As a blonde and blue-eyed foreigner, Kong Tai is obviously not suitable for activities in the interior of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, it was too conspicuous in the Ming Dynasty and easy to be noticed.

Therefore, the matter of secretly contacting Jinyiwei and bribing Liu Jin can only be done by a broker. For this reason, Kong Tai found Hu Jian, a more reliable broker, to help with this. But at the same time, because the silver is precious, Kong Tai spent money to hire a few reputable knights to help escort the silver and avoid accidents.

While giving Liu Jin a bribe, Marin also attached a painting, a painting of a turtle......

Dürer used sketching techniques and used a large piece of paper to draw a picture of a Galapagos tortoise in equal proportions, named "Xuangui Tu", and asked the broker in charge of bribery to teach Liu Jin, bluntly saying that this was auspicious and wanted to dedicate it to the imperial court. There are also eight words on the turtle map: "The wind and rain are smooth, the country and the people are safe". In addition, there is a note in the painting, which reads: "If you can successfully worship, another 50,000 taels will be offered......

Even if it was for money, Ma Lin believed that Liu Jin would not refuse. Moreover, now that Liu Jin is angry and resentful, and his reputation is not good, he also needs Xiangrui to rejoice and prove that he can bring good luck to the court. This kind of fame and fortune, presumably he will not refuse.

If it was according to the normal procedure, Ma Lin should have landed at the two city points of Guangzhou or Ningbo, and then after inspection, the Ming Dynasty officials arranged to go to the capital to pay tribute.

Marin, however, did not intend to follow this old path. Because, it took too long. It is now the third month of the lunar calendar, and it is only about five months before Liu Jin's downfall. If you take the normal tributary route, it is estimated that it will be delayed until after the fall of Liu Jin. After that, it's hard to tell, and it's hard to do.

Therefore, Ma Lin planned to take the fleet directly to Tianjin Weidagu to land. As for the reason, it is "escorting Xiangrui into Beijing". After all, the Galapagos tortoise is known as the "turtle", which is very precious, and it is reasonable to go to the mouth of Dagu. As for the law of unreasonableness, what is there? Now that Liu Jin is in power, he has the final say whether it is in line with the etiquette law or not......

Originally, when hiring a master to escort silver, Ma Lin planned to go to Quanzhou South Shaolin to hire a master to escort darts. It's just that after inquiring, I found that there are no kung fu masters in Southern Shaolin now, and it is still a holy place for Buddhism in the south.

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After thinking about it carefully, Ma Lin patted his head - it seems that Hu Jiannan's habit of practicing martial arts in Shaolin was developed by the famous general Yu Dayou when he resisted the Japanese a few decades later.

At that time, the southeast coast was not peaceful. In order to protect himself and assist Yu Dayou in resisting the Japanese, Hu Jiannan Shaolin began to practice martial arts, using Yu Dayou's "Sword Classic" as a blueprint to practice stick skills. Later, the local people in Quanzhou also used this as a blueprint to develop a folk martial art called "Biandanquan". This kind of martial art was mainly popular in the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty forbade the people to carry weapons, and the common people simply used the flat pole as a weapon to perform Shaolin stick skills, so as to practice martial arts for self-protection.

And now, Yu Dayou is just a 6-year-old kid, one year younger than Caesar. Therefore, Nan Shaolin or something, is still chanting, and there are no large number of warrior monks. Moreover, Yu Dayou's martial arts are mainly learned from the "Jingchu Long Sword", not Shaolin Kung Fu.

Don't look at the martial arts that praise Shaolin martial arts to the sky, but in fact, in real history, when Yu Dayou visited Shaolin, he found that Shaolin martial arts at that time were too bad, so he passed the "Sword Sutra" from the "Jingchu Long Sword" to them. Even, the legendary "Yijin Sutra" was only created by the Tiantai Zining Dao people at the end of the Ming Dynasty (1624). Note that it is a Taoist, not a monk. After the Shaolin monk got it, he bragged about it, saying that it was written by Asan Dharma thousands of years ago, and he would never admit that it was invented by a Taoist priest. And Lao Jin believes in Buddhism, and naturally he also helped Buddhism blow a wave in martial arts. In fact, the old Jin Zu was an official for the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The Manchu Qing Dynasty respected Buddhism the most and deliberately suppressed the Taoism of the Han people. As an ancestor who was in the Qing Dynasty, Lao Jin naturally leaned towards Buddhism.

That is to say, in real history, Shaolin's martial arts in the Ming Dynasty were still very bad. Later, after absorbing Yu Dayou's "Sword Sutra" and Zining Daoren's "Yijin Sutra", Shaolin made great progress in martial arts. As for the reputation of the Shaolin Temple, Lao Jin's touting contributed greatly. And the Qingcheng faction and Kongtong faction that play soy sauce in martial arts are actually not weaker than the Shaolin martial arts school. But there was no way, Lao Jin was too famous, Shaolin was praised, and they were trampled on. Especially the Qingcheng faction, which was hacked the most. Yu Canghai, written by Lao Jin, directly blackened the Qingcheng faction out of Xiang, and later made a fuss that the descendants of the Qingcheng faction wanted to discuss martial arts with Lao Jin, thinking that the martial arts of this faction were justified.

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Although he did not find the legendary Southern Shaolin master, Kong Tai still found several well-known martial arts masters through intermediaries. After all, Hujian is mountainous, and where there are mountains, there are naturally bandits. In order to protect themselves, there will always be some martial arts masters.

Marin is not short of money, and this time he brought a lot of silver. Therefore, he generously spent money to hire seven or eight martial arts masters with good reputations as guards to escort Baiyin into Beijing.

At the same time, through the broker, Kong Tai also contacted a hundred households named Feng Xu stationed in Hu Jianquanzhou by Jinyi Wei and asked him to help secretly contact Liu Jin.

At this time, Quanzhou was not yet open to maritime trade. Even, the Ryukyu Kingdom paid tribute, and they all took the Fuzhou route. Therefore, Quanzhou was not prosperous at this time. And Feng Xu and Feng Baihu are stationed here, which is not a beautiful difference. His duties were mainly to inspect the scourge of pirates and pirates along the Hujian coast. And Jinyiwei really mixes well, either in the north and south of Beijing, or in the south of the Yangtze River. The one who was built by Hu is definitely an unlucky guy who was distributed.

Through contact, Ma Lin and Kong Tai found that this Feng Baihu was quite kind and not so black-hearted. He gave two thousand taels of silver, and took it. Then, Ma Lin gave him another 500 taels of "activity funds", and this Feng Baihu really sent someone to pass the news back to the capital through Jinyiwei's internal channels. Subsequently, the team escorting 10,000 taels of silver also took the internal note issued by Feng Baihu and went north (in the Ming Dynasty, you need a road guide to go out of the county, and the household registration management is very strict). Feng Baihu didn't drive a road guide, and he didn't have that power. But what he issued was the internal passage document of Jinyiwei, and he didn't dare to make things difficult for the magistrate. Because, those officials are more afraid of Jinyiwei than ordinary people.

Moreover, because in recent years, with Liu Jin taking control of the government, the power of the factory and health institutions is very amazing. Because, Liu Jin's control of the whole country was achieved by Dongchang and Jinyiwei. Therefore, no fool dares to easily get along with Jinyiwei.

In fact, Hu Jian also had eunuchs guarding the town. They are Liu Jin's direct subordinates, and they have a closer relationship with Liu Jin than Jin Yiwei. However, Marin was reluctant to find these eunuchs. Because, eunuchs are often very greedy and have a great appetite. If it falls into their hands, it will definitely be extorted fiercely. Therefore, Ma Lin would rather let Feng Baihu earn this money than provoke those town guards and eunuchs who have a paranoid penchant for money......