Chapter 2443 Gui Zi Juan is involved, the richest man
The trip from Wusongkou to Nanjing went smoothly, but in just over a day, Lieutenant Long made another breakthrough in his interrogation of the Tang family on the ship.
The Tang family's second eldest brother has made a move.
The second 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 deeply into the entire Songjiang and even the health centers in Nanzhi and Zhejiang.
Except for the Jinshan Guard, which was right under Songjiang's nose, almost all the troops were wiped out, the Nanhuizui Zhonghou Post, Wusongjiang Post, Zhapu Post, Haining Guard, Linhai Guard, Dinghai Zhong, Zuo and Hou Post, Haimen Guard, Jinxiang Guard, all the way to Yongning Guard in Quanzhou and Zhenhai Guard in Zhangzhou, are almost fully penetrated.
It's not 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 a smooth track.
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 preparation roads 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 do not have the support of daimyo from all over the country, and it is difficult to organize large-scale troops and ships to plunder foreign countries. If it were the era of the ambitious Toyotomi Hideyoshi, I am afraid that Jiangnan 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 Great Zhou Dynasty had replaced the Ming Dynasty. The arrival of herself as a time traveler had promoted the rapid development of the Great Zhou Dynasty's sea-opening plan, and whether it would have any impact on the national policies of Japan and 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.
So to solve this risk point, the best way is to build our own navy into the strongest navy in Asia and even the world in this era, so that we can be invincible.
Although the Tang family's second son vomited everything clean, the military system is still somewhat different from the local government.
Local government officials can be decided by a censor, whether it is a magistrate, a tongzhi, 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 attacked 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, it still needs to be strategic and prioritize.
Looking at the densely packed names covering almost all the guard posts 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 win 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 deeply entangled in the collusion of Japanese pirates and the sharing of spoils, they could not extricate themselves. situation.
This point was also 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 things 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 made continuous moves, constantly poking big holes and lifting big lids. Although she gained a lot, the subsequent processing will become more and more difficult, and the various risks will continue to accumulate.
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 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 enter the cabinet and worship the prime minister in the future.
Sun Chengzong believed that his future goal was to be the Minister of War, and he was not interested in anything else.
Feng Ziying's return finally made all the girls in the house heave a sigh of relief.
Although Li's twins were secretly happy, Zhen's twins were also looking forward to it.
Within two or three days after Feng Ziying and others returned to Nanjing, various gossips or specific details about the situation of the Tang family had already spread in Jinling City and came to life.
Gold bricks to pave the floor, silver cakes to build walls, sandalwood osmanthus to make firewood, whatever you can imagine, just pile it on the Tang family.
The wall fell and everyone pushed. At this time, the reactions and reports received from Sun and Feng's house also came like snowflakes, making Sun and Feng feel like they had transformed into the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the minister of the Ministry of Justice.
Many of these can also be corroborated with some of the evil deeds of the Tang family, but there are also many things that are exaggerated or pretentious and planted on the Tang family.
As the property and money confiscated from Chen Qian's Shanxi Island and Changshanzui and Huatingtang's home were successively shipped to the Nanjing pier in the following days, it aroused countless reveries.
"This nine-phoenix beaded crown is an exclusive creation of Suzhou Dingfengji. Sir, please take a look. This pair of black diamonds are inlaid on the phoenix eyes, which has a wonderful finishing touch. The black diamonds come from the Lion Kingdom and are the Shen family's products." It was specially purchased from Nanyang through Western merchants. At that time, the pair of black diamonds alone cost twelve thousand taels of silver. Plus the gold, Dongzhu and other ornaments consumed, this Nine Phoenix Pearl Crown is said to be The total cost 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 was originally planning to marry Prince Yi Zhong, the current queen. It was given as a gift for my fortieth birthday, but one month before the birthday, bandits from Taihu Lake invaded the Shen family. That night, more than 30 members of the Shen family were killed and injured, and more than 400,000 taels of property were robbed..."
“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 was the thirty-eighth year of Yuanxi, sixteen years ago.” The official replied.
"The Shen family is the richest man in Suzhou and Huzhou, and 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 quite far away from Taihu Lake and the South Canal. It is further away from the seaside, and it is Shen family. Because he knew that big trees attract wind, he took extremely tight precautions on his home. Shen's Wubao was specially built by professionals. Not to mention ordinary people, even the guards might not be able to break through it easily, but Shen's Wubao was very easy to break that night. It was breached, and later I found out that there was probably a spy who had been lurking in the Shen family for a long time, and it was not just one or two people. They had been in the Shen family for more than five years, acting as a guard..."
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..."
"It is now sufficient to prove that the bandits that night were not bandits from Taihu's Twelve Chain Wharf, but Japanese pirates from the sea. However, how they could easily cross the border from Songjiang to Huzhou is puzzling, because they attacked the Shen family that night The number of bandits in Wubao exceeds 300. It is impossible for Jiaxing and Huzhou not to notice such a large bandit crossing the border..."
Fang Youdu added.
"Who was the military personnel officer at that time? There must be something wrong here." Feng Ziying frowned, "It is common practice in both Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces that the military personnel officers are concurrently appointed by ministers from the Provincial Department of Criminal Justice. More than ten years ago, the military personnel were I don’t know if the changes are frequent, I’m afraid I have to go to the Ministry of Personnel to check to find out the details.”
To cross the border and attack the hinterland of Huzhou, one must either go through Suzhou or Jiaxing, but going to Suzhou is more complicated.
Although Nanzhi has a military branch 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. Su Songchang's Zhenhaiwei officer actually has no control over Zhenhaiwei.
So 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 they could return to the sea unharmed after they succeeded. This is simply incredible.
It is simply unimaginable if there is no internal support in the government offices of Huzhou and Jiaxing, and if there is no one in the military preparations on the front lines of Jiaxing and Huzhou.
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