Chapter 685 Intelligence Collection

Qiao Zhiya frowned and said: "Changhua will hold a commissioning ceremony in two days. At this time, the mining of Shilu cannot be stopped."

"It won't break if it breaks." Tian Yeyou responded: "But the production capacity will definitely not be what it was 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 over as soon as possible, then it will be 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 labor camp."

"If something goes wrong again...if something happens again, I really have no choice but to take the blame and resign!" Qiao Zhiya responded with a wry smile.

Although the forced labor camp is under the responsibility of the police department, Qiao Zhiya's position is the military and political manager of Changzhou and Shilu. He is more or less responsible for the trouble that occurred in the forced labor camp. Not to mention the subsequent huge losses of people and property.

, if the executive committee wants to hold the leadership accountable, he, Qiao Zhiya, will definitely bear the brunt.

However, judging from the news conveyed by Gu Kai, the Executive Committee does not intend to start settling the responsibility issue at this time. It is still preparing to hand over the next task of chasing down the enemy to Qiao Zhiya. Of course, this may also be the case.

It can be seen that the executive committee gave him a chance to make up for his past mistakes. If Qiao Zhiya can handle the follow-up matters properly, then probably no one will use the riots in the mining area to make trouble again.

"I will lead the troops into the mountains in a few days. Shilu will have to be taken care of by you first." Qiao Zhiya said solemnly: "It stands to reason that with the current strength of the troops, nothing will happen again, but

You still have to be careful."

"Don't worry!" Tian Yeyou was not afraid of this at all: "When I went to Heitu Port before, everyone had to serve as a platoon leader and company commander in the militia. Although I have never been a soldier, I also followed the money.

Tiandun and the others have learned a lot. If those bandits dare to come back to Shilu again, see if I don't hang them up one by one and skin them!"

After counting the battle damage, it is also time to deal with some of the thugs captured after the riot. During yesterday's counterattack, the police and militia killed a total of 82 people and arrested more than 300 people. These casualties

It may be true that some prisoners were unlucky and accidentally injured, but most of them personally participated in yesterday's riot, and thugs who were not prisoners of the hard labor camp were found among them, so they knew that people from outside had infiltrated the mining area.

and forced labor camps to instigate this riot.

Because Qiao Zhiya had too many things at hand, he did not interrogate the prisoner himself, but handed it over to his militiamen. However, the militiamen were good at fighting, but they were not expert at torture and extorting confessions. Most of them were simply and roughly tortured.

In addition, we don’t have any effective interrogation methods, and the authenticity and reliability of the information obtained purely through torture is also very doubtful. The only good thing is that many people have been arrested, and we can slowly compare these

It is necessary to judge whether it is true based on the circumstances explained by the person, but this will undoubtedly greatly slow down the efficiency of handling the case. After one night of interrogation, only a dozen subjects were interrogated.

However, the efficiency of the Security Department's operation this time was very high. As soon as Qiao Zhiya finished talking to Tian Yeyou, Changhua sent a message through the radio. The Security Department team from Danzhou had arrived at the port and would take the train as soon as possible.

Go to 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, they went out to sea overnight to rush here, so that they could reach Changhua the next morning after the accident.

This news also made Qiao Zhiya a little relieved. People from the Security Department rushed over to take over, and the interrogation of prisoners could be handed over. The field staff of the Security Department have basically received relevant interrogation training, and they are responsible for interrogating prisoners.

, which 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.

"We are all our own people. I won't hide it from you. Sanya has organized a team and will be here in the next few days to handle the follow-up matters." Qiao Zhiya led the two of them 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 follow, where their base is, and their strength.

How about... the more information you can provide at that time, the more confident we will be about our actions after entering the mountain, do you understand?"

"Understood! Please rest assured, 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 methods of doing things." Qiao Zhiya turned to Li Qingyang behind Lin Nan and said: "We must catch Zhao Ye this time, and we will not allow anything to happen."

Lost! As for whether you can catch him, it depends on how much you can get out of these prisoners!"

"In my humble position, I will do my best and serve the Executive Committee to the death!" Li Qingyang quickly lowered his head and responded. He has now become accustomed to no longer kneeling to his superiors, but when showing loyalty like this, he knows exactly what he should do and what he should say.

Although there are many differences between the officials of Haihan and the officials of Ming Dynasty, there are still many similar rules in the officialdom.

"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 working as a local official in Shilu, Changchang for two years, he has gradually become more powerful in his words and deeds.

The style of returnees is no longer the original style that was obviously different from the local culture.

Qiao Zhiya really didn't have time to interfere with the interrogation in the following time, because he had to rush to Changhua as soon as possible to preside over the commissioning ceremony of the local steel production workshop.

Two days later, the Second Battalion of the Annan Militia, which came from Sanya, arrived at Changhua Port by boat. However, they did not make any publicity. After getting off the boat, they boarded the train directly and rushed to the Shilu Mining Area to assemble. However, the transportation of equipment and supplies was

The ship is still on the way, and the packhorse team organized in Danzhou will also take another day to arrive, so it will still take some time for the official departure.

After Qiao Zhiya hastily completed the commissioning ceremony of the steel production workshop, he rushed back to Shilu without stopping to meet up with the newly arrived Annan militia. However, before setting off, he had to listen to what Lin Nan and Li Qingyang had said in the past few days.

A summary of the compiled information.

"Chief Qiao, this is some useful information we have compiled. Please take a look at it. You read it while I explain it." Lin Nan handed over a pile of information. Both he and Li Qingyang's eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, and they could see that

I haven't had much rest in a few days.

In the past few days, they both stayed in the small black torture room and almost never came out. More than a hundred prisoners were interrogated. Because of the heavy pressure from above, Li Qingyang also used ruthless hands. More than a dozen of them were maimed in his hands alone.

Personally, they used almost all the interrogation techniques they had learned in the yamen. Of course, their work was not in vain these days, and they still obtained a lot of valuable information from the mouths of many prisoners.

"According to the information we have, this riot was indeed planned by Jin Yiwei officer Zhao Ye..." Lin Nan began to report the overall situation to Qiao Zhiya from the side.

After the Danzhou assassination failed in March, Zhao Ye knew that the towns near Danzhou and even the entire Qiongbei would be screened by the Haihan people, so he did not dare to stay in these places and directly chose to sneak into the Qiongzhong Mountains

.Since he still had his identity certificate with him, he was able to find a place to stay, a village called Heishandong in the interior of Qiongzhou Island.

This Lidong cave has over a thousand strong men, and it can be considered a large village in the Qiongzhong area. More importantly, Heishandong was also awarded by the Ming Dynasty in the early years, and the owners of the cave all had the hereditary position of Thousand Households - of course this

The position does not have any power to mobilize the Ming army. It just gives Li Dong's self-organized armed forces a reasonable name. And Zhao Ye's method of winning over is also very simple, that is, to promise the leader and core personnel of Heishan Dong Dong

The high-ranking official was generous and asked them to cooperate with him to try to attack the Haihan people outside the mountain.

Because Heishandong is too far away from the coastal towns of Qiongzhou Island, all channels are very closed. Apart from knowing that a new force called Haihan has emerged on the island in the past two years, we only know that the Haihan people are selling it.

The salt and iron sold by Ming merchants were cheaper than in the past.

The promise made by Zhao Ye was very generous. In addition to promising to ask for rewards from the imperial court and ensuring that Heishandong would have the treatment of a hereditary general in the future, more importantly, he promised to hand over all the salt fields and iron mines under the control of the Haihan people.

It will be managed by Heishandong. The entire west coast of Qiong will be controlled by the Heishandong family, and they can also find land to build the city on their own... In short, Zhao Ye almost always agrees to the treatment requested by the other party, regardless of whether he can fulfill it in the future.

There is no doubt about Zhao Ye's sincerity in Heishandong. After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, the Jinyiwei is indeed the heavenly army that represents the emperor's will. Although Zhao Ye is only a Deputy Qianhu among the Jinyiwei, his position

But it is much more valuable than the position of the leader of the Heishan Cave. He speaks on behalf of the court, so how can he go back on his word?

So under Zhao Ye's organization, Heishandong recruited hundreds of strong men, and quietly contacted some nearby Lidongs, planning to work together to help the Jin Yiwei master from Nanjing suppress the Haihan rebels outside the mountain.

However, Zhao Ye did not take action rashly again. His previous experience in Danzhou had already frightened him. At that time, Huang Zixing and others were in Danzhou as a cover, and a group of people were networked, but in the end, he still didn't know how it was leaked.

The rumors were noticed by the Haihan people before they took action. If Zhao Ye hadn't been careful and didn't go into the city to personally direct the operation, his head would have dried on the Danzhou City Gate long ago.

Although these Li people had no bad intentions, Zhao Ye also knew that it would be difficult to accomplish anything with just this small number of troops. When the Haihan militia swept through Qiongbei, they used at least two to three thousand people, and most of them were musketeers.

, how can these Li people, who are still using wooden bows and arrows and hook knives as individual weapons, defeat them? Whether it is a siege or a field battle, if the people of Heishandong are pulled out, they will only die. Zhao Ye does not intend to use these people.

The limited power is easily consumed again.

So this time Zhao Ye spent a lot of time collecting intelligence and then formulating the next action plan. However, because the terrain of Heishandong was too remote, Zhao Ye's intelligence collection work progressed very slowly. It was not until July that he

I learned that the Haihan people were enclosing land in the Shilu area of ​​Qiongxi for mining on a large scale.

Zhao Ye didn't care whether the Haihan people were digging gold or silver mines in Shilu. What he was concerned about was another thing - the labor force working in the local mines was said to be all prisoners, including prisoners under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty government and others.

The Haihan people held criminals who were convicted in private courts, as well as prisoners of war captured from overseas battles. And its scale is indeed not small. The news Zhao Ye received is that there are at least four to five thousand people. Zhao Ye believes that if this force can be

If they want to use it for their own purposes, they will have to create some trouble for the Haihan people on Qiongzhou Island, or even achieve a counterattack, but there is still a certain chance.

After Zhao Ye further learned about Shi Lu, he learned that this place was dozens of miles away from the seaside and only connected by a narrow road. It could be said to be an extremely closed environment. This was probably why the Haihan people used this place as a prisoner.

One of the reasons is the place where they are serving their sentences. However, in Zhao Ye's view, if he can instigate a major chaos and make these prisoners obey his orders on the condition of regaining their freedom, then as long as the road to the outside world is cut off, the local area can completely change.

It became a small anti-Haihan stronghold.

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

First, Zhao Ye sent some Li people to deliberately cause trouble outside the mountains, and then these people were arrested into the hard labor camp without any suspense. Then Zhao Ye used remote control command to let these Li people collude with others in the hard labor camp, and gradually

An underground force was formed. What happened next was just like what Qiao Zhiya experienced. The rebels used the collective escape as bait and launched an ambush against the militia groups who were pursuing them in the mountains, thereby attracting more militia troops to garrison.

Afterwards, he launched a real offensive in the mining area, attacking many police officers in the mining area by surprise, and quickly seized control of the mining area. However, at this time, two situations occurred that Zhao Ye did not expect. One was the police who participated in the riot.

There were not as many prisoners as he had expected. This situation directly led to the second accident. Because the scale of the rebels was not large enough, they were unable to successfully conquer the prison area and obtain more manpower and weapons. As a result, the local garrison had no way to respond.

Time. When Lu Li led the militia troops out for a sweep, the rebellious team immediately became a mess. The prisoners who lacked weapons had no ability to resist in front of the musketeers. They had to either surrender or escape.

Mountain forest.
Chapter completed!