Beiyang new warlord

But when he was enjoying himself, the shadow of a sail suddenly appeared in the sea where no one was seen for ten days and a half months.

This is much more magnificent than his three lucky boats. There are eleven merchant ships. You can tell by looking at the style. They are all in the style of northern sea ships with a sharp front and a thick poop at the back, and they are hung with soft canvas that is closer to the West. The sails, the leading triangular sails were bulged like toad belly by the sea wind.

Now he is in a good mood, even if he is a colleague or an enemy, Qian Zeng still can't help waving his hands happily.

"Hey, brothers over there, how are you doing?"

He was full of enthusiasm, but he yelled a few times, but no one ignored him. Instead, the leaders of the other ship pointed at him a few times like monkeys, and immediately the already bulging sails were fully pulled up a few more times. point.

Ever since, as Qian Zeng watched eagerly, the Hangzhou Merchant Marine Fleet, which was originally behind his fleet, sped up a few times to keep pace with him, and then sped up a few more times to run in front of him.

Just like Baojun and BMW drag racing, after a while, Qian Zengzhen couldn't even see the taillights of the other party, and put a cold butt on his face with enthusiasm, he hummed resentfully in anger, and hummed a sentence of discrimination between North and South in disdain Commonly used adjectives come.

"Savage and unreasonable Kitako!"

Flicking his sleeves, with the unique elegance of southern scholar-bureaucrats, he got off the boat in a happy mood and drank some wine.

However, it didn't take long for Qian Zeng's mood to drink suddenly disappeared.

Suddenly there is an extra island in the vast ocean. In history, I would rather not have such a big island as Taiwan. The Ming Dynasty also wanted to be here. They fought several bloody naval battles with the Dutch, because the Penghu Islands in front of me were located in the Daming Sea Trade Center. The effect is too great!

The merchant ships from the south of the Yangtze River sailed for three or four days, just as the first batch of fresh water supplies were about to be used up, and the merchants from the south of the Yangtze River would anchor here to resupply.

But here, Qian Zeng was dumbfounded.

"What, [-]% tax!!!"

Compared with a few years ago, Penghu has changed quite a lot. The originally stranded tidal flats have been piled up in the sea with concrete to form a deep-water port that is two miles wide and ten miles long, so that ships that shuttle back and forth do not need to send small boats to shuttle, but can directly stop at The port is very convenient, but Qian Zeng would rather this is a small broken island a few years ago!Facing the captain of the East India Company who boarded the ship for inspection, he jumped up and down angrily like a firecracker whose butt was lighted.

"It's a robbery! Do you know who I am? The second wife of the Qian family in Changshu, Qian Qianyi, a dignified scholar, is my uncle. You, a young army leader, deserve to blackmail me here? Get out of the way quickly." , or I will let you go around without food!"

It is estimated that he was born in the Liaodong Navy, and he has a strong taste of Jiaoliao Mandarin.Hearing that Qian Zeng was putting on a show there, the bosun who boarded the ship for inspection sneered at Zheng Zheng and slapped his chest.

"Dear mother! The senior scholar Qian who kowtowed to our boss and gave away women has such a great background! I was scared to death!"

Pointing his thumb back, facing the first-class battleship Lushun of the Beiming Royal Navy stationed in Penghu, he hummed proudly again: "I will let it go! Our baby can't let it go! Either you continue to swim in the sea Yoyo, it’s either a [-]% tariff, if you dare to blow up the stabs, let your grandma’s grandson Qian Dashi, grandson of Qian University, blow them all into briquettes for you!”

"Brothers! Shoot me!"

The frontier of the entire South China Sea has reached the coast of Indonesia in later generations, and this has become the rear of the country!If it weren't for suppressing the pirates of the Ming Dynasty, the coastal defense team would have almost withdrawn, and it would be really boring to station here. The sailors who have been idle for a long time are really afraid that the world will not be chaotic. He just rolled up his sleeves, and the gun windows opened one after the other, and the heads of one or two tons of red cannons were exposed one by one. Come smile.

"Oh, my lord, I'm just joking with you! Why are you so angry? Who the hell, why don't you hurry up and bring the best Biluochun to quell the fire for the lord!"

"It's not easy for us to go here, and [-]% is really too much. Look, can you accommodate me?"

It's not hard, but it's soft again. This is a typical way of wooing and corrupting the Jiangnan big family. With a smile on his face, he must have been stuffed into the hands of the boatswain by Qian Zeng. , Ba Da threw the silver to the ground, roaring even more angrily than before.

"Mother, do you dare to bribe an imperial officer?"

"Come on!"

"Ouch!"

Qian Zeng almost cried out of fright, and kicked Yinzi aside in complete grief, hugged the boatswain's thick and smelly thigh, and howled mournfully.

"Master Jun! It's a small business! I let you take [-]% of the skin, but I will lose it! At that time, people will pay the debt with my wife and children! I beg you, please show mercy!"

Not to mention, this guy has been in business all the year round, and he's really good at pretending to be miserable, even the angry boatswain is fooled, but it's a pity that even this Oscar-winning performance is useless here. Full of pity, the bosun's father stroked Qian Zeng's head like a father.

"It's also a poor kid! But you told me it's useless! At the beginning, the treaty was signed by you Qian Dashi and a group of other bastards and our Majesty. The southern merchants came to do business in my northern Ming territory, and the tax must be [-]%! "

"If you really can't get along! Just flee to the south! For an old man like you who can pretend and bring goods, there is no problem with tens of hundreds of taels of silver a year!"

Soft and soft are not good, hard and hard are not good, Qian Zeng is really out of luck.

When we landed on the shore, [-]% of the cargo was unloaded by someone. Seeing the Southeast Asian coolies hired on the pier carrying the boxes, Qian Zeng's heart felt like bleeding. For the first time, he had power over himself. The monstrous patriarch Qian Qianyi had the urge to slap a big slap in the face.

"What kind of bird treaty did you sign!"

The sad and angry Qian Zeng didn't know that his unlucky journey had only just begun!

Chapter 7. Jingdezhen official kiln is unsalable, please help me

In Southeast Asia, if it is said that they fell in love with Daming, it must be Vietnam.

In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han sneezed, and this place belonged to Jiaozhou, and then it was ruled by China for more than 1000 years. It was only in the Song Dynasty that it became independent. However, in Daming, Emperor Yongle sneezed again, and this place returned to the embrace of China.

Up to now, Vietnam is still the identity of the Annan Capital of the Ming Dynasty.

This is also the nearest stop to Daming. After leaving Penghu, after wandering on the sea for more than ten days, Qian Zeng arrived at his first stop, Champa.

Champa does not belong to Vietnam at this time, it is only a vassal state under the command of Vietnam. The rule of China in the past has obviously left a deep imprint on this place. The light gray city wall port is built by the sea. If the street buildings are not a bit dilapidated, they are almost the same as the towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and in the fields near Champa, there are also old farmers wearing big hats and homespun clothes working hard in the paddy fields Pulling weeds inside.

Champa is a cool deep-water harbor, even a 46-meter-six-meter-six point-bottomed blessing boat can berth safely. When he landed, he impatiently went down the newly built boat ladder, and threw a money bag directly to the servant of the royal family who was nodding and smiling like the boy, and immediately swaggered towards the shore. He rushed over to the restaurant by the port.

On the bow of the boat, there are four pieces of money on a sheet of shading, and the four-cornered flag written in the center of the official script with golden money characters is hung high on the bow of the boat, fluttering with the wind.

I haven't been here for a few years, but the restaurant in this port seems to be doing well. The dilapidated store has been painted with red paint, the floor has been laid, and a small stage has been built next to the stair counter. It's so slow that it makes people sleep. In the listening music, a clown with a white face and a beauty in a red kimono were babbling and singing Japanese-style Noh plays that people could not understand.

Not to mention, you can still hear a lot of familiar local accents here. Those who sit at the table drinking wine and watching opera are all dressed up by Ming people in Taoist robes, official clothes, or ingot robes. Compared with a few years ago, Qing The man in Yishui also has many female guests, but this guest is still wearing a loose robe and skirt, and a huge hat with a big brim. The fallen gauze scarf half-hides his small face, and he can vaguely see At one point, the black eyebrows and bright red lips are exposed, which makes people's hearts itch.

But just when he was either shaking his head to listen to the singing, or talking in a low voice, suddenly a loud voice broke the harmony here, holding his fists, Qian Zeng yelled loudly in a rough voice.

"There are three thousand rivers flowing in the sea! Changshu Qian Zeng, I'm paying my respects to all my colleagues! Shopkeeper, I'll serve you wine, and I'll record the top-quality carving village on my account, and I'll open an Accord upstairs for my grandfather. What kind of wine is good? Just serve the food!"

"Waiting for you all!"

This is one of the ways southern merchants greet each other. Serving wine one by one means that they have come from a long distance. After paying homage to the local merchant’s wharf, the wine served is more high-grade and shows financial strength. There is also a banquet on the roof, which is also waiting for the merchants to go up. We're talking!However, the higher the banquet head is placed, the more high-end I am, and you don’t have to make fun of yourself as a small businessman.

In the past, the big guys would have to clasp their fists to reflect, at least say thank you, Mr. Qian, but when Qian Zeng walked up with his head held high, he was facing indifference, even some travelers and businessmen from Ming Dynasty. There was disdain on his face, and several female guests wearing veils looked over with interest, but the eyes didn't seem to be respectful, on the contrary, it felt a bit like watching a monkey show, and some people saw Xiaoer drinking wine. Bringing it over, he simply waved his hand in annoyance to let it be brought.

Without a word of approval, Qian Zeng went upstairs together. Qian Zeng was suddenly depressed and couldn't help muttering sourly.

"Young people nowadays don't understand any rules?"

However, the store brought up the wine, and put a lot of dishes on the table, with Southeast Asian characteristics and rich spices. Qian Zeng quickly threw the depression into the Pacific Ocean again. The flag is his confidence, his signature! In Champa, everyone knows the name of the Qian family!

Gladly, he picked up the cup, holding the fragrant wine, and Qian Zeng took a sip.

And then, it's broken!

"Guest officer, wake up, wake up!"

His head seemed to be cracked, and his shoulders were constantly being pushed. After a long time, Qian Zeng raised his head with difficulty and looked out. The night was already deep, and the blurred sea seemed to swallow up the port. The outlines of the three boats could only be discerned by a few lights. The one who woke him up was a job in the shop. He was probably a Japanese, and the Nanjing official language was a bit tongue-in-cheek.

"Guest officer, the shop is closed! Look, do you want to settle this account?"