The situation on Zhoushan Island gradually returned to calm under the strong control of the Haihan, but the conflicts of interest in the coastal capitals of Zhejiang Province due to the arrival of the Haihan did not end there. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe China Merchants Conference held on Zhoushan Island at the end of May created a group of vested interests, but at the same time, some people who relied on Zhoushan's original trade system for their income suffered heavy losses as a result. For these people, the arrival of the Haihan was a disaster, and the new trade system led by the Haihan completely cut off their opportunity to profit from trade in the East China Sea.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's financial means is like killing their parents, and in the eyes of these people who have suffered economic losses, Haihan is the biggest enemy. Although the powerful force displayed by Haihan in the Battle of Zhoushan shocked all the bystanders who were about to move, this did not completely make the hatred born of profit disappear, and there are still many people who are trying to make Haihan suffer a little.

In the twentieth year of Hongwu (1387), Xinguo Gongtang and Zhu Yuanzhang were appointed by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang to inspect the coastal defense in Zhejiang, and selected the northern Haikou of Yuyao and Shangyu counties of Shaoxing Prefecture to build an acropolis, taking the meaning of its proximity to the temple mountain, and named it Linshanwei. In the 36th year of Jiajing, Ning Shao's general Qi Jiguang led his troops into Linshan Wei to resist the Japanese, and once again strengthened and built more than five miles long city walls, beacon towers, forts and other military facilities, and achieved the famous "Longshan Great Victory", which reversed the situation of the anti-Japanese war in eastern Zhejiang at that time.

However, since the Apocalypse, the piracy and plundering activities in the East China Sea have gradually decreased, and evolved into a new way of making profits based on armed smuggling, and the defense pressure of the Jinshanwei, Hainingwei, Linshanwei, Guanhaiwei and other guards on both sides of Hangzhou Bay has been reduced correspondingly, and many military attaches of the guards have also joined the smuggling trade either explicitly or covertly, using official status, and even using official ships and docks for personal gain.

However, this situation has changed fundamentally after the arrival of the Haihan people, and more businessmen have participated in this game of interests and chose to join the Haihan side. The monopoly agreement drawn up by the Haihan people made it impossible for the military to participate directly, which was indeed an unacceptable change for the military, which had become accustomed to collecting money in the past few years. However, they also knew that it would be difficult to suppress this foreign strong dragon, so they could only suppress their anger for the time being.

On this day, a canopy boat came to the dock near Linshanwei, after approaching the pier, the people on the boat threw out a token, and soon a covered carriage came to the dock, and only a few people came down from the boat after parking, and they got into the car directly without stopping. After the driver drove away from the dock, he did not go to the nearby town, but drove directly into the Acropolis. Wei Shan, the commander of the Linshan Acropolis, personally greeted these mysterious guests into his official residence.

can work Wei Shan to come forward, the identities of these people are indeed not ordinary. The leader of the team is Yu Pingfeng, the commander of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, who is the official backer behind the Zhoushan Boat Gang. It was only three days after the Haihan people hit Zhoushan Island that he received the news, and by the time his side could react, the war on Zhoushan Island was over. Yu Pingfeng was naturally unwilling to let a piece of his property be easily taken away by a group of outsiders, and used his authority to issue an official document to Guanhaiwei and Changguowei in Ningbo Prefecture, asking them to expel the Haihan people who had invaded the Daming Maritime Frontier by force.

After waiting for more than ten days, the Ningbo government replied that because of the recent poor sea conditions, the ships of the sailors were seriously damaged, and now they are being repaired and cannot go to sea to carry out tasks for the time being. As for what happened to the Haihan people in the area, the local guard said that it was still under investigation, and it is suspected that it was a private fight caused by pirates plundering merchant ships. A few days later, an official document from Ningbo was also sent to the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division in Hangzhou, saying that the battle in the East China Sea was actually an action by the Haihan people to cooperate with the Wei Station to suppress the local pirates, and that there were several heads of bandits as evidence of this operation.

Yu Ping was so angry that he tore up all the official documents that had been copied to him and threw them away, he had been in the army for many years, and he had many eyes and ears in the East China Sea, so how could he not see that the people below were fabricating reasons to prevaricate themselves? The fact that Chang Guowei and Dinghaiwei in Ningbo all had such an attitude could only show that the local commanders had most likely reached some tacit understanding with the Haihan people. And the benefits they will get from this tacit understanding are probably in the part of Pingfeng that was pitted by the Haihan people.

Although Yu Pingfeng has the right to give the local guard post in the name of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, the real command is still in the hands of the commander of the local guard, and Yu Pingfeng has no official means to suppress the uncooperative attitude of the garrison in Ningbo. Moreover, when it comes to personnel appointments and dismissals, it is difficult for impeachment to really play a role if it does not bleed through the joints. Even if Yu Pingfeng is willing to spend this money, this back and forth plus the time spent in the capital activities, it will not be possible to operate in two or three months, and the daylily will already be cold by then.

This account with the Ningbo garrison must be calculated, but it is not at this time, Yu Pingfeng's priority is how to expel the Haihan people from Zhoushan, and the rest is a secondary issue. And his identity could not directly mobilize the whole province's army to attack Zhoushan in the East China Sea, so he could only adopt some other methods - for example, find some allies with the same interests, and then try to deal with these outsiders who do not know whether they are alive or dead.

It is not difficult to find people in this area, after all, there are many people who rely on the smuggling trade market in the East China Sea to make a living, and many of them are powerful people in the local area. After Yu Pingfeng used his connections to move around, he also pulled in a group of like-minded people, planning to take action against Haihan. This time, it was two of them who came with him to Shanwei.

The identities of these two people are also from the officialdom, one is Liao Xun of Jinyi Wei Baihu, and the other is Guo Zheng, the secretary of the Zhejiang Criminal Envoy and the Taoist of Zhejiang. Before the arrival of the Haihan people, they also had their own related households in the East China Sea to profit from the smuggling trade, and the appearance of the Haihan people directly cut off their economic resources, so they also hit it off with Yu Pingfeng and prepared to cooperate against the Haihan people.

Although these three people are all military attachés, they don't have many troops in their hands that can directly command the mobilized troops within their authority, so in the end, they have to be handled by the generals who are found by the front-line guards to lead the troops. So the three of them agreed on a date, and they quietly went to sea from Hangzhou Mansion the day before yesterday and came to Linshanwei in Shaoxing Mansion. In order to prevent the matter from leaking out too soon, they did not carry a guard of honor, and the three of them took the same boat, and after going ashore, they entered the Linshan Acropolis without even bringing their entourage.

The reason why they came to Linshanwei to find Wei Shan was because they knew that Wei Shan was also one of the beneficiaries of the smuggling trade in the East China Sea, and Wei Shan had also been involved in the business operated by the Zhoushan Boat Gang before. However, the Zhoushan Islands are under the jurisdiction of Ningbo Prefecture in terms of geographical division, so it is inconvenient for Linshanwei, who is located in Shaoxing Prefecture, to send troops to interfere in Zhoushan affairs, so Wei Shan did not take any action before this.

"Lord Wei, we don't need to explain to you the intention of the three of us this time, right?" After taking his seat, Yu Pingfeng took the lead in introducing the topic: "The Haihan people secretly hid weapons, organized arms, and captured the territory of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of behavior is tantamount to a rebellion, and it must be quelled as soon as possible." ”

Wei Shan grabbed the teacup with one hand and did not respond immediately. Although the other party's official position is a little higher than him, Wei Shan knows very well that he is now in the hands of himself, and the other party is asking for himself and wants to use this kind of official tone to bluff himself, which is too underestimating Wei's mind.

Guo Zheng next to him saw that Wei Shan did not express his position, so he also opened his mouth to persuade: "Lord Wei, it is the duty of our warriors to guard the territory, and now that the foreign enemy has invaded and the people of Li are suffering, how can we turn a blind eye to the fact that we have eaten the imperial court? ”

Wei Shan then opened his mouth and responded: "What the two adults said is not bad, but Zhoushan is under the jurisdiction of Ningbo Prefecture, and without the military order of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, how can this official dare to open at will and go out across the government." Of course, it is the duty of the official to protect the territory and the people, and if there is a warrant from the commander, the official should send troops to defend against the enemy. ”

Wei Shan didn't want to deal with the Haihan people, but he also didn't want to bear the responsibility of disobeying military orders and using swords and soldiers for this. These guys don't have to go to the battlefield to fight, of course, they can be quick to talk for a while, but it is themselves who have to come forward to do things and take the blame afterwards. If you can beat the Haihan people, it's good to say, it is said that the Haihan people are rich and rival the country, and there must be a lot of seizures, at least they can get money to deal with the aftermath. But if the battle is lost, these three guys will pat their butts and leave, and they will have to bear all the responsibilities themselves, and if they don't do it, they will be dismissed and disgraced. From his point of view, the risk of provoking the Haihan people is really not small.

Yu Pingfeng said in his heart that there was a warrant from the commander, and I still need to sneak to Shaoxing to find you, and I have already given the order through official channels. The difficulty of this matter is that the internal opinions on the side of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division are not unified, and some of them have benefited from it, so they will take a wait-and-see or stand on the side of the Haihan people, and there are also those who, like him, have suffered huge losses in the change of ownership in the East China Sea, and they will inevitably jump up and down and must teach the Haihan people a lesson. The attitude of the commander is very clear, if you want to fight, then plan the military expenses first, and send troops when the money is enough.

It is said that the Haihan people gathered thousands of people and hundreds of boats to capture Zhoushan Island, and if the Ming army wanted to take Zhoushan, the number of troops needed to be dispatched would probably not be lower than this number. If an army of 10,000 people is dispatched, it is necessary to reward the soldiers, prepare materials, grain and grass, and the cost of pulling out alone will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. In addition, such a large cross-sea operation will definitely require a large-scale dispatch of naval divisions, and the Yangtze River naval division is under the jurisdiction of the Nanjing Military Department, so this matter must be nodded by Nanjing. The meaning of the commander was very clear: whoever wanted to fight should first go to the Nanjing Military Headquarters and bear the expenses of the Military Headquarters by the way.

This is not that the commander is timid and afraid, but there is indeed a lesson from the past. During the Jiajing period, Zhu Kun and Lu Bo cleaned up the pirates and smugglers in Shuangyu Port, and it took three months to pacify the entire Zhoushan, but because of the infringement of the interests of the landlords and gentry, they were jointly impeached by the officials and the imperial history, and finally Zhu Kun committed suicide unjustly, and Lu Bo was also convicted of capital crimes.

No matter what the reason is, it is a private struggle between the people of Zhoushan, and whoever wins or loses is a civil affair, but if the official army intervenes, the nature of the matter will change, and the commander will not be willing to wade into this muddy water, lest he will be impeached afterwards on charges such as "taking measures to be obedient and killing and provoking".

The commander was in the middle and the mud, and Yu Pingfeng and the others naturally could not order the border defense posts to send troops to attack Haihan in the name of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division. This Wei Shan is certainly reasonable, but Yu Pingfeng heard that he should be bargaining with himself about conditions.

"Lord Wei, it's all your own people here, so open the skylight and say something. The Haihan people occupied Zhoushan, and everyone was cut off from their wealth, and only by driving them away could they come back in a good life. Yu Pingfeng didn't want to keep going around in circles with Wei Shan, so he simply explained what he said.

Wei Shan put down the teacup in his hand and replied in a deep voice: "Since Lord Yu said it so bluntly, then the official also said it bluntly, with the strength of Linshanwei, there is no way to fight with the Haihan people." Even if you bite the bullet, you can't beat them. ”

Guo Zheng asked, "Why did Lord Wei say this?"

Wei Shan said: "You only say that the Haihan people are a group of armed maritime merchants, but in fact, they came all the way from Fujian, and you think that with a few merchant ships, you can take Zhoushan Island, which Wang Jialin has been operating for nearly 20 years? At present, there are no naval warships stationed in this Linshanwei, and the largest troop transport ship is only 200 materials, so what can they do to fight with the Haihan people? Then the commanders of Ningbo Prefecture Guanhaiwei and Changguowei are not fools, they really have a advantage to take advantage of, they are only afraid that they will be on board a long time ago, so why do they need to wait for the order of the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division!"

Wei Shan's words were indeed very straightforward, the Ming troops in the capitals of Linhai were not completely blind to what happened in the East China Sea, but they knew that their strength was not enough, even if they wanted to intervene, they would not be able to change the direction of the situation, and they would not be able to make a commotion if they didn't eat the meat. In the case of obviously not being able to do the Haihan people, pretending to be deaf and dumb is actually a way to protect one's self. These three people all came from Hangzhou, and they did not know much about the situation in the East China Sea, so they inevitably had the illusion that they could drive out the Haihan people by intervening by force and regain the Zhoushan Islands under their control.

"Then what does Lord Wei mean that if you gather the power of Shaoxing and Ningbo, you may not be able to beat the Haihan people?" Yu Pingfeng also realized that things were probably not as simple as he expected, and they could not be solved smoothly by simple and crude means. (To be continued.) )