"Mr. Yin, why does your Portuguese sound like the Coimbra area?" Barreto Jr., the second officer of the merchant ship, suddenly asked.

Yin Feng immediately woke up and was mostly drunk.

During his college career before time travel, the Portuguese that Yin Feng studied was modern Portuguese, which was developed based on the dialect of the Coimbra region of Portugal. But now, at the end of the 16th century, Portuguese is still based on the dialect of the Lisbon region.

Mainly standard.

Fortunately, Yin Feng pretended to be drunk and claimed that he learned Portuguese in Mozambique, East Africa, with a Portuguese mercenary. He didn't know where he was from. He immediately praised the Portuguese governor of East Africa, who had jurisdiction over Somalia.

Francesco Barreto's great achievements in Farah, Mozambique and other "conquered areas". While chatting with Bernardo, Yin Feng heard that Captain Barreto was a member of the family of the Governor of East Africa.

So, in the midst of the joyful carnival, this question was forgotten by everyone.

In early October of the 27th year of Wanli, legends spread in towns and villages across Hainan about the name of Yin Feng, the God of Wealth, who had returned from overseas. When the 1,000-ton merchant ship Tomar of the Kingdom of Portugal left the Big Egg Port, it was fully loaded with various goods.

The total purchase price of the pearls was nearly 1,000 taels of silver. At the same time, Yin Feng also signed a supply contract with Bernardo for the coming year.

At the same time, Yin Feng earned nearly 800 taels of silver for Haozhao Trading Company, which was equivalent to Haozhao's annual trading profits throughout Hainan in previous years. Of course, Yin Feng also accumulated nearly 300 taels of silver personally, and could buy 60 acres of high-quality goods locally.

land and become a moderate landowner.

The situation of Uncle Mai's family has also become better. In addition to building an additional house, they also added a fishing boat that can "go out to the sea".

Yin Feng's life has been very busy and fulfilling in the past few months. Various business houses are vying to invite him to banquets, or come to ask for advice on overseas trade. In fact, it is just a prelude to inviting guests to dinner. Some even want to do it for him.

She acted as a matchmaker and wanted to arrange a marriage for him, but he was so frightened that he sternly refused.

The only shadow in his life was the sneak attack in the alley that day. This kept Yin Feng alert all the time when he went out. Moreover, he moved his home to a good business store in the city, and Fatty Li gave him a separate yard.

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The days are approaching the end of the New Year, and the fresh and moist seaside air makes Yin Feng energetic every day. It seems that Yin Feng will spend the first New Year in this era in peace and joy. In fact, the second shopkeeper does not have much to do

However, Zeng Yue and Fatty Li---Li Gong are busy with the specific matters for next year's overseas trade. Yin Feng has been writing his overseas travels these days. This is the overseas travel record he promised Lord Zhizhou to write.

Records of experiences and things like that.

Because of Yin Feng's meritorious service in receiving and handling the drifting ships, Zheng Zhizhou had approved the treatment of "guanli robes" for him, that is, he could wear the robes of Confucian scholars, but did not have the honorary treatment of the corresponding privileges of scholars. At the same time, he was also

Appointed as the leader of the state's minzhuang, Du Chang - the leader of the local militia.

This position is unpaid, and you have to pay for some official yamen leaders to entertain the inspection officers of the Qianhu Station. You also have to participate in the training of the Minzhuang in name. Although, the local Minzhuang is only in name.

Thousands of people, nominally one month of training per year, actually not even one day of training.

Therefore, no one is willing to do this thankless and costly job. Now the Japanese pirates have disappeared for more than ten years, and the rebellion of the Li people on the island--the Li Rebellion has not happened for decades. Therefore, the local

The minzhuang existed purely on paper as a formality. On the day when the Portuguese ships appeared, the minzhuang who were driven to the tower like ducks were a complete mob.

Zheng Zhizhou handed over the position of chief to Yin Feng purely for the purpose of rewarding and commending him. Because the monetary reward was too vulgar, Yin Feng was not short of money; at the same time, in the Ming Dynasty, "those who did not take the imperial examination were not allowed to

"With an official", it was impossible for Lord Zhizhou to give Yin Feng an official position, so the position that sounded like an official and somewhat reflected some status was given to Yin Feng.

Of course, no one, Zheng Zhizhou, his master, or the state magistrate Zeng Qi, told Yin Feng that there is still a fee allocated to Minzhuang every year, which is allocated by Qiongzhou Prefecture as a training fee.
Chapter completed!