Chapter 576 It’s important to save your life

Li Jin nodded and responded: "You are right, I think so too. But now that our strength is insufficient, we have to take the initiative to start a war. With all due respect, I think doing so is asking for death!"

Yan Mingjun laughed angrily: "I didn't expect that on Qiongzhou Island, there would be a scene where military officers lead the peace and civilian officials lead the battle! Brother Li, have you received all your royal salary in vain over the years?"

Li Jin retorted: "It is precisely because I have received a salary from the imperial court that I have to consider the interests of the imperial court. Now, apart from giving them an excuse to annex Qiongzhou Island, starting a war with the Haihan people, will it be of any benefit to our Ming Dynasty?"

Yan Mingjun insisted: "After the Haihan people in the city are eliminated, we can organize civil defense to defend Danzhou..."

"If Danzhou could have been defended, it wouldn't have been lost in the first place! It wouldn't have needed the Haihan militia to take it back from the pirates!" Li Jin didn't wait for Yan Mingjun to finish speaking, and loudly refuted his statement: "If

You are really wrong if you expect a group of assassins to be able to defend Danzhou City! That Confucian scholar surnamed Huang actually expects the Jin Yiwei to command the operation to recover Danzhou. What a pitiful fool! It’s not that I, Li Jin, look down on the Jin Yiwei.

To help people, what else can they do besides investigating cases and seizing people? Even if they can succeed in five days, when the Haihan people come back, is it something that a Jinyiwei can do like setting up city defenses and commanding operations? Except for Tu Zeng

Casualties, what other consequences could there be?”

Seeing Li Jin's decisive attitude, Yan Mingjun couldn't help but feel a little hesitant in his heart. He knew that Li Jin was not a person who was afraid of getting into trouble, and often acted recklessly, but even such a reckless man in the army thought that this was not possible, then

This matter probably really needs to be carefully considered.

Yan Mingjun calmed his breathing and asked again: "In Brother Li's opinion, how should this matter be handled?"

Li Jin said coldly: "Then it depends on whether Brother Yan still wants to save his life!"

Lord Yan Ming said: "How do you say this?"

"Whether this matter succeeds or fails, the Haihan people will definitely put a share of the responsibility on you and me. It goes without saying that if it fails, even if it succeeds, the Haihan militia will still not be able to escape if they fight back in the future. Don't forget

Now the Qiongzhou Strait has been blocked by Haihan warships, and it is impossible to withdraw to Guangdong." Li Jin sighed: "During these days in Danzhou, hasn't Brother Yan noticed that not a single local official is still alive?

Are they against Haihan? Anyone who dares to act against Haihan has long since disappeared without a trace!"

Yan Mingjun said: "Since death is inevitable whether everything succeeds or fails, then why do you have to persuade me? At least you can fulfill your righteousness with death!"

Li Jin shook his head and said: "There is still a chance to live, why should you die in vain? As long as you don't participate in this matter, you don't have to die."

Yan Mingjun sighed: "But I have already participated..."

"There are still five days left, and you can still escape." Seeing that his tone had softened, Li Jin continued to persuade: "These people are more likely to fail than succeed. If you get involved with them, you will only die in vain! Hurry up.

Only by drawing a clear line with them can we protect ourselves!"

Yan Mingjun said: "I'm afraid it's too late and it's difficult to get rid of the relationship."

Li Jin was silent for a moment this time before speaking again: "Everyone involved in this matter will eventually die. Rather than you and me dying, it is better to let them die."

Yan Mingjun looked at Li Jin in astonishment and said: "You...you mean...report them to the Haihan people?"

"This is the only way to get rid of the responsibility, otherwise once things happen, our lives will be in danger!" Li Jin saw the embarrassment on his face and said decisively: "We can no longer hesitate on this matter, time is running out!

"

Yan Mingjun never expected that he had been planning in the mansion for many days, thinking that everything was ready and all he needed was the east wind. In the end, he called Li Jin to discuss it. In less than an hour, his thoughts took a big turn, starting from how to kill the Haihan people.

Taking back Danzhou City became a question of how to protect ourselves from this catastrophic disaster.

After Li Jin's explanation, he had to admit that his previous thoughts were indeed a bit naive. Haihan's power on Qiongzhou Island is now so powerful. How can he change it by killing three or five Haihan people in Danzhou?

This life is still second to none. Once Haihan takes this as an excuse to retaliate and seize Qiongzhou Island to start a war against Ming Dynasty, will Ming Dynasty accept the war or not? With the current situation in Guangdong, it can sustain a long war without any advantage in strength.

A cross-sea war?

However, Yan Mingjun felt that betraying these anti-Haihan "righteous men" in exchange for his own chance of survival was unreasonable and even despicable, so he did not immediately respond to Li Jin.

Li Jin sighed: "Brother Yan, you are still hesitating at this moment. Do you have to wait until the Haihan people's muskets are pressed against your forehead before you can remember how precious your life is?"

Yan Mingjun said: "I just think this matter is unjust..."

"How long have you still been righteous?" Li Jin scolded: "The interests of the Ming Dynasty are the righteousness! Not only will they not be able to help the court get back Qiongzhou, but it will ruin the overall situation! We have to stop them from doing such stupid things.

Upholding justice!"

Yan Mingjun suddenly felt a deep sadness in his heart. Before he came to Qiongzhou, he had thought about trying to reshape the court's authority in the local area. Unexpectedly, the Haihan people had already included Qiongzhou Island under their rule. And now.

To prevent civilian righteous people from assassinating Haihan people, it has become a politically correct approach. Is this helping Haihan? Helping the court? Or helping himself to escape and save his own life? Yan Mingjun has been unable to distinguish the entanglement of interests for a while.

Yan Mingjun suddenly realized that from the moment he left the Pearl River Pier outside Guangzhou, his destiny was no longer up to him. The Haihan people had arranged everything properly, leaving no room for improvement.

Stay. The resistance methods of Huang Zixing and others may be successful due to the negligence of the Haihan people, but it is difficult to cause a big splash in changing the situation of the entire Qiongzhou Island. As Li Jin said before, Haihan

Regardless of whether they are in power or business, training or fighting, the Han people are all superior to the Ming Dynasty officials. Regardless of whether they are orthodox or not, if they rule Qiongzhou Island, how many people will be willing to overthrow Haihan at the risk of their lives?

Willingness?

"Then what should we do now?" Yan Mingjun looked tired all of a sudden, leaning on the back of the chair and asking weakly with his eyes closed.

"Let's send someone to inform the Haihan people. It's best to ask them to arrange local negotiations after dark." Li Jin immediately came up with an idea.

Yan Mingjun nodded and said, "Brother Li will arrange it."

After nightfall that day, a carriage stopped at the back door of Yan Mingjun's residence. After picking up Yan Mingjun and Li Jin, they went straight to the location of the Danzhou Management Committee in the north of the city. In the meeting room of the Management Committee, they

I saw Zhang Xin again, as well as several other familiar and unfamiliar faces.

"This is Lieutenant Colonel Wang Tom, commander of the Haihan Militia Navy. Lieutenant Yu Tiezhu, commander of the Danzhou garrison." Zhang Xin introduced in turn: "These three are officials from the Haihan Security Department, Lin Nan, Li Qingyang, and Wang Baisuo."

"I am Lord Yan Ming of Danzhou, everyone, please be polite!" Although Lord Yan Ming still kept his official title on his lips in accordance with social etiquette, he no longer had any official airs at this time. He held his fists and bowed to everyone present. Li Jin also

Follow up and greet everyone.

"You two said that we have important matters that need to be discussed in person, so I specially notified the heads of the local departments to come and observe. Would you mind if you two?" Zhang Xin asked with a half-smiling expression on his face.

Of course, Yan Mingjun didn't question the other party's confidence. Hearing this, he just shook his head slightly to express that it was okay.

"Then please tell me what is so important." Zhang Xin made a gesture of invitation.

Yan Mingjun and Li Jin looked at each other, and it was Li Jin who spoke first: "Let me speak! Recently, both Mr. Yan and me have received news that some people are trying to harm Director Zhang and other Haihan people.

I hope Director Zhang can take precautions in advance to avoid being taken advantage of by Xiaoxiao."

"Oh? I wonder what harm these people plan to do to me?" Zhang Xin still asked with a relaxed look: "Are they going to scold me in person, or are they going to tie me up and beat me up?"

Li Jin said solemnly: "Director Zhang, I am not just threatening, and what I said is definitely not a joke!"

Zhang Xin nodded, turned to Yan Mingjun and asked, "What do you think, Master Yan, of what Master Li said?"

Yan Mingjun said with a sullen face: "Haihan recaptured Danzhou from the pirates last year. During this period, he took charge of it and restored Danzhou to its former peace. This is a meritorious service to the court. If there are lawless people among the people who want to do harm to Haihan,

This matter, I believe that this move is inadmissible under the law and should be stopped!"

"Master Yan is right." Zhang Xin then asked: "Then what does Master Yan think of Huang Zixing, the director of Zhongming Academy who visited the house a few days ago?"

Yan Mingjun's heart skipped a beat, knowing that it was probably not the case that he had not received any news. His interview with Huang Zixing had happened more than half a month ago, and since then he had only sent several verbal messages through other means, not even half a handwriting.

He has never left anyone behind. Zhang Xin is so concerned about this matter. He must have some understanding of Huang Zixing's purpose.

Yan Mingjun thought for a while before responding: "This person seems to have misunderstood Haihan because of his family affairs, and has developed resentment. Although I tried to comfort him, it doesn't seem to have any effect."

"That's it? Is there anything else?" Zhang Xin asked reluctantly.

Yan Mingjun was still hesitating whether to sell Huang Zixing, but Li Jin next to him had already spoken out for him: "This man named Huang is the person who just mentioned that he wants to do harm to Haihan. He came to visit Master Yan because he wanted to

He persuaded Mr. Yan to help him, but Mr. Yan was upright and unwilling to make mistakes with him. I have met with you all for an interview today because I want to expose this person named Huang."

Zhang Xin smiled and said: "Master Li is more straightforward in speaking. In fact, we have already received news of what the two of you said. Who are they, what do they want to do, and how do they want to do it? We have already heard about it."

That’s all I know.”

Yan Mingjun and Li Jin both opened their mouths and didn't know how to answer. They originally thought that if they took the initiative to report, they could at least clear their suspicions and avoid being dragged into the water and lose their lives by Huang Zixing and others. But they never expected that Hai

The Han people had been prepared for this matter for a long time, and they were already well prepared. It seemed that they had laid a big net, waiting for these people to fall into the trap.

"Tom, please introduce the current situation to the two adults." Zhang Xin handed over the right to speak to Tom Wang next to him. Although he is a military personnel, from an administrative level, Tom Wang's authority is undoubtedly the current

The tallest person in Danzhou. The executive committee has also given him the overall command of this operation, which means that he can directly exercise the power of life and death as appropriate without asking for instructions during the case.

Already.

Wang Tom nodded and said: "Before you two came to Danzhou, this Huang Zixing had been included in our watch list. Many of his family members were killed in the pirate attack last year, but according to our

After investigation, we believe that it is most likely because the Huang clan colluded with the pirates to cause rebellion, and later the conflict broke out due to uneven distribution of the spoils. In this regard, we also imposed certain punishments on the Huang clan after the war, mainly confiscating their illegal passes.

The land and property obtained through various means. It is precisely because of this reason that Huang Zixing is resentful towards us."

Wang Tom's statement basically confirmed what Huang Zixing said to Yan Mingjun. However, once his position changed, the statement also changed. The Huang family changed from victims to deserved punishment. But who is right and wrong among them?

Who is lying is no longer what Yan Mingjun cares about now.

Wang Tom raised his hand to signal to several security officials next to him, and continued: "Haihan Security Department has taken monitoring measures on Zhongming Academy a long time ago. Every move of Huang Zixing and his associates is under our surveillance.

Next. What is the purpose of Huang Zixing's visit to Master Yan? We also know roughly that the reason why we have not arrested these people is because we are waiting for them to complete the series and then directly come to join them!"

Yan Mingjun had nothing to say at this time and could only murmur: "General Wang is indeed a good tactic..."

Wang Tom said: "These people can live a peaceful life, but they want to go against us Haihan. Since they are restless, they can't blame us for taking some unconventional means to deal with it. According to the information we have, Huang Zixing and his group

Five days later, they will use the opportunity of the Danzhou Chamber of Commerce to hold a birthday party for Director Zhang to launch an assassination. The moment they take action, their gang will be destroyed!"

At this time, Yan Mingjun and Li Jin felt that cold sweat was breaking out on their backs. From beginning to end, these small actions of Huang Zixing were seen by the Haihan people. They never took action, they were just weaving a web patiently and waiting.

Huang Zixing and his gang were all exposed, and then they started to exterminate them. If they hadn't come to confess this matter to the Haihan people today, then there would probably be two more names added to the list of unlucky people.
Chapter completed!