Over the course of two years of communication, the two Huizhou people gradually found a common language.

Wang Zhi was a Haikou in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, but he was known as the owner of the ship in the East China Sea, although he had a strong army, he was engaged in business and business, and he always tried his best to avoid fighting with the Ming army, and once occupied Zhoushan only for the convenience of business. It can be seen that he never wanted to be an enemy of the Ming Dynasty.

After sending back Mao Haifeng and the letter to his family, the two sides became closer and closer, and the matter of appeasement was also very smooth, but the two conditions for Wang Zhi to ask for appeasement were really beyond Hu Zongxian's ability.

First, the official is knighted, this Hu Zongxiannu still has something to do, after all, Wang Zhi is also a person who went out of the Ming Dynasty, and this is the way to think of the best life destination.

But Wang Zhi was not satisfied with this, and added the second article - opening the sea to trade.

Wang Zhi has tens of thousands of people, and it is impossible for everyone to be knighted. For many years, he also has a face overseas, and only by opening the sea and trading can he place many subordinates. As for the letter, Wang Zhi stated the interests and disadvantages, and strongly proved that the opening of the sea and trade was only for the prosperity of the country and the strengthening of the people, but Hu Zongxian did not care, and only thought that this was the packaging of Wang Zhi's own rhetoric.

Hu Zongxian thought clearly, there are two difficulties in opening the sea to trade.

First, Taizu's ancestral training is here, and he will never be levied, and the pieces will not be allowed to enter the sea. In the past three hundred years, only the Yongle Emperor ordered Zheng He to envoy to the South Seas, and even during this time, except for Zheng He's fleet, ordinary people and merchants were still not allowed to go to sea. Emperor Yongle is already an all-round talent of Wen Taowu strategy, especially courageous, he is still like this, not to mention Sejong Jiajing.

Second, Jiajing is happy and quiet, and he can cultivate with peace of mind if the world is not alarmed, and the opening of the sea ban will definitely bring endless trouble, and it is impossible for him to support it. Now Hu Zongxian's position is in jeopardy, and if he makes this scene again, he is afraid that he will not be able to bear it if he pulls a few more hats.

But the current impasse has reached a stalemate, and if some substantive merits are not made, Hu Zongxian will be impeached into a sieve within a few months.

You can't move forward slowly step by step, and you have to make strange moves.

In the study room in the back room of the Governor's Palace, the paper, ink, pen and inkstone were in place, and Hu Zongxian personally grinded it, but the research was very slow and hesitant.

Xu Wenchang sat quietly at the table: "Wang Zhi is cunning, and he will take fierce medicine." ”

"What Wen Chang said is, I'm afraid that this medicine is too strong."

"If you are not so fierce that you are poisoned yourself, how can you lure Wang Zhi?"

"I understand, just think again." Hu Zongxian does not disable grinding at a slower speed, "Wen Chang...... You and I have been working together for more than two years, if one day...... I beg you to write down what I have done. ”

"Those who achieve great things are not informal." Xu Wenchang replied with nothing new.

Hu Zongxian finally pushed the ink to Xu Wenchang: "Then do it." ”

Xu Wenchang lightly dipped the ink, and finally raised his head and said: "The rest of Xu Hai has all returned to Wang Zhi. As long as Wang is lured to go ashore, the East China Sea can be guaranteed to be worry-free for ten years, and the people, emperors, and history books will remember Ruzhen's exploits. ”

When Hu Zongxian heard this, his expression finally stabilized: "What about those detours." ”

"The integrity is slightly degraded, and the flaws are not hidden."

Hu Zongxian's pupils gradually became firm, and he held Xu Wenchang's hand holding the pen: "The world will also remember Xu Gong." ”

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Kyushu, Japan, Hizen Province Hirado Island, stands a city no less than any of the great names, set Japanese style architecture, Ming craftsman skills in one, five floors high, four floors inside and outside, surrounded by the sea on three sides, more than 10 large fortune ships are berthed in the port outside the city, bustling with people.

The lord of the city called himself King Hui, the owner of the Wufeng ship, and the younger generations who were close to him called him the old shipowner, which the Francosians thought was another elaboration of the "godfather" by the Orientals.

In the hall of the city, more than ten people gathered for a meeting, no matter the scene layout, or the furniture decoration, it was the same as the chamber of the Ming Dynasty Governor's Palace, throughout the audience, all Han people.

Look at the person sitting in the chief, dressed in a green robe, the embroidery is very fancy, the shoulders are embroidered with one pink rice, two sleeves and three Zong Yi, if you are familiar with the Ming court costumes, you will know at a glance that this is the clothes of the county king.

Looking at this person's appearance again, he is in his early fifties, with a long beard and a pointed face, and his eyes are quite majestic, and he really looks like a county king.

Those who have really seen Wang Zhi must sigh that from head to toe, this person does not have a single hair like a pirate.

A beautiful young man in white stood beside him, reading through the letters in his hand, while Wang Zhi kept scanning the more than ten people in front of him, observing the subtle changes in their expressions.

This person can always face changes one step earlier, so how can he deal with the changes in front of him?

Yang Changfan's expression did not change much. Here he is not called Yang Changfan, he is called Wang Dongcheng, don't ask him why, he just wants to be called Wang Dongcheng.

Two years ago, three days before Mao Haifeng returned to Kyushu, Yang Changfan found Wang Zhi and gave him a gift that even Wang Zhi could not imagine - more than 10,000 people in the rest of Xu Hai, Wang Cuiqiao, plus a son.

The rest of Xu Hai is in the army, Wang Cuiqiao is the female shipowner, and although the son is not important, it can be seen that his sincerity is true.

Wang Zhi didn't know how Yang Changfan persuaded Wang Cuiqiao and how to subdue Xu Haiyu, and he didn't believe Yang Changfan, but this kind of pie falling from the sky was not a loss if he caught it.

Suspicious, he accepted the big pie. Annexed the old department of Xu Hai, and there was no opponent in the East China Sea.

As for the doubts about Yang Changfan's own purpose, he gradually dispelled it. According to Yang Changfan, he provoked the number one person in the southeast, and sooner or later he would die, and being sent to Kyushu proved this statement, and Mao Haifeng's return confirmed this. As long as Hu Zongxian is in the southeast for one day, he will swear to die.

Wang Zhi was suspicious at first that this was a bitter trick, but this trick didn't make sense, in order to gain his trust, it was too generous to catch up with the rest of Xu Hai, besides, what if you got in? Can it change anything?

The doubts were gradually dispelled, Yang Changfan worshiped Wang Zhi as his father-in-law, and for the sake of Bao Lihai's family, he feigned death and changed his name to Wang Dongcheng. Wang Zhi deliberately arranged a few business runs in order to test him, and he also returned with a full load, but he is also a usable person, in the end, he has mixed in the Ming scene, young and old, much more stable than Mao Haifeng.

It's just that Yang Changfan and Mao Haifeng are really incompatible, and their grievances are too deep.

If Mao Haifeng returned to Kyushu one step before Yang Changfan, Wang Zhi would have taken Yang Changfan's head. But when Mao Haifeng came back, Yang Changfan was already Wang Dongcheng, and the old shipowner and King Hui couldn't be a person who went back on his word.

Over time, Wang Dongcheng and Wang Cuiqiao gradually gained a firm foothold. With the assistance of these two people, Wang Zhi was like a tiger with wings and rampant in the East China Sea. Yang Changfan is even better at strange skills, and has repeatedly presented rare items and gluttonous food, which has won Wang Zhi's favor.

But one last doubt remains.

Now is the time for the final temptation. (To be continued.) )