When Li Yongji arrived in Tangjiawan, it was already dark, and there happened to be a village surrounded by a low wall nearby, and the villagers in the village were very afraid of this army.

In the face of the hostility of the villagers, Li Yongji did not care, and directly set up camp outside the village, and sent another old and respectful person in to explain his intention to the villagers.

On the contrary, these villagers were better at talking than the people in Pinghu County, and they actually let Li Yongji's envoy in. After that, they heard the messenger say that this army was a local regimental training unit called the Jingwu Army, and this time they would not collect taxes or arrest Ding, and they would not enter the village, in short, they were not hostile to the local villagers, but they were just asked to send a representative who could represent the meaning of the whole village, and discussed something with their general manager in the past, so they obediently sent two people over to negotiate.

This behavior made Li Yongji look up at this village whose name he didn't know yet. Because although Li Yongji also saw that the villagers in this village were very afraid of their troops, the other party was able to accept his envoy and quickly sent people to talk to him, which was already an attitude, compared with the appearance of a completely shrunken turtle in Pinghu County, and did not dare to send people out to negotiate at all, the villagers of this village were at least commendable in terms of courage.

Because in Li Yongji's view, when he feels irresistible, he is willing to send someone to contact the other party, which is much braver than just being a turtle with a shrunken head who doesn't care about anything, that is at least an attempt.

The village sent two people over, both of them were red-faced men about 1.6 meters tall, and they looked like fishermen who had been fishing all year round, one of them was in his 40s, and the other looked to be only in his 20s.

These two people are actually brothers, one of them looks like a man in his forties who claims to be Mo Haihu, who is his elder brother, and another young man in his twenties is called Mo Haiwen, who is his younger brother. After coming in, Mo Haihu was always talking, and it seemed that he was the main negotiator, as for Mo Haiwen, who didn't talk much as soon as he came in, he was more like a bodyguard.

However, why did the two of them kneel down and kowtow to Wang Sanwu immediately after they came in? Why are they all talking to each other? Could it be that the coach who is the most handsome and the best dressed and still sitting in the main seat is so unappreciated?

Although his age is hard and easy to be ignored, he is the only one sitting in this tent, obviously with the highest status, can't they see it?

Sure enough, when the two of them heard Wang Sanwu introduce that the half-grown child sitting in the middle was the head of the office, after undisguised surprise for a while, they changed their angle and kowtowed to Li Yongji.

Seeing them like this, Li Yongji pursed his mouth and decided to scare and scare the other party: "Ahem, you just said that your place is called Mojia Village, and you are all from Mojia Village?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." The eldest Mo Haihu carefully supported the ground with his hands, lowered his head and said, "We are indeed all from Mojia Village. ”

"But how did I hear that this place is called Mojiazhai." Li Yongji deliberately sneered, "I heard that you, the people in Mojiazhai, are all pirates and bandits, and you have always done evil and trouble, and even the government has a headache, I didn't believe it before, but now it seems that there is really such a thing." ”

Hearing Li Yongji say this, that Mo Haihu trembled, and hurriedly kowtowed three times, and then he threw himself to the ground, and continued to bow his head in the most humble posture and said loudly: "Wronged, my lord!" What is the name of Mojiazhai, it is all spread by outsiders, and our real name here is Mojia Village! The people of our Mojia Village have been fishermen for generations, and they make a living by catching some fish, and they are definitely not pirates! ”

"Hmph, if you're not a pirate, how dare you fight with open fire? So many knives, guns and sticks, are they fake? ”

"My lord, the Quartet is not at peace now...... No, no, no, the villain is saying that there has not been much peace around us recently, and the people in the village are preparing some guys, purely for self-preservation, my lord. Your Excellency, don't believe rumors! ”

After speaking, his leg seemed to kick the young Mo Haiwen, and Mo Haiwen, who was still in a daze, immediately came to his senses, and also followed the five bodies to the ground, shouting loudly: "Lord Mingjian!" Don't listen to rumors! ”

Seeing them like this, Li Yongji couldn't help but smile, he didn't expect such a scare, and he really cheated something, just look at the shocked appearance of these two people, it is estimated that this Mojia Village is really a pirate village, even if the villagers are not professional pirates, at least part-time pirates.

But if you think about it carefully, it is sometimes difficult to really distinguish between coastal fishermen and pirates during this period, or in other words, usually the profession of pirates is forced out, just like the so-called twisted bandits, they are unable to live before becoming bandits, if they can really live a good life, there are a few willing to take risks to become bandits.

"Alright, let's talk back." Li Yongji didn't plan to continue scaring them.

After they all knelt down again, no longer throwing themselves to the ground, but lowered their eyebrows and lowered their heads to make a listening appearance, Li Yongji said: "I think you have also heard that my army is just a regimental training, not an official army, so it doesn't matter to me whether you are pirates or not." Well, I'm here for another purpose. ”

Next, Li Yongji paused, and suddenly asked again: "Do you clearly tell me that you hate the government?" ”

"This ......" I didn't expect to hear Li Yongji's words, Mo Haihu and Mo Haiwen looked at each other, but they didn't dare to talk casually.

If it was an officer or soldier, they would definitely say that they didn't hate it, but the other party kept saying that they were training in a regiment, and they could also see that the momentum and equipment of this group of soldiers were definitely not something that that group of officers and soldiers could have, so they couldn't figure out who Li Yongji's group of people was.

They also guessed that this army was the Taiping Army, but they quickly overturned this conclusion, because they felt that if the Taiping Army was so strong, it would have broken the county town a long time ago, and they would not have come to this broken place at all.

"Let's be honest." Li Yongji smiled, "For example, I'm actually quite dissatisfied with the government, otherwise I wouldn't have run a regiment to train the troops." ”

Hearing Li Yongji say this, Mo Haihu bowed his head again: "My lord, we are all good citizens. ”

Yes, the answer is not what he asked, ambiguous, this Mo Haihu looked like a gangster, and he didn't expect to be an old slippery head, but Li Yongji also knew that it would be difficult for a strong man to ask again, so he changed the topic: "What about foreigners?" Do you hate it? ”

"Hate, of course hate!" This time it was not Mo Haihu who spoke, but Mo Haiwen, and as soon as he heard the word foreigner, his eyes immediately burst into flames, "I can't wait to eat the flesh of foreigners and drink the blood of foreigners!" ”

"Arwen!" Seeing that this guy was so excited, Mo Haihu immediately reprimanded, "My lord, what is the place for you to speak?" What did you say when you came? ”

"Second brother, I, I'm ......" I clicked a few times, and Mo Haven finally lowered his head again and stopped talking.

"What, you have a grudge against foreign devils?" Li Yongji immediately changed his title and asked, "Seeing that your younger brother is very excited, can you tell me briefly?" ”

"Hey, it's all old things, why are you asking this, my lord?" Na Mo Haihu's face was gloomy at this time, no longer as humble as at the beginning, and he seemed to be stimulated by the word foreigner.

"Because I want to make sure that you are not spies of fornicating with foreign devils." Li Yongji also deliberately lowered his face, and his tone began to sink, "Since you have already come, then I am not afraid to sue you, I will do a shocking event next, and this major event is very unfavorable to foreign devils." So, I'm going to make sure if you're fornicating with foreigners, and if so, hehe, you don't have to go back! ”

"Your Excellency, you don't have to scare me." That Mo Haihu seemed to have reacted, although he was still kneeling, he still took the initiative to raise his head and smile faintly at Li Yongji, "If you really inquire about our village, you will know one thing, that is, there is no one in our Mojia Village, old and young, who does not hate foreign devils, and almost every household has a grudge against foreign devils, and there is a blood feud!" ”

Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Li Yongji to ask, he began to state himself.

It turned out that the residents of Mojia Village originally belonged to three villages, but 20 years ago, when the British army landed in Tangjiawan, they burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, which greatly damaged the vitality of the nearby villages, and only Mojia Village was slightly better. After that, the government ignored them, and in order to survive, they had no choice but to get together and live again in Mojia Village.

In Mojia Village, almost every family's elders have been injured or killed in the First Opium War, if that is still an old hatred, there are also a lot of new hatreds!

Speaking of which, when the fishermen here usually go to the sea to fish or work part-time as pirates, they often see foreign ships on the nearby ocean, and this is usually the kind of thing they fear the most.

Because those foreign ships, whether they are warships or armed merchant ships, if they see these fishermen fishing, they will lean over and play a lot, but the good thing is to rely on the size of the boat, make a sharp turn and make a wave to pour a boat of water on you, and the bad ones may even make waves back and forth until they capsize your boat, and even some more excessively, they will shoot at them at close range, and take pleasure in killing people!

Therefore, if you want to say which part of the Qing people hated foreigners the most at this time, it must be the coastal fishermen.

In later generations, people often engaged in counter-propaganda, such as how those foreigners who came to China in the late Qing Dynasty were cultured and well-educated, how the courage and wisdom of navigators coexisted, and how they contributed to China's opening up.

But in fact, there are some places in the mainstream propaganda that are correct, at least a lot of historical materials about the crimes of foreigners in the late Qing Dynasty cannot deceive people, after all, even in Western historical materials, there are more than N records of foreign ships bullying Chinese fishermen and taking pleasure in bullying fishermen.

That is to say, the Westerners of this period, at least those who engaged in navigation, few were civilized and polite good people, they were a group of naked robbers, a group of pirates who only recognized wealth and force! No amount of flowery rhetoric to praise them can change their bloody nature.

For example, Li Yongji's foreign rifle team, which includes a large number of Western sailors, the reason why they obediently listen to Li Yongji's words is not all because of good treatment, plus the factor of high Wall's means, it is really Li Yongji's troops in the process of communicating with them, they beat them to the heart, let them realize the strength of the elite army, and then they began to be obedient.

When Mo Haihu finished speaking lightly, he was fine, but Mo Haiwen couldn't cry, and when he asked again, he learned that Mo Haihu's grandfather, grandfather, and father all died in the hands of foreigners. Among them, the grandfather and grandfather of the Mo brothers were Qing troops who fought against the British army, and the father of the brothers was directly smashed by an armed merchant ship of foreigners when they were fishing three years ago, and all the people on board were killed.

Therefore, not to mention anything else, just this Mo family has a blood feud with foreigners that has lasted for three generations! And the other tribesmen in the village are also in similar situations.

"The people's hearts are available!" Li Yongji nodded secretly, and at the same time felt that he was too lucky, as soon as he came, he came across such a village with a deep blood feud with foreigners, so that his frogman special team plan would be easier to implement, as long as he recruited these people for a little training, it would save him a lot of heart.

Next, Li Yongji told the Mo brothers that he planned to open a private wharf here, so he needed to know if there was a deep place here, and whether he could dock the kind of big ships of foreigners.

Seeing the other party's hesitation and suspicion, Li Yongji immediately asked people to bring a set of diving equipment with night vision devices, and explained the use of it on the spot, and then let them test their night vision ability, and then let them play a bucket of water, let Mo Haiwen wear it full, and test the underwater breathing ability of this set of equipment.

After that, Li Yongji also took out a color-page atlas with an illustration of the submarine, Li Yongji briefly introduced the situation of the submarine, and then in front of these two people, he told him his plan to use the frogman special team to attack the foreigner ship.

"So, you know what I'm going to do now." Li Yongji said, "Your frogman equipment has been tested by you, and it is absolutely easy to use; There is no need to worry about underwater explosives, ensuring safety and effectiveness are foolproof; As for my submarine, it is definitely capable of diving. However, the submarine is relatively large and requires a certain depth of water, so I asked you if there is a place where the water is deeper and the waves are smaller, so that my submarine can come and moor. ”

"I wonder how big your dive boat is?" Mo Haihu said suddenly.

"It's not too big, if it's long, it's about five or six ordinary fishing boats combined, if it's wide, it's about the same as two or three fishing boats side by side, and if it's high, it's about three people tall."

"If that's the case, I've got a good place." Mo Haihu said, "That's where we usually catch sea cucumbers and pearls, the water is very deep, the waves are very small, and it is very hidden. Not to mention anything else, the kind of big warships of foreigners can be docked directly, and a submarine like yours with a maximum height of three people can be easily docked. ”

"Oh, really?"

"How dare a villain deceive an adult."

"Is it far away?"

"It's close." Mo Haihu smiled, "From here, it only takes half an hour to walk, and it is faster to ride a horse." ”

"That's great, you'll take me to see it early tomorrow morning."

"Yes, sir."

"Well, this matter is settled temporarily." Seeing that progress had been made so quickly, Li Yongji was in a good mood, and said to Mo Haihu with a smile, "Then the next thing is, I plan to recruit you as soldiers and form an underwater special team, and the treatment is favorable, I don't know if you are willing or not?" ”

"Yes, I do!" Mo Haihu hadn't spoken yet, he had just taken off the respirator, and Mo Haiwen, who hadn't taken off his diving suit, suddenly said excitedly, "I'm willing to be a soldier, I'm willing to fight foreigners!" ”

"What about you?" Li Yongji looked at Mo Haihu with a smile.

"Do I have a choice?" Mo Haihu smiled bitterly.

Indeed, Mo Haihu is not the stunned young man like Mo Haiwen, he knows that since Li Yongji is willing to give them the equipment to try, and he also told the plan in front of them, it is clear that he will not let them go.

They agree to be the frogman, it's easy to say, if they don't, this half-grown adult-like adult will be killed nine times out of ten.

Even, with Mo Haihu's idea, the matter of blowing up the foreigner warship is so big, it must be secret, if he doesn't agree, for the sake of secrecy, it is possible for the other party to destroy the village, and he does have this strength.

In fact, Mo Haihu really didn't wronged Li Yongji, the reason why Li Yongji told them about his underwater team plan so quickly was because he didn't want to let them go. If they agree, they are their own people, and if they don't agree, they are enemies, and they must be silenced in order to keep secrets, and he has no pressure in this regard, I don't know if he is more ruthless by nature, or if he has honed it the day after tomorrow.

Of course, such a hasty statement of his plan is also related to Li Yongji's impatience, after all, he knows that the fleet of the British and French forces may come over in a day or two, so if he wants to take action, he must be quick and not procrastinate.

"You know what I'm asking." Li Yongji looked at Mo Haihu lightly, "There are too few of you two, I need more people to join, and I want your whole village to join." ”

"There are not many young people in our village." Mo Haihu sighed, "To tell you the truth, the people who lit the torches on the fence are all the young people in our village, and I am confident that they will join, but I am afraid that these people will not be enough." ”

"It's okay, women can too." Li Yongji shook his head, "If I'm not mistaken, you also have a sea girl, which means that women also have to go to the sea to fish, right?" ”

"This ...... Be. Mo Haihu nodded.

"That's not it." Li Yongji said, "The diving suit is very elastic, and women can wear it as well." You go back and mobilize the whole village, as long as you are under 30 years old and over 16 years old, both men and women, you must join! Remember, this is an order, not a negotiation, and you have no room to bargain with me! You can think of it as a forced levy, but it all means the same anyway.

Also, if you find that you don't have enough people in your village, you'll have to recruit from other nearby villages! Until there are enough people, and as for the relevant training, whether the number of people is enough or not, it must be started immediately.

Don't worry, although I have been a bit overbearing in forcibly recruiting you as sailors, I can't help it.

And I promise you a very high salary, whether it be money or anything else, better than my ordinary soldiers, and you will find that being a navy soldier under me is definitely more comfortable than being a fisherman and a pirate; Don't worry about safety, my equipment is very advanced, and with this kind of equipment, it is at least much higher than you holding your breath and going to the sea to touch the pearls. ”

Speaking of this, Li Yongji paused and looked at Mo Haihu again: "In short, this matter must be successful!" And it has to be fast, it has to be secretive! When things are done, I will not be stingy with rewards, if I can't do it...... I won't say more, you can figure it out for yourself. ”