The operation began in the summer of 1630, and after two or three months of early raids, in October the pirate army landed to attack the northern area of Qiongzhou, and then blocked the shipping between Qiongzhou Island and the mainland. From that time on, the connection between Li Qingyang's sitting detective and the mainland Jinyi Health Organization was also cut off. Later, the Haihan militia "recovered" the northern Qiongbei region and took over the maritime control rights, but the closure still lasted for a long time, and it was not until the end of the year that the shipping between Qiongzhou Island and the mainland was gradually opened, but the ports of ships from the mainland still need to be strictly checked to prevent spies from entering the island.

For example, the information channel for Li Qingyang to submit a report to the Fusi of Nanzhen was reactivated by the Ministry of Security at the end of the year to ensure that Li Qingyang transmitted some processed information to Nanjing. Since the Ming government institutions in northern Qiongbei had all been controlled by the Hai Han, Li Qingyang, the source, had almost become the only official channel for the Ming Dynasty to obtain the changes in the island shape of Qiongzhou.

However, it took a long time for the news to be transmitted from Sanya all the way to Nanjing, and it was not until nearly two months later, that is, in late January 1631, when Li Qingyang was about to submit his report to Nanjing again, that he received information from the messenger who came to Sanya about the Qiongbei Rebellion in Nanking last year.

Different from the focus of the Guangdong government, Jinyiwei Nanjing Zhenfu Division did not care much about how much Qiongzhou suffered in this war, and what help was needed from the imperial court for post-war reconstruction, and there was only one thing in this secret order issued to Li Qingyang, ordering him to try to contact or find Zhao Ye, the deputy of the Nanjing Zhenfu Division, who had gone to Qiongzhou on a secret business trip in September last year, and at this time there was no news.

Li Qingyang was shocked, and he did not try to hide the news, and every written instruction sent by Nanjing had to be handed over to the Ministry of Security for archiving and preservation. He immediately informed Lin Nan of the news, and then Lin Nan took him to see Hao Wanqing immediately to explain the situation.

For a long time, the Jinyi Wei institutions on Qiongzhou Island have been under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou, but the reason why the Nanjing Zhenfu Division sent Li Qingyang south to lurk the year before last was that they believed that the subordinate institutions, including Guangzhou Jinyiwei, had big work loopholes, and the supervision of the Shanghai Han people on Qiongzhou Island was not strict enough. However, the news of this arrangement leaked very early, and Li Qingyang was targeted by the Haihan Security Department as soon as he arrived in Guangzhou, and the Jinyiwei sent to penetrate the Haihan internal sitting, but in the end it became a tool in the hands of the Haihan Security Department to deal with Jinyiwei.

Li Qingyang's existence did bring a period of security to Haihan's intelligence work, and as the Ministry of Security predicted, Li Qingyang's regular reports were indeed able to paralyze the Ming intelligence agency at some point. But at the same time, everyone knows that this security period is also time-limited, with the continuous growth of Haihan, the influence in the southeast region is increasing, sooner or later the Ming intelligence agencies will face up to Haihan's existence, and may even make some hostile moves.

When Li Qingyang left Nanjing, he learned that the Nanjing Zhenfu Division did not intend to devote too much energy to Qiongzhou Island, and there were no other arrangements other than the group of people he had brought with him. Of course, the person who made this plan probably didn't expect that it didn't take long for Li Qingyang to stay in Sanya alone, and finally betrayed the imperial court.

But the Nanjing Zhenfu Division sent another higher-ranking official to Qiongzhou Island secretly last year, and Li Qingyang did not know about this until this time, and he did not even receive the slightest news before that.

There are two possibilities in this situation: the first is that the colleague who came to Qiongzhou Island was unable to get in touch with him before the Liaoyuan operation began to be carried out for some reason, if this is the case, it must be the other party's dereliction of duty, and the second possibility is more strict, that is, when the Nanjing Zhenfu Department sent this official, did not arrange for him to contact Li Qingyang, who was lurking in Sanya. In other words, Nanjing's trust in Li Qingyang has already declined, so it will arrange another line for others to enter Qiongzhou Island.

According to the original establishment of Jinyiwei, the highest position on Qiongzhou Island is only a hundred households like Li Qingyang, and the Nanjing Zhenfu Division originally arranged for Li Qingyang to come over, also to facilitate him to act alone on Qiongzhou Island and not be subject to the local Jinyiwei organization. And this time, he specially sent a deputy Qianhu from Wupin, which also shows that he attaches great importance to the intelligence work on Qiongzhou Island.

Of course, there is no more definite news about whether the purpose of this deputy Qianhu named Zhao Ye came to Qiongzhou Island to deal with Haihan, or whether there are other cases to be investigated. And the task given to Li Qingyang by the Nanjing Zhenfu Division was only to find Zhao Ye's whereabouts and report back, and did not find further arrangements such as cooperating with his work after finding it.

To investigate this matter, we must first go back to the two sweeps of Qiongbei officialdom by the pirate army and the Haihan militia during the Liaoyuan operation. In addition to ordinary government agencies, Jinyiwei and Dongchang, as the most important security intelligence agencies of the Ming Dynasty, are also the two key targets of this operation. Except for a very small number of people who had chosen to secretly surrender to Haihan before this, the entire Daming intelligence agency in northern Qiongbei could be said to have been uprooted, and even those part-time spies who were hidden in the people, had no formal establishment, and only received a reward for silver.

Even the Jinyi Guard Yamen in the capital city of Qiongzhou was not spared, after the Haihan militia entered the city, the military quickly surrounded the Jinyi Guard Yamen in the city with the identification of a captured pirate leader, and arrested the person in charge of the local Jinyi Guard in the name of colluding with pirates. In the process, the military used force to kill and wound many of the Jinyi guards who resisted. After cleaning the battlefield, it was found that several of the main persons in charge of Jinyiwei had died in the conflict. After checking the list of personnel, the troops carrying out the mission will

According to the military's check, they have arrested the main tasks of the Ming intelligence agency in the northern part of Qiongbei in full accordance with the list of personnel provided by the Ministry of Security, and counting the personnel who were cleared by the pirate army, the entire Jinyiwei and Dongchang in northern Qiongbei have been cleaned up. And the Ministry of Security took this notice and handed it over to the Executive Committee. After that, both the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Security temporarily relaxed their vigilance against the Ming intelligence agencies, because no matter how capable they were, it was impossible for them to rebuild the grassroots organizations again in a short period of time under the condition that Haihan strictly controlled the shipping of Qiongzhou.

After the end of Operation Liaoyuan, the Haihan military had checked everyone, including the dead, according to the list they had to ensure that no one had escaped the net in Jinyiwei and Dongchang, but in the process, no one thought that there were still people lurking on the island outside of this list.

And this time, among the alternate officials sent by the Guangdong government to Qiongzhou Island to fill the vacancies, there were no officials from Jinyiwei and Dongchang. According to the information provided by Liu Qian to Haihan, the candidates for these two yamen officials will not be able to be selected until the end of February and early March at the earliest. Even if someone comes at that time, it is probably in a similar situation as Yan Mingjun and Li Jin, and they can only come to the post single-handedly, after all, even if it is a privileged yamen, this funding and establishment are limited. Therefore, before Li Qingyang received this secret letter, the entire Ministry of Security had temporarily put down its attention to the Daming intelligence agency.

After Hao Wanqing received the news, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately notified the executive committee, and Tao Donglai quickly gave instructions on this: no matter what the cost, whether it is alive or dead, try to catch the fish that slipped through the net.

The Ministry of Security also immediately held a response meeting, Hao Wanqing believes that this matter can be big or small, if there is empirical evidence that this person has died in the previous war, or can be arrested in the near future, then there should be no big waves. But if this person is still lurking somewhere in the north of Qiongbei and secretly reorganizing the people, then it is not known when, where, and how this time bomb will explode.

The Ministry of Security sent a telegram to the militia headquarters in northern Qiongbei, and it took the militia a full five days to recheck the arrest list at that time, and confirmed that there was no such prominent official in the list of dead and arrested. However, at that time, the people who died in the war were not only these people in the Jinyi Guard's yamen, and if you want to check the identities of all the dead people, it is basically impossible to do - there are many anonymous people who have been buried in the soil for a few months after the war, how can they check their identities at this time?

Just when the Ministry of Security lost its clues and couldn't grasp the direction a little, the Navy sent good news. While patrolling the Qiongzhou Strait, they intercepted a merchant ship departing from Haikou Port, and when they were routinely stopping to board the ship, some people jumped into the sea and fled.

The navy did not waste any strength to try to catch the live port, and the sailors standing on the side of the ship fired down in a row, and the jumpers soon surfaced with a full back of guns. After salvaging the corpse onto the ship, the sailors quickly found the waist tag of the brocade guard on the waist of the corpse.

The shipowner, who was sweating profusely, could only argue that he did not know the true identity of this person, but only collected him fifty taels of silver, hid him in advance in the cargo hold splint at the bottom of the ship, and sent him to smuggle him to the Leizhou Peninsula to land.

This matter was quickly reported to Wang Tom, and Wang Tom also knew that the Jinyiwei in Qiongbei had already been wiped out, and theoretically there should be no fish that slipped through the net, but since this matter happened, it was no longer a matter of the military family, so he immediately sent a clipper to escort everyone on the ship, as well as the body of the Jinyiwei and the items at any time to Sanya. In order not to delay the time, as soon as the ship set off, the military sent a telegram to the base camp.

However, judging from the waist tag found on the corpse, this corpse should not be the deputy Senho-sama that the Ministry of Security is looking for, but it is very likely to be his entourage. Another piece of good news was that a secret letter wrapped in a tarpaulin was found on the body, and because of the use of many professional incisions, the military could not understand the contents of the letter, so it was also sent to Sanya by ship for Li Qingyang to interpret.

With this letter, the whole context of the matter is much clearer. This Jinyi Wei deputy Qianhu named Zhao Ye had led several of his men to leave Fucheng and go to Danzhou before the start of the Liaoyuan operation, but their luck was extremely bad, and they encountered a pirate army attacking the city in Chengmai County, several of their men died in the war, Zhao Ye only took one of his men to escape from Chengmai County, and then has been lurking in the wild, because the battle situation is unknown and has not dared to go to Dacheng.

After the Haihan militia recovered Qiongbei, Zhao Ye spent a long time determining the situation in Qiongbei, and it was not until the end of last year, that is, when Li Qingyang transmitted the report on the battle situation of the Qiongbei Rebellion to Nanjing, that Zhao Ye found a foothold again-of course, Zhao Ye did not mention it in the secret letter.

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This matter was quickly reported to Wang Tom, and Wang Tom also knew that the Jinyiwei in Qiongbei had already been wiped out, and theoretically there should be no fish that slipped through the net, but since this matter happened, it was no longer a matter of the military family, so he immediately sent a clipper to escort everyone on the ship, as well as the body of the Jinyiwei and the items at any time to Sanya. In order not to delay the time, as soon as the ship set off, the military sent a telegram to the base camp.

However, judging from the waist tag found on the corpse, this corpse should not be the deputy Senho-sama that the Ministry of Security is looking for, but it is very likely to be his entourage. Another piece of good news was that a secret letter wrapped in a tarpaulin was found on the body, and because of the use of many professional incisions, the military could not understand the contents of the letter, so it was also sent to Sanya by ship for Li Qingyang to interpret.

With this letter, the whole context of the matter is much clearer. This Jinyi Wei deputy Qianhu named Zhao Ye had led several of his men to leave Fucheng and go to Danzhou before the start of the Liaoyuan operation, but their luck was extremely bad, and they encountered a pirate army attacking the city in Chengmai County, several of their men died in the war, Zhao Ye only took one of his men to escape from Chengmai County, and then has been lurking in the wild, because the battle situation is unknown and has not dared to go to Dacheng.

After the Haihan militia recovered Qiongbei, Zhao Ye spent a long time determining the situation in Qiongbei, and it was not until the end of last year, that is, when Li Qingyang transmitted the report on the battle situation of the Qiongbei Rebellion to Nanjing, that Zhao Ye found a foothold again-of course, Zhao Ye did not mention it in the secret letter.