Gui Zi Scroll Chapter 500: Involvement, the richest man
The trip from Wusongkou to Nanjing went smoothly, but in just over a day, Lieutenant Long made another breakthrough in the Tang family's interrogation on the ship. The second son of the Tang family made a move.
The second eldest son of the Tang family is mainly responsible for liaison and coordination with the military system. It can be said that the Tang family has penetrated the entire Songjiang, as well as the guard posts in Nanzhi and Zhejiang to a deep-rooted level.
Except for the Jinshan Guard, which was right under Songjiang's nose, almost all the troops were wiped out. In Nanhuizui Zhonghou Post, Wusongjiang Guard, Zhapu Post, Haining Guard, Linhai Guard, Dinghaizhong, Zuo, Housuo, Haimen Guard, Jinshan Guard, etc.
Almost all the Xiang Guards, all the way to Yongning Guards in Quanzhou and Zhenhai Guards in Zhangzhou, have been penetrated in place.
This is not to say that every officer in the guard station was bribed by them, but basically every key officer in each guard station was bribed by them, so the activities of Japanese pirates in this area can be said to be on the same level.
Because the mobilization of the guards' troops can basically be passed to the Tang family as soon as possible, and then quickly fed back to Chen Qianshan.
Not only these guard posts, but also the military preparations were penetrated by the Tang family like a sieve.
Fortunately, Japan's Tokugawa Ieyasu is still in the stage of seclusion and contraction. Those ronin cannot get the support of daimyo from various places, and it is difficult to organize large-scale troops and ships to plunder foreign countries. If it were in the era of the ambitious Toyotomi Hideyoshi, I am afraid that Jiangnan would have
It's really dangerous.
However, Feng Ziying knew very well that Jiangnan coastal defense could not be subject to changes in government policies in neighboring countries. It was quite dangerous to hope that Japan would continue to maintain this closed-door policy.
Feng Ziying was not sure whether the arrival of the Zhou Dynasty to replace the Ming Dynasty and the rapid development of the Zhou Dynasty's sea-opening plan would have any impact on the national policies of Japan and North Korea. At the same time, whether future changes in Nanyang policy would stimulate the West.
The policy changes of the barbarian countries towards East Asian countries also led to changes in the policies of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.
Therefore, the best way to solve this risk point is to build our own navy into the strongest navy in Asia and even the world in this era, so that we can be in an invincible position.
Although the second son of the Tang family vomited everything clean, the military system is still somewhat different from the local government.
For local government officials, a censor can send a message, whether it is a prefect, a magistrate, a general judge, or an official. In front of the censor, there is basically no room or opportunity for resistance.
Even if the main officials of a prefecture and county are targeted at the same time, the inertia within the entire system can continue to operate.
Unless you arrest all the officials, it will only show the stupidity of the decision-makers. At least Feng Ziying will not do this. Even if they are indeed pulled into the water, then you still need to pay attention to strategy and prioritize.
Seeing the densely packed names covering almost all the health centers south of the Yangtze River Estuary, Feng Ziying also felt a headache.
Local officials can still have people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, otherwise, but military attachés like these, especially middle and low-level military attachés such as Baihu, Qianhu, garrison, and guerrillas, are all the business of the Ministry of War.
How to deal with these people? If we want to capture them all, where should we recruit people to supplement and replace them?
These are extremely tedious and tricky tasks, and Feng Ziying is a little at a loss.
After thinking about it again and again, Feng Ziying felt that it was not possible to move for the time being, at least until the Jiangnan area was sorted out. Unless it was a situation like Jinshan Guards that had been completely destroyed and was still trapped in collusion with Japanese pirates and sharing the spoils, they could not extricate themselves.
situation.
This point was firmly supported by Sun Chengzong without hesitation when Feng Ziying returned to Nanjing to exchange views with Sun Chengzong.
It is definitely not a good thing to destroy the entire Jiangnan coastal guard system at this time. It will only make the situation worse. Feng Ziying simply raised the issues involving local officials with Sun Chengzong, which made Sun Chengzong find it unacceptable.
, especially the wide range of issues involved, made Sun Chengzong's scalp numb, and when he thought about the Zhen family, it made people even more upset.
For Sun Chengzong, he was extremely eager for Gu Bingqian and his party to come as soon as possible.
Feng Ziying took action one after another, constantly poking big holes and opening big lids. Although she gained a lot, the subsequent processing was
It will become increasingly hotter, and the various risks it brings will continue to pile up.
He is the Minister of the Ministry of War, not the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. As a relatively orthodox military official, Sun Chengzong does not have as many tricks as Feng Ziying. He just wants to complete the purge of the military preparations and the guard system in the Jiangnan area as soon as possible, and at the same time, let Deng Deng
The coastal defense system, with the Laishi Navy and the Fujian Navy focusing on attack and the Coastal Guard Station focusing on defense, was gradually improving. As for the rest, he had no intention of asking too much about it.
Sun Chengzong even vaguely felt that Feng Ziying's interests had diverged from the Ministry of War, but he would not interfere with the other party.
Everyone has their own ambitions. Feng Ziying's future future is in the cabinet, or even as the chief minister. This is recognized by everyone. She is proficient in financial planning, skilled in military affairs, and has a lot of insight into the law. She is so young but has great authority.
, no matter how you look at it, he will be the material to join the cabinet and worship the prime minister in the future. Sun Chengzong believes that his future goal is to be the Minister of War, and he is not interested in other things.
Feng Ziying's return finally made all the girls in the family heave a sigh of relief. Although the Li family was secretly happy, the Zhen family were also looking forward to it.
In the two or three days after Feng Ziying and others returned to Nanjing, the situation of the Tang family, various gossips, or specific details, had spread throughout Jinling City and came to life.
Gold bricks to pave the floor, silver cakes to build walls, sandalwood and cinnamon to make firewood, whatever you can imagine was piled on the Tang family. Everyone pushed down the wall. At this time, Sun and Feng received the news from their house.
Reactions and reports came like snowflakes, making Sun and Feng feel like they were transformed into the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the minister of punishment.
Many of these can be related to some of the evil deeds of the Tang family, but there are also many things that add fuel to jealousy or are pretentious and blame the Tang family.
In the following days, the property and money confiscated from Chen Qian's Shanxi Island and Changshanzui and Huatingtang's home were successively shipped to the Nanjing dock, which aroused countless reveries.
"This nine-phoenix beaded crown is an exclusive work of Suzhou Dingfengji. Sir, please look at this pair of black diamonds inlaid on the phoenix eyes, which has a wonderful finishing touch. The black diamonds come from the Lion Kingdom and are a special product of the Shen family.
Purchased from Nanyang through Western merchants, this pair of black diamonds alone cost a fortune at that time.
The station totaled twelve thousand taels of silver, plus the consumption
With Dongzhu and other accessories, it is said that the cost of this Nine Phoenix Pearl Crown reached 18,000 taels, and with the joint efforts of many famous masters, it was sold to the Shen family for 29,000 taels.
The Shen family originally planned to give it as a gift on the 40th birthday of Prince Yi Zhong, the current queen. However, one month before her birthday, bandits from Taihu Lake invaded the Shen family. That night, more than 30 members of the Shen family were killed and injured.
People were robbed of more than 400,000 taels of property..."
"What year was that?" Feng Ziying couldn't help but ask. The person from the Ministry of Punishment who came to lead the team this time was Han Xu, and Fang Youdu also came with him.
The person who introduced the situation was a chief of the Ministry of Punishment. He and Fang Youdu came with Han Xu.
"It is the thirty-eighth year of Yuanxi, sixteen years ago." The chief replied.
"The Shen family is the richest man in Suzhou and Huzhou. It can also be regarded as the richest man in Jiangnan. The family that was robbed belongs to the Shen family in Huzhou. Logically speaking, Wucheng is about 30 kilometers away from Taihu Lake.
When it comes to distance, it is better to be further away from the seaside. Whether it is the South Canal, it is still quite far away.
Moreover, the Shen family knew very well that big trees attract wind, so they took extremely strict precautions on their home.
Asking professionals to build it, not to mention ordinary civilians, even the guards may not be able to break it easily, but Shen's Wubao was easily broken that night. Later I found out that there must be an insider lurking in Shen's house, and it was not
One or two people have been in the Shen family for more than five years, acting as guards..."
The person in charge knew the case very well. "The case was extremely shocking at the time. The Criminal Department, the Nanjing Criminal Department and even Long Jinwei were all involved, but the origins of the spies who infiltrated the Shen family have never been found out. It is said that these people should be
They were recommended by officials in the government, but who recommended them could not be found out, because Shen Tongyuan, the head of the Shen family, died of his injuries that night. Only he knew who recommended those guards...
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"It is now sufficient to prove that the bandits that night were not bandits from Taihu Twelve Chain Piers, but Japanese pirates from the sea. But they
How they could easily cross the border from Songjiang to Huzhou is puzzling, because the number of bandits who attacked Shen's Wubao that night exceeded 300. It was impossible for Jiaxing and Huzhou not to notice such a large bandit crossing the border.
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Fang Youdu added.
"Who was the Military Preparation Officer at that time? There must be something wrong here." Feng Ziying frowned, "It is the common practice in both Zhejiang and Zhejiang Province that the Military Preparation Officer is concurrently held by a minister from the Provincial Department of Punishment and Prosecution. More than ten years ago, the Military Preparation Officer
I don’t know if the exchanges are frequent, I’m afraid I have to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to check to find out the details.”
To cross the border and attack the hinterland of Huzhou, one must either go through Suzhou or go through Jiaxing, but going over to Suzhou is more complicated.
Although Nanzhi has a garrison in Susongchang, which nominally controls the guards of the three prefectures, the Zhenhai Guard in Suzhou is special because it is responsible for the security of the entire Nan Canal and is actually under the direct control of the Governor of Water Transport.
The line from Taicang to Suzhou is under the jurisdiction of Zhenhaiwei. The Susongchang Zhenbei Road Military Preparation Officer actually has no control over Zhenhaiwei.
Therefore, Feng Ziying judged that the Japanese pirates should have come from Jiaxing, but hundreds of Japanese pirates crossed hundreds of miles from Jiaxing to Wucheng to attack the city, and after they succeeded, they could return to the sea unharmed. This is simply unbelievable. If there are no internal agents in the Huzhou and Jiaxing government, if
It is simply unimaginable that there is no one to support the military preparations on the Jiaxing and Huzhou lines.