Although the blood of dozens of heads falling to the ground could not stain the Qinhuai River, it was enough to deter the officials in Nanjing. Li Xin's face was ugly, and the generals and colonels of the Three Guards who watched the execution with him were also saddened one by one. The cheers of the people contrasted sharply with their solemnity and apprehension. The thunderous applause and uproar persisted for a long time, and the people did not seem willing to return to calm soon from the climax, after all, the city of Nanjing had not seen such a large-scale public execution in 200 years.

After a long time, Li Xin said in a low voice: "Go and collect their corpses!" ”

Almost at the same time, Niu Jinsong and several pro-soldiers from the pro-military camp rushed to the execution ground, identifying the bodies of their former comrades in a bloody situation. Soon, Niu Jinsong found Li Shuangcai, who was in a different place, this subordinate with whom Ping Suli was not very comfortable, at this moment he was opening a pair of blood-red eyes, and his sloppy beard and hair were glued together by the blood that had become sticky and black. With his head in his hand, and despite the fact that the blood was rubbing all over his neat uniform, he felt the urge to roar and cry.

Although the Three Guards were punished lightly, most of them were flogging, and there were few lives, so although the military law was strict, it was not cruel. Now these people are just greedy for some silver, and they are about to lose their lives for it, which is really difficult for him to accept, and his heart is chilling. Among these people, only Li Shuangcai killed many people because of negligence caused by the fire, maybe he deserved to die, but is it a little unkind to use the Pao Ze brothers to kill chickens and monkeys?

After all, they were the robed brothers who had relied on each other for life and death and fought side by side, but now they just ended up like this with some greedy silver. Niu Jinsong = was in turmoil in his chest, and he couldn't help but look at the back of the Zhenhou who was gradually staggering away, and he only felt extremely strange.

Suddenly, Niu Jinsong only felt a hand on his shoulder, and then he straightened up from the half-squatting state, and a personal soldier took Li Shuangcai's head from his hand and put it into the coffin that had been prepared long ago. It was Mi Yan who stood beside him, and it took a long time before he said in a low voice:

"If Ci is not in charge of the army, it will be difficult for him to capture the marquis, if he doesn't rectify it, the Three Guards will collapse!"

Niu Jinsong muttered in his throat and asked himself, "Will it really collapse?" ”

Without waiting for Mi Yan to respond to him, countless stones and rotten vegetable leaves were thrown from the crowd of people like rain, crackling and falling into the crowd of corpses. The families of those convicts are naturally like lost dogs, embarrassed, and just want to carefully restrain their old masters and young masters as soon as possible. But these people who stared at the hail of the people's spitting also included the soldiers of the Three Guards.

Caught off guard, a big rotten vegetable leaf was thrown on Niu Jinsong's face, which was equivalent to igniting the powder keg, making him lose his last sanity, and stretched his hand to his waist to draw the Yanling knife, who ever thought that he was empty, it turned out that there was a military order today, and no one watching the execution was allowed to carry a knife or soldier at the time of execution. Rao is like this, Niu Jinsong is still angry, didn't they fight with their lives to defend this court and these insensitive people?

Soon, Mi Yan hugged Niu Jinsong's belt, and several pro-soldiers also hugged their legs and hands, for fear that this pro-soldier battalion officer would cause some big mess because of his anger.

"You let go of me, let me go, let me teach these reluctant people a lesson!"

No matter how he struggled, his two fists were invincible to his four hands, and several people hugged him to death, even if Niu Jinsong stretched out his hand, it was difficult to move a bit, and he could only roar angrily in place. Suddenly, a rotten vegetable leaf smashed into his face, and he couldn't dodge it and smashed it into his mouth......

"Quick, what are you still doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and ask General Niu to go back? ”

Mi Yan felt that he couldn't let Niu Jinsong stay in the execution ground anymore, otherwise once he got a loophole and got out of everyone's control, he might cause something difficult to hide, and even if the Hou Zhenhou was worried about covering up for him, there would be nothing he could do, after all, there were so many pairs of eyes staring at Nanjing City.

"Mr. Mi, the Marquis of Zhenyu is invited!"

It was Li Shin's personal attendant who came to deliver the message, so even though he now had an errand to oversee the army, he was still called Mr. as he had been in the Ryshin shogunate.

Mi Yan was slightly surprised, what would this marquis of the town call him to do? Didn't he clearly say before that he would deal with the remains of those generals after the execution? It seems that the Marquis of Zhenyu must have changed temporarily, so he hurriedly called himself to go. Mi Yan instructed the people in the pro-military battalion and the gendarmerie battalion to collect the body, and then followed Li Xin's personal attendant.

"What? The Marquis of Zhenyu wants to go to Hangzhou in person? ”

Li Xin stared at Mi Yan and nodded lightly, "Yes!" What do you see this is? As he spoke, he handed a letter to Mi Yan. His voice was still low, obviously still in a low mood, and he had not fully recovered from the tragic ending of Li Shuangcai and the others' punishment.

Mi Yan noticed a faint worry in the eyes of the Marquis of Zhen, and intuitively felt that the matter was important, so he solemnly unfolded the letter, and couldn't help but gasp after a few glances.

"This, this, this, how sure are you, yes, it's true?"

Mi Yan spread his hands and shook the letter, and even stammered as he rarely spoke, which showed that his heart was only shocked.

Li Xin stretched out his thumb and forefinger, "At least eighty percent of the time!" Who else in the East China Sea dares to openly attack the government? also robbed the current dynasty book, which is unheard of! ”

"The Three Guards are now scattered all over the place, if they want to attack, I'm afraid now is not the best time!"

Mi Yan quickly recovered from the shock, and soon entered the state of the staff again, and made plans. However, this time Li Xin did not nod yes as before, but shook his head and said, "How are your thoughts on land?" Why can't you see the vast sea to the east? It must be known that this time the threat comes from the sea, if it does not clear its sea power, even if it is driven out of Fujian, the other side will still die like a hundred-legged insect without stiffening, and will not rush to the coastal provinces like a maggot on the tarsal bones. ”

Mi Yan was a little unimpressed with Li Xin's judgment, "It's a big deal to move to the sea again, and the board is not allowed to go to the sea, see how long those big and small sea robbers can hold out after leaving the land, in the end, they are just driftwood without roots!" ”

But how could Li Xin adopt this strategy of closing the sea frontier, and didn't this just run counter to his strategy of opening up the sea and opening up trade?

"If the sea frontier is blocked, it is equivalent to cutting off an arm, and it is not necessary to destroy the enemy by 800 people!"

In the face of Li Xin's rare argument, Mi Yan still tried his best to refute: "The source of chaos along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang has always come from the sea, although the ban on Haijiang will be detrimental to the people in the near future, but as long as it persists, within a few years, the sea and the border will be calm, and the people can recover their lives." ”

Miyan's strategy represents the mainstream view of this era. Li Xin still tried to convince this somewhat stubborn fleet overseer.

"As the overseer of the Pingbo fleet, don't you want to make achievements?"

"How not to? But if you can avoid World War I and you can achieve your goal, why not? ”

"How much does the profit from opening the sea and trade be several times the land endowment?"

Mi Yan still wanted to argue a few words, but he suddenly came back to his senses, since he came to Jiangnan, the various measures of the Zhenyu Marquis are vivid, and at this time, they are strung together, and then there is a sense of sudden enlightenment. It turned out that almost all of the actions of the Zhenyu Marquis revolved around the four "opening the sea and opening trade". Now that he had come to this conclusion, he immediately realized that he would not be able to convince the Marquis of Zhenyu no matter what.

Then the strategy of using a surprise attack on land, driving Zheng Zhilong into the sea, and then moving the border to the forbidden sea, trapping the thieves, and waiting for them to collapse will definitely not be approved by the Hou Hou.

However, Mi Yan did not intend to give up easily, but changed his words and turned the breakthrough elsewhere.

"If the Marquis of Zhenyu leaves Nanjing easily, who else can deter those young people in the city? If Wei Guogong is allowed to seize the opportunity to be reborn, won't my three guards lose all their achievements? ”

This is also what Li Xin is worried about, and after listening to Mi Yan's words, he nodded involuntarily, "This is exactly what I am worried about!" ”

Hearing Li Xin say this, Mi Yan was a little secretly proud, so he planned to strike while the iron was hot.

"Therefore, the town captives and marquis can never leave Nanjing. After all, Nanjing is the foundation of the Three Guards' foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, and if Nanjing is lost, where can the Three Guards gain a foothold? ”

didn't say a word, but saw a person hurriedly walking in outside the main hall, sneered twice and then Mi Yan's words and said: "That's not simple, just directly punish Wei Guogong Ming, so that the future troubles can be eliminated once and for all!" ”

This made Mi Yan angry, and he was about to persuade the Zhenyu Marquis not to go to Zhejiang in person, and then he could use this as an excuse to make it slowly try, so during this time, he would have enough time to come up with a way to deal with it and completely persuade the Zhenyu Hou.

It's good now, being stirred up by Cheng Biting Jin, who was killed halfway, his previous efforts have been wasted.

The person who came was none other than today's prison officer Zhu Yuncai.

"How? Zhu Langzhong is killing today, is he addicted? Mi Yan was sarcastic, but Zhu Yuncai was-for-tat. Zhu was ordered by Hou Jun to try the case, and the case was decided in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, those people deserved to die, so what did they have to do with the mastermind? ”

Don't look at Zhu Yuncai's submissiveness in front of Li Xin, but if he was these cronies under Li Xin, he immediately revealed his cool official nature.

"You ......"

Mi Yan didn't want to argue with Zhu Yuncai in front of Li Xin, so he just pointed him out and stopped making a sound. On the contrary, Li Xin suddenly asked, "Deal with Wei Guogong?" What charges are used? Tell me about it! ”

"Collusion with King Huai to rebel and attempt to seize the gates of Nanjing, isn't this enough?"

Zhu Yuncai bowed his hand and replied solemnly!