"What? Let Zheng Hongkui go back to Fujian? ”

Several people in the room shouted, they didn't expect Li Xin to have such a plan.

"How much effort did we have to capture this guy alive, let him go, isn't the previous results all wasted?"

Niu Jinsong and He Bin are the most opposed, especially He Bin, he thinks that the Three Guards and the Zheng family's sailors will have a battle sooner or later, so the power of the Zheng family is naturally weakened by one point, and now he actually wants to put back this faint No. 2 person of the Zheng family, isn't that a tiger returning to the mountain? Originally, he rarely took a stand in the internal meetings held by the Three Guards, but this time he couldn't help but stand on the opposite side of Li Xin with a clear attitude.

After Li Xin and the others said their thoughts, they glanced at them slowly.

"All said and done? Are there any dissenting opinions? ”

This time, everyone's position was unprecedentedly unanimous, and almost all of them thought that Zheng Hongkui couldn't let go.

"Then let me ask you first, what is the benefit to us of keeping Zheng Hongkui?"

Niu Jinsong was more anxious, and immediately said, "Detain Zheng Hongkui, we can use him as a bargaining chip to negotiate terms with Zheng Zhilong, if Zheng Zhilong dares to disobey, we will wipe him with a knife!" ”

Hearing this, Niu Jinsong shook his head with a smile, and set his eyes on He Bin, who had fierce opposition.

"What about you? I see that you have always rarely expressed your opinions, and today you can clearly express your opposition, which shows that you are also very dissatisfied with the release of Zheng Hongkui, so can you tell us your reasons? ”

He Bin listened to Li Xin's words, hurriedly got up and said with sincere fear: "The humble post is not intended to oppose the Zhenyu Hou, but to release Zheng Hongkui, I am afraid it will not be good for my three guards." Although this Zheng Hongkui looks a little stupid on the surface, but in fact this person is by no means stupid, when he fought against all kinds of pirates and the Dutch, he took the Zheng family sailor to defeat one by one several times. The Three Guards will have a battle against the Zheng family sooner or later, if we let it go, wouldn't it be a strong enemy for ourselves? ”

Li Xin nodded, noncommittal. However, from the nods and approvals of everyone present, it is not difficult to see that the vast majority of people hold this view.

At this time, there was no statement in the house, except for Wallace, who had been absent-minded, there was also Kong Youde.

"Officer Kong Ying, you also tell me whether Zheng Hongkui should be released."

Kong Youde's eyes lit up when he heard Li Xin mention himself, he was not very proud of the Three Guards for more than a year, and people with lower official positions than him in the past have now climbed on his head, and although he has the rank of deputy general, he is still in charge of an artillery battalion that is not satisfied with the formation. The reason for this is that Kong Youde is changeable and not inferior, and has a dishonorable manager who has repeatedly surrendered and rebelled, and what everyone despises most in the Three Guards is this kind of soft bones without integrity. On the one hand, the upper echelons of the Three Guards represented by Lu Jiu and Mi Yan were also extremely wary of Kong Youde's defense, and never dared to delegate power to him, and even the artillery in his artillery battalion was eliminated from the Heisenberg battalion, and over time, the artillerymen who were originally very popular in the Three Guards were unwilling to go to his battalion.

As a result, Kong Youde showed more and more signs of being marginalized in the Three Guards, and if Li Xin had not personally named him on this expedition, he would have been forgotten. Kong Youde hurriedly stood up, and saluted exaggeratedly: "There is no opinion on the lowly, the opinion of the marquis of the town is the opinion of the lowly, where the marquis of the town is pointed, the lowly will be beaten." The marquis of the town said to let whoever go, and the lowly will let go, and the marquis of the town said to kill ......"

Niu Jinsong looked at this flattering lieutenant with a flattering face full of disgust, and interrupted him before he could finish speaking.

"Okay, okay, don't flatter there, if the Three Guards are all soft bones like you, this battle can't be fought!"

In addition to satirizing Kong Youde in this sentence, there is also dissatisfaction with Li Xin's reuse of Kong Youde. Almost all the infantry battalion officers in the Three Guards Army wanted Heisenberg's First Artillery Battalion to go with the battalion, after all, in terms of the land tactics of the Three Guards, artillery was already inseparable, but Li Xin insisted that they could only let it go.

Li Xin said with a smile: "Although what Officer Kong said is a little excessive, but the attitude is good, I have said more than once in the army that soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty. As the supreme commander of the Three Guards, the order I issued to Officer Kong Yingguan to carry out and resolutely carry out it does not show that he is conscientious? ”

When Kong Youde heard Li Xin's praise and praise of himself, he couldn't help but feel a little complacent, and immediately burst into tears, and frequently expressed his willingness to die for Li Xin. The action is exaggerated, and the voice is full of emotion. Niu Jinsong, who was watching, frowned and forbade his nose, but he couldn't refute it. After all, what Li Xin said was right, resolutely carrying out the orders of the Shangguan was indeed one of the creeds of the Three Guards. But he still has something to say, not to vomit and be unhappy.

However, Li Xin did not give him a chance to speak, but continued: "I know that some of you may ask, since I have decided everything in one word, what is the point of calling everyone to sit together for a meeting? ”

This sentence really expressed the hearts of everyone here, only to hear Li Xin say: "Now I am telling you, your speeches and opinions are definitely not meaningless, they are meaningful, after all, there will still be a gap in the hundred secrets, how can I be alone every time I have no last resort?" Therefore, it is a process of checking and supplementing the omissions and addendums together, and it is not necessary to dwell on whose opinion was implemented in the end, but whether the final implemented opinion is correct or not. ”

Li Xin's words were tongue-twisting, but everyone still faintly heard the meaning.

"Now, let me ask you to tell me again, what is the benefit of staying and letting Zheng Hongkui go to Zheng Zhilong?"

"He Junmen has already said in detail just now, Zheng Hongkui is good at naval warfare, if he is released, he will be a big opponent of our Three Guards Army in the future, after all, our naval division has been built for less than a year, and he has little combat experience, and he is afraid that he will not be as handy as the infantry battalion when fighting with the Zheng family naval division."

These words quickly attracted the eyes of Wallace, who had not said a word about the discussion of the people, and now that he heard that some officers belittled the Pingbo fleet that he had brought out, he naturally could not sit still and remain silent.

"How do you know that the Pingbo fleet is not as good at fighting on the sea as your infantry battalion? You come up with the proof! May I ask you, Your Excellency, when did the Pingbo fleet not return from a triumphant battle? ”

This sentence really stopped the battalion officer who spoke, the Pingbo fleet is indeed victorious in every battle, at least until now, it has not tasted a defeat. He wanted to say that the Pingbo fleet was pinched with soft peaches, but this sentence turned around in his mouth and swallowed it back. After all, this kind of dispute is useless except to hit the morale of the Three Guards.

Niu Jinsong saw that some of his subordinates were arguing with the navy, and hurriedly got up to reconcile.

"Okay, don't make any noise, you, and you sit down for me!" After relieving him, he said to Wallace: "The soldiers under my command didn't talk to the door, don't care about the Chinese army, don't worry about them." The Pingbo fleet is the treasure of our three guards, the treasure of our Zhenhou Hou, and the heart of the marquis, and it is true that it has never been defeated in battle......"

Niu Jinsong's words were quite good from the beginning, but he didn't say a word, and he actually faintly competed with Wallace.

After all, Wallace was not good at Chinese, and he couldn't hear the sarcasm in Niu Jinsong's words, but thought that he was praising himself and the Pingfan fleet, and repeatedly thanked him. This action caused the room to burst into laughter. In fact, Wallace's examples of not being able to hear the other party's off-picture meaning abound, mainly because this guy is too extroverted, and he expresses himself and feels very good. As a result, because this style is so popular among the Three Guards, even if there is a dispute with it, it can be resolved well, and it will not cause a fire between the two arms.

At this time, Li Xin slapped on the table with a bang and scolded: "What kind of system is it all into, now is a military meeting, not a party to drink." Whoever is casually digressing, just go out and run around Hangzhou City and come back! ”

Li Xin was angry, and the people in the room quieted down, and everyone knew that Li Xin could say and do. When he was in Nanjing, it was this Niu Jinsong who was punished by the marquis of the town because he refused to listen to repeated warnings, and ran around the outer city of Nanjing.

The circumference of the outer city of Nanjing is dozens of miles, and Niu Jinsong was not tired and half dead when he ran all the way. This incident caused a stir in the camps. Until now, when Li Xin brought up the matter of running in circles around the city wall, some people couldn't help but laugh below.

However, Niu Jinsong is thick-skinned and doesn't care about this. Hehe said: "The circumference of Hangzhou City is only more than ten miles, and it is a piece of cake to run!" ”

Li Xin glared at him, in fact, what Li Xin cared about was the open and secret struggle between the navy and the army, and within an organization, this kind of internal friction was often his biggest enemy. Although the navy was only a prototype, the shadow of this kind of overt and covert struggle had already been seen in the dispute between Wallace and the officer just now, so it was necessary to be vigilant against it and eliminate it invisibly.

"Back to the topic of Zheng Hongkui, let me tell you my opinion, and you all see if it makes sense."

"Please show the marquis!"

This sentence was said by everyone present in the room, which is extremely neat.

According to the secret agent's report, the Zheng family is not monolithic, and Zheng Zhilong and several brothers have always been suspicious of each other, especially Zheng Hongkui, who has a disagreement with Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong has said to the people around him several times that the fourth brother is hindered, if we keep Zheng Hongkui, won't there even be no one who makes Zheng Zhilong hinder? ”

"Do you want Zheng Hongkui to go back with the captured fleet? That's a real retreat! ”

At this moment, Wallace's voice rang out abruptly in the silence.

A sea ship faintly disappeared into the sea off the Qiantang River, Zheng Hongkui's mind was full of emotion, since he was captured, he never thought that he would have a chance to get out of the cage of the Three Guards alive. And the release conditions proposed by Li Xin are also extremely lenient, that is, Xiong Mingyu is exchanged for him.