In the three days after the meeting with Yan Chujie, Li Qingyang spent almost entirely in a state of uneasiness. At the beginning of his arrest, he did have the determination to repay the country with his death, but the Haihan people did not give him this kind of opportunity. After being escorted to Sanya, it was constantly arraigned, arraigned, and interrogated, although the Haihan people did not use any ** torture, but day after day, the repeated interrogation also made Li Qingyang's feelings almost fall into a state of collapse, except for the internal secrets of Jinyiwei that he gritted his teeth and vowed to keep, almost all of the operations and his own situation were explained cleanly in a state of reluctance.

Even so, Li Qingyang also knew that what he had done had violated professional ethics, and to put it bluntly, it was not too much to hook up with treason, after all, Sanya was entrenched in a group of armed giants who had no court and were disobedient, and with the situation they were running now, it was possible to erect a flag at any time to start local secession. Li Qingyang knew that even if he could be released safely, he would probably be unable to stay in Jinyiwei anymore because of the failure of this operation.

But what Li Qingyang didn't expect was that the Haihan people were so bold as to try to recruit themselves to serve him, which was definitely an unexpected result. Although Yan Chujie's words seem to have some truth, Li Qingyang still stubbornly believes that many of them belong to "fallacies and heresies", especially those who oppose the policies of the imperial court and look down on the official yamen.

Li Qingyang really had to be glad that he had met a group of civilized people, otherwise even if he didn't die now, after being detained for so long, his current situation would probably be the rhythm of spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Yan Chujie's conditions gave him hope for life, and after dragging on for so long in the Haihan Prison in Sanya, he really didn't have the courage to die at the beginning. Now that there is hope for survival, even if the conditions are harsh, Li Qingyang is unwilling to give up this hard-won opportunity.

As for whether this is a complete betrayal of Jinyiwei and the imperial court, Li Qingyang can only comfort himself, at least he has not done anything that directly hurts the interests of the Ming Dynasty. And indeed, as Yan Chujie pointed out, as long as he Li Qingyang has been sitting in Sanya and regularly sends reports back to Nanjing according to the original arrangement, then Nanjing will at least not send people to cross the net for a period of time, which will also avoid unnecessary personnel losses in the Jinyi Guard Yamen for a certain period of time.

And if the successor sent next time is an unstable guy, and he directly throws himself into the Haihan people under coercion and temptation, wouldn't the losses caused to Jinyiwei and the Ming court be greater and more terrible than himself?

Of course, Li Qingyang does not lack the mentality of hypocrisy and grievance in his heart, since the Haihan people are willing to give themselves a chance to live in Sanya for a long time, and also said that after a period of investigation, they can be given enough freedom of action, so he will take this opportunity to complete the investigation of the Haihan, and then find a way to write a report on the real situation of the Haihan and send it back to Nanjing, which can be regarded as making up for the credit. As for what measures Nanjing will take against Haihan at that time, whether it will build a court to send troops, or whether it will continue to sit back and watch Haihan grow stronger and stronger, it is not something that he Li Qingyang can control.

However, Yan Chujie also said that whether he Li Qingyang can regain his freedom will ultimately have to be discussed and decided by the Haihan Executive Committee. According to the information that Li Qingyang has learned, there are a total of nine principals in the Haihan Executive Committee, like Yan Chujie, who are called "members of the executive committee," and almost all major matters under Haihan's rule are decided by the members of the executive committee through joint consultation. Li Qingyang is actually not unfamiliar with this system, because it has many similarities with the cabinet system implemented by the power center of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty cabinet played the role of a national decision-making body for more than 200 years, from the fourth year of Jianwen to the end of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. After Emperor Jianwen established the cabinet, he took back the decision-making power of the prime minister into his own hands, and the power to discuss politics was handed over to the cabinet, the administrative power was handed over to the six ministries, and the three local departments in charge of justice, military affairs, and administration were directly responsible to the six ministries.

Originally, the cabinet scholars only had the status of advisers, belonged to the emperor's private secretary, and only the emperor had the final decision-making power, and the cabinet was not a real power organ at this time. However, from the time of Akihito and Seonjong, the status of the cabinet scholars increased day by day, and the power also rose, and they became the emperor's top staff and decision-making body. At that time, all the large and small concerts in the country were summarized by the general political envoys, and the celebrant was handed over to the emperor for inspection and then sent to the cabinet, and all the handling opinions were drawn up by the cabinet, approved by the emperor, and finally proofread and sent to the local government.

In the reign of Ming Shizong, after Xia Yan, Yan Song and others took charge of the cabinet, the cabinet was completely incarnated as the prime minister, and its status had risen to above the six ministries. When Zhang Juzheng served as the first assistant of the cabinet during the Wanli period, his functions and status were almost very close to the status of the prime minister in the modern state power.

Before hearing about the ruling system of the Haihan Executive Committee, Li Qingyang, like many Ming people, thought that the imperial power plus the cabinet system was the best governing system in the world, but after having some preliminary understanding of Haihan, Li Qingyang suddenly found that the seemingly perfect Ming cabinet system still has many hidden dangers.

The Ming Cabinet has not obtained the status of statutory administrative authority, and for more than two hundred years, no emperor has dared to violate the ancestral system and formally hand over the power to manage the world to the cabinet system. This leads to many conflicts of interest between the cabinet and the celebrants, the six ministries, and even the imperial power, and the cabinet does not have the power to suppress other administrative agencies in legal terms, after all, the cabinet is only the emperor's personal staff in name.

There is imperial power, there are six ministries, and there is also the yamen of the celebrant and the celebrant standing on the same step, and there are too many frames to govern the cabinet, and the efficiency of handling affairs can naturally be imagined. The Haihan Executive Committee is said to be the supreme decision-making body here, and all people living here, including the Haihan people, must obey the decrees issued by the Executive Committee. There is no imperial power that can suppress them above the executive committee, and there are no six ministries below that will go against them, let alone a eunuch body like the celebrant supervisor who fishes in troubled waters, even if Li Qingyang's understanding of this ruling system is still at a very shallow stage, he can also think that the operational efficiency of this ruling body is probably far greater than that of the Ming government. This is probably why the Haihan people have been able to create such a big situation in less than three years after settling in Sanya, a poor and remote place.

Although he doesn't know what "elite governance" is, there is no doubt that the people who can occupy a place in the Haihan Executive Committee should also be outstanding people. For example, Yan Chujie, who negotiated the conditions with him, Li Qingyang could detect that his identity should be a military general, his dark and rough skin and the murderous aura in his eyes are very obvious characteristics, and it is absolutely impossible for a military general to enter the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as one of the differences between the two discovered by Li Qingyang.

However, according to Li Qingyang's knowledge, the Haihan Executive Committee is composed of nine executive committee members, and according to common sense, at least five of these nine executive committee members think that his Li Qingyang's life is worth leaving behind, so that Yan Chujie's proposal can be realized. And the number of votes that Yan Chujie can cast is only one-ninth, if he can't affect the voting results, then what awaits Li Qingyang will still be a long prison life with no end in sight. If that was the case, Li Qingyang would probably think it would be better to die in the first place.

After surviving three days like a year, Li Qingyang finally waited for the final verdict. Hao Wanqing took two of his subordinates to the single cell where Li Qingyang was being held, and read out to him the resolution of the Executive Committee: "According to the results of the vote on the third resolution of the fourth executive meeting of the Executive Committee in September, the following opinions are hereby handled: approve the application of the Haihan Ministry of Security for accepting Jinyi Wei Defector into the special establishment, and at the same time immediately release the defector, and give him the treatment of naturalized citizens during the probation period, and make further arrangements according to his expression after the inspection period is over." ”

Li Qingyang didn't understand the string of things in front of him at all, but he knew very well what the word "release" meant. When he heard these two words come out of Hao Wanqing's mouth, Li Qingyang finally breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had survived the most difficult hurdle.

After Hao Wanqing finished reading the notice, he beckoned: "Open the shackles for him." ”

"Thank you, Lord Hao!" Li Qingyang still thanked him very knowingly.

Hao Wanqing waved his hand and said: "We don't want to call adults here, you will also belong to our security department in the future, according to the rules, we will call each other positions." ”

"Director Hao!" Li Qingyang's mind was also spinning fast enough, he had heard people here call him this when he was interrogated by Hao Wanqing before. At that time, Li Qingyang didn't really understand whether this was a name, a trade name or something else, and later learned that this "director" was an official position in the Haihan system. Li Qingyang didn't know how much power this official position had, but he at least knew that Hao Wanqing, the director, was in charge of this field that was competing with Jinyiwei, and it seemed that he was definitely the big boss in this department. If we compare it with the internal level of Jinyiwei, Li Qingyang thinks that even if Hao Wanqing is not the number one commander like the commander, at least he is a high-ranking official at the level of the commander and the commander of the Tongzhi or the command.

Li Qingyang's guess is really inseparable, He Xi is the head of the Ministry of Security appointed by the Executive Committee, and Hao Wanqing can be regarded as a stable second leader in this institution. Moreover, the Ministry of Security is the vertical management unit of the Executive Committee, and has many privileges, and among the many "directors" of various institutions in Haihan, Hao Wanqing can be regarded as a high-ranking and powerful category.

Hao Wanqing nodded calmly in response, and after his subordinates removed the shackles from Li Qingyang's body, he took out a second document: "What is being read out now is the appointment notice of our Haihan Security Department for you." ”

The reason why he didn't finish reading it in one breath just now, Hao Wanqing also followed the procedure in strict accordance with the procedure, first completed the release of people in accordance with the resolution of the executive committee, and then appointed them. Hao Wanqing cleared his throat, and then read: "Li Qingyang, a hundred households of Daming Jinyi Wei, is now hired as the special affairs consultant of the Haihan Security Department, and the employment period is tentatively set for one year, and the contract will be automatically renewed if there is no objection from both parties at the expiration of the term." During the employment period, the Haihan Security Department will give Li Qingyang the corresponding basic living treatment according to the fourth-level labor standard for naturalized citizens, and the work remuneration will be calculated according to the standard of the internal staff of the Haihan Security Department. Li Qingyang must abide by the Ministry of Security's management rules and code of conduct, and must obey the arrangements of the Ministry of Security for all matters related to intelligence work, and must not leave the designated activity area without permission, must not have contact with outsiders at will, and must not inquire about Haihan's confidential affairs unrelated to his work......"

The content of this employment agreement is much richer than the resolution notice of the executive committee, and everything is listed in it, and the responsibilities that Li Qingyang will bear and the regulations that must be complied with are very detailed. Li Qingyang didn't dare to be careless, and listened with his ears pricked up seriously. This thing is the foundation for him to settle down in Sanya in the next year or two, even if there are many things in it that he doesn't understand for the time being, he has to keep it in his mind first, and then slowly seek specific explanations from Hao Wanqing when he has time to turn around.

Hao Wanqing read it for five minutes in one breath before he finally finished reading this document. This is not that the Ministry of Security is too idle to do anything and has a long story to entertain Li Qingyang, but that at the executive committee meeting the day before, some members of the executive committee made a special request -- it is okay to release Li Qingyang, and it is okay to hire Li Qingyang, but it is necessary to institutionalize this matter as a precedent in terms of laws and regulations, because in the future, with the expansion of the influence of the Haihan Dynasty, there may be more and more cases of appointing personnel from other parties who defect to Chengcheng, and standardizing it will also help the relevant departments to manage personnel.

The person who would come up with this idea was naturally Gu Kai, who was in charge of justice, but I have to say that Gu Kai also had some insights into this idea. As a result, the Ministry of Security had to follow Gu Kai's request and rush out a complicated version of the employment agreement, which was finally approved by the Executive Committee.