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Xu Ling'er judged that the life experience of the princess was by no means simple, and she suddenly became curious, and couldn't help asking: "Father-in-law, when you recruited Wang Zhi, Xu Hai and others, you must have made great efforts and made such miraculous achievements, why don't you go back to retire?" ”

"In this way, it is really lifting up the Sa family, the past is unbearable, the Sa family was forced to get involved in these incidents, and the surrender of pirates is entirely the credit of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian." So, the prince told about the vicissitudes of the past......

Although Emperor Taizu Gao at the beginning of the founding of the country, he formulated a ban on the sea, but the implementation was sometimes relaxed, in the second year of Jiajing, the Japanese tributary mission in Ningbo made a "battle for tribute", resulting in the Japanese began to wantonly make chaos in the southeast coastal area, Emperor Sejong according to the Ministry of War's "on the big ships to attract pirates to attract pirates", requiring strict implementation of the ban on the sea, but the court is still divided into the strict prohibition faction and the relaxation of the ban faction, when the Hanlin Academy scholar Xia Yan, well aware of the disadvantages of the forbidden sea, at that time the "Chi Ban faction" slightly prevailed.

In this situation, Wang Zhi, a sea merchant, and his fellow villagers Xu Qianxue, Ye Zongman, and others engaged in overseas trade in Guangdong, and they bought the prohibited goods of the Franco merchants for huge profits, which were not tolerated by the government, forcing them to withdraw from Guangdong and join the Xu Dong pirate group entrenched on Shuangyu Island in Ningbo.

In the twenty-first year of Jiajing (1542 AD), Wang Zhi traveled from Shuangyu Island to Hirado, Japan, introduced the merchant of Franco to Matsuura Takanobu, and brought Western missionaries to Iki Island. At that time, in Japan, due to the "battle for tribute", the power of the Muromachi shogun was lost, and it was when the daimyo from all over the country were competing for power, Wang Zhi, Xu Dong and others made a fortune through maritime trade, and established good relations with many Japanese daimyos.

In this year, Wang Zhi established an armed base in Pinghu City, Xu Dong built a large port on Shuangyu Island in Ningbo, and soon prospered, but the good times did not last long, in the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing (AD 1548), Zhu Kun, the governor of Susong, led a large army to encircle and suppress Shuangyu Island, Wang Zhi was also on the island at that time, because his ears and eyes got the news in advance, and he was able to escape.

Because Xu Dong was captured by the officers and soldiers, the rest of the party recommended Wang Zhi as the new leader, so that Wang Zhi's Hui merchant power could expand rapidly, they abandoned Shuangyu Island, all entrenched in Japan, at this time, Wang Zhi, the owner of Wufeng, began to call himself "Hui Wang".

Let's talk about Xu Hai, he was originally a bitter child, and Wang Zhi was the same township as She County, Huizhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, and once went to Hangzhou Hupao Temple as a monk, his legal name is Pujing, "Mingshan Monk", after his uncle Xu Qianxue made his career, he went to Guangdong to join his uncle, and was sent by Xu Qianxue to Nanjing to do business, just like that, he was a "rich son", in the Qinglou on the bank of the Qinhuai River, bought Wang Cuiqiao, who fell into the dust, and lied that he had the ability to help her rehabilitate Zhaoxue.

Of course, Wang Cuiqiao, who was in trouble, was grateful, but she asked Xu Hai to marry Mingmei, because Xu Hai lost his parents since he was a child, so the two went to Guangzhou together to find Xu Qianxue to marry them. Who would have thought that at this time, Xu Qianxue's merchant ship was shipwrecked in the South Seas, resulting in all the Xu family's business being lost, and he was about to be killed by the creditor Wang Zhi.

In desperation, in order to make a comeback, Xu Qianxue deceived his nephew with rhetoric and asked him to go to Hirado City, Japan to take Wang Zhi hostage, Xu Hai took Wang Cuiqiao stupidly and went, when he arrived in Japan, how could Wang Zhi let the two of them eat and live for nothing? The pirates took Wang Cuiqiao as a hostage, and let Xu Hai follow them to the sea as a thief, at the beginning, Xu Hai showed the integrity of a good man, and he was beaten to death and still refused to give in, and finally after being beaten "crippled", he was considered submissive.

Xu Hai, who became a pirate, lost his humanity, he became more ruthless than anyone else, and soon became the pirate leader under Wang Zhi, often harassing the coast of the mainland with a large group of pirates. Later, he merged with several forces such as Chen Dong and Ma Ye, and his wings became harder and harder, although he still nominally obeyed Wang Zhi as the co-master, but in fact began to work alone.

The Xu Hai pirate gang secretly colluded with Shimazu Takahisa, the lord of the Satsuma Domain, to wantonly co-opt the Japanese ronin and send them to take the lead and be cannon fodder.

In the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552 AD), Chen Sipan, a pirate leader in Fujian, took refuge in Wang Zhi, and the local law and order became stable, allowing the government to see Wang Zhi's influence; Wang Zhi, who was quite a clever man, also seized the opportunity at the right time, and he began to take the initiative to contact local officials along the coast, threatening the government to open a port and open the city, and promising that as long as the government acquiesced to the existence of a maritime trade market, he would be able to ensure the safety of the coastal people.

As a result, the government allowed them to carry out maritime trade in Zhoushan Ligang, Wang Zhi was overjoyed, hoping to rebuild the glory of Shuangyu Port in those years, took the initiative to maintain coastal order, established his position as "sea overlord", and hoped that the imperial court would crown him as the "King of the Pure Sea".

In the thirty-second year of Jiajing (1553 AD), in March, the commander-in-chief Yu Dayou led the officers and troops to suddenly attack Ligang at night, and they were caught off guard, Wang Zhi sent Xu Hai, Chen Dong, Xiao Xian, Ma Ye and others to respond to the battle in a hurry, due to the lack of prior preparation, resulting in the destruction of the Ningbo Ligang base, after this war, Wang Zhi and Xu Hai completely parted ways, and Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, secretly contacted the prince of Ryukyu and began to start a secret operation.

In order to recruit Wang Zhi, Hu Zongxian sent Jiang Zhou and Chen Ke to Ryukyu to negotiate directly with his adopted son Mao Haifeng, and even released his wife, children and mother in prison, and gave him a good support.

If you want to recruit Xu Hai, but it is not so simple, in order to thoroughly find out the details of the pirate group, Hu Zongxian decided to play a game of Infernal Affairs, after a clear investigation and secret visit, he found a fellow villager of Xu Hai in the capital, and was ready to send him to be an undercover agent, this person is Luo Wenlong, a student of the Hanlin Academy who should have a bright future.

At that time, Luo Wenlong was reluctant to go overseas on an errand, but Yan Shifan, who was known as the elder of the small pavilion, gave him strong support, about this book, we have already told in the first volume that in order to retreat in the future, Yan Shifan needs to establish his own power overseas.

In this way, Luo Wenlong, who had a "sacred mission", arrived in Ryukyu, first got in touch with the prince, and under the careful arrangement of the prince, sent him to Akimepo in southern Satsuma, Japan, where he had the opportunity to contact Wang Cuiqiao and quickly gained her trust.

As soon as he saw Wang Cuiqiao, Luo Wenlong was shocked that he was a celestial immortal, and secretly made up his mind that Xu Hai must accept Zhao'an to die before he could get this beauty, so he tried his best to Wang Cuiqiao.

Originally, Xu Hai had no interest in Zhao'an, during Wang Zhi's preparation for Zhao'an, he was still leading the Japanese to make trouble along the coast of Zhejiang, and all the pirates also understood that Zhao'an would not end well, Luo Wenlong wanted to complete this task, in fact, it was not easy, but with Wang Cuiqiao's secret cooperation, things became much easier.

In order to gain more negotiation capital and show off his military strength, Xu Hai, who was desperate, launched a life-and-death battle with Hu Zongxian in Zhejiang, so that when he accepted Zhao'an in the future, he would have more bargaining chips in hand and force the imperial court to agree to the conditions they proposed.

Suddenly heard that Wang Cuiqiao gave birth to a daughter, Xu Hai immediately left Chen Dong, Ma Ye and others who fought with him, and returned to Satsuma alone.

Under the planning of Luo Wenlong and Wang Cuiqiao, in August of the 35th year of Jiajing, Xu Hai led his troops to accept Zhao'an, and stationed troops outside Pinghu City, Zhejiang, after the people in the city heard about it, they were all frightened and panicked, Hu Zongxian did not let them enter the city, and secretly stepped up the deployment of the army, surrounded them, and after a fierce battle, Xu Hai threw himself into the water and died.

According to legend, Luo Wenlong wanted to marry Wang Cuiqiao as his wife, but was rejected by Hu Zongxian, which led him to hold a grudge and become a member of Yan's J party.

Later, it was Lin Wenjun and others who found the bodies of Xu Hai and his wife, buried them together in the Diaoyu Islands, and built a Mazu temple on the cemetery, which moved the princes who were far away in the Ryukyus, and it was with the help of the princes that Lin Daoxun and Lin Wenjun were able to join Jinyiwei, and after that, the princes helped them open a shochu shop and a Chinese medicine shop, because Lin Wenjun and Luo Wenlong defected to the Yan J party, causing the princes to drive them out of the Ryukyus.

Yan Shifan had a premonition that the end was coming, and through Luo Wenlong's transfer of gold and silver treasures overseas, Lin Daoxun, who couldn't bear it, wrote a secret letter to the imperial court, exposing his nephew's traitorous behavior in Japan, causing the imperial court to send Jinyi Wei to hoe J overseas, in the process, the prince always had his own channels, and maintained close contact with Emperor Jiajing, so that after the destruction of Akimepu Castle, Lin Wenjun fled back to Ryukyu and still could not gain a foothold.

Listening to the princess reveal this little-known past, as Luo Wenlong's daughter, Luo Aping was ashamed of herself.

Good and evil are all in a thought, as a witness and witness of this history, Xu Ling'er's heart is quite emotional, at this time, she remembered the poor Shang Kangbo, with the help of Oda Nobunaga, if Shang Kangbo is successfully restored, the Ryukyu Islands will become the sphere of influence of the Japanese invaders, and half of the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty will be crumbling, and the people will fall into dire straits......

As a confidant of Oda Nobunaga, the monkey would not be unaware of the restoration of Shang Kangbo, so he quietly united with Oda Nobunaga's sworn enemy and established a stronghold for himself in advance in the name of cooperative trading in the Ryukyus, which has a deep meaning!

This time when they came to Ryukyu, Xu Ling'er and Guo Yi simply thought that as long as Ma Wu dealt with the monkeys on behalf of Lin Feng, they could let the two Ying souls return to their hometown. Now it seems that things are by no means so simple, and the monkey's scheming is really unfathomable......

More than an hour passed unconsciously, and at this time, Guo Yi had already woken up, and found that the luggage on the ground had not been packed, so he knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly dragged his heavy steps, walked out of the door and shouted: "Sister Ling'er, where are you?" ”

Hearing Guo Yi's shout, Luo Aping hurriedly ran out and led her into this guest room.

Xu Ling'er hurriedly stepped forward to support Guo Yi, let her sit on the chair, and introduced: "Sister, this is the prince, he just told a little-known history. ”

Looking at the white-haired and wrinkled old man, Guo Yi asked, "Princess, where did you send Jingming and Huang Bingwen?" ”

Wang Gonggong got up and hugged his fists, nodded and praised: "I have admired the prestige of Guo Qianhu for a long time, and when I see it today, it is really extraordinary, and there will be successors in the future to fight against the Japanese in the Ryukyus, and the Sprinkle family can die and be blind." ”

Although his mind was still a little drowsy, Guo Yi never dragged his feet in his work, and asked again: "Please father-in-law don't have to be polite, now I want to know, where did you send Jingming and Huang Bingwen?" ”

Without waiting for the princess to answer, Xu Ling'er asked: "Sister, do you guess whose grave is under the Mazu Temple in the Diaoyu Islands?" ”

"Who is buried in the grave?" Guo Yi asked puzzled.

"It's Xu Hai and Mrs. Wang Cuiqiao." Xu Ling'er replied.

Guo Yi shook his head and said in surprise: "Although the person buried in the tomb is a pirate leader who everyone has been punished, if it is to order funeral goods, it is really not necessary to send Jingming and Huang Bingwen to take risks. ”

Guo Qianhu is reasonable. Whoever steals a grave and digs a grave will be damned by heaven and will not die a good death. Wang Gonggong said, glanced at Xu Ling'er and Luo Aping, opened his mouth again, but did not speak again.

Xu Ling'er understood, and asked mysteriously: "Sister, guess where Mrs. Wang Cuiqiao's daughter is now?" ”

"Where?" Guo Yi was quite confused.

"She is now the thousand-year-old concubine of King Shangyong."

After hearing Xu Ling'er's words, Guo Yi was shocked, looked at the prince very angrily, and asked: "What do you want to do if the daughter of the notorious pirate leader becomes the concubine of the Ryukyu Kingdom?" ”

found that the prince shook his head lightly, showing a mysterious smile, but did not answer; So, Xu Ling'er explained: "The queen of a generation of talents, Cuiqiao, has made great contributions to the great cause of recruiting security for the imperial court, although the concubine Niangniang is her biological daughter, she may not have anything to do with the pirate Xu Hai." ”

At this time, Guo Yi understood it, and couldn't help but look up, and found that Luo Aping's face was flushed.

Wang Gonggong shook his head again and said: "Xu Qianhu, what you hear is not believing, and what you see may not be true, don't speculate, the past has passed, don't mention it in the future." ”

"So, is it for the sake of this concubine that they will be sent to transport the coffin to Ryukyu?" Guo Yi asked.

"Actually, the Sprinkle family has already made arrangements." Wang Gonggong said with some excitement: "But the Sprinkle family didn't expect that you actually brought Huang Bingwen here, and you happened to catch up with this matter, so you took the opportunity to take them away?" ”

"Princess, I have to warn you, you don't want any accidents with those two coffins, do you?" Guo Yi asked.

"Of course, otherwise, how can the Sprinkle family give an explanation to the concubine."

Guo Yi shouted "not good", and immediately stood up and said: "Princess, send us to the Diaoyu Islands quickly, if we go late, I am worried that the two coffins will be thrown into the sea." ”

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Off topic

Whose daughter is this concubine? Did Luo Wenlong turn against Wang Cuiqiao? Why did the vicious Xu Hai accept the court's recruitment? Is the history told by the prince the truth? The book is still a mystery to this point, and the dramatic changes in the plot are inevitable for the extension and development of the story, and as the story slowly unfolds, these mysteries will be slowly uncovered in the fourth and fifth volumes.

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