During the rest of the day, the fleet of Du Dewei and Hu Ba did not go to Zhongzuo to join the crew, but walked in a large circle around Xiamen Island. In the evening, the fleet had rested across the sea from Xiamen Island.

The coast of the mainland facing each other.

Early the next morning, the fleet began to sail south along the coast of the mainland, passing through the strait between Gulangyu Island and the mainland, bypassing the Elephant Trunk Reef, jumping into the Jiulong River, and anchored in the private harbor of Haimen Island.

Haimen Island, located at the mouth of the Kowloon River, was originally a gathering place for private businesses. As a transfer station between Yuegang and Xiamen, there were commercial buildings on Haimen Island at this time: private ports, warehouses, inns, and taverns.

There are all kilns.

After the fleet settled at berth, Du Dewei gave a few more instructions to his deputy, and then Hu Ba took care of the house while he himself took a light bird boat and sailed along the south bank of the Jiulong River to Yuegang.

From the mid-16th century to the early 17th century, with the emergence of the historical event "Longqing Switch", Yuegang, located in Haicheng County, Fujian Province, was the only legal departure port for maritime trade in the Ming Dynasty and became a "gathering of ships."

The number one foreign trade port in the world where merchants gathered together.

Today, Yuegang is desolate and the prosperity of the past is no longer there.

With Zheng Zhilong defeating the official army and occupying the Zhongzuo Station, Xiamen Island has been stuck in the waters off the Jiulong River for a while. Thousands of pirates have gathered here, completely blocking Yuegang.

's door.

After Zheng Zhilong occupied Xiamen, his original strategic intention was to transfer the South China Sea trade center here, so Yuegang became a thorn in his side. Shortly after occupying Zhongzuo Suo, Zheng Zhilong personally led an army to break into the Jiulong River and move Yuegang.

The harbor was looted and set on fire. Along with this, Haiphong was hunted down and killed, and Xu Xinsu, the spokesperson of the Hong Kong comprador group, was killed.

To be honest, there is no personal enmity between Zheng Zhilong and his senior Xu Xinsu. The only motivation that supports Zheng Zhilong’s constant pursuit of Xu Xinsu is Yue Gang.

Xu Xinsu is the spokesperson of the comprador group of merchants in Yuegang, including Zhangquan. If Zheng Zhilong wants to complete his strategic plan and replace Yuegang's strategic position with Xiamen, he must kill Xu Xinsu and destroy Yuegang.

Therefore, this is a public vendetta. All other reasons for pursuing and killing Mr. Xu are all excuses.

The bird boat Du Dewei took started from Haimen Island and walked upstream along the south bank of the Jiulong River. After a short journey of 20 miles, it turned into the destination port: this place is connected to the tide on the outside and the mountain stream on the inside. It is shaped like a crescent moon.

Therefore, it was named Yuegang.

Yuegang has seven wharves on the coast that is almost one kilometer long. From east to west, they are Xiangguan Wharf, Lutouwei Wharf, Zhonggu Wharf, Rongchuan Wharf, Dianzaiwei Wharf, Agebo

Pier, Xiwei Pier.

These piers are all made of stone and are very solid. There is a temple behind each pier to worship different gods. The seven piers have different functions, and Du Dewei, who has come to Yuegang many times to sell stolen goods, is now arrogantly

The boat stopped at the official pier where there were only two or three small shrimps.

The once prosperous dock area is now only populated by a few fishing boats, and is no longer lined with rafters and oars.

After getting off the boat, Du Dewei took only two followers and walked to Fan Alley.

The original Yuegang Commercial Market covered an area of ​​about 5 square kilometers, with jewelry stores, medicinal materials stores, cotton stores, silk stores, grocery stores, hoop stores, tripod casting stores, sugar stores, silk thread stores, fish stores, paper stores, and lumber stores.

, tea shop and many other shops.

The seven major commercial cities are all surrounded by water, so people call Yuegang a "sea country".

But today, Du Dewei walked all the way and found that most of the shops had been overrun, with ruins and broken walls everywhere, there were few pedestrians, the streets were deserted, and even the beggars were gone.

"Alas" after shaking his head, Du Dewei and his party quickened their pace, and soon arrived outside a large stone house in Fan Lane. The stone house was large in scale, and even though it was obvious that it had been hit by a fire, it still looked impressive.

And this house is probably the only lively place in Moon Harbor right now.

A large number of craftsmen were climbing on the roof to replace damaged parts, and there were many well-dressed men standing outside the house. After seeing Du Dewei and his party coming, at least three of them greeted Lao Du at the same time.

"Shopkeeper Du, I haven't seen you for a few days. How are you doing?"

“TOEFL, TOEFL, passable”

Du Dewei entered the house smoothly while exchanging pleasantries. Since the plaque on the door of the house had been burned and had not had time to be remade, outsiders really did not know who the owner of the house was.

Led by a man in green with a short sword on his waist, Du Dewei walked through the dilapidated front yard, where many people were staying, and left his entourage there. By this time, he already knew the things left in the front yard.

Among the entourage, he saw a familiar face.

After arriving at the atrium, which was not much better than the front yard, Du Dewei was introduced to the flower hall in the side yard. The flower hall was still in good condition, at least the porch above the head was still there, so the guests were all brought here, and as expected, Du Dewei

At a glance, I saw the big-faced, honest-looking Cao Hu.

Suppressing the tempting thought of pulling out the dagger from his waist and stabbing it into the chrysanthemum, Du Dewei smiled and said hello to Cao Hu: "Brother Cao, are we really meeting each other in the mountains and rivers?"

“What a coincidence”

After a few polite words, Du Dewei went to sit aside, and someone later brought a tea bowl. As he lowered his head to drink tea, he raised his eyes and glanced around. Du Dewei found that except for himself and Cao Hu, the two young shopkeepers, there were still people sitting in the flower hall.

There were five or six businessmen-looking guests.

He was not made to wait long, and after a while of tea, a man in green clothes walked into the flower hall with an apologetic smile, confessed to the others, and then led Du Dewei into the back house.

There were still many craftsmen working on decoration projects in the back house. Du Dewei followed the man in Tsing Yi and turned into a door with hanging flowers. He finally saw a complete house, wearing a brocade, standing at the door of the house smiling at him.

Lord Xu Xinsu.

Xu Xinsu was Du Dewei's last resort. At that time, his family suffered great changes, and the first ship Du Dewei took to sea at the age of 15 was a merchant ship owned by Xu Xinsu.

It was on Xu Xinsu's merchant ship that Du Dewei gradually grew into a qualified captain. Later, even after Du Dewei stood up for himself, he was still secretly inseparable from Xu Xinsu's support, and he was considered a secret confidant. So to this day, seeing Du Dewei

After Xu Xinsu, Du Dewei still used the old name of "Dongjia".

"When you have time." Xu Xinsu supported Du Dewei, who was walking quickly in front of her and was about to clasp his fists in salute, and Xu Xinsu pulled him into the house.

After the two of them sat down, their faces showed a look of admiration.

"My boss, we've lost money this time! Dewei couldn't do much on his own, so I hope my boss will forgive me."

"Haha, tens of thousands of people are fighting, what are you doing?" Xu Xinsu shook her head with a smile, and then said: "Burn down my house, burned down my shop, and killed my shopkeeper and clerk. He Zheng Yiguan is now

This is retribution!"

Naturally, Du Dewei didn't know that Xu Xinsu was referring to Zheng Zhilong's ambush. Of course he thought they were talking about a shipwreck: "Oh, it's a pity that Yuegang has such a great foundation."

"It doesn't matter."

When this aspect was mentioned, Xu Xinsu's aura of a big businessman suddenly came out: "The business will eventually be moved to Xiamen. This place will be just an ordinary sea market in the future. It doesn't hurt."

"Xiamen?" Du Dewei couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this: "Now the Zhongzuo Institute is in the hands of shopkeeper Li Kuiqi. Did the boss have a discussion with shopkeeper Li?"

"Hahaha." When Xu Xinsu heard this, she raised her head and laughed twice: "Dewei, you are mistaken. Li Kuiqi has no business skills and only wants to rob. It's not that I underestimate him, but he doesn't have the ability to manage hair growth.

"

Xu Xinsu paused and then said: "Kuiqi sent someone to negotiate with me a few days ago and asked me to re-establish Yuegang to facilitate his future business."

When Xu Xinsu said this, she couldn't help but sneer: "You really have a long-term vision."

At this time, Du Dewei was confused by someone's attitude towards Li Kuiqi: "My boss, Dewei came here today to ask my boss for guidance. Is it inconvenient for Dewei to defect to Li Kuiqi?"

"It's convenient, but it's not convenient either." Xu Xinsu nodded first, then shook her head.

Du Dewei was completely confused now.

Xu Xinsu did not explain further, but first picked up the tea bowl on the table and motioned to Du Dewei to drink tea. After the two of them drank, Xu Xinsu picked up a shiny black and strange-looking short pipe on the table, and then pinched out a porcelain cigarette.

Pinch of tobacco.

After a long metallic sound of "ding", Du Dewei watched in amazement as his boss lit the pipe with a silver-white square fire sickle and started smoking beautifully.

After taking two puffs of cigarette, Xu Xinsu opened her mouth and asked: "Where is your good brother?"

Du Dewei hurriedly replied: "Oh, Hu Ba is looking after the house in Haimen Island."

"I knew it was so." Xu Xinsu nodded: "You have always been inseparable, but I'm afraid we will have to split up this time. This is convenient and inconvenient."

Just when Du Dewei seemed to understand, Xu Xinsu took out an official document from the desk and put it in front of him: "I know you are fluent in writing, so read it yourself."

After Du Dewei read the official document several times, he couldn't help but widen his eyes: "My boss, the court ordered you to help with the recruitment? But Zheng Yiguan is dead!"

"Hey, who told you that after Zheng Yiguan died, the imperial court would no longer care for him?" Xu Xinsu Xu Xinsu looked at him playfully: "The imperial court is not run by the Zheng family. Without that Zheng butcher, we still have to eat pigs with hair on them?"

Someone understood everything at this moment, and then he became excited: "My boss, who does the court want to recruit? Just tell Dewei, so that I can lead my brothers to defect there earlier and get a good result!"

Xu Xinsu was mysterious at this time. He was blowing out smoke and slowly shaking his head: "Don't say it, don't say it."

After finishing speaking, looking at Du Dewei who was eagerly waiting for the next step, Xu Xinsu laughed silently: "I will give you a book to edit here. You can take the brothers to Fuzhou now. Hu Ba will stay with me, I will be useful."

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