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Wen Liufang nodded and said: "Of course! As long as that person named Yu knows current affairs, this matter may not be impossible! Even if someone can see the problem, as long as all the taxes that should be collected are collected, what will be the apportionment?

It’s a lot, so who cares who controls it?”

After Cai Shanji listened to Wen Liufang's words, as an official who had stepped through the ranks of local officials, he immediately understood what Wen Liufang was thinking.

So he stood up and walked back and forth for a few steps, then gritted his teeth and said, "Now it seems that this is the only way! I just don't know if anyone named Yu can agree!"

Wen Liufang immediately said: "What Yu wants is profit. Since the big profit he wants has been given to him, what does this small profit every year mean to him?

What's more, from the current point of view, this person named Yu still has a hand. If he really wants to capture Tong'an County and attack Quanzhou City, with their current strength, does Dong Weng think they can't do it? At least, doesn't Dong Weng think they can't do it?

This Tong'an County town should have been captured by them long ago! Why wait until now?"

Cai Shanji looked at Wen Liufang and hesitated for a moment before asking: "According to what you said, do you think...that Yu Xiaotian is...?"

"That's right! The student thinks that there is still room for discussion on this matter! If Dong Weng agrees, the student is willing to leave the city immediately and go to Zhongzuo!" Wen Liufang said to Cai Shanji confidently.

The last time Cai Shanji sent Wen Liufang to the center left, Wen Liufang was not so enthusiastic. At that time, he was so frightened that his legs twisted and he almost ran out of the city and ran home to quit. Later, he suppressed it for the sake of his future.

Because of the fear in his heart, he had to go to Zhongzuo Institute and ask to see Yu Xiaotian.

But after his first experience, he has already seen that this Yu Xiaotian is not a demon who eats people without spitting out their bones. As long as he has something to say and goes to see him, at least his life is guaranteed!

Therefore, in order to secure a good future for himself, this time he took the initiative to ask for a trip to the Zhongzuo Institute.

Cai Shanji looked at Wen Liufang, sighed with emotion, and said to Wen Liufang: "Then I'll leave everything to you, sir! Please rest assured, sir, as long as this matter can be handled well, I, Cai, will definitely encounter opportunities in the future. Recommend Mr.

!”

Wen Liufang was overjoyed when she heard this and immediately bowed to the ground...

Yu Xiaotian was leisurely smoking the pipe he had just made in his spare time, while listening to Wen Liufang sitting below.

The material used for this pipe is standard Hainan Huanghuali. In later generations, Huanghuali was extremely rare due to the exhaustion of natural resources. It can be said that every inch of wood is valuable and very rare.

But in this day and age, this thing is not difficult to find, so Yu Xiaotian found a piece of material, repaired it bit by bit with a knife in his spare time, and then polished it with various abrasives. It turned out to be quite beautiful.

He used to smoke cigarettes, but after a long time, he felt that smoking cigarettes did not seem elegant enough, so he thought of smoking pipes. In later generations, there were many celebrities who liked smoking pipes.

Just mentioning a few is enough to shock the world, such as Churchill, Stalin, Engels, Einstein, Newton, China, and Marshal He Long, all of whom like to smoke pipes. Yu Xiaotian used to watch various film documentaries, but he watched them frequently

I've never seen the calm and relaxed demeanor with which these celebrities smoked their pipes.

So he simply changed to smoking a pipe, and if he should smoke a pipe now, he would definitely attract many people below to follow suit. Now in the eyes of the Sea Wolf tribe, he is simply a god-like existence, and countless people are interested in it.

Unintentionally, everyone is secretly imitating his style.

Now that he has switched to smoking a pipe, it will inevitably cause a new trend and serve as a fashion trendsetter. This feeling is really good!

For a long time, Yu Xiaotian has devoted his whole body and mind to the cause of establishing his Sea Wolf Kingdom. He rarely has free time to pay attention to his own preferences and needs. On the contrary, after recently starting to take revenge against Fujian officials,

Especially after the capture of Weitou Bay, he became much more leisurely.

Although he dare not say that each of the subordinates he has brought out now can do his job independently, some of them have matured and can at least do things well according to his instructions. In this way, he

He only needs to be centrally dispatched, and he no longer has to do everything in detail as before.

Yu Xiaotian was puffing away at his pipe, looking contented with himself, while Wen Liufang was talking eloquently below, stating his thoughts to Yu Xiaotian.

After listening to Wen Liufang's words, Yu Xiaotian happened to finish smoking a pipe of cigarettes. Although huanghuali is beautiful, it is not necessarily the material for making a good pipe. After lighting the tobacco, the unique fragrance of huanghuali smells good.

, but it somewhat interferes with the original flavor of the tobacco.

So he decided to ask someone to help him find a heather root nodule when he had the chance, and make a pipe out of the heather wood, which would make smoking easier!

He raised his hand and knocked the pipe on the corner of the table, used a small silver spoon to dig out the remaining smoke in the pipe, wiped the pipe carefully with cotton cloth, held it in his hand and said with a smile:

"What should I say? Is this just a penalty for not eating a toast? If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place? If I had said this earlier, wouldn't it have prevented the trouble from getting to this point?

The method you proposed is acceptable to Yu. Isn’t it just the land tax in this area? Just continue to collect it as you want! But I only have one request. Treat the people in this area and force them as before.

Excessiveness is not acceptable! In that case, you will be of great help to me! Mr. Wen should be able to understand what I mean.

As for the Zhongzuo Institute, Kinmen Institute and even Gaopu Institute, you should send people over. As for the guard station, there must always be someone to take care of it! The Inspection Department can send them back, and I can arrange a place for them.

Just hand them back the former Inspection Department Office.

But when they are in this area, they have to listen to my arrangements. If anything unpleasant happens, they can’t blame me!"

After Yu Xiaotian finished speaking, Wen Liufang's tense nerves immediately relaxed. In fact, the solution he proposed was very simple, which was to do one thing overtly and another secretly.

The Fujian official represented by Cai Shanji can secretly admit Hailang's actual control over the Weitou Bay area, but all this can only be done secretly. On the surface, Hailang still wants to return this area to the government and "withdraw" from Weitou Bay.

Of course, the government will continue to maintain nominal control over this area, and the taxes and assessments that should be collected will still have to be collected. In addition, this area is still secretly actually controlled by Sea Wolf.

The government acquiesces to the existence of Sea Wolf and does not interfere too much. It will continue to send officials who should be dispatched. However, the officials sent are all empty. They must obey Sea Wolf's dispatch and cannot be as arrogant as before.

Everything is taken care of.

Moreover, the official government no longer dispatches officers and soldiers to garrison in the Weitou Bay area. Sea Wolf will dispatch a group of Sea Wolf tribesmen by themselves, wearing the clothes of the officers and soldiers. They are nominally officers and soldiers stationed in this area, but those officers and soldiers sent there

Military generals are generals in name only and do not interfere in the command of these Sea Wolf tribes. The command authority is still the responsibility of Sea Wolf itself.

From the perspective of outsiders, Weitou Bay is at least still the territory of the government. All of this is just covered with an official coat, and underneath it all is replaced by Sea Wolf personnel.

As for Yuegang, Cai Shanji also promised not to rebuild it. In the future, Hailang will use Weitou Bay as a commercial port. It is Hailang's business to do what he wants. Seawolf only needs to express his gratitude to the government every year to make up for Yuegang.

With the taxes collected every year, if these merchant ships want to do business here in the future, they can do business here.

In fact, people like Cai Shanji and Wen Liufang have long seen what the purpose of the Sea Wolf's large-scale invasion of Weitou Bay this time was to occupy Weitou Bay and destroy Yuegang. They also stated that they would control the Weitou Bay area for a long time. In fact, Weitou Bay

It is a golden mountain. Every year, a large number of maritime merchants conduct transactions in this area. Not to mention Sea Wolf's own business, even if he only sits in this area to collect taxes, it will be enough for Sea Wolf to make a lot of money in this year.

Although this income involves the interests of many people, the government has nothing to do with Sea Wolf at the moment. As long as this state of war is not ended, no one's interests can be protected.

But after this hostile state is ended, although some people's vested interests will be lost, it is better than sea wolves constantly harassing the coastal areas of Fujian every day! As for those who had vested interests, they will also lose, which is terrible.

It's not something Cai Shanji needs to consider right now.

As long as the Sea Wolf is suppressing the area, even those with vested interests will not dare to stand up against the Sea Wolf. This time, the Sea Wolf's actions in this area have completely frightened these local forces. In the future, they will

If they still want to survive in this area, then it depends on whether they have vision and know how to behave.

Hearing what Yu Xiaotian said, Wen Liufang felt relieved. It was obvious that Yu Xiaotian also agreed with the tactful solution he proposed, and then other things would naturally fall into place.

So Wen Liufang began to discuss the specific negotiation details with Yu Xiaotian and finalized every trivial matter. It can be said that the conditions put forward by Yu Xiaotian were met.

But regarding the peace treaty that was finalized, Wen Liufang was firmly unwilling to agree to sign the actual documents, and she did not force Xiaotian to do so.

Because in this era, Ming Dynasty has never signed any paper treaty with any force that is humiliating and humiliating the country. Not to mention that Cai Shanji did not dare to sign it. Even if Emperor Chongzhen came instead, it would still be impossible to sign such a peace treaty. Once

If anyone dares to sign such an agreement and leave anything on paper, he will definitely be sprayed to death by those so-called clean-minded people.

To a certain extent, in fact, these so-called Qingliu in the late Ming Dynasty did not play any good role for the country at all. On the surface, they all seemed to stand on the righteousness and speak without pain, but they caused the Ming Dynasty to lose

There are many opportunities to hide one's capabilities and bide one's time, but never have the ability to get back on their feet.

And these bullshit so-called clean people, seeing the end of the Ming Dynasty, many of them immediately lost sight of any righteousness, immediately turned around and defected to the Tatars, accepted the new master, and never mentioned what they had said before.

What kind of righteousness are you talking about? I was determined to work as a lackey for the Tatars. I rolled up my arms and sleeves and worked hard. I was afraid that I would save the energy of feeding and make the new master unhappy. In the end, in a few years, I helped the new master to conquer the country.

The whole country.

Therefore, although Wen Liufang was determined not to sign any paper agreement this time, he only agreed to tacitly agree to the terms negotiated by both parties, and it would be done in secret! Yu Xiaotian did not continue to deal with this matter.

After more than two days of non-stop negotiations, both parties finally achieved their goals.

(Today, I would like to express my special thanks to the Star Workshop brothers for the reward!)