By the afternoon, all the civilians on the island had finally completed their screening.

In addition to the more than 160 family members of 27 people, including Shen Shikui, there are 1,325 families of civilians and businessmen stranded on Phi Island, totaling more than 4,870 men, women and children.

More than 2,500 people who were unwilling to go south would be sent to Weihaiwei for dismissal, and more than 2,200 people from more than 700 households who were willing to go south to pioneer would be sent directly to Qingdao, and then sent to the Hsinchu Reclamation Area in Yingzhou by the East China Sea Fleet transport ships that were transporting supplies and supplies.

The more than 3,700 prisoners were disposed of quickly and efficiently, with more than 1,620 captured officers and soldiers who had requested to be disarmed and returned to the field being sent to the docks to board and leave with the civilians who were sent to Weihaiwei, and more than 1,490 non-commissioned officers who were willing to stay behind to join the new army were led to the barracks east of the dock for temporary resettlement.

The remaining 580 people are all middle- and low-level officers and family members who are bent on following Shen Shikui, Geng Jimao and others, and more than 60 of them are Kong Youde's personal guards who stayed on Phi Island.

These people all thought the same as Shen Shikui, thinking that Zhu Daolin would never dare to do anything to them except to humiliate them, at most escort them to the capital or Dengzhou to be disposed of by the Ministry of War.

Shen Shikui was born in a businessman, but he was able to gain a foothold in Dongjiang Military Town, and finally became self-reliant, which shows the viciousness of his vision. However, the facts proved that Shen Shikui and his followers underestimated Zhu Daolin's ruthlessness and cruelty!

In the evening, Shen Shikui and 71 other officers with more than 1,000 households were tied up and put on the warship "Red Pine" that was "bound for Dengzhou."

Under the command of Guo Zhongjun, minister of military justice, the "Red Pine" slowly sailed away from the dock and sailed south for about 5 kilometers, when more than 100 elites of the garrison battalion in charge of escorting suddenly made a move and threw Shen Shikui and 71 other people into the icy sea. Then he turned around and returned to Beigang on Phi Dao, where he crossed over with another 300-ton warship, the "Birch", which led by Li Yuming to escort 150 prisoners.

In this way, the two warships made four round-trips, throwing all the more than 580 prisoners into the sea, and claiming to have been sent in batches to the transport ship anchored in the south of the island to escort Dengzhou. Handed over to the Ministry of War.

On the morning of the next day, all 13 large and small warships and five transport ships of the North Sea Fleet, under the leadership of Guo Zhongjun, left Beigang on Phi Island and returned to Liugong Island, where an old 180-ton treasure ship carrying more than 160 family members of Shen Shikui and others will be sent to Qingdao for special care and waiting for the East China Sea Fleet's transport ships to transport them to Tamsui Port.

After the most difficult problem was solved, the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army immediately threw themselves into the clean-up of the defense area and the reconstruction of people's houses.

The island's haphazard straw huts and most of the plank houses were torn down, and large quantities of stone bars and logs were sent to the hills on either side of the pier. It is used for the construction of forts and defensive forts that are about to begin.

Two rows of crooked shops above the pier were also demolished, and two rows of wide shops facing the pier and two double-storey warehouses covering an area of one acre each were rebuilt according to Zhu Daolin's planning requirements.

After a day and a night of counting, all the seized materials were registered and sent to the courtyard east of the Jiangfu.

What Zhu Daolin valued most was not the 32,000 taels of silver, 5,000 stone grain and horse materials and a large number of jewelry found from the homes of Shen Shikui and others, nor the more than 600 taels of sand gold and 320 sets of mountain armor stored in the general's mansion. Rather, it is 1,300 mink skins and more than 200 catties of Korean ginseng.

Mink skins were sent to bustling Nanjing, and each piece could be sold for at least 50 taels of silver. More than 200 catties of Korean ginseng became Zhu Daolin's bag of "taking it to Tianshu Pavilion in exchange for flintlock pistols and binoculars".

On the afternoon of the fourth day after the Dongjiang Army was stationed on Phi Dao, Zhu Daolin again went to the small school field in the east of Jiangfu and talked with 1,490 officers and soldiers who surrendered to Cheng.

It didn't take long for the officer on duty to hurriedly come to report: "North Korea's Anzhou Navy Marquis Yu and Tiantai County Commander are visiting!" ”

Zhu Daolin frowned slightly, then stopped his lecture and walked off the high platform, calling Cui Jingzong, the 27-year-old chief flag officer who was killed by Touchengshi. Shoulder to shoulder, they went to the pier side by side, and asked in a low voice as they walked: "Cui Zongqi, what is the North Korean Navy Marquis Yu doing?" What an official rank? ”

The tall Cui Jingzong is almost as tall as Zhu Daolin, and after wearing the standard leather armor and the green cotton coat, the whole person looks even more burly. There was a narrow scar on the dark square face, and although he still spoke with some trepidation, he was full of breath and spoke clearly:

"The army of North Korea is not the same as our army of the Ming Dynasty, although they are all civilian commanders, but the names of the military yamen and generals are completely different......"

"Taking our Ping'an Dao Naval Army to the east as an example, there are three naval camps from north to south, each with 35 to 55 large and small warships, and about 450 officers and soldiers."

"Among them, the number of Chinese army Dazhai at the mouth of the Qingchuan River is slightly larger, about 600 officers and soldiers!"

"The leading generals of these three Dazhai are called the Naval Army Commanders, and the official rank is from the third grade, which belongs to the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the Naval Army Commander of Anzhou, and the Naval Army Yuhou is the fourth-grade military attaché, which is equivalent to the command of my Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Daolin thought about it in his heart, Pyongan Province almost included Pyongyang, South Pyongan Province, North Pyongan Province and Cijiang Province in later generations, and it was one of the eight provinces of Korea.

However, this visit is not a naval envoy, but just a naval army marquis, as a diplomatic reciprocity principle, the level seems to be a little lower, and the other envoy is just a county commander, I couldn't help but stop at the moment, and asked with some surprise: "The North Korean side sent people to negotiate before, is it also such a level?" ”

Cui Jingzong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Since Mao Dashuai was killed by Yuan Chonghuan, the officials sent by the DPRK to negotiate have become lower and lower, they were originally second-rank high-ranking officials, but now they have simply become county orders from the fifth rank, and the military attache has changed from the second-rank defense envoy to the fourth-rank Yuhou or even from the sixth-rank lieutenant. ”

"The previous Phi Dao lieutenants didn't care about this, they just wanted everyone to be able to do business together and make a fortune together."

"The subordinate is Gaizhou Xiucai, before the whole clan was killed by the Manchu Qing Tartars, he served as a scribe in Gaizhou County for 4 years, and he was quite familiar with the etiquette system between my Ming Dynasty and the subject country, and several times the former deputy general Kong Youde and Shen Shikui, who had just been escorted to Dengzhou, reported the negligence of North Korea, but the helpless people spoke softly, no one listened to his subordinates, but scolded his subordinates for having nothing to do."

Zhu Daolin slowly lowered his head: "I understand...... Xiao Zhe! ”

"Here!"

Xiao Zhe, who had just been promoted to the deputy captain of the guard, replied loudly.

Zhu Daolin instructed: "You go and say hello to General Wu Jicheng and General Jiang Yulong, saying that I am not willing to deal with the Korean envoys with low rank, tell them that our army was ordered by the Ming Emperor to take over the defense of Phi Dao, and then tell them the ten military laws of our army, and if you have anything to say, let them submit official documents, or send envoys to the capital to negotiate with the Ministry of Rites." ”

"Understood!"

After Xiao Zhe finished answering, he turned around and ran to the dock, informing Wu Jicheng, the commander of the Longtan Army, who had already gone out to greet him, and Jiang Yulong, who was temporarily serving as the supervising army. (To be continued.) )