But there is another powerful person in the cabinet, and that is Zhang Siwei! Zhang Siwei's hometown was born in Shanxi and is an authentic northerner, so he is naturally regarded as their spokesperson by northern officials and scholars! Moreover, Zhang Siwei's combat effectiveness is super strong, and when Zhang Juzheng did not speak, he actually fought with Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue! As for Zhang Han, he can only be regarded as a make-up number!

Therefore, when the courtiers were fighting with each other, they did not pay too much attention to the cabinet when they saw that the cabinet was fighting so fiercely. However, there are many discerning people who can see that there is a lot of greasy in this!

In fact, don't look at Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue is full of fire in the fight, but in fact, the two sides are very measured! To put it bluntly, it's for outsiders to watch!

But since they are discerning people, there is another problem, they can see that the elders are playing, and naturally they also understand the consequences of exposing this trick! So they also had to pinch their noses and play with the elders! Therefore, a relatively balanced situation was maintained in the entire court for a while.

As for Zhang Juzheng, as the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible to easily express his attitude. He prefers to push the boat with the tide when one side has the upper hand! And he has something more important, that is, the reform of the imperial court!

Therefore, through his influence on the imperial court, he always suppressed both sides and actively promoted his own reforms. Only then did the imperial court not fall into a state of stagnation because of the struggle between the north and the south!

But for Zhang Juzheng himself, he has become more and more struggling, and it is difficult to control the situation in the imperial court! So he's now weighing his position over and over again? When did you make a statement?

Just as the fighting in the imperial court intensified, several ships loaded with goods sailed out of each wharf along the Yangtze River. These ships were quite low-key when they were loaded, and the cargo they carried was ordinary cargo. As for the fact that they carried some goods needed by the Japanese state, it was already customary, so no one cared at all.

These ships were not very fast when they traveled in the Yangtze River, but when they got together, they became a large fleet of ten ships. At this time, they accelerated their speed at the same time and went down the Yangtze River!

This afternoon, Zhang Liuwang got up from the damp bed, he had just made up for sleep just now, and now he was ready to go out of the warehouse to have a look. According to his estimates, the fleet is now close to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Zhang Liuwang, when you hear this name, you know that he is from a peasant family. Liuwang naturally refers to the prosperity of six animals! But what no one expected was that he was born in a peasant family and became the leader of the sea!

Zhang Liuwang is in his 40s this year, but he has been floating at sea for more than 20 years and has a lot of experience! And I have met with several pirates in private, and I have some relationships, so after so many years of running down the ship, although there have been several risks and loss of money, this life has remained!

Not long ago, Wu Ningbo began to encircle and suppress pirates, and Zhang Liuwang felt that the limelight was wrong, so he returned to the shore to recuperate on the grounds of illness. But it didn't take long for someone to come to the door, and he was hired to become the head of a fleet!

Zhang Liuwang didn't want to agree, but on the one hand, because the other party gave too much money, he couldn't resist the temptation! On the other hand, the other party promised him that there was no danger at all except for the wind and waves in this trip, and showed him the legendary Qinglongya Banner, so he agreed to come down and run this trip. Look at the book

And he also pondered that if the other party's Qinglongya Banner was really good, he would be happy to agree to sign a long-term contract. After all, there is no personal danger at all, and as for the risk, how can the person who runs the sea care about the risk!

As soon as Zhang Liuwang stepped out of the hatch, a big man walked over quickly, and said loudly at the same time: "Boss, there is Sansha in front, let's stop in Sansha for one night, right?"

This big man's name is Liu Xiaoman, who was born with this name by Xiaoman, and he is also his old buddy who runs the boat, and he is also his apprentice. Now it is second only to Zhang Liuwang on the ship! And the Sansha in his mouth refers to Chongming Island

In fact, when Chongming Island appeared at the earliest, there were only two sandbanks, and in the Tang Wude period, two sandbanks rose in the water south of Dongbuzhou (now Lusi area). The two continents are separated by water for more than 70 miles, and they are called Dongsha and Xisha at the time, which is the predecessor of Chongming Island.

In the third year of Song Tiansheng, Yao Liu Sha (named after Yao and Liu surnames) continued to rise in the northwest of Dongsha, and bordered Dongsha. In the first year of Song Jianzhong's Yasukuni, Yao Liusha rose out of Sansha 50 miles northwest across the water, which was formed by three stacks, so it was called Sansha! It is also said that it was named because the three surnames of Zhu, Chen and Zhang of Jurong settled here first.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the East Sha collapsed, the West Sha collapsed and there was little, the Sansha rose in the north, and Yao Liu Sha collapsed in the south and rose in the north, gradually bordering Sansha. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, more than 30 sands have risen out of Ma'ansha, Chen Ensha, Gaomingsha, Xiaoyinsha, Changsha, Yuanjiasha, Xiangsha, Gaotousha, etc., and Chongming Island is considered to be preliminarily formed. Therefore, many people still call Sansha according to the old habit.

Zhang Liuwang looked at both sides of the riverbank, and then looked at the sky before saying, "This time we won't stop in Sansha, we will go directly to the sea!"

Liu Xiaoman said in surprise: "But now it's getting late, even if we get out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, we can't run far!" And it's too dangerous to sail at night, and it's easy to get into trouble!"

Zhang Liuwang raised his hand and twisted the wind, and said slowly, "Of course I know this. It's just that you don't know who our owner is? Now that the north and the south are fighting so hard, if someone makes a fuss and loses the cargo, how can we explain to the owner?"

Liu Xiaoman patted his head and said, "That's right, we all forgot that the owner's batch of goods is going to Tianjin! However, if you go out of Haikou and then rest, it will be a troublesome matter, and you may lose goods and manpower in the event of wind and waves!"

Zhang Liuwang withdrew his hand and said, "It's okay, we can find a small harbor nearby to rest." It doesn't matter if you can't fit all the boats, looking at the direction of the wind today, it doesn't look like it's going to be windy. Let's inform the fleet behind us."

Liu Xiaoman said yes and ran to the stern, took out a red cloth from his waist and rowed it to the boat behind. At this time, the people of the Ming Dynasty had not yet invented a complete flag language, but it was still possible to express a few simple meanings through some means.

Liu Xiaoman's signal was "Follow!" The ships behind will know what the head always means when they see the signal, and they will pass the signals to each other one after another.