Chapter 130 Two Thousand Houses

This man named Wang Zhongcheng actually wanted to give his niece to himself. Li Weizheng's face sank at that time. He said coldly: "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will throw you into the sea. Now get out of here!"

Seeing that Li Wei was turning against each other, Wang Zhongcheng was so scared that he didn't dare to say anything more. He quickly led dozens of Goryeo people to follow the soldiers and went to the city in a panic. They were considered smugglers and had to be dealt with by the local government. Bao Xin next to him looked at the few Goryeo women leaving with jealous eyes, and said extremely envious: "The taste of Goryeo women is completely different from that of our Ming Dynasty women. It's a pity that adults don't want it."

Li Wei glanced at him and snorted coldly, "If General Bao wants it, just take it away, no one will stop you."

Bao Xin heard the coldness in Li Weizheng's tone and couldn't help but laugh: "I'm just a joke. Military discipline is as good as a mountain. How could I do something that violates military discipline?"

When Lai Yongguo heard his military discipline, his eyes were full of disdain, but he said nothing and bowed to Li Weizheng: "Sir, we have also caught two Japanese pirates, but we can't ask any results. But I know that there is a scholar proficient in Japanese in Penglai County. If you want to interrogate these two Japanese pirates, you might as well find this person to be a translator."

Li Weizheng saw a trace of disdain flashing in his eyes. He knew that there was a conflict between the two deputy Qianhu households. He did not show any expression and immediately said to Lai Yongguodao: "I bother General Lai to send someone to invite this scholar to me. I really want to ask about the situation of the Japanese pirates."

Lai Yongguo agreed and asked his personal companion to ask for a Japanese translation. Li Wei returned to the military camp. His room in the military camp was a single courtyard with four rooms, two of which gave his soldiers a rest, and the other two were his offices, but this was only the offices of thousands of households in Penglai. The place was small and the houses were old. For the commander of the Weihai Guard, this place would be too small and too cramped. Moreover, if he moved the command center of the Weihai Guard to Penglai in the future, it would not be his office, otherwise there would be some injustice to the guards he led.

Li Wei looked at the narrow yard with great discomfort, with moldy beams and pillars, mottled walls, and the pungent old smell of the room. His heart suddenly flew to the sea, and immediately ordered his personal soldiers to say, "Everyone should do it, move all the things in the room to the Weizhengbao ship."

The personal soldiers were shocked. Could it be that the adults would go to the ship to handle official duties? This is something that has never been heard of. Everyone hesitated and didn't know what to do. Li Weizheng smiled and said, "I am the commander of Weihai Guard and the thousand households in Penglai. I need to travel frequently. Working on the ship is to adapt to this need, so you don't need to hesitate."

Everyone had no choice but to find more than a hundred soldiers to help, and brought all the tables, chairs and books in Li Wei's room to the treasure ship. The personal soldiers found more than a dozen carpenters in the army to decorate the cabin. The soldiers came and went, moving things, looking for materials, and cleaning the cabin, which was extremely busy.

At this time, Lai Yongguo hurried over with a scholar. Seeing that the soldiers were carrying tables and chairs, he couldn't help but ask in confusion: "Sir, are you?"

Li Wei was pointing at the treasure ship like a mountain in the distance and laughing: "Weihaiwei and Penglai are three hundred miles apart. I am in two positions and I can't help but lose sight of one thing, so I decided to do business on the ship, both sides can be taken care of."

Lai Yongguo shook his head helplessly. He guessed that Li Wei was looking for something new for a while and would naturally get ashore after staying on the boat for a while. Without persuading, he pointed to the scholar behind him and said, "Sir, it is this scholar Zhou. He is proficient in Japanese and can be an adult's translator."

The scholar did not expect that the commander of Weihai Guard was so young. He was surprised and hurried forward and bowed and said, "Next Zhou Ming, please see the commander."

Seeing that he was about thirty years old and had dark skin, Li Wei nodded slightly and asked, "I heard that you are proficient in Japanese Mandarin, how did you learn it?"

"Reported to the adults, when he was young, he was kidnapped by Japanese pirates with his father. He stayed in Kyushu, Japan for nearly ten years, where he learned the language of Japan. Later, a Ming smuggling ship came to Japan. The father and son escaped from the Japanese pirates by chance and returned to their hometown Penglai County. The villain passed the scholar five years ago."

"So that's the case, then do you still remember Japanese Mandarin?"

"The villain still remembers it, there should be no problem."

"Okay! Come with me." Li Wei was taking this scholar named Zhou Ming to a heavily guarded hut next to him. There were two captured Japanese pirates. They were both typical Japanese ronin costumes, wearing white shirts, lanterns, black pants, combed their hair back, and tied a squid behind their heads, revealing their bare foreheads. The two were caught by Mingjun after they were asked for help. They no longer had suicide or resistance consciousness, and were not tied up in the room, but just sat on a stool.

When they saw the supreme commander of the Ming army coming in, they quickly fell to the ground. Li Wei was sitting down and pointed at them and said to Zhou Ming: "You ask them, are they Japanese pirates or ordinary pirates, why do they appear in the Shandong waters?"

Zhou Ming asked the two in skillful Japanese. The two Japanese dared not hide it, and they all said it in detail. Zhou Ming said to Li Weizheng again: "Sir, they said they were neither Japanese pirates nor pirates. They were servants of the Ouchi family of Kitakyushu. Because of a dispute within the Ouchi family, they followed the second son of Ouchi Eiyi of the Ouchi family, and led 3,000 people to leave Kitakyushu. They took a boat to cross the sea to occupy Danluo Island in Goryeo, and defeated the Koryeo army on the island half a month ago. This time, a small team of them was ordered to plunder the Koryeo ships on the sea. When pursuing one of the ships, they happened to meet the Daming Navy."

Li Wei was urgently ordering the soldiers to pick up the map around Goryeo and wait for the soldiers to go out. He said to Zhou Ming again: "Ask them again, what chaos has happened in the Da Nei family?"

Zhou Ming asked the two Japanese and said to Li Weizheng: "Sir, they said that the youngest son of the Ouchi family also suddenly returned from overseas and asked to inherit the Nagato country left to him by the old master Hiroshi Ouchi, but the Nagato country had already belonged to the second son Eiyi. With the help of a woman, Katsushi also received the support of the head of the family, Yoshihiro, and defeated Eiyi. Kii and Nagato, who were under the jurisdiction of Eiyi, were divided by the eldest brother Yoshihiro and his younger brother Yoshihiro. In anger, he left Japan and crossed the ocean to occupy Danluo Island."

Li Weizheng's heart was thrilled. He seemed to have thought of something and asked quickly: "What is the name of the woman who helped Katsuya Ouchi?"

Zhou Ming asked and said to Li Weizheng: "They said their surname is Kikuchi, and I forgot what specific name they have."

Li Weijing sneered and said, "I ask if they are called Kikuchi Fengya?"

Zhou Ming had translated it, and the two Japanese nodded repeatedly, looking at Li Weizheng in surprise. I wonder how he knew this name. Li Weizheng couldn't help laughing to the sky. Where did he meet in life? He actually learned the whereabouts of Kikuchi Fengya again. Everyone in the room looked at each other, wondering why the commander laughed.

At this time, the soldiers took the map around Goryeo. Li Wei was spreading it on the table. He saw Danluo Island far away from the Goryeo Peninsula at a glance. He knew that this big island was later in the South Korea Jeju Island. He couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Lai Yongguo behind him suddenly interrupted: "Sir, this Danluo Island is actually the territory of the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty once set up the Danluo Military and Civilian General Office to rule, but was later taken away by Goryeo by deception."

Li Wei was looking back at him, and when he and Lai Yongguo looked at each other, they both laughed in understanding. How could they let go of such a god-given opportunity?

After a busy day, Li Weizheng finally failed to enter his office on the treasure ship. The arrangement would not end until tomorrow. Twilight had gradually come. Li Weizheng was a little worried about Qianqian, who was still in Penglai County, so he turned over and left the barracks and headed towards the county town surrounded by dozens of personal soldiers. As soon as he left the barracks, he heard someone calling him behind him. Li Weizheng held the horses. After a moment, he rode a horse in the dark, but it was Bao Xin, the deputy Qianhu.

"General Bao, what's wrong with you?"

Bao Xin looked at both sides and lowered his voice: "Sir, there are many ears and ears in the military camp, and I have never been able to say something."

When Li Wei saw that his face was full of strangeness in the darkness, he smiled without saying a word: "There are no outsiders here, just say it."

"Sir, I don't know that Lai Yongguo is a typical villain. He likes to report secretly to the Ministry of War. His ex-Chenghu escorted the Ming cargo ship to Japan for the failure of his ex-Chenghu to report secretly to the Ministry of War, which led to his previous thousand-Chenghu being killed. He has always been ambitious about the position of Qianhu. He thought that the position would be his turn after the informant, but he did not expect that Lord Li would come. I know that he actually hated Lord Li to the core, so I advise Lord Li to be careful not to put the handle on his hands, otherwise he would report it to the Ministry of War again."

Li Wei was just looking like he suddenly realized, and he bowed and smiled, "I don't know these things. Thank you General Bao for your reminder. I will definitely be wary of him."

Bao Xin laughed and bowed, "Sir, you can go all the way. Over time, you will understand me, so I will go back to the military camp."

The two said goodbye. Li Wei was watching his back disappear into the darkness. He couldn't help but snorted coldly, and with a slap in the horse, he accelerated toward the county town.

Li Wei was finding the prefect's yamen. According to the way of the front and back houses, the Zhao prefect's home should be behind the yamen. However, unexpectedly, the small square in front of the yamen was brightly lit, and people were flowing endlessly. Almost everyone was carrying baskets and sacks, with hot sweat on their faces. Dozens of yamen runners were busy in the square, and the voice of the prefect Zhao Liangcheng could be vaguely heard. It seemed that it was already a little hoarse, and the whole air was filled with a sour smell.

Li Wei was grabbing an old man passing by and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Please be gentle and you'll kill me!" The old man shouted in pain. In the darkness, he saw that the person who captured him was a general with a helmet and armor, and there were twenty or thirty soldiers following him. He was so scared that his legs became weak and he quickly replied: "Sir, this is the magistrate who is distributing the seeds of this year's spring wheat."

"Spring wheat?" Li Wei was a little surprised. It was necessary to plant winter wheat on the Shandong Peninsula. He turned around and said to a personal soldier: "Go and invite the prefect Zhao!"

The soldier responded and squeezed into the crowd. After a moment, the sweat-covered Magistrate Zhao was invited over. When he saw Li Weizheng, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and smiled, "Is Mr. Li looking for a girl?"

Li Weizheng smiled, turned over and dismounted and asked, "Master Zhao, how to grow spring wheat here? In addition, does the government still need to provide seeds?"

"Mr. Li didn't know that the court stipulated that farmers should provide seeds and oxen for the first year when reclaiming new land. These were farmers who reclaimed land last winter. Because they had no time to plant winter wheat, they prepared to plant a season of spring wheat before spring. I am distributing seeds to them, alas!"

Zhao Magistrate sighed and said worriedly: "Since October last year, it has not rained for three months in Dengzhou Prefecture. It has not even fallen for a whole winter, and the weather is relatively warm. I am very worried about whether the winter wheat can survive it."

"If there is really a spring drought, the court will not stand idly by. Lord Zhao should not worry too much."

Li Wei was talking about this and asked again: "I would like to ask, a group of Koreans who came across the sea this afternoon sent them to the government. What's the situation now?"

"I cannot accommodate the thirty-one Koreans here. According to the court's regulations, the foreigners and scattered people must be handed over to the Honglu Temple for disposal. I have opened the road and sent people to send them to Beijing."

Li Weizheng was stunned. Thirty-one people, aren't there thirty-three people? He asked quickly: "Master Zhao, are you sure you're not mistaken, it's thirty-one people?"

Zhao Liangcheng nodded affirmatively, "Of course you can't make a mistake. There are thirty-one Koreans escorted from your army, and there are not many."

Li Weizheng was a little confused. This matter was handled by Lai Yongguo. He didn't know much about the situation. Could it be that the thirty-three people included those two Japanese? Thinking of this, his doubts were solved. Perhaps it was that way, Lai Yongguo also included the two Japanese.

Li Weizheng felt relieved and asked again with a smile: "By the way, where is my girl?"

"She will be temporarily placed in my mansion and will be taken care of by my wife. Please follow me." Zhao Liangcheng took Li Weizheng to the back house. When he walked to the dark place, Li Weizheng saw that there was no one around him, so he asked in a low voice: "Master Zhao, I want to ask something."

"Sir, just say it."

"That's right," Li Weizheng pondered for a moment and said, "I found that there seemed to be some disagreement between Deputy Qianhu Bao and Deputy Qianhu Lai. I don't know why. Does the prefect Zhao know?"

Zhao Liangcheng sneered and said, "Everyone knows this matter, and the reason is very simple. In the past, Penglai was the head of Zhang Qianhu, but in fact, many major events were led by Deputy Bao Qianhu. Last time the imperial cargo ship was attacked by Japanese Japanese pirates, the responsibility should be on Deputy Bao Qianhu. In fact, he went out to sea to escort, but the one who was killed was Zhang Qianhu. The court was decisive and beaten the wrong board. I heard that Deputy Lai Qianhu was dissatisfied and reported to the court, but there was no news. But when Deputy Bao Qianhu knew about this matter, the relationship between the two could not be resolved."

Li Weizheng heard the article and immediately asked: "Who is this Deputy Qianhu Bao? How can he use his deputy to suppress the official?"

"This..." Zhao Liangcheng was a little hesitant, and finally he gritted his teeth and said, "Actually, this is an open secret. It's nothing I can tell. I heard that this Deputy Qianhu Bao was just a soldier guarding the city gate of Jinan Prefecture. His cousin was a maid in the Qi Palace. Later, he was taken as a concubine by the King of Qi. He gave birth to a son the previous year. Since then, their Bao family has been promoted to heaven. Bao Xin has been promoted from the general flag to a hundred households. At the beginning of last year, he came to Penglai as Deputy Qianhu. He once said that this year, this thousand households must be his, but the commander came."

Li Weizheng nodded secretly. It seemed that he had met another Cheng Yannian. At this time, they had already walked to the front of the back house. The magistrate's family was small, and most of the personal soldiers could only be temporarily placed in an empty house nearby. Only two of them followed Li Weizheng into the Zhao Mansion.

From the beginning of entering the door, Li Weizheng felt something was wrong. It was not a dangerous feeling, but the prefect's house was really different. It was covered in darkness everywhere. Occasionally, there were lights in the room, and it was very dim. The houses were all very dilapidated. A stale broken wood hung under the eaves, swaying in the wind very eye, making people feel a little creepy.

There are no precious flowers and trees in the courtyard, only two pear trees and a few peach trees, and all the open spaces are full of wheat and vegetables; there are no rockery pond fish, and there are only groups of chickens and ducks in the corridor, foraging in the yard, and they are not afraid of strangers. Li Wei is carefully looking for a way out from a group of chickens, while Zhao Gong, who was walking in front, kept coaxing the chickens, making the crowds of chickens, making the air full of fine chicken feathers.

Li Weizheng suddenly found an old man in the yard who was carefully collecting chicken manure with a dustpan. His focused expression seemed to be picking up treasures. Prefect Zhao hurriedly stepped forward and said a few words to the old man, and pointed to Li Weizheng's side. The old man ignored him and continued to pick up treasures in the yard. Prefect Zhao scratched his head awkwardly, smiled bitterly, and took Li Wei through the corridor to the east courtyard.

"Mr. Li, your sister lives in the East Courtyard. I still have to go and distribute seeds, so I will say goodbye first."

"Prince Zhao please give me a gift!"

Li Weizheng bowed his hand and walked into the East Courtyard. The East Courtyard seemed to be for guests to live in. It looked a little like a little, with a half-moon pond and a rockery. But that's it. Li Weizheng still found that what was raised in the pond was not ornamental fish, but grass carp. There was a gourd stand on the rockery, and the two gourds were swaying in the wind. Li Weizheng and his two personal soldiers were extremely surprised. This was not the house of the prefect, but it was clearly a small farmyard.

"Brother, is it you?" Qianqian's voice came from the door.

Bypassing the rockery, Qianqian was standing at the door and looking around. Li Wei was smiling and agreed, "It's me!"

"Why did you come? I've been waiting for you for a day."

"There is always more things happening when a new official takes office. By the way, how is it living here?"

"Hey! Don't mention it, brother."

The personal soldiers entered the house next to them, and Li Wei followed Qianqian into the house. The lights in the house were dim and the furnishings were very simple. Except for the tables, chairs and a bed, there was a cabinet next to the wall, and there was no other furniture. The tables, chairs and beds were obviously very old, but they seemed to be quite solid.

Li Wei was frowning. It didn't matter if the things were simpler, but he couldn't stand the dark light, which made people feel so shattered. Qianqian seemed to understand his discomfort, so she smiled, took an oil pot, added a little oil to the oil lamp, and the light was immediately brighter.

"Brother, the magistrate's wife actually gave me a pot of lamp oil, but when I saw that her clothes were patched, I felt embarrassed to overturn the lamp oil."

Just as Li Wei thought of what he saw along the way, he understood everything. He shook his head and said, "This is the first time I have seen such a poor prefect."

"Brother, let's have a meal first!"

Qianqian took two steamed buns and two dishes of side dishes from the pot and placed them in front of Li Weizheng. She sighed and said, "In the afternoon, when the father of Zhao came to the yard to feed fish, I asked him, and then I realized that the burden on the Zhao family was very heavy. He wanted to raise his wife and parents, and four elderly people, and he had three children at home. Especially the mother of Zhao's mother fell ill in bed for many years, and half of his salary would be spent on his annual medical expenses. We lived here tonight to cause great trouble for his family. We originally wanted to live in Yang County's house, but Zhao said that Yang County's house could not stay, so we let us live in his house. If I had known that his family was so difficult, I would rather stay in the inn."

After finishing dinner silently, Li Wei said, "I have decided to settle my family in Penglai County, which is the official house of the former commander. Tomorrow morning, I will ask my personal soldiers to help you clean up, and it is best to move over before noon."

"Miss Qian, the tea is ready." A crisp sound came from the door. In the dim light, a young woman came in. Li Weizheng only thought she was the little maid from Shandong, and she didn't take it seriously. But when she approached, Li Weizheng stood up in shock. The woman turned out to be the Goryeo woman Wang Shunji whom she met in the afternoon. 'How could she be here?'
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