Gong Xingming's intention was guessed.
It's just that there's still a minor trouble ahead.
Neither killing nor letting go.
Kill him. Everyone in the East China Sea knows that this old guy has been killed. Even the governor dares to kill him. The other officials, navy generals, and aristocratic families will definitely fight to the death. By then, the three roads of the East China Sea will be completely in chaos.
But Han You was not willing to let him go. According to Tie Chen, if he really sent a warship to pick up some members of the Gong family, it would not make much sense. At most, he would just let other rebellious officials and traitors kill other Gong family members.
And this involves the issue of whether to kill or not. We still can’t kill. We can’t kill now. Let us go. This guy has a long mouth. When the time comes, he will tell others that he has been “framed”. Instead, he will fetch water from a bamboo basket. All in vain.
Han You was too lazy to think about it and simply took the others back to sleep, leaving Gong Xingming with Shu Hua and Tie Chen. He believed that these two people would come up with a solution.
Han You came up with a plan as soon as he lay down. He exchanged hostages and asked Gong Xingming to bring his most beloved grandson and granddaughter in exchange for Gong Xingming.
This does not mean that Gong Zhizhou will be let go, but that he will be needed to help arrest and kill people. The exchange condition is twelve people. The Gong family must survive twelve people. No matter what happens in the future, the court cannot touch these people. Twelve people are all members of the Gong family, and most of them are children.
Gong Xingming asked Han You to agree personally and make a poisonous oath.
This old man doesn't trust the imperial court, the imperial edict, or anything else, as long as Han You swears a poisonous oath.
Even Han You felt strange this time. As Shu Hua said, Gong Xingming was indeed afraid, but it seemed that he was not afraid of Han You and his group, nor the court. As for what he was afraid of, or who he was afraid of, it was unknown. .
In this way, three days later, Gong Xingming's granddaughter and grandson were brought. The grandson was only seven years old, and the younger granddaughter was still in her infancy. Han You looked at the two children and breathed a sigh of relief. Normal children, very normal. A child, ignorant and smiling.
Gong Xingming left to do business, to trick Qiu Qiancheng into coming, and to take the head of Yao Shunkai, the prefect of Kaicheng.
Tang Qingfeng had already begun to train his troops, and selected more than 300 people from among the coolies who resisted the logs to join the old soldiers for training.
One soldier is a raging enemy, and a den of generals is raging. The generals and lieutenants are the first to die in the naval division. The soldiers below are not just a bunch of losers from the beginning.
The training is mainly divided into two parts. The original boat master trained on physical strength and foot combat, while the cavalry brought in carried out sea training, mainly learning to swim.
Han You was also swimming, paddling to be precise, and sometimes fishing.
It's not about fishing on a boat, it's just on the beach. Han You doesn't want to get on those so-called warships.
The East China Sea Three Ways and the Japanese privateers are all in the back garden. Of the thirty-two Dongyun Dao Zhoushi warships, only nineteen are usable. The others are just decorations. They only have one floor and are in tatters. , it can only accommodate four hundred people at most, and they are all old antiques. They have been repaired for three years, and they have been repaired for three years. The oldest warship is seven years old, and the bottom deck is full of a strong musty smell. After Han You went down, he took a few breaths and almost got tonsillitis.
I won’t talk about the small warships and broken warships that cannot go to sea at all. I will only talk about the nineteen warships. The crossbows on them have been dismantled. They have been used as merchant ships for so many years. It was used by navy masters to pull grain and transport cargo, and it only traveled in offshore areas.
Warships in naval battles actually have one way of attacking, which is shooting, using crossbows, bows and arrows, and fire arrows.
Of course there is another way, that is, collision, the big ship hits the small boat, and the small boat crashes into the big ship.
After Ji Ying's strict and professional inspection, he finally came to the conclusion that it is best not to get on these broken boats, as they can easily capsize when encountering a wave.
The suggestion given by Brother Kun is that there is no need to dismantle it, but to re-draw the materials and build a new warship. As for the broken warships, they take up space even if they are docked on the beach.
This is not because Brother Kun has high requirements, but because those warships are really of no use at all. It is okay to transport some goods near the sea and pull people. Don't even think about going to sea to fight, which will make the enemy laugh out loud when they see it.
Han You can't control these things. Ji Ying and a few old masters can just study them. What he can control is to understand the situation in the East China Sea and have a deep understanding of it.
As time passed day by day, Han You was ready to spank the child.
The original agreement with Gong Xingming was to deceive Qiu Qiancheng, the deputy commander of the navy, within ten days. But now it has been eight days and there is no news at all. It is not as efficient as the one in Youzhou. They lie to the outside world that they are old. Pang is dead. He has already deceived more than forty aristocratic families and navy generals. By the time Lao Pang goes to his funeral, he will be able to catch them all.
Seeing that on the ninth day, one day before Han You was going to let Yuqi beat the child, Gong Xingming finally came.
He was alone, without any entourage, and he arrived in the middle of the night on horseback.
As soon as Han You walked out of the military tent, Gong Xingming, who looked exhausted and covered in sweat, dismounted from his horse and ran over at a speed that was not suitable for his body type.
"A message!"
Gong Xingming panted and raised a finger: "Can I change my life?"
"What are you talking about? Why do you want to change your life?"
"I can tell you a piece of news that can change my life."
Seeing that the other party was so anxious, Han You's pupils shrank suddenly: "What news."
"Can I change my life?"
"You speak first."
"Half life is fine."
Han You: "How about half a life?"
"I'll exchange half of my life first, and then I'll exchange it for one after I get it all together."
Han You: "..."
Gong Xingming subconsciously looked at the sea level in the night. Wang Hai next to him subconsciously asked: "Is there an enemy ship coming?"
"No...no, no, no."
"Stop fucking ink." Han You was shocked: "Are there really enemy ships coming?"
"yes."
Gong Xingming couldn't bargain anymore: "The Yingdao privateers are coming and will invade in a big way."
"Is the news true?"
"Absolutely true."
"How many ships, how many people, and where did they land from?"
Gong Xingming wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I don't know how many ships and how many people, I just know they landed in Tongcheng."
"grass!"
Han You didn't care about anything else and quickly asked Jiang Zhui to play the drum. Wang Hai also ran to call all his friends over.
The difference between professionals and non-professionals was clearly visible. There were only six drum beats, and the entire camp was brightly lit and filled with solemnity.
"Tell me what happened, the source of the information, the date, the causes and consequences, including your personal thoughts and guesses!"
Han You grabbed Gong Xingming's collar and pulled him into the military tent.
Just leave matters like fighting and defending against enemies to your friends. They are all professionals. All Han You has to do is check the military information again and again!
