What happened four years ago?

It is true that many major events have happened, but all of them are hidden in the incident in which the official army conquered Jingnan and nearly one million Jiannu bowed down.

It seems that for the world, that day, there is nothing else.

In fact, there were many major events that happened that year, of course, the major events in everyone's eyes are different, for the millions of Qin, Gui, Zhou, and Lu people in Nanyang who call themselves "Xia people", the biggest thing in their eyes is probably the "Nantianmen Conference".

Almost everyone remembers that day, when the Ming and Zhuxia divided the South Seas, and although there were still many questions, the 12-day meeting was nominally to resolve the question of Ma Chen's ownership, but in fact it was more about the general principles of the division of the South Seas.

In order to prevent countries from fighting each other in the struggle for the South Seas, the Nantianmen Conference also focused on the issue of "effective occupation." Thus an agreement was reached on the issue of the South Seas.

The meeting seemed to solve many problems, but everyone knows it. In fact, the real meeting was attended only by His Majesty the Emperor himself and the kings of various countries, and then the seemingly deadlocked meeting ended perfectly and quickly.

What did the emperor say to the monarch of Zhuxia at the meeting that day?

No one knows, but everyone knows that from that day on, everything has changed.

For ordinary people, they may not know what happened that day, but for some who witnessed it, they know very well that their lives changed radically on that day.

The sun is shining.

Such sunny days are extremely rare during the rainy season, and this coastal city is the latest city in the capital of the Nanyang Zhuxia Kingdom, in the south of Yanzhou, the capital of the Lu Kingdom, and according to the official version, it has just turned ten years - although before that, the Turen also had an old city, but ...... It's just a "small village", and naturally it's not a city.

Although the Acehnese of Jinzhou (Sumatra) still clashed with the Zhou State many times during the closure of the Lu State, there were still no city walls built in Southern Yanzhou, and although it was impossible to distinguish the inside and outside of the city through the city walls, the edge of the city was inhabited by either commoners or wealthy manors.

In the corridor of a bamboo building on stilts on the riverside on the outskirts of the city, Liang Huali's eyes narrowed into a slit, and he occasionally let out a sigh.

It's been four years!

Four years ago, he was still the son of the Liang family's third room, or a rich family, he was just 16 years old that year, and he was still preparing to enter the military academy, two years later, he would be like everyone else, graduated from the military academy, entered the army, and after crusading against the savages for a few years, he would enter the officialdom like his brothers and become an official of Guiguo.

But with King Gui's decree, the grandfather who was "Huai'an Jun" was robbed of his title, and his father was also removed from his official position, and his grandfather was thrown into prison for "defrauding the countrymen", and he was pardoned. The whole family was also expelled from the kingdom of Gui. A large amount of family property was confiscated.

However, the monarch of Gui Guo is more or less still in love with the old - the title of "Huai'an Jun" has not been abolished, and it is inherited by his nine-year-old uncle, and the official land of the Liang family is still retained. Perhaps, this is also a great blessing in misfortune.

At least, for Liang Huali, who fled to the Lu State, he didn't have to hide his name, and he didn't have to worry about the sea fishing documents issued by the Gui State - it wasn't until three years ago that he knew that the sea fishing documents issued by the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Xia were transmitted to all countries in the world. If it wasn't for King Gui remembering the old feelings, even if he fled to Lu State, he would have been caught by patrols and handed over to Gui State.

"The scenery here is a little bit like the garden......"

Even though four years have passed, every time he lies down in the corridor and sleeps, Liang Huali still remembers what happened back then. At that time, he was only thirteen years old, and he fled from Gui with his mother in a hurry, and took a boat to Lu in the port.

Although the mother has jewelry, private money and 10,000 taels of silver dollar coupons from her grandmother. But in a foreign country, it is not easy for a woman to start living with her children, so in addition to studying for him and his sister in recent years, my mother did not dare to spend a penny, and even lived in a stilted building that could only sell 30 taels of silver, and it was by the river. But even so, even the corridor was wrapped in a veil.

"Guiguo's own family means that it can't go up, although the king let go of his family, but except for the fiefdom, everything else has been confiscated. Your father and they were exiled to colonial New York, and you're left on your own. ”

On your own......

Four years ago, he was admitted to the navigation school, two years of study, two years of sea navigation, he has long been accustomed to not relying on anyone, and now he is ......

A boat!

I need a boat!

Sitting up suddenly, Liang Huali's eyes stared at the river, there were sloops on the river, he needed not this kind of ship, but the kind of schooner at least twelve or thirteen zhang, and then, he could recruit sailors, sail to the sea, sail far away.

The woman who was sitting there sewing clothes looked up at Liang Huali, who sat up suddenly, sighed in her heart, and then asked.

"Xiaoli, do you really want to buy a boat?"

"Hmm!"

Liang Huali nodded.

"Sailing is the most profitable business, a boat can be earned back in a year at most, although there is a risk, but there is such a big deal, but there is really no one. Sometimes, I can even earn several boats a year. ”

I chose to sail not only because of my hobby, but also because of the money and the wealth that sailing can bring. Even if there is no so-called "a ship's silk and a boat's silver" windfall profits, the windfall profits of navigation are still extremely rich.

"Xiaoli, in fact, the old lady gave a sum of money for each room, although your mother only got 10,000 taels, but the silver is stored in the bank, even with the interest of the bank, you can live......"

The woman put down the needle and thread in her hand and said in a serious voice.

10,000 taels, for many ordinary people, is an unimaginable amount of wealth, put in the bank, even the interest is 700 taels a year, and some banks will even provide up to 1,000 taels of interest. This amount of money is enough for the expenses of a well-off family for two or three years. Not to mention 10,000 taels, ordinary people at most want to have a bank deposit of three or four thousand taels. And then live by eating.

"Mother, what I want is not to live......"

Towards the river outside the corridor, Liang Huali said softly.

"I want to be able to build my own Liang family garden here one day, and then let my mother live in it and live a good life."

The son's words made the woman sigh, and then she said.

"Actually, the reason why the Liang family has fallen to this stage is because it is too ...... Hey, my mother is just thinking, you can live a good life, as for the ...... on the side"

Shaking her head, the woman said no more, but sighed.

"How much silver does it cost to buy a boat, and my mother will give you the silver when I turn around......"

At the end of the 27th year of Xingqian, the sailing ship "Fuye" sailed into Suez, and the "Fuye" is an "ancient ship" that is rarely seen now, it is a full 28 years old, and if there is anything different, it is very small in appearance, only 12 zhang long. It has been adrift on the ocean for many years, baptized by typhoons and waves, and its hull is swarthy, with traces of time everywhere. Only the central mast is new, this mast was cut on the coast of the North Sea after the original mast was blown by the wind, in fact, it was closer to Japan at that time, but because of the "Japanese Lockdown Order", the imperial court strictly prohibited non-licensed ships from entering Japan, and the offenders were exiled at a rate, even if the Beiyang merchant ships with Beiyang trade privileges, only dozens of ships were allowed to trade with Japan. Because of this, even in the special case of a broken mast, the ships of the Ming and Zhuxia would do everything possible to avoid drifting to Japan.

The old deck, although shabby, was still very clean under the washes of the sailors. Liang Huali, who is a thorough captain, once served as the first mate of a schooner of the same size for a year, and after having his own ship this year, he began to sail this ship, which was his first time at sea, from Lu to Pseudo-Zhou, then to Tianzhu all over the country, then to Persia, and then to Suez.

Along the way, the hundreds of tons of goods from Daming and Zhuxia carried by the ship were sold, and many local goods were loaded onto the ship, such as cotton from Tianzhu, blankets from Persia, etc., if someone offered the right price, these goods would be sold, and then exchanged for local goods or gold and silver. Even if it is not sold, it doesn't matter, at least Tianzhu's cotton always does not worry about buyers, whether it is Zhuxia or Daming, a large amount of Tianzhu cotton is needed every year.

After the ship entered the port, after passing the customs inspection, like every captain, Liang Huali went directly to the port's trade center, where he could list the goods on the ship, and while waiting for the buyer, he could also collect the goods to earn a freight. As a colony of the Ming Dynasty, there is no difference between this place and any of the colonies of the Ming Dynasty.

Registering, searching for goods...... After finally finishing all this, Liang Huali had to go to a nearby teahouse to have a cup of tea, and as soon as he had a cup of tea, someone came over.

"Are you the captain of Fuye? ”

A young man walked up to him and asked.

"Huh? What are you looking for a captain? ”

Liang Huali looked at the young man who was a few years older than him and asked.

"I'd like to talk to you about business."

"Do you want to talk business? What business? ”

No matter how you look at it, this young man doesn't look like a businessman. Although he was not familiar with businessmen, the young man did not look like businessmen at all.

"You're not a businessman, are you?"

"You're right, I'm not in business, I'm working for the Canal Company."

Wang Xingye took the initiative to do it in front of him, and then said.

"I don't know anything about business, but my news is very good?"

"Oh?"

"That's right, you know, digging the canal requires a lot of labor, the Egyptian government has sent conscription, in recent years, millions of people have been sent to conscript in these constructions, and I can communicate with them because I learn the language very quickly, so I am in charge of the labor, of course, I am only responsible for a few thousand of them, but through talking to him, I got some information, some information related to business......"

When Wang Xingye spoke, Liang Huali did not react, he just listened to this person's words silently, although it was the first time to come to Suez, but Liang Huali also knew that in order to build the canal, Egypt requisitioned a lot of labor, according to the rules formulated by the Egyptian government, Egyptians are Copts, only need to serve one month of forced labor, as for outsiders, that is, those Tianfang Christians, need to serve six months of forced labor every year. Egyptians serving in forced labor can be seen everywhere here, and of course Liang Huali, a navigator, is very much looking forward to the day when the canal will be completed. "Oh?"

Responding lightly, Liang Huali asked rhetorically.

"What kind of news?"

"This news may not be of any value to me, but Captain, to you, it is worth ten thousand taels of silver?"

Wang Xingye said seriously.

"You want to sell me this news?"

Any port is a mixed place, and there will always be many people in this kind of place, and I don't know how many well-informed people have planted their heads on them.

"But I'm not interested."

Liang Huali said with a firm expression, anyone who planted a head was related to his own greed.

Maybe he needs silver, but that doesn't mean he's greedy. He never believed in any so-called "good things", after all, good things many times did not fall on his head.

"Captain, don't be too busy refusing first, listen to me first."

Knowing that there are many liars here, Wang Xingye is not in a hurry, he knows that he needs to persuade the captain in front of him to believe him.

Liang Huali didn't speak, he just looked out the window, looking at the people walking outside the window, both local Egyptians, and many Ming people, although the city is still called Suez, but he knows very well that when the canal is completed, when the canal company hands over the governance of the canal area to the Ming court, Suez will be renamed by the imperial court, and eventually all the old style here will be replaced by the Chinese style, just like those locals, they are changing their dress.

"That's right, Mr. Captain, you should know that there is now a very popular commodity in Europe, and this commodity can only be supplied in one place, and that is opium ......"

Wang Xingye looked at the captain in front of him, as if he didn't know what opium was, and he deliberately explained.

"Opium is a very special commodity, it ......"

"You don't need to explain this is such a thing as "hibiscus paste", according to the "Daming Law", it was transported to Daming and Zhuxia, the captain and the cargo owner were killed, and the crew was exiled to the Pole ......."

His gaze turned cold, and Liang Huali sneered.

"You want to die, Liang doesn't want to die with you yet!"

Dropping this sentence, Liang Huali got up and was about to leave, seeing that he was leaving, Wang Xingye hurriedly said.

"Captain Liang, it is death to be transported to Daming and Zhuxia, but it is not said that it is death to be transported to other places!"