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Chapter 137 Reason
The women and children supported each other, and walked through the meeting square tremblingly under the guard of a group of Haojing pirates. What's interesting is that they looked at the living people around them very frightenedly. It can be seen that most of the corpses of Fanyi piled up beside the road were extremely resentful. He spat it out, and finally knelt down at the feet of Zhou Xing, magistrate of Xiangshan County, and wept bitterly.

Zhou Xing supported one and helped the other, and finally let the girl who was less than ten years old hold his official robe, and cried with the people with her lips tightly pressed.

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

Political achievements and gratitude belong to Zhou Xing; credit and war profits belong to him, Chen Mu.

Li Dan grew up in Haojing and is familiar with every plant and tree here. Walking on the wet and exotic streets of Haojing, he is far more at ease than in Xiangshan. He wears a black captain's double-brimmed hat on his head, waist With an exquisite western long sword inserted, the sleeveless coarse cloth short-sleeved shirt reveals his solid muscles, with a youthful and frivolous smile on his face, until he approaches the stone foundation of the church where Chen Mu lives.

"Father, the child has made arrangements. Two three-masted centipedes, one two-masted plywood ship, and four one-masted small boats have all been captured."

Li Dan spoke with a lightness of relief, as if it was the first time he had accomplished such a major event, he patted his wet clothes with a smile and said, "But there are two sloops they are driving to run away, and the children are shelling and jumping. , The ship was snatched back, but it was almost sunk, and it will take two months to repair, and now the shipyard has been controlled and guarded by a hundred households leading the banner, and Hua Yu 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, and everyone was almost happy, but he was still surprised and asked, "Why are there more boats? How many people have you lost?"

According to the information obtained by Huayu, there are only two big centipede ships and three small boats in Maiyatu. Why is there now a large brig and a small one-masted boat?
"They are all repairing ships in the shipyard, and they are all Fanyi. The seizure of the ship was disrupted, and it was impossible to tell who was who. Only after the fight was over did I know that the other two ships did not belong to Mai Yatu." Proud, and worried about making mistakes, he said: "The owner of the ship is a nitrate dealer, and he was beaten to death together with the bosun. Father...are you okay?"

Chen Mu curled his lips, the captain was beaten to death, the matter has come to an end, what else can be done, what else can happen.

He could understand what the owner of Franji was doing. Repairing the ship brought about unwarranted disasters. Seeing that there were vicious men occupying the shipyard and trying to seize the ship, he must rise up and resist.

Chen Mu was a little cruel, and said with a sigh: "How much is the loss of manpower?"

"Four of them were injured, we were prepared, and we transferred their men to fight more and arrest more than a dozen."

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

"Anyway, it works out."

Chen Mu got up and stretched his waist, and pointed at the distant meeting square twice, saying: "The affairs here are also settled, some of them were caught, and a lot of war profits were obtained. You can ask someone to inquire about it, Mai Yatu Some of the captains under my command live in Haojing, and I will take people to search the house, and I will discuss with Magistrate Zhou and Frangji to make a big deal about Haojing and sell his house as well."

Kill people for profit, skin cramps, bone marrow.

Li Dan felt that he had learned from his adoptive father, and nodded repeatedly, "I will do it when I go down... the boat, is it going back to Xiangshan?"

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

Chen Mu wanted to go back to Xiangshan, and Xiangshan County was his comfort zone, compared with Haojing, he was still chaotic.

But he couldn't go back, so he tapped his chest mask twice, looked around, and Chen Mu pointed at his feet.

"From now on, I'm in charge here."

As he said that, two flag soldiers under Shao Tingda came over to the barracks with the old priest Peraisi, and after bowing slightly while holding the Bible, they asked in some blunt Chinese: "General Ming, how can you send us Locked in the barracks, what are you going to do with him, and Sir Maiartu, how are you going to deal with him?"

Chen Mu was taken aback, this old man can speak Chinese.

Can speak Chinese and asked the officials in charge of Macao to pass the message on his behalf at the gate?

It made him unhappy, but that emotion had nothing to do with his next decision.

"How to deal with him? No one taught you to respect other people's habits when you enter other people's countries, and you can't plunder and sell other people's children without permission."

Chen Mudao: "After a few days, the nobles, military officers, merchants, captains, and shopkeepers among you, who have status, put all the weapons in the camp and can come out and walk."

"At that time, I will ask you to call all the people with status in Haojing. Let them each find a translator who understands Chinese, and then gather here. I will wait for you here...you don't need to come, those who don't come You will lose the right to decide the future of Haojing together with me."

Chen Mu paused, and added: "No, it's not a decision, it's about listening to the officials of the Ming Dynasty on the land of the Ming Dynasty."

After finishing speaking, he said to Li Dan: "Use the words he can understand, and translate to him what I just said, so as not to misunderstand. Don't forget to tell him that Mai Yatu is dead."

Originally, Chen Mu's words made Father Perais's face look ugly, but then Li Dan repeated his words in a more merciless manner, and the old priest's face was extremely ugly-this had nothing to do with Chen Mu's arrogance, but more. obvious thing.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to implement stricter management over Haojing, and the arrival of this army would inevitably bring difficulties for the Society of Jesus to preach and spread the Gospel in the Ming Dynasty.

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

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

What he wants is obviously not money, but more.

Father Perais wanted to argue a few words, but was interrupted by Chen Mu. He sighed and showed a compassionate expression, and said: "Many people have died today, and God does not want more people to die. Go, tell them."

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

But this time is different.

There is no omniscient and omnipotent person in the world, and naturally there is no God.

The person who picked up God recently was surnamed Chen.

"Go and call County Magistrate Zhou. The villain has been subdued. It's time to discuss how Haojing should be managed."

Chen Mu smiled, he hoped that Zhou Xing had a plan for managing Hao Jing.

There is not much time left for them to reach a consensus. In fact, it is not the two of them who can make decisions on all matters in Haojing, but the governor Zhang Han and the governor Xiong Jian who are far away in Guangzhou. Barbarian negotiation rules.

However, the pressure on Chen Mu will be much less in the future. After the battle in the meeting square, he can already reason with barbarians from all over the world in this blood-soaked land.

　Fewer readers voted yesterday, I thought there would be more than the day before yesterday, sorry.

　　
　
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