"General Lai Qichen, 'I've had a good rest these days!'" In Li Tianyang's office, the godless Lai Qichen was brought to the radiant Li Tianyang.

"Thank you Mayor Li for your hospitality, I slept well." Compared with the decadence and surprise when they first met a few days ago, today's Lai Qichen has obviously recovered his demeanor as a leader, although because of the relationship between the prisoners, his life is not steady, but when he sees Li Tianyang again, he can already calmly face this young leader.

"I'm sorry to bring you this time, but as leaders of both sides, I think it is necessary for us to reach a certain consensus between the two of us as soon as possible!" Li Tianyang met with Lai Qichen again so quickly, instead of imprisoning the other party for a period of time and letting the other party's will collapse before meeting again, his own intention was to get out of the confrontation with the Dutch as soon as possible.

Li Tianyang himself has a sense of urgency, and when another historical celebrity appears in his intelligence, Li Tianyang already knows that the end of the Ming Dynasty is not far away.

This historical celebrity is Wei Zhongxian, a great eunuch who has been infamous in Chinese history for thousands of years. The reason why Li Tianyang was able to know that this eunuch who was still living in the three palaces and six courtyards of the Ming Dynasty was thanks to Cao Yongyi, a military attache who had taken refuge under the eunuchs from the beginning.

Lu Gui, the tax supervisor of Yuegang who was Cao Yongyi's backer, made Cao Yongyi's life a lot sadter because of the comprehensive recall of the tax and salt iron supervisor by Emperor Taichang. Fortunately, although the bureaucratic struggle of the Ming Dynasty was cruel, it still followed certain guidelines, especially those bureaucrats who hated eunuchs and eunuchs and their minions, and claimed to be righteous.

However, who knew that disaster fell from the sky, the Dutch suddenly ran over, and snatched Magong Island from the hands of Cao Yongyi, the Penghu garrison, and let Cao Yongyi flee in the wilderness.

The Ming Dynasty system, as a garrison of the military attaché, the garrison was occupied, according to the law should be beheaded, plus the original Fujian bureaucrats most of the language to Cao Yongyi defected to the eunuchs and hated, now there is an opportunity 'naturally will not miss this kind of good thing, but Cao Yongyi is good, turned around and fled with the team to Fujian, on the way he broke away from the fleet, with all his belongings from the sea to the capital, went to his backer, was recalled to the capital of Lu Gui.

It has been two years since Lu Gui was recalled to the capital, as a eunuch who has been corrupt in the local government for many years, he naturally has a lot of wealth, although he has not been in the capital for many years, his previous backer Gao Yu also collapsed with the death of the first emperor Wanli Emperor, but Lu Gui soon took another high-ranking eunuch - Wei Zhongxian by throwing a lot of money.

When Cao Yongyi found Lu Gui, under the recommendation of Lu Gui, he also worshiped under Wei Zhongxian's door, and became a member of Wei Zhongxian's party, which is not yet sound.

Under the operation of Wei Zhongxian, Cao Yongyi returned to Fujian again, but compared to the time when he fled, this time when he went back, Cao Yongyi showed off his might, and there was no worry about the loss of his previous Penghu sailor camp.

With the talisman prepared by Wei Zhongxian for himself, Cao Yongyi returned to Fujian not only did not surrender because of the loss of the station, but was even more a blessing in disguise, and was transferred back to Fujian and promoted to the commander of Yongningwei, which made a group of Fujian bureaucrats who were going to take him under the knife lose their eyes.

Cao Yongyi also understands righteousness, no, it should be said that he hopes to still maintain a good relationship with Li Tianyang, and then fish and hunt from Qi Xintang, so he also tells Li Tianyang about his new big backer, and wants to pull Li Tianyang into the army with various guarantees.

When he heard the name Wei Zhongxian from Cao Yongyi's mouth, Li Tianyang, who was unprepared, was stunned, and then he wanted to make a show with Cao Yongyi. Li Tianyang knows very well, don't look at Wei Zhongxian's records in the history books, or in the TV movies of later generations, the years when he gained power were indeed the power of the government and the opposition, but when he lost power, the minions who followed him were also strangled by the Donglin Party.

Therefore, Li Tianyang, who didn't know how much power Wei Zhongxian could have in the days of the government and the opposition, didn't want to wade into this pond of muddy water at the beginning, and put his team in the next greater crisis for the sake of a very short time to hug his thighs.

But after thinking about it for a long time, Li Tianyang still did not categorically refuse Cao Yongyi's wooing, but ambiguously contacted Cao Yongyi.

Because of this incident, Li Tianyang had to speed up the idea of withdrawing from the confrontation with the Dutch, and instead of betting his hopes on the unknown situation, it was better to develop his own power in a down-to-earth manner.

Therefore, Li Tianyang decided to make contact with Lai Qichen today, after all, although they had already crippled the Dutch in Hongtang, outside their chicken coop harbor, the seven warships of the Dutch were still showing their existence to Li Tianyang and putting pressure on Li Tianyang.

"It's a pity that if it weren't for General Lai Qichen's undeclared war, we wouldn't have had to meet each other like we do today." Li Tianyang's face was calm, "As the victorious party, the venting a few days earlier had made him easily restrain his various expressions in front of Lai Qichen, and he just stated the facts and looked at Lai Qichen: "But our Ming people are not a warlike nation, our nation's belief is to make money with harmony, as the leader of one side, to be honest, we don't want to contradict a Western civilized country." ”

"I'm sorry, but about this fight, it was indeed the biggest mistake we made!" Lai Qichen's eyes were full of remorse, and he vividly expressed his apologies to Li Tianyang: "For the losses we have caused, we, the Governor's Mansion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, are willing to give you corresponding compensation to express our apologies. ”

"Hehe, general, you're perfunctory to us! I'm afraid that the news of your defeat has not yet spread out of our Ming Sea, so how can it be known to you' Jawa Governor's Office? Li Tianyang raised his head and smiled sarcastically.

"Yes, the news of our defeat has certainly not reached the ears of our Governor of Java Cohen, but please believe me, as the Viscount of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, I swear by my honor, as long as Mayor Li Tianyang sends someone to deliver the news to our 'Governor, our Governor will definitely give you the compensation you deserve, as well as a ransom to redeem our captured warriors." Lai Qichen pointed to the sky with his right hand, and made an oath in front of Li Tianyang on the spot. As a prisoner of the ranks, Lai Qichen now has nothing to prove his words, except for his oath.

"Huh, ransom? Do you think we're going to release your warriors, and then let them go back and prepare to come back and attack us? ”

"You can't say that, Mayor Li Tianyang, things at the war level are not something they can control for these low-level soldiers, because they are just acting according to orders, if you need revenge, then you should also find the object of revenge, for the commander who gave the order to attack you, that is, I came to seek revenge, I should not embarrass these soldiers who only know how to act according to orders." Lai Qichen is also a responsible official, and at this time he shouldered all the responsibility for the crime.

"It's also a good man, since you said so, then I don't want to embarrass these sailors anymore, then let's talk about how you should make up for the loss of our Hongtang and Jilong Harbor!" Li Tianyanggao glanced at the responsible Dutch commander in front of him, no longer embarrassed him, and turned his head and began to formally negotiate with him.

(End of chapter)