After pressing Zhu Yonghua on the chair, He Qiwei let go of him with a smile, paced a few steps leisurely, turned around and said: "When I first met Mr. Zhu, Mr. Zhu said that Mr. Cui, the governor, did not allow our company to trade in your land; When the next contemptible person came to visit, you said that although Governor Cui did not 'explicitly say' that he was not allowed, once he traded with us, other Tianjin maritime merchants who went to Shanhaiguan and Guanning to do business would be banned by Yuan Chonghuan. By the time He came here for the last time at the beginning of this month, you would simply close the door and disappear..."

He Qiwei's speed of speech became slower and slower, and his volume gradually decreased. Zhu Yonghua subconsciously leaned forward, trying to catch He Qiwei's voice.

He Qiwei said in the end, suddenly turned around and pulled out a Japanese sword from the hand of the Japanese warrior on the side, and swung it from Zhu Yonghua's head like lightning.

Hearing only the soft sound of "poof", Zhu Yonghua looked at He Qiwei blankly, and felt a strange coldness coming from the top of his head. It wasn't until the flying hair fell to his nose that he realized that He Qiwei turned around and shaved off his bun with a knife.

He Qiwei looked at the blank Zhu Yonghua with indifferent eyes, put the knife on his neck, and his tone turned cold: "Mr. Zhu, I don't know what reason you will come up with this time?" ”

Zhu Yonghua's lips moved a few times, and he subconsciously wanted to kneel down again, but was forced back to the chair by the coldness on his neck. His body shook in a very peculiar way—Jiang Xiaobai later said, it was a trembling that became more and more intense the further down he went, but his neck was as steady as Mount Tai—his mouth moved, like a dying fish, but he couldn't make any sound.

He Qiwei suddenly laughed. He took the knife off Zhu Yonghua's neck and handed it to the warrior on the side. "Mr. Zhu, don't be afraid." He leaned down cordially, pressed Zhu Yonghua's shoulders with both hands, patted Zhu Yonghua's face again, and said with a smile, "Actually, He also knows that Mr. Zhu used to embarrass the company like that because he didn't offer money for pen and coal. Everyone has the heart to seek wealth, and he knows it. But, Mr. Zhu. ”

The smile on He Qiwei's face remained unchanged, but his hand gradually became stronger, and he patted Zhu Yonghua's right cheek and made a crisp "pop" sound: "How can you open your mouth to despise the company's dry shares?" You must know that you also have Mr. Cui Erjincui, the governor of Tianjin, Mr. Cao Longxi, Mr. Cao, Mr. Chen Kechen, and several other senior officials. If you start as soon as you start, how can they take less? In this way, half of the company's profits must not fall into the pockets of your officials? ”

Zhu Yonghua's right side of his face was already red and swollen at this time. He looked at He Qiwei with a stiff smile, his flattened hair draped over his shoulders messily, looking very embarrassed.

He Qiwei sighed and let go of the tortured Zhu Yonghua. He stood up straight and took out a handkerchief to wipe his gloves: "Mr. Zhu, don't panic. He invited the Great Song Navy to come to Tianjin tonight, not to seek revenge on Mr. Zhu. After all, the company still wants to continue doing business, and does not want to isolate itself from the Ming court. ”

Zhu Yonghua swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and the pain in his throat was terrible. He understood a little, and there was a hint of hope in his eyes: "Small, the villain must be big in the future... Mr. Ho is from. ”

He Qiwei smiled and waved his hand. He waved his hand to the samurai behind him, and two bound samurai were dragged up. He Qiwei reached out and grabbed the hair of one of them and pulled his face up: "Tonight, He Mou first took his subordinates to Mr. Zhu's main house, but unfortunately he didn't find Mr. Zhu. ”

"Arrived at my house? What about my wife and son? Zhu Yonghua didn't know where he got the courage, and suddenly asked.

He Qiwei didn't think it was wrong. He chuckled and said, "Mr. Zhu, please rest assured, He is a principled person and has not harmed your wife and son." ”

"However, there are no eyes in the killing field. When these two people broke into your house, they accidentally slashed and killed several of your concubines and set fire to one of your houses, which is really embarrassing. In order to express my apologies to Mr. Zhu..."

He Qiwei put the handkerchief flat on his gloves, and the warrior next to him immediately handed over an ordinary Ming-style waist knife to He Qiwei. He Qiwei smiled apologetically at Zhu Yonghua, stabbed the man in the chest with a knife, and turned the handle of the knife vigorously.

The mouth of the stabbed person was stuffed with rags, and he snorted at the moment of being hit by this, his facial features were tightly squeezed together, and the cloth in his mouth was also covered with dark red.

When the man's body stopped twitching, He Qiwei pulled out the knife one by one. Dripping blood gushed down the wound, He Qiwei carefully tilted the blade of the knife to prevent the blood from dripping on his hands. He nodded at Zhu Yonghua and stabbed to death another bound widow.

When both men were dead, the samurai who grabbed them untied their ropes and pushed their bodies to the ground.

He Qiwei threw the bloody knife in front of Zhu Yonghua, clapped his hands and said: "Tonight, Zhu Yonghua and Lord Zhu did not rest at home, but went out for some reason. Lord Zhu, you were filled with righteous indignation for a while, pulled out your waist knife and rushed into the courtyard, and after a struggle, you stabbed two Japanese to death, and the rest of the Japanese were frightened and fled immediately. Lord Zhu's hair was cut off by a widow with a knife, so it came to this. ”

Zhu Yonghua dared to say more, lowered his head and said resignedly: "Yes, yes." ”

Just as he was lowering his head, a snow-white paper broke into view. He looked up and saw He Qiwei reaching out and handing the paper to him.

Hurriedly took it with both hands, Zhu Yonghua quickly finished reading the content on the paper, and then closed his eyes in pain. This piece of paper is full of words slandering Jinshang, and even slandering the current Emperor Chongzhen to buy the designer of the Xiyuan cruise ship, deliberately leaving flaws, causing the Emperor of the Apocalypse to fall into the water and eventually die of illness.

Zhu Yonghua already understood what He Qiwei was going to do when he handed him such a rebellious thing. He also knew that after this, he would be completely tied, no, welded to the chariot of the Daming Northeast Business Group.

But what's the use of just understanding? One is to die now, and the other is to die later, which is not a fair choice at all.

He opened his eyes, took a pen from He Qiwei's hand with a trembling right hand, and slowly signed his name on the paper.

"Okay, Mr. Zhu is an understanding person."

After taking the paper with Zhu Yonghua's name written on it, He Qiwei looked at it with a smile and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhu, don't think that we are writing these things just to make you bear the charge of slandering the emperor." ”

Zhu Yonghua closed his eyes tightly and muttered in a low voice: "Don't say it, don't say it." ”

He Qiwei smiled and folded the paper into the pocket of his windbreaker, arched his hand and said, "Okay, okay, He Mou won't say much." There is a lot of disturbance tonight, and I ask Mr. Zhu not to blame. He Mou and the gentlemen present, as well as the subordinate Japanese warriors, still have some chores to do, so they will not continue to bother Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu, farewell! Please don't send it. ”

Zhu Yonghua raised his head. In the flickering firelight, He Qiwei and Jiang Xiaobai, who had been watching the play next to him, walked out of the courtyard gate together. Naturally, the samurai lined up in two lines and left behind the two. Half a minute later, the empty courtyard was quiet again, only one Zhu Yonghua was left sitting on a chair in a daze, two corpses of Japanese people who fell in front of him, and the courtyard was full of messes......

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After walking out of Zhu Yonghua's house, Jiang Xiaobai smiled and arched his hand towards He Qiwei: "Mr. He's beating and pulling is really the spirit of skill." Chairman Wen said, 'The insight of the world is knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article', and Mr. He can really be said to have mastered the university question. ”

He Qiwei smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Brother Jiang said that he was laughing. Just like this, Zhu Yonghua forced our company to the point of close closure before. If it weren't for the fact that the navy had now relaxed its efforts to interfere in the Ming Kingdom, it would not have been possible to rely on the mercenaries of the contemptuous company to put a knife on Zhu Yonghua's neck to make him submit. ”

He patted Jiang Xiaobai on the shoulder and said, "Don't talk about Zhu Yonghua's." This raid on Tianjin delayed Brother Jiang's trip back to Beijing, and I am really sorry. Now that Tianjin has been attacked, the canal will definitely not be able to go. If Brother Jiang doesn't dislike it, he might as well take the company's carriage to Beijing, and he can leave tomorrow morning at the earliest. ”

Seeing that Jiang Xiaobai readily agreed, He Qiwei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Tianjin is not peaceful tonight, and I have to visit a few other officials, so I won't accompany Brother Jiang much." ”

He turned to the warrior behind him and said, "You take Brother Jiang to the port until Brother Jiang is in good hands with the marines in the port of Tianjin, and then go to the governor's yamen to find me." If I'm not there, I'll be in the house of the general judge. ”