After a whole night of "collusion" with the traversers, before dawn the next day, Liu Xiang safely boarded the boat and quietly returned to Lamma Island.

Standing on the bow of the rising sun in front of him, looking at the banks of the Pearl River after falling like a shuttle, recalling everything that happened last night, Shopkeeper Liu was in a very complicated mood at the moment. The combination of the sense of relaxation and the fear of the future left him at a loss.

On this trip to Baietan, from beginning to end, Liu Xiang's emotional ups and downs were quite huge.

At first, he set out with a gloomy mood similar to "putting death to life" and "throwing himself into the net".

Then, when he saw the traversal, Shopkeeper Liu felt the "reality" of the opponent, although he was a little surprised when he suddenly saw him, but the subordinates below the general quickly put on a posture of formal negotiation, and did not use the usual methods such as "dismounting", "closing the number", "seducing words" and so on that pirates commonly used to deal with negotiators.

Liu Xiang, who has kidnapped countless votes in his life and negotiated with the Chinese for many years, soon felt the truth from some clues and the inadvertent habits of his opponents. ”

From this moment on, Shopkeeper Liu was secretly relieved - the Cao family was not Xiong Wencan, but a military general who was ordered to suppress thieves. Even if Liu Xiang's head was cut off on the spot yesterday, it was a general's strategy and clever plan to break the thief, and people had no moral concerns in this regard.

However, after the formal negotiations, the shopkeeper Liu's mood that had just relaxed became tense again, and he clearly told Liu Xiang that all his subordinates must all lay down their weapons and accept screening and adaptation, which cannot be changed.

The first article of the negotiation shattered all Liu Xiang's ideas about the core aspect of military power. The other party's undisguised arrogance made Liu Xiang scratch his head, shouldn't he be Corporal Lixian? At least you should coax the wolf into the circle and then "slowly figure it", you are really not afraid that you will die and break the net?

Perhaps because of the four pot-bellied glass oil lamps, the conference room was extremely bright. So the "Master Ma" who was sitting opposite Liu Xiang with a bun saw the thoughts of Gang Leader Liu from his eyes.

So he smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Liu, you probably haven't even figured out why we want to negotiate with you, so let's let you know what strength is today." ”

Speaking of this, Master Ma turned a shiny iron plate in front of him and pushed it to the middle of the long table. Then Liu Xiang's trio opened their mouths wide, and on the iron plate, there was a scene where Shopkeeper Liu sat in the big tent on Lamma Island and discussed with his leaders a few days ago! Not only was there an image, but the voice of Gang Leader Liu giving orders at that time was also synchronously transmitted from the iron plate.

The candid picture is very clear, and the angle is also very tricky, it was shot from the direction of a bunch of small shopkeepers standing in the corner, and the lens language is obviously the bottom of the Japanese skirt. The photographer obviously has a certain amount of professional training, and it can be difficult to find a few chemical engineers to travel through the crowd, but there are really many people who were inspired by Guanxi and determined to improve their photographic skills.

The next moment, Liu Xiang stood up suddenly, sweating profusely and said, "This, what kind of demon art is this?" ”

"Haha." Master Ma stretched out his hand and pressed down, signaling Shopkeeper Liu to be calm and calm, "It's just some small organs that take pictures, not some witchcraft." Shopkeeper Liu, you know, there are many skilled craftsmen under the General's Mansion. ”

After staring at the strange iron plate with a pale face for a while, Liu Xiang and the three finally understood the reason why they came over and let them see these photos, and the opponent told him that all the leaders of his own family, their appearance, and the secret information of the decision-making were all under the control of the General's Mansion.

"Unpredictable" Shopkeeper Liu now remembered that when he reported his home, why did Master Ma, who was sitting at the head of the general, bow his head and fiddle with this iron plate - there was his own voice and appearance, and people were checking the authenticity of the visitor!

After giving Shopkeeper Liu a small new concept and getting off Ma Wei, it was time to serve hard dishes and found that for people like Shopkeeper Liu, it is difficult to persuade with his mouth, so let's have some oil and water.

So the traverser immediately got up and politely asked Liu Xiang's trio to move - everyone boarded the Green Island frigate in the dead of night.

Standing on the deck of the Green Island, even if she couldn't see anything in the night, Liu Xiang was still a little excited, after all, this was the clipper that made all the pirates flee.

At this time, Master Ma beside him handed over a strange thing. Following the instructions of others, after putting his eyes on the lenses of the night vision device with a little trepidation, a green world appeared in the eyes of Shopkeeper Liu.

The guards patrolling the shore, wearing soft-footed heads, lying on the railing of the painting boat in the distance, and the short-haired sentry who is also holding a night vision device and constantly watching around in the overhead bucket are all clearly presented on Liu Xiang's retina.

"This is a sacred object, could it be that it is also made by your craftsmen?" Shopkeeper Liu immediately understood the strategic value of the night vision device, a night attack weapon, with this thing in hand, the strong enemy's strong village breath can be broken.

"Yes, yes." Master Ma nodded while bringing Shopkeeper Liu into the bridge.

In the bridge, Liu Xiang saw short-haired officers and soldiers who were completely different from the imperial court and his own brothers. The soldiers in the cardigans knew at a glance that they were elite, and after the short-haired general who had not said a word during the negotiation gave the order, with a series of short and powerful commands and a slight mechanical sound, the Green Island slowly left the trestle, hoisted its sails, and quietly began to glide in the white goose pool.

After that, Master Ma gave a detailed introduction to the efficacy of the sonar display to the shopkeeper Liu. At the same time, the Green Island also walked around the reef along the bank of the river, fully demonstrating the effectiveness of sonar + night vision devices in night boating.

By this time, it didn't matter what kind of artillery or how fast the ship was. Liu Xiang, who is proficient in naval warfare, now finally knows what happened when Li Kuiqi's gang was burned down in the middle of the night.

And tonight's negotiations automatically end there. Liu Xiang didn't want to humiliate herself anymore. Because he didn't know how many tricks were waiting for his opponent that were more strange than Lianzhu's fast cannons.

At the same time, he also understood why his opponent had said in the first place that he wanted to reorganize his subordinates - because he was too strong to deceive himself.

After a light turn in the White Goose Pond, the Green Island turned around and returned to the trestle. The representatives of the two sides who returned to Tiandao Temple relaxed a lot this time, and the two sides mainly began to talk about the future placement of Liu Xiang and his brothers.

In terms of resettlement, it is customary to have favorable conditions and rich forces, and they have always had sufficient confidence. Regardless of whether the next step is whether Mr. Liu wants to stay in the army, go to the government as a civil servant, or become a rich man or a chaebol capitalist, the negotiation team has given a clear roadmap.

Liu Xiang knew these paths, and the spies he had planted in the big staff had already passed on the fate of many Toucheng pirates. These people are indeed as their opponents say, either becoming rich men or continuing to work hard in the ranks. Just now, he also saw Cao Hu, a small shopkeeper in the bridge of the Green Island.

So the current question needs Liu Xiang to go back and think about it herself, do you really want to surrender? If so, do you start from scratch and look forward to one day continuing to command thousands of troops, or do you just stop and become a rich man without soldiers and horses?

In the early morning, before the boat when Liu Xiang and the three were sent up, on the trestle, Ma Yue told Liu Xiang the last paragraph.

In fact, the General's Mansion can kill Liu Xiang himself or eliminate his gang at any time. The reason why they are willing to negotiate with him now is simply that the General's Mansion does not want a large number of broken pirates to harass the coastal areas.

And this reason will slowly dissipate over time, and the support fleet has arrived, and in a few days, when the miscellaneous naval forces on the Guangdong side are also united, the Liu Xiang group, which is still waiting there to die, will suffer a catastrophe.

Therefore, whether it is a dead fish or a surrender, or going to Nanyang to eat coconut, Shopkeeper Liu needs to make a decision in time, and waiting is the worst.

After saying these words, Ma Yue stretched out his arm and patted Shopkeeper Liu's shoulder, and then turned back.

And when Liu Xiang returned to Lamma Island with a lot of worries, there was news that the shopkeeper Liu was negotiating with the General's Mansion to recruit an in the big gang that day.

Surprisingly, if such news usually appeared, then there would have been some scattered pirates who would have parted ways, and the difference was only a matter of how much.

And after the wind of Zhao'an was released this time, except for a group of local bandits who came to Guangdong to join the gang, none of the other leaders who came from Fujian took anyone away.

The weird state suddenly strengthened someone's confidence, and it seems that everyone is afraid of the scene of pulling the net to kill in Fujian!

So, in the days after Liu Xiang went to Baietan, there were constantly small boats carrying his henchmen and military divisions back and forth at both ends of the Pearl River, passing news back and forth.

While constantly colluding with Liu Xiang, the fast fleet was not idle. After unloading all the goods sent by the support fleet, this side also began to contact the naval generals of Guangdong through He Rubin, preparing to mobilize a group of auxiliary troops and ships to form a joint fleet to eat a certain pirate force at one time.

And He Rubin's side naturally will not refuse.

The crossing was invited in the name of him, the chief military officer, and now they have proved that they are elite, and they have also made it clear that they only need to do miscellaneous local soldiers and horses in Guangzhou, how can He Zhen let go of this kind of good thing of fishing for war exploits?

So half a month after the arrival of the support fleet, the Fujian-Guangdong coalition army was finally formed. At noon on this day, after the cannon was fired to sacrifice the flag, the coalition forces slaughtered out of the White Goose Pond with great momentum.