A leader should consider the long term.
Zheng He admired Mao Zhoutai very much because he not only had the perseverance of a naval officer, but also had a solid academic foundation in the Navigation Institute. He could deal with emergencies in a timely, effective and decisive manner, with a unique vision and a broad perspective.
He was not only concerned about the current voyage and the next route, he was also looking at the Ming Dynasty and Yan State, and thinking about what would happen in the next few decades.
This is an amazing trait.
"They're coming!"
Wanqinglin points to the distance, and the smoke column has risen.
Zheng He finally let go of his worries and sighed: "Their speed is a bit slow. It's not easy to come this way."
Wan Qinglin, Mao Zhoutai and others looked sad.
The slower Zhu Neng and Luo Guanying's fleets are, the more it shows that they have not gained much. If they can successfully find someone, they should be the first to light up the smoke column.
"Let's go meet our brothers!"
Zheng He went down the mountain.
Luo Feng and Yao Shun followed the army and raised their heads from time to time to look at Lin Gu ahead. Guo Wenxing, leaning on a cane, firmly refused to be carried away by the sergeant.
"I saw the plume of smoke!"
Yao Shun raised his finger.
Luo Feng and Guo Wenxing both saw it. After long-term care, their eyesight has recovered a lot.
"I'm a little nervous."
Luo Feng grabbed the Yanling knife at his waist and looked into the distance.
Yao Shun and Guo Wenxing understood that what they were nervous about was not seeing Zhu Neng, Luo Guanying and others, but whether they had found Lin Dao and his party.
Between heaven and earth, two teams, one in the west and one in the east, rushed towards each other.
Like the romantic galaxy, in this wild and primitive land, the romance of the Ming Dynasty appeared.
The sergeants marched for more than eighty miles and did not want to rest. They unanimously asked to hurry up. ..
Seeing this, Zheng He immediately ordered his sergeants to continue advancing until they met!
The two armies are thirty miles apart, twenty miles apart!
The starry sky is bright and the mountains and rivers are speechless.
At this moment, the national anthem of the Ming Dynasty began to be sung. The majestic sound waves crossed rivers, lakes, and forests, collided together, and immediately turned into madness.
The two groups of sergeants lost order and control, and the vanguard ran forward desperately.
When they saw the familiar figure and the sun and moon flag waving under the stars, countless people rushed out with tears on their faces.
The call resounded throughout the world.
When the sailors from the east and west finally hugged each other, they were all jumping up and down with excitement. They didn't say much, they just laughed and cried. ..
The long voyage, the long searching years, the long east and west frontiers. Finally, the night of June 6, the 14th year of Jianwen's reign, was no longer so long.
Zheng He, who has always been strong, couldn't help but blush when he saw Zhu Neng, Luo Guanying and others.
Luo Guanying was not so reserved. She gave Zheng He a bear hug and turned around with red eyes to find Wan Qinglin, Shen Wei and others.
Zhu Neng looked at Zheng He and wiped away his excited tears. The initial joy faded, and he calmed down and said: "We searched all along the coast and found the location of Wuyi's landing. It was in the eastern waters of New Orleans on the map. It's a pity that There is no one there anymore, the treasure ship has sunk underwater, and the mast can still be seen..."
"Later we lit the smoke column and found Xiang Datong and Ouyang You led by Lin Dao. However, they were severely injured and had some mental problems. Later we found Zhang Guanshan. According to Xiang Datong's account, Luo Feng led He went north with more than 200 soldiers, and Guo Wenxing wanted to pass through the Bering Strait..."
Zheng He waved his hand and interrupted Zhu Neng: "In Alaska, we found Luo Feng, Yao Shun, and Guo Wenxing. However, there are no two hundred soldiers, only three of them."
Zhu Neng lowered his head and sat down, his eyes full of sadness.
Zheng He took a deep breath and calmed down: "Zhu Neng, the purpose of this long-lasting voyage is to find them. Even if we find just one brother, our mission is still glorious, let alone six brothers. There are bones of brothers! We want them
What we do is send them home safely! "
Zhu Neng tried his best to hold back his tears, nodded heavily, and talked about a concern: "Luo Geng and Lin Dao had a disagreement at the beginning. Lin Dao took more than a hundred sergeants away privately, and Xiang Datong and Ouyang You were among them. According to the military system, Luo Geng Feng is the deputy captain, and Lin Dao, Xiang Datong, Ouyang You and others should obey his decisions unconditionally, but they disobeyed the deputy captain's orders and sent them back to the Ming Dynasty. Will anyone be held accountable?"
Zheng He knew what Zhu Neng wanted to say.
Civil servants are very good at finding faults, and they will definitely find problems to settle after the excitement.
Lin Dao's behavior was indeed wrong. To put it mildly, he did it out of necessity and to save more brothers. But to put it harshly, they are deserters, deserters who abandon their brothers and choose to leave privately against the orders of the highest general!
In the Ming Dynasty's army, deserters must be held accountable, and in serious cases they may be beheaded!
If Xiang Datong and Ouyang You, heroes like Xiang Datong and Ouyang You who sacrificed everything for the court and narrowly escaped death, ended up being forgetful and crazy, but never forgetting their mission, were punished, then the navy would not agree, and countless navy officers would be heartbroken!
Zheng He looked at Zhu Neng deeply and said seriously: "Xiang Datong remembered wrongly. It was not Lin Dao who took them away privately, but Luo Feng gave the order for Lin Dao to take a group of brothers away. Two roads, two hopes. !」
Zhu Neng looked at Zheng He in surprise, his eyes full of determination.
Zheng He put his hands behind his back and looked up at the night sky: "This is the truth, the truth to be told to the world! As for the rest, I will tell the emperor personally."
Zhu Neng understood.
Zheng He was going to tell a lie, a lie to the world, to prevent Xiang Datong and Ouyang You from being questioned after they returned to the Ming Dynasty. ..
"But if this happens, Luo Feng will be under great pressure..."
Zhu Neng said softly.
Zheng He sighed: "This is his choice, and it is also his responsibility as the deputy captain! Besides, did Luo Feng really not know why Lin Dao took people away back then? On that occasion, under that kind of vigilance , who can take away more than a hundred people privately? Could Lin Dao do all this quietly?"
"Perhaps, this in itself was a kind of tacit consent and arrangement by Luo Feng. He was not sure whether Guo Wenxing could return to the Ming Dynasty alive by walking through the Bering Strait, so he left another hand, which was Lin Dao's departure. Facts It proves that if we had not arrived in time, the three of them would have died. And the Ouyang You and Xiang Datong you found became the only fire left by Luo Feng!"
Seeing what Zheng He said, Zhu Neng nodded: "This is the truth!"
Only in this way can these men be prevented from being harmed! Everyone who knows will keep this secret to their graves.
Luo Feng saw Xiang Datong, Ouyang You and Zhang Guanshan. Ouyang You, who was originally crazy, suddenly calmed down and walked towards Luo Feng, Yao Shun and Guo Wenxing step by step. Then he knelt in front of the three of them and cried: "Deputy Captain, Lin Dao and other brothers all died!"
