Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 100 Opening No.1

More than ten days later, taking advantage of the gentle sea breeze, the Ganfu set off back to Hirado.During his stay in Nagasaki, Lin Hai was constantly socializing every day.

Since the Nagasaki ministers had invited Lin Hai as a guest, the acting official Suezuna Masanao and Takagi Sakuemon and the other town ministers naturally followed the leaders' footsteps.In addition, there are local businessmen in Nagasaki such as Sotaro Araki, all of whom are vying to make friends with Lin Hai.

Lin Hai then took his two sworn brothers around as guests, and he was busy every day. In just over ten days, he gave away gifts and received piles of gifts in return.In terms of gift-giving culture, the Japanese country can be said to be exactly the same as the Ming Dynasty, which also left a deep impression on Westerners.

After returning to Hirado, he first met with everyone at Bowang Hao and distributed the dividends immediately so that his subordinates could spend them as soon as possible.The income from this voyage far exceeded Lin Hai's expectations, otherwise he would definitely not have set such a high dividend ratio.

He wants men with longing eyes, not contented rich men.Things like Crooked Mouth and Thin Monkey are very good. They spent more than 200 taels of silver in just a few days. Of course, the best ones are Nine Fingers.

After finishing the dividends, the next step was the transaction with the Matsuura family.Lin Hai could only lament that he had a hard-working life and would rarely have any leisure time in his life. However, this was how a man established his career. There was nothing to say. In the future, training and fighting in the army would be the most difficult thing in the world.

That afternoon, Lin Hai moved into Li Guozhu's home.After coming to Japan for so many days, he either lived on a boat or in a temple. This was the first time he lived in a mansion.

After arriving at Li's house, he first paid homage to Li Dan's god, and then Li Guozhu took him to the back room to pay homage to Li Dan's wives and concubines to show his kindness to the family.Lin Hai gave gifts to Li Guozhu's family, including his son and several unmarried sisters. The youngest among them was about the same age as Qizai, and he was very cute and pretty.

When this little Lolita was born eight years ago, Li Dan held a grand banquet in Hirado. Those who came to congratulate include the Matsuura family, Dutch Commercial Director Specks, British Commercial Director Kirks, and others. More than 50 Chinese businessmen from Nagasaki, headed by Ou Huayu, were really gathered together.

Things changed in the blink of an eye. Ou Huayu passed away five years ago, the British Hirado Commercial Store closed down a year and a half ago, and Kirks died on the ship returning to London.

During the meal, Li Guozhu talked about this past event with a bit of sadness, and Lin Hai proposed to visit the ruins of the British Commercial Building.

The two of them strolled to the door of the dilapidated British Commercial Building. Lin Hai suddenly thought: "What a good warehouse, it's a pity that it is rotting here like this. How about I send someone to demolish it and rebuild it for you."

Li Guozhu's heart moved. This was originally his family's warehouse. Later, Li Dan shifted his trade focus to Dongfan and basically left no inventory in the Japanese country. The warehouse was abandoned and later rented to the British.

Now that Dongpan is occupied by Zheng Zhilong, Li Guozhu's future career focus is still in Hirado, and he does need to build another warehouse, but he doesn't know why Lin Hai is so active.

Lin Hai smiled and said: "I have two hundred prisoners on board. I am planning to let them build a house in Dongfan. I will practice here first, but you have to take care of the food for me."

Li Guozhu had heard Lin Hai say that he wanted to build a colony in Dongfan, and he knew that this was what he wanted to do, so he immediately agreed.

That night, Lin Hai experienced a Japanese-style bath from the Edo period in the Li family's mansion.Different from the imagined painting style, there was no bubble bath in Japan in this era. That thing is still a patent of local chickens. There is no need to think about beautiful female generals and the most beautiful concubines.

The so-called Japanese hot spring bath is actually more like a sauna in later generations.This method of bathing involves first boiling water in a large pot, and then introducing the steam through a pipe into a sealed furoden. After the person is steamed until they turn red, they are then washed in the water.

I have to say that taking a sauna after running around for days is also a good treat.Early the next morning, a refreshed Lin Hai returned to the Bowang and took Feng Yidao and others to Tangren Town with a large number of captives.

Li Guozhu went out to greet him, and suddenly he heard someone in the prisoner team calling him: "Master Li? Is that man Li Guozhu, Master Li?" Li Guozhu stared at it, and the person calling looked familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was for a moment, so he just heard The man said again: "I am Yuan Jin, Yuan Jin, Yuan Balao!"

Li Guozhu finally recognized who this person was and exclaimed: "Ba Lao? Didn't you go to Dengzhou? Why are you here?"

Yuan Jin slapped his thigh: "It is indeed Mr. Li. Is the old captain okay?"

Lin Hai looked on and was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that there was an old acquaintance of Li Dan in his captive team. This was really a coincidence.

It is said that on the mission ship that day, Yuan Jin had extraordinary vision. At that time, he was still wondering about this person's origin and wanted to find time to investigate his background. Later, he forgot about it when he was busy.

"What? Does the eldest brother recognize this person?" Lin Hai interrupted the conversation between the two and asked Li Guozhu.

"Ba Lao is an old acquaintance of my father. Speaking of which, he is the old landowner of Dongfan..."

After Li Guozhu's explanation, Lin Hai finally figured out the origin of Yuan Jin.It turned out that this man was a pirate from Fujian. As early as 20 years ago, he had robbed Zhangquan people to colonize Taiwan and farmed and fished in the lower reaches of Beigang River. That's why Li Guozhu said that he was an old landowner from Dongfan.

Ten years later, Li Dan also set his sights on the Dongfan land, so he sent Yan Siqi to lead people to immigrate.The place chosen by the latter was in Jingang, which was adjacent to Beigang where Yuan Jin was located. There were occasional frictions between the two sides, but generally they were in peace.

Yuan Jin later briefly joined Li Dan's group, but he mainly made a living by robbing and farming, and was not qualified to participate in Li Dan's trade. At that time, there were many such pirate groups attached to Li Dan.

Five years ago, Yuan Jin broke away from Li Dan's men and surrendered to Fujian Water Standard General Shen Yourong together with his sworn brother Li Zhong.Not long after that, he followed Shen Yourong north to Dengzhou to take up a post, and he had no contact with the Li family and his son since then.

Lin Hai did not expect that Yuan Jin had such rich experience. Later generations would regard Yan Siqi as the founding king. Now it seems that this glorious title should actually belong to Yuan Jin.

Of course, the great pirates Lin Feng and Lin Daoqian during the Jialong period also visited Dongfan, but they only stayed briefly and did not organize immigration development like Yuan Jin did.If you don't count the Han immigrants who did not leave their names in the historical records during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, then Yuan Jin can really be regarded as the No. 1 opening.

This person was familiar with the hydrology, geography, customs and customs of Dongfan, and had experience in water warfare. He had also served as a mid-level general in the Ming army. For Lin Hai at the moment, he was really a rare talent.

However, after all, Yuan Jin lost his official position because of Lin Haicai. It is hard to say whether he can sincerely surrender. For now, he can only serve as a staff officer like Wang Minzheng, under strict surveillance at all times.

"It's really a flood that washed away the Dragon King Temple. It turned out to be his own family." After hearing this, Lin Hai said to Li Guo.

　Tomorrow is a 5000-word chapter, which is also the final chapter of the first volume. This chapter will give the protagonist Lin Hai’s ultimate goal, and it is also the grand purpose of the book. Please don’t miss it.

　　Also, let me give you a preview, the second volume is called Dongfan Jiye.

　　
　
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