Chapter 2062

Based on the close cooperative relationship over the years, the attitude of the Haihan Executive Committee will largely affect some of Xu Xinsu's important decisions, especially when it comes to handling the delicate relationship between the Fujian local government and the Ming court. Xu Xinsu has always been

Taking Haihan's opinions as an important reference, we will basically not make decisions that are inconsistent with the opinions of the executive committee.

Although Xu Xinsu does not fully agree with some of Haihan's actions, considering the common interests of both parties, he will still choose to compromise and comply with the wishes of Haihan's executive committee when there are most differences of opinion. So Tao Dong

Lai was not particularly worried about the sudden situation in Fujian. He knew that even if Xu Xinsu was unwilling to do so, she would weigh the consequences and Haihan's attitude carefully and would not act impulsively.

Xu Xinsu has been implementing a military separatist regime in Fujian for several years. The Ming court, which had no time to take into account the situation in the south, had already recognized this situation with its nose pinched. As long as Xu Xinsu did not raise a flag to rebel in the local area, the Ming court would let him do it.

It is better to be the local emperor in Lingnan than to have civil strife.

This time Zhangzhou's Jinyiwei was caught by Xu Xinsu. He will definitely take this opportunity to make certain demands to the court. As for whether he can achieve his goal, it depends on Xu Xinsu's operational level. Tao Donglai's attitude towards this is actually

It's somewhat similar to the Ming court - as long as Xu Xinsu doesn't rebel.

For Haihan, Fujian is not only an important source of raw materials, but also one of the main markets for the export of Haihan products. Ensuring peace in Fujian is not only a demand for Ming Dynasty, but also has many benefits for Haihan.

Of course, the most important thing at the moment is not to study whether Xu Xinsu can restrain his ambition, but to decide whether to invest more resources in the next period of time to track down the truth of the transnational arms smuggling case.

This may be just an order to the Executive Committee, but when it enters the implementation stage, it will involve the cross-regional transfer of a large number of personnel, and the amount of operational funds required is by no means a small amount, so everyone has been slow to get it.

Make a solid decision.

However, due to the insistence of the Ministry of Security and the military, the Executive Committee finally passed a resolution to continue to invest additional investment in the investigation and authorized the military to take combat operations as appropriate when necessary.

The reason for this arrangement is that the Executive Committee believes that the investigation of the case is about to enter the stage of exhaustion. It is currently impossible to confirm how many weapons provided by the Spaniards are still in the hands of the other party, but if it reaches a certain order of magnitude, the other party will

It is fully capable of launching small-scale wars in local areas. When such a situation occurs, it is unlikely to be solved by the field team of the Ministry of Security alone. It is more secure to dispatch combat troops to deal with it. If the front-line troops still need to deal with it before taking action,

Asking Sanya for instructions back and forth might delay the fighter plane, so we simply let the military decide on its own how to solve the problem.

Of course, such an arrangement will also bring about some new problems, such as whether frontline commanders will exaggerate the seriousness of the situation for military glory, send troops just to send troops, or even try to create an excuse to use force, and then kill first and then fight.

The following investigation work will be carried out simultaneously in various places on the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty. If there is an armed conflict between the Haihan Army and the local government, it may even affect the relationship between the two countries.

Ning Qi, who is in charge of foreign affairs, is also aware of this, so he suggested that it is best to communicate with Daming first and inform them of the general situation of the investigation, so that if any problems arise in the future, both parties can at least seek to resolve the matter.

Resolved through negotiation. This suggestion has also been recognized by other members of the Executive Committee. The diplomatic relations between Haihan and Daming are finally on the right track. The Executive Committee does not want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts between the two parties due to the investigation of the shooting case.

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This work was naturally handed over to Ning Qi. After the meeting of the Executive Committee, Ning Qi went to visit the Ming Dynasty's embassy in Sanya.

The Ming Dynasty and Haihan officially established diplomatic relations not long ago. It has only been more than two years so far. The Sanya Embassy is also the only embassy institution sent by the Ming Dynasty to Haihan. And the officials who serve as ambassadors in the Sanya Embassy today still came to Sanya in 1636.

Fei Cexian.

As the first ambassador to the Republic of China in Hainan, Fei Cexian has actually had a pretty good life in the past two years. The construction of the embassy alone has added a lot of income to him. He has never presided over such an infrastructure project before.

This was an errand belonging to the Ministry of Works, and he had no idea that there was a lot of room for manipulation here. The local foreman in charge of engineering construction took the initiative to inform him, otherwise he might have missed this legal opportunity to make a fortune in ignorance.

When planning the embassy project at that time, Hainan officials generously allocated a large area of ​​land for use by the Ming Dynasty. Of course, Fei Cexian would definitely not accept this. After all, the entire Hainan Island was once the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but now it is

The only land left for the embassy can be used by the Ming Dynasty. However, the large area of ​​​​the embassy land also brings many benefits. For example, the construction project of the embassy can be divided into several phases and completed slowly. Part of it is still there today.

The landscape project is under construction at a leisurely pace.

Of course, the main purpose of these unfinished projects is just to continue to apply for construction funds from the Ming court, so they will not affect the daily operations of the embassy. In fact, Fei Cexian did not just focus on making money during his two years in Sanya.

He did a lot of work both internally and externally, and achieved considerable results. The current peaceful coexistence between Ming Dynasty and Haihan owes a share of his contribution.

One of the most important tasks was that the embassy provided the Ming court with a large number of reports on the actual situation of the Haihan Kingdom. The role played by Fei Cexian during this period even far exceeded that of Jin Yiwei and the others in the past few years.

The sum of the two yamen in Dongchang.

The reason is that Fei Cexian has the special status of ambassador. Not only can he often communicate directly with senior Haihan officials, but he can also visit many places under official arrangements that even ordinary Haihan people are not qualified to go.

Get exposed to many new things unknown to the outside world.

During more than two years in Haihan, Fei Cexian's horizons have been greatly broadened, and he has also been exposed to many advanced ideas that transcend this era. Many of them are things that he does not fully understand and agree with, but he

I have to admit that the Haihan people with these fantastic ideas do have an almost perfect performance in how to make a country develop and grow rapidly.

Fei Cexian hoped that he could write Haihan's advanced concepts and technologies into his report in as much detail as possible. Even if Ming Dynasty could not copy most of the contents for various reasons, it could use this to have a better understanding of Haihan's work.

With a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding, the imperial court will have more information for reference when dealing with diplomatic relations with Haihan in the future.

The actual situation is exactly like this. With documents sent to the distant capital once a month, Haihan's social conditions have increasingly become the subject of research by senior officials such as cabinet bachelors, and the name Fei Cexian has also

Gradually he became well known in the court.

When Fei Cexian went south from the capital to the South China Sea, he was still a little-known Deputy Zuo Si in the Department of Rites, a minor official as big as sesame seeds and mung beans. But after staying in Sanya for two years, due to his outstanding achievements

For his contribution, he has been promoted twice, and is about to get the chair of the Minister of Rites.

In fact, the value of the information Fei Cexian provided to the Ming court was not exaggerated even if he was rewarded as a minister. Based on the report he sent back, the Ming court was convinced that Haihan would not launch a large-scale invasion of coastal areas and would attack the coastal areas.

In the foreseeable future, they will continue to maintain peaceful coexistence with the Ming Dynasty, so they transferred some garrison troops from the southeast region to the north and entered central China to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army. In this way, the civil strife of the Ming Dynasty was suppressed to a certain extent.

Containment further reduced the activity area of ​​the peasant army.

In the original history, the tenth year of Chongzhen was a year of very frequent peasant army activities. Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army fought frequently with the Ming army in central and eastern China, and once conquered several cities in succession. But in this time and space,

The Ming Dynasty transferred tens of thousands of Ming troops originally guarding the south to participate in the war in central China. Zhang Xianzhong's life was not so easy. He led his troops to fight out of Qianshan several times, but was blocked by the Ming troops who were waiting for him.

The seventeen peasant armies Li Zicheng assembled in the Weinan area also failed to stir up trouble. Under the attack of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, they had no choice but to turn to attack Sichuan.

The Ming army troops originally stationed at the northern border were able to focus their attention on the enemies outside the border and build the originally sparse fence more firmly. However, the Qing army suffered heavy losses on the Korean battlefield this year, and Liaodong

The peninsula was facing military pressure from Haihan again, and the troops used to attack the Ming Dynasty southward were far less powerful than in previous years. They even took the initiative to skip several important passes where the Ming army stationed troops, and only plundered hastily near the border.

He retreated to the north.

The occurrence of these favorable situations for Ming Dynasty was not necessarily all the fault of Haihan, but it did further ease the relationship between the two countries to a certain extent, allowing Ming Dynasty to concentrate its efforts on solving more difficult problems.

What makes Fei Cexian feel very comfortable is that Haihan not only does not object to his various local activities, but also provides a lot of additional support, such as "office work" provided to the embassy by Haihan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs every month.

"Funding". You can make money while running errands. It's really hard to find another good errand like this all over the world.

Fei Cexian remembered that before leaving Beijing, many relatives and friends were worried that he would suffer bad treatment after arriving in Haihan. It was estimated that many people would be put under house arrest by Haihan as soon as he arrived in Sanya, but no one thought that he would be under house arrest in Haihan.

After the Han Dynasty, they could live a very comfortable life and even get the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune. It is precisely because of this that when the Ministry of Rites was selecting ambassadors, many people voluntarily backed down due to various concerns, so they left this opportunity to

He replaced Fei Cexian, who was originally ranked low on the candidate list.

But if his colleagues in the Ministry of Rites knew his true treatment in Sanya, they would probably regret their original decision. Every time he thought about this, Fei Cexian was especially grateful for his good luck.

There must be something that makes Fei Cexian uncomfortable. It is probably that North Korea, which was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, also set up an embassy in Sanya, and the king of North Korea also sent his son to study in Sanya. Both parties were in Sanya.

We have to meet each other at least three or four times a month in various foreign affairs activities, and it is inevitable that we will feel a little embarrassed. And judging from North Korea's diplomatic measures, this former vassal country attaches great importance to Haihan.

Having surpassed the Ming Dynasty, Fei Cexian inevitably felt a knot in his heart.

Fortunately, most of the days were comfortable. Over the past few months, Fei Cexian gradually accepted the fact that North Korea had surrendered to Haihan. As long as it was not an enemy of Ming Dynasty, it seemed that it could not cause any actual harm to Ming Dynasty.

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This kind of relationship between countries cannot be changed by individual officials on their own. Fei Cexian also knew that Haihan sent troops to resolve the disaster of national destruction for North Korea, but during this period, in addition to verbal support, Ming Dynasty did not

It failed to provide much practical help to North Korea. After the war, North Korea chose to downplay diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty, and it was reasonable to have a heated fight with Haihan. Although Fei Cexian could not accept it, he also understood the Koreans'

Choice, Ming Dynasty and North Korea both had their own difficulties and considerations, and Haihan was the only beneficiary.

Of course, Fei Cexian will not show any dissatisfaction in front of the Haihan people. As a diplomat who has been in office for two years, he knows very well what he should and should not do. If he makes a public announcement about the establishment of diplomatic relations between North Korea and Haihan

Opposition will not have the slightest effect, but will expose its shortcomings and make the two families more united.

As for the recent incidents that Haihan was intensively investigating, Fei Cexian knew very little, because the shooting cases that occurred in Liaodong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places did not appear in the newspapers in Sanya. Even the attempted murder on Hainan Island

There are very few reports related to the assassination of the Crown Prince of Joseon, and there is no mention that the Crown Prince of Joseon was involved. The investigation of these cases was outside Fei Cexian's sight, so he had no idea that the Haihan Intelligence Department was recently trying to

I am very busy with these things.

So when Ning Qi suddenly came to visit and said that some major cases had occurred recently, and the relevant departments of Haihan needed to launch investigation operations all along the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty in order to investigate the case, Fei Cexian's first reaction was that the Haihan people were making excuses.

Some unfriendly military measures should be taken against the southeastern coastal areas.

"Minister Ning, please forgive me for not understanding what you mean. Why do you need your country to investigate what happened in the Ming Dynasty? If this is the intention of the court, then it should be me who makes the request to your country.

But so far, I have not received any relevant instructions." Fei Cexian shook his head and expressed his confusion to Ning Qi.
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