiya replied with a wry smile.

Although the labor camp was in charge of the police department, Qiao Zhiya was the military and political chief of Changhua, Shilu and Luzhou. He was more or less responsible for the troubles in the labor camp.What's more, the follow-up caused such a large loss of personnel and property. If the executive committee wanted to hold the leader accountable, he, Qiao Zhiya, would definitely bear the brunt.

However, judging from the news conveyed by Gu Kai, the executive committee did not intend to start to settle the responsibility issue at this time, and was still preparing to hand over the next task of chasing and suppressing the enemy to Qiao Zhiya to command.Of course, this may also be regarded as the executive committee giving him a chance to make up for his mistakes. If Qiao Zhiya can handle the follow-up matters properly, then no one will probably bring up the riot in the mining area again.

"I will lead the troops into the mountain in a few days, and Shi Lu will have to be taken care of by you first." Qiao Zhiya said solemnly: "It is reasonable to say that with the current strength of the troops, nothing will happen again, but You still have to be careful."

"Don't worry!" Tian Yeyou showed no fear of this: "When I went to Heitugang, everyone had to serve as a platoon leader and company commander in the militia. Tiandun and the others have learned a lot. If those bandits dare to come back to Shilu again, I will hang them up and skin them one by one!"

After counting the battle damage, it's time to deal with some of the thugs caught after the riot.During yesterday's counterattack, the police and militias killed 82 people and arrested more than 300 people.It may be true that some of these dead and injured prisoners were accidentally injured due to bad luck, but most of them personally participated in yesterday's riot, and they had already discovered thugs who were not prisoners of hard labor camps, so they knew that there were people outside Infiltrated the mines and labor camps to instigate this riot.

Because Qiao Zhiya had too many things at hand, he didn't go to interrogate the prisoner himself, but handed it over to his militia.However, the militia army is good at fighting, but they are not good at extorting confessions by torture. Most of them have no effective interrogation methods other than simple and brutal torture, and the information obtained purely by torture is not true. Sexuality and reliability are also questionable.The only good thing is that many people have been caught, and you can slowly judge whether it is true according to the situation explained by these people, but this will undoubtedly greatly slow down the efficiency of handling the case. Only a dozen or so subjects were examined.

However, the security department's operation efficiency this time is very high. Qiao Zhiya just finished talking with Tian Yeyou, and Changhua sent a message through the radio. To the Shilu mining area.

The voyage from Danzhou Bay to Changhua Port is about 40 nautical miles. There is no doubt that after receiving the news, the other side has already gone to sea overnight to rush here, so that they can reach Changhua the next morning after the accident.And this news also made Qiao Zhiya feel a little relieved, the people from the security department rushed over to take over, so that the interrogation of the prisoners could be handed over.The field personnel of the Ministry of Security have basically received relevant interrogation training, and having them in charge of interrogating prisoners will obviously greatly improve efficiency.

Two and a half hours later, the security field team led by Lin Nan and Li Qingyang arrived at Shilu Station.

"They're all my own people, and I won't hide it from you. Sanya has already organized a team, and they will come over in a few days to deal with the follow-up matters." Qiao Zhiya led the two to the prison area, while introducing the situation: " After this army arrives in Shilu, I will lead the army into the mountains, so I only have two days left for you. I want to know where these people come from, whose orders they obey, where their lairs are, and their strength. How...the more information you can provide at that time, the more certain we will be about our actions after entering the mountain, understand?"

"Understood! Please don't worry, chief!" Lin Nan stopped immediately, stood at attention and saluted Qiao Zhiya.

"Li Qingyang, you used to work in Jinyiwei, and you should be very familiar with Jinyiwei's way of doing things." Qiao Zhiya turned to Li Qingyang who was behind Lin Nan and said, "We must catch Zhao Ye this time. Lost! As for whether you can catch him, it depends on how many things you can get out of these prisoners!"

"I will do my best and swear to serve the executive committee!" Li Qingyang quickly bowed his head in response.He is used to not kneeling to his superiors now, but when he shows his loyalty, he knows exactly what he should do and what to say. Although there are many differences between Haihan's officials and Daming's officials, the officialdom is still the same. There are many common rules.

"I don't care what you say, but I will see what you do!" Qiao Zhiya patted Li Qingyang on the shoulder and said.After he served as a local official in Shilu, Changhua for two years, he has gradually acquired the aura of a superior person in his words and deeds, and is no longer the style of returnees who was obviously different from the local culture.

In the following time, Qiao Zhiya really didn't have time to ask about the interrogation, because he also had to rush to Changhua as soon as possible to preside over the opening ceremony of the local steel production workshop.

Two days later, the Second Battalion of the Annan Militia from Sanya arrived at Changhua Port by boat, but they didn't make any publicity. After getting off the boat, they got on the train directly and rushed to the Shilu mining area to gather.However, the ships transporting equipment and supplies are still on the way, and it will take another day for the packhorse team organized in Danzhou to arrive, so it will take some time before the official departure.

After hastily completing the commissioning ceremony of the steel production workshop, Qiao Zhiya rushed back to Shilu non-stop to join the Annan militia that had just arrived.But before he set off, he still had to listen to the summary of information compiled by Lin Nan and Li Qingyang in the past few days.

"Chief Qiao, here are some useful information we have compiled. Please have a look. I will explain while you read." Lin Nan handed over a stack of information.Both his and Li Qingyang's eyes were bloodshot, and it could be seen that they hadn't had much rest in the past few days.

For the past few days, both of them stayed in the small dark room of torture and hardly ever came out, interrogating more than a hundred prisoners.Because of the pressure from the higher ups, Li Qingyang also dealt with ruthless tactics, and more than a dozen people were maimed by him alone, and almost all the interrogation techniques learned in the yamen were used.Of course, they haven't worked in vain these days, and they still got a lot of valuable information from the mouths of many prisoners.

"According to the information we have, this riot was indeed planned by Zhao Ye, an officer of Jinyiwei..." Lin Nan began to report the general situation of the incident to Qiao Zhiya.

After the Danzhou assassination case failed in March in the first half of the year, Zhao Ye knew that the vicinity of Danzhou and even the entire Qiongbei town would be screened by the Haihan people, so he did not dare to stay in these places, and directly chose to sneak into Qiongzhong Mountain .Since he was still carrying his identity certificate, he was able to find a place to stay, a Lidong village called Heishandong in the inland of Qiongzhou Island.

There are more than a thousand strong men in Lidong, which can be regarded as a big stockade in Qiongzhong area. More importantly, Heishandong was awarded by the Ming court in the early years, and the owner of the cave has the hereditary position of a thousand households—of course this The position does not have any power to mobilize the Ming army, it is just a reasonable name for the armed forces organized by Li Dong.And Zhao Ye's method of wooing is also very simple, that is, to promise high-ranking officials and generous salary to the owner and core personnel of the Black Mountain, and ask them to cooperate with him to try to attack the Haihan people outside the mountain.

Because Heishan Cave is too far away from the coastal towns of Qiongzhou Island, all channels are very closed.In addition to knowing that a new force called Haihan has risen on the island in the past two years, all I know is that the salt and iron sold by the Haihan people are cheaper than those sold by the Ming merchants in the past.

The promise Zhao Ye made was very generous. In addition to agreeing to ask for rewards from the court and guarantee that Heishandong will have the treatment of a hereditary general in the future, what is more important is that he promised to hand over the salt fields and iron mines under the rule of the Haihan people. For the operation of Heishandong.The entire Qiongxi coast will be dominated by the Heishandong family, and they can also find land and build a city by themselves... In short, Zhao Ye almost agreed to the treatment requested by the other party, regardless of whether it can be fulfilled in the future.

Heishandong did not doubt Zhao Ye's sincerity. After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, Jin Yiwei was indeed the heavenly army representing the emperor's will.Although Zhao Ye is only a deputy Qianhu in Jinyiwei, his position is much more valuable than the Qianhu position of the leader of Heishan Dongdong. He speaks on behalf of the imperial court, so how could he backtrack on what he says.

So under Zhao Ye's organization, Heishandong recruited hundreds of strong men, and quietly contacted some Lidongs around, intending to work together to help the Jinyiwei from Nanjing to kill the Haihan rebellion outside the mountain.

However, Zhao Ye didn't act rashly again. The previous experience in Danzhou had made him startled.At that time, there were Huang Zixing and others in Danzhou as cover, and a group of people was networked, but in the end, somehow the news leaked out, and the Haihan people noticed it before they did it.If Zhao Ye hadn't been careful not to go into the city to direct the operation himself, his head would have been dried on the gate of Danzhou city long ago.

Although these Li people had no two intentions, Zhao Ye also knew that it would be difficult to accomplish anything with only this small number of people.When the Haihan militia swept Qiongbei, at least two to three thousand people were mobilized, and most of them were musketeers. How could these Li people who were still using wooden bows and hook knives as individual weapons beat them?Regardless of whether it was a siege or a field battle, it would only end in death if Heishandong was driven out by such a small number of people. Zhao Ye did not intend to consume this limited power easily again.

So this time Zhao Ye spent quite a lot of time collecting information before formulating the next action plan.However, due to the remoteness of Heishandong, Zhao Ye's intelligence collection progressed very slowly.It wasn't until July that he learned that the Haihan people were mining in a circle around Shilu in Qiongxi, and the scale was very large.

Zhao Ye didn't care whether the Haihan people were digging gold or silver mines in Shilu. What he cared about was another thing - it is said that the local labor force for mining was all prisoners, including prisoners under the jurisdiction of the Ming government and some Prisoners convicted in private courts set up by the Haihan people, and prisoners of war brought back from overseas operations.And its scale is really not small, according to Zhao Ye's information, there are at least 5000 people.Zhao Ye thought that if this force could be used for his own sake, there would be a certain chance of creating some troubles for the Haihan people on Qiongzhou Island, and even achieving a counterattack.

Zhao Ye learned more about Shilu's information, and learned that this place is tens of miles away from the sea, connected only by a narrow road. It can be said that it is a very closed environment. This is probably why the Haihan people took this place as a prisoner. One of the reasons for the location of the sentence.However, in Zhao Ye's view, if he can instigate a great chaos and let these prisoners obey his orders on the condition of regaining freedom, then as long as the road to the outside world is cut off, the local area can completely become a small anti-sea Burger base.

After having a clear goal, the next step is to continuously improve the plan.Zhao Ye also took people to the vicinity of Shilu for field inspections many times to formulate action plans.It was not until August that the general plan was basically formulated.

First, Zhao Ye sent some Li people outside the mountain to intentionally cause trouble, and then these people were arrested without any suspense in the hard labor camp, and then Zhao Ye commanded these Li people to collude with others in the hard labor camp through remote control, and gradually Form an underground force.What happened afterwards was just like what Qiao Zhiya experienced.The rebel party used collective escape as a bait to launch an ambush against the militias who were chasing them into the mountains, so as to attract more militias to garrison.

After that, they launched a real offensive in the mining area, attacked many policemen in the mining area by surprise, and quickly seized control of the mining area.But at this time, there were two situations that Zhao Ye did not expect. One was that there were not as many prisoners participating in the riot as he had expected. This situation directly led to the second accident. Because the scale of the rioters was not large enough, Failed to successfully conquer the prison area to obtain more manpower and weapons, which gave the local garrison time to react.When Lu Li came out with the militia army for a while to sweep up, the rioting team immediately became a mess.The prisoners who lacked weapons had no ability to resist in front of the Musketeers. They either surrendered or had no choice but to flee into the mountains.

(End of this chapter)