Hexing House became more and more lively.
The aristocratic families have merged a lot of land, so many farmers have to find another way out, but Jiangnan is still very prosperous, and Hexing Mansion is even more and more prosperous.
Because many people started business and even went to sea to find their way.
To a certain extent, sea trade has given many people a way to live.
On this day, Jiang Zhen was having breakfast in a restaurant with Zhao Jinge and his two children.
The refreshments in Hexing Mansion are still very rich. Jiang Zhen ordered a little of everything at this moment.
Among them are fried buns, xiao long bao, tea cakes, songhua cakes and tea eggs.
Jiang Zhen likes to eat the crispy skin of the fried buns the most, but his son and daughter are the opposite.
Zhao Mingzhu was changing his teeth, lost his front teeth, and couldn't bite the raw fried buns, so he vowed that he would not eat it.
She doesn't want to eat it. Zhao Chengyu, who loves to learn from her elder sister, naturally doesn't want to eat it.
So, right now, they are eating xiaolongbao.
"Father! Yesterday, Xiao An from Uncle He's house wanted to bully me, but I beat him up!
"Zhao Mingzhu said happily after eating half of it.
The Xiao An of Uncle He's family that she was talking about was He Chunsheng's son, one year younger than her, but that child developed very well and was much taller than her.
"Xiao An bullies you? Doesn't he like you the most? How could he bully you?" Zhao Jinge looked at his daughter in confusion.
"He made fun of my teeth! Said I was like an old lady!" Zhao Mingzhu said, looking extremely angry.
Her daughter's toothless appearance is a bit like an old lady... Zhao Jinge thought so in his heart, but didn't dare to say it.
If he said that, his daughter would definitely be angry.
Just thinking about this, Zhao Jinge heard Zhao Mingzhu talking about other playmates, and when she mentioned her playmates, what she said was that whoever was disobedient was beaten by her, and whoever recognized her again. Be the boss.
Zhao Jinge: "..."
He is very concerned about his daughter, knowing that her daughter is just beating and beating with others, and she will not do too much or hurt others, and even if she encounters weaker women, twins and even men, she will protect them.
But even so, he still felt weird.
Zhao Mingzhu is his daughter, not his son!
A girl with a bunch of minions... Is this really okay
Brother Zhao Jin was a little worried, but Jiang Zhen felt that this was not a problem at all. At this moment, he was even praising his daughter: "My Pearl is the most powerful!"
Zhao Mingzhu was very proud.
Brother Zhao Jin sighed secretly and decided to ignore this matter.
If your daughter is crooked, just raise her crooked... It's okay if she can't get married, he can afford it anyway.
Among the four of them, although two were children, they were very good at eating. After a while, they ate almost all the refreshments on the table.
It was at this time that Mr. Storyteller came.
"What I want to talk about today is the King Ping of Ryukyu who was carried into the prison by a sedan chair..." As soon as Mr. Storyteller said this opening remark, the diners present applauded.
During this time, the most famous person in Jiangnan was definitely Cheng Yongzhen, the "Ping King".
For Cheng Yongzhen, some people feel sorry for Cheng Yongzhen, some sympathize and some despise him, but no matter what, everyone pays attention to this person and is willing to listen to his gossip.
"Let's go." Jiang Zhen stood up at this time.
In order to satisfy the guests, Mr. Storyteller would always make up stories and even add some fragrant things to them. Jiang Zhen didn't want to hear them.
In fact, he has never had contact with Cheng Yongzhen. Cheng Yongzhen, who has just emerged in the past few years, has never heard of him.
But even so, what happened to Cheng Yongzhen still made him unavoidable, and he had a feeling of sadness.
He had always felt that he was too weak and wanted to become stronger so that he could have the right to speak, but now that he has really become stronger, he found that he still doesn't have much of the right to speak.
Of course, this is also because he is still not strong enough.
Jiang Zhen walked downstairs with Zhao Jinge, and then met a few acquaintances.
"Chief escort Jiang, shopkeeper Zhao!" Those people were businessmen who had a cooperative relationship with Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge. At this moment, when they saw Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge, they came up to say hello.
"Manager Liu, Shopkeeper Wang." Jiang Zhen greeted them.
After a few chats, Jiang Zhen said goodbye.
Those people watched Jiang Zhen leave, with sighing expressions on their faces.
"This Jiang Zhen is really amazing!"
"Yeah, obviously he was born with mud legs, and he has the ability to earn so much money!" Another humane said.
"And the brother Zhao Jin next to him, I heard that he used to be a long-term worker, and he didn't know one big character. I didn't expect that until now, he was able to support Jin Zhen's escort bureau..."
Everyone, you said something to me, and sighed about Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge. Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge, but they had already gone home.
Three years later, Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui didn't get old much. They looked like wealthy people. They were happy all day, and even looked a little younger.
When Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge were just together, they were actually worried all the time, worried about when Jiang Zhen would abandon Zhao Jinge, but now... Jiang Zhen and them are as close as a family, and they will never worry about this again.
They were not even worried that Jiang Zhen would take a concubine.
They all see Jiang Zhen's goodness to Zhao Jinge. Jiang Zhen will not be sorry for their son.
Looking at Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge, who had already passed their old age, they couldn't help feeling overwhelmed.
How could they be so lucky to meet Jiang Zhen
"Father, mother, I'm going to the beach tomorrow." Jiang Zhen said to Zhao Fugui and his wife after eating.
"Your fleet is back?" Zhao Fugui asked. Jiang Zhen usually stayed at the beach for a long time. He often stayed at the beach for half a year, but this time he only came back for a few days. I only left after staying for a few days, and I want to leave now, mostly because there is something going on over there.
"It's not that the fleet is back, but that there are pirates over there." Jiang Zhen said.
It has been two months since Cheng Yongzhen was arrested, and Cheng Yongzhen's subordinates are in complete chaos.
These people were roughly divided into three groups.
One of the group is the sea merchants who were brought together by Cheng Yongzhen. Now that Cheng Yongzhen is gone, they plan to continue to be the sea merchants. Another group is the local people hired by Cheng Yongzhen. After Cheng Yongzhen is gone, they plan to go back. Farming, but the third batch... turned out to be pirates.
After Jiang Zhen learned about this incident, he has strengthened his protection, but the effect is not good. Recently, there are still many pirates on their side of the sea.
By the way, the pirates at this time not only looted at sea, but they also looted on land, and after looting, they fled back to the sea.
The next day, Jiang Zhen rushed to the beach.
In the past, when he went to the beach, he always took Zhao Jinge and the children with him, but recently the seaside is not very peaceful, but he didn't take anyone with him, and passed by alone.
As a result, as soon as we got to the beach, someone came to report: "Boss, we were attacked by pirates last night!"
"What?" Jiang Zhen looked over in surprise. His side was very tightly guarded, and someone dared to come and rob him? Those pirates are too bold!
"Boss, they want to grab the boat." The man said again.
The people who came wanted to grab the boat, but Jiang Zhen could understand that what the pirates needed most was the boat.
"How is the situation?" Jiang Zhen asked.
"Boss, that group of people didn't fight with us last night. More than a dozen of us were injured, but no one was seriously injured or killed, and no one was taken away. They were even captured alive," the man said.
"Take me to see." Jiang Zhen said.
Jiang Zhen soon saw the people who were captured alive.
These people were all dressed up as Toyo Ronin, and not only that, but after seeing him, they even started to speak in the Toyo dialect.
Jiang Zhen has done business with Oriental people a lot in recent years, but very few of his subordinates can speak Oriental dialect.
At this moment, Daqi is the most powerful, and the Orientals are all rushing to come to Daqi and learn Daqi, so they don't need to learn Oriental dialect at all - many of those Orientals can speak Daqi's language!
However, although his subordinates can't, Jiang Zhen can.
He listened to the Oriental dialects spoken by these people, and the more he listened, the more wrong he felt.
Among these people, a few of them speak normal Oriental dialect and their accents are pure, but a few of them... Then they are just talking nonsense, learning from the nonsense of those Oriental people.
Are they pretending to be Oriental
Jiang Zhen noticed this, a little funny.
At this time, some pirates would pretend to be Oriental in order to prevent people from discovering their true identity.
"Can't speak human language?" Jiang Zhen glanced at these people with a faint smile, and then said to his subordinates: "Cut their tongues."
"Yes! Boss!" Jiang Zhen's subordinates responded, making a gesture to cut the tongues of those few people.
Jiang Zhen had never given such an order before, and he would never really let his subordinates cut someone's tongue, but Jiang Zhen would often scare people.
Jiang Zhen's subordinates knew very well about Jiang Zhenai's intimidation. At this time, they naturally knew that he was going to frighten people again.
It's just that Jiang Zhen's subordinates know it, but those people don't.
At first, they still held on, and continued to talk nonsense, but seeing Jiang Zhen's hands getting closer and closer with a knife, they finally couldn't sit properly.
"No, you can't do this!" several of those people cried out in fright.
"Can you speak properly now?" Jiang Zhen said. He generally doesn't kill people, these pirates don't kill his men, and he doesn't do anything to them.
But even so, he still has to interrogate clearly.
"You scare us?" said a middle-aged man among those people.
Jiang Zhen didn't speak, just looked at them with a half-smile.
These people looked at Jiang Zhen for a while, but the middle-aged man suddenly said, "Chief Jiang, I have something to tell you alone."
Jiang Zhen glanced at him and smiled: "What do you want to say?" These people don't seem to be ordinary pirates.
"Director Jiang, I want to talk to you alone." The man said again.
Jiang Zhen pondered for a while, and let someone take him into a room next door.
The man was led in with his hands tied. After entering, he looked around to make sure that there was no one around, and then said, "Boss Jiang, I am Wang Ruicheng."
Jiang Zhen looked at the man in surprise. Wang Ruicheng was not a small person. He was one of Cheng Yongzhen's generals. It is said that Cheng Yongzhen had many strategies, which he suggested.
"Are you Wang Ruicheng? You were caught by me so easily?" Jiang Zhen looked at the other party.
"Chief escort Jiang, we are also trying to survive!" Wang Ruicheng said with a wry smile: "After King Ping's accident, our lives have been very difficult for us. .”
Wang Ruicheng's recent days have been really sad.
It goes without saying that the people in the court want to hunt them down. They are either yours or me. As for Cheng Yongzhen's old department, they want to hunt them down...
Cheng Yongzhen has been a maritime businessman for so many years, and has accumulated countless contacts and money. Once his contacts are dead, it will be meaningless, but what about money
Cheng Yongzhen's subordinates have already divided up a lot of Cheng Yongzhen's money, but everyone thinks that it is impossible for Cheng Yongzhen to have so little money.
Wang Ruicheng was one of Cheng Yongzhen's cronies, and they felt that Wang Ruicheng should have treasures that Cheng Yong kept privately.
Everyone wanted to catch Wang Ruicheng, but Wang Ruicheng had no choice but to shave his hair and hide among a group of ronin.
In the end, he also commanded those Dongyang ronin, who came to Jiang Zhen to grab the boat.
This is not because he really wants to grab the boat... In fact, he wants to get shelter from Jiang Zhen.
Jiang Zhen felt that Cheng Yongzhen should have never heard of his name, but the fact is just the opposite, Cheng Yongzhen actually knew Jiang Zhen.
Cheng Yongzhen even found someone to investigate Jiang Zhen, a newcomer who quickly suppressed other maritime merchants in Hexing House.
It was because of this that Wang Ruicheng knew about Jiang Zhen. Then I found out that this Jiang Zhen seems to be very arrogant, but in fact, he does things very well and will not hurt the innocent.
He was desperate this time and wanted to find a place to hide, so he finally chose Jiang Zhen.
It's just that he wanted to hide his identity at the beginning. They didn't kill Jiang Zhen's subordinates and acted in a measured way. He felt that Jiang Zhen should not kill them, but let them do some cool work here.
After doing this for a while, when the limelight is over, they can leave. As a result... Jiang Zhen came up to scare people, but the people under him were even frightened!
Wang Ruicheng changed his mind and said again: "Mr. Jiang, although King Ping was defeated, he left behind a lot of treasures, and those treasures, only I know. If Jiang's daddy can save me, I will take that treasure. Inform Chief Jiang of the place where you are..."
"You don't need to tell me this." Jiang Zhen said: "Everyone in Hexing House knows that I don't like to use Dongyang Ronin, and you will leave later."
"Director Jiang!" Wang Ruicheng was startled, he never thought that such a big temptation would be placed in front of him, and Jiang Zhen could still be indifferent.
Jiang Zhen can of course remain indifferent. He is not covetous of other people's money, nor does he want to implicate his own family.
The court is now looking for Wang Ruicheng, such a person is left, once someone else finds out...
Jiang Zhen didn't talk to Wang Ruicheng again, but walked out, and then said to his subordinate: "Those people are Cheng Yongzhen's remnants, throw them all out."
"Yes, boss!" Jiang Zhen's men glanced at Wang Ruicheng and said to Wang Ruicheng, "Please."
Wang Ruicheng's face was full of depression, and he always felt a little aggrieved.
But Jiang Zhen didn't care what he thought at all.
Soon, someone sent Wang Ruicheng and his party out.
Standing on the pier of Yabian Village, Wang Ruicheng and his party were a little stunned.
"Uncle Wang, they let us go! Great, we're fine!" said a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old boy, he was relieved and looked very happy.
There was not much joy on Wang Ruicheng's face.
They have been chased and killed, and now they can't stay here, where can they go
Just thinking about it, Wang Ruicheng suddenly saw a group of people wearing uniforms approaching from far to near.
There were only eight people in the group, and there were not many people, but it gave people the feeling... Wang Ruicheng soon discovered that the pace of those people was almost the same. Not only that, they were walking on the street without talking to each other at all. Instead, he has been looking around carefully.
Before, Wang Ruicheng had heard people say that Jiang Zhen's caravans were the most difficult to grab because his men were all very powerful.
Originally, Wang Ruicheng didn't take it seriously, but now he was shocked and remembered the people who fought with them last night.
Last night, no one of Jiang Zhen's men died, but a few of his men died, but all the people who died were Dongyang ronin, so he didn't care, and now think about it...
When fighting, the cooperation between Jiang Zhen's subordinates was really tacit!
He has been with Cheng Yongzhen for a long time. There are many fierce people under Cheng Yongzhen's hands, but they can't be as neat and uniform as Jiang Zhen's men.
"Who are you?" The patrol team noticed the gazes of Wang Ruicheng and others, and then walked over, vaguely surrounding Wang Ruicheng and others.
After the pier was almost burned down, Jiang Zhen arranged for more people to patrol and defend. Today, the pier in Yabian Village has become one of the safest places in Hexing Mansion. Many small businessmen also deliberately Moved home here.
"Sir, we are here to make a living, how are we going to live here?" Wang Ruicheng asked.
"Daqi people?" The man glanced at Wang Ruicheng, and immediately said, "Take care of yourself, change this strange appearance back, and then find a job to do it, and you can stay."
"What about the Orientals?" Wang Ruicheng asked again. There are only about ten people left by his side, and six of them are Orientals.
"Take care of yourself first, and then learn from our Daqi." The man said, and added: "If you don't learn Daqi, you can only do the hardest work here, but once you learn it, it will be different."
"#￥%#￥#￥&*" Several oriental people around Wang Ruicheng have lived in Daqi for a long time, and they can understand Daqi's words. attire.
They first expressed their disapproval by speaking a Dongyang dialect, fearing that the person on the other side would not understand, and then added: "I, we, do not change!"
"Aren't you going to change your clothes? You don't see that man, he's also from the East, but now, he has a house and land here, and he has a wife." The patrolman pointed to a man dressed in a suit not far away. Jin Yi, looks like a very rich middle-aged man.
It's true that Jiang Zhen doesn't like Orientals.
But if those Orientals named themselves Daqi, put on Daqi's clothes, and started to speak Daqi's language... He would be nice to these Orientals.
Among them, if they perform well, he will also be selected as an interpreter, which is convenient for doing business with Toyo.
And the oriental man pointed by the patrolman was an oriental man who had been an interpreter for Jiang Zhen's fleet for a long time.
At this moment, this oriental man no longer considers himself an oriental man. He now firmly believes that he is a Daqi man, and is proud of it.
When the Orientals around Wang Ruicheng saw the man's appearance, they couldn't help but feel a little shaken.
That guy looks so good...
They will leave Dongyang and come here, because of the civil war, they can't live a good life. If they can live a good life in Daqi...
They were not as repulsive to the modification bundles as they were at the beginning.
However, before they could continue to ask, a horn sounded suddenly. After one horn sounded, more and more horn sounds sounded.
These horns resounded in the sky, and almost everyone on the pier heard them. Then, those ordinary people began to hide in the houses one by one. Some adult men ran out of the houses and moved towards different houses. places converge in the past.
Seeing this, Wang Ruicheng was immediately startled: "What's wrong?"
"Enemy attack." The patrolling humane said, then began to evacuate the surrounding people, and then said to Wang Ruicheng and others: "In an emergency, unidentified people like you must be guarded, follow me!"
Wang Ruicheng and others were startled, and then they were dragged to a place by the patroller, where there were many people like them.
"Why is there such a big movement in this enemy attack? It wasn't like this last night..." Wang Ruicheng couldn't help but said.
"There were a few small shrimps last night, how could such a movement be made?" Someone said, "So few people can easily clean up."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly looked suspiciously at Wang Ruicheng and the others: "I heard that there were a few ronin who came yesterday. Could it be you?"
Wang Ruicheng: "..."
Wang Ruicheng was somewhat frightened at this moment, lest those people come to arrest him, but Jiang Zhen was already fully armed and on guard at this moment.