At the same time as this good show was staged in the Zhongnanhai Restaurant in Danzhou City, more than 500 armed personnel of the Haihan People's League, the police, and the Ministry of Security were deployed inside and outside Danzhou, and they were also launching joint operations to arrest the rebels lurking inside and outside the city.

This time, the rebellion plan planned by Huang Zixing, Zhao Ye and others in addition to the more than ten people who infiltrated the Nanhai Restaurant to carry out the assassination mission, there were more than 100 people lurking in the city all over the city.

Although the plan was well formulated, it was a pity that as early as when these people entered the city in batches, they were already monitored by the relevant departments of Haihan. Although the professionals used to carry out surveillance tasks are relatively tight, fortunately, after these people entered the city, in order not to reveal their whereabouts, they basically closed their doors in a few major temporary bases, and did not put too much pressure on the Ministry of Security before today. And when the arrest is carried out today, it is relatively easy.

No matter how much you toss in the city, as long as you close a few city gates, it will be a turtle in the urn, and the rebels will not be able to escape at all. The main method that can be adopted is to concentrate on the strongholds where the rebels may be hiding, and to reduce the scope of their activities as much as possible, because the local forces are relatively limited and there is no way to carry out large-scale round-ups in the field.

After the Ministry of Security received the exact news of Zhao Ye's whereabouts, Lin Nan contacted the military and asked them to mention the round-up of the Chungmyung Academy. The military immediately issued an order to the company led by Yu Tiezhu, which was stationed near the East Gate and closest to Zhongming Academy.

In order to avoid startling the snake, the troops led by Yu Tiezhu did not camp outside the city in advance, but fortunately, the location of Zhongming Academy was not too far, a few miles away in a few moments. After Yu Tiezhu received the order, he immediately set off as an army and rushed to Zhongming Academy to arrest him.

When they arrived at the gate of Zhongming Academy, several militiamen rushed forward and directly kicked open the gate of the academy with a few kicks. When the stewards of the academy heard the sound, they came out to inquire, and Yu Tiezhu announced loudly: "At present, the Danzhou Management Committee and the Danzhou Prefecture have ordered to arrest the remnants of the pirates who have infiltrated the Zhongming Academy, and everyone in the academy will immediately come out to gather for inspection, and if there is any violation, they will be treated as pirates and fellow pirates! If there is any armed resistance to the law, it will be killed!"

Hundreds of militiamen swarmed in, and then entered the east and west courtyards of the academy to search, and drove all the people in the academy into the courtyard in the middle. There were not many people left in Zhongming Academy, but today Huang Zixing led a team into the city for a banquet, and there were seven fewer people here, and there were only about a dozen people left in the academy in total. Yu Tiezhu didn't recognize the target's appearance, so he asked the steward to quickly take the roster of the academy and roll it out one by one according to the roster.

After combing through it like this, he didn't find anyone who was not on the roster, and according to the records on the roster, except for Zhang Qianzhi, the latest student to enter the school was half a year ago, and Zhao Ye obviously hadn't come here at that time. Yu Tiezhu thinks that either Zhao Ye is impostor or he is not among these people, and if it is the latter possibility, then this guy will probably have escaped.

Yu Tiezhu didn't dare to be careless, and while asking people to hurry back to the city to ask Zhang Qianzhi, the only one who recognized Zhao Ye's appearance, to come and recognize people, he divided two platoons of soldiers and immediately searched the nearby mountains and forests.

After Zhang Qianzhi received the news, he rushed from the city to Zhongming Academy, and it was already an hour later. After he hurriedly looked at these people who were temporarily under house arrest in the academy, he immediately shook his head and said, "Zhao Ye is not here. ”

Yu Tiezhu hurriedly said: "If this guy runs away, it will be difficult to catch it again!"

"It's okay, first block the main roads nearby, and arrest his comrades. Zhang Qianzhi said: "I'll go to the study to draw his appearance, and then let the cavalry send it to nearby prefectures and counties to post it, and offer a reward for his arrest on the charge of piracy! Even if he can't be caught for a while, he must not dare to go to the city in northern Qiongbei to replenish supplies and see how long he can stay in the wilderness." ”

Although Zhang Qianzhi said it easily, he also knew that a large part of the reason why the Ministry of Security had set up such a big situation this time was to arrest this high-ranking official of Jinyiwei who had lurked in Qiongbei. And this guy's Taoism is obviously not shallow, and he did not choose to wait for the results in Zhongming Academy, but left here early to hide. Obviously, this guy probably also considered the possibility of an assassination failure, as well as the possible consequences - as long as Huang Zixing and the others recruited him, the main messenger, to hide in Zhongming Academy, the person who captured him would probably be killed here soon, and staying in this place and waiting for news was simply sitting and waiting for news.

If this guy escaped into the nearby mountains and forests, with the existing strength of Haihan's side, he was indeed unable to organize a large-scale field search, and it was almost impossible to catch him in a short time. For the sake of today's plan, we can only control the traffic arteries in northern Qiongbei first, and strengthen the entry and exit inspections of various cities. No matter how great Jin Yiwei's personal ability is, without supplies and without the cooperation of his accomplices, it is difficult to make much waves.

The large-scale arrest operation lasted five days in Danzhou, and a total of more than 170 rebels were captured, and more than a dozen people were directly killed for resisting arrest. After the underground network led by Huang Zixing was uprooted, nearly 1,000 people were implicated because of it, and these people were all gathered and soon sent to the Haihan stronghold in Nanyang for cultivation. Fortunately, due to the thorough preparation and effective command, there was no loss of personnel on the Haihan side during the entire arrest process, only a few people were slightly injured, and the loss was negligible.

At the same time, in the capital city of Qiongzhou, as well as Chengmai and Lingao counties in northern Qiongbei, a clean-up operation against the rebels was also launched at the same time. After this battle, the anti-Haihan forces in the northern Qiongbei region were almost wiped out.

On March 15, the Danzhou Management Committee held the first public trial and judgment meeting in Danzhou outside the management committee in the north of the city, and more than 3,000 local people attended the meeting. In order to achieve a good enough publicity effect, the management committee also specially used a loudspeaker sent from Sanya to relax, and almost half of Danzhou City could clearly hear the whole process of the trial.

Huang Zixing, the head of the Danzhou Zhongming Academy, and three other former officers of the Daming Guard's Army became the main culprits in the trial, and they were charged with collusion with pirates, possession of weapons, gathering crowds to make trouble, arson, assassinating officials, and other crimes, and the evidence was very conclusive. In particular, during Huang Zixing's trial, there were hundreds of witnesses who were willing to testify against him in court, and most of them were guests who witnessed the whole incident in the Nanhai Restaurant that day.

However, there were also a few tainted witnesses, in order to save their lives, several people who were responsible for arson in the restaurant with Zhang Qianzhi that day also turned against the water, accusing Huang Zixing of planning and directing the operation. This is almost the crime of Huang Zixing, whether he colluded with pirates is already a secondary issue, and the assassination of officials alone is enough to make him lose his head.

A total of seven "heinous" rebels were sentenced to execution, more than 100 people were sentenced to hard labor ranging from six months to 10 years, and more than 700 people were sentenced to exile overseas because of their relatives, teachers and students. Most of these exiles were unjustifiable, but for the sake of local stability, the Governing Council decided to remove all these unstable factors - in any case, several new strongholds in Nanyang also needed to move in a large number of working people, just in time to transport these people to colonize.

Naturally, there was not much opposition from the people to such a sentence, after all, almost all of the stakeholders of these prisoners were sentenced to exile, and the onlookers treated the trial with the psychology of watching the excitement. Moreover, the management committee's approach is indeed to maintain local stability, and this principle is also fully in line with the interests of the local people.

In the afternoon of the same day, several prisoners sentenced to death were executed at a cemetery outside the southern part of Danzhou City. Thousands of people witnessed the Haihan-style execution, and after a burst of gunfire, a row of people kneeling on the ground fell straight to the ground. Then, after the post-mortem examination, the execution was announced.

Yan Mingjun, the governor of Danzhou, and Li Jin, a staff general, also "supervised" the whole process of the trial and execution that day, and they now know very well that their position in Danzhou is not the ruler who controls local military and political affairs, but the mascot who assists Haihan in maintaining peaceful relations with the Ming Dynasty. On the occasion of heavy dà, they showed their faces, indicating that this place still belonged to the Ming Dynasty, but the actual management of the local area was all controlled by the Haihan side.

Yan Mingjun now understands what others said at the beginning, it will be very easy to be an official on Qiongzhou Island, he has been in the official career for more than ten years, and he has never been so idle during his tenure, he doesn't even need to point every day, and there are no official documents that he needs to sign at home, plant flowers and plants at home, write articles, or go to the city to wander around, and soon mix up the time, and so leisurely, he can also get the so-called "office funds" sent by the Haihan people every month, which is indeed a lot more than the salary he can get from the imperial court.

Of course, there are still some things that make Yan Mingjun feel uncomfortable, for example, if he wants to submit a work report to the Guangdong government and the imperial court on a regular basis, he must be reviewed by the Haihan people before he can be sent away. And the content and general direction of this kind of report are almost all specified by the Haihan people, and Yan Mingjun can at most have a little room to play in the choice of words and sentences.

In addition, Yan Mingjun's scope of action is also limited to five miles around Danzhou City, and if you want to go out of this range, you must first apply to the management committee for reporting, and it is strictly forbidden to go to sea without permission. The reason given by the management committee was to ensure his personal safety, but Yan Mingjun himself knew very well that the Haihan people just didn't want to let themselves out of their monitoring range.

In contrast, Li Jin's life was much better and more fulfilling than Yan Mingjun's. Every morning, he would go outside the city to observe the training of the Haihan militia, eat a meal with the officers of the militia at noon, and then continue in the afternoon, occasionally discussing some military theory issues with the militia members.

In front of this group of militia officers armed to the teeth, the only thing Li Jin can be proud of is probably the kung fu he has learned, his single-knife knife technique has been practiced since he was a child, and almost no one on Haihan's side can fight him.

But Tom Wang's words quickly shattered the little self-confidence he had accumulated with great difficulty: "General Li's sword technique is indeed very powerful, but if it is to fight us, it really won't have much effect." It will take you more than ten or twenty years to practice such a knife technique, during which you will continue to work hard, but it only takes seven days for us to train a musketeer, and the longest is only one month, as long as the gun in his hand is loaded with ammunition, it is possible to kill a master like you who has been practicing hard for many years on the battlefield at a distance of dozens of zhang. ”

After all, it has been a long time since the Ming army began to equip firearms on a large scale, but the Ming army's musket units are indeed far from the combat power of the Haihan militia regardless of their equipment level or combat capability, and the truth Wang Tom said is only applicable to the special case of the Haihan militia.

Li Jin is a straight man, and after he realized the difference in strength between the two sides, he tried every means to inquire from the Haihan officers, trying to find a way to narrow the gap in strength between the two sides, but it seemed that he had been denied entry. It wasn't until one day that Zhang Xin came to the militia to deal with official business, and he casually asked Zhang Xin, and the other party's words opened his heart.

"It looks complicated, it's very simple to say, it's nothing more than a money word. Zhang Xin explained: "The same armed training of a soldier, our cost is about seven or eight times that of the Ming Dynasty, to put it mildly, the Haihan militia is an army piled up with silver, and the combat effectiveness will naturally not be bad." ”

Li Jin asked puzzledly: "The Haihan militia is not equipped with armor, and the cost of weapons is cheaper than Ming, what does Director Zhang mean by this?"

Zhang Xinying said: "We are different from the Ming Dynasty, we take the route of elite soldiers, and the soldiers who serve are professional soldiers, not agricultural soldiers like the Ming Dynasty who fight in peacetime farming and wartime, and we need to invest a lot of resources in peacetime to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops." As you can see these days, how much we invest in the combat training of the militia regiments, and the cost of this monthly live ammunition shooting alone is no less than fighting a small-scale battle. You've also tried the food of the militia group, it should be much better than the Ming army, right?"

Li Jin nodded and said: "The salary of a soldier in the militia is higher than that of Daming, and the treatment is better than that of Daming, which is really nothing to say." But how can you afford such a huge investment?"

"The investment is large, and the income is also great! Our army is not fed for white rice. Zhang Xin patted Li Jin on the shoulder and said, "If you say it now, you probably won't understand, but you will understand it in a few more days." ”