"Sister Azhu, are you Fujian people so hardworking? I started work on the seventh day of the first month. On the other side of Songjiang, they must still be visiting the door for the New Year. ”

In the morning light, Fan Poyu, who climbed the small hill behind the official post with great interest, looked at the Yiyuegang wharf where the ships were like shuttles and businessmen were bustling, and asked Zheng Haizhu, who climbed up with her, with a dumbfounded meaning.

Zheng Haizhu took a sharp breath of the salty air and said with a smile: "Fujian is mountainous, and it can't grow so much grain in the Suhu area. ”

Fan Poyu sighed softly, as if learning from an adult, sighing how difficult the people's livelihood is.

After she became Sister Azhu's little follower, her biggest experience was that this maid of a rich family and the master of a poor family did not have a snobbish appearance of bullying the poor and flattering the rich at all, but often revealed a trace of compassion in her calm speech.

After the first few encounters, the father told his daughter that he was a kind-hearted person. A self-combing girl who has no husband to rely on can actually take out her money to run a school, and you can rest assured that you will go to the world with her, but as long as she can have a bite to eat, you must not be hungry.

In front of Zheng Haizhu, who was stamped as a great benevolent person by his father and mother, Fan Poyu quickly got rid of his nervousness and timidity, and developed the habit of asking Zheng Haizhu for advice at any time.

"Sister Azhu, you see, at the foot of our mountain, on the pier called the Dumpling House, there are Taixi people! Hey, the Tessies are either yellow-haired or black-haired like us, why are those Tessies red-haired? ”

Zheng Haizhu said: "They are Dutch, they were controlled by the Franky people in the past, and then they made a rebellion against the Franky people, and they elected a general by themselves and began to go to sea freely to do business. ”

Fan Poyu stuck out his tongue: "It's like a red-haired ghost in a storytelling." ”

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips: "It doesn't matter if they look like ghosts, what color hair they have, they can afford to buy our Ming goods." If they hadn't brought the silver, how could this moon port be called the South Treasury of the Son of Heaven? Okay, you go and take the dress and fake collar that you want to show to the fan merchant today, and check the stitches again. I went to the dock to see the market. ”

Fan Poyu obediently went back to the official post.

Zheng Haizhu descended the not too steep slope, walked north from the wharf of the foreign ship, and walked less than a mile to the wharf at the end of the road.

Crossing the stone bridge, a tailor's shop at the entrance of the alley is impressive.

The woman who was mending the bamboo curtain of Fuzi at the door stopped what she was doing and asked with a smile, "But Shi Yuelan's sister?" ”

"Well, let's see the people from my hometown." Zheng Haizhu also replied in Hokkien.

"Tea in it."

The woman hurriedly got up and let Zheng Haizhu into the house.

A young man came out of the room.

"Brother Kunisuke."

Zheng Haizhu saluted the other party.

When he was still in Songjiang a month ago, Zheng Haizhu went to Tang Bo in Nanhui to ask about Yan Siqi's current situation, and told him that he was going to go south to Yuegang with the Suzhou weaving eunuch, and whether it was possible to meet Yan Dang. Uncle Tang immediately said that it was a coincidence, and Yan Da Dangjia originally sent a message that the business of this trip to Luzon was very smooth, but due to the winter wind direction, he would not return to the vicinity of Zhoushan first, and Yuegang was really a suitable location, because Yan Dangjia had already shopped in Yuegang this autumn as a land contact point.

Uncle Tang is really Yan Siqi's right-hand man, and before he set off, he came to inform Zheng Haizhu that everything had been arranged, so that after she arrived at Yuegang, she would go to the Lutouwei Wharf, one of the seven major wharves, and contact the Qijia tailor shop.

But Zheng Haizhu didn't expect that the one in the tailor shop was actually Li Dan's eldest son, Li Guozhu.

Li Dan, as a maritime merchant leader entrenched in Hirado, Japan, and the entire southeast coast of Megatron, is indeed not thin on Yan Siqi, but at the beginning of Daishan Island, Li Guozhu, the details of the rich second generation's gestures, left Zheng Haizhu with the impression of arrogance and shallowness.

Therefore, when I saw that the contact person was him today, Zheng Haizhu did not show it on his face, but he felt a slight response in his heart.

I don't want to that Li Guozhu changed his previous nostrils to the sky, and said to Zheng Haizhu: "Sister God of Wealth, farewell to Daishan, sister is more and more energetic." We have heard from Lao Tang that my sister is thriving in Songjiang, otherwise she would not have the blue eyes of the Weaving Bureau. The little brother admired it so much! ”

Zheng Haizhu heard him say that he was contrived, held back the discomfort, and said with a smile: "Guozhu is polite, I just messed up some small things in Jiangnan." On the islands south of Borneo, what are the spices like this year? ”

To the south of Borneo and Luzon (present-day Philippines) was the area known as the Spice Islands. In the world of 1617 today, whether it is the Portuguese and Spaniards known as Frankie, or the Dutch, or the Chinese maritime merchants, they often land on that generation of transactions, but the Chinese maritime merchants, known as "merchants without an empire", can not get support and protection from the Ming government at all, and rely on the merchants themselves to buy weapons, hire Japanese people, and fight swords to cross the vast ocean.

Zheng Haizhu asked directly about business, because she didn't want to be verbose with the kid in front of her, but Li Guozhu felt that this woman didn't even ask a word about Yan Siqi's words on the scene, and only cared about whether the capital she invested in the man was discounted or not, and she was really as cold as the Japanese people on the side of Hirado.

However, no matter how hot she and Yan Siqi are, the two of them will soon be cold.

It is cool in the true sense of the word.

Thinking of this, Li Guozhu restrained the vicious excitement in his heart, and also restrained the greasy on his face, lowered his voice, and said earnestly: "On this trip, Brother Yan received a lot of high-quality goods. Thanks to the accurate information given by my sister, the Yuegang Yaren we took near Penghu Island really said that after the fire in the palace, the incense medicine warehouse was all over, and the price of onshore stale materials had risen a lot. Our new goods were bought out by a few big households in the blink of an eye, and we didn't need to go north to sell some back to Pinghu, and we could buy raw silk directly in Zhejiang by empty boat, and turn around and drive to Luzon. ”

Zheng Haizhu said "um", but she didn't seem to be happy.

Li Guozhu also understood that this girl was not a stupid little girl, vigilant and suspicious, so he patted his head and said, "Look at what I said happily, forget about the business." Sister Azhu, what Brother Yan means is that you go to Longxi County to meet. ”

Zheng Haizhu asked bluntly: "Why not in Haicheng County?" Isn't there already a point of contact for our own people here? ”

Li Guozhu explained: "There are all large merchant ships here, and it is too obvious that small sampans are mixed in, and there are frequent soldiers patrolling the sea lane. Longxi County is not far away, and it is my sister's hometown, what Brother Yan means is that my sister may borrow the excuse to go back to her hometown to worship her parents, and announce her leave with the person in charge. ”

Zheng Haizhu stared at Li Guozhu: "Brother Yan was forced to leave his hometown when he was in trouble in Longxi County in the past, and now although seven or eight years have passed, I am still worried that there are fishermen over there who recognize him." ”

Li Guozhu replied fluently: "Sister, don't worry, my brother Yan said that the place is set at the Taoyuan Ferry Wharf five miles north of the county seat, and he said that you must know that place." Brother Yan is as careful as a hair, and he has arranged it carefully. ”

Zheng Haizhu secretly thought that Taoyuandu is a slightly remote place at the mouth of the inland river, but it is indeed far away from the densely populated county town and the wharf where merchant ships come and go.

She then confirmed with Li Guozhu again: "Guozhu, Brother Yan personally went to Taoyuan to pick me up?" ”

"Of course, didn't you tell Uncle Tang that there was something important to discuss with Brother Yan?"

Zheng Haizhu nodded and said, "Okay, just follow Brother Yan's instructions." Three days later, I announced a holiday with the public and rushed to Taoyuandu. If Brother Yan waits for me for two days and doesn't see me, he will leave the coastal area of Fujian as soon as possible. Thank you very much. I'll go back first. ”

"Hey, my sister will eat tea and leave."

Before Li Guozhu's courtesy voice landed, Zheng Haizhu had already waved his hand politely and turned to leave.

Li Guozhu walked to the door of the tailor's shop, looked at the back of the striding meteor, pursed the corners of his mouth, and said secretly: The appearance and body are really a little tasteful, so I will accompany my brother Yan, who was praised by my father as a god, to go underground to be a mandarin duck.