Chapter 1068 Subsequent Impact

In the early summer of the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, a rather strange thing happened in Hangzhou. According to rumors, the first people to discover the situation were the family members of Yu Pingfeng, the commander of Zhejiang Dusi, because Mr. Yu did not behave as usual that day.

He came home from work on time. If he said he had some entertainment, he didn't say hello to his family in advance. The housekeeper sent someone to Dusi Yamen to ask, and he said that Mr. Yu left at noon and never came back. After further inquiry, he said it was yes.

At noon, people from Jinyiwei came and took Yu Pingfeng out of Dusi Yamen.

People in the Yu family also knew that Yu Pingfeng had a close relationship with Liao Xun of Jinyiwei. They immediately went to the Jinyiwei Yamen to inquire about the news. The answer they received was that Liao Baihu had not been to the Yamen at all that whole day. But Jinyiwei was in charge.

Many of the affairs required to be handled in the field, and there were often situations where he would not go to the Yamen for a day or two, so no one was surprised by this. Moreover, Liao Xun took more than a dozen people out of the city to perform a secret mission the night before.

I didn't mention to the people at the Yamen when I would be back.

Although they did not find Liao Xun in the Yamen, the Yu family did not give up. They turned around and went to the Liao Mansion. However, after taking pictures for a long time, no one answered the door. It was like an empty house. The Yu family had nothing to do.

Continue to guard Liao's house while sending people to ask for help. Yu Pingfeng's wife's brother is a lieutenant in the garrison in the city. After hearing the news, he rushed over and ordered people to climb over the wall and enter Liao's house, but found that people had already gone to the house.

It's empty, there really isn't even a living person left.

Now the people of the Yu family knew that something was serious, and they quickly sent someone to report it to the officials. Yu Pingfeng's close friend Guo Zheng was the official of the Procuratorate, so the Yu family specially sent someone to the Guo Mansion, thinking that

Guo Zheng was asked to come forward so that people could be sent to investigate the disappearance of Yu Pingfeng and Liao Xun as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, Guo Zheng was not in the house either. It was just that he usually socialized a lot, so his family thought he was away on business and did not notice anything was wrong.

It wasn't until I heard that the other two people had disappeared that I quickly sent someone to the Yamen to ask. Sure enough, just like Yu Pingfeng, Guo Zheng was picked up by Jin Yiwei's people that afternoon, and he did the same before leaving.

He did not explain his whereabouts to his colleagues.

The last whereabouts of Yu Pingfeng and Guo Zheng seemed to be inseparable from Liao Xun. However, since Liao Xun's entire family had disappeared, it was not possible to find the person involved for confirmation. Three people were arrested in one day.

The imperial officials disappeared for no reason, and disappeared in such strange and unexplainable circumstances. This was a situation that had never happened in Hangzhou. Of course, the most bizarre one was the disappearance of Liao Xun, because there were other people who disappeared almost at the same time as him.

There are more than ten people in his family, as well as more than ten subordinates who followed him out of the city.

It was already night when the situation was discovered, and all the city gates in Hangzhou City were closed. There was no need to apply for a city closure ban. At that time, the city defense army and the police in the city were mobilized to search everywhere in the city, hoping to find him.

Some clues. Of course, there was no actual gain from this night's toil. These more than 20 people just disappeared into the air without leaving any traces.

After dawn, the search scope expanded to the outside of the city, and checkpoints began to be set up on the main roads entering and exiting Hangzhou. Officials and soldiers began to appear even on various rivers and lakes, and all water and land transportation routes began to be controlled.

It has to be said that the response of the Hangzhou government was relatively quick and the measures taken were correct. If the missing person is still near Hangzhou City, there will indeed be a greater chance of finding his whereabouts through these measures. However, including three court officials

All the missing persons included were neither alive nor dead. The government mobilized thousands of people to search within a thirty-mile radius of Hangzhou for several days, but still could not find any trace of them.

A fire incident that occurred outside Fengshan Gate in the south of the city during the same period attracted much less attention. At midnight on the night when Liao Xun and others disappeared, a fire suddenly broke out in a store outside the city. It was probably the recently stored items in the store.

There were too many flammable items, and the fire quickly got out of control, burning the entire courtyard. However, no one in the inn escaped from the fire, perhaps because they were asleep. People cleaned up the next day

When the ruins were destroyed, nine corpses were found inside. Judging from the location and physical appearance of the room, Wan, the shopkeeper, should be among them, and the rest may be shopkeepers and guests living here.

The Procuratorate of Punishing, Jinyiwei, Hangzhou Government Office, and Qiantang County Government Office all specially sent people to carefully check and examine the remains of the deceased to determine whether any of the victims included the officials the government was looking for.

.However, the results of the joint inspection by several coworkers made them very disappointed. There was no target person they were looking for among these corpses, and there was nothing suspicious about the corpse itself. The autopsy results confirmed that these people did die in the fire.

, and there were no signs of trauma other than burns. The police officers also found no obvious signs of arson in the fire scene. Everything showed that this seemed to be just an accident.

Since the government's main focus was on locating the three missing officials, although several people died in the fire at the store, it did not attract much attention. Although there was uncertain news that Liao Xun was missing

It seems that they appeared near the fire site that day, but due to the lack of evidence, investigators have difficulty in linking the two incidents together. Because at almost the same time, in the witness information received by the government, several missing officials seemed to have disappeared.

Appeared in other places, and every piece of such information must be followed up and verified, so the investigation here was quickly completed and the remaining cleanup matters were handed over to the neighbors.

Of course Wan Fa was not burned to death in Chengfengxing. That night when Chengfengxing burst into flames, he was already on the ship to Zhoushan Island. At this time, there were also prisoners who were traveling with him on the ship from Zhoushan.

According to the instructions from Zhoushan Island, Gong Shiqi, three Ming officials, did not execute them on the spot. Instead, he used Liao Xun's men as scapegoats to burn all possible loopholes in Cheng Fengxing.

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Gong Shiqi did not return to Zhoushan with the ship. He stayed in Hangzhou and continued his activities. Taking advantage of his position in the dark, he continued to release various false news throughout Hangzhou to disrupt the government's investigation of the disappearance of officials. Due to the missing persons

It is currently under Haihan's control, so it is not difficult for Gong Qiqi to fabricate some decent fake news, and it is easy for all the government investigators to be in a state of exhaustion.

Under the influence of many disturbing news, Gong Shiqi was convinced that it would be difficult for the Hangzhou government to find out the true whereabouts of these three people in a short period of time. Cheng Fengxing had been burned into ruins, and all relevant evidence had also been destroyed.

The ashes were annihilated. Even if someone familiar with the situation of these three people would suspect that Haihan was involved in this matter, without evidence, it would be difficult to confirm this speculation and send people four hundred miles away.

It is even more impossible to carry out a search in Zhoushan. Therefore, at the current stage of development of this matter, it is almost certain that no decent investigation results will be obtained.

Fortunately, Gong Shiqi had bought a house in Hangzhou in advance. Although Chengfengxing was gone, there was a new stronghold in the city. He could still sit in Hangzhou with peace of mind and handle the subsequent clean-up matters.

The person responsible for escorting the prisoners back to Sanya was naturally Gao Qiaonan. He led the special operations battalion to evacuate Hangzhou first. As a supporting role in this operation, Gao Qiaonan was only responsible for commanding the final stage of the operations in the city, which was almost effortless.

With little effort, they captured Liao Xun's family and transported them in batches outside the city for shipment. It was easier than Gong Shiqi who was busy. However, this operation also allowed Gao Qiaonan to see the strength of the field team of the Ministry of Security.

, the Ministry of Security is indeed better at carrying out such special tasks in non-Haihan controlled areas than the military.

Moreover, Gong Shiqi was almost responsible for formulating and adjusting the action plan during his stay in Hangzhou, which also gave Gao Qiaonan a new understanding of his personal abilities. When the joint action team first arrived in Hangzhou, it was almost impossible to complete the task.

An effective method, and it was almost exposed when Jin Yiwei came to the door, but Gong Shiqi cleverly took advantage of the seemingly dangerous situation and used his strength to capture all three targets alive in two days and one night.

It was also able to clean up all traces. Apart from the loss of one store, we did not suffer any losses in terms of personnel. The completion of the mission was perfect.

The boat Gao Qiaonan took did not make any stops along the way. It went straight out of Hangzhou Bay along the Qiantang River and sailed eastward to Zhoushan. It only took a day and a half to arrive at Dinghai Port in Zhoushan. It had been advanced through the radio

After learning the news, Hao Wanqing and Qian Tiandun also came to the dock in person to greet the victorious team.

"Are these our three guests?" Hao Wanqing asked him proactively when he saw the three ashen-looking men being escorted off the ship by Gao Qiaonan's men.

Gao Qiaonan responded: "Commander Mingjian, the short one is Liao Xun, the tall and dark one is Yu Pingfeng, and the one with the goatee is Guo Zheng."

Hao Wanqing nodded repeatedly and said: "These people are much more valuable alive than dead. You have done a good job!"

In order to dismantle the anti-Hai-Han forces in Zhejiang officialdom, the Ministry of Security and the military planned this operation. Hao Wanqing's initial plan was to assassinate these three people, because it was too difficult to capture them alive, and he did not want to take advantage of his subordinates.

Risking his own life, but there are too many uncontrollable objective factors in the assassination operation, and it is difficult to guarantee the success rate. Secondly, even if it succeeds, the possibility of his own whereabouts being exposed is very high. And the operation team managed to carry out the assassination unscathed.

The trio brought them back to Zhoushan, which far exceeded Hao Wanqing's original expectations.

These three people can be said to be the main anti-Haihan representatives in Zhejiang officialdom. If they can be captured, Hao Wanqing will be sure to get more information from them. Their accomplices will be the next batch of Haihan's assassins.

The target of the attack, the voice of resistance to Haihan in Zhejiang official circles will also subside a little. Moreover, the intelligence security issue that Haihan has always attached great importance to will get a more complete answer from Liao Xun, even though it has been successfully intercepted before.

The group of people sent by Jinyiwei, but it is not yet certain whether other Jinyiwei personnel have sneaked into the island before this, and Liao Xun is the long-awaited insider of the Ministry of Security.

"I want to start interrogating them as soon as possible." Hao Wanqing said to Qian Tiandun eagerly: "While the Zhejiang officialdom has not made a clear response to their disappearance, we should make corresponding arrangements and pull out the nails that need to be

Take advantage of this moment to pull it out!”

Hao Wanqing took away these three officials on the spot, but he had no interest in the remaining prisoners, and handed them over to the military to handle them on their behalf. These people included Liao Xun's family, servants, subordinates, and Yu Pingfeng's

One of the staff members was quickly taken to a prison on the island and held in isolation. Haihan had to keep the identities of these people a secret for a while, otherwise once the news spread to Zhejiang officialdom, it would

Sometimes conflicts will inevitably break out between the two parties.

After the interrogation of the three people by the Ministry of Security is over, these people will probably be sent to the south separately, either as hard labor or as immigrants, settling in places they have never heard of. As for Liao Xun and the other three, can they

Saving lives in Zhoushan depends on their cooperation.

Qian Tiandun also generously praised Gao Qiaonan's performance this time. He and Gao Qiaonan conducted remote control this time, but their actual effect was very limited. In most cases, Gong Qiaonan had to do it.

He and Gao Qiaonan interpreted and judged the situation on their own, and made adjustments to the originally rough action plan. Although they were always worried about whether the plan could proceed smoothly, in the end the joint action team did not disappoint the base camp.

The results even far exceeded expectations.

During this period, Qian Tiandun also specially assembled a company of troops and deployed them in Hangzhou Bay as a quick reaction force. Once the operation in Hangzhou required military reinforcements, this fleet of three ships would immediately head west to Hangzhou.

, cooperated with the arrangements of Gong Shiqi and Gao Qiaonan to launch the operation. Of course, this force was not put into use in the end. The operation team solved all difficulties and successfully completed the task in Hangzhou with an extremely clever plan.

This matter does not end here. To be on the safe side, Gong Shiqi will send the latest status of Hangzhou City back to Zhoushan through the radio every day to ensure that the follow-up of the matter does not cause substantial trouble to Haihan. The rapid reaction force will also

Continue to deploy in Hangzhou Bay for a period of time until the action team headed by Gong Shiqi withdraws to Zhoushan.

"After settling the matter in Hangzhou, we can start arranging the plan to go north." Qian Tiandun said to Gao Qiaonan: "This time we spent more than ten days less time than expected, which is enough for us to

Completed the preparations before heading north."
Chapter completed!