The group of people surrounding the Zhao family are Zhang Chengde's servants. In the Ming Dynasty, servants were privatized. These servants are the Zhang family's wealth. These guys followed the old man Zhang Guozheng and participated in the Battle of Bozhou. Their fighting strength is far stronger than the inspection.

Those rubbish from the company.

A player like Zhao Heng who is stronger in theory than practice can do well against a loser like Fan Tong, but he is really no match for these veterans who lick blood from the edge of a knife.

Zhao Heng was not sure. Although he was not afraid of these guys one on one, it was hard to say if there were more than forty people. Fortunately, these guys did not take action. Instead, they stood twenty meters away and attacked Zhao Heng.

Family members surrounded him.

At this time, a small sedan was carried out from the mangroves and stopped at the beach. Zhang Chengde walked out of the small sedan. He looked at the family at the beach, especially Zhao Heng, who was 1.85 meters tall.

It was not common in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Chengde originally wanted to stand in front of the servant, but after seeing Zhao Heng, he decided it was safer to stay far away, so he stood behind the servant and said with a smile: "I am Zhang Chengde from the Thousand Households in Haikou. Which of you sent a message saying that you are my relative?"

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Zhao Heng did not expect that the person wearing a silk and satin military uniform was Haikou Suoqianhu. Logically speaking, as a military attaché, shouldn't he be wearing armor? How could he be dressed like this?

Zhao Zhikuan walked up to his son and grandson, clasped his fists as he did on TV and said, "This letter is from me!"

Zhang Chengde looked at Zhao Zhikuan and found that this old man with white hair had no beard on his chin, but his voice was deep and did not sound like a eunuch. This old man was wearing a strange short coat. Logically speaking, he had no identity in the short coat.

He was tall, but this old man didn't have a piece of pudding on his clothes. At the same time, his hands and feet were clean, and there were no watermarks on his face from running to the sea all the time. It was very strange.

Zhang Chengde looked at it for a while and asked: "My father-in-law's surname is Zhang? How can I prove that you are a member of my Zhang family?"

Zhao Zhikuan had already thought of his excuse. He smiled and said: "My ancestor's surname was Zhang, but my father changed his surname to Zhao in order to escape the persecution of the Folangji people. These are my family members! The paper just sent to Mr. Qianhu proves that we

They are the Zhang family members who have been exiled overseas!"

It was very common in Chinese history for people to change their surnames to avoid disaster. The Flemish people in Luzon have always hated the Han people. The most recent massacre was more than 20 years ago. Hainan is very close to Luzon. At that time, many Nanyang Han people fled back.

As a local snake, Zhang Chengde knew it.

"Okay, but it's not convenient to recognize relatives here. Can you please invite me to the city? My father wants to meet you!"

Zhao Zhikuan nodded in agreement and turned back to Zhao Heng and said, "This time your father and I will go to the city, and you stay here to take care of your grandma and your mother. If we don't come back by nightfall, you will escape from here, do you understand?"

The sea is vast and they are unaccompanied. Where can they escape to? Although Sun Jing has a strong personality, she is a woman after all. She was a little at a loss when encountering this situation. She whispered: "Dad, husband, why don't we go into the city and just run away?"

OK?"

Zhao Zhikuan smiled bitterly and said: "If we don't get official recognition, we won't even be able to survive. Where can we escape? Don't worry, I estimate that 80% of us can come back alive!"

Zhao Heng reached out and took out an electric shock baton from his arms. Zhao Heng brought it from the police academy for self-defense. Now his grandfather and father need it even more.

"Dad, keep this, it has half the power left, it can probably be used twice!"

Zhao Fuxiang nodded, took the electric shock baton and hid it.

After all preparations were completed, Zhao Zhikuan said: "Master Zhang, my son and I are going to the city. How about my grandson staying behind to protect the female family members?"

Zhang Chengde nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, but the wind is very strong on the beach, Fan Tong! You take my relatives to the beacon tower to wait!"

Fan Tong knew that Master Qianhu wanted to keep these guys under surveillance, so he quickly nodded and said: "Master Qianhu, please rest assured, I will definitely take good care of Master Qianhu's relatives!"

After receiving the safety guarantee, Ma Guilan began to pack her things. Zhang Chengde was very interested when he saw the car parked on the beach. He asked: "My father, this car of yours is so strange. Why doesn't it have a shaft? How do you hitch a horse?"

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Zhao Zhikuan didn't want to answer his question, and smiled perfunctorily: "All the horses died in the sea, and only this car was left to carry us ashore!"

Zhang Chengde saw that Zhao Zhikuan didn't want to answer, so he didn't ask any more questions. After a few people finished cleaning up, Zhang Chengde got on the sedan chair, and Zhao Zhikuan and others followed on foot to the beacon tower at the mouth of the Nandu River.

The Nandu River is the largest river in Hainan Island. In the Ming Dynasty, the water flow was sufficient and navigable, and shipping could reach Ding'an upstream. Two beacon towers were set up at the mouth of the Nandu River. The one on the left is the Baishajin Qiandun Beacon Tower.

There is a small pier not far from the beacon tower. Zhang Chengde's sedan boarded the boat. Zhao Zhikuan and others also boarded the boat. Ma Guilan, Sun Jing, and Zhao Heng stood on the pier to bid farewell to their families. Ma Guilan was reluctant to see her son and husband going on an adventure.

, with tears in his eyes: "Old Zhao, you must be careful, Fuxiang takes good care of your father!"

Zhao Zhikuan didn't say much, nodded to his family, boarded the boat with his son Zhao Fuxiang, and crossed the Haidian River, a tributary of the Nandu River.

Haikou Suo is not far from the ferry. After walking ashore for less than two miles, you can see the city walls of Haikou Suo. Later, the city walls of Haikou Suo were demolished during the Republic of China. Even Zhao Zhikuan, a native of Haikou, saw this for the first time.

The majestic city wall of Haikou.

Similar to the Ming Dynasty county town in the mainland, Haikou is also a standard building with a square city wall. Qiongzhou Prefecture Records record that the city wall of Haikou is 155 feet long, 1 foot 7 feet high and 1 foot 5 feet wide. That is, the circumference is 1

It is more than 1,800 meters, 5.6 meters high and 4.9 meters wide. In 1924, the warlord Deng Benyin demolished the Haikou city wall built in the Ming Dynasty. The engineering team transported the demolished city wall stones and built a long embankment.

And a road was built on the Changdi Road, which is the predecessor of today's Changdi Road.

Because Haikou Suo is a military fortress, it is much thicker than Fucheng, but its area is not as good. There are only two simple streets in Haikou Suo, east, west, north and south, dividing the whole city into four areas. Zhang Chengde's Thousand Households are located in the North City.

It is the only relatively arrogant building in the city.

This was the first time for Zhao Zhikuan and his son to see the city of the Ming Dynasty. They were full of curiosity from the moment they entered the city. Zhang Chengde thought that these two people had never seen the majesty of the Celestial Empire after returning from Nanyang, so he couldn't help laughing at the two rustics who had never seen the world. This was just a

There is so much fuss about the small Xiaosuo City. If you go to Nanjing and see the forty-meter-high city wall, wouldn’t you be scared to death?

Although Qianhusuo is the best building in the city, in the eyes of Zhao Zhikuan and his son, it is not as interesting as the city wall. At Qianhusuo, the two met the actual owner of Haikou Suo, the previous generation Qianhusuo, deputy chief soldier Zhang Guozheng.

Zhang Guozheng is actually not as old as Zhao Zhikuan. He is only sixty years old this year, but he has been fighting all year round and the average life span of people in the Ming Dynasty is not long, so Zhang Guozheng looks much older than Zhao Zhikuan.

Seeing this clan relative, Zhang Guozheng smiled and said: "This brother is so noble!"

Zhao Zhikuan learned the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, raised his hands and said with a smile: "I was born in the fifth year of Wanli!" If this year is the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Gregorian calendar would be 1644. Zhao Zhikuan is already sixty-seven years old, and according to time calculation, he was born in Wanli.

For five years, Zhao Zhikuan has used his mobile phone to make calculations on the beach to avoid mistakes.

Zhang Guozheng was shocked after hearing this and asked: "Brother, I am sixty-nine this year. I really can't tell!"

People in the Ming Dynasty were generally under two years old. Zhao Zhikuan smiled modestly and said: "There, they are just surviving!"

Seventy years of life are rare in ancient times. The average life expectancy of people in the Ming Dynasty was around thirty-two years old. Although the ultra-low birth rate has lowered the age of the population, ordinary people are considered old if they can live to fifty years old. Seventy-year-old people in the county

Someone is sent to visit every year, which is similar to later generations visiting centenarians during the New Year.

Knowing that Zhao Zhikuan was almost seventy, Zhang Guozheng quickly stood up and asked Zhao Zhikuan to sit down first, and then he sat down again.

After the guest greetings were completed and the subject came to a head, Zhang Guozheng asked everyone in the house to go out, leaving only two pairs of father and son behind and asked: "Brother, you said you are from the Zhang family, but you can't prove it with just one sentence. Can you still have it?"

More evidence?"

There is fucking evidence. Even this identity was made up. Zhao Zhikuan smiled and said: "Master General, our clan has been away from the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years. After so many generations, even if there was any evidence back then, it has been lost. And

My family is not a direct descendant of the family, even if there is evidence, it cannot be in my house!"

What Zhao Zhikuan said is reasonable. After all, more than two hundred years have passed, things have changed, and there is so much evidence. Zhang Guozheng nodded and asked: "Have you heard about why your ancestors left the Ming Dynasty and went to Nanyang?"

This was the key point that Zhang Guozheng wanted to ask. He wanted to find out whether this family came back to ask for the position of Qianhu.

"I only heard that the first generation ancestor Zhang Li went to Luzon after leaving Qiongzhou, where he spread his business, married a wife and had children. My ancestor was the fourth son of Zhang Ligong. In the third generation, he left Luzon and went to Manchuria.

The pursuit of livelihood has been passed down to me for seven generations! In recent years, due to the increasing oppression of the Han people by the French people, life for my wife and children has become more and more difficult, so I thought of returning to my hometown, but I encountered a storm off the coast of Qiongzhou. The boat encountered a storm.

It sank, and only our family floated here!"

What Zhao Zhikuan said is not very reasonable. It is January now and the sea is calm in the Qiongzhou Strait, so there are no waves. However, in the Ming Dynasty, the ships were small, so it was not unusual for them to capsize due to local tornadoes.

Zhang Guozheng heard what Zhao Zhikuan said was quite reasonable. At the same time, he could name Zhang Li. Even if he was not a member of the Zhang family, he should have a certain relationship. Zhang Guozheng thought about it and asked: "Brother, what are you going to do next? In Qiongzhou Mansion.

Settling down?"

Just as Zhao Zhikuan was about to answer, Zhao Fuxiang, who was standing behind him, said first: "Uncle, our Zhao family still has a large family in Manchuria. We are just coming back first to explore the way. If the country is safe, we will all come back! As for our family, we don't plan to

I live in Qiongzhou permanently and plan to live here for a year and a half before going to Guangzhou!"

When Zhang Guozheng heard that someone else was coming back, his expression immediately became uncomfortable. He thought for a while and said: "So that's it, but since we are relatives of the second brother, we will naturally welcome you back to our big house! Chengde, find a house for your uncle in the city

The yard is temporarily resting!”

Zhao Fuxiang was worried that Zhang Guozheng would dare to live in the city, so he quickly said: "There is no need to bother uncle, we can just live in Baishajin!"

Zhang Guozheng was just being polite. The entire Haidian Island was his territory, including living in Baishajin.

"Since my nephew said so, I won't show up anymore! There are a lot of open spaces on Haidian Island. You can choose a place to build your own house!"

At this point, the two parties have basically recognized their relatives. According to normal procedures, they should go to the ancestral hall to renew their family tree. However, now the second wife has changed her surname to Zhao, and Zhang Guozheng does not intend to formally recognize his relatives with the second wife, so he did not mention it. Zhao Zhikuan and his son were not Zhang in the first place.
Chapter completed!