Second Chance Chapter 1706

Hu Zongxian’s imperial decree helped Zhao Wenhua to obtain the right of the sea sacrifice, and Zhang Jing had to retreat.
After Zhao Wenhua took charge of the sea festival, he aimed to push the festival to the top and gave orders to organise the festival in a big way.
Not only did Zhao Wenhua not restrict the people from entering the festival grounds to watch the festival, he even issued various measures to encourage and entice the people to watch the festival.
For example: on the day of the sea festival, all the people who watched the sea festival could receive a free vegetarian meal; people over 80 years old who watched the sea festival could be given the honour of being given a seat and an enlightened Taoist talisman; after the sea festival was over, the field would stay for three days, and during this period, all the people who watched the sea festival could obtain the qualification of praying and praying for blessings at the field of the sea festival, and the field would be dismantled only after the three days…….
These measures greatly encouraged the people’s interest in watching the sea festival, and people from dozens of miles around came to the festival site with their families and children, and those who were in a hurry could not see the end of the road at a glance, and it was said that there were also people from more than a hundred miles away who had to travel all night long to come here to watch the sea festival.
Zhang Jing heard of these measures Zhao Wenhua, cultivated for decades of righteousness of his bengbu live, scolded: “vertical son, not enough to conspire with!I actually argued with this person for two days, it is really a shame!”
The general idea is that Zhao Wenhua is stupid and brainless, and I argued with this idiot for two days, it’s a damn shame!
Then, Zhang Jing issued a military order to all military officials, generals and officials involved in the military: “As the Governor, I rule the military by military law, and I also rule you by military law.Military affairs, secret also’. In the future, all the deployment arrangements and military information for the Japanese suppression in Jiangnan, all people are not allowed to disclose to the outside world, including to Lord Zhao Wenhua Zhao. Anyone who leaks military information without permission, no matter who the target is, will be punished severely for the crime of collaborating with the Japanese!All of you, you must also pass this order on to the officers and generals under your command. Don’t think that I’m not prepared for what I say.”
This military order of Zhang Jing basically eliminated the possibility of Zhao Wenhua meddling in the military.
It was foreseeable that for a period of time in the future, as long as Zhang Jing was still the governor, Zhao Wenhua would be excluded from the core military affairs.
Those officials and generals who wanted to curry favour with Zhao Wenhua would have to consider how many heads they had.
In addition, with this military order, Zhao Wenhua’s attempts to co-opt officials would not be very effective. Anyone who got close to Zhao Wenhua would have to be careful of being branded as an unauthorised leaker of military information by Zhang Jing.
At dusk, Zhu Pingan led Liu Dazhou and the other middle-ranking generals of the Zhejiang army to familiarise themselves with the Bun Festival.
Although Zhao Wenhua had only instructed the Zhejian army to take charge of the south-eastern part of the Jiaojiao field, which accounted for about one-tenth of the field, Zhu Ping’an not only led Liu Dazhou to familiarise himself with the area under his charge, but also led them to familiarise themselves with the entire Jiaojiao field.
As a general, even if you are responsible for a part of the area, you have to look at the whole situation, so that you can move with the whole situation.
Under the leadership of Zhao Wenhua, the scale of the sea festival and the number of people participating in it were unrivalled.
Zhu Pingan is very worried about the sea festival tomorrow, worried about the safety of the people who will come to watch the sea festival tomorrow.
Wang Zhi wants to make trouble to force the imperial court to open the sea market, and Xu Hai and other Japanese pirates want to make trouble to enhance their prestige among the Japanese pirates and attract large and small Japanese pirates to join him. ……
They must have messed up during the sea festival.
After Zhu Pingan led Liu Dazhou and the others to familiarise themselves with the Bun Festival site, his worries became even more serious.
There were too many safety hazards in the Bun Festival grounds.
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help himself and arranged for Liu Dazhu and the others to return to the camp and went to see Zhao Wenhua himself.
In the tent, Zhao Wenhua was playing against Hu Zongxian, holding a chess piece, with the confidence that the river and mountains are all within my grasp, and with a smile on his face, he asked Zhu Pingan: “Zi Hou, anxious to see me, what is the matter?”
Tomorrow will be the sea festival, Jiao field has so many safety hazards, you still have the leisure to play chess here ……
How did you smile with this bewitching smile of having the mountains and rivers within your grasp?!!!!
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but feel some egg pain.
“Master Zhao, the student has just brought his generals to familiarise themselves with the Jiao field, during which time he had some thoughts, and has a few immature ideas, and has come to ask Master Zhao for advice.”Zhu Pingan held back his egg pain and arched his hand to Zhao Wenhua.
Zhu Pingan spoke euphemistically and humbly, but Zhao Wenhua was an old fox in the officialdom, and immediately heard Zhu Pingan’s intention.
“Oh, Zi Hou has come to advise me to cut down the scale of the sea festival, reduce and limit the number of people watching it for safety?”Zhao Wenhua held up his chess piece and asked smilingly, his tone full of disbelief.
“Nonetheless.”Zhu Pingan shook his head, “Master Zhao is the officiating priest, and the student is only under the orders of his teacher in all matters related to the sea festival. The student has a few immature ideas, but also out of a desire to better assist the teacher in completing this Sea Sacrifice that is destined to go down in history.”
Zhao Wenhua couldn’t help but smile with satisfaction at his words, Zhu Pingan’s words such as Only Teacher’s Order is from, Doomed to go down in history Sacrifice of the Sea and so on, made Zhao Wenhua’s body soothed, as if he had eaten a 10-percent tonic pill, he was red-faced.
“Hehe, what ideas do you have, no holds barred, by all means, teacher I’m all ears.”Zhao Wenhua smiled and nodded.
“The student is familiar with the Bun Festival and found that many offerings have been prepared for this sea sacrifice, such as incense and candles, paper money, firecrackers and so on, all of which are flammable and explosive. If tomorrow’s sea sacrifice accidentally goes overboard, or if there are thieves mixing in and setting fire to it, it will easily cause a fire, resulting in unpredictable consequences. The students wondered if they could take precautions in advance. For one thing, all flammable and explosive things are stored separately and guarded closely; for another, more water tanks and other fire extinguishers are placed at the site for extinguishing fires in the event of an accident.”Zhu Pingan said archly.
Zhao Wenhua, who was somewhat unimpressed at first, heard this, his face changed and the chess piece in his hand was put down.
Hu Zongxian was also visibly startled.
This was a hidden danger.
Sacrificial sea siege and sacrificial sea site, there is a large army guard, formed Japanese pirates will never dare to throw themselves into the net. However, there is no guarantee that there is no bold individual Japanese pirates mixed into the sea festival Jiao site to do damage, as if the Japanese have a terrorist called ninja, specialised in being trained to assassinate, sabotage, if it is mixed into the Jiao site, kill and set fire to anything, there is really nothing they do not dare to do.
“Zi Hou’s words are reasonable, it is advisable to prepare for it early.”Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian nodded after looking at each other, then let Zhu Pingan continue on.
“Tomorrow to participate in the sea sacrifice of the people a large number of people, for nearly a hundred years the most, if the jiao field has a change, the people panic, so many people to leave the field is a big problem, easy to stampede, rushing the jiao field accidents …… students want to think, is it possible to set up some more safe passage in the jiao field, set up obvious signs, send troopsguards to maintain, once there is a change, can through the safe passage quickly and efficiently evacuate the people from the field.”
“Without restricting the entry of the people, is it possible to restrict the arbitrary movement of the people and resettle them according to their domicile ……”
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Zhu Pingan made a total of five realistic and feasible suggestions, and Zhao Wenhua basically accepted them as they were and deployed them.
Only then did Zhu Pingan let out a slight half breath of relief.