In fact, the South China Sea does not only refer to Guangzhou, Fujian and other two provinces in the South China Sea, but also the two provinces of Zhejiang and Southern Jiangxi, collectively referred to as the four provinces of the South China Sea.

The land of the South China Sea, originally only Zhejiang belonged to the land of fish and rice, and the other three provinces were originally wild lands, the Zhengyang Empire was more than 400 years old, and the land of the South China Sea has been in a peaceful phase, so it was gradually developed, and the land here was already fertile, and the other three provinces have been turned into the same land of fish and rice as Zhejiang under the development of the Han people.

Especially Guangdong, there is a huge island in the south of Guangdong. Named Qiongzhou, Qiongzhou established countless harbors, many merchant ships, and went to the west, although the land there was occupied by a group of natives, but there were rare gold mines, silver mines, spices, precious timber and other treasures of great value.

In Guangdong Province, the empire set up a South China Sea Commercial Division, in charge of the collection of commercial taxes from Qiongzhou to the sea, and the tax rate here is not a unified national ten tax one, but a terrifying five tax one, but from Qiongzhou to the sea businessmen are still in an endless stream, and under the intervention of the government, a South China Sea trade fair has been formed here, where Guangdong, Zhejiang to the South China Sea to the sea businessmen must join this trade fair.

After a hundred years of rapid development, the tax and silver collected by Guangdong Province alone is comparable to the sum of the four southwestern provinces.

The year 475 of the solar calendar

The giant of the South China Sea, the Yin clan is back

Spring

Only those who have inherited for a hundred years can be qualified to be called the family family, and the towering tree of the family family in addition to the main family as the stem and the side branches as the branches, also needs to be the Yin clan as the root system, and the Yin clan as the root system is the foundation for a family to inherit and continue in the event of a storm.

Usually listen to the orders of the Lord's family, and listen to the orders of the Yin clan when encountering turmoil.

The Yin may be a merchant, a poor peasant, or a giant, but... It can't be the old woman in front of you.

"Steward Zhang, please, the old man must see the old man today, please be accommodating!"

An old woman dressed in coarse linen was carrying a huge rooster in colorful clothes, which was the best gift she could come up with, and if it weren't for the emergency, this big rooster would be the source of work for her and her son for the next six months. Such a beautiful rooster will be bought by large families when they are put in the market, and large families also have high requirements for chickens used to tell the time, like this one in the hands of the old woman is so beautiful, and the price is very high.

The back door of a mansion was ajar, and an old housekeeper in purple stood on the steps of the back door, looking at the old woman condescendingly, with obvious impatience in his eyes.

"The master is not at home, I have said it many times! It's a busy time to work, and the master won't come back! ”

"That'...... Don't you think this will work, that butler. You took this chicken, and when the lord came back, you said to him, Zhang Xiashi asked to see the adult. ”

"Hmm, got it!" The old housekeeper casually agreed, and was ready to step forward to take the big handed by the old woman.

This chicken has been raised for two years, and the chirp is extremely accurate and beautiful, and the price is several times that of an ordinary rooster.

The old housekeeper walked down the steps slowly with Wang Ba steps, and just as he was about to stretch out his hand, his body suddenly stiffened, and then he put on a flattering smile that the old woman had never seen before, and said with a smile behind the old woman: "The second young master is back!" ”

The old woman was startled, her body shrank to the side, and when she lowered her head, she could only hear a young voice, with a strange tone, it should be drunk.

"Steward Zhang, why are you here at this time, hahaha, who is she, could it be that you are meeting your old friend?"

"Second Young Master, this is just coming back from Lan Chunyuan? The old man is in the front hall, don't go from there, the second young master. ”

"This ...... Dad, why didn't he go to the yamen today, Steward Zhang, don't tell me that my dad has seen me! ”

When the young man said this, he turned away and went away from the house.

It wasn't until the young man walked away that the old housekeeper whispered: "Hey, prostitution during the day, the second young master is much worse than the eldest young master, and the status of the Li family is really untouchable." ”

When the old butler took the chicken and was about to turn away, the old woman spoke:

"Steward Zhang, I'...... I heard the second young master say that the master is at home. ”

The old woman's voice was full of pleading.

But the old housekeeper snorted coldly without looking back: "Since you know that the master is at home, you know that he will not see you, you must stop this thought, and your chickens will be taken away." By the way, don't tell anyone about today's events, especially the second young master's affairs, otherwise your son who went to prison will never be able to get out! ”

With a bang, in Qiongzhou City, the most luxurious family, the Zhang family's mansion closed the door for this old woman forever.

Three months later, Zhang Youguang left Qiongzhou Prison, his green shirt stained with blood.

You don't get blood when you go to prison, and you don't have to be a person when you get out of prison.

Three months ago, he was framed, was Xuezheng to lose the fame of Xiucai, never allowed to take the examination, 30 years of hard work day and night in vain, but what he cared about the most was his mother, he suffered every day in prison for three months, that is, he felt sorry for his mother's hard work in getting up early and working late.

If it weren't for the fact that a friend from the past had some ways to intercede for him, he would have to be assigned at least 300 miles for him to injure Xuezheng. A hundred years ago, Qiongzhou was the farthest place of punishment for the imperial court, and if he was sentenced to be distributed, he could only be reduced to slavery and become a slave on a merchant ship in the South China Sea. It is a great blessing to be released after three months of detention.

In Zhangjia Village, outside Qiongzhou, Zhang Youguang found an abnormality as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village.

Several old men in the village were waiting for him neatly, and although there was no communication, Zhang Youguang knew that they were waiting for him.

Suddenly there was a bad feeling in my heart.

In the thatched house of Zhang Youguang's house, looking at the old woman who had only her last breath left on the bed, Zhang Youguang's eyes were full of tears, and the old woman took one last look at her son, without leaving any words, just a smile in the corner of her eyes.

Asked a few village elders to know the cause and effect of the incident.

The old woman begged people everywhere in the city for the past three months, looking for Zhang Youguang's former classmates and friends, as well as the teacher, but no one was willing to help Zhang Youguang.

For this reason, the old woman sold the big rooster, and every household in the village took some money to give the old woman, which finally supported the old woman to find the former classmate who helped Zhang Youguang.

But after three months of running, the old woman couldn't let go of her worries at all times, after all, it caused the recurrence of the old disease, and she breathed a sigh of relief just to see her son return safely.

A wave of anger rushed to the top of his head, and Zhang Youguang, who had been a scholar for thirty years, no longer concealed the chill in his eyes for the first time, but was pressed by an old man on the shoulder.

"Don't be impulsive, that's the Lord's house."

"So what?"

Zhang Youguang's voice was like a Nine Demons, full of icy chills.

"Now the Lord is prosperous."

……

Zhang Youguang stopped talking, coldly took away the palm of the old man pressing on his shoulder, and gently picked up his mother from the bed without saying a word. Feel the residual warmth of her body gradually dissipate. The last shred of warmth that this world brought him dissipated with him.

After leaving the house, I went straight to the low slope to the north, where the bones of the people of Zhangjia Village were buried.

There are no tombstones here, and all the people of Zhangjia Village dug a pit here, filled it with soil, and inserted a branch after they died.

The person who died had no name, no epitaph, no message, and everything in this world was coldly erased.

The secrets of Zhangjiacun are never told to women and children and outsiders, and Zhang Youguang's mother has both, so she doesn't know her son's secrets, nor does she know the secrets of the village, but she knows that there are secrets.

On the low slope, Zhang Youguang was silent, and a group of young people about his age gathered behind him at some point.

"Brother Youguang, have you made a decision?"

One of them faintly led said.

After waiting for a long time, Zhang Youguang slowly stood up from a branch stuck in the soil.

"If I promise, your position as leader will be mine, right?"

"That's right!" The man replied dryly.

"Okay, I promise yes, but those old guys won't let us do it, they are our obstacles, do you want to do it, I don't want any obstacles in front of me!"

"Hey, hey!" The man just smiled, and someone behind him stepped forward and threw a burden out, and the burden shook off, and the heads of several old men rolled out.

Zhang Youguang calmly looked at the burden, the heads, and then said in a calm tone: "The old guys are too old-fashioned, our Yin clan is the root of the family, but the main trunk thinks that just absorbing the rain from the sky can thrive, so he no longer needs the help of the rhizome, and even let the rhizome rot and be unmoved!" Then we rotten roots might as well find our own way, rush out of the dirt, and become the trunk, the branches, and the towering trees! ”

On this day, the second Zhang family appeared in Qiongzhou City.

Three days later, Qiongzhou commanded the concubine of Tongzhi Zhang Mengjin, Zhang Yan, the second son of the Zhang family, to die violently in Lanchunyuan, and the Tongzhi Lord was angry and bloodied Lanchunyuan, and ordered the whole city to arrest the thief.

But after all, nothing was found, and when Zhang Mengjin returned home that day, he directly ordered his wife Chi to be sent back to the Chi family in Guangzhou, and the concubine Li was imprisoned in the cold courtyard of the back house.

The second son is the only son of the Chi family and the son-in-law of his Zhang family.

As soon as this incident came out, Zhang Mengjin was in a dilemma, because he only had two sons in his life.

In front of him, one is to choose the prosperity of the family, but even if he is broken. The second is that the family is in the middle, and it is unknown whether his species will continue, and he will not be able to sleep all night.

The next day, the eldest son of the Zhang family was called to the study, and he still did not come out after a day and a night.

The next day, at a port wharf in Qiongzhou, a huge merchant ship slowly sailed into the South China Sea, its destination was Zhejiang, and the shipload of spices was transported to the tribes of Zhejiang.

At the stern of the boat, several men were naked, absorbing the warmth of the scorching sun at the beginning of summer, and their chests were hot.

The green shirt on Zhang Youguang's body was no longer there, revealing a bronzed body and pacing out of the cabin at the stern, and the men nodded when they saw him.

Zhang Youguang came to the stern of the boat, looked at the waves split by the bow of the boat, and the anger in his heart was condensed into an axe, wanting to split the world like this ship.

"When you enter the open sea, this ship has another surname!" Zhang Youguang sighed lightly, and said goodbye to the identity of a scholar forever, his mother's insistence on letting him study for 30 years still failed after all.

"Mother, did you already know that I was a robber in my bones, but unfortunately in the end I still couldn't be a scholar!"