Along the way, he grabbed all the way, and then kept collecting the samurai on the island, and when he walked out of the Japanese sea, Chen Zuyi brought 3,000 men and horses, more than 500 more than when he came.

In addition to filling the five battalions, these Japanese samurai also formed a separate ninth battalion, with Matsumoto Tsukikage as the battalion commander. Maybe it's because they know that they have little qualifications, so they are more desperate whether they are fighting or robbing!

In the middle of October of the 29th year of the Ming Dynasty (November 1396), half a month after sailing from the Sea of Japan, due to a huge wind and wave, the Black Shark Gang fleet deviated from the course.

Originally, they were supposed to pass through the small Liuqiu Island (now Taiwan) of the Ming Dynasty to resupply, but now they should have missed it. There is not much fresh water on their ship, and there is enough food.

Just when Chen Zuyi was in a hurry, the lookout reported that he had found land in the southeast. This surprised Chen Zuyi. hurriedly found Li Yuanliang and asked him if he knew the land ahead.

Li Yuanliang thought for a while, and then said, "We deviated from the course to the east for about 200 miles, and now we have sailed for five more days. It should be Luzon over there, and many mainland compatriots immigrated here during the Song Dynasty! The king's surname was Lu. ”

"So Luzon was originally a descendant of the Han Chinese? What is the origin? ”

"Speaking of the founding of the country of Luzon, it is also a hundred years old. It was the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was driven to the Guangdong area, and finally it was defeated, the left prime minister Lu Xiufu held the little emperor into the sea and forbade himself, Lu Zili, the son of Lu Xiufu, led the remnants of the Xing Navy to move south, passing through the Nanyang Moyi country, and stayed here to recuperate and recuperate, in order to restore the country. Later generations took Lu as the king, and the dress and etiquette and customs were the same as the Great Song Dynasty, and the Lu family changed his name to the Fu Song Dynasty, and since then, this place has been called Lu Song. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the state of Lu Song was changed to Luzon. ”

"I see, then Luzon also has our outer hall?"

"Yes, it's just that the configuration is very simple, only with ordinary information transmission."

"Not bad! At least we won't be blinded when we arrive in Luzon! ”

In fact, during this trip to Japan, the Japanese branch made great efforts to investigate the various cities along the coast and the allocation of troops, so that Chen Zuyi dared to walk along the Japanese coast unscrupulously. Before coming back, he deliberately and secretly rewarded the Japanese branch with 500,000 taels of gold.

The fleet arrived at the outskirts of the Luzon dock at the beginning of the Shen period, and Chen Zuyi first sent a small boat into the port to negotiate. It's just that in the name of the Han caravan, it was really warmly received. The port is in charge of the city shipping department, and the current promotion of the city shipping department (city shipping envoy) is called Song Bucai.

Hearing that a Han fleet was coming, Song Bucai, the envoy of the city, brought a subordinate to greet him personally, and when he saw more than a dozen scarred warships, his face changed. He is true that he is enthusiastic about the Han people, but that does not mean that he is a fool. This fleet has obviously been through many naval battles, and nine times out of ten it is a pirate. Busy asked his subordinates to inform Lu Tuanlian in the nearby military camp to get ready.

It wasn't until Chen Zuyi and the others got off the ship and did not attack the port that the envoy of Song City breathed a sigh of relief.

"Black Shark Merchant Chen Zuyi, meet the city envoy!" Chen Zuyi politely bowed his hand.

"Mr. Chen is polite, I don't know where your bank came from?"

"We were originally returning to Nanyang from Japan, but we experienced wind and waves on the way to this place, and the ship needed to be replenished with water and food, so we entered the port."

"Oh? Can you prepare for trading in Hong Kong? ”

"There are also some, 10,000 loads of good tea, which are produced in Hongzhou Shuangjing in Jiangxi. There are also 50,000 quintals of spices, which are produced in the Boni country of Nanyang. I wonder if your country needs these two products? Chen Zuyi said the two things that were not sold, and he would see if he could dispose of them, and if not, he would take them back to his home to enjoy.

"Great! We have a demand for tea and spices, so you can come to the trading hall with our official and wait. ”

The envoy of the Song City immediately summoned a small official and asked him to go and inform the agents of the trading houses stationed here all the year round outside the port, and they consumed a very large amount of tea here every year. However, while locally grown tea leaves have an unusually bitter taste, the coffee grown is so good that only the most high-level porter peddlers will quench their thirst. People with a bit of status only drink tea shipped from abroad, especially the tea from their hometown Central Plains. It's a pity that there are too few Central Plains teas that can be sold here. Occasionally, hundreds of loads can change hands to get here, and they are immediately snatched up. This time, 100,000 quintals came, which is really a blessing for the whole country!

"Is the Central Plains still ruled by the Mengyuan people?"

"Hehe, it's not anymore, thirty years ago, our Han people drove out the Mengyuan people and established the Ming Empire!"

"Oh?! What a happy event! Great joy! When our ancestors were driven into the sea by the Mongols, they were still determined to die and sent a fleet to chase and kill all the way! Fortunately, they chased in the wrong direction, and I heard that they had killed all the way to the Nanyang countries! Let's save Luzon! The envoy of Song City said excitedly.

The Yamen of the City Shipping Division, which led everyone into the port, also had a hall on the side of the main hall, which was a trading hall and was specially set up for overseas trade. Luzon often trades coffee beans and rice to foreign countries, and the Arabs of the neighboring countries of Malacca in the South Seas like the coffee beans the most.

Greeting the general merchants of the merchant who were familiar with each other all the way, the envoy of Song City took Chen Zuyi and his party to the innermost room. There were already five elders waiting in that room. Lord Song introduced them one by one, and after he finished the introduction, Chen Zuyi found out that the five people had two surnames Lu, two surnames Song, and one surname Lu, which is interesting, and I don't know if it was the reason why they changed to Luzon?

Chen Zuyi took Li Yuanliang and Meng Chengbi to participate in the bargaining, and Chen Mancang and Hu Sanwa and several of their battalion commanders were hanging out in the port with escorts, so they didn't have the heart to understand these transactions.

"Mr. Chen, Lord Song said that you have 100,000 quintals of Hongzhou Shuangjing, but is it true?" The agent surnamed Lu asked, he is the agent of Hongyan Commercial Bank, stationed here all the year round, and many goods can be distinguished from fake at a glance.

"Not bad! Authentic Hongzhou Shuangjing, can be inspected! Yuan Liang! After Chen Zuyi finished speaking, he put the paper bag in Li Yuanliang's hand on the table and motioned for a few people to inspect the goods.

The agent surnamed Lu gently opened the paper bag, first pinched out a small handful and looked at it, all the leaves were less than an inch long, it was bud tea. Smelling it again, there was a faint fragrance coming to my nose, and I nodded lightly. Put the tea leaves in your hand into the bag, and take out a tray from the storage compartment behind you, on which there are five bowls. He took out a little of the tea leaves from the bag and put them in one by one, and then instructed the boy next to him to bring the iron kettle for boiling water on the side. He took the pot, poured boiling water into it, and closed the lid on the bowl.

The agent surnamed Lu finished all this and asked the boy to open the kettle. Only then did he smile and said: "Mr. Chen, don't blame, we have been here for more than five generations, this Hongzhou Shuangjing is only recorded in the book, I heard that it was a tribute, even in the Song Dynasty It is extremely rare." Never tasted it, that's why it's so discreet! ”

"It's okay, a few of you can taste it! Chen is not in a hurry. ”

After a while, the five agents picked up the bowl one after another, gently pushed the tea leaves on the water surface aside with the lid, and took a sip, and several of them narrowed their eyes, as if they were enjoying themselves.

The water of the Xijiang River is clear and the stone is old, and the raw tea on the stone is like a phoenix claw.

Poor wax is not cold, spring is early, and Shuangjing thatched grass is born first.

White hair/sac with red and blue yarn, ten catties of tea to raise one or two buds.

The rich and noble five marquis families in Chang'an, a sip must be praised for three days.

Baoyun is not refined, striving for the new and abandoning the old world.

How do you know that a gentleman has a constant virtue, and the treasure does not change at any time.

You don't see the dragon and phoenix group of Jianxi, and you don't change the flavor and color of the old time.

The agent surnamed Lu couldn't help but chant a poem "Shuangjing Tea" written by the Song Dynasty writer, Mr. Ouyang Xiu, and took another sip after finishing, and the ecstatic expression made Chen Zuyi speechless. He almost thought he was trading DU products, could it be that this thing still has the effect of flour in the future? Looking at their expressions after smoking like addicts, it is awkward.

Chen Zuyi waited in his heart, thinking to himself that you should drink it, the more addictive you are, the higher the price I will ask for at that time. When he was thinking about Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, he couldn't help but a 'junkie' surnamed Lu spoke again, and it was still the kind that was out of the way, anyway, Chen Zuyi didn't understand it very well.

Eagle claw new tea crab eye soup, pine wind singing snow rabbit frost.

Add the flavor of Liuyi Spring, so there is the fragrance of Fu Weng sentence.

The day casts and builds the creek when retreating, and the autumn water dreams of returning to their hometown.

When to return to the Tengwang Pavilion, look at the wind stove and cook it.

Meng Chengbi heard that this was the Southern Song Dynasty poetry giant, Yang Wanli's "Boiling Shuangjing Tea with Liuyi Spring", and said in his heart that these businessmen really have some real materials. Even I didn't think of this poem in the corners, and they came as soon as they opened their mouths!

When Chen Zuyi, who thought that his patience was good enough, was about to polish his patience, the five agents finally drank the tea in the bowl. Smacking his lips regretfully, the agent surnamed Lu realized that the five of them were talking about business with people on the trading floor.

"Mr. Chen smiled, it was the first time that the five old people drank such a good tea, and they lost their temper for a while, please forgive me!"

"It doesn't matter, the old gentleman can be so selfless, it can be seen that he is a man of temperament! Chen likes to make friends with such people as Mr. Chen Zuyi smiled sincerely on his face, but he was thinking about whether the offer was three thousand taels or five thousand taels and one loads.

"I don't know what the price of Mr. Chen's tea is?" The agent surnamed Lu finally asked the right question.

"Such a good tea, if you want to collect 10,000 taels of tea in the place of origin, it is not easy, not to mention that Chen has worked so hard to transport it here, a load of 5,000 taels of silver, I don't think it is too much!" Chen Zuyi smiled sincerely, but Li Yuanliang and Meng Chengbi behind him took a breath of cold air. admires the helper so much, no wonder people can be the helper, he can only follow him, it makes sense!

"Hiss-" An old man surnamed Song couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, they were ready for a high price, but they didn't expect it to be so high!

"The price is too high! Two thousand taels is about the same! The other agent surnamed Song was obviously an anxious person, and he leaked his bottom as soon as he opened his mouth. When he knew that he had said the wrong thing, he looked at the other four people with a weak heart, and sure enough, he received eight white eyes, so he could only keep silent again.

The old man surnamed Lu was so angry that he almost flipped the table and scolded his mother, forcibly suppressed his anger at the Song family's quick temper, and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Chen, two thousand taels and one quintals were originally high, but even if the agent of Zhiqiu Commercial Bank mentioned it, then press this price, what do you think?" ”

"Seniors, you can go and see our ship, we have experienced many pirate robberies on the way, and our guards have more than 800 dead and wounded, and I want 5,000 taels is really not high." Chen Zuyi also showed a wry smile on his face, "But since a few old brothers have proposed it, I always have to give a face, three thousand taels, if it is less, I would rather take it to Nanyang to trade!" Those Arabs love good tea! ”

"This ......" The five agents surnamed Lu sighed at each other, and finally the agent surnamed Lu spoke: "Can Mr. Chen give us a day, this transaction is huge, and we need to report to the owner to know." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for you for two days, okay?" Chen Zuyi is very refreshing.

"Good! Thank you Mr. Chen! So let's retire first! The five agents walked away quickly.