Although Zeng Qisheng does not hold a formal official position in Dongfan now, he has always been with Guo Zhiyuan to discuss matters with his staff, and he has repeatedly offered advice to Guo Zhiyuan before, which is deeply valued by Guo Zhiyuan, and he will definitely be of great use in the future, so Guo Zhiyuan will pay so much attention to him. Zeng Qisheng saw Guo Zhiyuan take the initiative to ask him, and glanced at him with a complicated expression: "Today's great victory in Dongfan is indeed a great joy, and it should not be disappointed, but Zeng Mou has a word that is not unhappy, I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" ……”

During this time, Zeng Qisheng has been by Guo Zhiyuan's side, Guo Zhiyuan knows him very well, knowing that he rarely expresses opinions on his own decisions, but every time he speaks, he can always get to the point, and when he hears it, he becomes interested, and he raises his eyebrows and chuckles: "Mr. has been with me for some time, you should know that I am not a person who can't listen to the advice of the contrary, Mr. has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it!" ……”

Zeng Qisheng gritted his teeth and said: "Today's victory in Dongbo is a good thing, but as the saying goes, blessings and misfortunes depend on it, and the Japanese have been in trouble along the coast of China for a long time. ……”

Guo Zhiyuan was poured on his head by Zeng Qisheng's words like cold water, and his somewhat hot mind was completely calmed down, he was indeed a little carried away, forgetting that he still had the mountain of the imperial court on his head, and the Wanli Emperor was already a little jealous of him, if the results of this battle reached the capital, and then he was manipulated by the ministers of the court who were hostile to him, I was afraid that the Wanli Emperor would really treat him as a confidant, his current power was far from being strong enough to confront the imperial court, once the Wanli Emperor made up his mind to strangle him in the cradle, Then Dongfan is in danger!

Thinking of this, Guo Zhiyuan came down in a cold sweat, solemnly bowed to Zeng Qisheng, and said: "Thanks to Mr. for mentioning it, I almost made a big mistake!" ……”

Zeng Qisheng was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again and said: "Adults must not kill villains, adults have all kinds of opportunities, and it is reasonable to be a little ill-considered, Zeng is an adult's counselor, and it is an internal matter to check and fill in the gaps, how dare you be an adult?" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan didn't care about being polite with Zeng Qisheng, turned his head and said in a deep voice to the guards behind him: "Hurry up and summon Zhang Cheng to meet me!" ……”

Zhang Cheng is also one of the few people who did not participate in the banquet tonight, with the expansion of Guo Zhiyuan's power, the intelligence network is getting bigger and bigger, as the person in charge of Guo Zhiyuan's secret spy system, Zhang Cheng's shoulders are naturally heavier, he has to be busy choosing suitable seedlings from the new immigrants to train and expand his secret spy team, he also made meritorious contributions to this battle, and it was his secret spy who was responsible for detecting the movements of the pirate coalition at sea before, but as the person in charge of the secret spy system, he must always be vigilant, so he did not participate in tonight's celebration banquet.

After receiving Guo Zhiyuan's summons, Zhang Cheng quickly came, and when he saw Guo Zhiyuan's serious face, he thought something big had happened, and saluted cautiously: "What is the matter with your lordship?" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan didn't care about explaining too much to Zhang Cheng, and directly ordered: "You should do three things immediately!" 1. Immediately block the news of this battle, and the results of the battle count will be listed as top secret, and they are not allowed to be leaked to the outside world! 2. Speed up the screening of pirate captives, select some pirates who have no major evil deeds and reorganize them, and let them go back to the islands where they were before they were entrenched, and let them continue to operate in the nearby waters, but they must obey the orders of our army and must not attack and loot innocent merchant ships! 3. You go to Mr. Xu to withdraw 500,000 taels of silver tickets, and then select some Western treasures from the goods returned from the previous sea trade transaction, and you personally bring them to the capital, of which 100,000 taels of silver are the taxes and silver of the imperial court paid in advance by Dongfan this year, and the rest are used to pay the ministers of the court, and I will list the specific list for you, and I will also write a fold to you to play the court, and I will report to the court on the fold, saying that I was attacked by the Japanese invaders, although I won by luck, but the garrison soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the warships were seriously damaged. I ask the imperial court to allow me to expand the garrison and build a shipyard in Dongfan, and ask the imperial court to allocate shipbuilding craftsmen and drawings to support Dongfan......"

Zhang Cheng saw Guo Zhiyuan's expression and knew that the matter was important, and he didn't say much, so he immediately took the order and left, Zeng Qisheng saw that Guo Zhiyuan could come up with a countermeasure in a short time, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "The adults are decisive in handling things, and they don't leak, so that I can be safe!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan shook his head and sighed: "I just hope it's not too late to make amends!" ……”

Although Guo Zhiyuan ordered the news to be blocked as soon as possible, and as much as possible to "shrink" the results of this battle, but the news to the inland of Fujian still caused an uproar, you must know that the coastal areas of Fujian have been infested by the Japanese invaders all the year round, and have been in a state of passive defense, so the construction of water villages all over the coast of Fujian is at most a deterrent, and there is no way to take the Japanese who run away after grabbing it like the wind, even when Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, the two famous generals, were stationed in Fujian, they also adopted a defensive counterattack strategy, although they had a victory, But at best, it was a small victory to annihilate a small group of pirates, and a battle that could kill hundreds of pirates was a great victory.

And this time, Guo Zhiyuan actually annihilated thousands of captured pirates, including more than 2,000 Japanese pirates (this is already the result of Guo Zhiyuan's efforts to blur the results of the battle as much as possible), and basically crippled the Japanese pirate forces along the coast of Fujian.

Therefore, the first reaction of most Fujian officials and sailors when they heard the news was not to believe it at all, but not to believe it could not change the iron fact, according to the reflection of sailors on merchant ships in the past, the activities of pirates and pirates in the coastal waters of Fujian have decreased significantly, and only a small group of pirate ships occasionally cruise on the sea (in fact, they are fake pirates pretended to be pirate captives compiled by Guo Zhiyuan), and these pirate ships basically do not rob passing merchant ships, as if they have changed their temperament overnight, from butchers to fasting and chanting Buddha, On the other hand, Dongfan, who should have suffered the catastrophe of annihilation, was fine, and there were more ships transporting materials and goods between Dongfan and Fujian, which was obviously not the losing party in this battle, which made the court officials and naval generals in Fujian have to believe that the news that Dongfan won the battle with the pirate alliance was accurate.

confirmed the accuracy of the news, but the court officials and sailors of Fujian quarreled about how to deal with this matter, such a big thing must be reported to the court, but how to report is particular, Guo Zhiyuan became the prefect of Dongfan at a young age, and there are many Fujian officials who are blushing at him, and now he has made such a military exploit, so isn't he going to heaven? Besides, if it is reported truthfully, the Fujian Navy Division had no way to take the Japanese Invaders, and they collapsed as soon as they fought, but Guo Zhiyuan relied on the barren Dongfan to kill the Japanese Invaders, wouldn't it seem that the court officials in Fujian Province were all straw bales?