The Rise of the European Emperor
Chapter 1139 South Shaolin No Master
Kong Tai, as a foreigner with blonde hair and blue eyes, is obviously not suitable for activities in the inland of Ming Dynasty. Just like this, it was too conspicuous in the Ming Dynasty, and it was easy to be noticed.
Therefore, to secretly contact Jin Yiwei and bribe Liu Jin, he had to find a broker to do it. For this reason, Kong Tai found Hu Jian, a more reliable broker, to help with this matter. But at the same time, because of the preciousness of silver, Kong Tai spent money to hire several reputable knights to help escort the silver to avoid accidents.
While giving Liu Jin a bribe, Marin also attached a painting, a painting of a sea turtle...
The painter is naturally the great painter Dürer who came with Marin. Dürer used sketching techniques and a large paper to draw a picture of the Galapagos tortoise in equal proportions, and named it "Xuan Tortoise". "Picture", let the broker in charge of bribery teach Liu Jin, bluntly saying that this is auspicious, and he wants to dedicate it to the court. There are also eight words on the picture of Xuangui, "the weather is good, the country is peaceful and the people are safe". In addition, there is a note in the painting, which reads - "If you can make a successful pilgrimage, another 50,000 taels will be offered"...
Even for money, Marin believed that Liu Jin would not refuse. Moreover, now that Liu Jin has become angry and has a bad reputation, he also needs auspiciousness to celebrate and prove that he can bring good luck to the court. Presumably he would not refuse this kind of fame and fortune.
But if it follows the normal procedure, Marin should land at the two city shipyards in Guangzhou or Ningbo, and then after inspection, the Ming Dynasty officials will arrange to go to the capital to pay tribute.
However, Marin did not intend to follow this old path. Because, it takes too long. It is already March in the lunar calendar, and it is only about five months before Liu Jin's downfall. If the normal tribute route is followed, it will probably be delayed until after Liu Jin's downfall. After that, things will be difficult to talk about, and it will also be difficult to accomplish.
Therefore, Marin planned to take the fleet directly to Tianjin Wei Dagu Port to land. As for the reason, it was "to escort Xiangrui to Beijing". After all, the Galapagos giant tortoise is known as the "black tortoise", and it is very expensive, so it is reasonable to go to Dagu. As for unreasonable laws, what is there? Now that Liu Jin is in power, he has the final say on whether it is proper or not...
Originally, when hiring master escorts for silver, Marin planned to go to Quanzhou South Shaolin to hire master escorts. It's just that after inquiring, I found that there are no kung fu masters in Southern Shaolin, and it is still a sacred place for southern Buddhism.
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After thinking about it carefully, Ma Lin slapped his head—it seems that Hu Jiannan's Shaolin martial arts practice was developed from the "Sword Classic" handed down by the famous general Yu Dayou when he was fighting against the Japanese a few decades later.
At that time, the southeast coast was not peaceful. In order to protect himself and assist Yu Dayou to fight against the Japanese, Hu Jiannan Shaolin began to practice martial arts popularly. Based on Yu Dayou's "Sword Classic", he practiced stick skills. Later, the local people in Quanzhou also developed a folk martial art called "Biandanquan" based on this. This kind of martial art was mainly popular in the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty prohibited civilians from carrying weapons, and the common people simply used shoulder poles as weapons and performed Shaolin stick skills to practice martial arts for self-protection.
But now, Yu Dayou is only a 6-year-old kid, one year younger than Caesar. Therefore, Nan Shaolin and others are still chanting scriptures, and there are no large numbers of monks. Moreover, Yu Dayou's martial arts is mainly learned from "Jingchu Long Sword", not Shaolin Kungfu.
Don't look at the martial arts novels that boast Shaolin martial arts to the sky, but in fact, in real history, when Yu Dayou visited Shaolin, he found that Shaolin martial arts at that time was too bad, so he passed on the "Sword of Sword" from "Jingchu Long Sword". "give them. Even the legendary "Yi Jin Jing" was created by Tiantai Zining Taoist in the late Ming Dynasty (1624). Note that it is a Taoist, not a monk. After the Shaolin monk got it, he boasted that it was written by Asan Dharma thousands of years ago.
It is determined not to admit that it was invented by a Taoist priest. And Lao Jin believed in Buddhism, so he naturally helped Buddhism in martial arts novels. In fact, Lao Jin Zushang was an official for the Qing Dynasty. The Manchu Qing respected Buddhism the most and deliberately suppressed the Taoism of the Han people. As a person whose ancestors were rich in the Qing Dynasty, Lao Jin naturally leaned towards Buddhism.
In other words, in real history, Shaolin's martial arts in the Ming Dynasty were still very bad. Later, after absorbing Yu Dayou's "Sword Classic" and Zi Ning Taoist's "Yi Jin Jing", Shaolin made great progress in martial arts. As for the reputation of Shaolin Temple, Lao Jin's touting contributed a lot. As for the Qingcheng School and the Kongtong School, which are so soy sauced in martial arts novels, they are actually not weaker than Shaolin's martial arts schools. But there is no way, Lao Jin's novels are too famous, Shaolin is praised, and they are trampled. Especially the Qingcheng faction was the worst hacked. Yu Canghai, who was written by Lao Jin, directly hacked the Qingcheng faction out of Xiang, so that later the heirs of the Qingcheng faction wanted to discuss martial arts with Lao Jin, thinking that the school's martial arts name was justified.
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Although the legendary southern Shaolin masters were not found, Kong Tai still found a few well-known martial arts masters through middlemen to bet on Baiyin. After all, Hu Jian has many mountains, and where there are mountains, there are naturally bandits. In order to protect themselves, there will always be some martial arts masters.
Marin is not short of money, and brought a lot of silver this time. Therefore, he generously spent money to hire seven or eight well-known martial arts masters as escorts to escort Baiyin to Beijing.
At the same time, through a broker, Kong Tai also contacted a hundred households named Feng Xu sent by Jin Yiwei in Quanzhou, Hu Jian, and asked him to help secretly contact Liu Jin.
Quanzhou in this era has not yet opened up maritime trade. Even when the Ryukyu Kingdom paid tribute, they all took the Fuzhou route. Therefore, Quanzhou at this time was not prosperous. And Feng Xu and Feng Baihu were stationed here, it was not a good job. His duty is mainly to inspect the scourge of Japanese pirates and pirates along the coast of Hu Jian. As for Jin Yiwei, if he really got along well, he was either in the capitals of the north and the south, or he was in the south of the Yangtze River. The one who messed with Hu Jian was definitely an unlucky guy who was assigned.
Through contact, Marin and Kong Tai found that Feng Baihu was kind and not so black-hearted. After giving two thousand taels of silver, he took it down. Then, Marin gave him another 500 taels of "activity funds", and this Feng Baihu really sent someone to pass the news back to the capital through Jinyiwei's internal channels. Afterwards, the team escorting the 10,000 taels of silver also took the internal note issued by Feng Baihu and went northward (the Ming Dynasty needed a guide to leave the county, and the household registration management was very strict). Feng Baihu didn't drive Luyin, and he didn't have that right. But what he issued was the internal document of Jinyiwei, and there was no local official who dared to make things difficult. Because those officials are more afraid of Jin Yiwei than ordinary people.
Moreover, because Liu Jin has taken control of the government in the past few years, the power of the factory guard organization is very amazing. Because, Liu Jin's control of the whole country was realized by Dongchang and Jinyiwei. Therefore, no idiot would dare to make trouble with Jin Yiwei easily.
In fact, Hu Jian also had guarding eunuchs. They are Liu Jin's direct subordinates, and they have a closer relationship with Liu Jin than Jin Yiwei. However, Marin was unwilling to find these guarding eunuchs. Because eunuchs are often very greedy and have big appetites. If it falls into their hands, they will definitely be blackmailed severely. Therefore, Marin would rather let Feng Baihu earn the money than provoke those guarding eunuchs who are paranoid about money...
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