"The end will be guilty." Ren Zhong knew that the Nan Anhou in front of him had already mastered a large amount of evidence of his illegal and corrupt bribes, and his defense was meaningless, and his heart was also touched, feeling that he was really guilty, and knelt down to plead guilty, and at the same time as kneeling, the beads of sweat on his forehead had fallen down in big drops.

"Since you are guilty, I would like to give you a chance......" After a long time, Xu Zixian spoke out loud, and as soon as the words came out, Ren Zhong was like a drowning person being fished out of the water, sweating profusely at the same time, he began to pant violently.

"I will not impeach you for serious crimes, only a few misdemeanors for you, and the court will not dismiss you." Xu Zixian said lightly: "At the bottom, you stay in the position of the capital control, everything must be done from official affairs, don't use private affairs to harm the public, can you do it?" ”

"What does the prince mean that he will only listen to the prince in the future?"

Xu Zixian laughed, his words were very vague, but Ren Zhong in front of him was not a fool, of course he understood what he meant.

"You can't say that," Xu Zixian said: "We must put the court first in everything, I am loyal to the court, what about you?" ”

"Of course, the last general is also loyal to the imperial court!"

Liu Yi on the side made a disgusting strange look and walked away.

"Okay, very ......" Xu Zixian said: "The Ren family has a lot of water masters, and they will also rely on it very much." Previously, in order to prevent the family from becoming a sailor, the imperial court suppressed the Ren family and the Yu family, but I will not do this, there are excellent children in your family, you might as well recommend them to be military attachés. However, if I want to speak first, if I am not prudent in public service, do not abide by military discipline, are not trained effectively, are timid in battle, and even embezzle military salaries, I will also be punished according to the law of the country, and the Ren family will not have a grudge against me when the time comes......"

"The last general will not dare, and neither will the family." Ren Zhong really breathed a sigh of relief, like the Ren family is a century-old family in Fujian, the imperial court deliberately suppressed it in order to fear that these families would dominate the water division family, and the Yu family no longer has anyone serving in the water division, and this shrunken water master can not accommodate the children of the big family, and now there are many children of the Ren family and the Yu family who are serving in the Xiang army on land, and the court does not mind this...... The Xiang army is too weak compared to the forbidden army, even if it is mastered by the family, it doesn't matter.

As for the forbidden army, even if it is a century-old general in the northwest and north of the Jin Dynasty, if the children want to serve in the forbidden army, they can only talk about it from both the side of martial arts and military merits.

The situation of the sailor is relatively special, he is isolated overseas, and he has too much time to be uncontrolled, and it is too dangerous once it completely falls into the hands of the family, and the vigilance and precautions of the imperial court cannot be said to be wrong.

"Well, I'll send some military attachés over to ask you to control and cooperate."

"No problem, it's on the general."

"You can also discuss things with everyone when you have something, although it is refreshing to be arbitrary, it is also easy to make mistakes."

"The prince is right, so right."

Xu Zixian's intention is obvious, he wants to use Ren Zhong as a stamp first, recommend military attachés, recruit new sailors, and water battalion soldiers, and with Ren Zhong's command and cooperation, it is too easy to do these things.

Then come down and insert enough manpower, and when the time comes, Ren Zhong and his generals will be asked to "discuss more", and say that it is "easy to make mistakes" in arbitrariness, which is a reminder with threats.

After Ren Zhong, he is still in charge of the water division, but the fall of power is inevitable, although Xu Zixian has no intention of calling him a puppet, Ren Zhong can still show enough ability to be the commander of the capital, but it depends on the performance of this person in the future.

When Xu Zi left first, Ren Zhong sent him out of the main gate of the Sailor Yamen alone, groveling, almost politely like a slave.

"I now understand why the prince has been delayed in playing, and he wants to keep this person." Liu Yi pressed the knife and followed behind Xu Zixian, and slowly turned back to Penghu County, Liu Yi said with a smile: "If you don't impeach this person, you won't have to directly confront King Zhao, exposing our weakness of having a mortal rival in the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and also exposing our weakness that we don't have much to win in the official face." And leaving this person, there is a ready-made capital system, there is not much change, the court is not very suspicious, everything is as usual for the water division, and the operation and strength of the water division can be restored in the fastest time, which is very important. ”

"It's pretty important." Xu Zixian said: "The naval division retains a certain amount of military attachés with certain ethics and ability, a small number of sailors and soldiers, our naval battalion soldiers and sailors quickly fill it, Ren Zhong is the leader, and then recruit some military attaches of the Ren family and the Yu family to come in, compete with the military attachés of our water battalion, and soon be able to form a combat force ...... the naval division."

"I always feel that the prince is a little anxious."

"It's in a hurry." Xu Zi first looked at the sea in the distance, it was dark, the moonlight above his head was not bright enough, the starry sky was dim, and the sea was almost a giant beast lying in the dark, and he couldn't see the trace.

Xu Zixian said slowly: "Eastern Domain, Penghu, this is our most important foundation now, if we suddenly kill more than 10,000 pirates and dozens or hundreds of warships now, do we have the strength to fight back?" Newly opened cotton fields are destroyed, trading houses and factories are burned, immigrants are killed, warships or prisoners are destroyed, what can I do, what can I do? Everything I'm going to have to be ruined now, and I don't have a chance to start over! ”

At this time, Liu Yicai felt the huge pressure on Xu Zixian's body, Xu Zixian usually didn't show it at all, everything was as usual, and even felt more relaxed after feeling it. Now Liu Yi understands that Nan'an has been weakened, Qizhou has been taken away, King Qi is dead, and the relationship with Lin Douyao is quite fragile, and King Zhao is an enemy of life and death.

If he really encountered a large number of pirates at this time, even if the foundation was not completely destroyed, it would be impossible for Xu Zixian to maintain the current momentum of rapid development.

This young prince is really carrying a mountain of pressure.

"I see." Liu Yi nodded quite understandingly this time, and said: "If the prince keeps him, he can restore the strength of the sailor as soon as possible, and the imperial court will not have too many scruples about allocating funds and personnel." ”

"Hmm." Xu Zixian nodded and said, "And the most important thing is that it is better to make a mistake." ”

"It's better to do it than to do it?" Liu Yi's eyes showed essence, he also became a strong party when the wind and clouds met, and there was a heroic overlord of Wan Erlang under his command, Xu Zixian's words made him feel a lot.

"It's over." Xu Zixian said: "Next, we will go to the Eastern Domain, and it is estimated that we will stay there for a long time." ”

The two continued to walk one after the other, Xu Zixian frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about a lot of things, but he didn't seem to be thinking about anything.

……

Starting from the port of Penghu Island, it is only more than 90 miles away from the nearest Huaxi boundary on Dongfan South Road.

In the morning of the boat trip, shortly after noon, Huaxi Port had already appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The rudimentary harbor wharf and trestle bridge, past the low-lying part of the beach, and more than two miles up to the heights, there are large houses in the commercial and storage areas.

Due to the early planning of the Taizu period is very complete, although it looks rough and old, the houses and roads in front of him still look in order, Xu Zixian has a feeling when he observes on the boat, and when he was designed earlier, he was really ambitious, it was to establish a typical coastal port trading city in the Huaxi area, just like Zhangzhou with Moon Port, the Eastern Domain had Huaxi Port, under the protection of the powerful sailors of the Great Wei Dynasty in the early years, it accepted merchants from all over the world, and after more than 200 years of development, it did not know what it would prosper.

Unfortunately, it backfired, and the Eastern Domain never developed, and Penghu, which was established as a county at the same time, was much more prosperous than the Eastern Domain.

Along the stream, the warehouses and commercial areas that extend in all directions, there are many private houses spread out on both sides like a flatbread, which is chaotic, dirty, and crowded.

Xu Zixian knew in his heart that these houses were all people who had migrated over the past 200 years, living along the original building complex, building at will, and of course their houses were like this, chaotic.

The north and south banks are coastal buildings, and most of the residents are doing things related to the sea, a few miles away to the west, there is a large military village, with a radius of more than two miles, and the garrison is about 3,000 people, which is the main village of Huaxi, and it is also a large camp with the largest garrison on the Eastern Domain.

In the middle of the camp stood a tall military flag, which was the flag of the Eastern Domain's defense envoys, and there were also some bright flags on the periphery, which formed a sharp contrast with the gray-black desolation and dilapidation of the port area.

Further down, you can see a large plain area, and the river-like streams flow down the high and low rivers in the distance, reaching the mouth of the sea.

From the perspective of scenery alone, Huaxi Village, which runs through a rammed earth official road, is really a beautiful scenery in the world, with the boundless blue sea on one side and the dense plain that cannot be seen at a glance on the other.

The development of the Great Wei Dynasty for more than 200 years has only developed a small part of this plain, and more places are still in a large grassland area, shrub area, dense forest area and undulating landform state.

There are only a small part of the fields, and some villages are scattered like chess pieces in this large plain area.

In the distance, there seemed to be undulating mountains as far as the eye could see, and an old sailor who had been in the Eastern Domain for a long time said softly: "There is a big mountain, stretching endlessly, and you can't get out of it for more than ten days. ”

Xu Zixian looked into the distance and knew that there was a large area of high mountains in Taichung and Tainan, even if it was hundreds of years later, with the power of government and modern engineering and technology, it would be extremely difficult to build a highway through such a mountain range, let alone the current era.

Even the ambitious Xu Zixian has a plan to stay away from the alpine area and those natives, and to be gentle and precautionary.

It may not be until a hundred or even two or three hundred years later, when industry, science and technology, people's livelihood and wealth have reached a certain height, that the two sides can truly get along amicably.

Some military villages on the periphery also confirmed Xu Zixian's view, when the Great Wei Dynasty developed the Eastern Domain, it also wanted to have a good relationship with the natives, but later found out that the natives may only have more than 100,000 men, but they are divided into thousands of large and small tribes, and the rules are different, and it is impossible to have a good relationship with all the tribes.

And these savage tribes, to hunt the heads of the rest of the tribe men for their glory, the early immigrants were killed by them, the Great Wei sent a large army, but there was no way to sweep the mountains for a long time, when the main force withdrew, sporadic harassment will occur again.

The early immigration development was not smooth, and the harassment of the Gaoshan people has a great relationship, the development is not smooth, there are Penghu, Fujian port cities can be used, after the death of Taizu, later the development of the East and the West is quite smooth, the trade route is smooth, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangnan and Guangdong are all greatly profitable, there is no need to spend money on a big desert island, from Xuanzong, the imperial court's investment in the Eastern Domain has been greatly reduced, although at that time the Gaoshan Zhuyi in the Wei army of the main force of several large-scale sweeps under the vitality of the vitality, However, the Wei army only retained some small military villages and a main village, and used the box army to garrison it, and the development intensity was not as strong as before, and the entire Eastern Domain fell silent.