Qiao Zhiya frowned and said: "In two days, Changhua will hold a commissioning ceremony, and the mining of Shilu cannot be interrupted at this time." ”

"It's not going to be broken. Tian Yeyou responded: "But the production capacity is definitely not as good as before the accident, I think it would be good to be able to keep half of it." If Tiandu Industrial Zone can send maintenance personnel and spare parts as much as possible, then it will be about half a month to resume production. Of course, this must first ensure that there are no more problems in the hard labor camp. ”

"Something goes wrong again...... If something happens again, I'll really have to take the blame and resign!" Qiao Zhiya replied with a wry smile.

Although the police department is in charge of the hard labor camp, Qiao Zhiya's position is the military and political chief of Changhua and Shiroku, and he is more or less responsible for the chaos in this hard labor camp. What's more, it has caused such a large loss of personnel and property in the follow-up, if the executive committee wants to hold the leadership accountable, he Qiao Zhiya will definitely bear the brunt.

However, judging from the news conveyed by Gu Kai, the Executive Committee did not intend to start liquidating the responsibility issue at this time, and was still preparing to hand over the next task of chasing and suppressing the enemy to Qiao Zhiya to command. Of course, this may also be seen as an opportunity for the executive committee to give him a chance to make amends, if Qiao Zhiya can handle the follow-up matters properly, then probably no one will come out to talk about the riots in the mining area again.

"I'll lead the troops into the mountain in a few days, and Shilu will have to be handed over to you first. Qiao Zhiya said solemnly: "It stands to reason that with the current strength, nothing will happen again, but you still have to be careful." ”

"Don't worry!" Tian Yeyou was not afraid of this: "When I went to Heitu Port before, everyone had to serve as a platoon commander and company commander in the militia group, although I had never been a soldier, but I also learned a lot from Qian Tiandun. If those bandits dare to come back to Shilu again, see if I don't hang them up one by one and skin them!"

After counting the battle damage, it was time to deal with some of the thugs caught after the riot. In the course of yesterday's counterattack, the police and vigilante groups killed a total of 82 people and arrested more than 300 others. It may have been unlucky that some of these dead and wounded prisoners were accidentally injured, but most of them were personally involved in yesterday's riots, and they had already discovered thugs who were not prisoners in the forced labor camps, so that they knew that people from outside had infiltrated the mines and the forced labor camps to instigate the riots.

Because Qiao Zhiya had too many things at hand, he did not interrogate the prisoners in person, but handed them over to his militia group. However, the militia army is a good hand at fighting, but they are not experts in extorting confessions by torture, and most people do not have any effective interrogation methods other than simple and crude punishments, and the authenticity and reliability of the information obtained solely by torture are also very doubtful. The only thing to be thankful for is that there are quite a few people who have been caught, and they can slowly judge whether it is true or not against the situation explained by these people, but this will undoubtedly greatly slow down the efficiency of handling cases.

However, the efficiency of the Ministry of Security's operation this time was very high, Qiao Zhiya had just finished talking with Tian Yeyou, and Changhua sent a message from the Guò radio station that the security team from Danzhou had arrived at the port and would take the train to the Shilu mining area.

The voyage from Danzhou Bay to Changhua Port is about 40 nautical miles, and there is no doubt that after receiving the news, they have already gone to sea overnight to rush to this side, so that they can reach Changhua the next morning after the accident. And this news also made Qiao Zhiya breathe a sigh of relief, and the people from the Ministry of Security rushed over to take over, so that the matter of interrogating the prisoner could be handed over. The field staff of the Ministry of Security are largely trained in interrogation, and it is clear that their interrogation of prisoners will be much more efficient.

Two and a half hours later, the field team of the Ministry of Security led by Lin Nan and Li Qingyang arrived at Shilu Station.

"It's all my own people, and I won't hide it from you, Sanya has already organized a troop, and I will rush over to deal with the follow-up matters in the next few days. Qiao Zhiya walked with the two of them to the prison area, and introduced the situation: "After this army arrives in Shilu, I will take the troops into the mountain, so I can only leave you with about two days, I want to know where these people come from, whose orders they listen to, where their nest is, and what their strength is...... The more information you can provide, the more confident we will be when we enter the mountain, understand?"

"Understood, please rest assured!" Lin Nan stopped at the moment, and saluted Qiao Zhiya with a straight salute.

"Li Qingyang, you used to work in Jinyiwei, and you should know Jinyiwei's way of doing things very well. Qiao Zhiya turned to Li Qingyang behind Lin Nan and said, "We must catch Zhao Ye this time, and we can't afford to lose! As for whether we can catch him or not, it depends on how many things you can take out of these prisoners!"

"I will do my best to serve the Executive Committee to the death!" Li Qingyang hurriedly bowed his head and responded. He is now accustomed to no longer kneeling to his superiors, but when he shows loyalty, he knows very well what he should do and what to say, although there are many differences between the officials of Haihan and the officials of the Ming Dynasty, there are still many rules in the officialdom.

"I don't care what you say, but I'll see what you do!" Qiao Zhiya patted Li Qingyang on the shoulder. After he served as a local magistrate in Changhua for two years, he has gradually gained the momentum of some superiors in his speech and deeds, and is no longer the style of returnees who are obviously different from the local culture.

In the following time, Qiao Zhiya really didn't have time to ask about the interrogation, because he also had to rush to Changhua to preside over the commissioning ceremony of the local steel production workshop.

Two days later, the 2nd Battalion of the Annan Militia arrived at Changhua Port by boat, but they did not make any publicity, and after getting off the ship, they got on the train directly and rushed to the Shilu mining area to assemble. However, the ships transporting equipment and supplies are still on their way, and the pack horse convoy organized in Danzhou will also take another day to arrive, so it will take time for the official departure to begin.

After hastily completing the commissioning ceremony of the steel production workshop, Qiao Zhiya rushed back to Shilu non-stop to meet the Annan militia that had just arrived. However, before leaving, he still had to listen to the summary of information that Lin Nan and Li Qingyang had sorted out in the past few days.

"Chief Qiao, this is some useful information that we have put together, please take a look. You watch, I'll explain. Lin Nan handed over a stack of materials. Both he and Li Qingyang's eyes were bloodshot, and it could be seen that they hadn't rested much in the past few days.

In the past few days, both of them have stayed in the small dark room of torture and hardly come out, and more than 100 prisoners have been interrogated. Because of the urgency from above, Li Qingyang also made a ruthless move, and there were more than a dozen people who were maimed in his hands alone, and almost all of the interrogation techniques he had learned in the yamen in the past were used. Of course, they have not been busy in vain in the past few days, and they still have obtained a lot of valuable information from the mouths of many prisoners.

"According to the information we have, this riot was indeed planned by Zhao Ye......, an officer of the Jinyi Guard," Lin Nan began to report the general situation to Qiao Zhiya next to him.

After the Danzhou assassination case in March of the first half of the year was missed, Zhao Ye knew that the cities near Danzhou and even the entire Qiongbei would probably be screened by the Haihan people, so he did not dare to stay in these places, and directly chose to sneak into the mountains of Qiongzhong. Because he still had his identity credentials on him, he found a place to stay, which is located in the interior of Qiongzhou Island, a Li Tong cottage called Heishan Mountain.

There are more than 1,000 strong men in this place, and it can be regarded as a big village in the Qiongzhong area, and more importantly, Heishan Pass was also rewarded by the Ming court in the early years, and the lord of the mountain has a hereditary position of a thousand households - of course, this position does not have any power to mobilize the Ming army, but only gives Li Tong's self-organized armed forces a reasonable name. And Zhao Ye's means of wooing are also very simple, that is, to promise high-ranking officials and Houlu to the lord and core personnel of the Black Mountain, and ask them to cooperate with him and try to strike at the Haihan people outside the mountain.

Because the Black Mountain Pass is too far away from the coastal towns of Qiongzhou Island, all kinds of channels are very closed. In addition to knowing that a new force called Haihan has risen on the island in the past two years, he only knows that the salt and iron sold by the Haihan people are cheaper than those sold by the Ming merchants in the past.

Zhao Ye's promise was very generous, in addition to promising to ask the imperial court for a reward and ensuring that Heishan Pass would have the treatment of a hereditary general in the future, more importantly, he promised to hand over the salt works and iron mines under the rule of the Haihan people to Heishan Pass to operate. The entire west coast of Qiongxi will be dominated by the Montenegrin family, and they can also find their own land to build a city...... In short, Zhao Ye almost agreed to the treatment requested by the other party, regardless of whether he could honor it in the future.

Heishan Mountain did not doubt Zhao Ye's sincerity, after all, in the eyes of ordinary people, Jinyiwei was indeed the heavenly army that represented the emperor's will. Although Zhao Ye is only a deputy thousand households in Jinyiwei, his position is much more valuable than the position of a thousand households of the lord of Montenegro, and he speaks on behalf of the imperial court, how can he go back on his word.

So under Zhao Ye's organization, Heishan Tong drew hundreds of strong men out, and quietly contacted some Li Dong around, planning to work together to help this Jinyi Wei from Nanjing to kill the Haihan rebels outside the mountain.

However, Zhao Ye did not make a rash move again, and his previous experience in Danzhou had made him a frightened bird. At that time, there were Huang Zixing and others in Danzhou as cover, and a group of people were on the Internet, but in the end, they didn't know how to leak the news, and they were detected by the Haihan people before they started. If Zhao Ye hadn't kept an eye on it and didn't go into the city to personally direct the operation, his head would probably have been dried on the Danzhou City Gate.

Although these Li people don't have any second thoughts, Zhao Ye also knows that it may be difficult to succeed with this alone. When the Haihan militia swept through Qiongbei, it also mobilized two or three thousand people, and most of them were musketeers, how could these Li people, who were still using wooden bows and arrows and hook knives as individual weapons, beat them? Whether it was a siege or a field battle, the people of Montenegro were only sent to death when they pulled out, and Zhao Ye did not intend to consume this limited strength again.

So this time, Zhao Ye spent a lot of time collecting intelligence and then formulating the next action plan. However, due to the remoteness of the Black Mountain Pass, Zhao Ye's intelligence gathering work progressed quite slowly. It wasn't until July that he learned that the Haihan people had opened a mine in the Shilu area of Qiongxi, and the scale was very large.

Zhao Ye didn't care whether the Haihan people were digging gold or silver in Shilu, but he was concerned about another matter - the labor force that opened the mines in the local area was said to be all prisoners, including prisoners under the jurisdiction of the Ming government, prisoners convicted by the Haihan people in private courts, and prisoners of war captured from overseas wars. And its scale is really not small, and the news that Zhao Ye got is that there are at least four or five thousand people. Zhao Ye thought that if this force could be used for himself, it would create some trouble for the Haihan people on Qiongzhou Island, and even achieve a counteroffensive, but there would be a certain opportunity.

After Zhao Ye learned more about Shilu, he learned that this place was dozens of miles away from the sea, and was only connected by a road that was not wide, which could be said to be an extremely closed environment, which was probably one of the reasons why the Haihan people used this place as a place for prisoners to serve their sentences. However, in Zhao Ye's opinion, if he can instigate a big rebellion and let these prisoners obey his orders on the condition of regaining his freedom, then as long as the road to the outside world is cut off, the local area can be turned into a small anti-Haihan fortress.

With a clear goal in mind, the next step is to refine the plan. Zhao Ye also took people to the vicinity of Shilu many times to conduct field investigations and formulate action plans. It was not until August that the general plan was basically formulated.

First of all, Zhao Ye sent some Li people to the outside of the mountain to deliberately create trouble, and then these people were arrested and put into the hard labor camp without any suspense, and then Zhao Ye commanded them remotely, so that these Li people colluded with others in the hard labor camp, and gradually formed an underground force. What happened after that, just as Qiao Zhiya experienced. Using the collective escape as bait, the rebel party fought an ambush battle against the militia groups that were pursuing them in the mountains, so as to lure out more militia garrisons.

After that, he instigated a real offensive in the mining area, attacked many police officers in the mining area by surprise, and quickly seized control of the mining area. But at this time, there were two situations that Zhao Ye did not expect, one was that the prisoners who participated in the riot were not as many as he expected, and this situation directly led to the second accident, because the scale of the rebels was not large enough, they could not conquer the prison area smoothly and get more manpower and weapons, which gave the local garrison time to react. When Lu Li came out with the militia army to sweep for a while, the rebellious team immediately became a plate of scattered sand. The unarmed prisoners had no resistance in front of the musketeers, and either surrendered or fled into the woods.