Brocade legend

Chapter 337
The pardon was true, and Lu Tong was asked to take it on board, just to play it by ear and pretend that the pardon was unintentionally revealed to the people around Wang Zhi.

Wang Fu is the most suitable candidate.

Lu Tong sneered in his heart; "Now, why don't you go with my lord?"

……

Wang Zhi, who had just lay down, was called up by Wang Fu. He and Ye Zongman looked at each other after hearing Wang Fu's report.

Ye Zongman frowned, looked at Wang Fu and said, "Are you sure you saw clearly?"

Wang Fu looked at the man who had parted ways with his adoptive father with some dissatisfaction, and said with a cold snort, "I'm not blind!"

Ye Zongman didn't take Wang Fu's lack of respect to heart, but Wang Zhi shouted in dissatisfaction: "Don't be presumptuous to uncle!"

Seeing his adoptive father's unwavering expression, Wang Fu hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to show his rude expression to Ye Zongman again.

"Can you confirm that the seal is real?" Ye Zongman asked again with a serious face.

"That's still fake!" Wang Fu said smoothly, seeing Wang Zhi's face turned gloomy again, he hurriedly replied respectfully to Ye Zongman: "I have always been in charge of the contact between foster father and Hu Zongxian, I have seen that The seal is definitely not fake."

"Could it be... is it really a deliberate invitation?" Ye Zongman was also a little undecided.

"It's getting late today, go to bed first!" Wang Zhi said suddenly, "We'll see the situation tomorrow."

Ye Zongman and Wang Fu took their leave one after another.

When the room was empty, Wang Zhi smiled slightly.

……

The next day, Lu Tong and Xia Zhenglai asked Wang Zhi to resign.

Lu Tong said to Wang Zhi: "Captain Wang has thought clearly?"

Wang Zhi looked directly into Lu Tong's eyes, and after a while, he opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty Lu, the commander-in-chief, came to invite you in person. Wang is really flattered."

"If Captain Wang is willing to surrender to the imperial court and go ashore with me, how much trouble will be saved along the southeast coast? Then it is worthwhile for me to come here." Lu Tong's voice was dignified.

Wang Zhi's heart moved, he clenched his hands under the cloak, and finally made up his mind!
Ye Zongman, who hadn't shown up all this time, was listening and watching in the back room, and suddenly a trace of doubt flashed in his heart.

This doubt came for no reason, but it fell into Ye Zongman's heart, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.

Then Ye Zongman realized something was wrong.

If the imperial court is willing to give such a high official title as Commander-in-Chief, and even promises to allow Wang Zhi to take charge of Daming's maritime trade affairs in the name of the Ming government... This is equivalent to giving Wang Zhi a warrant to smuggle in a fair manner!

Since such a price is willing to be paid...why did Lu Tong never come up with the pardon.

Ye Zongman also knew that the reason for his suspicion was very forced, but he couldn't help but think so.

……

Just when Wang Zhi made up his mind and was about to say yes, a voice came and interrupted his words: "If you go ashore, you can!"

Ye Zongman, who had been unwilling to expose himself, strode out from the back room and said loudly, "But you have to send an official to be a hostage on the ship!"

Lu Tong originally looked at Wang Zhi and was about to agree, but just now he showed a smile, but after hearing Ye Zongman's words, the smile disappeared before it even opened, leaving Lu Tong's face ashen.

"Hmph." Lu Tong snorted coldly, turned around with a wave of his sleeves, and strode away.

……

"You." Wang Zhi looked at Ye Zongman in surprise, and said, "What are you doing?"

"..." Seeing Lu Tong and the others leave so resolutely, Ye Zongman became more convinced of his own conjectures.

Ye Zongman explained his thoughts, and then said: "Until the end, he didn't mention the pardon..."

"You asked them to hand over an official as a hostage!" Wang Fu couldn't help raising his voice and said, "That's the Ming court, the most powerful country in the world! It's not a green forest, and it's not a pirate! How could they Hand over the officials as hostages! What shame is there!"

"He can show the pardon!" Ye Zongman said stubbornly.

"You have said such things, even if he has a pardon, he doesn't want to pardon!" Wang Zhi also said with some dissatisfaction: "Do you think they will offer to pardon me after you said that they would be called hostages?"

"..." Ye Zongman was speechless, and finally he said angrily: "Okay, I'm troubled! But, isn't it just for the sake of insurance? If they are really willing to take an official as a hostage, don't we feel more at ease? ?”

Knowing that this is the brother's concern, Wang Zhi really can't speak ill of each other, thinking about it, it is indeed the case.They are willing to promise so many benefits, why don't they just come up with a pardon.

They're gone anyway...then watch it again!
Wang Zhi sighed in his heart, looking at the coastline, he was a little crazy.

……

"What! Hostage!" Hearing Lu Tong's words, Hu Zongxian threw a blue and white porcelain tea bowl angrily: "It's too presumptuous! Push your nose on your face and return it!"

The lid of the tea bowl was solid, and it was still spinning on the ground, making a "clang lang lang lang" sound.

Zhang Mo on the side was not so angry, but laughed instead.

"What are you laughing at!" Hu Zongxian said angrily.

Zhang Mo is not an official appointed by the imperial court, and it is not to embarrass him if an official of the Ming Dynasty is taken hostage, of course he does not care, and...

Zhang Mo smiled and said, "Didn't you realize that we have already opened the gap?"

"What do you mean?" Hu Zongxian frowned.

"Before he didn't go ashore, he always used various excuses to delay, but this time, he made a request." Zhu Liu understood Zhang Mo's meaning and couldn't help laughing.

After hearing Zhu Liu's explanation, Hu Zongxian also recalled it, his brows slowly stretched, and he smiled slightly: "Wonderful! Wonderful! That's true!"

"As long as he puts forward the conditions, it means that he is shaken." Zhang Mo continued to wave his fan, and said with a smile: "Before, we always tried to get him to go ashore, but now he proposes what we do, and he goes ashore...Explain , He accepted the trick. As long as he accepts the trick, we have the hope of tricking him!"

"Then give him a hostage." Hu Zongxian actually agreed first: "But, who shall we send?"

"We don't really want to make peace with Wang Zhi..." Zhang Mo thought for a while and said, "When we take Wang Zhi down, the pirates on board will know that they have been cheated, and that person... will surely lose his life."

"Yes..." All three of them fell into deep thought, and Hu Zongxian murmured, "Who are you sending?"

"This person's level must be sufficient, and he must satisfy Wang Zhi's appetite at one time." Zhang Mo pondered, and said, "Otherwise, I'm afraid Wang Zhi will ask for a bigger official, and then we will have two of them."

"Besides, this person must be familiar with Wang Zhi, otherwise, who knows if he will suspect that we have randomly created someone to fool him?" Zhu Liu also said.

Hu Zongxian was thinking, listening to their words, suddenly his eyes lit up, and then he said hesitantly: "I have come up with a personal choice..."

……

Hu Zongxian called Xia Zheng, the conductor who had been in contact with Wang Zhi as a representative, over.

This is the person selected by the three of them and thinks the most suitable person.

Xia Zheng has been in charge of contacting Wang Zhi, and as a conductor, his level is sufficient.

The three looked at Xia Zheng and exchanged glances.

Xia Zheng was a little uneasy, wondering why the three adults called him here.If you inquire about something related to Wang Zhi, or if you need to find Wang Zhi by yourself... This is just a normal matter that you are responsible for, so why look at yourself with such strange eyes.

Is it...!
Xia Zheng thought of something, and his originally anxious expression actually calmed down: "My lord called the subordinate...do you want the subordinate to be a hostage?"

Before Hu Zongxian, Zhu Liu, and Zhang Mo called Xia Zhenglai, they had actually discussed it.

They know that if they want to hide it from Xia Zheng, they probably won't be able to hide it, so it's better to let it go, understand it with reason, and move it with emotion...

But he didn't expect that Xia Zheng would be so calm, and he would tell the intentions of the three of them.

"That's right." Zhang Mo simply said calmly, "It's true..."

Just when Zhang Mo was about to take the lead in persuading Xia Zheng with reason and emotion, Xia Zheng took the initiative to say, "I am willing."

"I'm afraid you don't know..." Hu Zongxian thought that Xia Zheng expressed his willingness to go so calmly because he didn't know that the peace talks were just a scam, just to lure Wang to go ashore. You can come back, but you don't know...you can't come back after you go.Therefore, Hu Zongxian believed that Xia Zheng agreed without hesitation, just to ask for credit from his superiors.

Hu Zongxian, Zhu Liu, and Zhang Mo have also discussed this point. Although this point can be hidden from Xia Zheng, it will have some influence after all. Xia Zheng knows a lot of inside information. If he suddenly knows that he will die, will there be extra problems?Say what shouldn't be said?I'm afraid it's hard to say.

Therefore, it is best not to hide it from him.

But if it is not hidden, Xia Zheng is not willing to do this?

This was a difficult problem for the three of them. After thinking about it for a long time, they all felt that it was not safe to choose.

In the end, he simply called Xia Zheng over first to see the situation.

Unexpectedly, Xia Zheng solved the problem by himself.

Xia Zheng looked at the flickering expressions of the three adults, and spoke first, "This recruitment...was a fake?"

"You...know?" Hu Zongxian was a little strange.

"Hmm..." Xia Zheng nodded, and said: "The army is gathered, and the officials can see some clues."

"You said you were willing to go." Zhu Liu said suddenly, "You know you've gone and you won't be able to come back. Why are you still willing to go?"

"My lord, do you know how many people died at the hands of pirates and Japanese pirates in the southeastern provinces of Ming Dynasty?" Xia Zheng asked calmly, "Does your lord know how many families were destroyed? How many soldiers died in bloody battles with pirates and Japanese pirates?" ?”

Zhu Liu looked at Xia Zheng, Xia Zheng also looked directly into Zhu Liu's eyes, and continued: "I know this, I have seen a lot, so I am willing to go."

"..." Zhu Liu rarely showed a serious expression. He wanted to know what was going on in the heart of this clever and clever little conductor who took the initiative to die.

(End of this chapter)