Chapter 221: The Forbidden Sea That Exists in Name Only

His family members still stayed in the mansion of Liu Shunhua, the political envoy of his mother's family, leaving twenty people as guards, and Jiang Feng took his men and Monk Li on the road together.

Hangzhou to Liuheng Island is not a close place, how to say it will take two or three days, originally in the waterway into the sea is the most convenient path, but because of the forbidden sea, can only take the land route.

On the overland journey, you must pass through Taizhou, and in the inn outside Taizhou City, Jiang Feng's subordinates and the people sent by Monk Li are all ready to settle down for a night, at this time, they are naturally not fully armed, everyone is carrying a bulging burden on the horses.

He didn't wear clothes and armor, they were all ordinary clothes, which were all purchased by Monk Li, and he looked like a businessman who came to Liuheng Island to do business, but this makeup was just that. To put it bluntly, Jiang Feng and his subordinates were still quite surprised, thinking that this was not going to kill the head.

The decrees of the Ming Dynasty forbidding the sea are all harsh laws, how can these people be so careless. As a result, as soon as you go on the road, you understand in your heart that this is not a secret thing at all.

The roads were full of merchants and chariots and horses carrying goods and feet, all of them aiming at six horizontals, and everyone looked nervous as usual.

Although the inn where I live now is outside the city, the inn and wine shops in this position are almost connected into a large area, although it is completely dark now, but the surrounding area is still noisy and abnormal, there are people who drink and talk loudly, there are people who talk about the good or bad business, and the laughter of women is mixed in.

The smell of wine in the air, the aroma of fat powder, and the smell of seawater mixed together to form a rather strange feeling, and Jiang Feng felt like he was back in the modern era for a while.

The lobby of the inn is actually used as a wine shop, and the guests on the restaurant are all merchants who come and go, and after a tired day, they are here to drink a few bowls of wine, eat some fresh fish from the sea, and relax. In the corner where Jiang Feng worked, no one approached.

Whether it was the merchants or those who might be pirates, they were far away from Jiang Feng and his subordinates, and everyone felt the danger contained in them, Jiang Feng was there to drink the turbid wine in the bowl, the taste of this wine was quite sweet, obviously it was rice wine that had been in the south for a long time.

Although the sea fish and shrimp and crab in front of him are quite rude, this kind of seafood is fresh, and the flavor is quite good when boiled in white water.

Jiang Feng's mind was not focused on this, and tonight Monk Li's subordinates led the way to bring him a message, saying that in this inn, he would hand over the position of the leader to another person and let him wait in the inn. This sudden proposal made Jiang Feng's mood very bad.

Could it be that Li bald head is a ghost, Jiang Feng secretly sneered in his heart, if there is any trick, he simply doesn't need to go to Liuheng Island to buy a boat, and return to Hangzhou City to slaughter him.

His prediction was not wrong, who would dare to offend a fierce god like Jiang Feng now, and not long after, a hunchbacked old man ignored the surprised eyes of the diners around him and walked over by himself. Although the surrounding iron dings still held chopsticks and wine bowls in their hands, the other hand was placed on the table.

Jiang Feng squinted at the hunchbacked old man with a messy white beard, the old man was just laughing there, and unceremoniously took a sea shrimp with his hand and stuffed it in his mouth. Jiang Feng looked at it for a while, laughed, and said:

"There are still fewer wrinkles on your face, if you look closely, I'm afraid you will still be able to see it."

The white-bearded old man on the other side was stunned for a moment, then laughed as well, rubbed his hands and replied:

"Lord Jiang is really like lightning, but those little cubs on Shuangyu Island don't care about these, as long as they don't show our signature bald head, they will be confused about the past."

This hunchbacked white-bearded old man is the tall and mighty Li Guangtou, and several tables around him are sitting with Tie Ding, Li Guangtou himself got himself a bowl of wine there, took a sip and sent the shrimp meat in his mouth, sighed very pleasantly, and said with emotion:

"I drink the best Huadiao in the city every day, but the taste is a little worse, and the things in the countryside are still delicious enough."

Jiang Feng looked at Li Guangtou in disguise with a smile and a smile, now he thinks that the leader of this bandit is quite interesting, but it is much cuter than the hypocrite like Li Houbai who he beat outside the city a few days ago, Monk Li himself sighed there, and then smiled:

"Master Jiang, what can those little cubs under my command do, I can walk around Shuangyu with my eyes closed, or it is convenient for me to walk."

Monk Li was also excited when he said there, but it was better to say that he was confessing to Jiang Feng, because he had already made up his mind to rely on Jiang Feng, or at least in the last few years, the private port of Yantai Mountain Thousand Households is a priceless and valuable resource.

"Lord Jiang, you are really heroic in killing those Japanese ghosts outside the city, so that your lord can know that the reason why we were driven out of Shuangyu is because our family only deals with legitimate Japanese merchants and is unwilling to buy those blood-stained thieves, so we are angry and escape."

Speaking of this, Monk Li took another sip of wine with hatred, and said there with some complaints:

"We don't dare to say that we are a good person, but his mother feels angry in his heart, those big families in Hangzhou Mansion don't have their own business on the sea, why should Lao Tzu be killed and exterminated if he is caught, and they will be swaying like dogs."

Jiang Feng listened quietly there, the meaning expressed by Monk Li in front of him was to express his loyalty, he understood this meaning, but it seemed that there should be something to follow, what did he want to say? Sure enough, Li Guangtou on the other side lowered his voice and said:

"The Li Houbai that the adults smoked a few days ago, on weekdays, it is known as this person who enforces the strictest sea ban, and he is known as a young talent. But what he killed in his hands, the Japanese and the maritime merchants, did not cut off the heads of dozens of fishermen. Their Li family has more than 20 ships on Shuangyu Island, and the silver they earn every year is more. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Feng finally laughed, and said slowly on the other side of the table:

"Lao Li, the weather in our Dengzhou is cold, it's not easy to go to us, can you stand it?"

The title of "Lao Li" suddenly lifted Monk Li's spirits, and the meaning of Jiang Feng's words was very clear, he had already accepted him, just waiting for him to answer, Monk Li said excitedly:

"I'm not afraid of the cold, adults think about me, my heart is very hot!"

Jiang Feng has never been a soft-hearted person, and it is not a safe thing to keep a person in Hangzhou who is hostile to his father-in-law and to himself. However, he originally thought that the big families on the beach would definitely not be tied up by the so-called forbidden sea, and there must be policies above and corresponding countermeasures below.

But as Monk Li said, not a few big families are doing this, but all the people who can do this business have nothing to do.

The imperial court's ban on the sea was harsh, but it was useless at all, but instead bred a large number of bandits and wealthy families linked to their interests. This is actually similar to the prohibition of alcohol issued in the United States in the thirties and the Soviet Union in the early seventies.

However, both the United States and the Soviet Union mafia developed and grew because of this decree, and became a cancer in society, and the ban on the sea during the Jiajing period was almost a similar policy, and the so-called pirates and pirates obtained the financial resources of the rich and rival countries at this time, and the considerable force.

However, for Jiang Feng, he didn't even know that there was a mafia in the Soviet Union in modern times, and now he just understands that the decree banning the sea can cut off the heads of some people, and that is enough.

I rested comfortably in the inn outside Taizhou for a night, and the next morning, there were two iron dings, one of whom went to Hangzhou to deliver a letter, and the other to Nanjing to deliver a letter.

Two years ago, after Xu Tianbiao left Beijing, he was a thousand households in Nanjing's Jinyi Wei Yamen, and his nephew was a hundred households, and Jiang Feng and the two of them have been in some correspondence. Whenever Xu Tianbiao's uncle and nephew made any monetary requests, Jiang Feng did not refuse here.

This time I gave them some credit, and I guess I won't shirk it. As for the evidence of engaging in maritime trade, this is simply not to be investigated, everyone is almost above board to do this, as long as they catch a servant and torture it, they have everything.

As long as it is not brought to the table, everything is as usual, and if someone lifts it to the table, it is a big crime of raiding the house and killing the head.

Looking at the port in front of him, full of all kinds of sailboat sampans, Jiang Feng almost couldn't believe his eyes, is this the result of the Ming Dynasty's forbidden sea, in front of him is the repair of quite complete dock facilities, and all kinds of laborers are busy there.

It is thirty miles away from the capital city, and thirty-five miles away from the nearest guardhouse, where these people calmly engage in the slaughter of the heads and extermination of the clan, and the sea trade and freight prohibited by the strict laws of the imperial court.

Monk Li on the side pretended to be hunchbacked, and when he saw Jiang Feng in a daze, he thought that he was shocked by the scene in front of him, and said with a smile in a low voice:

"My lord, you haven't seen Liuheng Island yet, it's a hundred times more lively than here!!"

Three days after Jiang Feng landed on Liuheng Island, Li Houbai, the governor of Hangzhou and Zhejiang, was raided by Jinyi Wei for violating the law of forbidden sea, which shook the officialdom of Zhejiang.