This is ancient times, and even though Hexing Mansion looks peaceful and prosperous, there have always been wars in other places.

In such a place, if you don’t have enough strength in your hands, it will always make people uneasy.

Jiang Zhen and Wenming went overseas to trade together. After Wenming made money, he put the money in his home, but he was different. He had been collecting people and training them.

To this day, there are thousands of adults who have some skills in punching and kicking under Jiang Zhen. Some of them work as escorts at the Jin Zhen Escort Agency, while others will follow him to sea.

After he came back from overseas, he gave these people a few days off, and now it's time to start training again.

There is a special training ground in the mountains near Yabian Village, where Jiang Zhen trained his subordinates, and today, he went there early.

In the training ground, hundreds of men led by Zhu Erlin were already waiting.

It's still early, so they sat lazily on the ground or on wooden stakes, and then wiped the knife on their hands.

When he was following Jiang Zhen, he was only seventeen or eighteen years old. Jiang Ming, who was very reckless, has now become very steady, but is not a knife, but a spear.

At first, Jiang Zhen had no money in his hand, so he asked them to train with bamboo poles. Jiang Ming liked the feeling of stabbing people with bamboo poles. Later, when he had a big sword made of steel, he was unwilling to change his weapons. There were several others like his.

Then, Jiang Zhen asked someone to get them some spears.

"Jiang Ming, I heard you are going to get married?" Zhu Erlin looked at Jiang Ming: "Have you seen your wife?"

"You are stupid!" Jiang Ming glanced at Zhu Erlin. His wife was told by his father. He was from Hecheng County. He received news no earlier than Zhu Erlin and the others. Could it have seen it before?

Zhu Erlin looked at Jiang Ming with a serious look: "Xiao Ming, you must be kind to your wife, otherwise we will be several months away. If the wife runs away, there will be no place to cry."

"Do you think my wife is willing to run away with such a look?" Jiang Ming looked at Zhu Erlin: "But you should be careful."

"Looking for a beating!" Zhu Erlin kicked Jiang Zhen with a sweeping leg.

Seeing that the two were about to fight, someone suddenly ran in outside: "Stop and stop making trouble, get your clothes clean, hurry up!"

"What's wrong?" Zhu Erlin and Jiang Ming let go of each other and looked over in confusion.

"The boss is here!" the man said.

"If the boss comes, come." Zhu Erlin said, their boss is even less particular than them. After going to sea last time, they even cut their hair short... If they hadn't been going to sea for a long time and had been raised for five months, their boss would have been scolded!

"Bring the lady!" the man said again.

"Miss?!" Zhu Erlin was shocked and quickly stood up and tidied up his clothes.

When Jiang Zhen was at sea, he told people all day long that his daughter Zhao Mingzhu was so cute that although they had never seen Zhao Mingzhu much, they couldn't help but love this child.

Under such circumstances, they naturally do not want to show their sloppy side in front of Zhao Mingzhu.

After Zhu Erlin and others packed up, Jiang Zhen brought Zhao Mingzhu over.

Zhao Mingzhu, who is over four years old, is no longer as fat as she was when she was a child, but her face is still a little round and her eyes are big, and she looks very cute.

"Boss, why did you bring the lady here?" Jiang Ming looked at Jiang Zhen in confusion.

"She will come every day from now on." Jiang Zhen said.

Jiang Ming and others were a little stunned and asked Zhao Mingzhu to come over every day?!

Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jin are now considered well-known people. Their daughter should be kept in the boudoir, with a group of maids and mothers serving them. Then they are proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and they are both good at embroidery. Why... have you brought them here?

Are their bosses afraid of tanning the lady?

These people were helpless, and Zhao Mingzhu was very interested in everything here.

There are wooden towers that can be climbed up and down, wooden stakes at high and low, rivers and bridges made of ropes on them...

"Mingzhu, dad will take you here to play today!" Jiang Zhen said to Zhao Mingzhu.

In fact, he wanted to bring Zhao Chengyu, but Zhao Chengyu was less than three years old, so he was too young.

Zhao Mingzhu nodded vigorously.

Some Zhao Mingzhu can "play", while others cannot play. When they encounter someone they cannot play, Jiang Zhen tied her to his chest and then went to "play" by himself.

Zhao Mingzhu giggled and was very happy.

But Wenming came over to see this scene and was scared and sweated.

Jiang Zhen actually climbed onto such a high wooden stake with his daughter!

Although he often went out to sea with the ship, he rarely did what the crew did. He never crawled with masts and other things. He was a little afraid of heights, but Jiang Zhen...

"Wenming, is there anything wrong?" Jiang Zhen saw Wenming bringing people over, so he climbed down from a high place and urged his subordinates to continue practicing.

"It's something." Wen Mingdao.

Jiang Zhen held Zhao Mingzhu and Wenming and came to a nearby place where they could rest for a while. Then he looked at Wenming: "What's the matter?"

"First, it is probably not easy for us to buy the Wen family's ship in the future." Wen Ming said. Many things cannot involve interests. The Wen family originally loved Wen Yingniang very much, but now...

Wen’s father and mother, and Wen Yingniang’s brothers, still have feelings for Wen Yingniang at this moment, but others may not be sure of others. If they want to maintain the relationship between the former, it is best not to involve interests.

Jiang Zhen may not be able to buy a boat with the Wen family in the future. He had already predicted that and had even made some preparations. So now nodded and agreed to this matter: "I understand, what else?"

"And that's right, Cheng Yongzhen from Pingzhou Prefecture did a big deal." Wen Ming said: "I don't know if it's a blessing or a disaster."

Wenming talked about this in detail.

This matter has not spread outside yet, and it was told by the maritime merchants he had known before.

Daqi has a sea ban, which stipulates that the board cannot go into the sea.

But the maritime merchants are really profitable. Daqi can sell an ordinary kitchen knife to Dongyang for a hundred times the price!

Therefore, the local governments in Jiangnan kept secretly indulging in the face of secretly, and eventually gave birth to many maritime merchants.

This has a lot to do with the increasing population in Jiangnan and serious land annexation - many people cannot rely on farming to make a living, so they can only seek life at sea.

The Hexing Mansion is better. Going south, the maritime merchants there are really powerful.

The Wen family is very good at building ships, but that's all. It's not the most powerful among the maritime merchants. The most powerful among the maritime merchants is Cheng Yongzhen.

Cheng Yongzhen was from Pingzhou Prefecture and gathered a group of fellow villagers to do maritime trade. After twenty years, he has become the largest maritime businessman. His ability to do this is related to the fact that someone supported him at that time.

"Cheng Yongzhen is a man who is very capable and devoted to being an official. It is precisely because of this that many officials in Pingzhou Prefecture, the southern Fujian Prefecture, had a good relationship with him and gave him some support, allowing him to pacify some pirates who burned, killed and looted. However, in recent years, the officials of Pingzhou Prefecture have become very dirty, so they began to take their subordinates to Ryukyu. Just a few months ago, he was king in Ryukyu and called himself King Ping." Wen Mingdao.

After Jiang Zhen started doing maritime business, he naturally paid attention to other maritime businessmen, including Cheng Yongzhen.

And according to his understanding of Cheng Yongzhen... Cheng Yongzhen and Cheng Yongzhen's men are somewhat similar to the Liangshan heroes in "Water Margin".

The court had a maritime ban. They were doing illegal business, but they were determined to get the recognition of the court and hoped that the court could recruit peace... Of course, this was also an inevitable idea that people in this era would have.

People at this time always think that being an official is the best way out.

"Will he do this?" Jiang Zhen was a little surprised.

"Yes." Wen Ming said: "He did this, but the court had to pay attention to him. I wonder if the court would recruit him as he wished."

"It's very difficult." Jiang Zhen said: "We must be careful in the future."

Jiang Zhen does a maritime businessman not just to make money. In fact... he wants to find a way out for himself overseas.

He has the Jin Zhen escort agency, the sea boat, and another place to settle overseas. In the future, even if there is war in Daqi, he can take his family away...

Because of this, when he first heard Ming talk about what Cheng Yongzhen did, he was thinking about Cheng Yongzhen, maybe he wanted to do the same thing as himself, but soon, he realized that this was not the case.

"We cannot travel far for the time being, and only do business with Dongyang, which is fine." Wen Ming said.

Jiang Zhen nodded, thinking that it would be better to find more people to train.

It is said that Cheng Yongzhen has 100,000 people under his command. Compared with others, he is still a little smaller.

Cheng Yongzhen's affairs did not affect Jiang Zhen and Wenming's business. After all the merchants who were supposed to come arrived, they took all the goods in their hands.

After all the goods were taken, Jiang Zhen and Wenming packed up their things and took their families back to Hexing Mansion.

In modern times, I haven’t been home for several months. Maybe when I go back, I will find that there is an extra building, but it is different at this time.

Hexing Mansion is still the same, just the "Zhen" flag on the wharf, which is much more than before.

Jiang Zhen got off the boat with his two children, and immediately several carriages arrived.

"In the past, I had to suffer a lot when I went out to visit a relative, but now everything has changed." Zhao Liu lived with Brother Zhao and his children on the beach, and this time he returned to the city together. At this moment, he couldn't help but sigh.

I used to suffer so much from traveling far away! But now, everything has changed, both a boat and a carriage, so relaxed.

Jiang Zhen smiled and helped Zhao Liu to the carriage, but he got on a horse next to him.

He prefers riding horses than riding a carriage.

When he rode a horse, he brought Zhao Mingzhu with him. Zhao Mingzhu was taken by him these days and was wandering around with him. Not only was he not afraid of riding a horse, but he was not happy.

Everyone on the dock saw the pomp here, and someone asked, "Who are these?"

"You don't even know them? Did the one riding on the horse see it? That was the head of the Jin Zhen Escort Agency!"

"The chief escort leader of the Jin Zhen Escort Agency? So young?"

"Yes, it's so young! Besides Jin Zhen's escort agency, they are also maritime merchants. I heard that they have made countless money."

"That's amazing!"

...

People were talking a lot. In the crowd, a young man in his thirties, wearing a somewhat old robe and dressed in a scholar, looked a little dazed in the distance.
To be continued...