"Justice Li just wants to open it," Li Rui bowed and said, "Congratulations."

Zhao Xingde shook his head with a wry smile, and said nothing, but just sighed slightly.

"What," Li Rui asked, "is there any dissonance?"

"It's okay." Zhao Xingde shook his head slightly, his face slightly dim.

Li Rui nodded and did not ask any further questions. It was not convenient to follow the matters of family affairs, classmates and old friends...

When old friends meet, they will always slowly discover the changes they have made over the years after having a good chat.

At this time, no matter how intimate the past is, the atmosphere will always become a little awkward, but for real friends, this embarrassment will not last too long. As we become familiar with each other again and share different experiences after separation, we will gain greater gains. Zhao Xingde and Li Rui are like this. After they meet again for a long time, they are very happy at first, and they find that they are different from each other and are sometimes embarrassed and unrestrained, and then they have a deeper relationship, but in just over a dozen days.

In the past decade, Li Rui has lived simply by observing the celestial phenomena at night and resting on his sleep during the day.

Living in the cave stone room of Guantiantai, his time spent on deduction and calculations was not enough. The calculation manuscripts in the cave were piled up like a mountain, but they deal less and less with people. The mentor Zhou Jipu was worried that he would continue like this and follow his own footsteps. He broke his eyes when he was less than fifty years old. Then he strongly supported the Military Information Department's plan to survey and map the sea chart. He took the opportunity to let Li Rui leave the rooftop and make some adjustments. This matter was planned for a long time, and Zhao Xingde was detained by Guangzhou Prefecture, but Li Rui's itinerary was advanced. There was another observation team composed of more than 20 people, most of whom were from the Bachelor's Mansion, and they were rushing over...

During this period, Li Rui introduced the situation in Dunhuang and Luoyang to Zhao Xingde as much as possible. Although Zhao Xingde had a mansion report and military newspaper to read, it was not as clear as Li Rui. Many things seemed to have seen with his own eyes. This is the benefit of friends. Zhao Xingde has all kinds of friends, and almost all the officers and soldiers of the Navy were used to it. Li Rui did not have the arrogance of ordinary Qingliu, and his temperament was more like a kind genius. After getting along, the officers and soldiers felt that it was not a bad idea to follow the navy to go to sea.

Zhao Xingde also talked about the experiences after Dunhuang's separation. For Li Rui, these experiences were also very interesting.

His deeds were spread everywhere in Guandong and Guanxi, and Li Rui had heard of them. However, how much inside story can the scholars of Tianji Academy know? There were splashes of mouth, and Zhao Xingde was not like a human being, which made Li Rui often turn around and leave, and was embarrassed to admit that he was an old friend of Zhao Xingde. Now that Zhao Xingde himself told him personally, he couldn't help but find out the truth. Zhao Xingde was arranged in all matters, and the officers were busy training recruits, and they didn't bother him. After Li Rui finished the first draft of the chart, it was just when he was in a relaxed mood. The two of them were drinking tea and chatting.

From noon to dinner, the topic finally returned to the upcoming expedition and food.

"Recruiting surrender and abdication is also a common military service," Li Rui persuaded, "It will be too late to regret it if you change your elbows and armpits."

The South China Sea Navy forced the landing of more than 50,000 pirates, interrogated and killed more than 10,000 people, and recruited nearly 20,000 strong prisoners, and handed over more than 20,000 useless people to Guangzhou Prefecture to deal with them. Zhao Xingde's explanation to the officers was to strictly control the prisoners and to allow them to integrate into the navy as soon as possible. He set an example and selected a team of 100 people from the Hanhai Camp and served as the guards on the ship with the Ya Barracks. This was a heart-to-heart approach, but there were many vicious people in the Hanhai Camp. If there were cunning and repetitive people, they would not only fail to protect Zhao Xingde's safety, but instead became a sting around him.

After Li Rui learned about this, he felt it was inappropriate. After thinking about it over and over again, he still advised Zhao Xingde not to take risks.

"It seems that there is nothing you don't know." Zhao Xingde smiled. It seemed that his old friend got along well with his subordinates. He pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice, "Most of these 20,000 prisoners were forced to join, you know." He remembered all kinds of horrifying and coercive symptoms when interrogating pirates, and couldn't help but frown slightly. The common "votes" in the world are still ordinary. Among some pirates, the fishermen who were abducted were first raped. The victims were humiliated and had nowhere to stay in the place and had to wander with the bandits. In order to stop the hope of being forced to join, some pirate leaders burned the entire fishing village into white land.

"I know something." Li Rui nodded, "but those in the defending camp are not simple thieves."

He looked at Zhao Xingde with humility and asked for advice. At this time, Du Chujiao came in to submit today's cāo training report and interrupted, "Who said no?" He naturally picked up the teapot on Zhao Xingde's table, poured a cup of himself, tilted his neck and drank it, breathed, and said in a muffled voice, "Many guys are very murderous and have a lot of mind. They want to deal with them, but they are useless." He paused and grinned, "It's a pity that they met me, Lao Du, even if they were a steel ball, would round him and flatten him."

After Du Chujiao said that, he put the teacup on the table and fists out.

Li Ruimu saw his back and said suspiciously: "Brother Zhao's original intention is to keep these arrogant soldiers and generals by his side?"

"Commander Du has already been awarded the title of Marquis of Che. After returning from the South China Sea expedition this time, a man who has received the title of Grand Doctor cannot escape."

Zhao Xingde smiled and said something more, not caring about Du Chujiao's behavior of being arrogant.

Li Rui nodded, but he seemed to be a little unaware. He came from Guandong and had been studying astronomy in the Bachelor's Mansion, and was not very clear about the relationship between Xia ** soldiers. Over the past hundred years, the military system has gradually been complete, and each sergeant has his own world to stand on his feet. During the military discussion, it was common for the lieutenant to contradict the general, because the lieutenant directly belonged to the Guguo Mansion and the General belonged to the General's Mansion. Without the approval of the lieutenant, the general could only mobilize his own personal soldiers. The lieutenant's mastery of the battalion is ultimately in recommendation and in the morale of the army. Therefore, in the camp, the superiors and subordinates are mostly in the relationship between the lieutenant and the subordinates, not as distinct as those in the Song **. Du Chujiao and his behavior are casual. In the eyes of the sergeant, he was close to Zhao Xingde, without any arrogance and domineering intentions.

"The person who was placed in the defending camp was certainly guilty of death, but his feelings were prudent."

Zhao Xingde said slowly. He looked at Li Rui and remembered that he would take a boat to go out to sea. Sooner or later, he would deal with people from the sea camp. His thoughts flashed and said lightly, "I plan to be the officers of the squadron. So I keep these people by my side for easy observation."

"Ah?" Li Rui looked at him in surprise, "But, are you not without others?"

"But we have to take on the burden of the squadron," Zhao Xingde said in a deep voice, "We must use them."

"Why? They were born into bandits, and they may not be loyal to the court, nor may they be loyal to the court." Li Rui said.

"Gui Xin? Loyal to the court?" Zhao Xingde showed a strange expression on his face and smiled, "Are Lu Mingyu, Luo Xianshi, and Deng Yuanjue the three of them?" He shook his head and sighed, "If Gui Xin and loyalty can solve the problem, then there will be no problem that the Song Dynasty cannot solve." He looked at Li Rui and saw that his face still had a suspicious look, and slowly said, "For thousands of years, not to mention the southwest sea, even the southeast islands have always been the nests of pirates. All dynasties and loyal generals cannot change it. Can I change any tricks? Just relying on Gui Xin and loyalty, the sea will be peaceful and the world will be peaceful from now on?"

"But?" Li Rui asked, "What should I do?"

"It is better to be a rule than to return home." Zhao Xingde whispered, as if he said something meaningless.

"Isn't this the same thing?"

"Of course it's not the same thing." Zhao Xingde said calmly, "Heaven and human relations, thieves have their own rules. Even beasts have their own rules." He looked at the recruits who were playing outside the window, "Although the seamen have always been outside the court's laws, the seamen also have rules. If the seamen have no rules, there will be no pirates in this world who harass the coastal people in groups. And the rules at sea are closely related to the weather, water, soil, and human feelings. The Zhou people said that virtue is compatible with the sky, how can we know that the original rules at sea are not the rules developed by people who have lived on the sea in the past dynasties to adapt to the sea environment, such as 'the strong'?" Zhao Xingde had a sarcastic smile on his lips, and Li Rui looked at him in surprise.

"Some people say that the so-called return to the heart and the so-called kingship are to spread the Chinese etiquette and laws all over the world. This is also the biggest purpose of the South China Sea Navy's expedition. No looting or killing indiscriminately. Everything should be done according to the etiquette and laws of the Song Dynasty. But is it true?" Zhao Xingde said sarcastically, "People who say such words may be loyal. But if they really want to do this, the power of the navy has been reduced by ten times in vain, and the power of the enemy has been increased by ten times."

"But, how could this happen? Isn't the law of nature suitable for everyone?"

"Is etiquette and law a law a natural law?" Zhao Xingde shook his head and said, "It is not. etiquette and law is just virtue, not reason. For thousands of years, the rules on the sea are different from those on the Central Plains land. Isn't it a kind of etiquette and law aligned with the etiquette and law of the sea? If we want to force the etiquette and law of the Central Plains to promote it to the ocean islands, wouldn't it be against the will of heaven? Throughout history, how many people have been able to act against the will of heaven and succeed by chance?" He looked at Li Rui and was shocked.

A surprised look said in a deep voice, "Take a step back, we can work hard to spread the rituals and laws of the Song Dynasty across the world, and think about everything very carefully and carefully. However, sometimes manpower is exhausted, and there has been a complete set of rules at sea for thousands of years. Can we start this new set of things more in line with the laws of the sea?" He shook his head and sighed, "I don't think it is necessary. How can a person's wisdom compete with the wisdom of tens of millions of years? Maybe it is even more unbearable than before."
Chapter completed!