Chen Xi’s journey to the expedition was full of loads!

The only regret is that the Francoz man escaped three boats, but burned one and intercepted five, which was considered a great harvest.

In addition, there were 109 Franji people who captured the ship and rescued more than 120 slaves on the ship. Among them, there were villagers who were previously called Massacre, but were actually robbed by the Franji people to the Dog Hoof Reef and Guiyuyan on the ship.

In addition to intercepting a large number of cargo, the most important thing is to capture the leader of the Francophone, who is also the culprit of this offense and looting, the fleet commander Almeda.

But after Almeida was tied back, she roared at Chen Xi. Seeing that Chen Xi didn't understand, she cursed in English a few more words. Chen Xi then realized that this guy was the head of the fleet, and now it was easy to deal with him. As a prisoner, Almeida had no sense of being imprisoned at all. She kept shouting in front of Shen Xi, and someone immediately pressed him to the ground and filled him with a stick.

However, Almeida still looked arrogant, obviously disdainful of the Ming Dynasty's "spoken tricks" to obtain victory in the battle.

Chen Xi thought to himself, this is not a cowboy duel in the western region, what kind of tricks are you trying to do? Could it be that you will be open and open to bribe local officials first to gain trust, then burn, kill and rob?

Because the Franji people were not equipped with the Ming Dynasty translator, Almeida knew only limited English, and no one around Chen Xi understood the Franji language. Chen Xi gave up the idea of ​​interrogation on the spot. The most important thing at the moment was to take the person back to the city.

But if you want to enter the city, you have to wait for dawn.

With Zhang Lian's greedy personality, he was so greedy that he would never dare to open the city gate easily. Even if he sent someone to inform the Franji people, Zhang Lian would not believe it.

Dawn finally arrived. After experiencing a night of fear, the people of Quanzhou City did not know what was happening outside the city.

At this time, the people, as long as they were a little turbulent, would be like a frightened bird, closing the doors and windows, then burying their heads into the quilt, trembling.

Therefore, most people actually don’t know that there was a brilliant fireworks show in Quanzhou last night, and there were also artillery shells from the Folang Jiman flying in the city walls and port areas in the south of the city. They only know that the roar continued last night. Some people said it was thunder on the ground, and some people said that the foreign countries entered Quanzhou City. There were many different opinions.

After dawn, it was calm and as if nothing had happened. The people were afraid that the Gentiles had entered the city, so some simply hid in the mezzanines and cellars of their own houses.

Zhang Lian also didn't sleep all night. He just sniffed in the Tibetan soldiers' cave on the city wall for a while when dawn was approaching.

"Sir, no, the Franchise fleet has entered Jinjiang again!"

The sudden news scared Zhang Lian almost jumped up. He said angrily: "Stop talking nonsense. The Franchise man's ship arrived outside the city. Why can't he hear the cannon sound?"

"boom!"

While he was talking, there was a shot outside, and Zhang Lian was so scared that he almost collapsed on the ground.

However, Zhang Lian quickly calmed down and sorted out his official uniform with great dignity. He quickly went up to the wall to check the situation. When he arrived at the city and looked up to the Jinjiang River, he saw five boats moving upstream from afar, approaching the city wall in the south of Quanzhou City. On the far side of the river, there was a large ship burning to the point where only the skeleton was left.

"I thought something was wrong with burning the ship last night. Could it be that the thieves had an internal strife... Did those few ships sink or leave?"

After Zhang Lian said proudly, he immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. Even if three ships were sunk and one was burned, there were still five ships. These five ships were left at the port and the news of Fanbian invasion was about to spread sooner or later.

Zhang Lian was worried, but he was wondering in his heart, why didn't this Franco mechanic continue to fire?

At this moment, someone went to the bottom of the city tower and shouted loudly at the top of the city: "Master, the imperial envoy is bringing people back!"

Zhang Lian was angry and sneered, "I ran away last night. Today, the Franchise man has not yet retreated. How dare he come back? But he is coming back just in time, you have taken the blame."

"Open the city gate!" Zhang Lian ordered.

"Sir, it's not suitable. What if the Fran aircraft takes the opportunity to attack the city..."

"Franchise is still in the Jinjiang River. Do you see that they have any signs of landing?"

Zhang Lian carefully observed that there was no sign of Flangerman at the port and along the Jinjiang River. He guessed that perhaps Flangerman was not satisfied with robbing the flangerman last night, so he divided several ships and returned with full loads, found a place to unload the cargo, and came to grab the second round in the evening.

Zhang Lian thought to himself: "Franchise people also need to rest. Maybe they are all night owls, so they like to do things like burning, killing, looting at night. But what do these ships on the river mean? Could it be that they show off their power to me?"

When the city gate opened, Zhang Lian saw the Franji man who was tied into strings with ropes and was trembling with cold clothes, he opened his mouth in surprise and wiped his eyes with a sense of illusion.

"Good, what's going on? Oh, isn't that Lao Wu?"

Someone next to him recognized it. It was not someone else who walked in front of the team to show off his power, but Zhang Laowu, who sent the city to monitor Shen Xi last night.

At this time, Zhang Laowu was not as dead as last night. His face was full of pride and arrogant. He was holding a long horse whip in his hand. As long as he saw a Franchise man walking slowly, he would whip up. Zhang Laowu was carrying a bulging bag on his back. He didn't know what was inside, but it looked not light.

"Mr. The situation is wrong. Could it be that Franjiren was trying to take the opportunity to sneak into the city?"

Zhang Lian slapped the speaker in the face: "Let your dog's eyes widen, is there such a trick in the Franchise man?"

The speaker looked closely and couldn't help but feel ashamed.

The Franchise men who were escorted into the city were not only covered in clothes, but also covered in bruises and were tied up like monkeys. One of them looked pretty good, but was walking at the end of the captive team, walking with the imperial envoy Shen Xi. The man was tied with a rope and still had a bruised nose and swollen face, but his clothes were still intact.

Zhang Lian knew this person. He met him when Franjiren came to Quanzhou for the first time. Almeida, who claimed to be the "Governor of the Franji's Great Navigation", and the letter he submitted to the emperor was written by Almeida under his nose.

Finally, it’s Shen Xi.

Shen Xi was sitting outside the carriage, dozing off with her legs hanging down. The person who was driving the carriage was a handsome "little white-faced". Almeida walked beside the carriage, with a rope tied around her neck, like a dog leash, holding the other end in Shen Xi's hand.

When Zhang Lian saw this, he couldn't help laughing out loud: "It's so damn good. Let's go with me to welcome the imperial envoy!"

Chen Xi was still drowsy here. The carriage arrived at the city gate without realizing it. Zhang Lian and a few people came out. Before Chen Xi got off the carriage, Zhang Lian knelt in front of the carriage with a "thump" and kowtowed, "Zhang Lian, the governor of Quanzhou, has met the imperial envoy."

Another meeting gift, where is this?

Chen Xi stretched lazily, jumped out of the car, stepped forward to support Zhang Lian, and said, "What is Master Zhang doing? I am not the first day I came to Quanzhou."

Zhang Lian was helped by Shen Xi, with a feeling on his face: "The imperial envoy left the city, and the officials were frightened and scared all night, and wished they could kill the enemy with the imperial envoy. I was really upset. Look at me... I couldn't sleep at night, and I waited for you to come back at the city gate early in the morning. Well... I've captured all the thieves when you left the city?"

Zhang Laowu ran over and said, "Master, maybe I don't know that under the dispatch of the imperial envoy last night, we robbed the fleet of the barbarians. Isn't that ship already coming, and the barbarians above are now here."

"really?"

Zhang Lian's eyes turned red when he heard this.

What a great contribution, does that mean that I don’t have to deceive the court and can receive the merits and rewards safely?

Zhang Laowu, you are worthy of being my family!

Good job, I will definitely appreciate you when I look back!

Chen Xi sighed: "The only drawback is that the three ships were fled by the thief. I think we have some hostages in hand, and they will eventually return."

When Zhang Lian heard this, he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, please ask the imperial envoy in the city. Why not consider how to write the war report to the court with the officials?"

"Fight report? Are you too anxious?"

Chen Xi glanced at Zhang Lian.

When foreign enemies invade, you hide farther than anyone else, and you don’t even care about the lives and deaths of the people outside the city. Now that the war has just ended, you are thinking about writing a report to get the credit.

Zhang Lian forced a smile: "The imperial envoy said he was anxious, so he was naturally a little too hasty. It is the most important thing to interrogate these Franchise men who were traitors who were traitors. I am tired for a day and it is time to go back to the city to have a good rest. What about this battle report...what will be prepared by the next officer?"

After all, it is nothing more than sharing the achievements of the war.

The prefect of Taiping Nianjing was hard to achieve the best of the heavens, but now it has a successful success:

The Franji people took the tribute first, but they turned against each other later. Fortunately, his Majesty's envoy Shen Zhongyun and his ministers worked together to break the Franji people's conspiracy, kill more than a thousand enemies, captured countless warships, captured 232 bandits, and twenty-seven artillery pieces...

In the war report, the places that should be exaggerated must be exaggerated, the places that should be realistic must be realistic, and the places that should be obscure must be obscure. This is the basic principle.

The captives do not care whether they are slaves or not. As long as they have done things for the Franji people, they are considered "bandits". Since more than 200 prisoners have been captured, it must be based on killing one thousand enemies.

No one believes it?

Didn’t a ship be burned on the river? It was said that those people were either burned to death on the ship or fell into the river, and their bodies remained. As for the “numerous warships”... the big ship is considered a warship, isn’t it? Go back and collect more small ships from the people, regardless of whether they are from the Franchise, they are all considered in the captured ship war.

Just as Zhang Lian was planning how to write this battle report, Chen Xi suddenly reminded: "Your Majesty doesn't want these!"

One sentence made Zhang Lian wake up.

It is hard to say whether it is a merit to defeat the cunning Franchise Man. The fact that the Franchise Man committed a crime against our territory before was real. Zhang Lian had a sin that he was unknown...

Moreover, if Zhang Lian exaggerated the contribution this time, it would probably cause dissatisfaction among the commanders of Quanzhou Guard and Yongning Guard... If you don't notify the military when encountering war, you will resolve it yourself. What's the intention?

Zhang Lian was very convinced by Chen Xi at this time and said respectfully: "I would like to ask the imperial envoy to show you."

Chen Xidao: "My Daming Emperor is powerful and powerful all over the world, and he relies on conquering people with virtue."

Zhang Lian immediately woke up and patted his forehead: "The imperial envoy is of great opinion."

Defeating the Franchise Man now is not a big contribution. It is a great contribution to completely defeating the Franchise Man and allowing them to pay tribute sincerely.

Now that people have caught the living, will it be difficult to force them to submit?

Chen Xi glanced at Zhang Lian. He knew very well about the other party's little thoughts at this time.

Didn’t you seize a large amount of supplies and come back?

It is said that the Franji people felt their previous mistakes and took the initiative to pay tribute after the war in exchange for becoming a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. They randomly selected a few blond and blue-eyed white men from the prisoners, which is called Franji envoys.

Is it still a problem that can be solved by a whip?

Of course, Zhang Lian didn't want to lose his military achievements.

Chen Xi knew that nothing he told Zhang Lian was useless. He was very tired now and just wanted to go back to the official office to rest first. As for the battle report and celebration, he would not want to pay attention to it for the time being.

Have a good sleep!

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