On this day, many military generals in Dengzhou were resting, and suddenly heard the sound of drums gathered together. Everyone hurriedly stood up, covered their bodies and went to the big tent.

When everyone got together on the road, they asked each other what happened. As a result, no one knew what happened, so they beat the drum of the gathering. Everyone speculated that there should be news about Kong Youde's whereabouts.

When everyone signed up to enter the tent, they saw Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian sitting in the tent talking, with a calm expression. They knew that there would be no major things, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

After everyone stood in their seats, Zhu Dadian raised a document to signal to everyone and said, "Generals, I have just received a letter from General Huang, saying that he did not intercept the rebel Kong Youde."

As soon as Zhu Dadian finished speaking, it caused everyone to have a surprise discussion. Zhu Dadian waved his hand to signal everyone to quiet down and said, "Although General Huang did not intercept Kong Youde, he received the news that Kong Youde was captured by another group of people, and he is not sure of his life and death."

Zu Dabi stood up and said, "Sir, I wonder who has such great ability to stop the traitor Kong Youde and the others?"

Zhu Dadian frowned and said, "I am also puzzled. I only know that the people who intercept Kong Youde are a group of pirates!"

Everyone was upset when they heard this! Only Liu Pei was as clear as a mirror, but he also pretended to be surprised and whispered with everyone. Zhu Dadian handed the letter to the generals. Liu Guozhu took it on behalf of the generals and recited the official documents. Only then did everyone understand what was going on!

It turned out that Huang Long had already gathered troops in Changshan and Lushun to prepare to attack Kong Youde. But he waited left and right, but Kong Youde just didn't come. Huang Long had to increase the intensity of the sentry. As a result, he searched for many rebel soldiers. They were all rebels who fell into the water and fled to the shore when they were fighting with Wu Yizhou. As a result, they did not escape and were found and caught by Huang Long!

Unfortunately, these lower-level soldiers didn't understand what the situation was. They only knew that a group of pirates wearing black-bottomed skeleton flags attacked them. As for the whereabouts of the rebel leaders such as Kong Youde, they had no idea! They only knew that most of the ships were captured by pirates and sailed south. So Huanglong hurriedly sent official documents to Shandong and Beijing to check the situation.

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After seeing everyone listening to the official document, Zhu Dadian said, "Does anyone know who the pirate with the black-bottomed skeleton flag represents?"

Liu Zeqing hesitated for a moment and stood up and said, "Report to my master, I have vaguely heard of it!"

Liu Pei felt nervous when he heard Liu Zeqing's words, fearing that he would be exposed, so he hurriedly raised his ears and listened carefully. Liu Zeqing said, "I once said that there was only one pirate in the sea with the black-bottomed skeleton flag, which was called the Red Eyed Dragon King! As for the true face of the Red Eyed Dragon King, no one had seen it! I only knew that he had eye disease since childhood, and his eyes could not be able to see the wind or the light. So he used a large piece of red crystal to hold it in front of him! I heard that this person was very powerful at sea, so I didn't know much about the others."

Liu Pei felt relieved after hearing this. At this time, Zhu Dadian asked with a thoughtful look on his face: "Since that's the case, how can this pirate come forward to intercept the traitor's ship?"

Everyone was not sure about Zhu Dadian's question. Only Liu Pei said in his heart: "Of course I don't want the Later Jin Dynasty to obtain the art of cannon casting!"

In fact, Liu Pei also knew that it was only a matter of time before the Later Jin Dynasty obtained the art of casting cannons. Just like the Ming Dynasty's general defeat, the Later Jin army invaded the Central Plains many times and plundered the people and craftsmen. They would get the art of casting cannons sooner or later, but they just delayed it.

Just as Liu Pei was distracted, everyone actually discussed and came to a specious conclusion. The Red-Eyed Dragon King was a pirate himself and was naturally greedy for money. Kong Youde plundered half of Shandong before he fled Dengzhou, and his purse was naturally extremely rich! They would definitely bring this money when they escaped, but the Red-Eyed Dragon King knew about it, so it was not surprising that he was ambushed halfway!

Moreover, this conclusion was approved by everyone. Even Liu Pei remembered that Kong Youde had indeed carried a lot of money and couldn't help feeling a little complacent! It turned out that he just wanted to hinder the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, but he didn't expect that there would be unexpected gains!

Just when Zhu Dadian was discussing the Dragon King of Red Eyes with everyone, Emperor Chongzhen and several close ministers were discussing Huanglong's official documents in the palace in Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen also frowned and asked, "I wonder who is this pirate wearing the black-bottomed skeleton flag?

He looks like a pirate in his behavior!"

However, the close ministers around him only knew about the affairs in the court, so they could not know about overseas affairs. So they said they didn’t know who was doing this, but it is certain that Kong Youde would not surrender to the Tartars at present, which made everyone relieved! After all, some people took the initiative to surrender to the Tartars, and the court’s face was not very good!

However, Emperor Chongzhen did not expect that if he had not disbanded the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei, the information about the Red Eye Dragon King would have been sent to his desk long ago! However, Emperor Chongzhen had no intention of remorse and just ordered the ministers to collect information from the various prefectures in the world.

The capital at that time was Zhang Zhifa. Zhang Zhifa's name was Shenghu and his pseudonym was Xiansong. He was from Zichuan, Shandong (now south of Zibo, Shandong). He was a Jinshi in the 29th year of Wanli (1601). Wen Tiren was dismissed for his poor performance in governing, and Zhang Zhifa became the chief assistant.

After Zhang Zhifa came back from the palace, he immediately mobilized all the subordinates to search for news about the pirates of the black-bottomed skeleton flag. As a result, a butler in his family asked for a meeting and said there was news to inform him.

The butler is a foreign affairs butler, who is specialized in doing business for the Zhang family. Zhang Zhifa heard that he understood the pirate's background and asked him to speak. After the butler entered the study to salute, Zhang Zhifa asked, "Do you have any exact news about the pirate?"

The housekeeper bowed and said, "Master, there are news, but it's mostly old news!"

Zhang Zhifa was a little unhappy when he heard it, but the old news was always better than not knowing it. He said, "Let me tell me,"

The housekeeper said: "Two years ago, I went to Nanjing to purchase a batch of silk. A local shopkeeper was friends with me. He once talked about sea affairs. The man with the black-bottomed skull flag was called the Red Eye Dragon King! Legend has it that this life has red eyes, and can be seen at night. So he often leads pirates to fight night battles, and he is invincible! Legend has it that this man once defeated the heir of the sea hero Li Dan and dominated the northern Japanese route. It is also said that this man has more than 100 warships and tens of thousands of pirates under his command! However, this man is not bloodthirsty, does not like to rob, and likes to do business alone. So after he dominated the northern route, the sea calmed down."
Chapter completed!