Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Biography of Sun
Later generations also have a lot of controversy about Wang Zhi's evaluation, some say that he colluded with the Japanese and wreaked havoc on the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is a big traitor, should be killed, and also said that he has far-reaching vision, advanced consciousness, and created a prosperous maritime trade, which is of leading the times and is commendable, Guo Zhiyuan's evaluation of him is more inclined to the latter, because he refused to admit the charge of collusion with the Japanese invaders imposed on him by the Ming court until his death, and there is indeed no record in history that he personally led his subordinates, or even his direct subordinates to attack Jiangnan, and sighed when he was killed: "Die alone, I'm afraid of the people of Zhejiang", and the actual situation is indeed as he expected.
Wang Zhi himself is an advocate of maritime trade, his vision is very far, that the huge interests of maritime trade should be developed, so he hopes that the imperial court can open the sea ban, allow maritime trade, and express his willingness to accept the imperial court to recruit peace, for the imperial court to pacify the coastal waters, stabilize the maritime order, and at that time, with the Portuguese merchants, Spanish merchants to the east, the age of exploration has arrived, if the imperial court can accept Wang Zhi's suggestion, the fate of the Ming Dynasty and even the entire Chinese nation will be rewritten! It is estimated that there is nothing to do in the Qing Dynasty, and it may not be possible to act as the "world policeman" today in China!
Because of this, Guo Zhiyuan did not feel very repulsed after hearing that the head of the Sun family might be a pirate, but became interested in the head of the Sun family who had not yet met.
Thinking of this, Guo Zhiyuan didn't have to be excited to shoot the case and said: "Okay! Then go to Sun's house first! ”
Of course, Xu Guangqi didn't know that Guo Zhiyuan's thinking was so jumpy, and he felt a little strange about his excitement, glanced at him, and reminded in a low voice: "These people who are maritime merchants are all fierce and fearless of death, so Gongzi tries not to conflict with this Sun family, if you want to make a choice between this Sun and Chen families, I suggest that Gongzi join the Sun family to fight the Chen family!" ……”
Guo Zhiyuan naturally would not reveal his careful thoughts to Xu Guangqi at this time, Xu Guangqi, as a pioneer of the times, although his thoughts are far more open-minded than most people in this era, but if he knew that Guo Zhiyuan wanted to get involved in the maritime trade that violated the sea ban, most of them would be frightened, so he just laughed and said: "Sir, please rest assured, I know what to do!" ……”
At that moment, Guo Zhiyuan took Xu Guangqi and Fa Zheng to the Sun Mansion to go to the banquet, and the reason why he brought Fa Zheng instead of Zhang Cheng was Guo Zhiyuan, considering that the head of the Sun family was a pirate after all, dealing with this kind of person who had licked blood on the knife, it was better to bring Fa Zheng with a higher force value.
When he came to the Sun family's mansion, the head of the Sun family did not greet him at the door, obviously he thought that Guo Zhiyuan was not qualified to let him greet him in person, because he already had a plan to get closer to the head of the Sun family, Guo Zhiyuan didn't care, handed over the invitation, and followed the guide into the Sun family's mansion.
Last time, Guo Zhiyuan didn't even get into the door, so he didn't think how this Sun family mansion was, and now he was taken aback by the momentum of this Sun family's mansion, only where Guo Zhiyuan saw, this Sun family mansion occupies a much larger area than the county government, and there is an inner door when he enters the outer door, but the inner door is bigger and stronger than the outer door, the whole door is wrapped in iron sheets, and it is also full of door nails, which is both powerful and unbreakable, and the courtyard wall is not an ordinary courtyard wall, you can stand and walk on it, Guo Zhiyuan even saw the lookout post and shooting hole, Where is this a mansion, a strong fortress!
Before he arrived at the inner door, Guo Zhiyuan heard the sound of shouting and weapons hitting inside, could it be that there were still people fighting inside? Guo Zhiyuan was a little puzzled and followed the guide into the inner door, and was startled when he entered, inside was a huge martial arts training ground, the size of two football fields, and there were many weapon racks at the four corners, on which there were all kinds of weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, hammers, etc., and there were dozens of family members on both sides of the martial arts training ground who were practicing martial arts, some were boxing, some were practicing with weapons, and the shouts and weapons were sent out by them!
Although it is winter, they are all shirtless, steaming all over, and many of them have scars on their bodies.
Seeing Guo Zhiyuan and the three of them coming in, many family members stopped their movements and looked at the three of them, with coldness in their eyes, and even a little murderous aura, which made Guo Zhiyuan subconsciously want to retreat, but he knew that he must not retreat at this time, so he pretended to move forward as if nothing happened, at this time, the two family members who were close to Guo Zhiyuan who were practicing with weapons suddenly shouted, and the rope of the rope dart held by one of them was cut by the long knife in the hand of the other family, and the sharp dart head shot in the direction of Guo Zhiyuan!
Fortunately, Guo Zhiyuan took Fa Zheng with him, so it was naturally impossible to let the dart head from the lightning hurt Guo Zhiyuan, and shouted: "Who dares to hurt my family!" I saw him jump up like a big peng spreading his wings, and as soon as he copied it, he copied the electric dart head firmly in his hand!
This Fa is a martial arts idiot, just came in and saw so many people practicing martial arts, I was a little itchy, and now I can bear it when I see these family members taking the initiative to provoke, and laughed: "Come and don't be rude, you will also eat me a dart!" As he spoke, he threw back the dart he had caught, forcing the two sparring players to scramble and dodge very embarrassed.
"How daring!" These family members are all unruly, and when they saw that so many of them dared to provoke, they were all furious and surrounded them violently!
"Stop!" An old man in a cyan robe shouted from the hall opposite the martial arts training ground, this old man has gray hair, and he should be over fifty years old, but his waist is as straight as a green pine, and he walks like a tiger, not showing his old age at all, especially a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle falcon, which makes you feel like being pricked by needles when you look at people!
This old man is none other than Sun Chuan, the head of the Sun family! He stopped his subordinates, walked over quickly, and arched his hand to Guo Zhiyuan: "The subordinates were reckless and almost injured the adults by mistake, please forgive the adults!" But he said that he asked for forgiveness, but there was a half-apologetic look in his tone, and even bowing his hand seemed very perfunctory.
Guo Zhiyuan also guessed the identity of Sun Chuan, and looked at this legendary head of the Sun family with a little curiosity, although this Sun Chuan does not look old, but his skin is dark, his face is weathered, and he has the obvious characteristics that only people who blow the sea breeze all year round will have, and his hands are thick and full of calluses, not at all like a pampered and well-pampered rich family, which also makes Guo Zhiyuan firm his judgment, this Sun Chuan has indeed been a pirate!