Smuggling Daming

Zhou Zhong was not used to the four Japanese women's attire, but to his surprise, many people in the chamber of commerce were very interested in these four Japanese women. The news spread that a Japanese girl gave someone away, and it turned out that not only someone from the Chamber of Commerce came to ask for it, but even Ma Liang from Jinyiwei happily came to ask for one, which made Zhou Zhong have to admire the taste of these people. special.

But since someone is willing to ask for it, Zhou Zhong will naturally not leave a few Japanese girls to waste his own food, and keeping them at home is likely to cause conflicts in his family, so Zhou Zhong soon sent all four Japanese girls away. Among them, Ma Liang is one, and the remaining three are allocated to people in the chamber of commerce. As for the others, it doesn’t matter. Zhou Zhong has already discussed with Jin Wenxian and Ashikaga Kakki, and asked them to organize a group of North Korean and The young women of the Japanese country are used to solve the problem that there are more bachelors in the chamber of commerce.

Speaking of which, many people in the Chamber of Commerce are bachelors. This is because most of them were from poor backgrounds before, otherwise they would not take the risk of participating in smuggling. Although they earned some money after smuggling, in the eyes of ordinary Daming women, smuggling The risk is too great, so few people are willing to marry ordinary smugglers. In addition, smugglers have today and tomorrow, so many people spend as much as they earn, and throw their money into brothels and gambling houses. I want to get married and have no money.

Zhou Zhong also saw this situation in the chamber of commerce. Although others were accustomed to the living conditions of those smugglers, Zhou Zhong thought it was abnormal, and most of the members of the chamber of commerce did not have normal families.This is also not conducive to the cultivation of chamber members' loyalty to the chamber of commerce.And after having a family, the children of the members of the chamber of commerce can study together, making them the backup members of the chamber of commerce, so solving the marriage problems of the members of the chamber of commerce is simply killing multiple birds with one stone.

It is precisely because of this that when Zhou Zhong recruited members of the Chamber of Commerce years ago, he planned to recruit some young women from poor families to the island. More contact with these women.Maybe a few pairs will be made at any time.

Zhou Zhong's method is very good. At the beginning, he did recruit some young women, and there were even many women among the disaster victims. After these women came to the port, they usually had a lot of contact with some people in the chamber of commerce. Long time love.Many people are married to people in the chamber of commerce.

But these women are not stupid. The people they marry are those with good character in the chamber of commerce, but many of the men in the smuggling business are short-tempered or have some kind of problem. Not small.But few women are willing to marry them, and it's worse.This kind of people accounted for more than half of the staff of the chamber of commerce, and the women Zhou Zhong introduced from North Korea and Japan were also prepared for those who could not find wives.

Of course, Zhou Zhong’s approach may not be fair to those North Korean and Japanese women, but their domestic situation is also a mess, and those women who dare to come to Ming Dynasty can’t survive in the country, so It is for them to venture out to sea to find a way out.It is already a great gift to be able to eat a full meal, let alone marry and have children here.And under the care of the Chamber of Commerce, life in the future will definitely be worry-free.

On a small plain not far to the south of Shuangyu Port, a newly-rising town has stood here. It was originally a residential area built by Zhou Zhong to solve the accommodation problem of the Chamber of Commerce personnel. At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people. The householders, and they are all from the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, so this place is called Nanyang Village, but later, with the increase of the Chamber of Commerce's manpower, there are more and more residents here, and there are manpower patrols organized by the Chamber of Commerce here. The safest residential area in Yugang, so many people from other chambers of commerce began to build residences nearby, so the scale of Nanyang Village became larger and larger, and now there are nearly [-] households living here, so the place was also renamed For Nanyang Town.

In just over half a year, Nanyang Town has expanded from a small village with only a few hundred households to a town, making it a bustling place in Shuangyu Port. Every day, many people come here to do business. Most of them sell fish and vegetables, and then there are all kinds of small vendors. They set up stalls on the streets of Nanyang Town, attracting many residents of the town to buy, and many naughty children run around in groups on the streets. Going there has added a bit of vitality to Nanyang Town.

However, the expansion of Nanyang Town is too fast, which has also brought some problems to the development of the town. For example, the original Nanyang Village was only managed by some personnel organized by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, but now after being upgraded to a town, those management personnel are seriously insufficient. Later, some management personnel were added, but because of the lack of talents in managing the town, some problems occurred in the entire Nanyang Town. For example, the most prominent one was that the original good law and order began to deteriorate. Things started to increase.

However, this kind of public security problem suddenly disappeared some time ago. This is mainly because a Jinyiwei Qianhu Office suddenly appeared in the town. More than 100 Jinyiwei led by Ma Liang and Wu Shi patrolled the town every day to help Nanyang The Chamber of Commerce manages the town, and as a result, under the attack of these vicious Jinyiwei, no one dares to make trouble in the town anymore, and the law and order have been greatly improved, even surpassing the original situation when the law and order was at its best.

Regarding this situation, Zhou Zhong was also very surprised. Originally, Ma Liang and the Jinyiwei lived next to the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. It happened that there was a shortage of people in Nanyang Town, so he called Ma Liang and the Jinyiwei here. Unexpectedly, the effect was surprisingly good. Now not only the law and order in Nanyang Town has improved, but Jinyiwei is also responsible for collecting taxes from the shops and hawkers in the town. , In this way, the chamber of commerce will have an extra income. Although it is not a lot, at least it can make the income and expenditure of supporting these Jin Yiwei even, which is not a big surprise.

Zhou Zhong received a notice from Priest Nader today, saying that he had already built a test cannon, and he planned to try firing the cannon today, so he was invited to visit. Zhou Zhong was so happy that he ran away without breakfast. When they came, they found that Priest Nader and the others were still preparing, and it was estimated that it would not be until noon at the earliest, so he simply ran to the Jinyiwei Qianhu House for breakfast.

Although the Qianhusuo has not been established for a long time, it has become one of the landmark buildings in Nanyang Town. The surrounding streets are also extremely lively. There are all kinds of vendors gathered in the early morning, but there is no one. Selling breakfast, this is because there is a special canteen in the Qianhu Institute, and the food standard set by Zhou Zhong for Jinyiwei is also very good, no one is willing to come out and spend money to eat outside food.

After Zhou Sheng brought Wangcai and other attendants into the Thousand Households House, the Jin Yiwei who met him saluted him one after another. After getting along with him for a while, most of the Jin Yiwei had already known him, and Zhou Zhong was able to call a lot of Jin Yiwei. In addition, he treated these Jin Yiwei very preferentially, so many Jin Yiwei were very polite to him.

When Zhou Zhong came to the cafeteria in the Qianhu Institute, he found Ma Liang, Wu Shi and other Jinyiwei officers sitting together and preparing to have breakfast. At that moment, he also walked over to greet everyone with a smile and sat down, chatting with them While waiting for Wangcai and others to help make breakfast.

But before Zhou Zhong had a few words with Ma Liang and the others, they saw a young and beautiful woman in a blue dress holding a plate with a lot of breakfast on it, and then placed it beside Ma Liang with a gentle face , causing Wu Shi and the others around him to look envious.

Zhou Zhong didn't recognize it at the beginning, until the woman showed her black teeth when she smiled, and then he suddenly remembered that this woman was the Japanese woman Ma Liang wanted from him, but he didn't expect this Japanese woman The woman washed her face and put on the clothes of a Daming woman. She looked very beautiful, but unfortunately her teeth were too dark, and I don't know if they can become white in the future?

"My lord, do you have any Japanese girls there? When will you give each of us one?" At this time, a captain of Jinyiwei asked Zhou Zhong with a flattering expression.

"That's right, my lord, when will you get some Japanese women again? We don't expect to be as beautiful as Mrs. Ma, as long as they are average. Of course, it is best to have whiter teeth." At this time, Wu Shi, who is tall and big, followed closely He opened his mouth and said, when they first saw the Japanese woman brought back by Ma Liang, they all laughed at Ma Liang's heavy taste, but when Ma Liang asked the Japanese woman to wash her face and put on the clothes of the Daming woman, she immediately asked Wu Shi These people regretted it, especially this Japanese girl who was so gentle. Ma Liang was almost opening his mouth with his clothes in his clothes.

But before Zhou Zhong could speak, Ma Liang, who was being served by the Japanese girl to drink porridge, laughed and said: "You boys know that you are jealous now, and I told you that the Japanese girl is gentle and considerate, but you guys are not I don’t know good people, but say I have a bad taste, regret it now!”

Hearing Ma Liang's ridicule, Wu Shi and his group scolded angrily. They are all rough people, and they are used to beating and scolding. Zhou Zhong has long been used to this kind of situation. Shi, Ma Liang and the others had almost scolded, and then said: "Brother Wu Shi, don't be jealous of Ma Baihu. I bought some young women a while ago, and this time there are not only Japanese women, but also North Korean women. If you want it, you have to work hard for me to improve the security and taxation of Nanyang Town, and whoever has the most credit at that time, I will let him be the first to pick!"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's promise, now Wu Shi and the others stopped arguing, and they all patted their chests to reassure Zhou Zhong that with their presence, the law and order in Nanyang Town would definitely not be worse.After breakfast, Zhou Zhong stayed in the Qianhu Office until almost noon before leaving to watch Priest Nader's first test of a cannon. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

ps: I'm really sorry, I went out for a bit of a hurry at noon today, and I just came back. Now I upload today's Chapter 1, and the update is still the same in the evening.