"General Wang, He's subordinates don't know the real dragon, and they are ignorant!"
"The villain deserves to die! The villain deserves to die!"
At the entrance of the "Jiu Le Hall" of the Hue Palace, He Xiwen, who was sweating profusely, and the men who held Zhao Xin with knives were kneeling on the ground, kowtowing in apology.
Wang Yuanfang, who couldn't laugh or cry, was about to speak when he heard someone behind him say: "It's not surprising if you don't know. Please get up, both of you."
Zhao Xin, who had just changed into the summer uniform of the Beihai Navy, strode out from behind the screen, came to the door and laughed, stepped forward to help He Xiwen and the guy who asked him to "hand over the gun and not kill" from the ground.
"What do you call it?"
He Xiwen's subordinate was frightened. Sweat was dripping down his face, and his legs were trembling. If Zhao Xin hadn't pulled out a gun just now, he would have killed the person directly. Just as the two were confronting each other with swords and guns, the soldiers from the special operations battalion who heard the sound immediately recognized Zhao Xin and tied up the guy with a backhand.
"Xiao, my surname is Lu and my given name is Sandian."
"Show three o'clock?" Zhao Xin was stunned for a moment, thinking that the name was quite philosophical.
He Xiwen hurriedly said: "This is a distant relative of Jian Nei. He used to be a fisherman. If he hadn't been bullied by officials and had no way of living, he would not have lived a life of licking blood with He."
Zhao Xin patted Lu Sandian on the shoulder, and Lu Sandian almost collapsed on the ground.
"Brother He, there is no rule of kneeling in Beihai Town. Let's just kneel to the sky and kneel to our parents. When superiors and subordinates meet, just salute."
"Yes! Yes!" He Xiwen then bowed and raised his hands in the Beihai Navy salute, which made him feel awkward.
After He Xiwen took Lu Sandian away, Zhao Xin frowned and asked in a low voice: "Why did you collect these people?"
"Hey, don't mention it. ..."
After listening to Wang Yuanfang's general narration, Zhao Xin lit a cigarette and waited until he finished smoking before asking: "Where are He Xiwen's family members now?"
"They are all on Kunlun Island. Ruan Fuying asked him to move his family to Jiading before, but he thought Jiading was too shabby and didn't go there."
"Since he wants to join us," Zhao Xin threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stamped it out with his foot, and continued: "Just in time, after the defeat of Annan, let He Xiwen take people to Ryukyu to deal with the Shimadzu family."
"Huh?" Wang Yuanfang said in surprise: "No, this man is very familiar with the waters of Nanyang. We also want him to be our guide to Java."
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "There are so many Chinese in Hoi An, and the guide can find them no matter what. You all don't know about Ruan Fu Anh. I only found out after checking on the way here that this King of Quang Nam is not a simple person!"
"How to say?"
"From the age of 15 to 40, it took 25 years to restore the country. Let alone his ability, his perseverance alone cannot be underestimated. Did you know? In order to exchange for the support of the French, Nguyen Phuc Anh would rather sign a contract to cede territory. Restoration of the country. Think about it, what can’t such a person do?”
"Hey!" Wang Yuanfang said in his heart, he is more daring than Manqing. "What did he cede?"
"Hoi An and Con Dao Island are empty words, and Qui Nhon hasn't even been conquered yet!"
Zhao Xin continued with a smile on his lips: "Louis XVI is about to lose his head. The French have too much time to take care of themselves. That Peter just found a group of mercenaries. You ask He Xiwen to go to Jiading to pick up the family and let him Tell Nguyen Phuc Anh that we can work together to take down Binh Thuan Province. Since he can sign a treaty with the French, he might as well sign it with us. Take this opportunity to put the issues of Dong Dang and Lang Son on paper."
Wang Yuanfang sounded familiar with these two place names, but couldn't remember them for a while, so he asked: "Where are you talking about?"
"Old squad leader, have you forgotten about the self-defense counterattack? Before the Northern Song Dynasty, that was our territory. Lang Son is only more than a hundred kilometers away from Thang Long, and it is the barrier to the entire north of Annan. With Dong Dang and Lang Son , Annan will not be a problem in the future."
After hearing this, Wang Yuanfang suddenly understood and said with a smile: "You still have a long-term vision. By the way, what should we do here in Hue?"
"It's useless. Even if I give it to Ruan Fuying, he can't hold it. His fleet won't be able to come up in winter." Zhao Xin turned around and looked around, jokingly said: "Forget it, I'll just pick up some golden nan and Qi. Nan, let’s go back to carving beads, and then everyone will have a bunch of them and treat them as souvenirs.”
Qinan, also known as "agar" in the Qing Dynasty, is the best among agarwood. Since the time of the Champa Kingdom, Qinan has been a valuable spice in the Central Plains region where people are thirsty for knowledge. Because of the exhaustion of resources due to long-term mining, in another time and space, the top-quality Qi Nan Xiang was already priceless.
Although the Hue Royal Palace is small in scale, a lot of rare wood is used. Many of the furnishings in the palace are made by top-notch Qinan. In the collapsed Jinhua Palace, there was even a large screen more than two meters high and four meters wide, which was completely carved from a whole piece of Qinan incense.
In addition, the gold products and large jade ornaments placed in various palaces are also very good. Speaking of jadeite of this era, they are definitely old scams!
Come here, Zhao Xin has to search for it, otherwise he will not be able to afford the Thor's fuel money and ammunition expenses. Then there is He Xiwen and his gang, who must share some benefits.
So Zhao Xin, accompanied by Wang Yuanfang, first walked around the palace, and then came to He Xiwen and said, "I'll give you two days, you can take whatever you want, it's all yours."
Although He Xiwen said he didn't dare, with Zhao Xin's permission, he immediately led hundreds of his men to search the palace, collecting all the jade, silver, bronze and even silk and satin that Zhao Xin didn't like. After looting, the pirates were delighted with the large and small packages of loot, which almost filled all the warships.
After the fleet returned to sea, he sent 60% of the supplies he had collected to the Thor. He Xiwen still knew how much he weighed. Without the North Navy, he would not even be able to see the shadow of the Hue Palace.
Afterwards, when Ruan Guangping learned of the tragic situation in the palace, he was so angry that he vomited blood and shouted, "If I don't avenge this, I will be ashamed of my ancestors."
In the evening of that day, Zhao Xin returned to the Thor in an assault boat. After discussing the follow-up arrangements with Deng Fei, he took the time to meet Ye Zhanrong and his son, who had always wanted to meet him.
When Ye Zhanrong first revealed his identity and then opened the wooden box containing the gold hairpin, revealing the phoenix hairpin inside, Zhao Xin was a little surprised.
"Are you a descendant of Ye Mengxiong? What's the matter with this hairpin?"
"Xiaomin, let me tell you something from the past first..." As Ye Zhanrong told, an old event that happened 140 years ago appeared in front of Zhao Xin, and he also learned about the last king of Zhao in the former Ming Dynasty. A family's dark secret.
During the Yongli period at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the royal relatives and nobles of the former Ming Dynasty fled south to various parts of Guangdong. Among them, the last king of Zhao, Zhu Youfeng, and the princes of Ziyang, Xinghua and Zhongxin came to Huizhou and set up palaces in Fucheng. The inner secret garden and the concurrent garden. In fact, these two houses are properties of the Ye family in Huizhou.
The owner of Biyuan is Ye Weicheng, whose courtesy name is Zongyi and nickname is Youlong. He is the grandson of Ye Mengxiong, the Minister of War in the late Ming Dynasty, a hereditary Jinyiwei, and a cousin of the former Ming Dynasty clan member Hongyang Marquis. Ye Zhanrong's grandfather was Ye Weicheng's bastard.
In September of the fourth year of Yongli Dynasty (1650), the Qing troops surrounded Guangzhou and fell into Huizhou. Huang Yingjie, the commander-in-chief of Huizhou in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Li Shilian, the Taoist minister, and Lin Zongjing, the prefect of Huizhou, etc., seeing that the situation was over, they immediately surrendered to the Qing army with the former Ming Zhao king Zhu Youyi and other kings. .
After Huang Yingjie and others presented the city to the Qing Dynasty, they began to unscrupulously kill the princes of the former Ming Dynasty and their families. Because she coveted the beauty of the princesses, Princess Pang of Xinghua was occupied by the camp general Wang Shihuai. She hanged her four-year-old daughter and set up a memorial tablet for her husband, and then hanged herself with her clothes. Princess Zheng of Zhongxin was possessed by Taoist minister Li Shilian and would rather die. When she refused, she waited for an opportunity and hanged herself. Princess Ziyang was snatched away by the commander-in-chief Huang Yingjie and refused to obey. Huang Yingjie was afraid that she would escape, so he took her shirt off and imprisoned her in a secret room. Finally, taking advantage of Huang Yingjie's unpreparedness, the princess cut off her clothes and pulled her neck into strands to commit suicide.
The above-mentioned things can be found in official history or predecessors' notes, but there is no whereabouts of Princess Zhao. In another modern era, some scholars speculated based on archaeological findings that Princess Zhao might have fled to Zhunti Pavilion on Chongdao Mountain and committed suicide by throwing herself into a well. However, there were no bones in the well.
"...according to the villain's father, Princess Zhao was pregnant with Liujia and was rescued by her great-grandfather Youlong Gong. She hid in the cellar of the inner house for more than half a year, during which time she gave birth to a son. The princess gave birth to him. His name is Zhu Cigui."
When Ye Zhanrong said this, he raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Xin. Seeing that his face was expressionless, he gritted his teeth and continued: "After the fall of Guangzhou, Huang Yingjie led his army to leave Huizhou. Seeing that the situation had eased, his great-grandfather Youlong Gong asked his grandfather to go south. The Gong family took the princess to Annam and settled in Hoi An. More than ten years later, when the prince grew up, my grandfather invited scholars in Hoi An who had also fled here to teach him. "
Zhao Xin sat for a long time, his buttocks were numb, he got up and walked a few steps, then asked: "What next?"
"In the sixteenth year of Yongli (1662), the news that Duke Guoxing had regained Taiwan reached Hoi'an, and the princess asked Duke Suonan to take the mother and son to seek refuge. Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the sea outside Anping on the third day of May, waves suddenly surged into the sky, and thunder struck The lightning flashed like a mountain falling apart and the ground cracked, and the boat capsized at that time. It was later learned that Duke Guo Xing was about to die at that time. So Nangong finally found a wooden board and hugged him tightly, and finally survived. The princess was washed ashore the next day, but her body was found, but there was no trace of the prince. This phoenix hairpin was the only thing left on the princess at that time..."
Ye Zhanrong was already in tears when he said this. He slid forward from his chair and fell to his knees. Zhao Xin quickly asked Ye Chengxiang to help his father up. He waited until Ye Zhanrong had stopped crying before listening to him continue.
What happened next was that Ye Zhanrong's grandfather wanted to report to the government, but he didn't know that Zheng Chenggong was dead until he arrived in Anping Town. Zheng Jing then launched a coup, calling himself King Yanping, and led his army to attack Taiwan from Kinmen. For a time, there was chaos all over Taiwan, and Ye Zhanrong's grandfather had no choice but to give up the idea of asking Zheng for help.
He first found a secluded place on the beach to bury Princess Zhao. After finally returning to Hoi'an by boat, he took people to Anping, Taiwan, to dig out the remains and bring them back to Hoi'an for burial. Ye Zhanrong's grandfather did not bury the phoenix hairpin with him. He thought at that time that it would be a good idea if he found the eldest son Zhu Cigui.
After Zhao Xin heard the whole story, he thought to himself, good fellow, it turns out that the last king of Zhao in the former Ming Dynasty really had descendants. On a whim, I waved the "Ming" flag under Ninggu Pagoda City, but it actually caused so much trouble! If I had known, I wouldn't have done this even if I had beaten him to death.
Thinking of this, he hesitated and asked, "What is your grandfather's name?"
"The upper character is taboo Ji, the lower character is tabsi, and the name is Suonan. The little family's residence in Hoi An was named after my grandfather, and it was called 'Soonantang'."
"Where is the princess buried?"
"Ten miles west of Hoi An City, my grandfather specially found a land with good feng shui, bought all the surrounding 20 acres of land, and arranged for tenant farmers to live nearby for care."
Zhao Xin nodded. He thought for a moment, then looked at Ye Zhanrong and his son and said solemnly: "This matter has come out of your father and son's mouth and into my ears. Never mention it to outsiders again."
Ye Zhanrong said with a puzzled face: "Where did you start talking about this? Now that your highness has conquered Hue in successive campaigns, it is time to spread your reputation widely. You must know that there is Ming Huong Society both in Hoi An and outside Hue City. Many of them are descendants of the former ministers!"
"Mingxiang Society? What is that?"
Ye Chengxiang heard that his father's voice was a little hoarse, so he quickly helped explain.
It turns out that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of Ming Dynasty survivors who fled the war or did not want to go out moved to the Hoi An and Hue areas, including Zhu Shunshui who later went to the island country.
The Nguyen regime at that time centrally resettled these Chinese who fled south and allowed them to establish a special administrative organization - Minh Huong Society.
In Ye Chengxiang's words, the current "Mingxiang Society" is no longer simply a remnant of the Ming Dynasty. Over the past 100 years, the villages where Chinese and mixed-race descendants who were born in Annan lived together are also called "Mingxiang Society". He had heard from Chinese merchants from Java that such village communities also existed in Java and Luzon.
The earliest Minh Huong Society in Annan was built in Hoi An. The founders were called the "Ten Elders" and the "Six Surnames", and they were respected as the predecessors of Minh Huong. Among them, the "Ten Elders" come from Zhejiang and Fujian and belong to the Kong, Yan, Yu, Xu, Zhou, Huang, Zhang, Chen, Cai, Liu and other families; the "Six Surnames" include Wei, Wu, Xu, Wu, Shao, Zhuang, etc.
When the early Mingxiang people were naturalized in Annan, they placed great emphasis on their identity as "Chinese" and "residents of the Ming Dynasty". In order to maintain their group characteristics and avoid being quickly assimilated by the local ethnic groups, they established corresponding ancestral halls and temples to enhance the group's cohesion and identity.
For example, the newly built Jiasheng Mingxiang Hall in Chaigun last year enshrines the gods from Zhu Yuanzhang to Chongzhen. There are couplets inside that read, "It is a shame to be a minister of the Northern Dynasty and always solemn, but I would rather be a guest of the Southern Kingdom with bamboo and silk hung down."
The ancestral hall in Hoi An is the Cheng Han Palace on Datang Street - also known as the Guandi Temple. However, although Hoi An's "Ming Huong Society" and "Datang Street" are connected together, in fact the two are completely different in nature. The former is a gathering area for merchants. The merchants under the Manchu Qing Dynasty all worshiped Mazu at the "Foreign Merchants Guild Hall"; while the latter is an immigrant group, with merchants and other industries, and has become a registered household under the Annan rule; Ye Zhanrong That's what a family is.
Zhao Xin had never thought that there was such a group in Annan, and he had to think again as to whether they could be used by Beihai Town. So he pondered for a moment and said to Ye Zhanrong and his son: "You two, it has been a hundred and fifty years since the Ming Dynasty fell, and the inheritance is gone..."
Ye Chengxiang said in surprise: "But your highness, didn't you raise an army to resist the Qing Dynasty?"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "In fact, I first resisted the Qing Dynasty, and later I learned about my family background from my father. You two must know that even my surname has been changed since my grandfather's time, just to avoid disaster. Now. Beihai Town has already defeated the Manchu and Qing armies outside the Pass, and there is no need to raise the banner of the Qian Ming Dynasty. What’s more, Beihai Town has its own system, which is different from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and the former Ming Dynasty.”
Seeing Zhao Xin's determined face, Ye Zhanrong and his son couldn't say anything anymore. After talking for so long, the three of them were a little tired. The father and son left immediately, leaving the phoenix hairpin and wooden box behind.
However, when the Ye family and his son returned to their ship and entered the cabin, Ye Zhanrong whispered to Ye Chengxiang: "This King Zhao... is fake."
Ye Chengxiang was shocked and hurriedly whispered: "Why did father say that?"
"You are still too young. Fortunately, I came with you this time." Ye Zhanrong looked at the flickering flames of the oil lamp and said quietly: "But he is also real, it must be real!"
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