A knife in love

Chapter 1015

In a blink of an eye, everyone has arrived at the gate of the main hall.Lord Shidao stopped in his tracks, looked up at the plaque on the gate of the palace, and praised: "God bless Hai Nei. Good calligraphy, really good calligraphy."

Ji Dingzhong said: "It is said that this plaque was written by a degraded Beijing official in the Song Dynasty. It's just that in a remote place, officials and people have little knowledge, and the surname of that Beijing official was not left behind. Hundreds of years later, making It is really regrettable that the name of this great sage has been lost to the people."

Master Shi Dao said: "This man's handwriting has the background of Yan Zhenqing, but compared with Yan's handwriting, it is a little more elegant. It can be seen that although the man who wrote the handwriting is in the officialdom, he has the leisure time of being out of the world Yizhi. In the Song Dynasty, there were many calligraphers who copied Yan characters. Although Su, Huang, Mi, and Cai had their own strengths, they also practiced Yan characters. But the Yan characters written by these four people, The shape of the characters is too restricted. At first glance, it looks quite similar, but when you look closely, it is a bit dull. The four characters on the plaque, in addition to the sense of danger of Yan characters, also have the charm of Han Li, strong bones, fastidious and rigorous. This is the most valuable thing for calligraphy masters who practice Yan characters. There was a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty who had this ability. His name was Zhang Jizhi, although he was not as famous as Su and Su. Huang, Mi, and Cai, but his attainments in calligraphy are definitely not inferior to these four. From my point of view, these four characters should be written by Zhang Jizhi."

Li Qiufeng doesn't know calligraphy, and he has seen the plaque on the hall several times, but he just thinks that the four big characters are very correct, other than that, he can't tell whether it is good or bad.At this moment, listening to Master Shi's eloquent talk, he couldn't help but think to himself, this person is just a Fusang pirate, with such insight, I'm afraid he has been thinking about the Great Ming Dynasty for a long time.People like Liu Sheng Zongyan and others have the ambition to annex Daming.And the whole court is full of stupid and corrupt officials like Liang Huan.If this torment continues, I am afraid that Fusang, a small country, will do more damage than the Tartars.

Just listen to Ji Dingzhong said: "I can't imagine that Shidao Master has lived overseas for a long time, and he is so familiar with Zhongtu calligraphy, admire, admire."

Master Shidao smiled and said, "Although Fusang is thousands of miles away, I have always admired the demeanor of famous scholars in China. When your Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty were prosperous, our Fusang Kingdom sent envoys many times to pay tribute to China. I want to imitate the Great Tang and the Great Song, and make a career. However, Fusang is far behind Zhongtu, and it can only gain its shape but lose its spirit. Every time I think about it, it makes people feel deeply moved."

Everyone chatted for a few more words, and Ji Dingzhong invited Lord Shidao into the hall to speak.Master Shidao didn't refuse, and strode into the hall.Ji Dingzhong stood at the entrance of the hall and said to everyone: "Although this hall is spacious, it can't accommodate so many people. Each family only chooses two or three people to enter, and the rest can wait outside the hall."

Hearing what Ji Dingzhong said, Li Qiufeng knew that he wanted to take the opportunity to keep more than a dozen men brought by Island Master Shi outside the hall, so that it would be easier to kill Island Master Shi in the hall.At present, it has reached the point where the picture is poor, but Liu Sheng Zongyan has never shown his face. Could it be that Liu Sheng's family really did not participate in this matter?

While he was thinking about it, he saw that the owner of Shidao had already entered the main hall, and saw the sedan chair behind the statue, he was slightly startled, and said: "I didn't expect that there is still a sedan chair in this hall, is it for the city god's empress?" For traveling?"

Master Bai stood beside Master Shi, smiled slightly, and said, "Master Shi guessed wrong. This sedan chair is taken by Mr. Liang Huanliang, the envoy of Henan Province."

Island Master Shi said "Oh", but there was no surprise on his face.He walked a few steps in front of the altar, and said in his mouth: "This City God Empress is really a beauty, no wonder the later Emperor Meng Chang, Song Taizu, and Song Taizong were all fascinated by her."

As soon as Master Shidao said this, Li Qiufeng was terrified. He thought to himself that the City God Empress was shaped according to Mrs. Huarui's appearance, and that only the descendants of the Xu family and the five families of Nie, Lu, Zhao, Du, and Hua had this matter. Patriarchs knew.Master Shidao is just a Fusang man who has lived overseas for a long time, how could he even know such a secret thing?It's just that he thought about it again, since Xu Chengzong colluded with the Japanese pirates, it's not surprising that Shidao Lord probably knew about it from Xu Chengzong.

At this moment, Mrs. Nie, Han Qusi, Huang Chong, the seventh son of the Lu family, and the head of the Du family each brought two or three people. Only Master Bai walked in with Ji Dingzhong alone.Afterwards, more than a dozen disciples of the Nie family moved in a dozen chairs and lined up on both sides of the altar table in the main hall.Ji Dingzhong asked Master Shi and Mrs. Nie to sit on the first chairs on the left and right respectively, and then the seventh son of the Lu family, the head of the Du family and others sat down in turn.And the subordinates of these leaders stood behind everyone, but the subordinates brought by Lord Shidao were left outside the hall.

Ji Dingzhong sat under Mrs. Nie, coughed, and said, "Island Master Shi, the silver has been prepared and placed in the backyard. After a while, the owner of the island will check and verify that it is correct, and then bring it back to Jinshan Island."

Island Master Shi smiled slightly, and said: "As I said just now, this trip is not just for this money, but to discuss a major matter with the principals of Fengmen Village."

Ji Dingzhong said: "I would like to hear the details."

Shi Daozhu said: "I know that you have lived in Fengmen Village for hundreds of years to avoid the pursuit of the enemy. Now the Xu family has been wiped out by us. Apart from serious worries, you must leave Fengmen Village and become officials. If you are an official, you will get rich. With everyone's ability, within a few years, high-ranking officials and generous salaries are just around the corner."

Shi Daozhu paused for a while when he said this, and then continued: "The people of Zhongtu call us Japanese pirates and hate us for harassing the southeast coast. Everyone who becomes an official may also want to exterminate us. Just like Zhongtu As a famous general said, ambition eats Japanese pirate meat hungry, and jokes thirsty for pirate blood. The heads of us Fusang people will inevitably become a stepping stone for everyone to get promoted and get rich..."

The more everyone listened, the more frightened they became. They didn't know what Master Shi meant by these words, they all looked at each other, and no one spoke for a while.

But Master Shidao sighed, and continued: "In fact, the people of Zhongtu misunderstood us Fusang people too much. They only thought that we wanted to go to Zhongtu to burn, kill, and loot, but they didn't realize that we were just trying to win One mouthful of food, so I have to lick blood on the edge of the knife. To be honest, Fusang people like me were originally warriors of the Fusang country. For hundreds of years, there have been endless civil wars in Fusang, and you in China thousands of years ago The Warring States period is somewhat similar. The victorious party controls the court, and it wants to wipe out the defeated party. The defeated samurai cannot gain a foothold in Fusang, so they have to flee to the desolate and uninhabited islands to survive. Fusang cannot go back. If you want to survive, you can only do business with Zhongtu in exchange for money to buy food and cloth.

"It's just that after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the sea ban was issued, and the people were not allowed to do business with us. You may wish to think about it. The ministers and generals in power in Fusang hated us to the bone and cut off our retreat. We dragged our families and lived on the island. Above, we can’t grow food, weave cloth, and we can’t just eat seaweed and wild vegetables naked?! We have no choice but to secretly do business with the people along the coast of Middle-earth, using some pearls and iron knives from overseas, In exchange for food, cloth, etc. But after the Ming court knew about this, they sent officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them, not only killing us Fusang people, but also killing the people of China who did business with us. As a result, some merchants and people in China Join hands with us to deal with the officers and soldiers. To be honest, we have no intention of confronting Daming, but just want to find a way to survive. But those officials only want to extort gold, silver and jewelry, and refuse to negotiate with us. The Ming court even They sent people to the Fusang Kingdom to inform the ministers and generals of the Fusang Kingdom to restrain the Fusang warriors. As a result, the Fusang Kingdom sent navy troops to steal our way, and Ming Dynasty did not allow us to buy food and cloth, which made our situation even more difficult.

"Fortunately, the Tartar soldiers in the north of the Ming Dynasty were harassing us, so they couldn't do their best to deal with us, so that we could survive. It's just that the Tartars have been fighting among themselves in recent years, and they are unable to harass the border of the Ming Dynasty. If this continues, the Ming Dynasty will definitely deal with us with all our strength. We have With self-knowledge, he was able to survive his last days because Da Ming did not regard us Fusang warriors as a serious threat. Once Da Ming really wants to destroy us, he only needs to choose one or two good generals and lead troops to fight, and we will definitely be defeated."

Li Qiufeng heard Shidao Master say this, and thought to himself, this person is actually smart and knows the benefits.It's a pity that my Ming Dynasty couldn't be united, and the internal strife continued, which made the disaster of the Japanese pirates intensify, and finally became an unmanageable situation.

(End of this chapter)