Dragon Sea Empire

In August, General Shen Yourong of Wuyu Shuizhai, who had returned from victory, led several soldiers to Quanzhou City to buy some military supplies in order to prepare for the cross-strait expedition to the east.The reason why he had to purchase supplies in person was because he didn't trust his superior, the military supply department of Fujian Dusi, and these departments usually shoddy or took advantage of others.

On this day, when he came to an ironware shop in the north of the city, he suddenly heard a flurry of blows, firecrackers, and gongs and drums.

He looked up and saw that people all over the street were running towards the north city gate.Turning around, I saw the owner of the iron shop also stretched his neck to look at the lively place.Shen Yourong smiled and asked, "Boss, what's going on?"

"The second daughter of the Zeng family in Beicheng got married, and a three-day feast was set up on Chengbei Street. As long as the people in the city follow the ceremony, anyone can go and have a big meal." The iron owner's face was full of envy.

Shen Yourong asked curiously: "What kind of family is the Zeng family, that they have such a big ostentation?"

The boss of Ironware sighed: "Isn't the military master from the local center? No wonder you don't know!" He moved closer to Shen Yourong, and said with an exaggerated expression: "The Zeng family in the north of the city is amazing, just last year there was a Master Juren! The latest novelty What’s more, they were originally businessmen, and they were unknown in the industry, but they suddenly became popular a few years ago. Every year at the end of the year, everyone saw dozens of carts of their white money being pulled home!”

Shen Yourong snorted, and said with a sneer, "Such a family still raises people? It's just a businessman pretending to be a gentleman."

The owner of the iron shop didn't hear what he was talking about. He usually looked at the lively crowd with envy on his face, and continued: "Their family is also an official family. Someone is an official in Guangdong. In fact, the most unusual thing is this time. The bridegroom... It is said that he came back from the world of Westerners, started from scratch, and turned a stone into gold! Recently, he bought a title of supervising student in the Taixue... Hey, Mr. Jun, why did you just leave... Hey, you Slow down..."

Shen Yourong himself was born in the martial arts examination, and has his own views on the imperial examination, and instinctively rejects all behaviors of using money to buy officials and titles of supervisors.He walked away without looking back, and several soldiers who were watching the fun had to follow, turning their heads while walking.

In the north of the city, drums and music are playing in unison, and a performance by the Southern Opera troupe on a stage is about to begin. The crowd is crowded and crowded.Yin Feng stood at the gate of the courtyard in red and colorful, bowing and saluting to the guests constantly.

Shen Yourong didn't know that the owner of the strange ship that he had chased at sea for two days and two nights a few months ago and finally lost was just 100 paces behind him.

Yin Feng's wedding was a grand affair according to local customs. The famous Liyuan Opera was the main event. The Zeng family opened three stages in one go and invited three theater troupes to perform the plays, attracting half of Quanzhou City to go to see them all. play.

Liyuan Opera is an ancient opera performed in Quanzhou dialect. It uses Quanzhou ancient music "Nanyin" as its singing voice, so it is also called "Quanqiang" or "Xiananqiang".Due to the limitation of dialect, it was only performed in the counties of Quanzhou Prefecture and Zhangzhou Prefecture, as well as in Xiamen and other places; with Yin Feng's dialect level, he basically couldn't understand it.

The sun is setting, by the wharf of Wuyu Water Village.

Fujian Navy's imitation Portuguese multi-oared speedboat - centipede boat slowly approached the trestle, Shen Yourong was the first to go ashore.A personal soldier ran towards him and handed him a few ingots of silver, with an ugly expression on his face.

"What's the matter?" Shen Yourong held a total of four taels of silver and looked at his own soldiers suspiciously.

"Governor Mr. Song sent Mr. Lin to send it, saying that it is for you, Mr. Your Excellency." The soldier hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and continued: "Mr. Lin said that Mr. Song has rejected the impeachment of the Nan'ao General Soldier on your behalf." Well, it’s just my lord’s narration..."

Shen Yourong's face turned pale immediately, he grabbed the saber with his big hand, and snorted coldly.

This time, the Japanese pirates were chased all the way to the border of Guangdong. In the First World War, 2 Japanese pirate ships were sunk, 10 Japanese pirate heads were beheaded, and at the same time, a warship of the Guangdong Nanao Navy seized by the Japanese pirates was taken back.It was this warship that brought trouble to Shen Yourong.Because Guangdong Haidao already described the ship as "fighting the Japanese pirates, severely damaged and sank", and at the same time beheaded the Japanese pirates at level 20, which has been reported to the Ministry of War as a victory; Reported the recapture of the Guangdong warship.

Between the exchange of Tang newspapers, everyone in the world knew that the ships of the Guangdong Navy were looted by Japanese pirates.

This time, Guangdong Haidao, Nan'ao Navy, etc. have been punctured, and in anger, they have transferred articles to attack Shen Yourong's killing of good people, beheading the officers and soldiers of the Guangdong Navy to pretend to be Japanese pirates, and seizing the ships of the navy as Japanese pirates.

Therefore, Shen Yourong toiled and tossed at sea for more than a month, chasing and killing the Japanese pirates was not only in vain, on the contrary, he had done it.Fortunately, the governor Jin Xuezeng tried to protect Shen Yourong, but the credit for killing the enemy was taken away by the superior civil and military officials.In the end, the reward he got was these 4 taels of silver.

Shen Yourong raised his head, lightly tossed 4 taels of silver to the soldiers, sighed, and said indifferently: "Take this money, and go to my study to get another 20 taels of silver, and ask the kitchen to cook a delicious meal for the brothers. Tonight is a big tooth fight."

After finishing speaking, he turned and walked towards the barracks. His figure dragged on the trestle bridge for a long, long time under the setting sun...

At the end of the year, Zhu Yunchang was transferred to Fujian governor.After completing all preparations, Shen Yourong requested to attack the Japanese pirates.During this period, the Japanese pirates who fled to Dongfan continued to raid the coast of Fujian, which even caused a decrease in the number of ships going to sea in Yuegang, Haicheng County, and a decrease in tax revenue.Gao Cai, the tax envoy and eunuch, is forcing all levels of government in Fujian to complete the taxation, so the governor Zhu Yunchang immediately agreed to Shen Yourong's request to chase down the Japanese pirates.

After receiving Zhu Yunchang's order, Shen Yourong first sent his guides—fishermen Guo Yi and Guo Yan brothers—to Dongfan for reconnaissance. Ten days later, the fishing boat of the Guo brothers returned to the naval camp and reported that the Japanese pirates were preparing to spend the winter on the shore of Yaogang.

In fact, the brothers also informed the Chinese pirates and private businessmen who were preparing to spend the winter there that the officers and soldiers were coming to encircle and suppress the Japanese pirates, so hurry up and get out of here.

Shen Yourong issued an order on December [-]; go to offshore patrol.

It was the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year was coming up in a few days. It was not a time to go to sea at all. No matter the officers, soldiers or the helmsmen and sailors who steered the ship, they were very reluctant to go to sea at this time.Therefore, Shen Yourong had no choice but to say that he was going to patrol the offshore area, and first trick everyone out to sea.

This year, there are indeed fewer ships going to sea in Yuegang than in previous years.But the Zeng family’s Haozi ship got the government’s overseas permit, and its maiden voyage to Manila was successful. In addition to bringing a large amount of raw silk and ceramics, it was also lucky to be an angel’s boat: Cheng Wang Shihe of Haicheng County, Baihu Yuyi Cheng and Xiaomin Zhang Ni went to Jiyi Mountain in Luzon to investigate the gold mine.Many merchants who owned ships wanted to carry them. After the Zeng family's mediation, and the Zeng family's ship was a new ship, the county magistrate Wang Shihe chose a good name for the ship.Both Zeng Yue and Zeng Jingshan accompanied him to inquire about the business situation in Luzon.

Yin Feng was still on the Macau-Japan route. Although he also encountered scattered Japanese pirates near the Ryukyu Islands, his Xinxing ship was fast and equipped with cannons, so he didn't pay attention to those scattered pirate ships at all.Of course, there are no Japanese pirates who are not open-eyed and insist on bumping up.

In Hirado, Japan, businessmen from various countries generally cannot go ashore easily.Now there are nearly a thousand Chinese businessmen living here all year round, and there are many Portuguese.This year is the seventh year of Keicho in Japan (1602). It is the period when Tokugawa Ieyasu vigorously carried out major reforms and transfers of titles after his victory in the Sekigahara War.Many samurai under the daimyo who lost power became ronin and went to sea to become pirates one after another, which led to a sudden increase in authentic Japanese pirates along the southeast coast of China.

These days, Japan has taken very strict precautions against visiting people from various countries. Yin Feng stayed in Hirado, Japan for more than a month, and could not leave this artificial island. Knickknacks: Japanese kimonos, paper products such as pleated fans and lanterns to please the women of the house.

Thinking of his own home, Yin Feng couldn't help but get a headache.

His wife Zeng Jing is indeed a beautiful woman.

On the wedding night, when she untied her corset, Yin Feng discovered that his wife not only had an angelic face, but also a beautiful and charming body.Since returning to this era, Yin Feng has been trying to integrate into the social life of this era.Marriage is also a compromise he made in order to integrate into this era.

He accepted the reality and wanted to be a good husband in this era.But after the carnival on the first night, he felt more and more that there seemed to be something wrong with his wife Zeng Jing.She can perform all the duties of a wife in this era on the bed and in the inner house, but she will never be kind to Yin Feng at ordinary times, and will always give people a faint feeling of "respecting each other like ice", rejecting all the playfulness and teasing of Yin Feng , seems unwilling to have any communication with Yin Feng emotionally.

The depressed Yin Feng couldn't get rid of the influence of the times, and he had nothing to do with this cold beauty.In less than a month, the two were in a delicate cold war relationship.Finally one day, he got drunk and fell on Mai Wan'er's bed, and then it was logical that he and Wan'er accomplished Wushan Yunyu's good deeds.Afterwards, he watched with a guilty conscience that his wife Zeng Jing took Wan'er away, and then Wan'er was dressed up and sent back, so he had a concubine.

Yin Feng didn't know what Zeng Jing was thinking, and he couldn't ask her.

Originally, the Quanzhou silk weaving workshop jointly established by him, Hangzhou Silk Industry Association, Li Dan and others has opened, and there are many things to be busy: moreover, his crew has also been trained, and the business relationship with Japan has been established at the beginning of the year. ; and most importantly, his second boat was under construction again.

There are so many things and miscellaneous things, and he doesn't have a good impression of Japan in this era, so he has every reason not to go to sea in person.

However, he still went to sea because it was too boring at home.He didn't know until he arrived in Japan that it was also very boring here.

Not many Japanese merchants came to trade this year, and it was not until the north wind from Siberia blew to Hirado Port that Yin Feng's ship was filled with Japanese silver and other goods, and was finally ready to return.

At the same time, the Fujian Navy sent 24 warships led by General Shen Yourong to the sea against the northwest wind, with the goal of going east to Beigang.The fleet approached the waters of the Penghu Islands before Shen Yourong clarified the real destination to the soldiers and boatmen.So far, the whole crew has nothing to do, and under the strong northwest wind, it is very difficult to turn around and return to the mainland.