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When Li Yingyuan, accompanied by Major Andrew, jumped up and down, and bargained for the affairs of the captured officers and soldiers, two people watched them from a distance.

"You're a great roommate. Chen Zhutou sighed and said to his son: "You said that when he went to Dinghai to inquire about the news, he let the English and the Fusang people fight, causing so much loss to the English people, and making the English people want to eat his meat, what will happen in the end?"

When I returned to Hangzhou, I became the magistrate of Dinghai, and I was on an equal footing with Andrew, and I had to accompany him for twelve points of caution, and greeted him well throughout the whole process, he was really a character. ”

"However, I don't understand, he used a grenade to blow up the master of the English, Captain Senko's death has something to do with him, it is said that Ping Yingce also wrote it, don't the English people care about him?" Chen Changsheng asked puzzled.

"Careful, how to care? The English came to Daming, after all, to open up trade routes, and it just so happened that Li Yingyuan was the official in charge of negotiation, and the English people were too late to please him, so how could they embarrass him.

Even if this is not the case, the two countries are at war without killing envoys, Li Yingyuan is now coming on behalf of the imperial court, he is an envoy official, no matter how many people he has killed before, the English can only be those who do not exist.

Doesn't it mean that they also pay attention to diplomatic etiquette in Europa? Chen Zhutou shook his head.

"However, what's the use of this Dinghai Zhi County, Dinghai is occupied, can he still collect taxes here?" Chen Changsheng still looked ignorant.

"You, you are still naïve, the so-called official word has two mouths, what really matters is the actual dispatch, not the official title.

He was only a county magistrate of Dinghai for the convenience of negotiating with the English, and when the negotiations were over, he would be transferred to other positions according to merit.

At that time, even if he is not a magistrate, he should still be the position of Zhengqipin, and he should still be a proper official. This Li Yingyuan changed from Jinyiwei to Zhixian, and from a military attache to a civilian official, which is also an outlier. Chen Zhutou sighed.

Regarding Li Yingyuan's situation, the English people do not want to publicize it, but it has already caused a sensation in Dinghai, and there are all kinds of rumors.

The news that Li Yingyuan was sent by the Jinyi Wei guerrillas somehow leaked out of the Jinyi Guard's hundred households, and countless people were thundered at that time.

We still have capable people in the Ming Dynasty, and we can send someone over to play the English people around, and many people feel inexplicably proud, and the English people are just like that.

In fact, when the Song guerrilla promised the position of Jinyi Wei Baihu, it was actually perfunctory, and he didn't even report to it.

It's just that Li Yingyuan mentioned it by the way when he met Governor Yuqian later, so as to pave the way for buying this position in Dinghai Zhixian County, after all, it is more convenient to buy an official body as an official than a person with a white body.

At this time, Li Yingyuan felt that someone was watching from a distance, but when he looked over, he found that they were all acquaintances, so he couldn't help but smile, so he raised his hand to salute, which was regarded as a greeting.

Chen Zhutou and Chen Changsheng instinctively raised their hands in return, and then they wanted to slap themselves, which made the English people see what they would think, and immediately turned around to find a place to hide.

Li Yingyuan did not care, and continued to make various requests to Major Andrew, such as meeting with the local military governor, checking the living conditions of the captured officers and soldiers, making sure that they were not mistreated, and meeting with the local gentry.

Although Andrew was reluctant in every possible way, he also knew that he could not completely refuse, so he only agreed that Li Yingyuan would go to meet the local military governor first, and the rest had to be discussed carefully.

The English army was divided into two parts: the navy, commanded by a general, who would entertain Li Yingyuan in the evening, and the army, commanded by a lieutenant colonel named George Blair, who led the army to camp in a rice field in Dinghai.

After the riots of a few months earlier, the English were reluctant to divide their troops in the hostile county town, so they transferred all the English from the city and stationed them with the army in the rice fields outside the city.

The city is now under the care of the Ming people's dependents, and there have been no moths so far, but Andrew's authority must have been weakened a lot.

When he arrived at the British Army station, he saw the surrounding situation and found that Lieutenant Colonel George Brell was a typical Englishman who was old-fashioned and attached importance to etiquette, and he still wore all his military uniforms neatly and tightly buttoned the top of his military uniform in such a hot weather.

The lieutenant colonel received Li Yingyuan with the old-fashioned etiquette peculiar to the British, and did not put forward any ideas about his former status.

The two of them discussed the war between the Ming and the British, discussed commerce and trade, and even discussed the development of navigation technology and military weapons.

Li Yingyuan had read a lot of books on the Taixi country at this time, whether it was talking about mathematics, chemistry and other natural knowledge, or the customs and economies of various countries, etc., he could talk about a lot of insights, which made this respectable lieutenant colonel think that this was the basic quality of Ming officials, and his evaluation of Ming was much higher.

Lieutenant Colonel Blair also invited Lee Ying-won to visit the barracks with him, and also asked Lee about his views on the English army.

"The English army was sharply armed, gorgeously dressed, and the tents were neatly arranged, and it was worthy of being the strongest army in the world. Li Yingyuan said politely, and at the end of the conversation, he talked about the shortcomings of the army: "It's just that it seems that I have been abroad for too long, and the military discipline has been slack a lot." ”

"Why do you think that the discipline of the English army is lax?" asked Lieutenant Colonel Brell curiously.

Li Yingyuan didn't speak, ran to the sentry standing next to him, and carefully buttoned the sentry's shirt that had been unbuttoned because of the hot weather.

"The army must pay attention to dress, and good dress is also part of the army's combat effectiveness. If the army unbuttons its uniforms because of the hot weather, how much combat effectiveness can such an army have?" Li Yingyuan said seriously.

"You're so right that the army must value formal dress. Li Yingyuan's words immediately resonated strongly with the lieutenant colonel, and he felt that the officials of the Ming Kingdom were not useless.

The venerable lieutenant colonel later issued a very strict order, requiring all soldiers to fasten the top buttons of their thick hair serge uniforms, and to strictly adhere to the most formal and strict dress code.

Considering that the temperature in Dinghai at this time had reached more than 30 degrees Celsius, and the army was stationed in the rice fields full of miasma, it is conceivable what the effect of such an order would be.

In the evening, Li Yingyuan attended a diplomatic banquet presided over by the general, reiterating once again the importance and compliance of appeasing the local people, and at the same time asking the British army to treat the remaining Ming officers and soldiers kindly.

"War can be barbaric, but the aftermath of war must be civilized, and I think even Europa should be a concept that should prevail. Li Yingyuan made such a request after praising Britain's long history and splendid civilization with gorgeous and stern words.

After being forced to this extent, he felt that this matter was not important, and His Excellency the general gritted his teeth and agreed to Li Yingyuan's request.