It doesn't matter if it's salty or fresh, as long as it's meat.

Song San smiled and took a spoon while stirring the meat in the pot, and asked his subordinates to burn the firewood more vigorously.

After the firewood is added, the fire immediately rises, and after a while, the pot is boiling, and the aroma that comes to the nose makes people can't help but take a few more sips.

As a hero of "offering meat", Wang Daqiang was praised by Song Tou. The center left thousand households were established in the Hongwu period, and for more than 200 years, in addition to the transfer of thousands of household officials, most of the personnel below 100 households are hereditary officials. And the soldiers, like the inland guards, are also military households.

However, unlike the military households of the inland guard posts, the military households of the coastal guard posts such as Dinghaiwei are actually fishermen. They don't farm, they do two things in their lives, one is to go to sea to fish for officers, and the other is to smuggle seafood for their superiors.

Some of the officials in the guard are more generous, and they can eat meat and let the people below drink soup at the same time, so the vacancy and evasion are not serious, and the guard looks a little bit up and down.

Some of the guards are rotten, and the hearts of the officials are too dark, and they treat the military households below as inappropriate people, and make a fuss about "officials forcing soldiers to rebel", and most of the officers and soldiers who are forced to have no way to live choose to go to sea as cowards.

As a result, many of the coastal pirates were actually soldiers of the former guards. As time went by, the pirates and the officers and soldiers became close to each other, and they could always climb up to each other, and the pirates and the guards also set up various lines and became a family of soldiers and bandits.

In the past, when there was a Japanese rebellion, it was because the coastal guard posts were rotten, or many officers directly led people to participate in pirate robberies, so this "Japanese rebellion" was always calm and became more and more intense.

Later, the imperial court transferred troops from other places, and there were famous generals such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, so they gradually put down the "rebellion". That's it, the Jiajing Dynasty has been tossed enough, and it can be said that the country is pouring its strength to calm the southeast sea bandits.

But after the fight again, Qi Jiguang took the Qi family army to the north, and the defense of the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian had to rely on the original guards. It's only been more than ten years since the beginning, but after playing Wanli, this old habit has returned.

In the final analysis, it is still driven by profit.

The sea trade profits were too great, the imperial court opened the sea ban, and the rebellion disappeared. The policy of the imperial court changed, and this rebellion came again. There is a lot of trouble, and there is always those gentry in the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian.

Song San, a group of soldiers from the left thousand households, didn't know how many times they had changed their uniforms and went to sea to be pirates. They are all military households, and they can do whatever they are told to do, as long as they stutter, not too much.

To say that you can't get enough to eat is actually not true. At least Song San is full of food, but they are all things in the sea when they eat and go, and after so many years, these people can not get tired.

Therefore, being able to eat meat is no different from opening meat for the New Year for these soldiers. Including Song San is the same, Xiaoqi is just the lowest-ranking officer of the guard, similar to a foreman, and he is in charge of only a dozen people, and how much oil and water can fall into his hands.

When a group of people were cooking meat around the iron pot, an uninvited guest came.

The person who came was also a small flag, just like Song San, he just came back from the port, and when he saw Song San's gang of people roasting the fire from a distance, he wanted to come over and join in the fun. But as soon as he smelled the smell of meat, he immediately rushed over as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and scolded with a smile as he ran: "It's better to come early than to come early, Lao Zhang, how can you not call me if you have meat to eat." ”

Song San also laughed and scolded: "Your nose is like a dog, thief!" ”

"Let's let, let's go."

Zhang Er motioned for Song San's subordinates to give him a place as he looked into the pot. At this glance, I was so happy that I saw that the water in the pot was boiling, and a piece of white flesh was rising and falling in the soup, getting closer, smelling more fragrant, and I couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva.

"Lao Zhang, come and give me a piece!" Zhang Er rubbed his hands and grinned, snatched Wang Daqiang's chopsticks beside him and put them in the pot.

Song San took the spoon to block it, and scolded with a smile: "What's the hurry, it's not cooked!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Er smiled: "I haven't eaten meat for some days, grandma's, I eat salted fish every day, don't say anything fishy in my mouth, and I think I'm fishy when I go home and hug my mother-in-law." ”

"Your mother-in-law is also fishy, and she is fishy underneath, and it doesn't smell better than sea fish, so you Zhang Er can stand it, change me, and I won't smell it." Song San smiled evilly.

How could Zhang Er tease Song San, and fought back at the moment, saying that he looked at Song San's mother-in-law taking a bath or something last time, and he didn't give Song San a bargain anyway.

The two laughed, Wang Daqiang scooped some soup in the pot with a scoop and tasted it, and then used chopsticks to insert it into the meat, wanting to see if it was cooked inside.

"You kid is more anxious than me." Zhang Er scolded with a smile.

Song San took a spoon and pressed the meat on the edge of the pot to make a small piece, Wang Daqiang quickly put it in his mouth, and chewed it without caring about the heat. When you chew it, it tastes so delicious.

Song San asked him, "When it's cooked, can you eat it?" ”

"That's it!"

Wang Daqiang nodded, and the people on the side immediately became commotion, and they wanted to grab the meat from the pot.

"What is the monkey anxious about!"

Song San smashed the spoon on the pot, and the frightened soldiers didn't dare to grab it again.

"Look scare these boys."

Zhang Er laughed and signaled Song San's soldiers not to rob them, but to come one by one. After speaking, he asked Song San to quickly divide the meat, saying that Li Zongqi and they would come back immediately, and if they wanted to let these people see it, they would definitely even take the pot away.

Song Sanyi thought about it too, and hurriedly lowered his voice and asked his subordinates to fish for meat one by one, so as not to fail to eat.

The first spoonful must have been given to Zhang Er, all of whom were small flag officials, and it was impossible for Song San not to let him come first, and then give himself a copy, and then his subordinates.

After blowing, a group of people began to gnaw meat on the side of the fire. This meat is salted meat, and it has not been soaked in water beforehand, and it is very salty. But it's the salty taste that tastes delicious.

Seeing that the big guy ate about the same, Song San stood up and said to his subordinates: "After eating, I went to work on the boat, and the above has explained, this batch of goods must be carried on the boat before the sun sets, otherwise we will do it in the dark." ”

No matter how reluctant the subordinates were, they had to nod their heads one by one.

Zhang Er wiped the oil from his mouth and said to Song San: "Brother, I have to go back, you can watch the gang of people under me, your hands and feet are not sharp, you can do what you want." ”

Song San nodded and asked Zhang Erdao, "I heard that this batch of goods was sent to the Wa Kingdom?" ”

"The goods are for the Japanese people, but they are not sent to the Japanese country, but to the east." Zhang Erdao.

"The birds don't poop in that place in Dongfan, how did they send there?"

Zhang San felt strange, as far as he knew, the year before last, the Ryukyus were occupied by the Japanese people, and after that, whatever goods were sent directly to the Ryukyus, and there were special people over there to receive the goods. Just the batch of General Shen's goods from the Chuanshan Institute that left the port yesterday were also sent to the Ryukyus.

"I don't know about this, it seems that Li Zongqi said that the Japanese general sent an official named Ma Qingxin to set up a stockade in Dongfan, I heard that the Japanese people want to occupy Dongfan, and they all know about it."

The specific situation Zhang Er and Song San are just small flag officials, and they definitely don't know much.

Zhang Er was about to leave, but there was a sudden sound of cannons from the port.

………….

Grandpa Wei was not idle.

On the way to Zhoushan, the officers who were captured in the mountain poured beans into bamboo tubes and confessed everything they knew.

Because Shen Yourong's smuggled goods were sent to the Ryukyus, Gonggong Wei must have some understanding of the Ryukyus.

According to the confession of the captured officers, after the failure of the Japanese invasion of Korea, they instead sent a fleet to occupy the Ryukyus. They don't know roughly when the Japanese occupied the Ryukyus, but it's certain that it was at least three years ago. Because in the past three years, many ships carrying goods in Dinghaiwei have gone to Ryukyu, where they have seen a lot of Japanese people.

"In the twenty-first year of Wanli, the envoy of the Wa State Guan Bai Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent an envoy to Luzon, Harada Sun Shichiro, who passed through Dongfan on the way back to the Wa Kingdom, and issued an edict to coerce and induce the natives of the East to pay tribute to the Wa State.

It was Ruan Dacheng who spoke, his Ruan family was the richest man in Anqing, and his family had two warehouses in official documents and mansions, and the earliest one was even in the Jingtai period.

He didn't want to tell this story to Eunuch Wei, but Eunuch Wei always asked him, and his attitude was still low, and he had a tendency to ask shamelessly, so he had to say it.

Wang Dali also remembered what he had heard before, and said at the moment: "The last general once heard Deng Zongbing mention that the Japanese seem to have sent ships to attack Dongfan, but because there were naval divisions assembled in the waters of Zhejiang and Fujian at that time, the Japanese did not dare to retreat. ”

Wei Gonggong combined the two things, and the time period was probably when Jin Xuezeng, the governor of Fujian, and Shen Yourong were preparing for an expeditionary force to attack Japan, so I think the Japanese side noticed a large number of sailors assembled by the Ming Dynasty, and they were worried that it would attract the Ming Dynasty's all-out crusade, so they didn't dare to fight on two fronts. Later, when the attention of the Ming Dynasty was not in Japan, it sent troops to occupy the Ryukyus.

This is also an old Japanese tradition, that is, "if you can't go north, go south."

"In this way, Zhejiang is in collusion with Japan."

Gonggong Wei stood on the bow of the ship with his hands in his hands, and he was puzzled, since Shen Yourong was the main advocate of the expedition to Japan, why did he still do business with the Japanese side.

He was puzzled by this confusion for a while, and could only look forward to meeting this Zhejiang general in the future to ask for advice.

The flag-bearer of the clippers in front of him waved the flag, and the news was quickly spread to his father-in-law.

The port of Pingwa has arrived.

The father-in-law groaned slightly, and issued an order for the Admiral Maritime Eunuch, ordering the Royal Navy to immediately turn into a combat state.

At the same time, the boats and fishing boats of the Dinghaiwei Zhongzuo Qianhu Station cruising outside the port of Pingwa also spotted a large fleet heading towards them.

Apparently not taking the Royal Navy with the Daming flag on the bow of the ship as an enemy, the two ships quickly approached and asked each other which guard they belonged to through the flags.

It was the sound of artillery that hit them back.

The sound of artillery soon spread from the sea to the port, and when Jiang Guoqian, who arrived at the center of the left, arrived at the port with his family, the port was already full of smoke, and there were rockets and fierce fire oil everywhere to hit the burning ships.