Chapter 882: Important Clues (Three Changes)
After staying in Suzhou Mansion for more than 10 days, Li Yuntian set off for Changzhou Mansion and officially began to inspect the military and political affairs of the 14 prefectures and four prefectures of Nanzhili.
At the same time, the trial in Dinghai County is also being carried out in an orderly manner, in order to prevent the people from flocking to Dinghai County to file complaints, Gong Rui and Liu Minyu jointly issued a notice, so that the people who complained in the state capitals of Zhejiang stayed in their hometowns, and the two would send personnel to the state capitals to receive the complaints and clean up the unjust cases.
According to the verification of the two, the soldiers of Dinghaiwei did not resist at all when they attacked the Dinghaiwei military camp when they attacked the Dinghaiwei military camp in the freight yard of the city, and fled in fright, and did not return in fear until the next day.
According to investigations, not only did Ding Haiwei command Zhao Yang have fun in the Qinglou in Dinghai County, but Ding Haiwei commander Dong Mangui even went to Ningbo Mansion to meet his concubine in Ningbo City, and only hurried from Ningbo City two days after the incident.
Because the goods used for overseas trade with the Nanyang countries in the freight yard of the city were burned by the fire, Zhao Yang and Song Song, the magistrate of Dinghai County, were extremely frightened, not only did the people of Dinghaiwei run away when the Japanese invaded, but the people of the county government of Dinghai County did not go to the rescue, once the court blamed them, they would have to bear the black cauldron of this incident, and they would definitely die.
Therefore, in order to evade responsibility, Zhao Yang and Song Song on the one hand dredged up the relationship between Ningbo Prefecture and Zhejiang Sansi, and on the other hand, they wantonly searched for Japanese gangsters and eyeliner in Dinghai County and the surrounding areas, framed the good, and killed innocents indiscriminately, making Dinghai County a chicken and a dog jumping, and the people were panicked.
Because it was difficult to get rid of the goods in the market and the denunciation of some local ruffians in the township, many people who went to the goods yard that night to get the goods were killed after being arrested by Dinghaiwei, and their heads were regarded as Japanese robbers.
In order to intimidate the victimized people from talking nonsense when the imperial court sent personnel to Dinghai County to investigate the case, Zhao Yang and Song Song deliberately spread the rumor that the goods in the freight yard were Li Yuntian, and did evil in the county under the banner of Li Yuntian.
If it weren't for Li Yuntian's arrival, I'm afraid that the matter in Dinghai County would be over, and some things in the officialdom could only be understood but not spoken, and if the court officials who came to Dinghai County to investigate the case listened to the rumors on the market and thought that those goods were closely related to Li Yuntian, there was a chance that the case would be closed in a daze, after all, with Li Yuntian's power and connections, few people would dare to offend him.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, Zhao Yang and Song Song never imagined that it was Li Yuntian who came to Dinghai County to thoroughly investigate the attack on the city's Bosi, and then they were unlucky enough to be planted in Li Yuntian's hands.
In fact, when Li Yuntian arrived in Yangzhou Mansion, the people from Dinghaiwei and Dinghai County knew that Li Yuntian would come, but not only did they not know how to restrain themselves, but they intensified their efforts, and continued to deceive and delusionally try to fool Li Yuntian.
In particular, Zhao Yang, the commander of Dinghaiwei, even reported the soldiers who escaped from Dinghaiwei as those killed in the battle with the Japanese invaders, so that not only did he cover up the difference in the number of soldiers in Dinghaiwei, but also received a pension from the imperial court, and most importantly, he could continue to occupy the military fields under the names of those fleeing soldiers.
According to the reports of Gong Rui and Liu Minyu, Dinghai Weicun's behavior of embezzling military land, and the officers at all levels in Weili and the local big families used various methods to divide the military land that the imperial court gave to the military households to support their families, which is also the reason why Zhao Dahai had to work to support his family, and his family's military land had long been occupied by others.
Not only that, the officers of Weili treated the military households they belonged to as private property, arbitrarily enslaved and bullied, and worked for them in vain.
As a result, military families lived in hardship, and incidents of families fleeing to the country occurred from time to time, and there were only two ways out, one was to flee to the interior as refugees, and the other was to run to the sea to become a widow.
Li Yuntian already knew about the dirty things in Dinghai County, so he immediately wrote a reply letter to Gong Rui and Liu Minyu after receiving the report.
The content of the reply letter is very simple, only the words "severe punishment and no loan", which asked Gong Rui and Liu Minyu to strictly investigate what happened in Dinghai County, which also invisibly determined the fate of Zhao Yang and Song Song and other people involved in the case in Dinghai County.
In Gong Rui and Liu Minyu's report, there was one thing that Li Yuntian was very interested in, that is, why so many people went to the freight yard that night to grab the remaining goods.
According to the investigation of Gong Rui and Liu Minyu, just two days before the Japanese invaded the city's shipping department, there were rumors in the villages and towns of Dinghai County and surrounding towns that the Japanese were going to take action against the city's shipping company's freight yard, and encouraged those people to go to the freight yard to pick up the bargains and go to the freight yard to get the goods that could not be taken away by the Japanese invaders.
This made many people who wanted to make a windfall rush to the city port on the night of the incident, and those would-be robbers left behind a lot of goods when they left, and the freight yard was unguarded, so a robbery was inevitable.
However, to the surprise of those looters, they did not take advantage of the disaster but brought about a catastrophe, because after the Japanese invaded the market and the goods were not able to be sold in the market, they had to hide and wait for the rumors to pass before planning, those goods soon became the evidence used by Dinghaiwei and Dinghai County to prove their collusion with the Japanese invaders, and many people lost their heads.
Gong Rui and Liu Minyu were also curious at first why those people believed the rumors in the market so much, and they went to the freight yard of the city's shipping company.
After the Ming Dynasty issued a ban on the sea, the coastal people lost their main way of making a living, and their lives were already poor, coupled with the exploitation and oppression of local officials, so almost every village and town had people run to become Japanese pirates, and some even moved to their homes to make a living in overseas gathering places for Japanese pirates.
Due to the promises and demagoguery of those villagers, many people finally rushed to the city port to grab the goods.
It is worth mentioning that although the city was burned by the Japanese invaders, the fire in the market shipping yard occurred when the people were looting the goods, and I don't know whether it was put by the people or the Japanese who were mixed in the crowd.
Gong Rui and Liu Minyu have sent people to track down the whereabouts of the villagers who spread rumors, but because the villagers who came back this time are all people who fled with their families, there are no immediate family members in the local area, and the two can only find out the news from their collateral relatives.
Because those collateral relatives don't know much, Gong Rui and Liu Minyu only know that those villagers are from Xiaoliuqiu Island, and they should have joined the Japanese organization on Xiaoliuqiu Island.
Li Yuntian felt that it was a little interesting, he believed that the main force of the Japanese who attacked Ningbo City was definitely from Japan, and if the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island were also involved, then the motive was very intriguing.
This is not only because there is a Ryukyu Island between Xiaoliuqiu Island and Japan, but more importantly, in this way, the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island will not get much goods, and the majority of the Japanese will definitely be occupied by the Japanese Japanese Japanese.
As far as Li Yuntian knew, there were already tens of thousands of Japanese pirates on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and there was no problem in gathering two or three thousand people to attack Ningbo City's Bosi, so why did he have to seek support from the Japanese mainland?
Among the four city shipping divisions of the Ming Dynasty, Fuzhou City Shipping Division is close to Xiaoliuqiu Island, why did the Japanese on Xiaoliuqiu Island not attack Fuzhou City, is it because the goods of Fuzhou City Shipping Division are not as much as Ningbo City's Shipping Division, and the price is not as expensive as Ningbo City's Shipping Division?
What was particularly incomprehensible to Li Yuntian was that the goods in the Ningbo Bosi Freight Yard were used for trade and trade with the Nanyang countries, and they were dominated by Jiangwutang.
In recent years, the sailors under the lecture hall have been escorting the Nanyang overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty, and have shown a strong strength to the outside world, and the idea of those Japanese robbers actually hitting Ningbo City is very stupid, and it is obvious that this will definitely be retaliated by the lecture martial arts, once the sailors under the jurisdiction of the martial arts will fight the Japanese will suffer heavy losses.
The reason why we want to talk about Wutang instead of the Ming Dynasty is because the coastal defense policy of the Ming Dynasty has advocated defense since the Ming Taizu, and wants to build a strong coastal defense to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders, and usually does not take the initiative to suppress the Japanese who are entrenched on large and small islands.
In fact, it was precisely because of this that the court was shocked after the attack of the Ningbo City Ship Division by the Japanese Invaders, and the auxiliary ministers had already discussed in the capital to strengthen the preparation of the coastal areas for the Japanese invaders, and no one mentioned going to clear the Japanese invaders at sea.
After the news spread that Ningbo City had been attacked by the Japanese invaders, the Fujian Third Division and the Guangdong Third Division respectively strengthened the protection of the Fuzhou City Ship Division and the Guangzhou City Ship Division, and mobilized the main forces to garrison them one after another to avoid being attacked by the Japanese invaders, which made the local atmosphere extremely depressing and tense.
With the development of overseas trade in Nanyang, its naval division has been greatly developed, not only the warships have been updated, but also a large number of experienced naval soldiers have been trained, and they have the strength to attack and suppress the Japanese invaders.
Moreover, because Li Yuntian played a pivotal role in the Ming Dynasty, he could completely persuade those auxiliary ministers to let the sailors clear the Japanese on the coastal islands, which was not something that those Japanese invaders wanted to see.
Therefore, Li Yuntian was very interested in the group of Japanese robbers on Xiaoliuqiu Island who had participated in the attack on Ningbo City, and intuitively felt that there was probably a secret hidden behind the attack on Ningbo City's Bosi that ordinary people did not know.
In order to find out the details of the gang of pirates, Li Yuntian had already asked the intelligence agency of Jiangwutang to investigate whether they were the pirates on Xiaoliuqiu Island.
It is worth mentioning that Li Yuntian attaches great importance to intelligence Wang Bao, and as early as when he put down the Jiaozhi rebellion, he had already sent a group of spies to the Japanese invaders, and these spies lurked after coming into contact with the Japanese invaders, and this was the first time that Li Yuntian used the spies on Xiaoliuqiu Island.
In fact, there are spies sent by Li Yuntian not only in the Japanese Kou, but also in Korea, Japan, the Nanyang countries and the northwest countries, and they have been in the incubation period all these years, and Li Yuntian will definitely not use them until the last resort. R1148