Chapter 3415
These people have lived in the Ming ruling area all year round and have not much contact with Haihan. They are also powerful local figures. It is not easy for Zhang Qianzhi to win over or coerce them.
And the neat "low credibility" evaluations on this roster sounded the alarm in advance for Zhang Qianzhi.
If Zhang Qianzhi takes the initiative to contact these people, it will be a trivial matter for them to pretend to be submissive or shirk the relationship. If they pretend to cooperate, provide false information to Haihan, or even set up a trap to trap Haihan officials, it may lead to serious consequences. .
He Xi did not tell him clearly how to perform this task. Although this gave him great authority to act, it also tested his ability to do things.
To determine what these people really think, you must first contact them directly to have the opportunity to understand their views and attitudes towards the current situation.
Where to start implementation has become the primary issue that Zhang Qianzhi needs to solve at present.
Zhang Qianzhi once again carefully studied the personal situation of everyone on the list, and finally selected three key candidates.
Two of them are businessmen, located in Yunnan and Guizhou respectively. According to the personal information recorded in the roster, they have many businesses under their names. Although they are located inland, many of them are still inextricably related to Haihan.
Zhang Qianzhi believed that it might be possible to get in touch with these two people through trade channels. Moreover, the businessman is very profit-oriented, and if he is promised benefits, he may be able to do things for Haihan.
Among the more than 20 officials, large and small, Zhang Qianzhi only selected one - Xiang Chunfu, the prefect of Ganzhou Prefecture.
Information shows that Xiang Chunfu was born in 1611, and his surname was Huizhou Prefecture, Guangdong. Due to his poor family background, he left his hometown to make a living in Guangzhou when he was young. In 1627, he was recruited by the Haihan Office in Guangdong, which was just established at that time.
He Xi, then the second-in-command of the Office in Guangzhou, took a fancy to Xiang Chunfu, who had attended private school and had some cultural foundation, so he arranged for him to work under him and sent him to a local academy in Guangzhou for education, intending to give him more education. After learning a little bit, he slowly taught Haihan various advanced knowledge to him.
This Chunfu was indeed a good student. After going to the academy to study, he passed the county and government examinations very quickly and became a boy student. The following year, he won the title of Scholar in the Guangzhou Academy Examination and was qualified to participate in the Provincial Examination.
However, Xiang Chunfu had no interest in the science education advocated by Haihan, but he could master the Four Books and Five Classics without any teacher. After long-term observation, He Xi thought that although this person had some talents, he was not suitable for Haihan's talent training system, so he was included in the Wujian Plan.
In order to allow Xiang Chunfu to successfully enter the Ming Dynasty, He Xi specially reshaped his life experience and completely erased his apparent relationship with Haihan. For this reason, he even sent him to Jiangxi to take the imperial examination.
Xiang Chunfu did not disappoint He Xi, and later he actually won the prize based on his ability. He Xi decided to continue the plan, so she paid for him to go to the capital to study at the Imperial College and wait for the imperial examination.
Although Xiang Chunfu failed to pass the exam in the next joint examination, after he obtained the status of a supervisor of the Imperial College, he could follow the process of "becoming an official through events", that is, he would be assigned to various positions by the Ministry of Personnel in the name of observing politics. Doing odd jobs in the upper-level yamen is actually a job internship, and then you have to wait to fill the vacancy. At this point, there wasn't much He Xi could do for him. The most he could do was spend more money to find a better replacement position for him.
In 1633, when the Haihan Army wiped out the remnants of Shibazhi on Miyako Island in the East China Sea, Xiang Chunfu finally received his assignment and was appointed as the chief registrar of a county in Jiangxi.
Although the status of the chief registrar is not high and he is the third-in-command in the county government after the magistrate and county magistrate, Xiang Chunfu finally successfully entered the officialdom. At this time, six years had passed since he was recruited by Haihan in Guangzhou.
It can be seen that the execution cycle of He Xi's Wujian plan is indeed very long. Once a chess piece is laid out, it is impossible to see any results within ten or eight years. During this period, the chess pieces will continue to consume Haihan's resources. , it can be said that the price-performance ratio is extremely low, so it failed to receive strong support from the Executive Committee at that time.
After Xiang Chunfu entered the officialdom, his dependence on Haihan was the same as others, which decreased year by year as his position improved. In order to prevent his early relationship with Haihan from affecting his career development, he also took the initiative to reduce his contact with He Xi.
Of course, He Xi was not an innocent person, and he had expected such changes, so He Xi still had some evidence in his hands that could prove Xiang Chunfu's early experiences.
For example, Xiang Chunfu left his signature and pledge when he was paid while working as an errand in the Guangdong Office, and received tuition receipts from the academy in Guangzhou, etc. These evidences are enough to prove that Xiang Chunfu once had a very close relationship with Haihan. Once exposed, it will of course have an irreversible negative impact on his career in the Ming Dynasty.
However, Xiang Chunfu only deliberately kept a distance, but did not openly betray Haihan, nor did he completely cut off contact. There was no need for He Xi to use these evidences to threaten him.
Information shows that Xiang Chunfu still maintains contact with the Ministry of Security once a year. Although this contact is only a symbolic exchange of letters, that is, Haihan sent a letter, after receiving it, Xiang Chunfu will still follow the agreement of Wujian Plan and reply with a coded letter without title or signature, expressing everything well.
Xiang Chunfu, a chess piece lurking in the Ming Dynasty's officialdom, may still be waiting for He Xi to wake up, but it may also be just perfunctory. Maybe when instructions are really given to him, they will not be effectively implemented.
But there are very few chess players like him who are willing to keep in touch with the Ministry of Security. Most of them have no response to the letters from the Ministry of Security. It seems that as long as they cut off contact, they can completely get rid of the control of the Ministry of Security.
In addition to this reason, Zhang Qianzhi also had another consideration in choosing Xiang Chunfu as the pilot. That is, Ganzhou Prefecture, where Xiang Chunfu is currently located, is located at the junction of Guangdong and Fujian under Haihan's control. It is also more convenient to enter Ganzhou for activities. .
If anything happens, manpower can be mobilized from nearby Fuzhou and Guangzhou for support. If necessary, Huizhou, Chaozhou, and Tingzhou can even be allowed to send troops directly.
However, Zhang Qianzhi did not intend to put himself in danger right away. He still had to follow the standard operating procedures and send a letter to Xiang Chunfu to inform him that a meeting would be arranged in the near future, and then see the other party's reaction.
Zhang Qianzhi said it was done, and immediately spread paper and ink, wrote a letter to each of the three people he selected, put it in an envelope, stamped it with a special lacquer seal, and then ordered the three letters to be sent out as soon as possible.