Soon, the master came to report to Chen Wenshan, and Wei Guogong wanted to send a letter to the public and ask for publication. Chen Wenshan was stunned at that time, and said in his heart, what kind of moth is this Wei Guogong going to make trouble? The marquis of Zhenyu told himself not to embarrass him, if this guy insisted on crashing head-on, how could he tolerate the indulgence?

But after spreading out the letter, Chen Wenzhi was stunned again, this turned out to be a statement of severing the relationship between father and son, and the content of the letter on it was roughly the same as the content of the handwritten letter presented to the marquis of Zhenyu. It seems that Wei Guogong is going to break the wrist of a strong man and lose his car to protect his handsome. However, once such a sellout is carried out, it will inevitably be despised by the world in the future.

Chen Wenshan was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, and then instructed his master: "It can be published!" Wei Guogong insisted on this, can you still stop him? ”

The master's eyes flashed with excitement, "I respectfully obey the orders of the Fuzun, once this statement is published, Wei Guogong's reputation in Jiangnan will be ruined, and no one will support him anymore." Chen Wenshan nodded, the master's words were reasonable, but who could guarantee that it was not intentional for him?

Chen Wenzhi was also secretly strange, Wei Guogong was quite quick to accept the new things made by this town captive, and he also made a statement in the "Communiqué" in the same way, it seems that his brain should also be active in the future, and he must not lag behind the situation.

After the master left, Chen Wenshan was not idle, Zhu Yuncai tried the case thoroughly, and handed over a detailed list of the cases involved, and he only had to be responsible for taking people according to the map. The first thing to catch next is the nephew of the Shen family, who has a deep relationship with Ruan Dacheng.

Although the Shen family's old mansion in Changshu was cut by pirates, after all, the family has a big business, in addition to the hometown, its industries are all over Nanzhili and Zhejiang, among which the master in Nanjing is a nephew of the late Shen family's old lady. Chen Wenshan has an account in his heart, as long as he breaks the Shen family's roots in Yingtianfu and confiscates the price difference, it will be an extremely rich income. That's why he put a mere businessman at the top of his hunt.

However, to Chen Wenshan's disappointment, the main owner of the Shen family in Nanjing had gone to Hangzhou on a business trip a few days ago, and he was afraid that everyone had already arrived in Hangzhou at this moment. Since you can't catch anyone, let's block and raid the house. The Shen family's case of Wang Huai's rebellion is a sure thing, and Zhu Yuncai's confession after torture and sorting is impeccable, so naturally there is no need to hesitate at all.

On this day, the Pingbo fleet, which had not returned for a long time, finally returned from Taiping Mansion to the military port outside Shangyuanmen. At this time, although the military port has undergone emergency rest, traces of the explosion can still be seen everywhere. The rows of three guards on the pier lined up neatly, as the galleon slowly dismounted, the neatly lined up soldiers raised their guns to the sky obliquely, and with an order, the trigger was pulled, and the fire rope was pressed into the medicine pot by the fire rope clamp. The sound of crackling beans suddenly resounded over the dock.

Li Xin was dressed in a brand-new and straight red army uniform, followed by a group of senior and middle-ranking officers of the army, most of whom had recently been promoted, and the original veteran colonels and old soldiers were sent to the battlefield. Among them, Zhang Shishi pursued the rebels of King Huai to Fujian, while Cheng Mingjiu led his troops to clear the remnants of the enemy in the west of Nanzhili.

Originally, Li Xin also wanted to follow the example of later generations to make a military band, but the people of this era really didn't have that cell, so it was barely enough for these soldiers to beat the waist drum and beat the drum of the infantry advance, but it was a luxury to let them blow some rhythms.

And the atmosphere of this era thinks that this kind of ability to play, play and sing is done by untouchables, where can it be true to earn fame with a knife and a shot? Therefore, not to mention starting a military band, even the drummers in the army usually can't recruit enough people, so Li Xin also came up with incentives such as double pay for drummers, which can be regarded as attracting enough people.

Thus, a salvo of muskets, with artillery, became the standard routine for welcoming triumph in the Three Guards.

A gust of east wind suddenly blew, gradually blowing away the white gunpowder smoke that originally filled the sky over the pier, which was also a beautiful thing, adding a lot of color to this welcome triumph. Between the big boats, the gangplanks stretched out and landed on the dock, and Wallace, Mi Yan and other commanders appeared on the side of the ship, and then bursts of cheers broke out on the dock.

Suddenly, someone couldn't help but point to the big boat and exclaimed: "Why did you come down except for the Mi Jian Army, the rest are all red-haired?" ”

This reminder in the crowd immediately made everyone pay attention, and sure enough, they saw that the people who walked onto the gangplank and went ashore one by one were red-haired ghosts dressed in strange costumes. Even Li Xin was quite strange, how could the Pingbo fleet send troops and catch many Westerners? But on second thought, if it was a prisoner captured alive, how could he go ashore with the triumphant officers? That must be someone else.

"Humble duty does not disgrace the mission, the naval battle of Taiping Mansion, the Pingbo fleet beheaded more than a thousand!"

Wallace was thinner than when Li Xin had seen him before, but his serious illness was miraculously cured. After the two sides exchanged military salutes, it was a high-sounding false etiquette. Li Xin made a full deal in accordance with a set of detailed rules formulated by Mi Yan and Li Da for this purpose.

At this time, Niu Jinsong, who was beside Li Xin, couldn't help the scene of grinding his teeth to kill time, and lowered his voice and asked Mi Yan on the other side: "Mi Jian Jun, why did you go to Taiping Mansion and catch a lot of red hair?" ”

Those Westerners were obviously very curious about Li Xin's Three Guards, and they were all looking around with curiosity. Mi Yan's face was dark, and he replied angrily: "You ask yourself the chief soldier of the fleet, how can I, the overseer, have the time to take care of these trivial things?" ”

Niu Jinsong laughed when he heard this, he knew that this Mi Jian Jun must be unhappy because of the red hair fan and that Wallace, but although he was dissatisfied, he did not use the power of the prison army to restrict these red hair fans who were brought by Huai Lai, presumably persuaded by Wallace.

Mi Yan and Niu Jinsong's questions and answers fell into Li Xin's ears, and he asked the solemn Wallace with a smile: "Who are these people?" ”

Wallace hurriedly reported: "These people are all treasures, and they are the technical talents that His Excellency the Marquis urgently needs!" ”

After some communication, Li Xin suddenly realized that there was an episode behind this. It turned out that when Wei Guogong was in the Taiping Mansion, military intelligence was repeatedly leaked, and the rebels took the lead, which has been bothering Xu Hongji for a long time. By chance, he suddenly found that there were many Western churches nearby, and there were many red-haired fanxiao of unknown origin gathered in them. So Xu Hongji suspected that these red-haired ghosts from foreign countries were secretly delivering letters for the rebels, and even felt that these people gathered together to cause trouble.

So, Xu Hongji sent troops to arrest all the Westerners in several nearby provinces and escorted them to the army, which was supposed to be killed on the spot after a hasty interrogation, but many of his people were opposed to killing these Westerners, so they kept dragging it out. Until the situation in Taiping Mansion took a turn for the worse, Xu Hongji was trapped in the lonely city, and he forgot about these people for a while, and later the Three Guards reinforced Taiping Mansion, and Huailai sent sailors ashore in the hope of picking up some small fish and shrimp left by the infantry.

Who knew that he had fought a rare victory, capturing thousands of prisoners and annihilating hundreds of enemies, and then another gain was to save this group of priests who fled for their lives in panic.

Regardless of the fact that these people are now priests, they are all skilled craftsmen, officers and soldiers, and even broken nobles who have committed crimes in Europe. Wallace knew that Li Xin was in dire need of such a snare and persuaded them to come with him to meet the Marquis of the East.

Li Xin listened to Wallace's intermittent narration, and then suddenly realized, he roughly counted, these people are about twenty or thirty, if it is really as Wallace said, among them are the skilled craftsmen he urgently needs, then this credit he has made is no less than the beheading of tens of thousands.

Therefore, Li Xin immediately expressed his warm welcome to these people, and at the same time ordered the officers in charge of reception in the Three Guards Army to treat these Westerners favorably, and wait for the coming day to screen each person's strengths in detail before making the best use of them. After the simple welcome ceremony, the Three Guards returned to the barracks in several columns, while the fleet sailing ships were overhauled and maintained, and the rest of the group surrounded Li Xin and headed for Nanjing.

Halfway through, Mi Yan expressed his disapproving attitude towards Li Xin's preferential treatment of these Westerners, "Does the Marquis of Zhenyu know why Wei Guogong wants to kill all these Western ghosts?" As far as I know, Wei Guogong pointed out that these people are not born out of nothing even with the rebels, this kind of red-haired ghost who turns into a foreign state, one by one, has thief eyebrows and rat eyes, and is inconsistent, but he is not a good man and a woman. ”

This surprised Li Xin, since he came to the Ming Dynasty, he still has a good impression of these Westerners, and today after listening to Mi Yan's description, he can't help but put a question mark in his heart. It seems that in the coming days, it is not only the technical talents of each person that needs to be screened, but also whether they have colluded with the rebels and have bad intentions.

"Well, what you said is very true, after you go back, you will work with Zhu Yuncai to screen these Westerners, if there is really bad intentions, those who bear blood debts should be dealt with according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, so as to set an example."

Li Xin's attitude towards Westerners and the treatment he gave were relatively high, and he didn't feel anything wrong with it before, but after communicating with Mi Yan today, he suddenly found that in fact, these red-haired fans are also good and bad, and many people themselves committed serious crimes in the West, so they left their hometowns and came to the East.

There may be genuine missionaries among them, but there may also be fake missionaries selling dog meat under the guise of sheep's heads, but they are hoping to make a fortune in the East, and it is not impossible to kill people and set fires in other areas.

In addition, Li Xin asked about the basic situation of the Taiping Mansion and the advance of several elite battalions led by Cheng Mingjiu. Speaking of the situation of employing troops, Mi Yan swept away the previous haze again, and his eyebrows fluttered.

"General Cheng's strategy is about the same as that of General Zhang, and he is ready to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and in fact it is also very successful. But except for some accidents, Shi Kefa, who was dormant in Ning Guofu, didn't know what medicine he had taken and suddenly jumped out. ”