didn't have a good impression of Dongjiang Town, Mao Jue didn't see Sun Yuanhua in the end, this dead old man only sent his eldest son Sun Hedou, who was a clerk, to approve the official document of going south for himself, and sent Mao Jue away like a plague god, so that he wanted to settle accounts with him for the last time the old man deducted 30,000 or 40,000 taels of buried silver.

"Damn, you should spend money to feed the dog to keep it safe!"

Standing on the tail tower of the Black Pearl, Mao Jue gritted his teeth angrily, and his old face twitched and knocked on the railing and shouted.

It's rare to see her young master so funny, and Su Yi laughed like a flower in the back, but before she finished laughing, Mao Jue's angry voice came again.

"The Lord is grieved and humiliated! Suyi, I'll go back to the room and pout the young master for a hundred slaps to dissipate your anger!"

The smile froze on the little face, and in the next second, Su Yi's face was red and about to drip blood, I don't know why, at the beginning of the departure, the young master of her family seemed to have changed a lot, and her eyes were blazing to make her feel terrible, but when she thought of the shameful appearance, she raised her little buttocks and made Mao Jue raise her slap, and Su Yi felt that half of her body was crispy and numb, and a girl's heart couldn't stop hitting the deer, and she stomped on her little boots and ran off the bridge like a desperate escape.

When this Mao Jue was teasing the maid, he didn't know that the pair of eyes were also staring at him.

"Is this really a battleship of the Dongjiang River? Is the surname Mao really willing to spend money on battleships? ”

Different from those great Ming scholars, Sun Yuanhua is one of the few people in this era, such as Lin Zexu in the late Qing Dynasty who opened his eyes to see the world, not only did not hold the idea of the Heavenly Empire and was arrogant, he also took the initiative to accept the Catholic baptism, and received the opportunity to contact Western studies with hunger and thirst, and he and Xu Guangqi and others were the first batch of scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty to accept the West.

It's a pity that this figure in history was because of Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng's Wuqiao Mutiny, was defiled by Wen Tiren, and beheaded the Beijing Division, the first advanced firearms unit of the Ming Dynasty was brought to Houjin by Kong Youde, and the hope of reorganizing this army was also extinguished by Chongzhen's own stupidity.

In fact, it is no wonder that Sun Yuanhua is so disgusted with Mao Jue, Mao Wenlong has not done anything good in the past two years, and he is very active in asking for salary, but after the attack, Jin's war is becoming more and more unconcerned, in the eyes of a pragmatic official like him, Dongjiang is a complete waste of silver.

The old guy's beard fluttered in amazement, such a big sail battleship, even more than the Western running ships he had ever seen, looking at his own adults in amazement, the master next to him was smiling and arching his fists.

"Lord, not only did he spend money on this battleship, but this Mao Gongzi was also very generous, and he has carried thousands of stones of grain in the past few days to help those poor ghosts of the Liao people outside the city! It is said that he also gave them a thousand taels of silver to return to Liao! ”

His face became treacherous, and the two thin beards were like rats, and the Shaoxing master lowered his head in a sinister manner, and said flatteringly with his fists.

"Do you want your subordinates to find a few people to go over, let those poor ghosts in Liaodong get acquainted, spit out some money and food, and honor the mansion?"

"Back to Liao?"

These words made Sun Yuanhua's eyes light up, and then he frowned and shook his head.

"Does he have such a big place in Dongjiang?"

Pinching his chin for a moment, the old guy suddenly waved his hand.

"Didn't the treasury enter 30,000 taels last time? Go to Laizhou to contact the ferry for the province, those Liao people actually want to return to the north, so send them back to Liao!"

"Huh? Still spending money? ”

The master is a little dumbfounded, he gives Dongjiang a penny on weekdays, and his master is distressed, how did he change his sex today? He hesitated, but Sun Yuanhua was extremely irritable and waved his hand impatiently.

"These Liao people have no land, no food and no clothing here, and there are so many of them! Sooner or later, it's a catastrophe! Now that the surname Mao is willing to accept it, it is good, so don't do it quickly!"

After sending away the master, Sun Yuanhua was not idle, returned to the governor's yamen, and began to sort out the household registration, but half an hour later, he was staring at a pair of dim old eyes, holding a boiled bud rice stick to look left and right, and also took it to the front of his nose and smelled it.

"What is this?"

…………

There are no planes in these years, and it is purely a dream to arrive in one day in Northeast Hainan, Mao Jue has a three-month vacation, and he has to do business and worship his ancestors and marry his daughter-in-law, which can be described as a tight time and heavy tasks, starting from the easternmost corner of the Shandong Peninsula, not even relying on the shore, commanding the fleet is all the way to the west.

Although in the last years of Jiajing, the sea ban that lasted for almost two hundred years has been lifted, but the damage of the forbidden sea to the Ming Dynasty is still obvious, and the shore is parallel to about ten kilometers or so, seventeen days, thousands of kilometers, Mao Jue was stunned that he didn't even see a Ming warship that patrolled and interrogated, but in the sea off Nanjing, the pirates encountered once, and more than 20 pirate ships of twenty or thirty meters also treated Mao Jue as a soft persimmon, and the wolves surrounded them from the southeast, and then Mao Jue let them see what is called hellfire, Seven or eight were sunk by artillery, and the pirates raised the white flag crying and shouting.

Not to mention, a large number of merchants looted by Mao Jue from Nagasaki City, flashed golden light at this time, more than 30 Nagasaki Han merchants, almost few are not running on both sides of Nagasaki in the south of the Yangtze River all the year round, the coastal bends and bends they are all transparent, there are actually more than a dozen people who know these pirates, with acquaintances to build bridges, it is much more convenient to speak, Mao Jue is also in the local customs, took out a few hundred taels of silver bow incense, and has seen the powerful pirates Zhiquer turned into jade silk, under their reception, Mao Jue also found a harbor on Changshan Island, north of the Zhoushan Islands, where he could moor his warships.

He didn't want to sail the Black Pearl into Jiangnan, it's okay to say in the north, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and not too many people pay attention to it, Jiangnan is the nest of those civil officials, God knows how to bring things to Jiangnan by sea, how those vested interests should rebound.

Mao Jue, the minister of the Southern Ming Dynasty who didn't even hold it for two years in history, didn't have a good impression at all.

Of course, pirates can't be fully trusted, this time the huge sea that went south with Mao Jue was also left by Mao Jue to Zhoushan, where he changed a few pirate ships similar to maritime merchants, plus a Dongjiang Fu boat, tossed a bit, and Mao Jue headed to the mainland.

After another day's sea journey to the east, on the eighth day of February, Mao Jue finally set foot on the first stop in the south of the Yangtze River.

Matsue!

This name may be very unfamiliar to many people, but when it comes to its name in later generations, everyone will be familiar with it, the magic capital of Shanghai!

It all shows that the end is the most prosperous era of the budding capitalism in China, and there is a saying that you can't buy Songjiang cloth and can't collect Weitang yarn, but the deepest impression that Mao Jue has here is that there are many people!

Densely populated, get on and off the boat from the harbor, less than a few miles is a Zhuangzi, walk on the narrow Jiangnan path, it is only early spring now, there are already layers of farmers in the paddy fields who are bending down to work, looking around left and right, stretching endlessly, occasionally a forest, also full of tall mulberry trees, the bottom is the mulberry garden.

As for the Huang Daopo brought back, tall looms, everywhere.

It is really completely different from the northern land, even if Mao Jue desperately moves, there are no people in Tieyi Town, it is still a norm, such a densely populated level, Mao Jue estimates that just such a small piece of Shanghai County, less than one-third of Tieshan, the population is estimated to catch up with the population of the entire Dongjiang Town.

Heaven is really unfair, the north is either a drought or a flood, at this time the south of the Shanxi River is already thousands of miles of red land, but the land here is fertile but can still produce rice floating with rice fat, which makes people full and warm, and it is enviable to watch.

In this era, prosperity is the scenery, come here, a pair of eyes in plain clothes are not enough to see, both hands pull the reins of the horse, the little brain can't help but look left and right, from time to time to exclaim wow, such a pattern, look at Mao Jue also has a feeling as if to the future generations, looking at it non-stop, but from the beach walked twenty miles, seeing the blue-gray ancient city of Songjiang looming on the horizon, the village on the side of the road, suddenly spread a burst of noise.

More than a dozen strong men are digging a big pit under the mulberry tree, a large group of people are watching there, and in the crowd, from time to time there is a sad cry of women, it is human nature to see the excitement, Lu Xun once criticized the habit of the Chinese people to see the excitement, but not only China, Americans, Germans, Japanese, British people will also watch the excitement, Mao Jue is naturally no exception, can't help but hold the reins of the horse and look up.

I thought it was a funeral, who knew that looking at it, the pit was almost dug, and the crowd was actually a young woman wearing a white skirt who was withdrawn, too far away to see the appearance clearly, and the light could see that the woman's slender little hands were tied behind the back with ropes, and you could see it strangled into the flesh from a distance, and in the exclamation of the crowd, these strong men in green clothes pushed the woman into the pit, and then a shovel and a shovel were raised.

In broad daylight, bury the big alive!

I saw the news before the crossing, there are women in India who have lost their husbands who were directly thrown into the fire by the villagers and burned to death, and I have heard that in ancient times, women who did not abide by women's morals were put into pig cages and thrown into the river to drown alive, but these made Mao Jue feel very far away, today, this scene is happening alive in front of him, this one, plain clothes pitifully looked at the pair of watery eyes, but before she pleaded, Mao Jue had already clamped the horse's belly between his feet, and took out the left wheel with his right hand, followed him, and dozens of knights neatly turned the horse's head.

Just when the earth was already half buried, fierce gunfire rang out behind the crowd.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

(End of chapter)