In the old man's place, Ye Yiwei was a little restrained, and it was still the same here in Tian Shengjin. But because of the factors of the previous post, in Tian Press's opinion, this restraint is a little graspy, and there is no contempt in his heart.

Wang Zunde and Tian Shengjin are both Jiachen Kejinshi in the 32nd year of Wanli, which is the same year, and Tian Shengjin is a few years older. Not to mention that Wang Zunde is still in Zhaoqing at this time, even if he is far away in Beijing, he will not sell this affection if his family asks for him, his young brother is not a begging character.

Wang Zunde's Xintian Shengjin has already seen it, so he naturally knows Ye Yiwei's identity and his intentions.

Needless to say, as long as the merchants who did not go abroad from other provinces wanted to hire workers in the province, the iron smelting and workers would only have to have a tooth to make a contract as long as they wanted, and the government would not interfere much, but it was all voluntary. As for going all the way back to Guiyang from Guangzhou, I only had to worry about the local people and bandits along the way, but I didn't have to be afraid of the government.

In fact, whether the King of Portugal or the King of Spain recognizes it or not, Macao is now a territory directly managed by the Ming Dynasty rather than a colony, but to be precise, Xiangshan County is the actual supreme governor of Macao. The six members of the Macau Council met the county decree and paid homage to the Shangguan.

At the beginning of Wanli, the Guangdong government set up a gate in the lotus stem, which was originally opened twice a month, but in recent years, the population of Macao has increased, so it has been changed to open every five days, but every time the gate is opened, only the Francophone people are allowed to trade food and living needs in the gate. Franc Robot is not allowed to enter the Mainland without permission, and Mainland people are not allowed to enter Macao without permission. Since the Nanjing teaching case last year, this year, the Yongmo battalion has set up a new general's office, and 2,000 troops and horses under its jurisdiction are stationed in Yongmo and the islands around Macao. Therefore, Ye Yiwei also specifically asked that the safest way for them to go to Xiangshan Ao on an out-of-line basis was to ask Xiangshan County to issue a road guide. Although Tian Shengjin does not directly govern the local county order, he believes that the local officials will not refute his face for such a trivial matter.

And Wang Zunde begged Tian Shengjin to be on his head, and the two were the same in the same year.

Wang Zunde was born in a military household in Guizhou, and it is not the same as the fact that there are gateways in Zhejiang, Shandong, and Huguang.

There is also another origin of Tian Lao, although Tian Shengjin's home is in Huguang Macheng, when he was a Confucian student, he was wrongly sentenced to prison for a case in Taihe, Jiangxi, and in the fourth year of Wanli, Tang Boyuan, who had just served as the governor of Taihe, was rehabilitated by Tang Boyuan, who had just served as the governor of Taihe, and this was the title of the gold list after his 28 years. Tang Boyuan after the official to Shangbao Si Cheng, Wanli 29 years in his hometown Chaozhou passed away, Tian Shengjin according to Guangdong after the first thing is to go to Chenghai County Xianmen in the Tang family temple to worship, and the handwritten 'loyalty and filial piety Liufang' Le Shi Ji.

The relationship between Tang Boyuan and Wang Zunde's master Guo Zizhang is extraordinary, Guo Zizhang was the prefect of Chaozhou before he patrolled Guizhou, when Tang Boyuan returned to the system because of his mother's funeral, Guo Zizhang took care of it. Ten years ago, Guo was a famous family in Taihe, although Guo Zizhang had been promoted and appointed as the governor of Jianning Mansion in Fujian Province when Tang Boyuan was appointed in Taihe Zhixian County, but as a famous person, Tang Boyuan, a magistrate, was also respectful to the Guo family, and they were all Yangming Xinxue, so they had a very personal relationship. The students of the two were both officials in Guangdong after the same year, and Wang Zunde first sought the name of Tian Shengjin.

After taking a seat to watch the tea, asked Wang Niandi if he was still healthy, and asked if the road on the Xijiang River was smooth, Master Tian quickly cut to the point.

"In the letter, I said that Shopkeeper Ye is going to Xiangshan Ao to recruit Ao Yi who is good at casting guns?" He knew that Wang Zunde had always paid attention to the unity of knowledge and action, and there were few scholars from Guizhou who were not from Yangmingmen, and his younger brother was very strict with his subordinates, and he would never let his family make it difficult for him for personal gain, but the corresponding matter still had to ask the person concerned again, which was to prevent Wang Zunde from being deceived by the villagers, after all, last year's lesson plan was not small, and now Master Tian had to be cautious about the trivial matters in the past.

The tea was in his hand, and Ye Yiwei, who was hesitating to drink or not, hurriedly replied, "That's what the young proprietor meant......

So he told Tian Shengjin how Wang Xingping's father was killed by Yi people outside, and how he took revenge and almost wiped out the enemy's family, and then Wang Xingping hoped to strengthen Guizhou's armament with the help of advanced weapons. There were also words in these Wang Zunde's letters, but when they heard someone say it to their faces, Tian Shengjin had a little more scheming in his heart.

He thought that Wang Zunde was just looking for some photos for the younger generations of the clan, although this young brother was a righteous character on weekdays, and he was indifferent, but he did not commit any taboos to do something for the villagers, and this Wang Xingping was a businessman, presumably knowing that Guangdong commerce and trade were prosperous, and he heard that Xiangshan Macao could pass overseas, so he asked Wang Zunde to come here.

But just after hearing Ye Yiwei say this, the image of an aspiring young man has broken the previous appearance of being a cross-disciple cockfighting lackey, where is this kind of casual small businessman, who is clearly a talented person who can be used in the world. Tian Shengjin has been in office for a long time, and he also had a lot of ups and downs when he was young, and he has his own calculations when he knows people, Ye Yiwei has lost his momentum when he sees him stumbling when he speaks, but he can still clearly hear many highlights from his narrative.

Looking back, I feel that I am funny, although Wang Zunde asks for help for his family, but he is a person who knows the importance of it, and he values the younger generations of this clan so much in his letter, naturally he will not only see his ability to do business.

Asked why he came to Guangdong to find Aoyi and return to Guizhou to assist in the production of firearms, Wang Xingping taught Ye Yiwei a sentence of 'mastering Yiyi's long skills to control Yiyi' completely persuaded Tian Zhiyuan.

"It's a pity that the proprietor of your family is so knowledgeable that he is only a businessman." Tian Shengjin felt that the people who could say the words 'master Yi's long skills to control the razor' really could not be regarded as a philistine, although he did not like Yangyi preaching, but he did not reject these Taixi's technology. He naturally knew that the missionaries could deceive people in both capitals and lead so many high-ranking officials and nobles to follow the teachings, relying on these real things. Not to mention anything else, Guo Zizhang published Matteo Ricci's "Complete Map of Mountains and Seas and Lands" when he was still in office, and Matteo Ricci was able to finally win the favor of the Son of Heaven in Guangdong, and he also relied on Western ingenuity such as self-striking bells to the emperor.

But Ye Yiwei still interrupted Master Tian's condescending sigh at an inopportune time, as a subordinate, he naturally understood how to improve the status of the master at the right time.

"If you go back to the courtyard, my young master was originally studying, and now he is studying the scriptures under Ma Jinshi in the township, and he will be able to study after the old proprietor's filial piety."

"Horse ...... Jinshi ...... "Listening to what the old shopkeeper said Wang Xingping's teacher turned out to be a jinshi, Tian Shengjin unconsciously began to calculate in his heart, there are few Jinshi surnamed Ma in Guizhou.

seemed to have seen through the thoughts of the official opposite, Ye Yiwei did not have the previous restraints, and replied with his hands crossed, "Ma Jinshi is really the predecessor of the court." ”

"I didn't expect it to be a disciple of my predecessors." Tian Shengjin suddenly thought about it, no wonder Ye Yiwei wanted to mention it in front of him, although there was no intersection, Tian Shengjin at least knew that Ma Wenqing had also done the Guangdong patrol back then, and I heard that a young man who passed the exam in the previous subject but did not go to the palace was still his nephew.

Hearing this, Tian Shengjin only felt that he had underestimated this Shaodong of the Wang family, and he felt sorry and sighed.

"It's just a pity that it will be delayed for another two years." This is naturally Tian Shengjin's regret for Wang Xingping's filial piety delay in the imperial examination.

But Ye Yiwei didn't seem to understand, and only cared about explaining to his owner, "Actually, it doesn't matter, the young owner is still young, and he also said that it is better to be tempered." ”

"Oh?" At this time, Tian Shengjin remembered that he only knew that Wang Xingping was young, but he didn't know his age, so he asked again, "How old is the owner of your family this year?" ”

"It won't be fourteen until the winter moon."

Tian Shengjin sighed again when he heard this, of course, he only sighed. Although the age of thirteen is not a small age in terms of ordinary work and business, and children around the age of ten know that they can help the family herd cattle, but there are indeed not many people who can gain fame at this age. However, there is no shortage of geniuses in the Ming Dynasty, and recently Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of Jiangling, is a twelve-year-old Xiucai, and Yang Tinghe, who is also a twelve-year-old Xiucai, is also a twelve-year-old Xiucai, but stronger than Zhang Juzheng is that he won the promotion in the second year, three years earlier than Zhang Juzheng, who was deliberately suppressed by the examiner. Because of the foil of these predecessors, Wang Xingping, a 'talent' who didn't have the opportunity to refer to until he was sixteen years old, doesn't seem to be so unusual.

Even if he asked Wang Zunde's nephew clearly, Tian Shengjin finally put his mind at ease and asked about the matter.

"How many people are there for you and your group this time?"

"Plus the villain has a total of eight people, after meeting the uncle in Zhaoqing last time, he sent one of the villain's nephews back to Guiyang to deliver a letter, and now there are seven in Guangzhou."

"Where do you settle down?"

This is Tian Shengjin promised to help before he had to ask where he lived, and he couldn't do it right away when he arranged to go to Xiangshan Ao, so naturally he asked people to inform him later, and Ye Yiwei was overjoyed when he heard it.

"There are three people who went to Foshan first and did not return, and now a few of them are with the villain and settled at the Gaojia Inn next to Haopan Street."

Since the Song Dynasty, Guangzhou City has built a jade belt in the south of the city, which is originally a moat. Because the Hao River is wide, it has become a place of call for the boat for a long time, and the Hao Pan Street is in the south of the Jade Belt Hao, which is the place where the Han merchants gather in the city of Guangzhou. But where there are silk roses, flowers, birds, rhino horns and all kinds of overseas curiosities, both sides of the Hao River are rich families.

In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, in order to strengthen the city defense of Guangzhou to resist the mountain bandits, the government built an outer city on the riverside outside the city in the south, and the Haopan Street was surrounded into the city, but the prosperity of this place is still undiminished, and now the merchant ships of trade still enter from the water gate, and the Chinese and foreign merchant ships that load and unload goods here every day are endless.

Tian Shengjin didn't know about this place, and said, "It's indeed a good place to go over there." ”

In fact, Ye Yiwei and his entourage have already arrived in Guangzhou, but first, they have to understand the market, and secondly, they don't want to ask for the best among the officials, so they haven't been in a hurry to deliver the door post.

Tian Shengjin asked so much, it was a big exception, and it didn't take so much to meet the local gentry on weekdays, but after a while, he also firmly remembered the name Wang Xingping.

Xiu Yi used his own private seal, and most of the road to Xiangshanao was settled.

A few days later is the day when the gate is opened, as usual, before the winter solstice, Xiangshan ordered to go to Macao with the officials of the sea road to inspect and collect land rent, silver and regular tribute taxes, Tian Shengjin's original intention was to let Ye Yiwei and the officials errand and his party, one is to facilitate the coping, and the other is that the officials guarding Macao are all there at that time, and they are not afraid of superfluous incidents.

Lao Cangtou led Ye Yiwei and his entourage out of the backyard, at this time there were already several officials and squires waiting in the gatehouse, although it was Mu Ri, but as a minister of this province, there were never a few people who came to hear about it, and he came early today and was recommended by Wang Zunde himself so that he did not eat the closed door.

Ye Yiwei's status is humble, and when he saw these officials, they all nodded and saluted, but the ordinary ones in the middle just looked up, and saw that they were a little contemptuous when they described humility.

I didn't want to meet two people who returned the gift in the end, and when I looked at it again, I saw that the two people had short hair and short clothes, although they looked like Han people, but the clothes were not Middle Earth, but among these sitting guests, he was the most cordial, and he was curious but it was inconvenient to stand in the hall for a long time, and finally went out full of doubts.

Before leaving, he said to himself, 'There are really everyone in this Guangzhou City. ’