Chapter 512: The Joy of Family Planting

Every time he returns home from the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion, Jiang Feng's mood is always better than ever, listening to his child's milky voice calling 'Father', the fatigue of the day is swept away, and now among Jiang Feng's wives and concubines, Liu Fangrui gave birth to two boys, Su Guanyue has a boy, Su Guanxue has a girl, Xia Cuiyu is the last to give birth, there was only a boy last year, Andrea gave birth to two girls, and the only one who is not pregnant is Tang Xuan, who came back recently,

The oldest of the children is four years old, and some of them can't leave their mother's arms, and a few who can walk on their own are all under the leadership of Jiang Zhengxi, running crazy all over the yard, and the family and maids behind are carefully watching, for fear that there will be any mistakes.

In this era, it is very different from when Jiang Feng did not cross over, at that time it was not a good thing to have an extra child, fines, household registration and other measures to ensure that you were anxious, in this era, the people for this kind of thing, the most authoritative can use this sentence to explain "more children and more blessings".

Especially for a prince like Jiang Feng, there are heirs, and there are many heirs, which is a necessary means to stabilize his subordinates and make them more loyal. In fact, after the birth of Dinghai, the child of his wife Liu Fangrui, many scholars who were still a little wait-and-see began to take the initiative to contact the bureaucracy in Huazhou.

Because there is an official heir, it means that according to the current momentum, Huazhou can at least ensure that the two generations will not decline, and it is worth its own allegiance.

Su Guanyue's son is the eldest son, that is, Jiang Zhengxi, he took his younger brother Dinghai to run around, Jiang Feng hugged them in his arms as soon as he came back, and after teasing them for a while, he walked into the main hall with a smile on his face, where a wife and concubine had already prepared dinner and waited for him to come back.

When Jiang Feng didn't cross over, he was just a restaurant chef waiting for death, and after the crossing, he was just a Jinyi Wei Colonel, although he became rich later, but because of what he did, he still didn't dare to ask for any stability in his heart, just to save his life, where he thought that there would be a situation full of wives and concubines and children today, and the most important and fulfilling thing for a man is that his career is successful and his family is happy.

Looking at the lively dinner table, Jiang Feng also felt a little ambitious, according to the etiquette of this era, the female dependents who can sit with Jiang Feng are just Liu Fangrui, but Jiang Feng is too lazy to engage in these vains, and he also knows that if there is really a class, the inner house will not be peaceful, so he arranges for his family to sit on both sides of the European-style long table when eating.

It's lively, the whole family gathers together, don't say it, Jiang Feng's relatives rarely have anything to do with jealousy, of course, there is Liu Fangrui's general understanding, the modesty and courtesy of the Su sisters, Andrea's introvertedness, and perhaps the credit of gathering at the long table regardless of class.

The family banquet of the governor of Huazhou enjoys a high reputation among the civil and military officials of the Jiang family, even those who have eaten in Jiangnan and Jingshi are also amazed, Jiang Feng relied on his cooking skills in Huifeng Building to get the first pot of gold, but it is not in vain, although he does not cook by himself now, but the chefs of the Governor's Mansion have been guided by Jiang Feng, incidentally, in the past, Bao Fat Man in Huifeng Building, Chef Bao is the chef of the Governor's Mansion.

Bao Fatzi used to give Jiang Feng a lot of strength, and later when he was helping the chef in Jingshi, he also helped Jiang Jiajun a lot, this kind of hero who started together, now many of them are in charge of one party, according to the meaning of Jiang Feng and Zhao's master book, Bao Fatzi can get an idle position in Taishou Mansion, anyway, he is extremely generous, so that he will be rich and noble for the rest of his life. I didn't expect Chef Bao to be idle.

said this to Jiang Feng, saying that he had been a chef all his life, and Jiang Feng had great favors with him, and his old Bao was willing to continue to be a chef in Jiang Feng's private house, which could be regarded as doing something for Jiang Feng and Lord Jiang. Since he said so, no one was willing to embarrass him, and Bao Fatzi was not only skilled, but also knew Jiang Feng's tastes, so Jiang Feng agreed to him.

Every night, Jiang Feng always drinks some rice wine, this rice wine is transported in the south of the Yangtze River, it is the best wine, it has always been supplied to the richest people in the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Feng's identity, naturally there are maritime merchants to buy it to him to make him happy, at this time the weather on the Korean Peninsula is already a little cold, drink some hot alcohol, it is very pleasant. When Jiang Feng was drinking, he couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the letterhead he brought on the boat in the afternoon.

Su Guanyue, who was on the side, looked at Jiang Feng and laughed, and couldn't help but ask gently:

"Husband, why are you so happy?"

The distance from Zhangzhou to Incheon in North Korea, that is, to Huazhou, even if the fastest ship of this era sails with full sail when the wind is right, it will take a month and a half, Yang Shishi occupied Zhangzhou City in June, and in September, the information compiled by the pro-military battalion and Sima Cheng followed the ship to Huazhou.

The so-called Spanish occupation army occupied the city of Zhangzhou, the fall of a medium-sized capital city, or the capital city near the coast, in the case of the ban on the sea has not been revoked, this is not a big deal, because the Fujian officialdom almost all know that Zhangzhou City actually has no official people, most of them are operated by the subordinates of maritime merchants, if there are any bandits and pirates and the like who want to enter the city.

As long as it is a sneak attack with heart, it is not a problem to take this city, as long as the nearby officers and soldiers are dispatched, they can be recaptured quickly, but what I didn't expect is that it is not pirates and pirates who occupy the city, but the regular army of Spain, and the combat effectiveness is very strong.

It is said that these huge ships were originally prepared to attack the Portuguese in Macao, but they did not succeed because of Guangdong's strict precautions, and some people say that this is the conspiracy of the bandits and pirates in Guangdong and the foreigners, that is, to invade the land of our Ming Dynasty.

No matter how it is concluded, for a while, with the strength of Fujian's own province, it is impossible to recapture Zhangzhou in a hurry. In this mountainous terrain of Fujian, it is not very convenient to gather a large number of soldiers and horses, and it is often necessary to transport troops by sea by boat.

At this time, the sea route was completely blocked by gunboats, and it could only be transferred inland, which was not something that could be completed in a short time, so Fujian was mobilizing more troops and horses to prepare for the attack on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was reporting layer by layer, requesting the transfer of troops for support.

In fact, in this matter, the upper and lower levels of Fujian have not been affected at all, the peasants and landlords are still farming, as for those industrialists and businessmen who have made a fortune by maritime trade, the first few days of the occupation of Zhangzhou City were panicked, and later it was found that Yuegang had just changed its owner, and its business was not affected at all, and to be able to make a fortune, the merchants did not have any concept of a nation-state, and they would not feel any inconvenience.

The only thing that feels very troublesome is the missionaries from Europe, with the increasing prosperity of the maritime trade, the missionaries who came to the Ming Dynasty to preach are also more and more, and the missionaries who came to the East in this era are generally the priests of the Jesus Church in Spain and Portugal, these people use the different technologies and insights of the West and the East as an introduction, and after waiting for people to be interested, they are preaching the doctrine.

In the Ming Dynasty's industrial and commercial boom, the traditional Confucian system was chaotic, it filled the spiritual gap of some people, but in recent years, the church in the West has gradually declined in the north, for no other reason, because the new Holy Taoism began to rise slowly, this Holy Taoism does not talk about cultivation and focuses on making a fortune, which is naturally in line with people's psychology, and miracles have repeatedly appeared, so no one can not believe it.

The teachings of the Jesuits were relatively very old-fashioned, very different from those Protestant doctrines that advocated industry and commerce, so they did not take advantage of it, and gradually began to concentrate in the big cities and the south, because Fujian was also an important coastal province, there were many clergy in Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and Zhangzhou.

After the fall of Zhangzhou City, these missionaries, who were also from the West, were immediately suspected by the government of spying on the military intelligence, and no matter what they did in the past, they were all arrested and imprisoned.

The coincidence is here, Spain did organize an expeditionary force of 3,000 people, in the kingdom of Spain, this is naturally not a military secret, but it was almost two years ago, and those priests who knew about the expeditionary force also came to Daming by boat. After all, no one knew that in Malacca, that fleet had been completely annihilated, the ships had been sunk to the bottom of the sea or burned, and many people were imprisoned as slaves in the South Seas.

In the prison of Fuzhou City, there was a priest who knew about this matter, and several missionaries who were also from the West stayed with him, he thought that these were all compatriots from Spain, and the officials outside could not understand Spanish, so he told him what he knew, and at the same time encouraged his companions and said, The invincible army of the Kingdom of Spain must conquer this country, we only need to pray to the Lord and believe in the army of the Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, there was a Portuguese who was imprisoned with him, and he did not want to suffer for the glory of Spain, so he immediately told the guards at night - the priests could speak Chinese.

At this moment, the Spanish invasion of the Ming Dynasty and the capture of Zhangzhou City were firmly established, and Huazhou did not even exert any strength......