Rebirth of the Four Seas Emperor

In early November of the third year of Jianwen, He Jinghui and Hou Tianzong resigned and went into seclusion.

The Tianwu Gang officially withdrew from the defense of the capital, and the Wugan garrison in Shenyang also returned to the capital.

In mid-November, the Tianwu Gang's entire army withdrew from the capital and headed for Tianjin.

At the end of November, the Tianwu Gang set sail from Tianjin Port and headed south.

"Pig-killer, I must have been right. There are only fifteen days left until three years. I'm sorry, I've made you suffer in the past few years."

He Jinghui snorted coldly:

"Damn, that bird thing makes me angry just looking at it. If I were the emperor, I would have to kill them all. And your brother-in-law, I really want to beat him to death. He's thinking about having sex before he can even sit down. Now we Once he leaves, I don’t see how the world will be in chaos again in two years.”

Hou Tianzong shook his head helplessly:

"We are also doing our best to obey fate, and we have done everything we should do. If he can continue to maintain this state, even if he is not aggressive enough, he can still be successful, and the people can live in peace and contentment for a few more years. After all, the world belongs to our Ji family, If he insists on being stupid and unethical, he will be responsible for any consequences."

He Jinghui pushed Hou Tianzong's wheelbarrow to the side of the ship:

"Fuck, where are we going now? I gave up my old nest to that kid. Why do I feel like I have no place to go now?"

Hou Tianzong smiled:

"You, you, you obviously think that the land price in Bao'an County is too high, and you want to make a quick buck by selling it, so why don't you buy a cheaper piece of land again? It turns out that it's better now. After waiting for a few years, No suitable land was purchased. Liang Yongzhen is still saying that this is the most losing business he has ever made."

He Jinghui smiled awkwardly:

"What's the matter with me? I was in the capital at that time. How did I know that the land prices in that damn place in Bao'an only go up but not down. That's 800 million taels of silver. It's more than what we earn by taking a boat trip. We don't have this price in the capital either. It's all the fault of that kid Liang Yongzhen. I had no idea, so I came here to ask me and sold all my old nests. I really should beat him to death. I don't know what method that kid used. All the money in the world was stolen. He broke away, profiteer."

Hou Tianzong smiled bitterly and shook his head:

"How about licking your old face and begging him to buy it back?"

He Jinghui jumped up immediately:

"Are you kidding? It costs 600 million to buy it now. How can we have so much money to buy it? How can a shabby house be worth such a high price? Whoever wants to buy it will buy it. I will never buy it anyway."

Hou Tianzong laughed loudly: "You know it's just a house, right? Okay, let's go back and take a look first. I heard that Bao'an City has expanded again, and some kind of tap water has been connected. Didn't Liang Yongzhen say that he hasn't been there for three months? Bao'an will become a scholar. We haven't been back for several years, and we are probably almost becoming scholars. It's time to go back and experience... What's that word? Modernization? Haha, I don't know what that kid's head is like. How long is it? It’s full of words I’ve never heard before.”

He Jinghui sighed: "He has made fighting boring. Now I feel like I'm just a useless thing waiting to die. I don't seem to be any better than those useless old things. I'm really depressed."

At this time, a woman who was still charming came out of the cabin.

One looks dignified and virtuous, and is none other than the princess Ji Qianhui; the other is the charming Madam Miao Si Niang.

He Jinghui's life in the capital was extremely depressing, so Miao Siniang stayed by his side all day long to comfort Kaijie.

Finally, the clouds cleared and the moon came out, and the tough guy He Jinghui was successfully captured by her.

"Brother He, are we going to Ningbo Port ahead? We have been sailing for more than 20 days. Can we go to Ningbo Port to rest for two days before leaving?"

He Jinghui and Hou Tianzong looked at each other:

"Recuperate? We have enough supplies on the ship, so there is no need to rest."

Miao Siniang said coquettishly: "You stinky men don't need to rest. We are women. We haven't showered in more than 20 days and our bodies are all rotten."

He Jinghui said impatiently: "Women are trouble..."

Hou Tianzong patted He Jinghui's hand and said, "Just two days' rest. We're not in a hurry anyway. We haven't been to Ningbo for a long time. Since we've passed by, let's go shopping and let them dock."

He Jinghui said angrily: "You are the only one who knows how to pamper women."

After that, he ordered the fleet to dock in Ningbo.

Ningbo Port is the most important military and trade port in the East China Sea.

In such an important place, the Tianwu Gang will naturally ambush and have important informants here.

So as soon as they docked, their own people came to take care of the fleet.

The more than 20-day boat journey is nothing to the Tianwu Gang members who are accustomed to the wind and waves at sea.

But for two women who are already quite old, they have suffered a lot.

The key is that neither He Jinghui nor Hou Tianzong has any experience in taking care of women.

Hou Tianzong was fine when he was young, but now, he needs someone to take care of himself, so how can he take care of others.

Two women who had suffered from old sins, the first thing they did when they got off the ship was to find an inn to stay and take a nice hot bath first.

Then have a safe meal. There is nothing good to eat on the ship, only some dry pancakes and dried pickles.

Eating these things every day makes me want to vomit.

There were so many people in the Tianwu Gang that it was impossible for them all to go ashore, so they all disembarked in batches to rest.

After the death of King Pohai, the four sea kings have restrained themselves. The current East China Sea is the calmest period since the founding of Daxia.

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Ningbo Port

A month ago, Li Jingfeng landed in Ningbo with a huge fortune of seventeen ships of silver.

I thought I could make a big splurge, but I was dumbfounded.

His silver turned out to be useless in such an important place as Ningbo Port.

Nowadays, Ningbo has long been accustomed to using Baoan County banknotes. Who still uses silver these days?

Especially in commodity trading, no one wants money at all.

As long as the banknotes are tied to the products of Baoan Commercial Bank, no one will doubt that they will not be spent.

Let’s see which product from Bao’an Commercial Bank is not a bestseller?They range from daily necessities for ordinary people to luxury goods for wealthy families.

Which item is not a hot-selling item that makes people scratch their heads? If you spend money to buy it, the clerk in the store will not look at you at all.

Notices were posted on the doors of all Baoan Commercial Bank stores: "No one is weighing in our store, so no silver transactions are allowed."

Baoan Commercial Bank took the lead, and cash transactions were indeed inconvenient, so larger shops also followed suit and basically stopped accepting cash.

Fortunately, the small businessmen and hawkers are still willing to take money, so food and supplies will not be a problem, but that's about it.

He wanted to shock the whole city, but ended up almost being left naked. Li Jingfeng never imagined that he would be in poverty with Yinshan.

After spending a week, he finally found out the ins and outs of the matter.

Then I realized that the source of all this was Bao'an County, and I almost got so angry that I burped on the spot.

Large-scale transactions in economically developed coastal cities in the south have all realized paper currency transactions.

When will the small merchants and hawkers spend all their money?

If you want to spend the money, you have to go to the bank to exchange the money into banknotes.

These banks actually take the money to a bank in Bao'an County and deposit it, and then exchange it for banknotes to earn some price difference.

Ordinary banks can't exchange many banknotes, and the limit is already [-] silver taels a month.

The largest bank in Ningbo can make 10 taels of silver in a month.

To others, that could be considered strong.

But Li Jingfeng has more than three tons, nearly 700 million taels, when can he exchange for only 10 taels at a time?

After staying in Ningbo for more than three months, I haven't even finished changing my change.

Fortunately, the recruitment of troops can already be done.

But these soldiers and horses are not so easy to buy.

The sign recruiting sailors has been up in Ningbo for more than a month, but no one has even asked.

Who wants to be a sailor these days?Those who are willing to travel have already gone to Guangdong.

Although Baoan County has implemented a strict household registration management system, surrounding counties need it.

Nowadays, every county around Baoan is in short supply of people.

The squire's fields are almost no longer cultivated. One of the strange phenomena in Guangdong now is that the prices of everything are rising, but the prices of the fields are not rising.

No matter what fertile land you have, no one wants it anymore.

The squires scolded Hou Yao, the magistrate of Bao'an, every day, which ruined people's hearts.

However, the products produced in Baoan County are also very good to use. As long as something new is released, it must be used at the front.

If he didn't hold his head high in front of other squires, he would be laughed at as a country bumpkin.

I don’t know since when, everyone who came out of Bao’an looked like a country bumpkin.

When walking on the streets of Bao'an, the most common refrain I hear is: This is a new product from Bao'an Trading Company... I don't even know this, country boy.

Li Jingfeng didn't know that Guangdong had attracted almost the entire southern wandering population.

He also foolishly recruited sailors in Ningbo, and the price rose to three taels of silver a month, which was a very high salary.

It’s just that in more than a month, we haven’t even recruited 100 people.

However, something unexpected happened today. A member of the Pohai Gang came over to report that a lot of people had gathered at the recruitment point.

Most of the people at the recruitment point are sailors recruited in Mexico, and only two members of the Seabreaker Gang manage it there.

Li Jingfeng felt something was wrong when he heard it, and was worried that someone wanted to bully the outsiders from Mexico.

He took Peng Mazi and Boss Liu to the dock together.

Sure enough, I saw a large group of people gathered around the recruitment point from all the way.

"What's going on? What are you doing around here? If you want to be a sailor, queue up to sign up. What are you doing around here?"

Peng Mazi and Liu Boss dispersed the crowd surrounding the recruitment point and opened a passage so that Li Jingfeng, who had difficulty with his legs and feet, could walk to the middle.

When Li Jingfeng saw the crowd just now, he knew that these people were pirates, but he didn't think much about it.

I just thought that their recruitment in Ningbo had made other pirate gangs unhappy, and at most they could spend some money to solve the problem.

Anyway, what they lack most now is money, and any problem that money can solve is not a problem.

But after walking into the middle of the crowd, Li Jingfeng suddenly felt his scalp numb.

Although he had never met these two people, he recognized their identities at a glance.

After all, there are no pirates in the four seas who don’t know their rumors:

"Why...why do He Tianwu and Huo Zhuge appear here? Didn't they say they were officials in the capital? What are they going to do...?"