The Swordsman System

As long as you have money, you can go anywhere.

Gao Ming paid the fare and got on the merchant ship heading south to Huai'an.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the sea ban was abolished long ago. Fortunately, such a brilliant man had the opportunity to return to the Middle Earth.

It’s just that the weather is unpredictable. After going out to sea, it was calm for a period of time. After a while, suddenly dark clouds covered the top, and then there was a strong wind and heavy rain.

In this way, it took three days of sailing at sea before seeing land, and then the merchant ship sailed along the coastline, all the way south.

During the few days on the ship, no pursuers from the Vajra Gate were found, which seemed to be the cause of the big storm.

Gao Ming took the opportunity to refine the non-attribute internal force brought by the marrow washing pill on the boat. Today, he has completely refined it into his own skill. At this time, Gao Ming has already had 11 years of skill. A master of first-class mid-term skills.

11 years of skill, say more or less, say less.It can be regarded as a watershed in the rivers and lakes.

The accumulation of internal strength is a long process, and the older guys who have been practicing for a long time are more fortunate.

In addition, there are other ways to accumulate internal strength. For example, the cultivation speed of Juxue-level internal strength is three times faster than that of ordinary people. The Beiming Divine Art, which is known as the fastest accumulation of internal strength, is the best choice in this regard.

Gao Ming dreams about Beiming all the time, and the price of the Beiming magical skills in the mall is outrageously high, Gao Ming can only hope for the task rewards.

Those who have been under 5 years are regarded as gangsters.

Those who have less than 10 years of skill can be regarded as newcomers in the world.

With more than 10 years of skill, he can be regarded as an upstart.

With more than 20 years of skill, he can be regarded as a master of the rivers and lakes.

With more than 30 years of skill, he can be regarded as a top master in the world.

Having said that, to measure the strength of a martial artist, at least one has to consider it comprehensively, and never just measure it from one aspect.Martial arts, light work, poisoning, internal strength, and other special abilities are all symbols of one's own strength.

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On this day, the calm sea was shimmering, and the warm sea breeze was blowing, and there were still a few curious seagulls staying on the stern of the boat.

At this time, the boatmen on the boat panicked and started making noises. Gao Ming came to his senses and listened attentively. It turned out that he had run into Japanese pirates.

"Where are the Japanese pirates?" Gao Ming grabbed a boatman and asked.

"Where the Japanese pirates are not Japanese pirates, why do you care about this?" The little boatman was in a state of confusion, and was very dissatisfied with being dragged by Gao Ming to ask questions.

Gao Ming's eyes turned cold, and he exerted a little force on his palms. The boatman's grasped arm seemed to be tightly locked by an iron hoop, and he immediately woke up from the pain.

"Oh, sir, please forgive me, how do you know whose Japanese pirates those are?"

Gao Ming didn't look like he was lying, so he let him go. He squinted his eyes and looked carefully. On the vast sea, at a distance of three to four hundred meters, three large ships with strange shapes approached slowly.

Looking back carefully, there are dozens of small boats being lowered from the big boat, and each small boat is full of people. It can be vaguely seen that the people on board are all carrying their fellows.

Gao Ming made a rough count, there are four people in a small boat, about 80 people in twenty or so boats, if there is no master to sit in command, Gao Ming is not afraid of the opponent.

After one hour and three quarters passed, the other party had already approached, the merchant ship had to stop, the other party boarded the merchant ship, the guards on the ship saw the large number of the other party, they did not dare to resist, and were all disarmed.

Gao Ming listened to the other party's words, unexpectedly there were both Han and Hu, including Dongying people.Gao Ming secretly wondered why there were Han Chinese among the Japanese pirates, and secretly argued that they could not be Japanese pirates, most of the time the coastal people pretended to be pirates, but pretending to be Japanese pirates was more convenient to deceive people, so Gao Ming decided to stand still and wait and see what happened.

The other party found out the person in charge, and within a few words, they decided to leave a boat full of people. Gao Ming heard clearly that the young and strong people on board wanted to go with them.

Gao Ming was considered young and strong, so he was escorted to a small boat and transported back and forth several times before the big boat approached and removed the goods on board.

Gao Ming looked on coldly. He had long heard that pirates and Japanese pirates were rampant along the southeast coast. Although they had been wiped out repeatedly, it was a pity that they couldn't stand the profit-seeking of big merchants along the coast.

These pirates did not kill innocent people indiscriminately, they just robbed things and people. Listening to their accents, Koreans, Japanese pirates, and Han people were all mixed in, and they couldn't figure out where they came from.

But Gao Ming saw through it at a glance. This was probably instigated by a wealthy family. Although he gathered many foreigners, Gao Ming knew the origin of the Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty clearly, so how could he be deceived by them.

Anyway, Gao Ming wanted to find out who was behind the scenes, so Gao Ming followed them.

After staying in the stuffy and airless cabin for less than a day, the ship slowly docked, and Gao Ming was taken to another sea ship along with the others.

Looking out, the harbor is very hidden, and there are almost a hundred warships in the style of pirate ships that go to and from it.

Here, there are both Han Chinese, Koreans, and even Portuguese and Dongying people.

Gao Ming heard with his own ears that his boat was sold to a Dongying man by that Han man at a price of 10 taels per person.

Gao Ming's heart was filled with coldness because he was doing human trafficking at sea. He had guessed earlier that the reason why the pirates on the eastern coast were repeatedly banned was actually caused by the locals, and even some of the pirates were pretended by the locals themselves.

The real period of Japanese pirates was the Jiajing period. At that time, the imperial court had wiped out most of the Japanese pirates. As for the so-called Japanese pirates later,

"Hmph, these noble gentry of the clan are willing to die by themselves, so they can't blame me." Gao Ming sneered in his heart.

"Large World Mission - Jingqing Coast"

"Task Level: Difficult"

"Mission description: This mission is not limited in time, find out the real culprits behind the scenes involving the local and Japanese princes, and catch them all in one go"

Gao Ming checked the mission description, and since the princes of Japan participated, he just happened to kill a few little devils with his own hands.

However, to fight against the outside world, you must first settle down inside. Before going to Japan, these local gentry are the first objects that need to be taken care of.

After making up his mind, Gao Ming stopped deliberately hiding and kicked down the prison door. The pirates on board were not Gao Ming's opponents at all.

There was a commotion on the ship, but it alarmed the masters in the harbor.Gao Ming's eyes and ears are sharp, he vaguely heard the sound of the master flying through the air, he no longer wants to fight, and he mentions the Han who made the deal and gallops away.

The harbor was backed by the mountains and faced the sea, so Gao Ming picked up a man and galloped away, and in a short while took advantage of the cover of the mountain road to get rid of the pursuers.

When he found a dilapidated temple in the mountains, Gao Ming stabbed the Han man on the ground. This man had already been captured by Gao Ming, and Jian Lanhua Fu's hand tapped the acupuncture points.

Gao Ming disdained this kind of person and showed mercy, the life and death talisman penetrated into his body in an instant, howling ghosts and wolves resounded through the ancient temple, and after a cup of tea, Gao Ming had the answer to everything he wanted.

These maritime armed groups are neither "Japanese" nor "bandits". They are actually some armed groups of merchants who are forced by the "forbidden sea" and operate in the sea. Totally missed the target.

Now during the Wanli period, the sea ban has been loosened, but the 'Japanese pirates' who have tasted the sweetness from the robbery in the past few years, how can they easily give up.

Therefore, whether it is the intrusion of foreign "real bandits" or the confrontation of domestic "fake bandits", the coastal chaos is a unique product of the imperial court's "sea ban" policy.The Ming Dynasty gave up the opportunity to open up and develop the sea, but concentrated its forces on "suppressing bandits", and mistakenly confused the different concepts of "real bandits" and "fake bandits", which led to the ending of more and more chaos.

The development of marine trade is the trend of world development and the necessity of the development of marine society.The imperial court implemented the "Forbidden Sea", which completely stripped away the atmosphere of the ocean that had already floated above the farming civilization, and isolated the Chinese people from the world trade system. This anti-trend and anti-people move will inevitably lead to the sea people to rise up and resist .As the open commercial roads were blocked by force, scattered and multi-channel smuggling trade channels were formed instead.

In the end, the problem of "Japanese pirates" along the coast of China gradually subsided. It was by no means the merits of any anti-Japanese general. It was because Emperor Jiajing died in 1567. Emperor Longqing relaxed the "sea ban" policy and approved the "opening" of Yuegang in Zhangzhou. "Mutual Market", allowing Chinese merchants and people to go to sea for trade. Once the "ban on sea" is lifted, the struggle will be slowed down, and trade will prosper.It was the continuous resistance of Chinese maritime merchants that forced the court to obey the tide of ocean trade, and the Ming Dynasty once again revealed a ray of blue dawn on the sea.

Moreover, the person Gao Ming captured was not an ordinary person. His name was Zeng Xinzhi, and he was the nephew of the great pirate Zeng Yiben. He knew a lot about the pirates at sea in recent years. Ten's explanation was clear.

According to Zeng Xinzhi, after the mid-to-late period of Jiajing, some wrong policies on the southeast coast and corrupt officials led to social chaos in Zhejiang and Fujian at that time. In order to calm down the social turmoil, the imperial court decided to impose a sea ban. Another stupid trick of corrupt officials who were born in Wen Dynasty cut off the livelihood of many people involved in the entire trade industry chain (fish industry, handicraft industry, shipbuilding industry, trade) since the Tang Dynasty. These people took risks in order to make a living , engaged in armed smuggling.In order to fight against the imperial army, these smugglers began to introduce some pirates from Japan, southern Korea, and professional samurai who had failed in the Japanese Warring States period to the southeast coast of China.

Comparing the Japanese pirates in the early Ming Dynasty and the Japanese pirates in the middle and late period, we can see the difference. The number of pirates in the early period was very small, and they were mainly in the Bohai Bay area such as Liaoning, Shandong, etc., because Japanese ship technology could not cross the East China Sea at all. The Japanese and Koreans in the south were huge in scale in the later period, organized and disciplined, and more complex in composition. In addition to the Japanese and Koreans in the south, there were also Han Chinese and Portuguese, from ordinary pirates to Japanese samurai who received professional training since childhood.Among them, Chinese smugglers played the most important role.

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