Chapter 1056 Liao Xun’s plan

While Gao Qiaonan and Gong Shiqi were discussing the plan of action in a restaurant in the west of the city, the door of a house in the east of the city opened, and a four-person soft sedan came out silently, with two people in front and behind wearing colorful tulle flowers.

The guards were wearing robes and carrying embroidered spring knives on their waists. This house is where the Yamen of Jinyiwei in Hangzhou City is located. However, unlike other government offices, there are no signboards here, and there are no stone lions in charge. The Yamen guard the door.

, it looks no different from the houses of ordinary wealthy families.

This low profile is not to cater to the special nature of the Jinyiwei organization, but an adjustment made only after Liao Xun, the person in charge of Jinyiwei in Hangzhou, took office. Liao Xun is a relatively pragmatic person. He believes that Jinyiwei is the emperor's personal army.

You also need to show your status through pomp and circumstance. Actual work results are far more important than pomp and circumstance. The key is how much achievements you can make in your current position and how many actual benefits you can get.

Of course, after cutting unnecessary ostentation, the funds saved did not go elsewhere, but were all put into Liao Xun's pocket. Hangzhou is a place with developed commerce and a relatively prosperous people, so there are very few incidents that require the intervention of Jin Yiwei.

Regarding vicious cases or political incidents, Jin Yiwei could not even do as much in Hangzhou as Dongchang, which specialized in investigating local officials. Liao Xun found that there was nothing to gain from this place, so he naturally turned his attention to more practical directions.

Guo Zheng from the Prosecution Department and Yu Pingfeng from the Command Department were both officials he knew before he was assigned to Hangzhou by Nanzhen Fusi. After arriving here, the other two introduced him to Ningbo Prefecture

Wang Jialin, a large-scale merchant, hit it off immediately and quickly formed a private organization integrating government and business. With the various "conveniences" provided by these people, Wang Jialin rose rapidly in just a few years and became a prominent figure in the smuggling trade.

One of the largest companies in the Zhoushan Islands, its influence has spread rapidly from Ningbo Prefecture, and it controls most of the entire Hangzhou Bay maritime trade business.

Liao Xun only had to write official documents and issue instructions in Hangzhou, and the benefits he received from Zhoushan each year amounted to tens of thousands of taels of silver. During this period, there were countless rare and precious treasures sent by Wang Jialin.

Such a relaxing and happy job could not be found elsewhere. Liao Xun used the money to buy real estate and land in Hangzhou, raised several wives and concubines, and lived a happy life.

However, this perfect living condition was ruined by the arrival of the Haihan people last year. Although the Zhoushan Shipping Gang had made a lot of profits by reselling Haihan goods before, Liao Xun himself also benefited a lot from it, but the arrival of the Haihan people

After Zhejiang, they did not leave any face to the "non-staff agents" of the Zhoushan Shipping Gang, and directly started to grab the territory.

The news of the Haihan people's landing at Shipu Port in Ningbo had just reached Hangzhou. Before there was any response, the news of the Haihan people's capture of Liuheng Island followed. Liao Xun and others had not yet judged whether the Haihan people would attack Zhoushan.

When we started, war had already started in the East China Sea. By the time Hangzhou tried to stop the barbaric behavior of the Haihan people in an official capacity, the battle over the control of the Zhoushan Islands had already ended. Zhoushan Island was under the control of the Haihan army by land and water

It fell quickly under a double attack, and the life and death of the island owner Wang Jialin is unknown.

Only then did everyone realize that this group of southern barbarians were not just merchants who were proficient in maritime trade. Their combat power and ambition were far superior to the Japanese pirates and Xifan who harassed the East China Sea in the early years. Although the Zhejiang Dusi side moved towards Ningbo Prefecture due to calm winds.

The garrison issued an official document asking them to respond to the violent acts of the Haihan people. However, the Ningbo garrison on the front line already knew that the Haihan army was very powerful. It was not an ordinary pirate armed force, but a real army. How could it be so easy?

Go out to sea and deliver food to each other.

In addition, at this time, Haihan had secretly tried to get in the way of Ningbo officials and the military. With free money to clear the way, the officials and garrison in Ningbo also followed the instructions issued by Hangzhou and deliberately delayed them. Therefore, Yu Pingfeng

After the official document was sent to Ningbo, there was no response. Liao Xun had no military power, and he was unable to use any strength in the process. He could only watch Haihan seize control of Zhoushan.

The collapse of the Zhoushan Boat Gang caused huge economic losses to the interest groups behind it. The annual income sent to various yamen in Hangzhou alone amounted to hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and no less than a hundred people in the official circles benefited from it.

Vested interests such as Liao Xun, Yu Pingfeng, and Guo Zheng hated the Haihan gang of uninvited guests who disrupted the stability of the situation, and were unwilling to admit defeat.

However, Wang Jialin later returned to Zhoushan Island and tried to cause chaos during the investment conference organized by Haihan, but was still frustrated. Later, they encouraged Ma Yue, the commander of Haining Guards in Jiaxing Prefecture, to send his men to pretend to be pirates and send ships to rob people at sea.

However, this plan was discovered in advance by the enemy, and Ma Yue died inexplicably at sea before he was defeated. Although Liao Xun and others suspected that this matter was related to the Haihan people, there was no evidence to prove it.

By contacting Haihan, the blame can only be placed on the non-existent Japanese pirates.

After experiencing two major setbacks, Liao Xun and his group finally realized that their side did not have any advantages at sea. Unless they concentrated and dispatched the navy in East China on a large scale, there would be a lot of troubles involved.

. And with the capabilities of the Haihan people, I am afraid that before the naval forces have completed their assembly, they have already made preparations for a battle on Zhoushan Island.

It would be difficult for the Ming army to cross the sea and attack an opponent equipped with a large number of artillery. Ten years ago, Fujian Governor Nangong Yi and Commander-in-Chief Yu Zigao led an army to attack Penghu Hongmao City, using two hundred warships and tens of thousands of troops.

It took seven months of fighting to drive the red-haired people out of Penghu. It was said that the Haihan people who occupied Zhoushan this time had tamed the red-haired people into submission in the south, and their combat power was already high.

It was so difficult for the Ming army to keep up with them.

Zhejiang wants to use troops against Zhoushan. If they don't send an army of 30,000 to 50,000 people, they will probably be humiliated. Moreover, such large-scale military operations must be approved by the imperial court, and the documents must be sent to the Ministry of War, and then by the imperial court.

The big bosses discussed it slowly, but within two or three months no result was produced. Now that the imperial court is focusing on quelling the civil strife in the Central Plains and resisting the Jin army outside the customs, how can it spare the energy to deal with the maritime chaos in Zhejiang?

.Even if the Zhejiang Dusi sent a report to the Ministry of War, it would most likely be dismissed by the superiors as "taking the overall situation into consideration".

Since using force did not work, Liao Xun and others changed their methods and began to seek other means to snipe Haihan. By studying the history of Haihan's rise, they soon discovered that the expansion routine of this armed organization was accompanied by trade.

In most cases, trade is used to open the way. If resistance is encountered, force will be decisively used to remove the obstacles. The biggest obstacle to Haihan's trade in Zhejiang is undoubtedly the so-called civil armed forces in the Zhoushan Islands that have monopolized more than half of Zhejiang's maritime trade.

.But what Liao Xun and others don't quite understand is why Haihan was so impatient when he arrived in Zhejiang and went straight to Zhoushan, even though he had negotiated with the local officials on how to distribute benefits in places such as Fuguang in the south.

Of course, Liao Xun and others did not expect that Haihan's reason for doing this was that he was eager to go north and expand his sphere of influence to the periphery of the Bohai Sea, so that he could seize one or two footholds in the Jiaodong Peninsula during the recovery period of the Denglai Rebellion, and then expand his territory in Northeast Asia.

The region opened up the situation. In the process, the Zhoushan Ship Gang inevitably became a stumbling block that hindered the progress of the situation. Haihan had no interest in slowly negotiating terms with a group of armed smugglers with pirate backgrounds, so he simply sent troops to push them over.

It's time to train troops. And comparing the military expenditures spent on this with the revenue that can be obtained from this area in the future, it is undoubtedly a very cost-effective deal.

The mystery of this is naturally unimaginable from the perspective of Liao Xun and others. Therefore, they can only think that Haihan's approach is to monopolize Zhejiang's maritime trade and leave no way for others to survive. Although they used a large army to wipe out Zhoushan

Dao's plan is not very realistic, but with their influence in Zhejiang's official circles, there are many opportunities to cause some trouble for the Haihan people.

Initially, Liao Xun and others assigned tasks to the people below to investigate the Haihan goods smuggled into Hangzhou City, in order to attack the trade offensive that Haihan was trying to launch. This method seemed feasible, but in actual operation

Problems soon began to emerge. Some people took advantage of their power to enrich themselves, selling part or all of the confiscated goods privately and pocketing the proceeds. However, these Haihan goods were still circulated to the market through other channels.

However, these situations that go against their original intentions are only the practices of a few people, and the targets are mostly small traders and hawkers with little background. The real trouble is not here. In the maritime trade rights originally controlled by the Zhoushan Ship Gang

After the change of ownership, the Haihan people quickly recruited a large number of agents in Jiangsu and Zhejiang through investment promotion associations to participate in the Haihan trade system that divided the benefits. Most of these agents had certain economic strength and were large or small.

Official backer.

These people represent a new group of vested interests who filled the vacancies after the collapse of the Zhoushan Boat Gang. When the expected benefits were large enough, out of consideration of their own gains and losses, they chose to join the camp chaired by Haihan and tried to

The local officials who blocked Haihan's trade in Zhejiang became a hateful stumbling block in front of these new vested interests. Many of the participants had backers who were not easily offended by Liao Xun.

Due to such changes in the situation, the anti-Haihan actions advocated and carried out by Liao Xun and others have achieved very limited results. Not only did they not successfully prevent Haihan from starting trade in Zhejiang this year, but the Haihan goods on the market were

The speed visible to the naked eye is constantly increasing, and when this kind of transnational smuggling trade has become a lucrative industry, it becomes very difficult to eliminate it with the power of a few people, not to mention that behind these trade channels,

There are also those Haihan people on Zhoushan Island who are not very peaceful.

Since the end of last year, the Ningbo government has begun to clearly shirk the official documents sent to Hangzhou requiring strict control of maritime trade. It even claimed that some of the mandatory management measures for maritime trade would "cause public unrest" and therefore refused to implement them. Liao

Xun knew that the people in Ningbo were not ordinary fishermen who went out to sea to fish, but numerous Ming maritime merchants and their trading partners, the Haihan people. According to the information Liao Xun had, the Haihan people had expressed this in public more than once

, will use force when necessary to safeguard its trading rights along the coast of Zhejiang and the interests of local business partners, which is almost as close as uttering the word "war" directly.

The Haihan people have built military ports, military camps, and coastal fortifications on Zhoushan Island, and stationed organized troops and combat fleets all year round. This is obviously far away from the status of ordinary maritime merchants. In this case, the local government does not

It is reasonable to be willing to provoke the other party. After all, if the two sides turn against each other, the first place to suffer after the war is the neighboring Ningbo Prefecture.

As a last resort, Yu Pingfeng and Guo Zheng could only place more of the burden of fighting Haihan on Liao Xun's shoulders, because the military power in their hands had gradually lost its deterrent effect, but they were in charge of the special intelligence agency Jinyiwei.

Liao Xun may be able to find other ways to effectively attack Haihan.

Liao Xun did think of a way that might work. Through the intelligence he collected, he noticed that Haihan had been recruiting a large number of immigrants, especially young and skilled craftsmen. It was said that these immigrants were screened on Zhoushan Island.

, some will be transported to the south for cultivation, and the other will be left to work on Zhoushan Island. Liao Xun’s idea is to send some trained personnel to participate in immigration and lurk on Zhoushan Island, waiting for opportunities to kidnap or assassinate Haihan.

A high-level figure - the leader of Haihan who is called "chief" by ordinary people.

Considering that Zhejiang's official circles have long been infiltrated by Haihan, if this project is not carried out confidentially, people may have been arrested by Haihan before they arrive in Zhoushan, so Liao Xun vacated a house in the north of the city.

It was used to train operational personnel. In order not to attract the attention of interested people, Liao Xun simply moved his family to the north of the city, so that he would return to the mansion every day and instruct his subordinates to conduct special training.

The more than 20 people who are currently training under him are not all members of the Jinyiwei. Some of them are from the military, and a few of them are civilians who were recruited by Liao Xun because of their skills. These people can be used in the future.

Liao Xun actually had no confidence that it would not succeed, but he knew that if he could not come up with any effective counterattack, the Haihan people would reach out to Hangzhou within a year or two, and then they would try to change the world.

I'm afraid it will be a hundred times harder than it is now.
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