Chapter 898: Secret Report
Jiangwutang once collected information about the leaders of the Japanese Bandits, if Li Yuntian is not mistaken, this Hall of Honkoko appeared among the Japanese Bandits about ten years ago, especially in recent years, the development has been very rapid, and he has become a member of Aoki Mingxin's generals.
Because the leaders of the Japanese invaders vigorously concealed their origins, the martial arts hall did not collect much information about the Tang Ben Zongguang, but it was inferred from the fluent Jiangnan dialect that the Tang Ben Zongguang could speak fluent and authentic Jiangnan dialect.
Although he was slightly disappointed in his heart about the escape of Domoto Zongguang, Li Yuntian did not take this matter to heart, after all, there were also smart people in the Wakou, and besides, now that Li Yuntian was in charge of the pacification of the Wako, Tangben Zongguang would fall into his hands sooner or later, it was just a matter of time.
Perhaps due to the reason for the great battle with Domoto Zongguang, the remaining Japanese in Tamsui Port did not make the slightest resistance in the face of the fierce Ming naval fleet, and chose to surrender under the persuasion of the Japanese in Jilong Harbor, which accompanied the fleet, and the Ming naval division regained Tamsui Port without bloodshed.
After the soldiers of the Ming army posted a pardon for the sins of the people on Xiaoliuqiu Island, they flocked to the wharf to look at the huge ships docked in the port, whispering and talking, no one would have thought that the Ming Dynasty would resume its rule over Xiaoliuqiu Island again after half a century.
Some of the bold children even ran up to watch the soldiers of the Ming army unload the goods from the ship, and several military attachés took out candy and distributed it to them, which made the children bounce away and look very happy.
Under the kind actions of those military attachés, the tension of the onlookers was quickly eased, and some able-bodied young men volunteered to help the sailor soldiers carry the goods, which gradually made the relationship between the two sides gradually become harmonious.
One afternoon in early August, when Li Yuntian was processing the official documents at hand in a side room of the mansion, Lei Ting walked in.
"Xianggong, this is a secret report from the dark mouse." After putting a note in his hand on the table in front of Li Yuntian, Lei Ting said in a deep voice.
When Li Yuntian heard this, he put down the official document in his hand and picked up the note, and looked at it with interest, the dark mouse was the code name of the spy sent by Li Yuntian to Xiaoliuqiu Island, and the information and dynamics of the Japanese robbers obtained by the lecture hall were all provided by him.
According to the concept of 28 constellations in the sky, Li Yuntian deliberately selected 28 secret agents to lurk in various places, among which the secret agent codenamed "Void Sun Mouse" was responsible for investigating the affairs of the Japanese pirates on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and was habitually called "dark rats".
The identities of these twenty-eight people are absolutely confidential, and there are only three of them, one is Li Yuntian, one is Yang Yungui, and the other is Lei Ting, who is personally responsible for handling information related to these twenty-eight people.
The twenty-eight spies were in complete one-way contact, and they had no idea of each other's existence, and the reason for this was naturally to keep it secret, so as to prevent one person from confessing to the others after defecting.
Moreover, because these twenty-eight secret agents are distributed over a wide area, it is difficult to contact each other, so there will be no cross-connection, and there is no need to know each other.
"Domoto Somitsu!" After reading the content of the information, Li Yuntian's eyes couldn't help but flash a look of surprise.
Although the Dark Rat did not find out which of the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island was related to the attack on Ningbo City, he found that two of Domoto Zongguang's henchmen had left Xiaoliuqiu Island during that time.
Therefore, considering that Domoto Zongguang usually acts cautiously and low-key and is shrewd, the dark rat suspects that the attack on Ningbo City Bosi has something to do with it.
"Xianggong, according to the investigation of the concubine, the two henchmen of Tang Ben Zongguang were indeed not on Xiaoliuqiu Island when Ningbo City Bosi was attacked, and it is said that they led people to the coast to plunder, and they did raid the prefectures and counties along the coast of Fujian." Lei Ting nodded slightly, and said to Li Yuntian in a coquettish voice, "In addition, there is nothing abnormal about the important Japanese leader and his important subordinates on Xiaoliuqiu Island. ”
"Xianggong believes that the dark mouse's vision will not be wrong, and there is a good chance that this matter is really related to that Tang Benzong light, otherwise it will definitely not attract the attention of the dark mouse."
Li Yuntian pondered for a moment, smiled and said to Lei Ting, "Although we can't be sure that this matter was done by Tang Ben Zongguang, at least there is a goal, which is also a good thing." ”
"Xianggong, then the concubine will send someone to investigate the details of this hall of Zongguang." Lei Ting smiled when she heard this, although this information didn't seem to be exact, but it was enough for Li Yuntian, it was much better than him groping around cluelessly.
"How are the barracks of the pirates being built now?" Li Yuntian bowed slightly, and then remembered something and asked.
"Craftsmen from Fujian are working day and night outside the town, and it is expected that in three months we will be able to complete the construction of our barracks and the barracks of the Japanese invaders."
Hearing this, Lei Ting replied in an orderly manner that since the recovery of Jilong Port, Li Yuntian ordered to recruit craftsmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Xiaoliuqiu to carry out infrastructure matters, and now Jilong Town has become a huge construction site, and construction is being carried out in and out of the town.
According to the plan, in three months, the first batch of soldiers recruited from the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be moved to the newly built barracks, and the military attachés of the Xiaowu Army will conduct a three-month trial training for them.
Since Li Yuntian provided good accommodation and food for those craftsmen, and the salary was also very considerable, those craftsmen were full of enthusiasm and wanted to finish the work as much as possible, and then go home with the salary they received to spend a good year.
Generally speaking, when the imperial court requisitioned artisan households, they were responsible for food and lodging at most, and sometimes they were required to bring their own food, and they did not even think about the salary.
The reason for this is that when the imperial court requisitioned artisan households, those artisan households were equivalent to serving the imperial court, and the imperial court did not have the funds to support them, so it was good to be able to give them a bite to eat.
Not only that, the artisan households were usually exploited and enslaved by officials of all sizes when they were in the service, taking the iron smelting industry as an example, those craftsmen in the imperial court's official blacksmith workshops not only had poor working conditions, but also had to endure the oppression of the foremen, which caused great damage to the imperial court's official iron-smelting industry.
For this reason, the imperial court had to open the iron-smelting industry to the private sector, and the private iron-smelting workshop gradually became the main force of the Ming iron-smelting industry.
Therefore, the craftsmen who were recruited by Li Yuntian this time couldn't help but be a little flattered when they faced such a generous treatment, and naturally worked very hard.
In mid-August, Liu Wenqing left Xiaoliuqiu Island with a fleet of sailors and returned to Nanzhili, and Li Yuntian and Lei Ting went to the port to see her off, and the two sides reluctantly parted.
At this time, several ports on Xiaoliuqiu Island were all under the control of the Ming army's naval division, and the officials of the naval division hurried to register the local people.
The battle report of Qiongzhou Island had also been transmitted, and the sea wolf fleet from the harbor of Jiaozhi under the leadership of Qin Kun had captured several ports on Qiongzhou Island according to the plan.
Qin Kun had already set off from Qiongzhou Island to meet Li Yuntian on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and he handed over the affairs of the island to the relevant officials of the Jiangwutang to deal with, Qin Kun's strength was to fight wars, and the affairs of taking care of local civil affairs after the war were handled by those who had received professional training.
Under Li Yuntian's order, Guangxi and Guangdong have mobilized many craftsmen to go to Qiongzhou Island to engage in infrastructure construction matters, and it can be expected that Qiongzhou Island will become a place of Li Yuntian's focus in the future, just like Xiaoliuqiu Island, and this is related to Li Yuntian's great cause of peace.
Compared with Xiaoliuqiu Island, Qiongzhou Island, located in the southernmost part of the Ming Dynasty, has many fewer pirates, but there are some pirates who are active in the South China Sea living on it, and this time it was also killed by the sea wolf fleet.
Qin Kun was accompanied by the Japanese who had been captured and surrendered from Qiongzhou Island, and these were to be handed over to Yamaguchi Keiko to strengthen his strength.
Under the leadership of Li Yuntian, the news that the Ming army's naval divisions had recovered Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island at the same time spread like a whirlwind throughout the Ming Dynasty, causing a huge sensation throughout the country.
For the common people, the Japanese are murderous and cunning people, and no one thought that Li Yuntian would take back Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, two overseas isolated islands that had been occupied by the Japanese for a long time, without blood, which was simply shocking, and Li Yuntian's prestige was even higher.
In fact, the Ming army's naval division recovered Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island without much effort, and the biggest shock was the cabinet members of the military pavilion and the governor of the five armies.
Before this, the military cabinet members and the governors of the five armies did not pay attention to the sailors formed by Li Yuntian at all, you must know that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there was no real sailor, and the personnel of Zheng He's fleet when he went to the West were all drawn from the coastal guards, and they were out-and-out army troops.
Moreover, fighting at sea is different from fighting on land, and the tragedy of the great battle between Ming Taizu and Chen Youliang at Poyang Lake made the nobles of the imperial court well aware of the cruelty of water warfare and the many uncertain factors, which would undoubtedly be more difficult if it was changed to the sea.
Another example is how brave Kublai Khan was on the battlefield, but the two expeditions to Japan ended in a fiasco, although there are various factors, but the unpredictable weather at sea undoubtedly helped the Japanese, in the second Yuan Shizu expedition in the Yuan army's follow-up reinforcements actually encountered a major storm and lost, which made the reinforcements that had been attacked on land isolated, and finally forced to be wiped out by the Japanese army from all over the country.
Therefore, in the eyes of the military cabinet members and the governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, it was not easy for Li Yuntian to recover Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island, which had many Japanese robbers.
But who would have thought that the battle situation of the Ming army's naval division would be so smooth, and the two sides were destroyed without even touching those Japanese ships, thus creating a precedent for a new type of naval warfare.
The Xiaowu army under the command of the martial arts can fight well, and has become the elite division of the Ming Dynasty, and now the sailors who are also subordinate to the martial arts hall have achieved great victories on Xiaoliuqiu Island and Qiongzhou Island in the first battle, which makes the governors of the five armies can't help but feel a sense of crisis, and in the long run, the five armies will inevitably be suppressed by the Wutang, which is a scene that no one wants to see.
Therefore, the governors of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies believed that they had to change the current unfavorable status quo and began to seek changes to the army of the Guards, otherwise in the long run, the troops of the Guards in the localities under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies would inevitably be replaced by the new-style army of the Shogun.