Dragon Sea Empire

Xu Hongji, the government affairs secretary of the King of China's Palace, can't sleep all night. He works with his colleagues in his official office every day to deal with piles of documents. At night, he has to stay alone to deal with some by himself things that people deal with.

This time, the Chinese company and the Chinese army, that is, the political purge movement in Yin Feng's ruled area, Xu Hongji is the main person in charge.

Before July of the second year of the Apocalypse, personnel from the Chinese Military Supervisory Department, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Internal Affairs Department of the Chinese King's Palace had set off from Taiwan and Hong Kong to various places including North Korea and Japan, which were ruled by the Ming Dynasty. They were going to conduct secret investigations of.

Ever since Xu Guangqi commissioned Li Zhizao to send his disciples Zhang Tao and Sun Xueshi to Guangdong to secretly purchase four red cannons from the Portuguese in Macau, Yin Feng began to conduct a secret internal investigation. He seized the ruling power of Macau by force, and then conducted an investigation in Macau. Lin Xiao found out the Portuguese who connected with Li Zhizao, but did not find out the true identities of the Chinese who connected the two. In the following years, Lin Xiao The Xiaohe Military Intelligence Department did not find any spies in the company directly related to the court transactions in Macau.

As for the number of Hongyi cannons owned by the Portuguese in Macau at that time, due to the restriction of the peace agreement between the Chinese company and Macau, there were indeed not many of them for more than ten years. The entire East Asian region can produce similar types of cannons There are only two places in Taiwan City and Manila City on Luzon Island, both of which are Yin Feng's sites.

That is to say, the four cannons were shipped from Europe and then shipped to Guangzhou.

At that time, in the 47th year of Wanli, Portuguese ships transporting cannons from Europe must pass through the Strait of Malacca or pass through Banten Port. According to Yin Feng’s navigation law, among Europeans, only Portuguese ships can pass through Malacca to East Asia. All ports are engaged in business, but Portuguese ships must be inspected by the Chinese army in Malacca or Banten and pay customs duties. Even if they are trading in the port of Macau, there will be people from Chinese companies to supervise the transportation of goods.

Therefore, Yin Feng speculates that if the four cannons can be transported to Macau and successfully transported to Guangzhou, there must be a heavyweight inside the Chinese company as an internal response. Moreover, the personnel on the ship also have personnel rights, and the only person who can quietly transport cannons to the Ming court is the major shareholder and full-fledged director of the company's board of directors.

Inside the Zhonghua Company, and in the area under his rule, there are people who are on two boats and are half-hearted. Yin Feng already knew some details about this matter. Lin Xiao found out when he was in charge of internal security. Dong is an undercover agent of the imperial court, and Yin Feng has always been in control of the situation. Some of the director-level figures secretly conspired with the imperial court. Although Yin Feng is also mentally prepared for this, he still feels very uncomfortable about it.

The relevant investigations in overseas colonies were mainly presided over by Princess Li Lihua, while the secret investigations in Luzon, Taiwan, Ryukyu, Liaodong and other places and the mainland of Ming Dynasty were originally presided over by Lin Xiao. External methods are cruel enough.

But Lin Xiao has a problem, which is a good quality in the eyes of some people: he is too loyal, and Lin Xiao can mercilessly clean up the mistakes made by ordinary internal personnel, but for those who have made mistakes in the board of directors or the Chinese army For the brothers who lived and died with him, Lin Xiao would often involuntarily open the door and show mercy. Of course, his loyalty to Yin Feng is not a problem, but he can't grasp the relationship between his brother's loyalty and his own responsibility. Balance, which is one of the reasons why he was withdrawn from the intelligence service.

Not only for this reason, but Yin Feng also resolutely abolished the Department of Business and Information in order to reduce the functions of the Chinese company and straighten out the functional relationship between the future government agencies and the company. The United Communications Division and Disciplinary Division of the Internal Affairs Department of the company, as well as the Internal Affairs Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese Palace (Director Xu Xinsu), and the Domestic Bureau of the Military Intelligence Department (Director Zeng Rui, Deputy Director Mai Xiaoliu), this is also to decentralize power and prevent someone from holding power Too much is too much. Although Yin Feng is not a qualified politician, the actual needs are forcing him to develop his potential.

Lin Xiao later served as the head of internal affairs and security in the Palace of the King of China, mainly in charge of the local security teams in the area under the jurisdiction of the King of China, that is, the head of the police in the area ruled by Yin Feng. law and order.

Later, Xu Hongji was in charge of the investigation of the red cannon. This former Taoist priest now devoted himself to being Zhang Liang and Liu Bowen of Yin Feng's new dynasty. The Chinese army has not found any problems for the time being, but Yin Feng can't wait any longer. The day of the decisive battle between King Jinghai of China and the Ming court is getting closer, and the interior must be cleaned to remove all hidden dangers.

And the businessmen and gentry who have various relationships with Chinese companies at home and abroad, and even those officials and gentry in the Mainland, have reached the time when they must choose a team to stand by.

At the same time that Yin Feng issued the new law, he sent Lin Xiao and others to the mainland to lay out a plan to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and then bypassed the heads of various departments to directly command a large number of personnel from the Internal Affairs Intelligence Bureau, the Military Intelligence Department, and the Company's Finance Department, and rushed to overseas and overseas. Around the same period, in Hong Kong City, Taiwan, the homes of several board members of the company were closely guarded by Yin Feng's personal guards. Major, a 1.8-meter-tall, handsome East African Tutsi man.

He is also from the Portuguese East African colony. He was originally a Portuguese slave in Macau. He was captured by the Chinese company guards when the Chinese company attacked Macau for the first time. After arriving in Taiwan, he was declared a free man and became Yin Feng. Member of the Guard.

The captain of the black guard, Magaro, is getting old, and Yin Feng asked him to retire as Li Lihua's bodyguard. In fact, Magaro has already semi-retired, and spends every day with his mixed-race child, Kabilo, born to his Siraya wife. Joy, Magaro's position was taken over by his nephew Ingasi.

Regarding Yin Feng's order, Ingasi will carry it out without hesitation. Most of the pro-guard soldiers who blocked the director's residence were blacks who only obeyed the orders of Yin Feng and Li Lihua. Since most of these former black slaves were Catholics, Li Lihua also He came out to deal with Portuguese and other Westerners the most, and he was also a Catholic, praying in church with the blacks. Therefore, the loyalty of the members of the black guard to Li Lihua was even higher than that to Yin Feng.

Half a month before the cleaning of Han Ping family members in Malacca City, Jiangnan Township House, Liaodong Township House, Hainan Township House, Quanzhou, Macau and other places started internal cleaning activities almost simultaneously.

The Luo Xuri family of Yuegang used to be one of Yin Feng's sponsors in Fujian, and now southern Fujian including Quanzhou is controlled by the Chinese Army, so the Luo Xuri family, the company's chief director, has a lot of influence in southern Fujian.

Wang Shuowang, the garrison of southern Fujian, was originally the commander of the cadet army of the military academy, and later served as the battalion commander of Yan Siqi's division for a while.

As one of the Manila orphans adopted by Yin Feng, he is a mixed-race child of Chinese and Luzon Island Tagalog. His original name was Wang Gong, but Yin Feng renamed him "Shuowang". To suppress the bandits in Zhangzhou, a military judge of the Supervising Army came from Quanzhou overnight with several mysterious figures and went straight to his old camp. That night, the lights in Wang Shuowang's camp stayed on all night.

The next day, a sentry team of the bandit suppression force was dispatched, and Wang Shuowang's personal guards were led by him, and they rushed to Xiamen day and night. Wake up, and rushed into Luo Xuri's mansion in Xiamen Port overnight. Luo Xuri was on the bed with his concubine, and was tied up into meat dumplings in panic. The next day, the Marine Corps rushed into Luo Xuri's hometown in Yuegang All his personal weapons were disarmed, and the whole family was tied up on board and escorted to Taiwan.

Chen Dong, the guardian envoy of the Hainan Township Mansion, has served for many years and has a good reputation on Hainan Island. The large-scale mining of Shilu copper mine and rich iron ore, Qiongzhou Port built a large number of iron-making blast furnaces relying on the Shilu mining area. The imported cast iron technology provided raw materials for Taiwan's arms factories. At the same time, due to the large demand of Chinese companies, Hainan's shipbuilding industry was also developed on a large scale. Areas along the coast brought unprecedented prosperity.

In fact, Chen Dong has been involved in all the experiences of Yin Feng starting from Taiwan. He was originally a spy sent by Shen Yourong, the former capital of Fujian. Later, when Shen Yourong was the deputy commander of Zhejiang and the general of Ningshao, he still had contact with him. In fact, Chen Dong Lin Xiao had already noticed Dong's identity when Shen Yourong left Fujian.

However, because Chen Dong has never done anything to provide information, and it belongs to the most hidden inner room, Yin Feng let him serve as Yin Feng's secretary and concurrently the director of the Qiongya Branch of Huaxing United. Someone around Dong has been secretly monitoring him. Chen Dong is also one of the few Confucian scholars who is willing to do practical things. He has handled hundreds of thousands of mainland immigrants in the position of director of the Immigration and Development Department. He went to Hainan Island again to serve as the guardian envoy of Hainan. In name, he was also the secretary of the government affairs department of Yinfeng's palace.

As the earliest literati and Confucian scholar who participated in Yin Feng's career, although Chen Dong's status was surpassed by Zeng Jingshan and later Xu Hongji, he was also a well-respected literati in the Chinese company system. He has actually fully integrated into the system created by Yin Feng. He has also moved his whole family to Taiwan, and the great principles of Confucianism that he regarded as the heaven and earth have begun to waver in his mind, at least partially, under the impact of Taiwan's Chinese and Western cultures.

In the middle of the night on certain days, Chen Dong would often wake up suddenly, looking around blankly in cold sweat. He had hidden the secret of being a spy for so long that he almost forgot about his special identity. Sometimes, he hoped that this Identity is forever forgotten.

After Shen Yourong successively served as the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhejiang and the deputy commander-in-chief of Denglai, at the end of Wanli 47, the imperial court asked him to return to Fujian to serve as the commander-in-chief of Fujian in order to guard against the Taiwan Zhonghua Company. He secretly sent people across the sea to contact Chen Dong. I hope Chen Dong can contribute to the court.

The visitor disguised himself as a businessman and transferred to Hainan via Taiwan. Chen Dong met him in his private house. It is impossible for a scholar to die for his confidant, but Chen Dong, who was born as a Confucian scholar, could not evade the request of his old master, so he had to vaguely agree to Shen Yourong's request. During Xu Guangqi's process of building a new army, Shen Yourong served as the supervisor of the new army's training and recommended it to Xu Guangqi. Yu Zhigao and other relevant talents are also one of the matchmakers for Xu Guangqi to purchase new Western cannons.

And Chen Dong was Xu Guangqi's first internal contact in the Chinese company who bought the cannon, and another person Xu Guangqi tried to contact was Jin Nige, the vicar of the Taiwan Diocese of the Catholic Chinese Mission Province.

After more than ten days of hesitation and distress, Chen Dong finally introduced the people sent by Xu Guangqi-Li Zhizao's disciples Zhang Tao and Sun Xueshi to Jin Nige, and Jin Nige contacted Han Ping through the religious members of Han Ping's family. Flat himself.

Afterwards, Chen Dong tried his best to stay away from this matter, holding a kind of illusory hope, as if he could stay away from right and wrong.