After the Zheng family and his son met, Zhao Xin used the excuse to leave and asked them to chat with their men in the conference room on the second floor. Unexpectedly, when he walked to the main deck, he found that the shrimp ball was waiting there.

Zhao Xin walked under the sunshade, waved to the shrimp balls, and asked the "follower" A Miao to bring two glasses of juice.

"Shrimp Ball, how old is this year?"

"By the master, I'm sixteenth this year." Xia Qiuzai sat next to the chair in fear and fear.

"Who else at home?"

"Grandpa, grandma, grandma, two younger brothers, three younger sisters."

What a good guy! There are quite a lot of people.

"Did your dad work with Gang Zheng?"

Xia Qiuzai nodded, took the cup handed over by A Miao, took a sip carefully, and his eyes lit up immediately, and then he raised his neck and drank half a cup.

"Haha, if you like it, drink more." Zhao Xin asked A Miao to pour another cup and bring some snacks. He continued to ask the shrimp balls, "Do you usually eat full?"

"Master, what you said, if you can eat enough, who would do it... in this business?" Xia Qiuzai wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeves indifferently, and said with a smile: "It's just like this, the sacred family is a waste of life."

Zhao Xin felt aroused in his heart and said with a smile: "What did your dad do?"

"I spent the first few years with Brother Chang, but later my leg was injured, so I helped repair the ship." Seeing Zhao Xin's words friendly, Xia Qiuzai relaxed a little. He turned his head and looked at the Thunder God, and said to Zhao Xin: "Master, your ship is made of iron from the inside to the outside?"

"Yes. I have two such ships, the other one is several times larger than this one."

"What?!" As soon as Xia Qiuzai heard this, she jumped up from the chair and shouted: "It's several times bigger than this ship?! That's not as big as Tanzai Mountain!"

Zhao Xin turned his head and looked at the mountain not far away, shook his head and said, "It's longer than Tanzai Mountain."

The shrimp ball was so big that it could stuff a light bulb into it (I wouldn't mention duck eggs!) and said in surprise: "Master, are you a god?"

"Hahaha!" Zhao Xin smiled and said, "Shrimp Ball, come with me to work in the north. In a few years, maybe you can drive such a big ship."

"Me? Master, you said I can do it too!" Xia Qiuzai was a little excited and smirked for a few moments, but then his face drooped again. "But I can't leave. Everyone in the family pointed at me and the first brother to do things and make money to support the family."

"Take them all, I have land and food, and no one will be hungry."

Xia Qiuzai lowered his head and sat back on the chair, whispering: "I, I have to listen to Brother Chang and Brother No. 1. But... Master, you are a good person."

Zhao Xin lit a cigarette for himself and pushed the cream cake that A Miao brought to the shrimp balls: "Eat something. Just say this to you, I'll treat you to a snack."

In the conference room on Thor, Zheng Yizheng had an argument with his father.

"Babe, listen to me. These people are not ordinary people. The officers and soldiers and Westerners dare not put a single fart in front of them, and they dare not even take the boat to check. Xiaoqi and I saw it with our own eyes!"

"No! You are the eldest son of the Zheng family, and you have to inherit this family business. It's more than 6,000 miles away! It's all far to the horizon! Once you walk so far, your mother is not in a hurry to death! What should I do about the Xu family's marriage?" Zheng Lianchang slapped the conference table and firmly disagreed with Zheng Yi's idea.

"Yes, Ayi, just listen to Brother Chang." A strong man in his forties spoke out loudly among Zheng Lianchang's men.

"Brother Hai, why don't you understand?! We, the Han family, can't be a pirate for the rest of our lives and can't get to the shore. There are so many brothers in the Hong Gang, how many of them can read books every day like the bride? But even if the bride is as easy to learn, it's different to be a pirate!"

Zheng Lianchang was furious when he heard this: "Fuck! What did I give you to study? Guo Po is willing to take care of her, but if you hadn't robbed everyone, why would he have a good life be a pirate with you?"

Zheng couldn't help but turn red when he heard this. The Guo Po was only sixteen years old this year. When the family went out to sea to fish last year, they were robbed by Zheng Yi and others, and forced them to be pirates. Guo Po had no choice but to become a thief. However, because he liked studying since childhood, he was the most knowledgeable in the entire Red Gang.

At this time, another person behind Zheng Lianchang said, "Brother Chang, do you want to ask about the details of this ship owner Zhao again? He made such a big deal and only took more than 5,000 taels of silver. Just to recruit a few brothers from the Han family?"

Five thousand five hundred taels of silver, this is a huge sum of money. It is absolutely impossible to say that Zheng Lianchang is not moved. There are dozens of people, plus the family members in total. People are not worth much these days, but the question is how much trouble will there be if he takes this money, which is what he really worried about.

After discussing for an hour, there was still no good idea. The key to this matter was that they knew nothing about Zhao Xin’s background. As Zheng Yi said, driving such a strange big ship, killing Westerners with chopping melons and vegetables. The government dared not mess with him, but was polite to others. Why?

If Zheng Lianchang didn't understand this problem, he would not dare to agree to Zhao Xin's conditions. If Zhao, like the Portuguese, transported the Dan family to Nanyang as a livestock and sold it, the reputation of the Hongqi Gang would be bad!

"Boss Master Zhao, I, Zheng Yi, beg you to tell me, who are you? Why don't the people from the Tongzhiyamen in the Haigong Prefecture even dare to get on the boat?"

More than an hour later, Zheng Lianchang and others met Zhao Xin again. Zheng Yi asked directly regardless of his father's obstruction. Seeing his son's stubbornness, Zheng Lianchang's face turned red with anger, and he thought to himself, silly boy, why do they want you to tell me about it?!

"Master Zheng, I know that during the Southern Ming Dynasty, your Zheng family was dominated by the King of Tang, right?" Zhao Xin also understood that he wanted to fool others and go north with him in a few words. Why? Is it just a few thousand taels of silver?

"This is indeed the case." Zheng Lianchang nodded with a calm face.

"Then have you heard of King Zhao?"

Zheng Lianchang looked up and thought about it, but he didn't seem to have any impression that there was a king here and a king there, and he was the master of his own in troubled times. Who could remember so many things?

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! "Well. Have you heard of the great defeat of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty outside the Pass two years ago and last year?"

Of course, Zheng Lianchang had heard of it, and he had just heard of it. There was no airtight wall in this world. Although the Qing court tried hard to conceal it, the news of Fukang'an and Agui's defeat last year still spread to Guangzhou.

Speaking of which, when Fukangan was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he would definitely make enemies with that old man's temper. At that time, Fukangan was in a strong relationship and no one dared to disobey. But now he was defeated at home and thought about his mistakes. People in the Guangdong officialdom could not do anything, but rumors spread.

Zheng Lianchang has a hobby and often goes to the places of fireworks. At this time, the most famous ones outside Guangzhou were the Yangbang prostitute boats from Jinghai Gate to Youlan Gate, called the flower boats. Zheng Lianchang had a good friend there, and he had been there once in the first few days. In this kind of place, there were mixed with officials and businessmen, and as long as he had money, he was the old man; so he also heard some news from the court and the officialdom.

"You mean?" Zheng Lianchang looked at Zhao Xin with a surprised look.

"That's right. So do you know why the government is afraid of me?" As soon as Zhao Xin said this, Zheng Lianchang and his son, including several subordinates, all changed their expressions.

The boy Xiaqian was a straightforward man. Zhao Xin spoke politely to him, and he was delicious and delicious, so he got a lot of things in his conversation. According to Xiaqian, Zheng Lianchang's father, Zheng Jian, the founder of the Zheng family in Xiangshan, was deeply influenced by Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Jian left a family motto: descendants should not help foreign enemies, support the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and do not harm innocent people. The implication is that the Zheng family is a "chivalokitestraitor" on this sea.

Zhao Xin disdained this and always said bold words to outsiders. In fact, if the Zheng family really supported the anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, why wouldn't they take action when the Taiwan Heaven and Earth Rebellion in history?

In Zhao Xin's view, the Guangdong pirate group is not fighting for the poor and social justice at all. They are just a group of plunderers with dreams of getting rich and class transformation. For example, Zheng Lianchang's Red Gang collects tolls at Liyumen, which is a typical bandit style.

In another time and space history, the most rampant pirates at the Pearl River Estuary was in the Jiaqing period. When the government's maritime ban policy was effective and the pirates could not gain a foothold, these people attacked villages along the inland rivers, killed people and set fires, and did everything they could; they even dug graves and took out coffins to blackmail the victim.

In the 14th year of Jiaqing, Zheng Yi's successor Zhang Baozai led the Red Flag Gang and the Black Flag Gang led by Guo Po, and several attacks and kills along the inland river waterways. "Scholar" Guo Podai led the Black Flag Gang to kill about 10,000 people, village warriors and soldiers in a split operation for more than a month. After robbing the village and setting fire to the village, these people hung the heads of more than 80 killed villagers on the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village...

Which thief would do this?!

At this time, Zheng Lianchang said: "Master Zhao, we have to think about this matter again. Please let me go for a few days."

Zhao Xin knew that carrot sticks were indispensable to dealing with these people. Now Zheng Lianchang lacked a stick! He turned around and whispered a few words to a soldier behind him. The soldier nodded and understood, turned around and went out.

"Master Zheng, I have told you all the conditions. Send the person I want here, and you have a lot of money. If you don't agree, don't mess around in Liyumen in the future."

"Bang!" Zheng Lianchang slapped the table. He was so angry that Zhao Xin was so angry that he said, "Is the surname Zhao? Do you still talk about the rules of the world? Don't think that if you caught more than 20 of us brothers, I'm afraid of you! Hongqi helps hundreds of boats, and thousands of brothers are not just for a good meal!"

"Haha, I'm so scared!" Zhao Xin slutted his buzz twice, lit a cigarette and said, "It's okay to bully the common people by your ragged wooden boats. I have killed more than a dozen marquis, deputy generals and generals of the Qing Dynasty. Tens of thousands of Qing troops were beaten by us. I have even captured Fukang'an! I respect your father as a subordinate of the Guo family, so I'm polite to you."

"Why, don't believe what I said?" Looking at Zheng Lianchang and others looking at each other with glaring eyes, Zhao Xin put out the cigarettes he had taken two sips, walked to the window, looked at the dozens of red flags and sea boats parked not far away, took out the walkie-phone and pressed the switch.

"Open fire!"

......

At the same time, in the Quanzhou Guild Hall of Zhapu, Zhejiang, thousands of miles away, Chen Jingdan was wearing a green cloth gown and was sitting in the flower hall talking to a thin rich businessman. At the bottom of the two, there was a middle-aged man wearing a short dress.

"Fifth Lao, this is Mr. Shen." The wealthy businessman introduced Chen Jingdan to the middle-aged man. "Mr. Shen is a friend I met in Nagasaki. He has an urgent matter this time and is going to Quanzhou. Did you drive the boat the morning after tomorrow?"

"Yes." The middle-aged man called "Lao Wu" had a bow. The lucky ship he drove was purchased by this wealthy businessman. He heard this and quickly saluted Chen Jingdan, and Chen Jingdan politely bowed.

Chuankou said: "I wonder how many people Mr. Shen and his accompanying him?"

Chen Jingdan said: "Twenty-seven people."

"So much!" The bow of the ship was startled.

The wealthy businessman explained: "Mr. Shen is in a hurry to go to Guangzhou to pick up a batch of goods this time, so the itinerary is a little hasty. You don't have to worry about the fifth brother."

"So that's it, then I'll let my subordinates free up more places to live."

Chen Jingdan bowed and said, "I'm working hard. Although Mr. Mei and I are friends, I'm really bothering me this time. I've prepared some tea and money here to express my feelings." After that, he handed over an envelope.

When the bow of the boat opened, he saw that it was a 200 tael silver note, which was issued by the local money house in Zhapu. He immediately smiled and said that it was a family, so there was no need to be so polite. He had finished all the words, and the bow of the boat immediately bowed and said to Chen Jingdan before leaving: "Master Shen, the day after tomorrow, Yin was about to be on the boat at the beginning of Mao, don't be too late."

The "opening needle" in the bow of the ship refers to the sacrificial ceremony to be held before the ship is opened. The sacrificial texts in the sacrifice are to report to all gods, from the Huangdi of Xuanyuan to the little gods guarding the sacrificial scriptures. There are dozens of people who have to mention it. They also need to explain where the ship is from, when the time is set off, who is the crew, who is the passenger, etc., in order to arrive in an instant, and be safe all the way.

The reason why Chen Jingdan and his group docked in Zhapu, Zhejiang was because their men under Lu Shoushan were not familiar with the routes. In this year, the moon and needle maps were all treasures of the bows of the ships in various places. Everyone was in charge of the North and South Road, and no one would easily tell them. The Caogang boatmen under Lu Shoushan were very familiar with the routes to North and Jeju Island, but they were not clear about the routes south of the Yangtze River. They dared to drive the ship all the way to Zhapu, but they were already at risk of hitting the reef and sinking the ship.

As a businessman who had been engaged in maritime trade for a long time, Chen Jingdan knew this well, so after arriving in Zhapu, he decided to change the boat. By the way, if he went ashore, he would take more than a thousand miles of post roads in Fujian Province alone. Moreover, there were mountainous roads in Fujian and he couldn't walk fast even if he rode a horse. What they could do now was to change the boat route to Quanzhou first, and then take a boat from Quanzhou to Guangzhou. If everything went well, including waiting halfway, he would be able to arrive in Guangzhou in more than ten days.

After Chen Jingdan finished his talk, he returned to the inn from the Quanzhou Guild Hall and notified Lu Shoushan and others.

In the inn, Chen Xuan, who had just taken off the man's disguise, was accompanied by Chen Jishan's sister Chen Erya, with a lot of worries on her face. After Chen Erya washed up and dressed up, her face turned pale. She was so angry that she was ridiculous when she took the boat along the way. While the two were talking, Chen Jingdan knocked in and said to Chen Xuan: "I've found the boat and set off early the next morning. You can relax. He has been through the storm and waves before, and there will be no problem this time."

Chen Xuan said: "Dad, I always feel up and down, and I won't be at ease for a moment. Something must have happened to him."

Chen Jingdan coughed for a moment, and Chen Xuan understood and said to Chen Erya: "Sister, let's go and rest. Since we're leaving only the day, you can rest for two days and take care of it."

Chen Erya was also seasick at this moment and had not recovered yet, so she said, "Then I'll go back to the house to take a cigarette. Just call me if you have something to do."

Most young women with conditions in this era smoked, mainly to relieve boredom. Chen Xuan had already smoked, but Zhao Xin didn't like it, so she stopped smoking.

After Chen Erya went out, Chen Jingdan closed the door before whispering to Chen Xuan: "What has the changes in the jade these days?"

Chen Xuan didn't say anything, just shook her head.
Chapter completed!