Dragon Sea Empire

Zheng Zhilong walked towards the militia camp, the captain of the guard followed him, and the bodyguards automatically lined up in two lines to follow Zheng Zhilong out.

Zheng Zhilong turned around suddenly: "You all stay here, Xiao Linzai, you go and pass the order: all the garrison regiments are lifted from the first-level combat readiness, and no officers and soldiers are allowed to leave the camp gate."

He only took Captain Li to the militia camp.

The militia battalion has quieted down. Although there are still people flickering, the heavily armed Chinese militiamen have gathered in their pergola under the command of their respective leaders according to the original organization. At that time, they were all replaced by new members of the Navy Supervision Department. Behind the militiamen standing guard, there were one or two members of the Supervision Department with red belts.

Zheng Zhilong felt that under the superficial calm, there was a strange tension in the militia camp.

The supervisor of the garrison regiment came to meet Zheng Zhilong and introduced him to a military judge who did not know the major of the headquarters.

Zheng Zhilong discovered that the supervising officers and marines he saw along the way seemed to be from Taiwan and directly under the leadership of the President of the Chinese Army, not Mai Dahai's Taiwan Fleet Supervising Officer.

The major military judge was a taciturn person at first glance, he simply saluted Lieutenant Colonel Zheng Zhilong, and said: "I am waiting for the king's order to act, and I did not inform you in advance, please forgive me," and then did not wait for Zheng Zhilong to say anything , turned around and led Zheng Zhilong and his guard captain to go forward, bypassing the camp of the Anping Pioneering Regiment, which was fighting the fire, and arrived at the bank of the Kelantan River.

On the banks of the Kelantan River, a large number of torches make the river beach brightly lit, large glass is used to reflect the light of the torches on the watchtower of the camp gate, and the original searchlights even illuminate the shrubs and thatch by the river.

Nearly 150 people dressed as militiamen discarded their helmets and armor, and most of them knelt on the river beach with their heads in their hands in dejection. They were surrounded by sailors and marines in blue uniforms and hats. Fired guns at the militiamen kneeling in the middle, and some unconvinced militiamen straightened their waists and raised their heads and cursed: "Pirate marines, we have been surrounded for 5 months, you go to Java to have fun , and now we are having a good time, but you guys are coming to deal with our own people..."

A second lieutenant of the Marine Corps, carrying a copper garden bean on his shoulder, stepped forward and interrupted the desperate pirate militia with a flying kick. There was a Marine beside him who was also from Quanzhou, persuading him in Hokkien with a Quanzhou accent. Said: "Let's say a few words, you will be fine if you are a pawn, we also came here under orders, if you didn't resist just now, we wouldn't shoot, we are here to arrest others,"

"Who do you think Xu Xu is?" (Who is the person you mentioned the most?) The bold militiaman heard the familiar accent, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked in authentic Quanzhou dialect.

The second lieutenant of the Marine Corps shouted loudly: "You are not allowed to speak, the Zhang family is careful, it is the rule to speak official language in the army,"

Zheng Zhilong approached the crowd and asked loudly, "Are there people from Anping Huang's family? Are there any folks from Anping here?"

There was a commotion among the militiamen kneeling there, and someone shouted: "You are from Anping,..."

"It's Brother Yiguan, it's Lord Zheng Shoubei, help, we didn't rebel,"

"Lieutenant Colonel Zheng must help, we are ordered to kill people and burn down houses..."

Zheng Zhilong felt a little embarrassed, and immediately shouted loudly: "Shut up, everyone, the old camp, the headquarters directly under the captain of the ship owner, is doing business, and I have to obey orders. This matter probably has nothing to do with you, don't make any more trouble, just stay there obediently don't move,"

The Marines moved out of the way, and Mai Dahai appeared, followed by Lieutenant Colonel Yu Hua, the military judge of the Supervision Army Headquarters.

Zheng Zhilong hurried forward to salute, Mai Dahai raised his hand to tell him not to speak, and turned to the sailor marines and ordered: "Release these Tangshan fellows and gather them in one place to guard them. They are all pawns. This matter has nothing to do with them. "

Mai Dahai used to be the commander of the navy. Although he has been demoted, he is still the deputy commander. When he ordered, the marines immediately carried out. Zheng Zhilong stepped forward and cupped his hands: "Commander Mai, thank you..."

Mai Dahai waved his hand: "Don't say such nonsense, you come with me," he said to the military judge Yu Hua behind him: "Let me and this official brother first have a few private words, Lieutenant Colonel Yu, look……"

With a flash in Yu Hua's eyes, he looked at Zheng Zhilong, who was acting cute at the moment, and said with a smile: "Brother Mai, please go ahead," then saluted and walked aside, and kept looking at Zheng Zhilong with keen eyes.

Mai Dahai took Zheng Zhilong to a secluded place by the river, turned around and looked at Zheng Zhilong: "The Chinese army is full of dragons and tigers, and you are an official brother. You have probably guessed what the military supervision department is doing all the way here this time. "

"Did something happen to the Han family and my uncle? However, the war with Siam is approaching, and this matter should not be done now..." Zheng Zhilong straightened up, his eyes showed a hint of melancholy under the distant light, he was taller than a man Min Mai Dahai is much taller, but at this moment in front of Mai Dahai, he is like a little brother who has been wronged.

"You still think about going to war with Siam," Mai Dahai asked gently.

"The Siamese army has moved south and has joined forces with the rest of Pattani. If our army wants to completely quell the war on the Malay Peninsula, we must fight Siam."

Mai Dahai snorted: "Hmph, you don't seem to care about what happened to your uncle, do you know what he did?"

Zheng Zhilong nodded honestly: "In the letter my father gave me, it was mentioned that my uncle's accounts were unclear and he embezzled the money he handled. If there are other things, I don't know. Why don't you report it to the owner of the ship? The son does not speak of the father's fault, the elder's fault, I and the younger generation can only advise, I have not been in my hometown all year round, so there is nothing I can do about it, now, how is my uncle?"

"Do you know this? The Han family is involved in the purchase of cannons by the imperial court's new army. The whole family has been placed under house arrest in Taiwan and Hong Kong. As for your uncle, don't worry, director Huang Chenghuang is still the major shareholder of the company, and he is still in Anping," Mai Dahai said. Nodded, he reached out and took out a letter from his bosom, and handed it to Zheng Zhilong: "This is a letter from the owner of the ship, he also gave me a letter, let me tell your uncle in private first, and then..." Mai Dahai There was a smile on his swarthy face, but Zheng Zhilong didn't see it clearly, and asked nervously, "What did your lord say?"

"He wrote to me and told me: If you plead for my uncle immediately, I will ask you to hand over the position of the chief of the Nanyang Army Road immediately, and then return to Malacca to defend the city. I will command the war here. If you don't care, ask to continue. If you want to fight, then everything will be the same, and the battle here is still under your full command, including my fleet,"

Zheng Zhilong heaved a long sigh, cupped his hands and bowed to Dongfang: "Don't abandon the public because of personal interests, the disciples dare not forget the teachings of the captain of the ship." He hesitated for a moment, and asked humbly: "Brother Mai, can you be close to the king of the ship owner? I would like to bring a word, please forgive my uncle, let him go back to his hometown in Anping to live in peace when he is old."

Mai Dahai looked at Zheng Zhilong for a while, but he didn't see anything suspicious, so he sneered and asked, "You really don't know what else Director Huang has done. Look at it, you really don't know, one of Huang Cheng's servants Contact the government to help Shen Yourong, the general of Fujian Province, buy cannons..."

Zheng Zhilong's face turned pale, but under the light of flickering torches in the distance, others couldn't see his face clearly, "This, this is, this is true,"

"The servants of the Huang family have already confessed their crimes to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Military Supervision, and Shen Yourong has even paid him a sum of money... Okay, do you still want to intercede for uncle now?"

Zheng Zhilong sighed: "Now I only think about how to defeat the Siamese army,"

Mai Dahai nodded, and reached out again to take out a letter: "This is a letter from your father, which was brought by the Supervision Department yesterday."

Zheng Zhilong returned to the campsite, opened the two letters in his hands by the light of the watchtower, and hurriedly looked at them. Mai Dahai approached Yu Hua, who was gathering the military judge of the Supervising Military Department, and nodded to him.

Yu Hua also nodded, and smiled: "This is the best, I thought there would be trouble." He intentionally or unintentionally looked at the patrol boats on the river, and the dozen or so soldiers from the special battalion had completed the task of seizing the gate. After that, he has returned to the ship to stand by.

Mai Dahai smiled wryly, and said: "Actually, I saw Zheng Yiguan came with only one guard, so I knew that this matter has nothing to do with him."

Yu Hua disapproved from the bottom of his heart, but still nodded respectfully in front of Mai Dahai: "Commander Mai knows people and knows people, and I am convinced, so what should these militiamen do?"

"Let Zheng Yiguan deal with it," Mai Hai said.

……

In the letter Zheng Zhilong's father gave him, he told him to follow the order of the ship owner and the king. The prosperity of the Zheng family and the prosperity of the family business all depended on the two brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu. Therefore, they must follow Yin Feng wholeheartedly.

It was the first time he had received Yin Feng's handwritten letter. There were not many people in the Chinese Army who could receive this kind of treatment, and there was no other reason. A person writes a letter with his own hand.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong himself didn't like reading since he was a child, and he didn't need to practice calligraphy when he was in the Chinese Military Academy, so his own writing skills were also super bad. Therefore, after seeing Yin Feng's handwritten calligraphy, he felt a sense of intimacy.

Yin Feng wrote this letter in vernacular, explaining the incidents involved in Huang Yi one by one, and asked him as a teacher-Zheng Zhilong, on behalf of the Zheng family in Anping, persuaded Huang Yi to withdraw from the board of directors of Zhonghua United Company, as long as Huang Ying quit the board of directors and put a lot of money on hand. The transfer of part of the shares to the Zheng family will ensure that his family will have a worry-free life and business in the future.

This is actually to win over the hearts of the Zheng family, and at the same time let the Zheng family act as villains. Zheng Zhilong smiled wryly, thinking that with Yin Feng's usual style, he seldom resorted to such methods. This must be the idea of ​​those counselors around the captain. After all, the captain of the ship is already the overlord of one party, and has the qualifications to seize the world, so he will no longer tolerate half-hearted people under him.

At dawn the next day, the rest of the Anping Pioneering Regiment and the remnant of the Quanzhou Pioneering Regiment's Third Sentinel, whose numbers had been revoked, merged, leaving a total of more than 160 members. The Han family or the Huang family, regardless of whether they were involved in the case or not, were all arrested by the Military Supervision Department.

While preparing to fight against Siam, Zheng Zhilong took this pioneering team without a backstage boss into his father's name, supported it with the assets of the Zheng family, and invited several veterans of the Chinese Army to be the leaders through the town guard mansion ,