The rescue operation brought endless topics to the bored traversers. A shot of stimulant for this long and boring preparation. Several of the people who participated in the operation were asked to talk about what they had repeated hundreds of times every night after work. Bei Wei, Ran Yao, and Lin Shenhe shone like three new stars rising in the night. Everywhere you go, people come to greet each other, and people you don't know come to call you brothers.

After a thorough examination on admission, the doctor concluded that the person who had been brought to the hospital by many people was much healthier than the others. Although some things are missing, they are nothing more than inconsequential items. The most valuable is nothing more than Mr. Wen's stab-proof vest and electric shocker, some people romantically thought about whether the stab-proof vest would become the legendary silkworm armor in the rivers and lakes, and some people whimsically suggested that the executive committee wholesale "silkworm armor" - 10,000 taels.

The mood of the Executive Committee is not so optimistic. Of course, they weren't worried about armor or electric shockers. The stab-proof vest can't stop the bullet, and the battery of the stunner is a plastic shell when it dies. It's the behind-the-scenes message that came out of this ticket kidnapping.

The things found from the bodies of several killed bandits were bits and pieces, silver, copper coins, flints, cigarette pouches, and the most valuable thing was a letter, the content of which was also prosaic: it was nothing more than a greeting to ask whether the entrusted goods had been sold or something like that, but the payment was actually "Min'an Zhou Ruidun's head".

If it weren't for the fact that he had already come to the imperial capital to cross the party, Yu Eshui, a young history graduate student -- note that he was not a young historian, this letter would have slipped over like this, and after reading it, Yu told the executive committee that this Zhou Rui of Min'an should be the "righteous man" of Zheng Zhilong's clan brother Zheng Cai (a clan nephew).

The so-called "righteous man" was a common way of doing business among Chinese maritime traders at that time. The risk of going to sea to trade is relatively high, so the wealthy giant family raises some righteous men and righteous children, so that they can go to sea to trade against the wind and waves, and their own sons can enjoy their success at home. Others have become "righteous men" and "righteous sons" because of debts. These righteous men and righteous sons do not have a high social status, and they are equivalent to commercial semi-slaves - lifelong professional managers, and they are not allowed to change jobs. The Zheng family raised a large number of such "professional managers", and later Zheng Chenggong's famous household official Zheng Tai was also such a righteous man.

Zheng Cai, in modern terms, has occupied a major leadership position in Zheng Zhilong Group for a long time. Although this person belongs to the side branch of the Zheng family, but Zheng Zhilong was taken hostage after the Qing Dynasty, and for a time the Zheng group was leaderless, and he was able to stand out and retreat to Xiamen to compete with Zheng Chenggong. Shili is quite impressive.

This bandit leader surnamed Wang has a letter from the professional manager of the Zheng family, and a lot of information shows that they are from places in southern Fujian, and Zheng Zhilong's shadow clearly emerges.

Before he officially started to wear it, he formed a bond with the Zheng family, China's largest maritime group in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which is not very fun.

Yu Eshui said to the worried members of the Executive Committee: This is groundless. In addition to the Zheng family, there are currently one or twenty well-known pirate/maritime merchant gangs in the historical circles, and there are no small pirates with no name or surname, and the maritime merchants who want to make money anytime and anywhere, plus the Netherlands, Britain and Portugal...... It's a paradise of the law of the jungle. If you want to gain a foothold in Hainan, you must subdue them all. Whoever you make a feud with, early and late, zuihou is the same thing. This kind of businessman and thief character doesn't matter whether you have an enmity with him or not, if you have money to make money, you will come to intervene, and if you don't have the strength, you will be robbed by him, and peaceful trade relations are completely based on the deterrence of each other's armed forces. So there's nothing wrong with fighting this time, at least let them know that the traverser is not easy to mess with, so they won't be so unscrupulous in the future.

Nevertheless, in order to guard against possible retaliation by the Zheng family, the Executive Committee still put on first-level alert in the Guangzhou stronghold. Houses have been remodeled, fences and security doors have been installed, and fire extinguishers have been stockpiled.

Xiao Zishan went to visit Gao Ju, and told him about the incident, which surprised the old man Gao - he didn't expect that the Australian maritime merchant still had this hand, and he learned about it cleanly in this unfamiliar place. After the incident came out, although he also sent a sedan chair and mule cart for them to use at Xiao Zishan's request, he was always a little nervous and refused to help with all his might - after the letter of ransom came, he waited for them to ask for advice, so that he could sell a big favor.

I didn't expect this group of Australian maritime merchants to be so tough! He couldn't help but be greatly annoyed. Xiao Zishan opened his mouth to ask him for help, and he was busy and agreed.

Xiao Zishan used the excuse that after this incident, the house was vulnerable to attack, and offered to buy another house. Gao was helpless, so he had to agree. Fortunately, he still handled the purchase of the house, and the Australians did not seem to have lost their trust in him. So he patted his chest and said that even the payment for the house could be paid on behalf of him - as a gift for Master Wen's shock, Xiao Zishan even said a few words: "Don't take it as an example, don't take it as an example" and laughed.

As he spoke, Master Gao took out another list and handed it to Xiao Zishan.

He opened it and saw that it was listed: 10,000 paper rolls, 200 black silver lighters, 30 goose egg mirrors, 200 powder box mirrors, two full-body mirrors, and all kinds of novelty Australian goods.

"What is this?"

"Alas!" Master Gao sighed, with a very painful expression on his face, "It's a little filial piety in the capital." Urgently, can my brother deliver it within ten years? ”

"Well said, well said." Xiao Zishan agreed, this is not a rare thing, except for cigarettes, the rest can go to the small commodity market. However, this filial piety is really not small, and in terms of the total amount of trade, Master Gao has to pay almost 20,000 taels for the goods. What kind of person is so bullish?

Xiao Zishan thinks that such a strong character, if he can get a line through Master Gao, he will have a chance to use it in the future. So he deliberately said, "Naturally, we have to bring some new objects here." I don't know what hobbies the big guys in the DPRK and China have? Wouldn't it be better for us to give him what he liked. ”

"Thank you, Brother Xian," Master Gao smiled bitterly, "Novelty goods naturally need to be wanted, and these things are what they specified." ”

True TMD corruption. Xiao Zishan scolded in his heart, accepting bribes is not counting asking for bribes, and asking for bribes also brings a name to ask for something.

"So much?" He feigned surprise.

"It's not much, the two heads of the palace, the twenty-four yamen, and the cabinet ministers ......," Gao Ju muttered and stopped, "I forgot that the virtuous brother is not a Ming person, and these words may not be clear." ”

Xiao Zishan listened very carefully, the level of this gift is really not low. Exalted with so much energy? I wanted to test it, so I whispered: "Isn't this adult who opened the bill nine thousand years old?" ”

Gao Ju was startled, and hurriedly looked around, and saw that there was no one else, so he replied in a low voice:

"Be careful! It's not a factory man, it's another one. He asked rhetorically, "How does Brother Xian know the name of nine thousand years old?" ”

"I've been here in Daming for a long time, and I know a little bit about Daming." Xiao Zishan made a meaningful, "I know more than I say" aura, and whetted his appetite.

Gao Ju really answered: "Brother, you also know what kind of deal my brother and I have done," he sighed, "This deal can be done peacefully now, all thanks to the blessing of a Yang Gonggong in the palace." ”

At the moment, I talked about the relationship with Yang Gonggong, it is nothing more than that Yang Gonggong is his backer, and the matter of sharing the spoils is naturally not said, Xiao Zishan can also think of it - as long as this relationship is not unexpected by Chinese, even if you say that it is a pure friend relationship with him, it is useless.

"But now Gonggong Yang is not as good as before in the palace." Raised high and whispered, the voice was as low as a mosquito, "I don't like it." ”

"These objects are just going to please you?"

"How dare you say that you are happy, burn incense on all sides, and ask for peace is to sign up." Gao lifted a handful of sweat from his forehead, "I and Gonggong Yang are really one, no matter how much you spend, you have to do your best to repay the effect." ”

"Brother can save it."

"There's one more thing, please help my brother too," he arched his hand.

"Well said, well said." Xiao Zishan thought that his face was so sincere and his tone was so sincere, could he be borrowing money?!

"I've had a hard time lately, and I'm afraid that my money will not be able to turn around......"

TMD, I'm really afraid of what, Xiao Zishan is still nodding and smiling, but his smile is starting to stiffen.

“…… If you want to ask the virtuous brother to talk about several shopkeepers in Australia, can you change it to a monthly checkout? If I can say yes, brother, I am grateful, and I am rewarded. ”

This is to want to pay on credit, and actually want to bribe me. Xiao Zishan thought that it would not be too much to put forward this condition in any time and space. Most companies in the 21st century dream of laughing: it is already a well-established rule that the monthly settlement is 60 days after the monthly settlement, and the merchants on the treasure island are still trying to implement 120 days. In the 17th and early 19th centuries, foreign merchants came to China to trade, and the goods were entrusted to Chinese merchants before they could be settled one or two years later, and they often failed to settle the accounts, which led to many Sino-foreign trade conflicts.

The problem was that their trade was to raise money as quickly as possible, and that credit would increase the instability of collections, a matter that the Executive Committee would not necessarily agree.

He suddenly realized that since just now, Master Gao had been manipulating the conversation, using his curiosity to lead the topic to this step by step - this old fox!

"Could it be that Brother Fei Xian is very embarrassed?" Looking at the change in his expression, he knew that things were difficult.

"This has to be considered in the long run." At this point, he had no choice but to entrust the false snake, "It's just that if you want to owe the goods on credit, you have to have a clear reason before we can evaluate whether it is okay." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Gao Ju told him that Yang Tianliang came to Guangzhou and discussed with him about the construction of the nine-thousand-year-old ancestral hall.

"This ancestral hall is easy to say, and it costs five thousand taels of silver to fight. But Yang Gonggong means to 'scale Hongli', and to mobilize the merchants and people in Guangzhou, I am afraid that the cost of this matter inside and outside is not 70,000 or 80,000 taels. His face twitched slightly, obviously in pain.

Xiao Zishan's knowledge of the nine-thousand-year-old ancestral hall comes entirely from the "Five Tombstones" in middle school, and whether Guangzhou has repaired Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall is not a concept and is not interested. However, this matter should be reported to the Executive Committee as soon as possible, so that Yu Eshui can see if there is any use value.