Jicanghai

Half a year later, Jin Duanyang was probably crazy about money, and Yu Jinfeng was urged by him almost every month.In addition, His Majesty the Emperor also sent two Korean and Chinese officials, saying that they were here to assist him in governing the fiefdom. Yu Jinfeng had spent some effort in the past six months to invite several Jiangnan Confucian scholars to come and help him, and he didn't need so many people with their own thoughts.Moreover, those two officials were the envoys of the emperor, so they had some nostrils pointing their fingers at the sky, which was very disgusting.

So Shen Zhuiyu came forward and invited the two of them to a restaurant for dinner, accompanied by a group of noisy military officers.As a result, everyone joked about it after drinking, and the two civil servants were stripped of their robes and trousers and pushed out of the private seat, which opened the eyes of the guests in the restaurant, and was mixed with the sound of the singers covering their faces and laughing in surprise.

The two were so ashamed and angry that they almost bit their tongues and committed suicide. They really couldn't stay in Jiangnan, so they had to flee back to Pingjing and cry all the way to Jin Duanyang.When Jin Duanyang was angry, he issued an edict to punish Yu Jinfeng, and Yu Jinfeng immediately wrote a letter to plead guilty, saying that the brothers are all rough people who don't understand etiquette, and they are getting better step by step under their own careful teaching, please be more considerate to your Majesty.Sending two generous gifts to the two officials to apologize, just smoothed over the matter.

It's just that since then, no one from the court and central government dared to come to Quanzhou to take up a post. Jin Duanyang moaned depressedly, and simply rolled up his sleeves and slapped the dragon case: "Go, find the servant!"

But such a delay in the matter of Bailu Island will definitely not work, because not only Jin Duanyang is short of money, but Yu Jinfeng is also short of money.After thinking about it, he drove the boat to the vicinity of Bailu Island's waterway, and after asking about the patrol route of the Mingxiang Army in the East China Sea, he had a chance encounter with Wei Shuangqiao, one of the current deputy commanders.

Wei Shuangqiao had always had a businesslike face, and he was very polite to Yu Jinfeng who came uninvited.Yu Jinfeng didn't ask much about the current situation of Shenying Island, but only asked about the waterway of Bailu Island, saying that if the waterway of Bailu Island is opened, all merchant ships must pass through the territory of the Mingxiang Army in the East China Sea, which will involve tax payment Regarding the assignment, let Shen Yingdao decide.

Wei Shuangqiao responded to the matter: "I can inquire for you. You will send someone here to listen to the letter in two months. I will give you an answer whether it is successful or not."

Yu Jinfeng said: "Thank you so much."

Two months later, Yu Jinfeng went to Bailu Island again. As expected, Wei Shuangqiao came back as promised and brought a reply. It was four thin documents and a few nanmu boxes. Please take a closer look at the proposed document, and if you have no objection, sign and print it. If you have any objection, please report it to me, and I will pass it on for you. That box is the last item that your Ming Feng camp put into the Ming family’s South China Sea caravan. The bonus will be given to you by Miss Fuzhu, and it will be settled in the future."

Yu Jinfeng moved his lips slightly, but couldn't say anything, so he had to read the document carefully in front of Wei Shuangqiao.Mingfuzhu's accounts are calculated very carefully. The East China Sea Mingxiang Army escorts various merchant ships in the East China Sea according to the previous rules and collects customs duties according to the amount of goods. The rest are not involved for the time being.

Although the tariff is set quite high in this document, it is also within a reasonable range and is very simple, clear and generous.While watching, he thought silently, recalling that he heard that since Shen Ying Island was sealed off, the shipping of Ming family merchant ships has also stopped, and it has been nearly two years since there was no movement, he guessed that it should be due to the lack of supply of goods.

What is there on Shen Ying Island? Yu Jinfeng knows very well that the Tianmi tribe left behind a large amount of jewelry, gold and silver, and later bought a large amount of food because the Mingxiang Army was almost out of food. Lack of jewelry.In the past, brocade silk and porcelain were the main goods transported from the Central Plains to the South China Sea, and all kinds of gems and spices were transported back.These two special products of brocade porcelain come from counties and counties around Yunjing, central Shu and Jiangnan. In the past, the caravans of the Ming Dynasty collected goods from these places and then traded overseas. Twin Islands did not have any output, so they had to Shipping stopped.

Yu Jinfeng pondered for a moment, and said: "This document is very fair and reasonable. It's just that there is one thing that is not clear. I think that although there are a lot of merchant ships from Quanzhou and the coast, there are also some merchants who are unable to go to the countries in the South China Sea. They only transport the goods. To Bailu Island, some big merchants will send merchant ships from Bailu Island to the South China Sea. Now these people have no livelihood, what should they do?"

He vaguely intended to deliver the goods to your door, but Wei Shuangqiao said: "We can't control this for now."

Yu Jinfeng smiled, and said shyly after a while: "Then when will it be in charge? Do I need to sign another document? I'm going to make preparations."

Wei Shuangqiao looked at him thoughtfully for a while, and finally said: "It will take more than a year. Let's make it right now."

Yu Jinfeng nodded, and after signing and stamping the document, the two each held two copies, and then bid farewell.

He stood by the seaside and watched Wei Shuangqiao go away. Several of his followers were waiting at the side, and he vaguely heard him muttering to himself: "It's good to be alive." From now on, he will not send anything to Shenying Island .

After Yu Jinfeng returned to Quanzhou, he quickly sent a copy to Jin Duanyang with his cronies who sent the paperwork. One month later, the waterway from Quanzhou to the South China Sea opened as scheduled. Jin Duanyang was overjoyed, and pressed on step by step: "Then what about the Beidou Strait?" ?”

He is so insatiable and insatiable that he is like a glutton who can never get enough to eat. Yu Jinfeng was a little impatient, and wrote a letter to reply that the Beidou Strait is not under the jurisdiction of the minister. If your majesty must manage it, Chengzhou and the surrounding counties can The county is also allocated to the minister, so that the minister can intervene in this matter.

So His Majesty Jin was so angry that he scolded the dead horse thief for at least half an hour in the imperial study, but there was nothing he could do about it for the time being.Although Yu Jinfeng came from a humble background, he has been very diligent and studious since he took over the fiefdom. Except for some hectic and embarrassing awkwardness at the beginning, he quickly got used to it.Not only did the government affairs in the fief be handled in an orderly manner, it is said that he also invited several great Confucian scholars to teach him and many of his brothers, and declared that he just wanted to get rid of the situation of "knowing pillows when going to bed and shoes when getting out of bed". How the final effect will be is unknown.

Jin Duanyang was very dissatisfied with the current semi-cooperative relationship between the two, but he couldn't pick out Yu Jinfeng's thorns for a while, so he had to give up first, and asked the officials from the Ministry of Households to discuss how to deal with the Beidou Strait issue. It means to gather the few naval forces in Cangpei Kingdom to forcibly open the waterway.The Minister of the Household Department advised him to stay calm and not to be impatient, and said that this matter must wait for Shen Yingdao to lift the ban. Jin Duanyang took the case and said angrily: "How long has it been, and the ban has not been lifted yet? Pretending to be dead is not enough." ?”

Hubu Shangshu cautiously said: "Didn't I hear that he was really dead?"

Jin Duanyang: "What are you going to die for? I really don't want to die? I'm just fooling you idiots. Go and inquire, and report to me as soon as there is any movement." He must also monitor the movement of the East China Sea at any time, let alone the shipping matter, in case Mingran repents and takes revenge, there is not much distance from the Beidou Strait to Chengzhou and then to Pingjing, so he has to be on guard all the time.

But the current Mingran doesn't have the slightest intention of revenge, nor is he pretending to be dead. For a person who has been in a coma for nearly a year and has been sick all the time, it is good to be alive, and there is no time to take care of other things for the time being.

Thinking that when he first woke up, his eyes were blurred, and it took a full month to see his hand clearly, and he was shocked by the hand with only a thin layer of skin on the bone.He looked at it in disbelief for a long time, wanting to ask something, but his throat seemed to be burned by Wu Shanyun, and he couldn't hiss, so he had to shut up.

Fortunately, the two girls who were waiting by his side were very considerate. Seeing the doubts on his face, Ming Zhuohua took the initiative to say: "Master, I feel that I have lost a lot of weight? Let's take good care of it. As for the eyes and throat, little Miss Sui and the old patriarch have both said that they will recover slowly."

Mingran nodded calmly, and decided to listen to the maid and take care of her slowly.

Since returning to Shenying Island, Liu Xuan immediately sent someone to invite the old patriarch of the Tianman clan to bring the elders of the clan and various elixir to Tianlan Sacred Palace. die.The old patriarch said that the most fortunate thing this time was that he was given the antidote of the Tianman clan by Liu Xing before he was poisoned, and under Mingran's urging and request, Liu Xing overdose, and the excess drug was still in his body Because of the mischief, he was forced to take Wushan Yun again, but he fought against the poison with poison and saved his life.It's just that the properties of the two medicines are overbearing, seriously damaging the five senses, and it will take three to four years or even longer to get them back to normal.

In the following days, Ye Zhiliang and Wen Renyu took people to patrol the sea around Shenying Island every day. Although the ban was issued, they were still afraid that someone would enter the island and disturb him, so the Tianman clan ran all over Shenying Island to find him. Elixir for recuperation.Because he can only eat porridge, and he can't get any taste from it, so Zuo Susu didn't grow flowers, instead, he studied rice seeds with a few old farmers who are proficient in farming, and chose a treasure land under the Chaos Mountain to plant a piece of rice for Mingran. It is said that it is irrigated with mixed fermented milk from the Lingquan in the Chaos Mountains, and it only produces a few hundred catties a year, which is simply too expensive.

And Xie Jue, after consulting everyone's opinions, selected a dozen civil servants from the former Zhu Luan Kingdom from among the people brought by Yunjing, and learned how to deal with various political affairs on Shenying Island.Where has this kid done this before? It's extremely difficult.Fortunately, Shen Ying Island has a small population and simple government affairs, so it finally supported him.

They had gone to such lengths to save Mingran's life, so he had to be alive.He obediently used up the medicinal soup and meals that were provided every day, and never shirked the excuses and made things difficult for others.Apart from sleeping, taking medicine and eating, the rest of the time was half lying on a soft couch under the south window of Chengfu Hall, looking out the window silently.

At the beginning, I still couldn't see anything clearly, I could only listen to the birdsong outside.In winter, all kinds of birds disappeared, only the sound of long wind whistling and snow falling.He listened hard, feeling a little unhappy, so his face was silent and lonely.

Then his eyes finally gradually recovered, and he could clearly see the two emerald birds in the shade of trees outside Chengfu Hall, but he couldn't see the strong sunlight.I can get up and walk around a few times, but I can't go out to run a horse and bow for the time being.Can also speak a few words, although the voice is dull.But he was already used to being silent, and would only issue simple instructions unless it was absolutely necessary.

These days, Xie Jue often came to report some outside affairs to him, and he came again this afternoon, and reported the main things in recent days, and said: "A few days ago, several officials discussed and said that our East China Sea occupies such an area. Big, you can’t always be without a master, so they want to regard you as the master of the country. Because this place is called Jihai City, the name of the country is named Jihai Country. What do you think, Master?"

Mingran was practicing the flexibility of his wrist these days, and needed to improve his voice, so he wrote on a piece of paper: "Let's talk about it when I get better." Drinking flower wine and accepting concubines is to practice wild fox meditation with the former king's belief in Buddhism and Taoism. Few of them are willing to do serious things, so they always have a bit of disapproval of their proposal. Of course, he concealed it very well. people notice.

But according to Xie Jue's tone, this group of people is currently very diligent and proactive, and they can plan for many things in a thoughtful and straightforward manner. They were probably lazy and slippery in the past, and Ming Ran didn't have the energy to care about it, so he had to let them go.Seeing that Xie Jue had finished speaking and still not leaving, he stood shyly by the desk, thinking that he had something private to say, so he patted the edge of the couch beside him, beckoning him to come and say it.

Xie Jue walked around, huddled together with him happily, and said in a low voice: "My family has agreed to my marriage with Liu Xuan. It just so happens that you, my lord, have also improved a lot. Can you be my officiant?"

Mingran nodded with a smile, and wrote: "It is imperative for a lover to get married, what do you want?"

Xie Jue said rather embarrassedly: "I want another good bow."

Mingran: "Two, Xiaobin has to give too."

He picked two identical good bows for the two of them, and unexpectedly, the pain of sending a bow out was like cutting flesh. He thought that after dying once, the things around him became less important.

More than three years before the Zhu Luan Kingdom was destroyed, the ban on Shen Ying Island was finally lifted. Jin Duanyang felt as if he was facing a big enemy, and at the same time, at the end of the year, he tentatively sent an envoy to deliver a New Year's gift.However, he was stopped before reaching Shenying Island, and he didn't see anyone who could be the master of his own affairs. The gift was politely rejected, and the emissary had to return without success.

His Majesty Jin didn't take advantage of it, and felt quite disappointed.