A few days later, in the Shaoxing Mansion, Qiu Wugang and others conducted a review and analysis of the infestation of the Japanese invaders.

Resisting the Japanese is a military affair, and the Shaoxing Mansion's Qing Kou is in charge of Shaoxingwei, so the participants mainly include the governor Mei Feng, the commander Qiu Wugang, and the commander of Shaoxingwei Lu Han and others.

In addition, although Gu Yunji and Fu Zida were civil officials, they had gone through the whole process and were hunted down by the Japanese and were deeply involved, so they also made an exception to participate in this meeting.

Gu Yunji's time in Shaoxing Mansion was short, but he already had a general understanding of the habits and characteristics of the Japanese Invaders, and he couldn't understand it: "It stands to reason that the Japanese Invaders mostly appear in small groups, scattered dozens of people, invading the people everywhere, and they are very mobile, so they have not been able to clean up."

"There must be hundreds of people in this sneak attack on the guardhouse, right? With so many people, and it was such an active act as a sneak attack, since they found out that the camp was empty, how could they not know that General Qiu led his troops to build a road in the swamp pond? The swamp pond is not far from the camp, and it is only two or three quarters of an hour away on horseback, and it will soon be back in a hurry."

"The imperial court is strong and strong, the enemy is outnumbered, they are bound to be defeated, and this sneak attack by the Japanese is not destined to succeed from the beginning, don't they know it themselves? What is the purpose of doing this?"

The commander Lu Han nodded: "You are right, the Japanese forces are intricate, with different origins, and there are only a few dozen people in the relatively small scale. can dispatch hundreds of people to attack at a time, and the one with this capital must be one of those few Japanese leaders."

As he spoke, he recalled for a while and muttered, "Judging from the insignia on the clothes and weapons of the Wako this time, it should be someone under the hands of the pottery thief."

Gu Yunji looked puzzled: "Pottery thief?"

Mei Feng explained, "The pottery thief's full name is Tao Lian, and he is the leader of the Wako group, and he is the most powerful among the Wako who harass me along the coast. In fact, there are relatively few Japanese pirates who really come from Dongying, most of them are of Chinese blood, and even the people of my dynasty became pirates for many reasons, and then slowly developed into Japanese pirates."

"For example, this Tao Lian, when he was a child, he went to Nanyang with his elders to do business, and the business gradually became bigger and bigger. He himself became the son-in-law of a great pirate, and after that he engaged in a serious maritime trade business, and at the same time engaged in pirates at sea, and became a merchant and pirate who killed people and sold goods."

"A few years ago, when my maritime ban policy was relaxed and the maritime trade was booming, Tao Lian and others came when they smelled it, not only being active in the southeast coastal area to rob merchant ships, but even going ashore to harass the people and attack small towns and villages, causing us a lot of trouble."

Saying that, Mei Feng frowned slightly: "Although in terms of strength and capital, Tao Lian does have the possibility of sneaking up on us, but he has a relatively conservative personality and rarely takes such an initiative to take risks. Not to mention that although he has been drifting overseas all the year round, he still yearns for my dynasty in his heart, and now that he is older, he never forgets to return to his roots."

"Two months ago, when the imperial court released the news of Zhao'an, his attitude was very relaxed, and the intrusion of his subordinates eased a lot. He didn't have a reason to do something like a sneak attack to provoke the court at this juncture, right? He doesn't want to be recruited?"

Qiu Wugang on the side looked gloomy, and listened silently for a long time before he said, "Lord Lu said that this time the Japanese are like cultivating a branch, and in my opinion, it looks like a person under Gao Shishu."

"Tao Lian and Gao Shishu belong to two different groups of Japanese people, and their styles are very different, although Tao Lian is powerful and has a large number of people, but if he does things well, he will leave a little bottom line, even if he goes ashore to harass, he only robs things, and generally does not kill people."

"Gao Shishu is different, he colluded with the Dongying people, and nearly half of his hands were warriors from Dongying, with cruel methods, killing people without blinking, even if a three-year-old child fell into their hands, he couldn't live, he did no evil everywhere he went, and if he passed a village, he would die a village and an empty village."

"Two days ago, when I fought with the Japanese Bandits, I found that they were ruthless and demanded their lives, although they brought the clothes and emblems of the Tao Lian faction, but they were very similar to the style of Gao Shishu and others."

Although Qiu Wugang is a fourth-grade military attache in the imperial court, he is a pioneer and has been fighting on the front line all the year round, and he knows the habits and characteristics of various factions and pirates, and his words are indeed very referential.

Gu Yunji thought about it carefully when he heard this, and had a guess in his heart, but he didn't know much about the coastal robbers, so he only tried

Tan asked, "Since you are wearing the clothes of the Cultivation School and acting like Gao Shishu, will it be...... Blame the blame?"

"Blame for it?"

Mei Feng thought about it along this line of thought, and then nodded: "There is this possibility. Gao Shishu is different from Tao Lian, Tao Lian went to the South Seas when he was a child, and slowly grew in power and developed into a Japanese coward. Gao Shishu was originally a citizen of Fujian, but later he was forced to go into exile when he committed an accident, and finally joined the Japanese and became one of them."

"It is said that he was originally a small catcher in the yamen, but later he had a conflict with someone for some reason, and after killing the other party's whole family, he absconded in fear of crime. The court issued a wanted warrant and pursued him everywhere, but he was cornered, and finally accepted by a group of Japanese pirates from the Dongying people."

"Speaking of which, he still has some skills, and after joining the Wakos, he climbed all the way up and became the biggest leader. He also recruited troops everywhere, bought firearms with Westerners, and single-handedly developed into the second largest Japanese organization after Tao Lian."

Saying that, Mei Feng explained to Gu Yunji again: "However, because he fled overseas in fear of crime, and his methods are much more ruthless than Tao Lian, the imperial court has a tough attitude towards him, and only tries to recruit Tao Lian."

Lu Han continued: "Tao Lian and Gao Shishu are the first and second largest Japanese groups, although there is little friction between them, but more often they help each other and unanimously fight against the imperial court. Maybe Gao Shishu wanted to attack the camp because he saw that Tao Lian was about to be recruited, and he was worried that he would be isolated and helpless in the future, so he would be freed up by the imperial court to concentrate on dealing with it, so he wanted to sneak attack the camp, and then blame Tao Lian for not being recruited."

After hearing so much, Fu Zida made a difficulty: "Although Gao Shishu's conspiracy is not clever, it is very effective. Tao Lian was wronged, but he had a hard time arguing, and he was afraid that the court would trouble him. And even though we know that it is Gao Shishu's handiwork, we are also worried that Tao Lian will not trust us, and we are even more worried that he will collude with Gao Shishu and stab us in the back."

"We don't trust them, they don't trust us, they come and go, they are suspicious of each other, and I'm afraid that the matter of recruiting will be yellow."

Although Tao Lian is a widow who has done all the bad things, and everyone is eager to chop off his head with their own hands, but as officials, everyone must always think about the overall situation, and it is always better to solve it in a peaceful way, so as to avoid the suffering of the people and save expenses for the court than to shout and kill.

It's a pity that this road is full of difficulties.

Mei Feng sighed and said, "That's it, let's talk about Zhao'an later, you all have official business to do, so let's get busy with your own first."

Everyone nodded yes and left.

Gu Yunji was about to get up and leave with everyone, when he heard Mei Feng's deep voice: "Gu Yunji stays."