Chapter 159: A Common Private Port

The maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty were pirates, and pirates were maritime merchants, even if the thieves at sea robbed the goods, the next thing they had to do was to become a maritime merchant and sell the goods in their hands.

At that time, in the southeast coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, because there were countless people who got rich by sea, many people did not have the courage to go to the sea to eat this bloody meal, and to make some warehousing, transit, and goods supply on land were all profitable, but this trade was illegal.

By the time Jiang Feng left Beijing, the imperial court had already begun to restrict coastal trade, which was different from how many miles the coastal residents of the later Manchu Qing had to move inward, but did not allow private people to engage in maritime trade. Some people also say that it was the huge profits brought by the Red Sea Trade in the eyes of Emperor Jiajing.

is ready to use the government to replace the private sector, but the businessmen below have no consciousness of giving up their personal interests for the sake of the country's great interests, and those who have a way to start buying the government government, pursuing those few places to go to sea, and those who have no way to start smuggling to the sea by themselves, such as the Xia family, who is cooperating with Jiang Feng.

Of course, there are still some illegal businesses that have always existed at sea, and they have slowly begun to flourish, such as the "Japanese Bandits", which slowly began to be raging.

Although the Ming Dynasty traded with foreign countries at this time, there was a large import of goods, that is, Japanese swords, the so-called Japanese swords. However, when he saw this sword in Dong Qianping's manor, Jiang Feng would definitely not think that it was left over from the looted goods.

Dengzhou Mansion does not have a port for maritime trade at all, and even if the Dong family is a retired prefect, it is not a big official, and it will not have the privilege of sailing on the sea at all.

Yantai Mountain is close to the sea, Dong Hu went down the mountain to plunder, where the goods were sold, and another mountain road, these things suddenly connected together in Jiang Feng's mind, and he suddenly felt enlightened.

The cart outside had already begun to load the cloth and bronze utensils in the house, Zhang Liang was directing Tie Ding to start getting busy, and suddenly heard Jiang Feng laughing inside, several people were stunned, and immediately rushed in to take a look, Jiang Feng laughed very happily there.

Almost as Jiang Feng expected, the Tie Ding, who had passed the news back and forth between the Thousand Households in Yantai Mountain and the Dengzhou Capital City, brought a message, and after the Tie Ding completely controlled the entire Thousand Households, they explored another mountain road under the leadership of the guards who were actually slaves in the past.

It was a very surprising place, the trail was gentle but not long, and when you got to the bottom of the mountain, there was a road that bent along the foot of the mountain to the official road in front of the mountain. Obviously, when the Dengzhou Mansion replenished the grain, grass and supplies to Dong Hu in Wubao, it was carried out by this road.

But what is really surprising is that there is a small port at the end of the mountain road, this small port is protected by mountains on both sides, and people outside will not know the existence of this port if they are not familiar with this place, and it can be said that it is extremely hidden. According to the soldiers of the guard, when the beacon tower was set up in the Hongwu period, the population here was still very scarce, and many things could only be built through the wharves of Tianjin and Shandong to transport materials here, and in order to dock ships, this small port was built nearby.

Until the time of Chengzu Zhu Di, the supply of Yantai Mountain was supplied by sea ships in Tianjin and other places, that is, when Jiang Feng came to buy sea intestines, and several guards along the northern coast of Shandong now also rely on the supply of Tianjin by sea. This small port of Yantai Mountain Qianhusuo, later Dengzhou established the capital city, built the road on land, this port is gradually abandoned, it has been abandoned for more than 100 years.

I don't know why the Dong family knew about this, after Dong Hu went up the mountain, Dong Qianping used the tenants and long-term workers in the manor to work several times to repair the port and mountain roads, and a lot of people died. Moreover, many of the people who came down the mountain to loot after Dong Hu had already died in the construction of ports and roads.

And every half a month, Dong Hu will drive these people to carry the goods on the mountain to the port, and at the same time, Dong Fu will also transport a lot of things over, and then, these soldiers in the guard are all circled together, I don't know what is going on outside, and the rest of the things are done by the cavalry under Dong Hu.

Although they were very well guarded, the soldiers still heard the sound of the ship approaching the shore, and all sorts of things.

It is already very clear that Jiang Feng is very convinced of his good luck in his heart, he actually encountered such a good harbor, this is a blind spot that Jiang Feng has crossed as a modern person. Everyone knows that the sea trade will have huge profits, almost in the entire coastal area of the Ming Dynasty.

Except for those important military towns, almost every place has a private port, and every place is smuggled, but few people are as arrogant as the Dong family. And according to the normal historical development, thirty years later, it is time for the so-called "Japanese Invaders" to begin to plague the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, it would be strange if there were no private ports along the coast.

200,000 taels of silver is not something that can be carried by a dozen carts at one time, but on the floor tiles of this big house, it is difficult for others to find out, Jiang Feng simply left a few guards - of course, these iron men are people who have families living in thousands of households.

Every time several carts pull some back to the mountain, the so-called ant moving will always have a clean day.

All the things in Fucheng are now dealt with, but the inn where Jiang Feng lives is full of visitors, Dong Qianping claims to be Bandengzhou, but the place occupied by eleven landlords is not a small number. They are all local snakes, and they all have a lot of ways in the mansion, so they naturally know what the situation is when the Dong family is exterminated.

Although it is said that it is a cluster of flowers on the notice, as if it is a commentary on romance, what is the prefect of the king's clever calculation, perseverance, and loyalty to the country and jealousy of the country and the envy of the thousands of households in the river peak, and finally uprooted the Dong family, who did many evils and was very angry with the people.

But the actual situation is frightening, almost this "down" hundred households from the capital (from the foot of the Son of Heaven to a poor place like Shandong, not what a down-and-out is, everyone thinks so) with their own 100 'family members" killed nearly 1,000 Dong family daring people, the so-called "Ban Dengzhou, the real prefect" was destroyed within a day.

Everyone is a native of Dengzhou, so naturally they all know those stories, the Dong family relies on the hundred knights on Yantai Mountain, the three hundred courtyards in the manor, and even the surrounding guards are not in their eyes. Dong Qianping once boasted that "my family has 400 soldiers, and I can run rampant in Dengzhou", because these people are much stronger than the most elite commanders of the guard, and if you talk about the number of people, it is not difficult for the tenants of the Dong family to gather thousands of Zhuang Ding.

But such a person was killed by Jiang Feng in one day, and so many people were killed in the city, and the Dong family was wiped out, and those officials who were very close to the Dong family on weekdays immediately issued a notice to explain the various crimes of the Dong family.

Although the remaining dozen or so big landlords are far inferior to the Dong family, everyone has done a lot of bad things. Jiang Feng even swept the Dong family easily, not to mention them, wouldn't it be similar to killing a worm.

These people were first restless at home, and then they sent people to respectfully come to the inn to visit Jiang Feng, who had not yet left, for the reason that it was quite ridiculous, saying that the imperial court soldiers and horses were stationed in Dengzhou, and the thousands of households in Yantai Mountain were close to the coast, and the conditions were the most difficult, and the local people felt that they had a loss in their hearts, so they first offered a certain amount of silver money and a certain amount of food.

If these words were heard by the two guards around, they would have to crook their noses in anger, when the Dengzhou Mansion allocated money and food on weekdays, they always deducted the loss for various reasons, God knows, the distance from Dengzhou Mansion to Dengzhou is only a few dozen miles, how can there be less than two percent of things.

Jiang Feng naturally smiled at the benefits of these deliveries, don't be in vain.

Five days later, according to the news brought by the former soldiers of the thousand households in Yantai Mountain, this day should be the day when Dong Hu's cavalry drove those soldiers down the mountain to carry goods on weekdays.

Now Tieding and his family are living in the dock fort, as for the original soldiers are living in the barracks opposite, the dock fort is still quite strong, this night, the dock fort only left ten iron dings, five hunters.

The rest of the people were all fully armed and followed Jiang Feng under the guidance of the soldiers in front, and they had already been arranged around the port where the other mountain road leads, and they were all waiting nervously there, Yang Da and a few stronger hunters were following Jiang Feng, holding bows and arrows in their hands.

There was a rather large fire around Jiang Feng, and although it was taboo to light a fire at night at this time, for Jiang Feng's subordinates, who were armed with a large number of long-range weapons such as fire guns and bows and arrows, lighting in the dark was crucial. And the trained ironclads can at least not be dazzled by the sudden light.

There is no need to silence such an ambush, Jiang Feng took a small sip of soju, and suddenly turned back to Yang and said with a smile:

"Are you really Orion?"

Yang Da was suddenly embarrassed by a question, looking left and right and didn't know how to answer, now everyone knows that the background of more than a dozen of their families is not Orion at all, but they are tacit to each other, today Jiang Feng laughed and said it, but it was embarrassing, and when he didn't know how to speak, Yang Da suddenly pointed to the sea and shouted in a low voice:

"Sir, there's a fire on the sea!!"