The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 530
The private soldiers of Huang's family found a lot of gold and silver treasures from various places such as the garden of Frangji's house, behind the fireplace, under the bed board and so on.

In addition to the cargo that was looted for more than a year, the property obtained from the seizure of Macau was no less than 800 million taels of silver.

A small land has been rented out for 80 years, and it is quite a bargain after receiving 800 million taels of rent. I don’t know which Xiyi will come to negotiate such a good deal in the future?If there is Huang Sheng, he is very sincerely welcome.

Mascaro also showed the score of the Portuguese governor in Haojingao, and protested every now and then.

Guo Huaiyi was a pirate, and he ignored any protests at all. His method was simple and crude, but very effective.

It's just that Mascarlu was hungry for three days, and the kid finally realized that he was just a trivial captive, and obediently accepted the reality.

In order to block the news, it was announced that Macau was breached by the Guo Huaiyi pirate group, and the soldiers and civilians on the island were all killed.

The Huang family's navy is an out-and-out good guy. Not only do they not plunder, but they continue to attack pirates.

In the end, the official announcement of the Ming Dynasty was that the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi led his troops to defeat the Guo Huaiyi gang and take back Macau. Unfortunately, the Ming army came too late, and the soldiers and civilians on the island were slaughtered by the ferocious pirate gang. Alas!
Of course, Huang Sheng would not kill all these Westerners, but would scatter them to ten counties in Hainan and live under surveillance for a year or two. After all, they could work for a better life, and the women were allowed to do business with their flesh and blood.

Often these people become well-behaved after being spent for a period of time, and it will be easy to recruit sailors, gunners, and death squads.

Guo Huaiyi fought in the South China Sea for more than two years, and the navy lost a lot with a small gain. According to the reports of several town officials, Guo Huaiyi didn't even look at the gold and silver treasures he had looted. hand in the box.

As soon as Guo Huai came to Lingao, Hainan Island, he saw Huang Sheng who was ready to continue northward after inspecting the work, and got the imperial decree from the imperial court to designate him as a third-rank coastal defense guerrilla.

The veteran pirate found that he had reached the sky in one step and became a serious third-rank general in the imperial court. For a while, he couldn't help crying until he was dark.

It took him a long time to calm down his over-excited emotions, and he knelt down and kowtowed with a serious face: "The lowly position is a piece of grass on the sea, and I am so grateful for the grace of the Lord. I will go, but I dare not go."

Guo Huai knows how to balance, which is very good. Huang Sheng said with a smile: "General Guo's performance in the past two years has been remarkable, and I have noticed it. Now that we are stationed in the South China Sea, we must continue to attack nearby Xiaoxiao. In the future, our navy will We have to go to the Straits of Malacca to block it.”

Guo Huaiyi didn't know the importance of the Strait of Malacca. Hearing what the Patriarch said, his eyes lit up with excitement. He had already heard that the former leader Zheng Yiguan had gone there, but he didn't know if he could gain a foothold.

He believes that with the strength of the Huang family's navy, it is entirely possible to control the Strait of Malacca, but it will also bear the blows of various forces. The benefits and risks are extremely huge. He is eager to participate in this challenging military operation.

The Strait of Malacca is a long strait between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located in the equatorial windless belt. Usually, the wind and waves are small, the sea current is slow, and the wind is calm.

This is an important channel connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. As early as the fourth century AD, Persian merchants opened up a route from the Indian Ocean through the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea to China.

They transported Chinese silk, porcelain, tea, and spices from the Maluku Islands to Rome and other European countries for sale.

Huang Sheng is going to take down Malacca after a while, and then effectively control the strait. In the future, he doesn't need to be a pirate, and can make a fortune by collecting tolls and protection fees.

It's just that there are too many coveted countries and pirate groups that buy and sell in this way, and if there is not enough force to deter them, they will kill themselves.

Guo Huaiyi saluted again and said loudly: "My lord, I have been to the Strait of Malacca many times. If our Huang family is going to attack there, I will be the pioneer."

Huang Sheng said: "This matter still needs to be discussed in the long term. It cannot be done in a short time. General Guo can improve the chart first, and send sentry ships to reconnaissance from time to time. When I do it, you must ensure that you have detailed sand tables and maps to use."

"My lord, I promise to complete the task within one year, and I will personally take the warship to investigate without missing anything."

Huang Sheng’s foothold in the Strait of Malacca is naturally the Singapore of later generations, but the appetite is huge, and it cannot be satisfied by this tiny place. The entire Malay Peninsula and Sumatra Island-the Han people are worth having!

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Lan Caier and the crew have already staged three new plays in the capital. In order to attract more audiences, the tickets have been lowered again and again, but they are not lowered to the price of the performances of the Huang family system.

Because life is too difficult for the Shengdou people in Ming Dynasty, even if the price of ordinary theater tickets is reduced to [-] yuan, they are reluctant to spend money to go to the theater.

Therefore, there must be robbing the rich and helping the poor. For the repertoires staged in the capital, ordinary theater tickets sell for three taels of silver, and private box tickets sell for five taels of silver. They still organize four to five hundred low-level ordinary people to watch the theater for nothing, and not only that, they also give away two cooking cakes. supper.

The quality of the people in the capital was higher than that in the backcountry. The Huang family spared no effort to favor good people in the capital. Now good people have emerged in endlessly, and helping neighbors has gradually become the norm.

In the morning, Cai Er, who was directing the live rehearsal of a new play at the Grand Theater, heard that a eunuch from the palace asked to see her. She felt strange, since all the people she was dealing with were female officials and concubines, how could eunuchs come to her door?
After a while, the personal servant brought over a eunuch with a pale face and about forty years old. This eunuch should not be an eunuch, and his clothes had been washed off, and they were neatly tidied up.

The visitor saw Cai'er knelt down and kowtowed, "The old slave Liu Yingkun has seen Lan Shangyi."

"Liu Yingkun?" The name seemed familiar, Cai'er couldn't remember it for a while, and said: "This father-in-law got up to talk, I don't seem to recognize you."

After saluting, Liu Yingkun got up and said, "Lan Shangyi, you really don't recognize the old slave, but the Marquis of Nan'an does. The old slave asked himself that he was worthy of the Marquis when he supervised the army in Liaodong."

Cai'er is an extremely intelligent woman, although she can't forget it, she can't be far away!At this time, as soon as Liu Yingkun said these words, she immediately knew that this was Liu Yingkun, the chief eunuch of Liaodong who once held great power in the year of Tianqi.

"Oh! So it's Eunuch Liu, please sit down quickly." At this moment, the maid served tea.

Liu Yingkun sat half his butt next to the chair, with a look of trepidation.

Cai'er didn't know anything about Liu Yingkun's current situation, so she inquired: "When will Eunuch Liu return to the capital to be on duty? Which prison is he working for now?"

Liu Yingkun sighed and said sadly: "Reporting to Lord Shangyi, the old slave Tianqi was recalled in seven years, and he has been on duty at the Clothes Bureau for five years."

Cai'er was born and bred in the capital, and she often walked around the palace, so she knew that the Clothes Bureau was a place to dispatch those who were to be punished.

The Huanyi Bureau is located to the west of Deshengmen. It is the only eunuch institution in the 24 prisons that is not in the palace. It is filled by palace people who have been convicted and retired.There is one eunuch with palm prints, but there is no fixed number of clerks and supervisors.

Cai'er knew the eunuch's rank and attire, and it was obvious that Liu Yingkun was a handyman like a supervisor with no rank.

(End of this chapter)