Ma Yue, who wanted to personally supervise the battle, did not expect that his first official battle would become the last experience of stepping on the battlefield, and he was fortunate to become the first guard commander to step down abnormally in the East China Sea and coastal defense in recent years. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But Ma Yue's disappearance did not immediately cause confusion in Hainingwei, Jiaxing, or it is more accurate that no one noticed it for a short time.

Before leaving, he did not tell the two commanders and his subordinates about his whereabouts, only said that they were unwell and would have to rest for a few days, and specially told them not to visit them at home. However, he told his family that he was going to Hangzhou for business and that he might need to go for several days to come back. Under this mistake, no one immediately discovered that the commander of the guard had disappeared for no reason.

It was not Ma Yue's colleagues in Hainingwei who first discovered and exposed this situation, but Guanhaiwei, who was separated by a Hangzhou Bay. On 3 July, a naval vessel under the command of Guan Haiwei discovered a Japanese ship in the East China Sea, and when it pursued it all the way to the vicinity of Zhoushan Island, it was assisted by the Haihan militia to intercept the strange whereabouts of the Japanese boat. The soldiers who boarded the ship for inspection found more than a dozen corpses, including Ma Yue, as well as a large amount of cash and some goods produced by the Ming Dynasty. Another day later, Huang Tao, commanded by Guan Haiwei, personally confirmed Ma Yue's identity and sent a message to Hainingwei.

Hainingwei was naturally shocked when he received the news, and immediately led a team by a commander to watch Haiwei identify the body, and found that in addition to Ma Yue's body, the more than ten corpses found on the Japanese ship were all Hainingwei's people, and they were all Ma Yue's henchmen. Because the boat resisted arrest by force and did not catch a single person alive, the cause of Ma Yue's death has become an unsolved mystery. But according to Huang Tao, Ma Yue and others should have been killed when they secretly went to sea to capture the Japanese invaders, and they should have died fighting for the country.

No one disputes this assertion, and it cannot be said that Ma Yue went to sea to secretly meet the Japanese and died because of the uneven distribution of the spoils or some other reason - although it seems more likely. But if the dignified court officials are still found to have colluded with pirates and pirates after death, and they die so disgracefully, it will not only be his face that will be lost, so there must be a proper explanation to end this matter, and the possibility proposed by Huang Tao can at least save everyone's face.

Although Hainingwei's people still have doubts about this, the property seized from the ship, the bodies of the Japanese robbers, the officers who pursued the Japanese ship, and the testimony of the Haihan people, all of which are evidence and material evidence, make it impossible to question it at all.

So when Hai Ningwei reported this matter to the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, he could only use the phrase "go to sea to suppress bandits and sacrifice his life for the country" to annotate Ma Yue's inexplicable death. Of course, along with this report, there is also a document from Guan Haiwei to report his merits, after all, he also killed a boatload of Japanese robbers, which is a rare battle feat in recent years. Guan Haiwei's commander Huang Tao, the general Xu Shaohua of the sailors, and the righteous and courageous Haihan businessmen Qian and Shi are all on the list of meritorious service. In order to be able to sit on this matter, there were more than 30 pieces of the head of the Japanese Kou that were sent to the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division.

As for Ma Teng, the owner of Qushan Island, who really made contributions in this process, he was not even mentioned half a word. Of course, this is also his own request, although he is now covered by Haihan, he is still afraid that his betrayal will attract revenge, and he is not willing to go out of the limelight. In fact, as long as he doesn't say it himself, I'm afraid that the truth of this matter will not be leaked out for several years, after all, there are not many people involved, except for the participants in Haihan, the remaining people who are still alive have all been packed and sent to the south, and their destination is not the coal mine in the black soil port of Annan, or the plantation on Anbuna Island in the South China Sea, in short, it is probably unlikely that they will return to Zhejiang in their lifetime.

Although this incident started in a hurry, the final solution was quite satisfactory, at least Haihan washed himself very clean on the surface, and further consolidated the positive image of "assisting the government in suppressing bandits".

Of course, this kind of method is impossible to bluff everyone, for example, Yu Pingfeng, the Zhejiang Metropolitan Secretary who planned this matter, knew that this matter was definitely not reported by Guan Haiwei and Hainingwei, and the role played by the Haihan people in this process could not be the good people who assisted the government in suppressing bandits, and Ma Yue's bizarre disappearance and death were mostly related to it. But Ma Yue did not report his plan of action to Yu Pingfeng in advance, so Yu Pingfeng really couldn't figure out why Ma Yue's dignified three-rank master ran to the sea quietly, and how it fell into the hands of the Haihan people.

Where did Yu Pingfeng think that this Ma Yue was stubborn and lacked practical experience, he had been thoroughly understood by the Haihan people before he started, and there was such a variable as Ma Teng that no one expected, and the result was that the calculator was calculated, Ma Yue thought that he was a hunter, but he didn't know that the prey in his eyes was the real hunter, and he became the prey that stepped into the trap unknowingly. When the Haihan people set this action plan, they have already taken into account the follow-up treatment methods, and strive to maximize the benefits of this matter. If you weren't a witness to the whole thing, it's hard to imagine that there are so many twists and turns.

Although Yu Pingfeng suspected that there was a chance that the Haihan people were making trouble about this matter, he didn't even have the slightest evidence, but Ningbo Guanhaiwei, who had not expressed his attitude before, obviously stood on the same position as the Haihan people this time. This was even more disappointing to Yu Pingfeng than Ma Yue's death, because it meant that the Ningbo Guards Army, which was closest to Zhoushan Island, had given up their attitude of being enemies of Haihan. After a month between Chang Guowei and Guan Haiwei, the documents handed over one after another to report the merits of the bandits all mentioned the assistance of the Haihan people, which made Yu Pingfeng, who wanted to take revenge on the Haihan, really hate.

If the reason why Yu Pingfeng opposed Haihan at the beginning was just that he felt sorry for the destruction of the industry he handed over to the Haisha Gang on Liuheng Island, then later it was somewhat mixed with the obsession of competing with the Haihan people. If the winner is not completely separated, Yu Pingfeng probably won't stop there.

However, the Haihan people on Zhoushan Island didn't have time to care about Pingfeng's mood, and after solving the hidden dangers of Hainingwei and Qushan Island, Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen returned their attention to their own affairs. And now they are facing the task of opening up routes in Northeast Asia starting from Zhoushan.

When Haihan established itself in Zhoushan, the routes to be opened up were not only extended north along the mainland coastline, but also the Ryukyus, Japan and Korea became the next targets for opening trade routes.

However, both Japan and North Korea have to sail thousands of miles across the sea from Zhoushan, and there are few supply points in between, and there is no guarantee of safety at sea. At present, the Executive Committee is also considering whether to establish direct shipping routes, or to establish a strategic fulcrum in the East China Sea near Japan and North Korea, and settle in the form of a colonial trading port to ensure that ships from Haihan to Northeast Asia can receive basic supplies and security.

As for the location, it is not difficult to choose, there are two in total, one is Jeju Island at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula, across the sea from the mainland, and the other is the Goto Islands near the treaty port of Hirado in western Japan. Both places have their own advantages and disadvantages, and the list goes on.

Jeju Island is a volcanic island with an area of more than 1,800 square kilometers, about 50 nautical miles from the Korean Peninsula, separated from Japan by a Korean Strait in the east, the Yellow Sea from Daming in the west, and about 300 nautical miles between Zhoushan Island.

Although Jeju Island was part of the Goryeo Kingdom at this time, the Yuan Dynasty before that was clearly part of China's territory, and it was not until decades after the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by the Ming Dynasty that the local Tamna Governorate surrendered to Goryeo, and Jeju Island changed hands.

If this place is built as a base or colony, the area is large enough, but the resources and manpower required for the corresponding development will also increase. The Haihan had already brought in tens of thousands of immigrants to the island after occupying most of the island, but they were only able to expand their living area around the three ports. Although Jeju Island is not as big as Taiwan Island, it is not as simple as saying that it is necessary to occupy the entire island.

The Goto Islands, which are close to Kyushu in Japan, are composed of five large islands, Fukue, Kuga, Naru, Wakamatsu, and Nakamiri, as well as more than 100 small islands. The total land area of the entire archipelago is only about one-third of that of Jeju Island, and the land area available for development is very limited, except for the small uninhabited islands with no water sources and some special terrain, and the development prospects in the long run are not as good as those of Jeju Island. However, it is close to Nagasaki, Japan's trading port, and the southernmost Fukue Island is only about 60 nautical miles from Nagasaki Port, and there are many small and medium-sized natural harbors between the islands, so the construction and development cost as a trade transit station will be much lower than that of Jeju Island. In addition, although this area is said to be the domain of Hirado, it is actually a land outside the law, and the risk of military occupation of the area is correspondingly less than that of Jeju Island, which is under the direct jurisdiction of the Goryeo State.

According to the past practice of the Executive Committee, it is necessary to build a stronghold first, and at the same time occupy the land and open navigation, without delay. Even if the route was to be opened first, in order to facilitate trade, supply, and security and subsequent expansion, armed strongholds and colonies would still be established in the region, and it was just a matter of reversing the order.

Of course, building a colony first means investing a lot of money in development and construction first, and opening a shipping route first will dilute the cost of subsequent construction accordingly. However, whether to carry out the first or both prongs depends on the local situation and Haihan's local development goals, after all, Haihan's difference is not the cost of implementing the construction project, but the people who do the work. Whether it is the most basic pure labor force or the grassroots cadres and technicians who command these laborers, Haihan still has a huge demand gap. The relevant vocational training system has not been able to keep up with the expansion speed of Shanghai Han, which can be regarded as a long-standing problem since the crossing.

In addition, there is an inescapable flaw in the making of such decisions by the Executive Committee, that is, the big figures in Sanya cannot understand the actual local situation in this era, and can basically rely on maps hundreds of years ahead of time and some records in historical materials. Plans based on such information are often highly skewed. It is precisely because of this that the Executive Committee gave the front-line command a great deal of autonomy in the operation to Zhejiang, and did not set a clear timetable for the operation.

In the past few years of practice, everyone has realized that many things can not be done with the help of black technology or unpredictable prophets, the control area still has to be stationed to occupy it, and the infrastructure project still needs enough manpower to carry out smoothly. For the expansion plan of Haihan in Northeast Asia, the Executive Committee has only given guidance, but the specific decision is based on the opinions of front-line personnel.

Where will Haihan settle down next, the executive committee only gives a few candidates, what criteria to use to make a choice, and what the specific reasons are, this is the responsibility of front-line personnel. However, what the Executive Committee did not expect was that as commanders of two different arms, Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen also had obvious differences in the selection of target areas.

"Jeju Island is a large area, and it can be used as a horse breeding ground and a comprehensive military base in the future, although the development cost of the initial investment is high, but in the later stage, it can be self-sufficient, and it is definitely not a problem for the local products to feed tens of thousands of people. In the future, if you want to expand into the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea further north, you can also use Jeju Island as a rear base. Qian Tiandun pointed to the map and expounded his opinion.

Shi Diwen shook his head while listening, and as soon as Qian Tiandun's words fell, he raised an objection: "The Koreans are so poor that they can only eat radishes and pickles to live, how much trade can they have with them? We can start it by taking a harbor in the Goto Islands, and the investment is not much, and the construction period is short, so I think it is better to be on the Japanese side. ”

"But there isn't much room for development in the Goto Islands, and Fukue Island, the southernmost island, is still a bit flat, so it is estimated that we will have to transport grain from outside to the local area when the population increases. Qian Tiandun retorted.

"It's just a stronghold for overuse. Shi Diwen said: "In this part of Japan, do we have to rebel for a few hundred years? The top priority at the moment is to carry out racial transformation in the local area from the next generation, and you and I will be national heroes in a few hundred years!"

Qian Tiandun couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, so he could only give a thumbs up and say: "Yes, yes, you are amazing!" (To be continued.) )