It took less than half a day to destroy Cai Aniu, and it was almost a battle with zero casualties, but unfortunately the harvest was very little, only five or six small boats of less than 20 tons and about 500 taels of money, and even the expenses and rewards for sending troops were only enough. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Lao Cai is too poor, it's a pirate leader with more than 50 people, just this amount of money, any rich man is better than him. Li Xian couldn't help but smile bitterly after listening to the property inventory report.

"You can be content, all the pirates who are a little oily have been eliminated by you in advance, what do you want?" a familiar voice appeared at the right time, mocking lukewarmly.

"As a pirate, he should have been a little more dedicated. Li Xian said without raising his head.

In the entire escort team, the only one who can talk to Li Xian in this tone is this Zuo Shaoqing Zuo Shao.

At the beginning, after Li Xian defeated Zuo Shaoqing and asked for a lot of information from him, he lost interest in him, and just gave him a lot of healing medicine and let him fend for himself, that is, let him leave by himself after recuperating from his injuries, and the Mixed Yuan Sect would not interfere.

Speaking of which, the relationship between Li Xian and Zuo Shaoqing is also a bit complicated, they were still comrades-in-arms at the earliest, and later turned against each other, but Li Xian beat him up at that time, and then met again and easily captured and defeated, Zuo Shaoqing's hatred for Li Xian was monstrous, but Li Xian didn't feel anything about Zuo Shaoqing, but he was defeated by his own men many times.

After getting a lot of useful information from Zuo Shaoqing's mouth, Li Xian had no interest in Zuo Shaoqing, he wanted to kill people, he didn't have so much hatred, keep it, it was just a waste of money, then just release it, let him go there if he wants to.

Li Xian felt that he was generous, Zuo Shaoqing found that Li Xian didn't care about his stay at all, and his anger towards Li Xian couldn't help but increase by three points, this is the rhythm that he thinks he is not even worthy of being an opponent, and the biggest insult in the world is nothing more than this.

However, Zuo Shaoqing has nothing to go now, let's go back to Guangzhou, first of all, I have to explain to the people in the imperial court why after several battles, his companions died completely, and he retreated with all his tails alone.

Even if the person in charge of the court doesn't blame him, it is boring to be forced to deal with people in the martial arts such as Sanyuanguan.

In the end, Zuo Shaoqing relied on the Mixed Yuan Temple, and relied on Li Xian not to restrict his freedom, wandering around and probing for all kinds of information.

There is nothing else to do about this, but Zhao Hujiang is a little worried.

"Battalion commander, it's not a matter that this Zuo Shaoqing has been staying in the Mixed Yuan Temple, this is a big scourge. ”

After the expansion of the escort team, Li Xian unified the titles in the army, and everyone was called by their positions in the army, instead of talking nonsense such as sect master, owner, and battalion commander as before.

"It's just a lot of chopsticks for multiple people, what a big deal. Li Xian was a little unimpressed.

"Battalion commander, don't underestimate this Zuo Shaoqing, this person is a talent, and he is still an indomitable person.

Ordinary people who are captured and defeated in a fair contest will be demoralized for a while, if not slumped.

But you see that Zuo Shaoqing is still depressed now, and he still pesters some officers every day to learn the use of firearms and ask for advice on various Western military techniques, which shows the perseverance of his will.

This is a troubled hero, even if he takes into account the reaction of the Songshan Sword Sect, he can't kill him with one sword, and he can't let him learn all our true skills. General Zhao Hu saw that Li Xian didn't care, so he said with hatred.

"What's that. The art of war knows that it is as vast as the sea, and we only have 500 soldiers and horses, are we afraid that he will learn some earth-shattering skills and then come back to deal with us?

Believe me, this art of war has always been a matter of thousands of sails competing and the capable prevailing, thinking that if you hide the art of war and don't let people know, you can always maintain the upper hand, this is the way to die.

I hope that there will be people like Zuo Shaoqing who study the art of war diligently, so that we will not dare to relax ourselves, continue to study and continue to improve, so as not to become a short-lived local force. Li Xian had no objection to Zuo Shaoqing's learning of modern military knowledge, which made Zhao Hu stunned.

Speaking of which, Li Xian's attitude towards knowledge is completely different from that of Zhao Hujiang and others, rather than hiding and making all kinds of secret methods and secret transmissions, Li Xian hopes to make all kinds of practical knowledge public, spread it with all its might, and quickly close the gap with European countries.

"The battalion commander is open-minded, but he is much better than us.

It's just that Zuo Shaoqing is familiar with the people below, and he will eventually know that his uncle appeared during whaling, aren't you afraid of this consequence?" Zhao Hu asked without giving up.

"Are you worried that Zuo Shaoqing went out and said that Zuo Lingchen had appeared on the whaling ship of the Mixed Yuan Temple, so the Amber Gold Cicada Pendant is likely to fall into the hands of the Mixed Yuan Temple, and then bring a storm to the Mixed Yuan Sect?

That's not necessary. The imperial court took the Songshan Sword Sect lightly because it thought that Zuo Lingchen had died as early as the Martial Arts Conference, so the Songshan Sword Sect was not suspicious.

If people knew that Zuo Lingchen was not dead at that time, it would certainly make people suspect our Mixed Yuan Sect, but the Songshan Sword Sect would only be more suspicious.

Therefore, as long as Zuo Shaoqing still has a little brain, he will cover this information to the death, and will never pass it on to others. "Li Xian is really not worried that Zuo Shaoqing will draw the attention of the imperial court to the side of the Mixed Yuan Sect.

"But, but..."General Zhao Hu said yes a few times, but he just couldn't say why, and finally he could only sigh and stop talking about this topic.

Li Xian knew that what Zhao Hu was really worried about was Miss Xie's affairs, and he was worried that Miss Xie and Zuo Shaoqing's old relationship would rekindle, and many things would be very troublesome at that time, so he hoped that he would expel Zuo Shaoqing or at least restrict Zuo Shaoqing's actions.

However, Li Xian felt that he had enough troubles in his hands, and he was not willing to care about any famous heroines who fell in love with the enemies of the sect, and then let the head of the sect beat the mandarin ducks ruthlessly.

In short, Zuo Shaoqing was in the Mixed Yuan Sect like this, and then every time he met Li Xian, he would inevitably have all kinds of cynicism, and Li Xian naturally didn't care about it.

If Zuo Shaoqing could still look like usual after being defeated several times, and he could still treat Li Xian well, Li Xian would praise him for having a deep heart.

"The last pirate on the East China Sea Island has been wiped out by you, when do you plan to move to the East China Sea Island?" Zuo Shaoqing saw Li Xian's plain appearance, and somehow there was a rush of anger, but he barely suppressed it and asked.

"I didn't mention this to you when I moved to Donghai Island, did I?" Li Xian raised his head, looked at Zuo Shaoqing, and asked strangely.

"Does that need to be said?

You are in such a hurry to sweep up the pirates of the East China Sea Island, naturally you are interested in the territory of the East Sea Island and want to take down the entire East Sea Island.

What's more, Yaluo Bay is also a big place, if you only have one or two hundred people under your command, you can barely live in the Mixed Yuan Temple, but now there are five or six hundred people, and there are not even enough places for soldiers to train.

The location of Donghai Island is wonderful, and after you occupy it, you will be able to control most of the shipping routes in Leizhou Bay, will you let go of this kind of good thing?" Zuo Shaoqing said disapprovingly.

"Haha, it seems that you have been reading military books hard during this time, but you have some experience.

However, you only know one thing and you don't know the other, and you still can't guess what my real plan is. Li Xian smiled slightly, but refused to continue.

At this time, the prelude to the vigorous Opium War gradually opened, Li Xian had 500 men, 300 muskets, and could mobilize more than 2,000 ordinary people in the sea area of Xuwen County, which can be called the largest civilian armed force in Leizhou Bay.

In terms of money, there is a soap workshop, which can provide a net income of 1,500 to 2,000 yuan a month, about 22,000 yuan of funds are available in hand (it should have been more, but it costs a lot because of military training and rewards), and there are 70 or 80 Chinese-style hard sailing boats.

This strength is enough to dominate Xuwen County and become the leader of Leizhou Bay, but it is still far from enough compared to behemoths such as the imperial court or the British army.

"How to intervene in the Opium War and then develop rapidly in this war is a question. Li Xian looked at the horizon in the distance and said to himself secretly.