The quarrel continued until the time of the child, but like the last two times, still did not come up with a decent result.

It's no wonder that there are thirteen in southern Fujian, which is said to be thirteen, but there are too many involved behind this.

There are not only those who hook up with the head, but also those who act as spokespersons for the more scattered maritime merchants below, and there are also murderers who directly merge with the Japanese and the Japanese.

No one dares to let these partners, who are both allies and opponents, know their hole cards, which means that you can be knocked out at any time.

Watching each of them jump onto their big boats under a large group of escorts and leave in the night, the man in Mai, who had been silent, finally shook his head, threw a pair of iron walnuts in his hand into the sea, and jumped onto his own boat.

For ordinary people who beg for a living on the sea, it should be a nocturnal boat, but for these people it is not a problem at all.

The boat circled around Guiyu and came back again, and when the strong man in sackcloth jumped ashore, he saw that another guy who had been scolding and scolding the loudest on the field before, and who had slapped the table first and walked away, was already waiting there.

And, of course, the lame man who had been sitting in the dark.

Seeing that the man in sackcloth also returned, Huang Butou grinned, and his snow-white teeth were particularly dazzling in the dark, "I'll just say, why did Boss Zhu leave so impulsively, Uncle San, look, you don't need to say, Boss Zhu and I are only looking forward to you, what do you say about what we do, Boss Zhu, don't you say?" ”

The lame man ignored the yellow cloth head, and only glanced at the strong man in sackcloth lightly, then he limped and moved two steps, and snorted lightly: "Come out, I guess that's about it." ”

A burst of dry laughter came from the other end, and a Humpty Dumpty man rubbed his hands and came out of the darkness, seeing that the yellow cloth head and the strong man in sackcloth were dumbfounded: ", Xu Mazi, aren't you especially sworn that you will never compromise?" Do you have to do a wave of work to be sure? What are you doing here? ”

This guy was also the most troublesome on the field just now, and it wasn't like Huang Butou who complained more on his lips, but this guy said several ways in a conclusive way.

For example, the group of officials who ambushed the imperial court, and even proposed to use the Japanese who had been hiding on the Penghu Islands in the open sea to assassinate, or let the people of the Putuo Society in South Putuo dispatch, and finally he simply threatened to contact Tokugawa Hidetada, so that Tokugawa Hidetada could put pressure on the Great Zhou.

Although many of them are absurd assumptions, it is enough to show that this person is crazy, I didn't expect this guy to sit here first.

"Hehe, it's just talking, who believes who is a fool in that situation, aren't you the same? Huang Butou, didn't you also say that you want to advance and retreat with the Tian family? Is the condition too high to bear, or do people simply not take you to play? Xu Mazi said casually: "And Boss Zhu, didn't you hook up a lot of people?" What, still feel unstable? ”

The Mai man's mouth twitched, and he snorted lightly: "The old eagle laughs at the pig black, I don't think it, everyone is the eldest brother and the second brother, what should I do, third uncle, we all listen to you." ”

The lame old man never said much, even at the previous meeting, he said a few words about the situation he was facing now, and then there was no more sound.

Shaking his head, the lame man already looked lifeless, "I can't help it, in terms of scale, we can't compare to the five families, they have long had a doorway, it is said that three of them have obtained the first batch of maritime trade concessions, Lord Shoufu must have contributed, and the other is estimated to be fine, it is said that he found Huang Ruliang, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and one is still in Jinling, his relationship is in the sixth department of Nanjing, but it is a pity that it is not popular now,......"

"So what do we do? Doesn't it mean that we only have 15 maritime trade concessions in Fujian? Ten of them have to be left for those who joined later, only five of them are for us to have boats, and four of them are occupied at once, and this is not counting Quanzhou and Fuzhou, where is it enough? What are we going to do? ”

Hearing this, several people were anxious and couldn't help shouting.

"Fifteen? Fifteen families are enough for a fart! The lame man snorted angrily and scolded: "Fifty is about the same, we Fujian rely on the sea to eat more than a thousand, even if it is in addition to those who are piecemeal for three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, there are at least two or three hundred, and the court still doesn't want to collect more money?" ”

"Third uncle, do you mean that the imperial court has not decided how many families we should have in Fujian?" Boss Zhu's eyes lit up, "Then where did this news come from, and it was spread vividly, it was said that at most five more could be added, I don't think it's a good show,......"

"Who passed it on? Aren't you the one who has the ambition to win? I heard that there are regulations in the imperial court, and the concession fee will not exceed 100,000 taels, which means that the fewer the number of families, the greater the benefits of these families, and they can even let those small ones be attached to them, and one family can pay a few thousand taels and 10,000 taels, which is simply the same as those nest merchants who sell salt,......"

Xu Mazi gritted his teeth and rubbed his hands, "Who let no one in our court?" ”

"Hmph, you spend all your days messing with those widows, and who do you expect to dare to take over you?" Huang Butou pursed his lips contemptuously, "Didn't you say that you have a forbearance in your hand?" Then go on, what are you waiting for? ”

Xu Mazi was furious, and he was about to rush up at once, but Huang Butou was not to be outdone, gritting his teeth to catch up.

"That's enough, don't fuck it out before it's too late!" The lame man's deep voice was shocking, and Huang Butou and Xu Mazi were unwilling, but they suppressed their anger knowingly.

Or Boss Zhu came to play a round: "Mazi, Butou, listen to the third uncle, since we are here, it means that we don't want to be out of the game automatically like this, what we said at the meeting before was just angry words, even if we can kill those court officials, so what?" Delaying a year and a half doesn't make much sense to us, but those big guys and the people below sit back and enjoy the success, but we have to risk the destruction of our families, why? ”

"But we just do nothing and end up starving to death?" Xu Mazi and Huang Butou said in unison, and then snorted to each other.

All three of them had their eyes on the cripple.

There were rumors that the three lame men had no intention of attending this meeting, but later many people were still talking about it and asking him to come forward to summon it, but the situation was still like this.

But a few of them don't believe it, with the scheming of the three lame people, it is impossible to quit in vain, the five families are all officials in the court, and every family has a scholar's background, plus the gentry and giants from all over the country who are about to join in, which squeezes them to be the most uncomfortable.

The big ones have a way out, and the small ones can get closer to the big ones, but what about themselves?

To rely on others, those who don't have a boat in their hands will of course not be able to absorb it, but the big head will be swallowed by them, and once the resources behind others keep up, the situation is familiar, do you still need yourself? Even if you want to co-opt those small households, it's better than accepting that you can't slip away.

"Third uncle, you can say something." Boss Zhu glanced at Xu Mazi and Huang Butou, "We all listen to you, and we also believe that you have a doorway." ”

The lame man did not speak, and sighed softly, "What if people want us to move places?" What about changing the soup? Would you like to? ”

"Move the place, change the soup? Sanbo, what do you mean? Who? Xu Mazi was in good spirits.

The pressure he faced was the greatest.

Among the thirteen, he is the largest, and even compared to the five families, the size and manpower of the fleet are not much inferior.

But his shortcomings are also obvious, he is a boat household, and he has always been looked down upon by the world, not to mention scholars and officials, and he is also the most closely connected with the Japanese people, which is also the most taboo in the government, so he is also the most severely suppressed.

It can be said that as soon as the strategy of opening the sea came out, he understood that his road might come to an end, either he would go to the sea to become a pirate, or he would slowly starve to death, and it would be basically impossible to be a submissive citizen in the Great Zhou.

Even everyone else could get the charter, but he was the only one, no matter how much money he spent.

Like Huang Butou and Zhu Boss and even the lame man have more or less such troubles or problems, compared to the others, they are not weak in all aspects, but their impression in the background of the network and the eyes of the official gentry is much worse.

Just like Huang Butou, his father is actually a Yao person in the mountains, but after coming out of the mountains, he gradually merged and became no different from the Han people, but the government is still not at ease with him, and his temperament is fiery and irritable, so he is not liked by the government, so he tried to take refuge in the Tian family, one of the five major families, and the Tian family also offered extremely harsh conditions, far better than the conditions of other small households to join the Tian family.

Another example is Boss Zhu, who once went to prison and was born suppressed by the government, while the lame man turned out to be a smuggler of salt, and he was even more disgusted by the government and regarded as a thorn in his side.

Facing the three pairs of fiery eyes, the lame man still had that dark expression, "My old buddy from the past passed the news, it is said that it is the news from Nan Zhili, like us, it is basically impossible to enter the first batch of concessions, maybe there will be a chance to ,...... in two or three years"

"Two or three years? Have so many of us drunk the sea breeze to survive in the past two or three years? Boss Zhu said miserably.

"So there's only one other way, and I don't even know if this path exists or not, who is behind it, or if someone is deliberately trying to make us die, I'm not sure." The lame man looked up to the sky and sighed.

"What exactly? Uncle San, don't be so rambling, you are talking so much, everyone is ignorant, what is going on? "Xu Mazi is hairy.

"Won't I say it? I don't know myself, it's just that someone sent a message from Nanzhili's side, and it was said that it was a big man from Nanzhili's side, well, my brother from the Salt Gang sent a message that someone wanted to see us. ”

The lame man looked into the night, and a bright moon seemed to finally break free from the shackles of the dark clouds and reveal a corner, maybe this was a good sign?