"Ahh ”

"Brother Chen, I'm finally going home." Lu Donkey accompanied Chen Xin, looking at the black Shandong coast in the distance, his tone showed joy, he had naturally regarded the courtyard in Tianjin as his home.

"Hmm." Chen Xin looked at the lucky boat sailing in front of him, and a professional smile appeared on his face again. The day after the goods were finished, Han Bin heard that the goods on the Zhu Yin ship were sold for 60,000 taels, a little suspicious, and questioned two sentences, Chen Xin pulled out Song Wenxian as a big flag, and at the same time there was a drunk and unconscious Scar and Han Bin's group of sailors, the two of them were confused, as if they probably remembered this incident, plus Song Wenxian bluffed a few words, Han Bin didn't dare to ask again, went around the Zhu Yin ship, only saw the 60,000 taels of silver on the second floor, looked everywhere else, and didn't find a place to hide the silver, he had no way, I had to accept the number.

In the end, Song Wenxian held an enlarged meeting to discuss how to distribute, originally Zhao Dangjia had promised to give each person one hundred taels of silver from his profits, but now that he is gone, and he has a large income, everyone decided not to want this basic salary, and took out 15,000 taels from 60,000 taels to the family of the big boss, and gave 5,000 taels to Han Yong's family.

The other 40,000 taels plus the remaining 3,700 taels of silver on the Zhuyin ship, there are more than 43,000 taels, Song Wenxian, Han Bin, Hei Pao, Scar, Chen Xin five Standing Committee members each 3,000 taels, the two most seriously injured died that night, and they could not find their families, a total of 37 people remained, excluding a few Standing Committee members, it was 32 people, each 900 taels, and there were 1,600 taels left, Chen Xinjian added 300 taels to each of the two seriously wounded, and the remaining 1,000 taels were all given to the family members of the fallen in Wang Zugui's same village, and everyone agreed to this plan. Only Han Bin was not very happy, he only got a total of more than three thousand taels this trip.

When getting on the boat, Song Wenxian arranged for Lu Donkey, Zhu Guobin, Wang Zugui and a person named Wang Yong to get on the Zhuyin boat together, then Wang Yong will look at the star board and can help navigation, so as not to get lost with the lucky boat, Chen Xin noticed that he and Song Wenxian had two eye contacts, it should be Song Wenxian's person, but he has no other thoughts, and he doesn't have to worry about him. In the end, in order to buy people's hearts, Chen Xin took the other two seriously wounded people with broken hands and legs on his own Zhuyin ship, cleaned the wounds of the two with light salt water on the deck, and changed the cotton cloth for the wounds.

After the ship left the port, Chen Xin put his mind at ease, as long as Song Wenxian didn't have bad intentions and didn't do anything near Dengzhou, he would have got the fifteen thousand taels in the bottom bilge, thinking that he would not be so short-sighted, he cooperated with him so much, and was appreciated by Li Guozhu, and there were many opportunities to make money together in the future.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Wang Yong, he was at the helm at the stern, he could now be sure that he was Song Wenxian's Infernal Affairs, he must have stayed on the second floor when he was not on deck, and in the compartment closest to the bottom hatch, in fact, Song Wenxian was only worried that he would dump him, after all, 30,000 taels of silver were on the Zhuyin ship.

The two people who broke their hands and feet, one is called Qin Lufang, who is in his early twenties, his left hand was cut off by his wrist, and the wound is very neat, the ferocity of the Japanese knife in this kind of sea fighting can be seen, and the other is called Ning Cheng, who is about thirty years old, and his left leg was cut off, which is also the wound of the Japanese knife, the two have been treated in the Li family's private port for a few days, Chen Xin has been disinfecting the cotton cloth with boiling water, and he personally changed them every time, the wound has been scarred, and his life is saved, but he bleed too much that day, and his spirit is still not very good, so he can only help do some simple things. Chen Xin was worried that they would get scurvy and kept asking them to chew tea every day. These two people knew that Chen Xin had helped them get an extra three hundred taels of silver, and they had to be taken care of by him all the way, and they were already grateful to him.

"Brother Chen, will you go to sea in the future?" Qin Lufang also saw the coastline of the mainland, his heart was happy, and he had some strength to speak.

Chen Xin smiled: "I don't know yet, Brother Qin, are you still willing to come out?" ”

Qin Lufang said: "I also think, even if I break my hand, I can't help much." ”

Ning Cheng sat on a pile of silver, he originally got one thousand one hundred taels, and then Chen Xin helped him get another three hundred taels, a total of one thousand four hundred taels, after he got the money, he always took it with him, never left his sight at any time, and he also pressed it down as a pillow when he slept, and other people were roughly similar to him, Chen Xin was just worried about how he would transport the forty or fifty kilograms of silver back to his hometown, at this time Ning Cheng said lazily: "If you can pick up a life, you will be content, and you will go to sea, your hands are gone, don't you make trouble for Brother Chen." Lao Tzu, a lame man, knows this, don't come out to be embarrassed, this time go back to buy some land, buy a few maids and house slaves, serve Lao Tzu every day, and don't come out. ”

Qin Lufang was a little embarrassed, and said, "Then, then I ...... too."

"Brother Qin, don't worry, this matter depends on your own wishes, you are willing to follow me, and you can do other things without going to sea. If I am willing to go to sea, I can also use warriors like Brother Qin. Brother Ning, it's good for you to return to your hometown, but if you have difficulties in the future, find me Chen Xin, I will never refuse, they are all brothers who have lived and died together, don't be polite. ”

"In addition to serving the big boss, I only serve you Chen Ledger, the big boss is a hero, let's serve him, Chen Ledger You are both civil and military, do things fairly, and don't dislike people, I will serve you, if Lao Ning's foot is not broken, he will follow you. I won't bother you now. My hometown is in Linqing, and when I get off the boat, I tell you the address, and when I come to Linqing, I will find my Lao Ning. ”

"Okay, definitely, where is your hometown, Brother Qin?" Chen Xin turned around and asked Qin Lufang again.

Ning Cheng didn't wait for Qin Lufang, so he hurriedly replied: "How can he have any hometown, his hometown of Phoenix City in Liaodong has already become a Tartar nest." ”

Chen Xin said curiously: "It turns out that Brother Qin is also from Liaodong, and I have a few little brothers too, all of whom are in Tianjin, so you can get close." ”

Qin Lufang glanced a little aggrieved to the north, then looked at Zhu Guobin who was adjusting the sails, and said to the two: "That's not what I threw to Tartar, Brother Zhu didn't escape from Liaodong, he and I both set up a raft to float out of the sea by ourselves, and were rescued by Zhao Dangjia, we always wanted to go back to our hometown, but then Guangning lost it, and then even Liaoxi was almost lost, and everyone was gone." This year, I heard that North Korea has also been defeated, and I am afraid that I will not be able to go back to this hometown. ”

Ning Cheng said disdainfully: "Lao Tzu doesn't believe that the Tartar is so powerful, Lao Ning, if I didn't break my leg, I would have to cut off a Tartar's head and come back to see, you fucking millions of Han people in Liaodong can't beat tens of thousands of Tartars, how can you beat it." ”

"I, I'm ......" Qin Lufang couldn't say it for a long time, and these millions of people were not under his control, so Ning Chenglao was angry at himself.

Chen Xin looked at Qin Lufang's aggrieved expression, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Brother Qin, don't think too much, Brother Ning is also straightforward, we will always fight back that day." If you don't have anywhere else to go, come with me to Tianjin, you also have money by your side, buy a yard near my house to live in, live there with me, I have a few of your little fellow countrymen, and I can take care of you on weekdays. ”

When Qin Lufang heard this, he quickly forgot about the unhappiness just now, and said happily: "Then I will follow Brother Chen, I can trust you, you are a good person." I still have a hand that I can work without being tended to. ”

"Good guy, yes, I'm good guy." Chen Xin smiled kindly.

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Two days later, the two ships arrived near Dengzhou (now Yantai). I didn't stop last time, but this time I had to hand over the silver, so I had to stop.

Dengzhou is located at the northeast end of the mountain, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty is an important port to transport military supplies to Liaodong, because of the strategic location, from the state to the government. Dengzhou city is nine miles around, three zhang five feet high, two zhang thick, four city gates, three water gates, four city gates are all set up urn city, the biggest difference is that there is a water city in the north of the city, that is, the knife fish village of the Song Dynasty, after the nine years of Hongwu set up Dengzhou Wei, in order to facilitate the sea ship to transport Liaodong military supplies, dig soil in the north of the city to build the city, change the name to prepare the city when the Japanese rebellion. In the first year of the Apocalypse, in response to the rise of the Later Jin, the governor of Denglai was added in June, and the prime minister conquered the eastern military affairs, and the station was in Dengzhou, and the first governor was Tao Langxian. It was an important hub for the Ming court to control the Liaohai Sea and maintain Dongjiang Town.

There were many ships of the naval division near Dengzhou, and soon they encountered a bird boat of the Ming army, the lucky boat was hoisting the official flag of Dengzhou Haiphong Road, and the bird boat was slowly approaching, and there was no other hostile action.

Chen Xin saw that the Fu boat was at anchor, and then put down a firewood boat and headed towards the bird boat, which seemed to be Song Wenxian. After a while, the firewood boat returned, but it was heading for the Zhuyin boat. Chen Xin saw Song Wenxian's gloomy face from afar, and his heart couldn't help but hang.

"Brother Chen, Master Li has stepped down and transferred to the right chamberlain of Nanjing, and the current governor is Sun Guozhen. (Note 1)"

As soon as Song Wenxian boarded the boat, he pulled Chen Xin aside and whispered the news to Chen Xin, Chen Xin looked at Song Wenxian's crying face, and estimated that he was the curtain of Master Li, and now that the boss has changed, of course he is a bit dangerous as a senior white-collar worker. It was already May 15 when he went to sea, and it is estimated that Master Li did not have time to inform Song Wenxian, otherwise he would definitely sell the goods immediately, and he would not have delayed it for more than a month.

Chen Xin didn't know anything about these two adults, but since he didn't know, he would definitely not be a big man in the future, he said tentatively: "Then, or let's pull the silver of this lucky boat and run away." ”

"How can that work, this bird boat is next to it, it is all under Master Zhong, besides, my whole family is in Dengzhou, how can I run away."

Chen Xin touched his nose, suppressed the greed in his heart, and asked, "Then is Master Li gone now?" ”

"Left, left a few family members, and waited to take back the silver, he was good, and he still collected the money when he left, but I didn't want to go to Nanzhili with him, and I didn't know Master Sun, so if I made this time, I would be a rich man."

Chen Xin looked at him, but he was actually still keen on power, otherwise with his income of nearly 20,000 taels this time, it would be more than enough to be a rich gentleman. He looked at the bird boat and said, "Whose man is that bird boat?" ”

"Lord Chung's."

"Who is Lord Zhong listening to now?"

"Of course, it's the new governor, Lord Sun."

"How much does Lord Li pay for the goods?"

Song Wenxian replied weakly: "Master Li is Mr. A in the account book, and you know his goods." ”

"Then it's 35,000 taels now, Mr. Song, how do you look at this, return the capital of 17,000 taels to Lord Li, and earn 18,000 taels ......"

Song Wenxian's eyes lit up, "Give the money you earned to Lord Sun, so that you won't offend Lord Li too much, and Lord Sun also has a promotion rank here." ”

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Note 1: Li Song, appointed as the governor of Denglai in December of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and was transferred to the right attendant of the household department in Nanjing in May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. He was succeeded by Sun Guozhen.