Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 786 The remnants of White Lotus

Of course, what Felute meant by "buying a boat" was not buying those big boats owned by merchants. Those merchants who had ships and participated in maritime transportation generally had the Ming Dynasty's trade contracts. Now these Yi people have become rats crossing the street. Who dares to risk the disapproval of the court and get involved with these rats?

Aren't you afraid that you will be convicted of being an accessory and your sexual intercourse will be banned?

What's more, today's sea-going ships are not sea-going ships, but ships of gold... As long as you go out to sea for a while, what kind of money can't be earned back?

Why waste all the time fishing and sell these boats that were built with great difficulty?

However, since Hangzhou Port is so large, it is naturally impossible for these big merchants to have ships. Some fishermen or laborers who unload and transport goods to merchant ships have their own ships. However, those sampans can only wander near the sea. If they are farther away, they will be in danger of capsizing.

Felt was now desperate, but he no longer cared about that much.

"Shopkeeper, there is a group of Rakshasa ghosts at the dock who want to buy our fishing boat..."

A large number of men gathered in an inconspicuous courtyard wall in the northern part of Hangzhou City. The leader, a man wearing short clothes, opened his arms, revealing his strong tendons, and was leading a group of men to offer incense in the courtyard devoutly. The arrangement of the incense burner was also quite strange. There was neither a statue of a god nor a tablet. It was just a bare stick of incense, and I didn’t know what it was for.

Hearing the voice of the brother outside running to report, the leading man glanced at him briefly and continued to carefully insert the incense stick on the incense burner. Then he turned around and said, "Fang Tuozi, slowly Say...you said the Rakshasa ghost wants to buy a boat?"

"Don't those Rakshasa ghosts have big boats themselves? What's more, they have made a lot of money in Fengming Island. If they don't want to build any new boats... why buy our broken fishing boats?"

"Shopkeeper, don't you know?" Fang Zuzi, who hurriedly came to pass the news, opened his mouth like a firecracker, and said with gloating: "Those red-haired Rakshasa, they are in trouble this time. …”

"An imperial notice was posted on the dock today, saying that these Rakshasa ghosts colluded with the Marquis of Ji'an and the Marquis of Yan'an to hoard slaves and instigate them to rebel and cause rebellion... The emperor was furious and issued a decree to seal all their cargo ships. The wharf There were quite a few merchant ships belonging to these Rakshasa ghosts in Uehara, but one by one, the officers and soldiers of the guard station towed all their ships to the guard station's dock to be sealed up!"

"Perhaps the next step is to arrest these Rakshasa ghosts and bring them to justice. How can these Rakshasa ghosts not be in a hurry? No, they are suddenly sick and seek medical treatment. They think they want to buy our ship, and they quickly row back to the Rakshasa Kingdom thousands of miles away to hide and seek refuge. Na!"

The men in the courtyard had already gathered around, and after hearing what he said, many of them looked gloating. These red-haired Rakshasa ghosts always act coquettishly, but they still insist on claiming to be superior to others. They use a few stinky money to yell at the hired laborers. Anyone who makes a living on the dock will treat these red-haired Rakshasa ghosts. Mao's Rakshasa ghosts were disgusted, but they were only willing to take their jobs for the sake of money.

However, the leading muscular man was obviously not paying attention to the Rakshasa ghost. Instead, when he heard "The Marquis of Ji'an and the Marquis of Yan'an are rebelling and causing chaos," he frowned in anticipation. Asked: "What happened next?"

"After?" Fang Zhuzi was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then he realized that the shopkeeper was asking "What happened after the rebellion?" He waved his hands disdainfully: "What big thing can those two losers accomplish? The emperor's list said The emperor's three sons only transferred 5,000 people, and then they were taken back to the Ministry of Punishment prison."

"..." The light in the leading man's eyes dimmed, and then he gently knocked on the incense table, "It's useless... what a pity!" Seeing the leader's annoyance, other men in the courtyard also became quiet, and someone murmured: "How can it be so easy? , now the momentum of the Ming Dynasty is so strong...otherwise our Xiang Army would not..."

"That's right, even we can only have this kind of climate, so what kind of capabilities can the Marquis of Ji'an and Yan'an in Lao Shizi have..."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was silent for a while.

It is said that the east is rich and the west is noble, the south is poor and the north is humble. This is generally the pattern of big cities in the world, and the city of Hangzhou is no exception. These people are in Beicheng, and most of them are low-income people who can only engage in shrimp fishing.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the heroes were fighting for hegemony, and after Zhu Yuanzhang unified the country, most of the people who followed the heroes moved there. Hangzhou was one of the cities with the largest number of people who moved from other places. After all, the city of Hangzhou was brutally massacred at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. After it was recovered by Lao Zhu, there were only thirteen households left in the city.

Most of these fishermen living in Beicheng were common people under Chen Youliang's rule in the past.

When Han Shantong and Liu Futong took the lead in rebelling against the Yuan Dynasty, all the heroes in the world responded. The main force of the rebellion came from Mingjiao, an important branch of the White Lotus Sect. Han Lin'er, the son of Han Shantong supported by Liu Futong, was called "Little Ming King", which originated from this.

However, at that time, the power of the White Lotus Sect was not only that of Han Shantong and Liu Futong. Han Shantong established his own branch, and another branch of the Ming Sect, Peng Yingyu, supported Xu Shouhui and established the Tianwan Empire. At that time, rebel armies were everywhere, all in the name of expelling the Tartars and resisting the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty. However, the rebel armies were not friendly forces. On the contrary, the war between them was extremely fierce. They regarded each other as enemies, even more so than the North. The hostility of the Yuan court. Later, Peng Yingyu died, and Chen Youliang killed Xu Shouhui to usurp the throne. But in the final analysis, this branch also inherited the incense of Mingjiao.

These fishermen who were moved to Hangzhou City were the people who served under Xu Shouhui in the past. However, the common people are just an appearance. Their true identity is actually a White Lotus sect force from Tianwan Kingdom. However, because they were dissatisfied with Chen Youliang's usurpation of the throne and purging Xu Shouhui's old tribe, they got rid of their identity as Xu Shouhui's confidants and pretended to be common people to hide. He opened up the disaster that happened when Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew Chen Youliang, and was moved to Hangzhou as an ordinary citizen.

However, although they managed to escape with their lives, due to the Ming Dynasty's efforts to crack down on the White Lotus Sect and other sects, they could only survive as lowly households under the Ming Dynasty... These senior White Lotus officials who also had the power to call the shots in the late Yuan Dynasty are now everywhere People who go fishing early in the day and come back late do not have much room for rebellion at all. Even recruiting believers has little effect. These coastal people are all too busy to go to sea and focus on making money to live. No one wants to believe in the Inanimate Mother...

The biggest thought is to hope that something will happen to the Ming Dynasty, and that it will collapse, and then the troubled times will come again.

(End of this chapter)