Chapter 2071

According to the previous investigation results obtained by the Haihan Intelligence Department, the opponent is very good at deploying and operating small commercial institutions in various trading ports, and using this as a cover to implement various subsequent methods. Although the trade scale of Da Yuan Port is far away,

It is not as good as other trading ports that have discovered the opponent's movements, but considering that the East India Company has maintained trade relations with Japan, if the opponent is really hiding in Japan, it is very likely that he will not let go of Dazhuang Port. Yu Yao believes that it is still necessary to investigate.

Check out local businesses.

Hans immediately understood Yu Yao's intention: "Your Excellency General, all local people are protected by the East India Company. We cannot allow your country to conduct investigations or arrest people here."

"It goes without saying these official words." Yu Yao shook his head and rejected Hans's statement: "I believe that the East India Company was an unknowing party before this, but if Mr. Hans tries to shelter the suspect who may be hiding in Damuan Port

, then it will be difficult for us to handle the current differences in a peaceful manner."

Hans wanted to maintain the dignity of the East India Company with a tough attitude, but Yu Yao also responded tit-for-tat, elevating Hans's statement to sheltering suspects, challenging Haihan, and once again hinting that the other party might trigger an armed conflict. He knew very well that the East India Company

The shortcomings of the Indian company are that the other side cannot afford to lose the port of Damian. As long as they use this as a condition to blackmail the Dutch, they can basically succeed in everything.

Sure enough, after hearing these words, Hans's face turned very ugly again. It was not a good feeling to be held by someone. Judging from Yu Yao's confident look, he obviously expected that the Taiyuan Port authorities would have to submit.

After a battle between heaven and man, Hans finally had no choice but to compromise again.

Compared with Damuan Port, setting up permanent offices in Magong Port, Kaohsiung Port, or Zhangzhou and Quanzhou across the strait are obviously better choices for foreign businessmen. After all, those places have specialized trading facilities.

In the market, there are more types of commodities to choose from, and there are also more complete transaction and settlement management systems to provide guarantees. Therefore, foreign merchants setting up permanent offices in Damuan Port are actually scarce resources for the East India Company.

You can count them.

As one of the few foreign commercial organizations in the local area, Hans, as a local official, could not be justified in saying that he was unaware of the situation. Therefore, Yu Yao did not need to spend time on field evidence collection and investigation. He could get the information he needed from Hans.

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As for whether someone would get wind of it at this time, or sneak out of Taiyuan Port immediately after sensing the danger, Yu Yao was not worried. In addition to the warship currently moored in Taiyuan Port, there are actually

Two warships were cruising on the sea not far from the port. This was also to prevent the situation from changing and to have enough armed forces to reinforce nearby. Yu Yao himself had the idea of ​​knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, so he visited in a warship arrogantly.

Taiyuan Port. If anyone tries to escape from Taiyuan Port by boat during his stay, he will undoubtedly be intercepted by the Haihan warship at sea.

"Well, there is a local trading company whose manager is from Japan..." Hans finally couldn't bear the pressure and honestly told Yu Yao what he knew.

About half an hour later, a group of heavily armed Dutch soldiers were dispatched from the city of Geranje, entered the market and surrounded a certain trading house. This was the last bit of dignity won by Hans's strong request, and the Dutch sent troops to investigate.

This shop prevents Haihan soldiers from swaggering through the city and affecting the mood of the local people.

Although Yu Yao was a little dissatisfied, he finally agreed to the other party's conditions. After all, Damuan Port was still under the rule of the Dutch. If the Haihan Army was allowed to launch an arrest operation here, it would indeed hurt the Dutch.

To save face. Since the other party was willing to cooperate, Yu Yao was happy to save trouble and let the Dutch arrest the person.

However, Yu Yao did not forget to remind Hans that if this trading company was the target of Haihan's pursuit, it would probably have weapons such as muskets hidden in it, and might use force to resist the arrest.

However, Hans's men probably did not receive clear warnings from their superiors before taking action. Therefore, during the subsequent arrest operations, these Dutch soldiers underestimated the danger of the arrest target. When they tried to forcibly close the store and arrest the person,

encountered resistance, and then the most intense battle in Taiyuan Port in recent years took place.

By the time Hans in Relanje City received news from the front that something had happened in the arrest operation, the battle on the front line was actually over. When Hans and Yu Yao rushed to the scene in a car, the place was already occupied by hundreds of Dutch soldiers.

They were surrounded, and the people who tried to join in the fun and watch were all kept away. Only official people could enter this place.

The result of this battle greatly embarrassed Hans. Two of his subordinates who came to carry out the arrest mission were killed and seven injured. This was the most serious casualty incident in Damuan Port after the peace agreement was signed with Haihan. If the opponent was

That's fine with the Haihan army, but this time the Dutch army was fighting against just the operator of a shop. This simply made Hans burst into tears. He originally wanted to settle the matter three times and five times five times after dividing it by two.

, they hurriedly sent the Haihan people out of the country, but they didn’t expect that their men were so unsatisfied that they fell so hard on their own land.

Later, Hans met the ashen-faced officer leading the team and listened to his account of what happened.

This officer did not encounter any obstruction when he led the team into the business. However, when he told the shopkeeper that everyone here would be taken back to the city of Jeranja to assist in the investigation and that the inside and outside of the business would be searched, the shopkeeper

First, he tried to bribe him directly with money. After he failed, he claimed that he needed some time to sort out the business, and then summoned his employees to follow him back to the city of Relanja.

The officer leading the team, who lacked sufficient vigilance, believed the shopkeeper's words, but he never expected that the shopkeeper immediately summoned several clerks in the shop, took out several muskets from somewhere, and followed the shopkeepers guarding the shop directly.

The Dutch soldiers took action. They were caught off guard and several people were shot and fell to the ground.

However, there were more than 40 Dutch soldiers on the arrest mission, and more than half of them were guarding outside the store. Therefore, although the group in the store took the lead, they were not able to escape in the end. They were blocked in the store and ate several meals.

A volley of muskets was fired. In the end, no one escaped, but no one was left alive. All six people in the store, including the shopkeeper, were shot dead on the spot.

"That's it? I have to say, this really makes me quite disappointed." Yu Yao expressed dissatisfaction with the results achieved by Hans' men: "The army was dispatched, but not even a single person was caught alive!"

Hans could only forcefully defend himself: "This is a group of very dangerous guys. My soldiers have tried their best for this and even sacrificed their lives! Your Excellency General, as a soldier, I don't think you should comment so disdainfully.

Your peers."

Yu Yao avoided answering Hans's counterattack, and then said: "If I am not mistaken, this group of people is the same group of people we were chasing before, that is, you were unwilling to cooperate and tried to

The objects of maintenance. Now you should know why we must check their background!"

Yu Yao did not expect that the investigation in Taiyuan Port would reach this stage. When he asked Hans whether there were any suspicious commercial organizations in the local area, he also took a chance, but he did not expect that the local area would be like this.

The owner of such a company is from Japan, and he never expected that the only one being investigated would be the target he was looking for.

It's a pity that the Dutch's handling of this was not ideal, and their performance in the capture operation was even worse than that of the Ming army across the strait. Not catching anyone alive meant that they couldn't get more in the first place.

of information.

Several muskets seized after the battle were handed over. After Yu Yao looked at them, he quickly determined that these guns were exactly the same as the muskets seized in Penghu and Kaohsiung. They were also standard weapons produced by the Spanish.

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"These damn Spaniards are really restless!" Hans had already believed the information that Yu Yao had previously disclosed to him, thinking that this was a collusion between the Spaniards and some of the Eighteenth Party members with ulterior motives.

A special plan to create chaos in places like Taiyuan Port and seek opportunities to seize control.

"Now that things have happened, I think there is no need for you to hide anything from me anymore, so can you give me a more detailed explanation of the situation of this firm?"

Although there was no one left alive, Yu Yao believed that Hans would definitely not know anything about the origin of this trading company, and it would be useful to know some relevant information now.

Hans also realized that his territory had been planted with hidden stakes, and the person who arranged this was one of the trading partners of the East India Company. Due to interests considerations, the East India Company probably had no way to investigate further.

In this matter, it is even more impossible to send an armed fleet to Japan to investigate the truth. However, since the Haihan people are determined to investigate the matter thoroughly, they may be able to use the power of the Haihan people to exact revenge on the mastermind behind the scenes.

"They really shouldn't provoke you Haihan people, they are asking for death!" Hans shook his head and sighed, and then told Yu Yao some of the information he knew.

The store that opened a trading house in Taimu Port was called Hirado Co., and its name already made clear its background. It was a commercial organization with an official background of the Hirado Domain. However, the personnel of Hirado Co., Ltd. stationed in Taimu Port were all

The shopkeeper, who is Han Chinese, claims his surname is Liu, but his true identity cannot be confirmed now.

This local trading house was only opened a year and a half ago. Its main business content is to cooperate with the East India Company. Hirado Bank will pay for it, and the East India Company will purchase goods from the Ming Dynasty, Haihan and other countries, and then

The Hirado Bank then transported these goods back to the country, where they were sold or paid tribute to senior officials of the shogunate.

The main reason for adopting this trade method is that Japanese merchants have limited purchasing channels overseas. Even if they go to various trading ports along the Ming Dynasty on their own, they may not be able to successfully purchase the required goods at ideal prices, especially those produced in Haihan.

It was difficult for Japanese merchants to travel to distant Sanya to complete the trade. The Dutch had always been the most trusted trading partners of the Hirado clan, so the good thing about the resale was given to acquaintances.

Of course, looking at it now, this kind of benefit transfer may have other hidden purposes, such as letting the Danyuan Port authorities relax their vigilance and allowing Hirado Bank to implement various secretive methods. Similar methods were used in Zhangzhou's Zhengfu Ji

It was used on the local Jinyiwei industry to gain official protection.

The Haihan people have never entered Taimuang Port, and the security of deploying a commercial establishment here is definitely better than elsewhere. The Dutch have benefited from this. In order to maintain this source of income, they are unlikely to expose the existence of Pinghu Bank to the outside world.

.But the person who planned this incident never expected that the Haihan people would eventually find other clues and find out the port of Taiyuan. However, the Dutch could not withstand Haihan's pressure and not only sold the Hirado Bank, but also

I also plan to take them myself.

But it is precisely because Hirado's transactions with the East India Company have always been stable in the past, with few trade disputes and never causing trouble in Taiyuan Port. Therefore, Hans did not think of this trading house until he issued the order to take action.

It will be a dangerous existence.

But the vigilance of these people in the trading house was obviously much higher than that of the Dutch. Perhaps the news of the Haihan warship's visit had made them wary. When they realized that the Dutch's intention was to capture them back to Hot

They were imprisoned in Lanzhe City and immediately decided to attack. Perhaps these people's idea was to fight a bloody road and escape by boat, but they obviously did not expect that the Dutch had no intention of leaving them an escape route. Although they took the initiative, they

Still failed to escape the roundup.

"So this Hirado branch is actually the property of the Matsuura family, the lord of the Hirado domain?" Yu Yao was slightly surprised after hearing the answer, and confirmed the information with Hans again.

After getting a positive answer from Hans, Yu Yao nodded and said: "Then I suggest you think of a better reason as soon as possible to the Matsuura family as to why all the people in the Hirado Bank of Taiyuan Port suddenly disappeared, so as to convince them

Then send someone else to take over."

Hans immediately understood what Yu Yao meant. He thought that the Han people had not been able to survive, and he was obviously not reconciled to this. He hoped to use deception to get the Matsuura family to send more people to the trap. But he did not think that this was a trap.

Possible method: "Your Excellency General, you said earlier that similar trading houses have been busted in many trading ports in the Fujian Strait area recently. These trading companies have had troubles one after another. It is difficult to completely conceal the news, right? Wait for the news from Damuan Port to be sent to Hirado.

, I guess the people over there have already been alert."

Although the speed of news spreading in this era is slow, as Hans said, the Hirado side will most likely receive the news of the accident in other places first. By then, no matter how good the story the Dutch make up, it will be difficult to deceive the Hirado Domain.

The mastermind behind .
Chapter completed!