"I will be guilty." Ren Zhong knew that the Nan'an Hou in front of him had already grasped a lot of evidence of his illegal corruption. It was meaningless to defend himself. Moreover, his heart was touched. He felt that he was really guilty. He knelt down to apologize. While kneeling down, the sweat beads on his forehead had fallen down.

"Since I know the guilt, I would like to give you a chance..." After a long time, Xu Zixian spoke out. As soon as he said that Ren Zhong was caught out of the water. While sweating profusely, he began to breathe heavily.

"I will not impeach you for serious crimes. I will only impeach you for a few misdemeanors. The court will not exempt you from your official duties." Xu Zixian said lightly: "You should stay in the seat of the governor of the government. Everything should be done by doing business. Don't use personal destruction. Can you do it?"

"Junhou means that you will only listen to Junhou in the future?"

Xu Zi laughed first. His words were very obscure, but Ren Zhong in front of him was not a fool. Of course he understood what he meant.

"You can't say that," Xu Zixian said: "We must put the court first in everything. I am loyal to the court, what about you?"

"Of course, the last general is loyal to the court!"

Liu Yi, who was standing beside him, made a disgusting and strange look and walked away.

"Okay..." Xu Zixian said: "There are many naval masters in the Ren family and they will rely heavily on them. In order to prevent the aristocratic families from becoming bigger in the navy, I would not do this. If you have excellent children in your family, you might as well recommend them to be military officers. However, I must be the first to speak, behave in the public, not be careful in military discipline, not train well, be timid in fighting, and even embezzle military pay. I will also be governed according to the national laws. Then the Ren family should not be resentful to me..."

"The last general dare not, and the family members dare not." Ren Zhongzhen breathed a sigh of relief. The Ren family is a century-old family in Fujian. In order to be afraid that these aristocratic families will dominate the navy, the court deliberately suppressed them. No one in the Yu family has served in the navy, and this shrinking navy cannot tolerate the children of the big family. Now there are many children of the Ren family and the Yu family who work in the land of the Xiang army, so the court doesn't mind this... The Xiang army is too weak compared to the imperial guards, and it doesn't matter even if it is controlled by the aristocratic family.

As for the Imperial Guard, even if it is a century-old general in the northwest, Jin and northern China, if the children want to serve in the Imperial Guard, they can only talk about both the martial arts and military merits. There must be no mistakes in everything, otherwise the court will make a harsh move at any time. The court attaches great importance to the Imperial Guard, and the court is far above the Xiang Army and the navy.

The situation of the navy is quite special. It is lonely and has too much time to be controlled. Once it is completely under the control of the aristocratic family, it is too dangerous. The court's vigilance and prevention cannot be said to be wrong.

"Well, I will send some military officers here and ask you, the commander-in-chief, to cooperate with the memorial."

"No problem, I'll cover it with the so-called "

"You can discuss with everyone if you have something to do. Although it is arbitrary and prone to act, it is easy to make mistakes."

"Junhou is right, that's right."

Xu Zixian's intention was very obvious. He had to use Ren Zhong as a seal first, recommend military officers, recruit new sailors, and water camp warriors. With Ren Zhong's command and cooperation, it would be too easy to do these things.

Then come down and put in enough manpower, and then ask Ren Zhong and his generals to "discuss more", and say that arbitrary behavior is "prone to mistakes", which is a threatening reminder.

After Ren Zhong, he was still the commander of the navy, but the power was inevitably lost. Although Xu Zixian had no intention of calling him a puppet, Ren Zhong still showed enough ability to become the commander of the navy, but it depends on the performance of this person in the future.

When Xu Zi left first, Ren Zhong sent him alone out of the main entrance of the Navy's Office, bowing down and almost politely like a slave.

"I now understand why the Lord and Hou have not submitted a report for a long time and have to keep this person." Liu Yi followed Xu Zixian with a knife and slowly returned to Penghu County. Liu Yi smiled and said, "If you don't impeach this person, you will save yourself from directly confronting King Zhao, exposing our weakness of being a mortal enemy in the Grand Governor's Office, and also exposing our weakness of not winning in the official position. If you leave this person, you will have a ready-made commander, and there will be little change. The court is not suspicious. Everything in the navy is as usual, and you can restore the operation and strength of the navy as quickly as possible. This is very important."

"It's very important." Xu Zixian said: "The navy retains military officers with certain ethics and abilities, a small number of sailors and soldiers, our water camp soldiers and sailors quickly filled in. Ren Zhong was the leader, and then recruited some military officers from the Ren family and Yu family to fight with the military officers of our water camp, and they would soon form combat power..."

"I always feel that Jun Hou is a little anxious."

"I'm anxious." Xu Zixian looked at the sea in the distance. It was dark, the moon above his head was not bright enough, and the starry sky was also dim. The sea was almost a giant beast lying in the dark, and it was impossible to see clearly.

Xu Zixian said slowly: "Dongfan, Penghu, this is our most important foundation now. If more than 10,000 pirates and dozens or hundreds of warships suddenly come, will we have the power to fight back? The newly opened cotton fields are destroyed, the trading companies and factories are burned, immigrants are killed, warships or captured and destroyed, what can I do? Everything I will be destroyed now, and I don't have the chance to start over!"

At this time, Liu Yi felt the huge pressure on Xu Zixian. Xu Zixian did not show any of them at all, and everything was as usual, and even felt it easier after it was released. Now Liu Yi realized that Nan'an had been weakened, Qizhou was taken away, King Qi was dead, and his relationship with Lin Douyao was quite fragile. King Zhao was a life-and-death enemy.

If you really encounter a large pirate attack at this time, even if your foundation is not completely destroyed, it will be impossible for Xu Zi to maintain the current rapid development momentum.

This young lord was really carrying a mountain of pressure on his back.

"So that's it." Liu Yi nodded with understanding this time and said, "The Lord and Hou can keep him to restore the strength of the navy as quickly as possible. The court will not have too many concerns about allocating funds or allocating personnel."

"Yes." Xu Zi nodded first and said, "And the most important thing is that it is better to use mistakes than to make achievements."

"It's better to use mistakes than to make achievements?" Liu Yi's eyes showed a gleam. He also became a powerful man in the midst of the storm. He had more than Wan Erlang's heroic overlords under his command. Xu Zixian's words made him feel a lot.

"It's time for this." Xu Zixian said: "The next step we go to Dongfan, we will probably stay there for a long time."

The two continued walking one after another, and Xu Zixian frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about many things, but seemed to have nothing to think about.

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Departing from the port of Penghu Island, you will reach the nearest border of Huaxi on Dongfan South Road, which is only more than 90 miles apart.

The boat sailed for a morning, and soon after noon, the Huaxi Port appeared in front of everyone.

The simple port pier and trestle bridge, after passing the low-lying beach, there are large areas of houses that appear more than two miles to the high ground, which are commercial areas and storage areas.

Because the planning during the Taizu period was very complete in the early days, although it looked crude and old, the houses and roads in front of me still looked orderly, Xu Zi had a feeling when he first observed on the boat that he was really ambitious when he designed it earlier, and he wanted to establish a typical coastal port trading city in the Huaxi area, just like Zhangzhou, which owns Yuegang. With Huaxi Port in the Dongfan, he accepted merchants from all over the world under the protection of the powerful navy in the early years of the Great Wei Dynasty. After more than 200 years of development, he still didn't know what it would flourish.

Unfortunately, things went against my wishes. The Dongfan period had never developed. Penghu, which established counties at the same time, was much more prosperous than the Dongfan period.

Along the stream, the warehouses and commercial areas are well-connected, and there are many private houses spread out like big cakes on both sides, which makes them look chaotic, dirty and crowded.

Xu Zixian knew that these houses were all people who had moved over the past 200 years, living along the original building community and building them at will. Of course, their houses were like this, and they were in chaos.

Both the north and south are coastal buildings, and most of the residents are doing things related to the sea. A few miles away from the west stand a large military camp, with a radius of more than two miles and about 3,000 troops garrisoned. This is the main village of Huaxi and the camp with the largest number of troops garrisons on the Dongfan Island.

A tall military flag was erected in the middle of the camp, which was the flag of the Dongfan Defence Envoy. There were also some bright flags on the outside, which formed a sharp contrast with the gray-black desolate and dilapidated feeling of the port area.

Next, you can see a large plain area, with river-like streams flowing downward from the distant high and low rivers, reaching the seaside entrance.

From the perspective of scenery alone, Huaxi Village, which runs through a rammed earth official road, is a beautiful scenery on earth. On one side is the boundless blue sea, and on the other side is the dense plain where you can't see the edge at first sight.

The development of the Great Wei Dynasty for more than 200 years has only developed a small area of ​​this plain, and more places are still in large grassland areas, shrub areas, dense forest areas and undulating hills.

There is only a small part of the land, and some villages fall like chess pieces in this large plain area.

In the distance, there seemed to be a big mountain with ups and downs wherever you see your vision. An old sailor who had been in the East Fan for a long time whispered: "There are big mountains there, which are endless and can't be walked out for more than ten days. There are all high mountains inside."

Xu Zi first looked into the distance and knew that it was a large mountainous area in Taichung and Tainan. Even hundreds of years later, with the government and modern engineering and technological power, it would be extremely difficult to build a road that runs through such a mountain range, let alone the current era.

Even the ambitious Xu Zixian kept his mind away from the mountainous areas and the indigenous people, with a joint plan to make gentle and preventive measures.

It may take a hundred or even two or three hundred years later, when industry, science and technology, people's livelihood and wealth reach a certain level, the two sides can truly get along with each other in a friendly manner.

Some military camps on the periphery also confirmed Xu Zixian's view. Earlier, when the Great Wei developed the Eastern Vanguard, he also wanted to establish good relations with the indigenous people, but later he realized that the indigenous people might only have more than 100,000 males, but they were divided into thousands of tribes of all sizes and different rules, so it was impossible to establish good relations with all tribes.

These savage tribes are honored to hunt the heads of men in other tribes. Many of the early immigrants were killed by them. The Great Wei dispatched large troops, but they had no way to cleanse the tribes in the mountains for a long time. When the main force retreated, sporadic harassment would occur again.
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