Xikou Town, Fenghua County.

Comparatively speaking, this is the county with the worst geographical environment in Ningbo and Taizhou.

This kind of bad is for maritime trade.

In the remaining counties of Ningbo Prefecture, Zhenhai, Xiangshan and Dinghai are all coastal, and Cixi and Yinxian are all seaports with waterways leading directly to Zhenhai.

Taizhou Mansion is similar, Taiping, Huangyan, and Ninghai are all coastal, and Tiantai, Xianju, and Linhai can also go to sea by water.

Only Fenghua is located in the Siming Mountains, there is no outlet to the sea, and there is no waterway to connect the water system, and the unique geographical environment has created the particularity of the maritime group from Fenghua.

In this era, the clan is always the most cohesive group, and those maritime merchants rely on the clan to firmly control everything in the local maritime trade.

However, it is impossible for Fenghua to rely on the river to become a transshipment link like Shangyu and Cixi, and it is not possible to build sea ships to sell goods at sea.

Go to Zhenhai and Ninghai to grab jobs in those coastal areas?

Before there was no large-scale invasion by the Japanese invaders, more than 100 people were killed or injured in beatings in the three prefectures of Ningshaotai every year.

Under this special circumstance, the head of the Wu family of the previous generation made an unexpected but reasonable choice, and he chose to take refuge in foreign maritime merchants and Fujian merchants.

With the courage to fight, the Wu family quickly became the most powerful assistant of the Fujian maritime merchants, and Wu Zhi, the head of the Wu family of this generation, took refuge in the famous Li Guangtou, and the family business swelled rapidly like a balloon.

After that, the imperial court strictly forbade the sea, Zhu Kun hunted and killed the Xu Dong brothers and Li Guangtou, Wang Zhi set up his own door in Ligang, and Wu Zhi also had the same plan.

The two forces have been fighting openly and secretly for many years, Wang Zhi occupies an absolute advantage, and the Wu family has been hit hard several times, but the winner has not been completely distinguished, a thunderclap sounded, and the government betrayed its promise and captured Ligang.

A few years later, Xu Hai died, Wang Zhi came to surrender, and the Wu family quickly gathered a group of people with their connections...... It is impossible to negotiate peace, Wu Zhi has a nephew, and his two uncles died at the hands of Wang Zhi.

On the westernmost side of Xikou Town, there is a very large manor.

Wu Zhi made a judgment for the first time, "This matter has nothing to do with Wufeng. ”

Everyone around him nodded one after another, if it was Wang Zhi, this person would be the most important financial gain, and it would never be possible to burn the six merchant ships.

"I can't see Tarzan in a single leaf." Zhou Fu sighed, "Qian beheaded...... It's so ruthless, the first two sea boats have been spared, this time ......"

Well, it's really not, Qian Yuan was originally looking forward to their graves growing grass this year.

But if Zhou Fu doesn't look at it very much, the previous two batches added up to only more than 20 merchant ships, and this time it was lost more than 30 ships at one time, and it also came with so many people and so many goods, thinking about it, my heart was dripping blood.

"He also took Brother Zhou's house......" Yuyao Zhang's family smiled bitterly: "No wonder Tang Jingchuan has never let go of his mouth after so many times, he forced us to send sea ships to the sea to sell goods!" ”

How many people around look bitter or crying? This is a fishing game.

Wu Zhi shook his head slightly? Did each family start the layout long before Wang Zhi officially came to surrender? A large number of goods have been gathered in his hands, and even if he sees that it is a fishing game, he will have to go to sea to sell goods.

Zhou Fu also thought of this? He whispered, "Those ships look newly built. ”

"Go back and inquire about ......" Wu Zhi nodded? " Qian Zhan has been aiming at us for a long time, for a long time......"

The Songpu Zhao family pursed their lips tightly, and suddenly said: "But in the past year or so, there have been more sea ships that have been beaten back by the Ningbo Mansion?" It's not just the eight of us...... Not necessarily that. ”

"That's right, if it's really money to cut off the head? I'm afraid that troops have been sent to surround this manor...... Yesterday the letter was delivered at home, and everything was fine. ”

"It's hard to say, send troops now? The division is unknown, not to mention whose more than 30 merchant ships belong to...... Even if you go to sea to sell goods without permission, you can't check the goods, so you won't be guilty of raiding your home! ”

"Raiding the house and asking for the crime...... He didn't want to fall into Zhu Zichun's step! ”

Wu Zhi waved his hand expressionlessly to stop everyone's argument, and raised his voice to say, "Is it not, you can see it today." ”

Among the eight maritime merchants, the Wu family has absolute control, and as soon as Wu Zhi's words came out, everyone closed their mouths and waited honestly.

More than an hour later, a middle-aged man in short clothes walked into the hall quickly, his face was gray, his lips trembled, "Master......"

Wu Zhili shouted: "Say! ”

"In July of the previous year, the Governor's Office raided the Wu family, and Qian Zhancai was in Fuyang County at the right time."

No more evidence was needed, the free heart was enough, and there was silence in the hall, and everyone was sweating on their foreheads...... That's enough to make them run the house full of crimes!

Wu Zhi turned his head and looked at everyone carefully, looking over one by one, at such a critical moment of life and death, if someone turned against the water...... Everything is closed.

At that time, the Wu family had always followed Li Guangtou, only two of the seven were vassals of the Wu family, and the remaining five had no clear position back then.

Before Wang Zhi's attack last year, the Wu family gathered seven maritime merchants to discuss secretly, and since then, these eight big families have been allied by blood, advancing and retreating together.

Why?

That's because they once did a big thing together, a big thing enough to wipe out the race.

Every family is in the water, no one can get out of it, no one can escape.

At the end of the 33rd year of Jiajing, Hu Zongxian, the prefect of Hangzhou, was promoted to the governor of Zhejiang, and began to implement the method of promotion with difficulty and firmness.

If it was just a compilation, those rich people could still tolerate it, but they definitely couldn't stand the "rat book law".

Hu Zongxian is not killing with a soft knife, but nakedly holding a boning knife to pick up the skin and cramp!

However, in order not to repeat Zhu Su's mistakes, Hu Zongxian let go of all those who had fame in the clan, and targeted those who started because of sea trade, but the family had no fame.

No other, but silver.

If you don't take the money, you will be locked up and put in prison, or you will be exiled from your home, and these eight families here are all meat in Hu Zongxian's eyes.

As a result, there was a scene of more than 100 Zhenwei traveling thousands of miles, accurately bypassing the southeastern armies, and going north to attack Nanjing after entering Huizhou.

Please, those real people who can't even speak Chinese can actually kill straight from the deep mountains and old forests of Huizhou Mansion to Nanjing, it's impossible to think about it...... In Qian Yuan's previous life, he went to Huangshan for a self-driving tour, and he was lost in navigation.

But it's not just these eight, there are thirteen in total, Wu Zhi said with a gloomy face: "The Liu family of Taizhou Sanmen was destroyed by the Japanese in the 34th year of Jiajing, and the Xiao family of Xiangshan was attacked by the Japanese in the 35th year of Jiajing...... Qiantang Wujia ...... Wu Dahu ......"

Wu Dahu is the guide who was captured by Qian Yuansheng, with the nickname of "Spotted Tiger", after the Wu family in Qiantang moved to Fuyang, in July of the 34th year of Jiajing, Qian Yuan had a quarrel with Hai Rui in Fuyang County, Yang Wen occasionally learned that night, the Governor's Mansion confiscated the Wu family.

"Did Wu Dahu confess?" The Matsuura Zhao family speculated.

Zhou Fu immediately shook his head and said: "Wu Dahu was sent to Nanjing and died violently that night, I spent a lot of money to ask someone to check it, if he confessed, then the Governor's Mansion would never ......"

Wu Zhi interrupted: "It must be Wu Dahu who confessed...... It's just that he only confessed this matter to Qian Zhan! ”

Zhou Fu thought for a while and nodded slowly, and everyone around him also nodded in agreement.

In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, more than 100 Zhen Wei invaded Huizhou Mansion and abducted Qianyuan, and everyone in the southeast knew about it, so when the Wu family in Qiantang was copied the year before last, Wu Zhi also suspected it...... But it was soon relieved.

The reason is very simple, the thirteen of them did such a big thing back then, the goal was to drive away Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, if the matter leaked out, Hu Zongxian would inevitably retaliate, after all, they were not deep-rooted.

But Wu Zhi tried several times, Hu Zongxian did not know about it, and no one stared at the Wu family in Fenghua.

Now that Wu Zhi knows, Hu Zongxian really doesn't know, but Qian Yuan knows.

Now, he's come to take revenge.