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Li Yanzhi thought that this time, whether the second brother was in the hands of the Japanese pirates or the officers and soldiers, it would be difficult to be good. Therefore, when he was still dealing with the Japanese invasion of the provincial capital in Fuzhou, he had already sent a letter to Wu Ping to transfer water-capable soldiers from Youxi, Cangxia and other places to wait for the orders of 200 people in the south of Min. He also asked Su Meihui to hand over a sum of silver to Chen Yuting to Yuegang.

As soon as he received Sun Taihe's written letter, he said goodbye to Feng Qi and Jiang Yifan. Feng Qi stayed in Fuzhou. Jiang Yifan returned to Youxi to meet Li Dashu north, while Li Yanzhi went south with Wu Ping, and soon entered Zhangzhou Prefecture and came straight to Yuegang, a smuggling distribution center in Fujian.

In the Ming Dynasty, legal Sino-Japanese trade was carried out in the form of "consensation trade". In the name of the Japanese king paying tribute to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, a "consensation trade" with goods and similar licenses was allowed to enter the port for trade. According to regulations, the trade group should not exceed two ships and two hundred people, once every ten years, and consensation trade is changed every ten years. However, such a long cycle and such harsh trade restrictions could not meet the business needs of the people at all. It was not allowed for merchants to organize their own sea to do business in Japan, so the ten-year deadline was often not followed. Merchants often came again before the deadline, and the size of the ship and the number of people often exceeded the standard. These were actually the result of commercial interests.

By the early years of Jiajing, Japan's rights to Kanhe trade fell from the shogunate to Hosokawa, and the two Ouchi families. After the Ouchi family won, they sent a merchant group to Ningbo Port in the second year of Jiajing. However, the Hosokawa merchant ship also arrived at Ningbo Port with the expired "Hongzhi Kanhe". In advance, the deputy envoy of the Ming people hired bribed the eunuch of the Maritime Division and was able to enter the port to inspect the goods first.

When Ouchi learned the news, he was very dissatisfied and led the samurai to attack the Hosokawa clan, rushed into the Marine Division, and attacked the Ming army. At that time and later politicians believed that "the fault was the eunuch", but the stubborn Emperor Jiajing believed that "the disaster started from the Marine Division", so he arbitrarily abolished the Ningbo Marine Division and cut off trade with Japan. It was for the "fight for tribute."

Since the "Trial Battle", the Ming Dynasty court has implemented a sea ban, so now all those who go overseas to do business are smuggling! The conservatives of the Ming Dynasty court are self-confidence, but they cannot block the ambition and courage of the coastal people to rush overseas. Conservative corrupt scholars do not know the general trend of the world, and do not care about the suffering of the people. They do not want to rectify the sea defense in the face of pirates, and they are proactive in the face of growing overseas trade. They cannot take advantage of the situation, but passively ban them! However, Fujian people are many and the land is weak, and the coastal people are

The people rely on the ocean to make a living - the weak and timid fishing and shrimping, and the strong and brave went out to sea to make a fortune! The ban on the sea has cut off their way! The Ming court has severely cured the crime of "Tongfan" and was sentenced to be beheaded! Originally, if the people were allowed to do business, even if they had to pay heavy taxes, as long as they could survive, how many people would kill their business? But now all the formal channels have been blocked to death. If they could not survive, they had to take risks and smuggle them into the sea.

Yuegang, which Li Yanzhi was going to at this time, belonged to Zhangzhou. It is located in the southeast of Longxi County, at the mouth of the lower reaches of Jiulong River, about fifty miles away from Zhangzhou Prefecture City. It is located about near Xiamen in later generations, surrounded by mountains and seas. It has a natural good harbor to moor boats and is far away from the political center of the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely: the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the sea is wide to welcome the sails! Therefore, the whole place is full of vitality and is one of the most important smuggling centers in China in this era. It is called "Little Suhang" in the world.

The trade line of Yuegang, which connects Japan to Japan, Liuqiu, Luzon and Siam to Nantong, was mistakenly called Flangji (the ancient transliteration of Frank, which was used by Huihui merchants to refer to Christian Europe, and in some scenarios or more specifically to Portugal) has been here for many years. In this smuggling port near the East China Sea, there are dozens to hundreds of Portuguese who are active all year round. They exchange spices, gold and other goods with local residents for food and raw silk to maintain their trade routes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Because it is an important distribution center for overseas trade, with developed commerce and people do not work in agriculture, it falls in the eyes of a gentleman. The lives of Yuegang residents are obviously luxurious and decayed!

Li Yanzhi is in charge of the domestic purchasing and sales network, Li Baldou is in charge of overseas trade, and Li Jie is in charge of both sides to set up a line for his uncle and younger brother. Therefore, Li Jie is in Quanzhou and Yuegang more time than in Youxi, and sometimes he goes out to sea, but this is Li Yanzhi's first time.

Yuegang sent people to welcome him, but the leader was not Li Yanzhi's disciple Chen Yuting, but a Confucian scholar under 30 years old. He had a hooked nose, pointed chin, and a slightly fat belly. Xue Yingjia, the shopkeeper in Yuegang, introduced that he was Lin Wenzhen, the son of Lin Xiyuan, a great scholar in Quanzhou. When Li Yan heard this, he hurriedly bowed to Lin Wenzhen and said to each other that he had "relatives for a long time".

After Yu Dayou entered Youxi, the Lin clan of Quanzhou gradually became closer to the Li family of Youxi. Although Lin Xiyuan was a famous Neo-Confucian scholar, he was well-versed and did not forget to make money while studying and becoming an official. He intended to trade overseas, but he was not good at coming forward by himself, so he entrusted the goods to the Li family. After several times, the profits increased exponentially. Lin Xiyuan was very happy and actually married a niece to Li Jie. Therefore, Lin and Li families were considered to be married.

This time, nearly half of the goods on Li Jie's ship were from the Lin family. Now that something happened, the Lin family suffered heavy losses, so naturally they have to come and ask about it.

After seeing Lin Wenzhen, Li Yanzhi thought that with Lin Xiyuan's influence in southern Fujian, he could not handle this matter. Then the troubles of this matter were probably far beyond his expectations. Lin Wenzhen took the initiative to greet him this time mainly because he wanted to meet Li Yanzhi. He had another residence in Yuegang. After chatting with both sides, he said goodbye and left. Before leaving, he said, "When Brother Li is going to see Tian Dake, don't forget to call Brother Yu. With the Lin family here, he dare not be arrogant."

After getting goodbye to Lin Wenzhen, after entering the Taozhu Pavilion in Yuegang, Chen Yuting was still missing. Li Yanzhi asked the shopkeeper Xue Yingjia: "Where is Yuting?"

Xue Yingjia said: "Young Master Chen received an urgent report from overseas yesterday, so he hurriedly took a boat to sea. When I asked him what happened, he refused to say it. He left the urgent report before leaving and asked me to hand it over to the third young master."

Seeing that the urgent report had been opened, but after opening it, it was sealed with Chen Yuting's seal. Knowing that the relationship was very small, Li Yanzhi went into the inner room first, leaving only Wu Ping, and then he removed the urgent report and shouted at the sight: "Oh! Not good!"

Wu Ping asked: "What?"

Li Yan said straight: "Didn't you and Yu Ting deliver letters to me and my uncle separately? When the letter was delivered to Shuangyu, the uncle had already gone to Japan. Before he left, he asked Wang Mumin to stay in Shuangyu. When Wang Mumin heard the news, he actually raised all the elite soldiers who were left by his uncle in Shuangyu, and wanted to kill Zhenhaiwei and rob his second brother!"

Wu Ping shouted: "Bastard! In this way, isn't it publicly rebelled? There is still room for tactfulness in the Maojintongfan and even the robbery of the family, but if you directly attack Zhenhaiwei, once the matter is revealed, the Li family will not be able to gain a foothold in the mainland! Why is Wang Mumin so reckless!"

"Don't forget that his life was saved by the second brother! He is naturally more anxious than anyone else about his second brother's affairs." Li Yan said straight: "Wang Mumin wanted to attack Zhenhaiwei under the banner of pirates, and then I will pretend to be a good person to clean up the mess. But if a guard is broken, not only will the commander and commander have to investigate thoroughly, but the Ministry of War also has to inquire! If the matter is so big, I am afraid it cannot be covered up! The Lin family in Quanzhou, Teacher Li Liangqin and Brother Yu will definitely not agree. This matter cannot be done!"

Wu Ping said: "So Yuting went out to sea to stop Wang Mumin from going?"

"Yes." Li Yan said straight: "But I'm worried that he can't stop Wang Mumin. I have to go in person!" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!