The reason why Lin Feng escaped from Tongdu Temple in North Korea was caused by Ma Liangbi, the uncle of the Ryukyu king, who was stubborn and self-serving.

It turned out that in the sixth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1572 AD), King Shang Yuan drove the crane to the west, and the Ryukyu royal palace experienced some infighting, and King Shang Yong defeated his brother Shang Bokang and became the sixth lord of the second Shang dynasty of the Ryukyu Dynasty.

The Japanese along the coast of the mainland have been purged, and the Longqing Dynasty has lifted the ban on the sea, allowing the sale of the east and west oceans, bringing more trade opportunities to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and Shuri Castle is a prosperous scene, which can be described as: the strange treasures are full of ten square brakes, and the boat is the tsu beam of all countries.

The first major event after King Shangyong ascended the throne was to send his uncle Ma Liangbi, Changshi Zheng Zhen and others to the Ming Dynasty to ask for canonization.

Ma Liangbi and Zheng Zhen, as envoys of the subject country, first paid tribute to the first emperor after entering Beijing, and then asked for canonization, but they found that the imperial court had no time to pay attention to them at this time.

Because the cabinet was busy with the redistribution of power, the two envoys received a cold reception, and while waiting for the canonization, they did not even see a single cabinet member except for the Ministry of Rites Shangshu who invited them to a meal.

The young prince succeeded to the throne, which was very easy to cause eunuch dictatorship and harem interference.

Therefore, Gao Gong, a scholar of Shangzhu Kingdom, a scholar of the Middle Pole Temple, and the first assistant of the cabinet, once sighed: "The ten-year-old prince, how to rule the world!" Right now, he is secretly mobilizing his bureaucrats to try to drive away Feng Bao, the prince's eldest companion and eunuch of the celebrant Bingbi, and put pressure on the Empress Dowager Li.

Feng Bao heard that Gao Gong was not good for him, and he was very frightened, and secretly consulted with Zhang Juzheng, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, and wanted to promote him as the first assistant of the cabinet.

Zhang Juzheng was noncommittal, and did not promise Feng Bao anything, but changed the sentence that Gao Gong sighed to: How can a ten-year-old child be the master?

Feng Bao, who suddenly came to his senses, returned to Da Nei, cried to Empress Dowager Li and the concubines about Gao Gong's arrogance, and added fuel to the vinegar to exaggerate Gao Gong's contempt for the prince, saying that a ten-year-old child could not be the master of the people, and was ready to seize the throne of the vassal king.

This news shocked Empress Dowager Li, and immediately summoned Zhang Juzheng into the palace to discuss how to get rid of Gao Gong as soon as possible.

Ma Liangbi and Zheng Zhen lived in the capital for several months, and waited until Gao Gong stepped down, but they still did not see the newly enthroned prince and Empress Dowager Li, and waited until Zhang Juzheng was in charge of the cabinet, he informed Ma Liangbi and others that he could not change the yuan during the prince's filial piety, and only after the change of the yuan could he canonize King Shangyong.

The two Ryukyu envoys counted the days, and this would have to wait until the end of the year, because the Ryukyu Kingdom was also unstable and the palace was full of murderous opportunities, so they hurried back to the Ryukyus.

After they went back, they found that the princes who controlled the real power of the palace had changed their attitudes and no longer supported the restoration of Shang Kangbo, and Ma Liangbi's sister Queen Ma monopolized the power of the palace, and the position of King Shang Yong, who had not been on the throne for a long time, was very stable, but because she had not been able to get the canonization of the imperial court, Queen Ma was also anxious, and within a few days, Ma Liangbi and Zheng Zhen were sent to the capital.

Ma Liangbi, who had been in the wild for many years, wanted to make a difference in the era of King Shangyong, and before leaving, he had a dispute with Zheng Zhen.

According to the usual practice, it was necessary to depart from the port of Naha in Shuri, land at Ningde, Fujian, and then go north to Beijing, but Ma Liangbi had to go north to Korea first and go to the capital via Liaodong on the grounds that the trade between the Ryukyus and Korea was very close, and he wanted to investigate Korea.

Zheng Zhen, who had a cowardly personality, didn't want to compete with Ma Liangbi, so he relied on him, and in early October, the two led a delegation to Busan, North Korea, and traveled all the way to Tongdu Temple.

Elder Jingcen received the delegation of the Ryukyu Kingdom and took them to visit the Daeungboden.

Ma Liangbi found that the treasure hall here was different, there was no Buddha statue in the hall, and he was very strange in his heart, so he asked: "May I ask the elder, why is there no Buddha here?" ”

"Amitabha, the head of the three treasures here, all of them are in the vajra altar behind the Mahavira Hall, so there is no Buddha statue in the Mahavira Hall." Elder Jing Cen replied.

Everyone left the Daxiong Treasure Hall and went to visit the Vajra Ring Altar, walked around the four sides, and saw plaques with different names hanging around the square altar:

The east side is written Daxiong Hall, the west side is written Dafang Guang Hall, the south side is written Vajra Altar, and the north side is written Silent Treasure Palace.

The Vajra altar is equipped with the relics and robes of Shakyamuni, which is rare in the world, and the Ryukyu delegation worships it reverently.

After leaving the altar and going to fast accompanied by Elder Jing Cen, Ma Liangbi noticed that a small novice was delivering food to the cabin through the window.

Suddenly, a voice came from the wooden house: "I am the shopkeeper of Shuri Castle Sake Brewery in the Ryukyu Kingdom, why are you doing this to me?" Let me out! ”

Hearing this, Ma Liangbi didn't leave, and looked at Elder Jingcen with anger on his face.

Elder Jing Cen was quite embarrassed and explained, "Amitabha, please don't listen to his words. ”

Ma Liangbi asked angrily, "What the hell is going on?" Ask the elders for an explanation. ”

"Amitabha, this is a pirate leader, captured by Master Tenkai of Enryakuji Temple in Japan, and he has been imprisoned here for two years."

Hearing that his nationals were called pirates by the Japanese, Ma Liangbi felt very uncomfortable in his heart, but it was difficult to attack for a while, so he walked to Zheng Zhen and said in his ear: "You go and ask, who is this person?" ”

Zheng Zhen came to the cabin and asked, "You said that you are the shopkeeper of Shurijo Castle Distillery, how can you prove it?" ”

"You come to the window, I'll explain it to you." Lin Feng replied.

The window of the cabin was very small, Zheng Zhen was lying on the window and watching, and was suddenly grabbed by Lin Feng's clothes.

Zheng Zhen couldn't break free, so he looked inside, and saw that the person in the room was full of messy hair, a beard tied up, and his eye sockets were deep, like a ghost.

Lin Feng grabbed Zheng Zhen's collar tightly and tried his best to explain to him, speaking the truth, Ma Liangbi stopped to listen carefully, and kept nodding.

Speaking of the past when he was exiled to Ryukyu after the pirates were recruited, Ma Liangbi couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Enough! ”

At this time, Lin Feng couldn't talk anymore, and couldn't help crying loudly, his voice was very miserable.

In the past two years, Elder Jing Cen has talked to Lin Feng a lot, and he is very clear about his details, so he came over to explain to Ma Liangbi.

Ma Liangbi didn't listen at all, and preached: "Practicing in the world of Supo for one day and one night is better than being good for a thousand years old in other Buddha countries." This person has been imprisoned for so long, even if it is a heinous madman, it is time to change his mind. ”

Zheng Zhen heard a lot of things from him, and suspected that he was the pirate leader Lin Yiguan, so he turned around and shook his head at Ma Liangbi and waved his hand again.

It's good not to see Zheng Zhen waving his hand, Ma Liangbi thought to himself, how can I be at your mercy as an uncle Wang? Suddenly roared like thunder: "Ryukyu and Korea are both subject countries of the Ming Dynasty, how can they listen to the nonsense of Japanese mages?" Besides, Tongdu Temple is the world's famous place and a pure land of Buddhism, and it is really hateful to lock up my Ryukyu people for no reason! ”

Elder Jing Cen was speechless when he heard this, thinking that Lin Feng had also confessed many times in front of him, so he replied: "Amitabha, since this is the case, please ask Master Ma to take this person away, after you return to Ryukyu, and then verify your identity, if it is a pirate, I believe that the king of Ryukyu will not spare him, if the poor monk is wrong, the poor monk will go to Ryukyu to apologize." ”

Finding that Zheng Zhen was still caught by Lin Feng, Elder Jingcen sent someone to release him and hand him over to the Ryukyu State Mission.

Ma Liangbi led the delegation to leave North Korea, through Liaodong to Shanhaiguan, along the way Lin Feng was very honest, but resolutely refused to admit that he was a pirate, everyone relaxed their vigilance against him, when staying in the hotel, he quietly ran away.

Coming to the Shanhaiguan stronghold, Lin Feng was warmly received by Xiao Ke and Zhuang Gong, and heard that the Ma Wu merchant group had taken over his old department, but he only knew how to do business, and never sent anyone to look for him, so he was very annoyed, and stayed here for two days, and then went to Tianjin Wei accompanied by Xiao Ke and Zhuang Gong, ready to regroup and make a comeback.

The shopkeeper Wang of the Tianjin Wei stronghold listened to Ma Wu's words, and had already changed to the right path, never expected that Lin Feng would be able to come back again, at this moment, he was so frightened that his soul was scattered, Lin Feng did not blame the Wang shopkeeper, and decided to live in Tianjin Wei for a few more days, and re-recruit troops and horses, as the gateway to the Beijing Division, this stronghold is too important.

Just when Xiao Ke, Zhuang Gong and others were recruiting troops in Tianjin, Zhang Juzheng, who had become the first assistant of the cabinet, sent people to Nanjing to transfer Hai Rui back to the capital.

It turned out that during Hai Rui's tenure as the governor of Yingtian, he had been competing with Xu Jie, a former scholar of the first auxiliary university who had returned to his hometown, forcing him to quit the land and quit the tenants to prevent the large families in the south of the Yangtze River from annexing the land.

In the new dynasty and new atmosphere, the cabinet headed by Zhang Juzheng rectified the rule of officials, implemented the examination method, controlled the six departments with six departments, and then controlled the six departments with the cabinet, from the cabinet to the six departments, from the six departments to the various yamen, and examined at all levels, clarified responsibilities, and clearly divided rewards and punishments, so that the decrees of the imperial court were thousands of miles away and carried out day and night.

Zhang Juzheng has just taken charge of the cabinet, and he has no bottom in his heart about whether Qingliu in the DPRK can implement the test method, and wants to clean up Hai Rui, which can not only export his evil anger for his mentor Xu Jie, but also make himself famous, see which one in the DPRK dares to disagree?

So, Zhang Juzheng first instigated the imperial history to impeach Hai Rui, but Hai Rui was so incorruptible that the imperial historians couldn't catch any of his tricks at all, and even imposed a charge on his head to sell his reputation and reputation, which was rejected by the imperial history responsible for assessing Hai Rui.

Empress Dowager Li, who was in charge of the harem, did not want to take Hai Rui under the knife, and Zhang Juzheng had no choice but to adopt the strategy of rising and descending secretly, transferring Hai Rui to the capital and reassigning to the post of the right general administration of the general political department.

Hai Rui received an order from the cabinet to pick up the Luo Amin sisters from the Tang family before leaving Nanjing, and decided to take them back to the capital and hand them over to Wang Chong and Guo Yi to take care of.

At this time, Zhu Hui, who had become the chief flag officer of Jinyiwei, accompanied the Luo sisters to go north along the canal with Hai Rui's official ship, and the road was safe.

The name of Tianjin is given by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, which is the ferry he fought for the world in those years, meaning that the place where the Son of Heaven crossed the river, as the gateway of Beijing, Tianjin Wei is very prosperous.

On this day, Lin Feng and others accompanied the shopkeeper Wang to deliver the goods at the canal wharf, and were about to leave here, when they suddenly found that Ah Ping took the five-year-old Ah Ying off the official ship.

Ah Ping bought a string of sugar gourds for the child, and the two frolicked together on the dock......

Lin Feng recognized Ah Ping, looked at the innocent little girl again, guessed that she should be his daughter, and suddenly his blood boiled, a kind of fatherly affection made him uncontrollable, and he stood on the dock with tears in his eyes and stopped to watch......

At this time, Zhuang Gong and others, who had accompanied them to Liaodong to look for Ah Ping, had already understood at this moment, and hurriedly ordered the king's shopkeeper to take Lin Feng away.

Lin Feng sighed: "I am close to knowing the year of the destiny of heaven, and I finally have incense, and I can die blindly." ”

After Shopkeeper Wang, Lin Feng and the others left, Xiao Ke came to Ah Ping's approach and asked, "Is it Miss Ah Ping?" Mr. Ma Wu from the Ryukyus is doing business in Tianjin, would you like to go with me to meet him? ”

Ah Ping was already a big girl, and when she heard that Ma Wu was in Tianjin, she asked in surprise, "Who are you and where is Ma Wu?" ”

"I'm a fellow of the Ma Wu Merchant Group, please come with me." Xiao Ke replied.

"Okay, you wait a while, I'll go and inform Zhu Zongqi and Lord Hai first." Ah Ping said, pulling up Ah Ying to go back to the official boat.

At this time, Zhuang Gong walked over and asked with a smile: "Ah Ping, what a coincidence, why are you here?" With that, he hugged Ah Ying in his arms.

Seeing this, Zhu Hui and his fellow officers and soldiers immediately rushed off the official ship, when suddenly a merchant carrying a burden broke in, fell in front of them, and scattered the fruits in the basket on the ground.

At the moment when Zhu Hui lowered his head, Zhuang Gong picked up Ah Ying and ran, Ah Ping cried and followed, and by the time Zhu Hui and the others chased them out of the dock, they were already gone.

After Hai Rui, who was resting on the boat, heard about it, he hurriedly led the officers and soldiers to chase him out, at this time, Xiao Ke had secretly climbed onto the official ship, he found Luo Amin in the cabin, killed the officers and soldiers who were guarding her, pulled her up and was about to jump into the river, Hai Rui's family heard the movement and chased to the deck, Xiao Ke was about to go over to kill people, but was stopped by Luo Amin.

"Don't come here, I know that Master Hai is a good official, and I am also very grateful to Master Hai, I don't want to hurt you, for the sake of my daughter, from now on, the Luo family sisters will never do anything that hurts heaven and reason."

With that, Luo Amin and Xiao Ke jumped into the canal at the same time......

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Off topic

Regarding Ma Liangbi's release of Lin Feng in Tongdu Temple in North Korea, did he mean it or not? Please refer to the third volume of this book, "Dark Wars".