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Chapter 1042: Spear Master Tang Shunzhi

There was a fleet in Lianghu. Before the lifting of the maritime ban, the fleet was registered under the name of the navy. They smuggled openly and received stolen goods from Japanese pirates openly.

After the lifting of the maritime ban, Liang Hu's fleet appeared alone and openly at the Hangzhou dock.

The fleet was currently being repaired at the dock. Liang Hu was quite concerned about this and would come to the dock to check it out whenever he had nothing to do.

Jiang Qingzhi took away more than 30 warships, and there were dozens more on the dock. When Liang Hu arrived at the dock, he saw naval officers and soldiers running on the dock.

Jia San sneered and said, "It looks like she's not even as strong as a prostitute."

Jiang Qingzhi took his warships out to sea to pursue the defecting naval officers and soldiers. When the news spread, the whole of Hangzhou was in an uproar.

"Master, Hangzhou is very festive recently!" said Jia San.

"The navy is all rotten mud, and Wang Bie's army is the strongest. Jiang Qingzhi led those idiots to pursue, and if he is not careful, the whole army will be wiped out. If he dies at sea, the whole world will cheer for him. This is the result of thousands of people pointing fingers at him, and he died without any disease."

Liang Hu said almost as if cursing, "When he dies, the world will be at peace!"

"start running!"

Those naval officers and soldiers were running lazily. The generals beat them with wooden sticks, but it was useless. Everyone was tired. If you have the guts, just kill them.

"These generals are too soft-hearted." A man carrying a bag, who looked like an outsider, laughed and said, "In the north, if the officers and soldiers dared to do this, the generals would beat them half to death."

A boatman was mending a fishing net nearby. He looked up and sized up the man before asking, "Are you from out of town?"

"That's right." The man said, "I heard that the maritime ban was lifted, so I came to the south to see if there are any business opportunities."

"You have a northern accent, but you are quite arrogant." The boatman sneered, "These officers and soldiers have a hard life, and can barely fill their stomachs on weekdays. If the generals were more ruthless, would they really think they dare not kill people? They would sneak into the generals' residences in the middle of the night and behead them with a single knife..."

"Those northern officers and soldiers are so fierce that they dare not do that. The southern officers and soldiers are weak. What you said... is really a joke!" The man from another place fired a map cannon.

The boatman said calmly, "In the past ten years, there have been five cases of soldiers killing generals. It happened in the navy, right here at the dock. I saw with my own eyes that headless general was carried out, covered in blood..."

"What about the sergeants?" The outsiders were amazed. "Have the southern sergeants become bloodthirsty?"

"The soldier killed the general, carried his head and went out to sea to join the Japanese pirates."

The outsider was stunned. "I see. I was wondering why people from the South are so aggressive."

Jia San sighed, "The storyteller said that the North has always unified the South, and the main reason is that the people in the South are weak."

"Wrong." Liang Hu said calmly, "It's not that the people in the south are weak, otherwise why could the Sun family gain a foothold in Jiangdong and stand on equal footing with Wei and Shu?"

"Master, but later..."

"Later, the South became rich. People, when they have money and can eat and wear warm clothes, will cherish their lives. Once they cherish their lives, they will not dare to die. That is why there have been many generous and tragic people in Yan and Zhao since ancient times. It is not because those people are generous and passionate, but because they are poor!"

"That's what you said."

Just when Jia San felt that what the master said was insightful, someone became unhappy.

The master and servant turned around and saw a man chewing a steamed bun... It looked like a cold steamed bun, and the crust was as hard as armor. Jia San sneered, "Why, do you think it's wrong?"

The man nodded, "The North was richer than the South back then... By the way, do you know why the South was so rich?"

Jia San: “…”

Liang Hu said: "The land in the south is fertile, and the people are hardworking and active."

The man shook his head and swallowed the food in his mouth. "The north is close to the grassland. Over the past thousand years, the grassland has bred countless enemies of the Central Plains. All those grassland cavalry were blocked outside the Great Wall by the north. This gave the south a chance to develop peacefully. Secondly..."

The man took a bite of the meat bun, chewed it for a few times, swallowed it, and continued, "Secondly, the Sima family of the Jin Dynasty was incompetent, which led to the turmoil of the country and the rampage of foreign races. This is why the people migrated from the north to the south and revitalized the nearly desolate south."

The people on the dock were listening.

The man said: "There has been fighting in the north, so people from the north have been migrating to the south continuously. This was also the case in the late Tang Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty, and some even built their capital in Lin'an..."

The man said, "It's not that the north is poor, nor that the northerners are not hardworking enough, or that the land is not fertile enough. Back then, the northwest was the capital of the Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties. It was rich in natural resources and had many outstanding people. Even today, it's hard for us in the south to compare with it."

"From your accent, I can tell you're from the south. Why are you speaking for the north? You're destroying your own prestige," said Jia San.

The man smiled gently, "For thousands of years, people from the north have been migrating south in large numbers. To be honest, if you and I trace our origins, most of our ancestors also came from the north. So there is no distinction between north and south. We are all Han people, and we are all Ming people."

"That makes sense!" said the foreign man. "My ancestors were originally from the south. They went to the north to serve as officials and later settled there."

The boatman was startled. "Oh! That's right! My grandfather once said that my family was once an official family in the north."

The man said gently, "Look, the north and the south are all one family, why should we distinguish between them? Besides, in this world, we all prosper together and we all humiliate together. Once the foreign races come south, the knife will not care whether you are from the south or the north.

If the North blocks the barbarians from the grasslands, the court can let the South recuperate. If the South has money, the North can just focus on defending against the barbarians, which will reduce the burden. We are all one family, so we should join hands. "

"You bastard!" Jia San was unhappy and was about to retort when he heard someone say, "That Chang Wei Bo is also from the South, but he specializes in cutting the flesh of us Southerners."

"That's right." Jia San said, "Chang Wei Bo committed so many murders in Songjiang Prefecture that the Southern Zhili people were terrified. Now that he has come to Hangzhou, the officers and soldiers of the navy have mutinied. If this continues, I don't know what will happen to Hangzhou... Oh!"

He felt the same way, so his emotions were sincere and hatred was evident in his words.

Someone asked, "Didn't the navy mutiny occur before Chang Wei-bo came to Hangzhou?"

"It was right after he arrived in Hangzhou." Jia San said decisively, "We know it clearly."

"That's what I mean." Looking at the rather gentle man, he said, "Has he arrived at the dock?"

"No." Jia San could not be slandered on this point.

"So, he threatened to purge the navy as soon as he entered Hangzhou City."

Jia San shook his head. Jiang Qingzhi had shown his power to Zhou Wang and the others outside the city gate, but he had not said anything harsh to the navy.

"So, what does the mutiny of the navy have to do with him?" the man asked gently. Jia San was so angry that he said, "You bastard..." He then realized that the man was wearing a cloth shirt and straw sandals. The clothes were quite old, and the straw sandals had holes, and his big toe was even exposed.

This is a poor guy!

Jia San thought about how Jiang Qingzhi almost ruined the big deal. Although there was still a glimmer of hope, he still had to wait for the nod from the Japanese daimyo, and he was furious.

He pointed at the man and yelled, "Whose crotch was not closed properly and let your thing out?"

In the Ming Dynasty, among the so-called scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, the powerful belonged to the scholar class, and even ranked at the top of this class.

Scholars are very powerful, for example, they form a group to attack the government, but compared with the powerful, they are just little brothers.

The Liang family was considered a second-rate, first-rate tyrant in Hangzhou, and had the deepest relationship with the navy. There were many generals in the navy who were involved in smuggling, and these generals had a close relationship with the civil officials.

Without the civil servants’ cover-up, the smuggling business cannot continue.

Through these networks, the Liang family is not very powerful in Hangzhou, but they are still quite influential.

Especially here at the dock, the Liang family had many connections. Jia San saw an official coming with a few clerks. The official was a relative of the Liang family. He immediately felt emboldened and pointed at the man and scolded him.

The man sighed gently, "Insults cannot cover up your ignorance. It would be fine if you insulted me, but you have to slander Long Wilbur..."

"This man is in league with the Japanese!" Jia San pointed at the man and said. The official came over, took a look at the man, and seeing that he was dressed in rags, he sneered, "Capture him!"

"Wait!" The man took a step back, holding a wooden stick in his hand and pushing the bag onto his back, "What crime have I committed?"

"Tongyao!"

"Where's the evidence?"

The official laughed grimly, "It's totally false!"

What the hell!

This remark caused a commotion in the crowd... Wasn't Yue Wumu unjustly killed by Qin Hui on a false accusation?
The official felt something was wrong as soon as he said this, and angrily said, "Kneel down, or I will kill you without mercy!"

If we really kill the man on the charge of collaborating with the Japanese, his death will be in vain.

Someone sighed, "Bai Xiaoguo's cousin is the magistrate of Hangzhou Prefecture, and he is the most tyrannical and overbearing. This poor outsider is courting death!"

The man sighed, "Once I'm in jail, my life and death will no longer be in my hands. I was a little too talkative today, and I don't know if that kid will laugh at me if he finds out."

Two petty officials came over, one holding a stick and the other with a sword.

He shouted majestically: "Kneel down!"

The man turned around, posed with his long stick, and said, "What is the crime for slandering others for colluding with the Japanese?"

"Get started!" official Bai Xiaoguo shouted.

A petty official raised a wooden stick, shouted loudly, and chopped it down fiercely.

Bang!
Everyone only saw the stick flashing, and the wooden stick in the clerk's hand flew away without a trace. He stumbled back, covering his chest.

Another petty official rushed up with a knife and hit him on the head.

When Jia San saw it, he said, "This knife is very good."

The man was not in a hurry. He swung the wooden stick and hit the back of the long sword, causing the long sword to deviate from its trajectory. The wooden stick hit the clerk's wrist like lightning.

The clerk felt so numb and sore in his wrist that he let go and dropped the knife.

The wooden stick was already against his throat at some point.

Just use some force to break his Adam's apple.

"This spear technique is extremely exquisite." Someone in the crowd exclaimed, "This person is a spear master."

When everyone saw him, they exclaimed that the man was the one who often performed at the dock. The man was very good with a gun and it was said that he was unrivaled in marksmanship in the whole of Hangzhou.

The man put away the stick and said with a smile: "Let's leave it at that!"

"Tell me your name!" Bai Xiaoguo was a brave man and would not suffer a loss. He took a step back with a gloomy look in his eyes.

The man's marksmanship is sharp. When he goes to find the naval commander, he will be surrounded by dozens of people. Let's see how you die.

"I am Tang Shunzhi!"

The man smiled gently.

"It's Mr. Jingchuan!"

someone exclaimed.

Damn it!

This almost beggar-like man, is he actually the world-famous Tang Shunzhi?
Jia San was surprised, and Liang Hu retreated quietly.

"The ship is coming."

Someone shouted at this time.

Everyone looked up and saw a long line of warships coming towards the port.