Qin Yuan never thought that things would turn out like this.
He came to the capital to ask for soldiers, but he ended up assisting the Metropolitan Procuratorate in dealing with the bandits.
And with a small team including him, there are only about a hundred people.
The Haisha Gang is composed of bandits and has a large number of people. It is conservatively estimated that the total number of people can exceed a thousand.
A team of one hundred people has to control a gang of thousands of people and safely send these people to Xuzhou, thousands of miles away. No matter how you look at it, it seems to be an impossible task.
But Qin Yuan had no other choice. Because General Xuzhou was afraid of being convicted, the matter could only be resolved privately.
Fortunately, the Queen was alone and needed to absorb external forces, so she did not make the matter public.
Now this seemingly impossible task has become Qin Yuan's last hope, no matter what, he must wipe out all the bandits here.
It can be seen that Qin Yuan is very depressed.
After knowing the true situation on Xia and Shang's side, people lost their previous energy.
Xia Shang patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, it's just a bunch of rabble. Things will be solved eventually."
Qin Yuan smiled sarcastically: "Everything will be subject to the arrangements of the First Lord."
"Compared to this, I am more concerned with the pirates in Xuzhou. As an army, are you unable to deal with even a few pirates? Are you still suffering heavy losses?"
"The pirates who appeared in Xuzhou are fundamentally different from the past. They have plans and arrangements, and among the pirates there are Japanese who are good at swordsmanship."
"Japanese?" Xia Shang frowned, "Isn't this kind of situation common?"
"The pirates in the Xuzhou area are mainly composed of people from the Central Plains. In the past, they were composed of a small number of fugitives and most of the border fishermen."
"Border fishermen?"
"Some fishermen often pretend to be pirates to rob other fishermen due to poor harvests. These thieves are not a threat, and they were easy to deal with in the past. Although there are some Japanese pirates among the pirates, there are not many. Unlike recently, the Japanese seem to
We are gathering, carrying out large-scale operations, and even landing and looting villages. Our navy in Xuzhou is relatively concentrated, and our actions are far less convenient than those of the pirates. The capital city will be led into the open sea and ambushed. In addition, the information between us and the pirates is not correct.
Wait, the pirates know the deployment of our Xuzhou Army, but we don’t know how many pirates there are, where they are distributed, and where they will act. Therefore, we are very passive in dealing with them. Even if we successfully defeat these pirates,
More than a thousand bandits have been captured, and it will take a long time to train them into soldiers who can fight the Japanese."
Xia Shang felt that the matter was not that simple, because he had heard from the female disciples of Shuiyue Villa that the Japanese pirates seemed to have reached an agreement with some forces in the Dahua Court.
What exactly to do is not clear.
It's been a long time since this incident happened, and Xia Shang didn't have time to think about everything carefully, so he had long forgotten it.
Now that I heard Qin Yuan talk about it, I thought about it again.
Could it be that the changes in the capital prompted external forces to put pressure on Dahua internally?
Is the pirate rebellion in Xuzhou related to the undercurrent in the capital?
No matter how you think about it, if the matter involves foreign invasion, then there is a matter of principle that must be grasped.
All internal conflicts cannot be compared with foreign invasion. All matters should be put aside and external matters should be resolved first.
Xia Shang thought for a long time, seemed to have made a decision, and said to Qin Yuan very seriously: "Follow me back to the capital, and I will help you find someone."
"Huh?" Qin Yuan was stunned and didn't understand.
Xia Shang had already stood up, walked out of the courtyard, and began to explain to Xue Lengxiang.
"I want to go back to Beijing immediately. You and Yunu will stay here temporarily. I will come back to join you as soon as I take care of the matter."
Xue Lengxiang didn't ask any more questions. She saw the seriousness in the master's expression.
Xia Shang continued: "Your main task here is to monitor everything going on here, especially the Haisha Gang and Haotian League, and not to let this small village be implicated by our arrival. And the famous sword
The villa should not suffer revenge from the Haotian Alliance."
After saying that, Xia Shang went to the stable to fetch the horse.
Xue Lengxiang asked from behind: "Master, how long will it take for you to come back."
"I don't know. It could be as short as three to five days, or as slow as one or two months."
After saying that, he shouted into the room: "Captain Qin, what are you waiting for?"
Xia Shang made up his mind and left immediately.
He and Qin Yuan worked hard together and returned to the capital in one day.
Xia Shang did not go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate because he had no one to help him.
What we need to deal with Japanese pirates is soldiers, not the one or two masters from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Xia Shang took Qin Yuan to Yunxiang Tower.
Qin Yuan was still confused and thought that the chief minister was in a panic.
Zhang brought him here just to visit the romantic places?
But he soon realized that he had thought too much.
Xia Shang went directly to the most secret room upstairs in Yunxiang. Qin Yuan saw that all the girls here were extremely respectful to the person who barged in without saying a word.
Xia Shang took out a box that could hold half a sheep from the cabinet in the room and pushed it to Qin Yuan.
"These are for you."
Qin Yuan opened the box with doubts and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
The box was full of shining gold and stacks of silver notes.
Qin Yuan had never seen so much money in his life, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
Xia Shang's expression was dull: "There are one thousand taels of gold and three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver notes here. Just think of them as my personal military expenses for the Xuzhou Navy."
"Sir...this...this..." Qin Yuan was shocked. He had never heard of anyone spending so much money on military expenses.
Let alone an individual, it is very difficult to draw so much money from the national treasury.
"Of course, this money is not given in vain. You have to be responsible for spending it in useful places, ensuring that it is used to expand military strength and upgrade military equipment. If I find that this money is used by someone to enrich their own pockets, you should know
The methods of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.”
"Sir, that's not what I mean. I just...just..."
"Just what? Just tell me, can this money help the Xuzhou navy improve its combat effectiveness?"
"It's natural."
"That's right, just accept it well. The Metropolitan Procuratorate can't pay anyone, but I can pay the money in my own name."
"Sir, I always feel that this matter is inappropriate."
"What's wrong?"
"This is just my first meeting with you, your Excellency, and your Excellency doesn't know anything about Xuzhou or the Xuzhou navy, so..."
"I understand Japanese pirates." Xia Shang said fiercely, "I have no more requirements. As long as you protect the people of China and prevent Japanese pirates from running rampant. This little money is nothing."
Qin Yuan was a little moved. He had been in the capital for a long time and had secretly visited many important figures in the capital, but no one cared about what happened and what they had experienced on the border thousands of miles away. They only cared about the changes in the situation in the capital, and any slightest disturbance would affect them.
It touches their nerves. What the people of China are going through and what the soldiers of China are doing are not so important.