Blood from Daming

Chapter 271
Today, Yan Sanniang left Yan Mansion with fifty of her men just after dawn, and headed for Hailing County from Qingchun Gate. In fact, it was to go to the pier in Hailing, Zhejiang, where the procuratorial envoy Si Qian was appointed. Because there were a lot of secrets in this operation, Yan Sanniang strictly screened the personnel, but it was only when it was time to hire people that she found out that not only There was a shortage of people in charge, even confidantes who did errands and odd jobs. Yan Sanniang thought to herself that it was time to ask Fifth Brother for someone.

Yan Sanniang and her party only brought Uncle Min and his subordinates from Beizhili. Although some of them were recruited from the Hangzhou government, they thought it was more trustworthy, and Yan Sanniang was not prepared to let these people know for the time being. Secretly keeping the secret of the Xue family, everyone traveled fast all the way and arrived at the pier belonging to Mr. Jiang at dusk.

Where are Mr. Jiang, Liu Ben, and Lou San, etc.? Yan Sanniang met Mr. Jiang and exchanged a few words with Mr. Jiang, and then went to Yan San under the guidance of Liu Ben and Lou San. The boat that Niang prepared to take, Yan Sanniang’s boat was a sea boat with a thousand materials. After Min Bo took fifty men on board, plus the crew and sailors on board, there were already more than 100 people. The space appears to be saturated.

Headquarters Lou San reported to Yan Sanniang who was standing at the bow: "Mistress, three of the five [-]-cost seagoing ships here have gone to sea, and the other two still need repairs."

Yan Sanniang asked: "How is the control over the ships now?"

General Banner Lou San replied: "Mistress, my subordinates and Liu Zongqi are each managing a sea-going ship, and the other ships are also sent to monitor. The boatmen of Wu's family and Jiang's family are more cooperative. There is no major problem for the time being, but It will take some work to transfer these people to the army."

Yan Sanniang: "Third son, skills are needed to run a seagoing ship, and we must attract those skilled crews and sailors, otherwise it is useless to have a ship alone."

Chief Banner Lou San nodded repeatedly, and Yan Sanniang pointed to the fishing village far from the beach and said, "Third son, what's going on in the fishing village where Master Jiang lives."

Chief Banner Lou San: "Mistress, that is a small fishing village with 300 to [-] people. Some crew members on our ship come from there. That small fishing village is basically a fortress of Mr. Jiang."

After a while the female soldiers came to invite Yan Sanniang to have dinner. General Banner Lou San, Liu Ben and others knew that Yan Sanniang had been exhausted all day, so they didn't want to disturb Yan Sanniang's rest.

Yan Sanniang's dinner is very simple, two kinds of fresh vegetables, one vegetable leaf tofu soup, but only one more special fish by the water, this meat dish is a dry fried crucian carp, and a pair of deep-fried golden carp are placed on the plate Crucian carp, especially the skin that is fragrant and crispy, is very delicious. Yan Sanniang also wondered how my husband could make this kind of dish. My mother often eats delicious food, but there is no store in the world that sells this dish, so Yan Sanniang has to learn it by herself and pass it on to the female soldiers around her. The dry fried crucian carp is always much worse in taste.

At night, Yan Sanniang sat on the bow of the boat to cool off. The weather in the south was already very hot in April. Yan Sanniang, who was lying on the cool chair, was thinking about her own thoughts. This time she was going to Changtu Island outside Hangzhou Bay to receive Master Jiang. There are two sea ships with [-] materials and two sea ships with [-] materials. The most important thing is to go to Liaodong in the north, go to Fuguang in the south, and Taiwan in the southeast. The island is close to the Ryukyu country in the northeast, and it is an important maritime transportation hub for commerce and military.

At first, Yan Sanniang didn't know that Master Jiang had the sea base of Changtu Island, but she didn't expect that Master Jiang was willing to gamble and handed over all his water strength very readily, which made Yan Sanniang not understand Master Jiang's gourd What kind of medicine is being sold? This is why Yan Sanniang is going to have a good talk with Mr. Jiang tomorrow.

After the Wu family's fleet was incorporated by Yan Sanniang, the largest two sea-going ships of one thousand materials were requisitioned, and the other ships were led by shopkeeper Chen's nephew to continue the normal operation before. It was originally the Wu family who went to Guangdong, but now they just joined up with Mr. Jiang's fleet to re-form a large sea fleet.

Master Jiang's fleet mainly travels to and from Guangdong and Fujian for commercial trade, but Yan Sanniang is very curious about Master Jiang's two [-]-year-old sea-going ships. Could it be that Master Jiang's fleet also sails to the Western Ocean for ocean-going operations? For trade, Yan Sanniang was thinking about a person whom Xianggong mentioned must be paid special attention to in the outer seas of the south of the Yangtze River. I don't know what this person is doing now.

The next day was bright and sunny, and Yan Sanniang had just finished her breakfast. Mr. Jiang brought more than 20 men to the front of Yan Sanniang's boat, but Mr. Jiang was very cautious and only himself. One of them boarded Yan Sanniang's boat, and the rest of his men went to another boat.

Seeing Master Jiang's actions, Yan Sanniang knew that she was showing sincerity to herself. Yan Sanniang's confidence in winning over Master Jiang was much stronger.

Yan Sanniang stood on the bow of the boat and said with a smile: "Master Jiang is really a gentleman, this time I really caused you trouble, Sanniang and Xue's family will be needed in the future, please be polite."

Mr. Jiang said: "The lower official has accepted Mr. Yan's affection."

Yan Sanniang said: "Master Jiang, my subordinate Commander Lou said that your lord has refused to quote the price of the fleet and the port, nor accept our bid. I don't know what Master Jiang is thinking."

Mr. Jiang: "Master Yan, the lower officials of the fleet have handed over the money, and the lower officials are not going to ask for money."

Yan Sanniang said "Oh" and said, "Then, Master Jiang, can you give me a reason?"

Mr. Jiang smiled and said, "The fleet of the lower officials is gone, why should my lord let the lower officials make unspeakable secrets?"

Yan Sanniang said: "Master Jiang, there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world. If I don't understand the truth, I will have trouble sleeping and eating. I hope Master Jiang can be honest with each other."

Mr. Jiang: "Mr. Yan, it is really too risky to go to Fujian and Guangdong by sea now. I have long wanted to go ashore. Now that Mr. Yan has great ambitions to make contributions to the court, I am willing to donate the fleet to Mr. Yan. I just hope that Master Yan will be able to give me a way to survive in the Jiang surname when he becomes famous in the future."

Yan Sanniang: "Your Majesty Jiang is too polite, but Master Jiang has national merits in his heart, and I believe it will be a blessing for generations to come." "

Lord Jiang: "Thank you Lord Yan for blessing you personally, and the officials will definitely pass on Lord Yan's oral instructions from generation to generation."

Yan Sanniang didn't care about the Zen in Mr. Jiang's words. At this time, Mr. Jiang said: "Mr. Yan's fleet is about to sail out of the inner sea. Would you like to go back to the cabin to rest?"

Yan Sanniang asked, "Can I go to Changtu Island today?"

Lord Jiang said: "My lord, the weather is fine today and I will definitely be able to reach Changtu Island in the evening."

Yan Sanniang said to Lord Jiang: "Master Jiang, why don't you sit in the cabin, I have something to talk to you about."

Master Jiang hesitated for a moment but nodded in agreement, Yan Sanniang asked Master Jiang to go back to the cabin with her, and then Yan Sanniang asked Master Jiang to sit down and rest in the cabin in front of her cabin, and then the female soldiers brought incense Tea, and then all the men withdrew.

Yan Sanniang said: "Master Jiang, please have some tea."

Mr. Jiang quickly expressed his thanks, took a sip of the teacup to show his respect, Yan Sanniang said: "I have a little more tea petals, I don't know if Mr. Jiang is used to it, why don't you ask your subordinates to change Mr. Jiang's tea."

Mr. Jiang quickly declined and said, "Xiaguan has already drank this kind of soft scented tea after living in the south for a long time."

Yan Sanniang: "Master Jiang's ancestors should be heroes with golden arms and iron horses. Although Jiangnan is so good that it will make heroes fall into the sky, has Master Jiang never thought of restoring the heroic pride of his ancestors back then?"

Mr. Jiang: "The ancestors experienced ups and downs, and we descendants can only drift with the tide and survive."

Yan Sanniang: "Following the crowd and surviving is talking about ordinary people. Mr. Jiang does not belong to this category. Many things involved are out of control."

Master Jiang was silent and did not speak. Yan Sanniang knew that if she missed today, she would not have such a good time to talk to Master Jiang. Knowing that now is not the best time to talk to Master Jiang, Yan Sanniang decided to give it a try, so she went straight to the point He pointed out the purpose of the conversation to Mr. Jiang.

Yan Sanniang: "Master Jiang, you are the lonely son of Emperor Jianwen, I don't know what your future plans are."

(End of this chapter)