The separation of the families was finally completed. He Hai and his mother left the He family. After settling their mother in their new home, he and Duan Fei came to He Lai Building. He Hai asked for a private room. After ordering wine and food, He Hai suddenly
After getting up, Duan Fei knew that he had something to say, so he didn't say anything.
After the food and drinks were delivered, He Hai ordered no one to come in and harass him. When the waiter left, He Hai personally poured a glass of wine for Duan Fei, knelt down to Duan Fei, raised the wine glass with both hands and said gratefully: "Brother Fei, if you hadn't found out
If the real murderer clears my name, I will be on death row today..."
"Brother Fei has no way to repay his kindness. Please drink this glass of wine! From now on, my life will be yours, Brother Fei!"
"My brother, if I don't help you, who will I help? Get up quickly, I can't bear such a big gift." Duan Fei reached out to help him, but He Hai refused to get up and said: "Brother Fei, you drank it.
I still have something to say about this glass of wine, and I won’t get up until I finish.”
Duan Fei had no choice but to take the wine glass and drink it all in one gulp.
He Hai knelt down and poured him another glass of wine, raised his hands and continued: "Brother Fei, thanks to your care in the past few years, although I have done a lot of stupid things, I am finally free from illness and disaster. Today, Brother Fei
He stood up for me again. If Brother Fei hadn't been dignified enough to suppress those people, I'm afraid I would never have a chance to prove my ability. I could only spend my life as a little boy. This second glass of wine is thanks to Brother Fei.
Care and maintenance!”
Duan Fei drank it all with great enthusiasm, and then said with a smile: "A good thing only comes three times. With your third glass of wine, do you want to entrust your second aunt to my care?"
He Hai smiled and said: "Brother Fei is really good at predicting things. Aunt... No, I'm afraid my mother will be angry if she stays at my eldest brother's house. The only person in Baoying County that I can completely trust is you, Brother Fei."
My son can't stay with my mother. I'm really unfilial. Here are two thousand taels of silver notes. One thousand taels are a thank you gift for Brother Fei, and the other thousand are for reserve. Whether my mother or Brother Fei needs it, you can
I can handle it."
Duan Fei took it unceremoniously and hid it in his arms. After finishing the wine, he held onto He Hai's shoulders and said, "Don't worry, I will live up to your trust."
He Hai bowed three more times and then stood up and returned to his seat. He picked up his chopsticks and said, "Brother Fei, eat, the food is cold."
Duan Fei took a piece of lotus root and put it in his mouth, chewed it and asked, "Where are you going to do business?"
He Hai hesitated for a moment, and Duan Fei said: "If you can't say it, don't say it. I just want to remind you that you have to be careful with everything when you carry so much money alone!"
He Hai said suddenly: "I believe Brother Fei, I'm going to Ningbo to find Uncle Cheng, I want to go to sea!"
He Hai's voice dropped to the lowest level when he mentioned the word 'going to the sea', as if he was worried that the walls had ears. Duan Fei thought for a while before he remembered that he had seen the announcement of a forbidden sea on the bulletin board in front of the county government. Daming
Since Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty had ordered a sea ban, which was sometimes loosened and sometimes tightened. Now that the Japanese invasion is getting worse, the sea ban has become more stringent. No officials or citizens of the Ming Dynasty are allowed to go to sea to do business, otherwise they will be caught and killed.
Looting homes and annihilating clans is a business that loses your head.
He Hai thought Duan Fei would strongly object, but Duan Fei nodded after pondering for a while and said: "Going to sea is more dangerous, but the profits are indeed huge. Alas, banning the sea is a huge mistake. If the sea is open to free trade,
Not to mention that the people are rich, the number of Japanese pirates will be reduced by 99%, so why should the remaining ones be a problem?"
He Hai slapped his thigh and said in surprise: "Come on, big brother, it's true to my heart. In fact, the Ming Dynasty has banned the sea for more than a hundred years. Not only are there more and more private smuggling ships, even the government is secretly smuggling.
, Lai En, the eunuch in charge of the Shipping Department of Ningbo City, smuggled four large ships of tea, porcelain and silk to Ryukyu last month and made a hundred thousand taels of silver back."
"Alas, what a pity, what a pity." Duan Fei shook his head and sighed, drinking a glass of wine.
"That's right," He Hai agreed, and continued: "Many people don't have that power, and they don't want to spend money like water to clear the yamen, so they have to pretend to be Japanese pirates, half black and half white pirates. When they encounter these half-hearted pirates, they are sometimes
It would be even worse to encounter real Japanese pirates."
Duan Fei shook his head and said: "Forget it, don't talk about it. It makes me panic when I talk about it. By the way, you are going to do business at sea. Do you know the nature of water? Can you drive a sea ship? Do you know where what is produced and where it is shipped?
Is it easier to sell?"
He Hai smiled and said: "Brother, don't you know my details? I don't understand anything, but Uncle Cheng does. I heard that he has a nautical chart that he bought with a lot of money, and it contains many countries and places that he has never heard of.
Woolen cloth."
Duan Fei sneered disdainfully and said: "What kind of broken sea map do they call it? You can't even understand it when it's placed in front of you. In this case, I'll go to the Yamen warehouse to help you search, and maybe you can find a better sea map."
I will copy the picture for you, and I will ensure that you will become the most powerful navigator in history from now on!"
"Okay..." He Hai didn't seem to be very enthusiastic, because he knew where the nautical charts came from in the yamen. He heard that even the nautical charts drawn by the eunuch Sanbao when he went to the West a hundred years ago had been burned under the emperor's order.
How dare the county government keep any nautical charts?
Duan Fei began to chat with He Hai about the overseas world he knew and some basic knowledge he should have when going overseas. What Duan Fei knew was quite superficial, but it opened He Hai's eyes and made him doubtful.
"The gods told me in my dream. Whether you believe it or not, you will know for yourself later." Duan Fei didn't explain much to his question. He Hai believed it instead and kept his words in his heart. He drank enough.
After eating, the two made an appointment to meet again in three days, and then parted ways. Duan Fei returned to the county government office, and first went to the mortuary to take a look. Yang Sen was very loyal to his duties. He could persist in such a boring job.
live.
"Brother Fei, the case has been solved for a few days, do you want to continue this research?" Yang Sen said with a smile after seeing Duan Fei.
"Of course I will continue. I plan to get a few more pigs and study them for more than half a year." Duan Fei joked.
Yang Sen's face turned into the shape of a bitter melon: "Brother Fei, this pig is already in trouble. After the body is sent to the mortuary, it has to be washed with potion. How can it be so smelly? Now even my grandfather won't enter the mortuary.
I still have to keep watch."
"You can become a great person only after enduring hardships, come on." Duan Fei laughed a few times and walked away, leaving Yang Sen alone to vent his anger on the ground.
Duan Fei went to the kitchen and walked around again, and then came to the signing room.
The signing room is where the county government office is located. In the signing room of Baoying County, Magistrate Min and Xu Dianshi each have a separate office. The remaining rooms are the six rooms corresponding to the six departments of the Ministry of Punishment. No one is working now, and each room is occupied.
The doors are closed and locked, but there are still many empty rooms in the pledge room. Sometimes when the six rooms are busy and the space is not enough, some temporary scribes hired to help work in these empty rooms, so there are all pens, inks, papers and inkstones inside. Duan Fei
I lit the candle, spliced two long white papers into a square, and then took out a knife to shave the duck feathers I got from the kitchen.
Using a brush to draw a map is obviously a waste of effort. The charcoal pens these days (for eyebrow drawing, which are relatively thick and soft) are not easy to use. Forget about ballpoint pens and fountain pens, quill pens have become the only choice.
Duck feathers are short and the hair follicles are thin and soft, so they are not as useful as goose feathers, but they are still acceptable. After grinding the ink, Duan Fei began to write and draw on white paper with a homemade duck feather pen.
Duan Fei doesn't know much about the current situation in various countries in the world, but he still has a general impression of world geography. At least he won't draw the Diaoyu Islands to Japan. During this period, Japan was not a country, and the four major islands were covered by hundreds of
The local warlords are fighting fiercely against each other. It has been more than ten years since the emperor ascended the throne, and there is no money to hold the enthronement ceremony.
After drawing three pictures in a row, he managed to draw a slightly satisfactory map of Southeast Asia, including Australia and New Zealand. It was already midnight, Duan Fei yawned, packed his things and went to bed.
The next day was not an announcement day, so Duan Fei wanted to sleep in, but who would have thought that he would be woken up early in the morning by someone.
"Brother Fei, get up quickly, the master wants you to come to court!" Shi Bin called with some excitement, pushing Duan Fei's body.
"Go to court? Go to court for what kind of court? It's not a day of prosecution. Don't I have to go to court? Is there someone who is suing me?" Duan Fei said drowsily as he rubbed his eyes due to lack of sleep.
Shi Bin couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not that someone is suing you, but someone is suing Master Xu Dianshi. Master Min is calling you to cooperate with Captain Yan in investigating this case!"
"Oh!" Duan Fei suddenly became energetic and asked: "What case? Dereliction of duty or bribery?"
"It's a murder case!" Shi Bin said with bright eyes. While Duan Fei was washing and dressing, he briefly explained the whole story.
p: Hair follicles have become a forbidden word...dd