Chapter 570 The whole story

Operation Prairie Fire started in the summer of 1630. After two or three months of preliminary harassment, the pirate army landed in October to attack the Qiongbei area, and then blocked shipping between Qiongzhou Island and the mainland. From that time, Li Qingyang, who was sitting on

The contact between Tan and the mainland Jinyiwei organization was also interrupted. Later, the Haihan Militia "recovered" the Qiongbei area and took over control of shipping. However, the closure of shipping continued for a long time, and it was not until the end of the year that it was gradually opened

There is shipping exchange between Qiongzhou Island and the mainland, but ships from the mainland still need to undergo strict inspections at the port of Qiongzhou Island to prevent spies from sneaking into the island.

Of course, the scale of this investigation is in the hands of Haihan. For example, the information channel for Li Qingyang to submit reports to Nanjing Fusi was reactivated by the Ministry of Security near the end of the year to ensure that Li Qingyang passed some processed information to Nanjing.

Go - the content is basically about the critical situation of the pirate army attacking Qiong, how Haihan bravely prepared for the battle, and repelled the invading pirates. Since all the Ming government agencies in Qiongbei have been controlled by Haihan, the news about Li Qingyang

The source has almost become the only official channel for Ming Dynasty to obtain the changes in the situation on Qiongzhou Island.

However, the time it took for the news to reach Nanjing from Sanya was not short. It was not until nearly two months later, that is, in late January 1631, when Li Qingyang was about to submit a report to Nanjing again that he finally arrived.

The messenger who came to Sanya for communication received information feedback from the Nanjing Zhenfu Division about last year's Qiongbei Rebellion.

Different from the focus of the Guangdong government, the Jinyiwei Nanjing Zhenfu Division did not care much about the losses Qiongzhou suffered in this war, and what kind of help the court needed for post-war reconstruction. This secret order was given to Li Qingyang

There was only one thing in the matter, which was to order him to try to contact or find Zhao Ye, deputy Qianhu of the Nanjing Town and Fu Division, who went to Qiongzhou on a secret business trip in September last year and had no news at this time.

Li Qingyang was shocked and did not try to hide the news. Every written instruction sent from Nanjing had to be handed over to the Ministry of Security for archiving. He immediately informed Lin Nan of the news, and then Lin Nan

He immediately took him to see Hao Wanqing and explained the situation.

The Jinyiwei agency on Qiongzhou Island has always been under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou, and the reason why Nanjing Zhenfu Division sent Li Qingyang to lurk south the year before last was because it believed that there were huge work loopholes in subordinate agencies including Guangzhou Jinyiwei. For Shanghai on Qiongzhou Island

The supervision of the Han people was not strict enough. However, the news of this arrangement leaked out very early. As soon as Li Qingyang arrived in Guangzhou, he was targeted by the Haihan Security Department. The detective sent by the Jin Yiwei to infiltrate Haihan became Haihan in the end.

The security department has the tools to deal with Jin Yiwei.

The existence of Li Qingyang did bring a period of safety to Haihan's intelligence work. Just as the Ministry of Security expected, Li Qingyang's regular reports could indeed paralyze Ming's intelligence agencies to a certain extent. But at the same time, everyone knew that this

The safety period also has a time limit. As Haihan continues to grow and his influence in the southeast region becomes increasingly stronger, sooner or later the Ming Dynasty's intelligence agencies will face up to Haihan's existence and may even take some hostile actions.

When Li Qingyang left Nanjing, what he learned was that the Nanjing Zhenfu Division did not plan to devote too much energy to Qiongzhou Island, and there were no other arrangements except for the group of people he brought. Of course, the person who made this plan probably

Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for the group of people sent to leave Li Qingyang alone in Sanya, and he eventually rebelled against the court.

However, the Nanjing Town and Fu Division secretly sent another higher-ranking official to Qiongzhou Island last year. Li Qingyang didn't know about this until this time, and before that, he didn't even receive the slightest hint of it.

There are two possibilities for this situation: The first is that the colleague who came to Qiongzhou Island was unable to contact him before Operation Prairie Fire started for some reason. If this is the case, it must be the other party's dereliction of duty.

The second possibility is more serious, that is, when the Nanjing Zhenfu Division dispatched this official, they did not arrange for him to contact Li Qingyang who was lurking in Sanya. In other words, Nanjing's trust in Li Qingyang has been

If there is a decline, another line will be arranged for other people to enter Qiongzhou Island.

According to the original establishment of Jin Yiwei, the person with the highest position on Qiongzhou Island was only from the same hundred households as Li Qingyang. The Nanjing Town Fusi arranged for Li Qingyang to come over in the first place so that he could act independently on Qiongzhou Island without being restricted by the local government.

Jinyiwei Agency. And this time it specially sent a deputy Qianhu from the fifth rank, which shows that it attaches great importance to the intelligence work of Qiongzhou Island.

Of course, there is no more precise information right now as to whether the deputy Qianhu named Zhao Ye came to Qiongzhou Island to deal with Haihan or if he had other cases to investigate. As for the task given to Li Qingyang by the Nanjing Zhenfu Division,

It was just to find Zhao Ye's whereabouts and report back, but there was no further arrangement to cooperate with his work after finding him.

To investigate this matter, we must first go back to the period of Operation Liaoyuan, when the Pirate Army and the Haihan Militia raided the Qiongbei officialdom twice. In addition to ordinary government agencies, Jinyiwei and Dongchang were the most important security intelligence of the Ming Dynasty.

The agencies were also the two key targets in this operation. Except for a few people who had secretly surrendered to Haihan before, the entire Ming intelligence agency in Qiongbei could be said to have been uprooted, and even those who were hiding

In the private sector, there is no formal establishment, and part-time detectives who only receive reward money are not spared.

Even the Jinyiwei Yamen in Qiongzhou Fucheng was not spared. After the Haihan militia stationed in Fucheng, the military quickly surrounded the Jinyiwei Yamen in the city based on the identification of a captured pirate leader, and arrested him for colluding with pirates.

The person in charge of the local Jinyiwei. The Jinyiwei refused to surrender. In the process, the military used force, killing and wounding many Jinyiwei personnel who resisted. After cleaning the battlefield, it was found that several main persons in charge of Jinyiwei were dead.

In this conflict, after checking the personnel list, the troops performing the mission brought the matter to an end.

According to the military's verification, they have fully followed the list of personnel provided by the Ministry of Security and arrested the main tasks of the Ming intelligence agency in the Qiongbei area. Counting the personnel eliminated by the pirate army, the entire Qiongbei Jinyi Guards, Dongchang

, have all been cleared up. The Ministry of Security took this notice and handed it over to the Executive Committee. After that, both the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Security temporarily relaxed their vigilance against the Ming Dynasty’s intelligence agencies.

, because no matter how capable they are, it is impossible to rebuild the grassroots organization again in the short term when Haihan strictly controls Qiongzhou Shipping.

After the end of Operation Liaoyuan, the Haihan military had checked everyone, including the dead, according to the list they had, to ensure that no one from Jinyiwei and Dongchang slipped through the net. However, during this process, no one thought that there were still people in the group.

People outside this list lurk on the island.

This time, among the candidate officials sent by the Guangdong government to Qiongzhou Island to fill vacancies, there were no officials from Jinyiwei and Dongchang. According to the information Liu Qian provided to Haihan, the candidate officials for these two yamen would not be available until the end of February or March at the earliest.

Candidates can only be decided at the beginning of the month. Even if someone comes by then, they will probably be in the same situation as Yan Mingjun and Li Jin. They can only come and take office alone. After all, even for a privileged yamen, the funds and staff are limited. Therefore,

Before Li Qingyang received this secret letter, the entire security department had temporarily put aside its attention to the Ming Dynasty's intelligence agency.

After receiving the news, Hao Wanqing did not dare to neglect and immediately informed the executive committee. Tao Donglai also quickly issued instructions: No matter the cost, life or death, the fish that slipped through the net should be caught as soon as possible.

The Ministry of Security also immediately convened a response meeting. Hao Wanqing believed that this matter was either big or small. If there was evidence to prove that this person had died in the previous war, or could be arrested in the near future, then it should be resolved.

There won't be any big waves. But if this person is still lurking somewhere in Qiongbei and secretly reorganizes the troops, then we don't know when, where and how this time bomb will explode.

A telegram from the Ministry of Security was sent to the militia headquarters in Qiongbei. The militia spent another five days re-checking the arrest list at that time and determined that such a person was not included in the list of dead and arrested people.

A prominent official. But those in the Jinyiwei Yamen were not the only ones who died in the war at that time. It is basically impossible to verify the identities of all those who died - the anonymous people who were buried in the ground for several months after the war

How can I check my identity when there are so many people around?

Just when the security department lost the clue and was a little unsure of the direction, the navy sent good news. While patrolling the Qiongzhou Strait, they intercepted a merchant ship departing from Haikou Port and made a routine stop to prepare for boarding.

While on the boat, some people actually jumped into the sea and fled.

The navy didn't waste any energy trying to catch him alive. The sailors standing on the side of the ship shot him down with a volley of guns. The man who jumped from the ship soon surfaced with bullet holes all over his back. After the body was fished out of the ship,

, the sailors quickly found Jin Yiwei's waistband from the waist of the corpse.

The shipowner, who was sweating profusely with fright, could only explain repeatedly that he did not know the true identity of this man. He only took fifty taels of silver from him, hid him in the cargo hold plywood at the bottom of the ship in advance, and sent him to be smuggled to the Leizhou Peninsula to land.

The shipowner claimed that he was only in it for the money, but the military did not care whether his confession was true or false, and directly seized both the people and the ship.

This matter was quickly reported to Wang Tom. Wang Tom also knew that all the Jin Yiwei in Qiongbei had been wiped out long ago. Theoretically, there should be no fish that slipped through the net, but now that this matter has happened, it is no longer a military family.

As soon as the matter was over, a speedboat was dispatched to escort everyone on the ship, as well as the body of the Jinyiwei and his belongings to Sanya. In order not to waste time, as soon as the ship set off, the military notified them by telegram

Base camp.

However, judging from the waistband found on the body, this body should not be that of the Deputy Senhu that the Security Department is looking for, but it is most likely one of his entourage. And another good news is that it was found on the body.

A secret letter wrapped in waterproof tarpaulin. Due to the use of many professional incisions, the military personnel could not understand the content of the letter, so they were sent to Sanya on a ship for interpretation by Li Qingyang.

After getting this letter, the context of the whole matter became much clearer. The deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei named Zhao Ye had led several of his subordinates to leave Fucheng and headed for Danzhou before the start of Operation Liaoyuan. However, their luck was extremely bad.

Unfortunately, they encountered a pirate army attacking the city in Chengmai County. Several of his men died in the fighting. Zhao Ye only took one of his men to escape from Chengmai County, and then lurked in the wild because the situation of the battle was unknown.

I have never dared to go to the big city.

After the Haihan militia recaptured Qiongbei, Zhao Ye spent a long time determining the situation in Qiongbei. It was not until the end of last year, when Li Qingyang delivered a report on the Qiongbei rebellion to Nanjing, that Zhao Ye returned to Qiongbei.

We found a place to stay near Zhouzhou - of course, Zhao Ye was not a fool, so he didn't mention the specific location in the secret letter.

After Zhao Ye settled down, he was ready to re-establish contact with the mainland. Of course, he also heard about the "tragic experience" of the local Jinyiwei through certain channels. If he didn't want to make the same mistake again, then don't try to tell the Haihan people who took over the local area in the first place.

He then lurked locally to observe the situation, wrote a secret report, and handed it over to his only subordinate, who then went to Haikou Port, the only port in Qiongbei that can navigate to the mainland, to look for an opportunity to sneak back to the mainland.

The other contents in the secret report are basically unfavorable to Haihan, and are completely opposite to the report Li Qingyang submitted to the Nanjing Zhenfu Division. If this kind of thing is passed back to Nanjing, even if there is no obvious action taken immediately

His actions will inevitably affect the importance Jin Yiwei attaches to Haihan.

Fortunately, the militia navy accidentally intercepted the ship carrying this Jinyiwei at sea. He thought that his whereabouts had been betrayed by the crew, so he was intercepted by the Haihan warship. In desperation, he tried to jump into the sea to escape, but it was in vain.

Instead, he died in vain.

The letter was sent to Sanya, and after Li Qingyang interpreted the content, the direction of the investigation became clear. If there are no new changes, this deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei should still be lurking near Danzhou, and the rest

How could we get him out of the local area?

The Ministry of Security immediately made emergency deployment, giving Li Qingyang the first opportunity to perform foreign affairs. Of course, due to various considerations, he did not go to Danzhou alone. In addition to a team of combatants specifically responsible for special service tasks, there was also Lin Nan

This boss leads the team.
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