The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 298: Intercepting and Killing Eunuch Gao

After waiting for a day, news came out from Fuzhou Prefecture that Gao Yin and others had broken through. To go from Fuzhou to Xinghua, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou, you need to take this section of the Changle official road, and Gao Yin will pass by it soon.

"Mr. Jianyang, who are you trying to ambush?" Seeing Wang Wenlong always asking about Gao Yin these two days, Liu Xiang already had bad suspicions in his mind, but he still couldn't believe it.

Folks believe that eunuchs are more terrifying than officials, and even Liu Xiang would dare to kill officials to rebel. However, Liu Xiang would be scared just thinking about killing eunuchs, so he felt that Wang Wenlong would not have such courage.

Wang Wenlong just sat there with his feet up eating solid food without answering.

Liu Xiang asked uncertainly: "Is it related to Gao Yin?"

Wang Wenlong smiled and said: "Master Liu Hai, the same thing is killing people. You don't care who he is, just do as he is told."

Liu Xiang didn't understand what he was saying, and was stunned for a moment.

Wang Wenlong asked: "When Liu Haizhu arrives at this place, will he still go back empty-handed?"

After observing Wang Wenlong in the past few days, Wang Wenlong knew that Liu Xiang also had a rogue character, and he believed that he was not wrong about the person. Sure enough, Liu Xiang thought for a while after hearing Wang Wenlong's words, gritted his teeth and said: "Mr. Jianyang is right, killing who is not killing?" This high eunuch, I have also done harm to the people!"

Seeing the two knights coming with a group of people, Lin Shiqing quickly shouted: "Who are you bringing?"

Lin Shiqing walked up to a Japanese pirate, reached out to touch the bamboo spear in his hand, and suddenly touched an iron spear head.

Seeing Lin Shiqing's problem, the Japanese pirate slammed forward with the tip of his spear, and stabbed Lin Shiqing's neck with the iron tip wrapped in cloth. The tip of the spear came out through the cloth, killing Lin Shiqing instantly.

Wang Wenlong and Liu Xiang's hearts froze. They originally thought they were going to fight, but the next moment they heard the two men say: "A noble man is coming. Don't be afraid. Send a few laborers to come and work!"

Thinking about it, he asked cautiously: "Have you found out that it's a villager?"

Liu Xiang nodded and quickly ordered his Japanese pirates in Japanese: "Come over together and don't speak to reveal your identity."

The two ate dry food together. While waiting, they saw two fast horses running in front of them. The two quickly cheered up. It was already dark, and ordinary merchants had already entered the inn to rest. Those who could travel in the dark were who?

When Wang Wenlong went down the mountain road, he saw Gao Yin, Gao Jia, Lin Shiqing and others sitting on several bullock carts eating dry food, with more than a dozen people guarding them.

He had already made a plan in his mind. After shouting these words, he swung his knife away, killed the knight on the horse next to him first, kicked off the body and then grabbed the horse to prevent Gao Yin and others from escaping on horseback and unable to catch up.

The two knights put on flattering looks on their faces and said, "Master Hui Lin, he is a villager from this village. He can't even speak Mandarin. I just caught them to do labor."

Liu Xiang quickly asked his Japanese pirates to hide in the forest, but the two horses ran much faster than the horses in Liu Xiang's memory.

The knight came to the roadside and saw this group of people hiding in the woods, so he shouted: "Sneaky, who are they?"

"Run!" Gao Yin was the first to react. He didn't want anything at the moment. He stood up with a cane and wanted to run. But he was so proud that he couldn't run fast on the mountain road.

"Happy bangs!" Wang Wenlong praised loudly.

After Gao Yin ran out of the mansion, he no longer believed in the Fuzhou officials and did not dare to delay at all. He went to the village outside Fuzhou to grab an ox cart, and drove all the way to Quanzhou carrying gold and silver treasures.

Liu Xiang and Wang Wenlong looked at each other, and Wang Wenlong said: "Don't scare the snake, just touch it."

Liu Xiang saw it clearly. He rode up from the side on a fast horse, drew a knife in his hand, and stabbed Gao Yin in the buttocks.

Suddenly, Gao Jia and his thugs were still in a daze when they saw a group of people rushing down the mountain road.

The twenty or thirty of them who took the guy looked just like farmers. Farmers in this era did not dare to speak when they saw people on horseback. A group of people walked in silence. In the poor light, they did not attract attention at all. What made the two knights suspicious was that the two men were cursing and constantly urging Wang Wenlong and the others to go faster.

Lin Shiqing glanced at the group of short men in shabby clothing, nodded and said: "This shows that you are good at doing things. This bullock cart cannot go on the mountain road, and they are just used to carry things. Don't let these people run away."

Seeing that the matter had been revealed, Liu Xiang quickly shouted in Japanese: "Charge!"

Gao Yin fell into the grass with an "ouch" sound as he was slashed, thrashing in pain.

The Japanese pirates swarmed up. They were all used to killing people and setting fires. They shouted to each other in Japanese and organized to surround the group of people.

Gao Jia and the guards wanted to fight back at first, but they were just a group of ruffians. They could only fight at a 50-50 level with the scholars in Fuzhou Prefecture. Who were the opponents of this group of Japanese pirates?

The Japanese pirates just screamed and stabbed them randomly with bamboo spears. After a while, all of Gao Jia's guards were dead and wounded. Gao Jia was dying, lying on the ground and trying to climb down the mountain. At this time, Wang Wenlong ran down the mountain road and walked to Gao Yin.

Gao Yin looked up at Wang Wenlong in surprise: "Wang Jianyang? It's you!"

Wang Wenlong smiled and said: "Eunuch Gao, are you okay?"

Gao Yin's face changed. He suddenly turned around with difficulty, kowtowed on the ground and said, "Jianyang, I really shouldn't be tempted by Lin Shiqing to spread rumors for you. For the sake of our brotherhood, please let me live." Bar."

Wang Wenlong smiled and shook his head: "Eunuch Gao, I can't believe you."

Gao Yin was anxious to survive, his mind was spinning rapidly, and he quickly said: "Wang Jianyang, the Dutch want to deal with you. They asked me about your details. I know that they have placed spies around you."

Wang Wenlong was a little surprised when he heard this. The Dutch would actually check his information and find Gao Yin, but when he thought about it, it felt natural.

Historically, Li Jin wanted to help the Dutch occupy Penghu by bribing Gao Yin. This eunuch dared to sell his country for money, so what did it mean to sell information about him?

He smiled and asked: "Eunuch Gao, does he know who the Dutch spy is?"

"Yes..." Gao Yin rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Jianyang let me go, and I will catch him together with you and send him to the court. I will definitely give Jianyang a meritorious deed for you."

Wang Wenlong finally understood that this guy had no idea who the Dutch spy was, but his mind worked very quickly and he immediately came up with a way to win over him.

Wang Wenlong waved to a Japanese pirate next to him. The Japanese pirate came up with a bamboo spear and stabbed Gao Yin to death as soon as he dropped his hand.

Historically, this guy had to wait until the 42nd year of Wanli to get up from Fujian and return to Beijing. After returning to Beijing, he was killed by Emperor Wanli who crossed the river and demolished the bridge. But now he died eleven years earlier, even if Emperor Wanli sent another tax eunuch , it will take some time to establish local taxation power like Gao Yin.

Anyway, the mining tax collected by Emperor Wanli in Fujian is of great benefit to the country. If it can be delayed for several years, Wang Wenlong can be regarded as indirectly helping the people of Fujian.

As for Gao Yin's minions, every one of them was not a good person. Wang Wenlong asked Liu Xiang to shoot all the people lying on the ground to death.

After killing everyone, Wang Wenlong went to check Lin Shiqing's clothes, and sure enough he found some pleadings in which the author of the "Xunbao" listed his crimes. He wrote down the names of several of the witnesses, but Wang Wenlong did not take away the pleadings. It's put back in its original place.

After Gao Yin died, Wang Wenlong didn't believe that someone would use this complaint against him, so taking the letter away would arouse suspicion.

A group of Japanese pirates gathered around the bullock cart and opened the treasure box. Everyone's eyes were wide open. Liu Xiang took out a string of red coral beads from the box and chewed his teeth and said, "This eunuch is so fat!"

Wang Wenlong patted Liu Xiang on the shoulder and said: "Master Liu Hai, this place is adjacent to the official road. People will find it soon. We'd better leave first. We can take as much as we can. In short, we can make some money."

Only then did Liu Xiang react. He nodded repeatedly and asked the Japanese pirates to drive the ox cart eastward.

Liu Xiang had already investigated it. From the official to the east, there were several paths commonly used by smugglers through the vegetation, all leading to the port.

Liu Xiang originally planned to pull the things to the beach, find a secret place to bury them, mark them, and then return by boat to take away the treasures.

But when a group of people arrived at the beach, they saw a few fish lanterns sneaking on the beach.

Liu Xiang led people up to check it out. After a while, he came back and smiled at Wang Wenlong: "It is a ship for smuggling copper. I have bought it."

Ancient China not only lacked gold and silver, but also lacked copper.

There is still some profit in transporting precious metals such as gold and silver through European maritime trade, but the value of copper is too low. Although Japan is small and poor, it is rich in gold, silver and copper mines. At this time, it was even called Treasure Island by Europeans.

During the Ming Dynasty, Ming Dynasty imported large quantities of foreign copper from Japan.

The reason why these foreign copper dealers are so sneaky is that they are all smuggled into the Ming Dynasty in order to evade taxes, but Liu Xiang does not want to go against them.

China's technology for making copper coins is relatively good. A large number of Chinese businessmen transport Japanese copper to China, and then transport the copper coins processed in China back to Japan as currency. For Japan, this is even a pretense of monetary sovereignty. In order to prevent this Following this trend, the Tokugawa shogunate has issued a decree allowing annual quotas for copper sales.

Therefore, this group of foreign copper smugglers in Fujian had to deal with both the Japanese and the Ming Dynasty official army, and they had already developed their ruthlessness.

Although their ship's transport capacity is not large, the sailors on board are not afraid of death. If they really fight Liu Xiang's more than thirty Japanese pirates, they may not be able to get much. Spend money on a boat.

When the smugglers saw the gold and silver that Liu Xiang brought out, they were happy to sell the ship at a high price. After they unloaded the goods, Liu Xiang directed a group of people to carry the gold and silver treasures onto the ship, then skillfully set sail and drove the ship directly back to Putian. .

(End of this chapter)