Chapter 224: Conditions
"Brother Jing, are you okay?" Bai Qi rushed to Ping's side first, touching his arm and checking anxiously. There are no injuries on the calm face, but some old officials have a method of execution, so that the surface is unharmed, the stomach and intestines are damaged, and the muscles and bones are broken. Bai Qi had a calm face, if they dared to hurt Peace, just wait.
Calm was wearing a blue muslin robe, smiled at him gently and pressed his hand: "I'm fine." Master Hou and Master Lu have been polite to me these days. Aki—" His voice was full of confusion and a stunned aftertaste.
Bai Qi immediately understood why Ping Ping had such mixed feelings. Because he was also shocked and entangled after seeing Yan Hou. Li Chun, your father is coming to you, you know. Bai Qi and Calm looked at each other. This is really a divine turn, the two of them thought of everything, but they didn't expect that there was such a possibility of recognizing their relatives.
Previously, Lu Xiyue said that Yan Hou is willing to continue to maintain the original state of Swallow Island, or hand it over to Ning Jing and Bai Qi to manage, it is better to use raw than cooked hahaha. Then he cooperated with Nanquan Sanshitang White Pearl to establish Swallow Island Cargo Company, and the two families each accounted for half of the shares, and the goods bank was used to pay taxes.
Yanhou would ask the Southeast Province to issue four passes to the Swallow Island Merchants, allowing the ships of the Swallow Island Merchant to trade openly with the Frankie merchants of Luzon after paying the national taxes. He also told Bai Qi that Yan Hou's real ambition was to dedicate Swallow Island to the Son of Heaven, and asked the Son of Heaven to open Swallow Island into a base where Frankie merchant ships were allowed to trade, and operate it like Luzon. If it comes true, they will be the first batch of important members of the imperial court in Swallow City.
No matter how you look at it, it is very reasonable and very well-qualified, and this bright future is enough to make any good man with ambition and ambition boil his blood and devote himself to it. It's just that the only thing Lu Xiyue expected wrong was that these people were not hot-blooded men, they were all scoundrels with their own characteristics. None of this map of light ignited a spark in Bai Qi or calmed his heart.
Bai Qi didn't believe that there was such a kind person in the world who only worked for others, he was only more vigilant, the other party must be holding back his big move! It wasn't until he saw the legendary Yanhou that he suddenly realized that everything had an answer.
The extremely similar facial features and body shape speak for themselves.
How could a dignified Hou Ye lose his son, Li Chun, that poor and white boy, is actually the son of Hou Ye, although Bai Qi is very interested, but this is not the time to talk about these bloody stories, looking at Yan Hou's appearance, he doesn't seem to be very willing to mention this aspect. What's more, people didn't say that Li Chun was who was in his family, and it was not surprising that people were similar.
Bai Qi reluctantly turned his attention to serious matters, although his eyes couldn't help but glance at Yan Hou's face, I rubbed this too similar, Li Chun, this kid just pinched it out·····
In divergent thinking, Bai Qi captured the conditions offered by Yan Hou on the one hand. Doing things for people is not to take money for nothing, Yan Hou has three requirements, the first is to reduce firearms and equipment, after all, civilian guards cannot be cooler than army preparations. Second, Li Chun will no longer stay on the island, and third, Swallow Island will increase a group of people sent by Yanhou, but Bai Qi can be solely responsible for the specific deployment of manpower.
The first and second are reasonable, in Bai Qi's opinion, it is just a cooperation with Yan Hou, and Lady Pearl is Yan Hou's spokesperson. With the support of the imperial court, it will be more justified, and it will be beneficial to them.
It's just that the third is not an ordinary personnel transfer, Yan Hou's own armed personnel on Swallow Island are extra magnanimous and allow them not to be completely disbanded, but to re-screen, break up the formation, and hand over some people.
Yan Hou means that he has put on such a big formation, and the imperial court cannot be nameless. What's more, there were indeed good and bad things in the team before Swallow Island, and Bai Qi was asked to hand over some militants like Zhang San, who had fought with the imperial court with more firepower, as "Haikou bandits", and everyone put a few more empty cannons, so a glorious defense battle to defend the sea frontier, recover the royal land, and fight against the rogues was successfully completed.
Calm is also stuck at this point. He and Bai Qi had no complaints about the distribution of benefits, whether it was Mrs. Pearl or Yan Hou himself, they had no opinion, and even thought that this was very appropriate, after all, they would have to borrow other people's famous brands and power at that time. But to hand over the heads of dozens of brothers, the two could not agree in any case.
Lu Xiyue and Yan Yun couldn't understand this. At first, they were only worried that the people of Swallow Island would not obediently hand over their jobs, after all, the profits at sea were huge, and no one in the world was afraid of having a lot of money, and most of them were always full of resentment.
And the people on Swallow Island are not good men and women, that time when they went to sea was not to eat on the knife edge, why is it difficult to catch a few rude thieves and fill in the numbers!
In fact, there was this kind of behavior in the previous dynasties, especially in the southeast province, which is close to the tradition. The rogue attack was sudden, he acted quickly, and he didn't love to fight, and when the army rushed from the guard post to the place of the incident, it was basically the people who had already robbed it and only had a tail left. So he simply killed a few injured civilians and sent them up as rogues, and then went to the back to kill a few civilians directly. Therefore, the collapse of the previous dynasty and the military disaster of the bandits in the southeast province are one of the important reasons.
Although Yan Yun is not a child, he is not such a crazy person. After discussing with Lu Xiyue, he felt that he was very generous and kind, they had a list of basic officials in Swallow Island, and after approving their identities, there were a lot of restless elements with criminal records, and there were even a few thieves who were originally punished by mismatches, and they got them to the island. It makes perfect sense for such a person to be cannon fodder, isn't it a very simple matter for dozens of people to hand it over?
For example, Zhang San, the second son of Zhang Ada, a fisherman in Nanquan Xiaogang Village, Zhang Alian and his two brothers died in the belly of a fish in a sea storm ten years ago, and the nets were lost. Zhang Afu of the same village took away his little sister Zhang Ahua to compensate for the three taels of silver that his father borrowed from him for buying a boat, and Zhang Afu used Zhang Ahua instead of his daughter as a dragon maiden to sacrifice to the sea. Zhang San climbed over the wall at night and Jinru Zhang Afu's house, slashed the main family with a firewood knife and fled to the sea in a hurry.
For example, Li Si, a native of Longshan, Southeast Province, has a large family population and no land to cultivate, and when he was a child, he came to Nanquan with his father and brother to work for a living, and his family was infected with fever on a cargo ship returning from Nanyang, except for him, and his family died. He later served as a seagoing escort for the Bai family, and was fond of drinking and fighting, and once threw the servant of another mainland merchant into the sea at sea, causing him to drown.
These coarse people don't know a single character, have no relatives or friends, have bad deeds, and die under the rule of Nanquan County Ling Xinxin to save prison space. Getting rid of these people should be unwanted, without any burden. Twenty heads were more than enough to hand over.
Bai Qi's slightly light and oily smile had long since disappeared, and there was a bit of depression and sadness in his voice that Yan Hou couldn't understand: "My lord, let's wipe out our group of rogues." Now sitting in front of you are two robber leaders. ”
He didn't mention Li Chun, and unconsciously put him aside so as not to implicate him.
Yan Hou frowned slightly: "You two have good appearances and good conversations, why are you willing to be lewd." ”
"The badness of Zhang San's people is obviously bad, but it is caused by ignorance and ignorance. We have been taught by the saints and know the laws of the court, but is it not to despise the law and the majesty of the Son of Heaven?
The old man in the countryside of Nanquan once said that the butcher used the knife in his hand, and if he confiscated his pig-killing knife, he would be safe, such as a vicious dog that would be tamed after hitting a few sticks; But if a scholar is bad, his heart is broken, and he is hopeless, like a poisonous snake in the heart, biting silently and killing. I and Ping Ping are much more noble than Zhang San, at least people are still serious and have children in marriage, I have an outer room, a cheap product of silver, and I am already in the middle of the class, and everyone has made money by calling me a master in the past few years. Willing to lay for his life. Besides, my head is worth a little more, Koushou. ”