"However, the world has changed," Yuan Xingzong sighed casually, "There are some changes, and those that should come will come sooner or later." ”

His words seemed to mean something else, Chen Chong frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Yuan is cautious, the foundation of the country is unshakable. He sighed and said, "Since the founding of the country for a hundred years, the sergeant has been the country as the protector of the country, and the strong of the people have been promoted to this level, and the weak have used it as a tree of shelter. Great Xia and millions of soldiers are two sides of the same coin. If the sergeant system is denied, the country will collapse in an instant. This is the fundamental connection of my Great Xia, and it is a place that cannot be shaken. ”

Yuan Xingzong's face changed slightly, and he nodded: "Thank you, Your Highness, for mentioning it." ”

"There are people staring behind you and me," Chen Zhong waved his hand, signaling that he didn't have to be too modest, "I have to be cautious." ”

Although the two are only colleagues, Chen Chong will become the king of a country a few years later. In front of Yuan Xingzong, Chen Chong did not hide his identity as the prince, because he was Chen Chong's good friend and the most relied on ally, so Chen Chong cautiously admonished. If the Wenchen next to him was disrespectful to the sergeant in charge of the country, Chen Zhong at most secretly noted that this person was unreliable. The civil officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion are always more dependent on imperial power than the people in the Protector's Mansion and the General's Mansion. Although there are many retired sergeants in the local government offices below the Prime Minister's Office, it is not uncommon for civil and military forces to be inferior to each other. This time, some civilian officials were also involved in the whirlpool.

The mountain rain was coming, Yuan Xingzong was secretly vigilant, and at this time, the scribe presented a dossier.

Chen Zhong opened it and looked at it, couldn't help frowning, handed it to Yuan Xingzong, and sighed: "The new law of the Zhuguo Mansion, you can take a look." ”

Yuan Xingzong took it and looked at it, and his face changed slightly: "Prohibition of firearms law? How does this work?! ”

He took a closer look at the content and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not that firearms are banned in the military, but that civilians are forbidden to fight with firearms. ”

In the summer, the national style was fierce, and after the regimental training camp practiced a large number of firearms, the trend of fighting with firearms became more and more popular. In Hezhong and Guanzhong, there were many cases of people killed people with firearms, and even killed and injured soldiers. Therefore, the Zhuguo government specially formulated a law, stipulating that firearms were to be used against foreign enemies and wild beasts, and prohibiting the people from using firearms for personal fighting, and violators were punished with thirty lashes and one year's hard labor. Those who attack a sergeant with a firearm will be punished with 100 lashes and 10 years of hard labor, and in the worst case, they will be hanged or beheaded, and their families will be given heavy sentences of hard labor in northern Xinjiang.

"Has the majesty of the sergeant been maintained by the prohibition of firearms?" Yuan Xingzong thought, but didn't say anything.

............

"No one wants to get involved in trouble and whirlpools." Zhao Xingde said to Chen Gongju and Li Rui.

"It's good that Yuan Zhi thinks so." Chen Gongju breathed a sigh of relief, "The current situation is not easy to come by." ”

"That's right." Li Rui said with a smile.

Just after the hour, Chen Gongju came to visit Li Rui with a newspaper from the palace and asked why Xia Guo ignored the covenant and canonized the islands in the Southwest Sea to Xia without authorization. Chen Gongju is a shepherd, and he has developed an impatient temperament, and when he saw him coming violently, Li Rui couldn't say why. So, Chen Gongju wanted to visit Zhao Xingde again and persuade him that he must not accept the canonization, and Li Rui was worried that the two would conflict, so he also came over together. Unexpectedly, Zhao Xingde informed him of his decision to resign from the fief as soon as he saw it, and persuaded Chen Gongju to jointly write a letter with him, so that the Song State would also maintain the status quo and not be crowned a vassal king in the Southwest Sea, so as not to make enemies between the two countries. Zhao Xingde invited Chen Gongju to watch the review of the sailor, and Chen Gongju immediately agreed, so everyone ended happily.

"Chen Zhizhou came just in time, and recently cleared out a batch of seizures, this is the account book, and Jiaozi will be sent to the state capital yamen later."

"Oh? Guangnan Road is in ruins, but it is disrespectful. Chen Gongju smiled and took the past few pages of the account book.

He casually flipped to the last page and looked at the total, and couldn't help but exclaim, "So many? ”

After the sailors collected many pirates, they ordered the captives to lead the way and enter the pirate lairs, which went very smoothly, and captured more money and materials than in the Battle of Guangzhou. This was a follow-up to the Battle of Guangzhou, and Guangnan Luzhou County was severely injured by pirate raids. Therefore, the sailors also added 21 to 5, and handed over part of the seizure to local states and counties to help the people and rebuild their homes. In the past, each stroke was only in the thousands, more than 10,000 or so, and no more than tens of thousands, but this total amount reached 2 million, which surprised Chen Gongju. Looking at it carefully, in addition to the silver money, it also includes the amount of money converted from many pawnshops, money banks, inns, casinos, warehouses and other industries in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangnan, Henan, Jingdong and other places.

"Catch a fat fish." Zhao Xingde said with a smile, "I was originally caught under the city of Guangzhou, and it took some time to clear the accounts." ”

"A fat fish...... Chen Gongju opened his mouth in surprise, "This is really a giant whale that swallows boats!" Giant, giant! ”

"So fat?" Li Rui moved over to take a look and said with a smile, "Now Lord Chen can relax for a while." ”

"Maybe it's more than that," Zhao Xingde said with a smile, "The sailor is stepping up the pursuit of stolen goods, and the state capital will be notified when there is a harvest." ”

"Chen's generation of millions of people in Guangfu thanked me first." Chen Gongju arched his hand.

Zhao Xingde didn't say the name of "Fat Fish", he didn't ask, but gritted his teeth and said, "This kind of giant has always been cunning and stubborn, and he must chase hard to get the truth, and there are also a few officials in the government who have passed down the means of torture for generations." If you need it, I'll send it over immediately. The fierce look on his face, Li Rui saw it next to him, and said secretly: "If you fall into the hands of these two people, you have to shed your skin if you don't die." ”

"You're not polite when you need to." Zhao Xingde said with a smile, "The matter of the new Sailor Academy, there must be a place to trouble the state capital, and I will thank you first." Chen Gongju immediately agreed, and the Nanhai Sailor was ready to build a new Sailor School in Guangzhou, so that Yangzhou, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou each built a Sailor School to solve their worries. The Guangzhou government originally wanted to train naval talents, and immediately hit it off with the South China Sea Naval Division, but it only asked the school to teach 15 officers for the Guangzhou Naval Division every year, especially the first batch of 15 officers and students, who will be the backbone of the future Guangzhou Naval Division.

............

After the fall of Haikou, Luo Huan, the commander of Qingyuan County, returned to his hometown with the regimental training camp to reunite with his family.

Zuo Nianyuan was about to apply for the Sailor School, he and Luo Huan were classmates of the State School, and when they passed through Qingyuan County, they visited Luo's Mansion by the way. The two were glad that for the rest of their lives after the war, Luo Huan dug up the old wine urn buried in the house, and the two got drunk together. In the speech, Zuo Nianyuan mentioned the new construction of the Sailor School, and because of his outstanding achievements, the Guangzhou Government guaranteed him to enter the Sailor School. Zuo Nianyuan persuaded Luo Huan to also apply for the school together, and the two hit it off, and they left the next day. Along the way, the closer he got to Guangzhou, the more worried Luo Huan felt in his heart, and even faintly regretted.

"Is it almost there? It's almost here, alas, just go straight to the door to apply for the exam, will you be dethroned? Do you want to visit Mr. Zhao and beg him to be admitted to the school...... Or ask the teacher to enter the Sailor Academy, and in the future, lift a warship to gallop the sea? ...... No, this is going to make people laugh, and it also makes Mr. Zhao and Chen look down on us. However, if you fail the exam, it is the second ...... to lose face, "It was getting late when the carriage was at the checkpoint outside the city of Guangzhou, and the soldiers at the city gate were checking the turbid people who had entered the city, Luo Huan took out the Qingliu bamboo card and handed it to the doorman for inspection, so that the carriage could enter the city."

"Sir, where should I go?" The coachman sitting in the front asked.

At this time, Zuo Nianyuan was still sleeping soundly in the carriage, and Luo Huan woke him up and said, "Brother Zuo, Brother Zuo, are you still sleeping?" We've arrived, do you want to make a trip to the Dock Sailor Camp first? He vaguely hoped in his heart that it would be good if he met Zhao Xingde in the camp.

"Huh?" Zuo Nianyuan opened his eyes in a daze, stretched his head out of the carriage and looked, "It's time to Guangzhou." ”

"Brother Zuo, where are you going first?" Luo Huan asked.

Zuo Nianyuan shook his head, coughed twice to clear his throat, and said groggyly, "Drive along this street, it is Wanghailou, the scenery is good, the girl's song is good, the raw fish and soup tea are also good, our brothers will ......rest when they are drunk" Luo Huan looked at this classmate with a dark face, if it weren't for the fact that he was a strong man with outstanding military achievements and a reputation in the city of Guangzhou, he would have disdained to be with him, Zuo Nianyuan said nonsense, and only then did he come to his senses, as if he recognized the street market in Guangzhou, he patted his head and said, "Yo, it's time to Guangzhou, the first thing." , of course, I went to visit Chen Zhizhou's mansion, I want to thank the adults for their recommendation, and he is also your teacher. ”

"Okay, let's visit the teacher's mansion first." A stone fell to the ground in Luo Huan's heart, since it was proposed by Zuo Nianyuan.

"By the way, it's okay to tell the teacher." He thought to himself, leaned forward and ordered, "Zicheng, state government." ”

"It's coming soon." Zuo Nianyuan shrank back and curled up in the corner of the carriage to continue to nap. He spewed out a whiff of hangover liquor from his mouth. After the bloody battle under the city of Guangzhou, Zuo Nianyuan's temperament changed greatly, and he was drunk much more often than before. Although the besieging pirates were defeated, the merchant travelers did not recover so quickly, and the gentry who had taken refuge in the city also returned to the countryside, and the streets of the sub-city were not as crowded as usual. Not long after, the carriage stopped outside the corner gate of the governor's office. Luo Huan had to wake up Zuo Nianyuan again.

"Brother Zuo, wake up, let's go to the state office."

"Huh?" Zuo Nianyuan straightened up suddenly, and only then did he come to his senses completely, and looked at his body, the Confucian robe he changed into yesterday was still clean, he touched his face, there was no dirt, and then he noticed that Luo Huan was frowning and looking at himself. Zuo Nianyuan grinned and asked, "Brother Luo, do you see that I don't have flowers on my face?" "Of course not." Luo Huan replied angrily. He didn't know that when Zuo Nianyuan was fighting in the city, it was inevitable that the smoke would burn, and it had become his subconscious habit not to spend his face to meet Shangguan.