Part 4 The Maritime Silk Road 63, appalling
Ma Liangbi was reinstated as an official, and he also got the coveted soju shop, and became the biggest winner, for this reason, he was polite to Lin Feng and let him continue to live here, and the two even became "good friends", which made Zhu Hui, Guo Yi and Wen Tao and others very embarrassed, but helpless. [Full text reading. 】
Guo Yi was named the Naha Port City Bo Si by King Shang Yong, on the day of his new appointment, everyone gathered in the national post house to congratulate her, and the concubine Niangniang also came, and now she was named the first class lady of the country by the imperial court, and the limelight was greater than Queen Ma, she brought a congratulatory message from King Yong Chitose, and held a feast in the VIP hall, and the magnates and officials who could come from the Ryukyu country came, and its scale was not at all inferior to Ma Liangbi's birthday that year.
The congratulatory banquet was carried out until the afternoon, when the officials dispersed one after another, and the concubine Niangniang was drunk, Guo Yi helped her to the guest room to rest. At this time, they suddenly heard someone report that a Western missionary suddenly broke in, Zhu Hui and Wen Tao hurriedly went out to take a look, and found that it was Mark, so they invited him to the guest room.
It turned out that Mark was abducted by Wasuka and taken to Sakai Town, where he was severely censored by the Coalition, and soon after, Father Simon Almeida also returned, and he forgave his disciple in order to continue trafficking arquebuses to Oda Nobunaga, but Mark was unwilling to continue to work for this priest, and he was still worried about Xu Ling'er in his heart, and he escaped when he had the opportunity.
Taking this opportunity, Wen Tao took out the mysterious nautical chart and asked this Mark with rich sailing experience to identify, in fact, Mark had seen it as early as last year, according to his guess, this may be an unknown sea, archipelago and continent, or it does not exist at all, but is drawn according to the historical myth "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".
These words reminded Wen Tao, he immediately found the picture sent by Hong Zhenren's flying pigeon book, put the two together and carefully compared, and found that there were some similarities, but Hong Zhenren's picture was more detailed, everyone was very shocked when they saw it, and couldn't help but sigh, at this moment, Lin Feng suddenly pushed the door and broke in.
For this mysterious navigation chart, Lin Feng saw it for the first time, and at this moment, he was even more convinced that the legend that Xu Hai snatched Wang Zhi's treasure was by no means empty. Especially the Western text written on it: Mrs. Wang Cuiqiao, who converted to Catholicism, donated this huge treasure to God, if you want it, go and get it, as long as you are willing to pay the same price! Could it be that Wang Cuiqiao also went to the "Hungarian State"?
At this moment, Lin Feng first thought of Luo Wenlong, and now he realized that in order for Hong Zhenren to find the so-called "Junction Hun State", Luo Wenlong can be described as Zen and exhausted, and set a trap step by step, inducing Yan Shifan to transport a large amount of money overseas, and he even took his two daughters to Qiumupu. In this way, this matter may be kept in the dark even by the prince, and perhaps only Luo Wenlong knows this secret.
So, many years later, who took that notebook and nautical chart and ran to Ryukyu to find Wang Cuiqiao's daughter?
Although some of the mysteries are puzzling, the similarities between the two charts suggest that Hong Zhenren and the old man had both been to the same place.
Just when everyone was speculating about the existence of the Hungarian Kingdom, Mark suddenly asked, "Do you know a saint named Bai Haishan?" ”
Lin Feng was taken aback when he heard this, although he had never seen him, he had heard of this name more than once, it was said that this person was a navigator, he had been the captain of the expedition of the Spanish Empire, and some people said that he was a lone ranger, the dragon saw the head but did not see the tail, and often appeared on the sea, specializing in assassinating pirates and pirate leaders.
Mark continued: "It is said that this Mr. Haku, who is said to be a devout Christian, is known to an elder of the Congregation who opened the route from Hirado to Acapulco, and that Mr. Haku, who has recently traveled to Hirado, Satsuma, and Sakai to collect legends about Mrs. Wang Cuiqiao. ”
"So, where is Bai Haishan now?" Lin Feng suddenly came to his senses.
"Now no one knows where he went, and just before I escaped from Sakai Town, Mr. Simon Almeida told me that I should keep an eye out for Mr. Haku." Mark replied.
"What is Simon Almeida doing with Bai Haishan?" Lin Feng asked curiously.
"He suspects that Mr. Bai may have been to the legendary southern continent."
So, Lin Feng asked for the notebook left by Mrs. Wang Cuiqiao, only to see that the title page reads:
Affectionate parting since ancient times, farewell today is sad; If you want to ask where the sky goes, who will accompany you tomorrow? I wanted to turn my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shone on the ditch; The child regretted that he had a short vision, and his brother did not believe his father's words.
After being silent for a moment, Lin Feng asked, "Guo Qianhu, when you met the prince last year, did he mention this Bai Haishan?" ”
"Could it be that the old bastard in the mouth of the prince refers to Mr. Bai?" Guo Yi remembered that Jingming kidnapped Huang Bingwen to the Diaoyu Islands to hunt for treasure, and the prince mistakenly thought that they were here to help Shang Kangbo restore, and smoked them down with ** incense, but fortunately, Xu Linger had the antidote that Wen Tao gave her, which cured the princess, at that time, I heard him preach: It was only because the Sprinkle family suddenly encountered an accident that delayed their trip, and it happened that an old bastard was just sent away yesterday.
At this time, Lin Feng was still silent, according to the situation he had, he was guessing in his heart the relationship between Bai Haishan, Luo Wenlong, Wang Gonggong and Wang Cuiqiao and others, and this concubine Niangniang, it seems that Wang Zhi has accumulated a lifetime of treasures, all of which were transported to the Hungarian Kingdom by this Bai Haishan.
So, Lin Feng asked, "Mr. Mark, how much more do you know about the legend of Baihai Mountain?" ”
Just after Simon Almeida approached him, Mark took the initiative to ask the elders of the Coalition about it, and the story was probably like this:
It is said that he was desperate to the point where he was about to commit suicide when he met St. Francis Xavier of the Jesuits.
At the behest of the Holy See, Xavier had made a missionary mission to the East and had great success in India, so he turned his attention to Marco Polo's golden country, China, where their fleet passed through Ambon Island to replenish fresh water and encountered the desperate White Seamount.
When he learned of Xavier's intentions, he knew very well that the missionaries would not do anything in the Ming Dynasty, and that their personal safety was not guaranteed, so he took them to Hirado and was officially baptized into Christianity and became a disciple of Saint Xavier.
At that time, Wang Nao, who claimed to be the "King of Satsuma Hui", was also in Hirado, and he colluded with his lord Matsuura Takanobu to hire a large number of ronin to land from Ruian and capture Taizhou, Hangzhou and other places from the 21st year of Jiajing (1542 AD......
In the spring of 1550 (the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing), the Jesuits were ordered by the Emperor of Great Spain to send an expedition to Hirado, hoping to use the Kuroshio to meet the pro-tide to join the eastward current, and open up the route from the east to the New World. The following year, when they returned, Bai Haishan was promoted to captain, and the fleet had just sailed through the Fire Lununu Islands, when a hurricane suddenly broke out on the sea, and it is said that all the members of the fleet were killed, and no one thought that twenty-eight years later, Bai Haishan was still alive.
It is said that Wang Zhi, who accepted Zhao'an, did not trust anyone under him, and in order to transport the property he had accumulated for more than 40 years to the mainland, he asked Western missionaries to form a fleet and quietly sailed to the Zhoushan Islands.
Although Wang Zhi accepted the court's recruitment, but Xu Hai's arrogance was still very arrogant, with the cooperation of Chen Dong and Ma Ye's two forces, he drove a large number of Japanese to land on the coast of Zhejiang, the Japanese invaders killed people and set fire in front, they looted in the back, and was about to go south to Fujian when suddenly came the news that he couldn't believe that his wife had given birth to a daughter.
Xu Hai knew that he had no fertility, so he immediately returned to Satsuma to punish Wang Cuiqiao severely, and happened to meet Wang Zhi to settle accounts with him. At the same time, under Luo Wenlong's separation, Chen Dong and Ma Ye all turned their faces with him, and with Wang Zhi's death threat, Xu Hai, who wore a green hat, was almost killed.
Lin Feng knew that later, Xu Hai and his wife, who were helpless, went to Shuri Castle from Amami Island, and they didn't bother with Wang Zhi at all, and immediately accepted the court's recruitment through Luo Wenlong, and entrusted Lin Feng's uncle to hand over the young daughter to the prince, for which they took out a large sum of money and asked Lin Feng's uncle to come forward and build this shochu shop in the suburbs.
With the help of Luo Wenlong, Xu Hai and his wife led their troops to Hu Zongxian and stationed outside Pinghu City.
Wang Cuiqiao's daughter was quietly raised by the prince in the people, Lin Feng had long suspected that this should be Luo Wenlong's biological daughter, until he just saw Mrs. Wang Cuiqiao write in "Untitled": The child regrets that he has a short vision, and his brother does not believe his father's words. Only then did he realize that the prince would be Wang Cuiqiao's own brother.
After the death of Xu Hai and Wang Cuiqiao, most of the remaining parties fled to Ryukyu, Luo Wenlong found the bodies of the couple in order to buy people's hearts, buried them in the Diaoyu Islands, began to cultivate Lin Wenjun, and in the name of participating in the Zhao'an pirates, he asked for fame, and was named the right thousand households of Fusi in Weibei Town, Jinyi Weibei, which is today's Lin Feng.
Soon, when the prince learned that Luo and Lin had become the Yan J party, he managed to drive them out of the Ryukyus, and Lin Wenjun changed his name to Lin Yiguan and entrenched himself in the Akimepo base left by Xu Hai in a vain attempt to make a comeback.
Wang Cuiqiao's daughter grew up happily in the Ryukyu people, and was once favored by Ma Gongzi, a relative of the King of the Ryukyus, if it wasn't for Ma Liangbi's thought that the door was not appropriate and the household was wrong, she might have been married home by the hornet's nest, maybe she didn't know her true identity at that time.
Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, adopted a recruitment strategy to dismantle the two major pirate groups of Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Tan Lun and Liu Xian and other patriotic generals, and pacified the Japanese on the southeast coast, and Lin Daoxun, a businessman who had a close personal relationship with the prince, was recommended to be the secret envoy of Jinyi Wei, and stayed in Sakai Town to continue to monitor the remnants of the pirates.
In that year, Lin Yiguan secretly possessed the treasures that were transported overseas by the thief Yan Shifan, which led to the destruction of Akimeura Castle by the Miyoshi San, Takeda Katsuyori and others, forcing him to go to Owari Province to join Oda Nobunaga, but the monkey not only did not help him, but persuaded him to return to Ryukyu to continue trafficking arquebuses; As soon as he stepped into the Ryukyus, he was denounced by the prince, and Wang Chong and Guo Yi chased him to Shuri Castle to arrest him, and he was trapped in this national post house for several months.
It wasn't until King Shangyuan of the Ryukyu Kingdom found out to the imperial court that Lin Wenjun was Lin Yiguan and was actually the J party of the Yan family, that he was forced to change his name to Lin Feng and never dared to step into the Ryukyu Kingdom again.
In order to find a good future for his niece, the hard-working prince found the loyal Changshi Zheng Zhen and asked him to recognize this poor girl as his adopted daughter. We have talked about this passage in the third volume, "The Dark War".
In order to restore the royal heir Shang Kangbo, who lost power, he secretly colluded with the Japanese and was abandoned by the princes who had supported him, so the princes turned to support King Shang Yong and stabilized the political situation of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Concubine Niangniang didn't know her life experience before entering the palace, about the situation of the old man, after entering the palace, she asked the princess, but the princess refused to answer, so she vented her years of resentment on the princess's head, * forced the princess to tell her life experience.
Knowing that she was the daughter of a pirate, Concubine Zhengniang was taken aback, and at this time, the princess told her that she was her own uncle, and her mother, Mrs. Wang Cuiqiao, was a great hero of the Zhao'an pirates, and she was not the daughter of the pirate Xu Hai. As for whether it is Luo Wenlong's daughter, the undeniable princess neither admitted nor denied it, which made her feel a little more relieved, in order to keep these secrets, she was about to go crazy, and finally * died of the princess.
So, is Concubine Zhengniang Luo Wenlong's daughter? Was Wang Zhi's treasure snatched away by Xu Hai? Has Wang Cuiqiao ever been to the Hungarian Kingdom? What is the relationship between Xu Hai, Wang Cuiqiao and Bai Haishan? Why did the mysterious Bai Haishan suddenly appear? For these many mysteries, even Lin Feng is difficult to solve, it seems that if you want to know the inside story, you can only find Bai Haishan or Hong Zhenren......
While Lin Feng was meditating, Concubine Zheng's wine woke up, Guo Yi accompanied her to return to the palace, and everyone hurriedly got up to see each other off......
But Lin Feng didn't move, he looked through Wang Cuiqiao's notebook for a while, savored the song "Untitled" carefully, and finally made up his mind to gather the old department to escort Shen Qi's caravan and the Elder of the Moon Sky......
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St. Francis? Xavier, one of the founders of the Society of Jesus, was ordered by the Holy See to preach in the East many times, and had great success in India. So, he turned his attention to Marco Polo's "Golden Country", preparing to travel to the Ming Dynasty via Malacca, and save the White Sea Mountain when he replenished fresh water on Ambon Island.
Due to the ban on missionary work in the Ming Dynasty and the rebellion of the Japanese invaders, Bai Haishan took him to Hirado, Japan, where he was warmly welcomed by the feudal lord Matsuura Takanobu and stayed in Japan to preach, but he did not give up the idea of going to China.
In August 1552, Xavier landed on Shangchuan Island in Guangzhou, which at that time was a stronghold of the Portuguese smuggling trade with the Chinese.
After leaving China, Xavier skipped India and died of malaria.
The next plot direction of this book will be based on the exploration of the deeper human nature of the spirit, and the next step of the story will be expanded. When the tsunami storm comes, when the spiritual belief is in doubt, the good and evil of human nature, one thought of heaven and one thought of hell, embodied in the obsession with life and the obsession with wealth, with a variety of more profound views, in the future adventures of "Tang Ship".
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