Chapter 2062
Based on the close cooperative relationship over the years, the attitude of the Haihan Executive Committee will largely affect some of Xu Xinsu's important decisions, especially when it comes to handling the delicate relationship between the Fujian local government and the Ming court. Xu Xinsu has always been With Haihan's opinions as an important reference, decisions that are inconsistent with the opinions of the executive committee will basically not be made.
Although Xu Xinsu does not fully agree with some of Haihan's actions, considering the common interests of both parties, he will still choose to compromise and comply with the wishes of Haihan's executive committee when most differences of opinion arise. Therefore, Tao Donglai was not particularly worried about the sudden situation in Fujian. He knew that even if Xu Xinsu was unwilling, he would weigh the consequences and Haihan's attitude and would not act impulsively.
Xu Xinsu has been implementing a military separatist regime in Fujian for several years. Mingting, who has no time to take into account the situation in the south, has already recognized this situation with pinched noses. As long as Xu Xinsu does not raise a flag to rebel in the local area, then Mingting will let him do it. It is better to be the local emperor in Lingnan than to have civil strife.
This time Zhangzhou's Jinyiwei was caught by Xu Xinsu. He will definitely take this opportunity to make certain demands to the court. As for whether he can achieve his goal, it depends on Xu Xinsu's operational level. Tao Donglai's attitude towards this was actually somewhat similar to that of Ming Ting - as long as Xu Xinsu did not rebel.
For Haihan, Fujian is not only an important source of raw materials, but also one of the main markets for the export of Haihan's goods. Ensuring peace in Fujian is not only a demand for Ming Dynasty, but also has many benefits for Haihan.
Of course, the most important thing at the moment is not to study whether Xu Xinsu can restrain his ambition, but to decide whether to invest more resources in the next period of time to track down the truth of the transnational arms smuggling case.
This may be just an order to the Executive Committee, but when it enters the implementation stage, it will involve the cross-regional transfer of a large number of personnel, and the amount of operational funds required is by no means a small amount, so everyone has been slow to get it. Make a solid decision.
However, due to the insistence of the Ministry of Security and the military, the Executive Committee finally passed a resolution to continue to invest additional investment in the investigation and authorized the military to take combat operations as appropriate when necessary.
The reason for this arrangement is that the Executive Committee believes that the investigation of the case is about to enter the stage of exhaustion. It is currently impossible to confirm how many weapons provided by the Spaniards are still in the hands of the other party, but if it reaches a certain order of magnitude, the other party will It is fully capable of launching small-scale wars in local areas. When such a situation occurs, it is unlikely to be solved by the field team of the Ministry of Security alone. It is more secure to dispatch combat troops to deal with it. If the front-line troops need to go back and forth to Sanya for instructions before taking action, it may delay the fighter plane. So simply let the military decide on its own what methods to use to solve the problem.
Of course, such an arrangement will also bring about some new problems, such as whether frontline commanders will exaggerate the severity of the situation for military glory, send troops just to send troops, or even try to create an excuse to use force, and then kill first and then report the fight. Since the next investigation work will be carried out simultaneously in various parts of the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty, if there is an armed conflict between the Haihan Army and the local government, it may even affect the relationship between the two countries.
Ning Qi, who was in charge of foreign affairs, was also aware of this, so he suggested that it would be best to have a chat with Daming first and inform them of the general situation of the investigation, so that if any problems arise in the future, both parties can at least seek to resolve the matter. Resolve through negotiation. This suggestion was also recognized by other members of the Executive Committee. The diplomatic relations between Haihan and Daming were finally on the right track, and the Executive Committee did not want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts between the two parties due to the investigation of the gun case.
This work was naturally handed over to Ning Qi. After the executive committee meeting, Ning Qi went to visit the Ming Dynasty's embassy in Sanya.
The Ming Dynasty and Haihan officially established diplomatic relations not long ago. It has only been more than two years so far. The Sanya Embassy is also the only embassy institution of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Haihan. The official serving as ambassador in the Sanya Embassy today is still Fei Cexian, who came to Sanya in 1636.
As the first ambassador to Haihan, Fei Cexian has actually had a pretty good life in the past two years. The construction of the embassy alone has added a lot of income to him. He had never presided over an infrastructure project before, which was an errand belonging to the Ministry of Works. He had no idea that there was a lot of room for operation here. This was only informed by the local foreman in charge of project construction, otherwise he might have missed this in ignorance. Opportunities to get rich legally.
When planning the embassy project, Haihan officials generously set aside a large area of land for Ming Dynasty to use. Of course, Fei Cexian would definitely not accept this. After all, the entire Hainan Island was once the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but now only the embassy is left for the Ming Dynasty to use. However, the large land area of the embassy also brings many benefits. For example, the construction project of the embassy can be divided into several phases and completed slowly. Up to now, some landscape projects are still under construction in a leisurely manner.
Of course, the main purpose of these unfinished projects is just to continue to apply for construction funds from the Ming court, so they will not affect the daily operations of the embassy. In fact, Fei Cexian did not just focus on making money during his two years in Sanya. He did a lot of work both internally and externally, and achieved considerable results. The peaceful coexistence between Ming Dynasty and Haihan today is also due to his contribution.
One of the most important tasks was that the embassy provided the Ming court with a large number of reports on the actual situation of the Haihan Kingdom. The role played by Fei Cexian during this period even far exceeded that of Jin Yiwei and the others in the past few years. The combination of two yamen in Dongchang.
The reason is that Fei Cexian has the special status of ambassador. Not only can he often communicate directly with senior Haihan officials, but he can also visit many places under official arrangements that even ordinary Haihan people are not qualified to go. Exposed to many new things unknown to the outside world.
During more than two years in Haihan, Fei Cexian's horizons were greatly broadened, and he was also exposed to many advanced ideas that transcended this era. Many of them he did not fully understand and agree with, but he had to admit that the Haihan people with these fantastic ideas did have an almost perfect performance in how to make a country develop and grow rapidly.
Fei Cexian hopes that he can write Haihan's advanced concepts and technologies into his report in as much detail as possible. Even if Ming Dynasty cannot copy most of the contents for various reasons, it can use this to have a good impression of Haihan's With a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding, the imperial court will have more information for reference when dealing with diplomatic relations with Haihan in the future. The actual situation is exactly like this. With documents sent to the distant capital once a month, Haihan's social conditions have increasingly become the subject of research by senior officials such as cabinet bachelors, and the name Fei Cexian has also Gradually he became well known in the court.
When Fei Cexian went south from the capital to the South China Sea, he was still a little-known deputy Zuo Si in the Department of Rites, a minor official as big as sesame seeds and mung beans. But after staying in Sanya for two years, he had been promoted twice due to his outstanding contributions, and he was about to get the chair of Minister of Rites.
In fact, the value of the information Fei Cexian provided to the Ming court was not exaggerated even if he was rewarded as a minister. Based on the report he sent back, the Ming court was convinced that Haihan would not massively raise troops to invade the coastal areas, and would continue to live in peace with the Ming Dynasty for a foreseeable period of time in the future. Therefore, it transferred some garrison troops from the southeast region to the north and entered central China. The region participated in the encirclement and suppression of the peasant army. In this way, the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty was contained to a certain extent, and the activity area of the peasant army was further reduced.
In the original history, the tenth year of Chongzhen was a year of very frequent peasant army activities. Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army fought frequently with the Ming army in central and eastern China, and once conquered several cities in succession. But in this time and space, the Ming court transferred tens of thousands of Ming troops who originally guarded the south to participate in the war in central China. Zhang Xianzhong's life was not so easy. He led his troops to fight out of Qianshan several times, but was blocked by the Ming troops who were waiting for them. Went back. The seventeen peasant armies that Li Zicheng assembled in the Weinan area also failed to make waves. Under the attack of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, they had no choice but to turn to attack Sichuan.
The Ming army troops originally stationed at the northern border were able to focus their attention on the enemies outside the border and built the originally sparse fence more firmly. However, because the Qing army suffered heavy losses on the Korean battlefield this year, and the Liaodong Peninsula faced military pressure from Haihan, the troops used to attack the Ming Dynasty south were far less powerful than in previous years, and they even took the initiative to skip the Ming army's troop garrison. Several important pass areas were only hastily plundered near the border and then retreated to the north.
The occurrence of these favorable situations for Ming Dynasty was not necessarily all the fault of Haihan, but it did further ease the relationship between the two countries to a certain extent, allowing Ming Dynasty to concentrate its efforts on solving more difficult problems.
What makes Fei Cexian feel very comfortable is that Haihan not only does not object to his various local activities, but also provides a lot of additional support, such as "office work" provided by Haihan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the embassy every month. Funding”. You can make money while doing errands. It's hard to find another good errand like this all over the world.
Fei Cexian remembered that before leaving Beijing, many relatives and friends were worried that he would suffer bad treatment after arriving in Haihan. It was estimated that many people would be put under house arrest by Haihan as soon as he arrived in Sanya, but no one thought that he would be under house arrest in Haihan. After the Han Dynasty, they could live a very comfortable life, and even get the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune. It is precisely because of this that when the Ministry of Rites was selecting an ambassador, many people voluntarily backed down due to various concerns, leaving this opportunity to Fei Cexian, who was originally ranked low on the candidate list.
But if his colleagues in the Ministry of Rites knew his true treatment in Sanya, they would probably regret their original decision. Every time he thought about this, Fei Cexian was especially grateful for his good luck.
There must be something that makes Fei Cexian uncomfortable. It is probably that North Korea, which was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, also established an embassy in Sanya, and the king of North Korea also sent his crown prince to Sanya to study abroad. The two sides meet in Sanya without looking up, and they meet at least three or four times a month in various foreign affairs activities, so it is inevitable that they will feel a little embarrassed. Moreover, judging from North Korea's diplomatic measures, this former vassal state paid more attention to Haihan than the Ming Dynasty, which inevitably made Fei Cexian feel uncomfortable.
Fortunately, most of the days were comfortable. Over the past few months, Fei Cexian gradually accepted the fact that North Korea had surrendered to Haihan. As long as it was not an enemy of Ming Dynasty, it seemed that it could not cause any actual harm to Ming Dynasty. .
This kind of relationship between countries cannot be changed by individual officials on their own. Fei Cexian also knew that Haihan sent troops to resolve the disaster of national destruction for North Korea. During this period, apart from verbal support, Ming Dynasty failed to give North Korea much practical help. After the war, North Korea chose to downplay its diplomatic relations with Ming Dynasty, and it was reasonable to have a heated fight with Haihan. Although Fei Cexian could not accept it, he also understood the choice of the North Koreans. Both the Ming Dynasty and North Korea had their own difficulties and considerations, and Haihan was the only beneficiary.
Of course, Fei Cexian will not show any dissatisfaction in front of the Haihan people. As a diplomat who has been in office for two years, he knows very well what he should and should not do. If we openly oppose the establishment of diplomatic relations between North Korea and Haihan, it will not have the slightest effect. On the contrary, it will expose its shortcomings and make the two countries more united.
As for the recent incidents that Haihan was intensively investigating, Fei Cexian knew very little, because the shooting cases that occurred in Liaodong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places did not appear in the newspapers in Sanya. Even for the attempted assassination of the Crown Prince of Joseon on Hainan Island, there were very few relevant reports, and there was no mention that the Crown Prince of Joseon was involved. The investigation of these cases was outside Fei Cexian's sight, so he had no idea that the Haihan Intelligence Department was very busy with these matters recently.
So when Ning Qi suddenly came to visit and said that some major cases had occurred recently, and the relevant departments of Haihan needed to launch investigation operations in various places along the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty in order to trace the case, Fei Cexian's first reaction was that the Haihan people were looking for excuses. Some less friendly military measures should be taken against the southeastern coastal areas.
"Minister Ning, please forgive me for not understanding what you mean. Why do you need your country to investigate what happened in Ming Dynasty? If this is the intention of the court, then it should be me who makes the request to your country. But so far, I have not received any relevant instructions." Fei Cexian shook his head and expressed his confusion to Ning Qi.
(End of chapter)