After the reorganization, there are about 200 people in the Anping Pioneer Group. Most of them are from Anping, Quanzhou. They were originally pirates and fishermen who traveled to the sea, as well as bandits recruited by the Han family and the Huang family respectively. Therefore, these people were originally Military discipline is the worst among the Malay Chinese militias.
Many of the veterans of the Chinese Army who were originally the leaders of each team were originally children or servants of the Han and Huang families. They were killed and caught in the raid by the Supervisory Army Department. Therefore, the new Anping Zheng family pioneering regiment The people's hearts are not aligned and the training is not good.
Most of the newly sent leaders and soldiers were not from the same place and were not familiar with each other. It was obvious that this small militia unit was not suitable to participate in the battle in the Malay Peninsula.
The troops of Zheng Zhilong and Mai Dahai rested for a few days by the Kelantan River. On the day they were reorganized, the Anping Pioneer Regiment was used as a logistics escort team to transport the looted property back to Malacca City.
Soon after, after a brief training, they were led by the fifteen-year-old Zheng Hongkui, the third eldest son of the Zheng family, to the Island of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean.
At the beginning of the second year of Tianqi, Zheng Zhilong had been fighting the Dutch, Portuguese and local Tamils and Sinhalese here. He occupied a large piece of land on the west coast of Ceylon Island, all of which was assigned to the Zheng family by the Chinese Company. Under his name, the Zheng family opened four large estates on the tropical island, planting large areas of sugar cane, pepper, and rice. In order to compete for land, the war between Chinese immigrants, Westerners, and indigenous people has been going on on the island of Ceylon. Therefore, The Anping Pioneer Corps was sent there to fight for the interests of the Zheng family.
Zheng Zhilong was nineteen years old and was the youngest lieutenant colonel in the Chinese Army. His younger brother Zheng Zhihu is still in Liaodong. He is only seventeen years old and is already a captain. Zheng Zhihu was originally the combat staff officer of Yang Dacheng's Second Division and served as the liaison officer. Participated in the battle of Hetuala under Yan Siqi's command. Facing the charge of the cavalry group of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, he killed countless enemies in the battle. Now he is the commander of the battalion directly under the headquarters of the 2nd Division. He was ordered to lead the troops to pursue the remnants of Manchuria's Abatai camp. The troops had just arrived in the swamp jungle at the confluence of the Songhua River and the Hulan River in August. An army composed of Mongolian tribes was gathering in front of them. Abatai's remaining Manchu tribe had already formed an alliance with the Mongolian Durbot tribe.
In the camp deep in the dense forest, he received a letter from his father, which was sent by the logistics force along with food, grass and ammunition.
The content of this letter was basically the same as what Zheng Zhilong had received. At the same time, the Ministry of Military Supervision also informed Zheng Zhihu about the Han family and Huang Zhihu's accident. Zheng Zhihu's reaction was different from Zheng Zhilong's. He immediately removed Huang Zhihu from his personal guard. The members of the family arrested them and made a fuss about it. They tied up these people and handed them over to the old camp of the Second Division Headquarters in Fancheng in the rear. When Yang Dacheng heard about this, he laughed and sent these Huang family members to the old camp. Detained in Jinzhou Fortress Area.
After August, the news of the accidents of the Han Ping family and Huang Qian had spread to various places. Internal purges in the areas ruled by the King of China were also carried out in various places, and soon spread to all the areas under Yin Feng's jurisdiction.
The Han Ping family formed pioneering militiamen in Nanyang, Luzon, and Liaodong. The Huangzhi family only had pioneering groups in Nanyang. In business houses in various places, including the Huaxing joint number in the Ming Dynasty ruling area in the mainland, and various products with the word "Hua" There are many members of the Han and Huang families in the underground Chinese business hall.
In the Chinese Army, there are not many people from the two major families. Yin Feng has always pursued rigorous military training in the army, as well as the unsympathetic military supervision department, plus extremely strict military discipline for the time: understand the inside story of the Chinese Army. Most of the members of the two major families are willing to do business rather than endure hardships in the Chinese Army. The Han family focused on military strength in the later period, but they were no longer able to add sand to the Chinese Army, which almost worshiped Yin Feng as a god, so they had to form a pioneering group by themselves. The Huang family relied on Zheng Zhilong's relationship to arrange for several servants born in the family to join the Chinese Army, but they were all mere soldiers.
Therefore, the rectification of the Chinese army was limited to a few logistics officers who had deducted military pay. Among the senior generals, there were also people who were relatively close to the Han family in the past. Li Xing's wife was Han Jing's distant cousin, which was also a good relationship between the Han family. The results of the Chinese Army Lieutenant General.
After the Han family incident occurred, Li Xing, the commander of the Third Division stationed in Luzon, immediately led his troops to disarm the Han family's pioneering regiment that was fighting the Muslims in South Luzon. At the same time, he wrote to Yin Feng, requesting internal transfer to Taiwan. Yin Feng Without consent, Fei Ge sent him a letter asking the 3rd Division to be prepared to support the battle in the Malay Peninsula. In Fei Ge's brief letter, Yin Feng did not mention a word about the Han family.
Li Xing was grateful and devoted himself to preparing for the war, but at the same time he rejected the advice of his friends: he immediately wrote a letter of divorce and divorced Mrs. Han.
There are also other types of tragedies and comedies: Zeng Jingshan's son married the third daughter of Huang Cheng's family. They were married for only two years and had no children. After the Huang family's accident, Zeng Jingshan obeyed Zeng Yue's order and forced his son to divorce on the grounds that he could not have children. The third young lady of the Huang family.
...The great purge "movement" outside the Chinese military system appears to be very chaotic and ruthless.
Personnel from the Internal Affairs Bureau, the Military Intelligence Department and the Audit Section of the Corporate Finance Department had set out to various places a few months ago, and now they have entered their busiest period.
Countless account books were dug out from the bottom of the boxes of various merchants and joint banks. Account books dating back ten years were searched. There were many problems with the Han family's accounts, but this was not their biggest problem. Since the Western Cannon After the incident was revealed, all the people in the China Company and the top brass of the Chinese Army were speculating that the Han family would not be able to escape the fate of confiscation and annihilation. Few people sympathized with the Han family, even those scribes who still had feelings for the Ming Dynasty. Thinking that the Han family's move was a betrayal: Yin Feng risked his life to rescue them from Manila after all, and also helped them make a lot of money.
The personnel arranged by the Han family and the Huang family in business offices in various places were almost wiped out. Most of them were found to have financial problems. Those who had no problems were all transferred back to the Taiwan company headquarters and reassigned positions.
Only Huang Liang's third son has been working in the audit department of the company's finance department. He has shown conscientiousness and has nothing to do with the bad things in the family. Therefore, not only has he not been dismissed, but his salary has also been increased.
Since Han Ping had been in charge of the company's financial audit department, he was aware of Yin Feng sending people to audit the accounts in advance, but he failed to realize that Yin Feng was investigating the "Western Cannon Case".
Before Han Ping was placed under house arrest, he asked his servants to issue a warning. In Huaxing joint banks in Beijing, Wuhan, Xi'an and other places, children of the Han family absconded with money. These places were under the control of the Ming Dynasty government. The United Company could not pursue them with great fanfare, so it had no choice but to let it go.
The shopkeeper of Jinzhou Commercial House in Liaodong was also a son of the Han family. He fled with some confidential company documents and was discovered by the patrolling Ming army on the bank of the Liao River. Several soldiers under the Guangning General Army saw that he was carrying a lot of treasures. Out of spite, they hacked him to death on the spot and took away the belongings. As for the documents, the illiterate soldiers used them as materials for making fires to keep warm.
However, after the manager of the underground bank of the company in the capital escaped, he surrendered to Jinyiwei and handed over a lot of confidential information, which led to the collapse of the hidden stake planted by the Chinese army in the palace. After the young eunuch was caught by Jinyiwei, he confessed his contacts As a result, more latent spies of the Chinese Army were caught, and even a junior official who had been lurking for ten years had to escape. This was a catastrophe for Lin Xiao and others who were setting up a spy network.
As the investigation of the Han and Huang families became more and more in-depth, many incidents unrelated to the two families were discovered, including corruption, malfeasance, collusion with the government, etc.
People from the Ministry of Internal Affairs also gained a lot. From the south to the north, the family members of senior executives of Chinese companies and senior generals of the Chinese army were engaged in lawlessness. The matter of robbing men and dominating women was investigated and punished. Yin Feng was furious when he heard the news, and at the same time, he was aroused. In memories of another time and space, there is a phenomenon in traditional Chinese society that wealth cannot last more than three generations. Although there is an element of moodiness among those in power, there is also the reason why Chinese people traditionally take too much care of their own family members once they become rich, thus creating a lot of trouble-making people. "The second generation of rich people" and "the second generation of officials", he immediately issued an order to strictly investigate the crimes involved in the family members of all directors of the company, including the families of Chinese military academy level officers.
Among the twenty-five major directors, except for the Han family and his son, Luo Xuri, and Huang Qian, as well as members of Li Lihua's family except Yin Feng, all of them were found guilty of illegal activities by the Ministry of Internal Affairs Security Bureau. Yin Feng had no intention of doing so. Liuqing ordered the Ministry of Justice to take over these cases and prepare to try them according to law. Although this move made ordinary people worship Yin Feng even more, it undoubtedly expanded the scope of the purge, and everyone in the area ruled by the King of China began to feel in danger.
In October, following the first northerly wind, Li Lihua set out from Taiwan Port on a two-masted cruiser. After sailing for twenty-five days, she arrived at Java Island. On this flagship of the Third Squadron of the Taiwan Fleet, On board, Huang Cheng's family came with her. They were escorted by a schooner and an auxiliary ship.
They first came to Banten Port. With the end of the Nanyang War, it became the center of East-West trade again. During the Second Nanyang War five years ago, Banten's trading market was limited by time and location. The east of the city and the royal palace Three markets in other places are not allowed to open at the same time.
Nowadays, the original Sultan of Banten has been deposed, and the descendants of the former Prime Minister of Banten are in charge. In name, they act according to the opinions of the Chinese Commercial Office in Banten. In fact, the Chinese control everything here, and the Chinese have expanded the market. and port, a large number of various commodities are traded. Chinese, Portuguese, British, French, Malays, Bengalis, Arabs, and Siamese all come and go in Banten's market.
Bandan Port now has the Second Regiment of the Nanyang Brigade garrisoning the city, and more than ten Nanyang Fleet schooner gunboats guarding the port.
Li Lihua did not alert anyone in the local area, and led his guards directly ashore to the Zhonghua Commercial House. Among the forty or fifty members of Huang Zhao's family, only Huang Zhao and his eldest son followed Li Lihua to the Zhonghua Commercial House with their heads lowered. Museum.
They arrived at Wantan Port in the evening. That night, after receiving the news, the market manager and the treasurer of China Bank, the leader of the second regiment of the city's garrison Nanyang Brigade, and people from various Western chambers of commerce in the city hurried over. Thirty A group of black guards blocked the entrance to the backyard of the business building, and said to any eager visitor: "Her Royal Highness the Queen is resting," and they seemed to only speak this sentence in Chinese.
Li Lihua did not take a rest. She was meeting with Captain William Cornelius Schautzin who came to Bandan Port earlier. He was the Dutch adventurer who discovered the Northeast Asian sea route and Hokkaido. He is now the captain of Yin Feng's private exploration ship. The captain of the team, and now there is also a Jewish businessman Isaac from South America, brought by Captain Schoutin.
Yin Feng has not yet decided how to deal with the Han family and his son and Luo Xuri. The Huang family has been released from house arrest since they announced their resignation from the board of directors because they were not deeply involved in the Western Cannon case.