In August, the commander-in-chief of Wuyu Water Village, Shen Yourong, returned from victory. In order to prepare for the expedition across the strait to the east, he led several soldiers to Quanzhou City to buy some military supplies. The reason why he wanted to buy the supplies in person was because He did not trust his superiors, the military supplies department of Fujian Dusi. These departments usually passed off inferior goods or took advantage of them.
On this day, he came to an iron shop in the north of the city and suddenly heard a burst of blowing, firecrackers, and gongs and drums.
He looked up and saw that people all over the street were running towards the North City Gate. Turning back, he saw the owner of the iron shop also craned his neck to look at the bustle. Shen Yourong smiled and asked, "Boss, what's going on? What's the matter?"
"When the second daughter of the Zeng family in Beicheng got married, a flowing banquet was held for three days on Chengbei Street. Anyone in the city could go and have a feast as long as they accepted the gift." The ironware owner had a look of envy on his face.
Shen Yourong asked curiously: "Who is the Zeng family? It's so grand?"
The ironware boss sighed: "The military master is not from the local Zhongzuo Institute, is he? No wonder you don't know!" He approached Shen Yourong and said with an exaggerated expression: "The Zeng family in the north of the city is amazing. Last year, a master was born! The most surprising thing is that they were originally businessmen. They were unknown in the industry, but they suddenly became prosperous in the past few years. Every year at the end of the year, everyone sees their family’s money being brought home by dozens of cartloads!”
Shen Yourong snorted and sneered: "A family like this still has a candidate? It's just a businessman pretending to be a gentleman."
The owner of the iron shop didn't hear what he was talking about. He looked at the lively crowd with envy and continued: "Their family can be considered a family of officials. Someone is an official in Guangdong. In fact, the strangest thing is this time The groom... It is said that he came back from the Western world. He started from scratch and turned everything into gold! He recently bought the title of Supervisor in the Imperial College... Hey, Master, why are you leaving now... Hey, you Walk slowly..."
Shen Yourong was born in martial arts and had his own views on imperial examinations. He instinctively rejected any behavior that used money to buy officials or prisoner titles. He walked away without looking back, and neither did the few soldiers who were watching the fun. Don't follow me, but look back while walking.
In the north of the city, drums and drums were playing in unison, and a performance by the Nan Opera Troupe was about to begin on a stage. The crowd was crowded and crowded. Yin Feng stood at the door of the courtyard wearing red and colorful clothes, and kept bowing to the guests.
Shen Yourong didn't know that the owner of the strange ship he chased for two days and two nights at sea a few months ago and finally lost the ship was just 100 steps behind him.
Yin Feng's wedding was a grand affair according to local customs. The famous Liyuan Opera was the highlight. The Zeng family opened three stages at once and invited three theater troupes to perform the opera. Half of Quanzhou City's streets were empty, and everyone came to watch it. It's a show.
Liyuan Opera is an ancient opera that uses Quanzhou dialect to perform dramas. It uses the Quanzhou ancient music "Nanyin" as the singing tune, so it is also called "Quanqiang" or "Xiananqiang". Due to dialect restrictions, it is only performed in Quanzhou Prefecture. It belongs to the counties of Zhangzhou Prefecture and Xiamen and other places; Yin Feng's dialect level is basically incomprehensible.
The sun sets in the west, beside the pier of Wuyu Water Village.
The Fujian Navy's Centipede boat, a replica of the Portuguese-style multi-oared speedboat, slowly approached the trestle. Shen Yourong was the first to step ashore. A soldier ran towards him and handed him a few ingots of silver with a very ugly look on his face.
"What's the matter?" Shen Yourong held a total of four taels of silver and looked at his own soldiers in confusion.
"Governor Song, Mr. Song, sent Mr. Lin to send it, saying that it is for you, sir." The soldier hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and continued: "Mr. Lin said that Mr. Song has rejected the impeachment of the Nan'ao General Soldier on your behalf. Yes, it’s just my lord’s narration..."
Shen Yourong's face suddenly turned pale, he grabbed the sword with his big hand and snorted coldly.
This time, they pursued the Japanese pirates all the way to the border of Guangdong. In one battle, they sank 2 Japanese pirate ships and beheaded 10 Japanese pirates. At the same time, they recaptured a Guangdong Nan'ao Navy warship that had been captured by the Japanese pirates. This warship was , brought trouble to Shen Yourong. Because the Guangdong Seaway had described the ship as "fighting with Japanese pirates, heavily damaged and sunk", and at the same time, it killed 20 Japanese pirates, and reported it to the Ministry of War as a victory; but now Shen Yourong did not discuss it with his Guangdong colleagues and directly reported the recapture of the Guangdong warship.
During the time when Tang Bao came and went, everyone knew that the ships of the Guangdong Navy were plundered by Japanese pirates.
Now Guangdong Seaway, Nan'ao Navy and other parties were exposed. In anger, they wrote and wrote to accuse Shen Yourong of killing good people and pretending to be meritorious, beheading officers and soldiers of Guangdong Navy and pretending to be Japanese pirates, and seizing Navy ships and pretending to be Japanese pirates. vessel.
As a result, Shen Yourong was hard at sea for more than a month, chasing and killing the Japanese pirates. Not only was he unsuccessful, but he was successful. Fortunately, the governor Jin Xuezeng protected him, and Shen Yourong did not suffer. However, all the credit for killing the enemy was taken by superior civil and military officials. He left. In the end, the reward he received was these 4 taels of silver.
Shen Yourong raised his head, gently threw 4 taels of silver to the soldiers, sighed, and said calmly: "Take these coins, go to my study to get another 20 taels of silver, and ask the kitchen to cook a delicious meal for the brothers. Yeah, let’s have a big tooth festival tonight.”
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the barracks. His figure dragged very long on the trestle under the setting sun...
At the end of the year, Zhu Yunchang was transferred to the governor of Fujian. After Shen Yourong completed all the preparations, he requested to attack the Japanese pirates. During this period, the group of Japanese pirates who fled to Dongfan continued to raid the coast of Fujian, and even caused ships going out to sea in Yuegang, Haicheng County. The tax revenue decreased, resulting in a decrease in tax revenue. The tax eunuch Gao Cai was forcing the governments at all levels in Fujian to complete the tax collection. Therefore, the governor Zhu Yunchang immediately agreed to Shen Yourong's request to pursue the Japanese pirates.
After Shen Yourong received Zhu Yunchang's order, he first sent his guides, fishermen Guo Yi and Guo Yan brothers, to Dongfan for reconnaissance. Ten days later, the Guo brothers' fishing boat returned to the navy camp and reported that these Japanese pirates were preparing on the shore of Jingang. winter.
In fact, the brothers also informed the Chinese pirates and private traders who were preparing to spend the winter there that officers and soldiers were coming to encircle and suppress the Japanese pirates, so they should get out of the way quickly.
Shen Yourong issued an order on December 11th to patrol offshore.
It is now the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year will be coming in a few days. It is not the day to go to sea at all. Both the officers and soldiers and the helmsmen and masters who are steering the ship are very reluctant to go to sea at this time. Therefore, Shen Yourong had to say that he was going offshore. Patrol, first lure everyone out to sea.
This year, there were indeed fewer ships going to sea in Yuegang than in previous years. However, the Zeng family's famous ship obtained the government's overseas license and successfully made its maiden voyage to Manila. In addition to bringing a large amount of raw silk and ceramics, it was also lucky enough to become an angel. By boat: Prime Minister Shihe of Haicheng County, Yu Yicheng of a hundred households, and Zhang Ni, a commoner, went to Jiyi Mountain in Luzon to explore gold mines. Many merchants with ships wanted to take them on board. After the mediation of the Zeng family, and the addition of the Zeng family's The ship was a new ship, and the county magistrate Wang Shihe chose a good name for the ship. Zeng Yue and Zeng Jingshan both accompanied him there, and they also inquired about the business situation in Luzon.
Yin Feng was still running the Macau-Japan route. Although he also encountered scattered Japanese pirates near the Ryukyu Islands, his Xinxing ship was fast and equipped with cannons, so he didn't pay attention to those scattered pirate ships at all. Of course,
There is no blind Japanese pirate who insists on bumping up.
In Hirado, Japan, businessmen from various countries generally cannot go ashore easily. Now there are nearly a thousand Chinese businessmen living here year-round, and there are also many Portuguese. This year marks the seventh year of Japan’s celebration (1602), and it was Tokugawa Ieyasu who
After the victory of the Sekigahara War, a period of great reform and feudal transfer was implemented for the daimyo. Many samurai subordinates of the daimyo who lost power became ronin and went to sea to become pirates. This led to the authentic Japanese pirates on the southeastern coast of China.
Suddenly there were more.
These days, Japan has taken very strict precautions against visiting people from various countries. Yin Feng stayed in Hirado, Japan for more than a month and could not leave this artificial island. He could only look at the Japanese mountains and rivers from a distance, and collected some Japanese products out of boredom.
Gadgets: Japanese kimonos, pleated fans and lanterns and other paper products are used to please the women in the family.
Thinking of his home, Yin Feng couldn't help but get a headache.
My wife Zeng Jing is indeed a beauty.
On their wedding night, when he untied her corset, Yin Feng discovered that his wife not only had the face of an angel, but also had a beautiful and charming body. Since returning to this era, Yin Feng has been working hard to integrate into the social life of this era.
.Marriage is also a compromise he made in order to integrate into this era.
He accepted the reality and wanted to be a good husband of this era. However, after the first night of revelry, he increasingly felt that something was wrong with his wife Zeng Jing. She could perform everything a wife of this era should do in bed and at home.
Duty, but usually he will never be friendly to Yin Feng. He always gives people a faint feeling of "respecting each other as ice", rejects all Yin Feng's fun and teasing, and seems unwilling to have any emotional communication with Yin Feng.
The depressed Yin Feng could not get rid of the influence of the times and had nothing to do with this cold beauty. Within a month, the two were in a subtle cold war relationship. Finally one day, he got drunk and fell down.
On Mai Wan'er's bed, and then naturally and Wan'er accomplished Wushan Yunyu's good deeds. Afterwards, he watched with guilt as his wife Zeng Jing took Wan'er away, and then Wan'er was dressed up and sent back. So,
He already has a concubine.
Yin Feng didn't know what Zeng Jing was thinking, and he couldn't ask her.
Originally, the Quanzhou silk weaving workshop he jointly established with the Hangzhou Silk Industry Guild, Li Dan and others had already opened, and he had a lot of work to do: Moreover, his crew had been trained, and the business relationship with Japan had been established at the beginning of the year.
; and most importantly, construction began again on his second ship.
There were so many things and things to do, and he didn't have a good impression of Japan in this era. He had every reason not to go to sea himself.
However, he still went to sea because it was too boring at home. Only when he arrived in Japan did he realize that it was also very boring here.
Not many Japanese merchants came to trade this year. It was not until the north wind from Siberia blew to Hirado Port that Yin Feng's ship was filled with Japanese silver and other goods and could finally return.
At the same time, the Fujian Navy sent 24 warships led by Commander-in-Chief Shen Yourong out to sea against the northwest wind, with the goal of Dongpan Beigang. The fleet approached the waters of the Penghu Islands before Shen Yourong made it clear to the soldiers and boatmen their true destination.
At this point, the entire crew was helpless. Moreover, under the fierce northwest wind, it was difficult to turn around and return to the mainland.