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There is a way that two flowers bloom, one on each branch.

We pressed Li Shouhan here to make thirty yarn pieces of fruit, and we didn't say that he wanted to make medical alcohol from potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, and we followed Zheng Zhibao's fleet.

Taking advantage of the west wind blowing in autumn and winter, Zheng Zhibao's fifteen boats returned to Xiamen in a few days. The soldiers on the streets also changed into red fat jackets.

Zheng Zhilong, the former owner of the ship and known as the "Jade Dragon", is now the Five Tiger guerrilla generals of the Ming Dynasty. When Zheng Zhibao met him, Zheng Zhilong, the freshly baked guerrilla general, was fiddling with the official seal and the official document in the hall.

"Big brother, fourth brother, I'm back!" As the fifth brother, Zheng Zhibao saluted his eldest brother, the fourth brother Zheng Zhihu, who was standing aside.

"Old Five, you're back?!" Seeing his fifth brother returning, Zhilong threw aside the copper seal in his hand, stepped forward and hugged the fifth brother, looking up and down, left and right.

"The fifth child seems to have gained some weight!" The fourth brother Zheng Zhihu on the side was also full of love.

"Well, the fifth child is a little fatter, and he looks good! Lao Wu, this time I was recruited, and the main official positions were given to leaders at all levels, you are my younger brother, so you have to suffer a little grievance, and there is no official position for you for the time being. ”

"him!" Zheng Zhibao pouted, "Then Li Shouhan in Nanzhong is just a thousand households with the rank of garrison, but what should people do?" Occupy one side by yourself, open the house and build teeth, so not majestic! The official of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a bird?! ”

The three brothers laughed heartily for a while, and Zhilong asked about the experience of the fifth brother's visit.

Zheng Zhibao was also happy, and ordered his soldiers to take out the iron and steel treasure knife given by Shouhan and give it to the eldest brother and the fourth brother for evaluation.

Seeing the iron and steel knife that was cherished by his relatives, Zheng Zhihu didn't say a word, reached out and grabbed one, and it felt heavy, which seemed to be heavier than ordinary knives of the same size. Pulled from the scabbard, a blue light flashed.

"Come!" He took off the sword he wore at his waist and handed it to the attendant, "Let's give it a try!" ”

"Fourth master, this ......" the relatives hesitated a little.

"Less nonsense, look at the knife!"

Zheng Zhihu is the most capable one in Zheng Zhilong's gang, and he immediately raised his knife and slashed at the sword in his hand!

The entourage didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly waved the sword in his hand and slashed at the iron steel knife in Zheng Zhihu's hand.

I only heard a crisp sound of gold and iron striking in my ears, and then, there was a soft sound of "dangchang", and the Zheng Zhihu in his hand spent a lot of money to ask for a master craftsman to build the authentic Japanese knife, the blade was broken into two, and the head of the knife fell to the ground.

"Hahaha!" Zheng Zhibao on the side applauded and laughed, "Fourth brother, I have already been on the boat back once, and my village rain is the same, it was cut off with a knife!" I can't imagine that this treasure sword of yours, which Miyamoto Musashi couldn't ask for, would end up like this! ”

"Fourth master, offended!" The attendant picked up the knife that had fallen on the ground and wrapped it in a handkerchief. "I'll go back and send it to the fifth master's village rain to ask the master to repair it."

"Fourth brother, it's nothing special, you try this." Zhibao took a book from the side and reached out and handed it to Zhihu. "Cut it with a knife!"

"You're crazy! Loyalty and Water Margin! The version of the Jiajing period! Big brother's favorite reading on weekdays! ”

"Relationship, it's a big deal that the next time I go to South China to trade, let people bring a set back! Nowadays, I don't know how to use the books there, they are cheap and messy, and the paper is white, and they look very good! "The leopard is a little bit uncaring.

"Fourth, it's okay, since the fifth said so, you might as well try!"

Zheng Zhilong saw the fifth brother's confident energy, and understood in his heart that this was probably the fifth brother's intention to show off in front of the brothers.

Slowly cut it down, and a palm-thick book of Loyal Water Margin was cut in half. Cutting gold and jade is not uncommon, and being able to cut through a thick stack of paper proves that the steel edge of this knife is indeed extraordinary.

"Big brother! It's a good knife! ”

Throwing a piece of silver to the entourage as a reward, Zheng Zhihu refused to put down the treasure knife in his hand anymore, "How much is this knife?" ”

"This knife was given to me by Cheng Yi when Li Shouhan sent me on the ship, and he didn't say how much it was priced."

"Huh!" Zhihu complained loudly to Zhibao, "You should ask him, such a good blade, no matter which team I want to match, even if I sell my wives to Li Shouhan, I have to buy back at least five hundred handles!" ”

"In this way, when Lao Tzu breaks into battle alone, he will no longer be afraid!"

Zhihu is the vanguard of Zheng Zhilong's gang, many times with the hostile armed firefight, are the first to fight the vanguard, the most dangerous time, is the opponent with a hook, iron rope to bind the limbs, fortunately the subordinates desperately rescued, this is the highlight of the encirclement.

Just talking about the issue of his wife, Zheng Zhilong's wife, Tian Chuan, surrounded by a group of maids, came out of the back hall to meet her uncle who returned from going out.

"I've seen my sister-in-law!"

When Zheng Zhibao saw his Fusang sister-in-law coming out, he naturally couldn't slack off, and hurriedly ordered his relatives to take out the gifts for the sister-in-law and the fourth sister-in-law, and respectfully placed them in front of the sister-in-law.

"This is the dyed muslin produced in the south, the most soft and delicate but, silk, than Suzhou and Hangzhou out of the good, this thing is called soap, used to clean the skin, bathing, the most comfortable and clean, and after use there is a faint fragrance, than with soap horn I don't know how much! The most peculiar thing is this thing, which the locals call perfume, and it is applied to the skin, and the fragrance is lingering. ”

Seeing her husband's younger brother introducing a dazzling array of gifts, more enthusiastic than those townspeople in Osaka, Tagawa couldn't help but lower his head and purse his lips and secretly laughed.

"Sister-in-law, you can use these clothes to make a few sets of twelve orders!" Zheng Zhihu was very bold and gave all the clothes and other things to his sister-in-law.

"Thank you uncle for that, but what about the wives of the fourth brother?"

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I still have some gadgets there, and I definitely won't let the fourth brother lose face!"

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhibao winked at Zhihu very narrowly.

The habit of the Fujian people, when the wife is there, generally does not talk about serious things, and after the Tagawa family returns to the back hall, the brothers start to discuss seriously.

"Pick it up!"

A dozen of Zhibao's relatives each held a tray containing samples of goods brought back from Nanzhong.

"Cotton cloth, refined salt, sugar, armor, nine-turn steel knives, spearheads, muskets, gunpowder, all here!" Zheng Zhibao introduced the goods brought back to the two brothers one by one.

"There were also some pickled foods, canned food, and so on, which were unloaded at the docks, so I didn't bring them. In addition, there are vegetable oil, wrought iron and other things, because they are too wolf-like, they are all on the dock and cannot be brought. ”

On the wharf, the huge oil basket of 300 catties was happily carried to the warehouse by the people on the wharf, and the wrought iron ingots were neatly stacked on the wharf made of bluestone, and someone next to them counted there with an abacus.

"Vegetable oil, a total of 50 baskets of 15,000 catties, in addition, there are two baskets that are given as losses, a total of 15,600 catties. Refined salt, this time transported back a thousand leads, transported to the inland mountainous areas, can be profitable. Wrought iron, promised us at least 50,000 catties per quarter, and this time I brought back 20,000 catties. ”

"Cannon! I want a cannon! Zheng Zhihu glanced around on the dock, but he didn't see the imaginary cannons.

Only a few soldiers nervously carried powder kegs out of the cabin, and occasionally a few large and small Franc planes were carefully set up from the cabin, and the twelve-pounder cannons that were originally intended to be purchased were never visible.

"Fourth brother, I explained our request to Li Shouhan. However, the types and ideas of our guns were rejected by myself. We don't want to buy so many cannons, mainly Franc machines and six-pounder guns. A few twelve-pounder guns for fort defense will do the trick! ”

On that day, Zheng Zhibao proposed to Li Shouhan about the purchase of a twelve-pound cannon, and Shouhan naturally had no objection to this, but when Zheng Zhibao arrived at the artillery field and saw the launch of the twelve-pounder cannon, he changed his mind.

"The recoil of the twelve-pounder cannon is too great, and our fortune ships and cangboats are afraid that they can't withstand such a big collision."

Of course, the twelve-pounder cannon shooting scene seen by Zhibao is more traditional, the gun carriage and gun emplacement are relatively common at the moment, and the things that the South Chinese Army has done by themselves, four-wheeled gun carriages, spring gun carriages, rope net blockades, etc., how can these things be shown to distinguished guests? ! Therefore, Zhibao still thinks that the effect of firing cannons is almost the same as that of the eight-pounder cannon, which can be described as high-quality and cheap, and it is worth the money. The effect that can be achieved by the big Buddha Lang machine, which weighs 500 pounds, is almost similar to that of a ten-pounder gun, so that the eight-pounder cannon is meaningless.

"In addition, the Big Buddha Franc machine has another benefit, which is incomparable to the eight-pounder gun! It's a fast rate of fire! If you use Zi Gong well, a skilled hand can fire five cannons in one minute in Western time, big brother, fourth brother, five cannons, what's the situation? If you use the group, you won't see any living things on the deck! ”

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out in the distance, followed by a scream, the three brothers looked for the gun, and under a puff of white smoke, a musketeer was squatting on the ground with his face covered and groaning in pain, and the people next to him were desperately shouting for Lang Zhong.

"Damn it!" Zheng Zhihu jumped to his feet and scolded, the musketeer was his subordinate, he was the most brave on weekdays, but he had just escorted the gunpowder into the warehouse, and when he saw that the gunpowder purchased from Nanzhong was fine and cute, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy, so he took some and put it in his own gun gun for test shooting, which can be regarded as a gun addiction. Unexpectedly, after pulling the trigger and igniting the ignition with the fire rope, there was a loud bang and the chamber exploded!

"Alas! Fourth brother, I didn't have time to say anything about this, and something like this happened! When I first bought gunpowder, I tested it with our guns, and it was easy to explode, the black powder in Nanzhong was finely processed, the particles were uniform, and when it was fired, it was all white smoke, unlike our gunpowder, a burst of black smoke rose after a cannon. However, the power of the medicine is too strong for our guns to bear. ”

"I'm Yi Niang!" Zheng Zhihu couldn't help but roar loudly on the dock, startling the people on the side to stay farther away from this master, for fear of becoming an item called a punching bag if he was not careful.

"Our ships can't use their cannons, and our cannons can't use their gunpowder! In that case, what are we going to do with all this Rausch stuff?! ”

Zheng Zhihu's roar overwhelmed the waves on the sea, and the frightened seabirds flew far away in the direction of Kinmen Island, leaving only a few soldiers waiting from afar.

When Zheng Zhihu roared and roared, he was a little tired, and Zheng Zhilong, who had not spoken for a long time, opened his mouth: "Fourth, it's okay, the guns and gunpowder that the fifth child bought back this time, I plan to use them on a few boats." In the future, these ships will be the elite of our elite, you go back and deploy your ships and men, and see how many ships can be distributed to exchange guns. ”

"That's a good idea!" Listening to the eldest brother, he plans to concentrate these guns and gunpowder and equip them into a system, instead of sprinkling pepper noodles everywhere, this approach naturally has many benefits for the expansion of his strength, and Zhihu naturally agrees.

"Old Five, these gunpowders are indeed good, how about the price?" After seeing the newly purchased 500-pound Big Buddha Lang machine launched using gunpowder from the Nanzhong Army, everyone from Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Zhihu, the shipowner, and the ordinary small leaders were overjoyed.

"A barrel of gunpowder is twenty catties, and the retail price is three taels of silver per barrel. The more we want, it is two taels of silver per barrel. ”

This price surprised the people present! I didn't listen, did I? Twenty catties of gunpowder is the cost, the purchase of saltpeter, sulfur, willow charcoal, as well as egg white, butter, radish sesame and other things used for purification in the processing process, miscellaneous and miscellaneous add up, two taels of silver is more than enough!

"Li Shouhan can be handed over!"

People generally believe that this is the friendship price and conscience price that Shouhan gives to everyone, and at the same time, they can't help but have a good impression of Li Shouhan, who has never met.

"Nanzhong is rich, I don't care about the matter of a thousand taels of silver, I have been in Nanzhong for a few days, and the farmers I see are all carrying farm tools made of fine iron on their shoulders to the fields, and most of them are wearing muslin cloth. Even those officials and slaves who do hard labor also eat three meals a day, with plenty of oil and water. ”

"Straight sissy thief! So rich! Let's go grab his vote! ”

"That's right! him! We've got everything! ”

Zheng Zhihu blurted out a sentence, which immediately made the people present react strongly, and it was quite a little bit of a response.

People began to talk there about how to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Nanzhong army to attack a certain coastal city in Nanzhong in one fell swoop, how to dig and plunder on a large scale, and then let go of the city with one hand, and sail away with the looted guns, gunpowder, fine iron, goods and people.

Only Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao were looking at the group of people in front of them who were having a heated discussion with a strange look, as if they were looking at a group of crazy people or fools.

"Go and rob the Southern Central Army, do you have the life to go in and come out?"

The words of carrying the handle made the heated discussion suddenly cold.

"Not to mention other people's guns and other people's ships, don't forget, these gunpowder guns are all made by others, and they can sell you a thousand barrels, at least 10,000 barrels and 100,000 barrels. What is there to spell? What can we boast of an advantage over others, except that we have more ships and sailors than others? ”

"Also, do you think the sons of Boss Zhang back then, and now the ones who are following Liu Xiang's old thieves are good hands?"

After receiving the praise of the leaders, Zheng Zhibao continued to introduce the situation of the South China Army. "Among the sons, the most capable tiger shark Zhang Xiaoliuzi is now the left wing commander of the naval division of the Nanzhong Army, stationed in Qiongzhou Mansion, guarding the east gate for the Nanzhong Army! If you want to rob Nanzhong, can you pass his threshold?! ”

As the boss of the gang, Zheng Zhilong's prestige is unquestionable and cannot be provoked, and his words immediately cooled down the warm atmosphere of the scene. Zheng Zhibao, who was sitting on his drooping hands, quietly tapped the tip of his boot on the surface of his foot, signaling him to stop talking.

"Ship owners, Zhibao went to Nanzhong to negotiate the trade situation on the order of the eldest brother this time, and by the way, he also brought you some gadgets, don't dislike it, meager things, and hope to smile."

With a wave of his hand, dozens of pro-soldiers outside each held a vermilion lacquered wooden plate and rushed in.

People fiddled with the three-inch hand mirror in front of them, happily and curiously looked at themselves in the mirror, this mirror is much clearer than the bronze mirror and the glass mirror of the Franc machine, and even their own sweat pores and pimples can be seen clearly.

"Fifth master! This is a good baby from there?! Can I buy a few? There are many mothers-in-law in the family, if only this mirror is taken back, I am afraid that the family will die! ”

One of the ship's owners roared excitedly, and his words caused a burst of laughter that resonated with everyone.

"Come on, make tea for the shipowners!"

Several maids set up a tea table in the crowd and began to boil water to make kung fu tea with a small red clay stove. Most of the people here are mainly from Fujian, and they have been used to drinking tea since they were children, and drinking tea is a common thing. However, the tea sets in the hands of the maids are very attractive to people's attention.

"This is the porcelain fired by Nanzhong itself, everyone, what do you think is better than Jiangxi porcelain?" Holding a thumb-sized teacup, Zheng Zhibao took a sip and slowly solved the mystery.

"Good boy! Then we'll have to grab it even more! Not to mention anything else, just these porcelain, selling to those Franc machine people, is a good deal! ”

The topic that had just been cooled was stirred up again.

"To rob? Everyone is a fellow villager in Fujian, you can go back to Zhangzhou, Haicheng and other places to ask those fellow villagers who live in Luzon, who is the world in Luzon today? On that day, the governor of Luzon planned to eat black and swallow Li Shouhan's goods, but his sailors broke through the city of Manila in one fell swoop. ”

"If someone can break through the city of Manila, how can their own territory be defenseless? Don't be delusional, if you have that kind of effort, it's better to think about how to find a good buyer for these good things of the Li family and sell them for a price! ”

"Fifth master, tell me, what other good things does the Li family have?" People's desires were well guided to a correct path by Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhibao, and people began to no longer think about how to rob the territory of the Nanzhong Army, but began to shift their main ideas to how to do a good job in this entrepot trade.

"Over the years, Zhibao has been haunting the wind and waves, going back and forth between Luzon, Nagasaki, Hirado, Xiamen and other places, do you remember that in Nagasaki and Hirado, there is one thing that can be used as money to settle accounts?"

"Of course I do! White sugar! ”

"This white sugar is now also one of the bulk goods sold by Nanzhong. This time, the Zhibao also brought to the ranks, together with the dyed cotton cloth of Nanzhong, all outside, and everyone can transport it home by themselves to taste and compare it carefully. ”

"In addition to these, there are peppers, cinnamon, chili peppers, saffron and so on, a dry spice."

"Straight sissy thief! Why didn't we find out that there was such a big cornucopia cash cow around us earlier?! ”

"Gan Yi Niang! It's not too late! ”

"The owner of the Fang Cai Fang is right, it's not too late, we are now the Daming Sailors, so we have a legitimate reason to haunt the sea and fight piracy, just imagine, if the east of Dayuan, the entire Fujian water surface is our final say, and the road route to Fusang is in our control, so the money will not flow in like the sea?!"

"Fifth Master, I've been talking about it for a long time, you just use these good things and valuable things to tease the little ones, tell the brothers, how do you feel about your trip to Nanzhong?"

Hearing someone in the crowd ask such a question, Zhibao picked up the teacup in his hand and took a sip, he was carefully recalling what he had seen and heard on this trip to Nanzhong.

"Do you really want to hear it?"

"Is there any fake?"

People responded in a mess.

"As I said, I've been to a lot of places, just like everyone else. When you stepped on the ground that day, you felt different from other places. The streets are wide, the houses are clean, the people in the markets are neatly dressed, there is no garbage, sewage and feces on the streets, and the people who come and go are all busy, and there are hardly idle people. After nightfall, the streets are brightly lit, people can buy a drunk in all kinds of taverns and restaurants after returning to Xiamen, although this is their own place, but seeing the sewage flowing everywhere on the street, garbage everywhere, I don't know which of the shipowner's people, actually urinated in public, see this, and make the Zhibao sick for a while. Not to mention other guns such as forests, armor and soldiers, this alone can see where the gap is. ”

All of a sudden, it hit everyone's vital point, these men who begged for a living at sea, the typhoon waves were idle, the guns were like rain, and they talked and laughed freely, but when it came to these government management, it was everyone's shortcomings. Even, the behavior of urinating on the street that Zhibao said, they did a lot of it themselves.

"In this way, this Nanzhong Army is really very evil!"

Zheng Zhihu smacked his tongue and couldn't help but be amazed.

Seeing that he couldn't talk about anything new, Zheng Zhilong had to announce, "It's all over today, let's disperse!" Many of the leaders and shipowners went to the courtyard very excitedly and happily received their share of cotton cloth, sugar, and nine-turn steel armor, and then dispersed happily.

"Old Five! What about those gadgets you promised me?! Zheng Zhihu grabbed Zheng Zhibao and deliberately made a strange sound in his mouth to demonstrate intimidation. It's not okay not to give it, it's not okay to fool your fourth brother with these things! ”

"Then how can you forget! However, fourth brother, how are you doing lately? The Zhi Leopard Thief smiled awkwardly at Zhi Hu. There was a look of ill will in his eyes.

"Lao Tzu is now fierce and fierce, and even the tiger has killed a few tigers! How? ”

"That's good! Come! ”

One of Zhibao's personal soldiers ran over when he heard the sound, and Zhibao whispered a few words in his ear, and the personal soldier rushed away.

After a while, the soldier rushed over with a very tightly wrapped brocade box in his hand.

"Fourth brother, our brothers' things naturally can't be the same as others, this is what I brought to you, for you and your sister-in-law to play in the boudoir, but, fourth brother, when the time comes, your energy will be greatly lost, don't blame me!"

"Don't talk nonsense, your fourth brother still needs these tiger and wolf medicines?" Zheng Zhihu was greatly dissatisfied and made a gesture to throw the brocade box.

"That said it was a tiger wolf medicine?! This is a good thing from Nanchu! It is called ice silk stockings and erotic underwear! Go back and let your sisters-in-law put them on, and you'll know what's going on! ”

When Zhihu heard this, he immediately took the brocade box into his arms and tucked the placket and robe belt hard, lest the brocade box fall out.

Seeing his fourth brother leaving in a hurry, Zhibao turned around and was about to step into the courtyard, but found that the eldest brother had been standing at the gate of the courtyard for a long time, and his eyes didn't know where to look.

"Big brother, big brother?"

"Old Five, you said that based on what you have seen and heard, how should we get along with the Nanzhong Army?" Zheng Zhilong withdrew his gaze from infinity and muttered to the fifth brother.

"Big brother, now that we have signed a business agreement with the Nanzhong Army, we should take advantage of the opportunity to accept the appeasement just now, and clean up all the people and horses from all over the coast, so that my Zheng family will become exclusive on the sea in this area! In this way, our business with the South China Army will be easier and better! ”

"And then?"

"And then? It is to give full play to the advantages of our control of the route and waterway, and to share the business with the Daimyo of Fuso and the Tokugawa shogunate, and the Nanchu Army! He sold the goods he produced to the Daimyo of Fuso, and we sold all kinds of materials produced in the mainland to Fuso, and by the way, we sold the goods of Fuso to the mainland! ”

"Anything else?"

"Then there's the trade with the Dutch, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and the Francos!"

A month later, Zheng Zhibao's fleet reappeared in Hue, this time with the ships in addition to gold and silver, and 1,000 families recruited from Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and other places.

"In order to benefit Sangzi, my brother recruited more than 3,000 people in his hometown at the price of one person to go to sea to give two yuan of silver, two people to go to sea to give four yuan of silver, and three people to go to sea. In addition, my brother plans to follow the example of Yan Siqi, the owner of the ship, who is also his sworn brother, and continue to recruit reclamation people to the Dayuan, please be stingy and sell some wrought iron farm tools to me! ”

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