In fact, this time, the gentry who denounced the Japanese guards were anxious again.

These people have silver, food and land in Ningbo.

When the merchants made a lot of money selling fish, how could they not rush in and get a share of the pie?

Some gentry came forward in person to acquire whales and deal with them.

Some people also let their families appear in the name of doing business.

Some people secretly entered private stocks and merged with merchants.

In short, they have made huge investments in this transaction and have also generated huge benefits.

For example, whale oil only needs to be processed and transferred, and the profit will be more than five times higher. There are also whale meat, dried fish, and pickled fish.

The feeling of getting into the gold fight this day is very pleasant.

Suddenly, the boats in the water village stopped going out to sea, which was a catastrophe for them.

How many goods have been negotiated with others and cannot be delivered, what should I do?

When will you go to sea and what happens, and will you go to sea in the future?

Ordinary people are not allowed to go to the sea to catch fish. The Ming Dynasty had a sea ban, and only the people from the water village were qualified.

Moreover, even if you can go out to sea privately, can you have the ability to return so many big yellow croakers in one or two days, and dare to catch giant whales?

Only then did they realize that without the preparation of the Japanese guards, their wealth would be cut off.

So a group of gentry, young and old, couldn't sit still, their eyes were red from anger, and they went around to inquire, and then rushed to the prefect's office in a hurry.

After all, they found out that they seemed to... they couldn't afford to mess with the backstage of the Japanese guards...

After all the calculations, it is better to bully the prefect Wen Yansheng.

So hundreds of people surrounded the prefect's office with great momentum.

This is an older part of the people.

Then, there were many scholars who heard the news.

Obviously, everyone's faces looked very bad, but after all, they were still very polite and recommended more than a dozen gentry headed by Chen Taigong to come in.

Wen Yansheng really doesn’t like these people. These people have a lot of energy in the local area and like to form small circles. A group of people use homesickness as a bond. You marry my daughter and my granddaughter marry your nephew.

In short, such a group of people control almost everything in the local area. They also like to support their children to study. They have good reading, passed the Jinshi, and became officials in the court. This is their dependence in the capital. They have mediocre qualifications and can barely become scholars. In the local area, they hang out with a group of scholars, clamoring for various public opinion every day, cursing this today and that tomorrow, they are arrogant and domineering, and the government cannot control them.

No matter how mediocre the qualifications are, even if they are not even scholars, they will either do business secretly or manage thousands of acres of land in their family.

Anything that was not in their favor in the government office would explode and come in a swarm of people.

If there were two such people, Wen Yansheng would naturally not like them as a dignified prefect, but if there were thirty or fifty such aristocratic families?

I can't afford to offend.

"Come on, have tea." Wen Yansheng suppressed his displeasure in his heart, and his face was full of smiles. After they saw the gift, they smiled very kindly.

"I won't drink tea." Chen Taigong was leaning on his crutches. He was over 90 years old, with white hair on his head, and his face was cold at this time, looking a little irritable!

Speaking of this age of ninety, there is a huge benefit in this era, that is, he has sixteen sons, more than seventy grandchildren, and is full of branches and leaves.

More importantly, his children and children of various families became close friends, and their daughters and granddaughters were almost married, and they were also such gentlemen. This is not included in the fact that there was a Jinshi in his family, two Jinshis, and they were censors in Beijing, and whoever they caught and scolded. The two Juren are now seeking an official position. Although they are just unparalleled officials in the county, they have this family foundation and their lives are not too bad.

He was in Ningbo Prefecture. No matter which mansion he entered, the head of the family came out to meet him and did not call him uncle, he would have to call him his uncle.

The families in Ningbo Prefecture are only more than one hundred numbers. This is a big family with a name and surname. In this era, intermarriage is a family that emphasizes the equality of the family. Since the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao, the blood relationship established by more than one hundred families is unbreakable.

Chen Taigong had a bad face and a bad temper. He had the capital to be a bad temper. After sitting down, he leaned on a stick with both hands and said in a deep voice: "I am here, I will ask one thing, why don't you go out to sea today for the Japanese guards?"

"Just because of this?" Wen Yan felt ashamed. For this, so many people came to them, and they were still aggressive and started to question the enemy?

What does this mean? It is clearly bullying me, Wen Yansheng, who is a foreigner, so I must give myself immediate advice.

Wen Yansheng acted calmly, smiled and opened the tea cup, blew the tea foam floating in the tea, and then calmly said: "Oh, so this is the matter? Does Mr. Chen know? Preparing the Japanese Guards... I can't even leave the sea recently."

"What?" The gentry behind Chen Taigong all turned green.

Don't go out to sea?

What to do with that fish?

Without fish, what should I do if I invest so much money in the sheds and workshops? I recruited so many people and just disbanded like this?

The most important thing is that in other governments, many people have already made an appointment and are waiting for the goods. Many people have even paid the deposit. If they delay the payment for a few days, it is reasonable, but if you don’t go out to sea, you will not be able to deliver the goods, and you will cause a lawsuit.

If other governments dare to come to buy your goods, if they dare to make a decision for you, they will never be afraid of you running away. If they are in the local area, they will be shaking their legs and trembling on the ground. Once they are disputed, and they will not be one or two families, is this a problem that can be solved by accusing them?

Of course, the most troublesome thing is not this, but everyone has been lying down and earning money for so many days, and they are boundlessly happy. Suddenly someone said, "I won't play with you anymore."

What does this mean?

"Why?" Chen Taigong stared at Wen Yansheng with his eyes trying to eat people.

If the Japanese guards did not go out to sea, everyone would really have no way to deal with them. Their background was too big and they couldn't suppress them.

"Taizhou was attacked by Japanese pirates." Wen Yansheng said slowly: "Don't Mr. Chen know about this, right?"

"Japanese pirates?" Chen Taigong obviously did not take the Japanese pirates too seriously.

In fact, the rampant Japanese pirates did not have much to do with people like Chen Taigong. Although the Japanese pirates smuggled with some people, they did not get any benefits, but they were not harmful.

Besides, even if Japanese pirates occasionally attack the inland, for Chen Taigong, it is too far away from him. The Chen family is a large clan, the Japanese pirates are pirates, the Chen family's house is a high-walled courtyard, there are hundreds of village houses at home, and there are about a hundred powerful guards of Kong Wu. With the high wall, even if Japanese pirates come, what if they have the ability to fight with them?

Chen Taigong said with a tense face: "What does this Japanese pirate have to do with whether the Japanese guards are going out to sea?"

Wen Yansheng sighed and said, "Mr. Chen, don't you know? The responsibility of preparing the Japanese guards is to prevent Japanese pirates. If the Japanese pirates attack Taizhou, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not attack Ningbo. Preparing the Japanese guards is to protect our Ningbo. How can we go out to sea at this time?"

Chen Taigong stubbornly said, "We don't need their protection."

"That's not true. This is not a question of whether Mr. Chen is willing or not. If they go to sea at this time and there is a mistake, the court will naturally have to ask, right?"

Mr. Chen was anxious and said, "Then you have to say a correct number. Do you never go out to sea? There will always be days to go out to sea, right?"

"There is no fixed number." Wen Yansheng said leisurely: "This is not a function word, this is the truth. The Japanese pirates rage in one day, and the Japanese guards have to hide in the water camp and wait for change. When will this group of Japanese pirates who attacked Ningbo be wiped out, it will not be too late to go to sea again."

Mr. Chen felt a little dizzy. After all, he still couldn't go out to sea.

But his Chen family spent thousands of taels of silver to buy land in the bay. If the Japanese guards never went out to sea, they would buy the sheds and recruit the people they recruited, wouldn’t they be useless? In the past, they could earn thousands of taels of silver in a month, but now... they are gone? Then... how can I explain to others? And...

Thinking of so many questions, he felt dizzy. Seeing this, the person beside him whispered: "Uncle, okay, why don't you..."

At this time, Chen Taigong was extremely angry and suddenly leaned on a crutch and knocked on the blue bricks in the yamen hall. He was heart-wrenching. Although he was old, he blushed and shouted: "I am your ancestor who killed thousands of swords of Japanese pirates!"

Mr. Chen is a fellow villager. In fact, he is also a scholar with fame and reputation. He is usually very gentle. I don’t know if he is old and becomes more and more polite. When he sees the younger generation, he often scolds others. He is so arrogant. It is because he is angry and attacked at this time. He really hates the Japanese pirates, hoping that these damn Japanese pirates would crush their bones and ashes and scatter them into pieces. Therefore, he explodes in anger.

He red eyes and said sternly: "If these Japanese pirates are not eliminated, they will never go out to sea? Then what should we eat? This is competing for profit with the people..."

He originally wanted to compete for profit with the people, but after thinking about it carefully, isn’t it worth fighting for profit with the people?

He looked like a bellows, and then he coughed desperately, and the crutches in his hand kept beating. The juniors on the side wanted to help him. He waved the stick away and said angrily: "The Japanese pirates are raging and bullying us people. We are irreconcilable and plundering, and do all kinds of evil. Can we stand by and watch? In order to protect the people and for the welfare of the soldiers and civilians in Ningbo Prefecture, Master Wen, you say, how can these damn Japanese pirates be eliminated? The rich and powerful ones contribute money, how many strong men do you want, how much money do you need, how much money do you need, how to recruit the village heroes? You are the official of your parents, do you have any ideas?"

"Yes, the Japanese pirates who killed thousands of swords will not be eliminated for a day, and the soldiers and civilians of Ningbo will be uneasy for a day."

"I am a villager who is more than 70 years old, Master Wen, you have spoken and be appointed as the government dispatcher."
Chapter completed!