But Li Xin's "welcome to join" was real, and Yao Qisheng quickly turned from confusion to ecstasy. It seems that he is really a blessing in disguise, and he took shit luck, and he caught a deserter casually, and it turned out to be the brother of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian. After having this thought, he suddenly fluttered, and stepped forward with a shy face and asked, "Dare to ask the Marquis of Zhenyu, I don't know what official to be next?" Is it a thousand or a garrison? ”

Now he doesn't have to be in the past, he has the credit of capturing the first evil, and the little one can no longer be seen, so how can the town capture marquis also be rewarded with a thousand generals.

Niu Jinsong scoffed at Yao Qisheng's arrogance, "I'm daydreaming again, the official position in our Three Guards Army has to be exchanged for first-level combat exploits, you just caught a fat pig, and you want to be a thousand general guards?" Ridiculous, ridiculous! ”

Yao Qisheng sneered: "Can you be the lord of the town?" I didn't ask you below, what's the noise? ”

This sentence was a bit mean, but it choked Niu Jinsong speechless, how could he say that he could be the master of the town? Since you can't call the shots, you can only shut up obediently.

Li Xin instead supported Niu Jinsong's words.

"General Niu is right, catching Zheng Hongkui is just a stepping stone, and after joining the Three Guards, there are indeed strict requirements for official promotion, and no one can take shortcuts. Otherwise, even if you have an official position, it will be difficult to be competent. Li Xin's words were like a basin of cold water poured on Yao Qisheng's body, pouring out the original anticipation.

Niu Jinsong took the opportunity to catch up with the poor man again, "What the Marquis of Zhenyu said is extremely true, no matter who it is, what status it used to be, when it comes to our three guards, you have to start from an ordinary soldier!" ”

Li Xin saw that Yao Qisheng was like a deflated ball, so he changed his words again and said with a smile: "Don't be frustrated, no matter how you capture the evil leader Zheng Hongkui, you can be a boss for the time being, as long as you are worthy of the job, the reputation is very good, and the commander allows you to be promoted first!" ”

Originally, Yao Qisheng was already desperate, the taste of ordinary soldiers was by no means uncomfortable, he had to carry more than forty pounds of equipment on his back every day to march quickly, how could he stand it after a long time? Moreover, ordinary soldiers are also extremely dangerous, and after several battles, he observed from the side and found that the strictness of the military discipline of the Three Guards has reached an outrageous level. Even if the opponent's bow and arrow are fired intensively, or if a light soldier breaks through to the phalanx, no soldier can move without a general, in other words, he can only wait for death. If he also made such cannon fodder, then he would die unjustly, his ideal is to leave a name in history, and being a soldier who dies for military discipline is not what he wants.

However, Li Xin turned to say that he could start from the general manager, and promised to give priority to promotion, which was a great joy and happiness for gains and losses. Quickly bowed down and slammed his hands to the ground.

"Yao Qisheng is here to promise the Marquis of Zhenyu that he will never let you down!"

Li Xin accepted Yao Qisheng, of course, he couldn't let this newcomer who had never received training be sent to the front-line combat battalion, so he asked Niu Jinsong to treat him like a personal barracks and train him well.

However, Yao Qisheng's excitement only lasted for a morning, and then he became depressed again. Because he found that the so-called general manager was a bare pole commander, and there was no soldier below. So he blamed all this on Niu Jinsong, thinking that Niu Jinsong couldn't get used to himself and deliberately made things difficult for him.

This aroused Yao Qisheng's arrogance, since Niu Jinsong was so difficult for himself, he couldn't give in, and wanted to make some achievements to show him, but he was soon discouraged, because he had no position or authority except for a general prosecutor, and he didn't even have half a soldier by his side.

Just as he was hesitating, the first task was handed down from above.

The Japanese Kou Tagawaemon who was thrown on the road by him was escorted over, and the battalion officer ordered that Yao Qisheng be responsible for taking care of this person, and he must not lose it, otherwise he will be dealt with by military law!

After the order's soldiers left, there were only two people left, Yao Qisheng and Tagawa Emon, and he looked at the Japanese with the rope tied and his heart was angry. After a while, I thought about it.

He picked up the Yanling knife and whipped him with the back of the knife, and asked, "Do you want to die or live?" ”

Although Tagawa Emon is very weak at the moment, and is helped by a rope, he has survived tenaciously until now, and after being whipped by Yao Qisheng with a knife, he immediately fell into anger, like a mad dog, in vain at Yao Qisheng with fangs that could not hurt people.

Yao Qisheng soon found that he couldn't communicate with him in this rude way, so he put away the knife, squatted in front of him, looked down at him, and tried his best to pretend to be harmless and asked with a smile: "Don't be afraid, I won't kill you, I just want to talk to you, and if you can understand, nod!" ”

At the same time of asking, Yao Qisheng scolded in his heart, he finally assigned him a person, but he was actually a widow who couldn't communicate, what difference did he make if he was talking to a dog?

Unexpectedly, Nata Kawaemon actually nodded miraculously, which made Yao Qisheng very happy.

In order to be sure, he also confirmed word by word: "Can you understand this?" ”

Tagawaemon nodded, but his eyes were still full of fear. He's talking nonsense with his eyes open.

"Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, and I won't hurt you, I can understand and nod!"

Tagawaemon nodded again, and Yao Qisheng was greatly encouraged, so he further said: "Okay, I'm asking you now, do you want to die, or do you want to live?" He originally wanted to say that he wanted to nod his head alive and shake his head to death, but as soon as his childlike heart rose, he reversed the order.

"Shake your head if you want to live, and nod your head if you want to die!" He wanted to wait for Nagawaemon to nod, but to his surprise, Tagawaemon actually spoke, although the tone was extremely stiff, but it was very clear.

"Live! I want to live! I want to live! ”

"You, don't you speak Chinese?"

Yao Qisheng pointed at Tagawa Emon in disbelief.

"Then I'll show you a clear path, if you want to live, you have to listen to my arrangement, otherwise the Marquis of Zhenyu may behead you tomorrow, you know?"

At this time, Tagawa Emon shook his head and said bluntly: "Listen, no, clear." ”

Yao Qisheng thought that this would-be robber might have hurt his ears, and it was normal for him to have poor hearing, so he raised his voice and repeated his previous words. It's just that this time the body can't help but lower again. A sly sneer flashed in Tagawa Emon's eyes, and he suddenly jumped up, opened his mouth to show a mouthful of yellow teeth, and bit Yao Qisheng's face fiercely.

In the face of the sudden outburst, Yao Qisheng was shocked and hurriedly hid back, sat on the ground with his ass unstable, and then supported the ground with both hands and retreated back in embarrassment. Tagawaemon used his strength and sat back on the ground again.

Yao Qisheng's heart palpitated, and he only felt a heart-piercing pain in his ears, and he stretched out his hand to wipe his hands full of blood, but fortunately, he hid quickly, and only broke a little skin. Otherwise, he will be broken by this widow, and ask a person with a mutilated face what kind of face will he have in the future.

Yao Qisheng, who had calmed down, became angry, jumped up from the ground, pulled out the Yanling knife and slashed at Tagawa Emon's neck. Just in the midst of the lightning and fire, he suddenly noticed a hint of relief in Tagawa Emon's eyes, and he actually slashed the knife elsewhere.

"Damn, I almost fell for your evil deeds, you want to die, I won't let you die! I will let you live and suffer all the humiliation! ”

Yao Qisheng scolded very viciously, and Tian Chuan Weimen couldn't beg for death, so he immediately roared angrily. Among them are the Japanese language, and there is also Chinese. But Yao Qisheng carefully identified it and still understood some of the meaning, roughly asking Yao Qisheng to kill him.

Yao Qisheng, who had regained his composure, teased with a smile.

"Things in the world are so tempting, it's a pity that you died so early! As the old saying goes, it's better to die than to live, if my knife cuts your neck, then it's too late for you to regret it, and you can't take it back when you break your neck! ”

Tagawaemon only roared weakly and lowly: "Kill me!" Kill me! ”

While Tagawa Emon was bent on death, Zheng Hongkui couldn't resist the coercion and temptation of the torturers, and told a lot about some of the things he knew. For Zheng Hongkui's affairs, as long as he does not involve himself, he knows everything, but he refuses to explain many problems involving himself, and even clearly states that he is an official of the imperial court, and the Three Guards have no right to deal with the interrogation, and he shouts to see the political envoy Zhao Bingqian.

In the face of Gao Zhenfu, who has such a stubborn attitude, the torturers will naturally not be blind, they are all trained by Zhu Yuncai, and they quickly discovered a secret from the clues.

It turned out that Zheng Hongkui confessed that he had extorted Zhao Bingqian with 108,000 taels of silver, and this money was also seized by the Three Guards from the captured ship, but the figure obtained from Zhao Bingqian was that Zheng Hongkui extorted 130,000 taels. So the difference between the 20,000 and the first two silver, who is lying.

Zheng Hongkui still insisted that the amount was correct under the torture, but the result of counting the silver coins surprised everyone, it turned out that there were 30,000 taels of silver It was really thought that the rest were all lead ingots. When the torturer informed Zheng Hongkui of this situation, Zheng Hongkui suddenly scolded Gao Zhenfu, saying that the silver was sent by this person, and it must have been dropped by this person's hand in a daze.

The human and material evidence was placed in front of Gao Zhenfu, during which nearly 100,000 taels were missing, and the torturers forced him to ask about the whereabouts of the silver, but Gao Zhenfu had a hard time. He did draw silver from it, but it was only more than 20,000 taels, and those lead ingots really had nothing to do with him.

However, how Gao Zhenfu cried and shouted wrongly to explain, the torturer just didn't believe it, and even threatened: "If you don't explain the truth again, I will send a note to the political envoy Yamen today to copy your family's property, I think Zhao Bingqian will be happy to hear about it." ”

After hearing this, Gao Zhenfu's face was like ashes, he had no property in Hangzhou, there were more than a dozen houses, not to mention the land, if he really wanted to raid the house, he was afraid that his income for so many years would have to be looted.