The manuscripts that Yin Feng brought from the original time and space have been entrusted to Wan'er for collection, and she was told to keep them secretly, and not even the wife was allowed to know. Wan'er regarded these manuscripts as a symbol of Yin Feng's trust in her, and also as a symbol of Yin Feng's love for her.
Symbol. This is a secret shared by her and Yin Feng, and no one can share it with her.
Mai Wan'er stored it on the beam of her house as if she were protecting her life, and wrapped it with three layers of oilcloth and three layers of oilcloth. She stepped on a stool, climbed up the beam with the vigorous skills of a fisherman's girl, and took off the oilcloth wrap.
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Yin Feng looked through the part of the manuscript that belonged to the history category, and it didn't take him long to find the part he was looking for. He couldn't help but take a breath of air, sat down on the bed, and nervously thought about what to do. He regretted his negligence.
: In the past few years, the business has been getting bigger and bigger, relying on the relationship with the Portuguese to make things smooth, but ignoring the trend of history. The turning point in the fate of all Chinese people making a living overseas is approaching.
In 1603, the thirty-first year of Wanli's reign, in Manila, these words made Yin Feng's eyes darken, and Yin Feng felt a heavy sense of guilt in his heart.
He took advantage of the general trend of history and earned himself a considerable fortune. His destiny has indeed changed, and now he has basically established a foothold in Ming Dynasty China. However, without his appearance
, the Zeng family may have been engaged in long-distance trafficking in the domestic market until now, and brothers Zeng Yue and Zeng Jingshan are now in Manila. This is undoubtedly caused by his insignificant little butterfly in the historical trend. Many people may
This will be added to the death list of the Manila Massacre.
Last year, when Haozhao became the Prime Minister of Haicheng County and took the ship to Manila, Yin Feng was in Hirado, Japan. He felt regretful that Zeng Yue and Zeng Jingshan were absent from his wedding. These two brothers brought him here
The first friends I made during this era have now become relatives.
He stood up, told Wan'er to collect the manuscript, and immediately went to Zeng's house to meet his uncle Zeng Ke.
The Zeng brothers left a month ago, from Yuegang to Manila, which usually takes 15 to 20 days with smooth sailing. From this, it seems that they should have been doing business in Balian Market by now. It is now the beginning of the fifth lunar month, and the Chinese in Manila
The massacre started in August of the Western calendar, and it was still too late to go to Manila to bring the brothers back. After the sixth lunar month, the monsoon wind direction will change, and it is the time to return from Manila.
No one believed what he said.
Everyone knows that the Greeks are the rulers of Luzon, but why do they want to kill the Chinese? Aren't the Chinese bringing them a large amount of goods? Aren't all the plantations and processing factories in Luzon full of Chinese workers? The natives there
They are all lazy!
Aren’t all commercial service industries in Manila such as barbering, catering, and clothing run by Chinese?
People in the Zeng family also did not believe that the Spanish (Spain) would massacre Chinese people for no reason: "Isn't it just that the emperor sent an envoy to check the gold mines? What does it have to do with us and other businessmen? As for killing us and other Tang people,
Light?"
Yin Feng could not explain. The difference and misunderstanding between Western civilization and Chinese civilization at this time was probably similar to the difference between aliens and earthlings. He could only say that the Macau people had good intentions.
Notify him.
He took out his "Journey to the East and West" and told Zeng Ke about the relationship between the Macao people and Luzon. The Rat people were under the rule of a king. Like other domestic businessmen, Zeng Ke had no interest in knowing this. He was not Li
For merchants like Dan who had traveled abroad and seen the vast world, Zeng Qi and Zeng Yue have always been in charge of the Zeng family's overseas trade.
At the end of the day, Zeng Ke said: "As long as you have a good health, I will send someone to Yuegang to inquire about whether there is a ship coming back from Luzon."
Privately, he was a little worried and quickly sent several groups of servants to Quanzhou, Haicheng and other ports to inquire about the news.
Yin Feng rushed to the shipbuilding yard hidden in a bay on the south coast of Meizhou Bay. His second ship was being built. The supervisor was the youngest boy in the Zeng family, Zeng Yue's younger brother Zeng Rui. He took Yin Feng's boat with him every day.
Feng's design drawings were made to supervise the work, and the drawings were taken back in the evening. Because the ship was built according to the European fully equipped sailing style, it was a combination of Chinese and Western soft and hard square sails, plus a bow stay jib and a topmast sail.
There are also moon sails and stay sails hung on the ship, and there are outriggers on both sides of the ship, the so-called wing sails, which can be hung with wing sails. This kind of sail design was unprecedented in the Chinese shipbuilding industry at that time, and it was also difficult to manufacture.
Unprecedented. Stimulated by high wages and technological innovation, many old shipwrights from all over Fujian Province came here to visit and study. As a result, one and a half years later, only about 90% of the entire project was completed, and we could not expect to use it to go to Manila.
Yin Feng has no ship now. The Xinxing has gone to Japan. Now it is past the sea season, and all the merchant ships that want to go abroad have gone out. In two months, it will be the day for the merchant ships to return. The ports everywhere look very deserted.
, the moored ones are all fishing boats and some small merchant ships that go to offshore islands to do smuggling business. No matter how brave the sailor is, they would not dare to use these ships to go to Luzon.
Yin Feng left the shipyard disappointed. Zeng Rui thought he was not satisfied with the progress, so he quickly ran and said: "Brother Feng, I will definitely launch the ship into the water by next month at the latest..."
Yin Feng smiled and patted him on the shoulder - this habit of his made many people uncomfortable, but he didn't realize it. "It doesn't matter, take your time, quality is the most important thing." As soon as he finished speaking, he looked from a distance.
Seeing a large number of shipwrights looking at him from the direction of the shipyard, he quickly turned around and hid. At this moment, the local shipwrights already regarded him as a god-like master. He couldn't stand their endless questioning, so he had to leave quickly.
people.
Quanzhou City is still very noisy at night. The city has recovered from the depression during the Jiajing Japanese Pirates period, and its prosperity is comparable to that of Suzhou and Hangzhou in Jiangnan. Yin Feng, who has been busy for several days and has achieved nothing, has no intention of paying attention to anything outside him, and is exhausted both physically and mentally.
The gate to my yard. It seems like someone is visiting the house, the upper room is brightly lit.
He pushed the door open and went in, and was surprised to see veteran Chen Di in the room. Zeng Jing was standing respectfully on one side, and Zeng Ke was accompanying Chen Di. He never expected that this old gentleman would take the initiative to visit him.
"Why did you come to visit me in person? The student has been looking for a boat to go to sea these days. I really neglect you. I should have informed you earlier, and the student will definitely greet me..." Before Yin Feng finished his polite words, Chen Di
Interrupting him: "I'm here for your map."
Chen Di just wanted to see the world map Yin Feng mentioned out of his traveler's hobby.
However, Yin Feng unexpectedly solved the problem he faced here. Veteran Chen Di has a nephew who is an overseas merchant in Anhai. At the end of last year, his merchant ship was damaged by the wind and was forced to be repaired in Jinjiang, missing the sea season. Yin
Feng did not hesitate to lend Chen Di the world map obtained from Magalo's master, along with the translation of the place names.
After seeing Chen Di off, Zeng Ke was still sitting in the room, beckoning Yin Feng to sit down: "Feng'er, the ship to Luzon has not returned yet. I want to know if your news is correct?"
"It's true that the Spaniards in Luzon and the Spanish in Luzon had already attacked the Chinese in Manila as early as the 21st year of Wanli, but not many Chinese were killed that time," Yin Feng said.
It was the Pan Hewu Rebellion. At that time, the Spanish conscripted Chinese slave laborers as cannon fodder to attack the Muslims of the Moluccan Island in the southern Philippines. The Chinese resisted the abuses of the Spaniards and led by Pan Hewu killed the Spanish Governor in the Philippines, Dasmarinas.
and all the Spanish soldiers, seized the ships and fled to Vietnam. In retaliation, the Spanish burned down the Chinese community in Balian, drove away the Chinese, and killed many Chinese.
"If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have let him go!" Zeng Ke paused and said.
The "he" Zeng Ke mentioned was of course his biological son Zeng Yue. Zeng Ke would not be too worried about Zeng Jingshan's adopted son. Yin Feng shook his head, dismissed this thought from his mind, and comforted Zeng Ke and said: "Now
It should be too late to pick up Fourth Brother. I will go to Jinjiangkou early tomorrow morning..."
Zeng Ke nodded: "We can only take one step at a time. Feng'er, I will send you 10 servants from home, and bring more gold and silver. If something happens, you can use money to clear the way. People from all countries in the world want to come here."
, there’s no one who doesn’t love money, right?”
The ship at Jinjiangkou is not big, no more than eight feet long, with only two masts and a typical square bow. It is one of the most traditional Fuchuan-shaped ships because it is equipped with two long oars on each side, which look like the wings of a bird.
, is called a bird boat. The central cabin is covered with thatch, and the inner cabin space is quite large. The boat has just been repaired, and the owner Chen Jie is also somewhat famous for Yin Feng and treats him very warmly.
"Brother Chen, where are your crew members?" asked Yin Feng, who was eager to go to sea as soon as possible.
"Crew? Oh, the boatmen and helmsmen are all hired locally. It's just that during this season, all the good boatmen have gone to sea, so it's hard to find them!"
Yin Feng almost yelled, there is no crew, just an empty ship, what can you do?
He suppressed the anger in his heart and asked Chen Jie: "How much does your boat cost?"
"Aren't you borrowing a boat?" Chen Jie was a little dazed for a moment, and he quickly calculated in his mind: "The original price plus the cost of the repair is about 800 taels of silver."
Yin Feng cursed in his heart: This broken boat can only cost 400 taels of silver at most! However, he did not hesitate and directly said to the Zeng family servant behind him: "Xiao Liu, take Mr. Chen to the merchant's house and take 800 taels of silver from my account.
he."
Chen Jie was in a daze again, but Yin Feng ignored him and hurried to his shipyard. Through his connections with shipbuilders, he recruited 30 sailors at once, some of whom were children of shipbuilders. Yin Feng was surrounded by other people.
There are 10 veteran sailors on the Xinxing, who were recruited from Yazhou. These first batch of people who followed him have become veterans who can kill and fight. They were originally used as a squadron for new sailors after the new ship was built.
Head, now we can only transfer them from the shipyard first.
The personnel and ships were all in place, but God was not good. There were strong winds and waves for several days, and heavy rain poured down. The most important thing was that the wind direction was wrong, and the sky was full of southeast winds. Yin Feng was anxious and angry again, and his body had not fully recovered.
, running around and working hard for days, he kept having nosebleeds, and the corners of his mouth were full of blisters.
Wan'er advised him to take a rest, but he ignored her at all. Zeng Jing wanted to persuade her a few words, but she swallowed them back.