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Chapter 110: Powerful espionage machine

Hartlin said: "Mr. Mohan, do you know the three vassal kings of the Qing Empire? Their owned land dozens of times larger than the Netherlands' land. They controlled more troops than our Dutch people. Our envoy once visited King Pingnan of Guangdong when he landed in Guangzhou. He was very interested in us. He told us that the court of their empire did not realize the harm of the Ming emperor. They were more worried about the Zheng navy in Fujian and Taiwan waters. I think we can have a contact with them, and maybe we can reach an agreement on the Taiwan issue. As long as the Zheng navy feels the danger, they have to transfer all the navy to the Taiwan waters. We don't need a large fleet to prevent the interference of this fleet. As long as we can free up our hands to deal with the Spanish in Luzon, occupying Luzon is only a matter of time."

At that time, the Yongli who fled to Myanmar was almost forgotten by the Qing Dynasty. For the Qing Dynasty and the monk Geng Jingzhong who was guarding Guangdong and Fujian, the Zheng Navy was their biggest concern. Therefore, Hartlin's idea was not wrong. The Dutch were of course in a hurry to deal with the joint efforts of the Zheng Navy, the Ming Navy, and the Spanish, but if they could defeat an enemy first, the entire Nanyang pattern would be reversed. The maritime overlord was not just a fictional reputation.

"How confident are you?" Old Mohan was very interested in this plan.

"Sir, at least 80% of the army of the three vassal kings will land on Taiwan with our powerful fleet. The Zheng Navy landed in Taiwan and would be completely wiped out. The Zheng Navy, who lost its landfighters, would be no trouble. Their fleet would be difficult to obtain supplies on the southeast coast of the Qing Dynasty. If they could not occupy Taiwan as a base, then their navy would lose space to survive. At that time, we would use our superior fleet to attack various ports in Luzon, and no matter how much the Spanish Army resisted, it would be useless." Hartlin answered confidently.

"Very good!" Old Mohan stood up with a trembling trembling and said to the floor with a crutch: "Your Excellency, I hope your plan will be successful. As for the company's internal objections, I will shut up those cartilages."

Old Mohan's tone began to become stern: "Your Excellency, this is also your last chance. If you fail, you will bear all the consequences of the war. Do you understand?"

As August 15 approaches, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival for the Han people. The Han people in Haidu are busy in an instant, and the shops are filled with people who buy festival necessities. The Han people in Haidu come from Jiuzhou and the four seas, so the customs are different. Some buy oranges and make orange lanterns, some make bamboo paper into rabbit lanterns, and there are pumpkin lanterns, orange lanterns, tile lanterns, etc.

Over the past year, due to the migration of many merchants, the entire Haidu city was prosperous, and workshops in the west of the city rose one after another. Due to the lack of craftsmen, the wages of merchants recruiting craftsmen became higher and higher. Therefore, the people in the city could still eat, drink, defecate and scatter. Therefore, the city was full of festiveness. Even the Burmese workers, Spanish craftsmen, and merchants from all over the country were quite infected, and they followed suit and bought the items needed for the festival.

Since the government had posted a notice that His Majesty the Emperor would have fun with the people on the high tower on the palace wall on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the various yamen began to work hard. The Ministry of Rites prepared a stinky and long-lasting Mid-Autumn Festival civil and military virtues and rituals. The Ministry of Revenue summoned a large number of people to practice dragon and lion dance. The Ministry of Works laid hundreds of Kongming lanterns and prepared various fireworks. The Ministry of War also issued official documents and dispatched various battalions to practice festival defense. The masters of the Ministry of Justice were checking the files and immigrating some pardoned people to commit crimes to increase the festive celebration of the festival and handle the political tasks of enjoying the people in the imperial edict. The attendants of the Hanlin Academy stayed happily in the house and wrote various festive articles needed for the mansion. Only the Jinyiwei of the Beizhen Fushi Department did nothing, and inadvertently, a tiqi heard a message.

"Emperor, I heard the clues of the Tiqi. I set up a secret stump in the city and sent people to inquire about the news. Sure enough, I found that there were traces of the Tiandihui in Haidu City. These people were either hiding in the streets or mingled into the army. On the surface, they claimed to be anti-Qing and restoring Ming, but they also respected Shaowu as Zhengshuo, and appointed Zheng Chenggong, the Prince of Yanping as Wuzong, and Shi Kefa as Wenzong. Chen Jinnan as Xuanzong..." Hu Yan, the commander of the Beizhenfu Department, waited for Zhu Jun to send away the eunuchs to accompany him. He reported in a low voice. Zhu Jun suddenly, the name of the Tiandihui was very loud in later generations. Unexpectedly, it was already established at this time. When Hu Yan said that Shaowu was respected as Zhengshuo,

Zhu Jun's face changed. Since the fall of the Longwu regime in the Southern Ming Dynasty, He Wuzuo, the assistant minister of Longwu, supported Zhu Yu, the younger brother of Zhu Yu, in Guangzhou, and changed the reign to Shaowu. Yongli was supported by the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ding Kuichu, and the governor of Guangxi Qu Shishi, and others. At that time, the two emperors were in a coherence. The conflict between the two regimes of Yongli and Shaowu was very fierce. Some even proposed the grand theories of rather than being destroyed by the Qing Dynasty. (This is the most funny scene in the Southern Ming Dynasty. These bastards who fought against the party could actually say that they would rather be destroyed by the Qing Dynasty than to allow their brothers to be regarded as unprecedented and no one would come later.)

The Longwu regime was presided over by the Zheng pirates and scholars. Zheng Zhilong, who used the interests of the family as the supreme interests, supported Emperor Longwu and therefore wanted to use Emperor Longwu as a strange product to the Qing court. In order to get rid of the control of Zheng Zhilong's group, the civil officials of the Longwu Emperor kept asking Emperor Longwu to personally expedition to Fujian. However, Zheng Zhilong, the heavy army, naturally would not be influenced by a group of scholars, and Emperor Longwu had no choice. Therefore, the Longwu regime had a strange phenomenon of being inclusive and being outside. First, the Chief Minister Huang Daozhou recruited 9,000 local chariots out of seclusion without soldiers and pay, and was finally defeated and was robbed. The old hero, who was in his sixties, refused to surrender. He was detained for two months and died with four disciples. Later, the "Northern Expedition" of the Left Censor Zhang Kentang, also failed due to Zheng Zhilong's constraints and the fall of the Longwu regime.

At that time, the Manchus of Luobeile Boluo led his army into Fujian. Emperor Longwu was killed. Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing army drove troops to Anping and burned and killed the soldiers. Zheng Chenggong's biological mother was raped and killed by the Qing army. The book "The Book of Giving the First and Formations" once recorded: "The northern army arrived in Anhai and plundered. Chenggong's mother was also lying and hanged herself. Chenggong's great hatred. He used the barbarian method to cut off the mother's belly, cleansed out of the intestines, and took it back to bury him." Then he swore to attack the Qing Dynasty in Fujian.

From this we can see that the Zheng pirate group was very enthusiastic about the Qing Dynasty, but they did not have much interest in Fuming. They were just a banner to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He dominated the world and respected Wu as the emperor. He only hoped to dominate the public opinion and tried his best to gather the hearts of the people against the Qing Dynasty and Fuming to the side of the Zheng family. Although the anti-Qing banner was inspiring, the banner was full of factions. Various interest groups were intertwined. Each faction tried to eliminate the influence of the other and gather people's hearts. Therefore, Zhu Jun faced the problem of land, whether to eradicate the Haidu City and the inner world. But this would give Zheng pirates a justification. After all, everyone was resisting the Qing Dynasty. Your new first emperor was so unwilling tolerant? Why do you lead the great cause of anti-Qing? But the harm was also not light. Allowing the world to develop in the sea will continue. The entire new first regime will be affected.

"Your Majesty. How should these hidden stakes in heaven and earth be handled?" Hu Yan asked when he saw Zhu Jun silently.

Zhu Jun pondered: "You ask the Tiqi to keep an eye on these hidden stakes in the world. Don't rush to deal with it."

Zhu Jun was unsure of his mind for a moment. Hu Yan nodded and said, "Emperor, I have another thing to report secretly. The Jinyiwei in the Weishi has been divided into various counties in Myanmar, but I have found out about it."

Hu Yan carefully looked respectful and continued, "The magistrate of Daluo County and the magistrate of Huala County have been frequently in the past few days. Every time they meet, they secretly discuss in the government office until midnight. There is also the Burmese General Aste at the meeting. They seem to be dissatisfied with the emperor's strategy of gathering the county soldiers."

"Although the emperor issued an edict to let all the county magistrates enter the capital, some county magistrates remained unmoved. The eastern Burmese general Aste had 8,000 Burmese soldiers under the jurisdiction of Eastern Burmese, and they were very prestigious in the eastern Burmese counties. If the Daluo County Magistrate echoed with the Huala County Magistrate, it was difficult to guarantee that they would not openly rebel. The Tiqi sent by the Wei minister also found that more than a dozen county magistrates were watching the reactions of these people and were waiting and watching the emperor's will." Hu Yan said, while taking out a list from the bed and bowing his hands on his head, "The above records are all Burmese officials who received the imperial edict but did not immediately. Please read it."

Zhu Jun took the list and opened it. He saw that it was filled with dense names and official titles. Some officials with wait-and-see attitude wrote in black, while some names selected in red were officials with abnormal movements recently. Some even wrote the person's recent movements in small words under the names. Although it was just a piece of white paper, it recorded the various attitudes of the Burmese officials.

At the bottom of the list, he also used red ink to write in small words that there were 37 county magistrates in Haidu who set out to go to. There were thirteen people who were waiting and watching, and there were six conspirators. The three were confirmed to have evidence, namely the General of Eastern Burma, the Chief of Daluo County, the Chief of Huala County, and three county magistrates. The general did not find the evidence, but he also wrote it on.

Talent! Zhu Jun sighed in his heart.

Although these Jinyiwei are notorious, their superb spy skills are emerging one after another. Even the later KGB and the CIA lost their high technology.

Zhu Jun has now taken back the judicial power of the Jinyiwei and asked them to be responsible for reconnaissance and spy. Unexpectedly, these guys have made great achievements. With this list, it will be much easier for Zhu Jun to pick up these Burmese magistrates.

"Hu Aiqing." Zhu Jun put away the list as if nothing had happened and said leisurely: "This time, the Beizhen Fushi did a good job, and you, as the commander, also made a great contribution."
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