"What's next?" Xue Ling couldn't help but ask.
Although everyone knows the result.
Since Wang Zhi is still alive and well, he must have not been killed in this great siege. Instead, he may have gained great benefits from it. Otherwise, he would not have grown up step by step to become the king of Hui who covers the sky with one hand on the sea. According to legend, The captain of Wufeng.
But in fact, Xue Ling had never thought that the now-famous pirate king Wang Zhi was actually just an ordinary sailing merchant, and he might even be an honest kind.
And in the blink of an eye, he became an unattainable and mysterious figure.
What happened in the middle, or maybe fate is so unpredictable in the first place.
"The pirates suffered heavy losses." Guang Jiqi said seriously: "At that time, the pirates were far from the financial resources and power they have now, and they could only flee in all directions in the face of the government's encirclement and suppression."
"A large number of the shipowners and leaders were killed, and everyone was panicked. The trees fell and the monkeys scattered. The day was precarious and the day was uncertain."
"At this time, someone stood up." Guang Jiqi sighed: "He said I can lead you to continue."
"Wang Zhi?" Xue Ling asked.
Of course, this is a nearly obvious answer.
"Yes, Wang Zhi." Guang Jiqi nodded: "Unlike others, most of their strongholds are still along the coast of China, while Wang Zhi has already established a foothold in Japan."
"While others are running around in panic all day long, he can slowly lick his wounds in the Japanese stronghold, and patiently wait for a whale to swallow the territory and subordinates left by the previous leader."
"This is a long process. During this process, Wang Zhi also showed that his means and financial resources are far beyond ordinary people. He even teamed up with several Zhou generals to complete the encirclement and suppression of several pirates who did not obey his leadership. , thus successfully becoming the master of this sea area.”
"It can be said that on the southeast coast, no one has ever been able to say that he is the overlord of this sea before."
"And now, Wang Zhi can say the same."
"He has become the true Pirate King. The flag of Captain Wufeng is fluttering in the wind on the sea. Almost every merchant ship running on the sea must accept Wang Zhi's protection."
"Listening to what you said, you don't seem to have that much hatred and dislike for Wang Zhi?" Fang Bie looked at Guang Jiqi, who knew Wang Zhi's past experiences very well and said.
"Of course not, it's just what I always say, make a decision before taking action, know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger."
"I became a commander and came to Shiping Guards Station. At least I want to know who my enemy is, how to find his weaknesses, and how to defeat him."
Fang Bie nodded and looked at Guang Jiqi: "What about now?"
"Have you found his weakness?"
Guang Jiqi nodded: "Of course I found it."
"Wang Zhi's biggest weakness now is that he is old."
"Is he old?" Xue Ling asked curiously.
Wang Zhi is not a martial arts master and will lose his former fighting power due to old age.
Wang Zhi is just a pirate leader. Shouldn't he be more cunning and calculating as he gets older?
"Yes, he is old." Guang Jiqi nodded and confirmed.
"When you are young, you are full of pride. There is no need to bury your bones in your hometown. There is no place in life without green mountains."
"But when I get old, I always think about returning to my hometown with fallen leaves and rich clothes."
"Does he have this chance?" Xue Ling asked.
Yes, does Wang Zhi still have this chance?
Guang Jiqi has said before that Wang Zhi is from Huizhou, but he has returned to his roots after falling leaves and returning to his hometown in fine clothes. With Wang Zhi's status as a great pirate, how could the Great Zhou court sit idly by?
"Of course there is an opportunity. In fact, now, if Wang Zhi had not wanted to negotiate terms with the imperial court, in Yuhang, his fleet could have openly entered the market for supplies, and a large number of people wanted to send their children to Join Wang Zhi's fleet and make a fortune."
Regarding Wang Zhi's information, Guang Jiqi always knew a little more than the average person.
"But Wang Zhi is far from satisfied with this." Guang Jiqi sighed.
"So what does he want?" Fang Bie asked quietly from the side: "You tell me first. When you finish speaking, I can give you a surprise."
The surprise that Fang Don't want to give Guang Jiqi is the batch of goods under their possession that will be given to Wang Zhi. Using this batch of goods, the two of them will even have the opportunity to directly meet Wang Zhi himself.
After all, he is the important messenger of the Guo family to send gifts to the captain of Wufeng. Wang Zhi is both emotional and rational, and he wants to meet him.
"He wants to legitimately get his wealth and power recognized by the imperial court, and he wants the sea to reopen, just like the busy maritime trade during the Song Dynasty." Guang Jiqi said this, but his expression But there was no joy at all: "But the imperial court will not negotiate a deal with a pirate."
"This is also the reason why the situation on the southeast coast is currently tense."
"The imperial court has raided several of Wang Zhi's strongholds and has no intention of sitting down and negotiating with Wang Zhi."
"Now that I think about it carefully, the Japanese pirates who came to attack Shiping Guard Station this time behaved very abnormally. If you say that they have nothing to do with Wang Zhi, I really don't believe it."
Fang Bie nodded. Guang Jiqi was indeed a rare talent. In fact, the information he had was quite one-sided and relied almost entirely on his own collection. However, in the end he was able to come to a quite comprehensive conclusion. Perhaps this was the real truth. Just be a general.
"Then let's go back to the original topic." Fang Bie looked at Guang Jiqi and said calmly: "You said there are two reasons for the Japanese pirate rebellion. The first point is that the situation in Japan was chaotic and the heroes were fighting for hegemony, which led to a large number of The wanderers were displaced and chose to cross the sea.”
"The second reason is that the demand for trade along the southeast coast has always existed. It is better to block it than to clear it. It is because the imperial court has been suppressing it that the final behemoth like Wang Zhi emerged and occupied the entire southeast sea, and borrowed the power of Japanese pirates to cause trouble."
"If this is the case, isn't there no way to put down the Japanese pirate rebellion?"
The first point is about the situation in Japan. The Great Zhou Dynasty would not be so kind as to help Japan calm down the troubled times and spread military power over the world. Then Japan may have to be in chaos for at least ten or more decades before it ends.
Regarding the second point, since it is impossible for the Great Zhou Dynasty to open the sea ban, but there are such huge profits in maritime trade, Gu will eventually be able to raise a behemoth, even if there is no Wang Zhi, there will be Li Zhi, Zhao Zhi and so on.
If these two points are not solved, quelling the Japanese pirate rebellion will be like a castle in the air, but if you want to solve it, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky.
"I remember that the Japanese swordsman recruited you and asked you to go to Japan to help quell the troubled times. Isn't this the same as saving the country? You go to help Japan unify. In this case, the Japanese pirates in Japan will be taken care of." Fang Bie said seriously. Di gave Guang Jiqi some sexy ideas.
"In his position, he will pursue his own affairs." Guang Jiqi looked at Fang Bie and said quietly: "If I am the governor of Liangjiang, then I still have some capital to solve the problem of maritime trade. After all, Western firearms are becoming increasingly developed. I heard It is said that there are more and more Rakshasa ghosts and red-haired people camping there in Nanyang, and it is even said that they have occasionally begun to move along the coast. In comparison, the Japanese people are just suffering from ringworm and scabies. These people from outside the region , is the real trouble."
Fang Don looked at Guang Jiqi, feeling really surprised at this moment.
Of course, those Westerners would indeed bring big trouble to China, but that would only happen a hundred or two hundred years later. The Great Zhou Dynasty was no longer around at that time, but Guang Jiqi could see so far, which was really impressive. .
"But that's too far away." Fang Bie said calmly: "As far as I know, those Westerners are few in number, and their temperament is quite barbaric. They don't understand etiquette at all, and they are nothing more than barbarians."
Guang Jiqi shook his head: "It is precisely because they are barbarians that they are scary. Brother Fang may not have been here for a long time. These foreigners are especially good at firearms. The cannons on the ship are accurate and fast, and can also release ammunition." , with the current level of firearms in Dazhou, it is quite far behind."
"If the maritime ban can be lifted as soon as possible, internal and external traffic will not be closed off and complacent. If our huge Chinese state is eventually destroyed in the hands of these barbarians, it will really make people feel deeply moved."
Fang Bie sighed. In fact, he knew these things better than Guang Jiqi, but he did not have Guang Jiqi's concern for the country and the people, and he would not have thought about the decades or hundreds of years after his death. things.
A great chivalrous man serves the country and the people, but Fang Bie probably has no interest in becoming such a great chivalrous man at the moment.
After all, Fang Bi cherishes himself and the people around him more, and does not have the energy to protect more people.
A person's power is limited after all.
"However, as Brother Fang said, this is too far away after all. When I am in charge of political affairs, I am just a small commander with only three to five hundred soldiers under my command. Now I am... As a guilty person, you still have to take care of the present." Guang Jiqi looked at Fang Bie and said.
"The most urgent task now is to find ways to get rid of the crime and make meritorious service, especially how to deal with the current group of troublesome Japanese pirates."
"With ordinary methods, these Japanese pirates would be almost impossible to deal with."
"If you give me time to train my troops calmly, then although my individual soldier quality in Dazhou is not as good as the Japanese pirates' swordsmanship, we have a convenient location and a large number of people. If we can cooperate and cooperate instead of fighting separately, , I’m afraid there is still a chance to confront the enemy.”
"It's just that I haven't been given the opportunity to train my troops now. If I want to break the situation in front of me, after thinking about it, I'm afraid there is only one way."
Guang Jiqi looked at Fang Bie and said.
Fang Bie sighed and said nothing.
He thought about what Guang Jiqi had thought of.
After all, there may be only one way to plug it in and use it right now.
"What can I do?" Xue Ling asked.
Huo Ying has been listening silently. Guang Jiqi is her patient. As a doctor, she is monitoring her and no one can criticize her.
But until now, Huo Ying sighed quietly: "Is there anything else I can do?"
"Guang Jiqi needs elites who can help him fight against the Japanese pirates head-on. Of course, they are martial arts masters seeking the Central Plains."
"A martial arts master from the Central Plains?" Xue Ling repeated, and then she suddenly realized: "Do you want us to help you?"
This is a no-brainer.
The biggest problem Guang Jiqi currently faces is that Yan Jiu's own sword skills are too strong. Not even Guang Jiqi can compete with him, let alone others. The other Japanese pirates under Yan Jiu are also a group of tiger and wolf masters. , Killing people is like mowing grass. Guang Jiqi still remembers how his officers and soldiers from Shiping Guard Station were directly run over by the opponent.
The only way to fight magic is magic.
Of course, the only thing that can resist martial arts is martial arts.
If Guang Jiqi could find a master who was stronger than Yan Jiu, and a hero who could face the Japanese pirates' charge head-on, then of course he would have a chance to avoid being captured and manipulated by Yan Jiu again.
Originally, there were not many masters like this in the entire world.
But it just so happened.
There were several of them in front of Guang Jiqi.
"Yes, you're welcome." Guang Jiqi sighed: "Actually, Brother Fang made his identity known at the beginning, probably because he didn't want to help."
"Yeah." Guang Jiqi directly exposed his little calculation, and Fang Bu didn't feel a little embarrassed.
There are indeed factors in this regard. After all, no matter how great Guang Jiqi's reputation is, he can't possibly ask people from Hive to help him.
Even if he was willing to help, Guang Jiqi would really get into trouble if he mixed with the assassins of the Beehive. It was basically the same as surrendering to the Japanese pirates.
Of course, when he was in Los Angeles, Jin Yiwei finally cooperated happily with Hive, but after all, it was just one moment and another, and everyone just had to play with each other tacitly.
But Guang Jiqi's idea at this time was to let Fang Bie directly become his subordinate and help him go into battle to kill the enemy. This was the same as Nai He's enemy army.
To be honest - Xue Ling is almost equal to a Gundam.
Plus Heiwu, there are two.
"Are you really so shameless?" Fang Bie looked at Guang Jiqi and sighed.
Being invited directly like this is really a bit difficult to handle.
"Compared with the lives of the people in the southeast, my little face is nothing." Guang Jiqi looked at Fang Bie and said with a smile.
"To be honest, you and I didn't have any thoughts about this originally, but after talking with Brother Fang, I always feel that Brother Fang is different from the vicious hive assassins I originally imagined. Besides, I really feel that now There is no other way but to treat a dead horse as a living horse." Guang Jiqi said quietly.
He kept looking at Fang Bie.
Fang Bie felt helpless.
He looked at Xue Ling: "So what do you think?"
"Me?" Xue Ling was a little surprised.
Judging from Xue Ling's experience, Fang Bu should stay away from such a troublesome and dangerous matter for fear of avoiding it.
He actually asked for his own opinion.
And do you still think about your own opinions?
If it was Xue Ling alone, Xue Ling would have agreed long ago.
"Yes, you." Fang Bie nodded.
"If Fang Bie doesn't refuse, I'm willing to guard General Guang Jiqi for a period of time." Xue Ling looked at Fang Bie and said.
This was also Xue Ling's first thought.
Fang Bie could only sigh again: "That's it."
"We can provide some limited assistance."
