"Ding Haiwei commands Cheng Quan, meet the Admiral!" Cheng Quan shouted his position and name every few steps, and entered the conference hall tremblingly, and when he saw Zhou Chong sitting in the hall, he immediately knelt down, and didn't even dare to raise his head.

"It turned out to be Commander Cheng, you are really a big shelf, this Admiral has been here for a few days, but it is difficult to even see you, and even personally ordered you to return to the camp in three days, but you are a day late, do you really think that Admiral's knife is unfavorable?" Zhou Chong's voice was relatively calm at the beginning, but when he talked about the end, his voice became more and more stern, and the eyebrows on his face also stood up, which showed how annoyed he was in his heart.

Hearing Zhou Chong's words, especially the murderous words after the most reluctant, Cheng Quan was even more devastated, although he had a scheming, but he was never a bold person, from the day he received Zhou Chong's order, he felt a little bad, and now the nightmare came true, making Cheng Quan feel a blank in his mind, and just wanted Zhou Chong to spare his life.

"Big ...... After receiving the order of the Admiral, he immediately rushed back, but because of the road, he rushed back to Dinghaiwei today, so please forgive me! After a long while, Cheng Quan explained sweatingly.

"Humph! Discuss something important? What important things are more important than military affairs, and Zhou really wants to hear about it? Zhou Zhong asked sharply again.

"This ...... This ......" Cheng Quan had thought of countless excuses to shirk himself when he was on the road, but when he really faced Zhou Chong, he found that all the excuses he had thought of before seemed very pale and funny. So he vomited for a long time. But I can't say a real reason.

"Phew!" Seeing Cheng Quan, he couldn't say why. Zhou Zhong slapped the table fiercely, and at the same time roared angrily, "Cheng Quan, since you can't tell the reason, it is to deliberately disobey the military order, when Your Majesty sent me to take over the Ningbo Naval Division, you have already asked me to do everything in accordance with military law, and now you, the commander, know the law and break the law." Then don't blame Admiral Ben for being unkind! ”

Zhou Zhong took a long breath when he said this, and then suddenly ordered: "Someone, push Cheng Quan out of the camp gate for me to behead and show the public, and use his head to warn the sergeants of Dinghaiwei, so that they can know the fate of disobeying military orders!" ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's order, Wu Shan and other Jinyi guards next to him immediately responded violently, and then a few Jinyi guards who came up pressed Cheng Quan to the ground, and after tying it up, he was about to be dragged out, and it seemed that he was about to be executed.

Seeing that his old boss Sima Shang was about to be beheaded, the generals in the hall, look at me, I look at you. Although I wanted to come forward to intercede, but in the face of Zhou Chong, the resolute Admiral of the Four Seas. But they didn't have the courage to plead, after all, with the Admiral's ruthless methods, it would not be good if they were to implicate themselves again because of their plea.

"My lord spares my life, my subordinates don't dare anymore!" Cheng Quan, who was dragged by a few brocade guards, also begged desperately for mercy at this time, originally he hoped that these old subordinates around him would intercede for him, but now seeing everyone's expressions, he was also like falling into an ice cave, and he couldn't care about any face at the moment, just begging Zhou Zhong to spare his own life.

It's a pity that Zhou Zhong snorted coldly at this time, turned his face and didn't look at Cheng Quan at all, obviously made up his mind to kill the other party, so as to gain authority in the army, and at the same time, he could also solve his worries in one fell swoop, and he no longer had to worry about Xie Di borrowing Cheng Quan to make trouble for himself in the future.

Seeing Zhou Chong's attitude, Cheng Quan was also cold in his heart, and at the same time, a desperate feeling surged up. However, just when he saw that Cheng Quan was about to be dragged out of the conference hall by several brocade guards, he suddenly saw Qu Lie, one of the generals, come out and kneel on the ground and said: "Lord Admiral, your subordinates think that although Commander Cheng committed military law, he is not guilty of death!" ”

Qu Lie suddenly stood up to intercede for Cheng Quan, not only Cheng Quan's eyes widened in surprise, his face was full of incredible expressions, even the generals in the hall were also very surprised, after all, they all knew the grievances between the Cheng family and the Qu family, and even the two of them were simply like fire and water, and Cheng Quan had used his position to bully Qu Lie before, so Qu Lie shouldn't intercede for Cheng Quan anyway?

Zhou Chong saw Qu Lie standing up and pleading, and said with a hint of surprise on his face: "Oh, why did the commander of Qu Dai say that Cheng Quan's crime would not lead to death?" ”

"Lord Qiyu, Commander Cheng didn't know when Lord Admiral Lu Dao would come before, and he was summoned to Hangzhou by the Governor because of official business, although he was a day late after receiving the order of the Lord, but after all, he rushed back, plus he didn't know in advance that Lord Admiral Lu Dao's military affairs were urgent, based on the above points, so his subordinates thought that Commander Cheng would not kill the crime!" Qu Lie opened his mouth to explain at this time, but he pressed his head very low when he spoke, so that people could not see the distorted expression on his face clearly.

As soon as Qu Lie's words fell, the other generals around saw that Qu Lie took the lead in pleading, and they also knelt on the ground to intercede for Cheng Quan, after all, the Cheng family has been operating Haiwei for many years, and many of the generals are Cheng Quan's people, and they didn't dare to intercede just now because they were frightened by Zhou Chong's thunderous methods, but now that Qu Lie is taking the lead, they naturally don't want to really let Zhou Chong kill Cheng Quan.

Seeing that all the generals pleaded for Cheng Quan, Zhou Chong made an angry expression and walked back and forth in the hall a few times, and then stopped and glanced at the generals kneeling below, which made everyone lower their heads, but Qu Lie glanced at Zhou Chong, and then the corners of both of them showed a smile.

"Okay, since all the generals intercede for Cheng Quan, then this admiral will be extrajudicial and forgive the whole process, but the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable, Cheng Quanquan is the commander, but he left the barracks when the military situation was urgent, and he committed the crime of slowing down the army, this admiral decided to remove him from the post of commander, can you be convinced?" Zhou Zhong seemed to be a little helpless and said.

Hearing Zhou Chong's words, the generals below were all relieved, although the position was gone, but Cheng Quan's life was finally saved. When he heard that his position as commander was removed, he was stunned and a little at a loss, after all, their family had served as the commander of Dinghaiwei for generations, but now it was lost in his hands, which was simply a shame to the ancestors.

Seeing that no one had anything to say about his decision, he immediately asked Cheng Quan to be thrown out of the chamber when Zhou Chong was in charge, and at the same time wrote an official document to revoke Cheng Quan on the spot and sent it to the capital.

Next, Zhou Zhong discussed military affairs with Qu Lie and them, mainly to train Dinghaiwei, so that the sailors could recover some combat effectiveness as soon as possible, which in addition to the generals' intentions, they also needed a lot of materials, which were temporarily provided by the local government in Zhejiang, and when the Admiral Yamen was established in the future, and then began to collect taxes on sea ships, it was necessary for Zhou Chong to use the taxes collected by the Admiral Yamen to feed this sailor.

After discussing military affairs, the generals also returned to the barracks to supervise the training of the soldiers, but Qu Lie stayed alone, and when everyone left the council hall, I saw Qu Lie suddenly kneeling on the ground and said: "Thank you Lord Admiral for seeking justice for your aunt who died tragically, even if Qu Lie is broken in the future, he will repay the grace of the adults!" ”

Hearing Qu Lie's words, Zhou Zhong smiled and helped the other party up and said, "Qu Lie, as long as you train the soldiers well, and then help Admiral Ben win this battle, it will be the greatest help to me!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Chong paused, thought for a moment, and then spoke: "But you also have to pay attention to one thing, although Cheng Quan has been removed from his post now, he still has some henchmen in the army, so don't touch him for the time being, and when Cheng Quan's influence is greatly weakened in Dinghaiwei, no matter what you do, Admiral Ben will not care!" ”

"Lord Admiral, don't worry, your subordinates have already planned in their hearts, and they will definitely not do anything to the Cheng family at this critical moment!" Qu Lie also immediately spoke when he heard Zhou Chong's words.

The reason why Qu Lie pleaded for Cheng Quan very abnormally today was that he didn't have any good intentions, let alone repay his grievances with virtue. In fact, after Cheng Quan didn't rush back yesterday, Zhou Zhong had already found him to discuss for a long time, and the two of them decided not to kill Cheng Quan for the time being.

The reason why Cheng Quan was not killed, first of all, was because the Cheng family had been operating in Dinghaiwei for many years and had a very high reputation and connections, if he rashly killed Cheng Quan at this time, I am afraid that it would make the army unstable, and even affect Zhou Chong's control of Dinghaiwei in the future, he didn't want to fail to aid Malacca City because of this little thing.

The second is because Qu Lie wants to take revenge in person, when his aunt married the Cheng family for less than a year, but suddenly died inexplicably, and it was still full of scars, and the Cheng family has never said anything about it, and later Qu Lie After investigation, he finally learned that his aunt was beaten to death by her father-in-law, and the people of the Cheng family have been shielding this person, which also made Qu Lie extremely hateful to the Cheng family, so he felt that it was too cheap to kill Cheng Quan with a knife. He wants to personally avenge the grievances suffered by his aunt and the Qu family over the years!

It is precisely because of the above reasons that Zhou Zhong and Qu Lie acted in this scene in front of everyone, although Cheng Quan's life was saved, but he lost his official position, and he was just an ordinary civilian in the future, but Qu Lie took over the position of the commander, and Qu Lie didn't want to retaliate at that time?

After disposing of Cheng Quan, the entire Dinghaiwei has basically been mastered by Zhou Chong, and the sailors in Guangzhou have also received an order, and they will rush to Ningbo Port to conduct drills with Dinghaiwei before the year. After another half a month, Shen Ying and others from the capital finally arrived in Ningbo, and it was time to set up the shelves of the Yamen of the Four Seas. (To be continued......)