Hoi An, Quang Nam, a group of people stepped onto a bridge. There is an inscription erected at the head of the bridge, which is full of Japanese characters, and on the other side of the bridge, there are three Chinese characters engraved on the bridge head, and the following line of small characters is "Jihai Yongsheng fifteen years, the name of the king of Ming". There are countless small boats moored in the river under the bridge, and looking east along the river, behind the roofs of the trees, there is an endless sea, and you can vaguely see the high masts of the ships after they have dropped their sails.

The group wore a hat in the style of Quang Nam, and wore a "Tang Yi" with wide sleeves and a narrow waist and an over-the-knee hem. "It looks ordinary, but the clothes are dyed thick and unassuming, which is not ordinary people. Of course, if you first notice that they carry short swords at their waists and press short swords in their hands, this conclusion is even more obvious at a glance.

These more than ten people are centered on the middle four, three Chinese, and one European with deep eyes and rhinoplasty.

"Coming to the Yuan Bridge, it was built by the Japanese himself more than 100 years ago, and it was named when Lord Nguyen came to Quang Nam for a military parade four years ago. A hundred years ago, Ri Jian himself was in Hoi An, and the management of the entire Hoi An port was held by Ri Jian himself. Not to mention the Chinese and the locals, neither the Portuguese nor the Dutch dared to mess with them. But after the shogunate closed the country, the Japanese people here began to decline, and the position was gradually replaced by Chinese. A few years ago, we tried to turn over, but our Nanyang Company took root here and cleaned them up fiercely, and now there is no sound. ”

Chen Xinghua, the director of the Privy Council's Department of Coastal Defense, introduced everyone that he was the son of the Chen family, a Chinese merchant in Hoi An.

"Is the Nanyang crisis related to our Nanyang company's actions in Hoi An?"

Xiao Xie frowned and asked, he had transferred the affairs of Vietnam to his subordinate Wang Youtun and came to Hoi An as the governor of the General Secretariat. According to the Anglo-Chinese national political setup, he had the highest status among the civil officials who set foot in Quang Nam, almost equivalent to the foreign minister of later generations. But in the eyes of the people of Guangnan, not to mention that they have not regarded Yinghua as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, even if they have been called ministers and tributes, they feel that they should deal with the Ministry of Rites, not the strange "General Affairs Hall".

For the strange purpose of this trip, Xiao Xie did not correct the understanding of the people of Quang Nam, nor did he submit his credentials, so he came to Hoi An as a civilian.

"It's not even clear which opponent is, how can it be said to be a crisis? I think it's foreigners who are playing tricks and scaring us! ”

Hu Hanshan said with a grin, he was very dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. Originally, I heard that a big war was brewing in Nanyang, and I was very excited, but until now, I haven't even figured out who the opponent is, so I am naturally a little anxious.

"We didn't make much of a move about Hoi An, or even Quang Nam. It's really related to here, according to the example of Jiaozhi, it was directly bulldozed! I think this Lord Ruan of Quang Nam is a squint! The Zheng family in the north has been destroyed, and he still puts on a deaf ear, and he hasn't paid us Yinghua tribute yet, so he is simply impatient! ”

Looking at the port city in front of him, which is also a big fishing village, Hu Hanshan said excitedly.

"Oh, this is too risky, Hoi An is not your ordinary place......"

Lang Shining, the deputy secretary of the General Affairs Hall, shouted, but he couldn't tell for a while, what kind of extraordinary thing this would be.

"While Feng Saifeng has not yet arrived in Hoi An, let's first get to know Nanyang Company's merchant house here. As far as I know, no matter how deep or shallow, the affairs of Nanyang are always related to Lord Ruan. ”

Chen Xinghua said that this time they came to Hoi An with the military and political party together, mainly to find out the root of the affairs of Nanyang, and at the same time to start preparing for the preparation of Quang Nam.

The movement of Feng Jingyao, the Privy Council's defense department, has now become the eye of the storm in Nanyang affairs. He is a humanoid battle marker, and wherever he moves, it means that His Majesty the Emperor is interested in it. First Jiaozhi, and now that the Lantern Festival has not passed, there is news that he is going to Quang Nam.

Nanyang is facing an unknown threat, Xiao Sheng is urgently consulting with His Majesty the Emperor, and the Defense Division looks at Guangnan, maybe it has something to do with this situation. The General Office, the Coastal Defense Division, and the Navy's Nanyang Fleet all smelled the smell and rushed to Hoi An to find out the details. For this reason, Xiao Xie also urgently summoned Lang Shining to prepare to deal with the Europeans.

A group of people crossed the bridge and walked towards the Nanyang Company Hoi An Commercial Hall, today is the Lantern Festival, eighty percent of the people in Hoi An are Chinese, firecrackers are crackling, and the streets are filled with a strong festive smell.

, The warehouse-like merchant hall was in front of him, and a noise sounded, and Xiao Xie also said: "There is actually a lion dance." Chen Xinghua and Hu Hanshan frowned at the same time.

Chen Xinghua felt that this movement did not conform to the customs of the Hoi An people, but Hu Hanshan heard the familiar sound of gold and iron.

After walking a few more steps, the sound of firecrackers and green smoke, the sound of fighting and rumbling muskets were clearly in my ears, and hundreds of figures were faintly seen, surrounding the merchant hall, and the impact was not stopping.

From a festive atmosphere, suddenly on the battlefield, everyone was shocked.

A row of orange fireworks erupted in the merchant hall, which was the platoon of guns of the merchant guards, and several people fell to the ground. At this time, everyone saw clearly that most of the people surrounding the warehouse were Chinese, mixed with the shaved bald Ri Yan himself, and there were also short and dark local natives.

"Lie down!"

"Be careful!"

The guards came to their senses and quickly pressed the four dignitaries to the ground, and the sound of bullets breaking through the air could be heard clearly.

"Hurry up and send a sentry to the Fubo army!"

Hu Hanshan roared at his subordinates, he was so angry that he was so angry that the merchant hall of the Nanyang Company was equivalent to Yinghua's face in Nanyang, and the thieves who didn't know where they came from dared to besiege the merchant hall, they were really impatient.

"It's the Beibu family, no, and the Xibu Hou family, hey, and the Gu Mi family, hehe, they've all joined forces, I can't imagine it, so anxious to find death......"

Chen Xinghua recognized it and smiled gloatingly.

At this time, the people who attacked the merchant hall also used muskets, and the ping-pong on both sides was very vigorous. The guards took cover for the dignitaries to the corner of the street, and it looked lively for the time being. As soon as I looked around, there was still a group of people lurking on the other side of the street, but they were the local Quang Nam soldiers in Hoi An. The officer leading the team was stared at by everyone, as if he had tasted the doubts and surprise in his eyes, and the officer shrugged his shoulders freely and spread his hands, indicating that this troubled water was not something they could afford to stir up.

The sound of footsteps rose like a tide, listening to this neat rhythm, Hu Hanshan breathed a sigh of relief, it should be the Fubo army coming, and then he frowned again, it came too fast, right?

A moment later, hundreds of soldiers in light gray uniforms poured out, divided into two wings, four rows each, and moved in unison with the shouts of the officers.

"Carved ——!"

Raise your gun and aim.

"Hair ——!"

Boom, boom, the platoon guns were fired.

"Carving" and "firing" did not stop, and the four rows of guns rotated endlessly, forming a crossfire with the platoon of guns from the merchant hall, and the hundreds of besiegers were immediately beaten to pieces. There were more than a dozen guys who looked like ronins today, waving long knives, ducks shouted and rushed up, and the officers leading the team unhurriedly pulled out their handcuffs and knocked them to the ground one by one.

"This is not the Fubo Army!"

Hu Hanshan could see at a glance that Fubo had few soldiers, and it had always been a three-line array, and these four-lined arrays were too familiar.

"That's Hunan, go ...... Put ......"

Xiao Xie heard the accent of the officer leading the team.

"Bayonet—up!"

"Forward!"

Then the group of officers and men, of unknown origin, loaded their bayonets and guns, rushed forward at the defeated enemy. Behind him, the sound of footsteps sounded again, and the figure of the blue-clothed Fubo Army gradually became clear.

Chen Xinghua and the others looked at each other, and they didn't know the origin of these gray-clothed soldiers. Hu Hanshan frowned even more, could it be that the people of Guangnan found the musketeers trained by the Chinese?

"The dog jumped off the wall in a hurry......"

In the Hoi An Commercial Hall of Nanyang Company, a heavyweight figure familiar to Hu Hanshan appeared, Dong Anlu of Nanyang Company, who was controlling Nanyang Company as the representative of An Jinzhi, the company's big proprietor.

"When I heard that I was patrolling here, I gathered people to solve my small role. Why? The Nanyang Company in Hoi An had already squeezed out their business between Canton and Siam, leaving only Nagasaki, Manila, Java, etc., and they were not happy to compete with the Dutch. ”

Listening to An Lu's tone, it seems that this is not the first time this has happened.

"Those soldiers, it's our Nanyang Company. The officers were all members of the Eagle Yang Army, and the soldiers who were left by the Wu Butcher were selected from the prisoners of war exiled to Nanyang by the official family, and they were all people who had already completed their years and had committed suicide. ”

When asked about the question he was most concerned about, An Luyi said that Hu Hanshan was afraid of his forehead and really forgot about it. Two or three years ago, after the capture of Kunlun Island and the development of Jinping, Wu Ya led the Yingyang army to the front camp, and the Khmer people who came to kill were bleeding. After that, he left a lot of soldiers to garrison, and now he actually became an officer of the Nanyang Company. ,

"Our Nanyang Company still has to pay half of their military salaries."

An Lu smiled, and then beckoned everyone.

"Your guests are coming, it must be for that big event, originally I wanted to go back to Guangzhou after the Lantern Festival and talk to the official family in detail, but now that a few people came first, I will tell you here."

Outside the merchant hall, as soon as the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the soldiers of Guangnan timidly approached and saw the corpses lying in ambush, and they couldn't help but be frightened. At this time, the blue-clothed soldiers guarded the merchant house, and the gray-clothed soldiers stepped on the corpses, and used muskets with bayonets, whether dead or alive, to mend the knives neatly, which made these Guangnan soldiers with waist knives, shuttle darts, and rattan cards on their backs stunned.

The Guangnan officer who led the team was still not giving up, and wanted to do something more or less, so as not to be punished by the above, and found a gray-clothed officer who was receiving a Japanese sword from his subordinates, and said flatteringly: "Can you let our army deal with ......it?"

Before he finished speaking, the Han officer squinted at it, which suddenly made the Guangnan officer feel a chill in his heart.

"Get out!"

The Han officer scolded impatiently, naturally blaming the Guangnan soldiers for not doing a good job of law and order, and even suspected that they were the people behind the matter. The Quang Nam officer bowed his waist, laughed with him, and beckoned his subordinates to shrink to the side.

"...... This is the land of our Quang Nam country! ”

The Quang Nam officer had tears in his stomach, but he did not dare to show a trace of abnormality on his face. The backstage of the gray-clothed musketeers is the Nanyang Company, and the backstage of the blue-clothed soldiers is the Celestial Empire in the north, and the two parties are actually a gang.

Just the Nanyang Company is enough to wipe out the entire Quang Nam, and the Celestial Empire...... The Zheng lord of the Jiaozhi State in the north was stronger than the Nguyen lord of Quang Nam, but he fell in just half a month. That behemoth has never had the idea of beating Guangnan, which is enough to make the people of Guangnan kowtow and call God bless.

These two parties are rampage in Hoi An, what can he say about Hoi An's garrison?

Now what he is most worried about is that he will be involved in the grievances between Nanyang Company and local businessmen in Hoi An, and I hope that Nanyang Company will not be angry with him, and there is also Hoi An Groove Division in Quang Nam......

"Li Shun, you command well. I'm going back to the Eagle Army in the middle of the year, are you interested in going back with me? I can recommend you to enter the newly built Changsha Army Academy, although it is not as prominent as the Whampoa Academy, but you can also learn to be an lieutenant. ”

The Han officer was chatting with a subordinate.

The subordinate named Li Shun is a young man today, his cheeks have been tanned, and the aura on his body is half simple and half lean, and he smiled shyly: "Sentry Commander, you have won the award, and I am just memorizing the drill code." What about going back...... I opened up thirty acres of land in Nanhexian, but I was reluctant. ”

The sentry commander slapped him on the shoulder with hatred: "What are you thinking about doing on the ground?" If you go down this way, you can't fight for the glory of your ancestors, and you can fight for a house full of gold and silver! Look, did you plant your current harvest, or did you take a bonus in the company? ”

A soldier next to him said: "If you want to eat well, you can marry a beautiful daughter-in-law, what can you do by farming!?" Look, today we are lucky, we grabbed the front of the Fubo army, how can each of us get a reward of dozens of taels of silver from An Huidong......"

Another soldier said, "How beautiful do you want to marry a daughter-in-law?" I heard that the girl from a good family in Guangnan can choose a hundred taels of silver! I've saved enough, I'm going to find someone who's as beautiful as a fairy! ”

The sentry chief took a sip: "One hundred taels of silver...... You can pick ten taels of silver! ”

Listening to the jokes of his boss and comrades-in-arms, Li Shunmo carried his leather bag, which contained thirty taels of silver, which was all his savings. Of course, a year and a half ago, when he boarded the ship in Guangzhou, his pockets were empty, and his heart was still full of confusion and fear...... ）