Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1383 Who is the relative?

Tianjin Port, the largest port in the north of Ming Dynasty.

It is backed by the capital, connects North China and Liaodong, and radiates northwest and Monan.The jade shafts are connected, and hundreds of boats are competing for the flow; colorful flags are in the sky, and thousands of sails cover the sea,

Unlike Shanghai’s private port, which has many doors, Tianjin’s private port has one and only one name, Jinghua Tianjin Port.

In Tianjin Port, the most powerful force is naturally the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance Fleet with Jinghua Beiyang Fleet as its core.In addition to this, there are also many ships from other forces that stop at this port, not only the imperial tanks, the merchant ships from the south of the Yangtze River, but also the fleets from Liaodong, Shandong and other places.

Even after last year, a small number of foreign ships with soft longitudinal sails occasionally appeared in Tianjin Port. Although the sailors and others on board were only allowed to move around in private ports, it is already a big deal that these foreign ships are allowed to berth temporarily. progress.

Even though Jinghua is backed by Gao Pragmatism, it is not easy for Jinghua to win the imperial court's concession. For this reason, Jinghua needs to fully bear all the responsibilities of these foreigners for "if it is a disaster".

It is precisely because of this that Jinghua Private Port has formulated a strict management system to restrain these merchant ships from Europe.For example, before the merchant ship enters the port, it must accept the boarding inspection by Jinghua outside the port, and temporarily turn over all standard weapons such as artillery, gunpowder, guns, and knives on board.

According to Jinghua's regulations, all kinds of weapons temporarily confiscated will be written down on the list with the captain or fleet commander of the other party and signed by the responsible persons of both parties.Jinghua charges a storage fee for this, but at the same time ensures that the weapons - including gunpowder - are properly stored.

At the same time, Jinghua has further strengthened the deployment of armed guards in the seaport, and established a more professional port guard team than before.In Tianjin Port alone, Jinghua's port guard team has as many as 800 people.Of course, these escorts are not just for foreigners, and all security affairs in Tianjin Port depend on their work.

There are not many honest sailors who dare to go out to sea these days. Although Jinghua owns more ships than anyone else in Tianjin Port, and naturally has the most sailors, sailors cannot be relied on to maintain law and order. Specialized "port gendarmes" It is still necessary—otherwise, if Jinghua's own sailors have conflicts with each other, can anyone take care of this matter?

Because of this series of measures, the security atmosphere in Tianjin Port is quite good.Especially under the deterrence of Gao Yushi, the "No. [-] literary commander in the world", together with a group of honorable cronies belonging to the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, even if they are used to showing off their power in other places, they will not be conscious of it when they enter Tianjin Port. The land became honest, and very few dared to make trouble.

However, Tianjin Port encountered a little trouble today: someone on an armed transport ship flying the banner of Jinghua's own "Book and Sword" clearly refused to search the room.

What made Sun Weifeng, director of Tianjin Port even more gloomy, was that this group of people declared that "no one can enter the house to search unless Gao Situ comes in person."

Sun Weifeng is not a family member of the Gao family, let alone a son of the family, but has the same nature as "hiring a shopkeeper".Since his father's generation, the brothers of the Sun family have been the employment managers of the Gao family, and most of them have outstanding abilities.In his generation, among his cousins, he even passed the examination of two scholars, one of whom was him.

However, he thought to himself that there was no hope of taking the Juren examination again, so he still worked for the Gao family.After more than ten years of hard work, he became the director of Tianjin Port at the age of 31, which is completely young and promising.

Relying on his ability to become the director of Tianjin Port, he has dealt with various problems, but the other party was so rampant that he said such words, which still made him a little angry.

"Who is the other party, have you figured it out?" Sun Weifeng, who led his people to the berth, asked the squadron leader of the port guard who led the inspection and was blocked.

The squadron leader replied: "I asked the captain of this ship, and he said that it is the mission of the Liaodong Yehe tribe to Beijing to pay tribute."

"They are here?" Sun Weifeng obviously heard about this incident, but it seems that he didn't know the details, because he continued: "These barbarians really don't understand the rules. It is a special event for the imperial court to allow them to pay tribute by sea. Special, they still think they are great, even dare to refuse to follow Jinghua's rules."

The squadron leader nodded again and again, and then asked: "Director, what should we do now, should we forcibly disarm? Uh, the small thing is that they are missions after all, and they are going to pay tribute to the emperor..."

"Paying tribute to the emperor is of course a big deal, but when you arrive at Daming's territory, you must abide by Daming's laws. Tianjin Port's laws are also Daming's laws, so don't you need to abide by it?" Sun Weifeng looked very calm, waved his hand slightly and said: "And then I negotiated on the boat, and if they are still stubborn, those who should be disarmed will still have to be disarmed, and those who should be searched must also be searched."

Then he paused again, with a flash of disdain in his eyes, he sneered and said, "How dare you say that the master must come in person to search? It's a joke, even if Nalin Bulu and Buzhai come, with their two pieces of material, they are worthy of the master." close?"

"Hahahaha!" The squadron leader and the surrounding port guards laughed together.

"If our master were here, the two Jurchen barbarians would have crawled over on their knees to lick the soles of the master's shoes!"

"Haha, when you say it like that, I can even imagine what it looks like!"

Everyone looked at me and said a word, and laughed and laughed.

Sun Weifeng only smiled slightly, and Shi Shiran boarded the boat under the clearing of the guards.As soon as he boarded the ship, he found that the sailors on the ship and a group of Jurchens who were dressed in completely different clothes stood in two distinct groups, but there was no hostility between them.

As for the other part of the port guards who arrived first, they stood directly opposite a group of Jurchens, and they seemed to be confronting each other.

The Yanling swords in the hands of these guards were already out of their sheaths, but the Jurchens on the opposite side had no weapons in their hands, but they didn't know whether they didn't carry weapons, or they knew the situation and dared not take them out.

Sun Weifeng stepped forward, and the guards gave him a way with winks, so he quickly walked to the front, facing the Jurchen mission.

The leader of the Jurchen Mission at this time was a young man with a rather burly physique. Although his pair of triangular eyes were not big, there was obviously a kind of coldness and sophistication honed on the battlefield, which did not match his age.

"May I ask who is here?" the young Jurchen man asked in fairly standard Chinese with an obvious Liaodong accent. When he asked this sentence, he imitated the Chinese etiquette and cupped his fists.

Sun Weifeng didn't expect such a situation, but since a barbarian could take the initiative to salute, he had no choice but to bow his hands and replied: "I am the director of Jinghua Tianjin Port, my surname is Sun, and you are the envoy of Tarumwei? "

As mentioned above, Tarumwei is the official name of the Yehe tribe by the Ming court.

Unexpectedly, when the young man heard this, there seemed to be a flash of embarrassment on his face, but he quickly nodded and replied: "It is my father, I am only responsible for the security of the mission."

Sun Weifeng thought that the reason for his embarrassment was that he regarded him as an envoy, so he didn't think too much about it, nodded his head lightly, and asked, "If that's the case, where is your father?"

Before the young man could reply, a Jurchen in her early [-]s came out of the cabin, cupped her fists and saluted Sun Weifeng, and said, "Talum Weigong envoy and Hulun savage Suo Erguo have seen Supervisor Sun."

Sun Weifeng sized him up in surprise, then looked at the young man before him, and asked, "Is this your son?"

This Solgo seems to be asked this question often, and he smiled and said, "It's the dog." From that appearance, he should be quite satisfied with his son, even proud of him.

Sun Weifeng nodded and said, "He was born majestic." It turned out that the reason why he asked this question just now was because the young man was half a head taller than his father.

At this time, the Jurchens were not known for being tall, and they should not be viewed with the habitual thinking of the "Northeast Han" of later generations. In fact, the Jurchens' physiques are generally stocky-not tall but strong.

Solgo's figure is slightly taller among the Jurchens, but his son is half a head taller than him, and almost a head taller than the other Jurchens near this hatch, so Sun Weifeng Only then was he surprised, and he exaggerated a little after Sorgo's affirmative answer.

But that's all there is, Sun Weifeng just paused after saying this, and then asked again: "I heard that your envoy refused our search in accordance with regulations, I wonder if there is such a thing."

Solgo admitted frankly: "There is indeed such a thing."

Sun Weifeng narrowed his eyes slightly, and his tone was slightly chilly: "If your envoy relies on the tribute and refuses my Tianjin port search and inspection, according to the imperial decree issued by the emperor last year, our port guards have the right to identify your envoy and his entourage. Invading the territory of the Ming Dynasty... I don’t know if Nalinbulu and Buzhai have allowed the noble envoy to act like this, and as for all the consequences caused by it, is Talumu Wei ready to bear it?”

Unexpectedly, Suo Erguo shook his head and said: "Director Sun has misunderstood, and my inability to accept the inspection has nothing to do with paying tribute."

Although Sun Weifeng was a little surprised when he heard it, his face turned even worse, and he said coldly, "Oh? That means, you personally did not allow our inspection?" He snorted softly: "If so, are you Are you going to refuse inspection by force?"

Since "it has nothing to do with the tribute", Sun Weifeng didn't even bother to say "the envoy" and started "you" directly.

Solgo frowned and said, "Director Sun doesn't know about this either?"

Sun Weifeng didn't know what he was talking about, and there was some doubt on his face for a while.Solgo glanced at the port guard beside him, with a look of embarrassment on his face, hesitantly asked: "Can Director Sun take a step to speak?"

The squadron leader of the guard team next to Sun Weifeng immediately became alert, and reminded Sun Weifeng: "Director, be careful of fraud."

After waving his hand, Sun Weifeng sized up Solgo, then at his son, thought for a while, and suddenly smiled and said, "Why not?"

Then he turned his head slightly and said to the squadron leader: "You understand the rules, so I don't need to say more. No matter what happens later, it won't affect your work, understand?"

"Yes, I understand." The squadron leader lowered his head slightly, but his tone was very certain.

Sun Weifeng stopped talking to him, but said to Suo Erguo, "Go in and talk."

Solgo nodded, but told his son: "It's still the original order: no one is allowed to enter unless you die."

The young man raised his chin slightly and replied, "Don't worry, Ama."

Suoerguo stopped talking, and stretched out his hand to Sun Weifeng to make false quotations: "Director Sun, please."

Sun Weifeng didn't say much, he lifted his foot and went into the cabin.This cabin is not only one, but connected to many rooms.

According to Sun Weifeng's high-level understanding of the Jinghua-style armed transport ship, this section of cabin is the best cabin and cargo warehouse of the ship. Generally speaking, if there are no important guests, these cabins are used to store valuables and even gold and silver. If there are distinguished guests, it will temporarily be used as a special cabin, and it will be replaced with high-end furniture and other items before leaving the port.

Right now, this section of cabin is obviously used as a special cabin, and as soon as Sun Weifeng came in, he found that the doors of the other cabins were all open, only the best cabin, the door was closed, and there was no sign of opening.

Sun Weifeng's heart moved, and he thought to himself: Could it be that the Jurchens want to pay tribute to some rare and exotic treasures but are worried that I will meet with Cai at Tianjin Port?What a joke, I haven't seen any treasures in Tianjin Port, how could I be greedy for your little things!
But he immediately felt that something was wrong. The Jurchens might not have seen anything in the world, but since they were missions who came to pay tribute, they had to report in advance what they brought to pay tribute.In other words, the imperial court already knew what tribute they had brought. In this case, how could Tianjin Port dare to take advantage of the money-this is tantamount to robbery and robbing the emperor, isn't it against his own head?

Sun Weifeng secretly thought: Could it be that they are planning to sell some private goods, but they dare not let us know?But what can the Jurchen do? The top of the sky is Dongzhu, ginseng, mink, etc. Unless there is a "Dongzhu King" with excellent color and huge size, I am not even interested in taking a second look. So nagging?

However, what happened next surprised Sun Weifeng even more.I saw Sorguo walked outside the cabin with the closed door and knocked on the door lightly, and said politely: "Gege, the person here is the director of Tianjin Port, and it should be Gao Situ's confidant."

This sentence itself is a bit weird, but Sun Weifeng is even more surprised by two things: one is the term "Ge Ge", isn't this the title only for the sisters or daughters of Baylor in Jurchen?This Jurchen mission is here to pay tribute, how could there be a Ge Ge in it?
The second is that Sorgo's attitude is also rather strange. When he spoke to this Princess, his expression was "polite", not respectful.It's as if... that's not his master.

Sun Weifeng was at a loss, but the situation was unclear at this time, so he had no choice but to remain calm, neither asking questions nor showing any surprise.

At this time, a beautiful female voice came out from inside: "Solgo Baylor has worked hard, but I heard that according to the rules of the Han people, women cannot meet with his family members before they leave the cabinet. Since Director Sun is his confidant, I must also It’s inconvenient to see him, please ask him to go back.”

Sun Weifeng's face suddenly changed.
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PS: The guests have just left, so I will check if I can come out in the early morning. If I am too sleepy, it may be tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)