As a blonde and blue-eyed foreigner, Kong Tai was obviously not suitable for moving in the inland Ming Dynasty. In this way, it was too conspicuous in the Ming Dynasty and was easily noticed.
Therefore, when secretly contacting Jinyiwei and bribing Liu Jin, he could only find a broker to do it. For this reason, Kong Tai found Hu Jian, a relatively reliable broker to help do it. But at the same time, because the silver is precious, Kong Tai spent money to hire several reputable knights to help escort Bai Yin to avoid accidents.
While sending bribes to Liu Jin, Malin also accompanied a painting, a painting of a turtle...
The painter was naturally the great painter Dürer who followed Marin. Dürer used sketching techniques and used large paper to draw a equal-scale picture of Galapagos turtle, named "Black Turtle Picture", and asked the broker responsible for bribery to teach Liu Jin, saying that this was auspiciousness and wanted to be dedicated to the court. The picture of the black turtle also had eight words: "Good weather, peace and peace in the country". In addition, there was a note in the painting, which read - "If you can successfully worship, another 50,000 taels will be offered"...
Even for money, Ma Lin believed that Liu Jin would not refuse. Moreover, now that Liu Jin has made people angry and resentful, and has a bad reputation, he also needs auspiciousness to cheer for joy and prove that he can bring good luck to the court. He probably won't refuse such a thing as fame and fortune.
If the normal procedures are followed, Marin should log in at the two maritime departments, Guangzhou or Ningbo, and then after inspection, the Ming Dynasty officially arranged to go to the capital to pay tribute.
However, Malin did not plan to follow this old path, because it took too long. It was already March of the lunar calendar, and only about five months before Liu Jin's fall. If he took the normal tribute route, it would probably be delayed until after Liu Jin's fall. What happened afterwards would be difficult to tell and it would be difficult to accomplish.
Therefore, Malin planned to take the fleet directly to Dagukou, Tianjin Wei. As for the reason, it was to "escort Xiangrui into Beijing". After all, the Galapagos elephant tortoise is known as the "black turtle", and it is very expensive, so it is reasonable to go to Dagukou. As for the unreasonable law, what's there? Now Liu Jin is in power, and he has the final say whether it is in line with etiquette and law...
Originally, when hiring a master who escorted Baiyin, Ma Lin planned to go to Quanzhou to hire a master to escort the escort. However, after inquiring, he found that there is no master of kung fu in Nan Shaolin, and it is still a holy place for southern Buddhism.
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After thinking about it carefully, Ma Lin slapped his head. It seemed that Hu Jiannan and Shaolin's habit of practicing martial arts was developed by the "Sword Classic" handed down by the famous general Yu Dayou decades later when they were fighting against the Japanese.
At that time, the southeast coast was not peaceful. In order to protect himself and assist Yu Dayou in fighting against the Japanese, Hu Jiannan and Shaolin began to practice martial arts in Shaolin. He used Yu Dayou's "Sword Classic" as a model to practice stick skills. Later, Quanzhou also developed a folk martial art called "Board Boxing". This martial art was mainly popular in the Qing Dynasty. Because the Qing Dynasty prohibited the people from carrying weapons, the people simply used shoulder poles as weapons to perform Shaolin stick skills to practice martial arts to protect themselves.
Now, Yu Dayou is just a 6-year-old kid, one year younger than Caesar. Therefore, Nan Shaolin and other things are still chanting scriptures, and there are no large number of monks. Moreover, Yu Dayou's martial arts mainly learn from the "Jingchu Long Sword" rather than Shaolin Kung Fu.
Although the martial arts novels praise Shaolin martial arts to heaven, in fact, in real history, when Yu Dayou visited Shaolin, he found that Shaolin martial arts was too bad at that time, so he passed on the "Sword Sutra" from the "Jingchu Long Sword" to them. Even the legendary "Yi Jin Jing" was created by Taoist Zi Ning in Tiantai in the late Ming Dynasty (1624). Note that it was a Taoist, not a monk. After Shaolin monk got it, he brags about it, saying that it was written by A San Damo a thousand years ago, and he decided not to admit that it was invented by Taoist priests. Lao Jin believed in Buddhism, so he naturally helped Buddhism in martial arts novels. In fact, Lao Jin's ancestors were officials for the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty respected Buddhism the most and deliberately suppressed Taoism of the Han people. Lao Jin, as a person whose ancestors were rich in the Qing Dynasty, naturally preferred Buddhism.
In other words, in real history, Shaolin's martial arts were still very bad in the Ming Dynasty. 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 praise made great contributions. The Qingcheng School and Kongtong School, which played soy sauce in martial arts novels, were actually not inferior to Shaolin's martial arts schools. But there was no way, Lao Jin's novels were too famous, and Shaolin was praised and they were trampled. Especially the Qingcheng School, which was the worst. Yu Canghai, written by Lao Jin, directly blackened the Qingcheng School, which made the descendants of the Qingcheng School want to discuss martial arts with Lao Jin, thinking that the martial arts of this school were justified.
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Although the legendary master of Southern Shaolin was not found, Kong Tai still found several famous martial arts masters through the middlemen to escort Baiyin. After all, Hu Jian has many mountains, and where there are mountains, there are naturally bandits. In order to protect himself, there will always be some martial arts masters.
Marin was not short of money, so he brought a lot of silver here this time. So he generously spent money to hire seven or eight famous martial arts masters to serve as guards of the escorts and escort Baiyin to Beijing.
At the same time, through the broker, Kong Tai also contacted a hundred households named Feng Xu, who were stationed in Hu Jianquanzhou by the Jinyiwei, and asked him to help him secretly contact Liu Jin.
In this era, Quanzhou had not yet opened up maritime trade. Even the Ryukyu Kingdom paid tribute and took the Fuzhou route. Therefore, Quanzhou was not prosperous at this time. Feng Xu and Feng Baijia were stationed here, which was not a bad person. His responsibilities were mainly to patrol the disasters of Japanese pirates and pirates along Hu Jian's coast. The Jinyiwei was really good at doing well, either in the two capitals of the north and south, or in the south of the Yangtze River. Those who were in Hu Jian were definitely unlucky to be exiled.
Through contact, Ma Lin and Kong Tai found that Feng Baihu was quite kind and not so unscrupulous. After giving two thousand taels of silver, they took it down. Then, Ma Lin gave him another 500 taels of "activity funding", and the Feng Baihu really sent someone to pass the message back to the capital through the internal channels of the Jinyiwei. Then, the team escorted 10,000 taels of silver also took the internal notes issued by Feng Baihu and went north (the road in the Ming Dynasty needed to leave the county, and the household registration management was very strict). Feng Baihu did not open the road in the wild, and he did not have the power. But he issued the internal documents of the Jinyiwei, and there was no local official who dared to make things difficult for him. Because those officials were more afraid of the Jinyiwei than ordinary people.
Moreover, because Liu Jin has controlled the government affairs in recent years, the power of the factory and security institutions is very amazing. Because Liu Jin's control of the whole country was achieved by Dongchang and Jinyiwei. Therefore, no fool dared to easily get along with Jinyiwei.
Chapter completed!