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Chapter 143: Pirates Take Care of

In Suixi Port, there is a solemn and solemn place, changing the chaos of the past, and it looks neat and orderly. The pirates restrained their usual stubbornness and stretched their necks to visit the port.

Not far from the harbor, there is a row of newly built wooden houses. In front of the wooden houses, there is an incense burner. In the middle of the incense table, there is an incense burner with incense in it. Just wait for the angel to come and burn incense to receive the order.

Zhao Hehai stood beside the incense table, rubbing his hands constantly, looking a little nervous.

Zhang Zhao touched Zhao Hehai's arm and said, "Don't be nervous, isn't it just a first-level official? What's there to be afraid of?"

Zhao Hehai curled his lips and said, "I am not afraid of the middle-level officials. Nainai, it's too troublesome. I'm worried that if I make my brothers laugh at me for nothing after I'm wrong!"

Zhang Zhao smiled and said nothing. Since Xiong Wencan's envoy arrived yesterday, he has gathered Zhao Hehai and a group of officers to train him overnight to receive the order. The training has made these pirates who killed and robbed people miserable. They either forgot how to kneel down or what to say.

Zhang Zhao knew in his heart that it was easy to ask these pirates to flexibly drive sailboats and bombard enemy ships, and it was easy to fight against the enemy with swords and guns. It was difficult to learn the rules. Can Zhao Hehai deal with Xiong Wencan and Zhongguan smoothly? Zhang Zhao was a little worried, but he could not personally help Zhao Hehai solve everything. After all, his official identity was a businessman under Lin Chunhong's command. If Xiong Wencan and Zhongguan found that Lin Chunhong were involved with the pirates, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Zhang Zhao was worried and told Zhao Hehai in a nagging manner: "Be careful, never reveal anything about the general. If you don't know how to say anything, let Zheng Fan say it, do you understand?"

Zhao Hehai patted his chest: "Boss, don't worry, you will never make any mistakes! I have never been to Jingzhou, and I don't know who the general is, and I don't even know you!"

Zhang Zhao nodded with satisfaction and slowly walked towards the wooden house. After the imperial officials arrived in Suixi, he felt that it would be better for him not to show up. If he was targeted by someone with a heart, it would cause unnecessary trouble.

On the horizon, a protruding mast was already vaguely visible, and a noise among the pirate group, "Here, come...". These pirates who were away from the Ming system were curious about the officials of the court, and they couldn't help but stretch their necks longer and their feet higher.

Zhao Hehai wiped the sweat beads on his forehead, glared at him, and said angrily: "Shut up, whoever makes a noise or something will make a mistake, carefully take care of the skin on his body!"

The pirates stretched out their tongues in their mouths and lowered their heights one after another, but the excitement on their faces remained.

Zhao Hehai continued to curse: "One and two seem to have never seen the world. What's the point of being a court official? What's there to be afraid of? Are they both two eggs and one hanging?"

Liang Feng said quickly, "The eunuch is not silenced!"

The pirates burst into laughter, reducing their awe for the court a lot. Zhao Hehai touched the back of his head and laughed: "I forgot that the eunuch is not slackened! OK OK, let's wait for me..."

The vulgar words made Xiong Wencan's envoy frown constantly, but he had no choice but to turn his eyes to where the ship came. Since he arrived at the pirate's nest yesterday, he has not wanted to stay for a moment. This is not where he should come? He is a very elegant man who actually got involved with the pirates. What's the matter?

In less than half an hour, the imperial envoy finally landed. Zhao Hehai ordered the drums and music and firecrackers sounded, which made Xiong Wencan's plenipotentiary representative Luo Pumao nodded secretly and said to the central official beside him: "Eunuch Chen, these pirates are quite polite and know how to welcome the angels."

The official in the middle is nothing but Chen Kui.

Chen Kui smiled slightly, and didn't say anything, and walked down the board side by side with Luo Pumao. He followed closely behind the scenes of the Thousand Generals of the Sea, Huang Qiming.

As soon as he got off the board, Zhao Hehai led the five people to make annotations for Luo Pumao's words, half-kneeled on the ground, clasped his fists and shouted: "Caughter Zhao Hehai greeted the angel..."

Luo Pumao smiled and raised his hands slightly, "Okay... OK... Get up..."

Zhao Hehai, Zheng Fan, Feng Lun, Wu Mingrui, Song Shutao, and Liang Feng immediately got up from the ground, and their eyes couldn't help but tempted to Chen Kui beside Luo Pumao.

Chen Kui's eyelids twitched, and he felt a little displeased. He took out the imperial edict from his arms and said shrillly: "Are you going to accept the edict?"

At Chen Kui's request, Zhao Hehai and others finally completed some procedures for receiving the order. After reading Chen Kui's imperial edict, Zhao Hehai became the thousand generals of the court, and Zheng Fan and five others became the chiefs of the court's maritime commanders.

A tsunami of tsunamis of mountains and seas of roars came, which only scared Chen Kui: The sound below was too messy, with foreign accents and local dialects one after another.

Chen Kuijin kept his duty and after reading the imperial edict, he refused to say a word and take another step. However, Luo Pumao couldn't help asking Zhao Hehai: "I heard recently that Haifeng County, Huizhou Prefecture was robbed by Liu Xiang and the Red-haired Ghost, and countless lives and deaths were killed or injured. How did Mr. Zhao Qian treat Liu Xiang?"

Zhao Hehai cursed in his heart. I came to urge the army as soon as I recruited the police. Damn, it was too fast? He pretended to be indignant and said angrily: "Liu Xiang robbed wealth and goods and killed my Daming people. The sky is angry and people are resentful. Tomorrow I will lead all my troops to attack his old nest, Nanya Island!"

Luo Pumao was startled and quickly advised: "Mr. Zhao Qian, don't be anxious. You have to make a long-term plan for this matter. I heard that Liu Xiang has hundreds of warships and countless ants under his command. Mr. Zhao Qian must be cautious to avoid Liu Xiang's words!"

Zhao Hehai raised his hands high and shouted: "Work for the court, don't care about his own life!"

After saying that, he immediately said to Zheng Fanling beside him: "Manager Zheng, make a plan immediately. We will send troops to attack Nanya Island tomorrow!"

"Manager Zheng?" Luo Pumao asked in confusion, "It should be Mr. Zheng, right?"

Zhao Hehai chuckled: "I'm so happy, yes, Mr. Zheng, go!"

Zhao Hehai's words touched Chen Kui's heartstrings. Why did this sound so familiar? Chen Kui frowned and kept searching for the memories in his mind.

Chen Kui finally remembered it, yes, he heard the title of manager among Lin Chunhong’s Jingzhou archers!

Is this a coincidence? Or is Lin Chunhong having an ulterior motive with Zhao Hehai?

Chen Kui had this thought in his heart, and then he observed Zhao Hehai and found that the accent of Zhao Hehai was neither Guangdong nor Fujian, nor Fujian, which seemed to be slightly similar to that of Chu. Chen Kui kept turning around to see if Zhao Hehai's army had plate armor and steel crossbows. If Zhao Hehai had these two powerful weapons in his army, he would definitely be related to Lin Chunhong!

What disappointed Chen Kui was that looking around, all the pirates were not armed or carried steel crossbows, and it was impossible to judge from this point. At this moment, Chen Kui said to Luo Pumao: "Censor Luo, I heard that General Zhao Qian is well-armed. Why don't we go and see General Zhao Qian's arsenal?"

Luo Pumao didn't know what Chen Kui wanted, but considering that Chen Kui was the official trusted by Chongzhen, he didn't object. He looked at Zhao Hehai, "Mr. Zhao Qian, should you lead the way?"

Zhao Hehai said: "As the commands of the lord and the angels."

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the beach, and pointed forward with his right hand, saying, "Please come with the younger one."

Luo Pumao's footsteps were not moving, and he said in surprise: "How could the arsenal be by the sea?"

Zhao Hehai smiled and said, "We used to make a living at sea, so how dare we put valuable things on the shore? Weapons and cannons are all on the boat!"

Luo Pumao turned to Chen Kui and said, "Eunuch Chen, look, are we going up?"

Chen Kui knew that Luo Pumao was unwilling to board the boat to check, and he didn't insist, and said, "Since they were all on the boat, it would be fine if they didn't. When we were in Henan, we saw a sharp weapon. It was easy to get traumatized by four hundred steps. If it could be equipped on the boat, it would work."

Zhao Hehai said loudly: "Four hundred steps to traumatize people, Eunuch Chen is talking about Franchise artillery, right?"

Chen Kui shook his head, a trace of cunning light appeared in his eyes, and he said, "No, it's a crossbow!"

Zhao Hehai blurted out: "Oh, it turned out to be a pulley steel crossbow, how can that thing catch up at sea..."

When Zheng Fan heard this, he was anxious and hurriedly interrupted Zhao Hehai's words and said, "Master Qi, Eunuch Chen, Mr. Zhao Qian and Xiao, have seen pulley steel crossbows. At that time, they intercepted them from the Red-haired Ghost's ship. They were equipped with sharp weapons and shot 500 steps. It was just that the enemy covered the side of the ship and was not as useful as artillery!"

Zhao Hehai then reacted, his face changed color, and his eyes looked at Luo Pumao and Chen Kui with very bad eyes.

Chen Kui felt even more confident when he saw Zhao Hehai's expression. Zhao Hehai must have a close connection with Lin Chunhong. Zheng Fan was so nervous, maybe Zhao Hehai was still under Lin Chunhong's control!

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Hehai held a feast for the envoys of the court, but Chen Kui was unfair and kept thinking about the relationship between Lin Chunhong and Zhao Hehai. How much does Lin Chunhong have to do with Zhao Hehai?

If Zhao Hehai was Lin Chunhong's subordinate, what exactly did Lin Chunhong want to do? Chen Kui was scared that those bandit-suppressing archers were not supported by the court, and they were basically considered Lin Chunhong's private soldiers!

Moreover, the soldiers who followed Lin Chunhong to fight never asked the court for official positions, which was an anomaly in the Ming Empire!

The more Chen Kui thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. In the past, when he saw Lin Chunhong fighting hard, he was not worried about his strength being damaged. He thought that he was loyal to the court. Now, thinking about it, Lin Chunhong was very likely to be doing a show for him. But later, the fake show became a real show.
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