Smuggling Daming

"What? Escaped?" Zhou Zhong questioned Wu Shan in disbelief in the newly established office of Admiral of the Four Seas in Shuangyu Port. He never expected that Zhang Rui would be escorted to Shuangyu Port soon. But he escaped at the last moment.

"Don't be angry, my lord. This subordinate has already checked in person and found that Zhang Rui should have pried open the window and jumped into the sea shortly after the ship left Ningbo Port. Judging from the sea conditions over there, even if the other party knows how to swim , I’m afraid I won’t be able to swim on land, so I’m likely to have drowned in the sea!” Wu Shan said at this time with a worried expression.

In fact, when Wu Shan first received the news, he was also very surprised, and when he learned that the incident was true, he immediately scolded the guards who were escorting him, and then went to the section of the sea where Zhang Rui disappeared to check it out. It was concluded that the other party was probably drowned.

"Drown?" Zhou Zhong was taken aback when he heard this conclusion, but then he said a little displeased, "Since you said you were drowned, then quickly find Zhang Rui's body. If you can't find the body, then The other party is probably still alive!"

Wu Shan had been following Zhou Zhong for a long time, and this was the first time he had seen him so angry. He immediately agreed with trepidation, turned around and left, and urged his subordinates to find Zhang Rui's body.But the result of the search was exactly what Zhou Zhong was most worried about. Zhang Rui was really not alive, but there was no way to prove that he had been drowned.

Regarding Zhang Rui's jump into the sea, Zhou Zhong wanted to hide it from Bai Junwan for the time being, but later saw that Zhang Rui's life and death could not be determined, and finally confessed to Bai Junwan.Unexpectedly, when Bai Junwan heard the news, she seemed very calm, she just sighed faintly and said nothing, but afterward, Bai Mengwan told Zhou Zhong that her sister Bai Junwan set up a tablet for Zhang Rui at home, and every [-]th day of the Lunar New Year would give Zhang Rui Burn paper and burn incense.

With Zhou Zhong's rectification of Shuangyu Port, the smuggling business in the entire port became more popular, especially after the army entered Shuangyu Port. sea ​​trade port.Although ships need to pay an extra tax, they have a legitimate name and don't have to worry about being wanted by the government. Even in the waters around Ningbo and Songjiang, they can still be protected by the Ming Navy, so the merchants are also No big complaints.

In a small fleet heading north from Shuangyu Port.This fleet is small, with only five merchant ships. Except for one large merchant ship about ten feet long, the other four are medium-sized merchant ships. goods.

The largest merchant ship in the fleet was named Luqiao.You can tell from the name that the owner of this ship must be as lazy as the eunuch Wang Gui.Just take the name of the person as the name of the ship. In fact, the owner of this fleet is indeed called Lu Qiao. He is a smuggler from Hangzhou. .

This fleet has just left Shuangyu Port for less than a day, and has just passed through the strait between Zhoushan Island and the mainland.On the tall deck of the Luqiao, Qi Yanming stood at the stern of the ship and looked at the waves rising from the sea.But thinking about things in my mind.

As Zhou Zhong took control of Shuangyu Port step by step, Qi Yanming felt more and more unsafe around him.Later, when he heard that a fleet going to North Korea wanted to recruit guards, he immediately bid farewell to Zhu Jiu and the others to sign up. As a result, he passed easily with his martial arts skills, and became the leader of the guards on the ship. That is to assign the patrols of the guards on the ship. Unless they encounter the enemy, there is not much to do.

Looking at the Shuangyu Port which has gradually submerged below the sea level in the distance, Qi Yanming couldn't help but sighed. He thought he could settle in Shuangyu Port for a long time, but because of that week, he had to go into exile again. Road, even this time he will completely leave Daming, and he will probably only be able to stay in North Korea for the rest of his life.

"Hey~, look, there seems to be someone in the sea!" At this moment, someone on the Luqiao suddenly shouted loudly, and then many people surrounded him, and at the same time, someone dragged a rope to save him.Qi Yanming also came over at this time, leaning on the side of the boat to look down, and sure enough, he saw a person floating on the sea, did he know if he was dead?

Soon someone on the boat jumped into the sea with a rope, swam to the other side to check, and soon tied the rope to that person's body, which meant that the other person should not be dead, after all, the boat would not drag a dead person casually go up.

After a while, the people on the boat dragged the person up from the sea together. Qi Yanming also stepped forward to help. It turned out that the rescued man was a young man with a fair face and no beard. He was only wearing a tight-fitting shirt. Xiaoyi, the material of the clothes should not be poor.

"Everyone, give way, the owner is here!" At this moment, someone shouted from outside the crowd, and then the crowd divided, and a 50-year-old fat middle-aged man walked in. This person was the fleet Luqiao, the owner of the company.

"How, can it be saved?" Lu Qiao is a Buddhist believer, and his fellow boatmen are usually very good. When encountering difficulties at sea, he can also help others, so the boatmen are very good. Dare to decide to rescue people without authorization.

"Boss, it should be fine!" One of the old boatmen said, and then he walked to the side of the rescued person, picked him up and carried him on his shoulders, and pressed his own shoulders against the other person's bulging body. On the stomach, suddenly push up hard.

At this moment, Qi Yanming saw the rescued young man let out a "wow~" and opened his mouth to spew out a lot of seawater, which was actually mixed with a lot of filth. The smell was very offensive, and Lu Qiao was smoked and stepped back took two steps.

Next, the old boatman pushed the opponent's stomach with his shoulders a few times, and put him down when he couldn't vomit. At this time, although the rescued person was not awake, his chest rose and fell more powerfully and steadily. This life is saved.

Seeing that the man was saved, Lu Qiao immediately looked up at the crowd, finally smiled and said to Qi Yanming: "Wen Wu, this man will be under your care for now, take him back to the cabin and change into dry clothes, if he wakes up, we'll take care of him." Let him come to see me, and I will ask him clearly about the origin of the other party before deciding how to deal with him."

There is a reason for Lu Qiao to entrust the rescued young man to Qi Yanming's care. After all, they don't know the identity of the rescued person, nor do they know whether this person is good or evil, so the necessary precautions are still necessary. Yan Ming, as the leader of the guard, has excellent martial arts skills, so he was allowed to take care of him in name, but in fact it was for surveillance.

"Your subordinate understands!" Qi Yanming clasped his fists together and said, he bent down to help him into the cabin. Although he was the leader of the guard, the space on the ship was limited. After all, this was a merchant ship, and most of the space was used for loading. To load the goods, Qi Yanming also squeezed into a cabin with a group of guards, and slept in the Datong bunk.

All the guards in the cabin went out to patrol, and the entire cabin was empty. Qi Yanming helped the rescued young man in, put him on the bed near the door, and stretched out his hand to take off his wet clothes, ready to give He changed into dry clothes. After all, it was still spring and the weather was relatively cold.

However, just as Qi Yanming took off the other party's clothes, he accidentally swept across the other party's crotch, and what shocked him was that the other party turned out to be an eunuch, which shocked Qi Yanming, and at the same time, he was shocked by the young man's attitude. Identity immediately became curious.Here I want to explain that although the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty were all eunuchs, not all eunuchs were eunuchs, so Qi Yanming was not sure that the other party was an eunuch.

Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty is the dynasty with the most eunuchs in history. This is mainly because except for Zhu Yuanzhang, the remaining emperors of all dynasties reused eunuchs, so the number of eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty even exceeded [-] at one time.The origin of these eunuchs is very complicated. Some are prisoners of war, and some are because there are too many children in the family to support them, so many parents send their children to the palace to be eunuchs.

In addition to the above two, there is another kind of private castration, that is, many adult men castrate themselves for some reason, and then find ways to enter the palace, such as the famous Wei Zhongxian in history, and the great eunuch Wang Zhen, etc. People, they castrated themselves into the palace after they became adults.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the sources of eunuchs were mainly the first two. However, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty paid more attention to the eunuchs, the power of the eunuch class became more and more powerful. Therefore, many people castrated themselves privately for their own way out. I, that is, the private eunuchs mentioned above, and the number of private eunuchs is so huge that there are simply not enough people in the palace. Sometimes out of ten private eunuchs, only two or three have the opportunity to enter the palace.

And not only in Beijing, eunuchs are also used in the palaces of other princes, so there are private eunuchs all over the country, and there are even too many private eunuchs in the capital who cannot enter the palace, which has already posed a threat to the security of the capital. Those eunuchs who could not enter the palace had to be sent to work in Nan Haizi in the royal garden.Originally, Nanhaizi had some special households to take care of the royal gardens, called Haihu, but as more and more eunuchs, their household registrations also fell to Nanhaizi. As a result, Haihu has almost become a synonym for private eunuchs in society.

It was also because of the prevalence of private eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty that Qi Yanming's Bazhou was also on the edge of Beijing, and there were also private eunuchs there, so when he saw that the rescued person turned out to be an eunuch, he was shocked for a while. Can't guess the identity of the other party, don't know if the other party is a real eunuch or a private eunuch?

Just as Qi Yanming was guessing the identity of the rescued person, he suddenly heard the person on the bed groan, then slowly opened his eyes, looked at the situation in the cabin, and said in a weak voice: "I... ...I'm not dead?" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)