The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 34 Hunting
When Lin Zhirui heard his father ask this question, he looked at the table and said, "It's nothing more than a dozen taels."

Lin Shizhang snorted coldly: "I don't know how to make up lies. I can give you, Master Lin, a dozen taels of silver to make a trip?"

Lin Zhirui had actually received hundreds of taels of gifts from Li Dan. Otherwise, how could he be so active? Seeing that his father had seen through it, he did not dare to say anything more.

Lin Shizhang looked at Lin Zhirui's rogue appearance and sighed.

He also knew that his younger son had no hope of taking the imperial examination, and at this time he couldn't help but think about his child's decline.

He has been an official for decades and has saved tens of thousands of taels, which is enough for him to spend his whole life. However, he has five sons and six daughters. Now the eldest son and second son are now grandfathers, and the family population has already exceeded fifty. .

A hundred years later, several of his children would share the family property, and many of his adult children and grandchildren would not even be able to live up to the standard of a middle-class family.

Considering that Lin Zhirui had no hope of studying and was young, he would have been easily bullied when the family was separated. It was normal for him to want to cheat some money to spend.

"That's all, you don't have many ways to get money. If you want to date Li Dan, go ahead."

Lin Shizhang looked at his son who jumped up and ran to the door of the dining hall, and then told him: "Then Li Dan spends money to treat you to food and drinks. You can accept it, but if he wants you to be a staff member, you must not agree."

Lin Shizhang said sincerely: "Li Dan has a weak heart. Although he is prosperous today, no one in the officialdom is willing to protect him. In a few years, his family will definitely fall."

He emphasized: "And if you work as a staff member for others, our family's reputation will be completely ruined. What skills will you use to eat and drink in the future?"

Lin Zhirui smiled at Lin Shizhang and put the book in his hand on the table next to the door: "Wang Wenlong who wrote this book is also an aide in Gao Yin's house. What does it matter?"

Lin Shizhang was almost angered to death by Lin Zhirui, but at this moment Lin Zhirui had already disappeared. Lin Shizhang could only use a walking stick and cursed that this guy came to him to collect debts in his previous life.

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Just when Lin Zhirui got on the carriage and rushed to Li Dan's villa, Li Dan and Xu Xinsu were also reading in the villa.

"History of Portugal" was published in Chapter 4 and finally caused a repercussions in Fujian, especially in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. There are a large number of maritime merchants in these two places engaged in ocean trade. Even local officials often need to deal with red-haired people. They All are interested in Portuguese history.

Wang Wenlong's book was just right in line with their appetites, and the richness of the historical materials in this history book far exceeded that of other privately written history books at this time. All knowledgeable people spoke highly of this book.

At this time, after listening to Xu Xinsu read Cabral's process of establishing the Indian colony, Li Dan's eyes were full of joy:
"Happy, happy! Cabral is truly a hero of the world!"

Li Dan also grew up step by step as a maritime merchant from a young age. He and his sworn brothers often engaged in the business of killing people and selling goods when he was young. If some scholars still feel inappropriate about Cabral's insidious behavior, Li Dan's heart is completely There is no such concept of good and evil. He only thinks that Cabral can open up the Indian colony with more than 1000 people, which is really his role model.

"This Wang Wenlong really has something inside him. I must ask him a way to build a great cause!" Li Dan said happily. Cabral's story gave him an inexplicable confidence. Cabral's men were only ten A few ships with more than 1000 people dared to colonize India, and the strength of Li Dan's men was more than ten times that of Cabral. Is there any reason why they can't continue to grow and develop?
Xu Xinsu heard this and said to Li Dan: "I talked with Wang Wenlong before, and he said that there are three strategies to develop our business."

Li Dan nodded and said, "Come and listen."

Xu Xinsu told Li Dan all what Wang Wenlong had said before, and finally emphasized what Wang Wenlong said about the reclamation of Damuan Island.

But Li Dan frowned when he heard this: "How can we agree to this with so many sea masters under our command if we don't do good trade and develop desert islands?"

Only [-]% of Li Dan's men are his own ships, and the rest are sea owners who have taken refuge in him to gain protection. These people have taken refuge in Li Dan's men just to participate in the high-profit routes monopolized by Li Dan. They are asked to go They definitely don't want to go through the trouble of opening up a deserted island.In fact, Li Dan could have sent his own forces to lead the way to open up wasteland, or spend money to hire the sea masters who had taken refuge under him to manage the big officials, but after thinking about it, he was still unwilling to act.

Just as Wang Wenlong made the previous judgment, Li Dan and his team just reaped the dividends of the opening of the sea and slowly monopolized the maritime trade. They only wanted to do simple and highly profitable business. As for Li Dan's own ships, it was even more important. To do the business with the lowest risk and the highest profit, he no longer has any ambition to develop a colony.

With this mentality, it was only a matter of time before Li Dan's sea trade team began to decline. In a few years, it would be defeated by the colonists who came to Fujian to develop trade and the subsequent rise of pirates with more fighting spirit.

But Li Dan is still dreaming of making money easily:
"Wang Wenlong must have other strategies. I will ask him for advice later."

Xu Xinsu also nodded, thinking that her eldest brother would definitely be able to find out the details.

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Li Dan's return to Zhangzhou was also a big event for Zhangzhou Prefecture. The banquet held at Zhishan Villa was crowded with guests.

After everyone had some food and drink, they brought horses for a hunt. Most of the maritime merchants and military officers were able to ride horses, but some civil servants and the literati who came to the banquet had really unflattering riding skills.

Some people didn't dare to ride horses at all. To make it easier for them, Li Dan got a dozen donkeys today. These literati rode their donkeys slowly behind the hunting team, pointing at the flowers and autumn water and composing some poems.

Wang Wenlong was dressed as a Confucian scholar, but he easily jumped on the horse.

"Brother Zhang, have you seen that mountain muntjac in front of you?"

Zhang Hong took a look and said with a smile: "Mr. Wang goes to the left, I go to the right, and we surround it."

Wang Wenlong nodded.

Wang Wenlong's legs lightly clamped the horse's belly, and the horse rushed into the forest like an arrow from the string, blocking the way of the mountain muntjac from the left. Zhang Hong followed on horseback from the right, and the mountain muntjac rushed left and right. Suddenly unable to run out, I was so tired that I had a stress reaction and stood there stupidly.

Wang Wenlong picked up his bow and arrow, and knocked down the mountain deer with one arrow.

Seeing the prey falling straight to the ground, Zhang Hong laughed loudly: "It's so refreshing!"

Li Dan watched in great surprise as Wang Wenlong rode back. Wang Wenlong's riding and shooting ability had surpassed that of some of his guards.

Li Dan was also surprised to see Zhang Hong, Wang Wenlong and Li Dan talking and laughing on the horse. Zhang Hong likes to make friends with brave and cheerful people, and has always kept a distance from literati. I don't know how Wang Jiansheng can become friends with Zhang Hong.

Everyone played on the mountain for a long time, and only came down at dusk.

The servant dragged the mountain muntjac that Wang Wenlong shot to death to the open space. He saw that Wang Wenlong's bow and arrow were piercing the mountain muntjac's eye socket. After killing it with one arrow, a piece of suede skin was completely preserved. For a moment, everyone shouted A chorus of praise.

Wang Wenlong handed the horse over to the servants of the Li family, took off his armbands and girdle, and was about to go to the hall to have a banquet when he saw Li Dan walking out from the side with a smile.

(End of this chapter)