Chapter 122: The Night Dragon King
When Le Zhengxian found Sun San on the observation tower, Sun San, who was surprised that he suddenly put on a military uniform, immediately noticed what was going on, and waved away the soldiers of the Tianyan squad who were standing guard.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" Sun San sat there with a glass of beer, "I know, if you were fine, you would never wear this dress." ”
Le Zhengxian looked down at his military uniform: "Marshal, you said before that if I wear this dress, I will have to receive your military salary, eat your food, and have to work for you." ”
Sun San nodded: "Yes, didn't you refuse me before?" Why did you change your mind now? ”
"It's okay for me to work hard for you, but I don't receive your military pay or eat your food." Le Zhengxian said this, and deliberately paused, "I want to exchange the food for something else." ”
Sun San became serious: "I understand, you want to make a deal with me, let's say, what are your conditions?" ”
Le Zhengxian stood up and said: "Borrow soldiers." ”
Sun San picked up the cup and drank: "What is the reason? ”
"Revenge!" Le Zhengxian gritted his teeth and said, "Avenge the forty-five members of the Qu family!" ”
Sun San raised his eyes and looked at Le Zhengxian: "Qu family? ”
"Yes, Qujia." Le Zhengxian then recounted everything that happened in the past in detail, including that he was a disciple of Hu Shen.
When Sun San heard that he was Hu Shen's apprentice, he was so surprised that the wine glass in his hand almost fell off.
Sun San put down the cup and touched his bald head: "I didn't expect you to be Hu Shen's apprentice, it's a bit interesting." ”
Le Zhengxian looked directly at Sun San: "I know what Dashuai is thinking, you now suspect that I am a chess piece that Hu Shen has placed next to you that will explode." ”
Sun San smiled: "I have to be so skeptical. ”
Le Zhengxian also smiled and said: "Dashuai, I want to take revenge, Qiu Gubo and Tang Anshu both know, but they don't know that Hu Shen is my master, in the same way, I could have hidden it from you, but I didn't, this is the sincerity I showed, in addition, as long as I help, you can easily get information from the outside world." ”
Sun San thought for a while and said, "Since you are so good at intelligence, why don't you want to find a way to spy on Hu Shen?" Find his weak spots? ”
Le Zhengxian shook his head and said: "Even the dark ear didn't find out Hu Shen's past, he faked his own experience, and even created the illusion that he was living in a certain place, and I can't investigate too deeply, once Hu Shen is detected, then all the previous efforts will be wasted, just like marching and fighting, if you can't achieve the effect of a surprise attack, it is equivalent to losing half." ”
Sun San picked up the wine glass again: "I'll think about it." ”
Le Zhengxian said: "Dashuai, as long as you agree to my conditions, I will repay you immediately." ”
"Oh? Is it? Is there such a good deal in the world? Sun San smiled, "Okay, then I'll promise you first, but if you promise, I will also have to see what you give back and then talk about the following things." ”
Le Zhengxian stood up and said: "I will not let you down." ”
Sun San poured a glass of wine and handed it to Le Zhengxian: "I hope." ”
Le Zhengxian took the wine: "Dashuai, I'm curious, why don't you doubt Tang Anshu?" He is a disciple of Hu Shen in the true sense, so don't you worry that he is a pawn inserted by Hu Shen? ”
Sun San just smiled at Le Zhengxian, turned around and opened the door to leave.
Le Zhengxian looked at the open door, suddenly understood, and said to himself: "I understand." ”
After speaking, Le Zhengxian turned to look into the distance, and then raised his head and drank the wine in his glass.
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Five unnamed trees, countless rocks, snow-white sand beaches and a sea cave make up this isolated island at the foot of Tang Anshu.
On top of that, there's the vast sea that surrounds you.
Tang Anshu stood on the beach, holding a pergola and looking at the endless sea, then turned his head and shouted to Gu Feng under the tree: "Adjutant Gu, how is it?" Find out where we are? ”
Gu Feng shook his head at Tang Anshu with a disappointed expression, Tang Anshu sighed, turned around and walked back to the tree slowly.
Benzoin handed over a jug of water: "Fortunately, there is a spring in the sea cave, which is a blessing in misfortune, at sea, nothing is as important as fresh water." ”
Tang Hualong also handed over a grilled fish: "The fish here don't hide from anyone, and the food is sufficient." ”
Li Zhaonian, who was climbing on a tree and watching around with a telescope, jumped down when he heard this, landed beside Tang Hualong and said, "You really can deceive yourself, even if you have food and drink here, we won't live long." ”
Tang Anshu approached Gu Feng, who was looking at the chart: "The most important thing now is, where are we?" ”
Gu Feng took out the compass and sea compass: "Look, it seems to be broken, no matter how you turn it, the pointer will not move at all." ”
Tang Anshu thought for a while and said, "We were originally under Snake Heart Island, even if we walked around the bottom of the sea for so long, we wouldn't have come to an isolated island that we couldn't even see on Snake Heart Island. ”
Tang Hualong, who was eating grilled fish, looked at Tang Anshu and said, "Sir, why are we suspended in mid-air when we are in Jinling Jian?" Also, why, is that Heavenly Dome Cave divided into two halves, and the people below can still stand upside down in it? Could it be a fairyland? ”
Li Zhaonian was also very curious, sitting there drinking water, looking at Tang Anshu, waiting for his analysis.
Tang Anshu looked at Benzoin and Gu Feng, who were also full of questions, and said with a smile: "I don't know, I said at the time that everything that happened there was already beyond my knowledge. ”
Gu Feng put away the chart: "Anyway, now we have to find a way to return to Snake Heart Island quickly." ”
Tang Anshu also said: "I have to inform Yongcheng and inform them about the sea rat, I am worried that my master also knows this secret and will use it." ”
"Take advantage of it?" After Gu Feng finished speaking, he and Benzoin glanced at each other.
Benzoin thought for a while and hurriedly asked, "You mean, Hu Shen let the outbreak of the corpse wind epidemic in Yongcheng, and there is still a way to go?" ”
Tang Anshu said: "If he knows that the claws of the sea rat will cause madness, then this is his last move." ”
Gu Feng was a little confused: "How do you say it?" ”
Tang Anshu explained: "First of all, he let the outbreak of the corpse wind epidemic in Yongcheng, we are bound to find a way to solve all the problems caused by the suppression of the epidemic and the epidemic, and at the same time, Sun San will not sit idly by, and will definitely send a batch of sea rats to Yongcheng to develop an antidote to the emergency, and then he will find a way to send people to use sea rats to cause madness, if he goes this far, then Yongcheng will be in danger." ”
Benzoin understood: "Yes, even if we tell the people that in order to cure the madness, we must let people suffer from the corpse wind, and then use the original method to cure it, the people will not easily believe it, after all, the corpse wind has killed so many people. ”
Tang Anshu sighed and said: "This is the serial scheme that Master is best at, and in this process, it will gradually consume people's patience, the people's trust in Fu Guodong, etc., and finally reach the goal of allowing Chen Bozhong's soldiers to occupy Yongcheng without blood." ”
When Tang Hualong heard this, he asked suspiciously, "Mr. Tang, I really can't understand, why did your master do this?" China is so big and has so much territory, why is he eyeing Yongcheng? ”
Tang Anshu said: "I think, I'm afraid it still has something to do with Ling Jian, if we don't find out all the secrets of Ling Jian for a day, we won't be able to know my master's ultimate purpose." ”
At this moment, Li Zhaonian seemed to have found something on the horizon, got up and took a telescope to look at it, and then immediately went up the tree.
Seeing this, Gu Feng also got up and looked at it with a telescope: "It seems that a ship is coming." ”
At this time, Li Zhaonian on the tree said, "Sir! Indeed, a ship is coming! ”
Gu Feng took the binoculars and looked at them carefully, then ran to the beach, simply stood in the shallow water, tried to stand closer, and then see more clearly, and after he saw the flag on the ship clearly, he slowly put down the binoculars: "It's the flag of the Night Dragon King!" ”
Tang Anshu was stunned when he heard this: "Night Dragon King? ”
Gu Feng explained: "That is, the paper bodhisattva, she is the wife of the Night Dragon King, after the death of the Night Dragon King, she became the successor of the Night Dragon King, in order to commemorate her husband, so she did not change the flag. ”
Tang Anshu took the telescope in Gu Feng's hand and looked at the flag raised on the sailboat, on which a black dragon was painted around the red half-moon.
The name of the Night Dragon King and the Paper Bodhisattva is known to everyone in the East China Sea, he is the largest pirate king in Asia since Chen Zuyi, the king of Bolin State, so the Night Dragon King simply pretended to be Chen Zuyi's name, claiming to be the descendant of Chen Zuyi, and led thousands of pirates under his command to crisscross the East China Sea for decades.
The reason why the Night Dragon King wants to pretend to be Chen Zuyi's name is entirely because of Chen Zuyi's series of feats that year, he is a native of Guangdong, and he took people to the South Seas during the Hongwu period, entrenched in Malacca, and became a pirate in the Malacca generation, it is rumored that he had more than 10,000 pirates under his command at that time, hundreds of ships of all kinds, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, offered a reward of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to his head, and so on in the Yongle period, the imperial court's bounty on Chen Zuyi increased to 7.5 million taels.
However, Chen Zuyi did not lose his life in the face of pursuit from all walks of life, and a few years later, he became a general under the king of the Bolin State of the Three Buddhas at that time, and after the death of the king, Chen Zuyi led the people to seize the throne and became the king of the Bolin State, establishing a pirate kingdom in the true sense.
However, Chen Zuyi finally paid the price because of his indispensability, when Zheng He returned to the Western Ocean for the first time, he actually regarded Zheng He's fleet as the primary target of plunder, but he did not expect to fall into Zheng He's plan, not to mention the fiasco, and was captured alive, and finally escorted back to China, and was beheaded by Zhu Di in front of envoys from various countries.
Gu Feng frowned and said: "The main reason why the Night Dragon King is strong is the incompetence of the Qing court, at that time, the Qing court was no longer able to send troops to deal with pirates like him, and after the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Qing court had no navy, and there was no way to take a powerful pirate like the Night Dragon King, so he could only turn a blind eye, and even hoped that the Night Dragon King could lead the crowd to attack the ships of foreigners and serve the country." ”
Speaking of this, Gu Feng shook his head with a wry smile: "A thief is a thief, just for his own selfish interests, the Night Dragon King finally started a deal with foreigners, because he is not stupid, he knows that no matter how strong his strength is, facing the strong ships and cannons of foreigners is equivalent to hitting a stone with an egg." ”
Tang Anshu asked: "Since the Night Dragon King has already dominated the East China Sea, why does he still want to share the benefits with the Sea Snake and Sun San?" ”
"The reason is very simple, the Night Dragon King is old, and he no longer has the ability to gallop the sea, at that time, countless pirate gangs rose in the East China Sea, because there were too many of them, he couldn't defeat them one by one, his wife Paper Bodhisattva had a plan, and selected the sea snake and Sun San among the many pirates, and established the Three Immortals Society." Gu Feng looked at Tang Anshu and said, "The Three Immortals will be the expedient measure that the Paper Bodhisattva thought of back then. ”