Chapter 8 The Status of Westerners in the Ming Dynasty
Wang Youzhen left home to find his second uncle, and he was extremely cautious about attracting unnecessary attention.
I didn't go directly to Yu'er Town, turned around and went to the door of the ancestral hall to guard, waiting for the second uncle to deliver cotton in the evening.
When he came to the door of the ancestral hall, Old Man Wang did not guard the door of the ancestral hall meticulously like a pro-army.
Then there are no three hundred taels of silver here, and it is obvious to tell others that there must be a secret in the backyard of the ancestral hall.
Old man Wang brought a rattan chair and lay it under the persimmon tree at the entrance of the ancestral hall.
Squinting his eyes, he seemed to be sleeping, but he was actually vigilantly paying attention to everything around the ancestral hall.
Any wind and grass can't hide from Old Man Wang, because he didn't collect at night when he was at the border.
He often went deep into the hinterland of Liaodong to explore the situation of the Eight Banners.
Wang Youzhen thought that his grandfather was asleep, so he didn't disturb his grandfather's sleep, moved a small wooden pier, and sat next to his grandfather honestly.
At dusk.
The dazzling sun turned a mild orange, and the clouds were brilliant in patches.
At this time, the sea level is the most beautiful, Wang Youzhen is not in the mood to watch the sunset on the beach, and his attention is all on the dirt road in the village.
After a bag of cigarettes.
Wang Yanren came back with a mule cart, the frame of which was covered with a layer of black tarpaulin, and it was impossible to see what it contained.
When Wang Yanren saw Wang Youzhen here, he smiled and said, "Eldest son, how is your body recovering?" ”
Wang Youzhen's body has long recovered, and every time the second uncle sees him, he still asks with concern, pats his chest and smiles: "It's been well for a long time." ”
"The second uncle is resting, and the things in the car are handed over to the nephew."
Wang Yanren hurriedly waved his hand, and insisted on stopping Wang Youzhen from letting him do such rough work, and drove the mule cart to the backyard of the ancestral hall alone, untied the black oilcloth and unloaded the cotton.
When the second uncle was done, Wang Youzhen handed over a bowl of well water and said, "Second uncle, my nephew needs something." ”
Wang Yanren drank the dry well water in one gulp, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and motioned for Wang Youzhen to speak.
However, what Wang Youzhen asked for made him feel a little strange, even weird.
A civilized stick, six red-haired wigs, a set of Captain Helan's suit, five sets of Helan sailor suits, and some bits and pieces of dansha dye.
Strange is strange, thinking that my nephew is half an immortal, I didn't ask too much, and I went to buy these foreign goods for my nephew.
Two days later.
These are difficult to buy in Nanyang, especially the captain's suit, there is no place to buy it, and Wang Yanren only took two days to buy all of them.
Wang Youzhen was amazed by the second uncle's ability in business, which was comparable to that of some big capitalists when they were young.
The goods were all purchased, and early the next morning, Wang Youzhen left Yanchi Village with his five younger brothers and went out on a long trip.
There is a big river that flows through the two provinces near Yanchi Village, Weishui.
It was precisely because of this big river that Wang Youzhen determined his Shandong Governor's Division, Laizhou Mansion, and Changyi County in Daming.
On this trip, Wang Youzhen rented a small flat sand boat with dozens of materials for one dollar and seven cents of silver, and went to a place more than 100 miles away along this Weishui.
Fuyan Mountain.
Shandong has had many ringing horses since ancient times, especially in the turbulent year of the late Ming Dynasty, and many large and small ringing horses appeared in various parts of the Shandong Governor's Division.
There is also a ringing horse in Changyi County, and the sounding horse falls on the grass in Fuyan Mountain.
No one could have imagined, even Wang Youzhen, that Sun Baohu's spindle was sold to a ringing horse that was not in production.
Wang Youzhen took his five younger brothers on a Pingsha boat and went to Fuyan Mountain, more than 100 miles away.
Three days later.
Wang Youzhen got out of the Pingsha boat again, including his five younger brothers, who had completely changed.
Where is still the salt ding of the Ming Dynasty, it is clearly a noble captain of the Helan East India Company, as well as his henchman sailor.
Wang Youzhen had never been to Fuyan Mountain, and he had no navigation, so he could only rely on a map drawn by his second uncle and keep asking for people.
Finally, when it was almost dusk, Wang Youzhen came to the foot of Fuyan Mountain.
Fuyan Mountain covers a wide area.
The terrain is high and very steep.
Wang Youzhen looked up, the mountains and forests were sparse, and most of them had been cut down, leaving only stumps.
Before he could see the terrain around him.
More than a dozen ringing horses, armed with spears and knives, suddenly rushed out of the nearby ravines and grassy woods, without making a sound.
It wasn't until the horses were about to rush in front of him that Wang Youzhen noticed that there were more than a dozen people around.
Wang Youzhen looked at the ringing horses around him, thinking that it was not like in the novel and TV series, and rushed out a bunch of people, for fear that others would not know that he was going to sneak attack.
It seems that there is still a certain gap between fiction TV and reality, so that it is more in line with the identity of the horses.
After the horses rushed over, they didn't say a lot of nonsense about where you came from and what your name was, and they were going to kill the six Wang Youzhen brothers when they lifted their spears and big knives.
Wang Youzhen immediately spoke: "Doe het niet, ik heb rijkdom gebracht. ”
The little palm plate in the lead heard Wang Youzhen's babbling words, waved his hand, and motioned for the brothers to stop for the time being.
It's not that Xiao Zhangpan understood Wang Youzhen's words, and he saw that Wang Youzhen didn't have much silver on him, and he was dressed like a rich maritime businessman, so he could be arrested as a kidnapping ticket.
Because of the proximity to the sea, there are often maritime merchants in the county, and there is a Xiangma who can speak the Bang language.
Xiao Zhangpan's eyes were firmly fixed on Wang Youzhen and the others, and he ordered: "Go and call Ma Liu." ”
Ma Liu, who was as thin as a monkey, hurriedly ran over from behind, his face full of flattery: "Don't worry, vice master, the little one will tell you what the red-haired ghost said." ”
Ma Liu stole a married woman back then, and later was chased and killed by the ancestral hall of her husband's family, so she fell into the grass and became a ringing horse.
Ma Liu was already looked down upon by Fu Yanshan Xiangma, and some Xiangma who didn't know that he could speak Fanbang heard that he actually knew the words of a red-haired ghost, and their eyes looked at him with even more disdain.
Xiao Zhangpan frowned even more, and said in disgust: "After this ticket is done, you don't have to follow Lao Tzu, go to the stable to raise horses." ”
As soon as Ma Liu finished saying that he knew Western, he felt that something was wrong, and when he saw the eyes of the horses around him, he heard the cheers of the little palm plate, and gave himself a mouth on the spot: "I'm a cheap mouth, what kind of barbarian words do I learn." ”
Wang Youzhen has been watching all this.
The look is complicated.
In later generations, some people knew a little bit of foreign language, and they wanted to tilt their heads to the sky.
If you communicate in foreign languages, you think you are superior.
In the Ming Dynasty, in this last Han dynasty.
Everyone in the Ming Dynasty regarded learning foreign language as a shame.
From shame to superiority.
All these transformations were made possible by the Manchu Qing Dynasty established by braids.
Because of the treaties signed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty that humiliated the country.
Little by little, it has defeated the national self-confidence that has been built up by thousands of dollars since the Qin and Han dynasties, and it has also made Westerners look down on the Chinese people as inferior to even the dark-skinned people.
The Ming Dynasty opened the country from Hongwu, regardless of whether the king was virtuous or mediocre.
From beginning to end, no coins, no peace.
Even if it's a dead country.
We will never give in to external insults.