Chapter 55: The Man Who Became One Piece
Xu Huan looked at Xie Qin and said softly: "Brother Qin, although you are a victim, I want to take the liberty of asking, do you know the details of those gangsters?"
Xie Qin shook his head: "I don't know, but I have a grudge against them." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"What hatred?" asked Xu Huan.
This involved Tang Ruoruo's troubles, so Xie Qin didn't say much, but simply said: "Let's put it this way, for some reason, those gangsters owe Wang Chongming a large amount of usury, of course, they are to blame, but they threw the pot on me, and I happened to bump into them to block the road and rob that day, and I was beaten." ”
Xie Qin originally thought that Xu Huan would ask him about the details of his grievances with the gangsters, but he didn't mention it at all.
"Did you just say Wang Chongming?"
"Yes, yes. Xie Qin nodded in surprise.
"Then I understand. ”
Xu Huan showed a look of sudden realization.
Xie Qin was stunned, both of us were confused, how did you understand after listening to a few words?
Xu Huan turned to Qi Bu'er and asked, "Second brother, did you just say that you cut them?"
"Yes. Qi Buji nodded.
"Well, then according to my speculation, here's the thing: after those gangsters were cut by you, they spent a lot of money to go to the hospital to treat their injuries, so that they couldn't pay Wang Chongming's usury, and they were caught by him, and by chance, he saw the wounds on the gangsters' bodies, and suspected that it was caused by your knife skills - from this point of view, it is no accident that Gao Jianfei will find you, Wang Chongming must have sent a lot of people to investigate in the surrounding area where you cut people, and with your current age, the most likely place to find is the university. ”
Xu Huanyang finished speaking, except for Qi Buer and Hu Yuning, the rest of the people looked at him dumbfounded.
Xie Qin was even more amazed: Listening to him say this, it seems that the whole thing is very simple step by step, but I can't think of it!
"I understand," Qi Buji nodded, "but there's one more thing that concerns me a lot. ”
"You say. ”
Qi Buer said: "Last night, there was news from my family, except for my brother, those spies who were staring at the other strongholds of the Wang family were fine. ”
"What did you say?!"
Xu Huan's expression changed.
"I said everyone else was fine. ”
“...... It's broken," Xu Huan muttered repeatedly, "It's broken, it's broken, it's broken......"
After a while, he looked at Qi Buer fixedly, and said in a deep voice:
"Second brother, Wang Chongming is here for you. ”
"Miss Ben is back!
The atmosphere that gradually became fierce was shattered by this shout.
Everyone was deflated, and when they looked at the door, they saw Tang Ruoruo walking in with Zu Yuji with a big grin.
"Tang Ruoruo!" Xie Qin Daqi, "Why did you come with Xiaoyu?"
"Hehe, I exchanged contact information with Xiaoyu last night, and we made an appointment to take a leave just now," she pulled Zu Yuji and smiled brightly, "Now the two of us are good sisters who have skipped class together!
The room was stunned, and Xie Qin was covered with a black line at that time.
Seeing that Zu Yuji was really calm, she could still keep smiling.
"What's the situation now?" asked Tang Ruoruo.
Xu Huan reacted as quickly as possible, got up and asked, "Your Excellency, isn't it Tang Shuruo, the daughter of the master of the Ziming Hall of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong?"
Tang Shuruo: Is that her original name? Xie Qin thought to himself.
Tang Ruoruo was taken aback: "How do you know?"
"I've heard of it. Xu Huan arched his hand, "Fortunately, I am Xu Huan of the Xu family in Longyan," and gestured to the right hand again, "This is Hu Yuning, the little son of the Hu family in Zhangzhou." ”
Hu Yuning got up and arched his hand: "Hello, I'm Hu Yuning......"
Tang Ruoruo didn't come back to his senses in shock, and said repeatedly: "Oh, oh......"
Xu Huan said again: "Thanks to the grace of the house, I am grateful." ”
Tang Ruoruo: "Oh, oh......"
Xu Huan asked Zu Yuji again: "Dare to ask Your Excellency ......?"
"Jinling's ancestral family, Zu Yuji. "Zu Yu Ji is generous.
Xu Yi arched his hand and said: "Fortunately, I am still Xu Huan of the Xu family in Longyan." ”
He was silent, and everyone laughed.
After introducing each other, Tang Ruoruo and Zu Yuji also sat down, and Qi Buji saw that everyone was together, so he said: "Xu Huan, tell you about the grievances between us and the Wang family, my mouth is too stupid to understand." ”
Xu Huan was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Since everyone here is friends, okay." He turned to Hu Yuning and said, "Little boy, you've been tired all the way, aren't you?"
Hu Yuning was stunned for a moment and replied: "It's okay......"
Xu Huan said with concern: "You haven't closed your eyes all night, let's sleep for a while." Asked Tang Ruoruo, "Is there a guest room?"
Tang Ruoruo called a guard over, but Hu Yuning was obedient and followed.
Xu Huan accompanied the smile and said to everyone: "The little boy is not in good health, I am afraid that he will be tired and sick all the way, and please don't be surprised." ”
"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. Tang Ruoruo said.
"Let's get down to business now," Xu Huan looked around at everyone and suddenly asked, "Do you friends know Wang Zhi?"
Who?
Xie Qin had a question mark on his face.
Everyone also had a question mark on their faces.
"Is that the notorious maritime merchant?" asked the old man leisurely.
"That's right. Xu Huan nodded, and when he saw that everyone was confused, he said, "Since everyone doesn't know, let's start with him." ”
Everyone nodded stunned.
Xu Huan said: "Wang Zhi was born in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, in the 16th century, and the history books say that he was kind and charitable, resourceful, and chivalrous. In 1540, he and a few fellow villagers went to Guangdong to do overseas trade, which simply means selling porcelain to the Portuguese, buying muskets from the Portuguese, and then reselling them to the Japanese.
"Friends, you should have heard that Wang Zhi's trade activities are in essence illegal smuggling. Moreover, at that time, the Ming Dynasty implemented a maritime ban policy, strictly prohibiting the people from going to sea to trade without permission, and the so-called 'piece board is not allowed to go to sea', plus in that era, maritime merchants had the dual identity of pirates and merchants, and Wang Zhi was no exception, so he naturally became a thorn in the side of the Zhu Ming court.
"Wang Zhi's strength gradually grew, and he set up a large armed group, and later he accepted the invitation of the Japanese daimyo Matsuura Takanobu to engage in sea smuggling activities based in Hirado, Japan, and called himself the 'Wufeng Ship Owner'......"
"Wait a minute!" Xie Qin interrupted him, "You just said Wufeng?"
"yes. Xu Huan nodded.
“...... What does the Wufeng Private Academy have to do with him?" Xie Qin asked with wide eyes.
Xu Huan said: "Wufeng Private College was funded and established by Wufeng Group, and Wufeng Group was established by Wang Zhi's descendants. ”
"Oh...... That's fine," Sechin breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought he had opened a school at the time." ””
"Wang Zhi... Wang Zhi...... I seem to have an impression of this name," Tang Ruoruo held his chin and thought for a long time, and suddenly patted the sofa and said, "Is it that traitor?!"
Xu Huan nodded and said: "You didn't make a mistake, but although Wang Zhi is not a good person, he is not a traitor, he should be said to be a hero." When he was at the height of his power, he was comparable to the princes of Japan, with tens of thousands of armed forces under his command, equipped with the most advanced firearms at that time, and built a warship that could gallop horses, which could accommodate more than 2,000 people, and was also called king in Songjinpu, Kyushu Island, Japan. Control the key points, and the razor of the thirty-six islands is under his command. It means that he established a country called 'Song', which was very powerful, and the islanders had to listen to him, so to speak, Wang Zhi walked sideways in Japan, and the Japanese only had to work for him. ”
“...... That's right. ”
Tang Ruoruo nodded stunnedly, obviously the first time he had heard of this statement.
"There has always been a big problem on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty: the Japanese Invaders. At that time, Japan was in the Warring States period, and many unowned samurai were stranded at sea, colluding with pirates, maritime merchants, and even coastal residents in the West and the East. ”
Seeing everyone's surprised expressions, Xu Huan nodded: "That's right, the Japanese are a general term, and the Japanese are just a part of it." ”
"They can actually do it to their own people......" Tang Ruoruo was speechless.
Xie Qin sighed: "These people really don't care about anything for the sake of money. ”
Old man Zu smiled: "Xie Qin, your idea is very close to the ecology at the bottom of the rivers and lakes. ”
"What do you mean?" Sechin asked rhetorically.
"I told you that the rivers and lakes are divided into three religions and nine streams, the three religions are the ruling class of the rivers and lakes, and the nine streams are the ruled class, especially the lower nine streams, they are at the bottom of the rivers and lakes, engaged in all kinds of illegal activities, survival of the fittest, death for money, is their survival creed, smugglers, arms dealers, smugglers and pirates, etc., are all under the nine popular times. ”
"It's brutal. Xie Qin shook his head secretly.
"For a living. ”
Xie Qin listened to the old man's tone with a sense of vicissitudes, and secretly thought in his heart, the old man had probably seen a lot of this kind of thing, and after sighing, he said to Xu Huan: "Please continue." ”
Xu Huan said: "The Japanese pirates burned, killed and looted, all evil, is the biggest public security problem on the southeast coast, Wang Zhi wanted to cooperate with the imperial court, for which he cooperated with the government, exterminated the Fujian pirate leader Chen Sipan and other pirates, maintained coastal order, and established the status of "sea overlord", the history books recorded, 'the sea of the robbers, not subject to direct control, can not survive', that is, the disobedient Japanese were killed by Wang Zhi, he became the largest Japanese robbers, the Jianghu people sent the honor of the "old ship owner".
However, the imperial court had no idea of cooperating. In 1553, Yu Dayou, the commander-in-chief, led an army to raid Zhoushan Ligang, intending to encircle and suppress Wang Zhi, Wang Zhi was defeated and left Japan, and his two strongholds in China, Ligang and Ningbo Shuangyu, were destroyed one after another, and Wang Zhi's trade network was severely damaged. He did not give up, and sent pirates such as Xu Hai and Chen Dong to operate along the coast, hoping to blackmail the government and open the port and open the city, so as to legalize maritime trade. ”