Whether it is salty or fresh, it will be done as long as it is meat.

Song San laughed and laughed and took a spoon while stirring the meat in the pot while letting his subordinates burn the firewood more vigorously.

After adding firewood, the fire immediately became strong. After a while, the pot boiled, and the aroma that came from the nose made people unable to help but take a few more sips.

As a hero of "distributing meat", Wang Daqiang was praised by Song Tou. The Zhongzuo Qianhu Institute was established during the Hongwu period. It has been more than 200 years since then. In addition to the time when thousands of households were transferred, most of the people below the hundred households were hereditary officials. The soldiers, like the mainland garrison, were also military households.

However, unlike the military households of the mainland garrisons, the military households of the coastal garrisons such as Dinghaiwei are actually fishermen. If they don’t farm, they will do two things in their lifetime: one is to go fishing for officers, and the other is to smuggle sea goods for their superiors.

Some ward offices are more generous and eat meat and can also drink soup for people below to drink, so the vacancy and escape are not serious, and the ward office looks a little bit like it.

Some garrisons are very bad, and their hearts are too dark. They don’t regard the military households below as people, causing "officials to force the soldiers to rebel". Most of the officers and soldiers who are forced to go out to sea and become enemies.

Therefore, many coastal pirates were actually soldiers from the original garrison. Over time, pirates and officers and soldiers were in contact with each other, and they could always get married. The pirates and garrisons also came to the various lines and became a family of soldiers and bandits.

In the past, when the Japanese riots were in trouble, it was because the coastal guards were corrupt, or many officers directly led people to participate in pirate robbery. Therefore, the "Japanese riots" were always in stalemate and became more and more intense.

Later, the imperial court sent troops from other places, and famous generals such as Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou gradually quelled the "Japanese riot". This made the Jiajing Dynasty very difficult, and it could be said that it was a great effort to pacify the Southeast pirates.

But after the fight, Qi Jiguang took the Qi family army to the north, and the defense on the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian still had to rely on the original garrison. It was fine after more than ten years. After fighting Wanli, this old habit came back.

In the final analysis, it is driven by interests.

The profit of maritime trade was too great, and the imperial court opened the sea ban, and the Japanese turmoil disappeared. When the court's policies changed, the Japanese turmoil came again. After a lot of trouble, the gentry along the Zhejiang and Fujian coasts are always inseparable from the gentry.

Song San's army from Zuo Qianhu's gang have done several times when they changed their military uniforms and went out to sea to become pirates. They are all military households, and they do whatever they call themselves, as long as they stutter, not too much.

It is actually not right to be full if you don’t eat enough. At least Song San and the others are full, but they are all things in the sea. Over the years, these people can not get tired of it.

Therefore, being able to eat meat is like eating meat for the New Year. This is true for Song San. Xiaoqi is just the lowest-level officer in the garrison, similar to the foreman, who only has a dozen people in charge. After layer by layer, how much oil can fall into his hands.

While a group of people were cooking meat in an iron pot and roasting the fire, an uninvited guest came.

The person who came was also Xiaoqi, just like Song San. As soon as he came back from the port, he saw Song San and his group of people cooking fires from afar, so he wanted to come over and join in the fun. But as soon as he smelled the meat, he rushed over as if he was injected with chicken blood. While running, he laughed and scolded: "It's better to come here than you do, Lao Zhang, how can you not call me if you have meat?"

Song San also laughed and scolded: "You have a dog-like nose, you are so thief!"

"Give it, let it go."

While signaling Song San's subordinates to give him a seat, Zhang Er looked into the pot. When he looked, he was so happy that the water in the pot was boiling, and a piece of white meat was rising and falling in the soup. It was getting closer and smelled even more fragrant. He couldn't help but swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva.

"Old Zhang, come here quickly!" Zhang Er grinned while rubbing his hands, snatched Wang Daqiang's chopsticks beside him and grabbed them into the pot.

Song San blocked the spoon and laughed and scolded: "What's the hurry? I'm not familiar!"

When Zhang Er heard this, he chuckled: "Some days I haven't eaten meat anymore. Grandma's, I eat salted fish every day. I don't say anything fishy in my mouth, but when I go home, I think I'm fishy."

"Your woman is also fishy, ​​and she is fishy under her. It smells not as good as a sea fish. Only Zhang Er can bear it. If I don't even smell it." Song Sanyi smiled evilly.

Zhang Er could not tease him, and he immediately fought back and said that he looked back at the woman Song San's bathing or something, but he would not give him anyway.

The two of them were amusing. Wang Daqiang used a scoop to pick up some soup in the pot and tasted it. Then he inserted it around the meat with chopsticks, trying to see if it was cooked.

"You boy is more anxious than me." Zhang Er cursed with a smile.

Song San took a spoon and pressed the meat to the side of the pot and made a small piece. Wang Daqiang quickly clamped it in his mouth, and chewed it without caring it. After chewing it, the taste was really delicious.

Song San asked him: "If it is cooked, can you eat it?"

"Okay!"

Wang Daqiang nodded, and the person next to him immediately became turbulent, and he wanted to grab the meat from the pot.

"What's the matter in a hurry!"

Song San smashed the spoon onto the pot, and the soldiers were scared with a "clang" and they didn't dare to snatch it anymore.

"Look, let's scare these kids."

Zhang Er laughed and signaled that Song San’s soldiers should not rob them and come one by one. After that, he asked Song San to divide the meat quickly, saying that Li Zongqi and the others would come back soon. If these people saw this, they would definitely take the pot away.

Song Sanyi thought so, so he quickly lowered his voice and let his subordinates make a fortune one by one, so as not to be unable to eat it.

The first spoon must have been called to Zhang Er, all of whom were small flag officials. Song San could not have asked him to come first, and then he gave himself a copy, and then he was his subordinates.

After blowing, a group of people started to chew the meat beside the fire. The meat was bacon, which was not soaked in water in advance, and it was very salty. But it tasted so fragrant.

Seeing that everyone was eating almost the same food, Song San stood up and said to his subordinates: "After eating, they went to work on the boat. The superiors told me that the shipment had to be carried on the boat before the sun sets today, otherwise we would do it in the dark."

No matter how unwilling the subordinates were, they were not allowed to nod and agree.

Zhang Er wiped the oil from his mouth and said to Song San: "Brother, I have to go back. Please take a look at the group of people under my command. If you don't have any fingers and feet, just do what you should do."

Song San nodded and asked Zhang Er: "I heard that this batch of goods was sent to Japan?"

"The goods are for the Japanese, but they are not sent to Japan, but to the East." Zhang Erdao.

"The birds in Dongfan don't shit, why did they send it there?"

Zhang San felt strange. As far as he knew, the Japanese had taken over Ryukyu from the past year. After that, any goods here were sent directly to Ryukyu, and someone specially received goods there. Just the goods from General Shen from Chuanshan Sect that left the port yesterday were also sent to Ryukyu.

"I don't know this either. It seems that General Li said that some Japanese general sent an official named Ma Qingxin to set up a village in Dongfan. I heard that the Japanese wanted to occupy Dongfan, and they all know about this."

Zhang Er and Song San are just small flag officials, so they must not know much.

Just as Zhang Er was about to leave, a sound of cannons suddenly came from the other side of the port.

…………….

Eunuch Wei is not idle.

On the way to Zhoushan, the officers captured on the mountain were pouring beans on bamboo tubes and told them everything they knew.

Because Chen Yourong's smuggled goods were sent to Ryukyu, Eunuch Wei must have some understanding of Ryukyu.

According to the instructor of the captured military officers, after the Japanese failed to invade Korea, they sent a fleet to occupy Ryukyu. They didn’t know when the Japanese occupied Ryukyu, but they were sure that it was at least three years ago. Because in the past three years, many ships carrying cargo in Dinghaiwei went to Ryukyu, and they saw many Japanese people there.

"In the 21st year of Wanli, the envoy of the Japanese state, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, sent the envoy of Luzon, the envoy of Luzon, to pass through the East Fan on his way back to Japan. He issued a letter of invocation to coerce and lure the natives of the East Fan to pay tribute to the Japanese. This matter was learned by our Fujian side, and immediately sent people to contact the natives of the East Fan, which failed to succeed in the Japanese conspiracy."

The person who spoke was Ruan Dacheng. His Ruan family was the richest man in Anqing. The official documents and official reports of his family had two warehouses. The earliest ones were even from Jingtai.

He didn't want to tell Eunuch Wei this story, but Eunuch Wei always asked him, his attitude was still low, and he was embarrassed to ask questions, which made him have to say it.

Wang Dali also remembered what he had heard before and said: "The last general had heard General Deng mention that the Japanese seemed to have sent ships to attack the Eastern Banner, but because there were naval troops gathering in the waters of Zhejiang and Fujian at that time, the Japanese did not dare to withdraw."

Eunuch Wei combined the two things, and the time period was probably when Fujian Governor Jin Xuezeng and Shen Yourong were preparing for the expeditionary army to attack Japan. So I thought that the Japanese side had noticed a large number of naval troops assembled by the Ming Dynasty, and they were worried that it would attract the full force of the Ming Dynasty to fight, so they did not dare to fight on both sides. Later, when the Ming Dynasty was not at Japan, they sent troops to occupy Ryukyu.

This is also considered an old Japanese tradition, that is, "If you don't go north, just go south."

"It seems that Zhejiang and Japan have collusion."

Eunuch Wei stood on the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back. He was confused. Since Chen Yourong was strongly advocating for the Japanese, why did he still have to do business with Japan?

He was puzzled for a moment and could only look forward to meeting the Zhejiang genius general in the future and then asking for advice.

The flag bearer of the Clippers ahead blew the flag words, and the news was soon passed to my father-in-law.

The port of Pingwu has arrived.

The father-in-law pondered slightly and issued the Admiral Maritime Eunuch Order, ordering the Royal Navy to immediately enter the state of combat.

At the same time, the ships and fishing boats of the Zuoqianhusou, who were cruising outside Pingwu Port, also found a huge fleet of ships towards them.

The Qianhu Office of the Zhongzuo obviously did not regard the Royal Navy with the Ming Dynasty on the bow of the ship as an enemy. The two ships quickly approached and asked which ward the other party was from through the flags.

What hit them back was the sound of cannons.
Chapter completed!