Chapter 140: There's always something for you

Yang Zhou went to sea on a large fishing boat of 500 quintals.

There was no joy or sorrow in the shopkeeper, and a business with 20,000 silver dollars was nothing to him.

However, His Majesty asked them to send these young men to sea, and the request went well.

If it is a slippery person like Yang Xiong who comes to Guangzhou, the shopkeeper will naturally not talk much, because it is completely useless, since the people who come are the children and nephews of the family, there is too much room for manipulation.

I don't know how Lord Yang Xiong would feel when he heard that his brother had made him the boss of the Yang family.

Islands don't need money!

Whoever finds it first is whoever's house!

There will be detailed records in the imperial court!

It's just that if the island is obtained, it must be developed, and how many people will go to the island in the first year, then the population of the island will double in the next year, and the same will be true in the third year, and the same will be true in the third year, and after ten years, there must be 2,500 people on the island, and only by achieving this goal.

Ten years later, the title of a baron is basically in hand, and the island is completely owned by the developer.

In other words, once Yang Zhou finds a good island, he will continue to develop this island for ten years, and there is a requirement for the development ratio every year, and Yang Zhou alone cannot complete such a thing.

It is inevitable that Yang and Yang Xiong will be completely dragged into the sea.

Guangzhou, which has been cold for a few days, quickly turns into spring after being exposed to the sun for two days.

The shopkeeper took off his thick clothes, changed into a refreshing gown, and sat on a bamboo chair sipping tea in a purple sand teapot.

He doesn't like the winter in Guangzhou, and he only feels comfortable when the warm air envelops his body.

A gentleman in green clothes, Shi Shiran, walked into the store.

This guy looks like he was born in Yushan Academy.

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Because, it is impossible for a scholar elsewhere to be as approachable as he is to laugh with his fellows, and it is impossible for a scholar elsewhere to know the names and uses of spices here, and of course, other scholars will not have a trace of alienation in their eyes when they are approachable.

Yes, this gentleman sat on the counter and looked like a splash, but the words that came out of his mouth were always so comfortable, which caused him to act like a splash, but in the eyes of the guys, it was like seeing a relative......

The young man was not very old, no more than fifteen years old, his eyebrows looked very delicate, and a pair of smart eyebrows moved very happily, and in a moment the boy became his follower.

After a porter carrying a bamboo pole barefoot passed by the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper's eyebrows furrowed.

"Such a beautiful little Langjun, why shouldn't he be Xu Wuxiang's son."

The shopkeeper tried his best to recall Xu Wuxiang's hemp face, and finally found a few similarities with Xu Wuxiang's face from this young man's face, so he sighed and said, "If you buy spices, go back to Yushan quickly, you shouldn't have graduated yet, right?" ”

Xu Tianen, who was trying to collect information from the guys, turned his head to look at the shopkeeper and said, "Recognize it?" ”

The shopkeeper waved his hand holding the teapot and said, "If you remove the pockmarks on your face, your father and son will be printed from the same mold." ”

Xu Tianen smiled and said, "I've seen uncle, if you can tell this, it's absolutely right to call uncle." ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "This is a trap, after buying spices, turn back to Yushan, if you like this Guangzhou style, let the guy take you around, and then taste the fish here."

Then bring some things to your mother, brother, and sister that you can't see in Yushan, and you won't come to Guangzhou in vain. ”

Xu Tianen said with a smile: "My father also told the little nephew to do the same, dare to ask the uncle's name and surname, and the nephew will return to his father." ”

The shopkeeper shook his head and said: "Forget it, we are not all the way, as long as you don't go to the sea, I will be worthy of your father." ”

Xu Tianen arched his hand again and said: "The little nephew knows that His Majesty has opened the sea ban, and now a large number of people are needed to go to the sea, as a royal steward, why doesn't the uncle want the little nephew to go to the sea?"

You know, the little nephew came here this time to go to the sea to see it. ”

The shopkeeper glanced at the little fox who didn't have any hair, and said lightly: "If you want to go to the sea, you can prepare a ship, and then match you with some skilled sailors, and then hire some guards for you, and you can go to the sea to get a huge island for your father." ”

Xu Tianen said with a smile: "Uncle said that he was joking, my nephew wants to go to the sea, the problem lies in my father, my father said, if I dare to go to the sea, he will break my legs." ”

The shopkeeper sighed and said: "What your father said is right, there is still my Ming King Law on this land, it is not a problem to go anywhere, go to the sea, the Ming King Law will not work, and the wildness of people is undoubtedly manifested on the sea, although General Han has blocked the Strait of Malacca, this South Sea has become my Ming Dynasty's inland sea."

It's a pity that there are too few people at sea, and when the two ships meet, if they have bad intentions, there will be a bloody battle in an instant, and your doll is still young and can't afford to experience such a scene, and when you are a few years older, you can go to the sea to have a blast.

Now, listen to your uncle's words, let the guy take you to play, Qinglou is not allowed to go!

When you go back, the old man will prepare the goods for you and the gifts you will give to your parents.

Dao boy, take care of the son of the Xu family, dare to go to the Qinglou and be careful that the old man has skinned you. ”

Xu Tianen saw that the strange elder had already given the order, so he bowed down and thanked him, and went to play with the guy called Dao Boy.

Xu Tianen came to the street, first made himself and Daozi a large cup of coconut milk to cool the tonic and ate it while walking.

After the two of them wandered around half of Guangzhou City, Xu Tianen found a small shop to eat beef offal and prepared lunch with the knife boy.

After half a day's work, Xu Tianen and Daozi have become good friends who talk about everything.

After giving a piece of fragrant glutinous cow scalp to Dao Boy, Xu Tianen said: "Dao Boy, is it really dangerous at sea?" ”

Knife boy said as he ate, "There are pirates." ”

Xu Tianen frowned and said, "Didn't Uncle Shi Lang already kill the pirates?" ”

Dao Zai shook his head and said: "Pirates can't be killed, our Ming people all follow General Han one by one, and General Shi Lang has become a navy, so naturally no one will be pirates anymore."

However, the people on this sea are too mixed, and Tokugawa Iemitsu, the shogun of the Wa Kingdom, has risen up to the idea of truly unifying the Wa Kingdom over the years, and has constantly attacked the daimyo in various places.

These ronin, who had no lord, couldn't get along on the land, so one by one they went to sea and became pirates.

Not only did they become pirates, but some Koreans who wandered on the sea also became pirates, and when General Shi Lang captured Taiwan, many Spaniards, Portuguese, and General Han blocked Malacca, and they couldn't go back to Europe, and I didn't want them, so these people also became pirates.

Of course, there are also the remnants of the Zheng clan's pirates, the remnants of the Anhai pirates, the remnants of the Siamese pirates, and as far as I know, it seems that some of Zhang Bingzhong's subordinates have also become pirates.

The strength of these pirates is not great, but they are as annoying as mosquitoes, and the navy can't find them when they want to find them, and after killing a batch, another group of people immediately become pirates.

The large merchant ships were guarded by artillery, and they did not dare to plunder, but the unarmed merchant ships were miserable when they encountered them.

Just half a month ago, the merchants of Tanzhou got a shipload of porcelain to be sent to Malacca to trade with those Fanbang merchants, and encountered pirates in the Beibu Gulf, and all the sixteen sailors and seven merchants on board were killed.

The porcelain is gone, the money is gone, and there is only one empty ship floating on the sea, and when it was discovered by the navy patrol ship, the corpses on the ship had already turned into water, and only white bones remained. ”

Xu Tianen stuffed a piece of beef heart into his mouth and chewed it slowly, his brows slowly wrinkled, and after swallowing it, he said: "The navy didn't avenge these sailors and merchants?" ”

The knife boy spread his hands and said: "I don't know who did it, and I don't know where the group of thieves is, how to take revenge?" The patrol ship has been cruising in the waters of that area for two months, and has not found anything, how can it take revenge? ”

"Porcelain! Didn't anyone check the porcelain? Didn't pirates steal porcelain to sell it? ”

Dao Zi spread his hands and said: "It should have been checked like this, but we in Guangzhou are going to transport 160,000 people to Yaozhou, and neither the navy nor the government has the manpower to do this."

So, I have to do this, and I can check it slowly in the future. ”

Xu Tianen nodded and said, "Take me to the harbor after eating." ”

Daozi frowned and said: "Tianen Gongzi, you don't have to look at it, don't look at the stinky ship, and the families of those dead ghosts cry on the side of the boat all day long, and it makes people feel uncomfortable wearing linen and filial piety."

In the evening, we will go to the alley of the Lin family, and take you to eat their one-and-a-half-foot-long shrimp crawlers.

The shrimp crawler was fried in oil, sprinkled with pepper and salt, tsk, the taste must be unforgettable. ”

Xu Tianen said lightly: "My Ming people died unjustly? ”

Daozi smiled bitterly: "Childe, when a person gets on the boat, his life is tied to the crotch of God's pants, life and death are his own life, as long as he gets on the boat and goes to the sea, life and death are fateful, wealth is in the sky, and no one is at all." ”

Xu Tianen sneered and said: "The rich and noble old man on the sea didn't pay attention to it, but the people of the Ming Dynasty can't be killed in vain, the blood debt must be repaid in blood, take me to see the ship!" ”

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Three days later, Daozi returned, and the shopkeeper was still sitting on his bamboo chair drinking tea, just like Daozi had only been away for a while.

"Settled?"

"After settling down, Xu Gongzi brought sixteen heavily armed guards, and I helped him find nine experienced sailors, and Xu Gongzi also added a twelve-pounder gun in the bow and an eight-pounder gun on the stern of the dead man's ship through his own connections, all of which were old goods removed from the Dutch ship, but it was not a problem to deal with Zhou Lezi's thirty or so pirates."

"Are you sure that Zhou Lezi and they have run to Changzui Island south of Java Island?"

Dao Zai said with a smile: "It should have been for me to go, but now that Xu Gongzi is willing to go, it would be the best." ”

And the shopkeeper smiled: "Aren't you afraid that his father will find your account?" ”

The knife boy waved his hand; "Don't be afraid, I'm going to Yaozhou soon, Vice Minister Xu can't find me."