So Wang Yue ordered the instructor Zhu Youxue to maintain order on the ship, accompanied by Li Zixiong and Wei Xiaoliang and under the protection of a squad of soldiers, and walked towards the streets of Pingdo. Perhaps in the future, the Tence Army is likely to take military action against the Wakoku, and as the military commanders, the two of them must have some knowledge of the local folk customs, and this visit to Hirado is also a good opportunity to increase their knowledge.

Hirado has been open for more than 200 years and has the style of an international port. The clean stone pavement is flanked by typical wooden Japanese houses.

Goods from Europe, silk cotton, mercury, sewing needles, iron pots, ceramics, copper coins, calligraphy and paintings, black and white sugar from the Ming Dynasty were full of them.

The streets are crowded with people, there are vendors, porters, and even monks who sell peace charms, tea craftsmen who sell tea with tea utensils! Three religions and nine streams, the crowd is surging, and when you look up, merchants and sailors from all over the world are bustling. Japanese clothing, Chinese clothing, Taixi clothing, Nanyang clothing and Korean clothing are all visible, three religions and nine streams, and the crowd is surging. Therefore, the modern military uniforms of Wang Yue and others are weird, and they will not attract onlookers.

And the singers, dancers, and prostitutes with heavy makeup on both sides of the road, covering their faces with folding fans, scratching their heads and posing there, are even more gentle!

Merchants from Kyoto, Kaiko and other places also came to the city, and the bustling port was called Hirado, the "Western Capital" by the Japanese!

The largest number of foreigners here is the Ming people, from Wang Zhi, Li Dan, Yan Siqi to the current Zheng Zhilong and other generations of people, the population of the Ming people here is a huge number.

There is absolutely no language barrier in the Ming official dialect here, and many locals can understand it, which has become a foreign language that must be mastered in addition to the official language, otherwise it will affect their own business and trade. Because the most merchants here are Ming merchants, and the most commodities are from the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yue was amazed, it was really hard to imagine that hundreds of years later, the descendants of the Ming people would be called "the sick man of East Asia" by the Japanese people. The poison of Manchu wild boar skin to Chinese culture is really more powerful than the Internet virus.

The prosperity of commerce and maritime trade has led to the most developed hotel industry in the region, which is full of hotels and restaurants.

When I came to the country, of course, I had to buy some special products to take back, and I bought a lot of them, so I found a bigger restaurant to eat.

Fujian and Cantonese restaurants, an antique Ming Dynasty building, make people feel friendly when they look at it.

Everyone sat down and ordered, and the enthusiastic shopkeeper immediately served the food, Li Zixiong said with emotion: "I thought that when I came to the Wa country, I went to a foreign country, but I didn't expect that there are so many Central Plains people here, even the shopkeeper." ”

Wei Xiaoliang also laughed and said: "I feel the same way, it seems that there are more people on the street than locals." ”

Wang Yue nodded and said: "I was both surprised and not surprised, what was unexpected was that I didn't expect it before I came, and I knew the answer when I saw the scene here after I came." ”

Wei Xiaoliang asked curiously, "Commander, why is this?" ”

Wang Yue said with a smile: "You should have also noticed that most of the goods on the street are from the Ming Dynasty, which means that the level of commodity manufacturing in the Wa Kingdom is lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, so there are Ming merchants everywhere here." ”

Li Zixiong said with some pride: "That's true, it can be seen that there is no shortage of capable people in our dynasty." ”

Wang Yue said: "The creativity of my descendants of Yan and Huang is proven by history, and it is indeed worthy of our pride. Saying that, he shook his head with a smile and said: "It's a pity that the imperial court can't operate, but such a good source of wealth is pushed outward, and every day shouts that the court has no money." ”

Li Zixiong said: "Doesn't the imperial court know the benefits of sea trade? The example of the former Song Dynasty is there, why turn a blind eye? ”

Wang Yue said: "Those officials in the imperial court must know, and the emperor may also know that once the sea ban is opened, it will be a great source of wealth for the imperial court." ”

Wei Xiaoliang asked, "Then why don't you open the sea ban?" ”

Wang Yue analyzed: "Because the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not want the imperial court to open a sea ban, they used to talk about Zheng He's trip to the West to work hard and hurt the people. Later, the major families tasted the sweetness of sea trade smuggling and obtained huge profits, so they did not want to open the sea ban. If everyone is qualified to run the sea trade, they will have more competitors, and if the imperial court collects another layer of market tax, they will have another layer of income. Behind these big families are those civil officials in the court, the emperor just wants to open the sea ban, and those civil officials can't enforce it if they compete with the people for profit. ”

The Ming Dynasty was obviously degraded in this regard compared to the former Song Dynasty, and the former Song Dynasty was at the head of the national crisis, and Wen Tianxiang and Su Liuyi, who scattered their family wealth to organize the rebel army to fight, there were too few such people at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty fought against the Meng Yuan, who came with almost the entire Eurasian continent, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was half of the country against the hundreds of thousands of Jurchens who rose from the White Mountain and Black Water, which is really incomparable.

Li Zixiong said hatefully: "The finances of the imperial court are so difficult, they need money for disaster relief, Pingliu Kou for money, and Liao Kou for money, but they do this, do the sage books they read let the dogs eat them?" ”

Wang Yue sighed and said: "The family and the country are all over the world, in their minds, the interests of the family are higher than the interests of the country, whose country is it?" It's Lao Zhu's family. Confucianism has reached this day, and the road has taken a turn. That's why I want to promote patriotism and nationalism within the starting point city, which is to replace the old and rotten system with new ideas and systems. This country refers to the world, not to a specific dynasty, it should be the world where our descendants of Yan and Huang multiply. ”

Li Zixiong exclaimed: "It's still the commander who stands higher and sees farther!" ”

Wei Xiaoliang also looked at Wang Yue with burning eyes, feeling that he really didn't follow the wrong person.

Wang Yue didn't feel much pride, but he looked at the present with the eyes of later generations and thought more clearly.

When Wang Yue and they were dining, the Hirado Sanfu Hall, the head office of the Zheng family in this place.

"Arrange for someone to keep an eye on those three strange ships, and report them as soon as they leave the port!" Zheng Lian instructed his subordinates to be humane.

Seeing that the man was ordered to go, Liu Zhonglin, the shopkeeper of the hall, asked, "Second master, do we really want to move that Wang Yue?" He is an official of the imperial court, and their goods are really good, if we can get the exclusive right to sell, it will definitely be a huge profit. ”

Zheng Lian said firmly: "The rules of our Zheng clan cannot be broken, and neither can the imperial court officials, we must let them know that only our Zheng family has the final say at sea." ”

Then he smiled and said: "Their goods are really good, didn't they say that they can get the goods in Tianjin or Jingshi, if we want to get the exclusive right to sell, just go directly to Jingshi or Tianjin, aren't they all the same?" ”

"But!" Liu Zhonglin wanted to speak and stopped.

Zheng Lian said categorically: "There is nothing that cannot be done, there is no proof of death when the time comes, and my Zheng family is afraid of who will come." ”