Wan Qian refers to whether the peak can bear the reversal of the forty-fourth verse

October 27, 6th year of the Apocalypse, Funing

Although this phenomenon is unavoidable, Huangshi has always believed that a considerable number of patients are caused by diseases, because the proportion of patients who are not adapted to water and soil in this era is too high.

The experience in Liaodong in the past six years has proved that Huangshi's judgment still has a certain degree of truth, and Hu Qingbai and others have been constantly improving the relevant health regulations. In the past, when fighting in Liaodong, the non-combat attrition of Changsheng Island was much lower than that of friendly forces. During the relocation of thousands of miles to Fujian, many officers were very worried about the physical condition of the soldiers, and some extreme people even believed that two to three percent of the soldiers would die because of the lack of adaptation.

But Yellowstone disagreed. The official system pursued by the Ming Dynasty is to be officials in different places, and the transfer of officials from all over the world is commonplace, but these officials have never heard of such a high mortality rate. Therefore, Huang Shi judged from this that the high disease rate and high mortality rate of soldiers were mainly due to poor nutrition and poor management and care.

"Commander, the number of officers and soldiers with new diarrhea today has decreased by 50 percent, while the total number of sick people has dropped by 20 percent. ”

Hu Qingbai, the divine doctor of Changsheng Island, reported loudly to Huangshi with a look of pride, this way, and after arriving in Funing Town, Hu Qingbai was busy up and down. Strict hygiene regulations are in place. All officers and men were required to drink hot water, each man was to eat a serving of vegetables every day, and those who were sick were immediately treated and cared for.

"Well, that's good. The news relieved Yellowstone. With the joint efforts of all officers and men, the disease has been reduced to a minimum, and although more than 3,000 of the more than 20,000 officers and men in Liaodong have fallen ill, the sanitation regulations that Hu Qingbai has summed up over the years have played a tremendous role. The sick number was isolated and contained, and the vomit and excrement were cleaned up at all times. They also have access to enough boiled water through caregivers, and the number of deaths has been kept to the single digits under effective sanitation regulations.

"Dashuai, this is the herb mentioned by the local military household in Fujian, and we have also recorded it, and if the effect is good, we will also compile it into the health regulations. ”

Huang Shi gave this medical list to Hu Qingbai after casually scanning it, in fact, Hu Qingbai handed it to Huang Shi to let him scan it. Now with the constant division of labor within the army. Gradually, Yellowstone became ignorant in all areas. For example, He Dingyuan is in charge of military training, a few years ago Huang Shi was He Dingyuan's master, and he once relied on a plagiarized training method to make He Dingyuan admire him, but now Huang Shi is a complete layman compared to He Dingyuan.

The last time Huang Shi inspected the training on Changsheng Island, he found that He Dingyuan had already made up a bunch of military terms for training, and most of them Huang Shi couldn't understand it. He Dingyuan was still a little impatient with Huang Shi's constant questions, and the meaning of He Dingyuan's words was that - as long as you know the command orders on the battlefield, I will definitely hand over to you a group of well-trained officers and soldiers at that time. As for how I trained, if you have the time, you can read the training regulations yourself, don't go around me with nothing to do, and delay my business.

Later, Huang Shi brought Song Jianjun of the teaching team to inquire about it, and found that the training regulations had indeed made great progress, not only He Dingyuan alone. Even these professional instructors of the teaching team have already left Huangshi behind a lot in this aspect. After Huang Shi sighed, he gave up the idea of being thoroughly familiar with the entire training process, and in the future, he also let go of the professional regulations in other aspects and let the people below do it themselves.

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The envoys sent by Huangshi to Quanzhou and Xiamen had already returned, and both Zhu Yifeng, the governor of Fujian, and Yu Zhigao, the deputy general of the South Road, replied to Huangshi very politely, asking him to rest for a month or two first, and then arrange for his colleagues to hold a banquet for him. Both letters greatly praised Huangshi's martial bravery and fame. Huang Shi not only did not see the slightest civil arrogance in Zhu Yifeng's letter. Even Yu Zhigao said that he didn't mind Huang Shi being appointed as Min Shuai.

Although people are polite, this does not mean that Huangshi can be held up. Now that the most urgent problem of settlement had been solved, Huang Shi hurriedly set out for Quanzhou to meet the governor, and then he had to go to Xiamen himself, so as to relieve as much of the misunderstanding and estrangement between himself and Yu Zhigao as possible.

Before leaving, Huangshi called the local old shipwrights and shipbuilding carpenters to inquire about the shipbuilding. As Huang Shi feared, Fujian and Guangzhou are indeed very rare, and it is difficult to find suitable large timber even in neighboring Zhejiang. The price of transporting timber from Yunnan and Guizhou is very expensive and takes a long time, so in recent decades, the timber of the three provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang has mainly been purchased from Nanyang.

However, since the 35th year of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor sent people to carefully investigate the gold and silver mines in Luzon, the Spaniards have always been wary of China, so it is said that the quality of the Nanyang timber bought over the years is not very good, because the Spaniards feel that the Ming Dynasty is very ill-intentioned, and the good wood is a strategic material for the fleets of various countries.

After listening to these introductions, Huang Shi and Fan Leyou exchanged glances with them. The hostility of the Spaniards had already broken out once in the 36th year of Wanli, and they feared that the invasion of the Ming Dynasty was imminent after discovering that Wanli had sent people to reconnoiter the terrain near Manila, so they carried out a massacre against the Chinese in Manila, killing about 3,000 people, and the Chinese merchants who assisted Wanli in reconnoitring the terrain were also hanged.

This massacre made Wanli very angry, and he issued a decree to let the cabinet discuss the issue of crusade, but was firmly opposed by the governor of Fujian. At that time, it had been confirmed that there were no silver mines in the Luzon region, and the Spaniards had brought silver from other regions to Luzon to trade with China, so even if they won the attack on Luzon, they would not get anything. On the contrary, he cut off his own money.

Wanli Tianzi seemed to think that what the governor of Fujian said was very reasonable, so in the end he just sent someone to Manila with a letter of state to ask for the guilt, and said that he sent people to Manila to search for silver mines just idle and boring, without the slightest malice. The Spaniards also seemed to agree with Wanli's explanation and apologized for the incident, but the gap between the two sides also appeared.

A few years ago, the Ming Dynasty fought another long war with the Dutch in Penghu, and the Ming army took great efforts to drive the Dutch out of the Penghu Islands. The current Dutch are also extremely unfriendly to the Fujian Daming Water Division. Therefore, even if the Spaniards were willing to sell large pieces of wood, the Dutch would not necessarily allow them to cross the border.

This question is still an introduction to Yellowstone by Fan Leyou and Desmond. However, Fan Leyou is very slippery, he said that he is now an officer of Daming, so he will definitely consider Daming. That Desmond was also considering joining the Ming army, and he basically had the same views as Fan Leyou, and when they were mercenaries, they would never fight against their homeland; But once he becomes a Ming officer, then the Ming Dynasty is his motherland.

Both guys are Dutch tramps. After arriving in China, they suddenly became nouveau riche, and Huangshi believed in their loyalty, but in the event of a war in the future, he would definitely let them stay behind. Huang Shi decided to immediately send a team of messengers to Kuandian, which included three sappers and several shipbuilders: "It seems that he is going to discuss the timber issue with Chen Jisheng." ”

Chen Jisheng definitely didn't have enough manpower to carry big logs from Changbai Mountain every day, so the first thing Huangshi thought of was to use the river, anyway, behind Kuandian was the Yalu River, as long as Chen Jisheng cut down the tree and threw it into the river. Mao Wenlong stopped them at the mouth of the sea and could be loaded onto a ship and transported to Fujian.

Of course, all this can only be done after the weather warms up and the Yalu River thaws. Huang Shi sent a few sappers in the messenger's team, also to help Chen Jisheng study the terrain and water flow. Chen Jisheng was already poor enough in Kuandian, and Huangshi believed that the idea of cutting down big trees and selling them for money would definitely interest Vice General Chen, because he had as many trees there as the sand in the hands of Arabs.

As for the shipbuilders sent by Yellowstone. Naturally, he would stay in Kuandian with the sappers for a long time, and Huang Shi planned to let them be responsible for instructing Chen Jisheng what kind of trees to cut. As a modern man, Huangshi is still somewhat resistant to indiscriminate logging, and he fears that if he doesn't send someone, Chen Jisheng will go crazy and cut down every tree he sees.

"I needed to find another ship designer, so I had to write to the Jesuits again. ”

Huang Shi was a pragmatist through and through, and although he did not dare to say that China's Cantonese sailing ships were necessarily without a future, Western ocean-going vessels had proven successful in his own history. So Huangshi didn't think much about it, and decided to follow the path of large Western warships. And his senior staff Fan Leyou, Duncan and others are all Westerners, so they naturally resolutely support Huangshi's decision.

The main problem in the manufacture of sea vessels is the processing of wood. To this end, Changsheng Island also manufactured a hydraulic sawmill. This kind of machine sawing wood is of course much more efficient than using human labor. It takes ten strong men to sawn a day's worth of planks, which takes less than an hour under a hydraulic sawmill. But this hydraulic machine is the same as all the other machines on Immortal Island. In the past, Changsheng Island had no money and no need to produce a large number of sea vessels, and precious water resources had to be used for other heavy machinery.

Now that Fujian has sufficient water power, and Huangshi is anxious to establish a water division, then the hydraulic saw suddenly has a bright future.

After arranging the work at hand, Huang Shi immediately set off for Quanzhou with his people. Fujian is mountainous, and Huangshi feels that instead of taking the winding official road, it is better to take the sea route by boat.

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"What a fish from the earth!"

"Big, who has a bow? ”

"No ......"

"No bows? No bows, just fire guns, oh, and javelins. ”

When Huang Shi was attracted to the stern of the boat by the noise, he saw Zhang Zaidi standing at the stern of the boat and rushing to the sea, a fire gun pointed straight at the sea, Xiao Zhang closed one eye and was aiming carefully, there were a few people next to him standing side by side with him, all of them were holding the fire guns that had been lit in their hands, and the posture was like doing shooting training.

In addition to the gunners, there were also several people on board the small boat at the stern. Each of them had a javelin in their hand, and they seemed ready to throw it into the sea. Including the men who were about to go down to the sea to catch the dead fish, a boatload of people looked nervously into the sea, and everyone was gearing up, just waiting to kill the fish and feast on it. The corners of these Liaodong officers and soldiers were about to drool and stretched their necks long, so no one even noticed that Huangshi had arrived behind them.

Zhang Zaidi focused on the target. Regardless of whether he misses this shot or not, several javelins will be thrown at the same time. The stern of the boat was followed by several large fish, and the small boats would go over to catch them after they attacked, so as not to startle the fish away.

"Stop!"

There was a sudden shout from behind, which scared Zhang Zaidi.

"Stop!"

Huang Shi shouted again, walked into the crowd and ordered sternly: "Put out the firerope...... And a few of you, come into the boat, and don't touch the fish. ”

After finishing speaking, Huangshi was still unsatisfied. An additional order was also issued: henceforth no one should touch the big white fish that followed the stern of the ship, otherwise they would be punished for disobeying the military order.

Although Zhang Zaidi is also a general, he is too young and playful, so he does not have the prestige of a general, and although Huangshi himself tries his best to create an approachable image, his achievements are radiant, so that none of his subordinates dare to look up, and even He Dingyuan has been obedient a lot after this time after the Prancing Horse Liaoyang. The number of back-to-back and quarrels with Yellowstone has also decreased.

After hearing Huang Shi's order, everyone had to silently watch the big fish that made them salivate swim behind the boat, and swallowed the saliva in their mouths back into their stomachs.

"This fish ......" Huang Shi remembered that dolphins did not belong to fish in terms of biological classification, but regardless of him, everyone could understand it: "This is a divine fish, and it must not be offended." ”

"Wow!"

As soon as these words came out. Everyone suddenly exploded as if the pot had exploded.

"For yourselves, this white fish is the incarnation of the god Mazu and the patron saint of voyagers. ”

A group of white dolphins jumped happily in the stern of the boat, Huangshi folded his hands, solemnly greeted this group of dolphins, Mazu God as the navigation protector of the Fujian Sea has a history of thousands of years, during the Song Dynasty, the worship of the Mazu God has expanded from the Fujian Sea to the Guangdong Sea and the Zhejiang Sea.

Although most of the Liaodong children on the ship were farmers in the first half of their lives, there are still some well-informed people who remember the name of Mazu since the Ming Dynasty. The number of ocean-going voyages in China has increased dramatically. Many ministers of the Ming Dynasty, including Zheng He, would sincerely pray to the god Mazu before setting foot on the sea.

With the Ming Dynasty, the country is expanding. The Ming people built a large number of temples around the South China Sea for the god Mazu, erected a large number of stone tablets praising the god Mazu, and by the time of the Apocalypse, the god Mazu had been a well-deserved maritime protector in Southeast Asia and central and southern China, that is, when the Spaniards and Dutch first arrived in Malacca, they also prayed to the god Mazu and called it the guardian goddess of this sea.

During the history of Yellowstone, the Manchu Qing Dynasty almost completely destroyed China's seafaring culture, and Mazu gradually degenerated from a goddess of widespread influence to a local god. While the ignorant barbarians deprived China of its influence in Southeast Asia for hundreds of years, outside of China, the seeds planted by the Ming for the goddess took root. In the period of the Republic, whether in Vietnam or Indonesia in front of the Mazu Temple, the incense to worship the goddess was still continuous, and every descendant of Yan and Huang could proudly say at this time: Look, this is the place where our ancestors sailed, and this is the civilization they left to this world.

“...... Although there is a lot of water in Fujian, most of the land is sandy land, so the production of land in the land is limited, which is not enough to feed the people. Since ancient times, Fujian men have sailed to the sea, allowing women to stay at home and cultivate the land, so that they can have enough harvests and live a good life......"

Huang Shi told everyone the vague legend about Mazu in his memory, and the officers and soldiers around him listened with serious faces:

"But there are unforeseen circumstances, and fishermen who go out to sea to catch more fish sometimes leave for a few days, and many of them are gone. Mazu is a native of Hui'an, her husband and several brothers have gone to sea to fish, and none of them have returned, Mazu has been waiting on the shore, but her relatives have never returned. In the end, she plunged into the sea and turned into this divine fish......"

Dolphins often rescue sailors and fishermen who have fallen into the water, and sometimes return them to shore. Dolphins often follow the boat when fishermen are fishing. Whenever this time the sailors and fishermen will cry out with a loud voice: Behold, Mazu is bless us.

"Mazu lives forever in the sea and can never go ashore again, she is not only the protector of the brave and industrious fishermen, but also the protector of the wife waiting on the shore, so that the hard work can be rewarded, so that the lovers can meet again...... Bless coastal life, thousands of years like a day. ”

After the people on the ship listened to Yellowstone's words. They all folded their hands and bowed their heads to the white dolphins behind the boat. Including Zhang Zaidi, the actual controller of the loyal and patriotic Catholic Church, everyone prayed sincerely to the goddess of the Chinese earth and the sea.

The golden sunlight slanted down from the sky, dyeing the South China Sea pink, and the snow-white dolphins leaped out of the water, happily carrying strings of crystal droplets, as if they were dancing for these voyages, bringing them the blessings of the goddess of the sea.

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After arriving in Quanzhou. Huang Shi first went to meet the governor of Fujian, and the next day he led his men around the city, living in Changsheng Island in Liaodong for too long, at first glance in Quanzhou such a prosperous place, Huang Shi is a little unaccustomed.

"Since you have arrived in Quanzhou, you must go to see the East and West Twin Towers, otherwise it will be a pity. ”

Walking to the Kaiyuan Temple, Huangshi once again looked up at the magnificent East and West Twin Towers. Yellowstone has been here once. However, compared with the last time he came, Huangshi was much older, but this Kaiyuan Temple was more than 300 years younger, which really made people laugh and cry.

Just like when he was in Shanhaiguan, Huang Shi made a cameo tour guide for his subordinates: "This Kaiyuan Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of thousands of years. From the time of the Tang Dynasty. Quanzhou is an important port in the southeast, the Western Regions, the big food merchants are endless, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and other sects have been introduced into China, the Tang Dynasty treats all kinds of sects equally, as long as they do not fight with each other, their temples are protected. ”

After the Song Dynasty, Quanzhou further became the most important seafaring port in China, from which the goods of the Song Dynasty set sail and were shipped to Vietnam, Thailand, India and other places.

This was followed by the Mongol and Yuan invasions, which plundered the wealth that China had accumulated over hundreds of years. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. There are few currencies that can be used for transactions in the country. Zhu Hongwu's annual tax collection was only 100,000 taels of silver. With a severe shortage of hard currency, China's domestic trade has almost degraded to barter. Taxation has also become almost entirely a tax in kind. In this historical context, Quanzhou also declined rapidly, and commerce shrank to the point of almost disappearing.

However, at this time, in front of Huangshi, Quanzhou Port is a weather of thousands of sails competing and hundreds of boats competing for the current.

Quanzhou changed again during the Ming Dynasty Longqing, the Ming Dynasty Longqing Emperor was the father of the Wanli Emperor, the Son of Heaven was a kind and honest man, unfortunately met Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng These powerful characters gathered in the cabinet. During Longqing's reign, the cabinet not only gave the emperor a nickname, but also repeatedly ridiculed him and said that instead of bothering to question the views of the cabinet, it was better to go back to the harem and give birth to a few more princes.

At the end of Longqing's reign, the cabinet minister Gao Gong had already begun to preach: The emperor should not have the right to "stay in the middle and not send it" to the cabinet, which means that the emperor should not have the right to veto the cabinet's resolutions.

When the honest and honest Emperor Longqing went to court, he always listened to the cabinet and was troubled by coins, so he sent eunuchs to Fujian to open the moon port of Zhangzhou and exchange Chinese silk for overseas silver, which is also known as the "Maritime Silk Road" in the West. When the emperor of Longqing died, he left Zhang Juzheng with 30 million taels of silver earned by sea trade. Zhang Juzheng relied on this wealth to complete the reform of the silver standard, and in one fell swoop changed the tax in kind of the Ming Dynasty to a monetary tax. After Wanli took power, the emperor of Wanli announced the abolition of ship guidance and the tax on every cargo ship that went to sea.

At that time, some imperial historians and ministers accused Wanli of competing with the small people for profit, and also said that since Wanli abolished the ship introduction and changed it to collecting sea taxes, the sea people were "hungry and cold, and miserable." And Wanli Tianzi insisted on his shameless position of asking for money, arguing that if the collection of taxes would lead to unprofitable maritime trade, then the people would not go to sea, and now there are more and more ships going to sea, which means that after collecting taxes, maritime merchants will still have money to make.

Wanli also asked the imperial historian and the minister: Are the people of the sea all fools? Or do they have too much money at home, and they know that they have to pay a sea tax if they lose their capital?

encountered this kind of emperor who regarded the royal dignity as nothing, and the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty were in addition to abuse. There really is no way anymore.

The bell of Kaiyuan Temple echoed in the ears of Huangshi and his party for a long time, the monks in the temple knocked on the wooden fish, the treasure solemnly recited **, and the incense candles worshiped by the visitors rose up a misty green smoke, as if to put a layer of sacred brilliance on the robes of the masters in the temple. Huang Shi and the others also held their breath and walked slowly in this thousand-year-old temple, learning from other good men and women. Respectfully put a stick of incense on the Bodhisattva, leave a little almsgiving, and then leave quietly.

"It's remarkable. "When Zhang Zaidi and others were in Liaodong. It's rare to see such a thousand-year-old monument, so now I'm all excited.

"Exactly. After walking out of the gate of Kaiyuan Temple, Huangshi only grew a breath of atmosphere, and when facing this kind of historical monument, he always couldn't help but feel inexplicable awe, and a little bit of pride.

After leaving Kaiyuan Temple, Huang Shi took his men to eat.

After the Wanli Dynasty. Quanzhou was at its peak, and now the streets are full of merchants coming and going, and they are talking on the streets in the southern and northern tones of the Ming Dynasty, even blonde whites and blacks with charcoal complexion can be seen everywhere. The children of Liaodong pointed at these people, and talked about it in a rare and strange way.

"Here in Quanzhou, we can eat all kinds of Fujian specialties. ”

"Isn't it better than sauerkraut? Isn't it?" Hong Antong immediately showed his homeland complex.

Huang Shi smiled, having lived in southern Liaoning for so many years, he also loved the food there: "Each place has its own characteristics. For example, in Dalian we have to eat clams, in Tianjin we have to eat clams, in Fujian we have to eat clams...... We're going to eat clams. ”

There are many snack shops on the streets of Quanzhou, although it is the end of October, the weather is still warm, and many shops can see a few sturdy men with their upper bodies bare, one dancing with a wooden stick and desperately smashing something. There was a loud crackling sound.

One of the guards asked curiously, "What are they doing here?"

"They're making meatballs and fish balls," Huang Shi made another cameo appearance. He told his group of curious subordinates: Northerners usually add some noodles to make meatballs, but here in Fujian, a few young men in the meatball shop are patting the meat, and they will always beat the meat very vigorously before using it to make meatballs:" Fujian people like to use shark and other sticky fish to make meatballs, they always boast that Fujian meatballs are so elastic that they can jump three feet high when thrown on the ground, and some Fujian meatballs have to be filled, such as fish balls with pork filling or something, both the crisp taste of fish balls, and the mellow aroma of pork balls......"

"Alright. Let's choose this one to sit in. Huang Shi pointed to a shop on the side of the road. The four young men at the door of this shop slapped very hard, and at a glance, they knew that the meatballs in their store must have a bite on their heads.

As soon as I sat down, the shopkeeper came to solicit business. This guy's half-baked official dialect made Zhang Zaidi and them quite angry, because their official words were not very good, so they had to deal with the guy by Huang Shi alone, and finally Huang Shi also took the trouble to order a specialty: "Even a fried prawn!"

Guli's strange pronunciation made Zhang Zaidi and Hong Antong stunned when they heard it, and the guy nodded, turned around and left, Huangshi proudly told them: "It's the sea oysters in Liaodong, but the sea oysters here in Fujian are relatively small, and they are called pearl consumption in Fujian. ”

Zhang Zaidi and the others all looked at Huangshi blankly, as if they were looking at a stranger, and finally Hong Antong said with a sigh: "It's really worthy of being an adult, and these things have been investigated clearly." ”

Huang Shi refused to explain more, but laughed a few times, and the guys quickly brought the leek box, taro buns, and croftets, and they ate them while they were hot.

Since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, merchants from all over the world have come to Quanzhou to trade, and by the time of the Apocalypse, the total number of Arab and European merchants who chose to settle here has exceeded tens of thousands, and for decades, in addition to the traditional Chinese temples, new mosques and churches have been built in Quanzhou.

When the sun sets, the various temples sound with loud bells, and the clergy of different religions also sing loudly, waving their arms to the sky, expressing their infinite praise and reverence for the gods. The port of Quanzhou is full of ships from all over the world. Although the sky is getting darker, the market is still bustling, with shops lit with candles and a large number of citizens and business travelers stopping to linger in the streets.

This kind of grand scene of a large-scale commercial port naturally made Zhang Zaidi, Hong Antong, and other border soldiers so amazed that they couldn't even eat, and even Huangshi himself was equally surprised.

In Yellowstone's previous life, little of the record of China's thriving maritime trade had been destroyed, and in many cases it could only be obtained through the notes of contemporaneous Europeans. Only then can we get a glimpse of the southeast coastal trade at this time.

In the fortieth year of Wanli, the Spaniards of Manila wrote: "The Silk Road on the sea is flourishing day by day. From Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to Manila, there was an endless stream of Chinese merchant ships, forming a sea passage. At first glance, a person can almost jump from a sea boat one after another, from Manila all the way to Quanzhou. ”

Although piracy has flourished since the Apocalypse, the maritime trade is still continuing, which is why Huangshi dares to borrow. If not through the Ming Dynasty after the Longwan reform, but in any other era. It was impossible for Huangshi to carry out import and export trade without government restrictions, and he never wanted to pay back the money he owed for the rest of his life.

"It's nice here, there are no wars, and there are no barbarians who don't even have words, and only know how to rape and plunder. ”

Zhang Zaidi's emotion caused a sigh of approval, but it shattered Huangshi's good mood at once. Just outside the window of his seat, men and women with happy smiles on their faces passed by in an endless stream, and from time to time you could hear the laughter of children and the crowd on the street. Happy, serene, peaceful, and carefree, at the entrance to the harbor, a late sailboat is slowly sailing towards the berth, and the white sails are gently lowering, if you listen closely. It is as if you can still hear the joyful songs of the sailors on the ship as they arrive home......

If Huangshi had not come to this time and space, then more than twenty years later, the streets would be full of people, whether it was a gray-haired old man, an innocent and lovely child, a vigorous young man, or a happy girl with a hanging hair, on average, two out of every three people......

Such a tragedy will not only happen in Quanzhou, but the entire land of Shenzhou will fall into a pool of blood, hundreds of shipyards along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang will be burned along with ships, and every living person within 30 miles of the coast will be killed......

Why is this catastrophe for our nation, why is our defenceless people being killed, why is our civilization going to suffer such a reversal?

Who is tolerating the traitors and causing the tigers to be the trouble? Who are the people who are betraying our country? And push our people to misery?

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The last day of October in the sixth year of the Apocalypse. Liaoyang.

The four Baylors were gathering to deliberate. Amin said with a gloomy face: "Our envoys have returned from Korqin Mongolia, according to them. The head of Korqin was still sick, and he didn't seem to be getting better for a while. ”

Dai Shan roared angrily in a low voice: "Lie! These untrustworthy and unrighteous Mongols are the most unreliable!"

It stands to reason that with the close relationship between the Horqin Mongols and the Houjin, their leaders should also come to Nurhachi in person to offer condolences, but after the rumors arose in Huangshi, the head of the Horqin Mongols has been sick, and his eldest son suddenly had something to do.

Although Huang Taiji was anxious, his face still looked like a bamboo in his chest, and he turned around and asked the listless Mang Gurtai on the side: "Fifth brother, what do you think." ”

"Huh?" Mang Gurtai seemed to be startled, raised his head and looked at Huang Taiji blankly, his eyes were gloomy: "What are you talking about? ”

Huang Taiji glanced at his fifth brother in disappointment, and then repeated the matter of Horqin Mongolia, Mang Gurtai lowered his head when he listened and listened, and after Huang Taiji finished speaking, he just spit out a few words in a low voice: "I have no idea." ”

Since Nurhachi's death was used by Huangshi, Mang Gurtai has almost been a wasted person, and Huang Taiji has taken the initiative to invite Mang Gurtai to go hunting with him several times, but Mang Gurtai calmly refused: "Eighth brother, you go play by yourself, I'm not in the mood now." ”

It was only when the news of Huangshi's departure from southern Liaoning came that Mang Gurtai seemed to wake up from his hallucinations for a moment, and his eyes burst out with joy that bordered on madness...... But it was only for a moment, and Huang Taiji watched as the flames in Mang Gurtai's eyes gradually subsided, flickering, flickering, flickering...... until completely extinguished.

In the end, Mang Gurtai was completely depressed again, and only said in a low voice: "He will still come back." ”

Huang Taiji has always prided himself on not being shocked, but Mang Gurtai's tone was so sad and desolate, that after hearing it, Huang Taiji still felt a burst of sadness. Now Mang Gurtai was half-dead all day, and he was always absent-minded when he participated in the deliberations, and he knew to play with a strange simple ornament around his neck, which seemed to cross two metal sticks.

"Master, four masters!"

A post-Taurus stumbled in, and hurriedly shouted to the four Baylors: "Someone from the Ming Kingdom is here, it is the governor of Liaodong from the Ming Kingdom, and he has sent someone to mourn the old Khan." ”

The three Baylors except Mang Gurtai all stood up, and Huang Taiji was so excited that his voice trembled after asking about the situation: "Please." ”

Then Huang Taiji hurriedly turned around and looked at Mang Gurtai, who was still sitting there dullly, his hands still unconsciously fiddling with the cross, Huang Taiji shouted excitedly: "Fifth brother, go and invite the merchants and lamas of Liaoyang, as well as the Mongols from all tribes!"

"Huh?" Mang Gurtai looked up, "What did you say?" ”

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The official sent by Yuan Chonghuan arrogantly announced loudly: "Five hundred taels of gold and five thousand taels of silver. ”

"Thank you, Ambassador. ”

Dai Shan, Huang Taiji and Amin humbly returned the salute together, and then respectfully invited Yuan Chonghuan's envoy to the banquet, this time there was also a lama entrusted by Yuan Chonghuan to follow the Liaodong official to Liaoyang, and this intermediary was naturally invited into the grand banquet together.

The celebrities in Liaoyang were mobilized again, although the four Baylors are currently side by side, but Huang Taiji is also the nominal Houjin Khan, so he personally brought Yuan Chonghuan's envoy to the upper seat, and then Huang Taiji took the lead, and began round after round of toasting.

After the banquet, Huang Taiji's mood suddenly became very good again. Yuan Chonghuan's emissary said that the Ming court did not recognize Huangshi's credit for killing Nurhachi. Although the Later Jin and the Mongol ministries had known about it for a long time, and they also understood that the main reason why the Ming court did not recognize the credit was the issue of the head, but if the envoy of the governor of Liaodong could induce him to say this passage in public, Huang Taiji believed that it would still be of great significance.

"Send Dorgon to Ming as a hostage, we need a respite too much. ”

Dai Shan and Amin both deeply agreed with Huang Taiji's suggestion, and Amin nodded while not forgetting to add: "Da Miao, so most of the Mongols will think that we are about to be recruited, at least we have reached a preliminary agreement with the Ming Kingdom, so that at least we can do some business." Well, no, we can add a Duoduo and send them both. ”

At the meeting, Mang Gurtai still maintained his usual silence, his brothers were used to this, so they didn't ask his opinion again, Huang Taiji walked to Mang Gurtai's side after the meeting, and patted him on the shoulder: "Fifth brother, go home, we're all done." ”

"I know I didn't drop a word of what you just said. Mang Gurtai replied in a deep voice, and when he raised his head, Huang Taiji was surprised to see a sharp light in his eyes that he had not seen for a long time.

"Eighth brother. Mang Gurtai suddenly reached out and grabbed Huang Taiji's arm, and his tone was quick and firm: "Let's take this opportunity to simply descend!"

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