Chapter 1107 Causes and Consequences

Shangguanye went downstairs in a huff, but did not leave the Immortal Residence. Instead, he walked through the lobby to the backyard. There are three private rooms in the courtyard here, which are private rooms specially prepared for dignitaries. Compared with the dining environment in the building,

It is more private and hidden. Zhang Pucheng, who is upstairs, rarely has the opportunity to come to this place. He did not know that there was such a place in Shenxian Juli, and he did not expect that Shangguanye was not planning this matter alone.

Shangguanye walked to the door of one of the wing rooms and pushed it straight in. The two people who were talking in the room immediately stopped talking when they saw him coming in. One of them asked him: "How did things go?

Is Zhang Pucheng willing to cooperate?"

Shangguan Ye pulled up the chair and sat down, poured a cup of tea into his mouth, raised his hand to wipe the corners of his mouth, and then said bitterly: "I've been talking so much that my saliva has dried up, but this guy named Zhang is still stubborn.

, won’t let go!”

The man continued to ask: "Is his attitude so firm that he didn't even loosen his position after listening to your persuasion?"

Shangguanye thought for a while and said, "It's not that he has lost his temper. He heard that this Haihan had established his own country in the south, and he was a little scared. It's just that this guy decided that I wanted to harm him and refused to cooperate with me no matter what.

But there’s nothing you can do about him!”

Another person also spoke at this time: "Look, when you led the troops to Fushan County to collect grain, you didn't get much benefit, but now the consequences of offending people are revealed!"

Shangguanye said: "Is this pot left to me alone? This matter is not my idea alone. Don't forget that when we came back from the food collection, both of us also benefited from it!"

"Don't bring up the matter of Chen Guzi rotting sesame seeds anymore. It's better to think about how to proceed with this matter first!" The person who spoke before saw that Shangguan Ye was a little angry, so he quickly tried to persuade him and changed the topic back to business:

"You and I, brothers, want to get rich. The opportunity is right in front of us. Don't worry about old things anymore!"

Shangguanye's two accomplices are not ordinary. One is a military general from Yanzhou Prefecture named Guo Xingning. He has known Shangguanye for many years and can be regarded as an old friend in the military. The other is from Jinan Prefecture and serves as the commander of Shandong Capital.

The envoy's name was Liao Jie. During the Denglai Rebellion, he was transferred to Dengzhou to supervise the war with the official position of commanding Qianshi. The people he was responsible for were the troops under Shangguanye and Guo Xingning. These three people had been partners for a long time.

, we both went to the battlefield during the attack on the rebels, which can be regarded as a life-long friendship.

However, this time it was not Shangguanye's idea to target the Haihan people who had just arrived in Shandong. Although he did have an older brother serving in Linshan Guards in Zhejiang, his older brother was just a temporary post without real power.

Qianhu, the level of contact is limited, and the value of the intelligence information it can provide is not much higher. The real source of information about the Haihan people actually comes from Liao Jie.

Liao Jie is not from Shandong, but from Zhejiang. He also has an elder brother who happens to be working in Zhejiang, but the nature of the organization he works for is quite special. He is a privileged Yamen Jinyiwei who is responsible for detectives, arrests, intelligence collection and other tasks. Although the official position is only

He has hundreds of households, but he has great power. He can investigate and arrest people, and there is almost nothing he can't do. The most important thing is that his brother has been investigating and collecting information about Haihan since he entered Zhejiang.

The relevant information is very detailed about Haihan's situation.

Yes, that’s right, Liao Jie’s brother is Liao Xun, a member of the Jin Yiwei family who fought against Haihan many times in Zhejiang and finally disappeared from the officialdom as a “disappearance”.

The grudge between Liao Xun and Haihan has long been irresolvable, so the content and angle of his research are also full of hostility. In addition to several of his associates in Zhejiang officialdom, these "research results" also include

Some of them informed their brother Liao Jie in Dengzhou, Shandong Province through letters.

According to the information previously provided by Liao Xun, these three people already have a certain degree of understanding of Haihan, whom they have never met. They believe that the most terrifying thing about Haihan is not his powerful force, but his terrifying financial resources and resources.

The way to continuously make money is precisely because of this basic condition that the Haihan people were able to build armies like an army, build a large fleet, and use large amounts of gold and silver to bribe and win over Ming officials.

To the Ming Dynasty, the existence of the Haihan people was like a vine parasitic on the trunk of a big tree. They sucked nutrients from the Ming Dynasty and strengthened themselves. To remove them, they must first cut off all kinds of people between Haihan and the Ming Dynasty.

, a channel for trade and cultural exchange. However, the scale of Haihan's operations on the southeast coast is too large and involves the interests of countless people. Even if Emperor Chongzhen personally issued an order, it would be difficult to completely change the status quo. Currently, various places still insist on cooperating with

Very few of the people in the government who Haihan fought were for the sake of safeguarding the Ming Dynasty. Most of them were just like Liao Xun. They just wanted to restore or reduce their own damaged interests as much as possible through confrontation. The starting point was not patriotism and loyalty to the emperor.

of noble sentiments.

However, Liao Jie and others had slightly different ideas than Liao Xun. Liao Xun had conflicts with the Haihan people because his personal interests were harmed. He wanted to expel the Haihan people from Zhejiang and regain the maritime trade market that he originally controlled. Liao Jie

What the others thought was that since the Haihan people were so rich that they could rival the country, they should think of ways to make a fortune out of these wealthy southerners.

Originally this was just a topic for them to chat after dinner, and no one really planned to implement this plan. After all, the Haihan people's activity area was in the distant Zhejiang Province, and they were simply beyond their reach in Dengzhou.

But a month ago, Liao Jie received news from Zhejiang that his brother Liao Xun and his whole family had disappeared from Hangzhou. The government searched through many sources but found no clues. Also missing during the same period was Liao Xun, whom Liao Xun had mentioned in a letter.

Two of his official allies. Although Liao Jie didn't know what happened to his brother in Zhejiang, judging from the list of missing persons, he believed that it was most likely related to the Haihan people. The experience of Liao Xun's family was no different from the family extermination.

This also made Liao Jie have a great hatred for Haihan. However, due to the limitations of his responsibilities, he could not go to Zhejiang to investigate the truth of the matter. He could only write down this account first and slowly seek revenge on Haihan.

opportunity.

In the last letter Liao Xun sent to Shandong, it was mentioned that the Haihan people were collecting various winter supplies in Zhejiang, and they suspected that they had the intention of heading north. Based on Haihan's past leapfrog development trajectory, Liao Xun deduced that his opponents might jump

After passing Jiangsu, they headed directly to Shandong, where they had already attracted a large number of refugees, probably before the next winter.

Because of Liao Xun's incident, Liao Jie naturally no longer kept some of his plans against Hai Han in the verbal stage as before. Instead, he contacted his two most trusted partners and began to plan a revenge plan together——

In other words, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a plan to make a fortune.

If you want to get money out of the hands of the Haihan people, the easiest and no-brainer way is to wait for them to offer bribes and gifts. According to the news sent from Zhejiang, after the Haihan people arrived there, they were the first batch to bribe and win over them.

The people in the government are the commanders of hundreds of thousands of households in the coastal guard posts, and many of them have received the benefits given by Haihan. This is good news for Liao Jie, Shangguan Ye and Guo Xingning. After all,

They are currently considered the most powerful people in charge of the military in Dengzhou. If the Haihan people come here one day, they will definitely not be able to avoid dealing with them.

Of course, considering the current situation of the garrison in the Dengzhou area, even if the Haihan people are willing to use a similar method to deal with the government in Zhejiang after coming here, they must take the initiative. This is because in addition to garrisoning in the Dengzhou area,

There are thousands of households in each coastal guard post. In addition to the commanders, there are also many foreign generals like Shangguanye who were transferred during the war. There are seven or eight generals and more than a dozen garrison troops stationed in and around Dengzhou City alone.

It is obviously impossible for so many people to equally share the benefits given by the Haihan people by eating from a big pot. Whoever comes first may get the big share.

However, Liao Jie has a family feud with Haihan, and has basically eliminated the possibility of accepting Haihan's wooing, and will not live in peace with the Haihan people who may come to Shandong. The content of his plans with Shangguanye and Guo Xingning

, naturally there is no peaceful solution.

The three of them are all active officers in the front-line army. They have soldiers under their command and are not lacking in combat experience. Their strength far exceeds that of the combination of Liao Xun, Yu Pingfeng and Guo Zheng in Zhejiang, but they have not put all their treasures on the line.

In terms of force, according to the information previously provided by Liao Xun, the strength of the Haihan armed forces is already superior to that of the Zhejiang Ming army. It not only has a huge maritime fleet, but also has well-trained musketeers. If you want to compete with

In head-to-head competition, Fujian's Shibazhi and Zhejiang's Zhoushan Boat Gang are the best examples.

Although Liao Jie and the others believed that seeing is believing when it comes to force, and did not fully believe that Haihan was as powerful as Liao Xun boasted, considering that a head-on confrontation might cause great damage to their troops, they still wanted to find

A more subtle way to overpower Haihan.

Liao Jie believes that there is a very obvious weakness in Haihan's system, that is, the Haihan people who are boasted as omnipotent among the southern people are actually only a small number of Han people from overseas. These talents are the core of this group. And the military

, the business groups and even the many people who work for them are actually recruited from the Ming Dynasty, Annan and other countries. They are peripheral personnel called "naturalized people" and have little individual value. For example, Haihan's operation in Zhejiang

, occupied the Zhoushan Islands and controlled most of the waters south of Hangzhou Bay, but there were only a few Haihan people who truly belonged to the core of power.

These people are the core of Haihan's operations. Liao Jie believes that their individual value is at least a thousand times that of naturalized people. As long as they can capture a few important figures in Haihan, their command system can get out of control and even go further.

Blackmailing the other party to pay a sky-high ransom. But this plan also has a big problem, that is, the Haihan people attach great importance to personal safety and almost never go out alone. There are a group of armed guards everywhere they go.

During district activities, there will be an organized army accompanying them, so it is difficult to have a chance to attack them.

At this stage, it was actually difficult for the three of them to continue planning the details of the operation, because all they knew about the situation came from second-hand information from Zhejiang, and they had never really come into contact with the Haihan people. In this case, pure talk on paper did not help.

It has too great practical effect, and we can only wait until the Haihan people actually appear before making further plans.

But what they didn't expect was that the Haihan people came to Shandong faster than expected. In the past few days, they had received warnings from the Eastern Jiaodong Peninsula Health Station. Feng Fei from Qishan Qianhu Station reached an agreement with Haihan

Before, Liao Jie had guessed that what appeared near the Dengzhou coastline was most likely the Haihan fleet heading north. The news that came later quickly verified his guess. The Haihan people chose Zhifu Bay as their base.

And began to contact the local garrison and government.

Liao Jie knew that the opportunity had come, so he summoned Shangguan Ye and Guo Xingning to continue discussing the previous plan. Zhifu Bay was under the jurisdiction of Fushan County, and militaryly it was within the defense zone of Qishan Qianhu Station. According to the past practices of the Haihan people, they generally did not

They would have direct conflicts with local officials or the garrison, but would try to bribe them to get a chance to settle down. The magistrate of Fushan County and Qishan Suoqianhu were obviously the local officials they would inevitably come into contact with.

Liao Jie didn't have any hope for the integrity of local officials. Fushan County was a very poor place. Now it had to rely on Dengzhou to distribute relief every year to survive. The county's population was less than half of what it was before the war, and there were

With bandits plundering wildly, it can be said that local officials have little to gain. Under such circumstances, the wealthy Haihan people are undoubtedly like Gods of Wealth to them. Liao Xun believes that the Haihan people can quickly get rid of local officials and will drive them to

They sent documents to Dengzhou about the Haihan business group donating bridges, building roads, and providing relief to the people, in exchange for legal permission to settle there and build a port.

However, the measures taken by the Haihan people were far beyond their expectations. Not only did they use the methods they were accustomed to in the south, but they also quickly defeated the bandit armed Wanjia Army and captured the bandit leader Wan Meng alive. Zhang Pucheng escorted Wan Meng into the

When the prefect Yamen arrived, Liao Jie had already received the news. Although he did not meet Zhang Pucheng with the prefect Chen Zhongsheng, when the two went into the study to discuss in detail, Liao Jie had already brought Shangguanye and Guo Xingning over to check Wan Pucheng's case.

Meng’s identity.

With the military strength of Fushan County, Liao Jie can confirm that this is not Zhang Pucheng's credit, but the Haihan people who have just arrived, who made the deal and handed the person over to Zhang Pucheng to show his merit in Dengzhou. And this can basically be confirmed.

Zhang Pucheng had already had contact with the Haihan people and even reached some agreements. Liao Jie naturally set his sights on Zhang Pucheng and followed him all the way to Shenxianju, asking Shangguanye to contact him and try to persuade him to join his camp.

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