Wang Ling has always been a good man, who has experienced great changes in his family and knows how to endure more than anyone else, especially in this strange place. But forbearance does not mean that he is incompetent, for Zheng Jiuwu's various abnormalities, he vaguely feels that if he continues, in addition to the black cauldron that cannot be removed, I am afraid that there will be other things beyond his expectations. Familiar with the "Tibetan Gate Sutra" he has guessed what the thing he just encountered is probably what, some people call this kind of imagination a dream within a dream, the ancients usually called it "too illusory realm", people will enter a world that seems to be true and false at some times, some seem to be sleepwalking, you think it is a dream but it is actually a real happening. It's like one day we will suddenly find that we have been to a place that seems to have been there in a dream, and the scene is exactly the same, but the truth is that you have never been here.

He felt that the sound of the "thump" in the cabin was the key to solving all these mysteries, and if he didn't see it with his own eyes, he thought that the sound might ring for countless nights to come, and become a nightmare that would never go away.

Lao Pi heard the greeting and thought that he was going to fight with Zheng Jiuwu, and the three of them hurriedly ran over together when they heard Wang Ling say: "That ship is strange, Lao Pi and I go up to take a look, poet, if you are injured, stay here and look at Lao Zheng with Jingjing." ”

"Looking?" The poet was puzzled: "Lao Zheng is not a criminal. ”

"If he doesn't go back with us, we will always have to carry the black cauldron of murder, do you want to live like this for the rest of your life?" After that, he looked down at Zheng Jiuwu, who was still leaning on the rock, and said: "At this moment, I still think that you are our comrade and brother, I believe that you have your own difficulties, but everyone has their own difficulties, I hope you can understand." Because our fathers have suffered too many grievances, and we are their only hope. ”

His words made the hearts of the three of them heavy, and they couldn't imagine that this royal tomb would have such a careful mind, and it was clear to distinguish between right and wrong, so that the image of the royal tomb in their hearts was immediately raised to a higher level.

"Wait!" Zheng Jiuwu, who had been silent for a long time, looked at the two departing figures and finally changed his mind, maybe it was Wang Ling's words, or maybe he had other ideas. Stopped, Wang Ling breathed a big breath in his heart, to be honest, he was not very sure at the moment of turning to leave, he had been waiting for Zheng Jiuwu's response, and even deliberately slowed down his pace. Because there was always a voice in his heart telling him that without Zheng Jiuwu in that place, he couldn't go!

"There are two sapper shovels at the stern of the iron ship," he said, "and you all dig down the edge of this steel ship one by one until something appears." ”

This said that he started to do it, even the injured Li Mubai was no exception, I thought it was a very simple thing, but when I operated it, I found that it was not the case. This sand is sea sand, very small, slightly moving the sand layer on both sides will pour into the middle, and another problem is the accumulation of water, only to the knee-deep depth of the sand pit in the sea water to the ankle position, this amount of construction seems to be small but is actually very large.

"I said, Lao Zheng, after doing it for a long time, can you tell me what kind of medicine you sell in this gourd?" Lao Pi waved the shovel and said: "Of course, I can assure Chairman Mao that I will not reveal anything about you, and of course they will not." ”

"That is, our revolutionary friendship has passed the test of life and death." The poet said: "I guess there may be a few boxes of gold and silver treasures down here, this ship is ***, when Lao Jiang didn't transport gold from the mainland to Taiwan, isn't it Lao Zheng?" ”

"There's a boat down here." Zheng Jiuwu's answer surprised everyone!

"Boat?" Wang Ling also stopped what he was doing and said, "What ship?" ”

"Actually, those who died were not *** soldiers," Zheng Jiuwu continued: "If you look carefully at their thigh bones, there is a slight deformation is a pair of lap legs, which is the root of the disease that the Japanese have been sitting on for a long time, they should have come for this ship back then, and then they didn't take that ship away for some reason......"

"This ......" Listening to Zheng Jiuwu's bamboo tube pouring beans, it seemed that this was a big event with a shocking secret, and everyone's eyes began to focus on the most inconspicuous person on weekdays.

He continued: "My grandfather was an underground party member who broke into the *** interior and worked for the national government at that time. Before the peaceful liberation of Beiping, Chiang Kai-shek smuggled a large number of collections from the Forbidden City to Taiwan under the pretext of protecting cultural relics, which are just some of the stories that everyone knows. Before being taken to Taiwan, my grandfather told my father that there was a detachment of the Nationalist army looking for a treasure in the South China Sea, and it was said that the treasure was so large that the Nationalist army entrenched in Taiwan could get enough pay to make a comeback.

And this incident was only seen by my grandfather in the archives, and according to the records of that archive, it was not the national army that first knew the secrets of this batch of treasures, but the Japanese army. In Japan, there is a man named Tokugawa Ichiro who was born into a samurai family, and as the executioner of the Japanese invasion of China, the Tokugawa family's invasion of China can be traced back to earlier, when China was still called 'Daming'. ”

The story of Zheng Jiuwu began here, originally thought that this was just a period of time too far away from us, who knew that in the scope of time, hundreds of years were just a flick of the fingers, when one day this history reappeared in front of people's eyes, the most unique mark in the sea of that era appeared!

The story goes back to 1560 A.D., at the beginning of that year, it was the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, and there were five days to celebrate the New Year, but the city of Hangzhou was suddenly under martial law and very solemn.

On this day, that is, on December 25, the 38th year of Jiajing, a court was set up outside the Guanxiangkou in Hangzhou.

Today's death row inmate is very special: not only does he not have the usual difficulty of walking after being tortured by death row inmates, but he is actually carried to the execution ground in a small sedan chair. The sedan chair came to the court, and the death row prisoner knew that today had come to the end of his life. Before he was sentenced, he hoped to see his son again. The officials brought his son to him, the father and son hugged their heads and cried, and the death row prisoner handed his son a golden hairpin and sighed: "I didn't expect to die here!" After speaking, he stretched his neck and took the blade.

This death row prisoner is the famous "King of the Pure Sea" and the great leader of the "Wako" who is rampant across the ocean.

Steel knives are in the air, blood is splattered, and an era ends in this terrifying sword light: that is the ocean empire that Wang Zhi has already established!

"Wang Zhi?" The four of them are very unfamiliar with this name, and like most ordinary people, this seemingly ordinary name has hardly appeared in the textbooks of the official history, but in the history of pirates in the world, the name of this character is like thunder, compared to the Chinese pirate king Zhang Baozai played by Chow Yun-fat in the Hollywood movie "Pirates of the Caribbean", Wang Zhi can be said to be their grandfather.

Zheng Jiuwu continued: "This Wang Zhi is quite legendary, Wang Zhi once asked his mother before going to the sea to do business: "Was there a sign when he gave birth?" His mother replied: "On the eve of your birth, the dream star entered the arms, and those who had a crown by the side were surprised: This arc is also a star." It has snowed heavily, and the grass and trees are all icy. When Wang heard this, he happily thought: "The stars are pregnant with extraordinary wombs, and the grass and trees are ice, and the soldiers are also elephants." Heaven will order me to win with force? ”

She County, Anhui Province, the base camp of Hui merchants who were famous throughout the country at that time, was also Wang Zhi's hometown, and doing business here was the most common thing. For the sake of livelihood, Wang Zhi went south to Guangdong with his fellow villagers in the nineteenth year of Jiajing to look for opportunities. Of course, under the strict maritime ban, this kind of trade is an "illegal" act of "smuggling", and "they will bring contraband such as nitrate yellow and silk cotton to Japan, Siam, and Western countries, and those who go to and from each other for five or six years will not be rich." "The first pot of gold in Wang Zhi's life came from trade with Japan.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese were rampant, and there was a great tendency to unite with the anti-Zhu Yuanzhang forces. In Hu Weiyong's rebellion case, it was discovered that Ningbo Wei commanded Lin Xian's "Tongwei case", Lin Xian borrowed troops from Japan, and the Japanese envoys took the opportunity of paying tribute to the giant candle to hide weapons. After the case, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the Japanese tribute to be cut off, which led to the complete "sea ban" of the Ming Dynasty.

Japan was in the period of the "Northern and Southern Dynasties" at that time, and the ruler of the Southern Dynasties was canonized as the "King of Japan" by Zhu Yuanzhang. Soon, however, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the shogun of the Muromachi shogunate of the Northern Dynasty, sent troops to conquer the Southern Dynasty, and in 1401, sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to ask for canonization. During this period, the Ming Dynasty had the "Battle of Jingyan", and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised troops to rebel, and seized power, changing the Yuan Yongle, which was the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Di then sent envoys to Japan again and canonized "Ashikaga Yoshimitsu" as the king of Japan at that time.

After Zhu Di canonized the king of Japan, Japan was officially included in the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty. Japan received a "survey" certificate from the Ministry of Rites before it could come to trade, which was historically called "exploration trade". At that time, Japan's exploration trade arrangement was at the port of Ningbo in present-day Zhejiang, and when the tributary mission arrived, it could go ashore to trade and wait for permission to enter Beijing. Under the Ming Dynasty's generous policy of "thick and thin", Ashikaga Yoshimitsu could make a profit of about 200,000 yuan every time he sent a tributary fleet, which became Japan's "most important source of financial revenue."