The weak Bai Haishan stroked his son's strong body, and couldn't help but burst into tears, so excited that he couldn't say a word......

After a long silence, Oretto's eyes containing tears couldn't help but roll down a string of tears, and he still asked with resentment: "Daddy, why did you abandon us?" If it weren't for Lord Lin Daao coming to our Oseya, I wouldn't have known you were still alive! ”

"Son, it's hard to put into words!"

"I must know the details today!"

With a gray beard, Bai Haishan glanced at everyone, except for Lin Feng, who was a little nervous, everyone looked expectantly, waiting for him to tell the sad past......

"Son, your ancestral home is in Weixian County, Shandong, great-grandfather, grandfather are quite famous squires, for my father I was sixteen years old in the township test Xiucai, only because of the young and frivolous, wasted a few years of light Y, until the age of twenty-six to raise people, delayed their lifelong events, in your great-grandfather, grandfather repeatedly urged, this is with the county parents official Wang Lord's daughter of the family engaged, just for the father to enter Beijing to take the Jinshi, the Wang family has a big ......"

The daughter of Lord Wang's family naturally refers to Wang Cuiqiao. 【Latest chapter reading. When Bai Haishan said this, the sound of whimpering was silent, and everyone held their breath and waited for the following.

"Before my mother died, I often mentioned Mrs. Wang, mistakenly thinking that you are no longer alive, I remember my mother's words, and when I sacrifice, I still don't forget to put a stick of ......incense on you and Mrs. Wang," Bai Aureto said, pointing to the two spiritual seats standing next to the offering table, which were indeed written "First test Bai Haishan" and "First Concubine Wang Cuiqiao".

This is something Bai Haishan didn't expect, at this moment, his eyes became a little blurred, as if he had returned to the Bai family's compound in Wei County, Shandong more than forty years ago......

As early as the twelfth year of Jiajing (1533 AD), Emperor Sejong said according to the Ministry of War's statement on the sale of large ships to the sea and the incurring pirates: Pirates are troubled, and the residents are prohibited from trade. The military department urgently supervised the officers of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Liangguang to prevent and suppress them, and all the illegal big ships were burned. Since then, the coastal soldiers and civilians, private and city thieves, and their neighbors have not sat together. According to the imperial history, the inspectors quickly investigated the longitudinal officers and longitudinal seagoing officers for many years, and they were famous.

The previous ban on the sea was unleashed, but from then on, the imperial court began to strictly enforce it.

Forty years ago, that is, in the seventeenth year of Jiajing (1538 AD), Bai Haishan, who entered Beijing to take the exam, was proud of the spring breeze, dreaming of the title of the gold list, and then returning to his hometown to marry his wife.

Emperor Sejong's ban made pirates indistinguishable from maritime merchants and fishermen, so much so that the whole family was convicted of fishing nets like Zhang Gou'er's grandfather. Coincidentally, a relative of the Bai family was doing business with a maritime merchant and was sued to the Yamen, and when the father of Wang Cuiqiao, who was the county magistrate of Weixian County, decided the case, he presided over justice for the Bai family, and was caught by a colleague who harbored evil intentions.

Because the ban of the imperial court has just been promulgated, fornication with maritime merchants is a felony, Wang Zhixian was almost beheaded by the whole house, the Bai family exhausted the family wealth for this lawsuit, and finally Wang Zhixian was still sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn, the whole family was charged with the army, and the cardamom girl Wang Cuiqiao had a strong temperament, and she couldn't swallow this breath, and on the way to the distribution, she fled to Jinling to sell herself to save her father......

Hearing this, Han Xiaoyu couldn't help but feel emotional, she didn't expect Wang Cuiqiao to have the same experience as herself, but it was a pity that she didn't meet the kind-hearted Mrs. He, the old man Hai Rui, and she didn't meet the person she liked, so she couldn't help crying bitterly and threw herself into Zhu Hui's arms......

Bai Haishan had just arrived in Beijing, and suddenly got the news from his hometown, so he immediately returned to Weixian, but unfortunately, Wang Zhixian had been escorted to the provincial capital, and his family members were sent to Lingnan with the army, and they had long since disappeared.

The grief-stricken Bai Haishan knew that he was powerless to rescue Wang Zhixian, so he went all the way south to chase the Wang family's family, and only to learn that the Wang family brothers and sisters had escaped in Jinling, and they are currently missing. So, he hurriedly came to Yingtianfu, searched all over the two sides of Qinhuai, and inquired everywhere about the news of Wang Cuiqiao's brothers and sisters. A year later, I learned that Wang Cuiqiao, who was eager to save his father, sold himself and was bought by a wealthy businessman; His brother went north to Beijing to file a complaint, and it is said that he entered the palace as a eunuch, and a few days ago he asked someone to find his sister in Nanjing.

At that time, the Japanese had begun to troubled the southeast coast, and bought Wang Cuiqiao's rich son, who was the nephew of Xu Qianxue, a merchant of the sea, a native of She County, Huizhou, who had been a monk in Hangzhou Hupao Temple when he was young, and his legal name was "Pujing", and later his name was changed to Xu Hai.

According to this clue, Bai Haishan came to the foot of Huangshan again and found Xu Hai's hometown, but the uncle and nephew were not at home, and it is said that they went to the South China Sea to do business.

So, Bai Haishan came to Guangzhou non-stop and found the Xu family warehouse, but unfortunately, not long ago, Xu Qianxue's merchant ship had an accident in the South China Sea, resulting in a loss of money and a huge amount of money owed to his partner Wang Zhi.

Although this Wang Zhi was originally a fellow villager of Xu Qianxue, he didn't say anything about it, and sent his subordinates to take away all the property of the Xu family; And this Xu Qianxue is not a thing, in order to continue to tie up Wang Zhi, he actually took his nephews Xu Hai and Wang Cuiqiao as hostages and sent them to Wang Zhi's old nest in Japan, Hirado City.

Bai Haishan was overwhelmed by a series of accidents, and after learning about this situation, he immediately took a merchant ship to Japan.

When I arrived in Hirado, I found that there were tens of thousands of Ming people living here, who were also thieves and merchants, and Bai Haishan didn't have much effort to find out the news of Wang Cuiqiao and Xu Hai.

Wang Zhi* forced Xu Hai to go to the sea as a thief, but Xu Hai at that time did not have the courage to be beaten to death by pirates, and this group of mad people even threatened Wang Cuiqiao to force Xu Hai to comply. Xu Hai knew that Cuiqiao was a strong woman, and it was only at this point that she could be compromised, but it was too late, and when she married Wang Cuiqiao, she found that she had almost become a "cripple".

Xu Hai, who lost his dignity as a man, treated Wang Cuiqiao quite well for the sake of face. Surprisingly, Xu Hai, who went to the sea as a pirate, was more ruthless than anyone else, and soon emerged in the pirate's den and became a general under Wang Zhi, who later became acquainted with pirate leaders such as Chen Dong and Ma Ye, and his wings became harder and harder, so that Wang Zhi could not control him.

Because Bai Haishan was unwilling to be with pirates, and Xu Hai took Wang Cuiqiao to be erratic, more than two years passed in a blink of an eye, Bai Haishan had to return to Weixian, his hometown was already a matter of people, Bai and Wang were gone, and the artemisia grass on Wang Zhixian's grave grew more than two feet high.

To pay tribute to his deceased relatives, Bai Haishan went to the capital to inquire about the news of Wang Cuiqiao's brother.

Wang Cuiqiao's brother has already entered the palace as a eunuch, and has become a celebrity around the emperor, at this time the prince is planning revenge, because it is inconvenient to meet Bai Haishan, he has to ask someone to give Bai Haishan a message, let him go to Japan, Ryukyu or Taiwan and other places, if Wang Cuiqiao can not be rescued from the sea of suffering, he will never come back.

When Bai Haishan left the capital and went south, he wanted to kill the shameless officials who framed Wang Zhixian, but suddenly found that the officers and soldiers were raiding their homes.

Don't think about it, this must be Wang Gonggong's "masterpiece", but a matter of heart, Bai Haishan began to go all out to rescue Wang Cuiqiao, but Xu Hai's group came and went in the endless sea without a trace, although they passed by many times, but they always couldn't grasp the right time.

In the twenty-first year of Jiajing (1542 AD), the great pirate Wang Zhi settled in Hirado Castle, Japan, colluded with his lord Matsuura Takanobu, hired a large number of Japanese ronins to land from Ruian, Zhejiang, and soon captured Taizhou, Hangzhou and others, and the rebellion of the Japanese on the southeast coast began......

The pirates Wang Zhi, Xu Dong and others led the Japanese to gather in Zhejiang, wantonly burned and looted, and soon spread to Shandong, Nanzhili, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas, and the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were killed as many as hundreds of thousands, and their crimes were too numerous to mention, arousing the anger and resistance of the government and the opposition and the people of all strata.

In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing (1549 AD), Bai Haishan heard a definite news, Xu Hai personally went to Cebu Island in the South Seas to buy muskets, and he chased after him alone, but unfortunately, the merchant ship he was on went to Malacca, so he had to get off the ship halfway and was stranded on Ambon Island.

At this time, Bai Haishan was desperate to the extreme, and just when he was about to commit suicide, he met the Jesuit missionary St. Francis Xavier.

At the behest of the Holy See, Xavier traveled to the East many times to preach and had great success in India, so he turned his attention to Marco Polo's Golden Country, and was about to travel to the Ming Dynasty via Malacca, where he saved the desperate White Sea Mountain when he replenished fresh water on Ambon Island.

Over the years, Bai Haishan has dealt with Westerners a lot, and knows a lot about their language and religion, and when he learned of Xavier's intentions, he knew very well that they would not do anything in the Ming Dynasty.

Shirakaisan traveled to Hirado, Japan, and learned the reasons for the rise of Christianity there. It was O'Nao who sent the missionaries who had been killed in Tanegashima to Iki Island, which led to the spread of Christianity in the area, and the lord of the Hirado domain, Matsuura Takanobu, became a devout Christian in order to trade with Westerners. So, he had a plan to bring them to Japan, and for this reason, he was officially baptized into Christianity and became a disciple of Xavier.

Xavier did not want to give up his mission to China, and Bai Haishan secretly made up his mind that the only way to rescue Wang Cuiqiao was to return to Japan again, and on their way from Ambon Island to Fujian, they deliberately misled them to go along the Kuroshio, and by the time the sailors realized that the route was wrong, it was too late.

In August of that year, St. Francis Xavier and others came to Hirado Castle and were warmly welcomed by the feudal lord Matsuura Takanobu, and it was only with this convenience that Bai Haishan found out about Wang Cuiqiao's situation.

At this time, Xu Hai has become the de facto leader of the Japanese pirates, he and Chen Dong, Ma Ye, Deng Bichuan, Chen Dong and others have already flown alone, nominally still serve Wang Zhi as the owner of the five peaks, and follow him as the king of Satsuma Hui, but he does not obey Wang Zhi's command in action, this group of ferocious pirates is uncertain in the vast sea, sometimes appears in Nanyang and other places to buy muskets, and sometimes runs to Taiwan, Ryukyu to establish dens, they are supported by Shimazu Takahisa, the lord of Satsuma in Kyushu, often take the Japanese to Zhejiang, Fujian and other places to kill people and goods.

Under the leadership of patriotic generals such as Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, the military and civilians on the southeast coast fought bloodily against the Japanese invaders; The prince, who had already avenged his great revenge, quietly left the capital and came to the Ryukyu palace to become the leader of the eunuchs, secretly providing information to the anti-Japanese generals, and his main purpose was to rescue his sister Wang Cuiqiao.

At that time, Bai Haishan did not know that the prince had gone to Ryukyu, and as a disciple of St. Francis Xavier, he secretly organized a righteous army in Hirado, hoping to take out the pirate leaders who colluded with the pirates and end the plague of the pirates on the southeast coast of Chinese mainland.

Because he could not grasp the whereabouts of Xu Hai and others, and capture the thief first, Bai Haishan decided to take the lead in attacking Wang Zhi, the owner of the Wufeng ship, if he could control this culprit, he could summon those erratic pirate leaders in his name, and purge them one by one.

At this time, a Western expedition suddenly came, they were commissioned by the king of the Spanish Empire, hoping to use the Kuroshio and the pro-tide to meet and merge into the eastward current, open up the route from the east to the New World, due to the lack of sailors, Xavier personally came to Bai Haishan and others to help, completely disrupted their plan.

Bai Haishan understood that Xavier would not hire pirates, and Matsuura Takanobu knew the risks of this voyage, and he would not send his own retainers, so this helpless errand could not be escaped.

(End of chapter)