Southeast of Quanzhou City, Qipan Garden.

This is the place where Pu Shou Geng played beauty chess in the past, and thirty-two stunning beauties each held a red and black chess piece nameplate, waiting for the chess player to order to advance and retreat...... In Quanzhou City that day, who is not proud of going to the chessboard park to pay Pu Shougeng a game of beauty chess?

It's a pity that the prosperity of the past is no longer there. Now in the chessboard garden, there are only thirty-two beauty houses, which are empty, and the chess pieces and beauties are all famous and belong to others.

Pu Shougeng was being held by a young man at the moment, walking beside a huge stone chessboard. This young man is also a color, and he looks a little similar to Pu Shougeng, and it is his eldest son Pu Shiwen. Now Ma Shoushan, the leader of Quanzhou Fanshang, is his father-in-law, and Pu Shiwen has been hiding in Mafu for several years.

"My lord, here's your chance!" Pu Shiwen had just arrived at the Qipan Garden from the Mashou Mountain Mansion - this was actually the property of the Ma family. After the Pu family was confiscated, it was purchased by Ma Shoushan.

"The Heavenly Dao Sect traitor has made a move in the Heavenly Dao Temple outside the city!" Pu Shiwen looked excited, "The sun and moon flag were openly displayed, and crossbowmen were also arranged on the wall of Taiyi Palace......"

"How many people gathered?" Pu Shougeng interrupted his son's words.

"It's said to be more than 10,000!" Pu Shiwen said, "Although the number of Tiandao disciples in Quanzhou is far more than 10,000, most of them are Han maritime merchants and sailors with shallow faith, and they only join the religion to please Chen Yi. These people are scattered and can't be cohesive at all. What Fang Yumen really can use is still his old brothers and Jianghu fighting Han, although there are many strong martial arts, but they don't know the art of battle formation at all, and they can't beat the Mamluk soldiers. ”

The Heavenly Taoism in Quanzhou was originally also divided into classes. Those who have been transferred from Mingjiao. Most of them are from the lower class. It is not a family that has lived on the water for generations, fishing for fish and shrimp and collecting pearls for a living. It is Fujian's Jianghu high roller. Basically, they are "lumpenproletarians" who have no industry. Later, he joined the Heavenly Dao Sect. But most of them were maritime merchants and shipheads, and many of them had millions of dollars.

And the proletarians of the Heavenly Daoist Sect headed by Fang Yumen and the bourgeoisie of the Heavenly Daoist Sect who are the old thieves of the evil season in the South China Sea. I haven't had much contact with each other all this time. Moreover, Ji Lao's "bourgeois" is not as united as Fang Yumen's "proletarians", they are competitors to each other. Harmony is only superficial, and it is part of everyday life to pour out each other.

In contrast, the Tianfang Sect and merchants in Quanzhou are much more united, and they are basically huddled together. It is a profiteer like Pu Shougeng who would rather cheat on Jia Yidao's money than let the interests of Quanzhou Tianfang sect merchants suffer.

"Using the Mamluks?" Pu Shougeng smiled, "Ma Shoushan will not be so rash, what can move now is the Han people we hire...... Most of these Han Chinese are not religious. After all, they are not one with us, and they can't take them to Srivijaya. ”

"To Sriwijaya?" Pu Shiwen frowned, "Our Pu family really wants to go to the Three Buddhas?" ”

"Not only the Pu family, but the entire Quanzhou Tianfang Sect believers have to leave." Pu Shougeng smiled bitterly, "The Heavenly Dao disciples of Taiyi Guan are easy to deal with, and Chen Dexing's soldiers and Eight Banners soldiers are really powerful, even Mamluk can't beat them." ”

"Not even a Mamluk?" Pu Shiwen was stunned for a moment, he had seen the skills of Mamluk mercenaries these days.

Each of them had a good martial arts and was skilled in the use of scimitars, axes, spears, and bows and arrows. And a good skill on horseback - these Mamluks were warriors who were sold to the sultans or chieftains of the Ayyubid dynasty since childhood, and after years of rigorous training!

And Chen Dexing's sergeant soldiers and Eight Banners soldiers have only been in the army for a few years, how can they be compared with them?

Pu Shougeng sneered: "My father also knows the good martial arts of the Mamluks, but fighting is not a competition. Don't talk about the kung fu of fighting alone. No matter how good these Mamluk martial arts are, aren't they still beaten by the Mongols in the west? Otherwise, they wouldn't have been hired by us and traveled thousands of miles to the Great Song Dynasty to be mercenaries. ”

"But I've heard that in the West. Sultan of Egypt. Belbas once defeated the Mongols. "Pu Shiwen is well-informed, and he actually heard about Ain. Battle of Jalu - although history has changed. But Ain. The Battle of Jalu still took place, only the timing was different. The results are similar.

It's just that the cowardly retreated without being wounded, without losing his life, and the losses of the Mongol army were smaller, not all the troops were wiped out, but they finally fled back to about 2,000 people. However, Damascus was still captured by the Mamluk army, and Hülegü's expansion in Dashi came to an end for the time being.

"Don't have any illusions," Pu Shougeng sighed, "Egypt's Kudusi. The Belbas Sultan had 12,000 Mamluk soldiers, and they were all the best Mamluks, and their opponents were no more than five Mongol thousand-man troops. Do we have a lot of money? But five or six hundred people, just want to stop Chen Dexing's tens of thousands of troops? ”

As he spoke, he shook his head. The decision of the Celestial Sect Maritime Merchants to evacuate Quanzhou was made by a secret meeting of the Celestial Sect Chamber of Commerce, which was the highest secret, and the participants all swore to the true god not to leak the secret. Rao is Pu Shiwen, and he didn't know anything before today, and now the reason why Pu Shougeng has confessed to his son is because the time has come - the time has come for Quanzhou Tianfang to teach Fanshang to start an incident!

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"Hu Awei, you take 1,000 people to guard the main gate!"

"Master Ke, you take 1,000 people to guard the back door."

"Chen Sihu, you also take 1,000 people to guard the eastern wall."

"Xu Mi Lao, you take 1,000 men to guard the western wall."

"Donald Laosan, you take 1,000 archers to guard the towers at the four corners of the Taoist temple, and carry the bed crossbow up."

“……”

At the same time, Fang Yumen was wearing a shiny steel armor, sitting in the Taiyi Temple Hall with a golden sword, arranging battle guards for his own vote of disciples.

There are about 10,000 Heavenly Dao disciples who have gathered in Taiyi Temple. has been divided into ten thousand teams by Fang Yumen. Among them, the most elite thousand people were personally controlled by him, acting as a reserve, and they were all strong men who were stubborn. The remaining nine thousand-man teams were each assigned a thousand-man commander and a centurion, which was hastily organized into a march, and weapons and paper armor were also distributed - Taiyiguan was originally a stronghold built for the rebellion, not only very strong, with a tall wall and a heavy gate, behind the wall also built a wooden platform that could stand people, and the front and rear gates were also built with gatehouses to facilitate defense. Moreover, there are armor and combat equipment hidden in the Taoist temple, including armor, leather armor, paper armor, various crossbow machines and heavenly thunder that are contraband, which can arm tens of thousands of people!

Such a large amount of military supplies were scattered among the people, and in Chinese history, probably only the three great ports of the Song Dynasty, where maritime trade was extremely developed, would exist, right? And the direct driving force behind this civilian possession of a large number of prohibited weapons is, of course, the demand for maritime trade. Because the sea at this time is a lawless place, the maritime merchants and pirates are fundamentally one. If a merchant ship goes to sea without armament, it will definitely be robbed. Therefore, before the country's navy can completely control the sea and exterminate pirates, maritime merchants must have force. In cities or countries where a large number of maritime merchants gather, there will inevitably be a situation in which the civilian armed forces are extremely strong.

Historically, the bourgeois revolutions in Europe were, in a sense, an inevitable consequence of the strong financial and armed forces of the people—anyone who had money and guns would want to go further and participate in the management of the state.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Pu Shougeng was able to cause rebellion in Quanzhou, which to a certain extent was also a "bourgeois revolution". Unfortunately, the Quanzhou Tianfang Sect headed by Pu Shougeng was never a Chinese bourgeoisie. By the way, Quanzhou at that time was not without merchant armies that supported the Southern Song Dynasty. Among them, the most famous is the Xu's Maritime Group headed by Xu Hanqing and Mrs. Xu.

As for the later Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the biggest reason for the implementation of the national policy of sea ban is probably to suppress the force of civilian maritime merchants - the handicraft industry and wage labor in the Ming and Qing dynasties were very developed, and for most of the time surpassed that of Europe in the same period. To say that there is no bourgeois sprout is nonsense. However, it is also true that this kind of sprout is always under the destruction and oppression of the feudal dynasty, and it is difficult to thrive. This is not the case because the Chinese feudal dynasties did not respect private property, but because the policy of sea ban that began in the Ming Dynasty disarmed the merchants!

Naturally, unarmed businessmen will have no capital to protect the safety of their own property, and will become an appendage of the Shidaifu group, let alone further infiltrate the political power.

However, it is still the Southern Song Dynasty when armed maritime merchants were rampant, and Quanzhou, an international port, was mostly armed and powerful merchants. Some of them still entered the Heavenly Taoism and bought the "Ming Shang" with the status of a gentry. Although these businessmen looked down on the grassroots Yumen Thirteen Lang, they didn't dare to be disrespectful to Mo Yingniang.

"There are 500 Mamluks? Don't worry, I brought King Ming's 300 archers and cavalry guards, whatever Mamluk, they will deal with! ”

"Quanzhou group practice? Hmph, Fang Yumen will lead them over, he has already raised the flag in Taiyi Temple. ”

"His Royal Highness King Ming? His Royal Highness has already arrived in Penghu, and he has stationed troops on Magong Island, and the entire Nanyang Fleet and half of the Beiyang Fleet have come with him, and there are hundreds of gunboats alone! ”

In the Jifu mansion in Quanzhou City, Mo Yingniang was talking with a middle-aged man with a white face and a long beard and a polite manner.

This man is the notorious old thief Ji of the South China Sea - the name of the old thief Ji is actually ancestral, his family has been a pirate (of course, a maritime merchant) since the three kings of Kaifu (the end of the Tang Dynasty), and it has been inherited for more than 300 years and almost 400 years. And today's twelfth generation of Ji Lao Thief, who is only thirty years old, has the name of the evil of the South China Sea, and is obviously not a good bird.

And the Jijia Maritime Pirate Group, under his leadership, is the first among the Han maritime merchants in Quanzhou, with thousands of large and small sea ships, 600 dead soldiers, and 20,000 servants. (To be continued......)