Seeing that Ma Zhishan was about to be tied up, Zhu Hui hurriedly said: "Yes, Mr. Ma used to be the second lord of Tortoiseshell Harbor, but now he has submitted to my Ming court, and the reason why he brought this old gentleman to Manila is to quell the rebellion of Lin Feng's gang." ”

After listening to the translator's account, General Fernando sat back in his chair, and at this time, Zhu Hui pushed the adjutant away and helped Ma Zhishan up.

"Excuse me, sir, what can this pirate do for us?" General Fernando asked.

"Your Excellency General, do you really think that Lin Feng has left Luzon?" Zhu Hui asked rhetorically.

"Don't think everyone else is stupid!" General Fernando said, motioning for his adjutant to take Ma Zhishan out.

Zhu Hui hurriedly stopped them, made eye contact with Ma Zhishan, and then said: "General Fernando, we know that you are also looking for Lin Feng, and you have no clue all along, but Mr. Ma will provide us with clues about Lin Feng." ”

So, General Fernando waved his hand at the adjutant, motioned for Ma Zhishan and Zhu Hui to sit down, and said with a serious expression: "Please don't play tricks!" Of course, I know that the Lin Feng Pirate Group has not left Luzon, so far, they have been dormant for more than three months, I believe they are not idle, they must be secretly expanding their armaments, accumulating strength, and preparing to take us by surprise, but I don't know what information you can provide? ”

Regarding General Fernando's judgment, Zhu Hui secretly admired it, and couldn't help but ask: "Since you don't believe that Lin Feng is the vanguard officer of the Ottoman army at all, then why do you still allow the Rì Benronin to land on the island for reinforcements?" ”

"They were sent by the Congregation, with the permission of the Archbishop of Perez, and neither General Ben nor the Governor of La Vizares could oppose it. You've seen it, and I'm taking them under control as soon as they get off the boat. ”

"I judge that Bee Suga has already made contact with Lin Feng, may I ask Your Excellency General, why don't you arrest Bee Suga for interrogation?"

"This matter does not bother you cāo, this general has his own opinions. Now I'm very concerned, how can I verify that Rì Benronin and Lin Feng have colluded? Where is Lin Feng's main force? What's next for them? ”

Today's translator is quite competent, and when he heard this, Ma Zhishan nodded to Zhu Hui.

So, Zhu Hui said: "Dear General Fernando, the reason why I brought this old gentleman here today is to let you know that the questions you are concerned about will soon find answers to you. ”

Lin Feng was a pirate leader wanted by the Ming Dynasty, General Fernando knew that Zhu Hui, as a Jinyi guard, as the accompanying officer of the governor's personal representative, brought this "traitor" of Lin Feng's gang to Manila, which must have something to do with the pursuit of Lin Feng, so there is no need to doubt their identities too much, maybe they have mastered Lin Feng's movements.

Thinking of this, General Fernando asked, "Your Excellency, if you catch Kou Shou Lin Feng, what are you going to do with it?" “

"Of course, he was escorted to Daming and handed over to the governor Pang Shangpeng for disposal, does His Excellency the General have any objections?"

"Absolutely! So, what will the Governor give us in return? ”

"The Governor will send his personal representative to accompany Mr. Felipe to the New World to open a silk factory, and in return for the vigorous development of trade between the port of the moon, Manila, and Acapulco."

General Fernando was very dissatisfied when he heard this, shook his head and said: "The Ming Dynasty should be like rìben, open your sea ban, realize Zì Yóu trade, allow the Jesuits to preach, and lease the Moon Harbor to us to manage the ...... just like you did with the Franc machine people on Macau Island."

At this time, he suddenly found that Zhu Hui was holding a reserved smile and was happy at him, and suddenly realized that he had found the wrong person to vent, and he didn't want to bother talking anymore, so he stood up and prepared to send off the guests.

Before leaving the house, Zhu Hui said: "Thank you for the trust of the general, and please remember that my mission is to capture the pirate Lin Feng, and the general's duty is to protect the safety of Luzon, and we should be able to cooperate sincerely." ”

"Good! I hope you will show the utmost sincerity. General Fernando said, sending Zhu Hui and Ma Zhishan out of the secret room, and he then persuaded: "Your Excellency Zhu Hui, the gospel is about to spread to the whole world, and Mr. Shen Qi, the personal representative of the governor, has been baptized, and he is receiving the love of the Lord. ”

Zhu Hui and Ma Zhishan were noncommittal, turned around and bowed to General Fernando, and returned to the living room to find Shen Qi.

At this time, Shen Qi and Li Dan had already finished settling their accounts, and they only needed to ask General Fernando to exchange 600,000 taels of silver ingots.

With the help of Zhu Hui, Ma Zhishan and others, when Rì completed the transaction and returned to the Governor's Palace, Zhu Hui called Ma Zhishan to his guest room and asked how to find Lin Feng?

Ma Zhishan told the truth, he also had no channel to contact, but the day before yesterday near the Vito Cruze barracks, he found a group of carrier pigeons, which aroused his suspicions.

Li Ruiqi once raised carrier pigeons in Tortoiseshell Harbor, Cai De went to Yuegang to recruit troops and horses, and was controlled by Ma Zhishan and Li Chenghuai, he once hinted to many people, if anyone wants to go to Luzon to participate in the war, they can ask Li Ruiqi for help, at that time, Li Ruiqi was almost scared to death, and he refused to admit that he had contact with Lin Feng no matter what.

Knowing this situation, Zhu Hui suddenly realized that as long as he could control those carrier pigeons, he would be able to get all the answers, once the plot of Bee Suga and Lin Feng was exposed, General Fernando would be merciless and turn the barracks into ashes, and now he regretted it very much, Zhang Gou'er and his team were also sent to the barracks.

Felipe learned that Shen Qi had solved the problem of exchanging silver coins, so he came to the door again, saying that he had bought a house for Shen Qi near the Bashihe Estuary Market, and asked them to go and see it now.

So, Ma Zhishan asked Chen Zhi to take his brothers to accompany Shen Qi, Li Dan and Felipe to see the house, and then he took Li Ruiqi and Zhu Hui out of the royal city of Manila and went to the vicinity of the military camp to observe the activities of carrier pigeons.

Li Ruiqi introduced, the pigeon activity range is very large, thousands of miles away can return to the nest, Lin Feng as early as the autumn pool, attaches great importance to the pigeon breeding, the pigeon has made a "great contribution" for Lin Feng.

The three of them wandered around for a day and found that there were indeed pigeons flying in and out of the barracks, and Li Ruiqi could even tell which were the carrier pigeons he had once raised, but now it was difficult to catch them, and it was impossible to judge whether the pigeon had intelligence tied to its legs, so Zhu Hui decided to go to General Fernando and try to send Li Ruiqi to the barracks.

Just as they were about to return to Manila, they were suddenly stopped by a group of Western soldiers, and under the command of Gonzalez, the guard of the barracks, they were arrested without saying anything, and they were sent to General Fernando's yamen.

The three were imprisoned until dusk, when General Fernando arrived with his adjutant and interpreter, immediately released them, and apologized.

It was just time for dinner, General Fernando invited them to the banquet hall, and no one mentioned the misunderstanding that had happened today, and after a few casual bites in a dull atmosphere, the three of them prepared to leave.

At this time, General Fernando tried his best to keep them and told them the sad news that Father Simon Almeida of the Sakai Town Congregation had arrived in Manila today, announcing that a Christian reinforcement of Rìben was about to arrive......

Then, he told a story: it turned out that since last spring, Mr. Simon Almeida, a Jesuit priest, and Oda Nobuna, the "new king" of Rì, entered into a trade agreement to buy 20,000 new Western arquebuses from Europe every year, the first time was delivered in Sakai Town, and the consignee was Mr. Konishi Lonzo, a merchant of the Clan, and the transaction went very smoothly; The second time, Oda Nobunaga changed the place of delivery to Ise Bay, and as a result, it was precisely this time that something went wrong with the trade, and the merchant captain Mark went missing in this accident.

Due to the failure of the "new king" to pay in time, the trade agreement caused great controversy among the Coalition, and at this time, the missing Captain Mark, and Louise, who was sent by the Coalition to find merchant ships, returned to Manila together, and they claimed that the merchant ships were captured by the Ming army in the waters near TaiWan, but the Ming government did not punish them, and gave them two merchant ship quotation tickets from Fuzhou City, hoping that they would unite with the Lunar Sky Elder Merchant Group to develop trade between Manila and Fujian. However, arquebuses must not be trafficked to the pirates.

As a result, for fear of being intercepted by the Ming Dynasty sailors at sea, the Spanish merchants and churches were reluctant to undertake the business, except for Marc, a disciple of Father Simon Almeida, and the trade was interrupted. As a last resort, Father Simon Almeida renegotiated with Oda Nobunaga to restart trade through Ryukyu merchants, but I don't know what went wrong, and the arrival of Ryukyu merchants was never seen.

Devouring At this time, the Emperor of Greater Spain also came with the news that the Ottoman Empire had captured the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the north, and the ambitious Ottoman Emperor had formed a coalition of Muslim tribes in the South Seas, which was about to attack China in the east in an attempt to conquer the whole world.

It was in this context that another incredible news came, Lin Feng, who had made a big fuss about Luzon, had fled, and they went to Siam to defect to Lin Dao, converted to Islam in the West Malay Peninsula, and became the vanguard of the Ottoman expeditionary force.

Shortly thereafter, a merchant from the Sakai Town Society, who was said to be the "kindest" Christian in the whole of the country, revealed that Mark and Louise were in a bad mood, stealing property from the Sakaicho church, and embezzling the arquebus money paid by the Ming Dynasty government, and Louise even became the wife of the pirate magnate Lin Feng, who secretly passed information on the pirates.

Oda Nobunaga learned of this situation when the merchant returned, and at this time he was worried about not receiving the new arquebus, so that he was surrounded by enemies, and in order to open the route between Manila and Rìmoto as soon as possible, he personally assembled an armed fleet, and the commander was his most important son-in-law.

Hearing this, Zhu Hui and the others were shocked, the "kindest" Christian in the whole rì book was undoubtedly Konishi Ryuza, and the son-in-law who was valued by Oda Nobunaga must be Niwa Nagahide.

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch follows. Perhaps Oda Nobunaga thinks that after a firefight, Wasuka and the Westerners were both defeated, and Niwa Nagahide could just make a profit for the fisherman and lay out the so-called "world Buwu" in advance. In this way, it is difficult for Oda Nobunaga's every move of the monkey Hideyoshi to escape the eyes of Oda Nobunaga, everyone is fighting desperately, but they don't know that they are all working for others and making wedding dresses for others.

So, Zhu Hui asked: "May I ask General Fernando, has the authorities already formulated a plan to meet the enemy?" ”

General Fernando looked very helpless and replied weakly: "The governor of Lavizares is completely at the mercy of the Jesuits, they are convinced that the Ottoman Empire is coming, and regard the so-called Christian fleet as reinforcements, and I, as a soldier of the empire, can only obey the command of my superiors. ”

Ma Zhishan said: "This so-called Christian reinforcement army in Beesuka is very suspicious, and once they are allowed to leave that barracks, it is tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain. ”

"I believe Your Excellency must understand my intention in enclosing this so-called reinforcement army, but it is the duty of the soldiers to obey orders, and if the Governor of Lavizares gives an order, I must obey it." General Fernando replied helplessly.

Zhu Hui asked, "If we come up with evidence that Bee Suga colluded with Lin Feng, can we eliminate them immediately?" ”

At this time, General Fernando lost his reserve, hurriedly stood up, full of gratitude, and said like an Oriental: "I can't ask for it! In order to stop the so-called reinforcements that were coming, I spent a day talking with Father Simon Almeida today, and although Governor La Vizares did not say anything, it was evident that he was also waiting for my proof, and if it could not be proved that the reinforcements were jiān, in the event of a riot, I would have to issue them guns and release them from the barracks. Now, I would like to ask you, what can you do to get evidence of Wasuka's collusion with Lin Feng? ”

"General Fernando, please send this strong man to that barracks at once." Zhu Hui didn't want to tell the secret of the flying pigeon's biography, so he replied with a smile: "Before that gang of pirates comes to Luzon, let's lead the snake out of the hole, if nothing else, Mr. Lin Feng will jump out first, as long as he appears, I will have a way to subdue him, after Bee Suga gets the news, he will definitely not be able to bear it, and then it will be up to His Excellency the General." ”

General Fernando couldn't believe it and asked, "When he enters that barracks, he can make the dormant Lin Feng jump out?" What is this strong man's ability? ”

"This is the mysterious spiritism of our Orientals, didn't the general see it? Bee Suga sat firmly in the military camp on the Diaoyutai because he also had a psychic who could secretly interact with the psychic under Lin Feng and always maintained close contact. Speaking of this, Zhu Hui was happy, pointed to Li Ruiqi and said, "This night, this brother will replace the psychic under Bee Suka, communicate with Lin Feng's psychic man, and let Lin Fengming make an appointment to meet me, I have my own way to subdue Lin Feng." ”

"Is there such a miraculous thing?" General Fernando asked in surprise.

"Please also ask the general not to break his promise, when Lin Feng is caught, we will take him back to China and hand him over to the governor of Fujian, Lord Pang Shangpeng, for disposal, and the Manila authorities must not interfere." Zhu Hui replied.

General Fernando smiled and asked, "May I ask what will the Governor give us in return?" ”

"On this topic, we already talked about it yesterday."

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Regarding the trade agreement between Father Simon Almeida and Oda Nobunaga, why this arms trafficking route was not resumed after the accident of Mark's merchant ships, what happened in the Ryukyus that led to Zhang Gou'er obtaining the qualification of the vanguard of the expeditionary force, why Louise became Lin Feng's wife, and what kind of delicate relationship between the monkey and his lord Oda Nobunaga, please refer to the third volume of this book, "The Secret War".

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