Although there is no rain, the sky is still a little gloomy.

There is no wind, but there are slight waves on the sea.

Three cargo ships that pulled down their sails slowly rose and fell on the sea surface with the waves.

When you look closely, these ships seem to be somewhat different from those of the Ming Dynasty and are a bit simple. The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, especially those of the wealthy merchants, are all century-old woods. When connecting the wood, iron nails, lints, and tung oil are used to make the seams.

But at a glance, insiders knew that the wooden square was connected by iron sheets, which was very vulgar. Moreover, such a ship could only drift with the wind and was not enough to sail against the wind.

However, this kind of ship also has an advantage: it is easy to maintain and is not afraid of loss and is fast.

The undulating bow of the boat is a middle-aged man dressed like an ordinary businessman. He tilted his folding fan and looked at the sea with deep and complex eyes.

"Ningbo, the best city in the world!" After looking for a long time, the man suddenly spoke, and when he opened his mouth, he was not speaking in Chinese, but in Japanese.

His tone was full of admiration, and his eyes were full of yearning, "It has been a long time since I climbed to Ningbo's land! I really miss it! The Great Ming Dynasty, the vast treasures are extremely rich and worthy of their reputation!"

"Old Aoi!" Behind the man, another man dressed as a businessman, spoke, "Since we have the sea tickets bought by Mingguo merchants, why not log in directly in Ningbo?"

The man named Aoi turned around and smiled, "Sasaki Jun, the Ming Dynasty now restricts our trade with them, and ships close to Ningbo Port have a fixed quota every day. The tickets in our hands can handle patrols of the sea, but they can't deceive the verification officials at those ports!"

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Japan has actually not been very respectful. Emperor Hongwu issued a letter to Japan repeatedly and severely criticized the Japanese pirates. But in the case of Japan, it is very meaningful that you have the ability to fight.

If it weren't for the previous generation of Duke Cao Li Wenzhong and Liu Bowen's painstaking advice, Emperor Hongwu would have really gathered a large army to cross the sea.

Although there was no war between the two countries, the Ming Dynasty strictly ordered that the Japanese could only trade with the Ming Dynasty in Ningbo, and the ships had a fixed quota every year, and they could not exceed them.

If not, these Japanese would not have taken risks and spent a lot of money to buy these smuggled goods from the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants.

"Those Ming Dynasty maritime merchants are too greedy!" Sasaki continued, "The tickets for the sea-travel colleagues are asking us 10,000 taels at a time! And those goods are more expensive than buying in the Ming Dynasty inland, and they only need pure silver, which is abominable!"

"Oh!" Aoi sighed and said in a strange tone, "There is an old Chinese saying that it is like this to rely on others! After all, we are begging them for the Ming Dynasty!" As he said, he said to a businessman who had just walked out from behind who was obviously a Ming Dynasty man, "Zhou Sang, do you think so?"

The businessman named Zhou was obviously stunned and laughed in his heart, "That's how he is used to rely on others. You Japanese people are not the godsons of the Ming Dynasty?"

Even though he was like this, he smiled on his face, "What the Excellency Aoi said is that your Sinology is becoming more and more essence!"

"My ancestors have studied with the envoy of the Tang Dynasty for a while!" Aoi's face was filled with supreme glory, "So, my family has a lot of experience in learning Chinese!"

"Search the temple!" Zhou nodded perfunctorily.

He is the contact person for the Zhou family to deal with the Japanese, and he has to travel back and forth between the two places all year round. Not only does he have to bring the Japanese to the joint, but he also has to stare at the merchant ships driven back to Japan by the Japanese for the Zhou family, and he is staring at the next time when the transaction is made.

"I haven't seen the shadow of the fleet yet?" asked Zhou.

Aoi frowned slightly, "Yes, there is no news from the lookout yet!"

But as soon as the words fell, a whispering ghost scream came from the mast watchtower, "The ship is here!"

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On the sea, three cargo ships were carrying sails and coming towards the wind.

From a distance, sailors seemed to be running back and forth on the bow of the boat.

On the Japanese side, Aoi's face suddenly became solemn, "Check the flag!"

Hula, the Japanese merchant ships realized the prepared joint flag and waving in the wind.

On the Zhou family's merchant ship, He Guangyi, the commander of the Jinyiwei wearing ordinary clothes, looked at the sudden flag of the other party and smiled.

"Manager Zhou!" He said to the manager of the Zhou family's merchant ship, "It's time to make meritorious service when I'm guilty!"

"The villain understands!"

The so-called loyalty has bargaining chips. Although the Zhou family's manager is also surnamed Zhou, he is deeply trusted by the master. However, he is a folk remedy. After seeing the Jinyiwei's methods, his loyalty to the master has long been thrown away.

Those who know the times are heroes!

If he does not cooperate with the Jinyiwei, it is a trivial matter for him to die. I am afraid that the people in his family will be like a cow and a horse for generations and will never turn over.

"Come on flags, hit flags!" Manager Zhou shouted.

Then, the Zhou family's merchant ship also showed their identity.

Then, the two cargo ships were far apart and began to stop.

The managers of both parties on the ship must transfer to the boat.

No matter how cautious this kind of transaction is, it is not an exaggeration to face each other after the personnel have identified it, and the personnel can change the ship.

Two small boats face to face on the sea, and the Zhou family is Manager Zhou and Zhang Dabiao.

On the other side of the Japanese were Aoi, Sasaki and others.

"Zhou Sang, long time no see!" Aoi smiled on his own boat.

"Long time no see, long time no see!" The merchant ship manager of the Zhou family smiled, "I have been waiting for a long time, and the goods are all on the ship. Now we have also found out that we are doing it, so let's start changing ships, right?"

"Will Zhou Sang board the ship and see the silver?" Sasaki suddenly spoke.

An important part of their transaction is to board each other and check cargo.

"No need, they are all old acquaintances! Who can't believe who?" Manager Zhou smiled, and his two thumbs collided, "Dom's big chicken! Good friend!"

"Yoxi!" Aoi was overjoyed when he heard this, "Zhou Sang is so happy!"

Manager Zhou was stunned, "Is this how he used the fast-paced speech?"

But at this time, he didn't care about this and bowed and smiled, "So, let the boat come here when I get off!"

"Okay, no further!" Aoi finally said the idiom right, and then saw Zhang Dabiao, "Hey, this hero, look at him!"

"Oh, our master recruited a newly recruited merchant ship guard, surnamed Zhang!" Manager Zhou said quickly.

Zhang Dabiao looked at the Japanese on the boat opposite with expressionless expression, wishing he could jump over immediately, and smash them into rotten melons at one point, but he had to grin on his face and smile a little.

"Zhang Sang, what a majestic man!" Aoi exclaimed.

Zhang Dabiao grinned, "Yixiangyuan's sister said the same thing!"

Suddenly, Aoi was confused.

"I said, what! The girls I slept with said that!" Zhang Dabiao shouted at the top of his throat, "Majestic!" Seeing that the other party was still a little puzzled, he continued to shout, "He is strong, strong!"

"Souga!" Aoi nodded and understood.

Manager Zhou was anxious and sweating. Taking advantage of the gap between the other party's words, he said to the sailor who was driving on the boat, "Put the banner, and the big ship is coming!"
Chapter completed!