Chapter 43: Truth

The woman and the young girl supported each other, and walked tremblingly through the council square under the escort of a group of Haojing pirates, and the interesting thing is that they looked at the living people around them and were very afraid, and they could see the corpses of Fanyi piled up on the side of the road, most of them spit out with extreme resentment, and finally knelt down and wept at the feet of Zhou Xing, the commander of Xiangshan County.

Zhou Xing supported this and that, and finally let the female baby who was less than ten years old hold his official robe, pursed her lips and cried with the people.

Chen Mu couldn't see such a scene, not to mention that he also knew in his heart that he and Xiangshan Ling Zhou Xing had their own place.

Political achievements and gratitude are all weekly; The merits and gains are his Chen Mu's.

Li Dan grew up in Haojing, familiar with the grass and trees here, walking on the damp and exotic streets of Haojing, he is far more comfortable than when he was in Xiangshan, with a black captain's double-brimmed hat on his head, a delicate Western long sword at his waist, a sleeveless coarse cloth short shirt showing the solid muscles on his body, and a young and frivolous smile on his face, until he approached the stone foundation of the church where Chen Mu was located.

"Father-in-law, the child has been arranged, two three-masted centipedes, a two-masted plywood ship, and four sloops have all been taken."

Li Dan's words were relieved and brisk, as if it was the first time he had done such a big thing, smiled and patted the wet clothes on his body and said: "But there are two dhows they are driving the boat to run, the child shelled and jumped, the ship was snatched back, but it was almost sunk, and it will be repaired for two months, and now the shipyard has been controlled and guarded by the Fu Baihu Flag Army, and Huayu is there to help." ”

"Well done!"

Another stone in Chen Mu's heart fell to the ground, and the boat was taken down, Li Dan didn't make a choice, almost everyone was happy, but he was still surprised and asked, "Why are there more boats?" How many people did you lose? ”

In the information that Hua Yu brought, Maiyatu only has two centipede ships and three small boats, why is there now an extra brig splint ship and a dhow?

"They are all repairing ships in the shipyard, and they are all Fanyi, and the seizure of the ship is disrupted, and I can't tell who is who, and I only know that the other two ships are not Meyatu's after the fight." Li Dan's face was not proud at this time, and he was a little worried about making a mistake, and said: "The owner of the ship is a Francois man who sells gunpowder, and he was killed together with the boatswain, and his father-in-law ...... You okay? ”

Chen Mu pouted, the owner of the ship was killed, the matter has come to this point, what else can be done, and what else can be done.

He could understand the way of the owner of the Franc ship, and that the repair of the ship would lead to an unwarranted disaster, and that when he saw that the most vicious people had occupied the shipyard and tried to seize the ship, he would definitely rise up and resist, and this was the fire at the city gate that affected the fish in the pond.

Chen Mu was a little ruthless, and said with a sigh: "How much manpower is lost?" ”

"There were four injuries, we were all prepared, and we transferred their people to fight more and less, and arrested more than a dozen."

Li Dan looked relaxed when he said this, but Chen Mu could imagine that things would not be so easy.

"No matter what, things get done."

Chen Mu got up and stretched, moved twice and pointed to the distant discussion square and said, "The matter here is also in order, I have caught some and got a lot of war profits." You ask people to inquire where the captains of Mai Yatu's subordinates live in Haojing, and then take someone to raid the house, and wait for me to talk to Zhou Xianling and Franco, set the big event of Haojing, and sell his house. ”

Killing people and goods, peeling skin and cramps, knocking bones and sucking marrow.

Li Dan felt that he had learned from his father-in-law, and nodded again and again, "The child will do it when he goes down...... Boat, is it back to Xiangshan? ”

"Go back to Xiangshan, go back, don't go back, the ship will be repaired in Haojing."

Chen Mu wants to go back to Xiangshan, Xiangshan County is his comfort zone, and Haojing is still chaotic and uneasy compared to it.

But he couldn't reply, so he lightly hammered his chest mask twice, looked around, and Chen Mu pointed to his feet.

"From now on, it's up to me to decide."

As he spoke, two banner soldiers under Shao Tingda came over the barracks with the old Father Pellesi, holding the Bible and bowing slightly, and then asked in a somewhat stiff Chinese: "General Mingguo, what are you going to do with us in the barracks, and Sir Mai Yatu, what are you going to do with him?" ”

Chen Muleng paused, this old man can speak Chinese.

Can speak Chinese, and previously let the officials in the border gate pass on their behalf?

It made him unhappy, but it didn't matter what he was going to do.

Chen Mu said: "A few days later, the nobles, officers, merchants, captains and other people of status among you, including the various shopkeepers, put all their weapons in the camp and can come out and walk. ”

"When the time comes, I will ask you to gather all the people who have status. Let each of them find a translator who understands Chinese, and then gather here, and I will be waiting for you here...... If you don't come, those who don't come will lose the right to decide the future of Ho Jing with me. ”

Chen Mu paused and added, "No, it's not a decision, it's a listen." ”

After that, he said to Li Dan: "Use words that he can understand, and translate what I just said to him, so as to save him from misunderstanding." Don't forget to tell him that Maiatu is dead. ”

Originally, Chen Mu's words made Father Pelesi's face not look good, and then Li Dan repeated it even more ruthlessly, and the old priest's face was difficult to see - this has nothing to do with Chen Mu's arrogance, but something more obvious.

The Ming Kingdom wanted to implement stricter management of Haojing, and the arrival of this army with this army would inevitably bring difficulties to the Jesuits in preaching and spreading the gospel in the Ming Kingdom.

Because this young Ming general is very difficult to get along with.

Unlike those Ming officials who are arrogant and greedy, because he is more proud and greedy than others!

He obviously didn't want money, but more.

Father Peles wanted to argue a few words, but was interrupted by Chen Mu, sighed and showed a compassionate demeanor, and said, "Many people have died today, and God doesn't want more people to die. Go, go tell them. ”

There should be no God in this era, although the wheel of history does favor Westerners, so that the Westerners, who were destitute and crazy after the Ottoman Empire monopolized the land trade routes, began to look to the sea.

But this era is different.

There is no omniscient and all-powerful man, and there is no God.

The person who recently picked up God, surnamed Chen.

"Go and call Zhou County's order, the villain has been surrendered, and it is time to discuss how Hao Jing should be managed."

Chen Mu smiled, he hoped that Zhou Xing would have a draft for the management of Hao Jing.

There was not much time left for them to reach a consensus, and it was not the two of them who could make decisions on all matters in Haojing, but the governor Zhang Han and the governor Xiong Huan, who were far away in Guangzhou Prefecture, and they could go back and forth for two days before they could set the rules for their negotiation with Fanyi.

However, the pressure on Chen Mu will be much less, and in the battle of the Discussion Square, he can already reason with the people of all countries in this blood-soaked land.