North of Nanao Island, Baisha Bay.

It used to be just a natural harbor, but now there is not a single boat, just a series of dozens of improvised shacks. The surrendered army among the pirates was placed on one side, and the prisoners were placed on the other. Because Wang Fulin directly allocated all the money he had given to Lu Shisan and other dead soldiers to Yan Jifang, the deputy chief soldier of Zhangchao, to house these more than 800 people, these shacks are tall and sturdy, not to mention the abundance of daily food, two bowls of rice, a bowl of vegetables and sea fish, which can always make people half full. Because of this, after more than ten days, there was no big mess.

Of course, this is also because Du Maode and Lu Guangwu, plus Lu Shisan and others, have always stayed with those surrendered pirates under Lin Afeng. There are hundreds of soldiers and horses guarding the area, and the pirates who have lost their ships and have their weapons taken away are naturally like toothless tigers, and they can't make a name for themselves. As for Lin Afeng and Lin Daoqian, they were directly imprisoned in the South Australian General Military Mansion, and Xiuzhu was also picked up by Yan Jifang. After all, the former is a pirate leader who is fully wanted by the imperial court, and the latter is the daughter of Lin Daoqian, although it may not be known whether this name is true or false, but Yan Jifang still decided to be cautious.

At this moment, Du Maode, who had completely lost the slightest hint of a scholar's appearance, sat on the edge of a pot and stirred the contents with a spoon. After sleeping in Waiping for so long before, for him and most pirates, he wanted to vomit when he smelled fish, but now he can eat long-lost rice and vegetables on Nanao Island, which not only reassures people's hearts, but also breathes a sigh of relief. He listens to six ways and sees all directions. I found that the four weeks were quite appropriate. When I was groaning. He only heard Lu Guangwu beside him ask in a low voice: "In the past ten days, the food consumed by hundreds of people is a sky-high number, but I am afraid that it will not last long." ”

"If Gongzi Lu is worried about this matter, then rest assured. Before, Wang Ye pried out a big fortune from Qiu Sihai, worth more than 10,000 yuan, and he should have spent a lot of money to recruit warriors before, as well as the boat, and the rest of the support should be eaten and drunk by these hundreds of people. It's enough to support two or three months, and now it's only been a dozen days. ”

Lu Guangwu took Lu Shisan and the others before, and all his energy was focused on suppressing all kinds of disobedience and conflicts, but it was the first time he had heard of this. After listening carefully, he suddenly frowned, and said thoughtfully: "Ten thousand taels of silver in the southeast, although it is only a medium family, but for these pirates it is a lot, so shouldn't Qiu Sihai be better to find a peaceful place to live and work quietly and be a rich man after he is rolled?" At first glance, he didn't look like someone who was so loyal to Lin Afeng. Even if he was threatened with his life, he would be too fast. And. Pirates are often cunning, and catching someone doesn't necessarily mean they've been captured. ”

Du Maode couldn't help laughing: "Lu Gongzi simply knows these guys better than I do. Didn't I think Qiu Sihai confessed too quickly? But there were so many things that happened in Guangzhou City during that time, and we didn't dare to delay any longer, so we didn't have much time to find a way to pry open Qiu Sihai's mouth and see what he was still hiding. Why don't I call someone over now, Lu Gongzi, you ask? ”

Seeing Lu Guangwu's expression of being bored and relieved, Du Maode said that he would do it, and immediately called Qiu Sihai over in person.

Thinking about Du Maode, who was in a relaxed mood and only watched the play, Qiu Sihai stood in front of Lu Guangwu, but he only felt that his vest was soaked after a while. In Waiping before, when he was caught, Du Maode burst out and killed people, and used his interests to persuade others to surrender together, he already felt that this was very powerful, but what he didn't expect was that at dawn, news came from the other island that Fu Xiong and his gang joined forces with the girl who claimed to be Lin Daoqian's daughter, and directly took Lin Daoqian and Lin Afeng's gang!

It was only after that that he learned that the burly man beside Fu Xiong was Xinchang Lu Guangwu, who had served under Hu Zongxian back then.

And just two days ago, a few pirates finally couldn't stand this kind of being circled, and contacted a group of people to riot, but the result was just a cup of tea, and Lu Guangwu directly overturned thirty-one big men alone! At this point, the rumor that he angrily attacked the monks and soldiers of 500 spread like a whirlwind, and the pirates calculated that their people were a little more than 500 together, which was not enough for Lu Gongzi to eat a plate of food, and they didn't dare to make any moves for a while.

Therefore, after waiting for a long time, seeing that Lu Guangwu didn't speak, Qiu Sihai had to lick his chapped lips unnaturally, and asked with a smile: "Lu Gongzi has something to ask the little one?" ”

Squinting his eyes and looking at Qiu Sihai for a moment, Lu Guangwu suddenly asked with a smile: "I heard that there is a treasure hidden by Wu Ping in the past on this Nanao Island?" ”

“！”

In an instant, Qiu Sihai only felt that the hairs on his body stood up, and he didn't need to look in the mirror, he knew how ugly his face was at this moment. After a long while, he forced out a smile: "There are rumors like this, but it is said that it is just a rumor." It has not been a day or two since Nanao Island fell into the hands of the government, and if there was really a treasure, it should have been looted long ago. ”

"You're right, but I asked Yan Dashuai, after the original extermination of Wu Ping, the government first searched Wu Ping Village, and then searched the entire Nanao Island, except for one or two thousand silver, and some stupid guys such as silk and satin, there was no gain. It's hard to imagine that Wu Ping, who has been showing off his might on the sea for so many years, and Lin Daoqian, Lin Afeng, Zeng Yi, and others are all regarded as kings, only has that little family background. ”

"Maybe Wu Ping is just famous, after all, raising so many people always requires money." Saying something that he didn't believe in his mouth, Qiu Sihai suddenly felt that a bead of sweat the size of a bean rolled down from his forehead and fell into two petals on the ground. When he noticed Lu Guangwu's playful gaze and Du Maode's thoughtful eyes, he only felt that his heart was beating faster and faster, and he was not afraid of boiling water, so he closed his mouth tightly and did not say a word.

"Well, that's right."

To Du Maode's surprise, Lu Guangwu seemed to be just idle and casually asked, but he stopped so suddenly, waved his hand as if he was driving away flies and mosquitoes, and didn't even look at Qiu Sihai, who was walking away quickly. Until the person is gone. Lu Guangwu was half talking to himself. Half as if explaining to Dumoud, he said, "I'm a person. In the past, there were times when I was at home, meeting customers, visiting friends, but sometimes I would walk around, and even though I was a pawn of a peddler, I could make friends. Therefore, I have been to Guangdong several times, whether it is Cantonese or Chaoshan. They can all speak like the locals. ”

"The so-called treasure left by Wu Ping is what I heard when I went to Chaozhou Mansion in the second year of Longqing, at that time, I just felt that it was a false rumor, after all, Wu Ping raised a full 20,000 people under his command, and also occupied Nanao Island, not like flowing silver smashed down, where can he sit firmly in a stable position, how much money can he save? But before I met you last year, I happened to clean up a small thief who robbed the road, but I pulled out a big fish that opened a black shop.

It was a fish that slipped through the net in Wuping Village in the past. In order to escape with his life, he insisted that Wu Ping still had a large amount of treasure. It's hidden somewhere on Nanao Island, and it's worth hundreds of thousands of taels if it's easy to say. But he killed countless people, but he wanted to bargain with me with this treasure, and I was impatient, so I killed him with one sword. I just asked Qiu Sihai, but I didn't expect to see him like this, and there were really any clues. ”

Du Maode couldn't help but take a light breath: "According to what Gongzi Lu said, could it be that Qiu Sihai didn't covet Mo Lin Afeng to bribe the government's property before, because he probably knew where Wu Ping's treasure was?" You know, if it is really on Nanao Island, after all, this is an important coastal defense place under the jurisdiction of the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhangchao, and the place where the treasure is buried is likely to be under the noses of the officers and soldiers, so he is so eager to plan to surrender? Because of this, when he was arrested before, he didn't pay too much attention to the property of more than 10,000 silver? ”

"It's just that I'm guessing." Lu Guangwu smiled, shrugged his shoulders freely, and after taking a bowl of vegetable soup from the pot and drinking it without any disgust, he wiped his mouth and said, "Money is a thing that will be very useful if it is used correctly, for example, Shiqing first used the money he got from Qiu Sihai to recruit dead soldiers this time, and then used it to settle pirates, this is good steel used on the blade." But if you covet this so-called treasure, the fly camp dog will dig into the horns of the bull, and maybe the bamboo basket will end up empty. You don't have to send someone to keep an eye on Qiu Sihai, if he really knows something, he is suspicious, and he will stuff his teeth when he drinks cold water, maybe he will take the initiative to come over and confess when the time comes. ”

"Lu Gongzi is really smart!"

Du Maode nodded convincingly, but he also didn't take the treasure that Lu Guangwu said to heart too much. He followed Lin Afeng, he had killed evil in his hands, and he had many opportunities to look at boxes of gems, silk, gold and silver, the so-called Wu Ping treasure, which was just a number to him, without any substantial novelty.

He quickly diverted the topic, calculated Wang Fulin's return date, and talked to Lu Guangwu about the imperial court's reaction to the extermination operation, but the topic was unconsciously crooked, and it was actually about the past when Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, two famous anti-Japanese generals, joined forces to exterminate Wu Ping, and it is said that they killed the enemy for a whole 15,000 in the past.

Of course, the so-called fifteen thousand people, there will inevitably be a little bit of water, and the composition of pirates is quite complicated, there are real Japanese, there are Han people who emigrated to Southeast Asia and local natives, and even black people from Africa, and the pirates who really went out from the coast of Guangdong and Fujian are about thousands at most. But that time it was the power of the army to deal with the real pirate king, this time it was pure outwitting, and it was against the weaker ones. If the bosses of the DPRK and China have to fill in these pirates to the border, then the coastal areas can certainly be stopped for a while, and the two words of appeasement will be even more chilling in the future.

"Master Lu, Du Xianggong, Wang Ye has arrived at the General Military Mansion, and Yan Dashuai invites the two of you to come over."

The soldiers who came were very young, and it was precisely because of the one who helped Qi Liang report before and was appreciated by Yan Jifang. Since he had eaten sweets, his attitude towards Lu Guangwu and Du Maode was also quite respectful. When he took these two out of the simple shack that could be called simple and came to the General Soldier's Mansion, and entered a bright flower hall, he saw that the handsome young inspector Yu Shi greeted him in person, and he shouted even more luck in his heart, thinking that his respect was not in vain, and sure enough, it was an important person, and then he hurriedly retreated.

"Brother Changli, Peide."

Wang Fulin called Lu Guangwu's alias, Du Maode's words, although it was only a slight difference, but Yan Jifang had been in the officialdom for a long time, and he still realized it. He, the real master, also behaved quite politely today, followed Wang Fulin over two steps, and when the two of them entered the door, he saluted one by one, and after he smiled and invited someone to sit down, he handed Wang Fulin a copy of the two of them before. Seeing that the two of them were watching together, he was secretly thinking about it after reading it and signing and stamping it, so he only heard Wang Fulin say: "Yan Dashuai, I don't know how Lin Daoqian and Lin Afeng are now?" ”

"They are all famous giants for a while, even if they are reduced to prisoners, they are still very strong." For these two people, they are still in the hands of their own deputy commander-in-chief, not sent to the Guangdong General Military Mansion, nor to the other three divisions, or the Liangguang Governor's Mansion, even if Yan Jifang knows that this is because Ling Yunyi is besieging Luo Panshan with Guangdong General Zhang Yuanxun and Guangxi General Li Xi, so he has taken a good opportunity, but he still feels quite proud. Therefore, he said very generously, "Why, you want to see them?" ”

"It's not that I want to meet, but I brought a former friend of my mentor this time, and he plans to write a few volumes of Pingkou's biography and want to meet him. It's just that he was a little seasick, so he didn't have time to introduce him to Dashuai. ”

"It turns out that it's such a trivial matter, and you sent someone to take it down, so why not? Let someone take them there in a moment. Yan Jifang agreed without thinking about it, but immediately after that, he heard a low voice.

"Master Wang, you want to set up Taiwan County in Dongfan and recommend me as the first county magistrate?"

Wang Fulin saw that Du Maode's face was full of surprise, so he nodded and said, "I know that you have traveled abroad before but unfortunately fell into theft, and you may prefer to live a safe and stable life at home. But this time you have done a miracle, how can I erase your credit? And the eldest brother has always been idle and wild, and he refused to take credit for such a great contribution to the anti-Japanese war, and this time it is estimated that he will not be an exception. ”

Speaking of this, he really saw Lu Guangwu's smiling face, junior brother, you really understand my expression, he laughed, and continued, "But you are different, you have been caught in the experience of theft, it is difficult to hide it anymore, and it will be very annoying for you to stay in Guangdong at that time, and it must not be your willingness to leave your hometown." Since you've already realized something, why not give it a try and really take charge of it? ”

"There is at least the Penghu Inspection Department over there, and although Dongfan is my Ming land, there is not even a liuguan, so that it often becomes a paradise for pirates and pirates. And now these pirates, who have brought them ashore for the people, are likely to flee and rebel in the future, and who can rest assured that they will be formed into an army? And I'm going to put these people in Dongfan, and who will control these people is a very important question. ”

"Therefore, I suggest setting up a county in Dongfan, but no one will want to go to the county chief and other officials, and when the time comes, as long as the court rewards you with a prisoner, being a county order is definitely enough. However, it is absolutely not possible to order a bare pole, and you are quite authoritative among pirates, so you might as well select a group of people who can act as six-room officials from among those who surrender, and at the same time train a team of soldiers and horses loyal to you. At the same time, I intend to recruit a group of sergeants in the same way as I recruited warriors in Zhelin this time. To be honest, the territory of Edongfan is actually at least a place! ”

"If the DPRK is really determined to run Dongfan, then of course I am willing to do my part!"

Seeing that not only Du Maode listened attentively, but Lu Guangwu and Yan Jifang were also quite moved, Wang Fulin couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In the final analysis, it is still necessary to make a positive decision in the court, otherwise no matter how much long-term planning he has, it will be in vain. He has always been in line with the way that the imperial court has always done things, and all he thinks of is a way to benefit without cost, but if someone thinks that the current Taiwan in the future is insignificant, and the Nanyang countries that have not paid tribute for many years are not worth paying attention to, then it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, so he can only do it in private.

At that time, I am afraid that I will really use the methods of the people in the rivers and lakes to collect those people in Lu Guangwu's notes, and then take the most dangerous road without any support from the resources of the imperial court!

PS: The squeaky "Mu Nanzhi" is being double-changed recently! Readers who like squeaky books are definitely not to be missed. Anyway, I took advantage of the book shortage to reread "Jinling Chun" and "Nine Purples" before...... Train with blood red in Fengxian, and look at a bunch of old-timers (to be continued.) )