I'm a pirate at the end of Ming Dynasty

Zheng Zhipeng was smoking a cigar while looking at Xu Bengao's face as if he had eaten shit. He was also drinking Dahongpao. The taste was really beautiful.

You must know that Zheng Zhipeng pretended to be the Xu family and fought this battle. After the gang fled back, Liu Xiang must not have dared to act rashly again. Although it was a bluff, it was enough to delay it for a long time, and this period of time was also enough to The local governments were prepared enough for Zheng Zhilong to go north to kill him.

And after this period of time passes, how will Liu Xiang deal with the Xu family?

You can only commit a thief in a thousand days, but there is no way to prevent a thief in a thousand days. Unless the entire family of more than 1000 people in the Xu family relocates, Liu Xiang will always find a chance to pay for it.

Of course, at least for now, this matter is not a dead end for Xu Bengao. Misunderstandings are always open. But if Zhang Bingzhen reports this matter to him as a military exploit, Chongzhen will reward him as soon as he is happy. You are a model, what a waste of time to explain this misunderstanding!

Liu Xiang had to kill him even though he knew he was one of his own, because sometimes, face is much more important than the truth.

But after all, he is a big man who can wear a scarlet robe. He quickly calmed down and said with a sullen face while drinking tea: "Master Zheng is so clever. It seems that today's disaster is indeed not a loss of money." It can be avoided.”

Zheng Zhipeng smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Xu has other ideas?"

"Of course there is." After saying that, Xu Bengao turned around and gave a few instructions to the maid. The maid bowed and left. After a while, the direct disciple of the Xu family who had just greeted Zheng Zhipeng at the door came over.

"Brother, are you looking for me?"

Xu Bengao ignored him at all and said to Zheng Zhipeng, "This is my younger brother Xu Benli. What do you think, General Zheng?"

Zheng Zhipeng didn't understand what he meant, but he followed his words and said, "It's quite a talent. What does Mr. Xu mean by this?"

"I just found out that my younger brother was liaising with the Japanese behind my back. Liu Xiang was able to be so unnoticed this time because he was so unnoticed."

The extra guy surnamed Xu was so stupid, why did he get involved with the Japanese?Just as he was about to open his mouth to tell the difference, two strong women suddenly rushed out from behind him, restrained him, stuffed a large cotton ball into his mouth, and tied him up in three strokes.

"General Zheng, although this man is my brother, the national law does not allow personal relationships. As the governor of the left, I must set an example and be selfless. Songjiang is close to Zhejiang. Since General Zheng is deeply trusted by Zhang Butang, Naturally, General Zheng will have to pay more attention to Songjiang's fight against Japanese aggression in the future, so I, my brother, will leave it to General Zheng to handle."

"Is there any evidence?"

"Of course there is. This is a letter exchanged between the two of them, including the situation of the warriors and military households along the coast of Songjiang Prefecture. This person peeked at my official documents. General Zheng still asked Zhang Butang to write a memorial to refer to me. This is a crime of lax governance."

The bitch is going crazy. Anyone who is betrayed by his family in this way will probably collapse. But his mouth is blocked, and no matter how he screams, he just makes a whimpering sound. That sound sounds a bit... sad and angry?

Zheng Zhipeng applauded and said with a smile: "What a move to abandon the pawn and save the chariot, I admire you."

Xu Bengao was obviously in an extremely bad mood. He had a sullen face and did not speak.

"But I don't know why my brother, as a direct descendant of an official family like the Xu family, wants to communicate with the Japanese?"

"Hmph, it's nothing more than money and silk that moves people's hearts."

"I see. It turns out that your brother went to Japan for money. Youemon, lead the people to search up and down to see how much money the Xu family has that came from Japan."

"Yes."

When Xu Bengao heard this, he slapped the table and stood up in anger: "Zheng Zhipeng! Do you dare to search my house?"

Zheng Zhipeng pushed back unceremoniously and shouted: "Why don't you dare! Since my brother wants to make money from the Japanese, he must find the wealth and goods from the Japanese. Could it be that the person who is the Japanese is not my brother, but someone else?" Isn’t it human?”

"you……"

"Master Xu, you are the second-rank official of the current dynasty who has returned to his hometown to observe filial piety. Whether my brother has passed the Japanese or not will be decided by you at a glance. I dare to ask him whether he has passed or not!"

Although Xu Ben's Gaocheng Mansion was unfathomable, Zheng Zhipeng made his face turn red at this moment, but he could only squeeze out one sentence through his teeth: "It's clear."

"emon, search!"

Within a moment, the Xu Mansion was in a state of chaos. What was originally a good scholarly family was turned into a mess.

Zheng Zhipeng, on the other hand, was smoking while admiring Xu Bengao's increasingly bad expression. The more he thought about it, the happier he felt. In the end, he actually grinned in a very disgraceful way and burst into laughter.

It took a long time before Kinkiemon came in and reported: "Fourth Master, the search is over. All the overseas items have been found and placed in the yard. Among them, there are about 30 taels of Kotakayo."

Xu Bengao finally exploded: "With the surname Zheng, Ying Yang can be considered a barbarian from a foreign country? Why don't you also take away the official banknotes from my family's treasury?"

"It's boring for Mr. Xu to say this. Why isn't Yingyang a barbarian? Just listen to what my elder brother said. Liu Xiang made a fortune recently in the Yuegang area, and he's still wondering where the money went. , it turns out that your brother has taken it in. Why, Mr. Xu has any objection? Could it be that I wronged your brother and he did not communicate with the Japanese? "

Xu Bengao said nothing bitterly. There were veins on his head, as if he was about to have a stroke.

The so-called eagle ocean is actually a silver coin. It is a very sad piece of history to say, because this thing was printed in Spain and has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty official.

Yingyang is named after an eagle printed on the screen wall. One coin weighs about seven coins, but it has always been used as one tael of silver in the market because this kind of silver coin from Peru has good purity, good balance, and good printing. Exquisite and easy to carry, on the contrary, the copper coins printed by the imperial court can only be used for three hundred coins at most, and even no one uses them at all. Even the so-called official seal is actually just a stamp. It's just a big silver nugget, and it's not even considered a formal currency. The key is that China doesn't produce silver yet, and most of those silver nuggets were made by melting Yingyang.

The coinage power of one country is controlled by another distant country. The key point is that the two countries have no war and no formal trade relations. Even the Spanish themselves do not understand what is going on.

If the economic and monetary policies are so bad, who will die if the Ming Dynasty does not die? Especially after Chongzhen came to power and Zheng Zhilong was recruited, Europe's silver exports to the Ming Dynasty suddenly expanded by more than ten times. How can you tell the court to stop this? Inflation hole to go?

well?Putting it this way, it seems that if Ming Dynasty is destroyed, his own family will have to take a big blame.

Okay, that's a digression. In short, even the families of officials these days don't save much large silver bullion. Most of them mainly store Spanish eagles, and the Xu family is no exception. Zheng Zhipeng's move is to confiscate the family. Actually it's not that far away.