In addition to amending the terms of the law. Just writing legal documents is also a big undertaking -- something that ordinary people can't do yet. I have to work these "unstaffed" people.

"No problem! Vest, you are on the road like this, brothers must help! Several people immediately agreed.

"However, we have assignments during the day, so we have to work at night.

"I'll go to Wu De and talk to him, and ask him to 'second' you all to me for a few days."

Wu De is in favor of a judicial system and should not refuse such a secondment. If this secondment is not completed, not only will the work of the gang be voluntary, but it will also have to be done outside of working hours.

Everyone is happy to be able to put on a boring job for a few days and do something in their own business.

The vest took a big sip of kvass, and everyone in the law club seemed to be in good spirits. This is a good sign. Now is the era of engineers ruling the country, and in the future, it is likely to be the same era of lawyers as the United States......

After the meeting was dismissed, Ma Jia sent a report to Wu De, asking that these people be "sent" to work in the maritime court, and then went to Xiao Zishan to apply for some office expenses, which were used to buy drinks and cigarettes and other pleasures for work.

Xiao Zishan was very generous, not only immediately wrote an allocation sheet to him, but also issued him a special purchase certificate, so that he could buy some additional "special goods".

In the past, special commodities were mainly consumer goods that were not produced in this time and space. Mainly all kinds of food: including cola, cigarettes, instant noodles, canned food, etc., there are also daily necessities such as flower water, wind oil essence, towels and ten drops of water, and medicines. These items are mainly supplied to travelers who are engaged in "heavy physical work" and "dangerous work", and sometimes they are also given as prizes to individuals who have received commendations.

As supply improves and inventory dwindles, so does the amount on this special bill. Some items were removed - such as cigarettes, cola and instant noodles. Some have been added, and the biggest change is the increase in the number of products produced by local industries. In fact, there are many items that are not considered "high-end", but they cannot be supplied due to limited production capacity. For example, the cold storage on the Fengcheng wheel makes several kinds of popsicles, although the raw materials are only fruits, mung beans, red beans, sugar and filtered water, but they are supplied according to the head, and each person is rationed one per day regardless of men, women and children. An additional one for children under 13 years of age will be provided.

Ma Jia looked at the things on the special purchase certificate: "Leizhou Sugar" rum (750ml), limited to one bottle per day; Lingao brand cigarettes, each person is limited to 10 cigarettes per day and 1 pack; Although there are only two things, the signals reflected are quite intriguing.

"It seems that there are a lot of people in the executive committee who look at us haode." The vest muttered to himself.

Only he clearly realized that there was such a wonderful difference in the attitudes of the people on the Weishenme Executive Committee.

"It's been almost a year since the landing." The vest muttered to himself, shoving the slip into his pocket.

A member of the Law Club was busy with the pirate case of the five-masted ship, but a guest came to the shop.

This person had arrived in Bopu on a small fishing boat, and according to the latest state of emergency, all boats arriving at the Lingao-Xuwen Ocean were subject to inspection. When the sailors boarded the ship to inspect it, they falsely claimed that they were merchants who had come to Lingao to sell rice, and the ship was indeed full of grain. After landing, he revealed his identity to the naval officers who were on duty at the docks: he was the messenger of Zhucai Lao. Shi 14, a small pirate leader who was captured in Zhucai's "fishing" battle last year.

At that time, Ma Qianzhuo let him go back in order to negotiate peace with Zhu Cai. But the man was never heard from. Since then, Zhu Cai Lao has not been able to go to the sea near Qiongzhou to carry out activities. The matter of peace talks was put on hold.

As soon as Shi 14 arrived at Bopu, he asked to see "Chief Ma", and he brought Zhu Cailao's request for peace talks and a letter.

In the letter, Zhu Cailao spoke in a very hard tone, saying that he was willing to negotiate peace with the "Australians", but the Australian group must compensate him for all the losses he had suffered in Lingao because of the destruction of the Gou family—he was not interested in the fact that the crossing group proposed to give him the patent rights to sell the glass export trade as compensation. directly asked the crossing group to take 40,000 Spanish silver as compensation, and at the same time give him an equal amount of silver as a loan, and he could pay a monthly interest of 2% on the loan. In addition, he asked the crossing group by name to provide artillery, gunpowder, and, if possible, some ships for him. These can be purchased by him in cash or in goods.

Although the tone in the letter is very large, there are some "adults do not care about villains". "If you don't agree, you will call the door immediately", but after Ma Qianzhuo studied it over and over again for a long time, he felt that this letter was a little stubble. Zhu Cai's tone of urgency for money, weapons, and ships was clear, and he was in dire need of support.

"If we have the strength now and set up a maritime blackwater company to fight soy sauce, Zheng Zhilong will not have a headache to death." Chen Haiyang, who studied the letter together, said.

"If we had this strength, we would have destroyed him a long time ago and collected his ships and men." Ma Qianzhuo took the letter and really refused to give it up. "We still have too little information." He said bitterly.

In addition to the fact that the intelligence committee only said a few words in the historical books in the pile of old papers, the information of the pirate group that could be obtained by the crossing group basically came from the information collected in various places along the coast of Guangdong by the Guangzhou Station, and the characteristic was that the information collected was mainly hearsay, and the content was very confusing, and even the news in the Tang newspaper that flowed out of the dignified Guangdong governor, the governor's press, and the governor's yamen of the Ming Dynasty was just as chaotic, and a major pirate leader often had several different names.

Ma Qianzhu didn't know that Zhu Cailao had a bad time in the past year. His two fleets in the north and south, the northern fleet that was originally operating in the waters of Fujian, had been dispersed under the joint encirclement and suppression of the Ming army and Zheng Zhilong. At this juncture, the "Australian" who came out of nowhere beat him with a stick--the Gou family was his biggest seller of stolen goods and a place to harbor stolen goods, and this loss was enough to make him vomit blood, and the sudden shortage of money made him very embarrassed and his subordinates were seriously unstable. Some of the people and ships were immediately dispersed. It's not that Zhu Cai doesn't want to kill Lingao to take revenge and regain his property, but the situation at sea is complicated, and Liu Xiang's squeeze makes him have to deal with this sudden rise of the junior first. After the failure of the ship-grabbing attempt, he led the southern fleet north to Fujian, hoping to make enough profit in Fujian to rebuild the fleet, which at that time was extremely prosperous in foreign trade. The first is the route to Japan, and the second is trade with the Dutch who are entrenched in the port of Dayuan, Taiwan, which are all lucrative trades.

After arriving at the ocean in Fujian, he collected a lot of scattered human ships, robbed and attacked several land targets, replenished food and wages, and regained the momentum of Zhucai Lao. However, Zheng Zhilong had long regarded all maritime trade in the Fujian Ocean as a forbidden, and he naturally would not welcome the arrival of Zhu Cailao. Li Kuiqi was even more dissatisfied with his robbery, and the parties continued to clash in the Fujian Ocean. Zhucai's old economic situation was relatively poor, and he gradually fell behind in the battle.

In this situation, Zhu Cai Lao planned to return to eastern Guangdong, but Liu Xiang, who had already gained a firm foothold in eastern Guangdong, did not want him to come back. The first batch of returning ships were intercepted by Liu Xiang's fleet at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, and the two sides fought a big battle, although the victory and defeat were not divided, but the passive situation of Zhucai Lao was not alleviated in any way.

"You've been tired all the way, so let's go down and rest first." Ma Qianzhuo said with a pleasant face, and then ordered someone to take him to the merchant house in Dongmen City to live in. As for his men and the sailors on board, they were arranged to live at the sailors' inn in Bopu.

The Executive Committee immediately convened an emergency meeting to discuss the terms of the peace talks with Zhu Cai. It's not too harsh, really. The booty they got from Gou's family was definitely more than 40,000 Spanish silver, and the loan he proposed was also willing to pay interest.

"Zhucai Lao won't live long." Yu Eshui said, "It is worthless to negotiate peace with him now, unless you plan to ally with him." ”

Historically, the veteran Zhucai was defeated by Zheng Zhilong during the attack on Min'an in August this year, and then the entire army in Southern Japan was annihilated.

Obviously, the main question to be discussed by the crossing group is: should we change history and save the old Zhucai group?

Some people are in favor, after all, the existence of the old Zhucai Group can contain Zheng Zhilong, and at the same time, it also restrains the Liu Xiang Group in disguise. From the point of view of the crossing group, the more shili on the sea, the more chaotic the better. In terms of the maritime strength of the Crossing Group, it is not a problem to protect its trade and shipping to Guangdong in the midst of chaos, but it is still not strong enough to fight a large-scale decisive battle at sea.

Others think it's not necessary to save the old Zhucai group. First of all, they can't annex this sea force now, and secondly, once they reach an agreement with him, I'm afraid they will take on more and more responsibilities. This is something that the Crossing Group is very reluctant to see.

Wen Deji is not interested in the matter of forming an alliance. In his opinion, the investment in this matter is too large and not cost-effective. If you want to save the old Zhucai group, you have to give him monetary support according to his request, and at the same time sell weapons to him. Unfortunately, neither of these traversers is abundant. Even if it is negotiable in terms of numbers, it is a lot of money. Besides, artillery and gunpowder were also urgently needed for the crossing group itself.

"I believe that the amount proposed by Zhu Cai Lao is not a lion's mouth, but that he really needs so much money to run the fleet. And this may be just the beginning. ”

Once he starts to invest in this business, it is likely to become a bottomless pit - if the situation of the old Zhucai clique does not improve with their support - this is very likely, and most of the people on the executive committee are not arrogant enough to think that they can change the course of history at will - even if he does not continue to ask for help, the crossing group will have to continue to expand the gambling capital in order to save his investment. This kind of thing often starts with wanting to do big things with little money, and then ends up spending more and more money, and things get worse and worse. Just look at how the Americans got into Vietnam.

This is called this time and that time. Ma Qianzhuo thought to himself that the original reason for Si Lou Baining's suggestion of peace talks was to stabilize Zhu Cailao, make some interest concessions without affecting his core interests, and avoid or delay him from launching a large-scale retaliation as much as possible, in order to let the construction of Lingao win more time.

Zhu Cai Lao didn't play his cards when they were at their weakest, whether it was the luck of the crossing group, or Liu Xiang's containment, anyway, the most critical period of time had passed. At this time, if he talks with Zhu Cai Lao, his value is no longer great. If the historical information provided by Yu Eshui is accurate. Zhu Cailao's lifespan is less than two months, and what good will it do to him if he helps him extend his lifespan?

The biggest benefit is nothing more than keeping an extra liliang at sea to contain Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong.

However, with the in-depth study of this period of history by the Intelligence Committee, Yu Eshui made a bold prediction, believing that at least in three or four years, the chaos on the Fujian-Guangdong Sea would continue for a long time, after all, it would be eight years since Zheng Zhilong killed Liu Xiang in history. One more colorful old and one colorful old has little impact on the traverser. Maybe it's better to hang up with the old man who has officially formed a bond with the traverser.

At this time, Yu Eshui was speaking: "...... Ladies and gentlemen, it is now the end of June 1629 in the Gregorian calendar. Less than a month later. Zhu Cai Lao will be defeated by the Ming army in Min'an, Fujian, and then wiped out by Zheng Zhilong in Nanri - this is the only month left, how are we going to influence him? ”

"Tell him not to attack Min'an, and not to go to Nanri when he escapes-"

"First, it is unknown whether he will listen to our advice; Secondly, we have very limited details about this period of history. So it's hard to make a big picture. If he asks us, where will we fight if we don't fight Fujian, who will have the ability to come up with a set of strategies that will benefit him and us? ”

The crowd really couldn't figure it out.

"So what we have to do is not to save him, but how to act as a vulture," Yu Eshui made a bad but vivid analogy, "...... Get as much practical benefit as possible from his corpse after his demise. ”

The so-called actual interests are not gold and silver treasures, but the personnel and ships of the old Zhucai group. Something Chen Haiyang has always wanted to get.

The task of recruiting Zhucai's old subordinates fell to the Enemy Engineering Department of the General Administration of Political Defense, and it was officially named "Banyan Work".

Ran Yao gathered his secret weapon in the convened office of the General Administration of Political Protection.

"Ask the Minister of Enemy Workers to come to the office."

"Yes, Chief." The teenage correspondent Hu Lai made a Prussian heel bump, turned and ran out. The students of the military and political schools who work as administrative trainees in the General Administration of Political Security are the type of bitter and hateful, and they basically come to vote naked. Ran Yao's political review standards are harsher than those of the Executive Committee: no relatives are allowed, and it is best not to even remember his surname; It's better not to remember where your hometown is; has suffered greatly, and it is best if it is the one who has been crossed. Zuihou has to pass a series of tests, and any child who shows gluttony, hyperactivity, weakness, and a love of chatting will be eliminated.

Lin Baiguang, the head of the enemy industry department, quickly walked in. He used to be the deputy director of the county party committee office in a certain county, and he had his own set of ideas about being an official, and he climbed to a very high position at a young age. However, his ambition is far greater than being a civil servant in a small county town with a disgraced face. Ran Yao knew that this person was a typical Chinese-style bureaucrat, always with a smile on his face, always with rules and regulations in his speech, and always commented on everything to the point, drinking with energy, and never pouring; Sometimes it's better to treat people than brothers; You can also turn your face and deny people at any time.

Ran Yao also knew that this person had brought all the counterweights he had put on the ship, and there were dozens of cigarettes alone—but he had never been seen smoking. Every time Ran Yao convened a meeting of the General Security Administration, there were packs or two of unknown Chinese cigarettes on the table, which should have been taken out by him.

The most suspicious thing is that he has a PDA that uses solar energy, and he often looks at it at night and sometimes writes something. No one knows what he's writing. Ran Yao believes that he could never be writing a novel, but rather writing a diary or something. It's still a black ledger.

Ran Yao once talked to Ma Qianzhuo about work, Ma Qianzhuo once said something inexplicably:

"Do you have any journalists somewhere?"

At that time, Ran Yao didn't realize what the Duke was talking about. I had to vaguely say no. Ma Qianzhuo did not continue the topic.

Later, Wen Desi also commented to him strangely in private: "It is a good habit to write a diary, and comrades with such a habit should pay more attention." ”

It took a month or two for Ran Yao to realize what they were talking about.

How did they know that the Minister of Enemy Workers had such a habit? Obviously, there are people in the General Administration of Political Security or the Internal Affairs Committee who do not know him who are reporting information directly to the leadership of the Executive Committee.

This inference is not surprising to Ran Yao, who is accustomed to public security work. Such a powerful department could not be completely left to him alone. Just as he secretly chaséed the "Group of Ten" in the army and navy.

However, Lin Baiguang is indeed a person with strong work ability and a very positive work attitude, which can be called a god. Not only did he quickly learn the difficult Lingao dialect, but he also taught himself Cantonese vernacular, Hokkien dialect and Nanjing official dialect. Recently he noticed that the man was repeating a strange dialect in the morning.

"This is Manchu." To those who came to inquire, he replied.

Ran Yao thought to himself: This kid's ambition is really not small - but ambition will be motivated.

Lin Baiguang walked in.

"Sit." Ran Yao got straight to the point, "I just accepted a task from the Executive Committee. This is the responsibility of your enemy engineering department. ”

"Understood, what is the mission?"

Ran Yao briefly conveyed the intention of the executive committee.

"What, have you thought about how to get started?"

"It's hard." Lin Baiguang replied solemnly, "We don't have any 'connections' in the pirate community, and so far, the only contact we have is Zhang Youfu - but he is only related to the pirates' peripheral elements, and this person can't judge whether he can be Kao or not." ”(！ )

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