Daming pirates

Although Lu Wenheng was angry, he did not dare to get angry on the spot. After coughing, he suppressed his anger and said: "This... Mr. Yu must not be anxious. Since I am here, I naturally want to listen to Mr. Yu's thoughts. If

If Mr. Yu doesn’t agree with the request I just made, you might as well tell me what you think!”

For Lu Wenheng to be able to talk like this, it can be said that he has given Yu Xiaotian a lot of face. After all, he is here to negotiate. He still hopes that the negotiation can succeed. Naturally, he cannot give up what he has finally won this time just because of one sentence.

opportunity.

So Yu Xiaotian glanced at Lin Yiyang next to him. Lin Yiyang smiled lightly, took out a folding book from his arms, and said: "Since Mr. Lu said so, the student has already drafted a request from us in advance, please also

Sir, let’s take a look at it first, and we’ll talk about it later!”

After listening to Lin Yiyang's words, Lu Wenheng nodded and asked his men to take the booklet from Lin Yiyang's hand and present it to him.

Lu Wenheng opened the request submitted by Sea Wolf and read it from beginning to end. As he read the request, his face began to turn livid.

Because the conditions submitted by Sea Wolf are really too harsh. The rest of them are okay, but the most important ones are simply blackmailing Fujian officials.

First, the Sea Wolf side proposed that it was okay to accept the recruitment, but Yu Xiaotian must be appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of Fujian Coastal Defense. Just this one will cost him his life.

Because at this time, the Ming Dynasty had not yet reached complete chaos. The general and deputy generals were running around, grabbing a lot of them. All appointments of the chief and deputy generals, including the staff generals, had to go through the Holy Judgment.

, that is to say, military generals at this level can be regarded as administrative generals, and have never been directly appointed through recruitment.

If a local official wants to recruit a giant bandit, the only thing they can do is hire a Qian Zong, or a guard official position. Even if it is a top-notch job, when the sea wolf opens its mouth, it will be like a lion's mouth.

, to actually want the position of deputy general is simply impossible.

If this were the case, the world would still be in chaos. As long as various places encountered troubles that were difficult to solve, just throwing out the official position of Chief and Deputy Chief of Soldiers, wouldn't it be equivalent to solving the problem?

But the problem lies in the risk of doing so. You must know that the generals, deputy generals, and generals are all generals. They can easily control tens of thousands of troops. Once this cannot be controlled, things will be in big trouble.

The She'an Rebellion is an example. The high-ranking officials of one party rebelled and were much more powerful than ordinary bandits.

Because once they accept the recruitment, they will turn into officers and soldiers, and the court will have to bear their food, wages and equipment. They can use these assets to grow rapidly, and there is a danger that they will not be able to lose their tail.

So let alone saying that they dare not agree to this, even if they agree, this matter must be reported to the imperial court and decided through a court meeting. For Fujian officials, Xiong Wencan does not have the power to be satisfied with filial piety.

This condition was put forward by God.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian mentioned in this document that if he accepts the recruitment, everything will remain the same as before, which means that Yu Xiaotian has changed his identity, but the things he took away will not be returned.

Fujian is official.

If this is the case, then Lu Wenheng secretly thought, even if the recruitment is successful this time, will it have any practical significance to the Fujian officials? What was lost has been lost, and if they don't return it, there is nothing the Fujian officials can do.

If this continues, won't this recruitment process become a joke?

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also proposed that it was okay to recruit his troops, horses, and fleet, but he must be given a quota of 20,000 troops and horses. After the reorganization, the government would be responsible for providing sufficient food and salary for these troops.

This matter is even more impossible to accept, because after Sea Wolf's troops accept the recruitment, they will definitely be reorganized according to the town army. They will never put so many soldiers and horses in one place. They will definitely find a way to disperse them and relocate them.

, otherwise, if 20,000 elite soldiers gather together, it will definitely be an unstable factor. If you are not careful, it may become a knife hanging over the head of the Fujian official. In the future, it will definitely be unstoppable and no one can control it.

You must know that the number of soldiers in Fujian as a whole on paper is only about 100,000, which also includes a large number of empty-pay quotas. After excluding these, the actual number of soldiers is less than 60,000. After these six months and

After the Sea Wolf conflict, the total remaining military strength in Fujian is now only 30,000 to 40,000 people.

If after recruiting the Sea Wolf, we accept the conditions of the Sea Wolf as a whole and give him an additional 20,000 soldiers, Fujian will really become the world of the Sea Wolf.

Thinking about the huge Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong's headquarters only allocated 20,000 troops to Mao Wenlong when he accepted the recruitment. However, Yu Xiaotian's recruitment this time required 20,000 troops.

This is simply impossible.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian also proposed other conditions, such as assigning Haitan Island and Nanri Island to him in the future as his garrison locations. Haitan Island is the largest island in Fujian. Who dares to say that this is the case?

How about handing over Haitan Island to Yu Xiaotian?

Putting these things together, Lu Wenheng only felt that one was bigger than the other. He had never thought that Xiaotian's appetite would be so big and that he would put forward such harsh conditions for this recruitment, so before he finished reading, this

His face had turned livid. If he hadn't dared to attack at this time, Lu Wenheng would have kicked the table over and ordered his men to take Yu Xiaotian out, drag him out and chop him down.

Because Lin Yiyang did not directly state these conditions publicly, but conveyed the information to Lu Wenheng through this piece of paper, the other officials did not know what the specific conditions proposed by Hailang were, but from the look on Lu Wenheng's face, they

I also felt something bad.

Because since Lu Wenheng accepted the conditions proposed by Sea Wolf, his face became increasingly ugly, and his hands even started to tremble a little.

Although Qian Xiaocheng does not have any direct official position on the surface, this negotiation seems to be centered on Lu Wenheng, but after all, he is Xiong Wencan's staff, and it is he who proposed the recruitment this time, so in this negotiation, Qian

Xiaocheng has a transcendent and special status.

When Lu Wenheng put forward the conditions for recruitment, he immediately noticed a look of disdain on Yu Xiaotian's face. Based on his current understanding of Xiaotian, he knew that if Lu Wenheng said this, Yu Xiaotian would definitely not give Lu Wenheng anything.

With a good face, as expected, Yu Xiaotian immediately threw out his conditions.

It's just that Yu Xiaotian didn't say it directly. He just wrote the conditions they listed on a piece of paper and presented it to Lu Wenheng. Therefore, Qian Xiaocheng was eager to know what conditions Yu Xiaotian had offered.

, but the piece of paper is still in Lu Wenheng's hand. He is so anxious that he can't see what is written on it.

So after hesitating for a while, Qian Xiaocheng whispered to Lu Wenheng from the side: "Master Lu! But I don't know what conditions the master has put forward?"

Lu Wenheng was turning blue with anger at the moment. There was no place for this anger to come out. Suddenly, someone was asking him something. So he was about to grab a punching bag to get angry first, but he turned around and saw someone asking him something.

It was Qian Xiaocheng who was there, so he could only hold back his anger, because Qian Xiaocheng was not his subordinate and could be said to be here on behalf of Xiong Wencan, so he had no guts to get angry with him.

So after thinking about it for a moment, he angrily handed the paper that Yi Yang gave him to Qian Xiaocheng, and said with a puzzled face: "Qian Zanhua, take a look for yourself! Humph!"

Qian Xiaocheng didn't know what was written on it that could make Lu Wenheng, who was usually quite dignified, so angry, so he quickly took it with both hands and read it ten lines at a time.

After he finished reading, his jaw almost dropped to the ground, and he almost screamed out in surprise on the spot. He finally managed not to scream out, but his face also became as if someone had kicked him.

Ugly.

"This...this...this is too..." After Qian Xiaocheng read the conditions put forward by Yu Xiaotian, his face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he couldn't help but stutter a little when he spoke.

So with Lu Wenheng's tacit approval, the conditions proposed by Sea Wolf were quickly circulated among the official officials. After reading the conditions, two of them couldn't help it and shouted harshly.

Said: "This... this is simply shameless! Wishful thinking!"

After someone said something, others couldn't help but started to angrily rebuke. All the official staff were very angry at this moment, and the atmosphere in the tent suddenly became tense.

On the contrary, the people on Yu Xiaotian's side all looked as if the old gods were present, and did not feel dissatisfied at all, watching coldly as these officials lost their temper.

However, Lu Wenheng and Qian Xiaocheng suppressed the anger in their chests and did not participate in the accusations against the Sea Wolves. They looked at the expressions of Yu Xiaotian and others.

After everyone vented their anger, Lu Wenheng coughed twice and stopped the angry scoldings of his subordinates. Until this time, Yu Xiaocai shook his head with a rogue expression and said to Lu Wenheng: "Master Lu

After considering our request, what do you think, Mr. Lu?"

Lu Wenheng took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said in a calm voice: "I think that the conditions you have offered to Master Yu are too harsh, and I am afraid that we will not be able to meet your requirements! And I think that we will not be able to meet your requirements!"

, by doing this, you obviously have no sincerity in accepting the offer of employment! In this case, I’m afraid it will be difficult for us to continue talking!”

"Wrong! Mr. Lu is totally wrong! Yu is quite sincere. If Yu was not sincere, how could he put forward these conditions so painstakingly? And if Yu was not sincere, how could he take such a risk?

The big risk is that you come here to negotiate with Mr. Lu? So Mr. Lu said that I am not sincere, which is obviously too arbitrary!

In addition, since Mr. Lu can ask for high prices, why can't he pay back the money while sitting down?

If Mr. Lu thinks that we can't reach an agreement, then I won't force anything. After all, Mr. Lu is just the prefect of Fuzhou, and it's not convenient for him to make the decision on some things. I can wait for this kind of thing, so we might as well talk about it later.

Not too late!" Yu Xiaotian still maintained a rogue look on his face and said to Lu Wenheng while trimming his nails with a small file.