Firecrackers and suona sounds, Maqian Street is very lively.

A large sedan chair was carried into the small courtyard rented by Wu Xiang, the golden boy and the girl opened the sedan curtain, and then, the bridesmaids with flowers and branches came forward to support the delicate bride Shen Yueying to get off the sedan chair......

Wu Xiang, who was full of spring breeze, grabbed the bride, came to the front of the hall hand in arm, unveiled the bride's red hijab, revealed the phoenix crown, and the two lit the red incense candle together......

At this time, the suona class played a hundred birds and a phoenix, followed by the sound of firecrackers, in a congratulatory sound, the master of ceremonies shouted loudly: the groom and the bride are in place and kneel, one worships heaven and earth, two worships the high hall, and the husband and wife worship each other......

Just when Shen Qi was blessing the newcomer on behalf of the elders, he suddenly heard someone report that several officials came to the three alleys, saying that they had come to look for Tang Jing and his wife.

When Shen Qi heard this, he was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Tang Jing and his wife to hide first, he went out alone to see what was going on, and as soon as he walked to the entrance of Tongren Street, he met Shi Shiyong and others, behind them were Elder Yuekong, Xuande Zhenren, Song He, and Wanxi.

After thanking Shi Shiyong, Shen Qi hurriedly ran forward to greet the two old men, and at this time, Zhu Hui also arrived, knelt in front of the master, and silently shed tears......

So, Song He pulled up Zhu Hui and nodded to each other, and the two were just about to hold hands, when suddenly, Shi Shiyong also stretched out his hand, and the three big hands were tightly clasped together......

People are happy to be happy, Tang Jing and his wife don't have to hide XīZàng, everyone gathered at the wedding banquet, telling each other about their sorrows, after a while, Wu Xiang came to toast everyone, seeing Xuande Zhenren couldn't help but think of Jingming, and said two cool words.

Only then did Xuande Zhenren know that his disciple must have caused big trouble, and he was immediately ashamed and almost angry, so he immediately got up and was about to leave, looking for this uncompetitive disciple to ask him, what happened to him? So, Zhu Hui and Wen Tao hurriedly persuaded him, and he gave up.

When the Tang family had an accident, Shi Shiyong had already entered Beijing as a brocade guard, responsible for the intelligence of Liaodong, North Korea and other places, he met two old people on the way to run an errand, and accompanied them to Nanjing, Wen Tao learned about Shi Shiyong's situation, took the initiative to make friends with him, and the two exchanged the situation in the northeast.

That night, they all lived in the three alleys, and Wanxi accompanied her aunt to talk about her heart, Tang Jing summoned everyone to the living room, made a pot of tea, and began to talk.

First of all, I talked about Xu Ling'er, when she passed through North Korea, she was almost kidnapped by Konishi Ryonzo and others again, fortunately Li Sunsin made a big fuss in the martial arts field, so she was relieved of the siege, at this time, I happened to meet Wen Tao who went to Liaodong, after the two broke up in Wangjing, North Korea, Xu Ling'er was trapped in Kyoto, and was rescued by Guo Yi who went to assassinate Oda Nobunaga, Wang Chong was killed in order to cover Guo Yi, under the protection of Guo Yi's own uncle Oda Changyi, they were involved in the army, and participated in the battle of Nagashino against Takeda Katsuyori, in front of the ** army formation, rescued Zhu Junwang and Xu Kun, and now Xu Kun has returned to Songjiang Mansion......

Knowing that his father was safe, Zhu Hui was moved to tears; Tang Jing, who was still talking and laughing just now, suddenly heard that Xu Kun was back, Ji Lingling shuddered, became red-faced, lowered his head and was silent, Elder Yuekong understood his situation, and also knew that many problems were difficult to solve for a while, so he enlightened him......

The past has become a cloud of smoke, Elder Yuekong learned about Shen Qi's situation and praised it greatly, and at the same time, he also missed Nan Shaolin's senior brother and brother very much, and was ready to accompany them to Fujian to have a look.

In the Battle of Nagashino, 3,000 musketeers were able to defeat 20,000 iron cavalry, which made the Takeda army, known as the "Wind Forest Volcano", frightened, and touched Wen Tao a lot, and thought to himself that the problem of Oda Nobunaga must be solved as soon as possible, so that the "world Buwu" was stillborn, and Shi Shiyong was quite interested in Li Sunsin, and he made an appointment with Wen Tao and planned to go to Korea together after three years.

In order to break the silent atmosphere, Song He talked eloquently and told everyone the story of Huashan real people:

In that year, Qiu led eighteen disciples, set off from Laizhou, arrived at the Western Regions Snow Mountain after two devouring, met Genghis Khan, persuaded him not to easily poison the living beings, in order to prolong life, after returning to Yanjing, Yuan Taizu gave the tiger talisman book, ordered him to take charge of Taoism in the world, stayed in the Taiji Temple, renamed Changchun Palace, and was crowned as "Changchun Quande Shenhua Mingying Zhenjun", Song He is the descendant of Changchun Zhenren disciples, and the family settled in the capital, it has been almost 200 years.

Changbai Mountain's Huashan real Ma Taoist is the descendant of Danyang Zi Ma Yu and the pure and scattered immortal Sun Buer, Ma Yu got the true biography of the patriarch Wang Chongyang, became the second ancestor of the Quanzhen Dao, returned to Penglai in the east, died in Laiyang Youxian Palace, Sun Buer traveled to Yiluo to preach, feathered in Luoyang, and his descendants followed Tianranzi Hao Datong and founded the Huashan faction.

After talking about these allusions, I recalled Qingyang, Yue'er, and Tie Niu's brothers and sisters, as well as their mothers, and the friendship of rì came to my heart......

Qingyang died tragically under the knife of Dongchang's minions in order to protect Tang Jing, Yue'er fought for the blood god Lieshan in order to protect Hai Rui, her mother did her best in the Tang family, and Tie Niu and other brothers after reforming their ways all fell in a pool of blood in order to defend the Tang Ji Weaving Workshop......

On July 15, under the auspices of Elder Yuekong and Xuande Zhenren, a water and land dojo was held for Tang's mother, Mrs. Liu, Qingyang, Yue'er, Tieniu brothers and sisters, and their mothers, as well as the brothers who died because of the Tang family, to add graves to the deceased relatives and friends......

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, accompanied by Matsupu Xinchang, Shen Qi led everyone to Zhangzhou Yuegang and took over the warehouse very smoothly.

Elder Yuekong came from the world's first Shaolin Temple, when the southeast coast of the Japanese was prevalent, he personally led more than 80 Shaolin monks to the battlefield, galloped in Zhejiang and Yingtian area, repeatedly frustrated the Japanese Kou, during the period, had been funded by the Jinling wealthy businessman Tang Jing, formed a good fate, after General Qi Jiguang cleared the sea frontier, when he was ready to return to the south, he was invited to give lectures by the Qiyan Temple in the land of Longxing.

In order to persuade the dissolute Tang Jing, Mrs. He invited the Elder of the Moon Sky to Nanjing, and accepted three disciples, Zhu Hui, Song He and Zhang Gou'er, with the support of Hai Rui and Pang Shangpeng and others, Tang Jing started a weaving workshop, ran a money village, gave the Tang family's wharf in Huangdu Port to the Elder Moon Sky, formed a business group, started the Oriental business, and accumulated funds to go to the New World, Xuanhua Chinese civilization, and compete with Western missionaries.

Elder Yuekong lived in Yuegang for a few days, and then took Xuande Zhenren to Southern Shaolin, and Shen Qi took Zhu Hui and Song He to investigate the market......

Yuegang port road outside the sea cháo, the inner mountain stream, its shape resembles the moon, so get this name, because of the rich and prosperous party, known as "small Suzhou and Hangzhou" reputation, there are poems to praise said: east of the country, south of the hundred Austrian Xinjiang, goods through the brigade, wealth gathering rich businessmen. Most of the merchants along the Jiulong River sailed out to sea from this, so there is a saying that the Fujian people are all going to sea from Zhangzhou Yuegang.

The Ming Dynasty followed the system of the previous dynasty, set up a city department to manage overseas tribute and trade, and was subordinate to the political secretary, placing one person from the fifth grade, and two deputy from the sixth grade.

In that year, Ming Taizu set up the capital of Jinling, the imperial court set up the city of Bo Si in Zhili Taicang Huangdu Port, Hongwu three years, to Taicang approaching the Beijing division as the reason, changed to Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Ningbo each set up a division, of which Guangzhou for the Champa (Vietnam), Siam (Thailand), Manraka (Malaysia), Chenla (Cambodia) countries to pay tribute, Ningbo for the rì this tribute, Quanzhou mainly for the Ryukyu and Luzon, soon changed to Fuzhou.

In the first year of Jiajing, because of the rampant Japanese pirates, the disaster of the southeast coast, so, the Ningbo and Fujian two divisions, left in Guangzhou, until the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing, by the Huaiyang governor Tang Shunzhi's request, the three divisions were restored.

After the Longqing Emperor ascended the throne, he vigorously promoted the new policy, when he was the governor of Fujian Tu to remove the law of selling razors, and allowed to sell goods in the east and west, and got the full support of the first auxiliary university scholar Gao Gong, the maritime trade became active, the imperial court initially chose Zhao'an Meiling, as the open customs, and soon changed to Haicheng County, since then, the moon port has become the only legal maritime trade departure port of the Ming Empire.

Over the years, Yuegang has not only had trade contacts with Luzon, Java, Champang, Boni, Sriwijaya and Chenli Phu Quoc (Cambodia) and other countries, but also Westerners and Moslem merchants have gradually increased, and exports are mainly tea and silk, and there are many varieties of skills, and cotton cloth, wood, ceramics, colored porcelain, paper, engraving and other commodities are also quite popular with foreign businessmen and exported to overseas, exchanging foreign goods such as silver, cotton, incense and woolen fabrics.

With his many years of experience, Shen Qi chose raw silk as the main trade commodity, and had a large inventory in Nanjing, and the trading objects were mainly Westerners, but after arriving in Yuegang, he did not see the legendary Manila galleon at all.

After inquiry, I learned that since the beginning of the second year of Wanli, whether internal or external, the maritime trade policy has gradually tightened, and no merchant ships are allowed to enter the port for trading without the merchant ship quotation issued by the Municipal Shipping Division.

Due to the war between the Westerners and the Lin Feng group, more than 20 warships were blown up in the port of Hawksbill Turtle, and nearly 1,000 Westerners sank to the bottom of the sea, causing the Governor of Manila to be furious, and mobilized a large army to kill in Luzon, killing the Chinese and overseas Chinese, and even the Rì himself, the Ryukyuans, the Annamites, and even the Siamese, Malays, and Moslem, all of them were affected, and countless merchant ships were stranded at the Bashi River port, and even if the price of raw silk was kept to the lowest, it was difficult to find buyers......

Shen Qi found out that he had fallen for Matsuura Shinchang, and now he can only consider himself unlucky. After this period of visits, they got acquainted with some local merchants, mastered the market of most commodities, and had a preliminary understanding of Yuegang, and sometimes there would be smuggling ships to take the initiative to contact the source of goods, but Shen Qi, who had been doing his business for many years, did not dare to deal with private businessmen, but he did not have a ship guide in his hand, so he remembered Tang Jing and Wu Xiang's idea, and was ready to wait for the moon sky elder to come back, and ask him to go to Fuzhou to ask Governor Pang Shangpeng to see if he could get a boat guide and take the initiative to go to Manila.

In this way, they waited until the end of September, when two Manila galleons suddenly came to the bank of the Kowloon River, holding quotation tickets issued by the Fuzhou City Shipping Department, and the local government did not dare to stop them, and they began to trade in the port.

Finally looking forward to the Manila galleon, Shen Qi was overjoyed, seeing these red-haired and blue-eyed Westerners, because of the language barrier, they were not familiar with the local government, if they wanted to trade with them, they could only go through black-hearted middlemen, and they were inevitably a little disappointed in their hearts......

Zhu Hui, who accompanied Shen Qi, found that all the Westerners were picked up by the officials, and there were many brokers who followed, and he was also mixed in.

So, Zhu Hui pushed aside the crowd, rushed forward and clasped his fists and said: "My surname is Zhu, meet my friends from Manila." ”

The young man smiled slightly, waved his hand and replied, "In Xia Li Dan, please take care of me!" At this time, Zhu Hui had already been squeezed out of the crowd, and when he stepped forward to talk again, he was forcibly driven away by the official.

We must seize this opportunity, Zhu Hui, like those brokers, brokers and middlemen, followed all the way to the Hongmao Pavilion, which specializes in entertaining Western merchants, and many people tried to break in.

It turned out that Luo Amin was Li Dan's life-saving benefactor, and Li Dan's benefactor's benefactor was in front of him, so he asked Zhu Hui to leave his address and wait for him to visit.

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Off topic

For Li Dan's origin, please refer to the third volume of this book, "Dark War". Li Dan: ? - In 1625, a native of Quanzhou, Fujian, with the Catholic name Andrea Dittis and nicknamed CaptainChina (Chinese Captain), he was active in the port of Tortoiseshell in his early years, and was quite talented in business. After Lin Feng's defeat, he was captured by the Spaniards, and then released back to Daming by the Spaniards, and became a merchant with the support of the Westerners. His son Li Guozhu was a famous maritime merchant and overseas Chinese leader at that time, and his righteous son Zheng Zhilong was even more famous in history.

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