Outside Hangzhou City, Hangzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang, Master Wang was wearing a blue shirt and a blue Confucian scholar's scarf tied his head and rode a big green mule along the official road.

At this time, Master Wang was completely like a scholar, and he had no such momentum as he was a pirate.

Since leaving Amami Island, he landed in Dinghai, Ningbo by boat. After buying a mule from where he started to come to Hangzhou alone.

Along the way, Mr. Wang was in a high mood because this time he came back to take his relatives to enjoy his happiness. And he could also leave his life as a pirate, and he no longer had to be a career that had today or tomorrow.

After taking his family to America, he can live the life of a landlord with his family with 200 acres of fertile land.

So, along the way, Mr. Wang was in a very good mood.

He could even imagine that when his family and him went to America and saw a large area of ​​fertile land belonging to them, he would have a shocked expression on his face.

I think the woman from home will definitely praise herself.

And after going to America, I no longer have to hide it. I don’t have to keep it hidden and use it if I have money, and I have to let my family live a miserable life.

Of course, what is more important is that I no longer have to worry about being afraid that my identity as a pirate will be exposed and that I will cause trouble for my family.

Yes, although Mr. Wang’s family was in the Ming Dynasty, their lives were not very good.

It's just better than ordinary people, and you just don't have to go hungry.

It’s not that Mr. Wang has no money. How could he have been a pirate for more than 20 years?

Over the past twenty years, he has actually saved thousands of taels of silver.

But why did his family live a better life than ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty?

This is a very strange opinion.

Zhejiang has a prosperous literary style and a very developed economy. It was a place for taxes in the Ming Dynasty and also a place for officials to write about.

However, it was fine on the coast of Zhejiang, but when he arrived at Hangzhou Prefecture, Master Wang found something wrong.

Because he found that the more he walked westward, the more refugees and ragged people would be.

However, Mr. Wang was not in the mood to pay attention to these things. Now he just wanted to go home with all his heart, and then take his wife and children away from the Ming Dynasty in the shortest time, and buy some maids and other things.

In this way, Master Wang finally arrived outside the city of Hangzhou Prefecture after three days.

Here, Master Wang found that there were more refugees, and they were densely packed outside the city. A rough estimate was that there were almost 70,000 to 80,000 people.

At the gate of Hangzhou Prefecture, there were many soldiers stationed, constantly driving away the refugees who wanted to enter the city.

There were also many refugees who kept praying on both sides of the official road, hoping that the passers-by could give them some money or food.

However, the travelers coming and going ignored these refugees.

Even Master Wang didn't look at them with an eye.

It’s not that these travelers have no compassion, nor that they say that Mr. Wang’s tips on it.

Because they didn't dare to take a look or do anything pity.

There are a large number of refugees on both sides of the official road. If you have any indication, you will be surrounded.

Giving one person will attract hundreds of people. What will you do when you say that?

If you don’t continue to take money, these refugees will start to clamor.

Then it will cause trouble.

As the saying goes, good intentions can do bad things, this is the reason.

Therefore, the passers-by made up their minds and simply ignored any of them.

This is also impossible.

Be a good person and ensure your safety first.

Could it be that in order to be a good person, I don’t even want my own life?

Although these refugees are all ragged and pitiful, they will be very ruthless if they turn against each other.

And you don’t know if there are some dark-hearted guys among these people.

The more you walk towards the city gate, the more refugees there will be on both sides of the official road.

At the same time, many refugees no longer demanded money, but many boys and girls knelt there with one or a few straws on their heads, and some guys dressed in gorgeous clothes and wearing four-piece hats and big ears kept passing through here.

It seems that this is sold as a slave.

And those gorgeously dressed guys might be brothels in Hangzhou City, or domestic slaves who look for beauty to some men.

Master Wang once lived here, and he has seen too much about such things.

I still remember that when he was a child, he had seen this many times.

"Master, Master, buy me. I can work and eat less. Just one meal a day."

"This master is so good. I bought our family. I'll make a cow and horse for you!"

"Sell yourself to bury your father! Just give me three taels of silver!"

"We're giving a way out. We don't need wages, just take care of two meals a day."

Master Wang sighed deeply.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has been suffering and difficult.

It seems that somewhere nearby was suffering from disaster again, and people couldn't survive and ran to Hangzhou.

"stop!"

Master Wang simply stopped looking at the refugees who sold themselves, and followed other pedestrians and walked towards the door.

Because he was holding a big green mule and wearing a scholar's blue shirt, he looked a bit elegant, so people would not confuse him with those refugees.

Therefore, Master Wang could easily cross the first level and walk near the city gate.

If it were those refugees, they would not even pass the first level.

After walking to the city gate, Master Wang was blocked.

A soldier guarding the city looked at Master Wang with his eyes, and then said, "What are you doing when you enter the city? Where did you come from?"

Although he was questioned, Mr. Wang was not panicked at all.

He took out a Lu Yin from his arms and handed it over, and at the same time placed a big dragon ocean from the Song Empire under Lu Yin.

"The wife and children from Zhili in the north and went to the city to look for relatives, and their wives and children are all in Hangzhou, so they live near Maochang, west of the city."

The Dalongyang of the Song Empire is one or two silver coins. Because it is customized from the virtual world, the patterns are very exquisite. It is not comparable to silver ingots and scattered silver of this era.

So, when the soldier guarding the city saw the exquisite imperial silver dragon ocean, his eyes immediately protruded.

Just weighing it with your hands, you will almost know that it is six or seven cents.

(Note: During the Ming Dynasty, the weights and measures were hexadecimal, one pound was sixteen taels, and one ounce was sixteen coins)

If ordinary merchants come into the city, they will give some benefits to avoid trouble, but they will usually only pay dozens of cents.

Not many people who took action like Mr. Wang gave six or seven cents of silver at one time.

But since I have collected the money, of course I will not be able to continue to make things difficult for others.

So, with the soldier's hand flipped, the exquisite silver dragon fell into his arms, and then the soldier's face also had a sincere smile.

"It turns out that we are looking for relatives, so let's go in. There are refugees outside the city. In order not to allow refugees to enter the city, the prefect issued an order to set up a checkpoint. We soldiers are just obeying our orders."

Xiaobing smiled and explained to Master Wang, after all, he collected the money.

"My name is Chen Laosan. My family lives in the west of the city. There are three streets away from Maochang. If you have any difficulties in the future, just find a brother. If you can't do big things, you can still solve some small things."

The gatekeeper named Chen Laosan waved to Master Wang to let him enter the city, and also revealed his name, asking Master Wang to find him if he had something to do in the future.

This is not because Chen Laosan found out with conscience, but because he felt that this middle-aged man in blue shirt was so generous when he took action, and he might be a rich guy.

When dealing with such people, any slight leak in the fingers of a family member is enough to eat and drink by themselves.

Although Chen Laosan didn't know that there was a saying in another time and space, "Luote, let's be friends." But what he thought in his heart meant.

Mr. Wang smiled, then raised his hand and folded his fists to thank the other party for his kindness.

In fact, Mr. Wang certainly knew what the idea was called Chen Laosan, but he didn't care about it.

Anyway, after he meets his family, he won't be able to leave here for a long time.

So, he won’t have any interaction with this Chen Laosan, and he can’t offend him.

Therefore, let him be proud here.

However, Master Wang was curious about why there were so many refugees outside Hangzhou and along the way.

So, he asked this question.

"Brother Chen, I have seen many refugees along the way. What's going on?"

Chen Laosan glanced at Master Wang and said to himself: It seems that he is another stupid guy who reads books and thinks that he can know the world without going out at home.

Although I complained in my heart, I was still very polite when facing such a "rich man" Chen Laosan.

Isn’t this all the troubles of that big dragon?

"So that my brothers know that there have been floods in Anqing Mansion, Tongling, Wangjiang and Raozhou recently. These are nothing. There are still Taoist sects in Ningguo and Guangde that will rebel. Although they have been suppressed, the people in both places have withered and fled to our Zhejiang."

After hearing Chen Laosan's explanation, Master Wang then understood why he had seen so many refugees along the way.

It turns out that apart from floods, it is a sect that will rebel.

Moreover, the places where floods and Taoist sects rebelled are very close to Hangzhou.

It seems that the Ming Dynasty is getting more and more chaotic, so I should hurry up and take my family away.
Chapter completed!