In Xuefu City, there is a building built on a hill similar to the Four Seasons Garden of Ming Dynasty. This is a mountain tea pavilion where Zhengliang specially entertains guests from afar. It is called a pavilion, but it is actually a garden of considerable size. Since there is a tea pavilion in the garden, the garden is named Shanli Tea Pavilion.

Zhengliang is now standing on the balcony of another slightly taller attic in the garden, looking at Wang Hai and his group who were slowly walking towards the tea pavilion in the mountains.

There seemed to be more than a dozen people in this group. Although these people were not burly, they were all very strong. Each of them had a knife around their waists, and the last few people were holding boxes on their hands, not sure if they were gifts or other items.

The two leaders, one of them is naturally Wang Hai, who Zhengliang knew, and the other is a young man, about 20 years old, talking to Chen Tianjie and walking slowly. Although he was young, his behavior showed a calm and meticulous taste. He guessed in his heart that he was the backbone of this group. That is, Mao Haifeng, the godson of Wang Zhi, the future pirate king Wang Zhi mentioned earlier.

Half a month ago, after Wang Hai met Zhengliang, in addition to introducing Zhengliang in detail to Zhengliang about the smuggling and trade in Ming Dynasty and the recent immigration of Ming Dynasty, he also took out a letter written by Wang Zhi to Zhengliang. The letter mainly expressed his intention of making friends with Zhengliang and proposed the suggestion of trade with each other. Zhengliang immediately conveyed goodwill to Wang Zhi through Wang Hai, so Wang Zhi sent his godson Mao Haifeng as an envoy to discuss the trade trip.

Some time ago, the old nest of Wang Zhi, Fujian Shuangyu Island, was held by Zhu Wan, who had just served as governor of Zhejiang, and also controlled Fujian, Xing, Zhang, Quan, Jianning and other sea routes. Wang Zhi had to take people to flee to Liebiao Mountain (also known as Liebiao Mountain. This port is about 60 miles away from Zhoushan County). He regrouped here and then sent a large army to capture the Ryukyu Islands. During this period, Wang Zhi's strength had not actually reached its peak. Moreover, he was having great conflicts with another pirate leader Chen Sipan, and was thinking about how to annex Chen Sipan's power. As for the Japanese region, he did not pay much attention to it for the time being, and he was just using Japan as a ship docking point and a supply point.

What Wang Zhi didn't know at this time was that Zhu Wan, who drove him away, had damaged the vested interests of the gentry of the southeast coast after taking office, and was under the bullet-blocking of the Fujian censor. Zhu Wan was demoted to "inspection" by the court and was dismissed again soon. Faced with such shame, the fierce Zhu Wan chose to commit suicide. After Zhu Wan's death, his remaining positions "governor Zhejiang, and also governed the military affairs of the five governments of Fu, Xing, Zhang, Quan and Jianning" for three years. His death also brought another more serious consequence: the armed merchant group that originally focused on business and smuggling no longer exists, and the pirate forces that plundered were growing.

According to the development of history, Wang Zhizheng was in this period when the power of the government suddenly weakened. He soon sent people to secretly collude with the people in Chen Sipan's camp, on Chen Sipan's birthday. Wang Zhi led his people to Henggang and worked with the spies inside and outside. He cut off Chen Sipan's head from Zhuying Yaohong's banquet and occupied Chen Sipan's nest. At that time, Chen's fleet was robbing outside. When they returned to Henggang, they found that the nest had already changed hands. After being shocked and determined, they all surrendered to Wang until then. Wang Zhi established his position as a maritime overlord, and the southeast pirates were subject to his restraint.

He was so proud that he simply called himself the "Wufeng Shipowner". The sea ship could only pass through his sea area if it was planted with the "Wufeng Flag". Later, in order to force the Ming Dynasty to open up the sea ban, he began to frequently lead the fleet to harass the Ming coast. In the end, the Ming court sent famous generals like Yu Dayou and Lu Tong to jointly kill Wang Zhi, which made Wang Zhi flee to Japan after being defeated and fled to Japan. Only then did Wang Zhi establish a pirate empire in Japan and claim to be "King Hui".

Now, Wang Zhi has just extended his power to Ryukyu and Satsuma, and his attention is not focused on this. His own power is also in the rising stage, but he happened to meet the Luo family, who also rose in the Kyushu area.

Wang Zhi, who knew the existence of the Luo family in his early years, was shocked when he learned that this local rich man from Feiqian Kingdom, who was too lazy to come forward to discuss business in person, had grown into the most powerful daimyo in the Kyushu area. When he knew that the Luo family's naval army was also quite powerful, he did not dare to underestimate the Luo family. So he immediately sent people to find Wang Hai, who also became famous in the world of Ming and Japanese smuggling merchants in recent years, hoping that Wang Hai could be an intermediary to establish a cooperative relationship between Wang Zhi and the Luo family.

Wang Zhi's thoughts at this time were mainly focused on annexing Chen Sipan's power. The most important thing was that he was determined to hope that the Ming Dynasty could open up the maritime ban, while he returned to his hometown as a recognized prominent identity. For Japan, in his opinion, he was willing to trade with all local forces in Japan such as selling arms, but he was unwilling to intervene too much in Japan's affairs, because this would arouse the disgust of other local tyrants and would not help him gain a foothold in Japan. The key was that his heart was in the Ming Dynasty, and Japan was just a place where he served as a supply base. Moreover, the power of the Luo family is so strong now. If the Luo family really unified Kyushu by then and he had a bad relationship with the Luo family, it would be bad, so he took the initiative to show his favor.

What about Zhengliang? After receiving the handwritten letter from Wang Zhi to show his favor, he thought about what kind of way should the Luo family deal with Wang Zhi's power?

In Zhengliang's eyes, Wang Zhi is a controversial figure. As One Piece in the future, he restrained the behavior of pirates to a certain extent. Moreover, although others are overseas, their hearts have always been in their hometown, and they always hope to return to their hometown one day (this dream was indeed realized later, but the heads of people fell into the ground because of this).

However, he himself tried his best to push the entire Ming Dynasty to lift the sea ban and restore maritime trade with his own strength, just like an ant shaking a tree, and the idea of ​​releasing maritime trade was very naive. Moreover, in order to achieve his naive idea, he caused great harm to the people in the coastal areas intentionally or unintentionally. This is something that Zhengliang disagrees with.

But even if you disagree with Wang Zhi's approach, what can Zhengliang do? You can't ignore the actual situation of the territory itself and suppress all your own naval forces. Then go to fight against Wang Zhi? In this case, even if you succeed, what can Zhengliang get?

Zhengliang is no longer the ridiculous ideal of just coming to this world and still holding a heart-warming desire to save the people from water and fire. The greater the power a person has, the greater the responsibility he exercises. Now he is still a local lord of Japan. Now he must first ensure that he and the people around him can survive in this troubled times and expand the strength of his family to achieve self-protection. As for Ming Kingdom? Haha, it is really not something that he, a small lord, can worry about. What's more, his identity is not a Ming person at this time?

Therefore, since Wang Zhi has come to the door on his own initiative, Zheng Liang’s only thing he needs to consider is what benefits he can get from his cooperation with him, and how should he prevent Wang Zhi from becoming the only one in the future from becoming a decisive person to the Luo family.

While thinking about it, Zhengliang moved a Ming Dynasty chair to sit down and closed his eyes to wait. Now, after a long time in Japan, Zhengliang had long been used to sitting on the ground all day long. He hadn't felt the feeling of sitting on the chair for a long time.

Not long after, Chen Tianjie's voice came from outside the tea hall, "The lord is waiting in the inner room. Please come in, and the rest of the followers are resting in the living room, and tea is already available."

"It's been a labor."

Immediately afterwards, the wooden door of the hall was pushed open with a creaking sound. Zhengliang opened his eyes and faced Mao Haifeng's gaze coming in.

The two looked at each other for a moment. During this process, Masayoshi always maintained the smile on his face, and his eyes were very calm, as calm as the deep sea water.

Finally, Mao Haifeng smiled politely, clasped his fists and bowed his hand to Zhengliang above the main position, and said, "I have met the Lord of the Lord in Mao Haifeng."

Zhengliang also smiled slightly and replied, "Disciple guest is here, and he is far away to welcome him. Please forgive me! Please sit down!"

But when Mao Haifeng heard Zhengliang's words, he was stunned and said, "I don't want to see that the Lord's Ming Mandarin is so good!"

Zhengliang's accent at this time was the local accent I learned in Ningbo Prefecture, and his original language talent was good, so it really looked like it was imitating.

After being polite to each other, everyone sat down one after another. Then two young surnames came in to serve tea, using local tea soup from Japan. Everyone also talked about the way of tea soup while enjoying the tea.

After finishing the polite conspiracy, he finally got to the point. Mao Haifeng said seriously: "Lord, I am here on my father's order this time. I hope to cooperate well with the Lord."

"Oh? I wonder how the Wang Dangjia plans to cooperate?" Zhengliang asked calmly.

"Trade. Our family can provide a large amount of supplies to the Lord, and our family hopes that the Lord can exchange gold, silver, copper ore, sulfur and other materials. In addition, our family also hopes that if necessary, the Lord can also send some ships and personnel to join our fleet and go to the coast of Ming Kingdom to make a fortune. If there is insufficient manpower, it is also possible to allow our family to recruit personnel in the Lord's territory." Mao Haifeng said.

"It is extremely welcome to trade with you." It is naturally the best to obtain materials such as iron ore, saltpeter, gunpowder, and tincture oil from the other party, so Zhengliang is very welcome to trade with the other party. However, it is not possible to allow the other party to recruit people in their own territory or even send people to engage in some looting with them.

Although Masayoshi knew that powerful names such as the Shimazu family had probably agreed to cooperate with the other party in this way (this not only deepened the relationship with Wang Zhi, but also robbed more wealth in the process of looting), and even based on the return of the Intelligence Pavilion, Wang Zhi's power was already recruiting people to go out to sea in the Satsuma Kingdom. However, in Masayoshi's view, even if he could not do anything for Ming, he could not at least make accomplices for the tiger. So Masayoshi changed his voice and said to Mao Haifeng tactfully:

Later, Zhengliang and Mao Haifeng reached an agreement that when the Luo family ships passed through the seas within the sphere of influence, they could pass safely without harassment as long as they hung the Luo family's flag.

After reaching an agreement with Wang Zhi, the Luo family had already had trade cooperation agreements with the Southern Barbarian sea adventure merchants, the Western Church, the Ming smuggling merchants, Wang Zhi and the North Korean smuggling merchants respectively. This formed a diverse export method and avoided the situation where the Luo family's export goods were lowered due to the single partner. The so-called shopping comparison of three companies can make the Luo family make more profits, gain more benefits and benefits, the Luo family will focus on cooperation with that company, which also makes these partners form a competitive relationship.

Of course, during the discussion, Mao Haifeng also proposed to exchange Yongle Tongbao for gold, silver, copper ore, sulfur and other materials from the Luo family. Zhengliang naturally disagreed with this. The Luo family can now imitate the irrecognizable Yongle Tongbao, which is difficult to identify, and use it as the main foreign trade currency. Where can we still need the Yongle Tongbao from Wang Zhi? Therefore, Zhengliang decisively proposed to exchange materials for goods, allowing Wang Zhi to concentrate on providing iron ore, saltpeter, gunpowder, tinea oil and other materials to the Luo family. If possible, he could also provide warships, large tubes and other weapons to the Luo family. He also promised that as much as Wang Zhi provides these materials, the Luo family could exchange as much as Wang Zhi provides (in the past, in order to trade with the Southern Barbarians and Ming merchants, the Luo family stored a lot of gold and silver in the warehouse, which is now in handy).

Finally, when Mao Haifeng was happily preparing to leave, Zhengliang solemnly handed a wooden box to Mao Haifeng's hands.

"Lord, is this?" Mao Haifeng asked in confusion at the box.

"There is a gift given to your leader. Please be sure to hand it in his hands." Zhengliang said.

"Okay." Seeing Zhengliang's expression so serious, Mao Haifeng also cautiously put away the wooden box.

There are only two things in the wooden box, one is a world map drawn by Zhengliang based on the memories of later generations, and the other is a letter written by Zhengliang to Wang Zhi.
Chapter completed!