Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

No, to say that she knows Zhao Jie, it is better to say that she knows Zhao Jie.Because he was able to ask this question, he obviously didn't know his appearance, but only knew his identity.

And...she seemed to hate herself.

Zhao Jie's heart skipped a beat, with a look of arrogance on his face, he nodded and said, "That's right, it's the king."

Hearing the words, the woman's eyes flashed fiercely, and she sternly shouted, "Good thief, die!" After she finished speaking, she grabbed her hands and broke the rope that bound her hands. The cicada-winged dagger leaped forward and stabbed at Zhao Jie.

This change is only between lightning and flint.Although there were countless personal soldiers and generals standing around, none of them reacted, so it was too late to save them.

Fortunately, Zhao Jie is also well-trained.And it is said that they have not experienced naval warfare, but it is not that they have experienced no danger.You know, Zhao Jie, as the owner of the fleet, has traveled to so many places over the years, although many people welcome him, worship him, and admire him.But there are also people hiding in the dark, wary of him, hate him, and want to get rid of him quickly!

Since he was in Nanyang, Zhao Jie has experienced many open and secret battles, even many assassinations.

So in dealing with this kind of thing, it has rich experience.

At least as soon as the woman showed her murderous aura, he immediately sensed that something was wrong, and then quickly retreated. At the same time, he also drew out his saber, and blocked it up.This intuitive movement just blocked the stabbing dagger, and also made the woman's idea of ​​surprise attack come to nothing.

At this time, the people around had already reacted, and they immediately gathered around and quickly restrained the woman again.Even so, she also injured three people, which shows how fierce this woman is.

This time everyone raised their vigilance and simply tied them up so that she would not break free again.Moreover, because she was a woman, the deputy general was quite troublesome before, so he only handed over the weapons on the surface and did not search, but she hid the weapons. At this time, he was resentful, and he no longer cared about her identity as a woman, and ordered a search .

The dagger just now really scared Bai Maohan out of him.If Prince Song is in danger here, he will be the deputy general.

"No need." It was Zhao Jie who stopped, "I think she can't hide many weapons on her body. Besides, since she is on guard, she won't succeed again. After all, she is a woman, so it is inappropriate."

Although these marines are well-trained, they have been wandering at sea for a long time. How could they not take advantage of a woman who can be searched openly at this moment?Although Zhao Jie didn't know why this woman harbored hatred towards him, he admired her temperament and ability and was unwilling to be humiliated by others.

——Without any means, it is impossible to survive at sea, not to mention that she has become a pirate leader as a woman.

But apparently, the other party was not grateful for Zhao Jie's rescue, and still stared at him viciously, as if he would still attack and kill him as soon as he found a chance.

So everyone seemed very nervous.It was their duty to protect Zhao Jie, and it was wrong for them not to react just now, so there must be no more problems now.

Zhao Jie saw that everyone was very nervous, and obviously the interrogation would not have any good effect.Of course, the most important thing was that he felt that this woman would not speak up so easily, so he still had to find another way.Therefore, he could only wave his hand and take the person down to be imprisoned first.After cleaning the battlefield and dealing with chores, the interrogation will take place.

Although this stop was not tragic, the navy also suffered a lot of losses.After the battlefield was cleared and the casualty statistics were sent over, Zhao Jie's face darkened.

No matter what the girl's reasons are, and no matter how many inside stories there are in this matter, the lives these soldiers paid were real.

"Go, go to interrogate the enemy chief!" He stood up, strode out of the cabin, and walked towards the place where he was held.

The lieutenant followed behind him, saying, "My lord, the regulations for pensions have to be finalized quickly. Although I can't go back to Dachu for a while and can't implement it, the rest of the people's hearts must be reassured."

There is no problem at sea.In case the soldiers were stimulated to mutiny because of this, they would have no retreat at all, surrounded by the vast sea.So the job of appeasement must be done well first.After all, they had never faced such a situation before today.

Zhao Jie nodded, "You drew up the charter and sent it up. By the way, how about the people on the boat?"

He's talking about the men of letters who sailed with fleets, collected oceanographic data, recorded road conditions along the way, and so on.Although these people have little combat effectiveness, they are indispensable.If this trip can really prove that the earth is round, then they can naturally do a lot of work on this.So protecting them is also one of Zhao Jie's responsibilities.

Speaking of this, the deputy general also felt a little surprised, "It's all right, I'm studying the battle process just now! My lord, my subordinates only found out today that these scholars are really brave!"

In the eyes of these military men, scholars should not be able to lift their shoulders or lift their hands, and those who are weak in writing and only know what they know are also opposed to reciting poems, and they are not the same as themselves.So although these people have been staying on the ship, they rarely get along with each other.On weekdays, it was basically Zhao Jie who went to communicate with them.

They thought that the scholars would be terrified when the cannon was fired, but they were calmer than them, and they were analyzing the battle scene in full swing, as if they were recording some data!

Zhao Jie nodded.This is also what it should mean. Those who are willing to board a boat and wander around will not be too timid.Moreover, it is not obvious that these people have no knowledge.In any case, the calm is good for everyone.

I don't know if it was because it was inconvenient to move because of being tied up, or because she had calmed down after a while, so when the female pirate saw Zhao Jie approaching, she didn't raise her eyebrows immediately, and she didn't even have the intention of jumping up to get rid of him. He just stared blankly at the ground.

Zhao Jie asked several questions, but she just pretended she couldn't hear them.The deputy general was furious when he heard it from behind, "My lord, hand this woman over to a lowly official for interrogation. As long as the punishment is used, I'm not afraid that she won't recruit!"

Zhao Jie frowned slightly, although he felt that this was cruel, but the other party was a pirate, so he couldn't feel pity just because he was a woman.There is a lot of weirdness behind this incident, and it is still necessary to quickly find out what is going on before reporting back to the court.

Just before he was about to agree, the woman raised her head and stared at him coldly, "If you want to kill or cut, you can only say a word, why ask so many questions?"

"I don't believe that pirates really have the guts to rob an official ship." Zhao Jie said, "You have killed many of our soldiers, and you must ask what happened so that you can repay the court."

"What is there to ask? Pirates will not rob you, but my aunt will! Sooner or later, I will kill you with my own hands!"

Zhao Jie was not intimidated by such words.The other party is still his prisoner now, so naturally there is no need to worry about this.He was quite curious about another point, "You seem to have a grudge against me?"

"The hatred of killing one's father is unshakable!" the woman gritted her teeth.

"But I don't seem to have seen you before." Zhao Jie frowned slightly, "Who is your father? Is there any misunderstanding?"

"Misunderstanding?" Hearing this word, the woman suddenly went crazy, her eyes were tearing apart on her beautiful face, she looked like Shura Yaksha, she stared at Zhao Jie, "The royal navy is plundering the country at sea. Merchant, do you dare to say that you didn't do this?! You! And the emperor behind you, sooner or later, there will be lightning strikes, and you will die!"

Zhao Jie was startled and couldn't even maintain the expression on his face.

He only robbed an official ship once, which was the fleet organized by wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.But this matter was well concealed, and only a few people at home and abroad knew about it. The people on board the robbed ships, together with the soldiers who robbed them, were all scattered and dispatched overseas by Zhao Jie, and it was never possible to pass the news back to China. .

How did she know?

"Do you want to deny it?" Seeing the change in his complexion, the woman couldn't help but sneered, "Yes, how can the court admit to such a shameful thing like thieves shouting to catch thieves and plotting the people's property?"

Zhao Jie sighed. Having said this, it doesn't matter whether he admits it or not. After all, the other party has already confirmed it.And...Since I guessed that they had colluded with the imperial court before, I am afraid that this matter has really leaked out.

He didn't ask where they got the news from, nor did he admit it, he just changed the subject, "Who is your father?"

"My father's name is Jiangdongcheng."

Zhao Jie frowned, "Jiangdong City? I remember he wasn't on the boat, why did I become your father-killing enemy again?"

"The boat contained the accumulation of my Jiang family's generations. Once it was robbed, the accumulation of several generations was lost! Not to mention, the court also forced my father to sell the land and manor, and exchanged money to pay the family members of the hired workers! The ancestral house was going to be sold, and my father couldn't bear the blow, so he had no face to see his ancestors, so he committed suicide! Do you think this is revenge for killing his father?! If it wasn't for the dirty and dirty court, if it wasn't for the How can you gangsters who don’t know the sufferings of the people join forces to calculate other people’s property?”

Although Zhao Jie's heart was slightly shaken, he was not disturbed by the woman's accusation.

He knew what he was doing, and he knew what the so-called "generational accumulation" was all about.In the final analysis, it is the fat of the people.The girl may or may not know.But it's useless to reason with her now, because for her, everything she said is also true.

"Miss Jiang, do you know how your Jiang family started?" Zhao Jie asked after thinking about it.

The woman said, "Naturally it's mulberry silk!"

"Yes. Your Jiang family has ten hectares of mulberry gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. Do you know how many silkworms these mulberry trees can produce each year, how much silk they can spin, and how much they sell for?" Zhao Jie asked again.

The woman hesitated and shook her head. Before her father passed away, she was just an ordinary boudoir woman. How could she know about these business matters?

"Then let me settle an account for you."

The Jiang family was originally just a landlord in the south of the Yangtze River. It was only after the founding of the Great Chu that they made their fortunes. It was only a hundred years ago.It seems that the family has a big family and a big business, and it seems that there is a lot of wealth, but as long as you calculate these industries one by one, you will find that in fact, doing business in a serious manner can only earn so much profit.After all, there are not so many profitable industries in this world.Especially in recent years, the price of silk has been falling year by year, and the situation is even worse.

But in fact?Not only did the Jiang family not go downhill, but they were as wealthy as before.The sum of the jewels that Zhao Can found on the ship was several times the amount of the Jiang family's property!

"Tell me, where did the extra money come from?" After Zhao Jie finished speaking, he asked the other party, "If you really rely on the accumulation of generations and do business honestly, is it possible that you are taking this money out of thin air? from?"

"You...you're talking nonsense!" The girl seemed to have never thought about this question, and she couldn't help being stunned for a while when she heard Zhao Can's calculation.But she still couldn't believe it, so she could only retort subconsciously, "You have nothing to prove, you are talking nonsense!"

"No evidence?" Zhao Jie smiled, "If it wasn't for conclusive evidence, how could I know this? In fact, Miss Jiang, you are in Jiang's house, have you never found any clues? There are countless salt factories in the south of the Yangtze River , as far as I know, two of them are inseparable from your Jiang family!"

At this time, salt and iron were still strategic materials, and private ownership was not allowed, but in fact, most of the wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River had a hand in it.But to intervene in this matter, it is necessary to deal with the government, link up with the yamen, and form a dense network to gather everyone in it.Otherwise, if there is no conflict of interest, how can Jiangnan be independent from the imperial court and form a faction of its own?

Although Zhao Jie didn't say these words, the woman could think of them.

After her father's death, she was driven to where she is today with only the intention of revenge. When she looked back at this time, she found that everything was just a scam.She couldn't help but panic in her heart, she wanted to turn her head but couldn't turn back, she wanted to go forward, but she couldn't.

She looked at Zhao Jie blankly. In fact, no matter what the reason was, the hatred of killing her father really existed. It was impossible for her to let go of the past and forget the hatred.But to continue revenge, the belief that supported her gradually dissipated.

"I don't know..." she murmured, as if she could escape everything and comfort herself in this way.

"You know." Zhao Jie knelt down, stared into her eyes and met her eyes, "You are right, I am your enemy. If you still want to kill me now, I will wait. But you cannot be A knife in someone else's hand. Tell me, who told you all this you know?"

The woman murmured for a moment, and finally said a name.

"Okay." Zhao Jie stretched out his hand and untied all the ropes on her body, then stood up, and ordered the lieutenant general, "Let her go."

The woman suddenly raised her head and stared at him, Zhao Jie smiled and said, "Why, are you afraid that what I say won't count? Don't worry, I said before, I'm waiting for you to kill me."

The other party seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then quickly rushed out, heading straight for the door.When she got to the door, seeing that no one came up to stop her, she turned her head and said, "My name is Jiang Qingyue."

The author has something to say: Well, love and kill each other.