Of course, Qin Lin didn't know that he had done even more extreme things to poor Miss Xu, so he shook his head again and again and said that he had never taken off her shoes.

Zhang Zixuan was skeptical, but it seemed that Qin Lin's denial made her very happy, and she was in a much more cheerful mood.

The two talked and laughed all the way, first went to see Liu Bowen Bridge, and then walked back from the Huapai Tower to the Confucius Temple to watch the temple fair, on the way Qin Lin also spent fifteen coppers to buy two strings of sugar gourds, eat one by himself, and invite Zhang Zixuan to eat a string.

Zhang Zixuan is not pretentious, she is very happy to eat with a string of sugar gourds, and now she is still extraordinarily wise except for her eyes, and she looks no different from ordinary folk girls.

Before I walked to the Confucius Temple, I saw the gongs and drums in front of me, and the voices of people were boiling.

Confucius Temple is the first prosperous place in Jinling City, it is the Confucian Temple, but the prosperity of the market business has overshadowed the influence of Confucius and Mencius, it is famous in the southeast not because of the Confucius offered in the temple, but the square in front of the temple on the Tiannanhaibei all kinds of juggling and small business are fascinating.

No, the monkey show the monkey dressed in red, the scholar bowed his hands, knelt and kowtowed, and the monkey player held a gong to ask the audience for money, and the people applauded while rewarding him with a few coppers at will, and the monkey hugged his fist for the master to thank him.

The man who pinches the dough and makes the sugar painting is sought after by the children, the man who crushes the boulder on the chest and sells the strong pill wins the applause of the old and young masters, and the one who steps on stilts and somersaults makes a dazzling thrilling action.

Jinling City is really the gold powder of the six dynasties, and the prosperity of the southeast is second to none.

There is another slippery stage, it is the southern opera troupes singing, Qin Lin and Zhang Zixuan looked all the way over, what "Serial Story" and "Jingzhong Ji".

There is a stage with a large audience is performing "The Legend of the Ming Phoenix", Zhang Zixuan said with a smile, "Wang Shizhen, this old man, always does not get rid of the habit of being a talented man, and he has made a new drama to perform, so his father said that he can be a Wenzong, not a pillar of the imperial court", Qin Lin knew that this Ming Feng Ji was a new drama made by Yin Wang Shizhen of Tianfu.

The last stage staged "The Story of Pinghai", telling the story of Qi Jiguang's Pingyu Emperor, Zhang Zixuan watched it for a while, and sighed: "Qi Dashuai is indeed a meritorious person, but if it weren't for Wang Bengu's stubborn mind and making a hindrance from it, Hu Butang's strategy of appeasement would have worked, how could there have been so many things later?" ”

When Qin Lin heard this, his heart suddenly moved, remembering that the ship that captured the White Lotus Sect a few days ago came from the Japanese Invaders, and hurriedly asked what was going on to appease the Japanese Invaders, and Wang Bengu was in the way.

This was a few decades ago, Zhang Zixuan didn't care, but Qin Lin was curious, so he told it very patiently.

During the so-called Wukou, there were really many people in Hongwu and Yongle, but in the Jiajing period, nine out of ten were Chinese, and the "Zhenwu" was a minority.

Due to the strict implementation of the Ming law, only the exploration trade under the tributary system was allowed, which led to the dissatisfaction of the coastal people, and the development of industry and commerce in Jiangnan further stimulated the development of maritime trade, and the smuggling activities of the people intensified - in fact, most of them were controlled by local tycoons and officials and actively participated.

There is no government jurisdiction on the vast ocean, so there are people with bad intentions who turn from smuggling to robbery, and even collude with the people to attack Chinese cities.

During the Jiajing period, a great hero was Wang Zhi, a merchant of the sea, who built a huge fleet to run rampant on the sea, forcing himself, the Koreans, and even the Western colonizers to submit to him, and ships from the South Sea to the East had to obediently pay him protection money.

Wang Zhi was a maritime merchant who needed a good business environment and had little interest in plundering, so on the one hand, he restrained the Portuguese and did not allow them to land and plunder, and even sent troops to eliminate other pirates who dared to invade China, so as to show the imperial court that he was a legitimate merchant; On the other hand, they constantly demanded that the imperial court open the sea ban, hoping that their business could change from illegal smuggling to legal trade.

At that time, Hu Zongxian, a famous anti-Japanese general, the squire of the military department and the imperial history of the capital, and the governor of the military affairs of Fujian, clearly realized this, so he set the strategy of recruiting An, to recruit Wang Zhi and his party to become the sailors of the imperial court, allow them to trade legally, and use their strength to fight against the real murderous Cheng Ronin and Western colonists.

Wang Zhi was born and grew up in Si, after all, his heart is to China, as a maritime businessman, what he most desperately hopes for is that the imperial court will open the sea ban, and he will become an upright and legitimate businessman, so he hit it off with Hu Zongxian, and happily rushed to Hangzhou from overseas, ready to accept Zhao'an.

Unexpectedly, Wang Bengu, the governor stationed in Hangzhou at that time, was a self-proclaimed Qing official, and instead of saying that Wang Zhi was a widow, he forcibly arrested him, and repeatedly went to the imperial court, insisting that Hu Zongxian had received a large bribe from Wang Zhi, and demanded that the "corrupt officials" and "widows" be severely punished.

Wang Bengu, who was not successful enough to do more than anything else, did this, and the Qingliu civil officials all fired fiercely at Hu Zongxian, and the court also set the tone of killing Wang Zhi, Hu Zongxian had no choice but to be forced to agree, so Wang Zhi was very wronged by the court and cut off his head - he was originally rushing to be recruited, and he wanted to fight the real Japanese and Westerners for the court!

As soon as Wang Zhi died, the situation at sea was immediately eroded and out of control, and the smuggling and maritime merchant group represented by him, which mainly focused on trade, was replaced by the Japanese who mainly plundered, and in the past ten years, the southeast coastal army has been in trouble, causing the most serious Japanese plague in the 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Thanks to Hu Zongxian, Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, Liu Xian and other loyal ministers, they made their efforts to pacify the Japanese invaders, but no less than 100,000 soldiers and civilians died, and the southeast half of the wall was completely destroyed.

"Brother Qin, you say, these Qingliu civil officials who only know how to abide by dogma but don't know how to change at all, are they harmful?" Zhang Zixuan looked very helpless, perhaps thinking that her father's reform actually had something in common with what happened to Hu Zongxian back then, and she said: "So after my father took power, he learned the lesson of killing Wang Zhi by mistake, and took completely opposite measures in the handling of my payment of tribute, and really kept the north safe for more than ten years." ”

Qin Lin knew something about the tribute, Meng Yuan was expelled from the Ming army, but Shuo Mo was still dominated by the Mongols, like the Ming Yingzong Wara, and the later Tatars, all of which were the henchmen of the Ming Dynasty.

The Tatar chieftain Altan Khan and his grandson fell in love with the same woman (grandson, the bitter cold...). Hannaji didn't rob his grandfather, and he was so angry that he ran to the Ming Dynasty.

What should be done with the enemies of the world? Many gossip officials have a strong sense of justice again, and demand that Hannaji Lingchi be executed in order to repay the hatred of the world.

But the scholar Zhang Juzheng tried his best to disagree with the public, insisted on dealing with the matter through negotiation, and later sent back to Hannaji, called his ancestors and grandchildren to reconcile, and opened a border ban, allowing the border people to do business with Altan Khan, Altan Khan was grateful, for more than ten years the border did not pay soldiers, and the Tatar Ministry went to Beijing every year to pay tribute, thanking the kindness of the Ming court - their descendants were also ordered by the Ming Dynasty to conquer Liaodong Jiannu, and fought with the Eight Banners of Manchuria, of course, that is a later story.

"My father often sighed that Wang Zhiruo was born twenty years later, and when his old man took charge of the center, he was sure to be used by the imperial court like the Tatars, and fought side by side with the imperial court sailors to exterminate the true Japanese and Hongyi......"

Zhang Zixuan's face was helpless, obviously dissatisfied with those Qingliu civil officials: "What Wang Zhi wants is to open the sea and ban trade, so he is willing to exterminate the true widows for the Ming court, and Qingliu is bent on killing him; How do you know that only more than ten years have passed, and when my father took the central authority, he opened a sea ban in Yuegang during the Longqing period, and allowed the people to trade with people from all over the world, and most of Wang Zhi's request became a reality, Brother Qin, do you say that this person died unjustly? ”

Qin Lin didn't know what to say anymore, these clear streams were really mistaken for the common people!

In fact, the later national hero Zheng Chenggong, like Wang Zhi, was born in a maritime group, vigorously carried out maritime trade, maintained the order of the East Asian seas, and collected the "protection fee" of ships from Western countries and other countries was exactly the same, and later Zheng Chenggong defeated the Dutch colonists, recovered Taiwan, and made a great contribution to China.

"By the way, there is a Mr. Wufeng, does it have anything to do with the Japanese Kou back then?" Qin Lin remembered the painting of Jin Yingji.

Zhang Zixuan smiled: "Wufeng ship owner? It's Wang Zhi's nickname! Brother Qin has seen and heard a lot. ”

What the! Qin Lin's pupils shrank suddenly, if Jin Yingji and Wang Zhi had some kind of connection, then the ship from overseas that she and the White Lotus Sect were on appeared in Nanjing almost at the same time, I'm afraid it's not a coincidence!

But now that the ship is gone, Kanesakura has disappeared inexplicably, what is the reason...... I couldn't find the mysterious Jin Yingji, everything was just speculation, and Qin Lin had no choice but to wait for new news to see if the Jinyi Wei in Ningbo and Yuegang had found any clues.

While he was thinking about these things, a low cry suddenly came from him, which dispersed Qin Lin's thoughts.

There were a lot of people, and somehow there was an old lady in front of her who slipped under her feet and fell to the ground, Qin Lin was originally closer to her, but she was a step slower when she thought about things, and let Zhang Zixuan rush to the front to help.

The old lady half-squinted her eyes, her face was full of pain, she grinned and showed a mouth full of big yellow teeth, and lay on the ground and cried out in a loud voice: "Oh no, the old man's leg is broken." ”

Hearing this, Qin Lin hurriedly stopped Zhang Zixuan.

Zhang Zixuan blinked in confusion, and said in her heart that these days, she felt that Qin Lin didn't look like a cold-hearted person, could it be that she had other intentions?

Qin Lin shook his head: "The old man's bones are fragile, maybe he really broke his bones, so he can't help them indiscriminately." I've been an apprentice in the infirmary, so I can see bruises, so I'll do it. ”

Zhang Zixuan's eyes flashed, Qin Lin bluntly said that he had been an apprentice in the medical hall, and he did not shy away from being from a humble background, which is really different from those so-called talents who always boast like peacocks in front of her!

Qin Lin squatted down and was about to check the old lady's injuries, but he didn't expect the old lady to shrink back and spray his face with spittle: "Don't cry and fake mercy, you hurt the old body, don't call the doctor to come and see, you want to kill people and kill people?" ”

(To be continued)