C51 (1/2)

The young man said confidently: ”Humph! How long did Chongzhen want to recruit me? He didn't dare to do anything to me. They want to recover the lost land, we want the wealth, we each to take what we need, why wouldn't they do the same? Look, Xiong Wancang already knows that I have been mobilizing my newly trained fire bludgeon and crossbow, he didn't even try to stop me, at most he just showed a smug face. ”

The youth said, ”I still don't understand. This mountain cave, what kind of wealth does it have? It's not even comparable to the amount of money we get from smuggling and shipping.”

The young man patted the boy's head lovingly and said, ”What do you know? We're smuggling goods. What are the two most profitable ones?”

The youth said, ”Do you still need to ask? Of course it's sea salt and glass mirrors?”

The youth said, ”Yes, these are the two things that have not been transported by sea, but actually appear in large numbers in this mountain cave, and there are all kinds of them. Just based on the notes I have found, in the one year since the appearance of the bandits, there have been a total of 7 million silver taels circulating and digesting in this cave, and 2.68 million grains have been sold here. This is the rough estimate of the scope of power that I have been able to find.”

The teenager swallowed his saliva and said, ”So many! ”It's even more than what we earned when we went into a business without any basis. With so much money, there must be a lot of brothels.”

The young man smiled and nodded. He put down the mirror and said, ”The scouts have already relaxed their guard tonight. They should let him know the benefits of our Zheng Family.” He thought to himself: I'll send people to attack them in three directions, but only I have enough crossbows and fire bludgeon hands. If the other party's strength is insufficient, then we'll just directly send them to the bandits' lair and behead them. If the enemy's defenses were extremely tight, then we'd have to force our way through, and the pain would be worse than the pain. I didn't expect him to have such a huge fortress, but we had to get on the boat no matter how tall we were on the sea.

Fujian — In the Yuan Dynasty, the system of ”province” was introduced. After Kublai's death, the imperial power declined due to the excessive power of the Prime Minister and provincial governors, and the internal strife began in the Yuan Dynasty. During the period of Yuan Shun Emperor (1357 AD), the crown prince of Yuan Dynasty, Aizu Redara, and the great general, Timur, fought fiercely over the huge taxes in the port of Tengtong, and each of the two factions manipulated his servants to fight in Quanzhou. The war soon turned into a decade-long war between Fuzhou and Putian, which, as the center of the war, suffered a particularly heavy loss. Foreign merchants fled from the port, but the city degenerated from a world-class port in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty to a world-class port.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the rulers of Fujian restored the economy of Fujian, and the business, textile and maritime industries in Fuzhou began to recover.

In the third year of the Ming dynasty (1575 A.D.), Spain sent a diplomatic mission to Fujian with Father Martinus de Rada, 1533-1578, under the command of two officers and 15 soldiers. Subsequently, Father Rada wrote two reports about his experience in Fujian, which he submitted to the Spanish government: ”About 10,000 or 12,000 families in Tongan, built of white stone. They said that the town, along with the nearby village, had about a hundred and fifty thousand people, which was obviously not an exaggeration. From what we've seen, we think it's the best supply we've ever had, and it's a lot of people. ”

”There are more than 50,000 families in Quanzhou City, not including those who live in the suburbs. The city was surrounded by high stone walls and a famous bridge over six hundred feet long. ”

”We sent the gifts mentioned in the letter and stayed there for 35 days before we left Fuzhou City. This city is the largest we have seen in China, and as far as we know, there are 150,000 households and it is the provincial capital of Fujian. ” Tongan County, Quanzhou, Fujian Province.

From this, one could tell how prosperous Fujian was, and it was at that time. In Yi Lu's courtyard, there was a stage, a pavilion, a courtyard, an artificial lake, artificial mountains and artificial water. It was like a drizzling rain that was filled with mist, a pavilion, a temple, a buddhist pavilion, a beautiful woman by the lake, a boat beside the lake.

However, there was a person who was unaware of this beautiful scene and had hidden in his study to write something down. With a quick look, he discovered that it was truly a good writing.

A middle-aged man ran into the study room and panted, ”Master, Lord Zheng's men are back.”

Xiong Wancang continued writing and said calmly, ”Is that so!? ”Those good-for-nothing bandits were killed by the Zheng Family so quickly. It seems like these Quanzhou gangs are going to be difficult to deal with.”

The middle-aged man calmed down a bit and said, ”Master, it wasn't that we were taken care of, but that Lord Zheng's men escaped.”