1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 964
How to break down the psychological defense line of the interrogation object, Ren Liang and Hao Wanqing's skill in this area must be far superior to these subordinates. Words came out bit by bit.

In fact, the Spaniards had already noticed the existence of the emerging force of Haihan in 1629. At that time, the Haihan militia sent troops to intervene in the Annan Civil War and assisted the northern court in defeating the southern Ruan's armed forces. Gave a little fame.Although the Spaniards didn't think that this civilian armed force could threaten them at the time, they still habitually prepared to send people to the Haihan controlled area to lurk and collect intelligence.However, when the Spaniards made relevant preparations, Haihan launched the Qiongbei offensive in 1630. For the sake of stability, Haihan blocked the entire Qiongzhou Island for a period of time, so that he had already arrived in Guangdong and was about to transfer to Sanya. Du Wen had to wait until the following year to make the trip.

After coming to Sanya, Du Wen quickly obtained the opportunity to be naturalized by virtue of his cultural foundation. At that time, he could choose to go to the immigration agency under the Ministry of Civil Affairs besides the library.However, Du Wen believes that dealing with those dirty immigrants all day is not conducive to collecting information. On the contrary, the Haihan people's book department should have the opportunity to get access to some confidential documents, and they have more free time to do other things. , so he chose this seemingly good job as his identity cover.

However, after taking this job, Du Wen discovered that there is still a big difference between reality and his imagination. This job is leisurely, but there are not many opportunities to collect valuable information.Although there are mountains of secret materials in the library, Du Wen can't understand even one percent of them, and the value of the information that can be passed back to Manila often does not meet the expectations of the boss.Although he is also trying his best to send back Haihan's ever-changing development situation through written reports, the Manila authorities are not interested in Haihan's social organization structure and infrastructure capabilities. They only want to get Haihan's constantly updated military technology and military intelligence. This happened to be an area where it was difficult for Du Wen to obtain information.

However, Du Wen has not been idle during the past few years in Sanya. Although he did not collect much valuable information, he still took advantage of the opportunity of a part-time adult literacy class teacher to slowly develop several peripheral intelligence personnel, without exception. They are all naturalized citizens.Although it is impossible to do such a major event as assassinating important people and overthrowing Haihan's rule, it is enough to assist him in collecting some less important intelligence information from various levels.From this point of view, Du Wen can actually be regarded as a qualified intelligence officer. It is not a matter of his personal ability that he cannot find important information, but the loss of his lack of education.

At the same time as Du Wen made his confession, Lin Nan and Zhang Qianzhi had already led their teams to arrest them according to the list of people he confessed.Fortunately, the peripheral personnel that Du Wen recruited were basically ordinary people, and none of them served in important institutions such as the military, police, or finance.This is mainly due to the fact that Du Wen usually comes into contact with groups, and their cultural level and social status are relatively low. These people have relatively poor resistance to economic temptations, and they often help in order to obtain the rewards Du Wen promised. He runs errands.

"The political and ideological work in literacy education still needs to be strengthened!" Ren Liang is also very helpless about Du Wen's loophole. The emphasis on political education is obviously not enough, so Du Wen's unsophisticated measures can succeed.

Hao Wanqing is more open-minded about this: "This is how the intelligence front is like. It's no better than your law and order. As long as you strengthen legal education and carry out strict crackdowns, at least you can achieve results for a period of time. But this time we arrested Du Wen and the others. People will not prevent external forces from sending people to Sanya to lurk. You see, Jin Yiwei, who first came to Sanya as an undercover agent, has been with us for several years, and they have not given up until now, and they are still sending people here one after another."

The person Hao Wanqing mentioned was Li Qingyang, a hundred householder of Jinyiwei, who chose to join Haihan shortly after he was arrested in Sanya, and joined the Haihan Security Department after that, becoming one of the main persons in charge of Haihan's fight against Daming Jinyiwei. one.In the past few years, Jin Yiwei still sent people to Sanya to carry out lurking, but because their methods of handling affairs have not improved much, and Haihan's own intelligence network has gradually penetrated into the official circles in the southeast coast, these people who came to Qiongzhou Island It is very difficult for Daming intelligence personnel to completely conceal their whereabouts. Basically, there will be a few unlucky ghosts caught by the Ministry of Security every year.

As a public security case, the two consecutive homicides will indeed have a relatively bad impact on the local people. Fortunately, the relevant parties can deal with it in a timely manner, quickly solve the case and arrest the criminals. Afterwards, as long as a notice is issued to appease the public, the situation can be calmed down soon. up.But the results announced to the public will not involve the intelligence front. The existence of the Ministry of Security itself is a secret that everyone knows but cannot be mentioned casually. The work and achievements of the Ministry of Security will not be disclosed casually. Announce it.

As for whether Haihan will use this as an excuse to put pressure on the Manila authorities or even take some drastic retaliation, that is not something that the Ministry of Security can decide on its own.Such measures involving major foreign policies must first have clear instructions from the Executive Committee before the Ministry of Security can take action.However, judging from the current international affairs that Haihan needs to deal with, even if this matter needs to be responded to, it will not be ranked in the near future.

On February [-]th, a notice bearing the seal of the Ministry of Justice of Haihan appeared on the streets of Shengli Port, announcing that the two recent serial murders had been solved and the perpetrators had been arrested.Criminals Du and Li conspired to kill a Persian businessman and an employee of a local firm, Su, because of their greed for money.At present, the trial stage has ended, and the execution will be carried out after the Haihan Grand Court pronounces the sentence.In addition, several accomplices who assisted the two in committing murders and selling stolen goods have all been arrested.

In recent years, Haihan has seldom adopted the method of public execution, and at most only a few public representatives will be present to supervise the execution process.However, with such a notice stamped with the official seal, it can basically quell all kinds of discussions and speculations among the local people about these two cases during this period.As for whether the perpetrator was finally sentenced to life imprisonment or death penalty, not too many people care about it. After all, the two victims and the two main criminals have no family members in the local area, and no one will go to the Haihan Justice Department to deal with it after the fact. Disposition of prisoners.

Although the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Security of Haihan invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the investigation of this case, it is not the most concerned issue in Sanya at the moment, at most it is just a little talk among the people after dinner.At present, whether it is official or private, the main attention is on the seventh anniversary of Haihan's arrival in Qiongzhou Island in more than a month.

For the past six years, Haihan has held a celebration ceremony on April [-] every year, either grandly or simply, to commemorate the team's successful arrival here over many obstacles, and thus created a brand new social system single-handedly.For the public, this anniversary is as important as the Chinese New Year. The parade and military parade held in Victory Harbor every year on the anniversary are the people's favorite activities.In recent years, Haihan's overseas colonies will also hold celebrations at the same time, so that the public can fully feel the strength and reliability of the Haihan group.

Although these celebrations cost a lot, the executive committee is still willing to set aside this expenditure in the annual budget, because it will play a huge role in cultivating people's national awareness and enhancing their cohesion.Being able to participate in a celebration in person is far more effective than receiving a month of brainwashing education. Almost all institutions under Haihan’s administration will organize their employees to participate in it in different ways.

However, the content and scale of this year's anniversary celebrations are different from previous years. Organizations at all levels, large and small, have been notified in advance. During this year's anniversary celebrations, the Executive Committee will publicly announce Haihan founded the country.For all the people who have joined the Haihan nationality and are about to join the Haihan nationality, this is definitely a first-class event.

Of course, the ones who are most excited about this are the naturalized civilian cadres who have already served in institutions at all levels. Haihan's official founding of the country means that they have transformed from managers at all levels into real officials.Although this official position may not be recognized by Daming, what does it matter?The current Haihan is no worse than Daming at all, he can hold an official position in Haihan's government, and the treatment he enjoys is even better than that of Daming officials.For the Haihan naturalized cadres, most of whom are civilians, this is really a glorious achievement in their lives.After receiving the notice, many people even began to secretly calculate that the corresponding official position after the founding of the country should be regarded as a few grades.

Of course, the executive committee can't completely get rid of these selfish distractions, but it doesn't have time to take care of some people's small calculations at the moment.The main energy now is still to focus on various internal and external adjustments and transformations after the founding of the People's Republic of China.Although there will not be major changes in the staffing, structure, and functions of various internal agencies and departments, in the future they will operate in the name of the country, and the rules and institutionalization will begin to be stricter.

In international relations with the outside world, most countries that have established diplomatic relations have already regarded Haihan as an independent country, but only Ming Dynasty is a special case that is difficult to deal with. After all, Hainan, where Haihan was founded Jurisprudentially speaking, the island actually belongs to Da Ming's territory, and with Da Ming's consistent style, even if he knows he is invincible, he will still choose to fight and will never compromise on this.Although Fuguang and Guangxi Provinces, which have been thoroughly infiltrated by Haihan, are unlikely to send troops to fight, if the diplomatic relations with Ming Dynasty are not properly handled, it will eventually hinder Haihan's future expansion plan to the north.

For this reason, Haihan even started contacting high-level government officials in Fuzhou and Guangxi provinces more than a year in advance, trying to discuss a reasonable solution.However, although the senior officials of these two provinces also knew that they could not stop what Hai Han was about to do, they were unwilling to stand up for Hai Han publicly—after all, they were still receiving Ming’s official salary. If you take a wrong stand, you will be condemned by the court in minutes. Losing your official title is still relatively light, and even if you are not careful, you will be convicted of a major crime that affects the whole family, such as "communicating inside and outside, committing chaos".

The solution given by Xiong Wencan, who is currently in charge of Fuzhou and Guangxi, still hopes that Haihan can put the stability of the overall situation first and delay the timing of the founding of the country.Of course, if he really wants to do what he wants, it is to let Haihan merge into Daming, and he will apply to the imperial court to list Qiongzhou Island as a separate administrative region as Haihan's fief, and at most send a prince to sit in the town. To show that this place is still the territory of the Zhu family.

Although this kind of condition offered by Xiong Wencan was unprecedented for Daming, but for Haihan, who was determined to build a nation, he couldn't accept it.It has been the seventh year that the time-traveling group has come to this time-space, and the preparations for politics, economy, culture, military affairs, diplomacy, commerce, etc. have basically been in place. The first long-cherished wish cannot be given up due to external pressure.Even in the face of war, the Haihan executive committee probably won't make any concessions anymore.

Therefore, the negotiations between Haihan and the high-level officials of Fuguang and Guangxi provinces have been at an impasse. The officials of Ming Dynasty are more inclined to pretend to be dead on this matter. They neither support nor oppose, and they will not issue any statement on this matter. Nor does it plan to send representatives to attend the so-called Haihan founding ceremony.Of course, regarding whether Haihan needs to issue a letter of credence to Ming Dynasty to apply for the formal establishment of diplomatic relations after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the senior officials of Fuguang also suggested that Haihan should not do such superfluous things, because at this time the attention of the imperial court is all focused on the north, and the peasant army He and the Tartars outside the pass are currently the two main enemies of Ming Dynasty. As long as Haihan doesn't make too much noise, in fact, the imperial court doesn't care about the situation in the south at all.

Seeing that the matter had been dragged on for a long time, the executive committee finally decided to do it on its own, ignoring the attitude of the Fuguang government.After all, the interests of the officials of these two places and Haihan were too deeply entangled. Even if Haihan established the country publicly, they would not be able to take the initiative to provoke a war.Does the Ming court still have the strength to open up another battlefield in the south?Anyone with a discerning eye knows the answer, so the Haihan Executive Committee believes that although Daming will not accept the fact that Haihan has established a country, he can't come up with any effective measures to stop it.

(End of this chapter)