After Du Dewei came to the red brick house on the shore, he knew that this place was the "White Tiger Hall" and the "Chinese Army Tent", so he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

The entire lobby is divided into two parts. Half of it was furnished with long tables and maps on the walls, apparently used for military meetings. And the other half is what Du Dewei saw in front of his eyes: the traditional Ming Dynasty reception pattern, except for the guards with hair and muskets around them, everything else is normal.

After a cursory glance, someone lowered his head and followed behind Xue Haiyuan, and stepped forward to meet the military attache on the main seat—now he already knew that this was the new boss who would control his future destiny.

So Du Dewei knelt down without hesitation and began to kowtow: the style of the brothers in the pirate's den cannot be played in officialdom.

The military attache is a five-rank official, because he is wearing a blue official robe, and the complement on his chest is Xiong Zhen: it is the cottage Caochuan Zhang Dongdong.

"Grass man Du Dewei knocks on the general."

"No need to be polite, please get up."

After thanking him for the seat, Zhang Dongdong introduced someone to Sha Zhengming, who was sitting on the side.

By this time, there is no point in concealing it. So in the next conversation, Du Dewei heard such a story: After confirming Zheng Zhilong's death not long ago, the spare tire/big group of bandits who had been secretly dealing with Lao Xiong were finally able to turn positive this time, reached a secret agreement with Lao Xiong, accepted Zhao'an, and took over Lao Xiong's newly built Mawei Water Village to suppress bandits......

If Du Dewei is familiar with the situation in officialdom, he will find a loophole in this set of rhetoric: the time is not right. You must know that it has only been a few days since Zheng Zhilong confirmed the news of the accident, and with the government's style, it is absolutely impossible to complete the whole process of follow-up recruitment in such a short time.

Besides, what the hell is secret fussing? Shouldn't Mingfa Di report to know the world? Could it be that this military camp in the suburbs of Fuzhou is a black household?

However, all this is not clear to Du Dewei. He was just a 17th-century pirate leader who aspired to be a civil servant, not a journalist who was bent on investigating the shady government scene.

Or, even if he knows everything inside, it doesn't matter: Zheng Zhilong used to hunt down his old club Xu Xinsu everywhere, and now the lights are out, which is a good thing.

The only thing Lao Du has to do now is to show his loyalty in front of the new boss, and by the way, discuss the future arrangements for those human ships under him, instead of pursuing the mystery of Zheng Zhilong's death.

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Seeing that the two parties who were introduced were on the right track, Xue Haiyuan also got up and said goodbye: There is still one waiting for the business bank, and his old man is very busy today.

Just before Xue Haiyuan went out today, a pirate leader with a square head and big ears and an honest face also touched the door. After receiving the report from the buddy, Xue Haiyuan hurriedly answered the code, and temporarily arranged the guest in the guest room, and now he has to hurry back to receive it. Oh yes, the secret name that came to Xu Xinsu was "Andy Lau".

After Xue Haiyuan left, Du Dewei began to confess his family background in front of the two court officials.

Sha Zhengming, who has a big bald head and a huge body, actually presides over the daily work of Shuizhai, and is also in charge of recruitment matters, nodded after listening to Du Dewei's report: The content of what this person said is basically consistent with the content of the telegram sent by Yuegang.

Next, Sha Zhengming once again said the ugly words in front: This pirate team must be reorganized, if you still have the idea of "running a private department and watching the wind", then please leave now, and we will not leave you in trouble. Once these people enter the water village, it is ruthless military law, and you can talk back after thinking about it.

What else can Du Dewei say? It's all inserted so deeply, wouldn't it be impotence if you don't tremble? As a result, the two sides finally reached a private black agreement: Du Dewei was later asked by Zhang Dongdong, who was responsible for dealing with the government level, to give him an errand of "foreign commission" first.

After that, Du Dewei himself was still in charge of commanding some of the pirates who had been reorganized, and if there were military achievements in the future, it would not be too late to be promoted.

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Now that the agreement was reached, Du, who was already determined, did not stay any longer: he needed to rush back to do ideological work for his subordinates and distribute household belongings, which would take him two or three days.

And the water village also has to make a lot of preparations. After all, no matter how you say it, the Du Family Gang is also a gang of thieves who claim to have 20 boats, and the total number of people will definitely exceed 1,000, so you can't take it lightly.

And in the early morning of the second day after Du Dewei left Shuizhai, the second recruitment matter, which had been brewing for a long time, finally came to the fore: in the early morning, a notice was posted at the four gates of Fuzhou at the same time.

This notice was written by the master of the governor's yamen, and its contents were divided into two parts.

The first paragraph is reminiscing about the past: Xiong Dafujun introduced his sincerity when he appeased Zheng Zhilong before.

The second part is the current situation: Lao Xiong is first disappointed that Zheng Zhilong has not returned within the time limit, and then again sends an invitation to the pirates and bandits of the Three Mountains and Five Mountains, promising that as long as everyone comes to his old man's house, he will "not ask about the past", and he is willing to reward the person who comes to the official position.

For those Shengdou Xiaomin who are burying their heads in survival, this notice is nothing more than an extra talk of "killing people and setting fires to be recruited". However, the layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway; For those who have a heart, the notice is a bombshell...... For example, the spies in Fuzhou City.

As a result, in Fuzhou City that day, many clippers rushed to various places.

The appearance of this notice can be said to have officially removed the "unaware" government party from the Zheng Zhilong incident. In addition, the notice also made a conclusion on the Zheng Zhilong incident from the side: Whether you die or not, Lao Tzu doesn't need you, let's start with gongs and drums.

The next thing is simple: it only takes a while for the "big and righteous men" who "shocked" Xiong Da to openly recruit talents, and they can officially come to the official wharf of Fuzhou, go down to the governor's yamen to take refuge in Lao Xiong, and receive the official seal of the coastal defense guerrillas.

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The words are divided into two ends. Let's say that after Du Dewei said goodbye to Zhang Dongdong and others, and returned to his own fleet on Dongluo Island by boat, he began to arrange the surrender of Cheng.

He first summoned a group of his henchmen to the ship to unify his thoughts, and then his henchmen went to work for others overnight. After the above foreshadowing was completed, early the next morning, a recruitment meeting was held on the ship, which was attended by all the big and small leaders.

The purpose of the meeting was to unify our minds and turn to the light. Of course, if someone really doesn't want to eat official food, then they can also share a little belongings and leave.

...... There are too many cases of pirates gathering and dispersing on weekdays, so it is rare to smash a cup and send a signal to cut people when they disagree. Everyone is a large and small shareholder of the fleet, and if someone wants to withdraw their shares, just give some money and leave, maybe everyone will get together again in two days to do business.

So Du Dewei's goal today is: to retain the majority of people is to win.

Things are going well. In the atmosphere of a group of subordinates who impassionedly expressed their determination and talked about the future, most of the little people who went with the crowd did not raise objections, not to mention that these people had long known the purpose of Du Dewei's coming to Fuzhou.

The only two old rivers and lakes who were unwilling to accept Zhao'an also made their intentions clear to the big boss in private afterwards.

This situation is easy to operate: Du Dewei immediately took some of the belongings stored in the boat and sent them away, so that everyone could gather and disperse—the two men would take the silver and the men with them, and sail their own ships early tomorrow morning to part ways with the large army.

Early the next morning, an hour after dispatching the letter ships, the Du family fleet with a total of 18 ships officially set sail from Dongluo Island and headed for Fuzhou. The crossers, who had already been prepared, sent a fortune boat equipped with propellers to meet them after the target entered the mouth of the Min River.

When the pirates saw the strange ship that could still move around the fleet with ease after the sails were lowered, they immediately burst into an uproar. Of course, because they didn't use the ship's heavy machine guns, the pirates still didn't know how powerful they were, so when 18 ships of various colors entered the Mawei Water Village, the pirates made a fuss.

In the cognition of most pirates, except for wearing the number and taking silver, recruiting should be no different from joining the gang...... So when everyone saw a large number of bearded soldiers with strange guns on the shore, they were a little hairy at first.

Next up is the fried hair. There is no plot where the whole gang stands at the bow of the ship and worships the new boss, and then the boss gives wine, meat and silver: a large number of soldiers have lined up on the dock, and a huge voice from an unknown source is sternly ordering everyone to line up to get off the ship.

So fried hair is a must.

A few grumpy little leaders drew their knives on the spot and shouted loudly to order the ship to turn around: "The master is no longer waiting."

However, before the words could be spoken, several instigators standing at the bow of the ship were beaten into a hornet's nest by the soldiers on the shore with random guns, and several of them were killed by a circle of people around them.

It's all honest now.

The "surrender" ceremony began: the pirates walked through the bayonet wall, their weapons still on their hands. Then there's the identity registration: a row of clerks sitting behind a long table is already waiting there.

The unruly pirates, having given away a few more heads, quickly learned to line up, educated with bayonets and rifle butts. As the boats approached the pier one after another, the guests soon lined up in a long line.

After a simple registration, it is a must-have bathing program for all people.

After showering, receiving new uniforms, and registering their belongings, the "recruits" were herded into dormitories covered with brand-new straw mats.

The next step is screening.

Pirate recruits, who have a total of 1,100 people, will be filtered through layers over the next few days. In the end, only half of the total number of people can stay in the Mawei barracks: middle-aged and elderly pirates and excellent soldiers will be singled out and sent to the senior ranks.

The rest of the people will learn the rules and skills in the barracks while waiting for new recruits - more pirates will come here in the future, and there will also be sailors sent by the Grand Commander to mix with them.