In 1640, a sea area in Fujian.

"Koi, the right full rudder, in front of the territory of Ming Guo Zheng Zhilong, let's go around," a Japanese Kozaruma ship, with a mustache, a standard Japanese samurai hair ornament, wearing a kimono, carrying a sharkskin-wrapped Taiji knife and a wakicha around his waist, his name is Shimazu Nomasa. Standing on the bridge, his brow furrowed.

"Everyone, old man, I found a Ming ship ahead!" A samurai stands on a watchtower and shouts at Shimazuno Masa.

Woo~

A sharp swan sound came from a lucky ship not far away.

"Everyone is old, the Ming people are waving the flag," the lookout warrior looked frightened, as if the other party would open fire at any moment, "Everyone is old, what should we do?"

Shimazuno Masa's hand tightly clenched the katana on his waist, this time he went to sea with a total of 24 samurai, because it was a matter of secrecy, he only took a small morning boat, if the other party really wanted to plunder, he and his subordinates, there was no way to survive.

"Raise the flag!"

"Hey! Raise the national flag!"

Under the hard work of several samurai, a flag with the blue sky and sun and moon was raised on the bow of the ship.

Originally, there was no official flag in the Ming Dynasty, and this kind of blue sky sun and moon flag was a flag designed spontaneously by some maritime merchants in order to distinguish trade ships.

Since the Battle of Liuluo Bay, the maritime dominance of East Asia has returned to the hands of the Ming Dynasty, to be precise, to be in the hands of Zheng Zhilong.

The Ming Zheng fleet finally seized all the East Asian sea rights from Japan to the South China Sea, at this time, Zheng Zhilong was called the "King of the Fujian Sea", and then only Zheng Zhilong was from the southeast sea frontier, and the merchants at home and abroad all used the Zheng banner, and the history recorded: "Each ship enters 3,000 gold, and the annual income is 10 million." ”

At that time, all ships sailing in East Asia had to spend money to buy Ming Zheng's order flag, without which the probability of being intercepted in the East Asian sea was more than 50 percent, and if it was off the coast of Fujian, it was 100 percent intercepted.

The Fu boat patrolling not far away saw the Ming flag fluttering on the small morning boat not far away, and closed the sails.

"Brother Ming, why did the ship stop sailing."

"It's impossible for this Japanese boat not to know the rules, and besides, the flag has been hoisted, it shouldn't be an enemy ship, and we can't break the rules," a white-robed young general, wearing iron armor, holding a strong bow, carrying a Changpu knife behind his back, and a rattan card in front of him, not angry and arrogant, "Go back to the boat." ”

"Back to ship! ～”

Seeing that the Damingfu ship in the distance turned its bow, Shimazuno's clenched hands were put down from the sword.

Shimazuno let out a long breath, and when he mentioned his throat, he also let go, and looked at the ocean to the northeast.

"Hang the sails and return to the ship!"

"Hey! ～”

Amid a powerful shout from the samurai, Kohaya sailed to Satsuma with Shimazuno Masashi and his mission.

Under the afterglow of the sunset, a gorgeous performance has just begun.

……

"Hero, there will be a period later," the paragraph saluted Li Ling and Li Guanghang with fists, "The matter entrusted this time is no longer necessary, and I admire the hero's personality and don't want the hero to go against it." ”

"But I missed the appointment, and I don't have the face to stay here anymore," the paragraph's face looked regretful, and he suddenly raised his voice again, "If you have the fate to see you again, you will definitely compete with the hero!" Farewell!"

Looking at one fat and one thin, walking in the sunset with two Japanese bird guns, Li Guanghang couldn't help but feel a little melancholy.

"Death to a confidant!" This sentence is used to describe the current relationship between Li Ling and the paragraph, which could not be more appropriate.

Li Ling was also a little reluctant, after all, since he returned to Jiangnan from Jiubian, the views of neighbors and relatives on him have always stayed on the young and reckless man. It is not easy to find such a person to talk to.

But Li Ling can't be forced to stay, everyone has their own ambitions. It's already very difficult not to kill Li Guanghang, and if you force him to stay, I'm afraid there will be an accident, so let's see you again! Fengyang Four Little Dragons.

"Let's go, go home." Li Ling lifted his clothes and packages, hummed a little tune, and strode into a meteor.

Li Guanghang knew it in his heart, followed behind, and did not make a sound, for fear of disturbing the tranquility.

Behind them, on the Taihu Lake, the fishermen began their last toil of the day with their nets. The bird was also busy flying home to take care of his children.

A small tree on the shore of Taihu Lake has pulled out a new sprout at some point.

……

"Mother! Ha ah~ Ha ah~ don't want a mother~ I can't stand it!"

"Qin'er endure a little, this is the foundation of martial arts, if the basic skills are not solid, you will go crazy later!" In the backyard of Li Ling's mansion, Sonal was pressing Li Qin's legs on a wooden horse, stretching the ligaments of Li Qin, a beautiful lady.

"Mother! I really can't stand it anymore! Mother! I don't practice anymore!" On Li Qin's face, beads of sweat the size of beans fell down Li Qin's cheeks and fell into the rammed earth courtyard, and his originally fair face was already flushed.

"How can that be! You can't give up halfway through martial arts! Otherwise, how can you protect your brother!"

Burst!

As soon as Li Guanghang stepped into the door of the house with his front foot, he heard such a sentence with his back foot. Li Qin's little girl, she didn't even dare to watch the pig killing, and she dared to expect her to protect me Li Guanghang? I'm afraid I'm not full of food! If you count on her to protect herself, I'm afraid ten lives are not enough to die.

"Lady! Yong'er and I are back!" Li Ling handed the package to the old servant He Shouren, and walked straight to the back garden.

"Lady? Oops~ What is this for!" Li Ling was shocked by the scene in front of him, he never thought that his precious daughter would actually practice martial arts.

Unconsciously, I was a little crazy to watch.

"Alright, come down! Qin'er, go take a bath, take a rest, my mother will make you something to eat. ”

Boom!!!

As soon as Sonar finished speaking, before the words fell, Li Qin fell off the wooden horse and lay on the ground, panting heavily.

"Practicing martial arts is so tiring, how does the eldest brother persevere?" Li Qin thought to himself.

If Li Guanghang told her that she hadn't practiced well today, but she had eaten well, then maybe Li Qin would want to strangle her brother to death.

"Come to Lao He, come and eat together." Li Ling never paid attention to the rules such as gentlemen and cooks, women are not allowed to eat at the table, and masters and servants cannot work at the same table. Lao He has been working here for so many years, and he has also figured out Li Ling's temperament, so he simply sat down with Li Guanghang's family very happily.

"Daddy, mother, Uncle He, big brother!"

A woman in plain clothes came with all her faces. Waist-length hair, tied in a bunch, with a red headband, tied at the ends of the hair. Pearl-like eyes, white jade-like cheeks, and a delicate cherry mouth. is wearing a full-breasted skirt, which sets off Li Qin even more to the country and the city.

Li Guanghang and Li Ling, and even He Shouren and Uncle He were a little sluggish.

"Qin'er, come and sit, there is the Taihu Lake Sanbai brought back by your father today!" Sonal didn't notice that the jaws dropped by the few people next to her.

"Miss is really getting more and more beautiful!" Lao He was the first to come back to his senses and praise him, with a kind smile on his face.

"Yes, yes, my daughter is getting more and more beautiful."

"Uh-huh, Daddy is right."

"Hahaha...... ～”

Under the light of a bright moon, the family is unrestrained and happy.

After dinner, it was already early hours, the ancient people went to bed very early, and the family went back to the room to rest except for Li Guanghang.

In the study, the candle flame was flickering and dimming by the turning of the pages, and Li Guanghang held a copy of "A List of Business Journeys" written by Tao Chengqing, a Ming scholar, and studied it carefully.

Li Guanghang knew that in troubled times, it was absolutely impossible to have an empty body of force, and it was necessary to have a combatable army, and the formation of an army required armor, weapons, and food, and the premise of these three was silver.

Although the Li family's industry is quite big, it is not big enough, compared to those business gangsters, it is far inferior. Li Guanghang needed a stable source of funds to support his army, but he had no experience in business, and the knowledge in his body was not enough to compete with those old fritters in the business world. Therefore, Li Guanghang felt that he should start with reading, practice martial arts during the day and study at night.

Strive to arm yourself with knowledge first, and then think about how to expand the market industry.

At some point, it began to rain heavily outside the window.

……

On the official road, a galloping carriage stopped at the military camp outside Suzhou......